The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-02 00:00:00

iB POBLISRID

EVERY EVENING.

LONDON, TUESDA I', JUNE 2.

THE EMPEROI: NAPOLEON AT ROUEN.

A ',Lt, N. of irresolute equivocation, tempered
by pamphlets more or less officially authorised or
inspired, is a sorry ._itaratitee for the continuance
of peace, Or for the restoration of omfidence and
security to industrial enterprise and commercial
violet. The tihrt,N E‘ll.lltt: might seen. to have
~,,hausted all the arts and artifices which
tire imposed upon the credulity of mankind.
It has blom II hot awl cold, proclaimed perpetual
tv.i- and threatonol incessant war, satirised the
ter rl oral Power of the Papacy and maintained it by
for, .42 of arias, fought for the independence of Italy
and main.tained a foreign garrison in the heart of
the , "enitoala, accepted in advance the results of
the I 'rnsstin campaign in Bohemia, and doubled
its army to bring them to nought ;
pr. t,' 'AA its respect for the principle
of " gr and agglomerations" and against the theory
of teri,:tori.al compensations, while it secretly ap-
plied to the King of HoLLAND for the cession of
I.ll‘einbo erg, and to Count Bismsmili for the
cession of a line of fortresses and a strip of coal-
fields in co nsideration of Lis unopposed victories ;
ilis:laiiiied tic., thought of interfering in the
unity of ( ers..any, and conspired against it at
Augsburg, s t I.lmiich, at Stuttgard. From the
speech at Au teti7e in the summer of I Stiff to the
recent speech at Orleans, peace has been on the
lips of the rult r ...f France, while all the acts of
his Goveninient hate pointed to war. Again and
again the public, who have always desired peace,
are reassured by souse official declaration. Again
and again some indiacreet ebullition, some incon-
sistent order, or souse untimely pamphlet pub-
lished with all the luxury of official type,
has set people wondering how and when the
war is to begin, and almost persuaded them
that even the certainty of war is better than the
uncertainty of peace. On Sunday last the
E rEItOR met the Cardinal Archbishop of
Itouvir in his Cathedra! city. It was a
little unfortunate that on the eve of his
belt to Normandy the Bourse should have been
disturbed by the call for the contingent of
I 00,00 u men, and by the apparition of a pamphlet
ominously entitled " Peace through War," which'
Probably indicates at the worst nothing wore than

