The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-09 00:00:00

. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1867.

Eke Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, JULY 8.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of
Hesse, and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe, Lord
Alfred Paget, and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, went to
London this morning and visited the Prince and Princess
of %Vales at M►rlborough-house. Her Majesty returned to
Windsor Castle at 2 o'clock.

The Queen of Prussia, accompanied by Princess Louise,
drove in a carriage and four to New Lodge, and honoured
M. and Madame Van de Weyer with a visit. The Prue-
iiiOA Ambaisador and the Countess de Bernstorff bad the
honow of accompanying her Majesty. The Marchioneu of
Ely, the Countess Schulcnbourg, and Count Nesseirate,
were in attendance.

The Queen of Prussia attended divine service yesterday
afternoon at St. George's Chapel.
The Marchioneu of Ely and Count Neeseirode were in
attendance.

Her Royal Highneu the Ducheu d'Aumale, attended
by Mdlle. Clinchamp, visited the Queen and the Prince
and Princess Louis of Hume yesterday afternoon at Wind.
Dor Castle.

The Prussian Ambassador and the Countess de Bern-
storff, and the Earl and Countess Granville, arrived at the
Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the
Queen and royal family in the evening.
The Marchioness of Ely, the Countess Schulenbourg, and
Count Nesselrode had also the honour of being invited.
The Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley
and Lady Frances Baas have left the Castle. The Hon.
Mrs. Bruce has also left the Castle.
The Prussian Ambassador and the Countess de Bern-
atorff and Earl and Countess Granville left the Castle to-
day.
Mr. W. Downey, of Newcastle, has had the honour of
photographing her Majesty the Queen and the Queen of
Prussia.

On Sunday the Prince of Wales visited the Viceroy of
Egypt at Dudley-house, Park-lane.
In the afternoon the Viceroy visited the Prince and
Princess of Wales at Marlborough-house.
The Prince and Princess of Wales took • carriage drive
yesterday afternoon.
In the evening the Prince of Wales, attended by Captain
Ellis, left Marlborough-house for Windsor Castle.
A oommittee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon.
Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-office,
Whitehall, on matters relating to public health and the
cattle plague. The Lords present were the Lord Pre-
sident, Lord Robert bloater, Lord Naas, 2.! Ylsbt Hon.
Vathorne Hardy, and the Right Hon. Wilson Paten.
A deputation, introduced by the Hon. G. Waldegrave
Leslie, M.P., and consisting of Major Scrivens (Mayor of
Hastings), Alderman Putland (Hastings), Mr. Meadows
(Town Clerk of Hastings), and Mr. Parkes, had an inter-
view with the Right Hon. Gathome Hardy, at the Home-
office yesterday, on the subject of the Local Government
Act.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.
office from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope and St.
Helena. Despatches were sent to the Governor of the
Falkland Islands.

STATE VISIT TO THE OPERA.—On Monday next,
by command of the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales will visit the Royal Italian Opera, Covent
Garden, in state. This royal visit will be in honour of his
Majesty the Sultan, who will accompany the Prince of
Wales to the opera. It is intended that the reception
shall take place in the Floral Hall, the state procession
passing through the Hall to the Royal box, which will, we
believe, be placed in the centre of the Opera-house.
In consequence of the arrival of the Sultan in
Er.gland sooner than was expected, his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales has been compelled to alter the day
appointed for the inauguration of the London College of
the International Education Society, at Spring-grove,
from Friday, 12th, to to-morrow (Wednesday), the 10th
inst., two days earlier than previously announced.
. _ _

The Earl and Countess of Cardigan entertained
at dinner last evening Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury,
the Earl and Countess of Westmorland, Viscount and
Viscountess Curzon, Count Batthyany, Lord Strathnairn,
Lady Ernest Bruce, Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Admiral and
Hon. Mrs. Roue, Sir George Wombwell, Colonel and Hon.
Mrs. Curzon, Hon. St. George Foley, Colonel and Mr 3.
Baring, Mr. Whyte Melville, Mrs. De Horsey, and Mr. De
Burgh.

A marriage will shortly take place between Vis-
count Milton, M.P., eldest son of Earl Fitzwilliam, and
Miss Laura Beauclerk, second daughter of the late Lord
Charles Beauclerk, son of the eighth Duke of St. Albans.

On the 19th Mr. Henry Seymour will call the
attention of the House of Commons to the long-continued
imprisonment and ill-treatment of her Majesty's envoy and
her Majesty's consul and other subjects of her Majesty by
the Kiug of Abyssinia, and to pr►y her Majesty that pro-
per steps may be taken to procure the release of the pri-
soners by tome of arms.

