The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-30 00:00:00

ROME.

ROME, Sm.r. 29.

According to an official statement issued to-day,
the present strength of the Pontifical army is
16,465 men, including 673 cavalry and 933
artillery. The latter consists of one mountain,
three field, and two mounted batteries. Rome is
deffnded by 157 guns. There are 1,800 sick men
in the military hospitals, and many captured
deserters in prison.
The Pontifical gendarmes have captured the
notorious brigand chief Zarofala, near Salvaterra.
Nine of the prisoners convicted of complicity in
the blowing up of the Serristori barracks in the
autumn of 1867 have been condemned to death.
The Congregation of Rites, at the request of
the Canton of Oberwalden, will again take into
conbideration the canonisation of Nichulzss Fluch.

BELGIUM.
.11111178F1.8, Sir. 29.
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Viscount de la Oneronniire, the new French
Minister at this court, was received yesterday by
the Minister for foreign Affairs, and to-day by the
King. On presenting his credentials to the King
his excellency spoke emphatically in favour of a
pacific policy, and described a complete under-
standing between Belgium and France as being a
guarantee for the preservation of peace.
The new minister will give a diplomatic dinner
this evening.

AMERICA.
NEW YORK, Barr. 29.
The Cunard steamship Cuba and the National
Ftl amship Helvetia arrived out to-day.
Closing Prices :—Oold, 141 a. Sterling exchange
on London, 1081 ; 6-20 United States Bonds,
1882, 112/ ; ditto,. 1883, 110 ; 10-40 ditto, 104 t.
Illinois, 146; Erie, 47. Cotton, Middling 'Up-
land, 26. Petroleum, standard white, 30. Flour,
extra State, 7 dole. 70c. to 8 dole. 30c. Corn,
old mixed, 1.16 dol.
(rut the City of Baltimore ri(i Queenstown.)
NEW YORK, &Err. 19, Nooc.
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The Georgia House of Representatives has
passed a Lill excluding negroes from juries. The
committee who were appointed by the negro
members who were expelled from the Georgia
Legislature have gone to Washington, to present
their case to Congress.
District Judge Cooley has decided that the civil
courts cannot revise the decisions of the military
authorities acting under the Reconstruction Act.
The Democrats have carried the local election at
Orangeburg in South Carolina by a majority of
the negroes who voted the Democratic ticket.
Fires are raging in the forests of California.
From one to two hundred square miles of timber
have already been destroyed.
The New York papers publish news from
Mexico, announcing that Lozoda has again re-
volted against Juarez.
The international cricket match between the All
England Eleven and Twenty-two of New York
was commenced yesterday, at the grounds of the
St. George's Club. The Eleven won the toes, and
went in first. At the call of time seven wickets
had fallen for 127 runs. Play will be resumed
this morning.
CANADA.
(YrTAWA, SKr?. HI
It is reported that a union feeling is gaining
ground in Nova Scotia, and a delegation on that
hi half is soon to leave for London.

Sir Henry Smith, late Speaker of the Canadian
Assembly, 18 dead.
The Inman royal mail steamer City of Balti-
more, from New York, arrived at Queenstown
yesterday at 10.30 a.m., with 1,5001. in specie.
Having landed mails and passengers she proceeded
for Liverpool. All well.

PORTRAIT OF TnE HIND OF TTIE BELAU/48.--A
life-hired portrait of the King of the Belgians, Feinted by
Charles Merrier, has been placed in the Council-chamber
it the 'Fir National at Brunel/I. The presentation of the
port alt took place on Sunday. In officially receiving it,
the l'reeident, M. Doilly, in a most eulogistic speech coin-
plimenkel Mercier on the excellence of the picture,
both as a likeness and as a work of art. The president's
sentiments wore warmly applauded by the other members
of the commission and by the ladies and gentlemen who
were prompt. This is the second portrait of the King of
the Belgians which M. Mercier Las hail the distinction of
painting. The find, it may be remembered, wee pre-
sented to his Majesty by an English committee, and is
now being engraved by tfr. S. Bolin.
11.1bavolibE HOTEL.-200 Apartments,
and element Public looms, Promenade 'Nano*. IMO feet In
!Cr.'''. the Atlnnt!e. Table Whole deny. ALL 71.115:17.
MIMI% Zioa area.—LAgyalitioise.l

