The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-24 00:00:00

HAYMARKET.

TRH ESMaina, DEAffAHA7.IjI4i: Masan. Compton and
Farren, tc. ; Mrs. Fitzwlllbun, Ac.—A WILD GOLISE. Istsern
So Bern, Buckstene, Howe, Mogen, (lonlon, Ac.; Mt,darnes
llillV.Lllippendalr, Hill, Laws, te.—And FAMILY JAH:4,

PEIRCIPWR.

THIN EVMSTaIa ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. A.tony, Mr.
Lorasue, Mobartnau, Mr. %cruel.. Clirrukian, Miss hage
tle.patra, Mies Olyn.

LYCEUM.

TEM IMMO. BAMBOOZLING. Mr. Prior mid Wu
State Slahop.—TlGl DUKES MOTTO. Mr. Pechter. 11vcll.
Erne; y. Wklfllcorab, Jordan, Price. etc. ; Mtas fils•rorthy. II en-
rade, GrstlsA, and Culotte Leclarcq.

erkAND.

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LITTLE SAV eI.:MALI. 0N ; Mt. THE STA ME 1,.% I I:.
Meurs.Thoree, Jamey. R M..oaltunt a agruabornugh, Raynhant.
Elarland,Jobnatanir, Hula —And kit I.NCII EAllibli

.HOLBORN,

TailMeCso, MY Tf,iis .41. KT. Mr. Itelmore Muses
Vota end t.,nu, +E.—And FLYING SCUD. Mews. Nerille,
more, Make. VoUalre..te. ; Mee,lssues F. Jompl.s, C. brundere,
EMllid Foote. Flddes, Lemma, Maywood. ste.

BRITANNtA.

Nis Emma. SIIAMKIK K .IF IBA:LAND NITs. S.
Wine —IIIF. \ .11 I. TEF:K.S. ‘lr. alt.! ‘11.4 R. Edwin
—Arid Tif E OLD MAID IN THE WINDINC-SIIEET. WW2 S.
& J oveiley.

IG if WATER AT LON DON BRIDOK.

TUX DAT —Morning. r,‘. 22 re Afternoon, nh 40ra,
10-110a1041—Morning. bR Im.._ Attenicam, 4.12. 24m.

LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 24.

Ir seems impossible to ascertain what is the
exact position of affairs in Mexico. Since the final
withdrawal of the French troops the link which
connected the struggling Empire with the public
interest of Europe we= to have been broken ;
and as it is no longer needful to supply the French
people with the Imperial version of current events,
we are left for nearly all our information to Re-
publican sources, which are scarcely more trust-
worthy. Although it is by no means impossible, it
.is, to say the least, improbable either that the EM-
PEROR has tied, that the Imperial forces have been
entirely dispersed, or that the Juarist, or Liberal
section of the national republican force is in
possession of the capital. But though all these
details are extremely doubtful, one or two points
of established certainty may be discovered among
the man of shifting reports and bragging assertions
which constitute the staple of Mexican intelli-
gence. The brave determination of the EMPIROR
to continue his struggle for empire after the French
had withdrawn has not succeeded in rallying any
sufficient force to his standard. The Empire
has succumbed to the fatalities of its origin.
Popular hostility or indifference and the strong
disfavour of the United States have rendered the
Imperial cause entirely hopeless, notwithstanding
the favour with which the Church party had again
begun to regard it. The EMPEROR is no longer
fighting for a throne, but for his honour and
his life. His object now is, or was, merely to
save the lives and fortunes of his adherents
by making terms for them, and to withdraw
with credit from a gallant but most disastrous
struggle. That fears even for his personal safety
have been entertained is proved by the action of
the Austrian and American Governments ; but it
is so much the interest of JEARRE to heed the
appeal which Mr. Szwaan has made, that we may
conclude that the only personal danger to the
EMPEROR is that which he incurs as necessarily
incidental to warfare.

