The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1888.

state of the law there is no power of interference,
except by the unsatisfactory and circuitous median
of an appeal to the Howe Bicarreac and •
claim for redress from the jpstioe of Par-
liament. Nothing can be more elltsrly inadeOlate
as an appellate tribunal than the office of IlitillOsta
SECRETARY. The appeal ii secret; the pounds on
which relief is afforded are secret ; the iii[ ftnelf
comes not in the guise of an act of justice, but of an
act of mercy; it is a pardon, not a rehabilitation; a.
release from the consequences of sentence, not a re-
ctorial of the grounds of conviction. Supported by
the emphatic declaration of the House of Commons
in favour of the principle of an appeal in Criminal
Cases, let us hope that the Law Officers of the Crown
will bestir themselves in preparing dazing the recess
the proper legislative machinery for embodying the
principle in a legislative Act. They could not
signalise their Law Amendment Programme for the
next session with a more just, a more popular, or a
more necessary reform.

Tar statue of NAPOLEON stands whore CANOVA
placed it at Milan fifty years ago. Various vicissi-
tudes of fortune have swept over Italy sine* then.
Long, dark, and weary nights of oppression, broken
by brief and stormy gleams of hope and liberty, have
come and gone, and now the spirit of that mourning
land seems to dwell in a twilight of discontent, dis-
trust, and doubt. But the masterpiece of the emi-
nent sculptor remains where it was, prima, inter
peens among the modern monuments of Lombardy,
recalling to the memory of old men the day when the
great Italian soldier placed the Iron Crown upon
his plebeian brow. The House of HAPIECIZO has
indeed regained that rugged diadem, and, with the
exception of a brief interval, has succeeded in retain-
ing it within it. grasp. But the image of NAPOLEON
has never ceased to be unwelcome to its waking
sight, and the echo of his name still troubles its
dull dreams. Could the mute lips of the marble
effigy speak, they would speak in the Italian tongue;
that was the dialect in which the great usurper
thought; that was the language of his conquering
youth and meditative age. His rank and
power and European fame was that of France ;
but the genius of the man was that of Italy ;
as Emperor of the West, Europe feared and
hated him ; but it was as an Italian king of
Italy who had driven her German gaolers out, and
shut her mountain gates upon them, that Austria
hated him whilst living, and trembled at the recol-
lection of what he had been, after he was consigned
to his distant grave. And Austria trembles still at
the mention of his name ; and is disturbed at each
successive step which his recent snocessor seems to
take in resneeitating the memories of that upstart
dynasty which she had hoped was overthrown for
ever. In vain she has tried diligently to look at',
first indifferent, and then pleased, at the restoration
of Bonapartism in France. In vain she has
made haste with expressions of royal recognition,
and the interchange of the insignia of knightly
honours. In vain she has affected diplomatic
confidence, and entered into treaties and conventions
for the maintenance of that European status quo, on
which her existence as a first rate power necessarily
hangs. Never for an hour since the coup d'iast of
' the 2nd of December, has Austria felt thoroughly at
ease. Whenever since that memorable day the
recollection of what NAPOLEON I. was in Italy has
crossed her mind, the unpopular sceptre of the
Veneto-Lombard kingdom has trembled in her hand.
Perhaps she never felt so free from apprehension
and misgiving as during the campaign in the
Crimea, when the flower of the French army
was engaged in mirderously protracted conflict
with the best of her Northern rival's troopss,
far from the shores of the unreconciled
and irreconcilable Italy. Bet since the Peace of
Paris sentiments of alienation seem to have daily
gained greater and greater strength. The Frenich
Minister has been withdrawn from Naples; and
French influence at the Court of Turin has
notoriously been gaining ground. A thousand cir-
cumstances, in themselves trivial, have contributed
to widen the breach between the two Governments;
and the prom of Vienna and Paris have for months
been occupied in mutual reviling*. Considering how
completely the journals of both capitals are under
the avowed surveillance of the police, it is impossible
to interpret their acrimony otherwise than as
the overflowing of Imperial antipathies. Men's
eyes are turned instinctively to the old
field of French and Austrian encounter,
Time and ti me-serving diplomacy, change, and
changing policy have altered nothing there.
Italy, the great weakness of Austria in the
first NAPOLEON'S time, is still the great oppernmity
for France in the days of his nephew and sisoosseor.
All the lying of legitimacy and all the peaceful pro-
fessions of the Imperial poreensi cannot make it more
or less dangerous and tempting than it was, and is,
and is certain to continue to be. And there, in the over
capital of the disaffected realm, the statue
of NAPOLEON stands, breathing, even as he did in
life, scorn of the stranger and haughty detestation
of the oppressor's race.

