The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-16 00:00:00

Mt TIPICB.

The Tintes describes in powerful language the state of
armed peace in which we are left by the conference. If
the present race of armaments is to continue, Europe may
come to think open war itself a preferable alternative to
the protracted anxiety and ruinous expenditure it entails.
Natious will fight, not because they have any just reason
or any large policy, but to anticipate those who would
otherwise attack them. Till the conviction that this
terrible game is no more in the interest of princes than of
nations shall be brought home to the imperial and royal
houses of Europe by the signal reverses that have so lately
overtaken many of the European potentates, we see little
chance of that disarmament which alone makes peace at-
tractive and offers a security against the perpetual recur-
rence of war. The first monarch who seriously moved in
this direction would acquire a claim on the love and re-
spect of his own subjects, and a weight in the affairs of
Europe that nothing else could give.
The Daily News glances at the revolt in Candle, which
has now lasted for the greater part of a year, remarking
that the graphic and vivid letters of its correspondent with
the insurgent army have, for the first time, lifted the veil
of distance, official falsehood, imperfect knowledge, and
baseless conjecture, which has hitherto concealed from
Western Europe the true character of the struggle. The
Deily News enters into various considerations in defence
of what it regards as a measure of justice and policy,
namely, the completion, so far as Candia is concerned, of
the work of liberation which wu as much thwarted as
assisted in 1830.

The Telegraph and the Star refer to the reform meeting
in tit. James's-hall last night in proof of the fact that the
character of the government bill is at last thoroughly
understood. " Meetings like those of last night," the
Teleyraph says, " will be repeated until the country shall
ring with the demand for a prompt, an honest, and a just
re-arrangement of the franchise on a broad and simple
basis."

The Star goes so far as to warn Mr. Disraeli that his bill
as it now stands will never receive her Majesty's assent.
The agitation which has yet been is as nothing to that
which will be if its monstrous inequalities are persisted in.

tics Cattrt.

OSBORNE, MAT 15.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Hon.
Mrs. Gordon ; and her Majesty walked and drove in the
grounds this morning with Princess Louise.
Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went out.

A Committee of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy
Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-office, White-
hall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords
present were the Lord President, Lord Robert Montagu,
and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave. Mr. Harrison and
Dr. Alexander Williams attended the committee.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonialofice
from the Governors of the West India Islands.

The Prince of Wales appears to be indefatigable
in the attention he pays to the many objects of striking
Interest to be met with in the world's fair. On Tuesday
he again visited the Champs de Mars, arriving about half-
past 12, accompanied on this occasion by his brother the
Duke of Edinburgh. He was received by Mr. Cole, C. 8.,
and shortly afterwards joined by Lord Royston and Major
Teesdale. The day was devoted almost exclusively to the
French section. The Prince went on Monday night to see
La Grand Due/tease, in which piece the renowned Schneider
performs the grand role. So tremendous is the crowd
attracted by her charms, that the Prince could only obtain
a stall. The Duchess of Manchester and Marquise de
Gallifet were among the audience. The last anecdote of
his royal highness is, that as he was walking along the
Rue Casimir Perier on Sunday evening a fire broke out in
Madame de Coursers apartment ; the Prince immediately
entered the house and offered his services, but by the time
be arrived all danger was over.

The ceremony of christening the infant eon of
their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian will
take place on Tuesday next in the private chapel, Windsor
Castle, in the presence of her Majesty and the royal family.
The court is expected to leave Windsor on the following
day.

His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and
Countess Bernstorif entertained st dinner last evening, at
the Prussian Embassy, on Carlton House terrace, his
Excellency the Spanish Minister and the Countess Vista-
bermes,. and Ildlle. Owens, Lord and Lady Poltimore,
Lord Claud Hamilton, Lord Stanley, Prince Oortchskoff,
the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northoote, Bart., and Lady
and Mims Northcote, the Eight lion. the Chancellor of the
Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli, Le.

The Earl and Countess Percy and Lord Wark-
worth left Northumberland House yesterday for Alnwick
Castle, where the young lord's coming of age will be cele-
brated on the 29th inst.

Mr. Warner, M.P., and Mrs. Warner entertained
►t dinner, on Tuesday last, his Excellency the Turkish
Ambassador and Madame and Mdlle. Musurns, his Excel-
lency the Prussian Ambassador, the Archbishop of Armagh
and Mrs. Beresford, the Marchioness of Thomond, Lord
and Lady Otho Fitzgerald, Viscount Milton, M.P., the
Right Hon. Charles P. Villiers, M.P., the Right Hon. W.
E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone, the Right Host.
Sir William Hutt, M.P., and Lady Hutt, Mr. and Lady
Rose Weigsll, Baron and Baroness Schmidth►ls, Baron
Liie, Sir Robert Shaw, Bart., Mr. and Mrs. Vansittart, and
Mr. W. H. Gladstone, M.P.

The annual regimental dinner of the Grenadier
Guards is fixed for the 12th of next month at the Albion
Tavern, Aldersgate-street.

The antral regimental dinner of the Scots
Fusilier Guards is appointed to take place at the Albion
Tavern, Alder gate-street, on the let of the ensuing month.
The officers of the army and navy who served
during the late war in New Zealand will dine together
on Friday, the 24th inst., at Willis's Rooms, Ring-street,
St. James's. General Sir Duncan Cameron will preside.
The Evening Mail says it must prove in the
highest degree satisfactory to the Irish public to learn
that a meeting of Irish peers and members of parliament
will immediately be held on the question of the position of
Irish railways. "We do not apprehend," it adds, " any
difference of opinion when the conference takes place, and
we trust that its result will be to present to the govern-
ment and to parliament so powerful an array of arguments,
supported by a roll of influential names of men of every
party, in favour of a state sawainption of Irish lines as will
overcome all mere theoretical objections, and gain for
Ireland the large commercial and social advantages which
that policy would infallibly secure."

The Dublin Evening Post having commented
sharply on Sir George Bowyer's voting on the reform
question, has received the following letter from the hon.
baronet :—" Sir, I see that in a leading article you are
pleased to describe me as en English legal gentleman from
Doctors' Commons. It is true that I have cultivated and
written on the civil and canon law ; but I never was in
Doctors' Commons, though I hold an honorary degree of
D.C.L at Oxford. I am simply one of the oldest English
baronets, and possessor of a considerable hereditary estate.
As for my conduct in parliament, I am responsible to my
respected constituents at Dundalk, who, for fifteen years,
have honoured me by their support ; and I have voted on
the Reform Bill—a purely English matter—together with
a good many liberal members of the house. I request you
to publish this letter.—Your obedient servant, Gitosos
BOWTEIC—House of Commons, May 9, 1867."

Sir R. Murchison writes :—" As I have always
was reason to doubt the accuracy of the report of the
death of Dr. Livingstone, chiefly on account of the men-
dacious character of the Johanna men who brought the
news to Zanzibar, so lam now happy to inform you that
the ray of hope that be might still be alive has been much
strengthened by a document just placed in my hands by
Colonel Rigby, late her Majesty's consul at Zanzibar. At
any rate, the small boat party which will !Pave this
country on the 9th of June will, by ascending to the north
end of the Lake Nyasa's, set the matter at rest as to the
reported death of the great traveller."

The All England Eleven were beaten by eight
wickets in the cricket match with Nineteen of North of
Ireland yesterday.

A meeting of the Dublin tailors was held hat
night to eympathise with those on strike in London. A
subscription list wee opened.