The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-03 00:00:00

BOITLOGNE.

(non • COIRISPONDI2I7.)
BOULOGNE, Aram 31.
The season so . far has been good, although the
attractions of the Paris Exhibition tell on the
number of our English, and especially our German
visitors. The Etablissement des Beim, which is
undoubtedly the most complete and elegant bath-
ing establishment in Europe, is daily crowded ;
and for some weeks past more than 3,000 sea baths
have been taken each tide. The band of the 3rd
Chasseurs and the town music play alternately in
the gardens and on the terrace facing thi sea ; and
the celebrated town music of Roubaix, consisting
of 80 perfomers, which had gained one of the first
prizes at Paris, came to Boulogne for two days last
week, and played in the Etablissement gardens on
both days. There have else been two concerts already,
at which Carlotta Patti and Sivori performed.
The sanitary condition of the town is perfectly
satisfactory, and there has been no rumour even of
cholera, which did not spare Boulogne last year
any more than any of the other neighbouring towns
where it prevailed, although at Boulogne it was
much less severe than in most of them, and
there were few cases, excepting in the fisher-
, men's quarter, and the manufacturing suburbs
of Capeoure and La Madeleine. Regarding
Boulogne in another aspect, the enormous amount
of merchandise daily embarked or landed on its
quays must strike the most casual observer, and
the result of the greatly increased trade between
France and England is that Boulogne now ranks
third among the French ports for the value of its
imports and exports, coming in 1806 immediately
after Havre and Marseilles. The new floating
dock, which will supply the accommodation to
trade for which the present harbour is now in-
sufficient, is rapidly approaching completion, and
it is positively stated that it will be opened early
next April. It will be entered by means of a lock,
opening directly to the channel between the piers,
and will cover an area of more than 22 acres, with
three-quarters of a mile of quay space, on which
rails will be laid communicating with the station
Since the railway from Boulogne to Calais has
been completed, all the mail trains between Paris
and Calais pass through Boulogne, which now has
the advantage of these in addition to its own
trains for the traffic to and from Paris. The
castle and ramparts of Boulogne have been removed
from the category of fortified places, but are re-
tained in the domain of the state. This decision
provides for the proper maintenance and repair of
constructions of great arclueological interest, and
of the shady walks along the ramparts, but does
awayric with the restriction as to building on the
Auden spaces below ; and the immediate result
as been the erection of several very pretty houses
just outside the walls of the High Town. The
works of the cathedral are completed, and the high
altar presented by Prince Torlonia, which was
inaugurated last autumn, and is one of the most
perfect examples of modern Roman mosaic, is
shown at certain times. The Conseil-General of
the department is about meeting, and great sur-
prise and vexation are expressed that the pre-
sidency has not this year been conferred on
M. Alexandre Adam, formerly Mayor of
Boulogne, who for nearly thirty years, first
by the election of his colleagues, and since the
present regime by the nomination of the govern-
ment, has presided over its annual deliberations.
M. Adam has long been known es one of the most
earnest and influential advocates of free trade in
France, and his many public services, and direct
participation in all the improvements that have
been made in the international communications,
rendered him the most fitting exponent of the in-
terests of a department which reckons Boulogne
and Calais among its principal towns. This year
however, the Marquis d'Havrincourt, chamberlain
to the Emperor, has been named president. Some
people attribute this change to some rather re-
markable expressions favourable to political re-
form which M. Adam made on the occasion of an
agricultural meeting at Guinea, and which excited
considerable attention at the time ; but it is hardly
possible that the Emperor can have been
moved, even if his ministers were, by this circum-
stance ; and it is very much to be regretted that a
change should have been made in the presidency
so distasteful to the whole population of the de-
partment. An article in the Frees represents in
very strong terms the universal feeling of the local
press and localities interested on this occasion.