The sympathy naturally extended to a brave man
struggling with misfortune is reviving in some
quarters a line of comment only explicable by the
forgetfulness of its authors. The Emperor MAXI-
MILIAN having failed, as all who were capable
of taking a calm view of the facts three years
ago foresaw and prtxlicted he would fail, an at-
tempt is made to make some one responsible for
that result. Sometimes the American Govern-
ment and sometimes the French people are
blamed. It is quite forgotten that the Empire
was broken down by its own weight. The published
despatches of M. DEOITIN DE Lxuvs prove this.
The French army did all that an army could do.
It conquered and held its conquests. But Maxi-
mum( could not establish his government. He
plunged enormously into debt, exhausted his
credit, and was at last obliged to call the general
of the French army to advance money to him out
of the military chest. The French people bore
with marvellous patience the Mexican drain upon
their resources ; but at last the Emmes
was compelled to acknowledge that it would
be wrong to call upon them to make
further sacrifices for the sake of the Mexican
Empire. The American Government, which had
from the first warned that of France that
it could not establish a European Prince
ess the throne of Mexico, at the same time
imter:ered, but merely to secure that result to
which the public opinion of France was pointing.
MAXIMILIAN was only adding the horrors of foreign
war to thew of intestine anarchy, and he had in-
troduced the barbarous practice of shooting iu
cold blood prisoners taken in regular war. No
responsibility is incurred by putting an end
to his interference in the affairsof a country which
he might afflict with new curses, but which he was
powerless to benefit. As far as the prospect of a re-
establishment of peace and good government are
concerned, Mexico remains pretty nearly where it
was before the French expedition. The causes of
its disorders lie too deep to be removed by the
sword of conquest, and will probably last until the
time has come for the introduction of a new po-
pulation of a nobler race than that which now en-
grosses a country it is unable to develop, and
which seems incapable of founding any stable
order of society.

TEE Reform Bill was a little further im-
proved last night by an amendment upon
the fourth clause relating to the county fran-
chise. Mr. H. VIVIAN proposed that the
right of voting should be conferred on per-
sons having a leasehold interest of the clear
yearly value of five pounds, in houses or Linda,
under a lease of not JIM than sixty years.

The CH AN. rELLOI: of the Ext.:tit:l4u Lit agreed to this
amendment. Sir E. COLEBROOK E subsequently
moved another, for the purpose of attaching
the new franchise in counties to dwelling-houses
occupied separately or jointly with land, the ob-
ject being to prevent the creation of faggot votes,
which would be easy if land without houses gave
votes. This proposal was resisted by the Govern-
ment, but on a division was carried by a ma-
jority of three. .. second division, however, was
necessary, andthe supporters of the Government
were very sharply whipped up, and the ptvvions
decision was reversed by a majority, also of three.
The clause was now iu hopeless confusion, and
the country gentlemen got excited. Mr. lluotaxxi,
however, did not seem inclined to give as much
importance to faggot votes as they had in the eyes
of his bucolic followers, and the Government
consented to a motion for reporting progress.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

THE toll Hol "Eliol.DEß NOT TO CE Al:o11,1111, 1/TER

AI.I---IHE GOVEMMENT CLAl'sts.

Anticipating that Mr. Disraeli's suggestion as to
the day sittings between 2 in the afternoon and 7 will
meet with the approval of the House, the Timex would
feel increased regret if it should appear that the advantage
thus gained is to be dissipated by fresh demands upon the
time of parliament. Such, however, may prove to be the
case. The compound householder clauses which the 'ban-
cellor of the Exchequer laid last night on the table of the
house are likely to produce fresh complications, for in-
stead of decreeing that the practice of compound house-
holders in parliamentaryboroughs shall cease, they provide
that whenever landlords and tenants :igree fur that purpose
the tenant maycoutinue to be a compound householder, and
so cease to be a voter. Such clauses will satisfy no one.
If the tenant of a house be the slave of his landlord, it can
make no difference whether the landlord he enabled to
stipulate at the commencement of a tenancy that his
tenant shall not apply to be rated, or to stipulate that he
shall annually sign an agreement declining to be rated. In
either case, according to the theory of those who appear
to hold a tenant to be a serf, the landlord is master of his
tenant's political rights, the power of vestries will con-
tinue practically unabated, the inequality of enfran-
chisement will remain as considerable as ever.
I:efore the committee resumes its deliberations on Mon-
day the Times trusts these clauses will be re-considered.
What the House of Commons desires, and the country is
prepared to support, is the complete and unqualified
abolition of the practice of compounding in parliamentary
boroughs. There must be no loophole of escape, no pro-
viso by which the compounder once expelled may return
to his old nest. The way to secure this happy end is easy.
The first and second enactments of the new clauses, with
the sub-provisions meeting the case of current contracts,
will accomplish everything that is wanted ; and the Tinges
trusts to hear on Monday that ministers, emboldened by
the support of parliament, are still bent on their original
design, and will drop the third and fourth enactments, so
as to extinguish the compound householder once and for
ever.

