The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-13 00:00:00

TttE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENIN

more immediate friends. Nevertheless, the gag. , where they mean for the rest el their active lowrke
tion to the national burden wR be not the lase period, whichLs alljL"sn'Thbesides liable
celled out.
felt, nor the less produce its natural offsets. If the ukase which rare rethrenzetieh reserves
lately,
conscription should a year hence take three young which seems to have frightened Europe much,es is only
men throughout France where it now takes i tba ordinary annual nonsauptian, which win not increase
but two, and war taxation is increased in a cor- , the active army of Russia by one man, unless the esta.
responding degree, the general uneasiness of the blishment of the 'nay is raised ; but by this most elastic
population would be aggravated, and the effect i and excellent system Russia capitalises her made 'oldie++,
and ever, year makes as it
cannot fail to be manifested on occasions which are ' wen a new army Thserve-
Were war to break out, the first reserve which would be
sure to arise. At Moscow, again, the population'
mobilised would be the last batch of soldiers which had
may unanimously declare that the CZAR. of Holy left the ranks.
Russia must be sustained in his great European Without anticipating Mr. Disraeli's plan for the regale-
MiaSiOn. The conscription may not be felt so Ge• tion of railway debentures, the Post is persuaded that the
verely there as at France, but the contemplated practices which have been recently condemned can be pre-
addition to the army can only be made at the I rutted by a very simple change in the kw. The
machinery
Mort-
gage Debenture Act, 1865, provides which can
sacrifice of objects essential to the prosperity of
thaessilty
actbe madeemwePPlieshle to. every kind of debenture ;
the empire. Russia cannot have the railways it on
needs if it spends its money, or mortgages its mortgage of empower
to have their borrowing money
mregistered
oney
credit to keep up an army of conquest. Theme at the office of the Land Registry. The value of
considerations have, of course, occurred to the the property is ascertained by a surveyor approved of by
Emperors NaroLEolv and ALEXANDER, who have the Inclosure Commissioners after the require-
ments of the act have been fulfilled, the officers of
set them aside because they think it safer to be
the Land Registry department authorise the bores of
the representatives of the ruling pasaion of their
debentures
to borrow In the same manner, when a railway could-
respective nations than to consult their permanent wmatonooeyo ofugofh ittstoonsatbotisfycathpi hadtal e ',Ma
interests. France has always, except under the Pr Registry Department that
brief reign of Lows PHILIPPE, set the acquisition been paid up, that the amount of debentures sought to be
of ascendency in Europe before national prospe- Issued did not exceed one-third of such entire capital, end
rity ; and Russia is just as steadily urged forward that the property of the company wan free from other in-
by national instincts to aggrandise herself at the sumbrances. To ascertain these facts the heads of the
department should be enabled to compel the attendance of
expense of her neighbours. witnesses and the production of books, papers, and docu-
ments, and on being satisfied on these points the deben-
tures would be registered and issued, and no debenture
should be valid unless under the hand of one of the regis-
trars and the seal of the departmest. Under such a system
duplicate debentures and other fraudulent transactions of
the same kind would be impossible. With regard to
limited liability companies, all debentures issued by them
should also be registered, care being taken that the amount
of the subscribed, but unpaid, capital should not be ex-
ceeded.

Site Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 12.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
walked and drove in the grounds this morning.
Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice rode in the Home-
park, and Prince Leopold went out walking.
The Duke of Edinburgh, with Prince Christian, went
out shooting. The Lord-in-Waiting accompanied their
royal highnesses, and Lord Alfred Paget and Lieut. Haig
were in attendance.
Lord Stanley arrived at the Castle to-day, and had an
audience of the Queen, after which the Queen, sworn.
panied by Princess Louise, entered the White Drawing
Boom, when the following Foreign Ministers were pre.
rented to her Majesty by Lord Stanley to deliver their
credentials :
Count de Vistaliertnosa, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary from the Queen of Spain.
Baron Hochechild, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from the King of Sweden.
Senor Mosquera, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from the United States of Columbia ; and
Mr. Getfcken, Resident Minister from the Lianse Towns.
Sir Charles Wyko, K.C.8., had the honour of an in-
terview with her Majesty on his return from Hanover.
The Lord and Groom in Waiting were in attendance.

A deputation, consisting of General Johnston, Mr. I
Thomas Goodson, Mr. Welbore Ellis, Mr. J. Sotheby, and
Colonel the lion. James Macdonald, had an interview
with Lord John Manners at the office of her Majesty's
Works, yesterday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
, day. The lords present were—Lord Westbury, Sir E. V.
Williams, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Laurence Peel.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of Victoria, South Australia, flung
Kong, New Zealand, Gibraltar, and Malta.

A marriage is, it is stated, arranged between
Lady Victoria Cecil, youngest daughter of the Marquis
and Marchioness of Exeter, and Captain Hon. William C.
Evans-Frekc, second brother of Lord Carberry.
The marriage of the Master of Lot-at and Miss
Blundell will take place to-morrow.
The Duke of Argyll arrived on Saturday at Blois
with the duchess and one of his daughters. His grace
then travelled by way of Toulouse, Marseilles, and Nice,
to Italy, intending to visit Rome.
The Star understands that the Attorney-General
has decided that the retainer which the Jamaica Commit-
' tee offered to Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and which was accepted
Iby that gentleman, is informal, and that Mr. Eyre's re-
tainer is consequently good. The Attorney-General, it is
said, has declined to state the grounds on which his de-
cision is based.
Sir H. Bulwer intends, says the Lii.erte, to re_
main for some time in Paris, where lie is engaged in pre-
.
. paring for publication an important work on politics.
Al. Charles Duveyrier, whose name was so pro-
minently before the public some 34 years ago as one of the
chiefs of the St. Sinioniaus, died at Paris on Saturday.
The pontiff of the sect, Pere Enfantin, died just two
years and a half ago. " St. Simonianisin," writes the Paris
correspondent of the Ticus, " which filled a large space in
the events which troubled the early years of the Orleans
government, is now completely forgotten ; and the sur-
vivors of the enthusiastic Brotherhcsal of Mailmontant,
' whose ambition was to found a new religion and to change
I the moral character of the world, have cooled down into
ordinary mortals, cured of their ancient fervour, shrewd,
, and calculati and worldly ; living like people who