The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-05 00:00:00

II: pril,..‘"sl I: 4 TIONS A,; .4 INS T THE
, , I,s AII I,MENT. To THE I:EFUHIL

BY TI iron %PH.'

NEWUASTLE-ON-T NE, ALsuer.
I:Cf here have summoned an open-
., N....., 041 e for Thursday, to petition agiiiwit
• ,•.!-..ottvfollotents to the Reform Lilt.

17:1.1.001rN. .11.4srn ESTER 1.,21771.
: Th E CRY STAL PA LACE..-( THIS

..la a•, wk this morning the streets of
:;••••I s• ry animated appearance, owing to
• r ,• filled with member* of the
.• :i mtv I: •,...taie•i Friendly Society, wearing
•• •I se irves, aprons, and other
..t ,slice of the most extensive benefit
,•• the. vvorld. The t /thl Fellows and
an_age the Palace once a year to in-
: • a ;low and orphan and funeral (Linda, and
. V festival has turned out a gran- financial
1.1 i•• year. it is to be feared, the result will be
„ • itiry. in consequence of many members of the
• , •:. • I—longint; to the Ancient Order of Foresters,
to or three hundred leruling men having been
•gu• t tend the annual parliament which was opened
il,: at I tali. In addition, however, to the
, • ••• by van, the stations at the different railways
. •, Is ,iezed by thoutsintls of members and their
d• I families bent upon enjoying for the day the
• •t, of the people's palace. A great variety
• • ~1 .mois•anents are provided, including Nelson
nt• it ,itinetts and rowing matches on the lake,
.• t• • din ct ion of Mr. Wentzell, governor of the In-
r• I society of Licensed Victuallers. l'p to II
. '•••ot 1'..!..1AN) persons had passed into the grounds.
, • rival. seem then rapid. With the exception of
•le• lam tainments could not be said to have fairly
• II at noon.

in giving an account of a

t which the members of the Ancient Order of Druids

I t.. Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain last week describes
lid' were observed. A procession was
. . _

a.,1 wbich was led by a Druidical ofthier carrying an
• I:i' After walking three tim:!s round the outer
stonvs, the prozession entered by the great
and approached the altar, where chorus was sung.
•.: Isbtswing the character of the ancient Druids
! the ohjtcts of modern Druidism was delivered there.
',soy then sang " Lightly Tread," and a closing

when they ,vere photographed in group. In the
pin ladies and gentlemen proceeded to
t,. p..rtike of a banquet in the Council Chamber
:t ..ty. They afterwards visited the cathedral and
....,eets of interest. The pilgrim' came from Bristol,
Trowbridte, and other places.
The Rev. Prebendary Cherniside., of Salisbury

.tlu lrd, just deceased, was 44 years of age. He was
:,),-ar‘,l at the Sorbonne, l'aris, and took his degree of
...A. there at the age of le,. He took his M.A. degree at
Joni in 1,41;. In Isis ho was presented by the late
i.vl of Pembroke to the living of 'Wilton. He was an ex-
, :wilt lii,uiot, and a good classical and Oriental scholar.
If, painted and carved well, was an able geologist, and
1..1 a MOSt extraordinary memory. He wrote for Mae.
11..• and the Dublin Unittragg Maga:int. He attendml
gr,ut anti-ritualistic meeting recently held at Salim-
kry, and put some questions to the chairman ; but
overlaid He afterwards explained to the public
that he was opposed to the " ritualistic follies."
A 11111111M1r of persons have seceded from the
; dab church of Caine, in Wilts, in consequence of the
P:wyite tendencies of the vicar of the parish and the
of Salisbury. The seceders are about to build a
i2ilireh where an anti-ritualistic form of worship will be
rued.

Ter PRINCESS of WsLas.—Several almshouses
were recently erected in Margate to commemorate the
•J. arrlv.l of the Princeas Alexandra off that port prior
t., her marriage with his Royal Highness the Prince of
Woks. A bazaar is about to be held in furtherance of the
o,..ects of the charity, and her Royal Highness the Prio-
r of Walex, in a letter enclosing a cheque for 211.,
.I.hes "every suecesa to a charity the foundation of which
• connected with so interesting an event in her life as her
tut arrival off England."

E AewßJsnur or YORK.—The Archbishop of
1./: will leave England for the Continent on Tues4lay,
6th of August, and will be absent for about six weeks.

