The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1867.

Bill at once out of the bands of Fate and Mr. Dis-
raeli. Fate, we suspect, is represented In Mr. Dis-
raeli's eyes, so far as this measure is concerned,
in the shape of a committee of the whole house. There he
expects to find the blindness, the caprittiousnaa, and the
blunders to which be trusts for his safety. The liberals
must resolutely decline to be fatalists. Next Monday, on
the motion that the fiyaskea do leave the *hair, they will
have their last opportunity. A series of resolutions de-
fining the principles of reform which the country requires
to have embodied in the bill, will force the ministers to a
decision. They must then either consent to reconstruct
their measure, in obedience to the demands of the nation,
or a worthless bill and a worthless ministry must fall
together.

• tire Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Ann 1.
The Queen and Princess Louise walked, and rode
on ponies in the grounds of the Castle this morning.
Prince and Princess Christian went out walking.
Princess Augustus, Prince Philippe, and Princess
Amilie of Saxe Coburg have left the Castle.
Prince Arthur has also left the Castle for Greenwich.
park, attended by Major Elphinstone.
Lord Alfred Paget and Colonel Du Plat have succeeded
Major-General Hon. A. N. Hood and Colonel the Hon. A.
Harding. as Equerries in Waiting.

The King of Denmark and the Prince of Wales, attended
by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel and IL de Scbeile, rode on
horseback yesterday.
In the afternoon the Prince of Wales went to the House
of Lords.

A committee of the Council on Education sat yesterday,
at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall. The lords pre-
sent were the Lord President, the Chancellor of the Ex.
chequer, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, the Right
Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Robert Montage.
A committee of the lords of her Majesty's Most Hon.
Privy Council sat yesterday, at the Privy Council-office,
Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords
present were the Lord President, the Duke of Richmond,
and Lord Robert Montagu. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alex-
ander Williams attended the committee.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of C&DIAIa and the Bahamas.
Despatches were sent to the Governors of the West India
Islands, British Columbia, and the Australian Colonies.

Lyceum Ter.rrez.—Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge, her Royal Highness the Princess
Mary of Tech, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Teak
occupied the Prince of Wales's box at this theatre yester-
day evening.

The anniversary festival of the British Orphan
Asylum, ;Rough, will take place to-morrow (Wednesday),
at Willies Rooms. Hie Royal Highness the Duke of Cain.
bridge will take the chair.
The Duke of Rutland is still unable to leave hie
room. In addition to the contusions he sustained in the
hunting-field he is labouring under a slight attack of gout.

The Duke and Duchess of Manchester yesterday
joined the party limiting the Earl and Counteaa Spencer at
Althorp.

The Right Hon. Francis Blackburne is considered
by his medical advis. era to be convalescent to-day, and able
to sit up.

The Duke of Devonshire on Saturday received
an address from nearly 800 of hie tenantry, expressing
their gratitude to his grace, and their reprobation of
Fenianisre.

The Hon. Mines Pitt, after the funeral of their
youthful brother, the Earl Rivers, last week, left the
family residence, Rushmore Lodge, near Salisbury, in
Wiltshire, for the official residence of their uncle, Earl
Granville, the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, at
Widmer, in Kent.

Two wealthy and youthful earls have just fallen
victims to that scourge of our climate, consumption ; viz..
Earl Brownlow, at the age of twenty-four, and Earl
Rivers, at the age of seventeen. The rent-roll of the
former produced 120,0001. a year, and that of the latter
60,000/. a year.
COLONEL BERKELEY AND HIS CREDITORS.—In
reference to the circular issued to the creditors of the
Hon. Colonel Berkeley by the committee appointed to in-
vestigate his affairs, the fact may not be generally known
that nearly the whole of the colonel's pecuniary liabilities
stated in the circular were incurred by him not on his
own account, but as surety for other pazties.—Times.
THE REFORM LEAGUE DEPUTATION TO LORI)
DERBY.—The Secretary of the Reform League has received
a letter from Mr. Barrington, stating that the indisposition
under which the Premier is suffering will prevent his
lordship from receiving the Reform League deputation this
afternoon as appointed ; but the earl has requested Lord
Stanley to represent him. It is expected that as many as
300 members of trades' societies will attend.

