The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-04 00:00:00

their means t, them. We know what most of
our middle-class schools are, and how little they
do to prepare boys for the business of life. But
even if they were better the pupils are taken from
them to follow some trade or employment before
the mind is awakened to the value of knowledge.
These classes take up young men just at the time
when they are becoming sensible of their own defi-
ciencies. The lately unwilling scholar is now ready
to devote his few hours and narrow moans to re-
pair the omissions of his school education.
Again, a pursuit in life becomes more and more
every year a vocation, a calling which persons
asoorttin for themselves by considering their pecu-
I liar aptitudes. Men instead of plodding in paths
made for them make trucks for themselves, and
want to furnish their minds with weapons and in-
struments for the expedition. The community
gains in life and vigour, in variety and originality
by this exercise of a free self-determination. And
to menof thisdispositionao situated, aids such asare
supplied in these evening classes are invaluable.
The title of College which is given to the asso-
ciation in its new form will offend some tastes as
too ambitious. If we are to regard the name as
chosen to recall by association a standard of know-
ledge not yet reached, a completeness of studies
not as yet achieved, perhaps it is no disadvantage
that some margin is left for growth. The wall
of the infant city must not circumscribe it too
narrowly. But the institution will further be a
College in virtue of the association of persons
eminent in station and frierds of education as
fellow members with its students. If those emi-
nent persons are chosen for their intellectual and
moral superiority, and their known sympathy with
its objects, and it is understood on both sides that
this connexion is not to be merely nominal, the
good they may do by helping to keep up its spirit
and tone is very great. As the institution
advances in prosperity and importance we shall
doubtless see its plan of instruction amplified.
The disciplinary studies will bear a larger proper-
thin to languages, more sciences will be added to
the list of subjects, and passive attention will be
abandoned for active thought.
The appeal, however, now made for aid must
stand on the basis of past achievement and present
cspab'lities. And on this ground wo believe the
facts we have quoted will be taken as satisfactory.

IEDt Court.

BALMORAL, Orr. 2.

The Quoen amp the Prince Consort, accompanied
by the I'6l:pees' of llohealohe, drove to Castleton yesterday
afternoon.

Prince% Alice, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Louis of
Hesse. attended by Lady Churchill, wont out riding.
The Princesses Helena and Louise, attended by Lady
Anguota Bruce, drove to Mar Lodge, and honoured the
Countess of File with a visit.

Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinitone, rode to
the Liao a Muick.

The Duke of Argyle arrived at the Coale yesterday, and
suceeeded Lord Staoley of Altlorley ea Minister in attend-
ance upon her Majesty.

It has been intimated to her Majesty's Commissioners for
the luteniational Exhibition of la4r2, that the following
gentlemen bare been appointed Commissioners to represent
Venezuela in the approaching Exhibition :—Senor Joss
Antonio Carrillo, Consul at Bunleos; John D. Fowles, Esq.,
and James Kennedy Arthur, Eaq., of London. Frederick
flerbirt Hemming, Faq., Consul for Venezuela, 25, Moor-
gate••treet, London, will act as Commissioner in Loudon.

lhepatches were received et the Golooial-office yesterday
from the Governor, of Canada, Gibraltar, Ceylon, Hoeg
Kung, cud the Cape of Geed Hope. Deapatchea were soot
to the Governors of Malls cad Latmaa.

Manama' IN HIGH Lira.--Yentertlay the mar-
riage of Viscount 9M114100 and lady Mary Frances Cecil,
shiest daughter of the sLirquis of Easter, took place at
Si. George's Church, Hanoversquane. la commemoration
of the above scent (*aye the Stamford Memory), a dinner
took place among the Earl of flarrowby's tenantry at Dighy,
star Slesfonl, and there will be other rejoicings on him lord.
skip's estates m the county. Os Thursday next there will be
a disuse at Grantham, which it is expected will be Weeded
by many of the principal inhabitants of the town and
neighbourhood.

