The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-22 00:00:00

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rode in the grounds yesterday afternoon, 'her Majesty
walked and rode this morning, attended by the Dowager
Duchess of Athole.
Prince and Princess Christiandrove out yesterday after,
ends, attended
noon, and Princess Louise walkedlin the gro
by the Hon. Caroline Cavendish.
Prince Leopold walked in the grounds this morning
went
,
attended by Mr. Legg, end Prince Henry of Prussia
out also, attended by Captain Von Sohroetter.

OUR CONTEMPORAIWID.
CrEl3l3 DAY.iv
"
Discuaaing the financial report of M. Fould, the
Tines swam to the conclusion that if the scheme of putting
the French nation under arms be realised, it must prove a
death-blow to any hopes the leer
may encourage of a
remission of taxation. Nothing can show more eloquently
than the figures of this report the retrograde character of
the new policy, nothbig could furnish abetter justification
for receding from it.
Endorsing Mr. Lowe's late defence of the House of Comt
-
mons, the Tines repeats its challenge to the censors, tha
they tell what parliament has done that it ought not to
have done, or left undone which it ought to have done. Pro-
voked, defied again end again, the accusers hold back. The
other articles in the Times this morning connate of one
congratulating the Irish upon the beneficial influence
exercised by the catholic clergy In denouncing the Fenian
movement, and one ccanmunicating the chief results of the
day and night census of the City of London.
The Doily News explains the reasons which have guided
the Congress of the United States in the various steps
which they have taken since their meeting, pointing to
their unanimity and to the substantial justice of their
policy. That the bill conferring the suffrage on the coloured
population of the Congressional district should have
passed the house so early, shows that opinion has pro-
gressed on the great question of impartial suffrage, and
will be a great help to all those who are advocating the
entire repeal of all exclusions based on the colour of the

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon.
Privy Council at yesterday at Whitehall on questions re-
lating to cattle plague and other matters. The Lords pre-
sent were—the Lord President and the Right Hon.
Spencer Walpole.
The Right Hon. Stephen Cave, M.P., Vioe-Preeident of
the Board of Trade, left London for Paris yesterday as
chief of the International Commission for the negotiation
of a fisheries convention with France. Mr. Emerson Ten-
,nent accompanies Mr. Cave LI secretary.

