The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-27 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nor ova owx co]

TAM. THURSDAY Zvi=la.

The Prase learns with regret that the negotia-
tions are not going on so quickly or so well as was
hoped. After the Emperor of Austria had accepted
the preliminary bases of peace as modified by
France, four Austrian commissioners were sent to
the King of Prussia's head-quarters to discuss the
terms of the armistice. It was then that difficulties
arose—not only on amount of the military requisi-
tions of Prussia on the subject of the armistice, but
also on account of political pretensions which were
revealed on the occasion of certain explanations
demanded by the Austrian commissioners as to
the meaning of certain demands, specified in
general terms in the preliminaries. Are these
pretensions an unexpected development of
conditions which the French government and the
Court of Vienna were justified in thinking per-
fectly clear ; or are they, as certain versions sug-
gest, collateral conditions added as corollaries
to the original demands 1 We cannot answer this
question. In Italy things are even less advanced.
The Italian government, while consenting to the
principle of an armistice, objects that Prussia
subordinated her acquiescence to the acceptance
by Austria of the bases of peace, and that no bases
of peace are definitively established between
Austria and Italy. If the armistice between
Austria and Prussia were signed, Italy would
adhere to it immediately, but without considering
herself bound to any terms of peace as to the dis-
tinct questions which concern Italy, and upon
which she would open separate negotiations.
The Pays says :
We regret to state that in Italy there are yet several
difficulties both as to the armistice and the preliminaries
of pesos. Italy persists, it is said, in claiming other ter-
ritories than Venetia.
The Petrie says that Italy makes the cession of
the Trentine country a condition of peace. Austria
at first refused, but after the late military events
in that part of the Tyrol, Italy reiterated her de-
mand, and France, without expressing any opinion,
transmitted the claim to Vienna. The result is
not known.

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The Bourse was firmer under the influence of a
rise of } in Console and the absence of anyl
important news, but the amount of business done
was small. Rente rose 22ic. for cash and 25c.
for account, closing at 68fr. 90c. and 58fr. 95c.
Italian rose 250., closing at &2fr. 50c. ; Mobilier
rose Bfr. 75c.

UNIYHRSITY COLLNOB SCHOOL, LONDON.

Bo important an event in the history of the
aahaal as AO retirement of its first viee-master is not to
occur without due public acknowledgement of his greet
services to the cause of liberal education. The numerous
former pupils of that gentleman, together with the boys at
present in the school, are subscribing largely towards the
end of presenting him with some fit teslimoMel sitar the
summer recut. Mr. Cam well merits the meet dislim t
pushed humus whisk the public, appreeistion of his ser
vices could suggest. He has filled for three years the Office
of Moe-muter, under Professor Key, but he began teach- th
ing in the school as assistant-master eighteen years ego.
From that period he km always enjoyed the ronfidenso of J
his colleagues, and the effeetionate Tempest of his scholars.
He Laves the school in order to be able to devote himself, 11
at his own new home, on Hampelead-heath, more closet
to the training of his own immediate pupils. He does
withdraw from the great work of his life, which Is only
be carried forward in another meaner. The post whirl% lie
vacates has been well filled up by the election of Kr. IF ir-
ton, but the feeling with which the retiring master 4 re-
garded may be judge:Ur the address subjoined, which
the meters of the to him on Satan
bat, at a dinner to which fi, invitedd him, at the Ship,
Greenwich. The address, which wee beautifully written
on vellum, had been also illuminated by the head drawieg
master, in a most exquisite manner ; and the meeting.
which was presided over by the oldest master now, the
Professor of German in the College, was one of de,
interest:
"To William Arthur Caws, Hu., M.A., he., Visellastfir
of University College School.
" Sir,—The mei/tent masters, your asecciatee—most of
them foe p.m yoare—to Ws 'important week
in the University College School, desire to •rirxdipsivereillitr-wv-- • --vsyssw.o43lfili
" ' ' --4;.hdrainv- it of