a oettain current of warlike and aggressive nen- ;
lament at no great distance from do throne. Ai
the Ministry of War and in many a gased-room
the doctrines of such a pamphlet may prevail with-
out seriously menacing the tranquillity of Europe,
so long as the Exresoa himself is resolved en
giving no occasion of offence to Germany, and
on abstaining from all interference with the do-
/
mestic affairs of neighbouring states.
It was not, however, to speak peace or war
that NAPOLEON paid a visit to the ancient Ntirman
city on Whit Sunday. He has probably learnt by
this time that the only effezt of his pacific
speeches is to excite suspicion of his secret pur-
poses, and to give the world to understand that he
is not yet ready. His most memorable deliver-
ances in that direction have been the prelude
of successive wars, while there is at lout this to
be said for his warlike utterances, that they
have not been immediately followed by action,
and have usually been explained away by his
Minister of State, or by the Moniker. That he ever
seriously desired or intended to rush into a great
European struggle for the sake of trying
comiusions with Germany, and appeasing
' the vain-glorious restlessness of an overgrown army,
at the risk of victories almost as fatal to his throne
awl dynasty as reverses, and with the certainty of
calling up and concentrating against his Empire
that defensive alliance of the nations which over-
threw his Uncle, and that insurgent public
spirit of the civilised world winch will
not brook wanton and selfish disturbers of
the common interest and welfare let
those imagine elio regard the Eater-mut of the
FRENCH as a madman with lucid moments. His
way sof keeping the peace are assuredly notourways.
A great military monarchyi heir to the traditions
of Napoleonism, has its peculiar exigencies and
its besetting dangers and temptations. Still, in
spite of all rumours and signs to the contrary,
we are persuaded that the EMPEROR knows
at heist as well as any of his advisers
that his personal advantage and the security
of his govennnent and the future—if there be a
future—of his house and throne—are to be found
in peace ; and that the vast and true majority of
the French people are no longer willing to be
offered up as a sacrifice to the bloodstained idols
of glory and ambition. Sufficient, then, unto the
day. Better not to forecast unseen evils. LOUIS
NAPOLEON has difficulties to contend with at home
enough to explain the "sad and morose air" which
some chroniclers remarked upon his countenance at
Rouen. That city is represented in the Chamber
by the eminent Protectionist Deputy who lately
denounced the sufferings imposed upon the native
industry of the district by the treaty of com-
mirce. It was well that the SOVERF.JCN who was
charged with the responsibility for those sufferings
should come to be reminded by a loyal Mayor and
a devoted Municipal Council of the " precious
" evidences of the interest " he had taken in their
prosperity ; of " the splendid streets which traverse
" the old quarters of their town, now embellished,
" rendered healthy, and supplied with spacious
" markets ;" of "that railway which opens new coin-
" municatious with the North ;" of " those works
"on the Lower Seine which aftbrd good hope
" that the city of Rouen may maintain its
" natural and immemorial communication with
" the sea ;" and that "on all these grounds "
the creator of these public works—these works of
pca,c—and the author of these beneficences,
should receive a " tribute of just gratitude."
The " unalterable devotion" of the ALtroa and
municipal councillors of Rouen, naturally finds
in such works as these a securer foundation than in
the desolating conscriptions that destroy the flower of
a people, or the glorious wars and conquests that lay
industry and commerce in the dust. There could
not be a more practical sermon in behalf of pence
than this testimony of gratitude from the
Rouennese municipality. And when the Eu-
riltort, in his reply, expresses the hope that " a
" favourable era for the agriculture and manufac-
" tints of this great province is about to open,"
it is difficult to suppose that he can have meant to
mock that hope in order to give Marshal NIEL an
opportunity of trying the marvellous effects of his
Chassepota on a foe more worthy of French bullets
than the raw levies of half-armed (I.tribaldian
lads.

;fore-as the address of the CA R DINA I. IN11111SHO:
Ices propitious to peace than that of the MAYOR.
Speaking on the steps of the ancient Cathedral,
his Eminence thanked the EMPEROR for having
come on Whit Sunday—" a festival from which
" dated a new era of true civilisation for hu-
" inanity." For is not the Pentecost the feast of
unity ? This was better than the rabid eloquence of
that obscure preacher at Orleans, the other
day, who, by way of doing homage to the memory
of the Maid of ORLEANS, whom his own church
had condemned to the stake, described England
as that " land of savages lost in fogs, and which a
moo, might purge away." Cardinal DE
BONN ECLIOSE is one of those highhanded
digni-
taries of the dominant church (for it must never be
forgotten that the Roman Church, although the
church of the majority, is not since the Revolution
the " religion of the State in France") who,
when they render unto C.VNAR the things that
are C.CSAR'S, expect at least twice as
much from C ESAR in return. The Church of
Rome knows no gratitude to the Sovereigns
who seek its aid, and acknowledges nu bene-
factors in the Potentates who profit by its
patronage. Half the Emperwe's foreign policy,
and half his domestic policy— -that ia,
the liberal half—is profoundly distasteful to the
ultramontane hierarchy. That hierarchy is per-
fectly well aware of the services it can render or
refuse in a general election among an ignorant
peasantry. Give and take is not its motto,
but " nothing for nothing." Just now it is
irritated at Ending that the Imperial Government
is not content to acknowledge its spiritual supre-
macy over the whole mind and conscience of the
nation.

