The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-08 00:00:00

VIEDAY.
to K., mode-

WIDNINDAY.
N.W to S.W.. mode. NOVILAND.
rate. some showery. rate.
W.S.W. to N.N.W., laa N.W. to N.&, mods-
light to moderate, rate.
One.
W.

.B.W. to N.W., light W. Curraoi. W. to N., light to mo-
t* moderate, gene- darate.
rally doe.
As nest above. IL W.EVOLLND. As next above.
N.W. to W.B. W., mo- 8. E. EnoLsw. W.B. W. to N.N.W.,

dente, showen in moderate.
places.
N. to W., moderate to Z. ooAer. W. to N. and to N.E.,
light. moderate to fresh.

The review of volunteers at Wimbledon ou Satur-
day, the 12th instant, will commence between 6
and 6 p.m. Corps which have received the Secre-
tary's of State for War's permission to attend should
be on the ground at 6 o'clock, or as soon after as
possible.

THIS VICIROY OF EGYPT AS LIU:WOOL —Ris
!lighter the Viceroy of Egypt, who arrived at Liverpool on
Sunday, spent the greater part of yesterday is visiting the
" lions," both public and private, of that town. In thee:anis
of the day addreems were presented to the distinguished
visitor from the Chamber of Commerce, the East India aad
China Association, and the mayor, aldermen, and burgeons
of the borough. His Royal Highness was everywhere most
wanly received, and the public building, shipping, tee.,
were pity decorated is his honour.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 7.—His Imperial Highness
Prince Napoleon arrived at Spithead this morning from the
Thames, in the strailacht Prince Jerome. He declined
landing, and after steaming about the squadron at fipithead
left at 10.30a.m. for Cherbourg. We understand that pre-
vious to leaving his Highnem paid a visit to the Warrior,
iron-eased frigate. _ _

Mr. Gregory, on Thursday, will oak the Under
Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any despatches
have been received from the Governor of the Bahamas, re-
lating to the capture, by United States cruisers, of vessels
sailing under the British flag ; and, if so, whether he has
any objection to produce them ; and whether any
complaints have been made by the Governor of the
Bahama of the blockade, by United Stone cruisers,
of the port of Nsamart? On the same evening.
Lord George Lennox will ask the Under Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, whether the government
had received information from their minister at Washing-
ton that a Mr. Mumford had been hung at New Orleans.
for the alleged offence of pulling down a Federal flag in •
street riot; and, if they had received such information,
whether they bad directed our minister at Washington to
protest against it in the name of humanity.
. _ .

_
Mr. Whiteside intends to move on Friday that
an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying
that she will be graciously pleased to direct that the con-
solidation and expurgation of the statutes affecting Ireland
may be undertaken, and completed oontemporaneoluily with
the con►olidation and expurgation of the statute law of
England.

Mr. Lindsay has postponed his resolution which
has for its object the recognition of the Confederate States
as an independent nation from the 11th till Friday,
the 18th.

According to a parliamentary return issued this
morning, the amount of gross revenue per head of the pope•
Wien of the United Kingdom was in 1810-31, 24 4e. 111 d.
in 184041,11. 18s. 21d. ; in 185061, 21. la. sd. ; in 188061,
21. Bs. ljd.
In two divisions in the House of Commons last
night the minority, exclusive of the tellers, consisted of two
only. In the Militia Estimates, the motion having been
made, " that the Judge• Advocate be one of the members of
the select committee on Militia Estimates," 44 members
voted in its favour, and Mr. Wm. Cox and Mr. John Greene
against it. The division VE4 the lame on the motion that

all colonels and lieutenant-colonels commandant of militia
be members of the committee. The tellers for the two
"noes" were Mr. Hennessy and Mr. kindly. For Mr. Ayr-
totes clause on the Thames Embankment Bill, the object of
which was to secure the admission of the public to the addi-
tion made to the Temple Gardens, the following members
voted :—Messrs. T. Alcock, A. Black, Dr. Brady, Meson.
C. S. Butler, W. Con, B. Dalglisli, L. L. Dailey% Lord
Fermoy, Capt. Jervis, Meters. W. S. Lindsay, P. W. Mar.
tin, G. Onalow, C. Seely, Wit J. V. Shelley, Mews. Anise-
Ws Smith, P. A. Taylor, W. Williams, and J. Wyld.
Tellers, Messrs. Ayrton and H. Lewis. Against the clause
there were 139 votes.

The Rev. W. G. Henderson, D.C.L, Principal
of Victoria College, Jersey, has been appointed head
master of the Leeds Grammar SebooL

It is suggested that if every family in England
whose circumstances permitted would take one of the
Lancashire factory girls now out of work into their houses,
and train them as domestic servants, their services
would in most cases be well worth food, trouble, and some
plain clothing. They would learn an occupation by which
"they could earn their bread respectably, either here or in
the colonies, make them more useful as housewives here-
after, and not incapacitate them from going back to cotton-
spinning when the famine passed away."
The Princess Maria Pia, the future Queen of
Portugal, was born on the 16th October, 1847. She is the
god-daughter of Pope Pius IL, whose nano she hem. She
is said to be remarkable for her beauty, and her father has
always shown a decided partiality for her.
A new comet was discovered on the 3rd at Mar-
seilles, by IL Tempel, in the constellation of Caasiopea. It
is rapidly journeying towards the polar star, and will soon,
it is believed, be visible to the naked eye.

The wife of the celebrated "medium," Mr.
Home, sad sister of the Countess de KoncheleffHeshorodka,
died three days ago, at the Chateau of LA Roche, near Peti-
gueux (Dordogne), of a eomplanot of the chest.
. _

The Mar-pus Pepoli lies been fixed on, it is said,
as the repressetative of Italy at Bt. Petersburg, at the re-
quest of Russia herself.

In a report issued by the Chamber of Commerce
of Dome Had (Weetphalks), the diminished preopmily al
that coustry le attributed not only to the hordes ef the
taxa, but' also to the large number of young men perkdt
only taken away for military samba la Prussia. All pre-
feesioos and dames of the population, soya the repot* cm
alder this state of Wags as loroodal to both 16,1411 and
intellectual activity, and, if the eery is set Maned sad the
additional war taxes abolished, it will be abeolatefy haps-
sible to re-establish the required proportion■ between pro-
duction and consumption, and to levy the taxes in ►suitable
and profitable manner.