The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY BYENING, JULY 28, 1888.

expelled the Austrian monarchy front Germany, and
the victory of Badowts. which routod the jeAlmisy
of France, have given a new impetus to that
colloctive patriotism which, overpasains the
artificial barriers of states, marka out the
common patrimony of the whole united
German race. _ .

The meeting of the Gemini Rifle Asso-
ciation at Vienna on Sunday last was a
most remarkable demonstration of the strength
of the national instinct of unity. Our Gorman
friends manage these things admirably. There is
a picturesqueness, a geniality, a richness of fool-
ing, a touch of poetry in their patriotic mani-
festations, which Englishmen, with their na-
tive shyness, their habitual stiffness and
formality, thoir horror of natural emotion, can
never hope to emulate. Compare one of our
volunteer reviews at Brighton or Dover, or our
annual Wimbledon meeting, with this groat
national gathering in the Austrian capital
on Sunday last, what a tame, and dry, and
bald affair our volunteering looks ! The five h /ars'
procession of the united associations of Germany
through the streets of Vienna, amidst flags and
music and &Maiming multitudes, the mutual
congratulatory cheers of the citizen troops from
Bavaria, Wurtemburg, Prussia, and last, not
least, of the German emigrants who have created
a new and free fatherland beyond the Atlantic—
there is nothing like this for spirit
and effect in our English meetings.
And if the outward aspect of this gathering
at Vienna had all the traditional cordiality and en-
thusiasm which belongs to the national celebra-
tions of Germany, that inner sense and purpose
which is never wanting to any German
festivity was eminently worthy of our English
sympathies, and of the thoughtful attention
of the Emperor NAPOLEON and his mili-
tary household. If there are any Frenchmen in
the councils of the Second Empire, or of the school
of M. TRIERS, who have calculated on the
disunion and the rivalries of German States, on the
antipathy of South to North, of Austria to Prussia,
or on the possibility of any section of the German
people conspiring with a foreign enemy against
the common Fatherland, it is to be hoped that this
Rifle Meeting at Vienna will have undeceived
them. For what was the object of this meeting if
not to prove that as against a foreign enemy,
against aggression or interference from abroad,
and in defence of the common German Father-
land, the Germans of Vienna and of
Berlin, of Bavaria and of Wurtemburg, of
Frankfort and of Hamburg, are essentially one
people, one country, and one cause? When the
President of the United Associations handed over
their flag to the City of Vienna, the Burgomaster
of the Austrian capital promised to guard it as
a symbol of German unity. " The object to be
" achieved," he said, "is the establishment of
" peace between the several races. Peace, and
" real legitimate freedom constitute the moans
" which should unite us." At the banquet
the President of the Central Committee
proposed the toast, " Success to the efforts
"of Germany for the establishment of free
" institutions and equal rights." Throughout
the proceedings of the day, the dominant idea, the
keynote of the harmony, was " Peace and
" Liberty. " Not a sign or a sound
of hostility to Prussia was seen or heard;
but Count BISILUICK would do well to
note that his name, associated as it is with
arbitrary government and military usurpations,
found no echo in this assembly of Germans, who
drank to the toast of " Constitutional Progress in
Austria" and " The Austrian Chamber of
" Deputies." If Count BISMARCK will take this
warning kindly, it points out to him a course of
future policy more glorious than that which
belongs to him in the past. It is by peace and
liberty, not by a bad imitation of Napoleonism
that the independence and unity of Germany
are
to be consolidated and preserved. Such are
happily the watch-words of liberal France also ;
and it is as a sign and symbol of peace and
liberty that we doubt not our neighbours over the
water will join with us in saluting with sympathy
and respect the flag of the Rifle Associations of
Germany.