The " rights of the liverymen 'in common hall
am tabled" and the demerits of Mr. Alderman
Allen were the two foremost topics of discussion
at the Guildhall yesterday. The outgoing Lord
Mayor and the gentleman about to Inwood him
were the prominent figures in a sufficiently inter-
esting scene, and each by his looks and bearing
seemed to fill naturally his precise place in the
axemonies of the day. Mr. Allen, the actual
Lord Mayor.? appeared nervous, anxious, and
worried; while Mr. James Clarke Lawrence looked
as radiant and happy as a man should be who has
been unanimously elected to fill a popular office,
and who has a well-grounded belief in the pro-
client), of kit coming career. The proceedings began
about one, but the approaches to the Guildhall
were busy long before that hour. What looked
like a connected series of puppet shows were
elected round its entrance, with the Dames of the
arious City companies, the liverymen of which
are entitled to vote in the election of Lord
Mayor, inscribed over each. The tallest and
most polite of City policemen—a distinction
where an entire force is stalwart and polite—
guards d the main door, and received the livery-
men, as well as the corporation and its officers..
The former seated themselves in the body of the
hall, the latter went to an inner room there to
robe themselves, and to emerge finally in
procession, and take their pieties on the hust-
ings erected below the new oaken screen at the
eastern end. The vast place was about three
parts full, and it was soon evident that some of
those assembled meant mischief. That the cus-
tomary vote of thanks to Mr. Allen was to be
opposed was one of the first things heard. Those
who only think of the present Lord Mayor as an
indiscreet personage, who has made silly speeches
from the bench, and whose head has been turned
through confusing his representative with his in-
dividual capacity, would have been surprised at
the extent of his unpopularity, and at some of the
masons upon which it was based. He had
disgraced his office, ho had been offensive
and haughty to his brother aldermen, he
b u el teen inhospitable and mean, hehad saved money
out of his allowance as Lord Mayor, he had not
studied the wishes of the citizens, he had abased
himself before " swells," he had been " stuck up "
and priggish where his predecessors had bean
obliging and urbane, he could not expect a vote of
thanks to be carried, he ought in decency to
have stayed away to-day—were among the Baser-
thins freely and vehemently made concerning Mr.
Alderman Allen. Whether it was that his friends
thought it more prudent to be silent, or whether
they were too secure of their own strength at
voting time to care to argue the matter before-
hand, it is not easy to say. But from what
we saw and heard in different parts of the great
room, every talker seemed indignant and dissatis-
fied ; and the number of those who afterwards
held up their bands for withholding the vote of
thanks was assuredly only a fraction of those who
were eagerly condemning him a couple of hours
before.

