The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-05 00:00:00

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The speeches, in the opinion of old Eton mcn, were far
above the average, and they struck our unaccustoined ears
and eyes as particularly good, both in the delivery and
the acting. The three speeches of Mr. De Grey were all
good ; thane in French and German the beet, perhaps, of
all. Dobree and Walker were very effective. Tindal
made a capital Sir Anthony Absolute, and ?rothero
supported his part well, first as Captain Aneolute and
again in the piece entitled "On his own Death." Gould,
major, a. the Lion, and Meows. Tritton, Longbourne, and
Tindal as Wall and the two lovers, made the most of a
somewhat difficult rote, and were much applauded.
The rain in the middle of the day prevented' the in-
tended cricket match from taking place in the playing-
fields, but a military band played while the company pro-
menaded under the noble old elms is which the playing-
Held. abound, and also in the adjoining cloisters.,
At 3 o'clock there was choral service in the chapel, and
a very large and fashionable congregation filled the ante-
chapel to hear the anthem.
At 4 o'clock the Provost and fellows entertained the
Bishop. of Ripon and Tuam, and several of the most dis-
tinguished of their guests and visitors at dinner in the
College Hall, where the usual loyal toasts, and that of
" Florist Etyma" were drunk with all honours.

About half•pset six the company repaired, in carriages,
el hornbook amid ea foot, to the meadows above the
bridge, whence the boats, mewed by their respective crews,
and with their steersmen dressed as admirals, proceeded
up the river to Boveney, and thence to Burly Bab, where
they dined under tents in the open air, the baud of the
Coldatreams accompanying them both up and down the
river.

The fireworks on the whole were not quite as good as
usual, and much disappointment was expressed at the
omission of the pyrotechnic representation of the Eton
eight-oar, which generally concluded the display. The
rain, which came down in copious showers alternating with
drizzle during the afternoon, ceased just before the signal
was given for the firework' to commence, and it was not
until the Broca' was nearly emptied of its crowd of fair
vizdtors that it began to come down in e►rnest. However,
both railway stations were close at hand, and by 11 o'clock
the last of the "special" trains had taken its departure
for London, and Eton and Windsor had returned to their
ordinary peaceful and quiet appearance.

ROYAL COMMISSION ON PRIMARY EDUCATION
(IRELAND).—The Royal Commission on Primary Educa-
tion (Ireland) met on Wednesday at the offices of the
commission, 46, Upper Rockville-street, Dublin. There
were present—The Earl c,f Powis, the Earl of Dunraven,
the Bishop of Meath, Lord Clonbrock, Sir R. Kane, Mae-
ter Brooke, Rev. Dr. Wilson, Rev. B. M. Cowie, Mr.
Deus, Mr. Gibson, Mr, Stokes, Professor Sullivan, and
Mr. Waldron. The secretaries, Messrs. May and Dunne,
were in attendawoe. _

THE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF ON RITUALISM.
The Bishop of Llandaff, in acknowledging a declaration
signed by upwards of 1,600 laymen of Monmouthshire
against ritualism, reminds them that in his visitation
charge of 1866 he stated in words as clear and explicit as
he could command that in his opinion the sacramental
theory which it is the avowed object of the ritualistic
movement to uphold is neither the doctrine of the church
of England nor of the church catholic of the very earliest
age. With regard to ." practices," the bishop says that,
although he deems many of them to be in themselves
matters of entire indifference, and though he thinks a
narrow-minded exclusiveness or a disregard of decency
and order in the conduct of divine worship Si much
to be deprecated on the one hand, as superfluous cere-
monialism on the other, be believes • peat responsibility
will rest upon the clergy if, by the indulgence of their
own self-will, they give needless offence.
NATIONAL SOCIETY TOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.
At • meeting that was held last week at Aubrey-house,
Notting-hill, by the above society, the following measure
was adopted :—Tkat a resolution requiring the overseers
to place on the parliamentary list of voters all persona who
have paid their rates be sent, with the consent and by the
authority of the four committees, London, Manchester,
Birmingham and Bristol, to the overseers of all the more
important plena.
THE BRICKLAYERS' STRIKE. —Last night a special
meeting of the London Trades Council was held at the
Bell-inn, Old Bailey, to receive a deputation from the
bricklayers now on strike at Liverpool, who had come to
London for the purpose of placing the facts connected
with the strike before the London trade societies, and of
obtaining assistance for the men who are on strike. Mr.
Hammitt: took the chair, and most of the large trade
societies were represented. A member of the deputation
explained to the meeting that there existed in Liverpool •
code of rules tinder, which masters and men had worked
for the last seven 7eare, one of them being to the effect
that six months' notice in writing shall be given on either
aide before any change in the rules could be made. The
masters, however, recently required that the rules should
be revised, and drew up a new code, which the men could
not accept, and they thereupon gave the latter seventeen
days' notice. Several conferences had taken place with
la view to the settlement of the question, but without
effect, and when the strike took place numbers of men
were imported from London into Liverpool, who went
back again as soon as they learned what had caused
the strike. He denied that piaketting was at all
carried on. The masters had got detectives and po-
llee officers watching the jobs, to prevent the society
men from getting into eoevesestion with the free-labour
men, who were unable to get work elsewhere. After •
long discussion, Mr. Jeffery moved and Mr. Warren
seconded the following resolution :—" That this council
having heard the feats and eireunistanees of the bria-
r layers' strike at Liverpool slated by the deputation, are
of opinion that It could be mottled to the mutual advan-
=both masters and men by a fair and propeily con-
board of arbitration. We therefore instruct the
misery (Mr. Odger) to write to the bricklayers' ootn-
&tees offering the services of this council to take Inch
steps as may be deemed seesssary with • view to bringing
the socket to • just and satisfactory settlement." The
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