ILLNESS o► THE EARL or Euxu.vros.—We Edia-
bagruA Conran+) regret to learn that the Berl of Eglinton
was on Tuesday evening seised with alarming illness at
Mount Melville, the roeidence of J. Whyte Melville, Faq.,
where he had been residing previous to attending the St.
Andrew. golf meeting, held yesterday. Though the attack
at first appeared to be very serious, we are happy to say
that yesterday the health of the noble earl was in an ins.
proved state.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter leave
tows to-day for their seat, Burghley Hall, near Stamford.
His Excellency the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Jeruing-
ham have returned to Maurigy's Hotel from Coney Ha,
nor Norwich.

Hin Excellency J. Lethrap Motley, Envoy Extra-
ordinary aid Minister Plenip)tentiary from the trotted
Sides c 4 America, has left Maurigy's Hotel fur Visits`
Lord and Lady Burghley leave town to-day, to
embark on baud their yacht at Southampton.
We regret to state that Lord Loftus, the English
minister at Berlin, has just sustained the loss of hie eldest
daughter, aged 13 years, who died on Monday host at Bedew
Baden.

Lord Cowley had an interview with the Emperor
Napoleon at St. Cloud on Wednwiday.
We (Critic) understand that Mr. Lawrence Oli-
phant. our secretary of legation is Japan, is on his return
home from that country invalided, through the injuries
received in the murderous attack made on him by the
band of assassins at Yale, on the night of the sth of July
Let. Mr. Oliphant had been only one short week in Japan
when, on the oce.con referred to, he received two serious
wounds, one on the right ',boulder and the other on the left
wrist. The latter, it is feared, will deprive him of the use
of his left band.

General Sir Jamei Outram arrived at Malta on
the 21st nit from Soathamptoa, by the steamer Delta,
belonging to the Penh:under nod Oriental Company. The
pliant and veteran general is, we sincerely regret to learn,
is very indifferent health. Oa recruiting his strength, ws
believe, he purposes proeeedieg on a visit to Constanti•
apple. The Earl of Listowel and Viva mot Hamilton were
is the mme steamer on a twit India.

We (Times) learn that Dr. Pantsloone, who for
as many years, in his capacity of phy.ician, enjoyed the
confidence of the principal English and American families at
Rome, and who was so brutally expelled from that city in
the sprieg, on the crawl of hie political !opinions, is about
to settle as • medical practitioner at Nice, where his services
are likely to be in requelt Awing the ensuing winter.
Rir joltu Coleridge spoke at some lotigtli on the
new educational minute at the annual meeting of the rf,ui-
tow Church Association, on Wednesday. As one of the
Conimissiomers for Education he entirely disclaimed any re.
eponsibility with regard to this minute. " Thom," he said,
"who take the trouble to real the report will find several
recommendation', all of which go to form • part of the
whole. It is therefore unfair to take one sod omit the
others, and then may that you meeting on the recomnaen-
.

dation, of the commimionem I disclaim it entirely. I,
for one, am ready to stand by them—subject, of coarse, to
having our errors pointed out. We do not suppose that
we ars infallible, or that it has been impossible to make
mistakes. This Is p, 'Don't attrilswe to the Education
Commiednwrs anything that yo do; if r•: tat: one
pert don't omit the other from consideration.'"
A Lime of Bishop Wilson, by the Rev. John
Hob* M.A., will :portly appear.
Capts.'.o 13urtou's account of his visit to the Mor:.
lreey ander the title of "The City of the Saints," will be
published immediately, with numerous Illustrations, by
&sum Longtime and Co.

Mr. Chi;lea Tilt, the publisher, died butt Satur-
day at him house in Pembridge.gardens, Bayswater, aged 64.
He had retired from Liminess for mom.. years.
Alulanack Day will be uu the 2hmt Nuweinber this
year.

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 1861.

The Delta, with the heavy portion of the mails,
was to leave Malta at 10 p.m. on the Ist, and may
be expected at Southampton on the 10th inst.
The Orissa brought the mails from Bombay, and
the Norm► those from the Mauritius, arriving at
Suez on the 20th and 27th ult. respectively.

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EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

THE HIGH PRICE OF BREAD IN PARIS.

(nor on ows oonsnommer.)
PARIS. THURSDAY Ermsa.

