The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-01 00:00:00

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OM Government of tWileiteir
parte of seta inompidtamitrit
• hereby repealed," OS alciery
the military services having-.

....bowers, workmen, and mechanics under
their charge will be governed accordingly. The hours
shall be so regulated as to agree as far as possible
with the hours established in civil employment in
each locality. Watchmen, clerks, managers, and
others, whose time may be necessary at any or all hours,
are not considered to be embraced within the terms of
the law. In cases of great necessity, as in military
operations, where men are on extra duty, they must per-
form the neoeserry service regardless of hours ; but in
estimating their extra :uty pay eight hours will be counted
as • working day. Extra hours of men on extra duty
pay will be required only in cases of urgent public
necessity. By command of General Grant.
B. I). Townsmen),
Assistant Adjt. General.

(Signed)

Inc court.

OSBORNE, Amy 31.

The Queen drovo out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by Prince Leopold and attended by Lady
Augusta Stanley ; and her Majesty walked in the grounds
this morning accompanied by Princess Louise.
The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by the Ilon. Eliot
Yorke, went to Goodwood this morning, to be present at
the races.

The Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley
have left Osborne.

The Hon. Emily Cathcart has arrived as Kaid of Honour
in Waiting.

The Princess of Wales, accompanied by Prince Albert
Victor and Prince George, dross out yesterday, attended
by the Hon. Mrs. Hardinge.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trsury,
in Downing-street. The Ministers present were
the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmes-
bury, the Right Hon. (fathoms Hardy, the
Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir J. na-
ington, Sir S. Northcote, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, Lord
John Manners, and the Earl of Mayo.

A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy
Council-office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle
plague. The lords present were the Lord President and
Lord Robert Montagu.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-
office to the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan,
the Straits Settlements, Gibraltar, and Malta.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Ward Hunt
left town yesterday for Loch Litter, Drumnadrochit,
Inverness.
Lord Robert Montagu has left town for Sandgate.

The Queen will leave Osborne on Wednesday,
for a short residence in Switzerland, under the
advice of Sir William Jenner, who will accompany
her Majesty. Lord Stanley will leave London a
few days afterwards, and be at her Majesty's
commands. Her Majesty will maintain a strict
incognita during her residence, so that her
Majesty may be enabled to command a few weeks
of comparative repose, which, with change of air,
are deemed highly necessary for her Majesty's
health.

The Earl and Countess de Grey and Viscount
Goderich left Carlton-gardens yesterday for Studley Royal,
near Ripon, Yorkshire, and in a few days go to the noble
earl's shooting quarters in Scotland. The Earl Forteecue
and Ladies Forteecue have left their residence in Lowndes-
square, for Castle Hifi, Devon. Viscount and Viscountess
Halifax and the Hon. Mile Wood are at Hickleton
Hall, Yorkshire. Lord and Lady Lyveden leave town
to-day for their seat, Farming Woods, Northamp-
tonshire. Lord and Lady Chelmsford and Hon. Miss
Thesiger left town yesterday for Titworth Park, Berks.
Lady Molesworth has left town for Pencarrow, her seat
in Cornwall. The Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, M.P., has
returned to his of residence at the Admiralty from
Dover. The right hon. gentleman is better, but has not
yet recovered from his illness.

_
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladatone, M.P., and
}ha. Gladstone and family have left town for Hawarden
Castle, Flintshire.

Mr. Reverdy Johnson, the United States minis-
ter to England, le expected to arrive at Southampton
about the 16th inst., in the Bremen steamer Baltimore,
from Baltimore.

Tuft Lan LOAD CRarrsvOßTß.—The mortal
remains of Lord Cranworth were yesterday deposited in
the churchyard of Keeton, a retired village a few miles
beyond Bromley in Kent, and close to his lordship's seat,
Bolwood-park.

No member of the Cabinet which brought in
the great Reform Bill, observes theTtoiss, survives. "A
few who held subordinate places as young and rising men
in Lord Grey's Ministry are still among us, but they have,
so far as we know' without exception, retired to that
haven of rest the Upper Chamber of the Legis-
lature. Lord John Russell is an earl, and sits
opposite to the Mr. Stanley of former days.
Sir John Cara Hobhouae, the revolutionary member
for Westminster, has, as Lord Broughton, retired from
political life, and is now, indeed, by a common caprice of
fame, remembered as the friend of Byron rather than as
Secretary at War or Minister for India. Mr. Charles
Wood is a peer on the front opposition bench, Mr. Vernon
Smith is a peer on a back opposition bench, and Lord
Howick has inherited the name and title of his father only
to sit on the cross benches, a vigilant critic of the labours
of others."

The Dean of Westminster, having invited the
honorary seeretaries of the Working lien's Club and Insti-
tute Union to organise a party of working men to view the
various objects of interest in Westminster Abbey, a large
party of working men visited the abbey yesterday after-
noon. They were received by the dean, who conducted
them over the building, explaining the historical associa-
tions in which it is so rich. On leaving, the party found
provisions provided for them by the dean in one of the
smaller courts. A cordial vote of thanks to Dr. Stanley
and his lady concluded a very pleasant evening.

ETON COLLEGE.—Yegfertlay the school closed
for the Midsummer vacation, which will last upwards of
seven weeks. In the course of the morning most of the
scholars left Eton for their homes, the Great Western and
London and South Western Railway Companies running
special trains for their accommodation. The streets of
Windsor and Eton presented an unusually busy aspect
during the departure of the boys, every available fly and
public vehicle being used for their conveyance to the rail-
way stations. An extra week's holiday has been granted
the Etonian, who return to the college towards the close
of September. The school this half has been most pros-
perous, a large number of pupils having been in residence
at the college. -
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Tam SALE OF Po soxs Acr.—A measure has just
passed through parliament which, we think, a very im-
portant and highly-essential addition to our legislative
code. We allude to the "Sale of Poisons Act." The
provisions of this act are sufficiently stringent to
carry out the purposes for which it has been
trammed awhilst, at the same time, • due regard has been
pasd to the convenience of the public and to " vested in-
terests." The object of the act is of a twofold character;
first, to prevent persona from calling themselves chemists
and drugsgista, and keeping open shop as such, who have
no special qualifications or education for the business ;
and, second, to enforce a great amount of caution in the
sale of such preparations u are fatal to human life. All
men who are established in business as chemists and
druggists at the present time are to be registered ; and in
future no one can embark in the business without having
passed such an examination as would show his com-
petency, and the " special " qualifications so es-
sential for the public safety in • man who has
the manipulation and sale of the "mysterious and
deadly" articles we see ranged on the shelves of a chemist's
shop. The act provides that poisonous articles shall be
distinctly labelled, and certain of the most deadly poisons
can only be procured by the purchaser fillmg up a certi-
ficate, which must be witnessed by a third person. In
fact every reasonable precaution is now enforced under
penalty of fine ; and we believe the public generally will
hail this act with much satisfaction and a feeling of relief,
arising from the comforting assurance that the chances of
being poisoned through ignorance or carelessness are (if
not quite obviated) very materially diminished.—Mersis/
Herald.

NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF ART, AT
Laus, 1868.—Beturu of admiasions:—Friday, July 31
—By MOWS tickets, 1,002; by payment of 24. ed. each,
808; total, 1,870.