The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-16 00:00:00

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coded bp their present rulers, and undesir' ows of furt
revaltdista:But whowillsek theienginion ? Or which of the
belligeelOs would hesitate sr 112Dment to occupy their
peaeggil villages sfith salifingb or to waste their blooming
fields, from any regard to this mere vulgar scruple about
allegiance ? Silesia is doomed again, as in the days of the
n years' war, to beooine the battle-ground of implacable
'eve
foes, and to be the booty of the stronger. Which will
he prove to be?
On the whole the Economist thinks the Bank of
England exercised • wise caution in not reducing their
rate this week. As soon as full confidence is re-
stored in London, such a reduction would undoubtedly
have the best effect in bringing back notes from the
country. But a premature reduction might defeat its own
end. If the Bank had reduced on Thursday last, and was
obliged within a short time by any untoward event to re-
trace its steps, credit would be more shaken by the relapse
than it was strengthened by the reduction. We had better
wait quietly a little till real credit is revived, and then we
can show that it is so by the appropriate sign.

PROPOSED ENLARGOLLEGE ENIENT OF UNIVER-
SITY C, LONDON.

Tn a recent parliamentary debate, Mr. Gathorne
Hardy alleged that the principle of educating in
common young men of different religious creeds
in institutions theologically neutral had been an
almost complete failure in England. The existence
and constantly growing success during a period of
forty years of University College, London, is a
sufficient refutation of this statement. It was
established in 1826 ; and in 1830 a school con-
ducted on similar principles was founded in
connexion with it. The creation in 1836 of
the University of London, with power
to grant degrees to students of Uni-
versity College and other academic bodies without
distinction of creed, was not the only consequence
of the existence and success of the earlier institu-
tion. The establislunent on similar principles of
the Queen's Colleges and University in Ireland,
and the partial opening of the Universities of Ox-
ford and Cambridge to those who have before been
excluded from them by religious tests, may fairly
be counted among the results which have followed
upon the course taken by the founders of University
College. The success of that institution has not
been confined to example. It has itself outgrown
the accommodation at first provided for it.
When the ground for the college was bought and
the architect's design accepted, it was wisely
thought that the central portion of the building
should be built first, and the two wings left to be
added when need for them arose. That time has
now arrived. erhe increase in all the classes of the
college and in the junior school has created a
want of more class rooms. To remedy this, the
council, if funds could be raised, would probably
build the southern wing according to the original
design. In this they would place the junior school,
and thereby gain for the use of the college the
rooms which the school at present occupies.
It is hoped that for the above purpose the pecu-
niary aid of the friends of liberal education will
not be lacking. The sum of thirty or forty thou-
sand pounds at least will be wanted. All dona-
tions until spent upon the building will bo in-
vested, and the interest held sacred to the purpose
of building the one wing proposed. Should more
money be raised than required for the one wing,
the surplus will be kept invested till it is wanted
for the other wing.

Cite Court.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by
the Countess of Macclesfield, Lieutenant-General Knollys,
and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, honoured the Archbishop
of Canterbury with their company at luncheon at Lambeth,
palace yesterday.
A deputation, introduced by Earl Fortescue, and consist-
ing of Mr. W. Ewart, M.P., Mr. James Yates, Mr. James
Hayward, Mr. Edwin Hill, Mr. Samuel Brown, Mr. David
Mocatta, Professor Frankland, Dr. Farr, Professor Leone
Levi, and Mr. Frank Fellows, had an interview with the
Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson at the office of the Board of
Trade, yesterday, for the purpose of urging the insertion
of clauses in the " Standard Weights, Measures, and Coin-
age Bill," for the purpose of legalising standards of metric
weights and measures, and of inserting metric equivalents
in the statistics of trade.
A deputation, consisting of the following members of
the House of Commons :—Lord Burghley, Mr. Crawford,
Mr. Tits, Mr. Stackpool, Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Grenville, Mr.
C. Edwards, Mr. Capper, Mr. Scholefield, Sir G. Bowyer,
Mr. Ekyn, Mr. McKenna, Mr. H. Berkeley, Sir M. Peto,
Mr. Hordall, Mr. Waterhouse, and Mr. 'Writ', had an
interview with Mr. Childers, the Financial Secretary of
the Treasury, on Thursday afternoon, on the subject of
the superannuation of officers, as affected by the Bank-
ruptcy Bill.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat pester-
,. day. The lords present were the Lords Justices Knight
%erecter Bruce and Turner, and Sir E. V. Williams.

