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

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

The Saturday Review contends that although
the embarrassment which temporarily disturbs the re-
lations of Prussia and Italy is secabed to the influence of
Prance, its immediately, and perhaps exclusively, caused
by the indiscretion of General La Marmara. That officer
has always been • loyal. Italian, inclined, when he
was in office, to the Preach alliance; and it is
possible that, irrespectively of the present quarrel,
he may be biassed against Prussia. In vindicating him-
self be has improperly published documents which show
that the Prussian government had contemplated, as a
possible result of the war, the destruction as well as the
humiliation of the Austrian empire; and the secret has
transpired at • moment when French diplomacy is occu-
pied in impeding the re-establishment of friendly relations

between tie two great German powers. In existing cir-
munstances, the Italian government will neither break
with France nor resume a more intimate alliance. The
Italian government wants nothing from Frame but non-
interference, or from Press* except contingent protection
against the exigencies of France, and the absurd figment
of en alliance between Count Bissaarek and the revolu-
tionary party in Spain is not caleulated to disturb the
tranquillity of Italian statesmen.
The Spectator thinks it hes become passible for Great
Britain be have a middle-elme asinistry--e eabisistinwhich
the majority of mensbire holding sabstentive case shall
he men with no elaim lint their own ability and the eel&
deuce of the nation. That is perhaps the graded, *oasts
it has been one of the least noticed, of the changes intro-
demi er completed by the legislation of the last two years,
supplemented as they have been by the extraordinary de-
crease in the peestige of the House of Peers. • middle-
clue ministry has at any rata passed oat of the region of
dreams. Our contemporary, however, does not say that
we shall get ene, for old traditions may prove too strong
for that, and the selection is affected by many influences,
past service and age among them, other than the popular
choice ; nor does it wish to see ene, for it still hopes to see
the whig chiefs abandon their ill advised reticence and an-
nounce their acceptance of results they cannot prevent.
But the Spectator does say that a ministry in which Mr.
Gladstone should be Premier, Mr. Childers Home Secre-
tary, Mr. Cardwell Secretary at War, Mi. Lowe Secre-
tary for the Colonies, Mr. °archon Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Mr. Stanafeld head of the Admiralty, Mr. Austin
Brace Minister of Education, Mr. Forster Secretary for
India, and Mr. Bright, whom health warmly admits of
the departmental work the position to which he is entitled
would involve, Secretary for Ireland, is a ministry which
would be approved by the liberals of Great Britain, at
least by those outside the pale and influence of the clubs.
The Ifeareimr looks to the new parliament to provide a
remedy for :away exaction. Ninety-nine men oat of every
hundred have a direct interest in putting down and keep-
ing down the attempt to raise railway fares, for the benefit
of ramp onmenageen speealAtore, and jobbers. La the
10i. pediment that hoe now Mee to an end, it was sato:
dm that We dew of worthies was a pod deed too

The favourite physician has (says the reviewer) a hard
time of it with these ladies ; and the more popular he is
the harder his work. It is well for his generation when
he is a man of honour and integrity, and knows how to
add self-respect and moral power to the qualities which
have made him the getters! favourite. For his influence
over that idle woman is for the time almost =limited—
like nothing so much as that of the handsome abbe and
the facinatuag director of catholic countries ; and if he
chooses to abuse it, and to turn it to evil issues he
can.

Even the clergyman does not escape, and then she
coquets with religious exercises in preference to drugs.
As to the " fashionable woman's " love, we are told that
she has always some love *flair on band, more or less
Platonic, according to her own temperament, or the bold-
ness of the man

A love affair in which the least ingredient is love in
any real or wholesome sense • a love affair which is
vanity, idkness, a &notate imasiination, and contempt of
each prosaic things as mor ale ; a love affair not even to
be excrused by the Ingle frenzy of earnest passion, and
which may be guilty and yet not true.
Then we have a description of the inner life of the
" fashionable woman "

Dress, dissipafion, and flirting make up the questionable
Um which enclose the life of the fashionable womanii:tiud
which enclose nothing useful, nothing toodi so
deep, or true, or holy. Her idety Is • pastime • bee
g
the poorest pretence; her pleasure oonsiets only; any
and excitement, alternating with debasing sloth, in heart-
less coquetry, or in butler indulgenoe, as notary' made
her mom man or more sensual. As • wife she fultUsuo
wifely duty in any grand or loving NM% for the most
part regarding her husband only as • bantam or an
adjunct, according to the terms of her marriage settle-
ment ,• as a mother she is • stranger to her children.
to whom nurse and commas supply her place, and
give each ppoooorr makeshift for maternal love as they are
enabled or iaotiaed. In no dorm& minden is she of the
gaudiest value, and of none in any social circumstance
beside the mere adorning of • room—it she is re—and
the 37ittiialm gives to trade through her riles to She
lima Che palit end Ira. nature at last becomes
as ' as ler laMk. As years go on, and she
-*haws her the acknowledged bells ta the fermis 'emir,
she goes through • petted of frantic endeavour to retain
her youth; and even when time has clutched her with
too Arm • hand to be Aiken ad, and she begins to feel
the infirmities which she still pets out all her strength to
conceal, even then she pee at the departing shadow,
and fresh daubs the mum rain, in the belief that the
world's eyes are dim, and demo may pass for marble
another year or two longer. Or she becomes • Bel-
gisvian mother, with daughtas to sell to the highest
bidder; and then the Win of her life is to secure the
purchaser.

