The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1867, ,

cadent& When Lord REY can devise, and
Lord RUSSELL adopt, and Lord DL'FFERIN echo,
and Lord STANLEY can seek to give effect to a
plan of this sort, the proof is plain how barren of
originality and resource, and of discernment of
the living forces of the time, is the statesmanship
of which they are highly favourable examples.
Their miscalculation is gross and ludicrous. The
tendency of the ago sets strongly in the direction
of what is called the voluntary principle in reli-
gion. Church Congresses and Pan-Anglican
Synods testify to it even more forcibly than the
organizations expressly based upon or designed to
further it. Whatever may become of old estab-
lialiments, now ones are impossible. In the time
of Mr. PITT, and at the date of Lord FRANCIS
LEYESON Gowza's motion, the project of endow- I
ing the Roman Catholic clergy was not the
absurd anachronism that it has since become. The
voluntary principle in religion had then scarcely
entered the circle of prevalent political ideas. The
temper and attitude of the Roman Catholic clergy
in Ireland were not what they are now. They
were then Irish rather than Roman ; national, or
Gallican, rather than Ultramontane. If the
journal on whose authority our information upon
these matters depends is to be trusted, the
Government itself has strkingly acknowledged this
change. Lord STANLEY, it is asserted, though we
can scarcely credit the statement, applied to
Cardinal AarosELLI to ascertain whether the
Irish prelates would accept the endowment
of the Catholic clergy as a settlement of the
Church question. What was this but to treat the
Irish bishops and priests as subjects more imme-
diately of the POPE than of the QUEEN ? Cardinal
ANTONELLI appears, assuming the truth of the
narrative, to have treated the Government with a
degree of respect which it did not show to itself. The
Papal Government declined to interfere in the
civil government of England, but referred the
matter to the Irish prelates themselves, with
the result which has been made public, and which
finally disposes, we trust, of a very ill-considered
parody of conciliatory statesmanship.

weight of labour it will impose upon itself. No wonder
that they look forward with some apprehensions to next
year's work. The popularisation of the vote Involves as
its logical and necessary consequence the popularisation of
all the machinery connected with it.
In dealing with the subject of the refusal of the Irish
Roman catholic bishops to accept endowment from the
State, the Trltgrapit contends that the revenues of the
Irish establishment must be devoted to the education of
the people, by which it appears to mean the endowment of
Roman catholic schools.

The Star s►ye the decision of the bishops reduces all
governments and ministers who attempt to deal with the
Irish difficulty to this dilemma—that they must either
take up boldly the ground of the voluntaryists or forbear
to touch the church at all.

Cite Court.

BALMORAL, Ocr. 9.

The Queen went out in the morning with
Princess Beatrice, and in the afternoon her Majesty drove
out with Princess Christian and M. and Madame Van de
Weyer to Glen Bog.

A deputation, consisting of Mr. Harris (chairman), Dr.
Shea, Mr. Field, and Mr. Blake (clerk), from St. Saviour's
Union, and Mr. Park (chairman), Mr. Barnes, Mr. Sher-
wood, and Mr. Fitch (clerk), from St. George-the-Martyr,
Southwark ; also a deputation from the vestry of Clerken.
well, introduced by Mr.W. T. M. Torrens, M.P., and con-
siatingof theßev. Robert Maguire, M.A. (incumbent), Mr.
Willcocks and Mr.Nunn (churchwardens), Mr. E. T. Thomp-
son, Mr. Gillingwater, Mr. Arnett, Mr. Lawrence, Mr.
Saywell, Mr. Bestow, Mr. Smith, Mr. Clark, Mr. Olford,
Mr. Franklin, Mr. Croucher, Mr. Redfern, and Mr. Paget
(vestry clerk), had interviews with the Earl of Devon, at
the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, yesterday.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of Gibraltar, Malts, and Heligoland.
Despatches were sent to the Governors of Malta, Ceylon,
Hong Kong, Labium, the Straits Settlements, and to the
Governor-General of Canada.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Nortnanby and
family have left Switzerland for Pau.

The Earl of Hardwicke is engaged to preside at
the Royal Naval Club dinner on the 21st inst. (the anni.
versary of the battle of Trafalgar), at Willis's Rooms,
King•street, St. James's.

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The Earl of Goaford, Lord Downe, and Sir
Samuel Hayes have arrived at the Hotel Bristol, Paris,
from London, on their way to India. Lord Henry Scott
and Lord Claud John Hamilton have left the same house
for England.

