The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-11 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Juts 10.

The North German Gazette of to-day publishes
the address, signed by 421 German residents in
Denmark, declaring all guarantees for the security
of their national rights in North Schleswig super-
fluous. Commenting thereupon, the Gazette points
out that the signitaries have stated their occupations
in Danish. Hungarians and one police agent are
among the number, and these, the Gazette thinks,
cannot be considered as representatives of the
German civilisation and language. The same paper
quotes an extract from an article against tho Ger-
mans, published in Copenhagen, and says :
" Every man of honour will admit that in pre-
sence of such outbursts of fanaticism, the Prussian
government would be guilty of the gravest dere-
liction from duty if it did not demand the most
serious guarantees for the protection of Germans."
It is semi-officially announced that no deficit in
the budget at present exists, and that the financial
administration does not consider a deficit need be
apprehended. The government has no intention
of increasing the burden of taxation. The day for
the elections to the new parliament is not yet
fixed, but is expected to be about the end of
August. Alaen and Sundewitt are to be grouped
with the electoral district and sown of Hadersleben,
and Apenrade is in future to be included with
Flensburg. The other electoral districts remain
unaltered.

The ,Taalsanzeiger of to-day publishes a decree,
considerably reducing the fees payable to Prussian
consuls in all European countries.

THE CRETAN INSURRECTION.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 9.

The following official news, dated Sphakia,
July 6, has been received from Omer Pacha :
" Nearly all the districts have submitted to the
Turkish troops, and the insurgents have given up
their arms On the sth inst. the imperial troops
were disembarked at Castelimner), and to-day they
routed the insurgents, occupied several villages,
and put the rebels to flight. In the pursuit the
soldiers occupied the highest mountains of
Sphakia. Everywhere the insurgents are dis-
persed, and one body having taken refuge in the
caverns of the mountains are closely invested by
the imperial troops, who to-night will signal their
presence and success by sending up rockets from
the tops of the mountains. The disarmament of
nearly all the districts has been effected under
most favourable auspices and most successfully,
more than 5,000 rifles having been forwarded to
the authorities." The officer who arrived here
with the report from Omer Pacha reported that
the junction of the sea and land forces in Sphakia
was expected to take place on the 7th inst.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, JOLT 10.

In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
Signor Rattazzi stated his views relative to the
Ecclesiastical Properties Bill. He said that the
government coincides with the recommendations of
the committee for the complete execution of the
law of 1866, and accepts the suggested method for
alienation of the property, but will propose waxli-
fications rendering it more beneficial to the Trea-
sury. The government could not accept 400
millions of lire as the sum to be raised, 600 millions
being necessary to include the abolition of the
forced currency, and new taxes being also necessary
to satisfy Europe that they are resolved to meet
their obligations. The present time was inoppor-
tune for granting unrestricted liberty to the Church.
Full liberty will be granted to the Church when she
recognises the full liberty of the State. Signor
Rattazzi considered the present episcopate more
than sufficient, but could not accept the proposal
of the committee, that no new bishop shall
be appointed until the number of the episco-
cate shall have been reduced, as the nomination of
bishops is a prerogative of the crown.

AMERICA.
(IT ATLANTIC TKLZGRAPA.)
NEW YORK, Jun' 10, 6 P.Y.

Closing prices : Gold, 138/. Sterling Exchange
on London, 1101,. 5-20 United States Bonds, 112,
firm. Illinois, 1234. Erie, 70f. Cotton : Mid-
dling Upland, 214. Petroleum : Refined, 27.
Money abundant.
The steamers sailing to-day for Europe take out
specie w the amount of 1,500,000 dole.