The whole of France is organized into choral
unions or Orpheons. They take all sorts of names—some-
times they are Orpheons—sometime choral unions—some-
times a rule or club—sometimes amateurs—sometimes
friends. One set call themselves Sons of Apollo ; another
the Children of St. Denis ; others again the Hope of Paris,
the Lyre of Roubaix, the St. Cecilia of some other place.
Time was when the Orpheons, who consist mainly of
peasants, attempted no more than to sing the simple
choruses of the Wilhem School. Now they can attack
any composition of any school—the most elaborate works
of the greatest masters. As a matter of fact what they
' chiefly attack are the compositions of French masters—
Halfivy, Adolphe Adam, Ambroise Thomas, Gounod,
Felicien David, and Laurent de Rille. It is rather a
serious business to adjudicate upon the claims of :sore
than 200 choral unions, which are to be represented in
Paris by 8,000 voices, all claiming the prize. The plan is
t, break them up into batches, and to hand each batch
over to a separate jury.
Tits ABYRNINIAN CAPTIVES.—A letter has been
received in London from Mr. Stern, dated in May last.
Since the King, who is surrounded by rebels, is gradually
losing his hold on the country, Mr. Stein considers the
fate of the prisoners very uncertain. " The return," he
writes to his wife, "of Mr. Flad, the disappointment of
the King in not obtaining the requested accession to his
white victims, and the consciousness that neither intrigue
nor cunning will avail him to extort fresh concessions from
the British government, or the generosity of British
Christians, all, I believe, combire to bring before long our
melancholy and doleful history to a crisis. Every day,
nay, every hour, we expect to be transferred to the com-
mon prison, and to get hand chains again. Only a week
ago upwards of 200 prisoners, among whom are many per-
sons of high rank, were ordered to be executed. This in-
discriminate massacre, which has probably been prompted
by the want of guards to protect them, indicates no im-
provement in the tyrant's temper. We fear that wilful,
wicked misrepresentations,and cruel, unpardonable selfish-
ness, united in concealing the true state of our position
and the well-known designs of the King. God, in His in-
finite mercy, may interpose and deliver us ; and if not, our
separation sill only be for a short period, and our re-union
in glory for ever and ever. God bless you and the darling
children, and that we may both receive strength according
to our need is the fervent prayer of your ever affectionate
husband, HENRY A. STERN."

THE SHEFFIELD OUTRAHEA.—Mr. Orerend and
his colleagues held a final meeting at Sheffield yesterday.
After hearing some evidence relating to a strike of iron-
workers, and to acts of intimidation in connexion with it,
the commissioners proceeded to receive applications for
certificates on behalf of those witnesses who had confessed
to having been principals in or accessory to the rominis-
ikon of the various crimes disclosed. Mr. Sugg applied on
behalf of many of the men, Broadhead's name being first
on his list. Mr. Overend handed him a list of the crimes
to which Broadhead had confessed, with an intimation
that the secretary to the commission would give a certifi-
cate. The same course was taken with respect to the other
witnesses, the most noticeable of those who appeared in
person being Bain Crooks. The commissioners refused to
hear Joseph Thompson, the secretary of the Scissor-forger's
Union ; they had decided not to grant a certificate to him.
Mr. Overend expressed the thanks of the commissioners to the
' town authorities and to all those persons who had aided
them in their arduous labours. He concluded by saying :
" No doubt there have been very serious revelations made
of terrible mimes, things the country never in any degree
anticipated ; and although it has been • great diioe
to the town, I trust the fact of there having been
these revelations will be the means of improving the
position of the unions, and will enable the com-
missioners to present such a report to the legis-
lature as will enable it to provide laws and regu-
lations to put the unions in a better position. At all
events, not only the crimes of murder of the character we
have heard, but also the other various crimes it has been
our duty to investigate, have now come to light, and I
believe, and my colleagues believe, great good will COlllll
of this—however painful the inquiry has been—to the
sown and to the country generally." The inquiry wee then
formally oloood.

fell heavily to the ground ; Mejia remained erect, and
waved his arms about, but a ball through the head ended
his agony.
The Emperor fell back upon the cross, which sustained
his corpse ; the body was immediately raised and placed in
the coffin, as were those of the two generals. All three
were buried without delay in the cemetery, the bishop
giving the absolution.
General Corona subsequently summoned the Prelate, and
demanded the surrender of the letters. The one addressed
to the Archduchess Sophia was not opened,as she, being the
mother of the Emperor, could not be supposed to receive
any dangerous communication from her son. That to the
Empress Charlotte was unse►led for weighty and justi-
fiable political and State reasons, and we have been allowed
to take a copy of it. Its terms are these

