The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 181

were less of natural beauty in Great Britain than
there is it would be scarcely less worthy of our
regard. Topography is the handmaid of history.
If we would know accurately what our great men
have done we must visit the spots they have made
famous by words or deeds. There is not an Eng-
lish county which has not won for itself a
page in our annals, there is scarcely a
parish which has not given birth oreducationto some
illustrious man. Open any one of Mr. MURRAY'S
admirable handbooks for tho home counties
and a glance at the index will show how rich in
historical and literary associations are even the
smallest divisions of the country. Look, for
example, at Surrey, which may be regarded as a
suburb of the metropolis, and is but forty miles
in breadth and twenty-seven in length. This little
space is literally crowded with spots which genius
or patriotism have made immortal. Here have
been the homes of popular poets, of great states-
men, of illustrious philosophers and histo-
rians. The names of COWLEY, For; and
THOMSON, of Pm? and Fox, of ABRA-
HAM TUCKER and GIBBON, of Sir WILLIAM
TEMPLE, and " Sylva" EVELYN, are but a few
among many almost equally familiar whose memo-
ries are associated with this county. Moreover, I
the county itself, as many of our readers know,
is rich in rural beauty. Let any one who doubts
this, walk leisurely from Leatherhead to Dorking,
and from Dorking to Guildford, diverging from
the direct route to visit Norbury Park and Botch-
worth Park, to ascend Boxhill, Leith Hill, and
St. Martha's, to linger in the Vale of
Albury, or in the pleasant fir forest of Abinger.
All this lies, be it remembered, at our very door ;
but, because it is so near, it is apt to be neglected.
We don't care for what is attained too easily.
We prefer long journeys and great discomforts ;
we admire most that which it costs us most
to see.

In urging the pleasures and advantages of home
travel, it may be said that we have undertaken a
superfluous task. This, however, is not the case.
Thanks in great measure to Sir WALTER Scorr, a
Highland tour is no doubt popular and fashionable.
Thanks to CHRISTOPHER NORTH, WORDSWORTH,
and Ds QUINCEY, the lake district is covered every
autumn with crowds of eager tourists. Neither
Wales nor Ireland can be said to be neglected,
and the swarms of loungers at our sea-side haunts
seem to afford a palpable contradiction to our weer-
tion that home scenes are comparatively unheeded.
But if the fever of travel impels hasty excur-
sionists along a few celebrated tracks, it is often to
the neglect of the general and more characteristic
features of the country, while the idlers who
dream away their vacation at Harrogate or
Whitby, Brighton or Worthing, know of nothing
beyond the little space around their favourite
watering-place which they cover in a daily walk
or ride. They are not necessarily better acquainted
with England than the man who finds it advisable
to make a temporary sojourn at Boulogne is ac-
quainted with France.
To know England well we must for a time leave
behind us the great centres of intellectual and
commercial activity, as well as the spots which are
yearly lionized by excursionists, and the retreats
sacred to scandal and ennui. We must traverse the
country after the manner of our forefathers, on
horseback or on foot. We must follow by-roads or
sequestered lanes, and sleep at wayside inns. We
must mingle sometimes with rustics, so that we
may understand their grievances and appreciate
their pleasures. We must gather up that know-
ledge which is hardly to be won from books—we
must see with our eyes and hear with our ears.
He who in this way makes a home tour will not
only enjoy the charm of novelty, but can scarcely
fail to return back to city life wiser for the lessons
he has learnt. He will find his curiosity stimu-
lated, he will be a better patriot and a sounder
politician. The knowledge he may gain will prove
of permanent service, and it is probable he will
derive at least as much enjoyment from the ex-
cursion as the tourist who has managed to scour
Europe in six weeks, who has been bored with the
necessity of seeing innumerable lions, and has paid
extravagantly for the eight.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