LATEST ream BADEM.—The Figaro has received
the following despatch from Baden:—" Baden, August 31,
9h. 25m.--Cora last evening entered the saloons of the
Conversation in a dress so fantastic, with so much fable
hair and so many diamonds, that she was loudly laughed
at. In a short time a large crowd assembled, and there
was a little eirtetste. Cora retired before the enemy, leaning
on the arm of 11. F—. '

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FISHING UP • CHURCH WINDOW. —The mat
window of St. Peter's Church, Quernmore, Lancashire,
has lately been filled with coloured class under somewhat
singular circumstinoes. Mr. Garnett, late If P. for Lan-
caster, having been led to visit Cannes, in the south of
France, for three successive seasons, assented to a pro.
pond made to him in the spring of last year to join with
the chaplain and another layman in providing a coloured
window for the English church at Cannes, which was then
about to be enlarged. An order was given in London,
anti the window was finished and sent out by the Fairy
Vision for Marseilles in October last. The ship foundered
almost within sight of port, on one of the dangerous sand-
banks off the mouth of the Rhone. The window was in.
eared, and an order was sent to London for another, which
in due time arrived and was fixed in the church. The un-
fortunate Fairy Vision, at the bottom of the Mediter-
ranean, was sold to a Greek, who set to work to recover
the lost cargo, sad while Mr. Garnett was at Hyeres in
the spring of this year the window was fished up and sold
by auction at Marseilles. He bought it and sent it home,
not much the worm for its five months' dip in the sea, sod
it is now in Quernmare church. The window represents
the leading events in the Gospel history.
E•RLIER DENPATCH OF MAILS FROM LONDON.—
The Postmaster-General has given notice that from and
after the Ist inst. there will be an earlier despatch of the
day mails from London to towns in England and Wales
served by the London and North Western and Midland
Railways, with the view of making an earlier delivery in
the oountry. The latest time for posting letters and news-
papers in London for despatch by these mails, and for the
day mails to Ireland, will he as follows:—Town receiving
houses the previous evening, 9.0 p.m. (letters), 9.0 p.m.
(newspapers) ; town pillar letter-boxes, 4.0 a.m. (letters) ;
head district post-offices, 4.30 a.m. (letters), 4.30 am.
(newspapers); branch post-office, Charing-cross, 4.30 am.
(letters), 4.30 am. (newspapers) ; branch post-office, Lom-
bard-street, 6.0 am. (letters), 5.45 a.m. (newspapers) ;
and General Post-office, 6.30 a.m. (letters), 6.15 am.
(newspapers.) Letters may be registered for despatch by
these mails at the chief office, at the head district and the
branch post-offices, and at the town receiving homes up to
7.30 p.m. the previous evening. For the day mails to Scot-
land the hours of pooling will be the same as at present.

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Emma.
HAYMARKET.
Mrs. Scott Siddona made her

this house last night as Rosalind in At You Like It, the
part of Orlando being very agreeably filled by Mr. Kendal.
and the remainder of the cast standing &sit was when the
play was revived for this young actress before she went to
the country. We have so recently spoken of her perform-
ance and her reading of this character, that we need not
repeat our remarks. Her promised sppearanoe as Juliet
will soon give us an opportunity of reviewing what we eon-
eider her merits and defects. The house wee not very full.

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(TWOPENCE

THE BISHOP OF CREsTER AND DR. AFAEILS
ON RITUAL;

