The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-16 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

CHATHAM, Deo. lA
The examination of candidates for miWW,m to
the Cadets' Royal Military f Allem llead_tairet, ender the
241edilbedam:lacese Owante, September, 1f87:
at Chelsea Womaisi to-morrow
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Vika*, No. 1.

TO 1112 liczumor HON. NOM= 70ENION,
Sir,—With extreme regret, and a full knowledge of
the unworthy return we are making for your kindness
in acrepting an invitation to dine with certain London
workmen, we are compelled to ask you to release the
comasittes from itsangagensents. Weisel that where any
division of opinion exists among persons engaged in euch
• work as the committee has undertaken, there is corns
danger of that which was intended for a compliment be-
coming an insult instead. Unfortunately, such a diva ion
bee arisen among those who were before unani-
mous in the de*, to do bonen: to your country-
men, through you, and to 000gratalate you
personally upon the successful manner in which
you were conducting a difficult negotiation. Certain
which have Wel, been made as to the hostility
ofallar iraajority of Americans towards youeselt, and their
disapproval of your acts, have had a disquieting effect
upon some members of our committee, and after mach
discussion it has been thought wise, to avoid all possibility
of giving further offence either to you, to whom these
disouisioes must be swaying, or to any others, by asking
your pararooa to withdraw the invitation.—l am, sir,
on behalf of the deputation you so kindly received yes-
terday, your obedient servant, Ross= CONINGOBT.
27, Bavarian-street, 8.W., Dee. It

4, Upper Portland-pleen, Dee. 14.
My dear Sir —Your note of the 12th, written in behalf
of the committee who hammed me with a personal cell, at
an early hour of that is received. I, of course,
make no objection to thewithdrawal of the invitation to
which you refer; and if you bad merely requested it I
should have made no other reply. The reasons, however,
which you align are each that I:deem it proper to advert
to them. These are that • "majority othinericans" arshoe-
tile to me, and dsapprove of my sots since any arrival in this
country. If the tact, were as stated, I respectfully deny the
right of any elms of persona in this country, many or
few, to question that I ama representative of the go-
vernment and people of the United States; and I
object, if potable, mom decidedly, that any such im-
pression constitutes even the semblance of excuse for any
act of discourtesy towards me officially. For whatever
estimation I may be held in by those who have been
instrumental in compelling you and those aseociated
with you to do what you evidently consider an
ungentlemanly act, I should feel no concern person-
ally, but only et it on account of its authors. If
they are with their !iourse, I shall continue per-
fectly content. The allegations which you mention as
having been made in the United States in regard to myself
arose from my having at at the banquet given to me in
Sheffield with Mr. Roebuck, then • member of parliament,
and an invited guest, and for having consented at his
request to be introduced to Mr. Laird, a member of the
• past and present parliament, at • banquet given to me
at Liverpool, who was also an Invited guest, and for
taking, when he offered it, his hand, and because of my
continuing efforts to cultivate friendly feelings between
the people of this esuatry and my own. That these im-
putations may well be borne with by me, when I wes rot
upon 1327 present minima for thepurpose of retnrszar;s:
nuties, d I should Ind any, and confirming
will readily be believed, nothwithatanding • attain por-
tion of Om working men of London have thought
it proper and within their provisos to endeavour to
Inllct what they designed to be a slight upon ma I
my a. portion of the worms men of this city, for I have
no reason to believe that I am not held in kind regard
by that dam et Rieekboes lure aod elembere. do far
hem baying any ends Tema, reio which I
bees see with In "ham, Lids, Worcester, Liver-
= Wiallioßil:saa ke
hat lawka
lrod waaisliithhas:ll,
clams Of ore
lfaj a subjects. And I mays there-
for! submit with to any adverse opinion
which may be entertained by ger peat et any ice
within the lim*a of this city. My intheneWs is that
these are few. What infuses has Dien brought to beer
leper tea Ido sot knew. It is peeiblethat some. uny-
=or isiereeted adsa ass ems, may be . the
of it, er that each meow may men
• for some political end, that mdeabie relations
this imentry and my own shall not be seteblithed.
That I ant justly :Nubian to masure is regard to my •
conduit towards Menus. Roebuck and Laird irlll not be
-believed
telligent e byp:7 portion ef the un
United States, whprejuo have
wi diced and
in of the t-
nessed, not y without Nem, but with pimento, the
coarse pursued by all the du.. ed officers of the
United States away, Mann= and
Grant% towards the °theme YWy is the Confederate ser-
vice. These bit/rhea sought destroy the government
to widen they owed ell m, end thereby committed
the highest ci all pelting alms, and jet from the
moment our late war terainsitod, they wort taken by
the hand by our generals, and their former Mundt, rela-
tions mare at ones elmssrely sermaed. General Grant,
whom devotion to hie as one doubts, has had in
his house in W as a geed one of the most dis-
tinguished of the Omiltdomme lithems. If conduct like
this is not ally ace euresdk bet egirf.4. upon Ida
grounds can it even be desmit held that I should be cen-
sored for my course towards Means. Roebuck and
lAt
who owed no alleging, whalimar to the United Star i
Thanking you, sir, and your eommietes for the courtesy
shown me at our permed interview, sad for the friendly
tame of your Ilele, I ram* with moth :egad, your
'obedient servant, BMW= Joanne!.
Robert Cesiagmby, Psir Cbairmao, Re.

