The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-02 00:00:00

SIIL IIPPZIART OCTItAGE.

it is a new thing, observes the Daily News, to find
conservative journals vigorously and repeatedly de-
nouncing an Irish landlord who certainly acted within
the law, and making excuses for tenants who have risen
against that landlord is arms. The phenomena would
be inexplicable if we did not remember that Mr. Disraeli
and Lord Abercorn have lately been making prosperity
speeches whiff have to be supported by corre.ponding
interpretations of unpleasant facts.

THE QUEEN IN SWITZERLAND. LUCERNE,
Avourz 28.—Her Majesty returned to Lucerne from bee
excursion to the Pucks last Tuesday at half-past 7, by
the steamer Wrunkelreid. A large number of people.
chiefly English, assembled on the bank of the Lake to
receive her Majesty, whose return had been previously
announced. The Queen left here again yesterday morn-
ing, to spend a few days on the Righi. In Lucerne as
everywhere else, her Majesty has made a moat favourable
impression by her simple appearance and pleasant
manners. Not bug ago the Queen visited the cattle-
sheds on the Gutach, when a servant was just at that
time engaged in feeding the beasts. At first, when he
perceived who was his visitor, he was greatly couftuiod.
but quickly recovering himself, he saluted her Majesty
with "Good day, Madame Queen." The Queen laughed,
and asked various questions as to the manner in which the
cattle were managed. On another occasion, a few days
back, the Queen went to Golden, and took a seat upon a
rock to draw, while her suite went on the Schritt. After
a time she called a poor woman who was standing in the
road, and sent her to summon the royal suite to return,
for which service her Majesty amply rewarded her. When
the company bad all taken their seats in the carriages,
the Queen said to the poor woman. " You can go home
now." " No," replied the poor woman, you go ;I am
at home."—letiter's Express.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is
not expected to return home from the Continent till the
week after next.

Their Royal Highnesses the DuchosB of Cam-
bridge and the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
dined with the Prince and Princess of Teck yesterday
evening at Kensington Palace.

The baptism of the infant son of his Serene
Highness Prince and her Royal Highucee Princess Mary
Adelaide of Teck, originally appointed for ye4erday, has
been postponed, owing to the absence of the Duke of
Cambridge.
The health of Count de Bismarck continue, to
improve. The pains in the muscles caused by the late ac-
cident have almost entirely disappeared.

The Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar hay just
established a press law which abolishes printer& licenses,
caution money, the preliminary deposit of a copy with the
administration, the penalties against alleged complicity
between the editor and the printer, &c. ; and substitutes
for them the application of the common law to journalists ;
it also imposes on the judge the duty of rendering his
sentence, with the reasons it rests on, within two days
after the seizure of a journal or printed work.

The Bishop of Capetown has postponed hia de-
parture from this conntry for a month. The farewell ser-
vice, as at present arranged, will take place at the church
of St. Lawrence Jewry on Wednesday, the 30th inst.
The Bev. Robert Gray, 8.D., Canon of the
Cathedral of St. Helena, and bead master of the High
School, Jamestown, has been appointed to the Arch-
deaconry of Piistermaritsbcag, and to a canonry in the
Cathedral Church of Natal. _ _ _

The Bishop of Salisbury has collated the Rev.
Frederick Beng3M.A., of Wadham College, Oxford,
vicar of Mad ' n, near Devises, and the Itev. John
Henry Carnegie, .A., of St Catherine's College, Cam-
bridge, vicar of Cranberne with Beveridge, to pro'bwdul
sWL 131 Salisbury Cathedral.
The Bishop of Manchester has licensed the Rev.
Christopher Cronshaw, formerly curate of St. Barnabas,
Manchester to the incumbency of Christ Church, Penn-
ington, on the nomination of trustees; the Rev. Frederick
ALMS Lillmand, M.A., to the incumbency of the new
church of Matthew, Ardwick, on the nomination of
trustees; the Rev. William Coglan, curate of St. Judo's,
Manchester, to the conventional district of St. James the
Less, in that pariah ; and the Rev. John William Doane
Hoare, RA., to the curacy of St. Albans, Rochdale.
THE MOVEMENT FOR A CONVOCATION MEEITNO
nr lastryn.—The Archdeacons of Armagh and Dublin
have issued a circular to the art•ldeacons of other dio-
ceses in Ireland, beseeching thorn to beseech their various
bishops to beseech the Queen to issue writs for a meeting
of the Irish Convocation. Legal difficulties, say the two
archdeacons, have heretofore been thrown in the way of
a revival of this august body ; but they think her Ma-
jesty's present advisors will hardly counsel her to Wane
the prayer of a petition from the bishops at the present
time, when the thumb is in such desperate peril, and
when it isso necessary that the voice of the clergy should
be heard on its behalf.—Norlhera
TilE MULTI! OF THE REV. De. COOKII.—ThOro
was a change rather for the worse, yesterday, in the rev.
doctor's health. He was Ina very low state up toe late
hour last sight. —Northam Whit.

ON NEWS.
(►PHIS DAY.)

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, •
1111104ingir ON IN BO H 14311 A .
imperial government of Austria his just
arts rued ade C.lliNe attitude Bohemia. A formal
isnamona has been served on the Czech deputies
lust they are to attend at the Diet. Should they
fail to ccniply, tl.oir seats will be declared valant,
and new elections proceeded to. Tee decision taken
at Vienna seems to be generally approved
of, although the expectation is that the first
result will Lea sort cf Kendal. Indeed, very few
Of the members concerned will, it is thought,
obey, and acme violent manifestation is looked for
on their part. However, the government con-
'eiders the better plan is to provoke an immediate
eriaie, and, once for all, to get out of an uncertain
position which has lasted too long. The ministry,
tesidee, poetesses a powerful auxiliary in the Hun-
garian press, which severely condemns the con-
duct of the Czechs, unmasks their motivos, and
repels their advances.
A letter from Stuttgard, in the Slide, has the
following :
Count d'Usodose, whose name has bees so frequently
pronounced of late, has just arrived here. lie lives in the
proxy town of Carlstadt, renowned for its. baths, and
eituated at the very gates of the city, and where his
gamily had preceded him two months ago. The Cabinet
of Berlin lately sent a despatch to Baron de
plant, intended to efface the effect of the reve-
lations of Einem! de La Harmers. The Frannie
government is paying its court to that of Austria; as not
only has General Vogel de Falkenstein been replaced by
General do Manteuffel, who has always been a partisan
of the Austrian alliance, and who was naly rot aside on
the ore of the events of 18116, but King William has
just sent to the Emperor Francis Joseph, on
the occasion of the latter's birthday, • telegram
congratulating him, a proceeding so much the
more significant that it had not been practised
since the great rupture between the two powers.
Prussia is visibly striving to make Austria forget what has
paned; but if Baron do Beustcan only see with a favour-
able eye everything that can consolidate the peace which
is indispenrable for the success of his projects, he has
an excellent answer to all the solicitations which reach
him from Berlin :—" If you regard us as Germans, and if
as such you desire our alliance, let us together revise Art.
4 of the Trra+y of Prague, which expels Austria from the
Fatherland."

(ntioutin am:main Uniscr.)
FRANCE.
PARIS, Sm'r. 2, MORNING.

The Monifrut of this morning reprints the
peaceful speech delivered by M. Magne, Minister
of Finance, at a banquet at Perigueux on tho
20th ult.

The commisaion for fixing the indemnity to be
granted to the Mexican bondholders has completed
its labours. Every bondholder entitled to indem-
nification will as a first instalment receive 30 prr
cent. of the amount of his share of the capital ap-
propriated for the liquidation of the claims.