And what of the host who brought them
together ? He must have been at least worthy
of his guests, for of him Lord ILtosulAY has
written, " They (' a fow old men, the last
" survivors of our generation ') will remember
" the venerable and benignant eountenanoe, and
" the cordial voice of him that bade them
" welcome. They will remember that temper
" which years of pain, of sickness, of lameness,
" of oonflnement, seemed only to make sweeter
" and sweeter, and that frank politeness which
" at once relieved all the embarrassment of the
" moat timid writer or artist, who found himself
" for the first time among ambassadors and
" earls. They will remember that constant
" flow of conversation, so natural, so animated,
"80 rich with observation and anecdote ; that
" exquisite mimicry which ennobled instead of de-
" grading; that goodness of heart which appeared
" in every look and accent, and gave additional
"value to every talent and acquirement. They
" will remember, too, that he whose name they
" bold in reverence was not leas distinguished by
" the inflexible uprightness of his political conduct,
" than by his loving disposition and his winning
" manners."

Happy the man whose posthumous fame is thus
made safe for over ! It is moot that his old friends
should raise statues and erect paintod windows to
his honour, but the grandest and most lasting me-
morial to Lord HOLLAND is to be found in tho tri-
bute paid to him by Lord MACAULAY.

Zbc er.ourt.

08130112411. Jutm 27.

The Queen walkod in the grounds this morning
accompanied by Printer Louise, Prison Leopold, and
Princess Beatrice.
Prince and Prinoms Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
took kayo of her Majesty leat night on their departure for
Oeimany.
Their Royal filenames, attended by Miss Bowater and
Mr. Bahl, cmlarkod on board her Majesty's ship Enchan-
tress an Osborn Bay, and left for Ostend this morning.
Prince Albert Victor, Prince Ueorge„ and Prinoess Louise
of Wales, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, loft
Osborne for Marlborough-house, this morning.
Prince Arthur, attended by Colonel Riphinstone, left
Osborne to-day for Chatham.
Tho Bight Hun. Benjamin Disraeli has left for London.

Mr. W. Brierly had the honour of submitting, for the
Prince of Wales's inspection, Notrelian and ace liketehei
taken by him during the late oruize with the Duke of
Edinburgh. . .

A detonation from the Newington Sick Asylum, con-
noting of Dr. Corti; Dr. Shea, and Kr. J. Burgess, had
an interview with the Earl of Devon, at the office of the
Pool-law Board, Whitehall, yesterday.

THE COURT.—Her Majesty, after her tour upon
the Continent, is expected to return to Windsor Castle
about the let of September. The Crown Prince and
Princess of Prussia are likely to visit England at the same
time.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prineess
of Wales and family intend to leave Marlborough House
on the 9th proximo for Abergeldie Castle, N. 8., for the
wawa. At the end of the shooting season, the Prinoo
and Prinome purpose going to Denmark to visit the King
and Queen, and other relatives of the Prinoess._

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 27.—His Royal Highness
Prince Arthur arrived at the dockyard this morning from
Osborne in the steam yacht Alberta, and proceeded by the
Landport terminus for London.
_ _ _

After taking his seat in the House of Lords
yesterday, Lord Napier, aocompanied by Lady Napier
and a distinguished party, partook of refreahmonti in Sir
Augustus Clifford's apartments.

The late Lord Cranworth married, when already
pretty well advanced in age, a Miss Carr, of Hampstead,
a lady whose death we had occasion to chronicle some five
or six months ago. Ho felt her loss deeply at the time,
but ho has not long survived her. In a few days Lord
Cranworth's remains will bo placed by the side of hers in
the little village churchyard which adjoins his seat of
Hallooed, near Bromley, in Kent.
The Prince de Joinville and the Duke d'Aumalc
are at Wiesbaden, where the Prince and Princess of Pied-
mont have made a short stay. The Duke d'Alencon, son
of the Duke de Nemours, and brother of Count d'Eu,
married to the hereditary Princess of Brazil, is affianced
to the Princess Theresa of Bavaria, cousin-german of the
King ; and the marriage is to be celebrated in the course
of next month. The Duke d'Aleocon was born at Neuilly
on the 12th of July, 1844 ; and the Princess Theresa at
Munich, the 12th Nov., 1850.

