The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-22 00:00:00

AMERICA.

WASHLNGTON, Jusz 20.
iteTresident has-vetoed the tall for admitliing
Arkansas to representation in Congress. The
House of Representatives have passed the bill over
the presidential veto by 110 votes against 31.
NEW YORK fuss 20.
The Inman royal mail steamer City of Paris arrived
hero at 6p.m. to-day. All well.
According to Messrs. Neill's report, the week's receipts
of cotton at all United States ..rts have been 3,500 bales,
and since Ist September 2,114,111 bales. Week's exports to
Great Britain 2,-000 bales; since let September, 1,218,000
bales. Week's exports to the continent, 1,000 bales;
since Ist September, 442,000 bales. Total exports of the
week, 3,000 bales; and since let September, 1,660,000
bales. Stock at all ports, 116,000 bales.
The Inman steamship City of Washington arrived out
to-day:
Closing prices :—Gold, 1103; Sterling exchange on
London, 110; 6-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 114;
ditto, 1885, 1111; 10-40 ditto, 1061 ; Illinois, 154 f ; Erie,
691. Cotton, Middling Upland, 31. Petroleum, standard
white, 311. Flour, extra State, 8 dole. 75c. ; corn, old
mixed, 114 dohs.

Saturday being the thirty-first anniversary of her
Majesty's accession to the throne, the bells of the parish
churches of St. Bride's, Fleet-street, St. Dunstan a, St.
Martin's-in-the-Fields, St. Mary Abbott, Kensington, St.
John' e, St. Margaret's, Westminster, and of other churches,
rang forth merry peals. The household troops paraded,
guns fired, the shipping in the river was gaily decorated,
and other demonstrations of loyalty took place.
Mr. Gladstone, as President of the Statistical
Society, has selected from the council the following gen-
tlemen to be vice-presidents, namely, Colonel Sykes, M.P.,
Dr. Wm. Farr Mr. James Heywood, M.A., and Professor
J. E. Thorold itoters.
A meeting o the inhabitants of Liverpool " in
favour of the continued connection of the United Church
Vtatualand and Ireland with the State," was held on
y afternoon. The meeting was very crowded, and
Mr. Hordall, M.P., Mr. Turner, M.P., and Mr. Graves,
M.P., with the other prominent members of the party,
were, on appearing upon the platform, received with
vociferous cheers. Resolutions favourable to the object
for which the meeting was called were adopted.
THE CITY OF LONDON VOLImNITEEB.—On Satur-
day next his Ito al Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
Field Marshal • -in-Chief, will hold a review
in Hyde-park of the City o London Rifle Volunteer Bri-
gade, of which his royal, highness is honorary colonel. The
review was originally fixed for Saturday last; but, in
co/mega/WA of the grand review at Windsor by her Ma-
jesty, was unavoidably postponed. The City Volunteers
on Saturday next will assemble at the Duke of York's
Column, St. James's-park, at 4 o'clock, "in full dress,
without gaiters, capes, hammocks, or kneecaps. Officers
in tunics, black gloves, hair properly cut. Arms and ac-
coutrements must be in thorough order."
Sam:rine LEcrums TO WORKING MEN.—Dr.
Edwin Lankester, F.R.S., lectured on Friday on "The
Utilisation of Vesta," at the London Mechanics' Insti-
tute, Southampton-buildings, in connection with the
Workmen's Technical Education Committees of the
Working Men's Club and Institute Union. Mr. Ellis A.
Davidson presided. The audience was numerous, atten-
tive, and enthusiastic, and the lecture told effectively.
The second course will conclude on Tuesday next with a
lecture by Mr. Davidson en "Mechanical Drawing."
Illionffiar Prerullis AND DPAWlNGS.—Acollection
of modern pictures and drawings, formed by a gentleman,
removed from his residence in the country, was
of on Saturday last, at the rooms of Messrs. Christie,
Manson, and Woods, in King-street, St. James's. The
whole realised 11,3861.
