The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-22 00:00:00

:NG, JULY 22,

FOitEltON NEWS.
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SERVIA.

BELGRADE, Jtriy 21, Zviauto:

M. Peter Markovie has been appointed by the
Court to act as counsel for the Prince Alexander
Harageorgevitch, who ban refused to surrender
for trial.

Some of the other prisoners will also be defended
by counsel assigned by the Court. The trial will be
concluded the day after to-morrow.
It is generally believed that eleven of the per-
sons charged with Prince Michael's murder will be
sentenced to death.

AUSTRLi.

VIBNNA, JULY 22.

The New Free Press states that the Minister of
Finance has prepared the preliminary draft of the
budget for 1869, from which it appears that a
balance will be established next year between the
rovcmuo and the expenditure, without new increase
of taxation or contracting a fresh loan.

ROUMANIA.

BITCHAREST, JULY 21.

Out of thirty-throe senators chosen by the
second electoral district of Wallachia, twenty-three
are stated to belong to the extreme Liberal party.
The city of Tasay has re-elected Senator Gonescu.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, JuLT 21.

At a sitting of the Council of State hold last
night it was determined to allow the Duke de
Montpensier to reside in Portugal, although the
French Minister was opposed to that policy.
The new ministry has been formed under the
presidency of the Marquis de Ss, who also takes
temporary charge of the War and Foreign Affairs
Departments. The remainder of the Cabinet is com-
posed as follows :—Minister of Justice, Senhor
Pequito de Babas ; Minister of Interior, Monsignor
Alves Martins, Bishop of Vises; Minister of
Finance, Senhor Cartes Benti ; Minister of Public
Works, Senhor Sebasti Calharos ; Minister of
Marine, Senor Latino Coelho.

OUR PARIS LETTER.
(rum ova tont cosassrosows.)
PARIS, TOZIEDAT EVILIFINO.

A frightful accident, attended with lose of life,
occurred at Fontainebleau on Sunday. Some
workmen employed in the excavations necessary
to bring the waters of the river Venue to
Paris were piercing some sandy soil about
a hundred feet below the level of the surface,
at a spot called Bouligny, in the forest,
when a mass of superincumbent earth, badly
propped up, fell in upon them. Nine men were
buried, and when they were dug out, after
seven hours of hard labour by all the hands that
could be found, four of them were dead, and the
mensining l's weer* injured. The Empress,
who lout hoprlyt tirbi!is the 11.111,0121102 lasted, to
know what *ogress Was nicking in the work of
succour, has liberally relieved the families of the
unfortunate men.
It was rumoured in the lobbies to-day that the
Corps Legislatif will not be sable to get through
the essential business of the session earlier than
Thsaiday 'in next week. It is astonishing, how-
elver, how much a broad hint from the President
•Adthe prospect of getting away will shorten
speeches at the fag end of the session. The
deputies are heartily sick of their work,
ae the daily thinning benches show. Yesterday
there were not more than 83 members in the
house while Baron Jane made a long speech
criticising the management of the tobacco
monopoly so severely that M. Magne asked for
an adjournment of the debate to give him
time to reply to it. Baron .Tansk says,
and the public certainly will bear him
out, that whereas formerly the monopoly, what-
ever objection it might be open to in principle,
supplied reasonably good tobacco at a moderate
price, it has ceased to do so now. French cigars
at five 110W1 are inferior to those sold in Germany
for less than half the money, and the object seems
to be to force the public to pay twelve and fifteen
sous for a tolerable cigar.
The Parisians, undeterred by the extreme heat of
the weather, continue to indulge to a considerable
extent in their newly-acquired right to hold " un-
authorised" public meetings. There was one at
Neuilly yesterday, the first held in the suburbs.
The subject was " Syndical Credit Unions," and
a committee was formed to draw up the statutes
of a eyndical union for Neuilly, Puteaux,
and the neighbouring villages. The meeting was
not very numerous, owing to the churlish decision
of the administration, contrary to the spirit of the

new law, that public.meetings, though they may
be lawfully advertised inthe newspapers, shall not
be announced by posted bills. The " ladies " had
another geld day at Wauxhall yesterday, and
again adjourned for a week.
There can be no doubt now about the coming
marriage of La Patti, so often prematurely an-
nounced. The following is an extract from the
banns placarded at the mayoralty of the let anon-
dissement :

M. Louis Sebastian Henri de Boger de Calmmo, Marquis
de Caws, eon of the Count and Demoiselle Hnguet de
Varange, now the wife of the Duke de Valmy, and hf dile.
Adel‘Jesuaio-Marie Patti, proprietairs, daughter of M.
ilelsatore Patti and Catherine Mims. rashers.

