The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-30 00:00:00

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BAUM:MAL CASTLE, MAT 27.
Mr QM= drams out in-Ari morning and after-
noon, accompanied by the primate and princesses.
Sir William Joiner has arrirrd at the Castle.
Sir vrathun J left Balmoral yesterday (Friday).

The Priam of Wales, accompanied by the Crown Prince
of Dersmark and the Prinos of Teek and attended by
Major Teesdale and Captain Lund, weal to Epsom yes-
terday.
The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the
Countess of hfacolistkld.

In the evening their Royal Highnesses, accompanied by
the Crown Prince of Denmark and the Prince and Prineess
of Leiaingen, went to the royal Italian Opera, Covent-
garden.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong,
Libyan, and the Straits Settlements.

The Prince and Princess of Wales will have a
dinner and evening party at Marlborough House on Wed-
nesday next.

His Excellency the French Ambassador enter-
tained at dinner yesterday evening the Duke and Duchess
of Cleveland and Hon. Miss Primrose, the Countess of
Jersey and Mr. Bundling, Viscount and Viscountess
Holmesdale, M. and Madame Van de Weyer and Mira
Van de Weyer, Colonel lion. Strange Jocelyn and Miss
Jocelyn, Sir Anthony Rothschild, If7s. Henry Baring,
Baron and Baroness de Baude, Mr. Mure, Viscount de
Virel,

The Archbishop of York and Mrs. Thomson had
a dinner party on Wednesday at their residence in Groa-
venor•place.

The members of the Burlington Fine Arts Club
have made a collection of thu engravings of Marc Antonio
liaimondi and his pupils, and the work. are now on view
in the Club-rooms, Floutlab,.

The report of the Artists' General Benevolent
Fund for the fifty-third year of its existence states that
the income of the society was 1,686/., of which WU. was
subscribed at the last anniversary dinner, and 76 applicants
were relieved with 1,217/. The cost of administration for
this society during the last six years did not exceed 134/.
a year ; 800/. was subscribed at the anniversary dinner of
the kith instant. .

The Musical Festival will commence on the 20th
of September. Herr and Madame Joachim, Maclaine
Hartiers.Whippem. Herren Hill and Krause are the prin-
cipal singers announced. Herr Atop, Schmidt will con-
duct the festival.

The annual meeting of the Palestine Explora-
tion Society will ba held on Thursday, June 11, at
Willis's Rooms. The Archbishop of York will preside,
and it is expected that Lieut. 'Warren, the explorer, will
be present to explain his recent operations and discoveries.
The thirty-eighth meeting of the British Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science is fixed for the
week commencing Wednesday, August 19, 1r111.4. at Nor-
wich. Joseph Dalton Hooker, Esq., D.C.L., Curator of
the Royal Gardena at Kew, will preside.

Referring to the "Fatherbhip of the Royal
Society, it may be worth recording (says the Athrnmum)
that Sir Henry Fllis is the preaent father of the Society
of Antiquaries, having been elected on the 15th of January,
1307—the centenary year of the society. Next to him is
Earl of Lansdale, June 16. DS36 ; and next, Mr. George
Ormerod. February 16, 1809. The Society lost its two
senior fellows last year—Dr. Macbride and Sit Hobert
Sudrlce, both elected in 1805.

Dr. Rietz is publishing, at Leipzig, a new and
complete edition of Mozart's Operas, in score. Of the
history of music, this year has seen the following in Ger-
many :—Arrey von Dommer's Handbook, to the death of
Beethoven,—a fourth edition of Brendera " History of
Italian, German, and French Music, to the l'resent Time,"
—and three volumes of A:trast he:ut Arnbrols General
History.

Visitors tai tie Leeds Exhibition, observes the
Atheneum, should know that two of the most famous
works of the modern French school of painting have been,
thanks to the zeal and tact of Mr. L. Lerevre, superin-
tendent of the modern foreign department in the exhibi-
tion. placed in the gallery of French paintings ; these are
"Phryue before the Tribunal," by M. GerUme, and "The
Chess Players," by M. Meissonier. The latter bangs on a
screen, the former on the wall. Owing to the late arrival
of these works, they are not muted in the catalogue of
the gathering.