deep zegret at the conismplatext your
veined compathoaship end public service. The duties d
the teacher, laborious at all times, and often severely try.
ing, when they are discharged conscientiously, have
so notarially lightened in our experience by the sperj
genial co-operation which you have in many ways
betted to maintain amongst us, while each hoe rectiveao
much of ready kindness and attention wader your
martership, that we feel ourselves about to suffer in
retirement from that position, and from the place
have so Um held ea one of our most Weems"' feline-
labourers, an equal pereonal and collective loss. Ad the
proved and trusted friend of all will you be:nlza
remembered. Already had your h h-minded e
new and disinterestedness of character, sad the
oonscientious seal d your long service in the cl
city of an assistaist-ethator, obtained for youia
profound respect of all connected with the college
when, by the authority of the eminsil, you wens appointed
to the higher post which you have for three years se ho-
noursbly occupied, in our judgment with so much ability.,
and in the estimation of the public with such rata
acceptance. The universal °mildew* which you enjayed,
together with your acknowledged learning and great ex-
ponent* and skill in teaching, the well understood
tioa of your life to the most enlightened principles cid=
cation. sad year masterly appreciation of the characteristic
excellences and "ride capabilities of the liberal sys-
tem on which our school is established, sin
justified an appointment regarded at the time with
sure by your colleagues, and that has sinesproved to
the masters an occasion of unmixed gratification. No
happier wish mould be conceived in the interest of the
school than that the duties of the office about to be vacated
by you may her efficiently perferssed by your ithessoor ;
with the rasa wise end tlosgbiful coodderstion for
pupils, parents, and instructors, and the same cordial
sympathy with every effort of the masters to maintain,
by a course of constant improvement, the high character
of the institution by which your whole adminis-
tration of the affairs of the school under our 'repeated
head-master has been distinguished. It gives las pleasure
to understand that, in the work for which jou ars,
so eminently fitted, and under circumstances eillogsther
congenial to your own feelings, you aro to be still engaged.
We trust that your future labours will be bonoa»d with
the success which you have always moat desired, in
forming the youth entrusted to your intellectual guidance
to an elevated standard of moral and social character. Be
assured that the tradition of your enlarged and liberal
views, as well as of your generous and kindly toluenes in
the place where so considerable a part of your life has been
spent, is not destined soon to pass away. Nor will it be
without many pleasant associations that you will hereafter
recall the years which you have devoted, with us, to the
discharge of duties, onerous, indeed, in whatever light
regarded, and of a kind whose honest fulfilment no common
price could reward, but bearing another and a yet higher
character when they are fulfilled, as webelieve you to have
invariably performed them, with that true nobleness of
spirit which seeks not lees the good of others then the
satisfaction of its own conscientiousness. We beg you to
accept our cordial and hest wishes for yourself, for the
honoured and beloved companion of all your usefulness,
and for every member of a family which is already happy
in the affectionate care of a father whom his large expe-
rience of the love of others must render peculiarly sweep?
tible to the endearing charities of home."

Tux RIGINT'S PAILI.—A deputation from the
vestry of St. Marylebone, consisting of Messrs. Heine,
Ward, Chinnisek, and Nichelay, introduced by Mr. Harvey
Lewis, M.P., and Mr. Chambers, M.P., and aocompuded
by Mr. Greenwell, velar, clerk, and Dr. Whitmore, medi-
cal officer of health, had an interview with Lord John
Manners, on Wednesday, on the subject of the enoroach-
menta which lad been made by the owners el villa re-
sidences, in raking mounds and extending their enclosures
upon those portions of the park appropriated to the re-
ereation of the public. Dr. Whitmore also drew his lord-
ship's attention to the filthy state of the ornamental water,
and stated that about a year ago he bad called Mr.
Cowper's attentnn to the subject, but with the exception
d forcing an additional quantity of water into the lab,
nothing had ben. done to remedy the evil. The water was
now in a most flthy state, and at th'• season, when
cholera wee threatening and had actually appeared in many
parts of the metropolis, it was important that some 2:
should be immedately taken to purify it. Lord J n
Manners reoognlaei the great importance of Dr.
more's communication, to whom he expressed his thanks
for bringing the subject under his notice, and promised
to ve both subjectebia early and earnest attention.
EARLY CLONING AT DRPTTORD.—The employets
in the drape, trades ef Deptford net yesterday at the
Mechanics' Institution, to consider the question of 'e-
ducing their hours at business. A general feeling in
favour of the object of the meeting was ',premed, end
malted is an unanimous agreement to close on erdiaary
nights at eight in the summer and seven in the winter, and
on Saturdays at 10 o'clock, in the first instance, instead
of 11 sad 12. A vote of thanks was pissed by the seventeen
employers present to the chairman, Mr. NV. B. Hichasn,
and to the Early Closing Aasociation, which had, in
sponse to • memorial from the body of eminent', lent
its kind Mises to bring about the present meeting of

