The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVANING, APRIL 20,

which it took so magnanimous a part, and of the
German war of '66, in which it magnanimotislytoqk
nopart at all. Whateveriu.ay have been the impulse
or the motive, the Emperor of the FRENCH by the
valour of his troops liberated Italy at Solferino and
Magenta; and if he drew back at Villafranca,
and signed the peace of Zurich, he nevertheless
let the work he had begun go on to its own
completion throughout Central Italy. He may
have desired and even attempted diplomatically to
interrupt it, but he cannot but have known that
the liberation of Lombardy was the beginning of
the sure and inevitable end. The EMPEROR was
perhaps on the point of arresting the liberation
of the Neapolitan States; but he let the
BOURBONS go, and suffered a divided Italy to be
welded into a single kingdom. He might
have prevented the alliance of Italy and
Prussia for the emancipation of Venetia;
but his only intervention, after the battle of Cue-
tetra, was to persuade Austria to give Venetia to
Italy. There can be no disputing the obligations
which Italy owes to NAPOLEON 111. CAVOUR
(than whom no man ever understood better the
science of opportunities) counted the material cost
of the French alliance, and was prepared to
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pay it. It may perhaps be doubted whether
that great statesman had fully calculated the
moral cost of that alliance ; not only in the in-
definite subjection of the policy of a constitu-
tional kingdom to the capricious exigencies of a
personal government, but in the pressure and pre-
dominance of the spirit and system of French Im-
perialism, its overgrown military establishments,
its swollen budgets, its absolute centralization, its
legions of functionaries, its ooncentration and ab-
sorption of all public life, its propensity to seek
diversion from domestic difficulties in foreign ex-
peditions and adventures. Italy has been treated
by the Second Empire too much as we sometimes
see selfish spendthrifts treat needy parasites ; she
is already half ruined by the strain of aping her
patron. And she has done this in defiance of all
her own glorious traditions of self-government, in
forgetfulness of her old republican municipalities.
Like all attendants upon the great she has taken
the bad rather than the good qualities of her
patron for a modeL She has imitated the centrali-
zation, but not the administrative efficiency—the
large military establishments, but not the econo-
mical military organizatioa—the swollen budgets,
without the development of commerce and indus-
try, the expansion of credit, the successful and
ornamental public works, the streets, the
roads, the harbours, the docks, the rail-
ways, and the shipping companies. To copy
the corruption without the wealth, and the extra-
vagance without any results to show for it except
insolvency, is a deplorable infatuation ; and but
for the single redeeming fact that Italy, thanks to
CAVOUR and to RICASOLI, still maintains all her
public liberties intact, without which no pros-
perity is secure or lasting, her present situation
and prospects would be hopeless indeed. When all
is lost but liberty, a nation need not despair ; but
a nation that has everything but liberty is like the
Imperial voluptuary of the East, who feasted and
rioted with his courtiers and his concubines in the
palace he had mined and fired for his funeral pile.

our theltrfole, we hiri,4ilt fortified London, anel essitly
in Aarhus as we Portsmouth impressible will
the effii;ts of an enemy be ooncentralled on the metropolis
itself. An invader might take his choice between Leiden
and Portsmouth ; if we put Portsmouth out of his reaeh,
he must needs fall upon London. Does it follow, then,
that after fortifying the dockyards, we should proceed to
fortify London ? Hardly so. We shall have our castles
of bones as well as our castles of stones, and we hope they
may be at least as hard to break through. Above all, we
have our line of defence in the Channel, and an enemy
must consider how he will get to England as well as what
he will do when he is there.

rite Cart.

P7II4IDSOR CASTLE, Aran. 19.
The Queen took a drive yesterday afternoon,
attended by Lady Churchill.
Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice
walked in the Home-park.
The Queen, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince
Christian, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting,
attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel.
The Hon. and Very Rev, the Dean of Windsor, assisted
by the Rev. R. Duckworth, administered the sacrament
of the Holy Communion.
Sir James Clark left the Castle yesterday afternoon.

WINDSOR CASTLE, APRIL 19.
Her Royal Highneu the Princess Christian passed •
very good night.
Her royal highness and the infant prince are doing
exceedingly well.
(Signed) THOS. FAIREANK, M.D.

The Queen of Denmark, with the Prince of Wales and
the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine ser-
vice yesterday morning at the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The Communion-service was read by the Rev. Dr. Vivian
and Rev. Thos.lmore.

Anthem," Thy rebuke bath broken his heart "(l3andel).
Solo, Mr. Benson.
Mr. Cooper presided at the organ.
The sermon was preached by the Very Rev, the Dean of
Westminster, from St. John, chap. 19, part of verse 13.

