The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-29 00:00:00

THE =MESS, YirEIRTXSDA.Y . \iiii*NG,

spot for a holiday, all the world of England would
flock thither; and the place would become simply
unendurable. It is well thatBmithead should bereft*
pilgrims as well as Torquay, and that Herne Bay
should not be wholly left in the lurch because the
Isle of Wight has its charms. The only places
which are absolutely unendurable are those to
which some people go because other people go
there. When a place in its history reaches this
stage, it deserves to have its name expunged from
all honest guide-books, or retained there simply as
a warning. It ought to be visited exolusively by the
landlords of hotels and lodging-house keepers,
waiters, and fashionable watering-place shop-
keepers, themselves taking hol day. By the way,
it would be curious to know how these people
disport themselves. Do they over unbend P or
are they always in pursuit of some prey, ravening
like the shark, or importunate as the daughter of
the horse-leech, Drying still, "Give, give" P Does
a Margate tradesman or hotel-keeper, or
letter of apartments, enter into the
spirit of the thing when be visits Llan-
dudno or Tenby, and yield himself up ohoor-
fully to the extortioner, applauding the audacity
of the plunder, though he himself is its victim P
Does ho feel that the pleasuro is as groat, of being
cheated as to cheat P A consummate master in the
art which Mr. FAOLN taught his pupils would
probably entertain rather admiration than anger
towards the dexterous practitioner who might
relieve him of his watch or purse, without consult-
ing
his wishee on tho subject. Possibly there is,
however, a freemasonry of the craft. Wolves do
not prey on wolves, nor vultures upon vultures.
In the extremity of hunger they leave each other
alone. In like manner lodging-house harpy
probably respects lodging-house harpy, landlord
may refrain from charging brother landlord with
imaginary wax candles, and waiter may accept
without indignation the copper coin of this realm
from a follow waiter. Returning from this
curious speculation, which we commend to tho
further research of inquirers into the habits of
predatory animals—the great question of the
British holiday and how to take it has, happily,
as many answers as there are minds, temperaments,
and purses, and even fluctuations in the same
mind, temper, and purse. To most working people
the holiday is a time of rest. But rest
can be had in two ways, by varying exer-
tion, or by abstaining from it altogether.
According as a man is moved by an active
desire of change or an indolent wish for repose,
and feels like one of TBNICTSON'S lotus eaters or
like a member of the Alpine Club, he will choose
a stationary or a moving holiday. The scenery
by which he surrounds himself will be une,on-
la:lonely chosen with reference to his mood, or
he will feel a sense of having made a temporary
mistake in life. Jagged and pointed peaks will
fatigue the eye as it follows their angles and con-
tortions—the noises of the sea, as it bellows in the
cams, or beats against the cliffs, will oppress
the ear—the scenery, in short, which strains the
senses, is ill-adapted to the holiday-maker who
wants not stimulus, but rest. Such a one needs
a wide horizon, with rounded and undulating
forms of hill and vale. The curved
lines and gentle sounds are the medicine for him.
He can rest, and absorb the influences
of quiet scenery. He is not perpetually im-
pelled by the sight of rocky cliffs to ascend them,
or tantalised by an interposing barrier mountain as
to the beauty which lies beyond it. For a mind
needing repose, though the delights of lying on the
beach and throwing stones into the ocean are
not to be exaggerated, perhaps lake scenery is
better than the sea-side. Getting beyond this
stage, and arriving at that in which some motion
is impossible, the area over which it shall extend
is a question of temperament. To the minute at-
tention which can fasten on the smallest details,
and can feed on diminutive beauties till it knows
them by heart, a month in the Channel Islands,
or in one of them, would be full of variety.
Men who are impressed only by the rapid
changes and considerable objects would exhaust
half Europe in the same period. On the answer
to the same question, whether rest or stimulus is
what is needed will depend the choice between a
home or a foreign holiday ; and whether the
holiday shall be taken on the highways of cockney
tourists, or in the by-ways which are still
partially unexplored. There are still places
on the Continent which Mr. Coos and those
whom he drags in his train over half
Europe do not penetrate. Particular places can
never, however, with safety be recommended.
What every meditating holiday maker has to do is
by self-scrutiny to find out the secret of the change
which he desires or ought to have, and to choose
accordingly the place of his holiday and the man-
ner of it, rambling or stationary, by sea or by
lake, in quiet or wild scenery, in town or country,
at home or abroad. General principles may be
laid down; in their particular application the
patient must minister to himself.

