The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-23 00:00:00

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Old Council of State, Resident of Deux-Shut.
whined to his colleasues the duties of the e
oils-generel, and those which the law now before
the Corps Ligislatif will impose upon them. In
doing this he announces some intention of modify-
ing the rigour of the prompt system of centralisa-
tion. The Emperor considers that the time is come
to temper the control and tutelage hitherto exer-
cised by the government over the acts of the 4:foun-
d:a-general by abandoning, not the political cen-
tralisation, which must remain in his bands, but at
least a part of the administrative centralisation,
Which is often useless, and still more frequently
prejudicial to the despatch of business. This is
probably the answer to the manifesto of Nancy.
Prince Napoleon's departure is decidedly fixed
for the 30th. He has made important economies
in his household, having dismissed a considerable
number of his officers. Among others he struck
oat his chaplain, who enjoys a hundred a year as
chaplain to the Palais Royal. His reverence de-
pending on the domain, and his salary being
due from the occupier of the Pekin Royal, brought
the matter before the Emperor, who at once ordered
him to be reinstated, as he possessed his bundled
a year as a charge, not on Prince Napoleon, but on
the palace of which he is the temporary occupant.
The Libertel, a catholic-liberal paper, .contains the
following paragraph :
Ws. Trelawney, better known in the we'll se Miss
Harwarth, died at Boeuregerd, her country met, neer Ver-
milion, on Batorday last, at the age of 41 years end &mouth.
Her funeral took plow yesterday et the church of Chesney.
The building was Sao smell to emobehr the crowds which
came to the service from Paris, Vemeadles„ and the neigh-
bourhood. Hrs. Trelswney belonged to the Anglican
Church, but she hag for some time bees a constant atten-
dant in the wribobc church of Chesney. Some hours ti-
ters dying she abjured protestantiorn at the hands of the
perish priest of Chesney, and requested to be buried is the
eezeseery of that commune, although theOheteatt deSseu-
regard is in that of Celle. She desired to be buried like the
humblest cal the village peer, but a numerous crowd, espe-
cially at poor, followed her to the grave. Toe calla was
literally covered with Bowers. Her Gad was most edifying.
She preserved her faculties to the last, and took leave in
tenable( term' of her friends sod sensate. Her sou„ the
Comte de Beoheee., was chief mouser. She died, after
five days' illness, of acute peritonitis. The pow of the
neighbourhood lose in her a gasmen bensfeetrev.
The French papers begin to notice the murder of
a French subject at Bonn by a Prussian cavalry
officer, a Count von Eulenberg. It is said that
without any provocation on the part of the victim
he was attacked by the gallant count, who inflicted
two sabre wounds on the head, which proved fatal.
As the murdered man is a Frenchman, of Stras-
bourg, there is a probability that some explanation
satisfactory to the French government will be given.
It would seem incredible that such military
executions could be tolerated in any part of
Europe, if there bad not already been several
instances in the last two or three years of
Prussian officers indulging in deeds of
violence who have escaped all punishment,
or only been punished in a manner which was
illusory. The civil law has no bold upon military
men, and it would seem that Prussian military law
encourages the occasional exercise of the strong arm
on brother Germans, or foreigners, when there are
no Danes in the way. On this occasion the experi-
ment has been made upon a Frenchman, his name
Ott, his reputation that of a quiet, unobtrusive
man. By trade he was a cook, and he had just
been engaged to accompany Prince Alfred to
England.
The Bourse is very heavy, and there is a alight
fall in most securities. The recent discounts have
rendered speculative sellers cautions. Routes close
at 68fr. 10c., with a fall of se. ; and Credit Mobilier
at 7761 r. 25c., with a fall of Bfr. 750.

(estrrsa's vmsazina)
CONVERSION OF INN TURKISH DEBT.
CONsTANTINopLi; Amer 21.
The conversion at the internal debts of the em-
pire is proceeding favourably through the Soci4t6 '
Glades's. Upwards of one million pounds of all
descriptions of stook have been converted since the
16th instant, the date on which the oonversion
commenced.
The cholera is decreasing. The deaths to-day
numbers 141.
In Smyrna the disease has nearly disappeared.

