The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1863.

of colleges and superior schools to get the thing
done cheap—to save money on the girls' education
to spend on the boy's, or on no education at all ?
Do we not hear them asking what use knowledge
can be of to women t Do we not see them shrink-
ing from the remotest hint that their daughters
may as well fill up their time with some genuine
business, and win credit and money and indepen-
dence by it! Do we not see one conse-
quence of this in the coolness with which
brbthers, and not a few fathers, appropriate,
with or without thanks, the earnings of women
who have used their own judgment about their
mode of life, and have preferred work and inde-
pendence ? The parents' state of mind is so essen-
tially the main point, that whatever is done by
external arrangements is important chiefly through
its effect on the parental mind. It is a great
thing in this view to have proved that, as Lord
Susprz.ssusir said, " as copying clerks, as core-
" positors, and in many other capacities, these
" women had proved themselves fully equal to
" men :" for the credit and the convenience of this
kind of qualification will soon convert the preju-
dices of those who may share in both the honour
and the profit. Again, what is doing among
the lower classes to qualify the little girls to
be useful and valued workers in one or
another branch of industry ? Are any pains
taken, by anybody, anywhere, to train up girls to
domestic service—which is the most obvious want
of all? A few words of Miss NIOBTINGALZ'S
(in the last edition of "Notes on Nursing")
may suggest a practical course to kindly and con-
scientious persons who feel the pressure of existing
evils, but do not see by what handle to grapple
with it :

" If all the crowd of female writers who have
enlarged on the employment of women, on
women's just right to a field, and to adequate
pay for their labour, were each to train (or to
put into the way of training) ten women to
supply the demand which is already open, we can
hardly hesitate as to what the superiority of the
result would be."

THE PRINCE OF WALES AT MERCERS'

Hie Royal Highness the Prince of Wales honoured
the Mercers' Company with hie presence yesterday morning,
at their hall, in Che►psule, for the purpose of taking up
his freedom in that most ancient of the twelve great City
guilds.
The master, wanlena, and court of assistant. met at noon.
The old structure had put on quite a festive aspect in bottom*
of the day, hennas being suspended from its walls, and a
bank of flowering plants' rising from the dais prepared for
the royal visitor. The worshipful the master, the Res.
Markland Barnard, incumbent of Colney, himself the four-
teenth of his family who had held that office, was supported
by a full court. The master nod court of assistant., attired
in their scarlet robes of office, were in waiting at the Cheap-
aide gates to receive the Prince, when his royal highness.
whose carriage had become blocked in that busy thorough-
fare, and had been turned by the police into Ironmonger-
lane, suddenly alighted at the private entrance, and as it
were taking his entertainers in flank necessitated a some-
what ruffled reception. The gracious cordiality of the
Prince ana the ready self-possession of the members of the
court soon set matters straight, and his royal highness,
accepting the conduct of the master, amended the grand
staircase into the hall, where the royal presence was grace-
fully acknowledged by the ladies, who thronged both sides
of the apartment. As the Prince ascended the stairs the
band of the Artillery Company, under the conduct of Mr.
Hird, played a few bars of the National Anthem.
The Prince of Wales was attended by Lieut.-Gen. Knollys,
Lord Alfred Hervey, and Captain Grey. His royal high-
aces having taken his seat upon the dais, the master standing
upon his right band, and the other members of the court being
stationed around, Mr. Barnes advanced with the books of
the company, and read therefrom the various entries re-
ferring to the necessary suspension of the standing orders,
and the proposal to confer the freedom of the company
upon the Prince of Wsles, which was described to have
been carried by acclamation in a full court. His royal highness
having bowed his acknowledgments, Mr. Barnes administered
the customary oath. The Rev. the Master then addressed
the Prince in the following terms :

