The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-23 00:00:00

M. Emile de Girardin writes in the Libert4:

France iunionely asks how her government will get out
of the difficulties which it has sown in its p►th, and which
have borne abundant fruit. France asks how it will avert
the threatening war, and how, if it does not avert it,
it will avert the coalition which it would be madness not
to foresee? France asks further how it will put an end to
the " strike "of capital which has ruled for an unprece-
dented time, as is shown by the Bank of France returns,
which are now worse than those of the time formerly
branded as " the disastrous days of 1851."

To-day the Prefect of the Seine went to the
Tuileries to invite the King and Queen of Portugal
to a dinner at the Hotel de Ville, on Thursday
next. There will be a concert in the evening.
At the Bourse the Rente opened with an appear-
ance of firmness, at an advance on Saturday's quota-
tions, and rose to 68fr. 92}c., then fell to 68fr. 85c.,
and ultimately raoovered tho highest price of the
day, with a rise of 12ic. These are the quotations
for account, the cash price remains unchanged.
Mobilier fell sfr.; Italian rose sc.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

T222DAY, JDLT 2s. $ £.L

DEPARTURE OF THE SULTAN.

(THIS DAY.)

At live minutes to 11 this morning his Imperial
Majesty the Sultan and suite left the Charing...roes Tel.
minus, I" rude for Dover, whence they will proceed to
Brussels. For the reception of his Majesty the entire
length of the platform was covered with criinsou cloth,
and the floral display, which was entrusted to
Dickson, of Covent-garden, had a very pretty
effect. The internal arrangements at the station were
under the directions of Mr. Cockburn, superintendent, anti
Mr. Brady, architect to the South-Eastern Railway C 0,.,.
pony. In a gallery at the end of the platform many
ladies and other privileged guests were stationed to assist
lin a parting greeting to the Sultan. Every window he.
longing to the Charing-cross Hotel and looking into the
station was lined with spectators, and all round there
wan abundant evidence of the interest felt in the
departure. At about half-past 10 the bawd of
the Coldstream Guards was heard approaching, ant
on its entering the station two guards of honour of that
regiment were formed. In the meantime the less import.
ant members of the Sultan's suite and several of the royal
servants in scarlet were busily engaged in seeing the luggage
secure in the train ; and the Right Hon. H. L. Cony,
First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Henry Lennox, tint
secretary of the Admiralty, and Sir Richard 'Mayne were
awaiting the arrival of the imperial party. The pro-
of:Aden to the terminus, which consisted of the royal
carriages and a strong escort of the Horse Guards (Blue),
after leaving Buckingham Palace, proceeded along the
Mall, through the Horse Guards gate into Whitehall, and
thence to Charing-cross into the Strand. Along the attire
route some thousands of persons had taken up positions,
and loud cheers rose from enemy point in the Sultan's pro-
gress. The station was reached at ten minutes to
Four of the royal carriages, each drawn by two horses,
with servants in gold lace liveries, were alone allowed to
draw up to the platform. From these alighted the Sultan,
his eldest son, and two nephews, with the chief dignita.
ries, followed by his royal highness the Prince of \Vales,
the Duke of Cambridge, Viscount Hamilton, Lord Raglan,
the Duke of Beaufort, and Colonel Lindsay. The train in
readiness to convey the party to Dover consisted of three
state carriages, including that of her Majesty, and eleven
other,. The first to enter the principal compartments
were the youthful members of the party—the Sultan's son
being an object of much attraction, more particularly with
the ladies, who waved their handkerchiefs as he advanced
down the platform. The band of the Coldstreams having
commenced the Turkish national air, the Sultan
was next seen approaching with an evidently
feeble step, and his apparently wearied condition was
generally remarked. He was received in a cordial manner,
and, after being introduced to Mr. Cony, Lord Len.
nor., and Lord Sydney, the Lord Lieutenant of Kent, was
banded to his seat in the Queen's carriage, being ("CCM.
ponied only by Marco Pasha, his principal physician.
Whether as a matter of courtesy and resigning the pri-
vilege in favour of the Sultan's suite, or from a want of
knowledge of the royal carriage that had been specially
decorated for his reception, the Prince of Wales placed
himself in an ordinary first class carriage, and the
royal vehicle left without an occupant. The distinguished
personages in connexion with the Prince of Wales's suite
above named having been seated,Mr. Cudworth and Mr. A.
Watkins (of the locomotive department), Mr. Walker
(telegraphic engineer), Mr. Barlow and Mr. Beattie (direc-
tors), with Mr. Eborall and Mr. Knight (who hadcharge of
the train), took their places. The whistle was then
sounded, and the train left the station amidst loud cheers.