The following telegram bas been received by
Rauter's Telegram Company (Limited) from the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com.
CALCUTTA AND CHINA HAILS•

MALTA, Avower 22.
The Nyanza left here at 4 p.m. today for Mar-
seines, where she may be expected on Friday.
OUTWARD BOMBAY MALL.
The Delta, from Southampton August 12, arrived
here to-day at 1 p.m., and leaves at 7 p.m. for
Alexandria.
The Masan* from Marseilles August 20, arrived
at 6 p.m. to-day, and will leave to-morrow morning
for Alexandria.

(tzurza's mum.)
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S VISIT TO
SWITZERLAND.

BERNE. AVM! 21.
The following details concerning the Emperor's
visit are collected from various sources :
The Emperor reached the Castle of Arenenberg
between 5, and 6 o'clock on Friday even_
hag, accompanied by the Empress and a
suite of some thirty persons. A special
train, accompanied by the Baden Grand
Marshal, brought the travellers from Kehl to Con-
stance, whence they drove in six or seven hired
carriages to Arenenberg. Notwithstanding the
rain the inhabitants, who still entertain a
friendly recollection of the Emperor's residence
in these parts, had assembled in numbers
along the road. At Ermalingen the Emperor
was received with a hastily erected triumphal arch,
bearing the inscription, " From gratitude," and
Salenstein greeted her old schoolmaster, who has
risen so high, with a salute of cannon. His Ma-
jesty, on the other band, was compelled to
dispense with the accustomed cries of " Vivo
l'Empereur ! " and to content himself with
the mute, but respectful, greeting proper
to republicans. At the entrance of the
park, where a still greater number of people had
assembled, the travellers quitted their carriages to
traverse the remainder of the distance to the castle
on foot, and the Emperor greeted several of the
bystanders whom he recognised with a hearty shake
of the hands. The first visit paid by his Majesty
with the Empress was to the Castle Chapel, which
contains the statue of his mother, Queen Hortense,
in white marble.
In the evening the singing club of Salenstein
waited upon the Emperor, who thanked them for
their attention, remarking that he was delighted to
revisit the spot where he had been so happy many
years ago. In reply to a question whether there
were any among the citizens who could recollect his
departure, the answer was given, " Yee, your Ma-
jesty, you then said, 'I leave with regret, but when
I come again it shall be in joy.'"
Members of the secret police were stationed in
Constance, Ermalingen, Salenstein, and Mennen-
batch, to watch over the Emperor's safety, but their
service is carried on in a very quiet and unobtrusive
way. The Emperor soon revisited old walks in the
vicinity of the castle, and was especially graciousto
all in Salenstein, whom he had formerly known.
A deputation from the government of Thurgau
waited upon his Majesty in the forenoon of the
19th, and it is reported here that Dr. Dubs and
Councillor Naff have been despatched to Arenen-
berg to salute the imperial guests in the name of the
Federal Council.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

WIDWISDA7,AV-001rf ti. I A.ll.

Wain&
Abortions ••

26.711651 LN.Z.
10.70 66 B.L
46.05 N.N.Z.
19.42 It LN.L
taw sTi
19.31 Kt LE.
20116 611 LW.
16.61 tl6 SAL
. 16.616 RNA:.
919.46 56 Z.
29.49164 S.W.
29.0 O. LW.
. waled &w.
. 29.15 62 6.8. E.
. 26.47,61
34.00.61 LE.
. 19.67 64 7..8 s.
. 1.6161 6.8.14.
. 29.63 58 N.Y.
71'60 SAL
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w-HD_ wEsDAT Evxm:NG, AIJGITST 23, 1865. t

