The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-19 00:00:00

when they did not happen to harmonise with the designs
of h party. The mumouncemeet that the Preeideat will
appoint General Grant in place of Mir. Stanton requires
caution. If, however, it should prove that the distill-
guiahed soldier has really been perseadml to take the
vacant seat in the cabinet, Mr. Johns= may be 'engraft-
lated on almost the first success that be has achieved since
he has attained the presidential chair.

/DS TOPICS.

Remarking on the little that has been done by the ex-
isting Legislature in the way of commercial legislation, the
Times asks what is the promise that the parliament of the
future will be able to settle questions which are apparently
too difficult for the rarliament of to-day ? Why is it that
the existing Legislature has failed to solve these problems
of ordinary experience? The Times believes on examina-
tion it would be found that the true reason has been a dis-
trust of commercial freedom. Parliament has been afraid
to allow associations to be formed for the purpose of
constructing certain public works except under very
stringent regulations. The immense confusion of the
affairs of the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail-
way Company would have been impossible, had not
parliament been so careful to regulate them. The dead-
lock of limited liability companies has been acknowledged
by the act passed this session to hare sprung from the
arbitrary limitations parliament imposed on their manage-
ment. The whole course of bankruptcy reform has
been an attempt to withdraw the administration

of a bankrupt's assets from the enforced oontrol of bank-
ruptcy officials, and to remit it to the freedom of private
commercial liquidation. In each ow we find a conflict
between the policy of over-regulation and the policy of
freedom. Which is likely to be favoured in the future ?
This isaqueation to be considered by the reformers of °ow-
menial law, and which the now wall not attempt at
present to answer.

The Star points out the ballot, the land question, and
the condition of Ireland as subjects for immediate legisla-
tion under a reformed parliament, sad under these cir-
cumstances it is not surprising that men like Mr. Bright
and Mr. Mill are anxious that the refoim army shall not
be disbanded.

The Post approves of the decision of Mr. Knox in sending
for trial the president, vies-president, ke., of the Operative
Tailors' Association on the charge of conspiring to im-
poverish in their trade a number of master tailors, although
in the opinion of the Post that foam of charge is hardly
commensurate with, and does not adequately express, the
real nature and extent of the ell of the picketing intivenee,
Si show .t end proved by the evidence.

the Court.

OSBORNE, Auouir 17.

The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday
afternoon, attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart ; and
her Majesty walked this morning, accompanied by Princes
Louise and the Princess of Waimea.
Princess Beatrioe and Prince Leopold, attended by Lady
Caroline Barrington and the Rev. R. Duckworth, drove to
St. Clair yesterday afternoon, and honoured Colonel and
Lady Catherine Vernon Harcourt with a visit.
The Prince and Princess of Leiningen have arrived ►t
Osborne on a visit to her Majesty.
Mrs. and Min Kate Farquh►rson bad the honour of
dining with the Queen and the Royal Family yesterday.
Mr. Thomas has had the honour of submitting to the
Queen's inspection a sketch of the investiture of the
Sulks with the Order of the Garter, which he is painting
for her Majesty. _ _

AUGUST 18.

The ring of the Greeks visited the QUM yesterday,
and after taking luncheon with her Majesty and the royal
family returned to London.

His Majesty crossed over from Southampton in the royal
yacht Alberta, Captain the Prince of Leininpn, and was
received on his arrival by the Queen and the royal family
in the entrance ball

In attendance upon his Majesty were Count Braila (the
Prime Minister to the King), Count Radostemos, Major
Metana, and lieutenant Funck. Mr. Herbert Fisher
(private secretary to the Prince of Wales) was also in
attendance on his Majesty.
Colonel the Hon. Charles Lindsay and Major-General F.
H. Seymour, the Groom and Equerry in Waiting, attended
his Majesty from and to the landing-place in Osborne-bay.
Previous to the King's departure the ladies sad gentle-
men in waiting upon her Majesty had the honour of being
presented to the King, and the gentlemen in sinnadance
upon his Majesty had tho honour of being presented le the
Queen.

Her Majesty and the Royal Family, attended by the
ladies and gentlemen in waiting, were present at Divine
service this morn'ng, at Osborne. The service was per
formed by the Very Rev. the Dean of Westrabiaber.