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We have no means et mermarlag the nand° of last
night with its predicator in the last erkiry, hut it is
unquestionably ons of the bed performances that has
been exhibited on the mimic stage of Westminster far
teeny yeas. Mr. Northeote's represtatotion of Plumb
VI an Illimirable piece of acting. sad gives evident* of the
of considerable Metrical* power. Ha not may
till the part but he EL the stage with his hapiesseseien.
His voice and his gestures are typical of the character.
The Athenian Parasite was a character distinguished for
his audacity, his mendacity, and his edscity, and these
points received both natural and artistic Wades-
non in the hands of Mr. Northcote He tho-
roughly conceives and appreciates the rifle he
has to play. The roll of his body, the swell of
his chest, the sweep of his robe, are so massy happy aids to
his voluble and voluminous tongue. He enters the steffli
with such a confident, thrasonical air and mummer as to
make it certain that he will sowed in planing. cat the km
old men. The American representative of AI Wilk"-
las de Boat at the Strand m almost snrpasasd in cocci
mate assurance and cool audacity by the tyro of the
Westminster stage. Gets is a character scarcely lass im-
portant than Phormio, but Mr. O'Brien, though he played
the part fairly enough, did not show that
tility and dramatic insight which marked the pierforLanseals.
of Mr. Northcote. The one studied a character, the other
learned a part. Mr. Haden, the captain of the school,
displayed all the chagrin nd irritability appropriate to
the situation of Denupho on finding his son Amalgam
tricked into what he supposed an unsuitable
Mr. B. IL Eddia, who represents siwwltt
into excess in. the terror he exhTbirs itiswife when
Pbormio informs her of his kenos with the Lesbian
woman. Mr. limanquet personated Naraisteala admirably
in vain and make up, but at. hardly threw enough of
" Mrs. Candle" into her part. The Bophrona el Mr.
Ilbadwell was extremely amusing, as was the intra.
duction of a very bide Crito —Mr. Ellis—between
two feßom-lawyess of lofty tea, The
A,found szeal-
Mleexpo W
stente .AiEntit Saunders Mr. Bamboo.
The prelatic character—Davos—was rendered very in.
telligently by Mr. Harley.
The prolove was spoken by Mr. Haden, the captain.
As usual, it lode welcome to those who mune to see the
teromtenary Westminster Play. It made graceful allu-
sion to the late Archbishop of —a Westminster
scholar. It is a curious fact that the heids of both church
and state tome few years ago were " Westminster, "
namely, the late Archbishop and Earl Russell.
The theatre was, as usual, crowded by a fashionable
audience of ladies and gentlemen. Amongst them were
the Archbishop-elect of Canterbury, Sir It. Phillimore,
Mr. Mere, do.
LONDON MIDDLE-CLASS SCHOOLS.

•
Those who take an interaet in the middle-cleeir
Khoo' movement will be gratified at the evidence of pro.
green afforded in the ceremony which took pace y
of the laying of the foundation-stone of the new=
now in process of erectica in Cowper-street, City reed.
The ceremony of yesterday took place in the area of
what, when finished, will be the school dining-hall (and
amongst the arrangements it should be mentioned is the
providing a good substantial plain dinner for every boy
whose parents dears that be should avail him-
self of it, for sixpence), which was covered
over, and galleried and seated round specially
for the oecasson. There were no great dignitaries
either of church or state present, though ararael
bad been invited. The Aashbsihop of Canterbury-elect
excused himself on the ground of ordination duties, hut
in his letter be expressed the wannest interest is the
scheme. Lord t= war equally sympathetic, and
regretted that an barmen eapgaments prevented
Ids attendrms. Dela at Weirmaster and Lady
ngrmalltermy, terhAtra, the Illand %Rebury,
Mr. Lame. (the new Claneellar et the rarmegaer), and
other thelinguithed IpMeleal whose pretence tt wee
Irauwoalt have given acid to the mermen" east
animm her themem Those. however, who vee,
present the work cd the day with ita
There
berme and educationel=
Them was Mayer Alderman Nara, Akimmen
W. Lawmen Alhismaa aesiez„ Mr. Tits. M.P Ma
Camelot, Mr, 011116110.1 A Mr. A. vie, Mr. Oeshfleht Mr.
Wrthe Bev. W. Berra the Rev. . Jew% (the
etteer of the sehtmg, the Heed Master of the ay
of Load= and the Head Mader of the
Charter-harm
cocoac
te ad
the very ormiderable
Ember at rmanyak
Ota ins who look upon li!oes mild%
ekes sane as a valuable rearm at german/ In the
'harm ellidelty qualified clerks and ault The Lord
Mayor, who ems in date, was fag rte aermies by fi
guard et homer at the City' of Lesion Mliglad merm the
command of Alderman and Colonel WBron, and having
been conducted by the committee to tho ilk It etete
provided far him, Alderman Hale, the prearmil if the
council, invited the Lord Mayor to lay the atone, and.
a brief address, booed the origin of the project to the
letters pablished by Mr. Mogen in the newepapes Soar or
five years ego, deitarthed the praoesrmge at the Merman.
house under bin own 00470raltYbe'eanitetkowee. read?
=
mad* by the Disk, barmen the
City-eampateLienumudi
he a. firm
'lllemtdet to these. as he mid. in the
at aver 16,600 f. to the term; en in
tag the woes* of ameireitillrmal
Awned that
660
atm tiihiLtAttr of • Lea 1111eltieh
Wifor ' there " Was
teel • 100 bit ailmirmek
Besh.semat Ralserdlotkrirrida vinewatßle
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▪ it by arm at. 'the dada arm twat einl
amount of athe:ainee ahead/ ruse wasita
that the mat for the purchase of the.
Crmper-street ( arm) was 30.0001., 1ara1717.11.
Mena with Merm. Beam end Co. for the baildinglloo
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