The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-29 00:00:00

A circular of the Minister of War calls up Al
soldiers of the Imperial Guard on furlough 0,,,
the ranks by the 31st of March, and ann.no.*
that no further leave of absence trill be
except in a very special cases.

There was a further fall at the Bourse Pt II!e
fell 20c. for cash, and 121 c for account, e.,Aing
at eefr. 80c., and 88fr. 824 c. Italian fell 3;,c..
Credit Fonder, 17fr. 50c. ; Dlobilier, 3fr 75,
Comptoir d'Xsoompte, sfr. Great uncertunzr re.
vails as to the result of the struggle betron.the
" bulls" and " bears" to-morrow.

DETAILS OF THE REVOLUTION 'N
JAPAN.

NEW YoBK. r,,.
The Neer York Herald publishes the
details of the revolution in Japan received 1,, !ele.
graph via San Francisco :

Yokoh ono., .'an.
There hu been a serious outbreak between the
and the D►irnioa.

The Mikado had been seized by Saharan, A
noble, and the Shagoon was in his castle at t. 05.,;:,,
the protection of the fleets of hia allies.
The Foreign Ministers were at Osaka and t4t
Shagoon they would not interfere in the peudin.;
ties.

One of the Shagoon's palace. at Joists) 5..„
down by Satsuma's men, who af terw.sra 1,4 s
own.

There was A severe fight, and the official rrpart cite"
300 killed and wounded of Satsuma's nice, 4a..1 •, of
the government troops.
The contending parties afterwards Irol a nay.:l 4541.•
meat in sight of Yokohama, when Sataum..'l
wiped.

The Mikado is a prisoner in his palace
guarded by Satsuma's men. The Tycoonate
Stole-bsahi, the Shagnon. has had all hi.
from him. He will neither resign nor fight. 11-• i,•
palace at Osaka.
Satsuma, Cochin, and Tom have surrendete.*:
with their troops.
The Tycoon's and Satsuma's troops are now
the streets of Jeddo.
Satsuma's Palace was burned on the nigl:•
20th of January, and 400 men were burned up in
The native town was on fire in four places in th
lof the 20th of January. The fire was f..prtun it
guinhed, but with serious damage.
Foreigners have been ordered by their •: •
outside the settlement.
Terrible mortality exists among foreign.?ri
24 having died in as mut), days.
Everything is quiet at Osaka.

MUSIC.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.
Mdlle. Carols made her fourth public

ince at the concert of last night, whin iliz n-t

and Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise w, re
formed—two works which have before been given in •
ciation by the Sacred Harmonic Society. ou u ,
alone, however, in an inverted order, side!' was
effective than the present anangenient, by
comparative brightness of Blendelssohn. woe, Man.
good contrast and climax to the sombre grm,b.o•
Mosart'a service for the dead. This grand con,p.,sin‘c
combines, in a degree scarce paralleled elbes here. s,,blia.iii
and learned science with the more modern fon...•f we.
lodic beauty. While in the opening " Kyrie '• tbv rbot.a
"Doming Jean," and in other illfltilllCeS, we
examples of contrapuntal skill worthy of 1:„i.
Handel, the quartet " itecordare " combines thi,
power with a continuous melodic flow beton, : ; to ,
later development of vocal expression, the lovely '• :
dictus" and the pathetic " Lacrymostt," being ~•,
embodiments of deep human sentiment, such a,
any other composer besides Mozart has real4k,i. L. 4
night's performance of the Roiteirm as. in G....!
respects a fine one; the choruses were givenv;:btLe
power and effect usually realised by the gignnti,
assembled at these concerts. Occasionally a
subdued tome and refinement might bare been ,:,,tro!,
as in the passages for sopranos and altos in the
futatis," and in several portions of the " Lacey,
but the grander choral points were given with Ow
sive volume of tone only to be procured from la:
ben. The solo passages were efficiently rendered bl
Mdlle. Carols, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Ilr blontet:,
and Mr. Lewis Thomas.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLP:I:.V.'

