The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-27 00:00:00

TILE DILLOZATIC BABVICE.

The following diplomatic-ehangee are announced:
Lord L. Loftus, at premed Secretary of Legation at Berlin,
will noosed Sir Hamilton Seymour at Vienna.
Sir J. Crampton, at present Minister at Hanover, and late
Minister in the United States, will succeed Lord Wodahouee
at St. Petersburg.
Mr. Buchanan, at present Minister at Copenhagen, will
succeed Lord Howden at Madrid.

Mr. Elliot, at present Secretary of Legation at Vienna, will
mooted Mr. Buchanan at Copenhagen.
Mr. Howard, at present Secretary of Embuaay at Paris,
will succeed Lord Noirmaaby ma Minister at Florence.

Lord Chelsea will sucoek Mr. Howard as Secretary of
Embassy, at Paris.

Lord Augustus Loftus yarn appointed as attache to Berlin
in 1837, and he resided for seven years at that capital.
Transferred to Stuttgardt, his residence in Wurtomburg
teas diversified by his employment in the special mission
undertaken during the troubles of 1848 by Lord Stratford
de Radcliffe to the Courts of Prussia and Austria. Hs
removed again to Berlin in 18.53 ss secretary of legation.
Sir J. Crampton is chiefly known by his mission to the
United States.

Mr. Buohanan has been for thirty years In the diplomatic
service. He has served under Lord Stratford de Radcliffe,
and his imocesa in conducting the intricate negotiations con-
nected with the settlement of the Sound dues question ob-
tained for him from Lord Clarendon the third clue decora-
tion of the Bath.

The lion. H. 0. Elliot commenced a diplomatic career in
1836 as private secretary to the lets Sir John Franklin
during his governorship of Van Diemen's Land. Since that
time be has acted at home as précis writer at the Foreign-
office, and abroad has served at St. Petersburg, at the Hague,
and at Vienna.

Of the Hon. H. O. Howard, the Times says :—" Our new
envoy to the Tuscan court is notoriously smong the moot in-
capable members of tke diplomatic write. His title to em-
ployment is, we suppose, his name. He L called Howard,
and therefore he ia shifted about from one comfortable
berth to another, until, by the last strange freak of for-
tune he find, himself converted into Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of Oreat Britain at Flo-
rence. The fortune of the Howard, is remarkable.
Under the late government they bad possession of some
half-dozen of the highest °aloes of state. One might have
supposed that they would adhere steadily to one party or
another; in fact, that the Howards might at any time be
spoken of as the outs' or the 'ins.' Not a bit of it. The
Howard. are always the ins.' The half-dozen Howards of
Lord Palmenton's government have marched out, and, as a
natural consequence, the Hon. Henry Howard, of Lord
Derby'. government, has marched in."
Lord Chelsea, who succeeds Mr. Howard as secretary at
Paris, was once attache at St. Petersburg for thirteen months
—from June, 1834, till July, 1835. Since that time ho has
been In parliament, having represented both Reading and
Dover.

me NEW MINISTRY AND THE CLUBS.—Of
coarse Bt. James's-street and Pal•mall are in a Butter.
Brookes's is rely angry with the Reform for hutting it out
of doors; and the Reform chuckles with an ill-dissembled
and not altogether unpardonable malice at the discomfiture
of Brookes's. The solid, steady-going old gentlemen of
Boodle's gaze at the Proteus of Toryism conducting his
herd to graze on the unfamiliar Mountain of Radicalism,"
with something of the feelings of Pyrrha :

Noes noosttsqueetse,
Otene game emit usvpocasgil alto
Pi,dom et summa genus Welt auto,
Note gun stela tenet columnie.
tuperJecto pr do netartett
'Anon dame.
They are astonished to perceive an old ash-like Lord John
Manners peddling about among the elms where the dove-
like Sir Benjamin cooed, and the timorous Disraeli striking
out Into the deep waters of liberalism. White's preserves
its well-bred self-possession—not unmixed, however, with a
general presentiment that the world at large, as viewed from
its bay window, is going to the devil. The conflagration of
the neighbouring consular mansion haa struck terror into the
souls of the young gentlemen who are good enough to
transact our foreign affairs at the Traveller's. The Carlton
alone has surrendered itself to unmitigated exultation, and
has intoxicated itself with copious libations of liberalism,
like a gentleman who should drink himself into delirium
tremens with black does. In short, we have a real tempest
in the tea-enp which Bee between Berkeley-square and
Charm' g-cross.—Seturday Review.