The admonition contained in the EMPEROR'S
words, " let us ally the faith of our
" fathers with the sentiments of progress,
" and never separate the love of Got) from
" the love of our country," is well timed and
may have been felt as a cautious and suggestive
rebuke to that anti-national and intolerant spirit
of the higher clergy which is already provoking
among the intelligent and independent laity, and
especially among the youth of France, an ominous
and undiscriminating hostility to the corrupt reli-
gion of a priestly conspiracy against human reason
and human freedom.

A FIER THE DERBY AT TA TTE I:SA LL'S.

Tu crowd standing outside TArrsitssLL's
yesterday afternoon watched each great book-
maker or turf-patron alight from his cab or
brougham and disappear through the door of the
Subscription-rooms with a wistful and anxious,
but in the end gratified, air. Just as after a
severe battle the survivors congratulate each
other on being still alive, so, now that the
stormy Derby week is over, its combatants look

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1868.

round to see who are, sad who are not, In the lid of
killed and wouraell,,, T e sesemidege round. Tarn.
likes Les las of the lower middle dim of the tug.
Small lisb•koeitara whom. late dgpftdeil upon their i
more im• o becalm bak talie—minnowe
Whom *eery ilte hung aetr, the trileltallot being IS
mv.crely hit ; sporting publicans, en, and
artisans, together with an ex-puZellsor two,
made •up the throng. A former champion stood
with his back to the all-important door, and
gaily joked with a semi-circle of adMirers ; a well-
known east-end list keeper laid down the law to
his disciples as to the hazards of the set-
tling ; and constant and hurried colloquies were
held between those going to the rooms and yard
and those compelled to remain outside. It is on
record that the fortunate mortals who have won
their way into exclusive and exalted society,
have occasionally had recreants in their ranks who
condemned the fashionable salt of the earth as doll.
BECKY SHARPE, with a baronet for a brother-in-law
and an earl's daughter for a friend, felt the hollow-
ness of human grandeur, and thought she was
happier with the Bohemian artists in Soho ; and
THACKEKAY himself declared he had met people
who, having stood face to face with the
great and good GEORGE IV. said that, too, was
vanity. If the sporting outsiders at Knightsbridge
had any fanciful or high flown estimate of the
scene beyond the magic portals ; or if any readers
imagine settling day at Tsrreassi,x's to be any-
thing but a staid, formal, and business-like event
—they would have been strangely surprised at the
proceedings of yesterday. It was a good settling.
" Parting," as a sporting correspondent wittily
writes, was a " sweet sorrow " indulged in to the
extent of more than half a million of money. But
neither elation nor regret, nor excitement nor emo-
tion, found visible sign. Well dressed men began to
flock into the great room about 3, and continued
to flock in so rapidly that by 4 the place was
crowded and impassable. With balance sheet or
betting-book in hand, and pockets, and in some
cases breasts, stuffed with gold and notes, the
various members walked round the room satisfying
and enforcing claims. The gait and bearing most
in vogue at TarrEasau.'s savours of the
prowl. The head bent a little forward, eyes
roving from right to left, face at once pre-
occupied and watchful, and an entire attitude ex-
pressive of anxiety to recognise debtors are perhaps
natural characteristics when thousands are being
paid away without legal acknowledgment or formal
receipt. Two men meet, nod, grunt out " one-
. " forty-five," or other amount, and pay and pocket
respectively without any memorandum passing save
a pencil tick on the slip of paper carried by each.
These are the peripatetic settlers. But at each
end of the handsome lofty room stand circular
desks round which the men of larger transactions
were paying and receiving during the entire after-
noon. A few of the betting giants sat at lower
tables near, with piles of gold and fat bundles of
bank notes before them, like money changers ;
and the rapidity with which these were
melted down, and the complete unanimity
between debtor and creditor were very remarkable.
A large and well-conducted bank, the Royal Ex-
change, or other place where " merchants most
"do congregate," a morning conversazione at
which the hum of talk is supplemented by
the chink of gold—were all brought to
mind by Tarr ERSALL'a. The settling was
grave, orderly ; and to those not pecu-
niarily interested a little dull. Such scraps
of talk as " Looking out for two men—
, " one owing me 900/. and another iOOl., and
" should be easier if I saw 'em;" "only won 1,3001.
" on the week, all told ;" " I owe you some money
" or else you owe me some money, which is it'."'
were constantly floating in the air ; but " change
" me a hundred," or words to similar effect
are a better sample of the general talk. The
Subscription-room is luxuriously appointed.
Tesselated pavement ; stuffed leather fixed seats
running round the walls as at club smoking rooms,
and nothing to impede locomotion save the few
tables we have instanced ; stained glass windows
and decorations, the rich effect of which is
chastened by good taste-, make up its interior.
, Lord GEORGE BENTINt 'IS is reported to have said
" all men are equal on the turf and under it ;" and
to visit Tarreittiati:s is to realise the truth of the
axiom. Members of both houses ; the highest rank
in the peerage, and some of the lowest rungs in the
social ladder ; comfortable, prosperous respectabi.
lity, and coarseness and irritability fined down by
the absorbing interest of the hour ; the educated
and the uneducated, the vulgar and the refined;
plebians who looked like peers and peers
who might be plebians ; were all crowded
together, and all transacting grave business in a
grave way. It was singular among the mass of
people to whom betting is either a profession, or
time principal amusement in life, to note
faces familiar elsewhere, but who seem out of
place at TATTERSALL'S. A civic functionary
whose garb of office is familiar at the ceremonials
of the year ; a sober professional man, whose face
recall consultations and heavy fees ; a busy mer-
chant whose name is "good" for heavy amounts
in the City ; might be seen in rapid succession
—betting-book in hand—going through the
ordinary forms of the place. The printed
lista of the peers and other members
who elect to pay through agents, and of those
agents' names were being consulted through
out the settling ; but a cheerful resignatiqn
to and superiority over the rubs of fortune were
the marked features of the day. Those who
" can't pay won't come," re-plied one gentleman
philosophically to a friend's congratulation on the
highly satisfactory character of the settling ;
and his remark had cogency and force. But the
security and ease displayed by hundreds
of people drawn from all ranks of society,
and between 'whom there is no tie but
racing—a security, moreover, extending to
obligations resting on honour alone, were as signifi-
cantly suggestive as the ornate beauty of the
chamber in which their transactions took place.
The latter forcibly suggests an architect with a
taste for dancing. It seems built for a ball-room,
and but that it is guarded by the sternest and
least impressionable of elderly janitors, its cool
flooring, lofty height, spacious area, handsome
proportions, awning-covered yard, and special
fitness, would soon set our London ladies on the
phi pie. for a TATTERSALL'S ball.

