The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-31 00:00:00

FRANCE AND MEXICO.

PARIS, JULY 30.
A despatch has been received from M. Dano, the
French Minister in Mexico, dated from the capital
on the 26th June last, in which ho confirms the
intelligence of the escape of Marquez, Horam,
Lacamza, lrribarera, and Lores ; and the arrest of
M. Eloin (senior), Fischer, and General Favera.
The despatch makes mention of no other impor-
tant fact.

FRANCE AND ITALY.
FLORENCE, JULY 30.

Chevalier de Nigra ha. arrived here.
The Opinione of to-day, discussing the remarks
of the Moniker referring to Italy, says :—" The
official organ of the French government states that
it has reason to reckon upon the strict and loyal
observance of the September Convention upon the
part of Italy, but it forgets that the convention
binds not only Italy, but France also. The Moui-
teur would have performed an act of sound policy
if it had at the same time given assurances that
France has no intention of departing either from
the letter or the spirit of the convention, and had
stated that it ought to admit that there were
no longer French, but Pontifical soldiers in Rome.
It is not right, therefore, that French generals
should visit Rome to inspect Pontifical troops."

THE SULTAN.

VIMTNA,JuLT 30.

According to present arrangements, the Sultan
will take his departure to-morrow. Prince
Mustapha, brother of the Viceroy of Egypt, has
arrived here.

At a late visit of the Belgian Volunteers to
Woolwich Dockyard one of them incautiously placed his
band on the machinery of a steam saw then in motion, and
was considerably wounded, the wonder being that his
hand wrs not taken quite. On returning to A% oolwich to
thank Dr. Playfair, of the Dockyard Infirmary, for his
services, the gentleman mentioned that at the time of the
accident he had on his finger a massive gold ring, which
was taken off. Search was then diligently made amongst
the refuse at the saw-mills, and the ring was found much
cut, and on further search the stone, a valuable one, was
also found. It is probable that the teeth of the saw
having caught the ring prevented more serious results.
LA CROMSE.—This, the national game of Canada,
was introduced into England yesterday at Beaufort-house
Grounds, Fulham, by a party of Rad Indians who have
been brought over to show us its attractions. A. consider-
able number of ladies and gentlemen, including Lord
Itanelagh, who bad invited them, assembled to make
themselves acquainted with the pastime. As the game in-
voices much excitement, hard work, skill, and the requisite
amount of personal danger, it will no doubt soon establish
itself upon English soil. It seems to be a combination of
the principles of many of our own best known sports. It
resembles cricket, inasmuch as the men on either side have
their given posts, such as point, coverpoint, centre, home,
and field ; it resembles racket, inasmuch as the ball is
knocked about with an instrument consisting of a long
stick bent at one end, with tightly strained net-
work spread over the loop ; and it resembles
hockey and football, inasmuch as there is a contest
between two sides for the possession of the ball. The ball
however is much smaller than the ordinary football, and as
neither hand nor foot must touch it, everything depends
upon the use of the crow, which was yesterday handled
by the Indians with remarkable skill. In the centre of
the field is fixed the starting flag where the ball is thrown
down to be knocked, if possible, between two flags seven
feet apart, planted some hundreds of yards off at either
end of the field. These narrow passages ere called goals,
and each i.r guarded by the goal keeper, whose business it
is to prevent the ball coming through it. The game is
necessarily a long one, the players sometimes getting
within an inch of the desired spot only to find the ball
hurled through the air back into the centre. The Indians
were very expert in hurling the hall, in catching it in the 1
net of the trove, and in running swiftly away with it
until an opponent brought his instrument heavily upon it
in order to free it. The spectators were both interested
and delighted. Some public exhibitions of la crime are to
take place, and the game will probably become popular.
New CHANCERY Aer.— Yesterday the act to make
provision for the despatch of business in the Court of
Appeal in Chancery was issued. It enables the two
Lords Justices tohold separate courts, and yesterday was
the first day of the sittings. Lord Cairns sat as Lord
Justicedn his own court, and Lord Justice Rolt in the
Lord Chancellor's Court. The new statute is to be read
as one with the 14 and 15 Vic., c. ES, appointing an ap-
peal court in Chancery.
New Com mom Law ALT.—Yesterday the act to
enable the masters of the common law courts to dispose of
matters at the judges' chambers was printed. Rules are
to be made by the judges, and to be read aloud in open
court before they are acted upon. This provision will
prevent the adoption of the act till November.
SOCTHAIIIToN, JULY 30. —The North German
Lloyd steamer Wexer,'CaptainWenke, sailed this afternoon
for New York with the English, French, and German
mails, 135 cabin and a full complement of steerage passen-
gers, and a large cargo. including jewellery from Havre,
value 41,000 franc...
WILLCOX AND GheeEWIIPO MACHTNE.—" Its
seam le stronger and less liable to tip in use or wear than the
lock-stitch.'—" Judges Report," at the "Grand Trial." Send
for the "Report," and samples of work, containing both kinds of
stitches on the same piece et goods—W. and G. S. 11. Company,
as, Ressat-atreet.—Ladratiseanot)

