The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY K

protect his diminished ;ind impoverished temporal'
sovereignty, they bow to the decrees of his spiri-
tual power, as to the oracles of the Most High,
believing and teaching all he believes and teaches,.
without limit or qualification. Evidently the
Holy Father in his spiritual capacity has reason
to congratulate hiciaelf on his temporal destitution,
if destitution it can be called which is providing
such brilliant galas and entertainments for pilgrims
and the people of Rome, and vieing with Paris
itself in the splendour of its scenic shows. When
the Temporal Power was at the height of its for-
tunes and most confident in its destinies, under
the protection of all the Catholic Powers, would
these Bishops have been so eager to rally round
the Chair of Sr. PETER and to accept in advance
every new article of faith delivered by the Sacred
College T Reflections of this kind can hardly fail
to occur to Catholic laymen who are not so com-
pletely divorced from the age they live in as to
look without misgiving for the "abundant fruits"
which an (Ecumenical Council is expected to bring
forth when it has decreed the personal infalli-
bility of every successor of Sr. PETER whom the
majority of the Sacred College may elect, and put
the nineteenth century on the Index.

inasibly oaths subject last sight. Bs aid—we all say—
Pat the Iffeedlian of bisslitilian ass a deplorable sad
impolitis " sot, but he 41 not Oda the government
ought to take say official notice of it. II the Meilen
liberals aro mere savages it is hardly worth our while
passing a vote of censure on them. . Savages and
monsters are not likely to be desist' affected by
our condemnation : and there may be even among such a
race of barbarians some few sufficiently acquainted with
European affairs to remember that when Maximilian's
fatal and culpable proclamation sent Mexican officer after
officer to death in cold blood, the British Hone of Com-
mons passed no vote of censure at all. Moreover, our
hands are not clean. Surely the blood of Gordon would
choke us if we endeavoured to raise a pharisaical voice of
reprobation against the slayers of Maximilian. Surely the
death of the Delhi princes has not yet been quite forgotten.
It is quite certain that if Maximilian bad captured and
shot Juarez, no tory gentleman in the House of Commons
would have moved any resolution of censure.

the Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, JuLY 4.

The Queen and the Queen of Prussia, accom-
panied by Prince Leopold, drove out yesterday afternoon.
Colonel the lion. A. liardinge was in attendance on
horseback.

Princess Louise arrived at the Castle yesterday from
Marlborough-house, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington
and the Hon. A. Liddell.

The Queen, the Queen of Prussia, Princess Louise,
Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice walked and drove
in the Home-park this morning.
The Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, the Duke de Chartres,
the Count and Countess de Paris, and Prince and Princess
de Joinville, visited the Queen and the Queen of Prussia
to-day at Windsor Castle.
The Duchess of Wellington and the Right Hon. Sir
Stafford Northcote arrived at the Castle yesterday, and
had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal
family.
Sir T. M. Biddulph had also the honour of Ming invited.
The Hon. Mrs. Bruce and Sir James Clark arrived at the
Castle.

Prince and Princess Louis of Heave, attended by Baroness
Schenck and Captain von Westerweller, visited the General
Lying-in Hospital and King's College Hospital yesterday.
A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most lion.
Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-office,
Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The Lords
present were the Lord President, Lord Robert Montagu,
and Colonel the Right Hon. Wilson Patten.
The Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Lucan, Lord
Claud Hamilton, M.P., the Right lion. Wm. Monsell,
M.l'., Mr. Gregory, M.P., Mr. Lanyon, M.P., Major
O'Reilly, M.P., and Mr. Blake, M.P., constituting a body
of representatives appointed by the Irish peers and mem-
bers of parliament to confer with the committee of the
cabinet upon the subject of the transfer of the Irish rail-
ways to the state, had an interview with the Duke of
Richmond and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave, at the office
of the Board of Trade, yesterday. The Right Hon. Spencer
Walpole, M.P., and Mr. Ward Hunt, M.P., were present
at the interview on the part of the cabinet.

THE QUEEN AND THE VISIT OF THE SULTAN.—
We understand that the Queen has postponed her
departure from Windsor, in order to receive the
Sultan.