During the time the Paris Exhibition is open
the public will be admitted without special leave and with-
out passport to visit the imperial palaces, the museums,
the state establishments and monuments. The Palace of
the Tuileries can be seen when the Emperor and Empress
are not resident there, and in addition the following places
will be open to the public at certain specified hours:—The
Palace of St. ('loud, the Palace and Museum of Versailles,
the Trianon Palace, and those at Fontainebleau and Com-
piegne, the Chateau of the Malumison, the Imperial
Manufactures of Sevres ware and of Gobelins tapestry, the
Museum of the Louvre, the Thermea Museum, and the
Cluny Hotel, the Imperial School of Fine Arts, the Sainte
Chapelle, and the Imperial Church of St. Denis. The
servants at all these places are strictly forbidden to accept
any gratuity.

Speculation as to advertisements at Paris is as-
suming formidable proportions. The privilege of adver.
taxing on the walls of the Exhibition building has been
purchased at an enormous price, and even the walls of the
neighbouring buildings are let at an incredible sum. One
company explode, as they say over here, the kiosques, and
another has started to exploiter the cabs that purchase the
privilege of sticking advertisements on the boot of the
said vehicles. One square yard of the Great Exhibition
wall omits a thousand francs (40!.).i

A hugo block of anthracite, weighing 8,0001 be.,
has arrived at Paris from New York. Anthracite is a
species of coal, metallic and friable. It burnt slowly,
without smoking or making any smell. It is composed
of carbon, silica, and iron. It burns beautifully, but is
very difficult to light. It can be sculptured into orna-
ments with as much facility as marble, and is remarkable
for the brilliant polish it takes, and for its beautiful
colour.

An amusing correspondence between Mr. Bergh,
Professor Agassiz, and P. T. Barnum, is published in the
New York papers. Mr. Bergh, who is the president of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
writes to Mr. Barnum, and tells him that he (Barnum)
must stop feeding the boa-constrictor in the Museum with
living animals. In reply, Barnum says that boa-eon-
strictors will not eat " dead " food, and encloses • letter
from Professor Ages iz sustaining that statement. Bergh
rejoins by saying that if the Intakes will not eat " dead"
food let them starve, for it is "contrary to the Providence
of God " that living animals should be furnished to the
reptiles. Barnum satirises this theory, and writes • long
letter, puffing himself and his Museum, and defying Bergh,
who had threatened prosecution. Of course all this is a
great advertisement for the showman.
Another terrible disaster has occurred on the
Western waters. The steamer Mercury ran on a snag in
the Arkansas River, sod twenty-five passengers were
drowned. Many of those who saved their lives were badly
frost bitten, as for several hours they bad to stand in
water four feet deep, with ice floating upon it. A storm
of sleet and rain also came upon them, and four were
killed by a tree that was blown down. To add to the mis-
fortunes of the survivors, when picked up by a passing
steamer, the crew of that vessel, with the connivance of
its officers, robbed them of their clothing and effects.
They were taken to Memphis, and are in a pitiable con-
dition.

A deputation from Thames Haven, consisting of
Mr. G. C. Graves, Mr. John Hooch, Mr. John Irwin, Mr.
Richard Phillqqe, Mr. James Brewster, Mr. Joseph
Louth, and Mr. Predk. Giblett, had an interview with the
Lord President of the Council, at the Privy Council-olice,
yesterday. Dr. A. Williams was present at the interview.
THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—At a
special meeting of the Nottingham Town Council yester-
day, Mr. Browne proposed the adoption of the report of the
committee recommending the council to invite the Royal
Agricultural Society to visit Nottingham in 1868. In the
course of the discussion which followed it was stated that
Lord Middleton had offered his magnificent park at
Wollaton, a mile and adialf from Nottingham, for the
cattle show, with the permission also of using the sdja-
I cent lands for the trial of agricultural implements. There
I was railwayacoommodation nearly on the spot, and the town
and county possessed peculiar advantages for the holding
of such a show. Within a radius of 20 miles of the town
there was a population of 500,000. The nobility, gentry
and general public had already expressed themselves in
favour of such a meeting, and about 1,000/. had been pro-
mised. The sum required was 3,0001., and this would no
doubt very quickly be raised. A public meeting for the
of raising further subscriptions is to be held on
purpose Wednesday the 10th instant. Derby end Leicester are also
candidates for the meeting of the society in 186:4, and the
council of that body give their decision as to the town
they will visit, on the first Tuesday in May.