There is something ineffably naive, and yet some-
thing ineffably pitiful, Ia the offer made to the
French Government by the Emperor FRANCIS
losses of the minatory statue of NAPOLEON.
" Have it if you will and welcome ; take it away—
" pay regal or divine honours to it if yea will at
" Paris; let it be worshipped anywhere audibly and
" openly—only not here ; rid us of its presence ; it
"is a daily reproach, an hourly humiliation, an in.
" tolerable memento of the past, and menace for the
" fetus ; do as the honour to accept so invaluable a
"gilt." It would perchance be deemed by the di-
plomatic world discourteous if NAPOLEON lIL de-
clined the favour ; and with political badinage refused
to deprive hie Imperial brother of an object sacred
not only am a national work of art, but uan his-
toric monument, in the eyes of his Austrian
Majesty's Italian subjects. He might add, in
neausaiee pleissaterio, that in France the work of
CANOVA'. chisel was not needed to keep alive the
glorious recollections of Lodi and Marengo; and
that as the illustrious artist had been originally
commissioned to make an image of NAPOLEON for
the metropolis of Northern Italy, where it had in
fact been placed on its completion by his command,
it would ill become his mount deseendant to de-
prive that noble sity of its noblest statue. What
reply may actually be given to the singular offer we
know not; but be it what it may, the offer and the
answer will excite many a deep emotion, where it
would probably have been better for Austria's sake
that moody stillness had been left to reign.

Scorns a Lew Arrourrtiattve.:—We believe that
the Lettl-htivesesie appetatemet to the tan of Laid Janata
Clark will M gasiselog ea tricky, end that his lowdeldp ve;11
p sothie 1101•1116111100. to the Gaut ea Saturday. Mr.
wear& Mc. bulb r verts,
Mere will Mthe INV aoheiter.GetterLer-al.—Se Adratuarr.end Mr.
lalee luatchz. Antourraziere.—We have the
phioare of atstatarlith. that her Majesty the Queen, apon
the recorrearera et hi. lasollesey the Lord- Lineman;
Cork, M.D.
bee her clashed,radial plosed es appoint Jenne William
of In Royal Wier of Someone
I. Irina& Ualmaelty Nohow of florgery In Trish,
Colima, to the aline of swim to ardlaory in Ireland to her
Majesty, la UM meta of BM PhiltP Ceemptoo, deceased; an
Masse whisk me fed awned, will give general malefaction
to the profanes la this emeamy, as ao one enjoys more of
unlimited coaldsato red mend ramen.--Bminerie Now

Lahr.

Cbt court.

