The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-01 00:00:00

Ml'S!(•' yon TnE PARKS.

THE only music systematically given to the pub-
lic is that to ho heard every morning in the
" Colour Court" of Kt. James's Palace. When the
regimental flag is saluted, and the guard changed,
an accompaniment of martial music is performed,
to which a very limited portion of the outside
world are permitted to listen. But there is neither
encouragement nor accommodation for strangers.
The place is so small, and the soldiers are so largo,
that oven a few dozen bystanders seem
in the way; and it is impossible to
avoid the conviction that the proceedings of the
morning are regarded as a military ceremony
rather than a means of public recreation. Is
there any sufficient reason for withholding this
same music from her Maissnes lieges, and
for thus missing an opportunity of making our
great parks additionally attractive? We have
plenty of military bands, and a keen love for good
open air music pervades all classes. The monotony
of Rotten-row is, as a writer in the current
number of the Gentleman's Magazine remarks,
" never more agreeably relieved than when
" a band of the Life Guards comes out

to practice upon the Green, opposite Knights-
" bridge Barracks ;" and the question is,
why a treat which could be so easily given and
would be so warmly appreciated is not made regu-
lar and periodic instead of intermittent, uncertain,
and rare. There may be excellent reasons for not
directing our military bands to play night
and morning in each of the parks,
but we confess ourselves unable to divine
them ; and the authority who succeeded in
providing good music for the London public
would earn, and deservedly earn, the gratitude of
millions of people. There ought not to be any
difficulty in the matter. The bandmasters and the
bandsmen of the various regiments would gladly
welcome the opportunity of gaining additional
celebrity ; and considerable happiness would bo
given, without, so far as we can gather, involving
sacrifice of any kind. Why does not some social
benefactor put the necessary machinery in motion
for procuring us an hour's good music each night
and morning in the parks

SomE exiled " French Democrats"—we use the
name they have chosen for themselves—have been
holding a meeting in London to commemorate the
terrible conflict of Juno, 1848, and a copy of a
resolution which they adopted respecting
" LOWS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE" has boon
forwarded to us. When we say that the duty
of open and permanent insurrection " against the
" tyrant " is declared, we allude to only the
mildest part of the resolution. A fiery address
from the "Le Comitk Central d'Action," dated
from Paris, Juno 24, accompanies the communica-
tion. This is couched in the extravagant language
of the most violent of the French dubbists, and
points at methods which we do not care to
describe. Is it anything more than a coincidence
that these things should reappear as the French
elections draw nigh ? Do the bourgeoisie need a
little frightening to renew their appreciation of
the blessings of the Empire ?

AMERICAN lawyers have had a plentiful harvest
this year in an immense number of rail-
way suite brought before the courts in
almost every State. On the 18th ult. the
heaviest judgment probably ever recovered,
amounting to upwards of four million six
hundred thousand dollars (nearly a million
sterling), was entered in the Supreme Court,
at New York, against the Union Pacific Rail-
way Company. The judgment was recovered
by the construction contractors of the defendants'
line of road, as compensation for services per-
formed and as damages for the subsequent breach
of the contract, the officers of the road having
driven the contractors off.

TUE ABYSSINIAN TREABITBES.—The royal trea-
sures from Abyssinia will be open to the inspection
of the public at the South Kensington Museum,
by command of her Majesty the Quoen, after
1 o'clock to-day, under the usual regulations for
admission to that institution.

We are requested to state that on and after the
lst of July the new Foreign-office will be opened
for business. The entrance to the office for general
business is by the northern portico in the qua-
drangle. The entrance to the passport office is
under the archway, on the left hand side, enter-
ing from Downing-street, and the office is on the
first landing.

Mr. Gladstone has declined an invitation to
become a candidate for Glasgow. He sap' ho has "no
reason to suppose that he is likely to part from the repre-
sentation of South Lancashire."

Lord Elcho, on the 17th, will call the attention
of the House of Common to the Coronation Oath.

Several operas will be performed at Homburg
during the present season, under the direction of the
maestro Luigi Orsini. The artists engaged are : Signoras
Adelina Patti, Desiderata, Artot, Elsonora Groesie, Ida
Bellina, Marietta Allievi, and Marietta Poderzani ;
Signori Emilio Nandi's, Achille Corsi, Napoleons Sini-
mile, Napoleons Verger, Luigi Agnes'', Giuseppe
Giovanni, Poderzani, Alessandro Ungarelli,

INTENDED Meartraona.—A marriage is arranged
between Viscount Mahon, M.P., eldest sou of Earl Stan-
and Miss Banbury, daughter of Mr. Banbury
Leigh ; also, between Mr. Poule eldest son of Lord Boll-
tonandLady AlgithaLumley, eld daughteroftheEarland
Cmintess of Scarborough ; also, between Mr. Mikes
Gaskell and Lady Mary Ilervey, sister of the Marquis of
Bristol ; also between Mr. Smith Barry and Lady
Mary Quin, daughter of the Earl of Dunraven ;
Also, between Miss Schuster, daughter of Mr. Leo
Schuster, and Mr. Darell, eldest son of Sir Lionel Dwell,
Bart., of Pretherne-court, Gloucestershire; and between
Miii Wilbraham, daughter of Colonel Wilbraham, and
the Hon. Jams Lindsay, aided ma of Lord Lindsay.—