The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-25 00:00:00

ROYAL VISITS TO SOUTHAMPTON.

Arrangements were made last week for the
Prince of Wales and his family and the Duke of Edin-
burgh lowing through Southampton last Monday on their
way to Osborne, but it having been announced that
cholera was prevalent in that town it was submitted to
the Prince that the royal party should go to Osborne by
way of Portsmouth. His royal highness, however, de-
clined to have the previous arrangementa altered, and on
Monday the Prince and Princess, with the royal children
and the Duke of Edinburgh, embarked at the Southampton
Docks for Cowes. The Duke of Edinburgh had been written
to some time since to open the Loan Exhibition in
Southampton, but his engagements prevented him
from doing so. His royal highness was not aware
on Monday that the exhibition had been opened, and he
offered to do so this week. A royal visit will be paid to
it in s few days. The picture gallery of the exhibition
contains upwards of 500 pictures loaned to it by Lady
Palmerston, the Baroness Hambro', Earls of Carnarvon
and Portsmouth, Sirs W. Knighton, G. Berrard, H.
Kemal, and J. C. Jervoiae ; Messrs. Russell Gurney,
M.P., Moffatt, M.P., Beach, M.P., Nightingale, and
Sloane Stanley, Miss Sturges Bourne, and a large num-
ber of other ladies and gentlemen. The exhibition is a
great success. The shilling days commenced on Monday,
and 501. was taken at the door on that day. Specimens of
*vett kind of industry and art have been sent to the exhi-
bition, and the whole of the gorgeous presents given by
the Emperor of China to Colonel Gordon for defeating the
Taeping rebels are to be seen there. In the centre of the
exhibition is a beautiful marble bust of the late Prince
Consort, which was sculptured by the Princess Royal.

OFFICIAL NEWS. —We understand that Colonel
the Hon. E. G. Douglas Pennant will be nisei to the
peerage.—The vacant garter will, we hear, be conferred
either on the Duke of Richmond or the Duke of Rutland.

—The cabinet yesterday was entirely occupied with the
riot in Hyde-park.—Mr. Charles Fremantle is likely to be
appointed private secretary to the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer jointly with Kr. Montagu Corry. —With • view
to facilitate the confederation of the North American pro-
vinces, we believe that it is under the consideration of the
government whether it is not advisable to guarantee the
interest of • sum to be raised for the construction of the
long-desired intercolonial railroad between Hali'ax and
Quebec.—The Owl.
The Owl is " glad to hear " (a new form of

announcement) that ^ marriage is arranged between Lord
Uffington, eldest son of the Earl of Craven, and Miss
Evelyn Barrington, daughter of the Hon. George and Mrs.
Barrington.
Mr. Cheetha.n to-morrow will ask the President
of the Poor-law Board if he has any intention to bring in
a bill at the commencement of the next session to relieve
schools set apart for religious instruction upon the Sunday
from liability to pay parochial and other rates.
To-morrow Mr. Osborne will ask the Chief
Secretmy for Ireland if her Majesty's government intend
to bring in a bill for the further suspension of the Habeas
Corpus in Ireland, and if such be the case, whether they
will take into consideration the convenience of Irish mem.
ben by naming an early day for its introduction.
Mr. O'Beirne to-morrow will ask the Chief Se_
aviary for Ireland if the appointment of Mr. Blackburn
as Lord Chancellor of Ireland is merely provisional, and if
Mr. Napier has actually been appointed the Lord Justice
of Appeal.

Yeaterdey Sir Graham Montgomery was re-
elected for Peebleashire, on the nomination of Sir Adam
Hay, seconded by Mr. Murray. Sir Graham attributed
the failure of the late Reform Bill to the disreganl of the
statistics, which showed that already one-fuin th of the
working men were on the registers, and to the "super-
cilious" treatment of the house by the late Chancellor of
the Exchequer. . _

The Archbishop of York yesterday opened a fine
arts and bob:labial exhibition at York, and delivered an
address upon the occasion. About 6,000/. has been sub-
scribed as a guarantee fund, and a building has been
erected for the purposes of the exhibition at a cost of
4,000 f.
The Roman catholic journal, the Monde, says :

" If Austria succumbs there will be no state depending
upon the Vicar of Jesus Christ. All will have abjured
the official character of the catholic faith. There
will be numerically catholic peoples : the protestant. will
dare to call themselves a protestant nation. England and
Prussia will make a show of their pretended orthodoxy,
and the man of the catholic. in France, Spain, and Ger-
may will let fall the throne of Pius IL—that
visible sign of the catholicity of the nations. Remaining
faithful to that grand cause, Austria testifies to it by her
defeats. If she is irremediably vanquished she will have
all the honour of the combat. She will close the catholic
cycle of modern peoples. The church and the world will
enter upon new struggles, the struggles full of obscurity,
the conditions of which it is impossible to determine."
At the late visit of the Empress to the cholera
hospital at Amiens her Majesty approached the bedside of
a patient named Demontier, • workman, and spoke some
*mooting words to him, which seemed to revive him, and
for some days the medical attendants had hopes of saving
him, but he had not strength, and has just succumbed.
Before hie death he called the Soar de Chant* Marie-
Joseph to his bedside, and taking from ander his pillow a
purse, put it into her band, saying, " Ma Kew, here are
90 francs, all I possess in the world ; if Ido not recover,
send them to the good Empress, let her give it to the poor,
or to the little orphans of hex son, in remembranos of the
gratitude of poor Demontier." The sister has just fulfilled
the wishes of the dying workman.
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The Opinion Nationale has received unfavourable
news as to the health of Garibaldi. His legs are so thil
they are painful to see. He is pale, and bears on his fa.e
the trams of great suffering. He how been attacked with
acute rheumatism, while still feeling the effects of his
second wound. He can only move about in a carriage,
and " is may sustained by the energy of his will."
The Priurian journals announce that an Hun-
garian Legion of about 6,000 men has bees formed by
PRO, at Seism, and pissed under the command of
Klapks and other thinpsiaa effissra.