rafYara:.tilt Pataer..—Notwithstanding the threat-
ening weather 96,964 persons were present at the Uinta-
nation Cl fountains aid fireworks last evening. Ethartio
only made a partial ascent, the spiral board having
wet and slippery. After the first two rounds he =
I the ball to fall into the net impended below, be himself
jumping on to the board, and thus descending. The fire-
works and lighting up of the fountains produced great ex-
citement, the dement of the comets being the feature of
the evening. I baled concert will be given ttmennew
afternoon at 5 o'clock, Mr. Sims Reeve., Mir Louisa
Pyne, Mims Edmonds, Mr. Bentley, Mr. Levy, and Madame
Arabella Goddard being the principal artistes. The palace
will be brilliantly ilhiniested at night.
QURESSLAND ENIOILLTION.—The ship Queen of
the Colonies, 1,346 tons, belonging to Mesas. T. If
Mackay, Son, and Go., sailed on the 21st Mat. from
Gravesend, and 24th from Spitkead, for Queeesilied,
Daniel Owen, commander ; surgeon-superintendent, Dr.
H. Scott, assisted by Miss Barker, matron. The Queen of
the Colonies la the filet vessel that has sailed on the
Lad-order system of emigration, under the immediate
direction of Mr. Jordan, agent-general for the Queensland
government. She contains 307 sore, divided into paying,
masted, and free passengers, and consisting of 905 MOM-
bees of families I 127 single men ' • 46 single females.
Ones roe rim Flamm ALICY. —A correspon-
dent writing from the camp of Chalons on the needle-gun
says : ' Many of the breech-loading viers spoken of lately
by the ifcraileor have been presented by inventors of
various countries. Several American 'nes were of a mart
ingenious methanism and admiral:de workmanship ; an
excellent Mexican carbine also cummandid attention. .All
these arum have been compered, their retractive qualities
noted is well as their defects. Every confidence may
then/ere be reposed ini the selection now made,
in which speed of Are has not been the sole requisite
, sought for. The advantage, often more mparent than
' real, seduces in the fine instance those who. do not take
into wasideration its ineinvenience, tad in may lamellae§
its impracticability. But without neglecting rapidity of
fire, it has been desired to ally it to that of precimon,
mash mere rapidity, Vies awed to excemprechides.
The needle-gin already in use in some regiments of the
Feszereneeh principlesec ytteuhrowurior. toletalizet.sother witeapossia
wroentruthee
ila the heeds of the moldier. fad. Became it is lighter
i (the ordinary rites ymjgheil_kno. 310, sad the Pitmen
needle-gun 3rd. Because
wesideateatbalrlcagkes
I quite ea pseetteting at e pelt distiller mile Prumianoes,
weighs a third Les. FineS ,te them considerable advan-
tages the important mend M added that car pin
feeteeine are established an a male whit& permits teen`
i producing 10,000 a week ; and, further, tin oar protest
i: Met 0111 hat if Decaller7. csaverted oak needle-gen of
Ilmrpiabus ettorsid."

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Cite erPrefiL

TO CORRESPONDENTS
nuirtteetnente intended for The Express," Lando' Emily'
Paper, mutt be at the Moe, 10, Donrerlastreet„ by two
o'c'ock on the day of publication.

WAVV4OWWT

the Prussian successes have di
have proved beyond a doubt t

merged.
aria wh

mere raw material of an army is concerned there
are other qualifications as desirable as sheer
physical force. The better education of the
Prosnan troops has had considerable influence on
the issue of the war. It has enabled the Prussian
Government to entrust them with a weapon which
in leas careful hands might in a great measure have
failed to do its work ; and it bas given the Prussian
commanders the immense advantage of being able
to rely on their men for the carrying out of every
order with the careful quickness of intelligent obe-
dience. We fear that in these respects the English
soldier would lose considerably by being contrasted
with his brethren in any other service. Certainly
he was proved in the Crimea to be far inferior to
the French private in all those qualities which are
conferred by general mental training. We attach
great importance, therefore, in relation to the
effectiveness of our army, to the spread of educa-
tion among the rank and file of a regiment. Nor
should we omit making any moderate changes in
the position of our soldiers which may attract a
higher type of recruit. We are not anxious, in-
deed, to see ours a middle-class army, as there
are political dangers attendant upon such an ar-
rangement as that, which are beyond the scope of
these remarks. But if by some small increase of pay,
or some modification of the course of promotion,
we could lay hold of the wilder spirits among the
middle classes, we should provide an outlet for
energies which are now often misapplied, and at
the same time effect considerable improvement in
the composition of oar regular army.