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1867.

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL.

DIVIsION LABT NIGHT.

(In the committee).—Clause 4 :—Amendsnant proposed, in"
page 2, line t 2, to leave out the words " monism of wxy
tenure," in order to insert the words " a dwelling-house
or othci building :"--(Sir Edward Colebrooke :1—
Amendment proposed to the said proposed amendment
to leave out the words "or other building :--(Mr.
Ellice :)—Question, " That the words ' or other build-
ing' stand part of the Mill proposed amendment," put
and negatived.
Amendment again proposes!, to leave out the words " m-
-111112411 of any tenure," in order to insert the words • a
dwelling-house :"—Question put, " That the words pro-
posed to be left out stand part of the clause : ' The
.rominitte.s! —Ayes, 193 ; noes, 196.

ATILS.
AdoPricy, C. R. Gore, W. R. North, Col.
Bottaßey, B. Greensll, G. Northcote, Sir S.
Bailey, Sir J. It. Grey, T. de O'Neill, E.
Millie, 11. J. Guinness, Sir B Parke, C. W
lia-lug, I'. Gurney, R. I
800 n,,. W. 11. Gajn, 11. llititt Hn.:4r .1.
liateson. Sir T. Hamilton, GI. (laud Palk, it L.
Inithoine, A. A. Hardy, G. Parker, II ajoi
Beach, Sir M 11. Hanky, J. Patten, Cul.
13eeemft, G. S. Harvey, It. It. Pennant, G. D.
Bourne, Col. Ike, sir J. Percy. Major. G-
. Sir G. Heatheute, Sir W. Powell, F. S.
Brett, W. B. MuleY, S. W. Pugh, U.
Bridges, Sir it. Herbert, Col. Read, C. S
Bromley, W. li litigate. Sir F. Reerden, U. J.
Browne. Lord 3. Hong 1.t.•C01. Region, G. W
Bruce, Mr 11. ii. Holmesdale, Vied. Ridley, Sir M.
Bruen, 11. hood, Sir A. Robertson, P P.
Euekley, 11. Hope, A.. 1. atilt, Sir J.
Bulkeley, Sir R. 11..niliy, W. H. Sammie, J. D'A.
Burrell, Sir I'. Honda% T. B. Sandford, G. M.
Butler•Joluistone, II Huhbard..l. G. Si:blether, C.
Capper, C. Iludilleston, J. W. Sclater-Booh. 0.
Cartwright, Col. 'hue, G. W. Seuurfleld, J. 11.
Cave, S. .11TVIS, Major Hearin. 11. J.
Cecil, bail 3ollifte, H. 11. Selwyn, C. J.
Cole, H. ronesi, D. Sererne, J. E.
Cole, J. L. Kerslake, Sir J. Seymour, (1. 11.
I ioni,lly, T. Kerslake, E. K. Simonds, W. IL
Corry, H. L. Kavanagh, A. Smolkott, P. B.
Comborue, Vitct. Kekewich, S. T. Stanhope. J. B.
Cubitt, G. Kelk, J . Stanley, Lord
l'iirzoti, Vied. Kendall, N. Stanley, F.
Dick, F. King, J. K. Stopfonl, S. G
Dicknn, Majoi K lug, J. G. Strange, Sir J.
Dimeditle, R. Knight, F. W. Stuart, Lt.-Col.
Disraeli, B. la ..v., sir E. Stocky. Sir G. r
Du t tine, C Mini, J. Surtees, C. F. '
Dunne, (tot. [waggon, W. G. Surtoes, H. K.
Du Pee, C. G. Lauyon, C. S) kis, l'.
itj le, W. H. Lirteelles, E. W. Talbot, C. R.
Dyott, Col. Leader. N. P. Thrm, Lord II
Eaton, It, W. Lechmere, Sir E. Tollernache..l.
Eckeniley, N. Leith, Major C. Torrent. R.
Edwords, Sir 11 Lennox, Lord G. Tottenham, 11.• col.
Egerton. A. P. Uddell, 11. G. Treeliy, J. W.
Egerton, E. C. Lindsay. Cut C. Inollupe, Sir J.
Eigerton, W. Lindsay, Col. R. Towner, C.
Elclio, Lord lop*. Sir M. Verner, Sir W.
Pane, Col. Lowther. J. Walcott, Adm
Feilden, J. M'Kenna, J. N. Walker. Major
Pellowet, F.. Mackinnon, Capt. Watrond, J. W
Ferglusson, Sir J. Manners, Lord 3 Walsh, A.
?beer, J. Manners. Lord (3...1. Wabili. Sir J
Forester, Gen. Metier. Cul. Waterhouse. S.
Fort, R. Monteri, Lord R. Welty, W. E.
IPreshfield, C. K. Slontgomerb Sir G. Whitmore. 11.
Galway, V tact. Mordaunt. sir C. Willi .ma, F. M.
Garth, IL Morgan, O. Wise, If. C.
Gagelee, Serpent Morgan, Moine WOU(III, B. 'r.
Haskell. J. Al. 31tovioray, J. E. Wyndham, P.
Getty. S. G. Naas, Lord
Goddard, A. L. Neeld, sir J. MUMS.
Ottliiney. G. N.-Wilk-Grenville, R. Taylor. Col.
Gooch, Sir U. Newdegete, C. N. Noel, G. J.
Goodwin, J. Newport, ['bet.