A letter from Warsaw says that the other
evening, just as the French company at the Grand Theatre
were about to commence, a general in full uniform
appeared on the stage and read a telegram in the Russian
langnage, announcing the birth of a new Grand Duke.
The theatre being full of Russian officers great enthusiasm
WAS exhibited, the National Anthem was milled for and
sung. At last some Polish ladies in a box opposite Count
de Berg, being fatigued. thought they might sit down.
The husband of one of them, well known to
suffer from weakness in the legs, also did the
same. The governor saw the movement, and.
getting in a violent passion. sent tha police to expel the
party from the theatre. The next dry the Comic sum-
moned the husbands and soundly rated them. The one
already alluded to pleaded his infii:uity, and added that
he did not know what was being .4 ung, as he was not
acquainted with Russian. The General exclaimed that
he should start on the Instant for one of his (the gen-
tleman's) estates in Russia, and stop there until he bad
learned the langusge. And he was obliged to go.

A despatch sent round the Hams A you y
announced a few days ago that General Langiewiez was
the organiser of the insurrection in Galicia. " Some
friends of the gallant general (says the Si<cle) bring us a
letter which has just arrived from Constantinople, in
which the Polish hero describes his present occupations
as altogether of a studious and meditative character."

Near Cologne, in the circle of Sieg, a tremendous
hailstorm, accompanied by a waterspout, three days back
devastated the territories of about twenty villages. The
wind, which was extremely violent, tore up oaks of more
than a hundred years old, and blew down several d welling-
houses.

The annual dinner of the 23rd Royal Welch
Fwiilien took place on Thursday evening, the 2Nth inst.,
at the Westminster Palace Hotel, when the following
officers were present :—General Sir W. Codrington, G.C.8.,
Colonel Herbert. C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Harrison,
Lieutenant-Colonel Bigge, Lieutenant-Colonel Granville,
Lieutenant-Colonel Bruce, Major Norton, Major Gran-
ville. Captain Gerard, Captain Tulloch, Captain O'Con-
nor, Captain Knight, Captain the Hon. N. Wickham
Fienues, Captain Sidler, Captain Bathurat, Lieutenant
Fit, George, Lieutenat Shepherd, Ensign Mayhew, Ensign
de Moleyns, Ensign Blyth, Ensign Cowan, the Hon. C.
Carnegie, M.P., Mr. H. Hall Dare, Mr. Clarke Thornhill,
Mr. W. Remaly. and Mr. Robert Palk.
THE. PRINCE OF WALE, AND THE LF.EDS EXIII-
EITION.—The following letter has been received by Mr.
Denison, the chairman of the Exhibition Committee :
"Marlborough House, Pall-mall, May 27, 1858.—Dear Mr.
Denison,-1 have had the pleasure of receiving your letter
of the 22nd, and the honour of laying it before the Prince
of Wales on his return from Scotland this morning. As
you intimate that the expression of his royal highness's
opinion on the merits of the Leeds Exhibition, in addition
to the approval of the arrangements connected with it
which he has already desired me to convey to you, would
be very gratifying to the committee, I am directed to
state that the Prince of Wales considers thwouid be im-
possible for any visitor to the Exhibition not to be struck
by the magnificent collection brought together within its
walls. His royal highness. would especially refer to that
part of it representing the old and modern schools of
painting. Of these matchless works, on the merits of
which criticism has already expended itself, his royal
highness has felt that no opinion he could give would
enhance the value or increase the interest ; but he has
uo hesitation in desiring me to express to you and the
committee his high opinion of an exhibition which displays
in such profusion so much that is valuable in art and
seiencm —I remain, dear Mr. Denison, very truly yours,
W. KNOUTS. Wm. Beckett Denison, Esq."
THE PROPO2SED REVIEW OF VOLUNTEERS BY
I THE Qrarx.—A special meeting of metropolitan com-
manding officers, was held yesterday at the rooms of the
National Rifle Association, Pall-mall, for the purpose of
considering the subject of the proposed review of volun.
teen, in Windsor-park by the Queen. The chairman
(Lord Elcho) lowing opened the proceedings, the following
resolutions were adopted :—That this meeting hail with
the utmost satisfaction the announcement of her
Majesty's gracious intention to honour the volunteer force
he reviewing it in Wiadww-park in the nr,nth of chine.
That is the opinion of this meeting, Saturday, June 27,
being the anniversary of her Majesty's eortlalion would
be the day moss likely to insure a large attendance at the
review—that being an occasion upon which clap=
would probably be disposed to give volunteers to
employ a holilty so as to enable them to aft( nd.