-4,--
ROYAL PAVILION, ALDERSHOrT CAMP,.
Yetkertley eon, the review, hoWjesty,
by P A • and ?dams 11§Wrlrove
round asp, tel the Weal-lent&
Theatines C rode
The'fohoeireg
_beNthe henollfeali 4vitatille dee with
her Majesty :—Liseeenant-Geseral s, Mejor-General
Sir it, Ahoy, Colossi Chapman, CM. .R. ; Lieutensat-
Colonel Goodenough, R.A. ; Lieuteneni-Colonel Ogilvy, god
Life Gnarls; Lieutenant-Colonel Erskine, Military Train;
Colonel Hodp, C.B , 4th Dragoon Oneida ; Colonel Lowe
4th Light Drsgooua ; 10th Hassan; Woad
the Hon. R. Wraoe, Grenadier Guards; Lieutenant-Colonel
Kirkland, 6th Regiment; Lieutenaat•Colonel Cols, 13th
Regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel Hort, i6th t ;
Lieutenant-Colonel Browne, 60th Rifles; Colonel
67th Regiment; Colonel Jackson, 90th Regiment; Lieu-
Meant-Colonel Granville, 2nd Warwick Militia; Lienteasat-
Colonel Hoe. J. Monckton, let West York Militia; Colossi
Brockmar, Rest Haut ; Lieutenant-Coloool Pas%
Oxford ; Lieutenant-Colonel Davenport, tad Royal
Cheshire Militia; Colonel F. Loftus, Std West York Militia;
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir A. Maitland, SUrilageldre
Lieutenant-Colonel Dickson, Limerick County Militia; Liss-.
tenant-Colonel the Hon. De Boleyn, Kerry Militia Colo-
nel D. La Touc.he Royal City of Dahlia Militia; Linde-
uant-Colonel Sir J. Robinson, Bart., Louth Ride Militia;
and Major J. W. Todd, Donegal Militia.
The band of the 67th Regiment played during dinner.
In the evening the Queen and Prise honoured the
amateur theatrical performance by the officers with their
promisor.
This morning, soon after 10 o'clock, the Queen and Priam
Consort, accompanied by Pekoe's Alice and Prikleas Helena,
drove in an open carriage to Foyle-park, distant about three
miles from the Camp, where her Majesty, the Prince Con-
sort, end Princess Alice mounted their horses, and wore pre-
sent at a Sold day of the Alderahott division, under Lieute-
nant-General Kaollys.
Prioress Helena followed in an open carriage.
Lady Churchill, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Mias Hildyard,
and the Equerries in Waiting, were in attendance.
The Queen returned to the Pavilion at half-paat one
o'clock and lefts izin at four p.m. for the Farnborough sta-
tion, where a train wee in waiting to convey the royal
party: Oa Gagnon.

A depottacos, oonisthes of the Duke of Noefeik, Lord
Pere, Mr. Maguire, Sfr Dinka= Noarsy., Bare. Lord Mal
Browne, Colonel (he'll* Mr. Green, &r Richard Levin"
Bert, Kr. De Vera, Mr. Roma. Mr. Bowyer, Mr. Megan,
Mr. Brody, The O'Donoirleam, &r Robert Throckmortea,
Bert., Kr. Wearthy, Mr. Deasy, Mr. Swim, Mr. ll'Evoy,
Rev. Mr. Oakley, Lod Outpleme, tad Mr. Spaight, had as
Interview with Xt. Beeratery Walpole yestay at tba
Honee-ofiloo.

H. Piing* went for the Scottish licensed victualing,
transacted baainses at the Home-office at Tuesday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Came sat rotor-
day. An appeal from the Prerogative Comet, " Hodgson v.
De Beanchesse," was commenced.
Despatches were received yesterday at
_the Cokeial•ofilos
from the Goventors of the Cape of Uood Hope, Gibraltar,
Malta, Ceylon, and Hong Kong.

'RESS FROM PARIS.

