The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-17 00:00:00

1 MPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

BOUM 01 COMMONS.—(THIS DAY.)
brEAZICI took the chair at a quarter peel 12.

!.l EG ED FLOGGING OP A FBNLiN PRISONER
IN CANADA.
741 r I:FARI)EN asked the Under-Secretary of State for
col..mes whether it be true, as reported in some Arne-
.onf English papers, that the Rev. Mr. Nl'Mahon,
• w ••• alined in a Canadian prison, bad been flogged for
;!•• off..ure of receiving a few copies of a newspaper that
• forwarded to him.

NI. A !MARLEY said the only allusion which be could
fie! to the matter at the Colonial-office was in a paragraph
u the Toronto Weekly Leader, where it was stated that
;; • po.ner in question was punished for having in his
a copy of a Fenian paper, and refusing
state where he got it. Mr. Whlahon was
F..nno priest who had moved being hanged.
1;• 1;o1od the hon. member would take pains in future to
%. oly such reports before he asked questions in that
because the notice paper ought not to be made a
L... 11,1111 t..r advertisements of that kind. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Ia:ARDEN assured the right hon. gentleman and
t. •I. .t.M. that his sole object in an." • g the question was
••1••• ;;;; nu authoritative contradiction.
TTTRNPIKE TRUSTS BILL.

Mr h NATCIERULL-HLTIESSEN moved the second

• ••l•n;; ..1 this bill, and stated that the object was to
thy• turnpike roads of the country upon a more satis-
r•. .ty ..tni economical footing. If the bill pared, he said.
11.. 1,, of maintaining the roads would still fall on the
,una as at present; but the management would
11.. hands of the ratepayers, instead of those of
trustees, awl there would be a provision

r liquidation. The hon. member entered into
virt. ty of details in illustration and support of this view.
nominal debt, he said, was about 3,200,0001.,
1 he estimated that 2.000,0001. would suffice to pay
.•4. 11., denied the truth of the statement that the
•-.A. lit •)-tem worked well, and referred to oases of abuse
-1.1•1 h.tl been made public. It was a favourite idea of
•ry tsonera that the burden of the roads should fall
!. the ...tosAidated fund, as if that fund were some kind
All‘rlrti in which they had no interest ; but he could
' ;t1 ..11 eoneur in that view of the matter. Machinery
• , •.• .1 the Home-office for carrying out an improved
r. m. The petitions against the bill were founded on a
I,.••••on,eption of its scope and objects. The hon. member
• • by saying that he had no hope of getting the
1 ' dunug the pre@ent session, but that he trusted
Lou,. would give It a second reading as the basis of
: h-gtslation.
Mr. KNIGHT, as a member the committee of inquiry,
• r.,1 into a statement of the proceeding's and proposi-
, to.f. we it. He thought there should be two classes
• •first the roads between the great centres of
-and secondly, those in parishes--and the
• tt,,,r in his opinion, to be maintained at the
•'•,•1•• It was not nectssaryto have a uniform system.
high is ,if district@ were formed, the turnpike roads would
In- a burden on the owners of real property. The
~ nninher concluded by moving that the bill be read a
• • I line that day three months.
Mr. CoItRANCE, in seconding the amendment, said
I • wr,., in favour of the local debts being treated as local,
••• -1••••,1.1 oppose every attempt to place them on the
..i...11.13ted Fund. _ _

[Left sitting.]

THE ROYAL VISIT TO OXFORD.
(THIS DAT.)

(IT TILSOMPIL )
(nod OUR owx oomaara

OXFORD, WIDICESDLY.

The Crown Prince of Denmark received the
d 1.1. via of the D.C.L. degree from the hands of the Vice-
(l.l3‘...ller this morning, amidst great enthusiasm. The
l'!lnee of Wales was prroent.
The honorary D.C.L. degrees were conferred on the gen-
I I.llien whose names have already been published, the only
ea-idiots being Mr. Longfellow, who was absent.
The under-graduates expressed themselves freely upon
.14ie men and public questions, and were vociferous in
their demonstrations in favour of ea-Governor Eyre. The
nosed in gs were of the usual kind.
Addressee will be presented by the authorities of the
,:ly during the day, and the royal party will leave
Oifunl shortly after 4 o'clock, on their return.