PARIA CHORAL COMPITMON. —A member of the
choir of the Tonic Hol-fa Association (the only English
choir which entered fur this musical contest), writing
from Paris on Tuesday, thus describes the proceedings of
Monday last: "We went from Cook's Hotel about one
o'clock, and having arrived at the Exhibition paraded
round the Intermtional Theatre, in which building the
competition was to take plasm, we (to have all honour
done us) being placed in the centre of their oldest and
best choir, preceded by a banner. Thus we were exhibited
to shout 70,000 people. After some delay M. Laurent
de Rille came, all bowing and politeness. We were kept
for a time waiting about, and I got into conversation with
some French competitors. They became very much inter-
gated in us, principally bemuse we had hullos amongst us.
We were ' tres juli,' they said, and lo plus belle.' The
competition was a long and tedious affair—eight choirs,
each having two very long pieces. We came on
last, when it was nearly seven o'clock in the even-
ing, we having had nothing since breakfast ; ne-
vertheless, when the curtain was drawn up and we
were seen standing all ready, the effect was electrical.
The thunders of applause inspirited us all, and when we
struck up, ' Rise, sleep no more,' nothing can express the
enthusiastic appearance of the audience ; we were encored
most rapturously, called back six or seven times, and had
to sing ' Portant pour la Byrie ' and our own N►tional
Anthem. After the singing we were literally besieged
for the little papers containing a description of the method,
and all the choirs waited at the door to receive and thank
us as we left." The reception of our countrymen,
allowing for French politeness and their own excite-
ment, seems to have been very enthusiastic. It remains to
be seen what place they have taken in the competition.
Quavorroww, JULY 10.—The National Steam
Navigation Company's steamship Queen, from New York,
arrived off this port at 8 p.m. After landing passengers
she proceeded for Liverpool; all well,

The Prince of Wales inaugurated the London
College of the International Education Society, at Spring-
grove, yesterday. The idea of establishing so novel and
desirable an institution originated somewhere about the
year 1861 in France, and it at once received the support
of such men as Mr. Cobden, the Prince Consort, anti M.
Chevalier. The proposition was started to found an In-
ternational College that should comprise four establish-
ments—one in England, one in France, one in Germany,
and one in Italy. Each establishment was to have a uni-
form programme of study, and the pupils were to be sent
from one college to another at different periods of their
• eight years' course of study. Certain arrangements have
been made in pursuance of this proposition by which
pupils can be sent to Bonn and Paris ; and the ceremony
of yesterday may be regarded as the first fruit of the
seed sown by men, the most eminent of whom have not
lived to see the harvest. Henceforth passengers along the
loop-line of the South Westeni Railway may see a handsome
building, on a prominent site, devoted to a free and broad
system of education, on principles which the promoters hope
t will tend to the softening down of many asperities between
' the inhabitants of different countries, and the removal of
those national prejudices which still linger. The advan-
tages offered are very tempting. Parents and guar-
dians there are offered a residence within eight mile/ of
Hyde-park-corner, upon an open healthy space, and a new
villa-colony, wooded, watered, and within sight of some
charming scenery ; a cheap and complete education, com-
prising, in addition to the natal subjects, a prominent
attention to modern languages and the natural sciences,
and perfect freedom as regards religious teaching ; and a
head master (Dr. Leonard Schmitz) of so high a reputation
as an historian, philologist, and schoolmaster that the late
Prince Consort entrusted to him a portion of the education
of his two eldest sons. To scholars themselves the assur-
ance is held out that it is intended not to resort to cor-
poral punishment, and fagging in any form will not be
permitted. The college is governed by a board of direc-
tors, of whom the chairman is Mr. A. W. Poulton, a friend
of Mr. Cobden's, and one of the earliest workers in the
Anti-Corn Law League movement. The society is estab-
lished on limited liability principles.
The building is in the style of the 13th century, and
although it is not yet finished, it gives a full idea of the
handsome structure it will be in a short time. The main
work is of yellow brick with red bands and patterns and
Bath stone dressings for the windows and doors. The
chief entrance is in the centre, under a lofty tower,
ornamented with delicate parapets and pinnacles. The
portion completed has already cost 15,000/. The names of
Homer, Aristotle, Dante, and Cicero, are chiselled in
medallions along the front, and in the entrance hall the
names of more modern teaches—Arnold, Aseham, Locke,
Buchanan, Alguin, and Smith are painted. The interior
impresses one with the snugness and neatness of a home
far more than buildings dubbed college or school generally
do, and even the stone staircases and other substantial
portions of the house produce none of the cheerless effects
often felt when the woodwork is superseded by something
more solid. The place is prettily decorated throughout,
both by chisel and pencil. There are 80 boys at present,
but there is accommodation for 150.