vanity and folly and bent upon displaying his accom•
plishments to the astonished natives. These peedlliNll, U
persevered in, would, it thinks, alienate a large pesportion
of the middle class from the church of Rogland.
Writing on the ravages of the cholera in Italy, the
Times lays it knows of no country out of Rome and its de-
pendencies in which an immondezzoio or filth-heap at the
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corner of every street is kept up as a national institution.
All over the South of Europe, in some of the French de-
partments, and throughout Spain and Italy, the same con-
tempt for sanitary measures, the same disregard for the
common decencies of life, are observable ; but still the
very centre of all uncleanliness is Rome, and habits
unworthy of human beings linger longest among
a population most helplessly placed under sacerdotal
guidance. The phenomenon is not that the choler► should
break out with deadly virulence in such places as Albano,
Frascati, Tivoli, Subiaco, Palestrins, &c., in the intense
heat of the summer—the wonder is that this and all other
plagues should not feel at home in the midst of all that
filth at every season of the year. Rome will stick to her
fatalist faith to the end of time. She will, as she has
done, stoutly deny the existence of the pestilence till the
country is turned into • charnel house—acknowledge it

when it has gained the upper band, and there is nothing
to be done but succumb to it—and then, upon the first
symptom of relief, go back to her old ways, equally in-
capable of learning from the past or providing for the
future.

If the balance of power is to be recovered, it is Austria,
and Austria only, in the opinion of the Poet, that should
be strengthened, as she might be, to the public advan-
tage and the security of the Ottoman empire, by a rectifi.
cation of her eastern frontiers. Russia and Prussia can
afford the compens►tion, and the visit to Salzburg is in
itself an acknowledgment of what Is due from France to
an impoverished country and a bereaved family.
The Telegraph devotes an article to the decision of Mr.
Knox, who lately sent more than a doses of the members
of the tailors' union for trial. The tailors need not to be
told, says the Telegraph, that it is the friend of their order;
still it declares that the police magistrate did no more than
his duty, for the tailors had gone distinctly beyond their
legal right.

The leading oracle columns of the Herald and Stamford
are devoted to a review of the session.

Otte Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Aram. 19.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and the infant Prince
Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, left Osborne to-
day at a quarter before three, and arrived at Windsor
Castle at half-past six o'clock.

Her Majesty crossed over to Gosport in the royal yacht
Alberta, Captain the Prince of Leiningen.
The suite consisted of Lady Waterperk (Lady-in-
Waiting), Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Emily
C►thcart, Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel
the Hon. C. Lindsay, Major-General F. H. Seymour. the
Rev. R. Duckworth, and Mr. SahL

Prince and Princess Christian, ►ttended by Colonel and
Mrs. G. Gordon, met the Queen on her Majesty's snivel
at the Castle.

Lord Raglan ham arrived at the Castha aa Lord•ia-
Waiting.

The King of the Greeks, who is staying at Marlborough.
house, rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon, at-
tended by Major Teesdale.
In the evening his Majesty visited the Theatre Royal,
Ouvent Garden, and the Strand Theatre.
A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho-
nourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-
Mace, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The
Lords present were the Lord President, the Lord Privy
Seal, the Earl of Devon, Lord John Manners, the Right
Hon. Stephen Cave, and Colonel the Right Hon. Wilson
Patten.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
°Mos from the Governors of the Australian Colonies, the
Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Idahoan, the Cape of Good
Hope, and Gibraltar. Despatches were sent to the Go•
Vernon of Malta, Gibraltar, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong
Kong, Lebow, the Straits Settlements, and the Austra-
lian Colonies.

The Queen arrived at Windsor last evening, at
6.25 p.m., from Osborne•houss, and will leers for Scotland
this evening at 10 o'clock, so as to arrive at Kelso ►t
9 o'clock the following morning.

The King of the Greeks, attended by Major
Teesdale and • numerous unite, was present at the
Covent-garden Theatre Concerts last evening.

The bake of Northumberland, according to the
medical report received in town yesterday afternoon from
Alnwick Castle, continues in mach the same condition.

The Duke of Leinster left town yesterday on s
visit to Mr. and lady Jane Repton, at their not near
Bedford.

The Marquis of Downahire left town on Satur-
day to join the Itarchionest and Lad, Alice Hill, at Hills-
borough Castle, Ireland.

