The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-02 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

f, Osv, 31.

The envoy from the Khan of Khokand is ex-
pectcd to arrive here to-morrow. He is the
hearer of assurances of devotion from the Khan
towards the Czar, and his willingness to assist in
furthering Russian interests. He is at the same
time instructed to give an energetic denial to the
report that the Khan intended to take the part of
the Emir of Bokhara against Russia.

THE BISHOP OF EXETER.—We are glad to be
able to state that the accounts of the bishop still continue
eatiafactory. His lordship has several times during the
pad week been seen taking his accustomed drive in the
Torbay-reed.—Ereter Gesette.
TUE BISHOP OF OXFORD AT LIVERPOOL.—The
Bishop of Oxford arrived at Liverpool on Friday night,
having arranged to preach two sermons yesterday, and
address a public meeting this evening in aid of the minions
to Central Africa. The bishop is the guest of Mr. J. P.
Heywood, of Norris-green, West Derby ; but that gentle-
man being unfortunately ill—confined in fact to his bed—
and the bishop being anxious to see the "lions" of Liver-
pool, Mr. Robertson Gladstone courteously offered to
act as his cicerone on Saturday. The ho under Mr.
Gladstone's guidance, visited the principaldocks, the
corn warehouses, Ite., and went on board a number of
vessels. He expressed himself as extremely interested,
asked innumerable questions, and said that he was highly
ratified with all he MI, and heard. As a finale his lord-
ship visited the Exchange Newsroom,where he experienced
a cordial reception.
A WELSH CHURCH WMIOITT A PARSON.—The
Oesrestry Advertiser writes :—" We often hear of a Welsh
church without a congregation, but now we are informed
that at the parish church of Llandanwg, in the county of
Merioneth, there has been no service held for the last
seven weeks. It appears that no rector has been ap-
pointed to Llandanwg and Llanbedr since the removal of
the Rev. J. J. Brown to Mallwyd. A clergyman who
happens to be visiting in the neighbourhood has been
occasionally officiating during these weeks at the latter
parish; but at the former, no service of any description
Las been held during the time mentioned. The rectory is
in the gift of the Bishop of Lkndaff, and worth about 1801.
The omission certainly is not of much importance to the
resident parishioners, as hardly any of them ever enter
the church when services are held there. The cure of
Joule in this district is pretty well cared for by other
denominations, and if a project of disendowment had
been carried on hem no one in the neighbourhood, except
some officials, would be found read to complain."
GENERAL PRIM AND THE REFORM LEAGUE.—
The secretary of the Holborn branch of the Reform
Leave has reoeived a letter from General Prim, dated
Madrid, Oet. 28, 1868, of which the following is a trans-
lation :—" have received the resolution which you
communicated, and which the Holborn branch of the Relent
League were good enough to par, en the subject of the
revolution which has changed the destanim of Spain, and
which will at length regenerate her. lamverywenableofall
the marks of sympathy which the Holborn branch of the
Reform League bars been good enough to tender to me
; and, with them, I have firm confidence
Cnayn7oountaerzabout to enter upon a new era of
lwellWrltY and • Receive. Bir, and will you transmit
to all theme:obese the branch, the assurance of sfiiins-
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thinks of publishing—when PehmarliAer-row is
silent, and tourist, are abroad, filling up the
materials for a new book in the winilas—the some-
what monotonous stream at tbsologied books,
tracts, and pamphlets gas on pretty needy as at
other times. Probably few persons are aware of
the 411011110911 extent of this elms of publications.
Oa the other hand, a substantial book of travel is
hardly ever known to mike its appearance save in
the two months we have mentioned. It is in
October that Mr. Murray, who may be called
the travellers' publisher, put' forth his bulky
list, always comprising a large ' number
of books which have generally been fore-
shadowed by papers read by their authors at one
of the evening meetings of the Geogrphies'
Scanty. It was at one of them pleasant gather-
ings that Mr. MurraT first because acquainted
with Mr. Du Chaillna wonderful narratives of
ferocious gorillas, which attracted so much atten-
tion and aroused so much scepticism some years
ego; and, with the true Mature of a
determined on the spot to bring out the andter-
turous Frenchman's " Travels and Exploiaticms"
in a namsive volume. Publishes are indeed not
always so shrewd in foreseeing a emcees in this
way.. Witness Sir Rounerson Tennent's ex-
pensive work on eylon which notoriously