The Duchess Dowager of Grafton left town on
Thursday for Wakefield Lodge, Northamptonshire.
The Earl de Grey, after attending the funeral
of his mother, the Countess of Ripon, went to Studley
Royal, Yorkshire, to meet the Countess de Grey, where
the noble earl and countess intend to stay a few weeks in
retirement.

The Countess of Dudley has returned to Dudley
House, Park-lane, from Brighton. The Earl of Dudley is
in Perim.

Lady Skelmersdale gave birth to a son on Wed-
nesday at Latbom House, Lancashire. Her ladyship and
infant are going on favourably.

Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P., is staying with his
family at 3leurices Hotel, Paris, for the Easter vacation.

Lord Warkworth's coming of age at the end of
next month will be celebrated with extraordinary rejoic-
ings at Alnwick Castle, the ancient seat of the illustrious
house of Percy. The young Lord Warkworth will attain
his majority on the 29th proximo, on which day a grand
entertainment will be given to upwards of 1,000 persons,
tenants and others, on the extensive family pro-
perty in the north. The great tent, constructed
by orders of the third duke expressly for the
reception of Queen Victoria and the late Queen Ade-
laide, and the late Queen of the Belgians, calculated to
accommodate upwards of 1,000 guests, is to be taken from
Sion, Isleworth, to Alnwick. The marquee, one of the
moat extraordinary constructions ever conceived, is to be
erected on the lawn adjoining the castle, where the whole
of the tenantry on the ducal estates are to be entertained.
The festivities are expected to extend o►er several days.
A distinguished company will be the guests of the Earl
and Countess Percy during the festivities. It is feared
that the venerable Duke of Northumberland, now resi-
dent at Torquay, will be unable, from his extreme age and
consequent physical infirmities, to be present on the cocoa-
sion.

On Thursday evening Lord William Lennox de-
livered an able and interesting lecture in the Priory
School-room, Upper-street, Islington, on the late Prince
Consort, in connexion with the efforts of Mr. Charles
Webber, of Bt. John-street West, Barnsbury-park, Isling-
ton, to erect • building for homeless boys, at • cost of
9001. In speaking of the personal peculiarifies of the
Prince Consort, his lordship said :—" The Prince had •
noble presence ; his earrings was erect, his figure betokened
strength and activity, and his demeanour was dignified.
He had a staid, earnest, thoughtful look when he was in a
grave mood, but when ho smiled his whole countenance
was irradiated with pleasure, and there was • joyous sound
and a heartiness about his laugh which was perfectly de-
lightful." At the close of the lecture an enthusiastic vote
of thanks was accorded to his lordship.
Lord Strathnairn, as chairman of the Committee
on Army Organisation, has (nye the Army and Nary
Gazette) sent • series of 9uestions to officers of di/Haddon ;
so we may gather there ts to be a supplementary report,
or that the report sent in encounters opposition at the
War-office.

Mr. Corry, the First Lord of the Admiralty,
will (according to the Army and Nary Gau Us) proceed to
visit Plymouth, Guernsey, and Jersey, before his return to
the Admiralty, where he is not expected until the end of
next week.

To-morrow (Easter-day) the sermon at the 12
o'clock service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace,
will be pinched by the Lord Bishop of Oxford. At the
Chapel Royal, Whitehall, the sermon at the 11 o'clock
service wil be preached by the Dean of Emly, and at the 3
p.m. service the Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys, M.A., will
deliver the sermon. At the morning salvia at St. Paul's
Cathedral, commencing at a quarter to 10, the sermon
will be preached by the Very Rev. Dr. Milman, the Dean
of St. Paul's, and at the special evening service, at 7
o'clock, the Rev. Henry Twelb, M.A.,will be the preacher.
The Very Bev. the Dean of Westminster will preach in
the Abbey both morning and afternoon. The morning
service commences at 10 o'clock, and the afternoon at 3.
The new communion-table and the new reredos in the
Abbey will be opened for the first time.
The Bishop of Rochester, it is said, contemplates
having his palace at Danbury sold, in consequence of the
great expense of keeping it up and its inconvenient situa-
tion in the diocese, and obtaining a permanent residence
la Loudon. _ _

