The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-01 00:00:00

(iERMAN RIFLES !;UND.

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long as hi, wife remains upon th:• stag; bu
his ealary will be continued
Emile 01Eyler flinell at Men I, .11 )••41 •• NI .11
with rrirov Napoleon, who, emit rary to twiner
reports, ,14.111 C in no hurry to render to thn Emu-
Itcror Honda-re.; All :WV( , tof 1114 T.1r11411
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M• (Pinter liss lat. for his country re.itlence at
Tr c; in the V:n•, and there several members
uf. parti itiv invited to see him. The Figur°
but certainly styles
thi. -in t: a " congress.—

Note ;I h finding. the efforts to keep the G. -mans
ow iul 1, d in ViVIITIK within the limits of the
mgr:,7l::ue traced out beforehand, the sle•akers at
'1 t ; —unions treee'l more or less on the domain

',oho .C+. Two lavvniling si•ntini las are notni-
•ted every meet nig, one of gene,-;tls3tisfaction
wh;ch Anstri.t has nrnie on the
'..31.1 (0: r;til lib..rty : tin• I•ther hut
the A., '1•17.n-I nn ..t not lie en: I .11 from
11,e Fatifi•rlioid. ()I. 1 Ili, hit I.•r paint N,vn
of tin. 2...1. in,..t:int insists ut the follow-
, t(rmq :

Whip vs 111 dispnir th.• t that Austria was f. r a thou-

, ycles ahnort a iiie,Aer of the great German Erep're
we I ;ermati-A o•t, are children of the one mother-
I ,p 1 ~f Orerit Get ma nia Who will deny that our civi-
-1 that of the I:ei.nrin race—th..t the :ongsstream
our Austrian poets dots not commingle with the world-
:. nn. of the German psa•ts which are the glory and the
• ule of 1 ;tyranny' Who will strike out from our recollec-
t n that Austrian and German history was one till these
; •ter days, that Austria was intimately and uninter-
- :madly one with Germany till 1866, and that we
1.0., therefore, a real and living right—a

.ht consecrated by a history of a thousand years of
mmon joys and sorrows —to solemnise a German
t.: tional festival? What right have we at all if these
Licts, which fill a glorious page in the history of human
tiviliaation, do not justify us in the celebration of a great
c,,nimon German festival l•

The Weser Gitzytte, on the other hand, objects to
,e official title, "The third match of the German

ties flund," as contrary to the treaty of Prague,

:•.,1 its correspondent calls it " the rendezvous of
l• • beaten of 1866," front which he draws the
n.equence that the celebration of the fourth
t iug of the Rifles will be held in Paris.

lE 0171:AGES IN THE SOUTH- SEA

lamming, smue further correspondence was
relating to the importation of South-Sea
• into Queensland. It may be remembered that a
, • -erious outrages were committed by the native,
• Is visiting the islands, and in some cases mur-
•- w mmittcu, the avowed object being revenge for
41 to, or at least forcible retention in, Queens-
: • . portion of male natives, who, it was alleged. had
• there for temporary service only. Sir George
••dtri eted that inquiries should be made into the
. 4 the grievance, and Comm_nder Bingham, of her
2. ...it'. ship Virago, was deputed to perform this

a despatch received by the Duke of Buckingham on
_.id ult., from the officer administering the govern-
...! Queensland, the result of this inquiry is given.
Y. M. C. O'Connor says, in reference to the treat-
! • I,t and mode of engaging those of the islanders who
!. tenployed on board vessels engaged in Beche-de-Mer
r...attg in Torres Straits and the neighbourhood of Cape
rk, that it is satisfactory to find that Captain Bingham
enabled, from personal observation, to come to
ionclusion that none of these people were brought
f rote their homes against their win, or maltreated.
:

I am enabled also to report to your grace that, on
~.oiiry from the emigration agent in this colony (who is
w, under the Polynesian Labourers' Act, charged with
• supervision of these islanders in Queensland), I learn
the employment of these people continues to be very
..vourably thought of by those gentlemen who have
..gaged them ; that the men themselves, on the establish-
..nts he has viited, are apparently industrious, con-
-I..ted, and happy ; and that he has, up to the present
w.f., had no complaint of ill-treatment of any kind."