The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-10 00:00:00

THE NOSEY MARKET.-PCBLIC CONFIDENCE.

It is asserted in the City article of the Temrs that com-
petent observers are convinced that there has rarely been
a period when the prospect of steadiness could more legi-
timately be relied upon than now. The indications are
numerous that the position of the Bank of England as re-
gards bullion and reserve will from week to week be further
strengthened; and it would seem impossible but that the
enormous accumulation at Paris must force itself for em-
ployment on all surrounding markets. On no previous
occasion has a simultaneous accumulation of bullion of
such magnitude been witnessed in England, France,
and Germany, and it may be inferred that the cir-
cumstance will not pass without producing some remark-
able phenomena. The only question now in suspense is
that of the coming harvest. Thus far the anticipations
seem very favourable, and, if these should be realised,
there must be buoyancy in every branch of national busi-
ness throughout the remainder of the year. On the other
hand, even with the chance of an indifferent harvest, the
present condition of our money-market would furnish a
guarantee against any severe inconvenience. All things,
therefore, seem to combine to fortify the views of the
holders of such securities as have any solid foundation
whatever, and to induce them to rely that for investments
actually possessing any elements of recovery there never
was a time when patience and hope might more reasonably
be exercised.

TILE SEARCH FOR DR. LIYINGSTONE.—Tester-
Athe expedition which is to penetrate the interior of
Afica in search of Dr. Livingstone left England by the
African mail steamer which sailed from Southampton. It
consisted of only four persons ; Mr. E. D. Young, who has
been entrusted with the command ; Mr. Henry Faulkner, a
volunteer, who accompanies the expedition at his own ex-
pense ; and two men,nainel John Read andJohnßuckley,
one a mechanic who travelled with Dr. Livingstone for two
years and a half in Zambesi, and the other a seaman accli-
matised on the east coast of Africa, and thoroughly ac-
quainted with the nature of the country. The steel cutter
which has been furnished to the expedition to enable them
to navigate the rivers and lakes in Central Africa through
which they will have to pass was taken out in the same
vessel, and theAfricanStearnshipCompany has undertaken
to carry it to the Cape of Good Hope free of cosL It is
expected that the expedition will arrive at Lake Nyassa,
at the northern end of which Dr. Livingstone is said to
have been murdered, the end of September neat.
PROFESSOR DE MORGAN.—On Saturday Mr. Do
Morgan concluded his labours es mathematical professor at
University College. He was appointed at the foundation
of the institution (under its old name of " The University
of London ") in 1826, and resigned in 1831. On the death
of his successor, in 1836, he was induced to return, and
from that time to the present he has retained the position.
It will be remembered that he tendered his resignation in
consequence of the dispute which was occasioned by the
Rev. J. Martineau becoming a candidate for the chair of
Mental Philosophy. Several of the professor's old students
intended to take the opportunity offered by his retirement
of presenting him with -a
testimonial of their regard, but
at his request the design was abandoned. On Saturday,
at the conclusion of his last lecture, care was taken that
his long connection with the institution was not severed
without an expression of the great esteem with which he
is regarded by those who have benefited by his eminent
services as mathematical professor.
Mr. Tilos. CARLYLE UPON THE LONDON STREETS.
—The following letter from Mr. Thos. Carlyle appears in
the Times:—" Sir—l could still wish, by way of marginal
note to your friendly article of Monday last (the Times of
June 31, to add, for my own sake, and for a much valued
friend's, the two following little bits of commentary:—
lit. That I by no means join in heavily blaming Mr.
Ruskin, and, indeed, do not blame him at all, but the con.
trary, except for the almost inconceivable practical blunder
of printing my name, and then of carelessly hurling topsy-
tarry into wild incredibility all he had to report of me—of
me, and indirectly of the whole vast multitude of harmless
neighbours, whom I live with here—in London and its
suburbs, mote than 2,000,000 of us, I should think, who all
behave by second nature in an obliging, peaceable, end per-
fectly human manner to each other, and are all struck with
amazement at Mr. Ruskin's hasty paragraph upon us.
2nd. That in regard to the populace or emnaille of London,
to the class distinguishable by behaviour as our nun-human,
or half-human neighbours which class is considerably
more extensive and miscellaneous, and much more dismal
and disgusting than you seem to think, I substantially
agree with all that Mr. Ruskin has said of it.—l remain,
sir, your obedient servant, T. CARLYI.E.—Chelsea, June 7."
A LONG SPEECH.—too read in the New York
Times :—"We have received proofs of Mr. Sumner's speech,
about which we have lately heard so much, on the cession
of Russian America. It is of stupendous size, and is
doubtless the best account in existence of the subject in
question. It begins with the discovery of the country,
by the navigator Behring, and goes down to the treaty of
annexation. It is illustrated by numerous classical and
poetical quotations—by scraps from Cicero, Webster,
Milton, Byron, Campbell, Goethe, and numberless
others, only less great. It offers us hints in mental
philosophy, botany, mineralogy, and international law. All
persons interested in these or collateral topics, or in our
new acqeisitions of Russian America, will doubtless be
anxious to see the speech. We regret that its length
renders it impossible to give it to our readers. It would
fill something like 60 columns' end the Timer contains but
56." The New York Herald gays :—" Mr. Sumner, in his
speech on the cession of Russian America to the United
States, spreads himself not only over the 575,000 square
miles which make up the estimated area of the newly
acquired territory, but also over boundless tracts
of space and time. The speech is unquestionably
the moat encyclopedic of all the encyclopedic works
ever elaborated by the learned senator and his pri-
vate secretaries. But no newspaper can publish it in full
unless in a sextuple sheet. We have only to suggest that
Mr. Secretary Seward, the only rival of Mr. Senator
Sumner in voluminousness, should be instructed to write
at corresponding length a reply to the speech. Both pro.
auctions would be so interminably long that newspaper
readers would escape having to wade through them. They
might serve to swell the huge tomes in which the complete
works of Seward and of Sumner will be shelved, uncut, in
the alcoves of the congressional library. Posterity may
have more leisure for perusing them than the present
generation enjoys."