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SALE OP LORD CHANCELLOR'S LIVINGS.—EIeven
more of the church livinp in the gift of the Lord Chan-
cellor have been sold under Lod Westbury's act—namely,
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, worth, according to the Clergy
Lid, 1201. a year ; Melling, Lancashire, worth 1351. a year;
Minehead, Somerset, worth 2001. • year; Wickhammarket,
Suffolk, worth 2081. a year ; Rowington, Warwickshire,
worth 116/. a year ; Ludlow, Shropshire, worth 1601. •
year ; West Stoke, Sussex, worth 2301. • year ; and Chil-
lenden, Kent, worth 1301. • year. These eight livings have
been sold for 11,9501. Three other livings have been sold
for 11,7001.—namely, Montgomery, worth 3471. • year ;
Weasenham, worth about 4001. a year ; and Kegidog, worth
3001. a year.
Ma. WHALLEY, M.P., AND RETORY.--Some
commotion ham been ceased at Peterborough by the vote
given by Mr. Whalley on Mr. Gladstone's amendment, he
having gone with the ministers. A public meeting has
been called for to discuss the propriety of this vote.
Goon FRIDAY WRESTLINO SPORTS. —Good Fri-
day, although it was observed with the usual solemnities
in many quarters, waa in others devoted to certain sports
which have for as many years as one can well remember
been associated in the public mind with the great fast
day of the church. In former times the men of West-
moreland and Cumberland were accustomed to try their
skill and strength by wrestling in Lord's cricket ground on
Good Friday, and very cruel sport it not uncommonly was,
as many could testify who received severe throws or hard
kicks in their struggles for victory. Thousands of per-
sons were in the habit of witnessing these periodical con-
fficts, and the two counties specially concerned took a
deep interest in the successes of their representatives.
During the last few years these annual trials have taken
place, not et Lord's, but at the Agricultural Hall, Isling-
ton, and yesterday there was a large assemblage there,
composed not only of Cumberland and Westmoreland men,
but of the promoters of sport. of various kinds, who
entered into them with much zeal.

COMMENCEMENT OP THE EXCURSION SEASON.—
The sgreetble weather yesterday had the effect of draw-
ing thousands of people out of doors, and large numbers
were ettiscted to Sydenham and other places of popular
retort, Notwithstanding the inducements offered by the
several railway companies for persons to visit Dover, the
responses to the announcement, "To Brighton and back,
35.," were numerous ; and from the London Bridge termi-
nus alone three excursion trains were despatched, con-
veying nearly 400 additional passengers compared with
the corresponding period of last year. The truffle from
Victoria and Kensington to Brighton was also equally in
excess of last year. The cheap trains from London Bridge
to Portimouth, Hastings, St. Leonards, &a, were also well
patronised. From a quarter-past 7 till 8 o'clock yesterday
morning the booking-office at Ludz44l4hii,lpresented•busy
soene,andtheexcunnontrainsfor ,Ranregate,Dover,
ac., were crowded. Many excursionist. also travelled rid
the South Eastern line to Margate, Remote, Folkestone,
Dover, &tr. ; and there was a good deal of traffic on the
South Western, Great Eastern, North Western, Great
Western, and other lines. The steamboats on the river,
destined for Gravesend, Greenwich, Kew, and other
favourite places of resort, were also well freighted. The
Crystal Palace—with the announcement that Mr. Sbns '
Reeves would sing i n • sacred concert—attracted alarge num
ber of persons from the London-bridge terminus, at which
station alone upwards of fourteen thousand admissions to
the palace were disposed of by four o'clock, and at that
hour hundreds were booking for Sydenham- As showing
the favour in which the High Level line is held, we may
state that up to half-paid two nineteen trains had left
Ludgate-bill, and • special was then being made up. An
excursion train was despatched from the new Dorking
station, in connexion with the London, Brighton, and
South Coast Railway, conveying nearly 400 visitors to
Sydenham.

1867.

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THE LUXEMfitnEiG QUESTION.

The following motion was submitted on the 14th
inst. to the Diet of Brunswick by Herr Aronheim
Resolved,—The preservation of Luxemburg to Germany,
--considering the latter, not in its present form, but in am.
tional sense—is for theGennan nation a question of honour
and existence at all times, but especially at the moment of
its political reconstruction. The Diet declared itself
ready at any moment to place at the disposition of the
Grand Ducal government all possible means of obtaining
its object, in common with its confederates.

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In support of his motion, Herr Aronheim said—
It did not signify desired or not to remain united
with Germany, for she must be made ► part of it in spite of
herself.

The motion was taken into consideration on the
16th, and adopted unanimously, with a remark
from Herr von Lichtenstein that there was not the
least intention of provoking the French nation.
Referring to this motion the Paris Ltherth of
to-day makes the following comment :
On the 20th July, 1292, Charles William Ferdinand,
Duke of Brunswick, issued a famous manifesto on enter-
ing France. On the 25th of July in the same year, the
Duke of Brunswick was defeated at Vslmy by Damon-
ries. These two dates ought to make Herr Aronheim and
his colleagues reflect, and prevent them, too, from issuing
• Brunswick manifesto.