•
iniq An •or goodf brissfelarted Joust
Better to fight than **tray tilust. than to
shrink from the assert of great pirinciples, Asia
to forget in the desire for gain the love of °Oasts,.
There may be glory in war when it is sanotionod
by a noble cause, but there is nothing glorious,
nothing chivaltoua, in an armed peace whioh ad-
ministers to the vanity of nionaruhu but retards
national progress. Is it Utopian to hope that a
remedy may yet be discovered fur the prodigious
burdens—financial, moral, and social—which the
growth of armies inflicts upon tho States of
Europe, or rather it is not strange considering the
amount of suffering inflicted that the remedy has
been delayed ao long P

JU
dents 4n havirather abrup
that hibleii are uded to-day winch' t
found a plea week. Thus is • *p
the writers. "Marriage or Cohlinoy r.
quite as absorbing a question to tho
now as it was three weeks ago, and we
do treat that this morning's shortcomings are ex-
ceptional, and that to-morrow will give us the
usual supply.

Eh, Court-

08BOlital. Jinx U.

The Queen, acoompanied by Princess Louise,
drove out yesterday afternoon, lady Augusta Stanley
being in attendance ; and her Majesty and the royal family
walked in the grounds this morning.

The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by the Hon. Eliot
Yorke, arrived at Osborne yesterday.
Mr. Joseph Wynn has bad the honour of submitting to
her Majesty models of the modal about to be struck to
commemorate the Confederation of the Dominion of
Canada.

The Prisms • f Weiss. accompsaied by the Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburg &refits, drove out yesterday.
The Queea will bolds Opened et °Morns to-morrow
(Thursday).

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the
official reeidenoe of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing street. The Ministers present were
the Bight Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Maimed-
bury, the Bight Hon. Oraporno Hardy, Lord
Stanley, the Duke of Buokingham and Chandos,
Sir J. Pakington, Sir Stafford Northoote, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord John Manners,
and the Earl of Mayo.

Deeyritehm were reoeived yesterday at the Colonial-
Office from the Governors of Newfoundland, Bermuda,
Prince Edward Inland, and Malta.

The Princess of Wales was " chnrched" on Mon-
day, at the Chapel Boys], St. James's. The Bishop of
London officiated. The Prince and Prince's attended
almost alone, and the 'orrice was cos of extreme
simplicity.

The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Misses
Longley have left Addington Park for the Continent.

Lord and Lady Dufferin, on leaving the Coun-
tess Cowper's seat, Wrest Park, went to Byrum, York.
shire, to visit Sir John and Lady Owendoline Ramadan, on
their way to Clandeboye, Ireland.
The funeral of the late Lord Cranworth takes
place on Friday next at Keaton Church, Kent.
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The Right Hon. Edward /foreman, M.P., and
Ws. Horan have been staying with Sir John and Lady
Owendoline liamedon at Byrum since they left town on
their way to Scotland.

IL lirouyn de Lhnys has returned to Paris from
Lie visit to England.

Yesterday the marriage of Lady Catharine
Acheson, youngest daughter of the Earl of Gosport, to
Captain Duncombe, son of Admiral Duncombe, was
celebrated at St. George's, Hanover-square. At the con-
clusion of the ceremony the wedding party proceeded to
the residence of the Earl of Gosport, Groevenor-street.
In the afternoon the newly married couple left for the
Continent,

(MX LAS! MONT'S oAzerrs.)

FORZION-0511C3, JuLY 18.—The Queen has been
gradousii plowed to appoint the Hon. William Nassau
Jocelyn, now a seco secretary in her Majesty's diplo-
matic service, to be secretary to ha Majesty s legation at
Stockholm.

Foluracor-onws, :VET 23.—The Queen bag been
pleased to approve of Mr. Ernst Louis linchols as consul
at Aud.fr- New Zealand ; of Mr. Siegfried Franck as
consul at ; of Mr. Armand Theodore Banniger
as consul at Brie e; of Mr. Carlos Kramer-Walter as
mum] at Newcastle, New South Wales ; and of Mr. John
IL Kail as consul at King George's Sound, for the North
German Confederation.

Win JULY 23.—The Queen has been
pleased to present the Rev. Thomas Scott, Y.A., to the
YleS7l4lll West Hasa, in the county of Ram, and diocese
of Rochester, void by the resignation of the Rev. Abel
John Ram.

