The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-24 00:00:00

Tirg EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVE' 'I AUGUST 24, 1866•

sway, that the temper of the present tint. is ad- '
verse to religious bequests. Se is, however, '
quite prepared to sevidoese in the
istavi-
table, and adapt the efforts and agencies
of the Church to the new order of
things. As the ages of implicit faith
and posthumous piety have given place to an
age of critical inquiry, material enterprise, and
personal effort, he very wisely urges that the
Church, adapting herself to the times, should
rely on voluntary effort, and appeal for support
to the modern principle of co-operation.. As en-
dowments are not to be looked for, the Church
should bestir herself to secure ample subscriptions
for meeting the spiritual destitution of populous
places. All this is practical and sensible enough.
Unfortunately, however, it does not go to the root
of the matter, or meet the real difficulty of the
case. The main difficulty the Church has to con-
tend with is not the want of means for the em-
ployment of more curates, but the want of
curates. And unless this more serious difficulty
is met, the spiritual destitution of populous
places, so far as it depends on the want of working
clergy, will be likely to increase, no matter how
munificent the subscriptions to particular societies
' may be.

wiliouk oaring whiffler be evfik sees jd again, co the candi-
date wife pays shill MI 2,3ool.mithouldetecting the trifling
addition of a paltuji 1,0001. Nappy emit be the borough
thin remises suds a pair of trimly •
If the circumstances of the Jams* rising were to occur
again, there is not a gentleman in England who would not
endeavour to act as Mr. Eyre did, says the Herald, though
few would carry out their intentions with his discus ion
and ability. It is the almost unanimous opinion inJamaica
that his firmness saved the white inhabitant of the island
from destruction, and the people on the spot must sorely
be better judges of what was necessary in the emergency
than any of us over here can be. The company which met
at Southampton to welcome the ex-governor were of
opinion that his conduct, under these circumstances, yrs&
such as to do him honour, and it is to Insult them to
call in question their right to give expression to their
opinion.
Commenting on Mr. Laing's address to his Wick consti-
tuents, the Star says the people of Kirkwall appear to
have shown mound discretion in their manner of witncss-
jug this peculiar exhibition. They treated it and Mr.
Laing with calm contempt. Ins rejection by the Wick
Burghs at the next election being a foregone conclusion,
the shrewd electors were willing enough to hear anything
in bar of the penalty that ass in store for the represents-
, Eve who had betrayed them. Finding that his apologies
were as meaningless as they were servile, and his decima-
tions of opinion even more offensive than those he made
I in parliament, they relapsed into cool ind'fference, and
with the merest show of courtesy allowed the matter and
the man to drop.

Eta Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Amur: 23.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
Princess Beatrice, and Prints Leopold, drove in the Home
Park this morning.
The Mayor of Windsor, attended by the Town Clerk,
had the honour of presenting to the Queen, this afternoon,
an address of congratulation from the Mayor and Corp;
ration of Windsor, upon the marriage of the Prince and
Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein.
Her Majesty was attended by Lady Churchill, the
Lord and Groom in Waiting, and the Master of the House-
hold.
Her Majesty, with Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice,
and Prince Leopold, left Windsor Castle this evening'
at a quarter before 7 o'elock, for BalmoraL
The suite in attendance consisted of Lady Churchill, the
Honourable Emily Cathcart, Major-General Sir T. M.
Biddelph, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Dr. Jenner, Mr. Said, and
Mr. Legg.
Princess Victoria sad Princess Elizabeth of Hesse, left
the Castle this morning for the Continent.
The Honourable Emily Cathcart has succeeded the
Honourable Flora Macdonald, as Maid of Honour.
Lord Charles Fitzroy has succeeded as Equerry in Waiting
to her Majesty.

A deputation consisting of Mr. Thomas Chambers, M.P.,
Mr. George Craikahank, Mr. Henry Weatherby, Mr. J.
Widdicombe, Mr. Charles Whyte, Mr. G. F. Wilson, and
Mr. W. Beare, bad an interview with Lord John Manners
at the odic* of her Majesty's works, Ito, yesterday, on the
subject of bathing in the Regent's-park.
Mr. J. L. Godfrey, Mr. T. B. Tanqueray Willaurne, and
Mr. Preston 'Kerslake, ;residents of the Regent's-park,
had an interview with Lord John Manners, at the aloe of
her Majesty's works, lac., yesterday.

DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY FOR
SCOTLAND.

Yesterday evening, at a quarter to 7 o'clock,
Queen, with their Royal Highnesses Princesses Louise and
Beatrice and Prince Leopold, attended by Major-General
Sir T. M. Biddulph, tbe Master of the Household, Lord
Charles Fitzroy, Lady Churchill, the Hon. Miss Calm ;,
Mr. Sahl, Dr. Jenner, and Mr. Legg, left Windsor Castle
for Scotland. _

The royal party drove in several carriages to the Windsor
terminus of the Great Western Railway, where a large
crowd of spectators had gathered for the purpose of sit-
nesting the Queen's departure. The special train,consist-
in.s of several saloon and other carriages, fitted with Mr.
Martin's system of electric communication, was provided
by the directors of the London and North Western Rail-
way. Her Majesty and the royal family, on alighting from
the carriages which had broulht them from the castle, were
received by Captain Bulkeley, one of the directors, Mr. J.
Grierson, general manager, Mr. A. Higgins and Mr. Spag.
noletti, of the Great Western line, and Mr. Neal. and Mr.
Mason of the London and North Western Railway. Mr. J.
Jones, the mayor of Windsor, who wore his official gold
badge and chain, was also in attendance. The special train
left the Windsor station at 6.50 p.m., under the charge of
of Mr. (Merlon, and proceeded via Blongh, Reading, Ox-
ford, and Leamington, to Rnahbury Junction, where the
North Western system commences. It was arranged that
on reaching Perth this morning at 8.25, the Queen and
royal family were to breakfast in the station, 55 minutes
being allowed for the repast. From Aboyne, where the
train will an:vc at 1 o'clock to-day, the royal family will
post by road to Balmoral, which sill be reached about
3 o'clock this afternoon.

The Earl and Counteaa of Derby left tosa yes-
terday for Knowsley Park, near LiverpooL
The Earl and Counteaa of Carnarvon have
arrived at Buxton. _ .

The Countess of Cork and her infant son are
programing favourably.
Lord and Lady Londesborough are entertaining
a large party at Grimston Park, near Tadcaster, for the
York moss. Among the guests of the noble lord and lady
are—The Duke of Beaufort, the Marquis Conyngham,
Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl and Countess of
Westmorland, Colonel Hon. James and Mrs. Macdonald,
Colonel Hon. B. W. and Mrs. Curzon, Hon. Frederick
Oalthorpe, Captain and Hon. Mn. Egerton, Captain Little,
Mr. C. Sykes, and Mr. Chaplin.

Lord Stanley, M.P., as Secretary of State for the
Foreign Department, remains in town dating the absence
of his colleagues.

-
The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, M.P.,
arrived at Westwood Park, near Droitnlch, on Monday
last.

Sir James and Lady Chatterton have arrived at
the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood.
Mrs. Gladstone has gone on a visit to the

Dowager lady Wenlock, at Iroadatairs. The Right Hon.
W. K Gladstone has returned home from visiting Mr.
R. Neville Grenville, M.P.

•
Tau BISHOP Or OXFORD AT MAIDENHEAD. —Yes-
terday the Bishop of Oxford consecrated the new district
church of St. Luke, at Maidenhead, and the occasion was
one of great rejoining in that neighbourhood. The town
of Maidenhead is situated partly in the parish of Bray
and p..rtly in the parish of Cookham, and as both churches
are some distance outside the borough, and there ia only a
chapel of ease in the town the erection of St. Luke's was
much needed, and the greatest possible interest was mani-
fested in the consecration ceremony. The bishop, accom-
panied by the Archdeacon of Berke, the Rev. J. R. Wood-
ford, one of her Majesty's chaplains ; the Rev. Austen
Leigh, rural dean and vicar of Bray ; Rev. Dr. Proctor,
and • large number of the local eleri,J, assem-
bled at one of the villas near the church, and,
being robed, were joined by the choir, the whole
walking in procession to the church, which was
crowded by • congregation including the principal
families in the neighbourhood. His lordship preached an
eloquent and impressive sermon from the 13th verse of
the 16th chapter of the Ards, and during the reading of
the offertory sentences a collection of nearly 1501. was
made towards defraying the debt of 6001. which remains
upon the building, so far as it has already proceeded. The
western portion of the church, with the tower, besides
considerable carved work, will be completed as funds will
permit. At the conclusion of the service • large party
partook of a luncheon, provided by the generosity of
several of the tradespeople in the district, at the National
schoolroom. The bishop presided, and proposed several
toasts, and his lordship's health was drunk with much
enthusiasm. The site was given by Mr. W. Brooks, of
Cranford Villa, and there have been several munificent
gifts presented in connexion with the work. The incum-
bent of the new church is the Rev. W. B. Hole. The
church is built in the early English style of architecture,
from • design by Mr. G. R. Clarke, of Loudon.