The King d the Reliance arrived in Load= on
Saturday mowing.
The Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Ellis, met his
Majesty at Charing-cross station at 6.30 a.m., and pro-
ceeded to Marlborough Hone.
At 10 a.m. the King, attended by M. Braila (the Greek
Minister), Count Eadostamos, Major Meta's, Lieutenant
Punch, sad Mr. H. Fisher left by special train for Osborne,
on a visit to the Queen.

The Primo and Princess of Wales, accompanied by
Prince Albert Victor, Prince George, and Primer Louise of
Wales, and attended by the Hon. Ms. Arthur Hardline,
General Sir W. EnoEye, Captain Ellis, and Mr. Pert,
left Marlborough House at 12.30 on Saturday for Wool-
wich, there to embark on board her Majesty's ship Osborne
for Dortrecht, en route to Wiesbaden.
Her Majesty the Queen will hold a council at Windsor
Castle to-morrow (Tuesday).
Mr. John Petherick (late her Majesty's consul at
Soudan) had an interview with Lord Stanley at the
Foreign-office on Saturday.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office on
Saturday from the Governor of the Mauritius and the Go-
vernor-General of Canada. Despatches were sent to the
Governors of the North American Provinces.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge Irui
goes to Ga►many fora few weeks.

Colonel end Mrs. Maude were honoured by s
visit from their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princes.
Christian, attended by Mrs. Gordon sad Mr. Engleheart,
at the Stud House, Hampton Oourt, on Saturday last, the
royal party having come over from Fromm. His Roy►l
Highness Prime Arthur met their royal highnesses at
luncheon.

The Duchess of Marlborough and Lady Cornelia
Churchill have been among the guests of the Earl and
Countess Vane at Wynyard Perk. Viscount Petersham,
Sir George and Lady Julia Wombwell, and Lady Caroline
Villiers have also been among the guests there during the
room

The Marquis of Huntly has arrived at Aboyne
Castle, N.B.

The Earl and Countess Cowley hive left the
Clarendon Hotel for Drop:nit House, Chippeoltem
The Earl and Countess Granville have left town
for Welaser Castle.

The Earl Cawdor arrived at Cawdor Castle,
Nairnshire, during the past week, accompanied by the
Hon. Ronald Campbell, from Stackpole Court, Wales.
Count Maffei, First Secretary to the Italian
Legation, has arrived in town from the Continent to assume
the duty of chargé d'affaires in the absence of his Excel-
lency the Marquia d'Azeglio.

Viscount Hamilton, M.P., left town on Saturday
bust for Wiesbaden.

The Baron and Baroness de Truchsess have left
the Clarendon Hotel for the Isle of Wight.
Lady Blane has left Brown's Hotel.
DEATH OF LORD POLWARTH.—A fter an illness
of some duration, which came upon him suddenly, end
wee of a paralytic nature, Lord Polwarth died at Her.
town-boase on Saturday, in his 67th year. For nearly a
quarter of a century Lord Polwarth had been one of the
sixteen representative peers of Scotland, and for twenty
years Lord-Lieutenant of Selkirkshire. He was a staunch
eonservaiive, but be never held Ake, except as a Lord in
Waiting, of which post be had three separate tenures. He
was an elder in the established church, and was several
times a member of the General Assembly. He was one of
the Ropl Commissioners on Education in Scotland, who
lately made so important a report ; but he dissented from
his colleagues on one or two points. As " Scott of Har-
den," be was bead of the Scotts. He is succeeded by his
eldest son. 'Walter, known as Master of Polwarth, who is
in his 29th ear.
ROYAL Feu HOSPITAL, GILET'S-171N-soon.—The
number of patients relieved at this hital, during the
week ending 17th August, 1887, was 3,387, al which 1,124
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ARRIVAL OF THE DUKE OF IDINBURGH
AT RIO.
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Her Majesty's ship Galatea, commanded by his
Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, entered this port
on the 15th inst. Upon crossing the bar the frigate
hoisted the royal standard, which was immediately saluted
by the forts and the men-of-war, with yards manned.
Hie Highness the Count d'Eu and the Brazilian Minister
for Foreign Affairs immediately wens on board to visit the
Prince, and next morning his royal highness went to visit
the Emperor at the Palace of St. Christopher. On his
return the Prince received at the City Palace, where apart-
ments had been prepared for him, a deputation of the
British residents of Rio de Janeiro, who presented him
with the following address :
"To his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, 8.G.,
—May it please your royal highness,—We, the deputa-
tion to the British residents of Rio de Janeiro, come to
congratulate your royal highness on your arrival in the
capital of this hospitable country, and to assure your royal
highness of our loyalty and attachment to her moat
gracious Majesty the Queen, and to all the members of the
royal family. We hope that the voyage which your royal
highness has undertaken may be attended with every com-
fort and enjoyment, that your royal highness may
return in safety to our native country to fill the
exalted station to which your birth and merit so
justly entitle you, and that your name may
become renowned in the annals of the British empire.
We desire individually to present to your royal high-
ness our most respectful homage. James Andrew, sen.,
chairman ; Andrew Steele, Jordan Crewse, Thomas S.
Newland., John Gallop, harlea Henry Lows." Rio de
Janeiro, 16th July, 1867.
To this his royal highness replied in the following ter ma
" Gentlemen,—l thank you for your kind address of
welcome to me on my arrival here. I feel very sensible of
your attention, which, however, does not only address
me but expresses those true feelings of loyalty to your
Sovereign and her throne, sad of attachment to
your native counts'', entertained: by all Englishmen.
Thanking you ones more for your good wishes, I assure
you I shall not fail to Inform the Queen of the senti-
ments you have expressed towards her Majesty and the
family."

