The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-09 00:00:00

'I IMRSDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1868.

innocent man had suffered for their guilt. This,
we presume, was to show that they wore ani-
mated by no personal hostility to Mrs. NuNN,
who was regarded simply as an obstacle to
successful theft, and treated accordingly. Not
the least touching incident of the trial was this
poor woman's generous recommendation to matey.
" They had broken her hands, and bad deprived
" her of her home, and she was not able to gain
" a living ;" but " she did not wish to bo hard
" upon them ;" and we shall be much surprised if
the public is, in its turn, so hard upon Mrs. Ntnot
as to allow her to go to the workhouse or starve.
A subscription on her behalf should bo sot on
foot at once.

AIDLLE. SCHNEIDER AT HOME AND
ABROAD.

THAT " princes, fools, and Englishmen" are
the only persons who over travel in first-class
railway carriages is is proverb in Germany, and
that Jonw BULL is a groat mulch cow, from
whom it is fair game for every one to got some-
thing, is a hat pretty well known and pretty
genen►lly accepted throughout the Continent.
Foreign interpreters of SHAKESPEARE and the
musical glasses, foreign singers and danoers,
tumblers and acrobats, riders and aeronauts, we
welcome them all, run after them in crowds, and
pay them such sums as they have never dreamed
of asking from their own countrymen.
The French journals just now teem
with paragraphs vaunting the success of
Mdlle. SCHNEIDER'S performance of the Grand
Duchene at the St. James's Theatre, and the
journalists cannot refrain from slily chuckling over
the fact that the sparkling comedienne reviver
nearly seven times as much from "to barbarea"
(under which flattering terms they allude to
Englishmen) as she does in her own home. If
we may believe these amiable fruilletonistes, Mdlle.
ScusEinza is paid at the St. James's Theatre at
the rate of 801. per night, whereas she has just con-
cluded an engagement at the Vsuietks, before re-
turning to her old home, the Bodies, for a hundred
and fifty representations at 300 fr., or 121.
per night. To be led by the nose in our artistic
tastes, and to pay through the nose for gratifying
them, seems to be our lot. And our taste, too, in
such matters is so curious. However, in that we
are not singular. Mdlle. TnEurse, of Cafe
Chantant notoriety, has just made her debut at
Brussels, the Prince DR Joixvirai and other distin-
guished persons being present thereat, and achieved
an enormous success with her song of "Suzon,"
while Mdlle. FINETTE is in full career at the
Gardens of the Eaux Minerales in St. Peters-
burg, and has all the " nous mitres" of Russian
society literally at her feet.

Two eminent English physicians have under-
taken the editorship of a monthly journal of thera-
peutics, called the Practitioner, and the first num-
ber of the new periodical has just appeared. The
ordinary contents are for professional readers,
but in the preface are statements in which
mortals of every degree are concerned. While our
knowledge of the facts of disease, as well as
of the facts of healthy physiological life, has
made great progress of late years, the
science of healing, we are told, has
remained very nearly where it was when Rousszsu
exclaimed, " Laissez moi mourir, mail ne me tuez
" pas." We know, that is, when a man is ill, and
what is the matter with him, but as to his cure
we are no wiser than our fathers. It is startling
to find physicians like Drs. AMITE and lAwsorr
speaking of this as an "unjustly neglected" branch
of medical science. We are glad, however, to find
that they regard it as " all important," and wetrust
that the new magazine will succeed in inducing the
profession to endeavour in future to pay more
attention to the neglected portion of their calling,
and consequently direct their efforts more parti-
cularly to getting their patients well.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer intends, in
committee on Inland Revenue Bill, to move to leave out
clause 11, and insert the following clause :—" (As to
stamp duty on transfers of debenture stock.) In lieu of
the duties now payable under the provisions of any act or
acts of parliament upon transfers of debenture stock of
any company, there shall be charged and paid upon every
such transfer a stamp duty of 2s. 6d. for every full sum
of 1001., and also for any fractional part of 1001. of the
nominal amount of the stock transferred."

A bill has been prepared by Mr. Selater-Booth
and Mr. Gathorne Hardy to enable the Treasury, on the
death of persons in the Civil Service entitled to sums under
1001., to direct payment thereof without the production of
letters of administration.

TnE Biunan MERcANTILE MARlNE.—Aocord-
ing to a return published this morning, it appears that the
total number of sailing and steam vessels registered in the
ports of the United Kingdom, its dependencies, and colo,
nies, in 1867, was 40,684, having an aggregate barthen
of 7,206,318 tons. There were 900 timber and 367 iron
vessels registered in the United Kingdom as new skip
in 1867. Of the number belonging to the United King.
dom that were wrecked in 1867, there were 800 sailing;
and 42 steam-vessels, representing an aggregate of
213,084 tons.