thing 4take training for the / c .upa-
Ron a r board and lodvng, and a
eicail t ..pay, may be olgai.ed 0,
411,
..once. At Slum limited numb* pro*
tioners totellos • and workhouse n• 41
remitted at th Thomas's Heap'. • Hit
&hoot ; and trough Mies NiGHTlNeLcuritolds th4ll.
two years' training is needed for so difficult and rii,
spoimibte a post as troperintendent-nurse, so
numereue and • urgent arq the demands that it
ofteri happens that' smrcely one can be given'
her. Ardently, and with all the eloquence spring- ,
ing from the convictions of a life, does Miss
NIGHTINGALE insist upon the importance of the
work open—and, calling aloud to women. •
" Nursing," alto writes, "is an art, and,
"if it is to be made an art, requires as
" exclusive a devotion, as hard a preparation,
" as any painter's or sculptor's work ; for what
1" is the having to do with dead canvas or 1
" cold marble, compared with having to do with
" the living body—the temple of (ion's spirit ?
" It is one of the Fine Arts ; I had almost said,
" the finest of the Finest Arts. I have seen
" somewhere in print that nursing is a pro-
" fession to be followed by the ' lower middle-
" ' class.' Shall we say that painting or sculp-
" turn is a profession to be followed by the
" ` lower middle-class ?' Why limit the class at
"all I Or shall we say that GOD is only to be
" served in His sick by the ` lower middle-class 1'
"Thu poorest child without shoes, the most
"highly-born, have alike followed all these pro-
" fessions with success, have alike had to un-
" dergo the hardest work, if for success. There
"is no such thing as amateur art ; there is
"no such thing as amateur nursing."
Then comes the important point of professional re-
muneration, which will, it may be hoped, attract
some gcol women from the over-crowded, ill-
paid, and anomalous governess ranks. The
pay now usually given in English hos-
pitals for trained nurses is from 20/. to
30/. a year, with everything found ; for
hospital, i.c., ward " sisters," in some London
hospitals Wt., with like advantages ; and for
matrons or superintendents in provincial hos-
pitals front 60/. to 1001., with board and lodging.
The salaries given to the nursing staff sent to
Sydney (five trained nurses and a lady super-
intendent, who left England in December, and
whose engagement was for three years) were on a
more liberal scale. These figures put the matter
in a practical form. Miss NIGHTINGALE says,
after a quarter of a century's European expe-
rience, that "the happiest people, the fondest
of their occupation, the most thankful for
" their lives, are those engaged in sick nursing ;"
and it must surely be that when the advantages it
presents as a profession are understood, educated
women will flock to it just as men do to the
church or bar. Recruits are sorely needed, and
heartily welcomed, and the Secretary of the
Nightingale Fund, Mr. J. BONHAM CARTER, of 91,
Gloucester-terrace, London, W., will be happy to
supply all the necessary information to corre-
spondents who think of embracing sick nursing as
a profession.