'LATEST INTELLI

'CE.

ADDRESS OF THE ARCHDUKE ALBERT
TO THE ARMY.
The Archduke Albert has issued the following
address to the Austrian army :
Soldiers,—The conclusion of an armistice in the north
end in the south has I probably put an end to
military operations. In the first period of this war
you have bad occasion to give proofs of your de-
votion and heroic courage in great battles and in
small combats, On the theatre of war in the south
the success of our arms by land and sea against
valiant and more numerous foes speak]. abundantly on this
point. In the north, likewise, where the fortune of our
arms has not been favourable, the whole world agrees
in acknowledging the courage with which you opposed the
superior numbers of the enemy, • more perfect arm of
war, and untoward circumstances which put the
perseverance of the soldier to the severest test.
Flying from north and south to the protection
of the menaced capital, the army assembled on the banks
of the Danube has by its imposing position arrested the
march of the enemy. When Italy, taking advantage of
the departure of the army of the south inundated with her
troops the exposed parte of Venetia, and passed the fron-
tiers of the German provinces, an army advanced from the
north with unexampled rapidity, and, uniting with the
brave soldiers left in defence of the Tyrol, compelled the
enemy to retreat at all points, and to ask for an armistice.
The Austrian army, attacked at ones on two rides by the
armies of two powerful States, and abandoned by fortune
on the decisive theatre of the war, did all that could be
expected under such circumstances. The war has imposed
heavy burdens on the empire, but the blood which has
been shed has not Bowed in vain. It has won for Austria
and her army glorious souvenirs and valuable lemons, the
grateful sympathy of the nation, the esteem of her adver-
saries, and the respect of the whole world. Rich in the
experience which it has gained the army may look to the
future with unshaken confidence. We shall always joy-
fully respond to the call of our august Emperor, repeating
the cry with which we began and ended the war—" Long
live Austria ! long live the Emperor !"
ARCHDUKE Smarr.
Headquarters, Vienna, August 17.

THE KING OF PRUSSIA AND THE
DETHRONED PRINCES.

The Kreutz Zeitung reports that when the depu-
tation of the members of the Upper Chamber pre-
sented the address to the King, he asked, " whether
any one of them believed five weeks ago that such
results would have been obtained in so short a
time. As for himself, he did not believe it.
Everyone did his duty, but it was to
God that thanks were due for the great things
which had been aceomplished, and every one
should in entire humility rejoice in the divine
benediction." The King requested the depu-
tation to give his thanks to the upper house
for their conduct in supporting the new organi-
sation which is in course of preparation in spite
of the efforts made in other quarters to impede this
movement. The son of a prince, it was easy to
understand how reluctant he was to deprive princes
of their possessions. A painful struggle took place
in his own mind on this subject, and the conviction
alone that such a measure was necessary for the
welfare of the country dictated his decision.

ONE OF THE DESPOILED GERMAN
PRINCSS.

The Oder Gazette contains the following :
From the moment the decree for the annexation of
Electoral Hesse arrived a change took place in the Prince's
mode of life. Since Sunday he has separated himself en-
tirely from his most intimate friends, and he does not commu-
nicate with any one. The general table to which,in addition
to the Countess Idenburg, the court lords, and sometimes
even foreign guests,were daily invited, has been done away
with. Promenades and pleasure parties have also ceased.
On the 20th of August, the anniversary of his birth, the
Prince Elector received no one except his daughter. The
same day be sent Major Eachwegs, one of his aides-de-
camp, on an extraordinary mission to Berlin.

