The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-05 00:00:00

ROME.

ROPE, Jura 3.
Last evening Mr. T. B. Read, the artist, gave a
grand banquet to the Hon. Charles Francis Adam, United
Slates Minister at London, and to th• American artist' in
this city.

SWITZERLAND.
BYRNE, Jaws 4.
In yesterday's sitting of the International Peace
Conference it was decided that energetic measures should
be taken for the propag►tion of the doctrines of the party.

THE BANK OF FRANCE.
PARIS, JUNI 4.
The return of the Bank of France for the week
ending to-day shows the following changes compared with
that of last week :—lncrease : Cash in hand, 11,500,0001.;
notes, 6,600,0001.; treasury balance, 500,000 f. Decrease:
Bills discounted, 6,700,0001.; private accounts, 3,000,000 f.;
advances, stationary.

AMERICA,.

(lIT ATLANTIC mnolurn THROUGH 1111. ssowe'v AOSNOT.)
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NEW YORK, JUNG 4.
The Cunard steamship Java arrived out at
10 pm. yeaterday.
The Allan stemnahip Ottawa has also arrived out.
The steamers leaving to-day for Europe take out 350,000
dole. in specie
Closing Prices :—Oold 140 ; sterling exchange on Lon-
don, 1101 ; Five-Twenty United States Bonds, 1882, 1121 ;
1885, 1104 ; Ten-Forty, 1885, 106 ; Minces, 1501; Erie,
691. Cotton : Middling Upland, 31. Petroleum, stan-
dard white, 291. Flour : Extra State, 9 dole. Corn :
Old mixed, 1 doL 1710.

PiesoN Buoomso zx PAius.—The Emperor's
international prim, which will be shot for at pigeons en
Friday next at the Bois de Boulogne, is likely to produce
a large field, as we understand that the following com-
petitors from Ragland have already arrived :—Kr. Henry
Peters, Mr. Alfred Seymour, Mr. Gregory, Mr. D.
Treherne, Sir Frederick Johnston., Bart., the Marquis of
Graham, the Hon. B. C. Hill, Viscount Stormont, Major
Longlsy, Mr. Charles Hambro, Captain Hervey Talbot,
Captsin Fredericke, Sir Charles Legard, Bart., the Bari of
Clorunell, and Captain Needham. The eminent sporting
writer " Harizawa,y " has also arrived.— fialignasi.
THZ WEATHER AND THE CuoPs.—The young
crops in the county of Limerick are looking most pro-
=An early and bountiful harvest may be ex-
The county of Kildare is looking grand. Turnip
sowing is nearly done, and the earn mope are luxuriant.
Potables never eked better. In Westmeath the tamers
have never seen better promise of an early sad abundant
harvest—Dublia Nvesiisp Nag.

The Daily New contends that Lord Mayo's language
cannot be explained away, and that it is ridiculous
to pretend that the " elevation " of which he spoke
in contrast with confiscation was the employment of
Roman catholic chaplains in gaols ; and that when he
talked of equality as something to be achieved is the
future he meant that it had been accomplished already.
concerns the Roman Catholic University, the corre-
spondence with the Roman catholic bishops, of which
Mr. Disraeli approves, shows us Lord Mayo proposing
to ask parliament to make provision for the expellees of
the examinations, for the establishment of scholarships
and prises, for the payment of the salaries of certain offi-
cers, and for the building of a univendty hall and exami•
nation rooms. Mr. Disraeli and Lord Mayo require us to
disbelieve the exertions which they made in March, and
to give implicit trust to the assertions they make in June.
To pretend that these statements are really in harmony,
or that by any license of language they can be tortured
into even seeming consistency, is to affront the common
sense of the House of Commons. As to the general elec-
tion, whom can we trust' Mr. Hunt says the government
fully intend to hasten the dissolution ; but Mr. Childers is
well advised in asking for more solid security.
The Telegraph insists that it is the duty of the House of
Commons so to exercise its paramount authority that an
autumn simian with a new parliament shall be absolutely
indispensable. Administration by a government which
does not command a parliamentary majority may be tole-
rated when there is an evident disposition to make a
speedy appeal to the nation.

The Star says the education debate last night was chiefly
remarkable for a display of infantile flippancy and narrow-
mindedness on the part of Lord Robert Montagu, who
laughs at the outcry for education, and libels the associa •
Mons which seek to supply popular instruction as mere
fabricators of sensation statistics.

Ilcare..

Since the glories of the old " Montem" have
departed, the" Fourth of June," II WI its speeches, pro-
cession of brats, and fireworks, has ever been regarded
as aberrant yearly festival of the Etoniaos. And yester-
day, in spite of the weather being somewhat cold and wet,
was kept with all due honours at Eton. The fourth of
June is the birthday of old King Oeorge 111., who had
in Lim at all events one redeeming quality, and that was
a fondness for the fine old school on which he looked down
from the terrace of Windsor Castle, and an interest in
the pleasures and pursuits of its scholars. The Kiog en-
joyed nothing so much as a visit to Eton on his birthday;
and hecoe, while Election Saturday is given up
to graver maters, more especially since comjetitive
examinations have been introduced, the " fourth of June"
is the great periodical trystiog-day at Eton. HOr sons
gather from far and wide in the old " playing fields," and
around the " Boxes Clump ;" young and old, great and
small ; no matter who or what they are, so long as they
are old Etonian, ; that magic bond binds them altogether
as brothers, and levels, for a time at least, all distinctions
of age and rank. The proceedings began as surnal with
the " f3psecbes" delivered in the Upper School between
eleven and twelve o'cltek, in the presence of the provost,
fellows, masters, ani a large audience of the boys' parents
and friends. The boys themselves, de snore antiquo, were
dressed hr the occasion in black swallow-tail coats, knee
breeches and buckles, i umps and silk stockings ; and it
is almost supesfituras t t add that they &equated them-
selves admirably. The j rogramme ran as follows :
Mr. Parker ma... Dido
Fortemue Ventihm Virgil, An. XL
Beads
Greenwood ...... Doge of Venice
James
be Grey ..... Wilhelm Tell Schiller.
Gould
Longkourn•
Ooldie Prince of Amigos March/14d Venice.
Baran*,
Annitatead
Mr. DeOrey gamin
Donne Sylmar*
Walker . (Minute and Argante )
Earl of Elgin.
W. Jones

Address to a Broom.
Mkt Swift.
Ul=Troilus and

Tindal...
Prather;
Wipe ...

Sir A. Absolute
Captain Absolute
Moioeh

fibakespears.
• " t Sheridan.
.. Milton.
. Tennyson.
.. Mere Lent of Venice.
. Swift.

, . Oulalyere
.. Portia

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