Eke Court.

BALMORAL CASTLE, MAI' 30.

The Queen walked out in the morning with
Princess Louise, and her Majesty drove out in the after-
noon. accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold.
The Very Rev. Principal Tailor& of St. Andrews has
arrived at the Castle.

Masan. W. and D. Downey, of Newcastle-on-Tyne,
have had the honour of taking wine photographic portraits
of the Queen and other members of the royal family.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale, rode
out yesterday forenoon.

The PrineYss of Wale" drove out, accompanied by the
Crown Prince of Denmark.

In the evening their Royal Highnesses, accompanied by
the Crown Prince of Denmark, went to the Royal Italian
Opera, Covent-garden.

Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel has succeeded Major Tees-
dale as equerry in waiting to the Prince of Wales.

We are requested to announce that her Royal
Highness the Princess Mary Adelaide will arrive at the
National Orphan Home, Ham-common, Richmond, to-
morrow, at 3 o'clock, to open the new wing and Quiver
Infirmary Ward, and that visitors should be at the asylum
not later than a quarter before 3.

His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the
Countess Apponyi received at dinner yesterday, at the
Embassy in Belgrave-square His Excellency the
Spanish Minister and the Countess Vistahermosa,
Count de Gramont, Viacomte de Gramont, Viscount St.
Asaph, General Baron Joehmua, Count Desewffy, &c.
- .

The officers and sappers of the Royal Engineers
at bead quarters, Chatham, have commenced their
summer course of out-door instruction in field telegraphy,
under the direction of Captain R. H. Stotherd, principal
instructor in telegraphy at the Royal Engineer establish-
ment. Yesterday the Royal Engineers were engaged in
practising she new system of military telegraphy for field
service, by means of which lines of telegraph can be car-
ried over a space several miles in length in a very brief
time.

Count de Brandis, president of the committee
sitting at Marburg, in Austria, for the purpose of recruit-
ing soldiers for the Pope, has been obliged to dissolve the
committee and abandon the !maims' for which it had
been formed.

R

The Emperor and Empress of Russia will go this
year to the waters of Kissingeo, and will there have an
interview with the King of Bavaria. It is asserted that
King Louis 11. is about to be affianced to the Grand
Duchess Maria Alexandrina, daughter of the Emperor and
Empress of Kuwait.