Mr. Massey, late Financial Minister of India,
occupied a seat under the gallery last night during the
delivery of the Indian financial statement.
To show the system of " reckless and extor-
tionate demands to which railway companies are liable,"
Mr. Leeman mentions the case of a person who was in.
pared by a railway accident in the north of England, who
first demanded 8,0001. of the company, and then brought
an action in the Scotch courts for 0,0001. "On the morn-
ing of the trial," said Mr. Leeman, "he offered to accept
1,7501. ; the company paid into court 2601., and the jury
gave him only 881."

- On Thursday, Mr Otway will ask the Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received any
inform►tion as to a projected offensive and defensive
&Manse between France Belgium, and Holland, or of
any combination of those powers, for purposes hostile to
Prussia and Germany.
A monthly magazine, to be called the Court
Suburb, is to make its first appearance with the opening of
October. According to the programme, it will be a lead-
ing feature of the magazine "to describe the principal
objects of interest in and around Kensington," which is
described as "a locality peculiarly rich in historical asso-
ciations; remarkable as having been the home of many
of the great men and women who have tonrihed during
wend epochs;" and "perhaps of all the parishes that
neighbour London the one that supplies the best material
to the historian, on biographer, the antiquary, and the

The Pat remarks that in the trial of Rush, the
murderer, Lord Cranworth exhibited a remarkable in-
stance of that placidity of temper *Welt distinguished
him at the bar and on the bench. Rash hid been putting
questions of a most offensive nature to one c, the wit-
nesses. After this had gone on for some time, much to
the disgust of the court and of the auditory, Lord Oran-
worth stopped him, and said that he would not permit
such questions to be put. Rush replied—" If your lord-
ship were on trial for your life you would not like to be
stopped in putting questions which you think material for
your defence." The meek reply of the judge was—" You
are right ; I beg your pardon. Oo on."

Sketching the bowie of 30 members yesterday,
while the Indian Budget was on, the Times thus pita in
• few leading figures :—" The front opposition bench given
up to Mr. Laing and Mr. Crawford. Behind them a small
band composed of men who have served in India, or in
connexion with India, with here and there a stray zealot
like Mr. Grant Duff, who carries the two hemispheres, one
under each wing. Mr. Ayrton was in his piece, not caring
to exercise his privilege of attempting • eonnt-out. Colonel
Sykes spoke as the representative of that poor shadow
which sti►l bears the name of ' John Company.' Mr. Mill
manifested a philosophic somnolence which did him in-
finite honour, and must conciliate many who would
be otherwise repelled by the inhuman perfection of his
character. Mr. Arthur Kinnaird and Mr. Barley showed
that there are bankers and merchants who are in some
way interested in Indian companies and Indian progress.
On the Treasury bench Mr. Disraeli zealously supported
his colleague, and, when forced to retire for a season,
carefully sent in a lord of the treasury to keep up a be-
fitting appearance of interest. There was, in fact, eloquent
proof on every side that India was going on as comfort-
ably as need be."

The Empress Eugenie, who continues to reside
at Fontainebleau during the absence of the Emperor at
Plombilrea, continues bar early morning drives, which she
takes in an elegant phaeton, drawn by one horse, and
driven by herself. It is related that one morning last
week, shortly atter sunrise, a woodman met her at the ex-
tremity of the forest, not far from the heights of Arbonne,
contemplating the magnificent scene which this picturesque
site affords at this early hour of the day. Wearing •
ins* grey dress, and • light Italian straw bonnet
trimmed with a blue riband hosting in the bream, her
Majesty walked in the midst of thick enderwood, and
climbed up the highest rocks, the better to enjoy the
panorama which unfolded itself before hes.
The German traveller Eohlfs has arrived at
Bremen on his retain from Abreints, where he filled the
°Zoe of interpreter to the English expeditionary corps.
After the taking of Magda* he went alone to Ulna*
the holy city of the country, which has not been visited
by any European' for more than three centuries. He
found there nine Christian churches of the primitive
Byzantine style of architecture, an monoliths—that is to
my, each hollowed out of one enormous block of stone,
and richly onsameated. In afterwards passing by Arum
he discovered that the last of the obelisks still "tending in
that place is in a state of almost complete ruin.