There are rumours to-.lay of agitation in some
of the faubonrgs of Paris, owing to distress among
the working classes, and the high price of bread.
There is a talk of numerous arrests, and of placards
hearing the moister inscription, Do poipt opt 14
~wit. Although in such cases there is sure to be
much exa.,”eration, there must be some foundation
for the reports of the day, because M. Paulin
Limayrac in the Pays tries to allay them by the
following article, Leaded—

ITALY.

(PROM OUR OWN CORREAPORDE37.)
ROME, Serr.

I have just time, before closing of the post, to
communicate to you • fact but now brought to our
knowledge, and which I cannot yet bear to reflect
upon, for it tills me with horror, after seeing the
Pope's guillotine do deadly execution on a brave
man's neck, as I told you, seven days ago. Loca-
telli is proved to be innocent of killing the Papal
geudarme ! Innocent of the capital crime of mur-
der I never doubted him to be. We now find that
the blow was struck, with whatever degree of cri-
minality, by another hand. The Niciose of Flo-
rence coutains this statement, which perhaps may
have reached you already by a more d►rect road :
"Giacomo Castrucci, a Roman emigrant, has pre-
sented himself within the last few days to the
Royal Procurator of the Tribunal of First Instance,
and has declared that he, on the evening of the
29th June, in the midst of the conflict, and to
defend himself against the attack of the gendarme,
was the person who committed the homicide for
which Lucatelli has been condemned. He says
that he is impelled to make this avowal by his con-
science not permitting him to let an innocent man
be sacrificed in his stead. The Royal Procurator
took down these declarations of Castrucci, and had
him removed to the prison of the Murata (at Flo-
near). Unhappily, however, this information ar-
rived when, by the extraordinary precipitation of
the sentence on the part of the Roman government,
the axe of the executioner had already lopped off
poor Locatelli's head."
I told you at the time of that fatal and indecent
haste. The tribunal of the Sabra Consulta passed
sentence on • Friday evening, the 6th inst.
It was on the Tuesday that Monsignor
Sagretti, the President, laid that sentence before
the Pope. According to the usual course, the
Pope's response should have been given at the next
weekly audience, on the following Tuesday, the
17th. But on this occasion, the amiable Pontiff
sent to signify his confirmation of the sentence OIL
Thursday, the second day after it was placed in his
hands. The death-warrant was executed last
Saturday morning, the 21st. It is rare indeed,
that the vilest felon, condemned to death under
this priestly government, dass not obtain a respite
of many mouths, so much tenderness and anxiety
do they affect for the conversiou of his soul. I
hear of two persons still alive in the prison hero, •
man who slew his father sod his brother, a woman
who baked her little child to death in the oven,
tried and duly convicted and sentenced two years
and a half ago. But for the political offender, for
the victim of this hypocritical tyranny, there is a
short and summary end.

A Constantinople letter says :—" On Saturday
Wt, Sir Henry Bulwer presented his lilliputian steam yacht
—the Cinderella—to his highness Youssouf-eddiu Effendi,
the Sultan's son. The little vessel bad been beautifully
fitted up, and fresh painted from taffrail to figurehead.
Shortly after she came to a mooring under the windows of
the palace, his juvenile highness took personal possession,
and seemed delighted with his property, rummaging cabin,
engine-room, and forecastle with the liveliest curiosity and
satisfaction. His Majoity the Sultan looked on from oue
of the windows, and at the close of the little owner's in-
spection sant out a handsome backaheesh to the late crew of
the vessel. The Union Jack had been previously hauled
down and the crescent and star hoisted in its stead."

The Emperor Napoleon went to see the Artesian
well at Passy the day before yesterday, and was received by
M. Kind, the engineer. His Majesty expressed himself
highly gratified with the success of the undertaking, and
complimented M. Kind and his son on the happy result of
their six years' labour. To show the ascesional force of
the spring, M. Kind closed the issue near the surface, and
the w►ter immediately rushed up the tube and gushed over
the top in the shape of a mushroom. His Majesty, on
leaving,promised to send a testimonial of his satisfaction for
the different workmen employed.