Soon after one p.m. the procession sailed grandly
in ; end the familiar figures of many well-known
public men appeared, arrayed in all the glories
of fur and cloth and ornaments. They steered up
the narrow channel leading to the roped-in
haven by the oak screen, affably bestowing nods
and smiles of recognition to right and left, and
finally ranging themselves round the Lord
Mayor in a fashion which suggested a crowded
and rather disorderly trial sane in the Mer-
chant of Venice. The most gorgeously dressed
functionaries of all remained below, and turned
out on inquiry to be the sheriffs' footmen. These,
together with some gowned figures like em-
blazoned beadles, lounged about the channel or
passage before named, much as the supplementary
ring-masters do in a well organised circus. The
Recorder of the City, the Common Serjecut, who,
we regret to say, walked with a stick and appeared
to be suffering, the Town Clerk of the City, the
new Sheriffs, the Aldermen, the Swordbearer, the
Carrier of the Mace, and the Common Council-
men, having settled into their places, a gowned
gentleman advanced to the front and was about to
address the meeting when an orator started up in
the body of the hall, and at once centred the at-
tention of the assembly upon himself. Spoken of
rather disrespectfully in our neighbourhood as the
" Irrepressible Jones," this speaker was deter-
mined upon being heard, and finally carried his
point by his fluent persistency and strength of will.
The City Crier had just warned all persons not
liver nun to leave the hall, on pain of imprison-
ment, when Mr. Jones asserted his rights. In a
well-worded but wandering speech be maintained
that every liveryman had a right to question any
candidate for the office of Lord Mayor, and pro-
ceeded to ask that Mr. Lawrence should step for-
ward for the purpose of being examined. The
request being acceded to with prompt cheerfulness,
Mr. Jones proceeded to lecture the Lord Mayor
of the future. We do not profess to be sufficiently
informed upon civic politics to adjudicate off-
hand upon " the great question of the bridge
masters," but it seemed from Mr. Jones's rounded
periods and fervid manner as if the fate of Europe
were somehow trembling in the balance, and as if
the corrupt delay in settling its important details
Lad already resulted in flagrant evils. Upon the
question of technical education, and the propriety
of devoting some of the vast wealth of the City
companies to its promotion; as well as upon the
duty of exercising an independent judgment upon
the bench, and of upholding the ancient privileges
of liverymen as well as the corporation, Mr.
Jones spoke sensibly and well. Mr. Lawrence
listened patiently and replied bridly, but in a tone
and with a bearing which palpably raised the
level of the discussion. There were a few more
speeches. More liverymen got up, a report was pre-
sented, and the Recorder announced that, in order
that the right of election might be exercised with
perfect freedom, the aldermen would retire. Dur-
ing their absence the names of the various alder-
men eligible for the Lord Mayoralty were read
out, and Mr. Lawrence was elected to the office.
The few manly, high-spirited sentences in which
be returned thanks fully roused the enthu-
siasm of those present, and the cheering was
long and loud. More speeches from Mr.
Jones, more speeches from other livery-
men, more allusions to " the bridgemasters,"
who appeared to crop up into every speech, like
Ring Charles's head into Mr. Dick's memorial, and
the piece of business second in importance to the
election came on. It fell to Mr. Bennett to pro-
pose the vote of thanks to the present Lord Mayor,
and Mr. Allen's worst enemy could not wish him
a more damaging advocate. The tone of Mr.
Bennett's speech throughout was that of a counsel
who acknowledged his client's guilt, but threw
himself upon the well-known good nature and
mercy of the court. The ironical laughter
became long and loud as the proposer of
those thanks recorded fact after fact against
Mr. Allen. " Let us not look so much
at the man's faults N 8 at the office he
fill'." "Consider, now, how well he looks the
part "—" is not this • point in his favour'"—
" don't rake up a multitude of minor offences "
" never mind if be has shown his political pro-
pensities a little too much "—were amongst the
gems in Mr. Bennett's advocacy. " If he was
minus, wasn't the lady who had filled the
chair of Lady Mayoress plus ? and so when
taken together were they not all right ?"
formed a climax to a series of propositions oon-
errning the Lord Mayor's public conduct the ma-
jority of which would have been insulting had
they not been honestly and kindly meant. Some
sensible and kindly words of advice from a livery-
man of fifty years' ',tending cloud thin part of

BERREHIRE.—Mr. J. Walter, of Bearwood, and
the Hon. Aubeion Herbert, the two liberal candidates for
the representation of the county of B.;rks, addressed a
large and influential meeting of electors on Monday even-
ing, in the Corn Exchange, Farrinpdon. Mr. Walter de-
livered a sound inactical speech, and dealt at length with
the Irish question, pointing out the disadvantages under
which the -Irish population laboured, and suggesting a
remedial measure. Mr. Herbert was repeatedly applauded
in the cour-e of his speech. Much enthusiasm prevailed
throughout, and at the close of the addresses of the hon.
gentlemen, Mr. Charlwood moved, and Mr. Anne
seconded, a resolution calling upon the meeting to use
every means to •-ect.re the return of the two popular can-
didates. A vote of thanks brought the proceedings to a
close.