IPENINI3 l/F rug OYSTER SzAsox.—The oyster
esaoo prnper, which commences on the 4th of August,
nil closes on the 12th of May, was opened this morning at
billing..gate. The ancient duty imposed on the clerk of
the market of ringing the bell was observed at 5 o'clock,
Aid the market was then proclaimed open. Thirty-four
riars ago there were no leas than SO boats brought along-
tillingsgate and in front of the Custom-house Quay,
.:en with oysters ; but gradually the number became re-
'aced to 20 or lta, and this morning only six vessels
ale their appearance. This diminution is due to the
',,t of large quantities being conveyed to London per rail
~roughout the year, irrespective of the " season.” Hence
`e mall sea-borne supply, and the extraordinary prices
The real Whitstable " natives" fetched- this
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-urniug RI. per bushel, being an advance of IF. compared
nth last year's prices ; 50s. were asked for " pearls,"
gainst 445. last year ; " collies" sold at 405., last year's
:oration being 35i. ; and " commons" and other inferior
Ids realised 14s. the bushel. Several West-end trades-
tea had previously given their orders, and in other re-
flects the purchasers were not numerous. At the retail
star in Fleet-street the price was Is. 4d. per dozen.
Uotoset. A KROYD, M.P., AND THE REFORM
E:LL-112 the course of a letter to the Halifax Working
Men's Conservative Association, in response to a vote of
thinks for assistance rendered to the government in passing
tie Reform Bill, Colonel Akroyd says :—" The assistance I
tendered was perfectly independent of party. I felt that
the time had arrived when party should give way to
pgriothsni, and when the first interests of the country
demanded the prompt settlement of the long.pending
;oration of reform ; and I believed that such settlement
mold, under the present aspect of affairs, be best
scomplished under the present government. With
but giving my unqualified approval of the bill as it now
Kande, I accepted it along with a majority of the House
`Commons as the best practical solution of the many
disliculties which beset the question. This conclusion
lull, I think, ultimately gain the assent of the bulk of the
liberal as well as the conservative party. Constitutional
government, under any ministry, is not an easy task—
!nth a factious and determined opposition it might be
fpossible. I consider it, therefore, the bounden duty
the opposition fur the time being, to extend to the
Isa.lees of the government a generous forbearance, and to
assist in passing useful measures; whilst, on the other
hand, it is not less their duty to stay the progress of
me se legislation."
HALP A YEAR'S RAIN,—Tho variation in the
quantity of rain in different su, of the kingdom is shown
In the returns just published the Registrar-General. In
the first half of the year 1 20•5 inches of rain fell at
Erste!, 201 at Glasgow, 181 at Sheffield, 15•5 at Bir-
beighain, 15:4 at &Hart, 14'1 at Manchester, 14 at Edin-
Lugh, 131 at Dublin, 13 at Leeds, 12* at London, 10'1
at Liverpool, and onle.ft at Newcastle,
PERSONAL AND KRAL PROPERTY.—MT. Plunket
tee hardly done justice to this last-mentioned quality of
ha grandfather, and in conclusion we beg to offer him an
'nenlote not recorded in his book. An aide-de-eamp of
Led Wellesley's had recently published his travels in the
tot, under the title of " A Personal Narrative of a Jour.
WY from Bagdad, kc." " What does he mean," said the
tel Lieutenant, " by a personal narrative ?" "He means,
tsar lord," said Plunket, " the same that we lawyers mean
",:n we say that personal is the reverse of real."—Ellin-
Aerie a, mew number.
lime MALL ON A SPRING DAY.—Not the Fourth
irw.ism, hut the Second Charles, is the haunting spirit of
dmies's Park. As I walked along the broad Mall, a
wind whistling round the warty trunks, and giving
3*te tit to the young leaves, of its otiosely shading
tare, what I actually maw was a few carriages with their
ecu;unts pulling striped fur rugs almost up to their
: a few mils, whose fares scowled enviously at the
I-s'in; furs, and whose drivers and drawers vied in hang-
their sulky heads like the bulrushes that once drooped
the cround they traversed ; a red, rumbling =tit-
an. whose driver's unloved fingers were as blue as his
two or three belted and mounted grooms, spitefully
• 'lna the bridles of their led horses ; a plump mamma,
a.:h a blur of crossness, cross at being cross, dimming
radiance of her obese benevolence, because her little
T. like a very small steam-tug towing a vast East India-
"•woehl p..v.skt in pulling her through all the puddles ;
',sty little daily governess, picking her way, cat-like,
•.70ugh the mire, and sorely puzzled how, with only two
t , bobd up her dress, and to hold also an umbrella,
Three books. and a roll of music encased in black
I'm leather, dim, and chapped, and frayed and white
the ; an old man and an old woman sitting
to hack on a bench, like a figure of Janus, end carry-
.4l ra welding sinarrel over their shivering shoulders ;
r:frediment seller., shaking like jelly hands their
;' set nut with lemonade and ginger beer that looked
Is,ttlefl toothache ; four melancholy cows, with loin
On. 1111 l ssily lifting their cold feet, and glancing and
ttll.trcpmac hfully at their owners, as if they said,
is the rood of keeping us tied here on such a day
a,' 'l.O Is this the kind of weather for sham rural milk-
" ?" and a few miscellaneous items of humanity,
"'.silent characteristics save lack of caloric and
' Ihrluity of consequent cantankerousness, hurrying to
from the narrow Spring Gardens' gateway. It was
direly panorama, sad I was glad to warm tbe land-
-9t up by peopling it with old-world figures—to recall
eighty, elerry Mall and Spring Gardens of our Third
. time.—AP:posy for August.