CHZAP IHNNEdits.
To dine well and to Aso cheaply is a problem
yet unsolved. Speaking for Londoners, and with
some knowledge of London customs, it may be con-
fidently asked where these two oonditiess are own-
plied with I Certainly not at taverns. The chop
and steak houses—foremost among which is the one
Mr. Tennyson honoured by a poetical allusion to
its " plump head walter"—are well enough ie their
way. A juicy bit of meat, grilled or broiled or
toasted, or whatever best expresses to the masculine
intellect wholesome cooking, can certainly be ob-
tained. We know all about the prime bits and
choice morsels which efficient business organtion
and a decent culinary staff can supply. We know
too—" we," meaning the homeless but daily diner
—where on attain days particular dishes are to be
bad in perfection. A monster steak pudding, weigh-
ing more pounds avoirdupois than it is safe to print,
and redolent of such olfactory and gastrouomic
joys as oysters and kidneys can supply, is
one man's notion of what a tavern dinner should
be. But press the enthusiast home, ask him why
he makes a distant pilgrimage, and thinks it neces-
sary to limit the opportunities of doing so to one
day out of the seven, and the answer is not sa-
tisfactory. Sift and examine his statements, and
" a sanded floor" is the foremost feature in his
notion of dining bliss. Explore for yourself, and
the affectation of calling the spirit gin " rack,"
and the one known as whiskey " oork," is the on*
novelty greeting you. That be. Samuel Johnson,
propounded pompous platitudes to obsequious
Boswell—that Goldsmith aired his plum-coloured
suit after a platonic flirtation with the "army
bride," perhaps on the same settles,
within the same walls—and that a portrait of a
"model waiter" such as Mr. Horace Mayhew de-
scribed years ago, bangs over the old-fashioned fire-
place, is not sufficient for hungry men. They want.
succulent food, wholesomely dreamed and decentiw
served ; rather than literary reminiscences or anti-
quarian lore, and it is not too much to say that there
is in the capital of this country an unreasonable diffi-
culty in procuring it. West of Temple Bar how
many places are there where the gentleman of mo-
derate means can enter with the certainty of pro-
curing a comfortable meal l The rarity, nay the
impossibility of doing this, is best evidenced by the
success gained by establishments formed on the least
objectionable principles. It seems an extravagant
thing to write, but it is perfectly true, that dia-
-1 covering the secret of giving a hungry man as much
of the honest British joint as be can eat for about
six times the prime cost of the quantity he can
oonsume has made more than one fortune
Of course there are ordinaries, at which for a
small sum fish, flesh, and fowl are provided.
People whose engagements allow them to dine at
four o'clock, may find at Billingsgate a variety of
fish and a mixed company, which, if they ass
humourists or observers, will be found highly ream-
nerative. There are, too, in out-of-the-way streets,
lurking, slinking, biding behind our leading tho-
roughfarea, dining-plaoes where bodily yenta can
be supplied for a small amount. But none of these
supply a gaping void in the arrangements of
metropolitan life. The keenest student of human
nature does not wish to be always studying elm-
' meter. There are times when • smoking plate has
greater attractions than a metaphysical problem
even to the most 'esthetic. We want to eat
moderately, and we want to eat well, and
it really seems that our boasted civilization
fails in this essential. A very wide-spread and
popular fallacy is that clubs supply the want.
They do not. The moat experienced club-its will
betray to the statistician who examines him closely,
who takes the sum total of the daily dinner, and
who rigorously sifts each item, that the habit of
dining is by no means less expensive from the fact
of membership and subscription. It is unne-
cessary to plunge into heroics as to the lock of
moral courage which makes winodrinking ••neces-
sity to the poor man who dines regularly at his club.
Half a pint of sherry at ninepence a pint of light
claret at from nisepeocs toe shilling, the joint, and
table "money" represent at least from three shillings
to three and sixpence in every club in London, and
the problem remains unsolved : Can • gentleman—
we mean by this conventionality the labourer in any
walk who prefers comfort to squalor—dine without
inconvenience or petty social annoyances at a
cheaper rate I Barristers will quote the dinners at
their respective inns of oourt—City clerks may
dilate on the meaty joy" of Bucklerabury, and the
savoury delights of this noted a-la-mode be
or or that famous repository of sandwiches and Alton
ale—there are many social explorers who can easily
show you how, by taking diverse turnings and ob-
serving complicated instructions, you may find re-
condite and out-of-the-way spots, where a sand-
wich of superior quality, or a tankard of extra
strength may be found.
But these exceptional instances do not affect the
problem laid down. The generic licensed victualler,
the practised purveyor of meat and drink, the
oletgieons vendor of roast and boiled, of "portions,"
or •• slices," or " plates," is not up to his work.
Even our government offices have discovered this.
A few years ago the food hawker, the potman, the