On every fine day the Princess of Wales now
takes exercise in the garden of Marlborough House, in her
chair or carriage.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
entertained the Ducheu of Northumberland, the Countess
of Macclesfield, Hon. Lionel Ashley, General the Hon. Sir
Edward Cwt, the Right Hon. Colonel Wilson Patten,
M.P., and Miss Patten, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Sir
Edward and Lady Manningham Buller, General Seymour,
Mr. and Lady Alice Des VLeux, Mr. Jervoise Smith, Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred Seymour, du., at dinner at Grosvenor
House last evening.

The Earl of Bective entertained at dinner, at his
residence in Grafton-street, yesterday evening, the Duchess
of Marlborough and Lady Cornelia Churchill, Maria Mar-
chioness of Ailesbury, the Earl Anne,ley, the Earl Cadogan
and Lady Mary Cadogaa, Viscount Hamilton, Lord
Berkeley Paget, Lady Moleaworth, Lady Virginia Sanders,
Hon. Colonel Stanley, Hon. H. Molyneux, Colonel Foster,
Mr. Christopher Sykes, M.P., &c.

Viscount and Viscountess Sydney entertained
the Duchess of Btu:clench and Lady Margaret Scott, the
Marquis of Waterford, the Marquis of Sligo, the Earl of
Ellesmere, Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Rad-
cliffe and Hon. Mix' Canning, Lord Richard Grosvenor,
M.P., Lady Florence Montagu, Lady Feodore Wellesley,
Hon. Frederick Levi:son-Gower, M.P., lion. Thomas de
Grey, Hon. F. Bridgeman, Mr. and Mrs. Holford, &c., at
dinner at the family mansion in Cleveland-row, St. James's,
Ism! evening.

Lady Herbert of Lea entertained at dinner yes-
terday evening, at her residence in Cheslism -place, the
Marquis of Lorne, the Earl and Countess of Cernarvon,
the Earl and Countess Stanhope, Viscount and Viscountess
Enfield, Lord Houghton, Lord and Lady Lindsay, the
Right Ron. W. E. Gladstone, Mr. Doyle, Mr. Rich-
mond, kc.

The Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait yesterday
received at dinner, at Fulham Palace, the Earl and
Countess Grey, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey and
Lady Grey, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole and Mrs.
Walpole, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell and Mrs.
Cardwell, Lord and Lady Inchiquin and the Hon. Miss
O'Brien, Mr. Herman Merivale, Mr. H. Wake, the Rev.
J. Kempe and Mrs. Kempe, Sir William and Lady Anna
Stirling Maxwell, the Rev. Mr. Knollys and the Rev. Mr.
Fisher.

Yesterday the magnificent mansion of Sion
House, Brantford, was thrown open by his Grace the Duke
of Northumberland to his tenantry in Westminster and
Middlesex, to celebrate the coming of age of Lord Wark.
worth, his grandson, and sou of Earl Percy, next heir to
the title and 'Wales.

The Viceroy of Egypt is expected to arrive on
Saturday at Dudley House, On Sunday afternoon Lord
Stanley, it is said, will call upon the viceroy, who will pro-
ceed to Windsor and remain a vied at the castle for the
night. Monday is likely to be spent in the royal park, and
in the evening the viceroy will possibly visit one of the
theatres. Woolwich may occupy Tuesday ;on Wednea-
day the Foreign Minister will entertain the Viceroy at
dinner in Downing-street ; and on Thursday the banquet
at the Mansion-house will take pl.ice.

The first conference between the cabinet com-
mittee and the representatives of Irish peers and members
of parliament, relative to the proposed state purchase of
the Irish r►ilways, took place yesterday afternoon at the
Hoard of Trade. The interview lasted nearly an hour.
The Duke of Richmond stated that the cabinet required
information upon some preliminary points ; and the Mar-
quis of Clanricarde undertook that it should be supplied
in writing without any delay.