The members of the committee of admission
of class 36 have divided jewellery and ornaments
into two principal divisions; namely, 1. Fine and
imitation jewellery ; 2. Trinkets, comprehending
gold ornaments, ornamented or enriched with pre-
cious stones or enamels, plated jewellery, copper-
gilt jewellery, ornamented with imitation precious
' stones, &c. It is explained that, according to the
distinction made in France, the precious metals
are the mere accessories in jewellery. They are
the material which group or present the jewels.
Trinkets, or all those articles comprehended in the
second division as laid down by the committee, are
articles in which the precious metal is paramount.
The jewellers and goldsmiths of France are a most
important body, and are continually increasing in
numbers, as a stroll among the jewellers and
trinket makers will soon pros e to the visitor who
remembers the French jewellery and goldsmith's
I work of 1855. Paris is the centre of the trade;
Ibut there are great branches of it at Lyons, and
Marseilles and Besancon. A great lapidary trade
I has arisen moreover in the Jura. The quantity
of gold annually used by French jewellers and
goldsmiths is estimated at 17 tons, while the
, _I manufactured silver amounts to B'3 tons. The total
Manual i•allie of the gold and silver work of France
is set down at 3,825,6001, exclusive of precious
stones. There are 20,500 persons in the trade, of
whom 12,500 are strictly workmen. The number
of manufacturers is 1,250. This great trade is
carried on, as a rule, in small workshops, and it
offers to the inquirer exceedingly favourable views
of the French small workshop system. There are
not many masters who employ more than eight or
ten workmen. A great many of the skilled men
work apart, and employ one journeyman and
apprentices. The female labour used in this
trade is confined to the polishing process. Since
the exhibition of 1855 machinery has been
largely introduced into the trade without, the
Committee of Selection maintain, harming
the character or finish of the work. The
French committee assert that " plated gold
jwellery is without a rival abroad, and enables
French commerce to compete with the low standard
gold work of England and Germany." The social
conditions under which this trade is now carried
on appear to be extremely happy, and favourable
to its prosperous development. Since 1855 the
masters and workmen have formed themselves into
a common association for the amicable adjustment',
of their respective interests.
It is a superb study to see a Frenchman who has
put on connoisseur airs making his way_ to our
pottery, glans, jewellery, and plate. He turns
his phrases before each stall, shrugs his shoulders
frequently, and if he be in a very good humour
admits that all this is very well—for us. It is his
delight to pick out that which has the least approach
to Drench taste, while we are perhaps a little to
prone to admiration of things which are not English.
" They manage things better in France" is a phrase
that expresses a characteristic of the English mind.
The Englishman looks with no jaundiced eye on
the splendours of Sevres, on the infinite ingenuities
of the A rtieles de Paris, on the daring and fantastic
designs of French toys and trinkets, and bedizen-
ment; of Paris art manufacturers. It is with a
generous glow of satisfaction that his eye falls upon
the canvases of Meissonnier, Carbanel, Decamps,
Bellane, and Desgoffes. He enjoys the treat
which Froment-Meurice can give to the edu-
cated art-observer. His very generosity tempts
the French critic to underrate him. Never was
this so abundantly proved as it has been
during the last three months. 1 repeat, there are
art excellences on the stalls of our goldsmiths and
jewellers which are a match in art-worth with any-
thing which the French have in their brilliant
courts. But the scantiest acknowledgments only
of these excellences have been made here. Our
Scotch jewellers' work is original, and some of it