" The heat here," says a Florence letter, " is
intense ; a wind is blowing like a sirocco, and nights of
fire have been prevalent for the last fortnight.
Florence is becoming more and more deserted every
day."

The Italian Parliament has just passed a bill
according pensions to the widows and orphans of doctors
who have died in attending choleraic patients.

Three large fleets are at present anchored in
Italian waters : Admiral Boutakot with the Russian
vessels under his command, is at Brindisi ; the English
squadron is at Ancona ; and the Italian at Cagliari in
Sardinia.

The Berlin journals state that the population of
that city is menaced with a serious strike, as the journey-
men bakers, who number about 1,900, hare notified to
their masters that they will cease working on the 30th,
if night employment is not abolished and the number of
bands increased.

FOREIGN NE WS.

(THIS DAY.)

BARON BEUBTE REPLY TO TIIE PAPAL
ALLOCUTION.
The text of Baron Boost's reply to the Papal
allocution is now published. It is dated Vienna,
July 3, and addressed to Baron von Moysonburg.
Wo extract its essential paragraphs:
We cannot (it say') in the first place, admit the obliga-
tion which imposts on the Holy See the necessity of fol-
lowing certain precedent', and of adopting towards
Austria the same proceedings as towards other countries
of which the Holy See has had to complain. Is it
possible, in fact, to draw any comparison? Have
we attacked the territory or the property of the
church? Bare we oppressed tbo catholic religion and
its ministers ? Putting aside examples which do not bear
on the case, we may, I think, boldly affirm that there is
no country in Europe where the catholic church has so
privileged a position as in Austria, notwithstanding the
laws of May 26. This circumstance ought to have been
taken into account before the imperial government was
("Unfounded in the same reprobation with other govern-
meta :which were in opposition to the church and
the catholic religion in a different way. WO
can understand that the Holy Father may have
felt it to be indispensable to protest against the laws
which modify the situation created by the Concordat of
1b66. We fully expected a proceeding of this kind, and
we might have accepted it silently even if its form were
loss conciliatory than we permitted ourselves to hope. But
what we cannot pass over without objection is the con-
demnation burled against the fundamental laws ou
which the new institutions of the empire are
based. These laws were not the subject of
dispute, and by attacking them as it has, the
Holy See deeply wounds the national feeling, and gives to
the present difference a meaning that is very much to be
regretted even in the interest of the church. Instead of
simply contesting this or that application of the principles
which form the bases of the present government of Aus-
tria, and which are the fruit of the happy accord between
the peoples of the empire and their sovereign, it is the
principles themselves that are condemned. The Holy See
thus extends its representation to objects which we can
by no means admit to be within its authority. It envenoms
a question which already produced only too much excite-
ment, by directing men's min,L, to matters where political
will be associated with religious passions. Finally, by
condemning laws which include the principle Ai Eike 'liberty
of the church, and thus offering it compensation for the
privileges it less, it renders more difficult a conciliatory
attitude of the government. It may not be useless to re-
mark here that these laws expressly guarantee to the
church the property of the wealth it possesses in Austria.
This stipulation proves that the laws in question are not hos-
tile to the church since they maintain to her those rights of
which she has been deprived in so many other countries.
It is nut for me to judge in what measure this last consi-
deration ought to mitigate the judgment of the court of
Rome. What I have not a shadow of doubt about is. that
the people of Austria will find consolation in remembering
that more than one very catholic nation is subject
to legal arrangements of the same kind which yet
live in peace with the church, and that there is
especially one great and powerful empire in
Europe whose tendencies towards progress and liberty
have been always allied with very decided attachment
to the Catholic faith, and which, though governed by
laws quite as abominable, has, up to the latest moment,
been Nosed with the indulgent sympathies of the Hely
See. My despatch of the 17th June last anticipated the
bad consequences which the allocution would produce if it
was not worded in very moderate language. I regret ex-
tremely that the court of Rome did not pay more
attention to these anticipations. They have
been completely realised. I do not think the
Catholic population of the empire have more
zeal now than they had before for the interests
of their religion. On the contrary, we see an increase of
ardour in the attacks directed against the church, the
clergy, and the Pope. This hostility would have been
confined within the narrowest limits and would have been
easily appeased if the special questions affected by the
laws of May 26 had alone been treated of in the papal
allocution.
Before concluding, I must here also express the painful
surprise which the appeal addressed to theHungsrian bishops
in the closing sentences of the allocution has produced. It
seems to me that Rome ought to be thankful for the per.
feet tact and reserve with which these delicate matters
have been hitherto treated in,llungsry. It would be un-
desirable in every point of view to raise new differences,
and thereby to augment the embarrassments which already
Ekt it is especially in the very interest of the court
of Rome that it appears to us inopportune to arouse the
national susceptibility of the Hungarians. The appear-
ance of foreign pressure would produce in that nation re-
sults the opposite to those which the Holy See desires, and
we should see a storm raised against the legitimate influ-
ence of the court of Rome similar to that which is raging
on this side of the Leitha.
These are the observations suggested to as by a lierueal
of the Pontifical allocution. Lay them before his eminence
the Cardinal Secretary of State. We shall none the lees
persevere in the way we have begun. Whilst we shall
continue to faaintaia intact the rights of the state and re-
spect for the laws, we &UR allow the church to enjoy in
peace the liberties which' our laws secure to her ; and we
shall endeavour to °beam, in the mutual relations between
Church and state, a spirit of conciliation and equity which
I hope will be reciprocal.
Your excellency will be pleas-ed to make yourself the
faithful organ of these sentiments, and in doing so you
will only conform to the views of :Ike Emperor, our august
master. BvJer.