went "a begging" m manuscript between
Albemarle-street and Paternoster-row, and
wee eventually brought out with such un-
necessarasousautter that the whole edition printed
in a few days, and copies were
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selling for a short time at twice the
publishing price. But such mistakes as
these, at least in the case of books of travel, are
comparatively rare.
We are now in the very thick of the annual pub-
lishing season. The advertising columns of the
critical journals and newspapers are filled with
the titles of new books in the press, almost all of
which will make their between this
time and Christmas. Thee bulk of these announoe-
menta are, of little interest to the general reader ;
but some of them are worth noting. Earl Stan-
hope, who is better known in his quality of
historiad as Lord Mahon, is about to publish a
history of the reign of Queen Anne--• subject
which Mr. Thackeray long intended to take up.
His lordship will certain) not give to his theme
the living and per interest which might
have been expected from the author of " Vanity
Fair," and the " Essays on the Humanists,"
but Lord Stanhope's narrative is clear and un-
affected, and his book will form, as he himself
says, with a slight touch of presumption, a
" connecting link'' between the conclusion • of
Lord Macaulay's history and his own. It appmn
that the late Dr. Milman had finished, shortly
before his death, a work, which he entitled
" Annals of St. Paul's Cathedral "—doubtless a
labour of love with the venerable dean, who
spent so much of his time in the shadow
of the great dome. The work will shortly
appear, in one volume, with a portrait of
the author and illustrations. Professor Owen has
just ready a third volume of his great work on
comparative anatomy, which will be devoted to
mammas, including man, and will be profusely
illustrated with wood cute. Miss Strickland will
sppear again before November is over, in her
inexhaustible part of a biographer of royalty, the
heroines of that somewhat sentimental historian
bein g on this occasion the Tudor princesses. including
Lady Jane Grey and her sisters. Mr. Duke Coleridge
has translated a German life of Schubert, which will
contain much matter of interest to the musical
world. Lady Wallace' too, has a volume of
musical biography just reedy, in the shape of a
translation by her ladyship of Polko's Remi-
niscences of Mendelssohn. Col. Chesney announces
a volume of Waterloo lectures, which he entitles
" A Study of the Campaign of 1816." The late Lord
Campbell's " Lives of the Chancellors" will be com-
pleted immediately by aconoluding volume, devoted
to Lyndhurst and Brougham. Sir Francis Head,
who has now earned the semi-complimentary
title of " a veteran in the world of letters," makes
his appearance again with a volume entitled
" The Royal Engineer," ' concerning which we can
say nothing more explanatory. The relatives of
Sir Neil Campbell, who was British commissioner
in the Inland of Elba during Napoleon's residence
there, will publish for the first time his journal of
occurrences there down to the time of Napoleon's
escape. Mr. Emanuel Deutsch, whose pspier. some
time ago on the subject of the " Talmud," in the
Qvarterty, created something like a sensation, has
a volume forthcoming on the same subject. Mr.
Robert Browning is going to publish a new poem
in four volumes by the unusual mode of issuing
one volume monthly. Two publishers are pre-
paring to issue a posthumous work in two
volumes of the late Nathaniel Hawthorne,
which is entitled, " Passages from Ame-
rican Note-books." Dante's Purgatory and
Paradise," with Gustave Dori's illustrations, is
about to be published here by Messrs. Hachette
and Messrs. Cassell, in different editions. A sort
of official " Weof the late King Leopold" is just
ready, translated from the original of the Belgian
biographer by Mr. Robert Black • and the Countess
Guicooli's "Recollections of Lord Byron" are at
length to be given to the world in an English
version, in two volumes.
Under the title of " Principles at Stake," Mr.
Sumner, rector of Old Alresford, Hants, has edited
and 'mewed another of those volumes of theo-
logical essays, by various writers, which, dace the
" Essays and Reviews " and the " Aids to Faith,"
have been so common. The contributors are Lord
Arthur Hervey, Dr. Howson, Dean of Chester,
end others ; and the subjects relate to the schis-
matical tendency of ritualism and other church
questions of the clay. The interminable M. °Wed,
too, has another volume in the press on Christ-
ianity ; and Mr. John Henry Blunt a work on the
Reformation of the Church of England. Drs.
Turner end Lonsdale will publish immediately, in
two volumes, " Me snits of Goodsir," the RdM..
burgh enatornist, who died Albert time since. In the

