The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1868.

achievements of Admiral FailitAorrr as for those
of Lord NAPIER, of Magdala ; and the American
sailer takes his place in the lira of naval heeeos, in
which Blain and Matson and. OoLLueowoots ant
among the brightest names, who illustrate 04
sovereignty of our race over the sees. The begins
ning of this happy change dates from the otitburst
of sympathetic grief which the tidings of President
LINCOLN'S assassination evoked in England. The
two countries have lately boon reminded of this
feeling by one of those graceful acts of interna-
tional courtesy which are happily more common
than they were between states, and which are far
more likely to knit them together in friendship
than the reciprocal flatteries, and the emulous
ostentation of Sovereigns. The last day of the
present session of Parliament was the witness of a
proceeding full of interest, which, however, in the
press of business more exciting, and, for the
moment, more important, escaped newspaper re-
cord. In the Votes and Proceedings of the House
of Commons, for Friday, 31st Ju1y,.1868, the fol-
lowing entry occurs:
United States of America.—Mr. Speaker acquainted
the house, that, in pursuance .of a resolution of the Con.
gm, of the United States of America, a volume contain-
ing the expressions of condolence and sympathy commu-
nicated to the United States government on the subject of
the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the
United States of America, and the attempted assassination of
William H. Seward. Secretary of State, and Frederick W.
Seward, Assistant-Secretary, on the evening of tho 14th
of April, 180, has been transmitted to the House of
Commons, as a teetimonial of the grateful appreciation by
the people of the generous expressions of coudolenco and
sympathy in the late national bereavement communicated
by the Howie of Commons to the Department of State of
the United States. _

Resolved, that this house accepts, with much gratifica-
tion, the volume transmitted to them in pursuance of the
resolution of the Congress of the United State; and hereby
directs that the said volume be placed in the library of the
house ; and that a copy of this resolution bo forwarded to
Mr. Secretary Seward with a request that he will commu-
nicate the same to the Congress of the United States.—
(Lord Stanley.)
The volume to which the SPEAKER'S communi-
cation and the resolution of the House of Commons
alike relate, has reached our hands through the
courtesy of the American Legation in this country.
It is a striking memorial of the feeling which
for the moment united all the civilised
world in a common sentiment of sympa-
thetic grief and indignation. This feeling
found expression through every possible organ,
through the autograph letters of Sovereigns,
the official communications of ambassadors and
envoys, the formal votes of legislative assemblies,
the resolutions of municipalities and chambers of
commerce, and of other corporate organisations
or voluntary societies, religious, political, philan-
thropic, of town meetings, and lastly through the
press. Amongforeignnations, Great Britain and her
dependencies were, as might be expected from
their population, and from the ties of race, len-
'
guage, religion, and, in all essential points, of in-
stitutions which unite the two countries,
the meat copious in their expressions of
sympathy. France, Italy, and Switzerland
occupy the next places. In proportion to its po-
pulation, the country last named stands first.
The Swiss Confederation, whose fundamental
organisation bears so close a resemblance
to that of the great Federal Republic of
America, naturally watched with keen interest
the vicissitudes of the great Western Re-
public, and saw in its success the triumph
of that form of government of which Swit-
zerland is the sole representative in Europe. Its
exultation and sympathy were as much political
and natural. In France, a great proportion of the
addresses naturally came from that part of the
nation whose sympathies in matters of religion
and government were with. the United
States. "Eminent Republicans," "the Toleration
" and Progress Lodge," " the Friends of Truth
" Lodge," " the Democrats," " the Evangelical
" Alliance," " the Universal Religious Alliance,"
" the Young Men of France," " the Students
"of the School of Medicine," " the French
" Committee of Emancipation," are among the
characteristic sources whence the addresses
proceeded. In Italy the Democratic and
humanitarian origin of the manifestoes' is yet.
more strikingly apparent, not only in the names
and organisation of the bodies from whom they
came, but in the language of the addressee them-
selves. But though one element of political feeling
is predominant in these documents, the general
sense of the civilised world expresses itself through
them. The volume which contains them is
• record honourable to the wise statesman,
the true patriot, and the upright magis-
trate to whom the tribute is paid, to the great
republic which treated him living and venerates
him dead, and to the nations who have rendered
to his career a posthumous but still almost con-
temporary homage.

plication. and to seed the original to tho overseer•
through the post. The matter is rednecd to such'
simplicity that the. number of lodger-voters will
doubtler be"rlti bags. • •"'