Nor again have we as yet experienced the ad-
vantages which, it may be hoped, would accrue to
us in time o: war from our Volunteer service.
We do not wish to give undue praise to a body
that has already received at least its full share of
military compliment ; but it would be difficult to
overrate the benefit to be looked for in case of
need from the presence throughout the country
of so many centres of military organization. The
Volunteers would afford the first and most obvious
source to which we might turn for the increase of
the army, while the gaps thus left in their
ranks would be speedily filled by new re-
cruits, who would in this way find the means
of training brought home to their own doors. There
is one point, however, connected with this part of
the subject on which much has still to be done. We
have hitherto almost entirely neglected the training
of our Volunteer officers, and there are two co‘ent
reasons why this, neglect ought to be no lonrzer
permitted. In the firlt place, wn should hay^ no
officers competent to command the V olunteere if
they were called out into active rerviee. In the
second place, we should find considerable difficulty
in obtaining the officers who would be needed if
there were any large and sudden increase of
the lamer trovh Lk)* these requirements
might, perhaps, be provided for by a more
systematic training. Schemes of this sort must
of source be left to the military authorities
to devise, bill it May not unduly be impressed on
that some cbseze in this direction is wanted
to secure the full utility of Volunteer i5.1.4.:T.1%
either as the leaders of their own men, or as the
most appropriate nursery for the regular army.

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zninto. THE BALANCE OF 001(101?. Mr. Howe
and Wm Ada Cay.•udlah.—THE POOR GENTLEMAN. Mr.
Compton and Mn. ChiprLendala —LEND ME FIVE ISMILLINGS.
Mr. Bur/atone —And A DAUOBTERTO MARRY.

MINOAN%
TWO warm, TEI HUGUENOT CAPTAIN. Mum.
and G. Homy; Mires NeEwa, Augusta Thomson, and Mrs.
ElthUng.—ADd QUIET LODGING&

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BRITAMIRA.
Tau EVINTVG, THE DUSTMAN'S TREASURE ; OR. WEOO
AND THE BOFFLVI.—Mr. Mark Floyd Herr Busman ; Joe
Land; and Latterßandera—And THE DARK ROUES

MR. Casszas GILPIN has given notice that he
will move to-night for a " copy of correspondence
" between the Board of Admiralty and Admiral
" HOPE, on the conduct of naval officers in the
" recent deplorable occurrences in Jamaica." We

upon plod
. Thiel are
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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE
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understand that this moat reasonable motion is to
be opposed, and that Mr. GILPIN will press the
matter to a division. The public are aware of the
allegations that have been made—many of them
upon oath—concerning the conduct of certain
officers of the Navy in Jamaica, and they
know how the present Government has
dealt with them. The Royal Commissioners
having pushed their inquiry far enough to show
that the allegations were only too well founded, left
the further prosecution of the case to the Admi-
ralty. What followed was that which every one
foresaw. The Admiralty does not exist to punish
offences against the subject, and it declined to
pursue the inquiry. Mr. DISRAELI thinks this
ought to be quite satisfactory to the public. If,
however, this is to be the end of the matter, then
our boastings of the solid guarantees of the
liberty of the subject found in our laws and in-
stitutions are as idle and vain as the confidence
of the Austrians in their army, or any other wide
spread firmly held delusion. We trust that Liberal
Members will show to-night that that liberty still
has vigilant guardians, and that martial law will
not be allowed to cover the worst atrocities.

Presuming that the retirement of the Reform League
from the field of action will be followed by the immediate
cessation of disturbances, and remarking that the govern-
ment has exercised a just discretion in offering to allow a
meeting on Primrose-bill, the Times proceeds to say
it has no doubt what the legal decision as
to the meeting in the parks will be, and hopes
it is not too much to believe that the members of the
League will ask themselves in their calmer hours of what
use these monster processions and inflammatory harangues
can be. Are opponents convinced or conciliated by them,
or is it not rather the fact that feelings of disdain are
generated for the utterer' of the inflated nonsense poured
forth on such occasions, and of distrust of the wild powers
which are led hither and thither and played upon by such
performers, _

LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 27.