' (part ova OWN ooaxispospingT.)
PARIS, Wuarseprr Emma
It b verrbarions that, after the assounceaient of
each an important piece of political news as the
of Qaeen Victoria to Cherbourg has beta made
poiltively in a semi-official French journal, there
should yet be serious doubts whether the itzteUi-
I genes is true. The ifetritear says nothing about it,
sad moreover cites from an English paper a pro-
gramme of the Queen's projected movements for the
summer, which mentions her intended visit to
Prussia in August, to see her daughter, but says
nothing of her plans in regard to Cherbourg. A
correspondent of the Indspendance Bulge, speaking
of the rumoured visit to the French Emperor, says
that "it seems decidedly to sesame considerable
shamess of probability." I remember nothing equal
to this in the way of nice foreshadowing of a con-
tingency since Lord Eldon said, " Upon the whole,
I am inclined to think that a court of equity might
possibly be induced to consider," &s. I hear it said
that the Queen's answer to the Emperor's invitation,'
which was undoubtedly sent, expressed a hope that
she might be able to avail herself of it, but made
her positive acceptance depend upon the possibility
of advancing the PUS a few days, in order to coin-
cide with her irrevocable engagements for the sea-
son. The changes in the programme already alluded
to are supposed to have reference to the wishes of the
Queen. Some say that all is to be ready at Cherbourg
three, and others six days sooner than was at first
proposed ; and there are those who maintain that it
will be impossible to push matters on faster than
was originally designed. However, the last accre-
dited news of this evening is that the Emperor will
return to Paris from Plombieree on August 3, will
proceed with the Empress at once to Cherbourg,
and will meet Queen Victoria there on the Bth.
This account, however, admits that the inaugura-
tion 'of the new port cannot take place till the Bth,
and it is not expected that the Queen will stay so
long.
The eighth sitting of the Paris Conference was
held to-day, according to announcement, at Count
Walewaki's chiteau at Etiolles. The rumours
already noticed in this correspondence that all is
going on harmoniously have hitherto received no
contradiction.

A decree, which the Mewiteur has not yet pub-
lished, has appeared at Lille for the enlargement of
that fortified city. It states that Lille will hence-
forth be a first,-claw fortification. The Mayor has
appointed a commission to prepare a plan for the
execution of the extensive alterations contemplated.
The Bourse, after opening well, cloud heavily.
The news of the Queen of England's visit to Cher-
bourg wu much doubted. The Rent* fell 16c. for
cash, and 20c. for account, closing at 68fr. 20c. and
68fr. 36c. Mobilier rose 10fr. The Orleans and
Southern railways fell 10fr. each. The other lines
were about Mr. lower.

Notwithstanding the low state of the Seine, the
new shallow•bottomed steamer Seine and Tamise,
built to trade between Paris end Loudon, arrived at
the Louvre to-day, with a considerable cargo.

SPAIN.