PORTSMOUTH, E. -
'We learn that the ships fortning the 'wow:
squadron are to be out of the binds of the dock. ...I ...•
partments by the let April ; and that an order
rewired directing that all the new clear of gun
to be ready for sea by the same date.
It is rumoured that during the ensuing financi.d
there will be a considerable reduction i 4 the nuc.1.,..f
men employed in the various departments of the dock)
The Himalaya, screw transport, is expected to ;alive ec
the sth proximo with the 2nd battalion of the ,th
meat from Malta. On disembarking the troops a:d
toed to Aldershot.

The Seraglio, iron screw troopship, is also expect. •1 to
arrive with the 42nd Regiment (Highlanders), which .ill
be transferred to the Urgent and conveyed to lithiN,J;E.

ADMIRALTY, FBB. 25.—William Ileum
Parker, Esq., has this day been promoted to the rank 9f
staff-commander in her Majesty's fleet.—rht:t n.
ADMIRALTY, FEB. 'X.—John William
Esq., has been this day promoted to the rank of
commander in her Majesty's Heet ; Mr. Edwara ct
has this day been promoted to the rank of engineer in br
Majesty's Boot, with seniority of 18th February, l'',.-
Omette.
The Army and Nary Gazette states that a
commission is about to be appointed to inquire into tic
whole system of courts-martial. We learn from tit: sat!,
source that the pension of 100/. a year, recant h, t,
appointment of Lord George Paget to the coloneley of rK
7th Dragoon Guards, has been given to Colonel A. W.
Murray, C. 8., late of the let West India Regin.o.a.
Colonel Murray has been for nearly thirty-live
fall-pay, principally between the West ludioaud ft.
West Coast of Africa, where he was on one or tau
dons in the field against the natives.
A. good-service pension is vacant by the ap;• • I.'
went
of Major-General K Rowley Hill to the c,A01.4
of the sth Fusiliers.

-
The following promotions will take place r nom"
quint upon the death of Lieutenant-General W. L
on the Mb inst. Major-General S. Braybrooke, co:ouel
the 9th Regiment, to be lieutenant-general ; Colonel 1.).,A!..i
Maekirdy, from the 69th Regiment, to be major-es.' •
Major S. A. Lapel, Staff Officer of Pensioners, ci ips!,•,ll.
to be lieutenant-colonel ; and Captain George ‘0•".
Royal Marines, to be major in the army.
Major-General Randal Rumley will se.,e^
Major-General Hamilton, C. 8., in the cotunutrul of
troops in Scotland.

TILE NEW CHANCELLOR OP TES EXCHEVaIt

It was formally announced in the House t.:
Commons last evening that Mr. George Ward Hunt
offi
been offered and had accepted the important ce of
Chancellor of the Exchequer. So rapid • rise 01
comparatively young • man, without " family ia,.a•
mos," is, we believe, unprecedented. Hr. Wart
Hunt is but forty-three years of age, and has ocif
been ten years in parliament. The son of a Farc•
shire clergyman, by the daughter of an tkfal
shire 'quire, of easy means, but no political Witt.
enoe Mr. Ward Hunt was educated at Eta.
and Christ Church, Oxford, at which latter Ono?
be achieved • second cases in classics in 184,1,
graduated M.A. in 1851. On leaving college, be sst
his terms, and wee milled to the bar m 1851, going the
Oxford circuit for • time, but not practising mucL.
In 1852, and again in 1851, he unsucoesefully cot.
toned Northampton borough ; and in 1858 hi. maxi
foe the northern division of the county, where he
had property, and was elected. lie box held bit
seat there unintermittently until now. A steady
adherent of the conservative party during his whokl
career, and an uneomp supporter of the
Disraeli tidier during the debates on the Russell.
Gladstone Reform Bill, he was, on the secession of
Lord Derby to power, in 1886, appointed to the Mho
of Financial letary to the Treasury, with
of 2,0001. Having supported Mr. Durraeli when out
of office, he faith stuck to him during the whole
of his shifting policy in office, and has now reaped his
reward in an appointment to an aloe which is gene'
rallyitiven to men of greater age and more expeditor.
Mr. ant has some of the qualities requisite for such
an appointment—as oleo-headedness snd a talent fcr.
Swine—but there can be little doubt that kis budilet, 'F'll
be Diaraelian, and he is merely for the present the dele-
gate of his more able cihisf.—BersteniA•N, Pest.