The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-10 00:00:00

bITURB.

HALIFAX. FBLDAT Num.

This evening Mr. Stansfeld, M. 11., in address-
ing the joint committee of himself end Mr. Akroyd,
replied to the speech of Lord H. Lennox. He said the
noble lord seemed to think him (Mr. Stansfeld) a mere
party politician and a party critic; but he denied that
position, and had alike criticised the expenditure of both
liberal and conservative administrations. He had always
endeavoured to do the most exact justice to the heads
of departments, whether liberal or conservative. With
regard to the part of Lord IL Lennox's speech which
dealt with his positive statements and figures, he would
reassert ipsissintses rabic every statement, figure, and in-
ference he had drawn, and would undertake to show that
it was he (Mr. Stausfeld) who had given a correct
view of the policy and expenditure of a department which
Lord H. Lennox was bound to represent, and which he
undertook to defend. His (Mr. Stansfeld's) state-
ment was that in 1867 the conservative govern-
ment bad spent half a million more money than
had been spent in the building of unarmoured
vessels, which wore weak, slow, and entirely unadapted
for fighting purposes. He re-asserted every figure and
word of that speech. Lord H. Lennox had said that this
half million was spent on armour-clad vessels, but he
would prove that statement was the reverse of truth.
Lord H. Lennox had said the estimates would prove
it, which might do at Chichester, but would not
do at Halifax, because there they knew the
difference between estimates and accounts, and he
would prove from both that his (Mr. Stansield's)
statements wore right. He then quoted from a speech made
by Mr. Corry in the last session of parliament, in which
be showed that in the year 1867, a year in which Lord If.
Lennox raid the extra half million was spent on armour-
clad ships, the actual expenditure on unarmoured vessels
was 929.1141., and there was the extra half million. He
then dealt with the remainder of the statements made by
the Secretary to the Admiralty, and concluded by saying.
that if Lord H. Lennox was willing to join the party who
wished for administrative reform, they would willingly
welcome him, but he must not take credit for being first
to speak out on that question.

By the permission of the Commander-in-Chief a
contest in athletic sports will be held on Wednesday next,
the 14th inst., at Beaufort-house, Walborn-green, between
the gentleman cadets of the two military colleges of Wool-
wich and Sandhurst.

The first stone of the Schubert Memorial is to be
laid on the 12th of October.

This evening tho Adelphi Theatre re-opens. A
version of Monte Christ°, in which Mr. Webeter and Mr.
Fechter take part, is the promised novelty.

The new Alfred Theatre, late the Marylebont.
opens this evening, under the management of Mi*s Amy
Sedgwick. An Indian drama, entitled Rides Singh, is to
be performed.

M. Frederic Lem&itre is going through a round
of hie favourite characters at the Ambigu Comique. Re
has commenced with Georges in Tretele des de la Vie
grim imam

Mr. Horace Greeley's Autobiography, which ap-
peared in numbers in the New York Ledger, under the
title " Recollections of a Buoy Life," has been revised by
the author for publication in book form.