(sztrria's Tristmuus.)
GERMANY.

FRANKFORT, Araver 24.

The Legislative Assembly of the free town of
Frankfort sanctioned yesterday the conclusion of
a loan of 12,000,000 of florins.

. .
MAYENCE, Auouer 24.
The state of siege in this town was raised yester-
day.
The Prussians will march in the day after to-
MIMI,.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Accurr u.

A royal decree has been issued, suspending for
six months the levy of export duties at all the
ports of Cuba, without distinction of flag.

AUSTRALIA.
FALMOUTH, AUGUST
_24,

The William Duthie, of Aberdeen, from Sydney,
92 days, was off this port this morning with gold to
the value of 14,3841.

OVERLAND MAILS.
MALTA, Auctsr 23.
CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
The Syria left at midnight on the 21st, and the
Ceylon at 4 p.m. to-day.
The former may be expected at Marseilles on the
24th inst., and the latter at Southampton about
the Ist September.

OCPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PAWS. THURSDAY Enema.
The Empress Charlotte left Paris this morning.
She was conducted in court assuages to the
Eastern railway station and is going direct to
Miramar.
The Libert4 takes this opportunity to advance
some very sound and much called for arguments
against the doctrine that France is " morally "
bound to see the Mexican bondholders paid their
interest. Journals of all politics, from the Pays to
the Temps, have been maintaining this thesis with
great energy and perseverance. There is r o
"legal " claim they admit, but they say there is an
" equity," because the French government officially
encouraged French subjects to subscribe, and they
might well have " thought " that France was
a surety for the loans. I can conceive no
doctrine more " immoral " or " inequitable "
than this. It amounts, as the Libert6
justly points out, to saying that the executive
undertook by a side wind to give a guarantee
which it did not dare to ask parliament for, and
that the taxpayer is now to come to the rescue of
unsuccessful speculators. If the loan had been as
successful as the prospectus promised the share-
holders would have kept all the profits to them-
selves. Many of them have already received large
sums as lottery prizes, of which they moat assuredly
pay no portion into the public treasury. What
shows conclusively that the bondholders have no
ground for saying they relied upon a French
guarantee is that they were seduced into
subscribing by the bait of high interest, a
periodical lottery, and a capitalisation of a suffi-
cient fraction of the loan to ensure payment
of the capital at the end of 50 years.
The case of the Mexican government becoming
insolvent and unable to pay the interest was
therefore distinctly contemplated. That the
bonds issued at 340 fr. should have now fallen to
172 fr. is in itself evidence that the monied public
never supposed France to be liable. Baron David,
when put up in the Corps Legislatif to make the
best apology he could for the Mexican expedition
after M. Jules Favre's crushing speech, threw the
bondholders overboard altogether, and said they
were mere speculators, who ought to have calculated
the risk they were running. It would be a very
bad precedent indeed if in any indirect way the
executive should be allowed to pledge the nation's
credit to loans because they happen to turn out
unfortunate.
The stolidity of the French journals on the sub-
ject of the extradition bill lately passed in Eng-
land induces M. Prevost Paradol to explain fully
in the Debats what it really amounts to. Some of
the government organs boast, and the liberal
&Zeit laments, that, in deference to the demands
of France England has changed the whole economy
of her criminal legislation with respect to foreign
refugees. Now the shouts of victory and the cries
of alarm are equally unfounded. English magis-
trates will, as heretofore, refuse to give up an ac-
cused Frenchman for trial in France, unless they
are satisfied that a prima facie case is made out
against him, such as would justify his committal
for trial in England. The only innovation made
by the bill is that the depositions taken in France
will now be sufficiently proved by French official
seals instead of as formerly by a witness, who had
to swear that he had compared the copies with the
originals. It was this that annoyed French judges,
who fancied their dignity was hurt by it, and
it is from this indignity that the bill relieve.;
them. It does nothing more. The depositions
which were always received "as evidence " will be
no more conclusive and binding upon the English,
magistrate than they were before. He a ill still
exercise his own judgment upon the contents of
them, and consider whether they, together with
any other evidence that may be laid before him,
make out a fit case for a committal. The extradi•
tion bill about which so much noise has been made
simply dispenses with a formality, and a useless
formality ; for, however much French rules of evi-
dence may shock our notions, nobody thinks the
French judges likely to forge depositions for ex-
portation to England.
The mayor of Biarritz has published a contradic-
tion of the report that five people were lately
drowned there while bathing. He is happy to say
that the efficient organisation of the Humane Society
at Biarritz has prevented all such accidents on its
coast. But it is true that four persons, " victims of
economy and imprudence," i. e., rashly bathing
without machines, were lately drowned at a place
called Angelet, a long way off from Biarritz.
General Cabrera Count de Morella, with his
wife (a daughter of the late R. Vaughan Richards,
Q.C.), is now at the Grand Hotel.
The Bourse was almost deserted. The news,
whatever it may have been, mysteriously hinted at
yesterday, turning out to be fabulous, there was a
slight rise. Rents improved 15c. for cash, and
7ic. for account, closing at 69fr. Sc. and 69fr. 10c.
Italian rose sc. and Mobilier lfr. 25c. The varia-
tions in other securities were extremely slight.
In justice to the clerk of the weather, of whose
administration I have twice lately echoed com-
plaints, I ought to notice that we are now, at
last, getting some summer. A change for the
better began on Monday, and to-day has been
delightful.