Faou time to Mae we are favoured in the courts
of law with novel glimpses' of the moral code. 'Mit
chtuoistlincelf Adder' which the seduction of women
is sinful, and those under whioli it is tolerably
harmless form one of the most interesting clauses
in this unwritten law. Major YxLvEnrox, if we
remember rightly, drew the line at " gentle blood."
To seduce a woman in whose veins flowed that
pure and holy stream was, se this gallant officer
admitted in open court, a grave offence. The
precise degree of gentility in the blood necessary
for the preservation of women was not clearly
stated ; and Major YELYRBTON'S profession of faith
gave middle-class fathers and brothers some un-
comfortable twinges. Where Major Yvaxicarox
and the class ho represented were willing to
stop, and under what circumstances the snares
of the fowler would remain =sot, formed matter
for excited speculation at the time; and a not
alt)gether unreasonable feeling was expressed
that to ruin a woman was to injure her, oven if
she were ungentle. Captain MINIM!, the de-
fendant in an action for seduction tried at the
Guildford Assizee on Saturday, gallantly took
this view. If "he had seduced a woman ho
" should think himself bound to provide for her
" afterwards," though be was " unable to say
" what would be the amount of remunera-
" tion to be given to a respectable girl
"by a person who had seduced her."
We now have on authority the whole duty of
man to woman. Captain Bazisrxrr makes no
sentimental mention of gentle blood. If he
seduced ho would provide. But the horror of this
offence is that the moral injury and the social
ruin are irreparable.

Thz intention which we attributed to the Govern-
meat several weeks ago, of sending Lord MAYO to
India as Governor-General, will, it is believed, be
shortly carried into effect. It is said that Earl
DERBY'S second son, the Hon. F. STANLEY, will
be appointed a Lord of the Admiralty in the place
vacated by the new Governor of Tasmania. Lord
Chief Baron KELLY and Vice-Chancellor Sir W.
P. WOOD are spoken of as the now law lords, and
Sir W. Barn as one of the judges to try elec-
tions.

SOME velocipede amateurs of Marseilles are
arranging a long journey with this new means of
locomotion. The velocipedes are to start from
Marseilles for Genoa, by Corniche. From Genoa
they are to proceed to Turin and Susa, over Mont
Cenis, and return to Marseilles by the valley of the
Rhone.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

TEE FRENCH

Referring to the measures with which the im-
perial government of France looks forward to the coming
elections, the news proceeds to observe that the Emperor,
unfortunately, has claimed infallibility as well as inviola-
bility, and undertaken so to rule France that even legal
opposition could never find a vulnerable side in his
government. II the contrary is shown by the next
assembly, the Emperor must decide whether to put
aside his claim of irresponsibility, or re-appear
before the representatives of the people at the head
of a new cabinet, and announcing a new policy. The
Emperor cannot keep a cabinet and be his own minister
without declaring the constitution a pretence, and giving
his government that personal character which deprives
the opposition of all legal utterance, leaves it no room for
discrimination beeween the Sovereign and his rule, and
justifies it in any length of violent hostility against both.
It was a bad day, observes the Daily News, for the re-
putation of the French Government when It included the
notorious "Decker bonds" in its claims upon the Mexican
Government. Throughout Europe astonishment was felt
that any respectable government should for a moment

countenance so =environs a claim. The eiplanation, how-
ever, was soon forthcoming, that some of th 4 highest per-.
eonagee in Prance bodes:quire& a large,if not the entire,.
interest in them bonds, and their redemption, it Wm said,.
would be insisted on. According to the 'Beetrontitt
it has transpired that, after an arrangement bad bean
come to with the Mexican government that the amouni
of theueshoukl redhead 60 per cent, and that it shoiskl
be paid at the rate of 1,000;000 piastres a year in Mexico,
by means of a public mile of the bawds; the holders by
some means obtained a few months later% draft in Paris
for 12,600,000 fr., and that sum was paid by the Mexican
Commission of Panics without the knowledge of the
/French governalent. There are many mysterious things
about the • Jeckerbonds, 'and this is the fault myrterida
of all.

