The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-03 00:00:00

OZZILINT AND ITALY.

Commenting on the results of the recent war and the
preliminaries of peace, the Times observes so far as Austria
can have anything to say to the contrary, or so far as any
porter wed of the Rhine or east of the Vistula has any
means to gainsay it, Prussia can from this moment,
and relying on the terms of these prelims-
nicks, annex every inch of German territory, and
she makes, indeed, no mystery of her power to do so.
The work of Count Bismarck, so much more colossal and

momentous than that of the Italian statesman Carper, may
show that the unification of Germany will produce results
even more beneficial to the world. The alternative
lies between the " Divine rights " of Princes
and the vital interests of their people ; be-
tween thirty-six reigning Houses, whose sove-
reign rank was at the best of times nominal, and
a nation of thirty-six millions which is anxious to take
its place in the European concert, and has all the will and
power to maintain it. Bismarck sees the horizon widen-
ing before him as he advances ; he feels the ground more
solid beneath his feet at every step. Crisping as Prussian
policy may appear to us, it is eminently patriotic in Ger-
ms& eyes, and German opinion is fast setting in Count
Elsmarck's favour, whether he carries everything before
him by his sole absolute will, or whether he deems it ex-
pedient to seek the sanction of a national parliament.
Mae important addendum to the statement of the
pesos preliminaries previously furnished is, the Tat-
MA remarks, that whereas Prussia was at fast said
to have been guaranteed a specific annexation of territory
detached from various States, she now appears free to
absorb, ►t her own discretion, the whole territory of the
States in question. The importance of this dis-
tinction may be inferred from the fact, that those
which she now oocupies—Hanover, the Hawes,
Nassau, and Brunswick embrace an area of about
23,000 square miles, and a population of nearly four mil-
lions. Add to those possessions the Duchies of Schleswig
and Holstein, the free city of Frankfort, and the reversion
of some smaller principalities, and some idea may be
formed of the magnitude of the altered kingdom, which
will extend from the Niemen to the Ems and the Rhine,
and without a break, except the little Duchies of Meck-
lenburg, from Jutland to Gelicia.
The war, observes the Star, is closed by the imposition
upon Austria of probably the sternest terms ever imposed
during modern history by one great belligerent upon
another. Another Seven Years' War, even were Austria
doomed throughout to a perfect monotony of defeat, could
not have brought upon her conditions of peace more nearly
approaching to abject submission. She has to give up
everything for which she could possibly have had to con-
tend, and to pay heavily for the privilege of being beaten.
She goes out of Germany and consents to recognise the
new sovereignty made by the young rival which has con-
quered and expelled her.
The people of Italy, the Daily News says, are in a state
of extreme irritation. The acquisition of Venetia, the
object for so many years of sacrifice and effort, seems sa
nothing while the army and navy lack that lustre of
achievement which it was eonfidently expected would
illustrate their entrance upon the war. This suscep-
tibility is highly honourable to the Italians, and is a
pledge that the shortcomings now manifest will be repaired.
The Daily News, however, trusts its Italian contempo-
raries will not remind it of the case of Admiral Byng.
They may depend on it that the shortcomings of their
navy are not to be set down to say one, or two, or half a
dozen persons. Those deficiencies denote something wrong
in the administrative system of the Italian navy, the cure
of which is to be sought, in a free country, in the forma-
tion of a habit of publicity, and if the defeat at Lissa
should lead the Italians to take an interest in their army
and navy as intelligent as it is enthusiastic, it may prove
to be not the worst thing that could have happened to
young and hopeful nation.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF 001010N8—Atiotnre 2.

HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION (IRELAND) ACT

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The Queen and Princess Louise drove °Ars-
terdsy afternoon, and the Princess Leiningen visited bar

Majesty.
The Earl of Carnarvon arrived et Osborne, and, with
Lieutenant-General Hon. Charles Grey and Mrs. and Miss
Grey, had the honour of dining with the Queen.
Major... General F. Hugh Seymour and Lieutenant-Colonel
Du Plat have succeeded Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey
and Colonel Hon. A. Hardinge as Equerries in Waiting.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council Chamber,
Whitehall, on the subject of cholera. The Lords present
were the Lord President, the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Northoote'
the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and the Right Han
H. T. L. Corry.
The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Helps,
Mr. Harrison, and Mr. Lumley, attended the committee.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor of Canada. Despatches were sent to
the Governor of Canada.