BRlSTOL.—Anything but a comfortable feeling
has been produced at Bristol and throughout the district
of which it forms the centre by the undoubted fact of a
somewhat severe shock of earthquake having been felt
there during the night of Friday lad. The phenomenon
was observed by such a large number of persons, some of
whom had bad previous experience of such occurrences
while resident" of tropical countries, that there can re-
main no question as to the reed nature of the visitation.
The reports vary somewhat est* time, but not more sothan
could be accounted for by the variations of clocks and
watches. In all probability the OCCUITIDCO took place at
about 24 minutes before 11 o'clock on Friday night. A
gentleman residing in the White Ladies-road, Redland,
which is at the north-western suburb of the city, and who
by a long experience of the island of Tobago is well
qualified to form an opinion, states that the shock was
most indubitably one of earthquake, and that he recog-
nised it at once as such. He could note, he says, three dis-
tinct vibrations. Bis family andservantswerealameed, and
came out of their respective sleeping rooms to ascertain the
cause otthe unusual sensation. Ramat least fortyotherin.
habitants of the city accounts substantially agreeing with
this have been made public. The shock was felt at Clifton,
Kingedown, Bedland, Cetham Ashley-bill, Stapleton-
road, Elutes, Newtown, the Dings, Bedminster, and, in
fact, throughout and around the city. The earth was felt
to male* houses and windowswereshakembedeandsofes
appeared to be rocked for the moment, and in one or two
instances chimney ornaments and light articles of furni-
ture are reportedto have beenalightly misplaced. Accounts
have come to hand of the phenomenon having been
noticed at Neynahein, five or six miles south-east of the
city, at Churchill, about twelve miles west of it, and at
one or two places lying intermediate, and the probability
is that it was felt with more or lees severity through a
large district of country. Nothing unusual had, so far as
has transpired, been previously noticed in the character of
the weather.

BlETER.—According to the testimony of nume-
rous witnesses, a severe shock of earthquake was ex-
perienced in this city on Friday night, its probable course
being from east to west. Three distinct shooks were felt
by the inmates of a house in York-buildings. The lady
of the house, who has long raided in the West Indies,
recognised the shaking as that of an earthquake. The
inmates of the Eye Infirmary testify to the shaking of the
building, and to experiencing a peculiar sensation at the
time. An unaccountable noise was heard at the institution

in the Close, and several other public buildings. The
circumstance has created considerable sensation, if not

alarm, in the

LEANINOToN.—On Friday night three distinct
shocks of earthquake, or vibratory motions of the earth
attributed to that cause, were felt in Leamington. The
three shocks followed each other in rapid succession, but
none of them was either violent or prolonged. At the
time the shocks were felt the night was quite calm, but
somewhat close far the time of year. The first was per-
ceived about a quarter to 'levees, and was felt in different
arts of Leasnington, but more particularly in what is
celled the new town, oa the north side of the river Lease.
The shocks wire noticed by Dr. OVallagisan, LL.D., the
president of the local Pldlosophiad Society, who has re-
sided abroad where earthquakes were of frequent occur-
rents. At the time Dr. O'Cieffsgban called otiose/3a to
the shocks, and found they bad been noticed by deniestka
is his hones. In Yak-terrace and Kenilworth-mad, two
it/Mimeo felt the shooks, and another area from bed is
Warm, and went round his resident* to as if anything
wag wrong. ♦ lady on the Parade was also startled by
an unusual noise is a espboarl la the room where she
was sitting, which she et fret attributed to rats. 'llse
shooks were also noticed by other persons, but do sot
appear to bets attracted passel attention. Alsoat four
years ago as eariliqueks was fell in Isamingion with
*onside:4le violence, as in other paste of the esentry
but on that cent- Wage IMO moved about in's"-