The death of the Hon. Dudley Bingham, brother
to Lord Clanmorris, took place on Tuesday night at his
residence, Foxford, rather suddenly. The deceased bad
been enjoying the shooting on the moors so late as the
previous Saturday.

General Logan, in a speech at Cleveland, advo-
cated the election of negro Congressmen.
M. Molina, the Nicaraguan Minister, was pre-
sented to the President on Monday.
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The fever continues unabated at New Orleans.

General Stirling Price is dead.

The democratic convention of Massachusetts met
yesterday and nominated John Quincy Adams for
governor.

Mr. M'Culloch has ordered the issue of Three per
Cent. Certificates to redeem the compound interest
notes maturing in October and December.
Advice, from Hayti to the Bth ult. announce
that the insurgents were pillaging the south coast.
Commerce was prostrated.

Intelligence from Valparaiso to the 3rd Septem-
ber states that the Spanish fleet was again ex-
pected.

The river Madeira has been opened, so that
vessels can now go up the Amazon and deliver their
cargoes in Bolivia direct.
Prado has been re-elected President of Peru.
SOUTHAMPTON, Ocr. 11.
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The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Teutonia, from New York, has arrived. She
brings 57 passengers for this port, Havre, and
Hamburg, 1,922 dole. in specie for France, and
3,700 dols. for Hamburg. On the 3rd inst. she
spoke the steamer City of Boston and the English
ship Aleona ; on the 4th the English barque Lotus ;
on the Gth an Inman steamer ; and on the Bth the
Persia, all bound west.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.

M. Rouher and the Marquis do Lavaletto have
returned to Paris and entered upon their functions.
The imperial train has been for the last day or two
in readiness at Biarritz, and the Emperor and Em-
press are expected almost every hour in Paris.
Great activity has been displayed in the im-
proved armaments of the French forces; and those
of the artillery, comprising a number of new pieces,
destined for the military conscriptions, have just
been despatched from the arsenals. Improvements
in cavalry arms are also a subject of unceasing atten-
tion. As to the new Chassepot gun, a very consider-
able number of these arms have been turned out,
either transformed from the old model or entirely
new. It is stated that in less than two months
from this time no fewer than 600,000 of these
weapons will have been delivered to the troops.
The banquet to be given to the imperial commis-
sioners of the Universal Exhibition will take place
at the Grand Hotel du Louvre, the number of the
company being limited to 300, including about 40
ladies. During dinner vocal and instrumental
music will be dispensed by a German orchestra and
English singers. The day is not yet fixed.
In a recent letter I mentioned to you that depre-
dations of various kinds, including robbery on the
highway, were becoming very frequent in Paris and
the environs. As winter approaches I fear there
will be little diminution in the number of these
offences ; and the want of employment, together
with the high price of all the necessaries of life, is
undoubtedly adding to the ranks of these depre-
dators. There is, too, a growing discontent among
the humbler classes, on account of the extreme
difficulty of gaining a livelihood; and, under these
circumstances, as is always the case, there
are mutterings, not loud but deep, against the go-
vernment, which, it is thought, ought, in some
way or other, to find a remedy for such a state of
things. The police authorities, seeing what is
going on, endeavour to reassure the public at
large by a reference to the annals of crime in
former years, and state that in this respect we are
no worse off than at other times at this period of
the year. But I have reason to believe that the
fact is not so ; and you are already aware that the
increase of crime is so far establi,hed as to call for
a considerable addition to the police force of Paris.
The Bourse opened with higher quotations than
at the closing yesterday, but the advanced prices
were not maintained, and few transactions took
place. Very little was done in the Mobilier,
which still declined, and the Rente and most
other securities closed at reduced rates.

The Duke of Laroehefoucauld is entertaining an
immense hunting party at Gatidiniere. The chateau,
built in the time of Louis XII., stands in the midst of a
forest teeming with grouse and pheasants. The stables
contain 120 horses. The guests who go out with the duke
wear a special dress, as in the days of the Grand Mon-
argue, when every groat house had its own distinctive
hunting costume. ♦ band of thirty musicians is engaged
for the months of October, November, and December ;
after which the duke's parliamentary duties compel him
to break up this establishment.
The Swiss and several of the French papers have
occupied themselves for some days past with the resigna-
tion of M. Fornerod, President of the Swiss Confederation
for the present year. He gives up that high post to be
member of the board of directors of • bank which has just
been authorized by the Council of State of Geneva, sad the
principal branch of which is to be iu Paris.
At Devismo's, the gunmaker on the Boulevards,
appears a printed appeal from M. Pertuiset to sportsmen in
general to join him in a lion-hunting expedition he is
about to organise in Algeria. Every detail as to the
expenses, mAo of travelling, Its., is given. The party is
to consist of fifty good shots.