The Daily News shows that what has happened is the
complete canna, of police government, but not a word is to
be said against any fair attempt decently to cover
the retreat of the authorities, provided only that his-
torical truth be respected. The Times has involved
itself in a maze of contradictions in the matter, and this

WE do not wonder that the results of the battle
of Sadowa have led Englishmen to think with
some apprehension of the part which their own
country would play in a great European war. The
sudden collapse of a great military system and the
equally sudden exaltation of a new military
Power are formidable facia for a nation whose
principal strength has hitherto lain in that insular
position, the old value of which has been so mate-
rially lessened by the advance of naval science.
What sort of an army should we have to pit against
the trained levies which France or Prussia can
bring into the field at so short a notice, and employ
to such terrible purpose t War has become
a game the issue of which seems tc be decided by
a single throw. With what chances should we give
battle on the hills of Kent or the downs of Sussex if
the legions of an invading army were substituted for
that mimic enemy which is amually routed at
Brighton on Easter Monday f It must be
admitted that the obvious masers to these ques-
tions are not as satisfactory as one could wish ;
but at the same time there are some gleams of com-
fort in the prospect which may save us from
absolute despondency. Diplomacy has not yet
rivalled the promptitude of war ; and it is hardly
likely that we shall find ourselves face to face
with an enemy without some time for prepara-
tion. If this can be secured, the vastness of our
material resources ought to stand us in good
stead. Austria failed to profit by such an inter-
val, because she had neither money nor credit to
enable her to turn it to the best account ; but un-
less bankruptcy in one or other of these forms
shall have overtaken us in the meantime, the wealth
of England ought to secure a speed and complete-'
ness of preparation such as can be equalled
by no other nation. Nor is our physical isolation,
though less complete than it was before the in-
vention of steam, to be altogether left out of the
calculation. Even an indecisive naval battle
might be enough to prevent the landing of an
army ; and one of our discarded ships of the line
might prove a formidable antagonist to a, heavily
laden troopship.
We are very far, however, from denying that
the lessons of the German war ought to be seri-
ously taken to heart by our military authorities. We
cannot keep on foot in time of peace an army which
shall compare with the huge levies of continental
Europe. But we can, and ought to, maintain anarmy
that shall equal in completeness of equipment and
in efficiency of Graining anything to which it can ba
opposed. Of >aurae the first step to such a con-
summation as this is the arming our troops with
the best and moat serviceable weapon that science
can supply. We have learnt during the last few
weeks this the strength of an army is to be
counted not so much by the number of its men as
by the umber of the shots that it can fire.
But tie second step in this direction need
not, as it seems to us, consist in a headlong rnah
into a vastly increased expenditure. At all events,
before any such course receives the sanction of
Parfiament, it would be well to ascertain whether
oar military estimates are really turned to the
best account, and whether we always get our
money's worth for the money that is annually voted
for them. We have no very sanguine faith
in the result of a Royal Commisaion, but that
particular instrument of knowledge has often been
brought into play for less important objects than
would be involved in an inquiry into the comma-
retire cost of our own and of some other armies.
The importance of superior arms is not all that

the Daily News proceeds to prove by contrasting the
reports of the interview of the League with the Home
Secretary, with the comments thereupon in the Times.
Kr. Walpole did withdraw the police and the military
from the park on Wednesday; Mr. Belles did receive
permission to hold his meeting, and actually held
it. Looking, however, to the future, the Daily News
expresses a hope that we may be permitted to
return at once to a state of tranquillity. The state
of things is more complicated now than it was. It is
too eon to begin the out-door political campaign which is
to usher in the next session, and apart from any permia-
"lon which the government may be ready to grant, it is to be
hoped that the Reform League will be satisfied with what
they have gained, and that great out-door meetings may be
postponed to some more convenient time.
The Herald pats Mr. Holyoske on the back and describes
him as much more of a working man's friend and a
reformer than Mr. Beals, and the Standard calls him a
man of high honour and probity, " commanding the
respect of all who know his reverence for truth and his
thorough loyalty in all dealings with friend or foe." The
latter paper uses very violent language towards the
League, more than insinuating that the misconception on
their part was wilful, atd adding that it is for the legis-
lature to consider whether any and what steps may be
necessary to protect the dignity and freedom of parlia-
mentary deliberations against such insult' as those com-
mitted, or such outrages as those threatened, by the Re-
form League under the instigation of "men like Mr. Bright
and Mr. Mill."