The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Lady
Margaret Scott have left Montagu House, Whitehall, for
Bowhill. _

The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercom and
the Ladies Hamilton leave Chesterfield Houma at the close
of the ensuing or early in the following week, for Ireland.
The Earl of Romney leaves town to-morrow for
Mote Park, near Maidstone, for the season.
The Earl and Countess of Seafield and Lord

idhaven have left the Clarendon Hotel for Scotland.

Lady Emily Peel has arrived at her residence in
Switzerland. _ _

The Hon. Henry and Mrs. Walpole have left
town for Italy.

Sir F. Bathurst and Lady Bathurst have arrived
at the Queen', Hotel, tipper Norwood.
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Sir Richard and Lady Buxton have arrived at
Foresees's Hotel, from the Continent. . .

Mr. and Lady Elizabeth St. Aubyn have arrived
at Pencarrow from their residence in Grosvenor-sire*

Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard have left Farrance's
Hotel for Aahe High Home, Wickham Market.

THE LABOUR PRNSION FUND IN FRANCE.

The project recommended in the Emperor's let-
ter on this subject is favourably regarded by several of the
Paris journals. The France expresses itself in these
terms :—" The Social Institution, founded by the liberal
initiative of the Emperor for the profit of wounded workmen,
responds to a great moral interest and a grand principle of
public assistance. It continues the series of numerous
institutions of forethought and charity which con-
stitute one of the noblest creations of the present reign,
It is a fresh testimonial of sympathy for the working
populations. The Emperor invites the workmen them-
selves to endow this institution, and to honour themselves
by mutually contributing to ensure their future pros.
perity ; also the State, the departments, and communes,
that occupy so many hands in works of public utility ; and
the railway companies who employ a whole army of func-
tionaries so often exposed to terrible accidents. It is a
vast system of mutual insurers°e against the perils of
labour. Might it not be extended and generalised still
more Might not a contribution, similar to that obtained
from the railway companies, be demanded from all the
chiefs of manufactories and foundries, in proportion to the
number of workmen they employ r .

The Opinion Nationale also expresses great regret that
the utility of the plan has not been more widely ex-
tended. " The only thing," it says, " that could leave
any regret is, that the benefit of the new assurance is not
carried further, that it does not include all the wounded—
all the sick whose invalid state is caused by labour. Their
number would surely surpses eight hundred a year for all
France and for all manual trades, including agriculture.
Society owes this compensation to those who support it,
since it already accords it to whoever is wounded in de-
fending it. The workman also is a soldier, a soldier of the
great army of producers."

