The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-10 00:00:00

TRB WAR orincis.

The Star comments upon the discussion last night on
the present state of the War Office, and thinks that what
must occur to every ono on • fair review of the case is
that it will be very lamentable if the true and permanent
principles of administration cannot be so far accommo-
dated to the circumstances and opportunities of the case
as to enable ns to test the economical fruitfulness of Sir
Henry Storks' and General Balfour's labours. As a prac-
tical and sensible people, can we not manage to organise
and retrench first, and to establish treasury supervision
and responsibility afterwards

LORD

IT'a UN. 17011.111TT BILL.

The Timm thinks that Lord Shaftesbury has little
reason to be dissatisfied with the reception of his
measure for repressing the innovations of the ritualista,
because it elicited a declaration in favour of the prin-
ciple of the measure, the time and circumstances under
which it is introduced being the only ground of objec-
tion in the minds of the leading peers. Two reasons
were quite conclusive against a direct unction of the
bill at the present moment. Ones that there is every
prospect of the judicial committee pronouncing a final
decision respecting incense and altar lights before the
end of the year, and the other is that no measure of the
kind ought to be adopted except upon the responsibility
of the government. With respect to the merits of the
question the Times declares that, although it is not afraid
of disunion being introduced by any mere development of
church ceremonial, it is satisfied that in points of doctrine
the church will not bear unliriiited extension. The ques-
tion at issue with the ritualists, freed from disguises, is
whether our clergy may be Roman catholice in all but
the name. The controversy between high church and
low church has long ago been brought to a friendly
agreement ; but the ritualist' on the one side, and the
extreme rationalists on the other, must either abandon
their claim to hold office within our church, or must
utterly discredit her in the eyes of the nation.

'ALUM ILAILWAY.

The Daily tines thinks that Mr. W. P. Andrew and the
promoters of the Euphrates Valley Hallway may take
heart from the probable success of the Sues Canal enter-
prise, and hope for the success of their own more
useful scheme. This route to India is admitted
to be the shortest and the beet, the passage by rail.
way along the valley being quicker, healthier, and
easier than the route which lies along the stifling
valley of the Rod Sea. The real difficulties of the scheme
are political, and involve the question how its continued
possession shall be guaranteed to its owners. It is
difficult to see what the English government could do
in the matter, and the Daily News, considering the
present state of the eastern question, comes to the
conclusion that this is one of the schemes which are born
before their time, and whose realisation must, therefore,
be delayed.

the Court.

OSBORNE, JULY 9.

The Queen, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse,
Prined and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince
Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, arrived at Osborne last
evening, at twenty minutes past eight o'clock, having
crossed over from Gosport in the royal yacht Alberta,
Captain the Prince of Leiningen, G.C.B.
The Duke of Edinburgh landed from the Galatea in the
evening, and dined with her Majesty.
The Queen and the royal family walked in the grounds
this morning.

Signor E. Bondi had the honour to submit for her
Majesty's inspection at Windsor Castle his miniature
portraits and copies in water colours from Ralfaelle and
other Italian masters.

Despatches were sent yesterday from the Cohmial-
Aloe to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal,
St. Helena, Sierra Leone, Lagoa, and to the Governor-
General of Canada.

The Prinoess Mary Adelaide and the Prince of
Tee& honoured the Earl Porteecne by their company at
dinner, yeeterday evening, at the family residence in
Lowndes-square. The Duke and Duchess of Bucoleuch,
the Earl and Countess Granville, the Earl of Zetland, Vis-
count Coke, Lord and Lady Proby, lady Marian Alford,
Sir Roderick Murchison, Mr. Jerroise Smith, Mr. Duncan,
Miss Pitt, &c., were also among the guests.

The Earl and Countess Beauchamp entertained
at dinner on Wednesday, at 13, Belgrave-equare, the Earl
and Countess of Malmesburg, the Marquis and Marchionem
of Exeter, the Earl and Countess of Dunmore, the Hon.
Major and Lady H. Henniker, the Hon. P. Stanhope, the
Right Hon. Sir John Pakington and Lady Pakington, Mr.
and Lady Dorothy Nevill, and Mr. Cockerel].

Mr. W. F. Forster next Thursday will ask tho
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there has
been any recent correspondence between her Majesty's
government and the government of the United States, on
the question of naturalisation and expatriation ; and, if so,
whether he is willing to lay such correspondence upon the
table of the house.

On Monday Mr. Floyer will auk the Secretary to
the Poor-law Board whether, in pursuance of the intima-
tion given in the last annual report of the Poor-law
Board, it is intended to lame any further regulations for
the administration of relief to vagrants.

Mr. Baas intends to move on Monday that the
evidence taken before the Bristol Election Committee
having been delivered, the Speaker do not issue his writ
for the city of Bristol until three days' notice of a motion
for the writ shall have expired.

Sir Robert Anstruther will ask the Secretary of
State for War on Tuesday whether the travelling allow-
ance of officers invalided home from Abyssinia has been
disallowed; and, if so, for what reason.

On Monday Mr. Mill will ask the Chief Secre-
tary for Ireland if her Majesty's government will take
into favourable consideration the question whether the
time is arrived when the very heavy sentences passed on
Warren and Costello, the only two persons of the crew of
the Jackmell who bare not been released, may be re-
mitted or mitigated.

It has been remarked that the Pope's bull sum-
moning the bishops and prelates of suitable rank to a
general council of the church, differs from those of his
predecessors on similar occasions, in that he makes no
formal invitation to catholic sovereigns to be present
eithekpersonally or by their representatives.
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