May it please your royal highness—lt is • source of un-
feigned gratification to the master and wardens, to the
court of assistants, and to the generality of this com-
pany, to have had the honour of enrolling your royal high-
ness among the members of the Mercers' Company—the
first in rank and the most ancient in constitution of all
the guilds in the City of London. Your royal high.
ness will perhaps allow me to observe that the antiquity
of the Mamas, as • metropolitan guild, may be traced as far
back as the year 1172, and that the company received its
incorporation in 1392 at the hands of his Majesty King
Richard IL, who conferred upon it the distinguished honour
of becoming one of its brethren. I will not run the risk
of wearying your royal highness by enumerating the many
eminent persona who as members of this company have
done honour to it, and whose arms, arranged round
these walls, bear testimony to the respect in which they
were) bold? but I cannot pass lightly over such names
as Sir Richard Whittington, the great artist of his
own fortune, and the founder of those extensive charities
which are happily more substantial than the romantic
legend which is associated with his memory. Nor must
I omit to mention Caxton, to whom we are indebted
for that invaluable art of printing which has brought the
nation from a state of practical darkness to one of intents,
tual light. A word, too, must be given to Dean Colet, the
founder of our great Pauline School, which has long been
the nursing mother of students and poets, of warriors and
divine'. The name also of Sir Thomas Gresham, celebrated
for his magniEoent foundation of the that Royal Exchange,
and for his confidential position in the council of the
peat sovereign Elizabeth, must not be forgotten here.
I come now, ear, to one who was memorable in history,
Sir Thomas Boleyn, grandfather of your illustrious ancestor,
Queen Elizabeth, who was herself a free sister of this
company; and, passing on to modern days, we have
the gratification of including among our members, by
ancestral descent, that gallant *oldies', Lord Hill, who
throughout the Peninsular war was second only to the
indomitable Wellington. It only remains for me to express
to your royal highness our deep sense of the honour you
have condescended to confer upon us, and to assure you
that we fervently trust an abundant measure of happiness
may be in store for your royal highness and for your bean.l
tiful and accomplished bride. May the bright example of
your intellectual and high-minded father, whose early
death the nation still deplores, ever influence your
path through life. May you, under Gel, be the
instrument to displace that thorny chaplet which
the will of God has woven for your august
mother, our beloved sovereign, whose personal attributes
and whose domestic virtues so greatly endear her to her
subjects ; and when, in the course of Providence, you are
called to assume the throne of your forefathers, may you
be spared not merely to rule over the millions which com-
pose this mighty 'intim), but to live and to reign within
their hearts.'

The Puns listened with marked attention to the
Master's address, which was admirably delivered, and
replied u follows :—" Muter, Wardens, and Court of
Assistants, —I am glad to avail myself of the last oppor-
tunity which my stay in London afford' me of
attending here this day to receive the freedom of your
ancient and honourable company. The oldest of the
City companies, the Mercers is hardly exceeded by
any in the amount of its charities, or in its capabilities
of doing good. How these powers have been exercised, the
list of the foundations of the company and of the distin-
guished persona whom you have enumerated as benefactors
and (re emen tall us. Amongst the latter the great Soy..
reign, who was herself a sister of the company, stands con-
spicuous, and oommerce and science appear equally to have
lent their representatives to ennoble the Mercers' Company.
To be connected with such names in the freedom and history
of your company is an honour and a privilege I am proud to
have conferred upon me. I thank you sincerely for the
terms in which you have mentioned the names of my be-
loved mother and the Princess, and for the sappiness you
desire for us both."