MADRID, JVLT 6.
General Serrano is appointed Dfrector-General I

Vit2oBB OF THE A VA.
Mr. 131 of the Thames Police Court, and Capt.
Walker, the antical Assessor at the recent inqtdry reapiot-
ing the of the Peninsular sad Oriental Navigation
Company's steamer Ana, have made the following report to
the Bawd of Toads:
;" Greenwich Police-court, July 1, WM.
"My laads,--In compliance with your lordships' dhee-
dons, and Ida% the assistance of Capt. W. H. Walker, ap-
pointed to act as Nautical Assessor' I have made inquiry
respecting the lees of the Peninsula and Oriental Navigation
Company's steam-ship Ave, off the coast of Ceylon, on the
evening of the 16th of February last, and I transmit here-
with the depositions of the witnesses examined before me. I
have also to submit for your lordships' consideration the fol-
lowing summary of the evidence with my opinion thereon. The
Ave was an true screw-steamer of 933 tans register, barque-
rigged, with three masts, and engines of 320 horsepower. She
wee built at Glasgow in 1865. She was in every respect duly
equipped, properly manned, and seaworthy, and the engines
in good order, In this condition she left Calcutta on the 10th
of February last, on her homeward voyage to Sun. She oar-
ried the government mails. Her =mongers sad mew con-
misted of about 240 mule, and she had specie on hosed value
260,00 W. She was commanded by Captain Cooper Kirton,
aged 30. Captain Kirton has a master's certificate of compe-
tency, and has also parsed an examination in steam. He has
been eleven rare in the employment of the Peninsular and
Oriental Navigation Company, during the last year in the
capacity of commander, and a part of that time on the Ikea
line. Captain Kirton hie made several voyages in the Lull=
seas,
seas, but this was his first voyage in the Ave.
"It is usual for these steamers, during their homeward
voyage, to touch only at Madras and Fabled. Odle, but the
ggoovv~rnawest, under their c-mtrect with the Peninsular and
Osissml Company, possess the right to direct an of their
steamers to call at other intermediate porta. Captain Litton
accordingly, before leaving Calcutta, had been ordered by his
superintendent to land at Trlooomales about 6,0001. govern-
ment tremens But for this order and the ooneunnetdevia-
don from the ordinary route, the course of the Ave would
not have lain within 60 or 60 miles of Trincomalee, or of the
spot where she was oubsequently lost. At 4 p.m. on the 15th
February the Ave left Madras Roads for Trincomalee. Cap-
tain Kirton lied applied to the superintendeat of the company
at Madras for permission to lean at 2 p.m., in order that he
might reach Trincomalee before nightfall on the 16th. The
permission was not granted, in consequence, as be under-
stood, of an objection by the post-office =thornier.
" At noon on the 16th February Capt. Kirton, by observa-
tion which appears to have been arearate,ased the Ava
to be in lat. 9.54 N , long. 81.10 E. Her course was then
shaped for Trincomalee, steering 8. 6 Saga E. tree course.
At 4 p.m. land was sighted about four points on
the starboard bow, the distance being estimated by
the captain at 12 or 13 miles. Captain Kitten had
not *spoofed to eight land so soon, and attribut-
ing the circumstance, no doubt correctly, to a westerly
currant which had carried the ship towards the shore, he had
hauled out to 8. 10 degrees E. true. At five o'clock, finding
the current meeting in shore westerly at nearly two miles an
hour, the captain hauled her out to S. 38 E. terse. He states
that, being 'cording to his calculation at this time 10 miles
from land (the chief officer estimates the distance at eight
miles), he thought this course would have taken him off 'Frisco-
males ekes of all soundings. At sunset, 6 o'clock, the sada were
taken down, bat the ship continued steaming at teLred_ up- I
wards of 10 knot* en hour. The weather was fine *WY.
sad land perfectly visible. Her course from 6 o'clock eras not
altered till half-past 7 p.m., when a lightbeesing 8.8. W. was
sighted. The captain and his officers au posed this to be '
Trinonnalee Light on Flagstaff Point, and,
to be five miles from land, then hauled the ship a point in
shore, his object being to run down off the port of Trincomalee
within signal distance to get a boat off to land the treasure.
The ship proceeded on full speed till she was abreast of
the light, when the captain ordered her to be hauled off four
the light then bearing about W. Before she could
saints,
off more than two points, a rook was seen a-head,
which was reported as a boat ; the captain perceived it to be
a rook, and immediately gave orders to put the helm hard
a-starboard to stop her, and tutu astern fall speed. Almost at
that moment, 7.65 pp.m., she struck on a rook under water,
whore she remaind until she became a total wreck. Every
properexertion appears to have been made by the captain at
anal t the wreck, and his arrangements for the
safety cbirtrato
passengers and orew,'sad of the recovery of each
part of the oar= and specie as was saved, were marked by
itnent, skill, and self-poeseseton. It was found at day-
ht, from the ship's position, that she had struck on a
ri extending threes...inane; of a mile from shore, off
Rocky Point, about a mile and a half to the N.W. of Pigeon
Wand, and at a spot 11 miles distant N.W. from where the
captain expected her to be. He admits that he took no
soundings whatever, alleging that he telt certain that he was
not within soundings. On being asked to give hie awn ex-
planation of the km of the ship, he assigns the Mowing
eases:

—.- .
"1. That the current in a W.N.W. direction towards the
shore, the rate of which, at five o'clock, he had estimated
at about two miles an hour, wee, when the ship struck, run-
nioae:t an increased rate of four miles an hour, and hed
the ship out of her course. 2. That the light seen at
7.30 wu seen at the time when, and in the direction in
which, the Trincomalee light on Flagstaff Point should have
been seen by him If be had not been carried out of his course
, Xthe current; that he therefore mistook It for the light on
tag Point, which he says its I,y resembled. Be
further assertsthat the light on F Point was not pro-
perly lighted on that night; that f it had been properly
lighted and hoisted at the top of the &vast he he
meet have see it before the ship struck, and that it would
have induced him to alter his course accordingly.
" With regard to the current, Captain Hi:ton was aims, as
his evidence shows, 'that the currents vary more off the
meat of Ceylon than in any other plum' koreover, during
the afternoon of the 16th he twice altered the whirs coarse
towards the east, in consequence of the imZiettemeth of
the current—at 4 o'clock, when ' he was to discover
the current,' and again at 6 o'clock, whoa be kit @add A
that it MY to the extant of two afire en hese The wi-
dows of the chid °Hoer is : • The ourreet assami be as to
fora from 4 o'clock es we came to the southward; it was I
stronger at 6 o'clock, and still straw at IL' Yet Certain
Kirton kept the ship in the ears mum hem 6 till be
sighted the Wee light at half-pmst 7. With regerd to the
Light mistaken by the captain ire the Triamemelse Light,
Ike evidence is very contradictory. It 16 amend by
one of the ',Unseats (Captain Johnson) that the false light
lietzsi
seen by Captain Hilton was a very mail feeble low on
the beach, and that it maid not be Welder he of
a lighthouse. Captain Haswell, an dicer is her s
Navy and who has a knowledge of that omit, also
that the light he saw on the beach after the vend had 'Moot
appeared to be about Id feet high, not steady, sad certainly
not such a light as could be inistalota for the Ttlatemeales
Light, on Flagstaff Point, which stands (or should Mend) on
an elevation of 206 feet.
" On the other band, it appears tekealtly certain that the
light on Flagstaff Point has been dm ems dos in a most
defective state. I beg to call your lordships' partionlet atten-
tion to the evidence of Captain (Nilson on this point. He
states It to be ' • very troublesome light, the most trottbb-
some that he ever met with anhere. Though supposed
to be 206 feet above the level of theses, and to show &distinct*
of 12 or 16 miles, I could not see it till I got within six
miles of it; it then went out.' Captain Haswell Mates—
' The Trincomalee Light is a very Indifferent light. When I
visited It in September last it was lying on its pedestal ; the
whole ME& was out of order.' And Captain Kielce states
that the week eller the wreck he saw the !anthem (the re-
thetas at which were covered with a black smoke) standing
in the daytime en a brick and that he was informed
that the maddiery ter it on the flag-staff was out of
order. Be team MMus that it had been surveyed and t
h c con-
demned some leate beere. _

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bevies to the arkeen no eater reused 44; he.
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not have dekyed him In the ran to Was •
single hew ; bat I need hardly observe that =
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wieryteperly Ileiteilieti belelet.theiltht it s bible. It new
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" I beg to trawsaft lentelth Captain Mena's NMI"
abs errand testimonials In his favour. To that, frasa tirta
of the paasewers by the Ave, after the wreck, I beg
per brands' particular atleatios, m weal as to the et

demos of Captain James Seward Field, to the very high
ohmmeter and peat reputation for skill sad ability hitherto
borne by Captain Hinton.-1 have the honour to be, my
loads, your lordships' obedient servant.

" HENRY Bun Burn.
" To the Ueda Commissioners of the
Privy Council for Trade."
" I meow in this report. " W. H. WALKER."
In coneequenoe of the default attributed to Captain Kirtoa
in the above report, the Board of Trade have ausFeuded
his certificate for sin menthe.

