The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1867.

fritt Emma.

BALMORAL, Sim. 21.

The Queen drove out in the morning, accom-
panied by Princess Louise, and in the afternoon went ont
with Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Harriet
Phipps.

Princess Christian, attended by Lady Churchill, went out
driving.
Prince Christian and Prince Arthur, with Mr. Gathorne
Hardy and the Gentlemen•in•Waiting, went out to a drive
of deer in the woods.

His Excellency M. and Madame Van de Weyer had the
honour of dining with the Queen and Royal Family.
Lady Frances Melilla and Dr. Norman Macleod left the
Castle.

The Very Rev. Principal Tulloch, of Bt. Andrew's,
arrived at the Castle, on a visit to her Majesty.

SEPT. 22.

The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princes►
Louise, Piinco Arthur, and Prince Leopold, ►ttended
Divine Service in the p►rish church of Crathie. The Very
Rev. Principal Tulloch, of St. Andrew's, one of her Ma-
!esty's chaplains, officiated.
The Very Rev. Principal Tulloch had the honour of
dining with the Queen and Royal Family.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.
office from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal,
and St. Helena.

Despatches were sent to the Gwremors of the Cape of
Good Hope and NataL

The Duchess of Newcastle has arrived in town
from Clamber. lee duke is at Newmarket.

The Earl of Wilton has sailed in his yacht from
Copenhagen to Stockholm. The countess left some days
back to join the noble earl in Sweden.

The Earl of Derby has quite recovered from his
late attack of gout.

Lord Stanley, M.P., returned to town on Mon-
day from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Salis-
bury at Hatfield House, Herter

The Bishop of London, as bishop of the metro-
polis and chief bishop of the province of Canterbury, has
returned to Fulham Palace for this week, to enable his
lordship and Mrs. Tait to show hospitality to the Ame 1-
can and other bishops now in this country. On Monday
evening the Bishop of London entertained at dinner at
Fulham Palace—the Bishops of St. Davide, Oxford, Lin-
coln, Gloucester and Bristol, the Bishop of Chester and
Mss. Jacobson, the Bishops of Christ Church, New Zea-
land, Argyle and the Isles, lowa, Ohio, Louisiana, A-kan-
sae, Indiana, Montreal, Niagara, Labium, Gibraltar, the
Venerable Archdeacon Hale, Rev. Canon Melva!, Rev. R.
G. Baker (vicar of Fulham), and Mrs. Baker, Rev. F.
Spooner, vicar of Heston ; Rev. Erskine Knollys, incum-
bent of Holy Trinity, Ts ickenham, and Whitehall preacher ;
Rev. E. W. Fisher, Rev. A. IL Sitwell, Mr. Selfe, the
Westminster police magistrate, Bw. The dinner was
served in the handsome restored hall of the palace ; covers
being laid for 36.

The Halifax Working Men's Conservative Asso-
ciation was inaugurated yesterday evening by a banquet in
the Riding-echooL Nearly flu hundred persons dined,
and more would have been present if the room word have
admitted. Captain Bothwell, the president of the sumo.
elation, wu in the chair, and was 'appealed by Lord
Faversham, Lord Norval, 8:- Henry Edwards, Bart., M.P.,
Sir G. Armytage, Bart., Sir L. M. S. Pilkington, Bart.,
Mr. Fertand, Mr. J. Waterhouse, Major Stanfield, Mr.
W. S. Stanhope, Mr. C. G. Edwards, Mr. T. Collins, jun.,
Major Middleton, Mr. aeelhouse, Ao.

Yesterday, the boundary commissioners held a
sitting at Bradford. One gentleman expressed the opinion
that, under the new Reform Act, the number of voters in
Bradford would not exceed 14,000, whilst another gentle-
man put the number as high es 17,000.
At a meeting of the committee of the National
Reform Union,Brsdford branch, held last evening, it was
unanimously agreed that a thoroughly pronnunced ad-
vanced liberal should be brought forward at the coming
election, and that the borough should be contested with
such candidate. Three gentlemen were named—Mr.
Edward Miall, Mr. Alfred Illingworth, and Mr. J. V. God-
win—and a ve.y strong leaning wav shown to the candida-
ture of the first-named gentleman. A requisition is
already in course of signature intiting My H. W. Ripley,
the president of the Chamber of Commerce, to become a
candidate for the vacant seat. Mr. Ripley is a moderate
liberal and a dissenter.