Dowymo-rnuarr, Juvr 27.—The Queen hag
been pleased to appoint Frederick Shabael Pianism Esq.,
to be Colonial Surveyor for her Majesty's settlement of
Sierra Laone, on the Western Coast of Africa.
CLARENCE-HOWL, ST. JAMES'S, Jut 23.—The
Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh has been pleased
to appoint Oscar Clayton, Esq., MD., to be Surgeon in
Ordinary to his Royal Highness.

THE CASE or Ms. SAHEB PRZZLING WILKIN-
1031.—Amongst the parliamentary papers issued this morn-
ing is the copy of a petition to the Hones of Commons,
presented by Mt. J. It Wilkinson, late of the Joint Stock
Diseount Company, praying for further inquiry into his
case with a view to granting him relief. After recount-
ing his own early history Mr. Wilkinson proem& to give
an account of the history and progress of the company
referred to, and of the circumstances which led to his trial
and conviction on the charge of having fraudulently ap-
plied money belonging to the company to his own nee and
benefit. He then refers to the proceedings taken against
certain creditors of the company, and to the facts there-
upon disclosed, which led to his liberation from custody
after an imprisonment of eighteen months ; bat the effect
of his confinement and degradation is, he says, that he has
been totally ruined, and so reduced in circumstances as to
be dependent upon the casual aid of his family and
strangers for the means of existence, and he is without
remedy of any kind against anybody for compensation.
Under these circumstances he expresses a hope that the
Hone of Commons will take into consideration the suffer-
ings he has endured, and afford him such relief as it may
think fit and proper. _ _ _

Tili WE4Tlll3l.—Yesterday in London the
weather was nearly as hot as on any of its predecessors,
and until the evening a change seemed as far distant as
ever. Between 7 and 8 o'clock, however, black clouds
rolled up from the south-west, and about 11 a heavy
shower fell. The rain then ceased until shortly atter one
this morning, when it again came down steadily for some
time, and after another interval of some hours began to
fall again, shortly before noon.

The reports from the north-western districts of
New South Wales, dated June 1, respecting the dis-
astrous effects of the drought are of a very distressing
nature. The unparalleled long continuance of dry
weather had caused great lase to the settlers.
Essig ARaugoLooicAL BoarrY.—Yesterday the
annual general meeting of the members and Mends of this
society was held at Brentwood, and a very attractive
programme was presented.
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Yesterday evening a large number of the officers
who were engaged in the recent expedition in Abyssinia
dined together at Willis's Roman ffing-street, fit James's.
Lieut.-General Lord Napier of Magdala, 121.C.8., de.
M; and there ware pressmt—Major-Genend Si;
lid:sdEltavelq, K.C.8., Colonel Priam, V.C., Colonel
the Hon. Frederick Thong's Colonel Milward, RA.,
Captain Holland, Captain Watts, Lieutenant Hosier, de.
The North British Daily Mail is informed that
Mr. John Bright, M.P., will shortly pare visit to Soot-
land, to the seat of Mr.T. B. Potter, Pitnacree, and is
sorry to learn that Mr. Bright is suffering so considerably
from the (*cats of his arduous parliamentary duties that
he will require an uninterrupted course of relaxation and
quietness to renovate his health.

Br. PAtres CIIIIRCIITARD.—We bear there is a
project on foot for decorating the external area grate
Paul's Churchyard. At present we see a heap of ve-
stones here and there, some poor scraggy turf struggling
for existence, and some unsightly, moss-grown paving-
stones. It is proposed to plant and cultivate thegrave-
yard portions; to place a drinking fountain of an
exhausted, old fashioned pariah pump ; to erect an archi-
tectural memorial where Paul's Cross once stood; and
to ornament the western approach with statuary. A per-
manent committee has, we understand, been formed for
carrying out the 'project, consisting of the rector and
churchwardens of St. Faith's pan with several inhabi-
tants of St. Paul's Church

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—The Bishop of London
has appointed the following gentlemen to be the preachers
at SL Paul's Cathedral on Sunday mornings during the
month of August, 1868:—Sunday, August 2, the Rev.
JosephTlarriman Hamilton, M.A., of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, incumbent of St. Michael's Church, Chester-square;
Sunday, August 9, the Rev. Robert George Daker, M. A. ,of
Trinity College, Cambridge, vicar of All Saints, Fulham;
Sunday, August 16, and Sunday, August 23, the Rev.
William Sparrow Simpson, M.A., of Queen's College,
Cambridge, rector of St. Mathews's, Friday-street; Sun-
day, August 30, the Rev. Thomas Griffith, M.A., of St.
John's College, Cambridge, incumbent of Ram's Chapel,
Homerton.