The Earl and Countess of Durham and family
left town on Saturday for Lambton Castle, Durham.

The Countess Apponyi has left Belgrave-square
for &Moorland and Italy. The Austrian Ambemaclor re-
mains in town.

The Countess (Dowager) of Dunmore and Lady
Alexandria& Murray left town on Saturday on • visit to
the Karl of Clanwnliam, at Deal Castle.

Viscount and Viaoounteu Stratford de Redcliffe
and the Hon.Milllel Canning have left town for their noon•
try residence in Hertfordshire. _ _

Viscount and Viscountess de Vesci and Hon.
Was Valley left their residimos on Carlton-house-terrace
yesterday for Deal Castle, on a visit to the End of Clan-
willtam.

Lord Stanley, M.P., goes to Windsor Castle to-
day for the Privy Council, at which his lordship, as Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, will preeentte her Majesty
Lord Lyons and the Hon. George Elliot, the newly-ap-
pointed ambassadors to Frans and Constantinople.

Captain and Lady Cecilia Brinckinan left town
yesterday for Londsaborongh, Yorkshire, on a visit to Osp-
. . _

64. and the Hon. Mn. Egerton.

THE BRITISH CAPTIVIS IN ABYSSINIA. —Dr.
Beke, the African explorer, has written to the Timm on
the 17th inst. as follows :—" I would ask you to give pub-
!kitty to the following extracts from letters from Consul
Cameron, dated Magdala, June 6 and 18. In the former
he says We are fairly cut off from Gaffat. None but
armed parties of about 200 men can make their way through
the rebels. We have not heard born the King since Flarl's
a._ival. . . . . All the European workmen are pri-
exoept three, who are with him, and who be knows
will rot Sty to run away.' On the latter date be writes
—' Co nphe-bons It .ve been thickening since I last wrote.
The King has been pitying the devil at Debra Tabor, putting
wo pen and children in wax clo.l and routing them alive.
The other day Fe Initobered 600 of his meet faithful soldiers
because their relations were in rebellion. The consequence
has been desertion on a large scale, • thousand at a
time. The peasantry between this and Debra Tabor are
furious, as the soldie'a killed were their kinsmen. They
cut the throat of evonyone without exception, so as to
prevent communic..tion between this and the King.
camp. As the rainy se-wan has set in, no human being
can calculate what our position will be at the close.
If, Oa is possible, the road to the oust becomes closed, we
must make up our minds to ewes, unless the troops come
up sharp. But as long as we have teensy our position in
this respect is safe. As regards the Kiln, there can he no
mistake about our peril. His &igen are itching to shed
white men's blood. The other day we beard be went to
the place where the Frenchman Makerer is chained, taxed
him with diabovcs:y in wishing to escape from his ser-
vice, and put a pistol to his head. Makerer begged par-
don, and told the King that a powerful man should have
mercy on the weak. The King said. 'I spare you to-day
for your answer., but you will not escape.' He has told the
adfat workmen' too, that if troops come be will make
them pay. It is evident that he hai not quite made uphis
mind whetter he can kill his workmen or not wish im-
punity.' All Ws as will be seen, is confirmatory of what
is said in the le:ters from Cameron's felloreprieoners.
When Consul Can- eron wrote the rainy season had just
set in, but this would not have stopped travelling alto-
getber. It was in the beginning of July last year that Mr.
Ramon and his party accompanied his Majesty on • warlike
expedition and they were afterwards sent under • strong
guard to Amba Mewl,* where they arrived on the 12th of
July, But the time is now at bend when the rains begin
to elute ; and on September 26, little more than • mouth
hence, is the great festival of Minkel (Holy Cross Day,
0. S.), when each mince throughout the empire mu..i.ers
and reviews histroops, preparatory to theannual campaign,
and military movements sometimes take place even earlier.
The pitched battle between Don Christopher da Cams and
Ahmed ()Mayo in 1542, was fought in W6ffia, midway be-
tween Tigre and Magdala, on the 30th of August, being
within a fortnight (or if the reckoning was old style, then
only three days) of the present date. Let year Theodore
remained away from Magdala during the rams. It is only
to be hoped that he has done the smoothie year."