FOREIGN NEWS.

(THIS DAY.)

(NEUTER'S TELSGRASIA.)
HUNGARY,

PESTI', MAY Zo, E% ?Jo.
In to-day's sitting of the Upper Howie, thc
commercial treaty with Prussia, in its amended
form, was unanimously adopted.
The Emperor has arrived here.
Advices from ltalasfalva, in Transylvania, ,ta.,.
that a large meeting of Itouiflans had been held.
at which resolutions were passed in favour of th.
separation of Transylvania from Hungary.

AMERICA.
THE IMPEACHMF:NT 'rm.\ 1..

•
PREPARATIONS FOR AN EXPErnll
FENIAN RAID ON CANADA.

SEW YORK. M.%v i M .itN N
The impeachment managers have exannu.•,i
wealthy citizen of Ohio, who rcceive,i :I Log. .„,
of money at Washington Bank the day p 1.,: .
the Senate vote on the impcachuu•nt, w:!!, Me • 7.,
of ascertaining if the funds were ;Ned ••
senators.

Several other wituesses, inchtdir-;
paper reporter,, were also re-e xaapitzed.

The Chicago National Conventi..!: •L 5,,••:.!
day. Full delegations front the
will be present.

The Radical Soldiers' and Sail„t • ~,t .
Chicago have unanimously noniimi:.
Grant for the presidency.

It is reported that the Canadian
prehending a Fenian raid, hate
militia to be in readiness.

The royal mail steamship .litAtralaAi•:!,. •
New York, arrived at Queenstown at 2 A .
day with 50 cabin passengers and 97.-,,0,51
specie. She landed 6 passengers Mill
mails, and proceeded fur Liverpool at 2.1:.
well.
(sr ATLANTIC TELSGRAPH THROUGH SIR. RE' .I,,^N -
NEW Yi 0:K. st,
The Inman steamer City ,•1 Lint rc, ;Lri •
to-day.
Closing prices :—G..ld. ; sterlo,4 ,
on London, 110; ; 5-20 Bondi, *,%•52 I
1885, 109 i ; 10-40 Bonds, PK.; : !
Erie, Cotton, middling :1
troleuna, standard white, 29.

(RVUTER.3 TELMRAM
ARRIVAL OF l'IlE (1141:!:11

..
The Hamburg and American Company'. •••ln
bria, from New York on th,. P.th M.,y .1 4,
ampton this (Saturday) morning, alth YJ p f.,.
this port, Havre, and Hamburg, •
for London, 67,126 dola. for Par ...
Hamburg. On the 27th she p3..5..t I, a.
Bravo, and the French schoor,.r Y. : • : n th..
a Bremen steamer, and the If At

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The 19 votes for the acrinittal of Trt....hot
the 11th article of impeachment .
cratic senators, the c .nservxtive se,,stufs
little and Dixon—and the tepub:i,..o • •
Fowler, Trumbull, and Van
The Rouse of Representatives has y ••
against 13 the preamble and resolution offered 1)
Bingham, which set forth that the 11,3n1ger.i..,, 7
information of corrupt means hating 140, tl;:y ).•

to influence the vote of the So-unto
ordering an investigation of the inattcr, with poy.:
summon and examine witnesses under oath. Ini
with this resolution. the nianageri exarLined ye.t,
veral witnesses.

The house has also adopted a resolution appoint-r•
committee to investigate and report upon the cpua
whether the Missouri delegation to the house had :• •
perly endeavoured to influence the vote of S4-tkaur II
dersou on impeachment.
The house Las, moreover, ado;.tcd. a -es-,1,.!
calling for official copies of the proceedings of tt- ••
peachment Court on Friday and Saturdsy.
' Mr. Boyer, a democrat, offered a resolution
that in consequence of the impeachment mtuag. •
being avowed enemies of President Johnson, two iuu.:•:
members should be appointed on the eJmalitu• !
managers. The house by 6,4 to Si refused to revel, L.,
resolution.