EAST ESSEX.—The candidates on both sides
continue in active canvass. The conservative champions',
Mr. J. Bound and Colonel Brice, have spoken at South-
rejecter. Bentham, and other places; and the liberal can-
didates, t'ir T. Western and Sir T. N. Abdy, have ad-
dressed their supporters at Wyvenhoe, and to-morrow
(Thursday) they will speak at Colchester. The contest
promisee to be a severe one.
EXETER.—The four candidates have concluded
their canvass. Mr. Coleridge's re-election is considered
certain. The contest will be between Sir John Kerslake
and Mr. Edgar Bowring. The former will Address the
electors this evening. A striking feature in the contest is
the prominence of the clergy as defenders of the Irish
church. Mr. Bowring loudly complained of this at a re-
cent meeting of his party. Ile sad that no less than be-
tween W and 40 clergymen were going to vote against
the liberal party, and they were headed by Archdeacon
Freeman, who preached a politcal sermon in the cathe-
dral. Mr. Bowring said he heard the sermon and took
notes of it, which he produced to the meeting. The arab-
deacon had compared the liberal party to five of the most
wicked men in the Bible, including Ahithopel, who re-
belled against his sovereign and hanged himself. In the
next place, he compared the present assault on the Irish
church to the assault by Sennachenb. King of Assyria, on
the eeople of God. He also congaed the present move-
ment to the French revolution, and smeared his congrega-
tion that the English church—thanks to the liberals—
would be abolished in precisely 20 years from the present
time. Further, he stated that the abolition of church
rates was a robbery of the poor for the sake of the rich.
He (Mr. towring), on returnng from the cathedral,
thought of the Scripture text, "How beautiful are the
feet of those who preach the gospel of peace." It may
also be siaded that several clergymen have announced
from the it pulpits that petitions a;rainst the disestablish-
mem of the In: L church could be sigued at certain place+.
conservatives of Soling have
held an aggregate meeting of their chief, and carrion
cnunimou:ly the following remlution:—"Tliat this meet-
nag form itself into an asociatien, to be called the Ealing
Branch of the Middlesex Curettht on Defeiree Asso-
ciate:lL fur the maiuteuanee of tie union of church and
state, alai to promote the return to pa 'Lament of members
for this county who will oppose the r oley of disestildish-
nant." Lieutenant-Colonel W. Efery has been elected
chairman; Mr. F. C. Danvers is the hon. secretary; and
an influential committee, with Admiral Colhusou at the
head, has been formed to carry out the views expressed
in the above resolution, and circulars have been i
urging on the conservative electors to lend their AA .‘
supporting in its integrity the union of church and state,
in opposing a dangerous and levelling policy which
menaces alike our protestant religion, our property. and
our freedom." Similar aeociatoes are in fo.inafion in
other parts of West Middlesex.
Norrizionam.—Mr. J. J. Merriman addressed
two meetings of his supporters on Monday night. He
said he should abide by the decision of the liberal party of
the town as to whether he should come forward as a
candidate or not but their decision must be fairly given.
He bad I een the first to say so in public, and had received
the thanks of the liberal party for so doing.—A meeting
of Mr. Clayden's supporters was also held the same even-
ing, when a resolution war passed to the effect that tee
meeting should use its utmost endeavours to secure Mr.
Clayden's adoption at the aggregate meeting of the
liberal party ; and if at that meeting he was selected as
one of the candidates. it pledged itself to use every eudea-
your to secure his return to parliament. —A meeting of the
supporters of Mr. Marten, the conservative candidate,
was held in Sherwood Ward on Monday evening, when
resolutions were passed pledging the meeting to use every
exertion to secure the return of that gentleman. A vote
of confidence iu the present government was also passed.
toms( DERHYSIIIRE.—Lord Vernonhas written
to his agent as follows:—" For your guidance I think it
well to give you some written expression of my wishes
with regard to the contests which are now pending in
South Derbyshire, East Staffordshire, and East Cluehire.
Whatever my political opinions may be, I should dears
that my tenantry and employes shoult at all time., feel
that the free and independent exercise of the franchise
entrusted to them is their right, and that whatever vote
they may give, no prejudi'e will be created foror against
them. 1 should also wish that equal facility should be
given to the candidates for conducting_their canvass."
HUNDERLANIL—Mr. James Hartley, conser-
vative member for Sunderland, intimated yesterday
afternoon that he would not contest the borough at
the next election. Failing health is the reason assigned,
but it is rumoured that the hon. gentleman has been asked
to come forward for Ituaresbereaeli. Three liberals are
in the field—Mr. Caudlish, the sitting member; Mr.
Gourley, the mayor ; and Mr. Thompson. Mr. Hartley
was returned with the late Mr. Fenwifi in 186 e.

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Towne ILuttxre.—Lost night Mr. Newton
addressed a meeting at the City Arms. Bromley. A reso-
lution in support of the hon. (undulate was carried. Mr.
Coope, the conservative candidate, spoke at the Coopen•-
hall, Commercial-load, and at the Black Lion, Iliilliesies-
Aveet, Aldgate. Votee of conthluwe were adopted with
acclamation.

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will be good. There is a new kind of flvoliuger that Aosta
above the water. coming from the neighbourhood of
Herne Bay. The,* have been Duey on the Bast-end
grounds, and require watching. The ordinary flvetinger
oats the fish only, but the new kind take the shells also.
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