CABTALTIES AT TILE REVIEW.—At 9 o'clock on
Saturday evening, es the volunteers were returning from
the Great Park, Mr. John Dunn, oil and colour merchant,
Cannon-street, London, fell from the ranks of the City of
London Rifle Brigade, just after his company had entered
Park-street from the Long Walk, and expired in a few
minutes. The cause of his death was doubtless apo-
plexy, Mr. Dunn being a gentleman of full habit
and advanced in years. The body was first removed
to the house of Mr. Provest, and promptly attended
by the surgeon of the corps, who pronounced
his death to be instantaneous ; the body was consequently
afterwards removed to the Windsor police station to await
an inquest. A Mr. Peed, of the 21st Kent Volunteers,
was taken to the Windsor Royal Infirmary, brought from
the Great Park in an ambulance waggon, having received
• severe injury in the bock. He received prompt atten-
tion from the house surgeon, Mr. Buckle; and although he
is obliged to beyropped up by pillows, being unable to lie
down, his ca:e u not considered to be dangerous.
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and pleasure. Sitting so long in a prominent
pontien,there were ample opportunities, of course,
for the curious to satisfy their curiosity as to the
pivotal and actions of the royal family ; and such
opportunities are never cast away. Unnumbered
eyes on Saturday were centered upon the carriage in
which the Queen sat, and since seeing is believing,
there was no difficulty in believing that the per-
sonal attachment felt by her subjects towards
the Queen is grounded upon that true divinity
which better than anything else can hedge about a
sovereign—the divinity of home affections and home
influences. To see the Queen and the Princess of
Wales laughing together when anything moved
their mirth, in hearty abandonment, instead of
the regulation simper which society prescribes; to
see the young Highlander, Prince Leopold, and
Princess Beatrice, pointing out men and things to
their sister's tiny child; to see the Queen, when a
man was borne out of the ranks faint from the
heat, stand up with motherly concern, turn her
back upon the review, and not be content until
informed it was not a serious accident ; to see
Queen, Prince, and Princesses in turn bringing a
blush into Prince Arthur's face by probable re-
ferences to his new plumes, were little incidents
that came unsought before many on Saturday,
indicating the substratum of personal esteem and
admiration upon which English loyalty is built.
.At half-rat five the troops began to march
hast, and it took them more than an hour sad a
alf to do so. The field was divided into
four divisions, the commanders being
General Hamilton, General Lord G. Paget,
General Murray, and General Carey. The
ground was kept by the Ist Life Guards
and some Lancers, and the guard of honour were
the Ist battalion of the Coldstream Guards. The
official programme was of signal service, as hereto-
fore, in misleading those foolish enough to trust
in it ; hence a description of regiments which were
not recognised is impossible. On the whole, the
marching was bad, and not to compare in any
particular with the march past at Portsmouth,
where the best corps were not represented. A
few regiments were cheered, but not solely
for marching, although in justice some
of them deserved it. The Robin Hoods,
from a combination of circumstances, always ob-
tain a running fire of applause; they march ad-
mirably, they dress in dark green, they are pre-
ceded by a body of pioneers more absurd than
most others (which is saying much), and they
represent by their historical assumption a spirit of
defiance and lawlessness that is very taking to
unregenerate human nature. The London Scottish,
the Queen's Westminster, the London Rifles, the
Eton corps, and one or two others, were recog-
nised and cheered. The usual order of position
was observed. The cavalry came first, headed
by the Duke of Manchester's sturdy yeomen
the Royal Bucks Yeomanry, caparisoned
and attired like the Lancers, the Honourable
Artillery's Light Horse, the Ist Oxford Light
Horse, and the lst Hants Light Horse, com-
pleting the mounted troops. After them came the
volunteer field batteries. and next the four divi-
sions of infantry. The Prince of Wales rode at
the head of his regiment—the Hon. Artillery Com-
pany—which has the proud distinction of carrying
colours and fixed bayonets. Prince Tock rode at
the head of the Ist Surrey Artillery, of which he
is hon. colonel ; and the Commander-in-Chief,
leaving for the time her Majesty's_ carriage,
came by with the London Rifles. The
artillery were very well represented. All
the corps that gave in their names
could not have been present in time to march
past; andif unreliableprogrammeswerenotthe rule
instead of the exception, this delay from deficient
railway transit mrgnt be held to explain a depar-
ture from the official field returns. The evolutions
after the march past were apparently directed with
the view of enabling the men to fire away the few
rounds of cartridges served out in the morning.