TEI GALAXITT AT

Several of our coattanporaries 'adopt the warning and
advice given in' the &rpm, on Saturday, relative to
the dangerous state of many of our sinuic-halls and
public buildings generally. In England, mays the Timer,
it would be hard to name a single building from which the
could escape with facility in cue of a onions
alarm. One or two doorways, one or two narrow stair-
oases, by which even entrance is tedious and difficult, are
generally thought sufficient. The manager or the builder
seems to prefer the risk of such a catastrophe as has just
horrified Manchester to the sacrifice of a few seata and a
trifling diminution in his profits. There is every reason.
to expect that places of entertainment, more or less similar
to these music-halls, will increase in numbers and popu-
larity, and it becomes worth consideration whether some
stringent general rules should not be laid down for their
construction, and a strict inspection enforced,
The Telegraph also Bays that sooner or later the govern-
ment must require the owners of every music-hall and
every theatre to make more ample provision for the public
safety. Those who are acquainted with our London
theatres and music-halls must be aware that there is no
possibility for a "full house" to get out of any one of
the buildings in even moderate time.

0171 RZLATIOICII ARTS MINA.

The Star sees dens of azrorgiunsatt amongst certain
merchants of China for the purpose of inducing England
to extend by a high band the policy inaugurated by the
treaty of Tient-sin. The drift of the reasoning which the
aggressive party use IS simply this—that, as the exalt'.
sive policy of the Chinese is a bad thing for themselves,
as well as injurious to our trade, we are, therefore, doing
the Chinese a service when we force them to abandon
their restrictions and jealousies, and to admit Enropeans
to what the nun insists upon as the essentials of peace
with China, " the right to travel, to reside, and to pursue
whatever industry they may think proper." The Star
impugns this theory altogether. No State has a right to
demand from a co-equal and independent State such pri-
vileges as these. If they are granted by hance to Eng-
lishmen, wily Russia to Germany, they are granted, not
as matters of right, but as of free grace.

LAW.

The Daily News argues that the conflicting decisions
delivered in one court after another—the divergence of
opinion between judges in common law and judges in
chancery—the appeals, confirmed or set aside-Land the
masons by which decisions are given—is not a satiefictory
date of things in • country him England, whieh
prides itself upon being eminently practical. Pt
seems strange that the most commercial nation
in the world cannot elaborate a system of commercial law
on sufficiently definite principles to prevent a constant re-
currence to the courts of justice, and it is equally strange
that the most eminent men in trade, for some unintelli-
gible reason, almost invariably oppose the introduction of
any reform. After illustrating this argument, the Daily
.11-nca observes that if, according to our law, shares in
joint-stock companies had been made to bearer, it is un-
questionable that much litigation and misery would have
been raved in the past, and perhaps as much would be
avoided in the future.

libe Court.
ogn4kiwria, Ammer L
The %mu drove out yoglitudity afternoon.
ircienponied by Princess Louise:: Tab Maribioness of
Ely being is attendance.
Her Maj.** and Princess Losisiq.ll46einies Beatrice,
the Duke el Edinburgh, Prince Via. and Prince
Louis of Hesse, attended Divine eerriee at Whippinghlm
Church this morning.
The Rev. George Prothero officiated.
The ladies and gentlemen in "Wilms were present.
The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Nortbeote arrived at Os-
borne yesterday, arid had the honour of dining with the
Queen and the royal family.
Colonel the Hon. Dudley de Roe, sled Colonel the Hon.
Arthur Hardinge have arrived as equerries in waiting,
Colonel Du Plat has left Osborne.

Tbo Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Ellie,
returned to Marlborough-house of Saturday from a visit
to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, at Goodwood.

In the afternoon the Prince and Princess of Wale*
drove out.

TbeTrim* and Princess of Wales wont to Her Majesty's
Opera, Drury-Lae, in the seeming.
Major Orcy has succeeded Captain Ellis as Equerry in
Waiting to the Prince of Wales.

His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and
the Countess Apponyi have left the Austrian embassy in
Be.lgrave-square for Switzerland and Hungary. During
the absence of his excellency Count Kalnoky will act as
chargé d'affaires.

Mr. Warner, M.P., and Mrs. Warner have loft
town on a visit to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P.,
and Mre. Gladstone, at Hawarden Castle.

Great preparations are making at Cardiff for
celebrating the coming of age of the Marquis of Bute.
One hundred workmen are now fitting up the castle for
grand balls and dinner parties. The marquis will arrive
at Cardiff in his yacht, and will be met at the pier by the
mayor and corporation. _ _

Field-Marshal Sir Edward Blakeney, G.C.B.
and G.C.H., Governor of Chelsea Hospital, died at his
residence in that institution at an early hour yesterday
morning.