The Australian claimant to the Tichborno
baronetcy has filed a bill in Chancery to establish his
rights. In this document be gives a history of his life.
He says that he resided with his parents at Paris until
1845, when he was placed at Stonyhurst College. In 1849
be was appointed cornet in the Rth Dragoon Guards, and
left the army in 1853. In that year be left England for
Valparaiso, and resided in South America until April,
1854. In that year he left Rio de Janeiro for New York,
but was shipwrecked and picked up by • vessel that
took him to Melbourne, in Australia. He there
assumed the name of Thomas Castro, after that of
his friend Don Thomaso Castro, of 3felippilla, in
Chili. At Melbourne he was engaged to go to
Gippeland. He wandered about from place to place
living in the Australian Alps, on the Latrope, Mitchell, and
Murrumbidgee rivers, at the Onico diggings, at Danilptin,
Bendigo.Tarunt, Dundargsi, and Wagga-Wagga as a cattle
drover, butcher, and in other employments. In 188.5 he
married and in that year be first heard of the death of
his father, who died in 1863. While in Sydney preparing
to embark for Englsnd he was recognised as the eldest son
of Sir F. D. Tichborne, Baronet, by Mr. Gnilfoyle, • nut-
on7man there who had been gardener to the Tichborne
family, and by Andrew Bogle, a pensioner of the same
family. The latter volunteered to sc,omp►ny him to
England. The Australian claimant states that since his
arrival in this country he has been recagnised by the
Dowager Lady Tichborne as her son, and by Mr. Radcliffe,
Mr. Biddulph, and Mr. Vincent Gafford, members of,
the Ttehborne family, ea their cousin.

REIAItKS.

This morning atmospherical pressure Is greatest In the south,
and is increasing over the British Isles, with generally mode-
rate westerly and north-westerly winds and cloudy weather.
Slight rain has fallen in places.

Prince Napoleon, in answer to an article pub-
lished by the Rerue des Deuz-Mondes relating to the Pater-
son family, has addressed to the editor of that periodical
a letter, of which the following is the termination:—" I
■hall now request from your impartiality, Mr. Editor, the
insertion of the present letter, destined to complete, and
on • certain point to contradict, the atatemont of 31.
d'Hausaonville. Advocating as Ido for every citizen the
right of publishing his opinions by way of the press, it is
to that liberty that I feel bound to have recourse at this
moment, being convinced that • redressing of the abuses
and errors committed by the press can be obtained in no
other way."

The trichinosis, which was thought to have died
out in Germany, has again shown itself at Halberstadt
(Lower Saxony). A considerable number of the inhabi-
tants, and amongst them children only three years old,
have been affected. Without the intervention of the
police, the butcher who sold the diseased pork would
probably have suffered severely from the anger of the
population.

In the Spanish Cortee on Tuesday Senor Moy-
ano desired to present a resolution expressive of the
sentiments of horror which the news of the execution
of Maximilian had excited in every mind. The rules of
the chamber, however, did not permit, and Senor Moyano
had to renounce his motion.

M. Pertuiset, successor of Gtrard, has posted on
the wall of Paris a large rose-coloured placard, in which he
invites all intrepid sportsmen to proceed with him to
Algeria, and devote themselves to hunting lions, hyenas,
tigers, jaguars, and panthers.

The death of Prince Auguste de Broglie is an-
nounced. He belonged to the younger branch of that
famous haute, and was cousin of the old Duke de Broglie
and Prinoe Albert, the heads of the elder branch of that
family.

ENGLISH HAIR-DRESSING.—The spectacle of a
contest for the palm of artistic ingenuity in dressing hair
was afforded on Tuesday evening at the Hanover-square
Rooms. As on former occasions of the MIMS character, •
long tnble was placed down the middle of the chamber,
with chain and 111i1T011 in a row on either side and
singly at the ends. The Telegraph, which boa • long ac-
count of the proceedings, complains of the arrangements.
" The process in each instance could be followed tolerably
well by persons sitting round, but the effect could
not afterwards be duly estimated foreemucb as
the company crowded in so unregulated a man-
ner upon the ladies who had submitted their
tresses to experiment that nobody could gain more than
• rapid glimpse in the struggle. It is true that in a pro-
minion of the fair ' subjects, each escorted by her gallant
coiffeur, twice or thrice round the room, • better chance of
appreciating the different styles and effects had been pre-
ous. ly afforded ; but the committee would do well if, on
the next occasion, they would arrange matters so that the
ladies might sit on • ds or stage, where an uninterrupted
view would be given to everybody near or far. If the more
practical among the visitors desired • close inspection they
might, on showing their professional credentials, be ad-
mitted to the stage just as members of the Royal College
of Surgeons are not only allowed but pressingly Invited to
maths' living monstrosities at • show."