the Court.

BALMORAL, Jess 7.
The Queen yesterday morning drove out, accom-
panied by Princess Christian.

In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by P.sincess
Christian, and attended by the Hon. Mrs. Cordon, drove
to Alt na Cuithasack.

Princess Louise, Princess Leatries, and Prince Leopold,
drove to.lnrk-hall. _ _

lrxs A.
The Queen went out riding on a pony yesterday morn-
ing, accompanied by Princess Beatrice.
In the afternoon her Majesty drove out, accompanied
by Princess Louise, and attended by the Duchess Dowager
otAthole and Miss WGregor.
Prince Leopold went out riding, attended by Mr. Legg.
The Duke of Richmond has arrived at the Castle as
Minister in attendance upon her Majesty.
Colonel Maude arrived at the Castle.

The Prince of Wales, with Lieut.-Colonel Koppel in
waiting, attended divine service yesterday at the Chapel
Royal, St. James's.
The Communion Service was read by the Rev. the Subs
dean. Anthem—" I was in the Spirit" (Blow), sung by
Messrs. Foster, Cummings, Lawler, and Thomas. Mr.
Cooper presided at the organ.
The sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Oxford,
from Ist Corinthians, chap. ii. v. 16.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburg otrelitz attended the service.

A communication from London to the Huras
Arlene!, mentions a rumour that Queen Victoria had writ-
ten an autograph letter to the Emperor Napoleon to con-
gratulate him on the success of the Exhibition, and to
express her Majesty's regret at not being able to visit it
herself with the accustomed ceremonial. It is, however,
the correspondent adds, generally believed that her Ma-
jesty will visit Paris incognito. The Prince of Wales is
shortly, the letter says, to be in the French capital.
His Serene Highness Prince Peck, accompanied
by Baron and Baroness Biome, Count Kaluaki, and the
Marquis Fortunate, visited the Crystal Palace on Saturday,
and dined in the grand saloon. His serene highness and
party subsequently witnessed the display of fireworks and
the assemblage of 20,000 spectators on the terraces from
the windows of one of the private dining rooms.