moat artistic. The exhibits of W. Crouch and
Sons and W. Marshall, of Edinburgh, are most
interesting and praiseworthy. The ornaments
which the King and Prince of Prussia bought of
Mr. Marshall are charming. There is some really
fine enamel work on this stall. One ornament con-
sists of three cairngorms strung together with an
antique coronet. I noticed, too, a most effective
combination of silver and green enamel that
heightened the pebbles ; and Mr. Marshall shows
a beautiful series of crosses from the antique,
enriched with Scotch agate. Messrs. Crouch and
Sons exhibit a rich casket—the Queen Mary casket
--consisting of two thousand stones, heightened
with blue enamel. This is all original and
well executed and picturesque jewellers' work ;
not, of course, so delicate as that which
delights the cultivated visitor as he pauses
at the stall of Messrs. Phillips, or Wather-
ston, or Broaden. It is, however, tasteful and
completely original work. It is native of the soil
—as indigenous as the burr-thistle.
If we pass to Mr. C. F. Hancock and Sons' stall,
we find a show of jeweller's work that is thoroughly
original and highly effective. The Devonshire
gems, from the collection of theDulceof Devonshire,
arranged and mounted as aparure of jewels, consist
of seven ornaments, viz., a comb, a stomacher, a
bandeau, a bracelet, a necklace, a diadem, and a
coronet. The setting is a very original adaptation
of the Holbein style, and is composed of fine deli-
cately-coloured trellis work in variegated enamel,
over which brilliants are studded. The gems are
various and costly. There are seven cameos in
the comb—one, the head of Leander, is a Greek
gem, very beautifully executed, and dates about
the time of Alexander the Great. One of the
finest specimens of the gems usually found at Bas-
sora and Bagdad forms the central ornament of
the comb. It is a fine oriental amethyst intaglio
bust of the Persian King, Shahpnr 1., of the Sanaa-
nides race, who were destroyed by Osman, Caliph
of the Saracens. The bust has a curled beard,
long ringlets of hair, also a tiara ornamented with
pearls, and pendants in the ears. The stomacher
is very beautiful, including garnet, jacynth, lapis-
lazuli, and onyx cameos—Greek and Roman gems;
and plasma, jacynth, lapis-lazuli, and cornelian
intaglios. On this stomacher is a cameo, white on
a dark ground : a half length portrait of Clotho,
the youngest of the three Faroe, is represented in
high relief. This is a beautiful specimen of high
Greek art. Clotho is represented with the distaff
in her hand, spinning the thread of life. In the
bandeau are ruby, sapphire, and oriental
red surd intaglios, and an emerald cameo,
a fine Roman carving in high relief. The
, bracelet consists of a carbuncle cameo of
I the cinque-cento period, a carbuncle in-
taglio, and a red sard cameo' of the cinque-cento
period. The necklace is an exquisite thread of
delightful Greek and Roman gems and cinque-
oento carving. The central cameo is one of the
Emperor Tiberius. It is an exquisite Roman gem.
The head is white on a dark ground. The laurel
wreath and border are brown, and outside the
border is an Arabic inscription, showing that it
was the property of a Mameluk prince of Cairo,
who reigned at the end of the fifteenth century.
One of the cameos—an excellent example of the
cintine-cento period—is a portrait of Edward VI.
We Tnow come to the diadem. A double cameo
in its original setting of the cinque-cento period
forms the centre. Some of the cameos and intaglio.
deserve special notice. One cameo, white on a
dark ground, is a portrait of Queen Eliza-
beth. This ornament was an old locket,
and has been left in its original setting of
enamel. It contains two water-colour miniatures
painted by Hilliard. One represents Queen Eliza-
beth and the other the Earl of Leicester. This or-
nament is said to have been worn by the Queen
l.herself. • Hilliard was the court jeweller at the
' date of the execution of this work. The cameo is ,
the production of Valerio Vioentini, commonly