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. —llia Royal High-
ness the Duke of Edinburgh returned to Sandringham-
house last evening.
Earl and Countess Cowley left Paris on Thurs-
day morning for England. They will be absent about six
weeks.
The Dean of Westminster will preach in aid of
the funds of the London Diocesan Board of Educaon to-
morrow morning, at Grosvenor Chapel, South Aunte-
street. Service commences at H.
The death is announced of Mr. Jasper Parrott,
of Dandridge, formerly M.P. for Totnes, at the age of 86.
At a meeting convened yesterday at 145, Cheap-
side, to consider the communication from the Board of
Trade in reference to a new minute of Customs requiring
additional specifications (to that of quantity and value)
for woollen and worsted goods exported, it was resolved
to adjourn until after the holidays in order to give an op-
portunity for a larger representation of the wholesale
houses, the present being found an inconvenient time,
owing to their being almost slithout exception engaged in
taking stock.
An order from the Board of Admiralty Waft issued,
yesterday, conveying their lordships' pleasure that the
offices under their control shall be closed from the evening
of to-day until Wednesday morning.
We (Army and Nary Gct:ette) are informed that
Sir Daniel Gooch and Mr. Watkin, M.P., have made an
offer to take from the Admiralty, at a cost of 100,0004.,
the iron ballast with which some of our admirals and cap-
tains superintendent have paved her Majesty's dockyards,
and which is now familiarly known under the name of
" Mr. Seeley's pigs." The iron is said to be of a very fine
cold blast quality.
Mr. Oakley, the Reid Professor, has at last
delivered his inaugural address at Edinburgh.
Mr. G. A. Macfarrell will give six lectures on
Harmony at the Royal Institution, early in the year that
is to come.
We (.4 the nu tint ) are glad to learn that nearly half
the sum, 2,0(0., that will be required for the new Archi-
tectural Museum in Bowling-street, Westminster, has been
subscribed. The buildings must be ready for occupation
in May next.
Pictures intended for the General Exhibition of
Water-colour Drawings at the Egyptian Hall must be sent
to the Gallery on the 7th and Bth of January next, be-
tween 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. The Exhibition will open to
the public on the 4th of February next.
Count de Bisnia.rck's physicians have advised
repose for him in a southern climate, and letters state
that he will shortly pass through I'aris on his way to the
south of France.
A telegraphic despatch has announced the
sudden death at Turin of Senator Cassinns, formerly
minister in Italy. The journals of that city now state
that the deceased gentleman committed suicide by shoot-
ing himself with a revolver. Domestic griefs had for
some time past affected his intellect.
The rise in the Seine has continued. The land-
ing-places of the Quai d'Orsay, the Louvre, la Tournelle,
and Iterey are covaed. The weir opposite the Mint is
submerged. The yellowish colour of the river indicates
that its affluents, and particularly the Marne, have risen.
The Marquis de In ltochejaquelein, who lies dan-
gerously ill at his chateau of i'ecq, near Saint-Germain,haa
had the last sacraments adniinistered to him.
Fort ltawlings, just below Vicksburg, is to be de-
m-4idied by order of General Grant. It took 2,000 men
60 days to eiect the works.
A new island is forming in the Missouri river,
opposite St. Joseph, and two citizens have built a shanty
on it, in order to secure the first claim to Kitty when the
government places it in the market.
The United States government has decided to
send to the Paris Exhibition a large delegation of the north
western Indians. They will take with them their wigwams,
war and agricultural implements, and every variety of

skin.
The Daily News bears that our government has at
length admitted that the Spanish government has no
right to treat the crew of the Tornado, a ship on
a lawful voyage, seised on the suspicion of being
a Chilian privateer, as prisoners of war, much less to
chain them up, and that it has been determined to
require that the case of the ship shall be speedily settled,
and, unless the suspicions of the Spanish government canand,
be made good, that that government shall make due
apology and be called upon for indemnification. It is a
matter for complaint that three months should have been
allowed to elapse before this was done.
A third article in the Daily News treats of the measures
of restriction recommended by the international sanitary
conference on cholera.
American politics, the French budget, and the proposed
memorial to the memory of the late Bishop Cotton are the
topics dwelt on by the Post.
The Herald informs us that the Lord Advocate will lay
before parliament next session a number of bills affecting
the jurisprudence, civil and criminal, of Scotland. They
are designed to facilitate the reception and record of i-
ev
dente, at a great saving to suitors, and to reduce the cost
of prosecutions by a system of double pleading.
The Telegraph at length confesses that the game is over
in Mexico. The Napoleonic error was based on the anticipa-
tion that the Confederate cause would be successful ; that
mistake spoiled the whole plan. But nine out of every ten
statesmen in Europe, and ninety-nine out of every hundred
Englishmen of the so-called better classes, participated in
the blunder. The best thing now left to France is a suc-
cessful and timely retreat, and Napoleon 111. has a virtue
that Napoleon I. never possessed—he knows when he is
beaten, and he is not too prou d to confess himself at
fault.
The Star says that after the brief respite of holiday re-
creation the season of political contention will begin, and
specially refers to the demonstration of the London
and provincial reform societies which is to take place on
the Monday after the meeting of parliament.