On Saturday the infant eon of Sir Robert and
Lady Emily Peel was baptised at the Royal Chapel,
Whitehall, in the presence of a large family circle. The
baptismal rite was performed by the Very Rev. Dr. Peel,
Dean of Worcester, and the sponsors were Lord William
Hay, M.P., Lady Emily Peel's brother, and Captain John
Peel and the Hon. Mrs. Stoma., brother and sistar of Sir
Robert Peel. The infant was baptised in the name of
Robert.

His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and
Countess Bernstorff and Countess ThiaiMe Bernstorff left
the Prussian Embassy on Saturday on a visit to Lord and
Lady Cranworth, at their seat in Kent.

The Marchioness of Salisbury and family have
arrived at Hatfield House, Herts, from Homburg. The
noble marquis had previously arrived there.
The Earl and Countess Grey have loft their resi-
dence on Carlton-house-terrace for Howiek Hall, North-
umberland. The noble earl and countess will return to
town early in the ensuing week, in order to be present at
the marriage of his lordship's niece, Miss Grey, with the
Duke of St. Albans.

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rim COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM IN THE
UNITED STATES.

In 1865 the Schools Inquiry Commission askul
the Rev. J. Fraser, M.A. Chancellor of the Diocese of
Salisbury, to go the United States and Canada for them
and stay there for six months, inquiring into the cosines
school system ; its cost, its extent, and its character. The,
Scotch Commission, hearing that Mr. Fraser had consented
begged him to report also to them, and this week, in
thick blue book of 435 pages, we have the result of the
investigation.

Premising that it is scarcelypossible tostrike an avenge,
Mr. Fraser ventures to put the cost of the education of a
child in the common schools of all grades in eleven of the
principal cities of the Union at about 2Z. 3s. 64. yearly.
The pee centage of attendance and truancy is quite as high
as in our own schools, and but a small proportion of the
number of children nominally educated under the common
school system receive the complete education which
that system contemplates. But this does not pie.
vent him from pronouncing emphatically that the
American people, "if not the most highly educsted,
yet certainly are the most generally educated and
intelligent people on the earth." Better appliance,
for training teachers are required, though the wonderful
aptitude of the people, especially the women, for teaching
renders the deficiency much less striking to the out wan!
eye of a carnal observer than would be the case under
similar circumstances in England. Mr. Fraser is
lady struck with the " intensity" with which American
teachers teach and American scholars leant, and with the
wonderful personal cleanliness of the children. The spirit
of work produced is high. " Continued idleness in a pupa,
such as is allowed without any very string effort to cor-
rect it at Eton and elsewhere, would not be tolerated in
an American school" Our best teachers, he think;
are better than their best, but our worst teschen are
incomparably worse, duller, more unmethodical, more
indolent, more uninteresting, than anything I saw
or can conceive of being tolerated among them." The
intelligence of the people is amazing, " Compare," sap
the commissioner, " the political knowledge and the
mental activity displayed on political questions by a
New Eugland fanner or mechanic with that possessed and
exhibited by an Englishman of similar social position,
and the contrast would be ludicrous." And at another
part of his report, he says, "In no home of civili-
zation is the truth so energetically believed and
acted on that ' not to advance is to recede.' In no
country with which I am acquainted is the development
of all its resources so rapid, so contemporaneous, so QM.
versaL" But the wealthiest classes do not use the rote;
as many in England suppose, and the schools are now in
possession of the middle class, the artisans, storekeeper",
and farmers; while "aristocratic feelings" induce the
richer families to send their children to private schools.
Mr. Fraser objects to the American plan of teaching girls
and boys on exactly the same plan, though he admits that
the girls get the most prizes and make the best teachers.
The coldness of the Roman catholic hierarchy may, he
fancies, prove a danger to the system ; but though sp.
proving of the denominational plan for England, be says,
very decidedly, " I should consider myself to be tendering
a mo.t fatal piece of advice if, with all its advantages, I
recommended its adoption there." Though all dogmatic
teaching—all creeds and catechisms—are excluded from
the schools, Mr. Fraser says the system does nevertheless
promote virtue and morality. The general interest felt
in the welfare of the schools in the cities is remarkable,
"It is not at all unusual," writes the commisaioner,
"to find men of business, lawyers, merchants, Ac., to
whom emphatically time is money, devoting an
hour or two in a morning, not once in a way merely, but
week by week, to the visitation of schools before they p
to their office or store. The powerful effect of such rota.
erica upon the well-being of the schools can easily be con.
ceived." The machinery of management, though complex,
runs smoothly. " When people are in earnest," he says,
" and p►rticularly when theyare animated by a high public
spirit, they are not apt to be touchy upon points of prece-
dence, nor jealous for the claims of prerogative. And such
I believe to be the happy state of public feeling which
animates the administration of American schools."