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.
The felkivring is from the New Free Press of
Vienne:

The experience of late yeas contains terrible lemon&
The peace of Prague has driven Aurtria out of Germany,

and It was through the intermediation of France that this
result was diplomatically obtained. Let us never forget
one thing : that is, that if we have:aceeptod this condition,
it is not only that we could not do otherwise, but be-
cause that course exited Prussia, and especially because
Franca willed it. The treaty of Prague was signed,
it is true, by Austria and Prussia alone, without
France, and that Prussia is, as to form, right when
she declares that, in her manner of interpreting the
treaty, nobody has anything to do with it but
Austria. But however just that may be as to form, it is
none the less a perfidy in fact, for Prussia knows very
well that Austria Is not in a position to force the Cabinet
of Berlin to the strict maintenance of that convention.
Even it is certain, that without France, Prussia would
long since have trampled under foot that treaty, as she
has done the line of the Maine. France is therefore
really the most powerful support of the treaty although
she did not sign it. Does it follow that Austria, who
cannot singly maintain the peace of Prague, ought to
seek an ally with whom she can force Prussia to respect
her engagements? The latter power having last year
formed an alliance with Italy against Austria, we ought
not to have any scruple about an alliance with France.
The only consideration is for Austria to adopt the course
most proper to keep war distant as long as possible. The
conclusion of an alliance with no matter what power for
the maintenance of the treaty of Prague would only hasten,
in our opinion, the conflict instead of conjuring it. If
Prussia breaks through the convention, the task falls on
those who brought about the arrangement and who boast
of it to cause it to be respected. Even if Prussia passes the
Maine has Austria more to lose in Germany than she has
at present lost ?

(ItICITZWIS

THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF THE.
FRENCH AT SALZBURG.
SALZBURG, Atoon 19, Bynum.

The relations between the French and Austrian
Sovereigns have becomemost intimate. The Emperor
Napoleon and the Empress Eugenie are received
with acclamations wherever they go. This evening
they went to the theatre, the band playing on their
arrival the air " La Reine Hortense."

The Emperor Napoleon received Baron von
Bend yesterday with great cordiality. To-day the
minister had an audience of his Majesty, which
lasted half an hour. At the interview between the
two Emperors pending questions were discussed,
and it is said that there is a complete understand-
ing between the Sovereigns although no formal
arrangements have been made.
The ex-King of Bavaria is expected here to-
morrow.

SALZBURG, Almon 20.

A conference has taken place between Baron von
Beuxt, Count Andramay, Prince Metternich, and
the Duke de Grammont.

The dispositions of the two Sovereigns are con-
sidered eminently peaceful. All that it is en-
deavoured to bring about is an understanding rela-
tive to European questions.
After the departure of the two Emperors from
Salzburg conferences will be held between the
leading ministers of the French and Austrian
Cabinets in order to define the results of the
preliminary discussions which have taken place
there.

Herr von Backe, the Austrian Minister of
Finance, has been summoned from Vienna by the
Emperor Francis Joseph, in order, it is believed, to
draw up a report upon the progress of the negotia-
tions between the conference of delegates for the
settlement of the financial relation between
Hungary and the rest of the empire.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Alums? 20.

It is stated that the Minister of Marine has ten-
dered his resignation, and will retire into private
life on the Ist of October. Rear-Admiral Judi-
mann will be appointed his successor.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Auauer 19, Evaxma.

The session of the Italian Chambers was pro-
rogued to-day by royal decree, which was read to
both houses by Signor Rattazzi.

SPAIN.

PERPIGNAN, AUGUST 20.

Armed bands have appeared in various parts of
Catalonia and at Barcelona. Great agitation pre-
vails. The only cry raised by the insurgents is
" Liberty."
The Captain-General of Catalonia has sent troops
to pursue them.
It is stated that the insurgents have at their
head leaders of distinguished position who are
known. The railway and telegraphic communica-
tion in the province is cut off.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, soarer 19.