AMSOCIATED ARTS' INITITITTIL-011 Saturday
night the sixth winter swim of this institute was opened
bgetereerseziene which was given in the rooms, Conduit-
e Regent-street- Between 200 and 300 ladies and
gentlemen were present, and the proceedings were of an
interesting character.
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—The accounts of
the local committee for conducting the Norwich meeting
of the British Association for the Advancement of Menai
have just been made up, and show a balance of 332/. This
sum is to be applied as follows : -60/. for the purchase of
elementary scientific books for the Norwich Free Public
Library, the selection to be left to the Rev. Hinds Howell
leOl. to be granted to three trustees for the purchase of
meteorological instruments for Norwich; and the balance
to be granted to the Norfolk and Norwich Museum un-
conditionally.
HONORARY DISTINCITONS DI THE ARMY.—
Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleised to
sanction the following regiments bearing the word
" Abyssinia." on their colours, in commemoration of their
tervicee duruig the Abyssinian expedition of 18674 : —The
3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards. the 4th (King's
own Royal), the 33rd (Duke of Wellington's), the 96th
(Cameronnins), and the 45th (Nottinghamshire, Sherwood
Foresters) Regiments of Infantry.
WOOLWICH, Nov. I.—The discharge of work-
men at the several departments of the Royal Arsenal has
gone en week by week until the establishment has been
reduced by less than half its strength, and thousands of
families are thrown out of employ. The heads of depart-
ments, unwilling to decrease the 'staff further, but pressed
by the authorities above still more to retrench expenses,
have now resorted to the expedient of short time. In the
royal gun factories the men will cease work by turas one
week out of three ; the laboratory operatives will not
work on Saturdays,, and the carriage department will
work only 40 hours instead of 66 weekly.
THE 14111 W ROAD FROM HATTON-GARDEN TO
Sansurnmti.—On Saturday the contractors for the road
and flag-way pavement of the approaches to the Dead
Meat and Poultry Markets at Smithfield announced to the
corporation their completion of the western approach road
from Farringdon-road to the new market places. This
spacious continuation thoroughfare from Hatton-garden
forms a very ready
.approach to the City from the West-
end. A few days wrll elapse, however, before this and the
other roadways round the market are fully opened to the
public, to alliw the new work to settle.
The Great Western Company is at this moment
in the enviable pontion of having more money than it
knows what to do with. The time was, and that not
many months ego, when it was impossible for them in
obtain a renewal of their debentures, and the concern
was on the verge of bankruptcy. By thefinancial arrange-
ments, however, which they have recently made, they now
find themselves in a position to pay off all the debentures
as they fall due ; but such is the perversity of capitalists
that they decline to be paid off. and ask to have the bonds
renewed at a reduced rate of interest. Meanwhile the
surplus which remains in the hands of the company is
placed at loan with the bankers, at something like 2
r cent., to be available in case of necessity.—Reilicey
I m
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Tnn BALTIC.—The Cronatadt journals montion
an extraordinary sulxilenoe of the waters of the Baltic,
in that locality. It began in the evening. the wind being
&W. and rather fresh. At ten at night the level of the
sea was a foot lower than onlinury, and continued still
to sink. The following morning at six it was two feet
below its normal point, the wind having veered round to
the N.E. ; and at two in the afternoon the greatest de-
pression was arrived at, namely, three feet two inches.
The water then began to mosat rapidly, and during the
night exceeded its orditary_level by a foot. Nearly all
the steamers plying beyon4aft and Bt. Petersburg
were aground, a ohnesainamos almost amweesokated. As
to the cause of this phenomenon asthma is hams ; but
the summation is Sat a N. wind dram the
waters towards the Swedish, Owning, and Pnudaa toasts.
CAPE OP Goon HOPE.—The Cape of Hope
Coromm's sesemeldp Asia aimed at th ea iletnr-
day afternoon, two days under Postmlliee costrese time.
Her datum:n-00gs Tema, Sep. Id ; St. Rehm, Oat. 3; and
Madam Oct. U. St and live stoke of mails
were landed at the desk pier, and after taking 30 lens et
fail, she proessded to London; her cargo cos of 2,000
balsa of wool and26obegs of rim
ADBUDALTw, 00T. 31.—AP:0121TIOINTIL --Cap-
tain Lord Galerd, to the Hertelse ; Commander Lord
Waller Lora In the Heraelet ; Lieutenant Alfred Harris.
to the cm= Midehimosit John H. Kerr, to the
Hereelse; Arthur B. Johnson, addi-
tional, te the Fisgarditsatiaval owlet, nominated. Arthur
Murray.
Puurwoaxe ! Putnam ! Pranaze I—Cirest
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