ENGLISH ART ON TEN CONTINENT.-A grand
exhibition of paintings will elms et Antwerp en the Bth of
August, under the direction and in consequent* of the ex-
ertions of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the
Fins Arts. All the notables of the Belgian 'ohm( hare re-
sponded to the appeal of the society, as well as a consi-
derable number of German and French maims. Paris.
Dusseldorf, and Munich will all be worthUy represented in
this exhibition. England alone holds back. • A very small
number only of her artists have responded to the appeal of
the society. English art is, nevertheless, at the present mo-
ment not Mhstor to that of the Continent ; and, above all,
England mereeess a time of pJateno in which it defies ell
rivals—l mean in water-colours. Why, then, do the water-
colour pointers of England disdain to make us acquainted
with their works ? Is Nee people say bone, be, sane Eng.
land tarnishes them with a siddciently extensive market, and
that they will not take the trouble of sending here solely for
honour's make? I will not believe in that amnesties, and I
hope that your water-cotenr painters will not disdain to make
their works known among us. The society does things
well. It transports the work• ol the artists shone It ape•
daily invites to contribute, at its own expense, and it buys a
certain number of the weeks for a lottery at the end of the
exhibition. I hope this hint will not be thrown away on
your artists and your amateurs.--Correepasdent of :Conti-
oasts' Baia& . .