The spacious college grounds were arrayed in holiday
oostumes of garland and flag ; the boundary wall was
marked by festoons of evergreens along the entire length ;
and a triumphal arch of boughs and flowers was placed
over the gateway. These festive tokens of the expected
presence of royalty, and the fine weather, attracted from
London, from Isleworth, and other neighbouring places
crowds of all classes of persons, some of whom, being
unprovided with the requisite tickets, had to view the
proceedings from a distance. The application for tickets
from ladies and gentlemen interested in the undertaking
were very numerous, but the secretary ( Mr. Tremayne),with
rare wisdom, issued only as many ticket, as could be used,
and for once an inaugural ceremony was completed without
hustling or complaint. The Prince of Wales, who had
driven down in an open carriage with Sir W. KnoUys and
Captain Ellis, arrived about 1 o'clock, and as he passed
under the archway the royal standard was run up, and the
band struck up Brinley Richards' popular "God bless
the Prince of Wales." The chairman and directors,
with Dr. Schmitz, met the Prince, and conducted him
over the building, the architect, contractors, and chief
visitors following in a rough and re►dy procession. At the
conclusion of the inspection the Prince went to the lawn
in front of the college and planted a Wellingtouia gigantea
in commemoration of the occasion ; after which the com-
pany filled the dining-hall, and partook of • dOjeuner, a
military band playing outside.

Mr. PAULTOM presided at the luncheon, and upon the
list of guests present were given the names of the Comte
de Paris, Prince de Joinville, Duo d'Aumale, M. Van de
Weyer, Sir F. Pollock, Earl Minto, Earl of C►ithness,
Professor Huxley, Lord Houghton, Earl Ducie, Mr. Grant
Duff, M.P., Mr. Baines, M.P., Mr. Hughes, M.P., and
Lord Ronald Gower, M.P. Only two or three toasts were
drunk, the first as a matter of course being " The Queen."
Then followed " The Health of the Prince of Wales," in
giving which the c.hvirman briefly reviewed the history
and poin'ed out the objects of the college, and noticed the
part which his friend Mr. Cobden took in promoting it.
Although the toast referred only to the Prince of Wales,
the chairman, before concluding, congratulated him, in
the name of the society, that the health of the Princess
had so much improved of late—a congratulation which the
company enthusiastically ratified.
The Prince of WkLES, in reply, said—l have to tender
you my warmest thanks for the very kind manner in
which my health has been proposed and received. I need
hardly asylum you it has been a source of great gratification
to me to attend here to-day,and, at Dr. Schmitz's request,
to inaugurate this International College. So much has
already been ably said by the chairman about this col-
lege end its objects, that but few words are left me to
add to the subject. I sincerely trust that this fine day
and the large gathering of people I see here, evincing the
interest they take in the success of the institution, may
prove a good omen of its future prosperity. I have been
all over the building, and, from what I have seen, it is
impossible to be more satisfied, either with the excellent
and healthy site of the college, the admirable manner in
which it has been built, or the accommodation which
has been provided for the pupils. Although there are at
the present moment, I believe, but 80 scholars, I can have
no doubt that when the wings are built the numbers
will be speedily doubled, and perhaps even trebled.
(Cheers.) That this institution, being an inter-
national one, possesses peculiar interest we can-
not forget ; and an additionally gratifying feature
is, that this is not the only college of the kind, for there
are two sister colleges abroad—one, I believe, in Germany,
near Bonn. and another in France, in the neighbourhood
of Paris. (Cheers.) In this way the most &dearth'e
arrangements will be mode, in order that the scholars,
after leaving this college, may be sent to the other colleges
abroad to complete their education, and perfect themselves
in the German and French languages. I do not much
like, in such a company as this, to allude to the subject of
the dead and modern tongues, because that is a question
about which there if much controversy at the present
moment. This, however, I am inclieed to say, that
from the very easy access we have in travel.
ling to various countries, it is most important
that the modern languages should be one of the
principal subjects of eduction in this country. No
one thought more strongly on this subject than my late
lamented father, and one whose name is celebrated
throughout F.ngland, and who was a personal friend of our
chairman's—l mean Mr. Cobden. (Loud cheers.) Far be
it from me to say that the dead languages should not be
taught. Latin and Greek form the basis of ninny of our
modern languages, and should not be omitted ; but such
languages as French, German, and even Italian, ought. I
think, to be known as thoroughly as possible. I myself,
having travelled a great deal abroad, can testify that un-
less I had possessed a tolerable knowledge of French and
German, I should have found my stay in distant coun-
tries far leas agreeable than was actually the case.
I thank you for the very kind way in which you
have heard me, and I sincerely trust that this college
will prosper in every way. (Cheers.) Before sitting down
I beg to propose a tout which I am sure will be received
with enthusiasm—it is "Success to the London College of
the International Education Society ;" and I have great
pleasure in coupling with that toast the name of my friend
Dr. Schmitt, whose acquaintance I have had the benefit of