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Many we are told that—
Once the name of Englishwoman carried with it a grave
and noble echo as the mime of women known for thew
gentlobearing and their blameless honour—newsmen who
loved their husbands, and brought up about their own
knees the children tbey_were not reluctant to bear and
net ashamed to love. Row, it too often means • girl of
the period, • frisky matron, • fashionable woman—a
thing of paints and pada, consorting with dealers of no
doubtful calling for the purchase of what she grimly calls
"hosnO." making pleasure her only good, and the world
her highest god • rt too often means a woman who is not
ashamed to supplement
le her husbandwith a lover, bat who
is unwilling to the honest mother of that husband's
children ; it too often means a hybrid creature,
=tad out of the natural way altogether, affecting the
but ignorant of the of a man; alike as girl
strenwiz
or woman valueless for her • natural duties, and
talking largely of liberty while at army torn bow
much she Ma in that 00-essential of tberty—knowledge
how to use it.

The reviewer might have concluded with the tender
question which Claude Molnotte asked of Pauline, " Dost
thou like the picture F"

ILLNESS OF THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH.—
We learn that the Bishop of Peterborough, who is dy-
ing at Whitby, has been taken seriously ill, and the latest
accounts indicate that he is in a very precarious state.

Tha HIALTH OF Till Quasar Majesty
bas undertaken her journey to Switzerland, where she
intends to stay for about a month, on the recommendation
of Sr W. leaser. We stated some months since that the
Z:zosbha4l been subject to tainting tits, accompanied by
attacks of &knees. Though these to a great
ardent have abated, she has tett very much the hot weather
of We prevalent, and this, with the unusual fatigue she
has have produced a degree of weak-
nessiestritrdrilsuen change it is expend will remove.
Oa karrstant lindiserisad th•Qtreen will spend IMO
One at Ilakarmal— Loma.

Crazovoz asvzsa's AovaicT.
FRANCE AND COCHIN CHINA.

MASSACRE OF FRENCH SOLDIERS IN
COCHIN CHINA.

PARIS, Avousr 8.

Official intelligence received from Cochin China
states that a French outpost of twenty-five sol-
diers at Rach-gia had been surprised by a roving
party of one thousand Anamits robbers on the
16th of June last.. Only one of the soldiers
escaped with his life.
When this news reached the garrison, five days
afterwards, an expeditionary force, increased by
bodies of native militia, who volunteered their
services, was sent out to pursue the perpetrators
of the massacre, upon whom they inflicted severe
loss.

SERVIA.

BELGRADE, Auousr 7.

The British Consul-General has communicated
to the Serviaa government a despatch from Lord
Stanley congratulating Servia on the recent
triumph of law and order.
On receiving from the Servian agent at
Bucharest the notification of Prince Milan's
accession to the throne, Prince Charles of
Roumania said he desired to promote the con-
tinuance of the friendly relations which had
always hitherto existed between Roumania and
Servia.

HUNGARY.
PESTH, Atroverr 7, Evr:rme.

The Army Reorganisation Bill passed the
second reading yesterday after a discussion of the
different articles of the bill lasting three days.
To-morrow the bill will be read a third time
and its definitive adoption iv considered
certain.

AMERICA.

NEW YORE, Aueorr 7.

Closing Pricee :—Gold, 1471. Sterling exchange
on London. 114. 3-20 United States Bonds,
1882, 1141 ; ditto, 1883, 1121; 10-40 ditto, 109*.
Illinois, 149 ; Erie, 381. Cotton, middling
Upland, 29. Petroleum, standard white, 341.
Flour, entre State, 9 dole. 20c. to 9 dole. 80c.
Corn, old mixed, 1 dol. 20c.

THE CAPE MAIL. •
PLYMOUTH, Aeoesv
The Union Company's steamer Briton, with the
above mails, is just reported off here.