The railin,ga have sot been replaced in
park, but workmen are actively and numerously employ,
is repairing the damage in this direction. The hoarding
ki being rapidly proceeded with, sad for 201216 distance
along Park-lane is already completed. All signs of the
destruction which was committed upon the tress and plan-
tations have disappeared.
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An interview took place yesterday between Mr. John
Stuart Mill, ELP., Mr. M'Cullagh Toren', M.P., Mr.
White, M.P., and Mr. Alderman Lusk, M.P., on the one
part, and Mr. Oremer and Mr. Joseph Goodell*, on behalf
of the National Reform League, at which interview the
four first-named gentlemen gave their promise severally
to attend the greet meeting of the League on Monday
next, to be held probably at Primrose-hill. Mr. John
Bright, M.P., had, by telegram, expressed his willingness
also to be present, and to address the assembly. His only
misgiving, he said, was on account of his voice, which,
he feared, would be inadequate when exercised in the
open air.
After the proceedings at the House of Commons, the
office of the Reform League, in Adelphi-terrace, was
crowded by persons of respectable appearance, who had
come to tender personal evidence of extreme and unpro-
yoked violence by the police.
At the meeting of the vestry of St. Ann's, Westminster,
last evening, Mr. Walpole's letter, 'in reference to the
swearing-in of special oomrtables, was read and considered.
The following resolution was unanimously agreed to :
" That this vestry are of opinion that to swear in special
constables is unnecessary and inexpedient."
At the usual weekly meeting of the Marylebone vestry,
held yesterday, the reading of Mr. Walpole's communica-
tion, occasioned derisive laughter from some of the mem-
bers, and a motion having been made and seconded, that 1
the request be granted, Mr. Hallam moved an amendment,
" That the communications from the Home Secretary lie
on the table." He was strongly supported by Means.
Holcombe, Soden, and others, and as strongly opposed by
Professor Marks, Dr. Bachboffner, and other members.
Mr. Nicholay said he had a memorial from ratepayers of
the parish, asking permission to hold a meeting in the
vestry-hall to protest against the conduct of the police in
the park, and suggested the withdrawal of the amendment,
so that the government and the people might have the um
co' the hall. Mr. Hallam withdrew his amendment, to the
great chagrinof armed his supporters, who wished to divide
the board on the question. The vestry then agreed that the
Home Secretary should be informed that they would agree
to his requests.
The following appears in a contemporary:
"Sir,—As Mr. Walpole denies the fact that orders were
issued to the military to load with ball-cartridge on Mon-
day night, the Zird inst., I beg to state that, at or about
9 p.m. on the evening in question, the company of Guard'
immediately under the Marble Arch received the order to
do so from the officer in command. I myself saw this
order carried into effect, and, at the same time, to asouro
myself of the fart, I picked up and examined the pi inEcl
paper in which governmental ball-cartridges are usually
packed.—l am, &c., "H. TEMPLIC HUIPIIEZTS.
" 23, Weatbourne-park-road, July 26."

The Telegrupk is almost overwhelmed with an enormous
marls of evidence respecting the violence of the police
during the last few days. It has received reams of cor-
respondence, testifying in the most circumstantial manner
to instances in which policemen, from sheer brutality and
cite, maltreated persons who took no pert in the meet-
Myr - who were not even drawn into the crowds—who
offend not the smallest show of resistance to the consti-
tuted authorities. Even in by-streets far away from the
main throng, casual passengers were, to their utter
amazement, assaulted in pure wantonness of passion.
The Telegraph selects a few statements from an enor-
mous heap of letters relating to the subject, and con-
cludes by expressing a hope that some of the sufferers will
appeal to a British jut/ for redrew.
The Star says Lord Derby's statement last night was a
repudiation of Mr. ‘'," all of sa we 'l as of the Reform
League, and invitee the prPhlit E 4 6thuirt ;;;;;
Tektft-r ,•!' thr care. On Monday night -meetings were
held in Hyde-park in defiance of the government. On
Wednesday night meetings were held there by the consent
of the very member of the government supposed to be
officially responsible. But on Thursday the head of the
government announces that rather than allow a meet-
ing to be held there next Monday night, even
by friendly arrangement and without prejudice to
legal rights, he will repudiate his colleague,
offend the reformers whose aid only yesterday
that colleague was glad to solicit, and endanger
ore* again the peace of the whole metropolis.
Were the reformers to insist on holding their meeting in
Hyde-park next Monday, he could no more prevent them
than be could control the rising of the tide. But the
truth is that heitrusts as much as Mr. Walpole did to the
peacefulness and loyalty of the reformers of London—
only that Mr. Walpole frankly avowed his confidence,
while Lord Derby conceals it in order to make a vapouring
display of cheap courage.

