The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-21 00:00:00

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

The Saturday Review praises the language of Mr.
Forster at Bradford as moderate and statesmanlike. In

articles upon foreign affairs it finds • useful place both
for Napoleon 111. and Garibaldi; allows that the Prussian
government in its published ;ammonia on the rumours
growing out of the Salzburg interview, has sufficiently
vindicated its reputation for firmness and resolution,
points out the difficulties in selecting a suitable candidate
for the throne of Spain in case of a successful revolution ;
and urges once more upon Austria • radical financial
reform.

The proceedings of the Fenian at Manchester leads the
Saturday &view to say that we have had too much sym-
pathy of late for criminals because they happen to be poli-
tical criminals ; but no amount of petitions or argumenta-
tion* will suffice to save anybody who can be proved to
have taken a part in this detestable affair from such a
punishment as will be likely to prove a strong deterrent to
others.

The Examiner does not infer from the act of violence
at Manchester any great risk of future outrages of the
same kind ; but it is a necessary consequence of such
incidents that they alienate good men from the cause
they are intended to support. If two men have been re-
covered—only for a few days, let us hope—how many
better men have been lost to the Fenian cause by the
Manchester murder.

The Abyssinian expedition is strongly condemned by the
Examiner, which foresees nothing but disaster as the
result. The only people that will be satisfied, it says. are
tie jobbers who will make money of the transaction. It
observes with great regret that some of the regiments
designated to bear a part in the expedition are those the
majority of whose rank and file have nearly served their
term of 10 years, and who, if allowed to return home, as
they hail reason to expect, were looking forward to their
honourable discharge. This is hardly fair; it is certainly
far from wise. When in the Crimean war the regiments
which, in rotation, would have been soonest entitled to
be brought home were selected for the most exposed
positions in the siege of Sebastopol, there was no end to
the reproachful comments of our press on the heartless
economy of Marshal Pelissier. Yet in that case there was
much to be said upon the ground that, in the dread crisis
of that great encounter, the most reliable veterans could

not be dispensed with. Has, our War-office any such
excuse for its choice of regiment* to be sent against Ring
Theodore?

The Specintor trusts that the punislunent of those con-
victed of the outrage at Manchester will be prompt and
severe, if only for the sake of the lower Irish themselves.
Once let the English mob of places like Manchester or
Liverpool get any idea into their heads th►t these Fenian
outrages in England are too leniently de►lt with by the
law or by the government of England, and they would be
taking the law into their own hands. Indeed, this is even
now the worst consequence to be ►pprehended from these
irritating outbreaks. We should tremble to see the result
if those of our great cities in which Irish colonies exist
once got the idea that their peace and security were Seri-
ously threatened by Fenian machinations.

the Court.

BALMORAL, Sm. 19.

The Queen went out yesterday morning accom-
panied by Princess Christian, and in the afternoon drove
out with Princess Beatrice attended by Lady Churchill.
Prince and Princess Christian, Princes Louise, and
Prince Leopold went out driving.
Lady Frances Baillie and Mr. Gathorne Hardy had the
honour of dining with the Queen and Royal Family.

A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-
office, Whitehall, on the 'abject of the cattle plague. The
lords present were Lord Robert Montagu and the Right
Hon. E. Hammond.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Malta.