WuLB AND BZQUZSTS.—The will of Sir Walter
pinto Farquhar, Bart., 11. P., formerly of Gloucester.
square, but late of Berkeley-street, Berkeley-square, was
proved in the Loudon Court on the 14th inst., by the
acting executors, namely, Dame Erica Celserine Farquhar,
the relict ; Sir Walter Rockcliff Farquhar, Bart. ; and
Martin T. Smith, Esq. of Lombard-street, power being
reserved to the testator's son, Sir Eric Robert Townsend
Farquhar, Bart. The personalty was sworn under 25,0001.
The will is dated Feb. 8, 1860, and the testator died June
18, 1866, at the age of 57. Sir Walter, after making some
small pecuniary bequests to his • nth and younger
children, leaves the silver centre-piece and salvers
presented to his late father by the inhabitants of
the Mauritius to be held by his wife for her
life, and after her ladyship's decease, bequeaths
the same to his eldest son, Sir Eric, and knew
to his relict, Lady Farquhar, all the remainder of the
plate, together with the jewels, furniture, and carriages.
All the residue of his estate, real and personal, he leave' to
his eldest son. Sir Rile, paid attache to her Majesty's
Legation at Rio de Janeiro. The will of Lieutenant.
General S.TWilliam Cater, K.C.8., Colonel-Commandant
15th Brigade Royal Artillery, of Eaton-plaos, Belgmve-
square, was proved in the London Court on the 18th ult.,
the executors appointed being his ions, Lieutenant-Colonel
John Farnaby Leonard (heretofore Cater), and the Rev.
W. A. B. Cater, rector of Cershalton, Surrey ;
and Peter Cater, Req. (the broiber), of Becken-
ham, Kent, to whom a power is reserved. The
personalty was sworn under 10,0001. The gallant general
a'ed May U, 1866, at the age of 81, having executed his
wri Feb. 18, 1858, wiLli three codicils, the two last dated
h December, 186/ After leaving some spec;fie and
pecuuiai; beque:ts amongst his chqdren, he bequeals the
residue, real and personal to his two daughters, and son,
the Rev. William Cater, flare and tare alike. The will
of Dr. Benjamin Guy Babingtou, M.D., F.R.S., of George-
street, Hanover-square, was proved in the London court
by by son Stephen Peill Bthington, Esq., the sole
executor, mid to whom he has becineathed the whole of
his property, real and personal, for his own absolute use.
The personalty was sworn under 8,0001. The will is
dated Oot. 10, 1865, mad he died April 6, 1866, at the age
of 72.—R/enraged London News.
ADMIRALTY, AUGUST APPOINTMENTS. --
Naval Cadet F. C. Garvey, to the Caledonia.
On Wednesday morning an explosion occurred in
i the lYsoock colliery, in the Rhondda Valley, near**.
Taff Vale Railway, by which Mr. Bedlington, the wea-
-1 known mining engineer, and the overman, named Snook
1 Francis, bat their lives.