The secretory of the Reform League has received a letter
requesting that a deputation from that body should meet
the City Lands Committee to-morrow (Saturday) morning
for the purpose of considering what arrangements should
be mad* with respect to the proposed reform meeting at
Guildhall.

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The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with
Princess Imam, and valked in the grounds this morning
with the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Louise, end
Princess Beatrice.

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Prince Leopold went out also.
Sir Stafford Nortlicote arrived at Osborne yesterday,
and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the
royal family.
Her Majesty held a council to-day at 1 o'clock, at which
were present, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Devon,
and Sir Stafford Northcons.

The Duke of Buckingham had an audienoe of the
Queen.
Mr. Helps was Clerk of the Council.
After the Council Mr. William Bovill (Solicitor• General)
was introduced by the Lord Chamberlain to her Majesty,
who conferred upon him the honour of knighthood.
Lady Augusta Stanley has arrived at Osborne.

At the Council held yesterday, by the Queen at Osborne,
an order wu passed extending until the 30th of November
next, the prooidons relating to the slaughter of animals
contained in the first part of the Cattle Diseases Prevention
Act (1866).

OFTELLIGENCE.

(REUTERS TELEGRAMS.)
PRUSSIA.

A deputation, consisting of the Chamberlain and Re-
membranoer of the City of London, the chairman of the
Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee, the chairman of the
Improvement Committee, and the chairman of the
Local Taxation Committee, end the rogishar of the Cos
Market, had an interview with Lord J. Manners, at the
office of her Majesty's Works, &c., Whitehall-place, yes-
terday.
A deputation from the Islington vestry, introduced by
Mr. W. T. Torrens, M.P., and M. Alderman Lusk, M.P.,
and consisting of the churchwardens, the overseers, the
vestry clerk, and Mews. Harney, Fa, Young, Vincent,
King, and Savage, had an interview with Lord J. Manners,
at the office of her Majesty's Works, Ice., on Tuesday, on
the subject of the Finsbury-park.
Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial-
office, from the Governors of Gibreltar, Malta, and Canada.
Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar,
Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Llama, the
Australian Colonies, New Zealand, the Cape, Natal, and
Canada.

The Duke of Hamilton left town yesterday on a
tour of visits. Lord Charles Hamilton Douglas embarked
yesterday for India.
The Right Hon. Sir Henry Bulwer has arrived at
the Clarendon Hotel from Paris.
In the Landed Estates Court, on Wednesday,
counsel for Mr. Barry, M.P., stated that his client was
prepared to undertake the resale of the O'Donogbue pro.
perty and make good any delciency that might result.'
Mr. Barry will be allowed to sell either publicly or pd.-
Irately.
Prussia at the present moment has some cavalry
officers of high repute, smug whose names are these of
the Prince Frederick Charles himself, of his uncle Prince
Albrecht, who at present oommands the cavalry corps of
the First Army, of the chief of the staff of the cavalry
corps, Lieutenant-Colonel Von Witzendorff, and of Von
Borcke, who was the chief of the staff of the celebrated
Confederate cavalry of General Stuart during the late war
in America. This het officer, although still suffering pain-
fully from a wound received in an action before Gettys-
burg, volunteered his services to his own country as soon
as the present war broke out, and is now attached to the
staff of Prince Frederick Charles.

