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

NOFS.

Anton, A. S. Jer►ote, Sir J. Thompson. 11. W.
egadll4l, J. Leehmere, Sir E. Wintertotham, A.S.
Carnegie, C. Locke, J.
Crauturd, K A. ' M'Lagan, F. TILLER?.
Dlllwyn, L L MLaren, D. Lusk, Ald.
Glyn, G. G. Monk, C. J. Waldkravole•la ,
Goldemid, ettr F. Paget, T T. G.
Gos,:hen, G. J. Ponard-Urquhurt,W

Putnam's Weekly News states that gangs of bird
catchers have been about the neighbourhoods of Chard and
Axminster, catching all the old birds, and hundreds of
young ►irds have been started in consequent,e of the parent
birds having been captured or killed.

William M'Artinr, Esq., sheriff of London, will
take the chair at the dinner in aid of the funds of
the Ophthalmic Hospital, St. Georp's-eircur, South-
wark, to be held in Willis's Rooms, on Monday, the Bth of
June. _ .

Tom CHURCH IN THE MZTROPOLIB.—The Bishop
of London hes licensed tho Rev. James Moorhouse, LA.,
to the incumbency of the pariah church of St. leases,
Paddington, and hes app4nted him rural dean at the
deanery of Paddington. On Sunday next his lordship
will hold an ordination in St. Paul's cathedral. Morning
prayer will be road at 10 o'clock. The ordination unto%
aommenang, with the sermon, which will be preaclood by
the Rev. WllDas Cadman, M.A., will begin sol 11 o'aleak.

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BALMORM. OA/!LE, Jam 2.
The Queen drove out in the ie,utithig, attended
by the Duchess of Athole, and visited the Leehnsgar
Female School ; and in the afternoon her Majesty, assess•
essied by Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Dealer
of Athole and Miss Macgregor, drove to the Linn of Dee.

The Prince of Wales rods mat yesterday, attended by
Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel.
The Princess of Wales drove oat, accompanied by the
Crown Prince of Denmark.

In the evening, the Prim* of Wales, attended by
I4eutenant•Colonel Koppel, dined with the Duke and
Duchess d'Aumale, at Twickenham.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord
Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos,
Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northoote, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L.
Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners,
and the Earl of Mayo.

The ball at the French Embassy, which was an-
nounoed for the 10th, is fixed for Wednesday, the 17th
instant.

The death of the Hon. and Rev. Frederic Baring
took plat* yesterday at his residence in Grosvenor.
crescent. The hon. and rev. gentleman was the third eon
of Alexander, first Lord Ashburton, and brother of the
present peer. He was born in 1808, and married in 1831
Kiss Ashton, daughter of Mr. John Ashton. The lamented
gentleman was vicar of Itoken-Stoke, Hants, from 1830 to
1845.

The Earl and Countess of Bradford entertained
the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, the Marquis Oonyng-
ham, the Earl and Counter of Harwood, the Earl and
Countess of Yarborough, the Countess of Wilton, Ad-
miral the Hon. H. J. and Mrs. Row, Colonel Hon. James
and Mrs. Macdonald, Mr. and Mrs. Bridgman Simpson,
Mr. Henry Chaplin, &c., at dinner last evening at their
residence in Belgrave-square.

The Marquis of Worcester has been appointed
deputy-lieutenant for Gloucestershire.

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN PRISONS.

A return was published this morning of the
number of county and borough prisons in England Wales in
which religious instruction is afforded to prisoners of dif-
ferent denominations, specifying them and the cost to each.
The number of prisoners in each prison, and the denomina-
tions to which they belong, are also stated. The returns
were sent In from 126 prisons and gaols, in the whole of
which it appears that religious instruction in aooordance
with the doctrines of the church of England is provided
at the public expense. In the majority of
these, Roman catholic prisoners are permitted to be
visited by priests of the same persuasion, whose services
are, however, for the moat part, rendered gratuitously.
In only 13 cases are stipends allowed to the
Roman catholic clergy; but at Spalding a
sort of compromise seems to have been ef-
fected second-class railway fares being there
allowed to the Roman catholic priest who travels from
Boston. With respect to the metropolitan prisons, the
return shows that the number of prisoner* in
Newgate gaol on the 2nd of April was 161,
of which number 120 were entered as belonging
to the church of England, and 27 as Roman
catholic'. The salary of the chaplain, who is
of the established church, is 3001. per annum. In Coldbath
Fields the number of prisoners at the same date was 1,643,
of whom about 1,290 were of the church of England, and
329 Roman catholic.. Here there is a chaplain at 4001.,
and an assistant-chaplain at 3001. a year ; but no allow-
ance is made for any other kind of religious instruction.
At the Clerltenwell Howie of Detention there were 196
persons professing to belong to the church of England
and 75 Roman catholics, with only one (protestant) chap-
lain, at a salary of 230/. In the House of Correction at
Westminster, the prisoners were classified as follows:—
Protestants, 484 ; Roman catholics, 168. The chap-
lain is a protestant, and his salary is 4101. 12s. At Hol-
loway, the number of prisoner, professing the faith
of the church of England Ia 279 ; and of Roman catholic.,
50 ; and the chaplain of the former receives 3501. a year,
with house, fuel, and light. This return was moved for
by Mr. Maguire.

The Duke of Wellington has most kindly granted
the use of the Waterloo Gallery, at Apslerhouse, to the
" Working Men's Clab and Institute Union," for a reading
by the Rev. J. M. Bellew, on the 18th June next. Mr.
Bellew has placed his services at the disposal of the
Council of the Union on this occasion to enable them to
raise tends in aid of two of the valuable institutions in
London which it is the useful purpose of that society to
promote. . . . . .

The Bridport District Choral Association has just
held a feetival in which 260 singers took part.

Yesterday morning Mr. Bright was entertained I
at a public breakfast in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool,
by the Liverpool Liberal Association. Several hundred
gentlemen sat down to breakfast in the body of the hall.
The boxes were filled by gaily attired ladies, and the
galleries were also densely crowded by spectators. Mr.
El. G. RATHBONE presided, supported by some of the most
influential liberal gentlemen connected with the town and
district. After breakfast, Mr. S. G. Rathbone took the
chair. . . . . .

FOREIGN NEWS.
CTHIS DAY.)

ILLNESS OF COUNT BISMARCK.

The Cologne Gazette, of June 2, reports that
Count Bismarck was seized, on Friday last, with
a rheumatic attack of the pleura, but that he is
progressing favourably, but slowly.