The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-02 00:00:00

THE EX,PRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1863.

natural interpretations attaching to our religious •
formularies, and it only confuses the moral per
• of hearers to listen to the most solemn
assurances expressed in the plainest English, and
afterwards to find that they were not used in their
obvious meaning. Everybody who has once heard
the Burial Service read knows that its words are of
individual application. Equally objectionable would
be any proposal to give power to the clergyman to
omit the words of hope from the service in his
discretion. This, as the Archbishop of YORK
forcibly and correctly observed, would be to con-
stitute some 13,000 or 14,000 clergymen judges
of men's eternal salvation. That is an office
which the clergy as a body do not aspire to, and
which the country would not tolerate.
We are not about to incur the risk of pre-
sumptuousness by urging any particular recom-
mendation on a subject the difficulties of which
have been acknowledged by so many grave divines.
We simply express what we are sure is the uni-
versal sentiment in saying that the Burial Service
must be substantially preserved in all its marvel-
lous comfort and tenderness. We cannot commit
our dead to the earth without hope. It is impos-
sible. It is not necessary. We say, with the
Archbishop of YORK, better no service than a ser-
vice from which words of hope are excluded. But
we submit that the difficulty which now weighs
upon the clergy might be removed without weak-
ening the service as an instrument of consolation.
Its efficiency in that character does not de-
pend on any assurance that one mortal may
a:preen, either in his own name or that of a
corporation, as to the particular condition of a
fellow-creature called away from this world.
Rather it depends on the directness with which
I the mind under bereavement is led to the source
of all comfort, to a contemplation of the infinite
goodness of the ALMIGHTY. We are induced
by this consideration to hope that when
the Bishops are led to give their earnest
and united attention to the matter, they
will not find the difficulties surrounding it insu-
perable, and that before long they may be in a
position to offer for the consideration of Parlia-
ment a measure which,while removing the grievance
complained of, shall preserve the sublime service
which has comforted us and our fathers, and trans-
mit it to be the solace of future generations in this
world of change.

gbt Qourt.

BALMORAL, MAY 30.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena,
and attended by lady A. Bruce, drove out this afternoon.
Primer Louise and Prince Arthur went out riding.
The Duke of Athoie arrived at the Oast on a visit.
The Be►. Oaird arrived at the Castle.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale, rode
on horseback yesterday morning.
The Prince's of Wales, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce,
honoured Mr. Frith with a sitting at his studio at Pembridge
Villas. Her Royal Higbee', attended by the Countess of
Maoclea6eb3, went to Kew in the afterncoo, and visited the
Dachau of Cambridge.
Prince Leiningee arrived at Marlborough Home upon a
visit to the Prince of Wales.

The Prince of Wales, acoompanied by Prince Leiningem
honoured Yr. James S. Westroaeott with a visit, as his
studio in St, George's-road. His Royal Higbee" afterwarda
went to the Hospital of the Grenadier Guards in Rocheater-
row, and visited the men injured at the recent railway
'widest.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prime and Prinoess of Wales.
aceoa3panied by Prince Leiningen, and attended by the
Collate= of Macclesfield, and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel,
honoured with their presence last evening the performance
at the Bijou Theatre, Her Majesty's Theatre.

The Judicial Committee d the Privy Council sat yester-
day. An appeal from Madras, "Bitterns Nauchear v. the
&minder of Shaysgungah " (part heard), wee concluded, and
judgment wee reserved. The Lords present were the Lords
Justices Height Bruce and Turner, Sir L. Peel, Sir E.
Ryan, and Sir J. Colvile.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of British Columbia, Canada, and the
Bahamas. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the
West India Islands, Bermuda, and to the Lord High Com-
missioner of the lonian Islands.

We understand that the Queen, accompanied by
the youthful members of the royal family and household,
will leave Balmoral on Friday night for Windsor Oestle.
It is the intention of her Majesty to travel in similar
privacy ma wee observed on her last jemmy to the north.
In all probability the Queen will not reside beyond • fort-
night at Windsor Cut* and then go to Osborne for a
short residence, before going to Oesmaay.