A Paris correspondent writes :—" The war has
kept in Parisi • number of the fashionable world, who, at
the present season of the year, ought to be imbibing salu-
brious mineral waters, indulging in pretty exentric
toilettes, and, in fact, representing Paris many hundred
miles away from this capitaL But the court is still
at St. Cloud, the ministers are all at home, diplomacy
was never more busy, and many of the hotels which
are usually shut in July remain open to receive the
visits of the fashionable world. This has produced
• singular effect in the vein of thought of the female
mind. Instead of ladies discussing yellow boots for the
seaside, the mode of hat which is best suited for ocean's
rude breese, and the peculiar jacket and skirt which
would look pretty at the promenades of Baden-Baden,
or Homburg, Trouville, Dieppe, kc., they are
vigorously discussing military tactics. You go into
a drawing-room and find two or three large maps
stuck on the walls. A group of half • dozen ladies
present to you ► variety of prodigiously-elaborated
chignons, fearfully and wonderfully made. Yon see
nothing of their fame, for they are all intent on find-
ing out the names of the places occupied by Austrians,
Prussians, or Italians, and sticking pins, surmounted by
little flag; on those spots where the telegraph tells us the
combatants are mumbled. You may ask them questions
en ordinary events, but the basks of the heads, with their
vast astsai bosses, show so eigue of your wows. The
Image mind is dominated by Mara, and the moat lively
debates take place by the respective partisans of Austria
and Prussia."

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THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE.

The proclamation of inertial law in Lower
Austria is one of the moat significant and charac-
teristic facts produced by the war, which has for
the present at least ceased to exist between Austria
and Prussia, and is the strongest indication that
can be given of the temper and feeling which per-
vade the population of Vienna. According to the
telegram which announces this fact, suspension of
the laws for the protection of personal liberty and
the inviolability of domicile has been rendered
necessary "in order to ensure the safety
of the army and the preservation of
public orderiVand tranquillity," whilst the
official journal says that it has been " simply
necessitated by the presence of so many foreigners
in the country." The proclamation of martial law
was assuredly unnecessary for the effecting of
the latter object. The staunchest friends of
Austria will admit that the expulsion of
strangers from any portion of her territory
is a proceeding too much within the
ordinary operation of her government to require
any extra-legal measures to enforce it ; and what
effect the presence of strangers in the capital could
have on the safety of the army it is difficult to con-
ceive. If the proclamation of martial law is in-
tended to keep down the expression of popular feel-
ing in Vienna it cannot fail to have a
most prejudicial effect throughout the empire
and especially in Hungary. In the presence of the
vast army now in Vienna the inhabitants of the
capital have only to submit, but in the actual con-
dition of Austria this change in the field
of operations from a war against Prussia
to a war against the population of the
central province and nucleus of the empire
is calculated to produce most disastrous results.
The real motive of the measure is probably this—
that there is a strong feeling in Vienna, and espe-
cially in the army, against peace on the terms pro-
peeled. It is said that the Archduke Albert and
General Gablenz are strongly opposed to the pro-
' posed peace, and indignant that the Austrian
army should have to succumb to the defeat
of Kuoiggratz without an attempt to re-
verse the disgrace of that fatal day.
At the council held last Monday the Archduke is
repented to have expressed his confidence in the
army, and his opinion that his troops were in a
condition to ..ve the monarchy and to restore the
-pro.,Ligi. the imperial a we. Thu mime feeling
luau vo.,k in the militsey journal, the Caftan/de,
which c 0.1 ;t: cif in the follo.ing terms :

What, A., w pore ! It =nut be, it must not
be. A uow would be the ruin ad dinadesee of
Austria, the annihilation of her position am a great power.
of her brave army and of her fleet. It is not for the latter
that we demand the continuation of the struggle. No. Mi-
litary honour is safe, bat we demand it for Austria; for her
brave and devoted people ; for the entire country. No
peace save such a one as Austria will have a right to
impose after having vanquished her enemies.

The Emperor, however, is said to have declared
that after signing the preliminaries of peace there
was no longer any room for such discussions, and it
was probably with a view of preventing them and
the results to which they may lead that the decree
for the establishment of martial law was issued.
If so it may be regarded as a strong indication of
the determination of the Austrian government to
accept the situation such as the fortune of war
has made it, and to agree to the proposed terms of
peace. On the other hand there appears to be a
strong feeling at Berlin in favour of continuing the
11 war until a new German empire has been created
under the house of Hohenzollern.

BERLIN, JULY 27.

A deputation composed of Baron von Roths-
child and three senators has arrived here from
Frankfort, and was received yesterday by the
minister Baron von der Heydt and Count Eulen-
burg. The members of the deputation also had
a long conference with Baron Werther and Herr
von Savigny.