. _
NOK&
Aeland, T. D. Foster, W. 0. O'Beirne, J. Is
Adair, ii. E. Fortescue, C. P. &Brien, Sir P.
Adam, W. P. Gavin, Major &Donoghue, The
4ardiMiii, L G. Gilpin, C.
Akro)il, E. I Oliphant, L.
Gladstone, W. E. &Reidy. M. W.
Amberley, Vlsct, Glyn, G. O. Osborne, R. B.
Armstrong, it. lioldsmid, Mir F. Padmore. IL
Ayrnal, A. S. Ciollandil, J. Palmer. Sir R
Aytoun. R. S. Gaschen, IL J. Pony. 'r.
Baines, it. Cray, Sir J. Pease. J. R'.
Barclay. A. C. Oradell, H. r... Peel, sir R.
Barry, A. H. Grey, Sir G. Peel, A. W.
Baer, A. Gridley, Capt. I'eto, Sir S. H.
Baxter, W. R. Grosvenor. Capt. Philips, B. N.
Barley, T. Grove, T. F. Pim, J.
Beaumont. H. Y. Hadfield, O. Platt, J.
Berkeley, H. F. !WTI., J. D. Portman, W. 11.
Itiddalph. M Hay, Lord W. Potter, R.
Blake..l. A. Dayter, A. D. Potter, T. R.
Bonham-Carter, J. Headlara, T. E. Power, BUJ.
Brous', 11. Henderson. J. Price, IL G.
Bright, J. Heneage, IL Rehear J. 0.
Briscoe, J. I. Herbert, U. A. Roberts*, T. J.
Brave, Lord C. llibbert, J. T. Robertson, D.
Bruce, 11. A. Higigkinson, G. Roebuck, J. A.
Buller. Sir E. Holden. I. Rothschild,lieoron M
Butler, C. S. Howard, C. W. Rothschild, N. M.
Buxton, Sir T. F. Hughes, T. Rumen, A.
Caliaaft, J. H. Hurst, IL H. Russell, H.
Candi/M1..1. Ingham, R. St. Aubyn, J.
Cardwell, E. Jardine, R. Sal onions, Ald.
Cave, T. Jerroise, Mr J. Samuelson, B.
Cavendish, Lord E. Kennedy, T. Saunderson, E.
Cavendish, Lord F. liinglake, J. A. Scott, Sir W.
Lnvenilieh, Lord G. IC Momenta, Col Sherrill, t. C.
Cheetham..l. Knatchboll - liuges- Simeon, Sir .1.
Childers, 11. r. *en. 1.:. Smith, J.
Cholmeley, Sir M. Labonchere, 11. Smith, J. A.
Clay, J. Laing, S. Stsepoole, W.
Clinton, Lord Z. Layard, A. H. Stansfeld, J.
Collier, sir R. Lawrence, W. Mock, 0.
Colthurst, !MC. Lawson. J. A. Stone, W. 11.
Colvile, C. R. Latham, W. H. Stuart, Col. C.
Cowen, J. Lee, W. Sullivan, K
Cowper, H. F. Leteme, 0. J. Synan, R. J.
Cowper, W. F. Lewis. H. Taylor. P. A.
Cranford, K. H. Locke, J. Torrents W. T.
Croieley Mr F. Lusk A. Trevelyan, G. 0.
Davie, Sir H. It. Mackie, J. Vanderbyl, P.
De La Pier, E. M•Laren, D. Villiers, C. P.
Hering. Sir E. Maguire, J. F. Vivian, 11. H.
Dermas. R. J. klarjoribanks, Sir D. Vivian, Capt.
Dillwyn, L la Martin, C. W. Wattle, K W.
Molten, F. Martin, P. W. Weguelin, T. M.
Duff, R. W. Matheson, A. Western, Sir T. It,
Hondas, F. Merry. J. Whalley, G. H.
Edwards, C. Milbank. F. A. Whitman, J.
Filler, E. Mill, .1. S. White, Capt.
Enfield. Vied. Miller, W. White, J.
Esmonde, J. Mills. J. R. Wlllnunson, Sir H.
Evans. T. W. Mitchell, A. Wyld, J.
Swart, W. Monk, C. J. Wyvill, 11.
Swing, H. F. Moore, C. Young, R.
Fawcett, H. More, R. 3.
Fitspataielt, J. W. Neste, C. =LIAM
Forster, C. Nicol, J. D. Colebrooke, Str T.
Punter. W. E. Norwood. C. Si. King, P. J. L