FIFTY DEATHS FROM SIINS'ZEOKE IN
NEW YORK.

Advices from New York, of the 16th, static that
fifty deaths occurred in that city on the previous
day from sunstroke. Heavy manufacturing
business was generally suspended on account of
the heat.

(THROUGH REUTER. 8 AGENCY.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, JULY 28.
His Serene Highness Prince Napoleon arrived
in Paris this morning.

SERV lA.
THE ASSASSINATION OF PRLNCE
MICHAEL.
BELGRADE, JULY 27.

This afternoon, at 4.30, sentence was passed on
the persons charged with the assassination of Prince
Michael. Fourteen were condemned to death.
Among their number are Nadovanovich and his
two sons, &ma and Nestovar Nenadovich. Prince
Alexander Harageorgevich and his secretary,
Trifoovich, were condemned to twenty years'
penal servitude ; Philip Stankovich to twenty
years' hard labour in a fortress ; and Jeremiys to
five years' imprisonment. The execution of the
prisoners tinder sentence of death will take place
to-marrow morning at 6 o'clock.

HUNGARY.

PESTH, Jinx 27, Evian:No.

The Lower BOUM of the Hungarian Diet to-day
authorised the prosecution of Deputy Roman for
contravening the press law, and a fresh prosecu-
tion against Deputy Bossormenyi for a similar
offence.

The Army Bill will be discussed next Thursday.

TEE PACIFIC, AUSTRALIAN, AND NEW

ZEALAND MAILS.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 28.

The Royal Mail steamship Tasmanian, with the
West Indian, Pacific, Australian, and New Zea-
land mails, via Panama, arrived here at 8.45 a.m.
to-day. Her dates are from Melbourne May 28,
Sydney June 1, Wellington 6, Panama 6, Jamaica
11, and St. Thomas 14.

_
The Tasmanian brings 143 passengers,79 sacks of
mails, treasure valued at 530,409 dole., 80 bags of
Balm. ore, and 1,600 packages gamma' cargo.
Owing to the illness of the mail sorters the usual