The beautiful casket containing the freedom was now
handed to the Prince, who examined it with evident ad-
miration and interest. A work of the highest goldsmith'.
art, this casket is wrought in Gothic style, with pillars at
each corner, the lid bearing the form of a Gothic cupola,
very richly ornamented and surmounted by • crown in vari-
ous coloured enamels, from which rises the Prince of
Wales's plume. The front is divided into three arches, or
compartments, the centre one bearing the arms of the
Prince and Plinceas of Wales in coloured enamels, sur-
rounded by tke Garter with its motto, "Hopi wit qua
mat y pease." In the centre of the remaining arches are
the arms of the Mercers' Companv, also in coloured enamels,
with their motto, " Honor Deo!' On the reverse, divided
in like manner into three arches, the central one bears the
following inscription :
" Presented to H. R. H. Albert Fdward Prince of Wales,
8.G., by the Corporation of Mercers, Premier Guild of the
City of London, on the occasion of his royal highness ho-
nouring them by accepting the freedom of the company,
July 8, 1863."
This inscription is supported on either side by the mono-
grams of the Prince and Princess of Wales in pale blue
enamel. The casket is based upon a slab of black Australian
marble, ornamented with garlands of Bowels in gold, and
the whole work is worthy of the artistic taste and skill of
the successful candidate for its design and execution—Mr.
C. F. Hancock, of Bruton street.
The Muter now presented the various members of the
court to the Prince of Wales, who presently retired to the
banqueting room, where a civic luncheon, prepared by
Mears. Staples, of the Albion, was served on the company's
service of gold plate, with their accustomed precision and
udgment. The Prince sat on the right of the Master, Mr.
Johnson, the father of the company, • bale octogenarian,
ococupying a seat upon his royal higheeis's left hand.
During the repast the Master proposed "The Health of his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, citizen and mercer."
This toast havin/ been warmly responded to, his royal high-
ness took cordial leave of the Master and the several
members of the company, and retired.

THE MAORI CHIEFS AT THE ALHAMBRA.—The
proprietors of the Alhambra—amongst other novelties--
have secured a band of seven Mami chiefs, who have just
arrived from New Zealand to give illustrations of the
manners awl customs of their tribe. They performed with
great success in Sydney and Melbourne, end are likely to
meet with • very gratifying reception In this country if
they are not spoilt by bad managers and worse advisers.
Two out of the sever are noble !specimens of the finest body
of aborigines in the world, one chief being ►t least six feet
two high, with • massive heed somewhat of the negro type.
Two others are of the old type of natives, men with a
Malay curt of countenance—two have a noble Jewish look,
and one resembles • very handsome Portuguese. The shortest
member of the bend is about five feet four, and they vary in
ages from twenty up to eight and twenty. Only three of
the number are teemed, though they all act with painted
faces. Their performance—which includes Maori or Mown
games, wrestling, launching the war canoe, and war denote
—is highly interesting even to those who have not read Sir
George Grey's interesting account of these people. They
evidently possess great strength and activity, and two or
three exhibit energetic pantomimic talent of a very high
order. They are intelligent and sociable, and much pes-
tered, of course, with idle and curious visitors who look
upon them as savages because they are not dressed in peg-
top trousers and paper collars. Before they have been in
England a math they will be as able to take ore of them-
selves ea a Frenchman or a German, for they have already
picked up a good quantity of English. Their entertainment
is now divided into two parts, and these parte might be ex-
tended with advantage.

from the corn and wine districts are very good
indeed. _ _

Count de Ferronnays, the president of the
Central Italy Railway Company, is just dead. He
was the eldest eon of the count of his name, who
was the intimate friend of Charles X., and at one
time French ambassador at St. Petersburg.

WiLiTH&R P.EPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

1111:11.11DAT, JULY 9. II 1-X.

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Shields 10.3164
Scarborouch 00.67: 1111
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Galway 'saw 611
Valenti& ln.'s so
Queenstoina 3016
Livenuol 130.36 MI
Holyhead ... 061
Pembroke 16.3261!
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Brest .110.18 es!
L'Orlent.. 30.10 611
Rochefort —60.20 MI
Plymouth —.130.30 661
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to N.N.L.mo- NORTH-EAST. L 8. and W., not
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fresh.
N. S.W. to E.N.E., mo- SOUTH. E. to S. and 8. W., mo-
derate, fine. dente, fine.
N.W. to N.E. and St., 80tH-Ftsr. RAIL to S.S.W., van-
light to fresh, One. able, floe.
North.flast=Moray Firth to Norfolk. West=Donegal to Corn-
wall. Sonth=Channel and French Comte. South-East=Stralt
of Doer to Norfolk.