"My dearly beloved Carlotta—lf God one day permits
your recovery, and you read these lines, you will learn the
cruelty of the ill-fortune which has unceasingly pursued
me since your departure for Europe. You took with you
all my chance and my soul. Why did I not listen to your
counsel ? So many events, alas ! so many sudden blows
have broken all my hopes, that death is for me a happy
deliverance, and not an agony. I fall gloriously, as a
soldier—as a king, vanquished, but not dishonoured. If
your sufferings be too great—if God call you speedily to
rejoin me, I will bless the divine hand which has so
heavily pressed upon us. Adieu, adieu !
" Your poor Me.x."
This letter was written in French.

A Vienna letter says that the accounts received
from Miramar respecting the Empress Charlotte
are very sad. All hope of recovery seems to have
vanished. The Morgenpost has a communication
which says :
The mental alienation has now attained to such a pitch
that the unhappy princess cannot be left alone for an in-
stant, and has several times attempted her life. Two
recent attempts of this kind were fortun►tely prevented
by the watchfulness of Doctor Slek, who has the ►ugust
patient under his care. Nevertheless, the Empress is oc.
casionally, for a few moments at a time, in full possession
of her faculties. In one of those lucid intervals lately she
said, "I do not desire to live any longer ; death is prefer.
able to such an existence ;" then after a short patse she
asked, " Where is my husband? Shall I never see him
more? No, no, he is dead, and I am still left in the
world." Scarcely a quarter of an hour passes that the
Empress does not ask for news of the Emperor Maximi-
lian. The physical condition of her Majesty also inspires
very serious alarm.

(REUTER'S TLLEGRANS.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, JULY 9.

The Sultan, his eons, the King of Wurte mberg,
the Duke of Saxe Weimar, the Prince of Monte-
negro, the Prince of Orange, and the Dukes of
Aosta and Leuchtenberg were present at the re-
view yesterday, which was of a very brilliant cha-
racter.

RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, JOLT 8.
_ _ _

Prince Humbert of Italy arrived yesterday even-
ing at Tsarskoe-selo, where the betrothal of the
King of the Greeks to the Grand Duchess Olga
takes place to-day.

MAURITIUS AND REUNION MAILS.
SUEZ, JULT 6.

The Messagieres Imperiales steamer Emirne ar-
rived here this morning with the above (homeward)
mails and 63 passengers.

AMERICA.

BREST, Jrcr R.

The Pereire, which left New York on the 29th
ult., has arrived here. She brings 258 passengers,
and 1,500,000 francs in specie.

QUEENSTOWN, Jecy 9.

The Inman steamship City of Boston, from New
York, arrived here at midnight with 92 passengers
and 175,000 dole. in specie.
She landed the mails and passengers, and pro-
ceeded for Liverpool at 12.15 a.m.

IN, Jtn.r 9.

The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Hammonia arrived here to-day, with 140 pas-
sengers for this port, Havre, and Hamburg, and
the usual mails, 284,191 dots. for Franco and
18,972 dole. for Hamburg.
On the 3rd she spoko the English ship Gleniffer,
bound west.

NEW YORK, JUNE 29.

General Ord has modified the regulations for registra.
tion in his district, in conformity with the opinion of the
Attorney-General.
It is reported that President Johnson is about to remove
General Sheridan, and appoint General Rousseau his suc-
cessor.

General Sickles hu seized the savings bank at Charleston
for refusing to pay interest on the deposits of the national
soldiers before the war.

The Surratt trial is drawing to a close ; the evidence
latterly had been principally a rehearsal of the evidence
on the trial of Mrs. Surratt.

Judge Payne, Harrold, and the majority of the New
York Constitutional Convention, have reported a bill op-
posing female and favouring negro suffrage.
The Presidential party have been enthusiastically wel_
corned at Newhaven. They made only a brief stoppage at
New York but did not stop at Philadelphia, and arrived
at Baltimore yesterday, where they were cordially wel
coined by the State municipal authorities and the people.
President Johnson made a brief speech stating that the
reception be bad recently received convinced him of th
approach of the era of reconciliation and good feeling.
The Indians in Kansas and Nebraska had recommenced
hostilities and attacked the forts Wallace and Harker, but
were repulsed.

Advice. received here from Mexico state that the Mexi-
can press were urging the execution of Maximilian, and
that Kscobedo had threatened to depose Juarez if he op-
posed the execution.
The occupation of Tampico by the Republicans on the
9th is confirmed.