The Times of this morning contains a letter from
Dr. of Liverpool, commenting on certain expres-
sions recently used by the Bishop of Chester in replying to
• memorial of 9,000 laymen of his diornee against ntualism.
In this reply the right rev. prelate said ;—" If one school
of thought in our chureb could be induced to give up its
extravaganoes, and the ether would be more hearty and
exact in compliance with the directions of the rubric, all
might alike offer the prayer that we might hold the faith
in unity of spirit and in the bend of peace, with a clearer
conscience and with a betterbepe of acceptance." Assuming
that them:Kind school referred Nis what is comnicadj called
the "evangelical party," Dr. M•Neile protests against
the language applied to it as follows:—' What have we
done or left undone, that our faults should be thus placed
in equipoise against Roinish vestments, altar lights, and
incense, in avowed connection with doctrines which cannot
well be distinguished from transubstantiation and the
sacrifice of the mesa? What have we done or left undone
as a set-off against what your lordship very properly calls
' extravagances'? On a former somewhat similar over • few of us requested your lordship to have
the kindness to specify what it is in our
practise which justly exposes us to be put into
convenient comparison as evildoers with these who have
provoked our recent disturbance and aggravated our
divisions. To that request we have received no reply.
What we have done and left undone we and our fathers
before us have done and left undone with the approval and
co-operation of our bishops; and against the disapproval of
our bishops, whether expressed publicly or privately, we
have done nothing and left nothing undone. It is painful
to us to find our bishop publicly stating that he does not
consider us hearty enough or exact enough in compliance
with the directions of the Rubric, and it would be a real
kindness to us, as well as an act of justice in Heel! if your
lordship would specify wherein you wish us to be more
hearty and more exact. Would you wish us to take a
couple of hours every day from our studies and our house-
to-house visitations, in order to read the Church Service in
our churches and evening to a congregation
of three, four, or h ei-closen persons ? Would you
wish us to have the celebration of the Lord's Supper in
our churches every Sunday ? Or when we have it not,
would you wish us to read the Prayer for the Church
Militant after our sermons instead of concluding the
service in the pulpit? These questions point to the only
description of deficiencies in exactness of compliance with
the directions of the Rubric of which our accusers have
been able to complain. In these and such as these, if
there be others such, no doctrine is involved. We
have inherited them and adopted them without
any reasoning on the subject. Our bishops have
done the same for many generations ; we have, there-
fore, had the authority of our ordinary' in every place."
In concluding his remonstrance, Dr. M'Neile says, " We
cannot but feel ourselves ungenerously and unjustly treated
when a general allusion is made to us as to offenders of
such magnitude that we deserve to be reproved equally
with the innovators, and so to supply the appeerance—
for, after all, it is only an appearance—of an excuse for
those who have introduced Boorish vestments, altar lights
and incense in avowed connexion with doctrines which
cannot well be distinguished from transubstantiation and
the sacrifice of the mess."