The Northern Whig says :—" Two gentlemen—
L. Livingston Macassey, C.E., and William Scott, C.E.
and Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts—have
just published a report on a proposed railway tunnel
between Scotland and Ireland. We cannot pronounce
any opinion as to the feasibility of the scheme, though
the two authors of this report, after having, as
they say, thoroughly investigated the matter,
have no doubt as to its practicability. As, how-
ever, the possibility of making • tunnel from Dover to
Calais has been seriously thought of, it is not altogether
unnatural that there should be a proposition to make a
railway tunnel to join Scotland and Ireland, and save
squeamish travellers the sickly horrors of even the short
sea passage."

A letter has been addressed to ns by Mr. Loe,
of 7, Gray's.inn-square, in the matter of the Joint-stock
Discount Company and Mr. James /Frieling Wilkinson.
Mr. Loe asserts that the settlement of the action, which
was to have been tried last Friday at Guildhall, involved
no such admissions as those stated in the recant letter
of Mr. Holt. Mr. Lawson was prepared from fret
to last to adhere to the evidenes which he gave on
Mr. Wilkinson's trial. It was admitted by both parties
that the matters out of which the action arose ori-
ginated in mistake and misunderstanding, and nothing
more. The action would never have been settled had
the settlement involved such arrangements as Mr. Holt
suggested. In proof of this a copy of the memorandum,
as agreed to by the counsel on both sides, is ap.
pended, together with letters from Mr. Overend and
Mr. Hawkins, endorsing the views of Mr. Loa.

On Monday next 21 trains are arranged by
the Midland Railway to commence to run each way daily
between Hendon and Moorgate-street, about half of
which will run through to and from Bodford. On
Sundays the number of trains is limited to seven or eight
each way.

We (Record) regret to learn that the report of
the Irish Church Commissioners will not be ready so soon u
was stated in the H 0998 of Commons, and that the delay is
owing to the discovery of miscalculations m to the amount
of the deductions claimed to be allowed to themselves by
some of the prelates from the estimate of their nett in.
comes. It is stated that the new calculations will con-
siderably increase the sum likely to be available out of the
surplus episcopal income for the benefit of the underpaid
working clergy.

The bridge across the Dee at Kirkcudbright was
thrown open to public hallo yesterday. 'Mb work was
undertaken and completed okielly by the munificence of
Mr. Murray Stewart, of Broughton, and Yr. Iflailan, of
et. Mark's.

trig Court.

• WINDSOR CASTLE, JOLT S.
The, Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of
Hesse, Arlie in the grounds yesterday afternoon.
Thir Majesty, Prime and Princess Louis of Hesse,
Princaes Louise, and Princess Beatrice, went out this
morning.
Princess Louise and Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by
Baroness Chancy, rode out yesterday afternoon.
The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Louis
of Hesse, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince
Leopold, left Windsor Castle this afternoon, at a quarter
before five o'clock, for Osborne.
The suite in attendance consisted of the Duchess of
Rosburghe, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Major-General
Sir T. M. Biddulph, Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Du Plat,
Major Von Home and Mr. Sahi.
The Prince and Princess Christian met her Majesty at
the railway station in Windsor, and travelled with the
Queen to Osborne.

Princesses Victoria, Elisabeth, and Irene of Hew, and
Prince Cluintien Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, attended by
Bluenose Orancy, Baron Von Rabenau, and Sir John
Csiwell, left Windaor at ten minutes past ten o'clock this
morning for Osborne.
Vie :mast and Viecountem Bridport had the honour of
*lining with the Queen and the Royal Family yeatenlay.

The Prince of Wales droro out yesterday, attended by
Cal tain Ellis.
'the Hon. Mrs. A. Harding° bag succeodod Vivountess
Walden as Lady in Waiting to the Princess of Wales.

The Royal Commission on Military Education met yei-
terday at the War Office. Prevent—Earl Do Grey (chair-
man). Lord Kinder* Cecil, M.P., Lord de Boa, Sir Charles
Rum.*ll, Bart., M.P., Lieut.-General Sir Duncan Cameron,
K.C.8., Rev. W. C. Lake, Colonel Haythorne, and Lieut.-
Colonel Chesney. The secretary, Lieutenant J. W. Boxier,
was elan present.