An extraordinary accident happened on Sunday
at the favourite suburban bathing place on the
Seine near St. Germain, the Isle of Grenouilliire. A
gentleman about to take a plunge from a height,
by some unaccountable awkwardness struck his
feet into the glass roof of a saloon attached to the
establishment, fell through it, and came down a
frightful mass of swilled flesh and splintered
bones. There were loud cries for a surgeon, but
although it is alleged there were several in the
water only one came forward, and that after some
delay. Not the slightest hope is entertained of
sexing the life of the wounded man.
A rise of i in Consols, and a rumour (much
questioned, however) that the loan wall after all
not come out till October, encouraged the upward
movement manifested at the end of the Bourse yes-
terday, and Bente again rose 100. both for cash
and account, closing in each case at 70fr. 20c.
Italian rose 45c., the tobacco news from Florence
being still considered good. Credit Folacier fell
11fr. 75e., but all other securities were firmer.

The Russian Gazdfe of st. Petersburg states that
the excessive heat which has prevailed for some weeks
past has caused cases of spontaneous combustion to many
localities. In the environs of Tsarakoe-Belo and Peterhof,
the peat has become kindled, and given rise to subterra-
nean fires which are not without danger. In the woods of
PargoErs, which surround the lakes In that district and
extend to a great distance, trees have been burning for a
"reek, and the flames continue to spread.
A spark from an engine on the Breda and Til-
bourg line, Belgium, set fire, three days back, to the dry
grass on the embankment, and the flames spread with
wonderful rapidity. A field of corn was also ignited, and
but for the earannoue exertions of some reapers who were
east, and who managed to isolate the flames, very serious
damage might hare ensued.

THE BADS OF LIQUORS ON SUNDAY.

The special report from the .elect committee on
the Sale of Liquors an Sunday Bill was published this
corning.

While admitting that drunkennesu to a considerable ex-
tent, both on Sundays and other days, is to be found in
this country, the committee observe that the admission
appears to be general that the present law is
working well, and that under its operation a great dimi-
nution of drunkenness has taken place. Indeed, the con-
current testimony of all the witnesses proves that for
many years past there ban been a steady, decided, and
progressive improvement in the morals, habits, tastes, and
meaner, of the people. The advance of education, the
wider diffusion of knowledge, and the moral influences
which have been brought to bear upon them, have all
combined to produce this result. Regarding, then, this
general improvement, and bearing in mind the fact that the
habits of the upper and middle classes of society are far
more temperate at the present day than was the case in
the early part of the century, the committee are of
opinion that it is not too much to hope that, as the work-
ing classes also advance in self-improvement, and are
actuated by that self-respect which is engendered by
improved education, the vice of drunkenness will gradu-
ally disappear without the necessity of further coercive
measures on the part of the legislature. Holding this
view the committee cannot recommend the passing of the
bill referred to their consideration, and would rather trust
to the progressive improvement discernible under the pre-
sent law, and to the further development of those moral
influences to which they refer.
Oa considering the report an amendment was proposed
by Mr. Hibbert which, while declaring some of the restric-
tions proposed by this bill to be unnecessary, expressed
an opinion that the earlier closing of public houses on
Sunday evening would be attended with public advantage.
On a division this amendment was rejected by seven votes
to six. The witnesses examined before the committee
were selected from various professions and trades, inclu-
ding amongst them clergymen, chief constables, soli-
citors, wine merchants, and working men. The total
sum allowed to the witnesses for expenses amounted to
1741. 2s.

SCIENTIFIC INSTRUCTION OF THE

INDUSTELIL CLASSES.