According to the LiberM, Herr von Beuct pro-
posed simultaneously at Berlin and at Paris the
following as a settlement of the Luxemburg ques-
tion :

The Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, with the fortress,
to be ceded to Belgium, France receiving a small
strip of Belgian territory to the south of Namur included
between the Sambre and Meuse,and commanded by the for-
tress of Marienburg. To this Count Bismarck is said to
have replied that the King of Prussia could not give an
answer till he had received the opinion of the powers who
signed the treaties of 1839.

The working mechanics of Berlin have addressed
the Paris workmen as follows :
We detest all war, and we believe that in particular a
war between France and Germany would be equally
injurious to the interests of civilisation and liberty.
We know that both peoples have in their vast and
fine territory sufficient space to live happily and in peace
by the side of each other, and that the excitations of
those who have an interest in making force triumphant
over right and liberty, could alone seek to create
reciprocal envy and hatred. We are convinced
that the working men have nothing to do with
the laurels of war, for these laurels grow on battle-
fields fattened with the bones of workmen ; they
are watered with the tears of widows and orphans,
and bent with the maledictions of hungry workers.
We look upon competition in labour as the only
rivalry worthy our civilisation, and the common struggle of
all nations for liberty as the only struggle that is worthy
of us. in these sentiments we send to our brethren of
Paris our pacific salutation.

INDIA AND anars MAIM -
ALEXANDRIA, Aram ]9.
The Pera left at 5 a.m. and the Syria at 9 cm.
to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles
on the 25th instant and the latter at Southampton
about the 2nd May.

OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND BOMBAY MAILS
OF
APRIL-ii■IFS.:-

SUEZ, APRIL 19.
The Mongolia, for Calcutta, and the Northam
extra steamer, for Bombay, sailed at 9 a. m.
to-day.

THE WEST COAST OF AFRIOA
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 20.

The royal mail steamer Athenian, with the above
mails has arrived here. Her dates are, Fernando
Po, March 16 ; Old Calabar, 18; Bonny, 20 ;
Lagos, 23 ; Accra, 25 ; Jonah, Coffee, and Quitta,
24; Cape Palmas, 28 ; Sierra Leone, April 2 ;
Teneriffe, 10 ; and Madeira, 12. The Athenian
brings a full cargo and five passengers.
The royal mail steamer Lagos was at Lagos on
the 22nd ult., and the Bristol at Sit.rra Leone on
the 16th. The royal mail steamer Mandingo left
Toneriffe on the Ist inst. for the West Coast.

Her Majesty's ship Zebra was at Madeira, as were
also the French frigates Pomona and Intrepid, with
troops from Mexico. The general news from the
West Coast of Africa is unimportant.

AMERICA.

(Per Atlantic Cable.)

NEW YORK, THURSDAY, Aril!. 18, 5.30 P.M.

The Senate has again extended its session until
the 20th inst. The Great Eastern left last evening.
The Scotia has arrived.

NEW YORK, APRIL 19, 5.30 P.Y.
This day was kept as a holiday by the Stock
Board, but a few Street operations are quoted.
The Hibernia has arrived out.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Gold, 1381. Exchange, 104.
—Times, second edition.

THE EASTER MONDAY VOLUNTEER REVIEW.

DEPARTURE OF VOLUNTEERS FOR DOVER.
(THIS DAY.)

This (Saturday) morning large numbers of the
volunteers left the metropolis for Dover, for the double
purpose of being present at the great rifle meeting which
is being held at Folkestone to-day, and of taking part in
the grand display of Monday next. They went by the
" volunteer" trains leaving the VictorMstation at 9 o'clock
and Blackfriars at the same hour, and consisted of
members of the following regiments :—London Rifle
Brigade, Victoria Rifles' 19th Middlesex (Working
Men's College), Harrow Rifles, West Middlesex 21st
Middlesex (Civil Service)Rifles, the Queen's (Westminster),
22nd Middlesex, North West Middlesex, Tower Hamlets
Rifles, South Middlesex, North Middlesex, Inns of Court,
and her Majesty's Customs Volunteers, kc. On their
arrival at Dover most of the volunteers will take up their
quarters at the hotels and private houses provided for
the use of their regiments, as, for instance, the Civil Ser-
vice at the Lord Warden Hotel, the London Rifle Brigade
at Wellesley-oreseent, the London Scottish at Waterloo.
crescent, and the St. George's Rifles at the Clarence Inn,
Council-house-street. Numbers of volunteers also left by
the South Eastern Railway.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

SAI'VADAY, APRIL SO, 8 A.M.