baker, and the pie-man, unpleasantly pervaded
every public department, during what might by
poetic license, and by such license only, be termed
luncheon-hours. Be earnest on re-adjusting your
half-pay, or settling that disputed question as to
legsoy duty, or asking the amount due on
your imported goods, or examining the terms of
the contract for which you proposed to tender,
and you were offended by lung rows of
pewter pots, or your iuquiries were offensively
interrupted by some greasy frowsy *Man, who had
more than the proverbial insolence of office without
an iota of its rights. Bat such thoughtful people
as considered the honour of the Civil Service to be
quite as much involved in avoiding the appearance
of eril in its daily life, as in rigidly enforcing echo-
, lastic rileson entrance have boldly grappled with
the difficulty. Refectories are now provided in all
large government departments, a oontractor is
carefully selected, and every detail of supply and
demand is controlled by a oommittee selected from
the officials themselves. Mid-day diners, luncheon
eaters, and those needing • lighter form of refresh-
ment than can be generalised under either of these
heads, are consequently enabled to eat and drink
w ithout possibility of sandal, or temptation to excess.
This is an undoubted gain, and for the reason that
intelligent efforts are being made at this time to
extend the principles of economic supply, and ade-
quate and decent provision for the commonest and
most obvious of human wants, it is useful to note DISOOVWXY or • Hustur &mem( re Betio.—
their operation and scope. imt-woort—Tide monies, as • number of see Imo
—as ei bow
Twelve months ago particulars were given in this reaiigrav•l far rotan in eradesk le LES Sm..--
roes oast* fithooter's•h t•wood, • ban mr••••-
journal, under the heed "Cheap Dinners," of an posan. emsroses and oe seeemse the age
establishment in the New Cut, which, founded on morally. be =nem ;;;;;;,,re homes ossisson bolsi
the experiments successfully tried at Glasgow and fees &onwards, two feet Irons the sorface. leforawibell
other large towns, sought to put • wholesome dinner at ages glees to the wid lespectoroXoyasho,M
before the working man at the most reasonable rate. &egret Gob Temo,4lll the skeleton to the Shooter •.°:
It fully suooeeded. Lord Brougham visited it :tr.' whys "etes‘Turr..dt etdautemeosassf. the pal
incog., and afterwards averred from his place in the {bat oaf eee. La of large limo!!!
Upper House that the basin of soup he enjoyed was hared easy years see. All esajoeture of bow the s
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an palatable and excellent as any " put on your lord- ewes these is vela ; bat it is sapwood to be
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ships' tables" The people interested in this eels.- Gee of tto_olollokr__. far flitch .ffirtlaft,tt.e
blishment have, since we visited it, extended *sir • mile from •Ptres‘rirbseibu1er5747....7,1•17„ Die
operations with more or less success. They are twain wed ate cis hie ben,
philanthropists in the sense of wishing to do good, Tile ALLEGED Wes Mumma AT Atzuticv" -
and business speculators to the extent of wishing a Oa Howley Charles Aehbere, a pensioner, was beretmoderately remunerative return for the money es remand, Woes a 'peel session of the county
they invest. They are, apparently with reason, tratesi.l.4. A112160k.
esbetb Ashehbassreed wi
by th. then wilosfalaLts7. ty 111
confident on the first point, and Beni/nine on the
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other. The establishment in the New Cut has mad os the day la tie they both boa 1•1_!:
thoroughly sueoeeded, the premises have been re- eats& TbaLotiraisd quirrellid, as was their
°sully enlarged, the management improved, and He ;ha ber off • stool s
to
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the returns returns thoroughly satisfactory. A second ex. she bees Weis& sad from the aridness
pertinent has been attempted in Killer's-lane, rt.= sad set etwurtrr.ilite ass sebesesegt
Vauxhall, on the recommendation of a Liunbeth
esea Its drag his wit* oat of the berm into thee re
clergyman. It is on a smaller scale than the ems ids. Derender the sap wit awe the eyelet OS
first named, and is yet an experiment and no nallatteure reseesed her frem her hostess& sad VT',
more. The third attempt was at Millwall, but shelter labs
the coalbrees. from whereto they bus
tr; da
owing to projected railway extension the directors Ilea= rod Pet bar tr bra. She was very belly &gado
have modified their iatentions, owing to the un- thi4ba'aba wawa" shiwitaamodisa thetad,lsthoidirusbloss.;lll
certainty of their tenure of the premises 1,,, .ua dojos taped moo bee sho wed Ibis
engaged. The fourth is in Market= heanicaret her the Wide The plitoola
ElkWitrilO4Verl. It Said to have ,the Nertbrataberised amass to asks hie trial epos awm-;
satisfactorily in every way. The fifth was
of
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ripened last sight, situate in the very centre of Jr Doieiten eeys ._ss ee„,apeagsoa isforms
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Ffeetetrest, sad in the premises known as the the daseassa of tie North British Railway need
Portugal HoteL This is the meet **portent sessip.„o,, TA,„b„,.., sad Clara am fee samoop role ist
at providing really cheap and good food for workers Asp awe