The select committee appointed to inquire into
the provision for giving instruction in theoretical and
applied science to the industrial clauses, have considered
the matters referred to them and have agreed to their
report, which was published for the information of par-
liament this morning._ _

Attar suggesting the importance of efficient elementary
instruction being placed within the reach of
every child, and of such a re-organisation of se-
condary instruction as would provide for a larger
amount of scientific instruction, the committee
arrive at the following amongst other conclusions :—That
certain endowed schools should be selected in favourable
situations for the purpose of being reconstituted as science
schools, having in view the special requirements of the dia.
trict, such schools being rendered available to the sur-
rounding districts by the establishment of exhibitions
open to public competition ; that superior colleges and
schools for special scientific instruction would require ex-
traneous aid for their support, in addition to fees, and
that such institutions should be established in centres of
industry, which would tend to promote the combination
of science with practice on the part both of
professors and pupils, and make them available for a
larger number of persons. The committee are also of
opinion that the provinces, and especially the agricul-
tural districts, are entitled to increased aid from the
state ; that some slight addition to the emolu-
ments of science teachers would probably tend most
materially to promote the establishment and permanence
of elementary 11CiaTICe elanue, and that theproritionsof the
Public Libraries and Museums Act should be altered so as
to enable public bodies to levy a slightly increased rate
for scientific purposes. The committee further suggest
that teachers in elementary schools should be paid on
results for teaching science to the older scholars, and that
the education of higher science teachers should be en.
couraged by the granting of degrees in science at Oxford
and Cambridge, as at other universities, and by the open-
ing of a greater number of fellowships to distinction in
natural science as well as in literature and mathematical
and moral science.

The committee consisted of nineteen members of the
Rouse of Commons, and the witnesses examined by them
included the President of Queen's College, Cork, school-
meatus, engineers, science teachers, an architect, a gun-
maker, and manufacturers. The total expenses allowed
to the witnesses amounted to 1621. 13a. 6d.

LAW INTHLLIGENCE.-(THIS DAy.)
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EQUITY COUItT.
(Before Vice-Chancellor (liffard.)
ABRAHAMS P. THE CORPORATION OP THE CITY OP LONpu
This wes a motion for an injunction to restrain
pr c,M
ings under a precept issue to the sheriff to aunts dtm,,
of certain property required for the liolliorn ,
provement, and which stood in this remarkable and precedented position, that there were no penes s than L. 4
separate leases relating to the rooms in the ken..
was to be taken, and two separate leanest relating le one single room. The question was whether the intere.ti the various owners of this property were to be 'vessel a single jury, or whether they were to be assessed by n't
many separate juries (which might possibly be eleven) it,
the several owners chose. The collective value of ths
prztrtjzas
QC.
estimated, Igrure
the motion, I t
justice could not be done by submitting the tivatettlieo
compensation to one jury. ut
Sir B. Palmer, Q.C., and Mr. A. R. Millar, for the n.e.,
poration, said that the issue of one precept was the ttn.4l
and appropriate course, and would admit of the qu...t;no
being trHed, if possible, by one jury, and if absolute y n,.
ceerary, by more than one. But to hare 525 person, n,„
semblod (48 being necessary in each case) would
a monstrous expense and oppression to the Tee.
statute itself contemplated the possibility of th-o. h.. nt!
more than oue party to the mate claim, and by the, tini„,
the/ are not permitted to challenge the an-ay.
The Vicenehanoellor said that the rational rIlIC•u• w,.,.
be that the same jury should try all the cas,, tht
each case should be tried separately.
Mr. Druce, in reply, said that all he wanted wt, to
his case tried separately. Ho did not care what w t.•
with the ten leases that came after his.

The Vice-Chancellor g;;;jtelgmr; this vs v,, , ,
case having been argued ye-dordav). Ili, II
that the true question 1,1814 whether th.' e.,r,
London wore or were not eirceeding their
ing the warrant in this form. After nadai.,
warrant, and commenting on the art of 1, .
his Honour came to the conelu•lon
this warrant, there could be only on*.
jury, and only one verdict. But th.., n ht. .n
separate claimant were saved by the 1,.•
and it was plain that the corporation could T. •
one claimant to have the claim of another j •
his. That would obviously be most unfcr,
separate owner was undoubtedly entitled, ii h.
have a separate as;:essment made by a 514.1,1:1t.• ry
That being so, as such a series of prnen,,,lmg, ,
be carried out under the present warrant, th, r.
an injunction as asked for; but his Honour ~., • .
prepared to find that such a precept might will bo
with which, as far as he was concerned, there ,
no interference.