On the 15th, the Prince and the Count &Ea visited
the naval arsenal and examined the five ironclad, which
are now building, and the dry dock at Cobras island. In
the afternoon hi, Majesty the Emperor visited the Prince
on board the frigate.
On the following evening, Mr. Thornton, her Britannic
Majesty's minister at this court, gave a grand ball in
honour of the Pr,nes, at which their Majesties the Empe-
ror and Empress and the Count and Counter d'En were
present, besides the ministers of state, many officers of the
vymy and navy, and Brazilian and foreign residents. The
imperial family and the Prince only retired between 2 and
3 o'clock in the morning.
On the 20th, the Primo dined with the Emperor, at the
palace of Saint Christopher. The Ministers of State, Mr.
Thornton, and the English, French, and American admi-
rals, were also honoured with invitations.
Lest night the British residents of Rio de Janeiro
offered his royal Wilmer a splendid ball at the magnifi-
cent rooms of the Casino. The imperial family honoured
the ball with their proems. His royal highness tw:ce
danced the Scotch-reel, the first time with Mrs. Thornton
and the second with Mrs. Gunning. The Pence retired at
half-past three o'clock in the morning, sad the Imperial
family immediately after, amid enthusiastic cheers. The
ball broke up at 4 o'clock.

This moriihsi the ()slates left for the Cape of Good
Hope.

THE BISHOP OF CHESTER O! RITUALISM.

A memorial to the Bishop of Chester against
Ritualism has been signed by over 9,0001 a members of the
church of England in Userpool and district In reply to
the memorial the bishop writes thus
" Atheneum Club, Pall-mall, 8.W., August 9.
" My dear sir,—As I understand that your name stands
first among the signature' I will beg your permission to
address to you my acknowledgment of a memorial from lay
members of the Church of Ragland in the town of Liverpool
and its neighbourhood.
" I sympathise with ' the deep concern with which' the
memorialist' ' view the introduction into many of the
churches of the land of an elaborate ritualism, Romish
vestments, altar lights, and incense, in avowed connexion'
with doctrines which cannot be well distinguished from
Transubstantion and the sacrifice of the Masa'
" My own feeling is again: the use of lighted candles in
the daytime. Bat, as I had occasion to remark in replying
to a previous memorial, conflicting opinions as to their
legality have been given by eminent lawyers ; and we must
' await a declaration of the law from the Reciesiastioal
Court, into which this question has been carried.
" With regard to another head of your complaint, I have
received assurance from the clergy to whom, doubtless, the
memorialists refer, that these practices were abandoned in
compliance with the expression of my diaapprovaL
" I am as desirous as any of the memorialists can be to
maintain the doctrine of our Reformed Church, as set forth
in the 28th and 31st Articles, and the prescribed form of
worship, as plainly lad down in the Prayer-book.
" But this prescribed form of worship must be main-
tained in its integrity if it is to be maintained in its purity.
If one school of thought in our church could be induced
to give up its extravagances, and the other would be more
hearty and exact in oomplianos 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 bond of peace,
with a clearer conscience and a better hope of acceptance.
—I beg leave to remain, my dear sir, very faithfully yours,
" WUJIAN 011Z8171.
" T. Darnley Anderson, Beg."