Ilia Royal Highness the Prince of Wake honoured
Mr. Oswald by his company at dinner last evening, at
Hampden House, Green-street. A select party were present
to meet the Prince. Later in the evening Mr. Oswald had
a dancing party, which was numerously attended.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the
Count and Countess de Paris, the Duke de PenthieTre,
and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, honoured Lady
Holland by their presence at her garden party yesterday
afternoon at Holland House. Nearly the whole of the
leading members of the aristocracy at present in town
graced the picturesque grounds by their company, in ad-
dition to the above illustrious guest&

The Earl and Countess Spencer were honoured
by the presence of her Royal Highness the Princess
Mary Adelaide and his Highness the Prince of Tuck
yesterday evening at Spencer House, St. James's. A
select party joined the dinner circle, the guests
including the Duke and Duchess of San Arpin°,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Countess Dowager
of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Rolyneux, the Countess of
Tankerville, Viscount Jocelyn, Count Corti, Lord and
Lady Elcho and Hon. Evelyn Charteris, Lord and Lady
Dufferin, Lord Ronald Leveson-Gower, Lady Sarah
Spencer, Mr. Horace Seymour, Mr. Henry Clreville, &c.

- The Earl of Zetland entertained the Earl and
Countess of Effingham and Lady Alice Howard, Lord and
Lady Leigh, Hon. Fitzpatrick and Lady Albreda Vernon,
the Right Hon. Edward Homan, M.P., and Mrs. Hors-
man, Mr. Frederick Dundas, Mrs. Ford, Mr. J. Winstrop,
Mr. Panizzi, &c., at dinner last evening, at his residence
in Arlington-street.
The Duke of Devonshire had the last of a series
of three assemblies last night at Devonshire House,
Piccadilly. Upwards of 700 persons of distinction, com-
prising a large number of peers and members of the House
of Commons, were present.

The Lord Chancellor and Lady Cairns enter-
tained at dinner at their residence, 5, Cromwell Houses,
yesterday, the Archbishop of York and Mrs. Thomson,
Lord Strathnairn, Lord and Lady O'Neill, Bight Hon.
Gathorne Hardy, M.P., and Mrs. and Mies Hardy, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hon. Colonel and Mrs.
Grantham Scott, Sir John Neeld, 111. P., and Lady and
Miss Need, Sir Frederick Heygate, M.P., and Lady Hey-
gate, Mr. and Mrs. Walter, Mn. Dallas Yorke, Hon.
Alfred and Mrs. Thesiger, and Sir Charles Lanyon, M.P.
The Hon. John Rose was entertained at break-
fast by the Bight Hon. C. B. Adderley, yesterday, at his
residence, 36, Eaton-place. There were present—the
Marquis of Normanby, the Earl of Mayo, Lord Claud
Hamilton, Lord Houghton, General Hastings Doyle, Sir
Robert Anatruther, M.P., Mr. Elliott, and Mr. Prender-
gast.

FOREIGN NEWS.

(THIS DAY.)

SPAIN.

The T my,* of to-day says

Serious news has come from Spain. A military con-
'piracy is said to have been discovered, and the Spanish
government have arrested and imprisoned some generals.
Amongst the greatest are several well-known persons,
who have acted a conspicuous part in Spanish affairs, such
as Nlanhal Serrano (the Duke de la Torre) and Generals
Dulce, Cordova, Bud 7.abula. It will ho recollected that for
some time, especially since the death of Narvaea, a
report was current in Europe that a revolu-
tionary movement was preparing in the Peninsula. and
that aU parties who were opposed to the system of reac-
tion, compression, and tenor, inaugurated by the Duko
of Valencia, and continued by his colleague and suenessor,
Geumles Bravo, bad united for the purpose of making a
last effort to upset it. About a month ago there was a
inmatese report of a rising in Catalonia. If, as is re-
ported, the arrested generals were in league with the ex-
tame plotless who are plotting the overthrow of queen
lialmlisie throne, wo may expect to hear somi serious
news.
The Da•L•nis remarks:

When men of the importance of Serrano, Duke, and
Zubabs are imprisoned, we must conclude that the
government which arrested them 1111'1 been in great paril ;
and, until some days have pawed, we may believe that
the danger is not wholly over. If there has been a plot,
it must have boon extensive. Are the government sure
that they have all the threads of the conspiracy in their
hands P Is it not possible that some of the generals
implicated have escaped, and that they will make one
of those desperate attempts which have succeeded in
upsetting thrones less tottering than that of Queen Isa-
bella

A despatch from Madrid, dated yesterday, says :

The arrest of the generals is officially confirmed. Ac-
cording to the information received by the government
they were in connivance with the revolution-
ista, and were preparing a movement having for
object to upset the existing order of things. The occur-
rence has been well received by public opinion, which
was already pre-occupied by the plans attributed to
those generals. Everyone here desires peace and tran-
quillity, and cares very little for the ambitions of the
extreme parties. The sensible progressista themselves
applaud the energy displayed by the government. The
most perfect order prevails in the provinces.