CABINET COUNCIL.—There will be a Cabinet
Council this afternoon at two o'clock, at Earl Russell's
official residence, in Downing-street. The 'summonses
were issued yesterday afternoon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh honoured the Hon.
Mrs. Grey with their company last night at a dance at St.
James's Palace.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales will be the guests of Lord Delawarr, at Knole
House, near Sevenoaks, on Friday, the 29th inst. • dis-
tinguished party have been invited to be present.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
returns to her residence at St. James's Palace to-day, from
Cambridge Cottage, Kew.
Lady Molesworth received at dinner last evening
the Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Abingdon, Viscount and
Viscountess Barrington, Viscount and Viscountess Done-
mile, Lord and Lady Aveland, the Hon. George and Lady
Louisa Fortescue, Mr. and Lady Dorothy Nevill, Sir
Frederick and Lady Elizabeth Arthur, Lady Rolle, Admiral
Sir Thomas and Lady Cochrane, Mr. B. Osborne, M.P.,
and Mrs. Osborne, General Sir Hugh Rose, and Mr. Alfred
Seymour, M.P.
Madame la Duchess° de Colonna and suite have
arrived at the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn-street.
We (Athoueum) understand that the future of
the British Institution is not yet decided. The lease of
the premises, as our readers will not have forgotten, will
expire next year. Built for Alderman Boydell, in 1789,
on the site of Dodaley's house, the present edifice or rather
the lease of it, for 62 years from 1805, was purchased by
the promoters of the British Institution for 4,500 i. and a
rent of 125/. a year. The first exhibition took place on the
17th of February, 1806.
The annual prize offered by her Royal Highness
the Princess of Wales to female members of institutions
in union with the Metropolitan Adult Education Associa-
tion has been awarded to Ellen Louisa Woollard, a
domestic servant of the Lambeth evening classes, who has
passed • satisfactory examination in needlework and
elementary knowledge. The annual gathering of institu-
tions, clubs, ix., will take place at the Crystal Palace
on Monday next, under the patronage of the Prince
of Wales, Prince Alfred, and other distinguished
persons. The arrangements for the day are most
extensive, and include athletic sports, concert by
metropolitan choral societies, Ethardo, Chang and
Mrs. Chang, gymnastic entertainment under the direction
of Mr. Nelson Lee, the Vicorelli Brothers, balloon ascent,
and other entertainments.
SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE ENsunco WEEK.
—Monday, Mathematical, 71 ; Architects, 8. Tuesday,
Statistical, 8, " Economic Conditions of Highlands of
Scotland," Duke of Argyll ; Horticultural, 3, General
Meeting, and Lecture on " Fremontia Californica," Dr.
Bateman. Wednesday—Meteorological, 7 ; Literature,
41; Geological, 8, " Structure of Red Crag," Mr. Wood ;
" Supposed Remains of Crag on North Downs, Folkestone,"
Mr. Bristow ; " The Warp' of Mr. Trimmer," R.V. 0.
Fisher ; " Faults in Drift Gravel, Hitchin, Herta," Mr.
Salter ; " Flint Implements from the Little Ouse, near
Thetford," Mr. Flower ; " Tertiary Formations of W.
lathes," Mr. Guppy ; " New Genera of Carboniferous
Glyptodipterines," " Systematic Position of Chondros-
teus," Dr. Young ; " New Gold Deposits, Eemeraldas,
Ecuador," Lieut.-Col. Neale; "Geology of Paella Coast
of Ecuador," Mr. Wilson ; " Remains of Halitherium,
Malta ; " Fossil Chelonians, Malta," Mr. Adams. Thurs-
day, Numismatic, 7, Annual Meeting ; Chemical, 8,
" Actions of Acids on Metals and Alloys," Messrs. Cram,
Calvert, and Johnson ; Linnean,B, " Serttim Benguelense,"
Dr. Welwitach ; " Cortical Cuneate Rays," Dr. Sigerson
" Lingual Dentition of some West Indian Gasteropodse,"
Messrs. Guppy and Hogg ; " Smaller Crustaceans," Mr.
Edwards ; Royal, 81 ; Antiquaries, 81. Saturday, Bo-
tanic, 3,1.

FENCE.