The democrats and conservatives in
Boston, and numerous cities and towns fired
honour of the acquittal of the President.
The committee on foreign allies have repm t,.,1 in ft
of an appropriation for the purchase of AlAsk.l.

Advices from Vera Cruz to the 11th io.t. stak
yellow fever was raging there with great bey,' ity.
Salnave, with I.id adherents, bed be. n di ii, a t,. P.,rt
Prince by the Cacoa rebel,. The stores of Arwal .1::. -;
lied been plundered, the Amer:can coumil bei '
in his appeal to tialnave for rrot%tion. ii f , •
fore sent to Havana and .Tatuaicit for .I:tivi i.• ! •

protection. The British gunboat ..1 :
to protect the Auiericans.

THE ABYSSINIAN I:NPEN'NO.

THE QUEEN'S CoNoll TU LATIoN- -\
THANKS TO THE EX
ARM'.

This morning a blue book was In.Lli l, •:•:.:0-
ing further papers connected with the
Expedition. Amongst them are the I.
The SECRETARY of STATE for IN'' 1.. •,
lency Lieutenant-General Sir lI.N v l re. I; !I.
G.C.5.1., Expeditionary Force, Abysms!''
INDIA oFFICE, M,, I.
Sir, —I have received your E‘ei.;:,ll,y
graphic messages reporting the del. at :..e
Abyssinian forces, the liberation of the ea:" •
the successful assault on Magdala, and th,.
of King Theodore.
I have already convoyed to %oil by frlegrapi, 1
message of congratulation shich her la.
gracious Majesty the Qui en ICs'
personally to charge me wit I. I , , •
also expressed my own thanks and o•li,T.ti,
on behalf of the government. I enclose cop,c, •
these telegrams.
I await with interest the fullest particulars ..;
these important events, which your excell,tlc, hst
no doubt forwarded to me.- I hay,- the II,•!!'''"
be, dc. STAFFORD 11. Nol:w•
The enclosures were as follow :
" THE SECRETARY OF STATE 1•IOTI IND! t
The
t Qstiiree Rno
ROBEKTZNAPIER, 27TH APRIL, IMIS•
sebenr(tisNhapeaierty con ratulat l'°s
thanks
on their brilliant success."
"I congratulate your excellency with µF
all
heart. You have taught us, once more, 3'.:.
meant by an army that can go anywhere Alla
anything. From first to last all has h It dd.!.
well. I must ask leave for a motto: ••,.
suggestion would be' Qualls ab incept°.

MgETINC SOF SCIENTIFIC SOul ETI Es "•,
ENSUING WEEK..—Monday : Royal Institution, t;
Monthly Meeting; Entomological, 7. Tuesday:
Institution 3,' Development of Animals," Dr. Tuesday:. •
liortionitunl, 3, General Meeting and Leclule
Eiryptian, 7.1, " Erplorations in Pale,tiue," Rev. (.•
the
"pAnt/iroological, 8, "Physical Charactei
the Dines," Stature, fitt. of Man in the British !skill $,
Dr. &aides. Wednesday : Geological, 14, " Carboabit:
Corals," Mr. Thomson ; "Pebb
le Rle Beds of
Ras
sex, ko
M.," Mr. Wood • " Cretaceoocks,
nab; " r. Topley ; "'ldea dip Anticlinal," 41r.
Thursday: Royal Institution,:;, ‘• Savages, Sir 1•0
Royal, 4, Election of Fellows; Chemical, S. ••
i Organic Cyanides ko." Messrs. Chapman and
n
Testing Mineral Oils," Dr. Paul : Lihoesn, 8,
logics of Muscles, Rhonlder-doint, • l'inferaor Roliesto:,
" Zanites gips," Professor Williamson, " Mfolfr,„!:„1.
Zasypna suooinctns, Am." Mr. Galion. Friday : 110:
gioal, 7, "Norman Element in our I•roviacialy!s!!..',,..
Mr. Payne ; Royal Institution, " Abyssinia, Sir
Sav3o
ci
Baker. Saturday: Royal Institution,
J. Lubbock. —Atheen.rse.