of all dawn which this band of unpretending 'Dia
reformers las yet made. A lthough there is no pro,
tame at charity, the following extracts from the
tariff show that, if properly carried out, this move.
moot will effect at least as much good as many
more loudly vaunted scheme
Cep at tea. ; plat of lea, 2d. ; cep of coffee, IL; pkit
of oats, lid. ; 744bn' a tune, liu. ; Wed ce Wei ems,
14. ; brood tad Weir. or nil sod Indic. or taut, lii. .
bataaad ten cake, lid. ; bread, reani. dice, ; brag:
half shoo, id.; eberso. ld. ; bona of mance broth (owl
a pint), 2J. ; bola of passim se:mato= (toady s pat),
2d. ; lose s a mode, 44.; dewed menet', 4d. ;
boded best (Mt or lield). 4d. ; plated ronitataii (hat free
12 to 6), sd. ; plate el at
yits, sd. potato'. (boaei
belied), /I. ; oopideldos. ; padding, ; tea psi.
ding, lid. ; Ina pie, U.
These prices have previously obtained in a few
manufacturing towns, and, as we have shown, in
certain out of the way parts of London. Ths
novelty of the enterprise inaugurated last night
that in a leading metropolitan thoroughfare, withit
touching (listen°, of countless refectories, eating.
houses, and taverns, and where every circumstance
of precedent and experience is hostile, it is soogin
to establish the fact that the profits on wawa
food are exorbitant, and that it is possible to nip.
ply good dinners at a lees price than is given le
the same vicinity for bad. Of course, it would be
illusory to argue from the viands experimentally put
forward yesterday what the amount of excellence to
be enjoyed by the general public is likely to he. It
is, lowever, only fair to say that the food put beim
the gentlemen summoned to pronounce upon tike
feasibility of the scheme was unexceptionally good.
A Mr. Coningsby, whose name will be familiar
to 110020 readers, from the very pronoun
not to say curious views upon political
reform, was present, and in sensible sad
moderate terms dwelt upon the advantages=
to accrue from asst undertaking ss the
resent lad met to inaugurate. The absence ci
patronage, and the complete abnegation of that
assumption of charity so loathsome to the wain
man, whether professional or mechanical, is
pleasant feature in this scheme, and the company,
It may be mentioned, by no means confine thin
aims to catering for the poor. The tariff just
quoted represents the price at which plain, whole.
some, and succulent dishy can be supplied. But
if, as the managing directors earnestly aver, every
clue of diners may rap a proportionate bens.
fit, many people will congratulate thiamine
on the philanthropy which has included them is
its nape. Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, we were told,
has been in frequent communicat:on with Loid
Brougham on the working details of this interestieg
experiment, and if through the prompting+ of phi.
anthrope the middle-class London diner shorts the
beuefita freely promised to the class affectedly dis-
tinguished as " working men," it may be that the
practical advantages will be as great as hare hen
derived from men pretentious essays in "acid
science."