There were plenty. of smoke " hugging" the
ground, some imposing reports from the artillery
guns and rifle shots, to be both seen and heard
amongst the trees ; there were also the well-
known break-neck gallops on the part of the
gentlemen who deliver imaginary despatches
the
nobody, and there was no proof that the
lungs of the volunteer officers have been
dam by previous vocal efforts in the field. To
thepublic behind the chains the evolutions meant
little more than this, enlivened by the accident of
a handful of deer appearing in the open space,
trembling with frighl, and huddling together
closer and closer at every fresh volley. Whether
there was any other enemy represented could not
be made out, and was not stated. The cavalry
rushed across the course once in pursuing practice,
and when they had passed, and the spectators
were told, in answer to inquiries, that no
horse had run away, and no trooper's ear been
accidentally lopped off, they were rather surprised
at the tameness of the result. AB the evening
advanced the firing became more rapid, and the
smoke proportionately. dense, until it ceased,
leaving the prevailing
.impression that Britannia
wax by this time (it being 8 o'dook) in a fair way
of ruling the waves. The corps were massed
together at the upper end of the ground, and the
Queen and party drove by them on their way to
the Castle. Regimental restrictions were now
removed, and for the first time during the day
there was cheering worthy of the name. A dense
volume of humble greeted the Cinema as she

rode homewards, and the enthusiasm of
the men could hardly be kept within
bounds. They hurrahed louder than ever when
they saw that the Queen was visibly affected at
the earnest demonstration, and waved their cap-
crowned bayonets as vigorously as if they had just
turned out, instead of being on duty for twelve
hours. This was a fitting finish to $ pleasant
review, and was the great incident of the day.
The Volunteers 'next sought refreshment. Some
of them found it no doubt, for there were corps
that had established a good culinary department
on the ground, and had cooked meat and vege-
tables there and then. Others were quartered on
tent-purveyors, and we pity the men who were
left to their tender mercies. Men on vo-
lunteering expeditions ought not, probably,
to be above farmg hard and it may be the fare
SWOP of them met with was a bit of training pur-
posely introduced by the officers. But in. the
absence of definite information upon the point,
we may perhaps be allowed to say that we left the
survey of some tents wondering how beef could
bare been so villanously cooked and blackened,
how bread could get so dry and dirty, and how
beer could become so supremely muddy. There
were plenty of victuals, but they were not fit to
eat. Other volunteers were more fortunate.
Colonel Richardson-Gardner, of the Tower Ham-
lets Rifles, took his 400 men under the shade of
clump of trees and gave them meat and drink and
tobacco as soon as the review was over. They
bivouacked on the ground, and were surrounded
by great crowds, who admired the jollity, of
camp life. The railway arrangements were
not perfect, and the most that can be said is that
the corps were brought home without any imeident,
PO far as we can learn. The South Western
Company could hardly be expected to acquit itself
so well as in connexion with the Portsmquth
review, and the trains were very late. Some of
the metropolitan volunteers could not have reached
home in time for church. As for the country
corps, the Robin Hoods were disturbing the still-
ness of the Great Northern station last evening,
and we saw one of them charging down Penton-
ville-road at the top of his speed, waving his
rifle to get the train stopped, and in blissful igno-
rance that his comrades were at that moment
dashing along somewhere near Hornsey-wood
station. No doubt other country volunteers were
absent from home last night. Eight railway
stations were engaged in the work of transport,
and 7,000 men were taken from Waterloo-station
alone. The provincial corps at the review included
volunteers from Bucks, Hants, Bent, Norfolk,
Devon, Gloucester, Hereford, Barks, Somerset,Lan-
cashire, Notts, Willa, Cinque Ports, and Oxford.
The inhabitants of Windsor nobly exerted them-
selves to prove equal to the occasion, and did so.
The streets were necessarily crowded, but the
troops were got through without great confusion.
For once, certainly, Windsor Park was not cleared
at sun-down. At Datchet station there wax
much unseemly contention in loading the trains
for the homewardourney, and the blame should
be equally divided between the railway officials
and the Volunteers. The attendance of Volunteers
was a magnificent feature of the day, but the
civilians from London were fewer than had been
expected. The country districts, however, sent
large contingents of sight-seers. The Household
enclosures were occupied by the most distinguished
families in the Court circle and aristocracy.