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OUR PARIS LETTER•

(FROM OfR OWN CORRVIPONDIUM.)

PARIS, F.GDAY EVENING.

In the Senate yesterday M. de Mitupas, the coup
d'o,,t Prefect of Police of December, 1851,delivered
a grout speech against the Publie Meetings Bill. It
will be remembered that this senator, whose name
has been forgotten for many years, was originally
elected reporter by the committee on the bill ; but
when it was found that a majority of six to five
determined to support the Emperor's moat mode-
rate and cautious reform, he resigned, and M. He-
bert Delisle was appointed in his place. M. Delisle
made a singularly anodyne report, rather ac-
cepting the bill with resignation, because pro-
posed by the Emperor, than recommending it. M.
de Maupits yesterday recapitulated all the argu-
ments that were used in the Corps Legislatif
against the ‘• dangerous innovation." He thinks
the Empire cannot bear such a violent change as
the substitution for a law which prohibited all
public meetings without previous authorisation, of
one which merely enables the executive to prohibit
them whenever it pleases. What shocks his nerves
more than anything is the possibility of electoral
meetings. Universal suffrage, he says, will cer-
tainly be cajoled by glib opposition speakers,
whose eloquence will carry conviction to
the minds of simple hearers, and gradually
undermine the glorious constitution of 1852 of
which he and other pure Napoleonists are so preud.
The losses of the government at recent elections,
and the marked progress of the opposition, ought
to serve as a warning. He, with his long ex-
perience, knew well enough that the opposition
would have it all their own way at electoral
meetings. The conservatives, if they attended
them at all, would go only front the spirit o!
curiosity, and would be seduced by the capti-
vating eloquence of democratic orators. Here
several senators, and among them Viscount
de la GueronniZ•re, (leneral Count de La Rue, and
the Marquis de la Valette protested vehemently
against M. de Maupas's ignoble opinion of the con-
servative party, which they said would ever be •
found standing in the breach and equal to the
occasion. Did not the conservative party save
society in 16418 ? This interruption gave M. de
Maupas an occasion to say a smart thing. It was
quite true, he said, that the conservatives had done
g,ped service at the periol alluded to, but
then they had done it in accordance with
the ever prevailing tendency of the esprit
r,,:licuis by opposing the existing government.
Ile doubted much whether they would ever show
s•, ;ouch energy in defence of a government. lie
'pined issue with those who thought that in an
er cut which all must hope might be far distant—
the demise of the crown—liberty would best
secure the continuance of the Emperor's dynasty.
His conclusion was that safety was only to be
14oticl in the old jog trot principles of 1852 which
had worked so surely—universal suffrage properly
directed, so as to deprive the electors of the possi-
bility of concert and acting in unison. This part
f the speech was interrupted by exclamations
from several senators who said that if this were so,
the country was so unintelligent that discussion
real(' only inisle:ol it, universal suffrage must be
despaired of. M. de Maupas urged strongly that
although the Senate had passed the press hill, it did
taut follow logically that they should pass this.
And he said truly enough that if M.
R4ellier's argument that the bill must be
pa,,ed because the Emperor had pmposed
it were to prevail lie did not tee where
the senate could ever exercise their new preroga-
ii-. is all. It is, no doubt, absurd when the
C-rps Legislatif has no initiative, and the a .n;a-
-t• are all the Emperor's neminees, that they
should have a veto on a bill brought forward by
the crown. It is a veto that will never be exer-
ci-41 unless in the case of a " cross."
After a speech by M. Behie, in support of the
hill, the debate was adjeurned.
The Bourse was very firm, notwithatanditg a
decline in Consols. Rente rose 25c. for cash, and
12!..e. for account, closing at 69f. 70e. and 6')f. 771 c. ;
Italian rose 87ie.. closing :at 521. ; Credit
I',-racier rose 371. 59e.: reel Mobilier, gf. 70c,