It will be seen by referring to our summary of the de-
bate, that the opposition having carried their amendment,
that the words in the government clause be left out, then
proposed that the wools "a dwelling house" be in-
serted, but that this motion was lost by 212 to
209 ; so that at present the blank remains. The
government were reinforced in the second division by
Captain Archdafl, Visount Barrington, Mr. Benyon,
Captain Beresford, Lord Bingham, Lord Ernest Bruce,
Mr. Baillic Cochrane, Lord Courtenay, Mr. Cooper, CoL
Gilpin, Mr. J. It. Gore, Lord R. Grosvenor. Mr. O. Heath-
cote, Mr. Henniker, Mr. Hildyard, Mr. Mefferd, Mr.
Pritchard. Sir C. Russell, Lord Trevor, and Mr. Wynn.
The opposition were reinforced by a less number, namely
Viscount Andover, Sir R. Blennerbasset, Dr. Brady,
Vice-Admiral Erskine, the Hon. D. F.Forteecue, Mr. W. H.
Gladstone, Mr. Graham, Mr. Hankey, Sir J. Johnstone,
Sir J. Matheson, Lord Proby, Mr. Scholiffield, and the
Hon. W. Stanley.

Mr. Ouldemid intends to propose to leave out
chum 21 in the government Reform Bill, and insert a
clause providing for the use of voting papers at the
elections for the University of London. Mr. Gregory, as
an amendment to Mr. Poulett Serape's proposed proviso,
will move " that the landlord shall pay half rates on all
tenements under 41."

On the second reading of Metropolitan Improve-
ments Bill, Mr. M'Cullsgh Torrens will move—" That,
while this boon is of opinion that if increased taxation for
the purposes of permanent metropolitan improvements
should be found to be indispensable the burden ought not
to fall exclusively upon the occupiers, but ought, as pro-
posed by the bill, to be borne in part by the owners of
property, this house deems it expedient to postpone the
consideration of the measures required to carry out this
principle until the proposals before the house for the re-
constitution of metropolitan local government, and of the
board to whom such powers of taxation would be delegated,
shall have been dealt with."