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

s ,stwoc.
One of the passes by which the Pacific Railroad
is to cross the Rocky Mountains is about 11,000 feet above
the level of the sea.
The mail which arrived at the General Post-
office the night before last. and which was brought home
by the l'eninsular and Oriental Company's ship Masailia,
contained snail bags from 42 different places. The mail
with the oldest date was from Auckland, in New Zealand,
which was made up October 12, and the snail of the latest
date was from Gibraltar, made up December 13. There
were mails from 23 places in Australia, from 10 places in
Asia, from 9 places in Africa, and from 2 places in

1.10 EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 106.

LA

DKATII OF LORD ST. LEONARDS.
Another of the great lawyers of the I.)'t car
tory bus -eseldlhieed his career. After onlg:Zr
Bdaot
illness Lord St. Leonard, died on Thursday night, at
Farm, his seat in Ireland, in his 86th year.
The deceased peer, who was the son of a Westminster
tradesmen, was born in 17SL He was called
to the bar
the
in
1807, and even before that he became distinguished as
author of a treatise on " Purchasers " which has passed
through fourteen editions. In 1822 he was made a King's
Counsel and a bencher of Linoolresinn. As member for
Weymouth, Meloombe Regis, and St. Mimes, Mr. Bagden
took an active part in the parliamentary discus which
issued on the passing of the Reform Bill. In 1829, when 11
the Duke of Wellington was the head of the go- I
vernment, he was appointed Solicitor-General. one,
during the brief administration of Sir Robert Peel
in 1835, he was Lord Chancellor of Irel
to
and—a post
which he resumed on Sir Robert's triumphant return
power in 1841, and continued to occupy down tohe forma-
the die-
power
of the conservative party in 1646. On t
tion of the Derby cabinet in 1832 he obtained the Great
Seal, with the title of Baron St. Leotards. After
that brief interregnum the deceased declined the responsihis-
bilities of political office and devoted himself chiefly to
duties as slaw peer, and to the deviling of various sues- I
sures having for their object the removal of anomalies in
the law of property—a department of legal reform
with which he was eminently fitted
to deal,
and in which he is believed to have rendered
valuable service to the country. Among his more cele-
brated productions were treatises on " The Law of Vendors
and Purchasers," and on "Powers"—works which were so
constantly referred to in the courts that even the general
public must be familiar with their titles. His last publica-
tion was one expressly designed for the unlearned in legal
matters—" The Handybook of Property Law"—a cheap
little work which has had a very extensive circulation,
and which is of special value for the directions and cauethtions
it contains with regard to the making of wills, whether
with or without the aid of a lawyer.
As a lawyer the late peer was held in high estimation
by those who were most competent to judge. His mind
was, indeed, peculiarly a legal one, never wearying at
minute points or wordy technicalities and sticking
to the issue in view, however narrow, with invin-
cible tenacity. His attempts at law reform were
never comprehensive, and it is doubtful whether his
veneration for the forms and parchments with which he
was early familiarised as a skilful conveyancer did not
unfit bin for grasping with the subject in a proper man-
ner. As a political speaker he was not effective,
and
his
style being dry and hard, his delivery feeble
wearisome, and in this point of view he was only re
markable for the staunch and dogged opposition which,
like his contemporary eccentric Sir Charles Wetherell, he
offered to any change, as he deemed it, in the constitu-
Lion. Like Lord Lyndhurst, however, he probably lived
long enough to be reconciled Lto much from which he had
augured national

[GENCE.

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THE EMPintOR MAXIMILIAN.
We find the inacarmg in the latest news of La
L
Our Vienna correspondent writes that the Austrian
cabinet has received undoubted information that the
ith the
health of the Emperor Maximilian is regarded w
most serious apprehensions by his friends. Our corres-
pondent adds that the Austrianembassy at Paris must
have received intelligence of his Maces at the same time as
1 the news of his return to Mexico.

(Rzurim's ivSGRANL)
FRANCE.

PARIS, Dsc. 22.
General Durrien has been appointed sub-governor
of Algia.
Theer Comtitutionnel of this morning says :—" We
have reason to believe that the proposed journeY
of the Empress to Rome has been postponed."

AMERICA.
(BY ATLANTIC TIL6CRAPII.)
NEW YORK, Dsc 21, Evvrixo.
Gold, 133 g. Sterling exchange on London,
109. 5-20 United States Bonds, 106 i ; Illinois,
1161 ; Erie, 71.
Cotton, middling Upland, 34k.