THE LATE Ste F. W. A. BRUCE, G.C.B.—The late
Hon. Sir F. W. A. Bruce, C.C.S., was the third and only
surviving son of Thomas, seventh Earl of Elgin, and was born
14th June, 1814, consequently he was in his frith year,
His excellency, who had for the last 25 years been in the
diplomatic service, was attached to the late Lord
Ashburton's special mission to Washington in Feb.,
1842; was Colonial Secretary at Hong Kong from
1844 to 184 E, when in June that year he was
appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland.
In July, 1841, he was appointed Consul-General in the
Republic of Bolivia ; in the following year he was made
chargé d'affaires, and in August, 1851, was appointed
charge d'atfairea to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay. In
August, 1853, he was appointed Agent and Consul-Gene-
ral in Egypt. In April, 1857, be accompanied his brother,
the late Lord Elgin. in his special mission to Chins., and
brought home the treaty with China signed at Tientsin in
June, 1858, and for whichservice he was made &Companion
of the Order of the Bath. Sir Frederick was appointed
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
Emperor of China, December 2, 1858, and Chief Superin-
tendent of British Trade in China in Mirth, 1859.
Mr. Bruce's mission was prevented from proceed-
ing to Pekin by the opposition made by the
Chinese, when the Taku forts in the Peiho were at-
tacked, June 25, 1839, by the British forces. The
n'isaion returned to Shanghae, where it remained till
after the conclusion of hostilities, and the exchange of the
ratifications of the treaty of June 26, 1858, at Pekin, Oct.
24, 1860. Mr. Bruce proceeded to Pekin November 7,
1860, but withdrew to Tientsin for the winter, whilst ar-
rangements were being made for putting ► residence in
proper order for his reception. The mission was estab-
lished at Pekin March 26, 1861, but it was not till April 2
that Mr. Bruce paid a visit to Prince Kong. He was
appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
tentiary to Washington in 1865. The late Sir Frederick
was made a Knight Commander of the Civil Division of
the Order of the Bath in December, 1862, ant a Grand
Cross of the Order in 1865.
The Marchioness of Abercorn has arrived at
Chesterfield House from Dublin. His Excellency the
Lord Lieutenant is staying at Baron's Court.

The Earl and Counteaa of Monnt-Edgcumbe left
yesterday for Tunbridge-wells. The oountew is much
improved in health.

The Earl and Countess Russell and Lady Agatha
Russell have been staying with the Earl and Countess of
Beuborough, at Bessborough Park, since leaving Viscount
and Viscountess Castletosses seat, near the Lakes of
Killarney.

Sir George Arney, Chief Justice of New Zealand,
and his brother, General Charles Arney, who commanded
the English troops in New Zealand spinet the ➢laories,
have been visiting their native city, Salisbury, in Wilt-
shire, after an absence of a great number of years.

Mr. Bright, M.P., says the Westmorilatad Gazette,
is passing a few days at Kendal, on his way from Scotland
to Windermere and the lakes. The hon. gentleman is the
guest of Charles Wilson, Eq., of Castle Close.

Sir Thomas Bateson has written to the Secretary
of the Social Science Congress, desiring his name to be
erased from the list of vice-presidents. on account of Lord
Dufferin's observations on the Irish Church.

The church of St. John the Evangelist, Milborne
Port, near Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, has just been en-
larged. It is one of the smallest and oldest in England,
having been built in the Saxon tunes. It is estimated
that at least 100,000 services have been performed in the
church.

The Lyntington Chronicle states that Hurdle
Church, in Hampshire, which was recently pulled down,
was built in the reign of Edward the Confessor, of some
hard fossil substance found in the neighbourhood. When
built it was in the contra of the parish, and when pulled
down it was near the edge of the cliffs, owing to the ra.
sages of the sea during the lsat thousand years.

The Southampton manager of the South Western
Company's excursions to the Continent, Mr. Case, has
made arrangements for an excursion to Egypt and the
Holy Land,the beginning of next year. The excursionists
will pass through Paris ►nd Italy, and proceed to Egypt
from Brindisi. After seeing Egypt they will go from
Alexandria to Joppa, and make for Jerusalem, and after
traversing the Holy Land and Asia Minor they will return
through Constantinople, Hungary, and Austria. The ex-
cursion will occupy a little over two months. The sea
trips will be from Brindisi to Alexandria and Joppa, and
from Beyrout to Smyrna and Constantinople. The Holy
Land will be traversed on camels or horses. A military
escort will accompany the excursionist' to remote sacred
spots. The excursionists will travel 7,000 miles in less
than sixty days u first-class passengers on railways and
steamboats, put up at the best hotels, and see the moat
ancient and sacred plates in the world for 1.501. Already
a number of persons bare engaged to join the excursion.