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THE CONTINENTAL WAR.
It was stated in the Zarin of last Thursday
that, irtibe event of the German Diet deciding in
favour of the Austrian proposition for mobilising
the Federal troops, the Prussians would
probably enter both Hanover and Saxony.
The telegrams from Germany announce that
both those events have taken place, so that war
now exists as a matter of fact. The German Bund,
which has now existed for half a century, is
dissolved. Prussia, the most powerful mem-
ber of the confederation, as a German power,
has seceded and has invaded the territory of her
late allies. It is a curious fact that Baron
von Kubeck, the president of the Diet,
has taken the very same ground which the Northern
States of America took five years ago in reference
to the South, and has denied the right of any one
member of the Confederation to secede. He
has asserted the indissolubility of the Diet.
A conference of the States in alliance with
Austria is announced for to-morrow, with a view
of bringing Holstein within the Bund, and, if neces-
sary, of taking the offensive against Prussia. It is
also a remarkable fact that the war which now
exists is ono which is opposed to the sentiments
of the entire German people. The manifes-
tation of public opinion as exhibited in
the German press, and in the German
assemblies, leaves no room for doubt on
this point. This feeling even extends to the
troops of the two powers more immediately engaged
in the contest. It has been already stated as a
significant fact that the Prussian band played
the Austrian national air when the Austrians
were being pressed out of Holstein by General
Manteuffel. At Radatadt, when the Austria=
and Prussians were retiring from that fede-
ral fortress, the troops on both sides fraternised
together, they ate and drank at the same table,
and treated each other not as enemies but as breth-
ren belonging to a common country. At the
federal fortresses of Mayence and Frankfort,
scenes of the same kind took place. The savage
passions engendered by war may extinguish these
generous sentiments. It is obvious that the Ger-
Man people feel they are dragged into a political
war, in which they have little interest, and it is
not improbable that the course of events may de-
velop their feeling and aspirations in a way that is
little expected by the political belligerents.
The accounts from Italy leave no room for doubt
that the Italian army was on the eve of a general
movement.
Garibaldi has requested his friends to give up
feting him. " The time for action," he says,
" has come, and we must postpone festivals till the
Italian flag floats in triumph from the tower of San
Marco."

(NEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S LETTER.
VIENNA, Juits 16.

The French Cabinet has sent the letter lately
addressed by the Emperor Napoleon to M. Drouyn
de Lhuys to the French representatives abroad,
together with a circular explaining the bearing of
the letter.
The Neue Freie Frew of to-day asserts that
Prince Gortchakoff has sent a circular to the
representatives of Russia abroad stating that upon
the slightest violation of neutrality by France,
Russia will abandon her present neutral attitude.
PARIS, JUNE 16.

The Moniteur of this morning re-produces the
article published in yesterday's Covtatitutionuel, on
M. Emile de Girardin's interpretation of the
letter of the Emperor Napoleon.

THE FEDERAL DIET.

PARIS, Sint 16.

It is asserted that the recent proceedings of the
Federal Diet have determined several powers sig-
nitaries of the Vienna treaty of 1815 to doelare
that in their opinion articles 64 and 63 of that
treaty, which form part of European international
law, have been violated.
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FRANKFORT-01C-THE-MAINE, Jews 16.
Prince Charles of Bavaria will be appointed
commander-in-chief of the Federal army.

PRUSSIAN OCCUPATION OF SAXON TOWNS.
PRAGUE, Jusz 16.
The entry of the Prussian troops into Saxony is
fully confirmed.
They have occupied Lobau and Zittau within
the eastern frontier of Saxony, and also threaten
an advance from the Prussian towns of Schkenditz
and Zeitz, on the western frontier.
The railway between Riess and Dresden has been
destroyed.
Passenger traffic and postal communication be-
tween Prussia and Saxony is stopped.
The Crown Princess of Saxony proceeds to
Vienna.

The Saxon Treasury and valuables and the pro-
visions of the army have been transported for
security to Bohemia.

MECKLENBURG.

BERLIN, Jcwi 16.

It is expected that Mecklenburg will afford
active support to Prussia for the defence of the
Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein.

HANOVER.

HANOVER, JuN's 16.

The King of Hanover and the Crown Prince set
out last night fur the camp of the army, which is
being concentrated near Gottingen.
The Queen and the royal princesses remain here.
It is rumoured that a ministerial crisis exists.