(ET ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, JPLY 8, 6 P.Y.
The steamers Hansa and the Aleppo arrived out
yesterday, and the Guiding Star to-day. •
The steamers Hibernian, Vera Cruz, and Bri-
tannia arrived out to-day.

Closing prices : Gold, 1384. Sterling Exchange
on London, 110. 6-20 United States Bonds, 1113.
Illinois, 1224; Erie, 67. Cotton: Middling Upland,
261. Petroleum : Refined, 27.
[Arrived in London at 6.45 a.m., July 9.1

A Paris letter says :—" Of the Sultan we see
little. He appears at the Exhibition now and then, and
goes about the galleries in a businesslike way. The
French are disappointed that he is not more demon-
strative. It is a question whether he or the small brother
of the Tycoon be the more immobile of countenance and
the least inaccessible to surprise. If I were umpire I think
I should give the prize for this sublime characteristic to
the little brother of the Tycoon—pray excuse me from
writing his name. The gravity of the little creature's
face is amazing to see. Nothing puts him out ; he never
smiles, never wines ; eve.ything comes to him as
a matter of course ; he lives in • sublime calm
which nothing can disturb. But the Sultan, also,
has a fine Oriental gravity which is curious to wit-
new, and which would indicate that be has attained
a highly philosophical state of mind. He seemed to be
dazed the day he came int) Paris. Now be is very calm—

observant, but undemonstrative. What he has most
cared for in the Exhibition have been the needle•guns and
the aquarium. He examined the rifle-guns carefully, but
the great aquarium seeme Ito enchant him. You go into
• great 000 l cave ; all round it you see large glass windows
which divide you from cisterns of water, where the fish
swim. The Sultan much marvelled at the vision, and I
dare may you will before long hear of • similar wonder
being built in one of his gardens."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MONDAY EVINING.

It was rather suddenly determined that the mili-
tary spectacle designed for the Sultan, which was
countermanded on account of the sad end of Maxi-
-1 nuhan— , should after all take place. This morn.
bug's Moniteur announces that there would be a
"grand review" by the Emperor at 4 o'clock this
afternoon in the Champs Elysdes. The public,
well knowing that a grand review was impossible
in such a place, did not flock to the ground in any
thing like the numbers which went to the mere
distant Longchamps racecourse on June 6. It
was, in fact, a military inspection, not a review,
because there was no room for manteuvres.
The afternoon was fine and it was a grand and
novel spectacle for the inhabitants of the Champs
Elysdes to see the grand avenue from the Tuileries
to the Arc de Triomphe entirely filled with troops.
There were many more which could not be seen
front any one point. The Moniteur gives a very
imperfect description in saying that the review
was to be in the Champs Elysdes, which could
nothing like hold all the troops afoot. The artil.
lery occupied the circle round the Arc de Triomphe.
There were regiments all along the Avenue de
Neuilly as far as the Porte Maillot, and the
cavalry occupied the new boulevard, the Avenue
de Josephine, as far as the river. The
Emperor, the Sultan, and a third royal personage,
who, I think, must have been the King of Wurtem.
berg (though some say he was too young), rode
from the Tuileries all along the lines, and then took
the quays to the front of the Palais de l'lndustrie,
where they took up a position for the filing past.
The Sultan rode a splendid light grey Arab charger
with all the characteristics of the race, only of
larger size than the generality of Arabian horses.
M. Sainte-Beuve is beyond all question the most
accomplished reviewer of the day, and it was on
this ground that he was made a senator. Being a
writer in the government journal, the Coistit,t-
Gunnel, it was not probably supposed that he would
ever say anything disagreeable to power. However,
the senators, looking upon him as a dangerous
political and religious free thinker, set their faces
against him from the first. M. Lacaze, whose
desire to shoot him he has had the firmness
not to gratify, was elected in 1841 by the
liberal opposition a councillor-general for the
Hautee Pyrenees. After the revolution of
February ho was returned to the Constituent
Assembly as a democratic candidate, but ho almost
always voted with the reactionists. He was made
a councillor of state immediately after Dec. 2.
The Bourse was heavy. Bente fell 25c. for
cash and 15c. for account, closing at 68fr. 70c.,
and 68fr. 624 c. Mebilier fell Bfr. 75c. The
monthly accounts of this company, published
yesterday, are considered unfavourable. Italian
only fell bc. Railways were not much affected by
the fall in the Rente.

The Figaro says that almost all the German, sod
particularly the Austrian journals, which speak of
Maximilian are now seized daily. These efforts to
drill public opinion into the precise official line
will not succeed.