DEATH OP LIEUTENANT-GENERAL Hon, R.A.—
We have to announce the death of Lieutenant-Genersl
Hope, of the Royal Artillery, who was seised with an
attack of 'snip's on Friday morning, and expired at his
lodgings in Xing-street, St. Jones's, yestm-day morning
shortly after 9 o'clock. The gallant akar had for more
than 20 years been a constant kabittil at the United Service
Club. His career in the service was not distinguished by
any remarkable opportunity to show kis ability, but he was
an acute aced valuable officer in his parilorlaz branch of the
army.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN CRESSWELL, RN.—The
death is announced of this gallant officer, who attainzd
some celebrity in 1953 in connexion with Arctic exploration.
On his return to his native town (Lynn, Norfolk), Captain
(then Lieutenant) Creisiwell was entertained at a public
dinner, at which the late Admiral Sir E. Pan, emphati-
cally declared that he was the first person who had tra-
versed the long-attempted North-West Passage. Captain
Cresswea subsequently gaged for China, where his health
failed from the extreme change of climate, and he has now
paswd away at the etully age of 39.
THE NATIONAL MONUMENT TO LORD CLYDE.—
A favourable site for the national monument to Lord
Clyde has at last, after many delays and disappointments,
been fixed upon, and the monument itself is in a fair way
to oompletion, more than half of it being already erectnL
The site is in Carlton-gardens, opposite the monument re.
oently erected to Sir John Franklin, the Arctic navigator.
The design includes a full length figure of the late general,
and a lame figure of a lion, both in bronze, the work of
Baron Maroebetti. These portion of the monument have
it is understood, long been finished and only await the
completion of the pedestal to be hoisted to their proper
positions. It is anticipated that the monument wal be
finished in the course of a few weeks, _

LORD HOBART ON MARITIME CAPTOR/L.—The
Times publishes a letter of Lord Hobart's, written from
Geneva, in reply to the recent remarks of Mr. J. S. Mill,
relating to maritime capture. In concluding his lordship
says :—" England may be said to possess • threefold supe-
riority—in naval armaments, In commerce, and in ma'am-
tile marine. How, then, wonld the airengement made bbyy
the Declaration of Paris affect her—f ret as • neutral,
secondly as • belligerent? As a neutral her mercantile
matins, being the beet and the largest, would gain the
most by the transfer, consequent on the Declaration, of
the carrying trade during war, and her trade, being
the greatest, would be the most interested in a
change made In favour of nommen* in genera As
a belligerent, she would be the greatest lament respect of
the carrying trade, the greatest gamer on the score of com-
mercial advantage ; and as s belligerent forces at sea,
dtrectlythe greatest loser, butindirectlythe greatest gainer,
' since she would receive the largest share of the advantage
which every State must derive in emergency from the re-
moval of restrictions upon commerceandnmigation. In the
event, which Mr. Mill contemplates, of the change made by
the Declaration receiving its full development in the com-
plete immunity of private propel ty by land and sea, the
balance would not be materially altered. If, then, there
is anyone who thinks that England will, on the whole, be
a loser--or rather, that she will not be • gainer by the
change—it must be some one who supposes that in all
future history if any two or more nations fight, England iv
pretty sure to be one of them. For my own part I have
better hopes of my own country. It is evident that in
this ease self-interest is coincident with right, and there is,
therefore, the more reason to hope that the important step
in advance which, under the Declaration of Paris, was
made by civilisation will prove, in spite of the powedul
exertions of Mr. Mill, impossible to retrace."
METROPOLITAN FILER HOSPITAL, DITONONIRE,
SQUARE, CITY.—The aggregate number of patients relieved
during the week ending August 17 was—Med/m.1,8U; ,sun.
peal, 660 ; tots', 1,538 ; of which 701 were sew asses.