*RETURN OF TRIO COURT TO WINDSOR.—The
ts.ern and Royal family arrived at Windsor Castle thin
shortly before 9 o'clock.
THE EMMY MAIL.—MRSSINA, JURE 16.
Syria, with the above mail, passed Mewing at 6.30 p.m.
t--day en route for Marseilles. MALTA, Irma 17.—The
I`Pl2a. with the heavy portion of the mail, leaves at
' a.m. to-day for Southampton, where she may be looked
1. 4 about the 20th instant.

Tut Ruyan. Men. S, &u PecKET COMPANY.—
We understand that terms of a very satisfactory nature
thy* leen arranged between the government end the
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company for the renewal of the
liortal contract with the latter for seven years from the
prerent time.

Accoriling to the last accounts from Lima, the
T.-pond...it in the divorce suit of "Daring r. Daring"
(t,rmerly Viscountess Forth) and her paramour, Captain
Blakeley, were both lying dead of yellow fever.
RRcovuky OF along BOOMS FROM TRH OAKS
(outset.- Five bodies were brought out of the Oaks
finbot seven o'clock
new
morniwg. They
were don the north or new level, an what us known
83 "Jont,ie jinny," and most of them had boots on and
.14°8 link' portion of clothing. Although a blackened
and &Remaly undefinable mass, still the bodies were in
much better state than might have been expected, eon-
whiling they had been buried for fully eighteen months,
but so fur MM features were concerned, recognition was
,linfehtly out of the question. From an early hour after
1° hodi,s were brought out, the vicinity of the pit-hill
was crowded with widows and relatives of the WIN all
,a the hope that some of those recovered might have some
claims on them. Every boot and vestige of clothing was minutely examined, and all the bodies were identified by
'tine peculiarity. The five bodies were found near each
tlhoci and it is now expected that a considerable number
irillningot immediately be
luny WO recovered, as there yet remain
still buried in the trarkinge.

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

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THE HAMPTON MEWING.
TO THB IRTITOB OP TAR EXMOOR

StR,--It is evident that the running of Lady
Elizabeth in the Derby, and the eleventh-lour scratching
of The Earl, are not to pass muster as metiers of course.
Had not the son of Young Melbourne, with all the
effrontery of a "square" horse, come ipt so strong
at Paris and Ascot, the " mistake " made by the
Danebury men would have been simply a nine days' won-
der, and their followers might ham remained half-satis-
fied ; but to see The Earl gallop home lengths in front of
some of the best horse, of hie year, added bitterness to
gall, and both the bookmen who had lost so heavily over
Blue Oown, and the horse's backers, broke out afresh.
However, no one expected that one of the very heads of
the turf, if not the head, would take up such a strong
position in favour of the public, until Admiral Itous's
thunderbolt was launched, in the shape of a abort
letter to the Times, which, after contradicting
the story that he had attributed Lady Eliza-
beth's bad running in the Derby to poison, goes on to
say that not only the presumed owner of the filly but the
whole racing world h,ul been deceived for months, and
that the "stable" knew she could notpossibly win the blue
ribend all the time they were asserting she could give The
Earl pounds innumerable. The Admiral speaks all through
his letter as though he were stating facts he could easily
substantiate, and what the upshot will be no one can tell.
One thing is certain, that we shall now have an "ex-
planation," or something of the kind, from the parties
so roundly abused, and it is dreadful those hot
days to think what warm letters will be written on each
side before the matter is allowed to drop—or mayhap the
"gentlemen of the long robe" must be called in to set
things straight. It will be curious to notice how the
bookmaker and the trainer get out of the dilemma in
which they are placed ; but till they move further in the
matter It will be better to defer all comment, and by the
end of the week we shall doubtless see much further
into the mystery, which will doubtless be as much a topic
of conversational Hampton as it was at Windsor. The
latter meeting is not yet concluded, and if it were I should
be dubious about dealing with the events to be decided on
Moulsey Hunt, where the ground must be in a state hard
enough to upset any calculations. However, Emigration
ran well enough at Ascot to win the Surrey and Middle-
eex Stakes, and your readers will do well if they interfere
with no other race.—l am, &a, METEOR.
Windsor, Tuesday Night

(By TELsonArs.)

WINDSOR MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

CLUMBF.II CI P.
Titania beat routus.—Winner objected to.