On the 24th ult., Mr. Bateman, father of the
actress, commenced his bold experiment of giving French
comic opera to the public of New York. The work selected
was Offenbach's Orunde Duchene de Gerolskin, which,
recently yroduced at the Thatre des VariUtes, has been
performed at nearly every European capital except Lon-
don. The greatest pains had been taken to render the
execution of the farcical opera as effective as possible,
Tistim, who had been the Parisian prima donna in
some of Offenbach's earlier productions, being engaged to
represent the Duchess—a part in which she had distin-
guished herself at Bordeaux, and supported by • company
selected from various parts of France.

The ironclad* have left Cork harbour, it is sup-
posed for Portugal. Tho Liffey and Pallas took their de-
parture on Saturday eveaing, and the rest of the squadron,
consisting of the Bellerophon, Minotaur, Warrior, Lord
Warden, Lord Clyde, and Achilles, followed on Tuesday
morning, presenting an impreuivo spectacle u they
steamed out of the harbour. The Mersey guardahip,
which bears the Admiral's flag, is the only vessel of war
now at Queenstown.
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Considerable progress has lately been made with
the ironclad frigate Wilhelm 1., now building at the
Thames Iron Works, Ineekwall, for the Prussian govern.
ment.

The judges nominated to preside at the special
commission for the trial of the prisoners at Manchester
concerned in the recent rescue of the Fenian are Mr.Jris-
doe Blackburn and Mr. Justice Mellor.

The prisoner John Groves was born in Clough,
in the county Down. He was brought up in the teneta of
the church of England by his grandmother, a small shop•
keeper, who still resides in the vicinity. His parents,
however, were Roman catholic.

A silver cradle has been presented to the Mayor
of Reading, in Berkshire, on the occasion of the birth of a
son during his mayoralty.

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ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN LADIES.—By the
Marko Edward to-day five `• aboriginal ladies" return to
the mission station at Lake Wellington, Gipps lid after
completing their education in the metropolia• They are
very prepossessing, lady-like persons, and seem qualified
to do much good among their leo educated friends
assembled at that station, under the indefatigable tare of
the Rev. Mr. Hagsnatter.—Md&ourne Argw.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
IN RR H. A. HOLD e.
This was an application for a further stay of proceed.
ings under this bankruptcy. Mr. Holden was a con.
tractor for the construction of public works, carrying on
business in Queen-street, City, residing in Mania-vale.
The adjudication took place about 10 months since, upon
the petition of a creditor, and on the 11th of January the
n meeting of the creditors resolved upon a
liquidation of the estate out of court pursuant to
the terms of • deed of inspectorship, which
Mr. Holden had executed. The proceedings were
accordingly stayed in order that the requisite went might
be procured to the deed with a view to its registration.
The liabilities were of an enormous amount—nearly a
million sterling, and the assets are considered mainly to
depend upon the result of various railway and other con.
tracts in which the bankrupt had been engaged.
Mr. Bagley, on behalf of the assignees, now applied for
a further stay of the proceedings. Since the lfith of
August, when • similar application was granted, further
consents to the amount of 12,000/. had been obtained, and
the liquidators of various companies winding-up hail agreed
to the deed subject to the sanction of the Court of
Cl=. Upon application at the office of the court it
a that the desired authority could not be
obtained at pre as the business was not of a nature
to be taken in the vacation. There was very little doubt
that the sanction of the Court of Chancery would shortly
be obtained.

Mr. &mood, as representing the Oriental Financial
Corporation (Limited), creditors for e4:1,000/.. and Mr.
Dona, counsel for the petitioning creditor, consulted to
the application.
Mr. Reed opposed on behalf of Messrs. Knight and
Mender, large creditors, and strongly objected to any fur.
ther stay, but
His Honour, upon the ground that the bulk of the
creditors considered that the estate could be more satisfac-
torily administered under the deed than in this court, and
that being also his opinion, granted a further stay of the
proceedings until the 9th of December, at 11.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)