A CONTRACTOR'S BeltOelle.—lt appears that one
of the largest army eentratetars contracted to supply soldiers'
kits at 21. lie. 3d. each, sad his mitred being accepted,
several thousand kits Inn era into the clothing stores at
Windom, when it wee dammed that the articles supplied
were of an isferlor deemiption, and not worth the sum paid
tor them by the governmsut On this discovery being
made, the kits were retuned to the contractor, who hat
since supplied the same kits to the troops at Chatham fat
31. fle. 9d.- each. It thus appears that articles which were
rejected by the government se not being worth 21. Ils. 3d.
at Weedon, are considered to be worth 31. So. 9d. at
Chatham, and are purchased by the government for the
troops at that price. Since the authorities have agreed to
present each recruit with a free kit, the whole expense of
the soldiers' 'rummies is borne by the government instead
of being charged to the recruit as heretofore.—Tdess.
AN UNFORTUNATE EICURSION.—A wad mishap
baa just befallen a
_party of excanioniste. The Weymouth
and Channel Islands Steam Company gave notice a few days
ego of an excursion to Cherbourg in one of their steamer.
The announcement sot forth that the Cnmus would leave
Weymouth on Saturday morning, the ard fast., =Ming
Cherbourg about three p.m., allowing the afternoon of Satur-
day and the whole of Sunday to enable excursionists to see
all that is notable in that renowned place, the return to Wey-
mouth being fixed for Monday morning. It was further an-
nounced that by the special favour of the Gallic authorities
the excursionists would not be required to provide themselves
with passport& Here was a sufficiently tempting program
m%
and it induced coneiderable party of onsti atid el
Weymouth folks to avail themselves of the opportunity
of seeing Cherbourg. A few veterans fa travel, ha -ving
their misgivings as to the unwonted liberality ascribed
to the French authorities, provided themselves with
passports; but the mass, relying on the assuranose
of the steam company, neglected—with little wisdom, as the
sequel shows—to purchase the 2s. autograph of Lord
Malmesbury. " Wo started," writes one of the sufferers,
" under very favourable oircanstances, picked up some more
victims at Alderney which read our number to sixty-five,
end got Into the inner harbour of Cherbourg at UM past
2 p.m. There we were moored abreast of the quay,
_and
were, of course, instantly boarded by a yam of mama'
and police (nationwide, ' bearded like the pard, and ex-
hibiting the pegtop in its broadest state of development.
The passport-bearing travellers were speedily Mowed ; but
when it came to the turn of the =purported crowd, wrware
Told that the certificates issued to us on board the stesmer,
and whith we were informed would be recombred as valid
by all, wire of se value whatever, and that we could not be
allowed to Lad without the regular paper. This was rather
a damper, certainly ; but we were comforted with the suer-
aide that the matter would speedily be set to rights by en
applketion to the superior authority. From half-pest 2 till
9 at night we lay within a few feet of the quay, while
brisk interchange ai telegraphic meeeeges pawed between
the local and departmental authorities and the Minister of
the Interior. At 9 o'clock precisely the final decision of
Monsieur Delengle, the new and liberal minister, arrived,
It wee short and sweet :—' The pawners can onto account
be permitted to land without passports; keep a watch eye
on them.' I must, however, do M. Damned justice. While
a Awn sense of duty compelled him to deny us the grata.
cation of setting foot in 7a belle France, be gratefully ma
oeded to us the indulgence of remaining alongside the Ow
for • further period of thirty-three hours, and of gazing ea
the attractioui of the CAM de Paris and the various romper,
messageries, and cuareetions which diversified the prospect,
We were ungrateful enough net to appreciate this favour,
and having hastily assembled a caucus of the imprisoned per
rAsl&Tney
we voted unanimously for an immediate return to
, which movement wee effected as soon an the tide
bad risen sufficiently to favour our retreat."
POLITICAL PARTIES IN BELGIUM.— Cossidemble
interest has been excited in Belgium by. the Malice of 11.
Defri to fill the place in the representation of Branaloottile
meat by the death of W. Anspech. Tire Medea weereally
settled by the preliminary vote of the Liberal Meothdon,
and the struggle on the day of election, which tendarsd k
M. Defri obtaining so large a majority. was therein mob
a sentinel ens. The ministry is accused of being idttasula
its promises Oa liberal and independent valley,.
opportunity is taken to make the =madded= a=
work harrecelonsly with the administrative orient imps.
dal Franca. On the abet hand, Brussels boa eivelia at
ultra-liberal, though not a man of extreme coal= 7=
and has just rejected the ministerial candidate, ft.
who holds office as Minister of Public Works, and who also
belongs to the liberal party. This may be looked en as a
sate against the appearance of eacrilleing the Yd.
of of Belgium to the exigencies of a neighheerteg
ism. As between the ministers and the liberal party
the ispture is sot a very serious one, though the polithit of
the madam is much thaken by tie adverse undof the
election. The division is one that it is extremely diScak to
avoid when a liberal mindtry accedes to power in a combs.
Nona country so close to, and so dependent on, a
We oan only trust in the sense and moderation of the
liberals. The ministry have received a Ireful wren
the party whom they represent. The liberal party have to
take care that they do not posh their advantage to a mat
which may lead to a reaction serviceable to the intersta of
Imperial France.—Continerilal levies°.
A TERROR TO SLEEPERS.—Mr. Edmund Qaiaei,
Meer, at the Dedham tree planting, gave a
morant of the rid-time custom of appointing
non fa the Oman, to be a terror to deliagol,
who wen earigood to peados.' sod tribulation en tiotek
pit Oho The Widmann, an • badge of his dim MIN
• hag Or 4 ens et whisk was • fox's tedi, solgoths
other a tennidable knob, sad it wee Eh provisos, viestey
of the coomegadea indulged In somnolence—otddrise
did somettoos, Moo, trot soh tarn aremot=
our day—M walk stealthily snag to where uir
wee fir, sail, it a Orb, del& bar so wihtSt
tail, sal it ark, glee bin a preiti soon lot eel
wish the knot et hie adds' beam. The method me
adieedoen to renterlog the sleeper to their
oath egnedleh sow mobil, the mono et
groosted piggies has the gams god remegoi do
fir Ithlattalem.-14, Fork Away ibet. • . '
MR. HENRY Warr.—We antletrebold Chad
has been :seeded by W. Newton, Req., heat
Beg., M.P., stating that the
Neftrea gereroommt
nob 6,1=1: owl a hops Is ogromot IWO oar
will sow egad as gorily as pnfile•_,H
pond, we bete, brut thal.llool. doe- le No WI" Z
same teromeneom, me et tho lood, or ether
Worelegy raw Treaory for the do mew
a OOP
dot et the hogight dookhos the beet doi, mhos/ at Or
oggrhoesk geoid be dens; fir we regret to ho
bolsi dolor moth, sot auk it say, is
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Ohm in Do health of Sir. Watt, soiivirsidtrE
Illeredoe, that he wry here oohing do
• pod oft do hie support.—/fooesstk
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literal trandstio et lids well.lunows and& prodleamiiiiaall
in good le sodded with the Ho et Me
by a:reload drihnoga swab. II it trafeWhe'
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