A distressing accident from firearms occurred on
Wednesday at Kilcarrig, near Delgany. Mr. Handoock,
son of the Hon. George Handcock, having lately raturned
from India for the purpose of passing an examination for •
commission in the navy, was practising rifle shooting at •
target in company with Captain Wbiahett, high sheriff of
the county of Wicklow, when, as his friend was in the act
of firing, he incautiously approached the target, and re-
ceived the contents of • rifle below the right knee. The
ball shattered the bone and divided the arteries, so that
the medical gentlemen who were immediately sent for—
Dr. Dailey and Dr. Browne—found it necessary to ampu.
tate the limb at once. His wife was standing by when the
unfortunate accident occurred.

There is no troth (says the Army and Nary
Gazette) in the statement that the 2nd battalion of the 60th
Rifles is destined for Abyssini► The battalion goes on
direct to Calcutta, where it is due on the 29th of October.
The Abyssinian expedition will entirely consist of troops
from Bombay, and as we stated last week, the European
infantry portion of it will consist of the let battalion 4tb,
26th, :t:ird, and 45th Regiments.

The Spectator says " Mr. Rochfort Clark, who
has been expressing to the Bishop of St. David's his fear
and expectation of the return of idolatry—image worship—
to England, will be horrified to learn that en idol
of the goddess Ceres, executed in corn,—heed of oats,
arms of barley, and feet of wheat, with insufficient dress
of blue paper,—is annually prepared by the young women
of the Hugheoden harvest home, and was put into Mr.
Disraeli's arms on Thursday and affectionately received.
He said he felt ' a little daunted,' which was no doubt
exceedingly gratifying to the lames who got up the doll,
but be proceeded to obverse that such an image of the
goddess Ceres, ' dressed in robes of similar magnificence,'
had been ' for centuries ' presented at their annual harvest
homes. Idolatry at Hughenden !—the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, with the Goddess Ceres in his arms!' would
be a taking subject for the Record."

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

GARIBALDI AND THE ROMANS.

The Italian journals contain the following letter
from Garibaldi, said to have been written an hia
return from Geneva from the house of the Marquis
Pallavicino, to the " Roman National Junta :"
Your appeal to the Italians will not be lost. In Italy
there are many imbeciles, many Jesuits, many accustomed
to sacrifice on the altar of their belly ; but it is consolatory
to be able to say there are also many brave men of San
Martino, many heroic bersegliere of the King of Italy,
many soldiers of the first artillery in the world,
many descendants of the three hundred I:lshii,
and • vanguard of the thousand of Marsala,
who, If I mistake not, have by this time engendered
a hundred thousand young men who fear only to divide into
too many shares the memorable glory of clearing Italy of
foreign mercenaries and necromancers. As to resources,
Italy has ever had the misfortune to be rich when foreign
armies were to be quartered. Among her rich citizens
there are not wanting patriots who will soon, I doubt not,
shower upon you with prodigality their handsome offerings,
Forward then, Romans ! Break the rings of your chains
upon the necks of your oppressors, and henceforth you
will share your glory with Italians.—All yours,
Genestrelle, Sept. 16. GARIBALDI.

(ftrorn's =sown.)
AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Szrr. 21.

The Wanderer of to-day says :—" At yesterday's
sitting of the committee of the Austro-Hungarian
Delegate Assembly the Cis-Leithan delegates
asked what sums Hungary was prepared to con-
tribute towards the interest on the state debt up
to 1869, and subsequently in the event of the
project for the unification of the public debt not
being realised. In reply to this demand Count
Lonyay, the Ilmigariar. Finance Minister, declared
that in such case Hungary would undertake, from
the end of the year 1869 and thenceforth, to con-
tribute toward the interest on the public debt
the annual amount of 33,000,000 florins."

HUNGARY.
KWH , SEPT. 20, EVENING.

M. Kossuth has addressed another letter to the
Hungarians which is hostile to the Hungarian
ministers and to the Emperor.
The Emperor and Empress are expected to visit
Godollo shortly.
The Hungarian papers insist on the necessity of
the secularization of the church property.

THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION.
COPENHAGEN, Blrr. 21.

Little belief prevails here of any satisfactory re-
sult being arrived at in the negotiations with
Prussia relative to the Schleswig-Holstein question.

BERLIN, SEPT. 21.