In the House of Commons last night, at a late
hour, Mr. 0. Stanley said that the country gentlemen had
become excited, and time ought to be given them to be-
come calm. He had to call attention to a scene which had
taken place at the door behind the Speaker's chair where
a strong and powerful man,the Secretary for the Treasury,
and the hon. and gallant member for Dublin had used
forcible means to withdraw an hon. member from the aide
with which he was going. No further notice, however,
appears to have been taken of the complaint.

Yesterday Field-Marshal the Duke of Cambridge,
Commanding•in-Chief, visited Aldershot, and reviewed the
troops in garrison there. The Long Valley was almost
unbearable. In consequence of the piercing north wind
that prevailed the dust was driven in great clouds, so dense
at times as to utterly obscure the lines at a few hundred
yards' distance. Notwithstanding this discomfort, there
WWI a large number of visitors, among whom were the
Belgian Ambassador and party, Lady Scarlett, Lord Camp-
bell, lee. At the conclusion of the movements his royal
highness and the staff left the ground for Sir James Scar•
lett', at Farnborough, returning to town by an afternoon
teL

A company has been formed at Poole, in Dorset-
shire. for deep see fishing between the Isle of Purbeck
aad the Isle of Wight.

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL.

The following are the amendment. to Clause 34
of the Reform Bill which the Chancellor of the Exchequer
placed upon the table of the House of Commons bat night,
and the object of which is to carry into effect the proviso
lately moved by hi,. Hodgkinson to the 4th clause, with
the view of abolishing the compound household system in
parliamentary boroughs :
Clause 34, page 11, line 29. After " Where" omit to the
end of the clause, and insert :
The owner is rated at the time of the paring of this act
to the poor-rate instead of the occupier in respect of a
dwelling house or other tenement situate in a pariah wholly
or partly in a borough, his liability to be rated in any future
poor-rate shall cease, and the following enactments shall
take effect with respect to rating in all boroughs :
I. After the passing of this act no owner of any dwelling-
house or other tenement situate iu a pariah either wholly
or in part within a borough dull be rated to the poor rate
instead of the occupier, except as hereinafter mentioned.
9. The full rateable value of every dwelling-house or
other separate tenement, and the full rate in the pound
payable by the occupier, and the name of the occupier
shall be entered in the rate-book.

3. With the joint consent of the owner and occupier
given in the form marked in the schedule hereto,
the overseers or other authority empowered by law to
make the poor rate shall rate the owner instead
of the occupier. and may compound with the owner
for the rates, in conformity with the provisions
of any statute for rating the owners instead of
the occupiers in force in the parish at the time of the
passing of this act, or in conformity with the provisions
of the act of the session of the I:ith and 14th years of the
reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An act for the
better assessing and collecting the poor rates and highway
rates in respect of small tenements," where the same shall
Lave already been or may hereafter be adopted by the
vestry ; but no occupier of any dwelling-house or other
tenement the owner of which is rated with the consent of
such occupier as aforesaid shall be entitled to be registered
as a voter for any borough.
4. Any arrangement made in pursuance of this section
for rating the owner or compounding with him with such
consent as aforesaid shall determine on the 19th day of
July in every year, but may be renewed with such consent
as aforesaid ; nevertheless the determination of such
arrangement shall not affect the recovery of any rate made
previously to the determination thereof.
Provided as follows :

1. That nothing in this act contained shall affect any
composition existing at the time of the pestling of this act,
so nevertheless that no such composition shall remain in
force beyond the period of twelve months from the time of
passing of this act.
2. That nothing herein contained shall affect any rate
made previously to the passing of this act, or any such ex-
isting composition entered into as last aforesaid, and the
powers conferred by any subsisting act for the purpose of
collecting and recovering a poor rate shell remain and con-
tinue iu force for the collection and recovery of any such
rate or composition.
3. That where the occupier under a tenancy subsisting at
the time of the passing of this act of any dwelling-house or
other tenement,'wMch has been let to him free from rates,
is rated and has paid rates in pursuance of this act, he may
deduct from any rent due or accruing due from him in
respect of the said dwelling-house or other tenement any
amount paid by him on account of the rates to which he
may be rendered liable by this act.
Nothing in this section contained shall affect the liability
of any owner to be rated instead of the occupier under
any act in respect of any dwellinthowie wholly let out in
separate apartments or in lodgings.
Mr. Ayrton—As an amendment to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer's amendment to clause 34, to insert at the end
of paragraph 2, " and shall be rated ran ordinary oc-
cupier." Leave out paragraphs 3 and 4, and insert :
Where the dwelling-house or other tenement shall be
let to an occupier for a shorter period than for • year, the
owner as well as the occupier shall be rated in respect
thereof, but the liability of the occupier to pay the rate
shall not be thereby affected, and in case the occupier
shall not pay the rate within two months after the same
shall have been demanded of him, as hereinafter pro-
vided the owner shall pay such rate.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer—
Schedule ( .)
Notice of consent that the owner is to be rated.