LIFEBOAT SERVICE.—ARILLOW, IRELAND, Auou Sr
6.—Duringloggy weather last night imports Dr. Halpin)
information was received here that a large ship was
aground on the south end of Arklow Bank. The Arundel
Venable" lifeboat, bed • to the National Lifeboat
Institution, and sta • at this place, was immediately
despatched to the assistance of the crew. On arriving
alongside the master sent one of the crew ashore
by the lifeboat for the services of steamers and barges,
to lighten the vessel in the hope that she might then be
got off the sand. The lifeboat is now afloat in the river,
ready to go out again at a moment's noties, and remain
by the ship if the weather should get worse. The life-
boat of the institution at Courtown (the Alfred and
Ernest), was also launched to the milldams of the same
vessel when she was seen to go aground. She proves to
be the ship Empire Queen, bound from Quebec to Dublin,
with a cargo of timber.
THE ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN. —At a meeting of
the Portsmouth Army Medieo-Chirurgical Society, held
en Wednesday last, Dr. 7. Sall, M.D., the Assistant-
Samson of the MEd Regiment, read en interekr&ting;FT
" Os the Medical History of the A
The paper is given at len& in the Laillisa. h

The new market in the thoroughfare leading
from King's-crow to Camden-town was formally open.d
yesterday. The ceremonial was of a most unpretendier,
description. There was a slight attempt at floral deem 1.
non, and each of the company was presented with a ism.
quet. The splendid band of the Grenadier Guards ws,
present, and at intervals it played a selection of pieces is
appropriate as circumstances permitted. At about halts
pest three the market was declared open, and Mr. Shekel'
proceeded to take iseissen of it in the name of the tradine
community by selling a " pad" of fish. This went off at
prices which, it they could only bemaintained, would soon
make the new emporium the greatest in point of supply
that has ever yet been known. Immediately after this
transaction the company, which numbered nearly 400,
adjourned to the wholesale meat market, where a cold
collation was served by Messrs. Spiers and Pond ; the one
special dish being ealmon, which some twelve hours before
bad somewhere in the north been disporting itself in
happy unconsciousness that it was so soon to grace the
festive board in a new market hunched, of mikes
The chair was occupied by Mr. Thomas Chambers, If It.
who proposed "Success to King's-cross Market." This
was drunk with much enthusiasm, and the whole assembly
appeared to take a most cheerful view of the future of
the undertaking.
The site of the market was a wheel factory, and the ut-
most ingenuity has been used in turning every portion of
the premises to account. For example, the engine chim-
ney has been retained for a furnace, which will be used
to destroy any refuse that cannot otherwise be easily dis-
posed oL The light is admitted through windows in the
roof, all of which are contrived so as to have a northern
aspect; and thus, while there will be no complaint of
darkness, the market will always be cool and well ven-
tilated. The retail stalls have each a frontage of ten feet,
and a depth of fourteen, and are provided with locked
cases and presses- These stalls are let to tenants st
weekly rental of 14s. each, there being no extras, except
for gas. The stalls for the sale of fish by retail are larger,
and are separated from those for general provisions. They
abut on the eastern side of the area, and are furnished
with ice houses at the back, a good water sup-
ply, and the other appliances requisite for car-
rying on the trade. This is expected to he
one of the specialties of the place. At present vast quan-
tities come to town by the neighbouring railways, and
the flab conveyed straight to King's-cross Market will be
in much fresher condition than after it has undergone
the middle passage between Easton-road and Billingsgate.
The economic, and even the educational advantages
which the undertaking is likely to confer on the commit.
nity are such as to make it exceedingly desirable that it
should answer. The wife, to use a phrase of Mr. Glad-
stone, is "the great spending department"
ordered household ; and it may be said in general terms
that when, after • reasonable amount of exp•rience,
she does not learn to perform her mission with
intelligence she is, as the Latin Articles have it, a "per-
nicious imposture." In country towns, even of the
largest size, the mothers of families make this matter e
very serious business Indeed. With matrons of the
middle classes the Saturday market is treated as a solemn
'function, and is, or used to be, always performed in a
kind of full morning dress. In London the custom is to
trust far too much to the tradesman, on whom the serf
of confidence that comes to be reposed in him has to)
often • demoralizing effect. His behaviour reminds one
of the poet's description of a rumour. With a new nee
tomer he is all humility, fairness, and anxiety to oblige.
but the moment he feels that he has gained a same footing
he begins practising with more or less caution on the care-
lessness of his patron, till at last he boldly acts on the
principle of sending what he likes and charging *lo`t ha
pleases. The opportunities of studying the market which
the new establishment of King's-cross will afford the
inhabitants of North London will be good alike ier the
shopkeeper and the public.

PUBLIC STATUES.—This morning a retunt
publiabed of the public statues, or public monuments. in
!Auden belonging to the nation, exclusive of thus,'
in palaces other than St. Stephen's Hall, or
in other parts of the Palace of Westminster,
or cathedrals, and now under Charge of the Commissioner
of Works ; epocifying the dates of erection and names of
artists, and born what funds purchased or erected.
Tho statues are those of Sir J. /I.C:rigor at Chelsea.
1106Pital, Sir John Franklin at Carlton-house-terrace, Sir
C. Barry, Westminster Palace, und King James 1..
Charles 1., Charles 11. (in plaster), William 111, "'Tr
IV., and William IV. The last ere are in Westminster
Hall and described as " unfinished." TM statues of Sir
John NI/rigor and Sir Charles Barry were p
publio aid fee bf
antiewiption ; the others by parliamentary Plata'