THE VISIT or THE PRINCE AND PAINCIDE or
WAIN TO TR/ Circ.—Their royal highnesses have signified
their intention of arriving at Guildhall at 9 o'clock, and it
is seemly neccesery to say that on those occasions all
visitors honoured with invitations are bound in strict
politicises to be present before the hour fixed fm
the arrival of the royal goads. At half-past 8 all
approaches to Guildhall will be closed to the carriages of
visitors until after the arrival of their royal highnemee.
Immediately on the arrival of the Prince and Princess they
will be oreducted to the dais, accompanied by the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Primers Mary, and other mem.
bare of the royal family. At the toot of the dais the freedom
of the City will be presented to his royal highness, enclosed
in a mast of solid gold. This noble gift will be accompanied
with an address, to whir.) hie royal highness will reply ; after
which the ball will commence at half-past 9. The first
supper will be served for the general guests soon after 12, I
and the second at about 1. The whole of the decorations
and arrangements are well in hand, and will, it is expected,
be completed by next Saturday night.
The Prince and Princess of Wales leave Marl-
borough House this morning for Fromnore Lodge, near
Windsor. Their royal highnesses will remain out of town
till Monday next. The Prime end Princess will attend the
noes at Ascot oa Thursday in full ante, the Mader of the
Queen's Bockhosinds appearing with his silver couplets, and
the huntsmen and whippers-in in their state apparel.
Last night a private performance by a company
of distinguished amateurs took plans at the Bijou I'h:etre
attached to the Opera House. The produce of the sale of
Magna was devoted in aid of the " Priam. Mary's Fund,
for providing nurses for the inmates of the Cambridge Asy-
lum." The Priam and Princess of Wales, the Dualism and
Princess Mary of Cambridge, sad the Duke of Ounbridge,
honoured the performance with their presence. The room
was filled by some 300 of the elite of the fashionable world.
The Duke and Duchess of NorthumberLind
arrived at Northumberland House yesterday from passing
the recess at Sion Home, where they have been receiving
company.

La atevening the Count and Countess de Fla-
nagan received at dieser h F 4041100, the Austrian Am-
boarder and the Countess d'Apponyi and the Coastal
Paumgarten, the Countess Cowley and lady F. Wellesley.
the Earl of Granville, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount Cbel.
see, Viscount St. Aoas, Has. Frederick Byng, Mr. Alfred
de Rothschild, Captain Falba, Mr. Ellis, do.

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The Earl and Countess of Yarborough left town
yesterday for their mat, Bit:Oglesby, LineaLubin., fora few
days. $s ladyship's first ball will take plans oe Thais-
day, the 11th inst., at the family meagre in Arlington.
dam&

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield left town
yesterday for Sowing-UR, beer dent, far the race week.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Earl of Glasgow,
Colonel the Hon. Henry Pansies, to., will be the gas* of
the noble earl and countess.
Lady Egerton of Tattoo had an assembly but
*togas, at her resider*, in St. Janesagnere. Pre-
vious to the assembly Lord and Lady Hiseton entertelned
at dinner the Marquis and Marchioness of Drogheda, the
Earl of Breeknork, View:eat Doak, Lord and Lady Cal-
thorps, the Hos. Miss (Nation's, Colonel sad lady Rosa
°mills, Sir Hugh mad lady Hume Campbell, Sir laweenos
Palk, Mr. R. Moucktos Maus, M.P., Mrs. While, el
Woodlands, no.

with the land forces from Baton Rouge attacked
it from below.

General Banks' movements in the Teohe country
were expected to be the means of bringing to New
Orleans 100,000 bales of oottou, which is quoted in
that city 48 cents., and declining.
A rumour was prevalent yesterday that General
Hooker was falling back from the Rappahannock
to the Potomac, for the better defence of Washing-
ton and Maryland, as there were signs of the Con-
federates preparing to cross into Maryland by way
of the Upper Potomac.
It is reported from Port Royal that three block-
ade runners from Charleston for Nassau have been
I captured.

INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, MAY 22, EVIINUM.
Money easier. Gold 481 per cent. premium.
Exchange on London : bankers' bills, 164.

Violent fluctuations have occurred in the stock
market during the last three days, caused by exces-
sive public speculation, but the market closes steady.
New York Centrals, 124} ; Illinois, 1131 ; Erie,
381; Five per Cent. United States Bonds, 96 ; Biz
per Cent. ditto, 107 i. Cotton dull. Middling Upland,
50c. to 53c. Flour declining ; prices 100. lower.
Wheat and corn good inquiry, with a decline of 2c.
Provisions quiet. Coffee, nothing doing. Sugar
and Molasses very firm. Crude Petroleum firm
and advancing.

THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.
PAWS, Jun; 2.

Intelligence received from the provinces states
that MM. Berryer and Marie candidates of the
opposition, have been elected for Bouches-du-
RhOne, but it is doubtful whether M. Thies has
also been chosen in that department.
In the department of the Nord, MM. Plichon,
lAmbrecht, and Kolb-Bernard have been elected.
K Thiess has failed at Valenciennes, and the
ballot has been resorted to in the 7th circumscrip-
tion.

In Seine Infdrienre the government candidates
have been elected, but the ballot has become neces-
sary in the 6th circumscription.
K Betssihres has been elected at Strasbourg,
obtaining 21,353 votes, and M. Barrot, 6.965.
M. Dufaure has failed in two circumscriptions of
the Charente Infdrieure, and in the first circum-
scription of the Gironde. The numbers were for
M. Curd, 6,782 ; Cavertiyon, 6,992; Dufaure, 3,240.
The ballot will be resorted to.