The Leader, expressing satisfaction at the ap-
pointment of Mr. Ooldwin Smith, Fellow of University
College, and Secretary to the University Reform Commis-
sion, to the Professorship of Modern History at Oxford, ob-
serves •.—" The anonymous system, with its unquestioned
advantages to the prom as an 'estate,' combine* the obvious
disadvantage of suppressing the light of individual reputa-
tions ; and it seems almost like disclosing a secret to men-
tion that among the most stirring articles in the most con-
spicuous columns of the London press, not a few of late years
have been due to the fine Roman hand of Mr. Geldwin
Smith. Wherever public liberty and political justice were
to be defended and upheld, wherever tyranny, and corrup-
tion, and servility were to be condemned and chastised, a
finer and stronger hand could not be found to wield the lan-
guage and the thought of Milton. Such an appointment,
therefore, to the chair of Modern History L fall of promise
end significance, and it does infinite honour to Lord Derby,
• ' Tory' minister and a' Tory' chancellor, to have ratified,
by anticipation, the spontaneous end unanimous choice of the
University."

With regard to the dispute at Jerusalem between
the British Consul and the Bishop of the Anglican Church,
which ended in the consul's placing the bishop under erred,
the Beard mays:—" We learn that the matter has been re-
presented at the Foreign-office by the Earl of Shaftesbury,
and that orders have been sent out by the Earl of Malmo,-
bury, commanding the arrest to be immediately withdrawn.
The matter cannot rest where it is ; for, whether the bishop
was right or wrong in disobeying the consular summons to
the court, the violent act of the consul must be reprobated by
all thinking men."

The Timss says of the new India bill—" Such
clockwork as Mr. Disraeli proposes is too elaborate for the
English taste. It would ruin no in cleaning and repairing,
and not go after all." The Ironomiii believes " most pro-
foundly" that " a scheme more perfectly adapted to diside
the council of India into contending sections—and into
sections determined moreover by the adlnitke and antipathies
of English political life—wee never devised than that which
the new ministry have Introduced." It is " the most con-
spicuou•—we might also may the most perverse—failure in
English statesmanship which has ever resulted from the
exigencies of a weak government or a desire to court popular
favour."

FINE-ART GONSIP.—May, in Treialgar4qnare,
prorates unusual attractions. We have already spoken of
the works peeper ing by Messrs. Frith and Phillip. Report
speaks well of Mr. "a preperations. Mr. Stanfield has
four pictures in hand—a Coast Scene by Moonlight—a
novelty from this artist—a Sea-piece, with Ischia in the
distance, and two others. Mr. NN and baa finished his oil-
'painting of Alice Lisle—the fresco of which is now on Caw
at the now polars. The Queen's two historical pictures—
" The Installation of the Garter" and " Queen Victoria at
the Tomb of Napoleon"—we am glad to hear will be
Isiebod in time for May. A regal command suffices to
keep the doors of the Academy open to the last day—a
privilege which. it is said, the artist will on this occa-
sion invoke. Mrs. Ward—so rumour has it—makes as
ambitions adverica this year : —leaving the scene of domestic
drama for the historical field. Her subject is said to he
"Howard's Farewell to England,"—the philanthropist
taking leave of his tenants —a good subject in good hands.
Mr. Ooodhall hes a Venetian picture, "An Italian Import-
galore." The three Lionel. will be represented. Mr.
Kaoline is not likely to have anything large in size. Kr.
Hart will exhibit a conspicuous work. Mr. Roberts has
fare catherhal pictures—two exteriors and two interiors.
Mr. Rimers, we are glad to my, retur as this year to the
walls of the Academy, with an Italian picture from the life
of Dante. M. Aty &heifer, who has now recovered, we
are glad to say, from his late severe illness, is finishing two
large pictures of " Marguerite at the Fountain," and " Faust
holding the Poisoned Cup."—eftliensatn.
INFORMATION WANTED.—Many objections have
bete made to that pert of the religious subscriptions required
by the Universitiee which requires anent to an authoritative
decision upon the future prospects of those who hold one or
another opinion. But at least this much can be mid he oar
old Universities, that, whatever they might prcoonnse
In general terms, they never dictated any conclusion upon
the final destiny of particular individuals. This extreme
' of theological precision has been reserved, strange to say,
for the University of London, the offspring of readers
liberality, which mks no questions about tier religion of its
members, at lest is this world. The University of Landes,
as will bastedisety appose not only undertakes to try to
&mortals the Mare condition of its Saes* bell reeblers
ell the isibematies tt on get. Witham the tam*. moo-
lotions weed an the fled instant Remised That the
following seditious be sae to the geserel Near_ , so hr as
the inforsestios can be obtained : '4. Alive or dead. That to
the same of each graduate or undergraduate there be abed
a mark, showing whether he be alien or dead. 5. That le
the sum of ma perms neared hie alms be appended,
subject to cotrection from time to timo:"—Athissonsal.