COVENTRY AND MIDLAND EXHIBITION.—We
understand that Lord Granville hart consented to open the
exhibition at Coventry on the 19th inst., and that the
occasion will be observed as a general holiday in that city.
THE MYSTRItIOUsI LANDING AT DUNGARVAN.—It
will be seen by the letter of our Cork correspondent that
the two persons who were arrested at Youghal on Saha.
day, after having landed, with others, at Helvick Feint,
near Dinigarvati, have been identified by the informer
Corydon as General Nagle and Captain Warren. of the
Visited States army. The regiments to which they respec-
tively belonged formed part of the Irish Brigade, under
General Thomas Francis Meagher. The fame of General
Nagle and of Captaiu Warren had not previously
reached our ears, but the Curt Examiwr appeals to
bare been better informed. Our contemporary says:—
" Both General Nagle and Captain Warren are
known to have been two wealthy and intluentid
citizens of New York, where they moved in the very
highest circles and enjoyed the friendship of most Wiper.
tent personages, including the President himself, Mr.
Secretary Seward, and other functionaries of importance.
The address and manners of both prisoners are those of
educated gentlemen accustomed to move in a superior
walk of life. They have up to the present persistently
refused to give the authorities the slightest information se
to the purpose of their visit to this country, or how they
came hither, and have declined to answer any ques-
tions connected with the landing at Dungarvan."
The refusal of these distinguished foreigners to give
any account of themselves is, to say the least, sus-
picious. The informer, it is said, did not attempt to
connect either of them with the Fold= conspiracy, bet
the public will probably come to a conclusion on that
point without his assistance. The circumstances mkt
which the Fel2ilLl3l landed at Dungarvan have nut yet been
satisfactorily cleared up. According to our Cork corre-
spondent, the mysterious strangers are Fenian leaders and
soldiers, who, finding at the time of Masey's arrest that
they were betrayed by Corydon, fled to the mountains,
remained hiding there for some time, subsequently em.
barked in a vessel for America, and were, after a long
period of hardship and danger, cast back on the very wad
from which they had taken their departure. If this be en,
it will add a remarkable chapter to the extraordinary dor/
of lenianisin in Ireland.—Sausickrs'

THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO • VOLLISTRYR RIFLE
MARIER.—On Saturday evening an inqueat was held at
Shrewsbury, upon the body of David WArthur, a deaf
and dun,b bOy, who was fatally wounded at the butts near
Ellesmere, during the rifle prsctioe of the lead volunteer
corps. From the evidence it appeared that on Thursday,
the ensign and three of the men belonging to the 13th
Shropshire Hines, were practising firing under the dim-
tion of the father of the deceased, who was drillile
to the corps. The deceased was employed as marrrear:
being stationed in a rnantelet some distance to the left el
the target, and nearer to the marksmen. After the prac-
tice had continued for a couple of hours, it was noticed
that the deceased omitted to signal a hit, and on the
omission being repeated, Sergeant WArthur lan up the
uiantelet, and found his son sitting down on the flow
nursing hie right leg, round which a pocket liandken:hief
was bound. It then transpired that while stand.
log with his back to a tiring party. sal ha
face in the direction of the to '.t, ho had
inadvertently extended a portion of Lis leg i.eyond the
protection of the mantelet, and had received .erne gun'
shot wound in the calf. The poor dumb bey. unable to
move, or to attract attention by calling out, had bound up
the wound with his handkerchief,
and then patiently
awaited the discovery of the accident by the tiring party.
A surgeon was speedily in attendance, and after a tourni-
quet had been placed on the injured leg the deceased wee
lifted into • dog-cart and driven to the iunrmary
Shrewsbury, a distance of fifteen mile.. nil his arrit
ival
be was found to be in a state of collapse. from which be
never rallied, dying within four hours of Lis admission.
After a lengthened consultation the jury returneil a vet.-
diet of " Accidental death," at the same pate expressing
their opinion that the decibel], being deaf and dumb,
was not a proper person to employ as a walker. They
added a recommendation that the Elleentere rifle range
abound be altered, as it was proved in evidence to be in an
unsafe and unfit state for ride practice, and concluded
by condemning the manner in which ride shooting VIS
practised by the corps.
A PRIZE FIGHT BEFORE JCATIGES OF THE PESO,.
One of those disgraceful exhibitions, a prize fights
now happily rare in this neighbourhood, was to
have taken place yesterday (Friday), morning at Two
Pot House, a spot about six miles from t*.imbndei., by
the St. Neotieroad, but the vigilance and promptitude
of the county conatabulary prevented a breach of the
peace. It appears that the men who were to have fought
of Norwich, and the stake* for which they were u have
were Alfred Humphrey, of Chesterton, and Willy illsees
fought were provided by some " Corinthian " mirroring
of the " institution " belonging to the 'Varsity. In the
afternoon Humphrey and Wilare met on the borders of
Suffolk, and without the slightest interruption fought 26
rounds in 46 min. 10 sec. Wills,* show, .1 the best know-
ledge of s fence, and was beaten by sheer strength.
Humphrey took round his cap for the beaten man. Wore
than one justice of the peace, our correspondent Marti
was spectator of the fight. if this he so. the police have
held a parley with the " Corinthian " promot, rs of the
prise fight, who surely can be made amenable to university
discipline and police court law. Ent what is to be done
with the justices of the " peace " who were present at
the
actual fight !—Caosoridge I Adtpe Par nt.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Conimiuioner thoulburn.)
!s; rE WILLIAM PrI,FORI, Ell‘mcf.

bankrupt was a contractor, of ltridge-sore;,
I. ,ill,:ton. His liabilities exceed :1.1,000/., and the
• .1. ,se realh.eul 1,7:47/. Ito appears to have been
.• in speculations known as the Hook
llollatel Railway, and the Dutch Tramway
-1.•,.v. and he had accepted accommodation bills on
.4 the Min of Rose and House for upwards of 9.00 W.
• before the court last week on the questions
4 . .:mination and discharge, when the bankrupt was 0p-
...1. 'upon the ground of contracting debts without rea-
.,.„.h.:.• vq.-rtAt of payment.
•oniiiiisdeiter I oulburn having taken time to eon-
-tate.' that as much as 41i9/. had been absorbed in law
kWh haul the effect of reducing the dividend
.i•le to ?lie creditors. It might be said that these costs
.• r, au•c•warily incurred but the amount appeared to be ev
t haul been contended that the bankrupt had very
• d esl.ectttions of profit from &concession granted by the
•_!overunient, hut he wished to know whether the
was of such value as to justify the bankrupt in
•a: alio,- debt..
1t.....1 s,id he was willing to admit that the comes-
. a most valuable description. The bankrupt
t.. received 2:,,M01. for his (interest in the con-
but in consequence of the state of the money
,rk.t at the time the negotiation went off.
_ . _