Fuad Pacha will proceed t 3 the Crimea on a
special complimentary mission to the Czar, instead
of Cabouli Pacha, as was first arranged.
A gr►nd council of ministers was held to-day at
the Imperial Palace, at which the Sultan presided.

.

The Austrian steamer Elizabeth has arrived at New
Orleane to await the arrival of Admiral Tegetholf.
It is salaamed be. Washington that the body of the
late Emperor Maximilian has been delivered to the Prus-
sian minister in Mexico.
Santa Anna had been sent to Vera Orme for triaL
(Cr ATLANTIC TILSOLPH.)

NEW YORK, Actium. 19, 6 P.M.
The steamers Palmyra, New York, and Hiber-
nian, arrived out yesterday, and the Britannia and
Nebraska to-day.
Closing prices :—Gold, 141 i. Sterling Exchange
on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds,
1131. Maio* 120. Erie, 743}. Cotton, middling
Upland, 29.
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PHLTADELPHLi, Mom' 19.
Standard white petroleum, 27i.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.)
Their lordahips mot it 12 o'clock.

ROYAL ABSENT.
The roplaasent was given by commission to the follow.
public biW :—Ch or Orders (Ireland) VaZ
Lion, !cc., Bill; Railway Companies (Ireland) Advances's))) .
Royal Military Canal Billj Muter and Servant Bill ;
perms Laws Continuance Bill ; Policies of Assurance 14;
Courts of Law Moen (Ireland) Bill; Consolidand
Fund Bill ; District Lunatic Asylum Officers kw .
Industrial and Provident Societies Bill • Poor-law lovi
Bill; Guarantee of Government Officers Bill;
(Ireland) Act (1865) Amendment Bill ; nompL
IltriaAti7dmiralty Court (Ireland) Bill ; Justices of
the
Peace Duqualineation Removal Bill; Army Reserve ;
Military Reserve Bin • Public Works (Ireland) Bin.
Naval Stores (No. 2) Bill; Local Government 8414
mental (No. 6) Bill ; Courts of Law Fees, k.c.,
Turnpike Acta Continuance Bill ; Merchant Shipp/4
Bill ; Contagious Diseases (Animals) Bill ;
peaks (Scotland) Railway Companies Bill st
Department Stores Bill • Agricultural Ganp ;
palms Act (1862) Amendment Bill ; Investment of Tr
Funds Bill ; Consecration of Churches and Chung..
Bill ; Traffic Regulation Metropolis Bill ; Consecrative
and Ordination Foes, See., Bill ; Courts of fteferees Bill.
The commiseioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Lake
of Marlborough, and the Earl of Devon.
The Berl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition from
the incumbent and parishioner of St. Saviour's,
wade in favour of the Clerical Vestments
,

The Commons' amendments to the ilriptol Cron
School Bill were considered sad agreed to.
The Fortification' (Provisiou for Expenses) (No. 2) gd
was read a third time sad passed.
HOURS OF LABOUR REGULATION BILL.
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It was reported that their lordships' amendments Whim
bill had been agreed to by the Commons.
Their lordalups adjourned at balf•past 12 until a quarter
to 2 o'clock to-morrow, when parliament will be pro-
rogued.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS DAY.)

The Commons met at 12, but not in sufficient outdo%
to constitute a quorum. A "hove" wit, however, ow.
by a summons to attend at their lordships' ►sr for the por.
pose of witnvesing the royal assent to 'even' bills, for
which see Lords' report.

NCYLICES.

00111111WICATTOW =TWA= RAILWAY GUARDS AND P.
mama& —Ur. Sheridan to more for leave to bring in a bar
early next mimics for enforcing the adoption of such ac .
lamination.

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FIRE INSURANCE Dori.—Mr. Sheridan alio to more
resolution next session in favour of a further TedILIRRIL
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS (IRILAND). Seardes, sell
next session, to bring in a bill to establish training ski
industrial schools in Ireland.

The house adjourned at a quarter to 1 until ballina 1
to-morrow,