The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-25 00:00:00

niTAL wirxnAL CANDMATKA.

Tri.or✓ph ad.,ptst thu sugge t oi, of the riper..
that iu laeouidia .►hem More an. 110VO: al liberal cand.-
GeN•a, means thnuld be alopt d to saoert.s,n the one whicb
will ionimsnd the gleatost anmh •r of votes. There who *ld
I e no difficulty in applying this prizoiple just carried oil
with success at Taunton to Hackney, Lambeth, and the
otter motropulitan boroughs The machinery is
quite at Laud. The committees of the rsipectiv,s
ou deletes hare only to exchange views, and t
papaw. the plan for the consideration of the
h dozes. l'orail.ly I very one of the candidates
may not reecive thu proposal with an equally gned grace ;
:4,11 the point to be settled us, not what each olaimuit
thicket of his own merits, but what the Cectori cnnaider
,afeet for the libeial cause.

the Court.

It.‘LMI)ICAL CASTLE, Barr. 23.

The Quern {Vela out y. ntorilay morning with
Prineeee Iteetrioe. end in the afternoon with Princes
linrCan. Drina** Loui.w. and 1 rime. leen:old.
lhe Duke of Edinburgh and 1 rime Chriatian of &Woe-
wig-liohtein went deer-Ntalking.
Major-General Sir Thomas tad the Hoe. Lady Bid-
dekh had the honour of dining with the Queea aged royal
family.

Drepatelses were received peterelay at the Colonial•
of lop from the Governors df Malta, Heligoland. and from
the Governer-General of Canada. Despatches movement
to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Net, sad
to the Governor-General of Caned..

The Duke and Duchess of Bo:Lambe and mite
have arrived at the Clareadoa Hotel from their tour in
Norway._

The Duchess of Hamilton and Lady Mary
Hamilton have lett Genova for Baden. The Iscbsm has
teen raa(ng several months in Saltier/mid, and intend'
to remain in Oerznany during the wintar.

11 e Marquis and Maruhioness of Clanricanii.
arrived in town yeeterday from Homburg, where thf 7
have been rtaying movers! weeks.

The Marquis of Bute ham' left the Mt. Georgo'n
Hot&

The Right lion. G. Hardy, Secretary of State
:for the Home Deliaranent arrived at Stirling by railway
n N ednesday, and after visiting Stirling Castle,
proceolud to Ochtertyru, the ri.eideace of Sir David
Dundee.

On Wtdne.day the marriage of Mr. Walter
Stafford Nosthcote, eldest son of the Bight Hon. Sir
Stafford Northcotts, Bart., her Majesty's Secretary of
State for India, with Elizabeth Lucy, eldest daughter of
Mr. H. S. Thocupwie, of Kirby flail, Yorkshire, was
i.elebrated, amid unusuul demunstratioas of popular
interest, at Cumenam Chun h, Kirby. Thu corm= y was
perfumed by the hi hop cf Ripua

Ile following letter was rootived et Nutting-
bans yesterday by one of Mr. Oiborne's supporters:
" Newtown, Amor, Conrad, Sept. 22, 1168:—Do-r Sir—
Though something bettor, I am not yet able to moves NI it,
and fear it will not be powoble for me to travel so as ti be
with you. us I intended, on Monday, the 2 ith Instant. As
it is I cannot Nand on my legs for above Ave tu cutesy
being so weak. If you could put off my =satin until
mu able to travel and lit for business I will wr t • yon
further Si I become stakaget.—Yery faithtully yours, B.
Oaaoatre.••

J. J. Roberta, ex-Presidest of Liberia, and
bia wife, bare arrived at Baltimore. Brarytlaing is
Liberia io report• d as

T t e now word coblefirom is used by • New York
contemporary to characterise • telegraphic despatch.
The Boston Adv ?INC? says that the physician
of the Chinese Embassy, Dr. Tao. is very much in favour
of having some American ladies sent out to Chiva to act
aa phytue.ans among the women of that country. The
wontut there ensyluy none but female doctors, as a general
rule.

The yacht Deerhound, which rescued the Ame-
rican Southern Captain SIMMS atter his ship, the Ala-
bama, was sunk WI Cherbourg. is now lylag in South-
ampton Water, close be g& the Antorf.oa.l ruing yacht
tiwnech

The electric telegraph is seed much more than
is generally imagined. The great Are is the Southampton
Desk, about thaw weeks sgo, wee knows in Alausadr*
in Egypt, the day sitar it happened.

The hearing the charge Spinet the station-
wastes at Aterweis wee mooned yesterday. ldr. Maim,
the saditent menages of the London and North western
Railway Cenapeny, pee evidence to the effect that the
defendant was not required by say re/e• to have the rte.
lice skated lea entente* Wore the arrival of the email.
AU that was necerimary wee to have the line cleared in
raficiest E. foe the wad to proceed. The breakeznen
were in attendance, bet on the 'oboe attempting to arrest
they they drove to the railway station and left by train
for Holyhead. The Bearing was adjourned until to-
morrow.

The Right Rev. Pranria Pulford, D.D., Anglican
Bishop of Montreal and Metropolitan of Canada, who
died on Wedneeday evening ia Montreal, aged tl5, was a
graduate of the Universit of Orford, and tor some Lim .1
was fellow of Exeter Coltege. He held war ous po• Woos
in England up to 1860, when he was oonsserated bahop,
i.nd mine out to Canada. In 1869 he was appointed by
royal letter patent Metropolitan ItiLh of Canada. He
Wll/ noted for his Learning, his high Chriatim charsoter,
and its administrative capacity ; and his removal will be
v felt by the Auglican Church la the Dominion.—
Nu Vurk Som.

LORD NAPIER OF MAODALA.—LOrd Napier of
Migdalu, who has been the queer of Mr. itubert N.spier
of Weet Shasidon, on the Oareloch, wee in Olaiwow uu
edne,day, and viiiited the Royal Exchange. Ho was
re eived by Mr. White of Overtoun, one of the directors,
and ente red his mune in the visitors' book. In pawing
up and down the hall and on leaving the building he w.is
loudly cheered by the members resent. Tau r iut
sulweemently vinital Immo of the public work.; in
tin t.e.y nod neighbourhood. lie will kAva Englund 'met
month on his return to India.

GENTLEWOMEN'S HELP-11EL, I NATI fUT IL—A
fancy LAY DUI in aid of this charity will Do hold on tho pro-
tium*, Itesehorough-gardens, Sou lh Belgravia, to-in. wrow,
under the patronage of the Duelswei of Sutherland, the
Marchioness Tow 'wend, the Dowager Coantoss of nou-
n:loM the Dowager Coniston of Wualasurlana, lady Con.
vtutire l lroevenor, and Mrs. Henrifteataden, to tliNpmeo of
the work already scut to the ingtftufloa by nooul4itous
gentlewomen. The admission will be hue.