To the overseers (or other rating authority) of the
parish of •

We, the undersigned, being the owner and occupier of
the dwelling house or tenement hereunder described, here-
by give you notice that we have consented that the owner
shall be rated to all rates to be made before the

day of next for the relief of the poor of the said
pariah in respect of such premises ; and you may compound
with the owner for such rates.

Dated this

day of

Signature of Occupier.

Number
In Bate
Book.

,18 .

`•lgnature of Owner.

DEVIILIPTION OP PROPZITT.

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The Duke of Edinburgh presided at a meeting
of the Executive Committee of the Central Hall of Arts
and Menses yesterday.
The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by Mr. Haig and the
Hon. Eliot Yorke, left Clarenoe•house for Parts em reek to
Marseilles, and from thence, in command of her Majesty's
ship Galatea, to the Australian colonies, via.' Gibraltar,
Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, and the Cape of Good Hope.
The Prince of Wales accompanied the Duke of Edin-
burgh to the railway station.
Messrs. C. F. Hancock, Sun, and Co., of Bruton-street,
have had the honour of submitting to the inspection of the
Queen at Windsor Castle the " Beaufort Cup," lately run
for at the Bath races, and won by Lord littematis horse,
Moulsey.
A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho-
nourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-
°Mae, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The
Lords present were the Lord President, the Duke of
Richmond, Lord John Manners, Lord Robert Montagu,
the Right Hon. Gethorne Hardy, and the Right Hon.
Stephen Cave. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams
attended the committee.

Sir John Thwaitos (chairman of the Metropolitan Board
of Works) had an interview with the Lord President of
the Council, at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, yes-
terday.
A deputation, introduced by Colonel Sykes, M.P., and
oonsiating of the Duke of Buccleuch, Mr. Cumming Bruce,
M.P., Sir John Ogilvy, Bart., M.P., Mr. D. Fordyce,
M.P., Mr. Grant Duff, M.P., Sir H. F. Davie, Bart., iLP.,
Captain Mackinnon, M.P., R.N., Mr. W. Miller, M.P.,
Mr. Neste, M.P., Mr. Barley, M.P., Mr. R. W. Duff,
M.P., Mr. Oliphant, M.P., Admiral Erskine, M.P., and
Mr. Robertson (of Ladykirk), M.P., had an interview with
the Duke of Richmond, at the office of the Board of Trade,
yesterday, on tho subject of storm warnings.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor-General of Canada. Despatches were
sent to the Governors of the Settlements on the West
Coast of Africa, and to the Governor-General of Canada.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.

ABERDEEN, THMIRDAY NIOVIT.

Her Majesty, the royal family, and suite reached
Aberdeen at 10 minutes to 12 this forenoon, and were
received by Bull' ie William Henderson, acting chief magis-
trate, Sheriff Thompson, &c. After a short stay, during
which the train was shunted on to the Decide Railway,
the royal party resumed their journey, accompanied by
several of the directors and Messrs. Milne ani Ferguson,
manager and secretary of the line. Aboyne was made
within the hour, and thence her Majesty, fond of the
highland scenery, which here begins to be manifested in
all its rugged beauty, posted to Balmoral. The suite pro-
ceeded to Ballater, eleven miles further on, by rail. Shortly
before 3 o'clock the royal party arrived at the Castle of
Balmoral. Weather cold, and alight showers of hail fall-
ing. Lookagar still clad in wow.