WILLS kI.ID BEQtrurrs. —Probate of the will of
the Right Hon. Charles Rodolph Trefusis, Baron Clinton,
was granted, on July 24, to Lord Henry Francis Charles
Kerr and the Rev. Charles!). M. Drake, rector of Hunt-
sh..w, Devonshire, two of the surviving executors and
trust es ; Sir Trevor Wheler, Bart , also an executor and
trustee, having renounced. The personalty was sworn
under 25,0J01. His lordship executed his will February
12, 1862, and died at his seat, Heanton Satchville, near
Exeter, April last, at the age of 75. His lordship com-
mences his will by bequeathing to his wife, Lady Elizabeth
Georgians Baroness Clinton, the residue of his personal
estate for her own absolute use, and also cnarges his
estate with an annuity of 1,00 W., to be paid to her lady-
ship during her life, and leaves to each of his daughters
3,00 W. The remainder of his property he bequeaths to
his eldest son, the present baron, and directs that the books,
pictures, furniture, said articles of ornament at his man-
sion at Heanton Satchville, and all the plate, be held with
the said mansion. He leaves to his butler, Charles Wright,
• legacy of 1001. free of duty. In pursuance of the will of
his uncle, the Rev. John Trefnuis, his lordship appoints
the reversion of all his freeholds in Lenbingey, St. Columbo
Major,Cornwall, to his third son,the Hon. Walter Rodolph
Trefusis.—The will of Charles Beecher, Esq., of Wished',
Cambridgeshire, was proved in London under 100,00 W.
personsity,by the executors and trustees, the Rev. William
B. Hopkins, M.A., vicar of Wiebech, and George Duppa
Collins, Esq., the testator's Pon-in-law, to each of whom
he leaves a legacy of 2001. His will boars date
Jan. 19, 1865, and he died December last at the age of 82.
He confirms the settlement on the marriage of his
wife, and leaves her all property acquired by her
uncle Mountagu, or otherwise, and a certain portion
of his furniture. The plate which had belonged to his
deceased son, Charles, he leaves to his grandson Charles,
and also leaves him the sum of 5,0001. and the estate of
Lambooft, at Kelstere, Lincoln, on his attaining the age of
25. To his grandson, Thomas Boucher, 32,0001., on attain-
ing 25. To his daughter Ellen, 18,0001. the estate of
Upwell, and the rest of his plate on the decease of his wife.
To his daughter Mary Ann, wife of his executor, George D.
Collins, he leaves the rest of his furniture, also his estate
at Weldersley and the Ferry, with several pieces of free-
hold land, and a legacy of 24,0001., to be held during the
joint lives of herself and husband, and afterwards for their
children. To his clerk, William Godwin, 150/., and a legacy
to another clerk, and to his servants. The residue, real
and personal, to be divided into four parts, between his
grandson Charles and his (testator's) three daughters.—
Illustrated London News.
RESIGNATION or ALDERMAN MECHI. —Yesterday
Mr. Alderman Mechi, long the representative of the ward
of Lime-street in the Court of Aldermen, publicly announced
his intention, at a meeting of the inhabitants of the want,
convened at his own request, to resign his gown as an alder-
man. Many of the leading citizens of the ward were pre-
sent, and the announcement appeared to take them by sur-
prise, and gave rise to a unanimous expression of regret
that he should have thought such a step unwary or de-
sirable. Mr. Meal assigned various reasons for it, some
of them of a private nature, but especially dwelt upon what
he conceived to be his inability adequately to support the
dignity. of the office of Lord Mayor, to which he was ap-
proaching by rotation, and stated in effect that so fine •
sense had be of its honour and the importance of the office
in that respect standing well in the public estimation,
that he shrunk from the apprehension of its suffering,
by possibility, in his hands. He has represcnted that
part of the city in the Court of Aldermen since April,
1858, having succeeded to the dignity on the death of
Alderman Farebroiher, and having two years before
filled the office of Sheriff of London. At the meet-
ing yesterday a unanimous and urgent appeal was made
that he would at lean reconsider his intention, but he
stated that he had not taken the step without due delibe-
ration, that he was convinced of its propriety, and that he
was inflexible in his determination to resign. In the result
a committee was formed of the common councilmen for
the ward end other of the principal inhabitants to consider
in what way they could best mark the sense of his services
as a magistrate and their regret at his severing his con-
nexion with them. In the ordinary rotation Mr. Mechi
would have been Lord Mayor in 1869.
MONUMENT TO Mn. SHERIDAN KNOWLES. —An
elegant monument, which will be completed in • few der )s,
has been placed over the remains of the late Sheridan
Knowles, in the Glasgow Necropolis. It has been erected
by a number of friends and former pupils of Mr. Knowles,
when he was a teacher of elocution in Glasgow, and some
of whom are now among our leading citizens. A cenotaph
is enriched with eight pilasters, two being at each comer.
These are highly decorated, and contain, surrounded by
floral ornaments, head' of the principal diameters in Mr.
Knowles's dramas. These comprise William Tell and
Emma, Virginias and his daughter Virginia, Master Walter
and Julia, Caine Grseehos and his mother Cornelia. The
front faring the southbears the inscription in raised letters,
" James Sheridan Knowles. Bora 12th May 1784. Died
30th Nov., 1862." It is proposed to place a breeze medal-
lion of the deceased in the principal part of the sareo-
phasas.—North Ilrehieh Mail.
THE CHOLERA AT Bow.—A night for human.
tion and prayer has been appointed for the people of Bow,
on account of the chokes, whisk has committed feerful
ravages in that district. It is to be held at George-street
Chapel cet Wedneellay, the lloth Wet.

LA 1! INTELLIGENCE.

ATTEMPTED INVASION OF HUNGARY. '
The Prase and the Wanderer of Vienna speak of
an attempt at invasion made by General Klapka, at
the head of some so-called Hungarian volunteers,
on the side of Wagthat, on the Hungarian frontier.
Klapka was speedily obliged to retire towards
Oderberg, because his companions in arms—all
selected from Austrian prisoners—took the oppor-
tunity of rejoining their respective regiments, and
the population exhibited the most complete indif-
ference to the movement.

(srom's TZLEORMIII.)

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