The Schleswig-Holstein notables recently as-
sembled here have obtained from the government
the promise that all the moneys which are in the
Schleswig-Holstein Public Treasury shall be applied
for the benefit of the Duchies exclusively.
The proposals of the government in reference to
the re-organisation of the administration of the

Duchies have been accepted by the notables in a
modified form.

THE PAPAL STATES.
ROME, Sever. 20.

At a consistory held this morning a speech was
delivered by the Pope. His Holiness solemnly
condemned the recent decree of the Italian govern-
ment for consummating the sacrilege of the usur-
pation of the ecclesiastical property. He declared
the decree to be null and void, and confirmed the
censures already launched against the usurpers.
He then proceeded to point out the calumnies con-
tained in a pamphlet recently published in Paris
entitled, " The Roman Court and the Emperor
Maximilian."

His Holiness paid a tribute to the memory of the
late Cardinal Altieri, who recently died of cholera
at Albano, eulogising him for having fallen a victim
to his zeal.

The Pope afterwards preconised the Bishop of
Albano, and the Archbishops of Burgas and
Guatemala.

Mgr. d'Angelis has been appointed Canterlingo
of the Roman church.

JAPAN.
BRANCH/IE, Aucusr 22.

Advicea received here from Japan mention a
rumour that the Shrogoon would abdicate in favour
of his younger brother.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
SUEZ, SErr. 19.

The Golconda, from Calcutta August 23, anchored
at 8 p.m. to-day. She will be despatched again on
the 21at, at midnight.

BOMBAY (HEAVY) MAIL

GIBRALTAR, SEPT. 33.

The Delta left at 7 a.m. to-day. All well. She
may be expected at Southampton about the even-
ing of 24th inst.

THE FRACAS AT Howstao.—The Europe of
Frankfort contains the following letter from Mr. Labou-
chere, M.P. :—" Homburg, Sept. 14, 1867. —Sir,--I sup-
pose the public feel little interest about Monsieur
Feriae's means of livelihood, and that you prefer
to devote your columns to subjects of a higher
order. I, therefore, simply re-affirm the assertion
which I made in my former letter. In expelling an
intruder from society, I discharged a simple duty, and I
at the same time afforded him an opportunity of clearing
his character before a court of law, the only befitting
' court of inquiry' for a fellow of his stamp. Receive, sir,
the assurance of my high consideration.—M. LAROUCH sae."
The editor of the Europe appends a note declaring that
" the very unpleasant controversy " is now closed.
The Journal de Frankfort states that Prince Paul
de la Tour et Taxis, who lately married Mlle. Kreuser, an
actress, accepted an engagement at the Cologne Theatre,
at which she is performing.
Advices from Lisbon state that the health of
Queen Maria Pia is very delicate. Fears are entertained
that her Majesty may be compelled to pass the winter
either in Madeira or in Italy.
A feature of the Parisian fruit market is the
abundance of strawberries, or rather their long duration.
A very fragrant, nice kind of strawberry, which i■ said
to be simply the wild strawberry of the woods and moun-
tains domesticated and improved, is now selling in every
fruit-shop, and is on the carte of all the restaurants.
It is said that the Ancient Concerti; are about to
be revived under the old circumstances of aristocratical
patronage, and, it is added, possible amateur assistance.
Herr Schachner has been named as conductor.

The Paris correspondent of the Post writes :
" I have endeavoured to find out what coloured hair and
eyebrows will be worn this Tear. The artiste in hair have
met and agreed that dark eye-brows are to accompany
golden tresses, and golden eyebrows black hair. Brown or
chestnut locks and curls are not to be tolerated. It is not
quite settled it the chignon is to be maintained ; it is
believed not, if a more expensive and oomplicated decora-
tion can be invented. The complexion is to be dead pearl
pale, the lips very light pink, and the mouth to be worn
slightly open."

Ina Paris fashionable newspaper it is stated
without reserve " that abort dresses will be worn only by
young girls ! "—and we are told that this may be the lint
downward move towards long dresses and most voluminous
skirts. The great rulers of the modes arc conspiring to
bring about that expensive, inconvenient, and destructive
toilette which is a sever-ending inconvenience to the
wearer.