Hr. Daglet, for the ankrups, proposed that • short
,client of the facts connected with the concession

. ,;.i 1.. pniKtred and furnished to thloonrt.
Honour said he should be glad for that to be done,
I .u.iunlingly postponed giving judgment.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

7h- June session of the Central Criminal Court was
hy the Recorder, Alderman Hale, Alderman Sir F.
Itoon..tlilerman Carter, Alderman Allen, and Alder-
. liesley, the Sheriffs, Uniler•Sheritfs, &c.
first edition of the calendar contains the names of

• and hi female prisoners. Of this number 25 are
, %matted from the city of London, 87 from Middlesex,
Essex, Kent 8, and Surrey 18. The offences are
clasdtie.l :—'Murder, 2 ; feloniously wounding, 5 ;
• •... ; arson, ; burglary, tffi ; furgery, b ; horse steal-
,. larceny, SS ; letter stealing, 4 ; manslaughter, 1 ;
•••.•ni.; counterfeit coin, bigamy. 1 perjury, em-
•,l,ll,ent, 3 ; misdemeanour, 7 ; and robbery, 4.
Tht• Recorder, in his charge to the grand jury, observed
3 the calendar for the present sessions was rather heavy,
some of the charges were of a serious description.
Ti.a.• were two cases of wilful murder, besides some of
oislaughter, and others of stabbing with intent to
uirder. The first charge of murder was that of Eleanor
i.. 1. to whom was imputed the wilful murder of her son,
:...talc boy nine years of age. The case was of a most
I,.nful character, but it was to be hoped that on an in-
...tigAtion before the court and a petty jury it would
;,,!pear that the priaoner at the time of the commission
et tie• offence was not a responsible agent; but with that
question the grand jury had nothing to do, and therefore
it would be well if they returned a true bill, so that the
natter might be fully inquired into, and means provided
for the prevention of the accused being guilty of any
similar act in future. The other case of murder was
charged against a man named Moody, in which the evi-
dence before the magistrate was somewhat contradictory.
The death. that of a boy, the prisoner's son, resulted
from injuries caused by burning, and the question for the
grand jury would be whether the injuries were caused by
accident or by the act of the prisoner. There was a charge
of arson against two persons, named Bond and Nye,
which would require some attention. Bond had been
the tenant of a house which had been burned
to long ago as the month of August last,
: ndl for that he made a claim for 1501. on the insurance

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Oho., and stated that at the time of the occurrence he had
I..ft the premises in the charge of a person named Noland,
.nd this was the other prisoner Nye, on whose representa-
tions a portion of the claim was paid to Bond. It subse-
Ineptly transpired, from information given by a female
mined Hutchins, that there hail been a guilty act, in which
:he prisoner had participated ; and hence the prosecution.
The testimony of the woman Hutchins was open to sus-
picion ; but the grand jury would see whether in the main
,he was not corroborated by other evidence in the case.
The learned recorder then directed the attention
of the grand jury to charges against several persons arising
,ct of the tailors' strike. The charge was that of using
threat, and intimidation to induce persons to quit the
iervim of the master by whom they were employed. It
vas clear now that workmen might legally combine
together in order to obtain an advance of wages, but it
ma equally clear law that if men so combining used
:meats or committed acts of intimidation,they would be
..senable to punishment for an illegal act. The law had
ma been distinctly laid down by the late Lord Chief
Isties Tindal, in his charge to a grand jury at a special
omission in which the present Lord Wensleydale and
bcd I 'nutworth were associated with the learned judge,
sal who concurred in the dictum laid down by him on the
..-iject. After a few general remarks the Recorder
slimed the grand jury to their room for the commence-
-me of their labours.