The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-30 00:00:00

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wstill referral to a national ant, and this
might break through the cobwebs of t Nikolaburg peace
as easily as flavour, Garibaldi, and Cialdini managed to
break through the barrier that the conqueror of Solferino
trusted he had for ever seised against the aspirations of
Italian unity. The old evils of Germany, the rivalry be-
tween Austria and Prussia, and the vain efforts of the
minor states to establish a balance between them, the
struggle between two or three Germanies, will be repro-
dared, only with this difference--that the vastly increased
strength of the north will make it more than a match for
its southern opponents, and will drive them into the arms
of that foreign power which has profited by German divi-
aims ever sines the time of the Thirty Years' War. As to
Italy, the late successes in the Tyrol and Venetia have had
a soothing effect on men's minds, andwill, it is to be hoped,
induce the Italians to acquiesee in a pacific solution of
the struggle which leaves them in possession of all they
could ever have aspired to as the prize of the most complete
and signal victory.
The Dail y Nees remarks that the thoroughness which cha-
racterises all Count Bismarck's policy is en assurance that
he does not believe it will be necessary to revert to the sword
to accomplish his purpose in South Germany after the pre.
Pent war. The aim of the Prussian Government is first to
consolidate Northern and Middle Germany, trusting to
time to favour the formation of advantageous relations
with the States of the South.
The Star thinks the Hungarians will not be more in-
clined now than before to look with favour upon the Haps-
burg dynasty. The Emperor will find that the difficult
questions connected with the varied aistionalities of his
dominions will become more pressing, both on aooount of
his own disgrace and the consolidation in Europe of a great
empire upon the basis of nationality.

THt NANAOKBEST Of THB DOCKYARDS.
The Time describes Mr. Seely's statements relative to
the expenditure of the management of the dockyards as
intelligible to every understanding, and aipable of proof
in the open markets of the world. That the facts should
be as he states involves either wilful official blindness or a
system of accounts intended to mystify and confound. An
inquiry brings out the fact that the system of amounts
differs at all the yards ; that the rating of the work done
and the mode of charging it are different. But in no yard
is it possible to say whether the work charged to a boat,
or toe vessel of any aim, was positively spent upon it, and
was not charged to it in an illusory manner for the
squaring of amounts and to cheat inspection. Portsmouth
is the• very pandemonium of prodigairty. The Lords of
the Admiralty positively do not know bow to expend the
public money fast enough there. Repairs are the grand
resource, and few of the taxpaying public know how care-
fully it is cherished, and bow thoroughly it is utilised.
Our ground of comfort under these untoward ammo-
stances is that the House of Commons will have to do
the work of revision.
The Deity News details Mr. Seely's inveatigations and
statements sad the Admiralty's replies thereto &until the
time when the latter finding the proceedings were getting
too hot for them, and that enormous extravagance was
being brought to light, summarily put an end to the inves-
tigation by removing the books, and by refining to allow
the investigation to proceed further. They did not bargain
for, nor expect, doubtless, such a thorough, sigid, and
searching investigation as appears to have been made.
Doubtless they thought that when they said that accounts
could not be obtained, their word would be taken, and
that there the matter would end. The injustice to Mr.
Seely is most glaring, and if the house permit one of its
members to be thus uncourteously treated, it will permit
an insult to itself.

Cite Court.

OSBORNE, JOLT 2S.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with
Prisons Louise, and again this morning with her Royal
Highness.
Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice went out also.
JULY 29.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with Princess
Louise in a carriage and four, attended by Lady Augusta
Stanley.
Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge was in attendance upon
horseback.
The Princess of Wales and Princess of Leiningen dined
with her Majesty in the evening.
Divine service was performed this morning at Osborne,
before the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess
Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice.
The Dean of Westminster officiated.

A Cabinet Council was hold on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were the
Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
Buckingham, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right
Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Earl
of Carnarvon, General Peel, Viscount Cranborne,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Peking-
ton, Sir S. Northoote, Lord J. Manners, the Right
Hon. Gsthorne Hardy, and Lord Naas.

Mr. Richard Howarth had an interview with the Right
Hon. the President of the Board of Trade, at the office
of the Board of Trade, on Saturday, and ruhmittod his
model for signalling and forming a personal communica-
tion between passengers, guards, and. all parts of a rail-
way train.
A deputation from Windsor, consisting of the Mayor,
Mr. Roger Eykyn, M.P., Mr. Charles Edwards, M.P., Mr.
Henry Darvell (Town Clerk), Mr. George, Mr. Holdin, Mr
Cooper, Mr. Cleave, Mr. Goddard, Mr. Phillips, and Mr:
Willman, had an interview on Saturday with Lord John
Manners, at the office of her Majesty's Works, &c., White
hall-place.
Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial-
office from the Governer, of the North American Colonies.
Despatches were sent to the Governors of Canada and the
I Bahamas.

CaBINET COI7NCIL.—(TNIB Dsv.)—A Cabinet
Council was held this day at 11 o'clock at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury.
The Council was numerously attended. The Cabinet
only sat for half an hour.
Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar
left town on Friday for Moloombe House, neer Goodwood,
where they will receive a soled party during the race
week at Goodwood.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady
Emily Villiers have left their residence in Grosvenor.
crescent, for. The Grove, near Watford, Herta, for the
moon.
The Earl Cadogan was honoured by the presence
of the Duke of Cambridge at dinner, en Saturday, at his
residence, Chelsea House, Cadossa-plsoe. There were
present to meet his royal highness—the Turkish Ambas-
sador, Baron de Bande, the Earl of Derby, the Duke of
Marlborough, Lord Stanley, the Earl of iftlmesbury,
the Earl of Bradford, Viscount Ceenborne, the Right Hon.
General Peel, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, the Right Hon.
Henry T. L. Corry, the Right Hon. General Cecil W.
Forester, Sir Hugh Cairns (the Attorney-General), Colonel
the Hon. P. Wellington Talbot, Hon. George W. Barring-
ton, Mr. J. Lumley, and the Equerry-in-Waiting on the
Duke of Cambridge.
On Saturday the marriage of the Hon. Evelyn
Ashley, second son of the Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G., and
Miss Sybella Charlotte, second daughter of Sir Walter
Rookcliff and Lady Mary Farquhar, was solemnised at St.

James's Church, Piccadilly.
The exhibition of the Royal Academy is closed.
The annual owtrersurecnie of the members and their friends
takes place on Wednesday evening.
Mr. Charles Brown (Artemus Ward) will com-
mence his lectures in the autumn.
Mr. Narras.—We have much pleasure in
announcing that Mr. Napier has declined to accept the
office of Lord Justice of Appeal in Ireland, and for reasons
which do him the highest honour. If we are rightly in-
formed, a letter from Mr. Napier will be read in the House
of Commons this evening, in which, while expressing his
own opinion and that of many friends that his infirmity is
not such as to disable him from the discharge of duties
which consist almost exclusively in the examination of
written documents, he declares that he is unwilling his
appointment should afford the slightest ground for a sus-
picion that justice will not be adequately administered,
and accordingly declines the high office which Lord Derby
has offered for his acceptance. Baron Fitzgerald will pro-
bably be the new Lord Justice of Appeal —Times.