At Lyons, M. Hdnon, candidate of the opposi-
tion, was elected.

M. Thiera has also failed at Aix as well as at
Valenciennes.

All the opposition candidates have been elected
in Paris, with the exception of the 6th district, in
which the ballot will be required.
The Conditutionnel, in an article signed by M.
Paulin Limayrao, states that the candidates MM.
Dufaure, Montelembert, Barrot, Passy, Merode,
Dupont de l'Eure, L'Herbette, Glais, Barone, Kir-
drel, Jouvenel, Renneville, Freslon, Charamonde,
Flavigny, St. Marc Girardin, de Civrao Bac, Jules
Lssteyrie, Mortemart, Prevost Paradol, Victor
Lefranc, Barthelemy St. HiHare, de Mornay,
' the Duke Decazes, and Gustave Beaumont, have
failed to be elected. The writer continues:—" The
success of the opposition list in Paris was for-
warded by the division produced in the ranks of
the friends of the government by the attitude of
the journal La France. But in all the departments
the government candidates are triumphant."
A letter has been published, addressed by the
Minister of Public Worship to the archbishop and
bishops who signed the memorandum recommend-
ing the electors not to abstain from voting. The
minister censures this act as being in opposition to
the obligation of the episcopate, and as an excess
of clerical power against the state. The minister
says, in conclusion :—" The government is firmly
determined henceforth to prohibit the publication
in the newspapers of any discussions which may
have taken place among bishops assembled without
legal authorisation."

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
CRACOW, TOM 2.

The Russians are concentrating' troops at Kaliskie,
in the districts of Louis and Lenczyks, where
Colonel Sterpski commands the insurgent forces.
The news of the victory gained by Orinski at
Janow on the 28th is confirmed.

On the 21st May, Albertynski defeated the
Russians under Szuwatow, at Labanory, in
Lithuania.

THE POLITICAL TRIALS IN ROME.
ROME, MAY 31.
The political trials have continued daring the
Lust two days.
Chevalier Fausti spoke for two hours in his
defence.
The decision of the tribunal has not yet been
made known to the public.

The Kretz Zeitstag contains the following account
of an incident which occurred during the late tour of the
Crown Prince and Crown Prinoses of PM/LAS :-" A eaval.
cede of mounted country people proceeded from the town of
Jerichow (in Prussian &may), under the leadership of the
president of the ministers, M. you Bismark-Schonbausee,
who had called on the sous of the rich farmers of the vil-
lages of Fischbach and Schoobausen to take part in this
demonstration. N. Bismark, mounted on a white hone,
and visible from afar, led the cavalien, who were dressed in
a kind of national costume, wearing as they did long blue
00114 and presented a vary remarkable appearance on their
handsome brown horses. The horsemen came in full trot
and in the best order, some 60 strong, over the dyke wall at
Fiedsbeck—almost all the eons of the farmers in the villages
on the lower Elbe serve in the cavalry of the guard—and
then wheeled at the ferry-place so as to allow their royal
bighorns to per them, giving a load hurrah as they did
so. X von Bismark accompanied the prince and princess
to the ferry. Their royal highnesses were everywhere re-
ceived with the heartiest demonstrations by the inha-
bitants."

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The Empress Eugenie recently received, as a pre-
sent from Venice, a charming gondola, brought by Count
Areee, and intended for use on the lake at Fontainebleau.
It is five metres (16 fk bin.) long, and is made of pear•tree
wood blacked to imitate ebony, and ornamented with steel
studs. In the middle, over the sesta, is a light wooden
structure hung with a black woollen tissue fringed with
red. It is managed by s single gondolier, and one has come
with it from Venice, who speaks scarcely a word of French.
In rowing, he stands in the after part of the boat, uses
only one oar, and dap all the while according to the old
Venetian custom. _ _ _

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The Phare de is ilfaache says :—" It appears cer-
Min that the Emperor will skit Cherbourg about June 213,
for the purpose of isappotiag the iroo-elad fleet, which will
then be collected there. The frigates Couroune, Normandie,
and Soiled's° are at preset in dock undergoing repairs, sad
their officers and crews are to be changed or modified. We
learn that the Cloire and Invincible are under orders to
leave Toulon for Cherbourg. The number of iron-clad
vessels will be six, se the Magenta is to come from Brost,
and they will farm a squadron of which it is mid that
Rigault de Clenouilly will have the cum-
mod. It is expected that these six vessels will perform
evolutions in the presence of hie Majesty."

King Ferdinand of Portugal has arrived in Paris,
aad has paid a visit to the Emperor. The King, who tra-
vois iaeognito, purposes prang a fortnight in the capital,
mad probably will pay a visit to &gland. The Prince of
Orange leder at Paris, sad has visited the Emperor.
Between May 16 and June 13, a period of twenty.
eight days, 16 steamers are advertised to leave America for
Englead, or four every seven days.