A meeting of trades' delegates was opened in
Preston yesterday. Mr. Austin, the president, referred at
some length to subject' which had to be discussed, which
include the trades' outrage oommiasion and the part-
nerships of industry. The revelations made to the
examiners at Sheffield and Manchester, he said, were
greatly to be deplored, but would, he thought, be the
means of separating the wheat from the chaff. What men
call free•labour institutions he denounced u a device of
the capitalist to divert the attention of the men from
their societies, which were the only protection of their.
labour, in order more easily to destroy the trade organisa-
tions.

The authenticity of the lately published letters
' ascribed by M. Phil eta Chula to Pascal is so positively
denied by the Parisian literary world, that at the last
' meeting of the Academie des Sciences nobody was found
bold enough to esporuse the cause of the learned professor•
Offenbach's new opera at the Theatre des
Varlet6s, Paris, still carries all before it. In the hottest
weather this year the house hal been MEM( el every
night, often at enormous prices mid to the speculators in
tickets. Of the calibre of the jokes the following is •
sample. Prince Paul, en inane pretender to the hand of
the Grand Duchess, has with him • chamberlain of his
father's court, sent by the elector to tar` to accelerate the
, marriage, which hangs fire owing to the lady's roving
fancy and preference of a handsome grenadier to the puny
prince. The chamberlain is tall, stiff, wooden, hush-
voiced, automatic, end 1s called Baron Grog. He
gets an accidental fall, whereupon the prince exclaims,
"You have upset my Greg!" This is the strongest
joke in the whole play. The claque and the
provincial portion of the audience roar with
laughter. The most summer, and original jest is of •
practical nature. General Boum, commander•in•chief of
the army of Gerobriein, is • tremendous fire-eater. B nen
Baron Puck, the Duchess's principal adviser, offers him a
pinch of muff from his diplomatic box, Boum contemptu•
()Indy rejects it, draws a double-barrelled pistol from his
pocket, firm it in the air, end snuffs up the smoke from
the mouths of the barrels. " That is my mppee !" he mays
This is • decided hit, especially with those who seas it for
the first time.

" Rome," says a correspondent writing from that
city, "isin • state of squalor and melancholy difficult to
describe. The streets are deserted se those of Pompeii,
while the few people who remain are pallid, and move
►bout almost as if deprived of strength. It appears as if
one were entering a vault where respiration is • labour
Tne air is full of miasma and of exhalations, heavy and
foetid, which the first rains have raised from the
Tiber, and which hang like • cloud over the city.
Close and hot during the night, the atmosphere
seems to be poisoned. On the day of the Ma-
donna, the Bth of September, the cases of cho-
lera increased from 40 to 60 and upwards, and now at
the present time they are about 40 daily, the great propor
lion of whom die. It is most distressing to bear oon-
tinually the bell of the viaticum in the streets. Yester-
day (last Saturday) the cholera took the course of the Via
dells Tre Cecelia and the Piazza dei Santi Apostoli
with such violence that in three hours there were 16 eases
in this one street. It is impossible to describe the melan-
choly which is produced by the continual sound of that
bell—the cholera bell. Ido not fear for myself,' but there
are moments when a cold perspiration comes over me."

The vicious just revived of the close of the great
Russian fair of Niehni Novgorod state that the attendance
was this year not so large as usual, and that the principal
feature has been a heavy fall In Bokhars cotton—namely,
from 16 roubles to 7 roubles a pood, and in manufactured
cotton goods about 40 per cent. from last year's prima.
The iron trade has been steady, with quotations for all
sorts, except sheet iron, about the same as on the last oc-
elision. Sheet iron, however, has erperieneed a decline of
10 to 15 kopecks a pood, in consequence principally of the
fact that, owing to the severe reduction in Soldiers cotton,
the Persian merchants, who are the principal purchasers,
could not take their usual quantity. The tea businessioe
been large, but prioss have been in favour of the buyers.