THE WILL OF THE LATE SIR BENJAMIN
Guntrrass.—The personal property of flir Benjamin
Guinness has been sworn under 1,100,0001. He leaves his
estates in Mayo and Galway to his eldest son, Sir Arthur;
his estates in Kerry, Limerick, and Kilkenny, and 20.0001.,
to his second son, a captain in the Ist Life Guards ; his
estate in Dublin, and his town house, to his youngest son,
Edward Cecil. He leaves 30,000/. to be invested forthesole
and exclusive use of his daughter, the Hon. Mrs. Plankett.
There are a number of legacies to relatives and friends,
varying from 3,0001. to small annuities. The brewery is
left to the eldest and youngest eons; and if one of them
should retire from it, he is to receive from the other
30,000/. and half the value of the stock. These two sons
are the residuary legatees. Should the estate bequests
fail from want of issue, the property is to go to Trinity
College. The interest to be expended in maintenance of
protestant students of all denominations, Arians and
Socinians excepted. There are no charitable bequests,

MUSIC.

HER MAJESTY'S OPERA.

The fortnight's extra performances of this
eetablishment terminated on Saturday night; the occa-
sion being the benefit of Mdlle. Titian, as well as the
close of the season. Instead of the " combined entertain-
ment" which had been announced, Don Giovanni and
one aet of Cherubini's Medea were given by "special
desire," in both of which the grand tragic and vocal
power' of Mdlle. Titian have been important features
for several years past.
According to report, next season's performances of Mr.
Mapleson's company will take place in • splendid new
building, already commenced, on the site of Her Majesty's
Theatre.

tOR.EIGN NEWS.

(THIS DAY.)

THE GERMAN 11.1F1 MEETING.

It is stated that M. Von Boust, anticipating the
political turn which may be given to the meeting
of the German Biles Bund in Vienna, sent
a despatch to the Austrian Embassy in
Berlin, in which he declared that the government
of the Emperor was not in any way mixed up with
the festival, and could not be held responsible for
any opinions which individuals might give ex-
pression to.

The committee of the Rifles Bund selected Lcip-
sig as the place for the fourth mooting of the
members in 1871, but tho mayor of that city, fear-
ing that anti-Prussian demonstrations would tako
place, refused to sanction tho selection made.
On the evening of tho 29th the students hold a
great festival in the Pesthalle. More than 10,000
were present. Speeches were delivered and songs
sung. The burden of all was that Austria was
German, and should not be dissevered from tho
Motherland. Professor Hochstatter, in replying
to tho toast of the professors, said:
When I received your invitation I said, are wo then
riflemen also': Yes, I answered, we are. The disk at
which we aim is truth. (Great applause.) Our motto is,
"Through the truth to light," and that is the motto which
you have put up at the entrance of this festival Hall.
We lead a band of young rifles, whom we teach to
hit the black spot that the light may be mado in the
black sect. (Bravo.) We lead • band of intellectual
rifles, Ind may they always do their duty." (Loud
app:ause.)

(THROUGH INUTEI3.B AGENCY.)
ROUMANIA.

ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN TILE TURKS AND
TUE BULGARIAN INSURGENTS.
BUCHAREST, Auotrer 2.

Telegrams received from Rustehuk state that an
engagement, which lasted three hours, had oc-
curred between the Turkish troops and the Bulga-
rian insurgents. Thirty-eight of the latter were
killed, and the remainder were surrounded by the
Turks at a point between Kasenlik and Schilkau.
The headquarters of Mithad Bache, arc estab-
lished at Grabovo.

Shots have been fired upon a Turkish gunboat
from the Roumanian bank of the Danube, near
Oalatz.

A large number of suspected persons have been
arrested by order of the Roumanian authorities
at Ibraila.

FRANCE.
THE NEW LOAN.
PARIS, Aram 3.

An imperial decree, dated yesterday, authorises
the issue of the loan voted by the Corps Logislatif
and the Senate at the rate of 69fr. 25c. per 100,
bearing interest at 3 per cent. from the Ist July last.
According to an order of the Minister of Finance,
subscriptions to the same will be received from
the 6th to the 13th instant. The minimum allowed
to be subscribed is fixed at Mr. Rentes, and the de-
posit on subscribing at one-tenth the amount
applied for; the rest payable by monthly instal-
ments extending over a period of 18 months.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Avoun 2.

The Minister of Finance has arrived at La
Granja, to lay before the Queen a decree grant-
ing a concession for the establishment of a Spanish
Credit Fonder.

The Official Gazelle publishes a decree rendering
criminal all infringement of patents.

AMERICA.
NEW YORK, At ner 2.
The Inman royal mail steamer City of London
arrived here to-day. All well.