BRITISH ARCH,EOLOOICAL ASSOCIATION. The
twenty-fourth annual congress of this association was "
inaugurated on Monthly night by a public dinner, and the
fine weather yesterday drew together a large muster of
satnas and visitors from • distance for the first excursion.
The inaugural address was delivered on Monday night ,
after the public dinner by Sir Charles H. Rouse Boughton,
Bart., the president. Yesterday's excursions were to Bit-
terley Church, Titterston, the Hill, to examine the an- t
cient remains there, and to Downton-hall, where the
members were entertained by the_president.
ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—The Bishop of London '
has appointed the following gentlemen to be the preachers
' in St. Paul's Cathedral on Sunday mornings during the
month of August :—Sunday, August 4, the Rev. Edward
Auriol, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, rector of St.
Dunstan's-in-the-West. Sunday, August 11, the Rev.
William Josiah Irons, D.D., of Queen s Collage, Oxford,
vicar of Holy Trinity, Brompton. Sunday, August 18,
the Rev. Christopher Parke, M.A., of Worcester College,
• Oxford, vicar of Ruislip, near Uxbridge. Sunday, August
' IS, the Rev. Charles Mackenzie, M.A.,of Pembroke Col-
lege, Oxford, rector of Allhallows, timbard-street, and
St. Bend's, Gracechurch-street.
THE HEALTH OF LONDON.—It appears from the
return issued by authority of the Registrar-General that
in the week that ended on Saturday, July 27, the births
registered in London and twelve other large towns of the
United Kingdom were 4,451 • the deaths registered, 2,816.
The annual rate of mortality was 24 per 1,000 persons
living. In London the births of 1,107 boys and 1,056 girls,
in all 2,163 children, were registered in the week. In the
corresponding weeks of ten years 1857-66 the average
number, corrected far increase of population, is 2,000.
The deaths registered in London during the week were
1,347. It was the 30th week of the year ; and the
average number of deaths for that week is, with
• correction for increase of population, 1,453. The
deaths in the present return are leas by 106 than
the estiruated number. The deaths in the metro-
polis from diarrhma have rapidly increased since the
week which ended June 22nd, when 16 persons died tram
the disease ; in the four following weeks the numbers were
48, 54, 115, 170. Last week 196 deaths from diarrhosi
were registered ; 39 of these cases occurred in the west, 50
in the north, 22 in the central, 52 in the east, and 33 in the .
south districts. Twelve children and three adults died
from cholera or choleraic diarrlitia. In the corresponding
week of last year 11866) the deaths from diarrbma were
349, and from cholera 904. The daughter of *timekeeper,
astrlp.sts years, died
Shoredon 24th .Luti;iltiA,feßyroerw:ri'tsh-yparud,
.Wri,o(r6-
days), convulaiona (2 days)." The daughter of a painter,
aged 13 years, died on ltith July at 1, York-grove, Carl-
ton-road, Peckham, of " hydrophobia ; she was bitten by
a dog two months since." (Inquest.) The deaths of six per-
sons who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets .
were registered.
RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS BEFORE PARLlA-
merm—Yesterday the following business in railway and •
other private bills now pending is parliament was trans-
acted. In the House of Lords, in Room A, the select
committee on the Railways (Guards and Passengers' Com-
munication) Bill was proceeded with, and their lordship
passed it through. ordering it to be reported on Tuesday
next. In the Lords' Standing Order Committee, the Great
Eastern Railway (Finance) Bill was considered and the
standing orders dispenaml with. In Lord Redesdale's
committee the Marquis of Anglesey's Estate Bill went
through and was ordered to he reported with amendments.
In the House of Commons yesterday, in Mr. Doilson's Com-
mittee of Ways and Means, the following bills went through
with amendments and were ordered to be reported:—The
Cheshire Lines, Bourton on the Water Railway (Abandon-
ment, lee.), Waterloo and Whitehall (Extension of Line,
lee.), Rhondda Valley and Hirwain Junction Railway, am!
the Newcastle-upon-Tyne High Level Hoist Bills. In Mr.
Pailgrave'. Room the standing orders were declared com-
plied with in the unopposed cases of the John Kindricke's
Loan Charity and the Queen's College, Birmingham, Bills.
FIRE AT A SUGAR FACTORY AT WHITECHAPIL.—
Yesterday afternoon, between 3 and 4 o'clock, a fire, sus-
pected to be the work of an incendiary, broke out at the
extensive auger bakery and refining factory belonging
to Messrs. Joseph Wohlgemout he, in Christian-street, Back-
church-lane, Whitechapeh The works are several stories
high, and were in full work, when suddenly the work-
people were startled by a cry that the stove was on fire,
and at the same tune the interior of the premises was
tilled with smoke, compelling them to make a speedy
escape into the open air. The stove extended throughout
the centre of the building, from the basement to the
roof, having doorways leading into it on every floor, but
it appears not to have had a fire in it for nearly twelve
months' and no light has been known to have been taken
into the place. This, and the circumstance of the tire
having no doubt commenced in the Imminent part of the
stove, led to a belief that it must have been the work of
some malicious person. Captain Shaw. in less than
20 minutes reached the spot with • force of 150 men and
nearly &dozen engines, most of which were steamers, with
steam up. The fire had by that time assumed a threaten-
ing aspect, the stove was gutted, and the flames
had extended through the sixth fluor of the building, and
were issuing from all parts of the roof, but the fire-
men eventually succeeded in getting the fire under and
preserving the greater part of the factory, although the
stook of sugar on the various floors was partly washed
away by the torrents of water thrown in by the engines.
The roof of the building, and the warehouse story under-
neath, were entirely destroyed. The firm are insured is
several fire (AMes to the extent, it was said, of 15,000/.
MAZE' NI AND GARIBALDI. —The ('ruttier Fralh
ears has the following :—" After having taken sfaexini to
Italy, although be has not stirred from Lonili,o, some
journals affirm that Garibaldi is in France. We formally
contradict that statement, se we did the other. The
Italian patriot is shortly to comm' to Paris, but the time is
not rt fixed ; he proposes to visit the Exhibition with his /
one-In-law, M. Etienne Camio, and Ir 6 daughter,
fertile." •
Mirrioreirrarr FREE HOSPITAL' BEYONSHIRI- •
SQUARE, CITT.—The aggrevate number of patients relieved
during the week ending July 27 was—Medical, 911 ; sur-
gical; 618; total, 1,529; of which 697 were new cases.

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