B.—Barometer corrected and reduced to ate at half tide level.
Each ten feet, of vertical elevation. causing about one hundredth
of an inch unlairrnon ; and each ten degrees, above BV, caus-
ing nearly three hundredths INCRICASIL I.—Exposed thermo-
meter In shade. D.—Difference of wet bulb for evaporation and
dew point). W.—Wind, direction of Maus—two points turf of
magnetic). F.—Force (1 to 12—estimated). X.—Extreme force
since last report. Q.—Quarter whence grraffig force (NNE—a,
to SE.N). I.—lnitials ; b.—blue sky; c.—clouds (detached) ;
f.—fog ; b.—hall; L—Ughtning ; m.—wiety (Easy; —overcast
(dull); c—rain . 4.—snow ; t.—tbander. L=n-tall, snow or
hail (melted), since lad report. B.—Sea disturbance (1 to 9).
L—Caha.

THE REVOLUTION IN MAMAGABCAR.—We read
in the Tempe of yesterday :—" The revolution of Tanarivo,
described by the correspondents of the Monitesr, unites
the features of a singular barbarism with those of au estate
and corrupt policy. It would find its counterparts in the
history of the Lower Empire. Nevertheless, its character
and object do not yet appear quite clear. The report of
M. Laborte is distinguished by a certain reserve, and among
the causes of the movement it does not appear to us that he
places in the foreground the hatred to foreigners ; he repre-
sents the catastrophe rather as the result of a party struggle
or a palace revolution. Like many other reformers, the
young K;sg,with excellent and liberal intentions, appears to
have beet wanting in energy, tact, and judgment. Accord-
ing to one of the letters in the Mon ittur, the Qneen not
only pronounced herself after her proclamation in favour of
liberty of conscience, but also in favour of the treaties con-
cluded by the deceased King. The sequel will prove how
much this declaration is worth."

A Pole who has lately arrived in Galicia from
Warsaw gives a curious amount of the constant anxiety of
passengers on the Warsaw and Cracow Railway
u to whether the train before the end of the
journey would be abruptly stopped, thrown over an
embankment, fired upon, or, by some unknown
prooesa, blown up. On the morning of the traveller's
departure, some of the passengers, who enjoyed
the confidenoe of the railway official', uked, before taking
their tickets at the Warsaw terminus, whether it was "a
safe train" that they proposed to travel by. They were
told that if no troop were conveyed they would have
nothing to fear, and as there were no troops at the station
the travellers took their places, made themselves mm.
fortable, and went off in peace. It was not until they
arrived at the next station they discovered that at the very
last moment four luggage vans, containing a company of in-
fantry, had been booked on to the train ; and from this
moment they were in torture, and saw peril in every flag
signal and heard death in every whistle, until a few station"
further on the soldiers got out.