Prince Napoleon returned to New York on the
18th ult., after an absence of about three weeks, in
which time ha enjoyed himself in busting on the
Tut Western prairies, and had a view of the
grand cataract of Niagara, and finally arrived at
Albany on the 17th. At West Point ho made a critical
inspection of the military academy at that place, and arrived
at the New York Hotel late on the same evening, where
his consort, the Princess Clothilde, was awaiting his
coming. In his peregrination through the West and the
Oradea his imperial highness was accompanied by his
suite, and M. Mercier, the French minister resident at
Washington. The Princess Clothilde met her husband at
Buffalo, went with him to Niagara, and returned to New
York, where she remained at the hotel, having as company
only the Duchess de Abrantes. On the morning of the
19th the prince went on board his yacht, lying off the Bat-
tery. He was to leave for Boston in 64 yacht on the 21st.

The Prince de Joinville, Lis eon, nephews, and
suite were presented to President Lincoln on the 20th ult.
by the Secretary of State. The Prince was presented to
Secret/ay Seward by the representative of Brazil.
A letter from Baden of the 29th mentions the
death of the Princess Maria do Solna, nit Bonaparte, from
brain fever.

Queen Christina left Sainte-Adresse, uear Havre,
on Wednesday morning for Paris, accompanied by the Duke
de Manures and their daughter, the Princess Ladislas Czar-
torisks.

The season of the Italian Opera, Paris, opened
oa Tuesday night with Cimareses famous Sfatrimonio Se-
°ref°, composed seventy years ago, and still as popular as
ever. The principal artistes are Mmes. Albooi, Battu, and
Penco, with Zuchiiii, Badirli, and a new tenor (new for
Paris), Belart—a Spanish vocalist, who possesses • sweet
and dextble voice, but, like his predecessor, Gardoni, is
sadly deficient in the animation and rerce so pleasing to •
Parisian audience. Verdi's opera of Mae%r'h is to be
speodily produced, besides a number of works hitherto un-
known in Paris, though familiar to opera-goers in London
and in Italy.

The Cunatitulionnel says that Portland is au
imitation of Cherbourg. "The English Lave taken from
us the screw for vessels, rifled carbines, rifted cannon,
and iron-plated frigates ; and they have resolved to com-
plete the list of their borrowings, by taking the model of a
port. In all this, there is for us nothing new, nothing sur-
prising, and in particular nothing alarming, and we cannot
understand why the Time+ should express so much joy.
That journal had no need of Portland to be roauured, if,
indeed, it should think fit to show itself resuured."

Duels seem to be increasing in Germany. The
Zeit of Frankfort states that a hostile encounter has just
been fought near that city between Major Von der Tann,
chamberlain to the King of Bavaria, and an Austrian officer,
whose name is not given. The major was :hot in the abdo-
men, and soon after expired.
A letter from Homburg states that three (lays
ago the ceiling of the Conversation-room fell in, awl that
several persons were injured. No details are given.

"The Queen of Moheli," says the Nuncellisie
of Marseilles, "has decidedly recognised the French pro-
tectorate at Madagascar. Jombe-Souli, for such is her name,
has had the tricoloured deg raised by the side of hor resi-
dence, to prove French protection, and has written a letter
to the Emperor Napoleon to thank him for the services ron.
dined by the French navy."
_ _

The Pays has the following A
Win !!"..0 Ceara of the Ist announces that Kouuth has coi-
-1 lected together several ex-ministers of the ilict of Path, as
well as Generals Klapka and Tarr, at present in Italy, to
discuss the eventualities of the situation of their country.
The republican form of government was at once set aside in
principle without diICUSIiOD. Three candidates will be pro-
posed to the nation for the throne of Hungary, when she
shall have recovered her self-government. Among those
candidates is the l'rince do Crony, a descendant of Saint
Stephen, and who is avowedly supported by the Hungarian
legion. He would take the title of Augustus 1. A special
meeting on the subject is to be held on the sth."
" A few weeks ago," writes a Now York cor-
reepoodest, " I found in a Buffalo paper a most elaborate
puff of the hotel at which I was staying. The editor had
evidently been travelling as a' dad bead,' as it is called,
and paid his bill by a laudatory notice. The proprietor
• Lnew how to keep an hotel ; the table ' was covered
with the choicest delicacies whiz.), the market could pro-
duce ; everyone connected with the establishment was well
spoken of, and the paragrrph concluded—' Nor must we
forget to mention the ,;ent/emarilike attar/we, Messrs. Hogan
and They were the porters !"