SAD ACCIDENT.—Two MEN CRUSHED TO DEATH
AT PETWORTK.—A very 'hocking secident happened at
Fie:ham-park, near Petworth, last Wednesday, two men,
named Daniel Wakeford and Edmund Sebbage, being
crashed to death in a stone pit. An inquest was held on
Thursday, before R. Blagden, Esq., at Bedham farm-
house, when the following evidence was taken :--./ames
Holden deposed—l live at Bedham. Yesterday I was
working in a stone pit in Flexhampark with the dammed
Daniel Wakeford and Edmund Sebbage. There were
others working in the same pit. We were digging stone
for the hof Kirdford. About 10 in the morning the
deceased men were in the pit tilling barrows for me to
wheel away. I left them filling when I wheeled
away a loaded barrow, and was at the beep of
stone which bad been wheeled out when I beard
some of the men in the pit hellos. I ran.
back and found the side of the pit had foundered in just
where I had left the deceased filling. and they were not
to be seen. The top of the earth did not fall. When I
left them filling they were in the pit, which was then 12
or 14 feet deep. I should say four or five tons of earth
foundered in. Five of sin set to work to move the earth,
and we got Sebbage out almost directly. He was covered
by about a foot of earth and atones. He was on his face
and his legs were wide apart. He just moved and breathed
once or twice, and then died. nue was no blood visible
about him, but he was much bruised. We continued to
, move the earth, and upwards of ten minutes elapsed before
Wakeford was got out. He was quite dead, and sadly
diafigured. They were evidently working, and leaning
forwards towards the side of the pit when the fall took
place. Sopp, the surveyor of Kirdford parish, was in the
pit at the time, and had just before told them they had
undermined too far. I also told them so just before the
accident happened. Wakeford was 52 years of age, and
has left a family all grown up. Sebbage was 21 years old
and single. A verdict of " Accidental death" was returned.
—Surrey Standard.
SINGULAR CANE OF DROWNING AND COWARDLY
CONDUCT OF LOOKERs-ox.—A young woman named Jane
Elizabeth Brown, wife of the masterolCharies-street Ragged
Schools, Drury-lane, London. was drowned at little.
hampton on Saturday week. She was bathing in the sea
near a groyne, and was talking to a friend when the water
suddenly carried her off her feet and washed her over the
groyne from the east to the west aide of it. Her friend
screamed for assistance, and six men were standing
on the green by the side of the road, but made no
effort to save the poor creature. A lady's maid in the
service of Lady Armstrong then ran to Ruatiogtoa lac 11,
about 100 yards off, and • "loader" named Arthur
Diganee came to the spot; and Captain Ransoine pointed
out to him where the body was floating, telling him it was
in 10 feet of water. Digance could not swim, but be
rushed into the water and with a hoe caught hold of the
bathing dress and dragged the body ashore with great
difficulty. It was in about five feet and a half of
water. The facts were proved at an inquest held on the
deceased on Monday, and the jury expressed their :LBW-
nishment that six Englishmen should have been witnesses
to a lady drowning without making any effort to save her
life. They could have joined hands and endeavoured to
reach the deceased, which they might have succeeded in
doing, as it was at least ten minutes later when the body
was rescued by Digance. Dr. Candy said he arrived soon
after the body was brought ashore, and means for restor-
ing animation were for an hour persevered in, but without
effect. The coroner remarked that no doubt could exist
but that the deceased hail been overpowered by the
and the jury returned a verdict of " Accidentally drowned
while bathing."—Sauer Adrertistr.
CORNISH ANTIQUITIES.—Let anybody who bag
a sense of antiquity, and who can feel the spark which is
sent on to us through an unbroken chain of history, when
we stand on the Acropolis or on the Capitol, or when we
read • ballad of Homer, or a hymn of the Teals—nay, if
we but read in a proper spirit a chapter of the Old Testae
meat too—let such a man look at the Celtic huts at lks.
Koenig or Carnchywiddan, and discover for himmlf,
through the ferns and brambles, the old grey well,, slightly
sloping inward, and arranged according to a design that
cannot be mistaken ; and miserable as these shapeless
clumps may appear to the tbougbtless traveller. they slll
convey to the true historian • lesson which he could hardly
learn anywhere else. The ancient Britons will no longer
be a mere name to him, no mere Pelagian' or Tyrrnenians.
He has seen their homes and their handiwork ; be has
stood behind the walls which protected their lives and pre-
uprty;
y, his touched the stones which their hands piled
u rudely, for those
And if that small spark of
sympathy for those who gave the honoured named
Britain to these islands, has once been kindled
among a few who have the power of influencing pub'ia
opinion in England, we feel certain that something will
be done to ureaerve what can still be preserved
of Celtic remain, from further destruction. It does
honour to the British parliament that large sums are
granted, when it is necessary to bring to thee° safe shores
whatever can be still rescued from the ruins of Greece
and Italy, of Lycie, Pergamos, Palestine, Eapt, Babylon,
or Nineveh. But while explorers and excavators are
sent to those distant countries, and the statues of
Greece, the coffins of Egypt. and the winged monsters
of Nineveh, are brought home in triumph to the portals
of the British Museum. it is painful to see the splendid
granite slabs of British cromlechs thrown down and
carted away, atone-circles destroyed to make way for
farming improvements, and ancient huts and caves
broken up to build new houses and stables, with the
stones thus ready to hand. It is high time, mdeed, that
something should be done, and nothing will avail but to
place every truly historical monument under national pro.
tection. Individual efforts may answer here and there,
and a right spirit may be awakened from time to time
by local societies ; but during intervals of apathy mischief
is done that can never be mended again ; snit unless the
damaging of national monuments, even though they should
stand on private ground, is made • misdemesnour, we
doubt whether, two hundred years hence, any enterprising
explorer would be as fortunate as Mr. lityard and Sir H.
Rawlinson have been in Babylon and Nineveh, and
whether one single cromlech would be left for him
to carry away to the National Museum of tho Maoris.—
Quarterly leerier, new number.