The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-12 00:00:00

" MR. DISRAELI IN TRIUMPH."

Visitors to the Royal Academy Exhibition this
year will remember the striking picture of " Israel in
Egypt," by Mr. Poynter, in which with remarkable power
are represented hundreds of bard driven slaves, harnessed
like beasts of burden, straining their scorched limbs, and
writhing under the lash of the taskmaster as they
drag • ponderous granite lion across the Desert to
the Egyptian temple. The power with which
the figures are drawn ; the variety of attitude ;
the truth and force with which all are represented ;
the pain expressed with a cry in the suffering of one ; the
silent, flogged revenge nursed in the strong frame of
another; and the general sway of movement and action in
the row of figures, make up • whole of extraordinary and
very striking effect. This work has been turned to account
most cleverly in Panda of to-day by Mr. Tenniel. In a
cartoon filling the whole of the centre page Mr. Disraeli
is depicted as the Sphinx being dragged in triumph to the
Temple of Reform by • lengthy team of leading political
men of all parties, who are tugging, with willing hands or
under fear of the whip, the ponderous machine to theplisoe
of honour. Lord Stanley and Sir Stafford Northoote are
harnessed nearest to the car, pulling with determined wilL
Sir John Pakington, Mr. John Stuart Mill, Mr. Bright,
Mr. Gladstone, Mr. T. Hughes, Mr. Roebuck, Earl Gros-
venor, and Mr. Horsman are detected at once in the
sweltering line. Lord Derby, as the driver, with a cloth
round his loins, has partly risen from his seat and is smack-
ing his whip to the full tether of the thong. Two figures,
which are especially happy, are those of Mr. Lowe and
Lord Cranborne. Mr. Lowe, in the centre of the slaves,
has turned round, and, with • heavy scowl of anger on his
features, is raising his clenched fist in Lord Derby's view.
Following the painting, Lord Cranborne has fallen out of
place and is lying with • wearied and beaten expression on
the sand ; while the Standard, as Mrs. (lamp, is kindly
endeavouring with her gin-bottle to restore and console
him.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

WZI,MESDAT, Jums 12, 8 41.1 L

B. T W.
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Nairn 29.9097 N.W.
Aberdeen 19.90167 W.
Leith 2007 6 W.
Ardromen 20.01 67 W.
Greencastle 30.04 W.S. W.
Valentle 130.20 N.W.
Cape Clear St 27 W.
Ilverpool 20.11' W.
Holyhead 30.11 60 W.
Pensmica 19.23 N.W.
Brea lOll N.
Lorieut 110.14 94 N. W.
Rochefort 30.20 GS N.E.
Plymouth 210.16 02 W. N.W.
Weymouth 30.14 6S, N. N.W.
Portsmouth 30.10 07 W.
London 30.10 72 W.
Yarmouth 30.0 P 00 8.9. G
Scarborough 30.06 el W.
Shields 80.00 90 N. W.
Helder —

REMARKS.
Barometrical pressure has decreased on the
coasts, but Is now Increasing In the southwest.
has risen In the south out. Weather Is generally few, with
light winds tram between west and northwest.

Rnd eas

At the banquet, after the coronation at Peath,
on Saturday, nothing could be tasted till a singular CCM.
rionial was performed. It is the duty of the office which
Count Mailath fills to ride full speed to the meadow at
which the people are feasting and to bring heckle tastes he
can a fragment of one of the oxen which are being roasted
there. Count Mailath, being rather advanced in years,
and not being a very light weight, was permitted
to carry the beef in hie carriage, and when the
smoking block was placed on the table, then, and not till
then, the feast began. The King having drunk one toast,
" 17jea a luca P' or, " Long live our country the feast
began; but it was a feast of the Barmecide, for nothing
was tasted of the viands on the golden dishes, and in nine
minutes it was over. The cannon fired a salute as the
Emperor drank the toast, and meantime the people were
revelling in the meadow close at hand, where six hogs-
heads of wine and three oxen roasted whole were provided
for all comers.

Consols are now at the highest point they have
reached since 1860. The Bank bullion at that date, how-
ever, was 5,000,0001. below its present amount, and the
rate of discount was 3 per cent. The last occasion when
the Bank bullion was at its present total was in December,
1852, and Consols were then at 1001 ex dividend, while
the rate of discount was 2 per cent. The highest prioe
touched by Consols during the present century was 101 on
the 24th of that month. Eight years previously—namely,
on the 20th of December, 1844—transactions took plans
at 1011, but this included the accrued dividend of 11
per cent. The lowest price of the century was 501, in
July, 1803, on the recommencement of hostilities between
England and France. The highest point of the previous
century was 113 in the year 1736, and the lowest was 47/,
in 1798. During the past twenty years the average price
of Consols has been about 02.

FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.—On Sunday night an
accident occurred on the Humber which caused the death
of two youths about 17 years of age. On that day there
was the celebration of an annual feast at Heade, a vil-
lage about four miles from Hull. Four youths, named
respectively James Chaddey, John Booth, John Colley, aud
an Irish youth whose name was unknown to his compa-
nions, determined to visit the feast in a boat belonging to
the lad Colley. They left Hull in the forenoon,arriv4al safe
at Hassle about an hour afterwards, and there beached the
boat. Having remained on shore till the evening, theycom-
mewed the return voyage. Av the wind was fair, blowing
from the westward, they hoisted a sail and steered the boat
with an oar. The wind was very strong, and there was
rather a heavy swell at the time. About the same time the
youths left Hassle a sloop, named the Providence, was
sailing down the Humber to Hull, and the captain, ob-
serving that the beat was very unskilfully managed, fol-
lowed at as closely as be could, feeling certain she must be
capsisaL In about a quarter of an hour after starting
there was a rather sudden squall, and instantly the boat
was overturned, and he occupants began to struggle for
life. The Irish lad, who could not swim, got on the
bottom of the boat, and the other three struck out for the
shore, which was about a quarter of a mile distant. Cap-
tain Brown sent his mate in a boat to rescue the youths.
One of them, Colley, was picked up in a very exhausted
condition ; the lad who clung to the boat was also rescued.
The other two, Booth and Chaddey, tried hanl to reach
the shore, although entreated to turn about and meet the
boat, and after swimming about 150 to 200 yards they
both disappeared and were drowned.

THE TAILORS' STRIKE.—It is now eight weeks
since this movement commenced, and there seems at pre-
sent not the slightest probability that the contest between
masters and men will be amicably settled before a further
considerable time has elapsed. It appears that some of
masters represented to the executive of the Operatives'
Society that they would agree to the terms of the pro-
amalgamated log far as it regarded " coat hands,"
pro-
pored as
the men who are usually employed on vests and trousers
would return to work at the rate of pay which they were
receiving previous to the strike. After a consultation with
the men the executive found themselves compelled to re-
ject the proposal. Last week an account was received from
Brighton stating that a considerable quantity of London
work was being made up in that town. Mr. Druitt, the
president of the Operatives' Society, left town at once to
investigate the troth of the rumour. Finding it to be well
founded, he visited the workshops and so influenced the
men that upwards of 200 of them struck work on the even-
ing of the day of his visit.