LORD REDZSDALE AND THE 01111 AT EASTERN
RAILWAY.—The Titers publishes a reply to the letter from
Lord Redesdale published in the Express of Saturday last.
After quoting his lordship's allegation, "The Deemer
Company is Mr. Bracey alone—it was a contractor's line,
and there are no other shareholder'," the writer con-
' tinues:—" It is quite true that I have the misfortune to
be the only shareholder in the company besides the
Great Eastern Company, but if by describing it as a
contractor's line it is meant to convey the idea that the
company was got up or promoted by me as a contractor
Lord Redesdale is much mistaken. I neither promoted
nor assisted in its promotion, or knew of its exist-
ence, until in 1862, the year after the incorporation
of the Dunmow Company, I was applied to by Mr. Bidder,
who was then a very active director of the Great Eastern
Company, to undertake its construction, it being repre-
sented to me that its completion was of vial importance to
that company, and I was pressed to take payment in share
and debentures, to be guaranteed by the Great Eastern
Company, which I unfortunately connted to do. In
pursuance of this arrangement, Ise
pp ed with the
execution of the works, and completeddrailway in the
spring of 1866, without having received any payment whet-
ever. In the meantime the Great Eastern Company had
obtained power to become the absolute owners of the
line upon the footing of paying for its cost. I had no
knowledge of the Act of 1865, by which that power
was given, and from which it •ppears the purehme-
money is limited to the sum of 80, ~ the amount of the
share capital other than that subscribed by the Great East-
ern Company and the debenture debt of the company, with-
out providing for the possible, not to say probable, mu" of
the expenditure exceeding that amount. It is thiilimita-
tion of the purchamemosey which occasions the present dif-
ficulty. At that time the works were not completed, and
the cost of the railway consequently not ascertained ; but in
the result it was found that the amount had been exceeded
by about 40,000 f., arising principally from the Great Eastern
Company having thought it right to make additions
to the works beyond what had been originally
contemplated. It was to remedy this defect and to
provide funds for the payment of the excess of expendi-
ture that the clause objected to by Lord Redesdale was
introduced into the Finance Bill promoted by the Great
Eastern Company. I have disposed of the statement that
this was' • contractor's line,' and I think I have shown
that I have a perfect right to be paid for the works which
I have executed under the directions of the engineer of
the Great Eastern Company, and that the Great Eastern
Company are clearly, morally bound to pay the amount of
my claim ; and the object of the clause in question was
simply to remove any doubt as to their legal power to
fulfil that moral obligation. I forbear to observe upon
the strong language made use of by Lord Redesdale, be-
lie that when he is fully acquainted with the facts be
will ving
be the first to regret having charged the Great
Eastern directors with swindling or incompetence, or my-
self with jobbery or untruthfulness."
FATAL AOCIDeNT AT A RACE.—The Tunbridge
races did not peas off without being productive of one
accident of a fatal character. The race fur the South
Eastern Plate was fixed for 5 o'clock on Friday, and
shortly before that time Mr. Olney's Dandy came out fora
canter, being Adder. by S. Harman, of Lewes, a very
small jockey indeed. The course is approached front
the town by a very narrow lane, and had the accident
which took place at the time occurred earlier in the
day, this narrow passage would have been thronged with
people. However, Dandy had not gone far before she
bolted, and although Harman stuck to hie mat manfully,
it was evident he was powerless to stop her. Strange to
say Dandy made direct for the lane leading to the town, but
before the entrance was reached one man was thrown
to the ground, and then Mr. Best, of Hever—a gentleman
about DO years of age, and who formerly held the position
of a schoolmaster at this place—saw the horse ap-
proaching, and endeavoured in vain to get out of the way.
The poor fellow was knocked down and died very shortly
afterwards. Meanwhile Dandy took the lane at a fu-
rious pees, then into Highetreet, and up as far as the Rose
and Crown, where Harman turned her head and brought
her back to the course. A little boy was also knocked
down and injured. Three medical men were quickly
on the spot, and the deceased was conveyed to the
Bull Hotel. It was at first supposed that deceased was a
blacksmith named Scoones, of Tudeley, but Superin-
tendent Dance recognised him as Mr. Best, of Hever,
and the doubt was noon afterwards disposed of by a
person stating that it could not be Mr. Semmes as he
had left him shortly before at work. At the spot where
the deceased was struck down there were very few people.
The gate through which admission was obtained to the
course was thrown open on the approach of the horse. No
blame appears to attach to the jockey, but on the con-
trary, he seems to have behaved very pluckily, and guided,
although he could not stop the horse. The coroner was
made acquainted with the particulars of this unfortunate
accident, but it was not considered expedient to hold an
inquest. We understand the deceased leaves a wife and
family unprovided for.—Serree Standard.
ABOLITION OT AN ANCIENT Cwrrom.—fieereellers,
from the Ist of October next, will not be able to recover
in the county courts the amouet of ant thing they may
have " chalked up" against their customers. The County
Courts Amendment Act, which will come into force on the
date named, provides " that no action shall henceforth he
brought or be maintained in any court to recover any debt
or sum of money alleged to be due in respect to the sale
of any ale, porter, beer, cider, or perry, which after the
commencement of this act was consumed on the premises
where sold or supplied, or of any security given for,
in, or towards the obtaining of any such ale, porter, beer,
cider, or perry."
Five lads, between the ages of six and nine, have
been taken into custody in Ireland for the same offence as
+hat charged to sonic boys at Stockport last week namely,
wantonly attempting to upset a train. They had been
guilty of rolling large stones on the rails of the Sams-
corthy and Dublin Railway. An urchin named Butler was
the Aid of this youthful band, and it was elicited from
the evidence that he used the following expression, " Now,
boys, let us roll these stones on the rails, and see what fun
we will have when the train urines."
The demolition of Middle-row, Holborn, com-
menced on Saturday, and in a abort time the block of
buildings will be removed, and a long needed metropolitan
improvement effected in the neighbourhood. The closing
of the shops and the hoarding placed round the block
have already considerably altered the aspect of the
locality.
OITITAL PALACIL—ONE SHILLING DAT.
MONDAT, SEPT. 2.—Admissiouss en payment, 6,011 ;
Atte by mason tickets, 857 ; total visitors, 7,598.