The members of the government were not una-
nimous in their opinion of Mr. Laird's bill yesterday for
testing anchors and chain cables, Sir Robert Peel voting
with the majority for the bill, and Mr. Milner Gibson in the
minority against it.
RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PAELLA-
Hurr.—Yclerday, in committees of the House of Lords,
the case for the promoters of the Edinburgh, Dunfermline,
end Perth having closed, Mr. hlerewether, Q.C., opened
the opposition for the ferry companies and other in-
terests against the bill. The parties having come to an
arrangement the bill for the Peterborough, Wiabeach, and
Sutton Railway, giving the Norwich and Spalding running
powers over the line to Wisbeach, and Lynn and Sutton-
bridge were panted.. The promoters' can for the Hull
and Doncaster extension of the North Eastern was con-
, chided, and that for the opposition was heard in evidence.
The case for the North British Railway, to empower them
to construct, subscribe for, and run steamboats,
was finished in Mr. Woodd's committee, but the
decision was postponed until the case of the Great Eastern
Railway, also for steamboats, which was then taken, shall be
concluded. Mr. Haman C.E., was the, principal wit-
ness examined in Mr. Adair's committee for the proposed
line between Newry sod Greener.. A committee, consist-
ing of the Earl of Devon, chairman ' • FAA of Coventry,
Marquis of Bath, Earl Cowper, and Lord Says and Sale, is
appointed to take into consideration the London and North
Western Railway Bills for new branch lines and additional
powers ; London, Brighton, and South Coast (Tooting and Sut-
ton lines) ; Lancaster Canal, and Loodoa and North Western
Railway ; Land Dranage Improvement Company ; and Port
Erin Harbour.
THE CROWN PRINCE AND PRINCINS OF PRUSSIA.—
Loyal as the Prussians unquestionably are, it has only been
after long provocation, and with • bitter feeling of regret,
that they have at last withdrawn from their sovereign
their affection and respect ; and those feelings which he has
forfeited they gladly Mid grounds to fix upon his heir.
Certainly Prince Frederick William is not the lees favourably
looked upon by his future subjects because they see con-
stantly by his side the princess of that country where con-
stitutional liberty pre-eminently flourishes. The daughter
' of the Queen of England has won many friends in Prussia,
as well as a high reputation for some of the best qualities
that can adorn one destined to share a throne, and probably
to exercise no inconsiderable influence oa the destinies of a
great country. The intelligent classes here entertain •
high opinion of her abilities ; the liberals speak of her with
the most kindly esteem, because they are convinced that,
so far as her will and power go, their constitutional rights
run no risk at the hands of the English princes. And truly
it is pleasant to an English eye to see how well this royal
rose of Britain blooms, transplanted to these arid sands
of Brandenburg. It is the rich and kindly nature of
the plant that has overcome the asperity of the soil. Not
without regret, or at least • tender sadness, does the daughter
of England think of her native land—still hers though Ger-
many now claims her for its own. "I was jealous," she was
heard to say, not long after her return from Italy, "to see
BO many English at Rome, and to think bow few come to
Berlin. There will always beat, we may be sure, under
the ermine of Prussia's future Queen,warm heart for
England. One has only to observe the prince's nuntenanoe
and pleasant smile—as they really are, and not as they are
misrepresented in prints sod photographs, of which I
scarcely ever saw one that did him justice—to feel sure
that he is neither of an evil disposition nor an unkind hus-
band. In her marriage, in her children, and in the truly
maternal affection of her mother-in-law, the excellent Queen
Augusta, the princess has found domestic happiness such as
falls not to the lot of the majority of persons in her high
position. With oontorions lees close the sympathy may
be less, and diversity of political views may at times cast •
shadow over relations otherwise friendly, bat such are minor
sources of care, and can hardly be said materially to affect
happiness. —Bforkirood's Mw me for duly.
FOOUR'A.P PAPER. Everybody knows what
"foolscap " paper is ; but few probably know how it came
to bear this negular cognomen. When Charles I. found
his revenues short he greeted certain privileges with a view
to recruit them, amounting to monopolies' sod among these
was the manufacture of paper, the excliwive right of which
was sold to certain parties, who grew rich and enriched the
government also at the expense of those who were obliged
to use paper. At this time all English paper bore in water
marks the royal arms. The parliament under Cromwell
made jests of this law in every conceivable manner ; and,
under other indignities to the memory of King Charles, it
was ordered that the royal arms be removed from the
paper and the " fool's cap and bells" be substituted. These
in their turn, were also removed when the Rump parliament
was prorogued; but paper of the size of the parliament
journal still been the name of " foolecap."—deinican
PePer•
Tun Wotan Fisneaira—The fisheries in north
Wales, especially that of the river Davey, afford at present
immense sport to the angler. For this river the recent
Fishery Act has worked wonders, as sewin and salmon have
never before been known to be so abundant. A gentleman
killed in on day eight fine sswin, weighing about 41b each,
with single rods. The mountain lake fishing is also very
good. The railway to Machyulleth now gives great facilities
to anglers, as this district abounds in lakes and rivers.