In an old gallery which had fallen in some years
back at the coal mine of Sainte-Marie, at Montoeau-lea-
Mines (Saone-et-Loire), have been found the bodies of iix
men buried there in the explosion of fire-damp on the
22nd December, 185. The corpses were found to be conk.
pletely dried up, but in a remarkable state of preserva-
tion, the features being so little changed tkat each of the
deceased was easily recognised by Ws surviving relatives.
The remains have been interred in the cemetery with every
demonstration of respect.

The Chamber of Peen in Portugal is ♦bout for
the first time to constitute itself into a High Court of
Justice for the trial of Count de Peniche, peer of the
negro, amused of having conspired against the state. lin
prosecution wee authorised by 22 votes to 8 ; and a
farther declsionwas come to, by 17 to 10, that the functions
of peer with which the count is invested should be was-
pended during the trial.
The Sovereign Prince of Lichstenstein has decided
on disbanding his army. In the old Germanic Confedera-
tion he was bound to keep together a body of ninety we
as a cantinsent, which was a heavy charge en his treasury.
M present be is determined to be freed from it, and so he
disarms.

HI).SPI TA I, AND WORKHOUSE NURSES.

Aims FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE hr■ given utter-
ance to a spirited wai -arj cwn word—to the
women of England. Taking a beautiful life just
passed away as her text, oho has contributed to
the current number of Good Words an article under
the heading, "Una and the Lion," which should
be reprinted as a gratuitous tract and sown broad-
castover the kingdom. It points ont a field of useful-
ness which is comparatively unexplored, and shows
how any lady of average intelligence and moderate
industry may fill a dignified, honourable, and
fairly remunerative position in the world. An
honest, single-minded desire to be useful is the one

The Indipendanee Beige believes there is no
example of inch excessive and long-coatianed beat In the
month of May as that which has jest visited as. Accord-
ing to the bulletin of the Brunel/ observatory the maxi-
mum temperature of the mouth has been 30 degrees opat.
(96 Fehr.). sad the minimum 13 degrees (55 2-5 Fahr-r.
The densir National says that public opinion in
Ananie is readsred uneasy by the hostility which Arch-
duke Albert displays on every opportunity towards the
reforms initiated by the Beast ministry. This he dope
with • freedom of language that readers his position rig-
silicant.

A eodety has bees formed at Geneva, under the
tills
aad at tie Comoopehtes Protectorate Lowe for Women
(itham.

IG.N NEWS.
cm's DAY.)

•
7) POLAND.
I. letter from Warsaw, in the Journal de Po en,
of the
_2Bth Wt., says :

The fury of Ruasianising is growing worse and mire
rigorous. A. fresh ukase of the Czar's, wide& has net yet
been published, interdicts the admission of Poles and
catholic' to superior offices in the public service.
The Russian language is replacing the Polish in all public
and private transactions. Within the last few days the
police have recommenced treating with severity ladies who
wear mourning garments. After the cholera of last year,
and typhus, which raged severely for some months,
• large number of families adopted mourning habits,
without any idea of • political demonstration. This
the Russians well know; but they require that no
one shall be in mourning without a permission, which
must be shown on every demand of the police estate. The
Ranieri language is also enforced upon all the mistresses
of boarding schools for young ladies.

(MUTER 'S TY.MORAW.)
THE BRITISH ARMY IN ABYSSINIA.
(Ey Malta and Alexandria Telegraph.)

_ .
HEADQUARTERS OF THE BELTLSH ARMY,
ATTEGERAT, MAY 22.
Sir Robert Napier and the rear column arrived
here to-day, and will reach Senafe on the 24th inst.
The widow of King Theodore died of con-
sumption, in the British camp, on May 15.
Five regiments and two batteries have already
embarked at Zoulla.

SUEZ. JCNE I. 6 F.M.
Colonel Milward arrived here to-day with de-
spatches and presents for the Queen from the army.
The captives and a portion of the troops are ex-
pected in a few days.—Timor.

(RIOTER'S TEILROR•II9.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, JUNE 2.
The Co,fhtitiationlief of this morning gives a
formal denial to the statement of the arrest of
three individuals at Rouen suspected of meditating
an attempt against the life of the Emperor.