Several loiters describing the meteor seen on
the night of the ith are published. A coastguard station
officer at Sandown, Isle of Wight, says About 11.53,
while patrolling the shore, I observed a very brilliant
meteor due south, dropping from a great height, appa-
rently at an angle of about 46 to the horizon, in an
easterly direction. At first it appeared like a small ball of
fire, but it enlarged very rapidly, and, in about two
seconds, increased to such a size as to obscure the moon
and burst at last into what seemed like variegated stars,
springing from a body which assumed the shape of a hug..
luminous diving-bell. I can liken it to nothing else." It
was seen also at Brighton, Sandwich, Leytonstose, and
other places.
MEMORIAM WINDOW.—M will be remembered
that the Hon. Alice Arbuthnot, daughter of the late Lord
and Lady Elves, of Itishmoor Lodge, Wiltshire, was
killed by lightning on her wedding tour, after her mar-
riage with Captain Arbuthnot, of the 14th Hussars,
whilst ascending the Schalt/urn, one Of the Berms Alps,
near Intarlachen, in Switzerland, on June 21, 1863. A
handsome stained-glass window has just been placed in
the east end of the north aisle of the parish church of
Tolland R&M Wiltshire, to her memory. It is by
Berlin!, cd Wan, and has three compartments. The
small wooden cross erected by the peaeanti on the spot
where the unfortunate lady fell, and which has been re-
placed by a marble one, hss been erected on the south
side of the window.
TEE CORNELL UNIVERSITY (UNITED STATES).—
The Ithaca Jaw/6410t the 2.2nd ult., says the executive
committee of the beard of trustees of the Cornell Uni-
versity have osingistad ths purchase of the Mineralogical
Cabinet of Pro/mate Bonjusin Billinian, of Yale College,
New Maven, while, has long been consi•leral one
of the beet in the country. Professor Willman
speaks in regard to it as follows:—" My col-
lection has been formed almost exclusively by my own
personal exertions, during more than twenty /ears of
active cyanoses as a collector in the field, and by the
Mime of eachnnges Instituted from an early day with the
most active collectors both in America and Europe." A
rft of a chime of nine bells has been received from Miss
Janie McGraw of Ithaca. The bells are to be cast by
Mencely and Co., of Troy' the tenor, or largest
beg, essay 2, poands. Ea& bears as
an lines from the beautiful poem on
the Bells, in Tennyson's "In Memo-
risme." The following professors were chosen:—
Professes of Rhstori• and Wey Hon. H. E amps,
late Priasipil at Mete; IC School of Connecticut.
robasco rd Gansral Agriculture' Geobjf —Prof.
C.C.
F. Kart. at present et Oeolegy Botany
yam, boo. r..,Ab050.. Professor of Botany
and ideguseasous.—PreE Prentiss, at present Pro-
roPe iociltoCaProtegmor.c4cligatt
L Morris, of Ovid, N.Y.
, OP Worn or Air. AT
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FOREIGN NEWS,

tTHIS DAY.)

(=sown szarza's Loan )
THE SPANISH REVOLUTION.

VIOLENT ATTACK UPON GONZALES
BRAVO'S SECRETARY.
THE NEW MINISTRY AND THE LEN ).
CRATIC PARTY.

MADRID. Oer. 9, R r
The Secretary of the ex-Prime Minister (1.)1,,4,;,.i
Bravo he. been dangerously wounded by tilt: st,,
in the street.

General Prim made a speech from the balennyq
his house blaming this outrage, and stros4.,
recommending the people to forget
wrongs, and said that former servants of t 4.
Crown ought rather to be spared than massaero..
The leaders of the democratic party have sgr.,o,
to give the present ministry their imam
provided it should continue in favour of a
cratic solution of the pending questions.
Rivoro declared this to the people whom
dressed from the balcony of the. Ministry of
Interior.

BERLIN, OCT. 15,
Several commercial firms in different parts 'J!
the North German Confederation have petttx,,

the Chancellor to despatch some men-of-war u,
Spanish coast and Cuba for the protection
interests of North German traders. The rts.s.,n
this expedition is said to be that much pr..;
of the Confederation, chiefly from Silesia, .
Thuringia, and the Rhenish provinc.,s, i
..4
exported to Spain and to hertransatlanti:
Special stress is also laid upon the fa,:t t:,
number of German firms, eetablished at t! •

port of Barcelona and Dialogs, are interc-•

FRANCE.

PARLS, 1)-r
Tho Emperor and the Empress are exp..;;
arrive here on Monday next.

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERBIII7IIO, 0 1.
An imperial ukase permits soldiers to mtur. •
their homes in such numbers as may be con3i
convenient by the military authorities ; their • *-
lough to last from the 13th instant to the 11_
April next year.
The Russian papers publish advicee fmm -
stating that an Englishman had there
arrested on the charge of exciting the poop.
sedition against the Porte.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, O.

It is stated that a native militia is being f,r
in Bulgaria, by the Porte fur the protectiou •.:
frontier.

AMERICA.

YEW YORK, Ocr.

Mr. Howell Cobb is dead.

THE CONSPIRACY AT CONST,LNTINOi

There seems to be now little doubt of th•-
tenoe of a conspiracy at Constantinople, ai
armed by the North Correspondence.
not yet known with certainty whether att
were actually made upon the life of the . .
but the conspiracy is proved by the arrests w
have just been made at Stamboul. The I
pendance Beige publishes the following letter i.
Constantinople, dated Sept. 29 :

A great deal of attention has been given at Per,
Stamboul to arrests made during the last few day, . •
circumstances which lead to the supposition that
of an unusually grave character. A plot a4a:•.••
safety of the state is freely talked about. Two Ili .•• •
era of the imperial palace in the time of Abdul-Y.
and who continued to be employed in the •.
of the sons of the late Sultan, were arrested on F:.
the village of Saint Stephan°, and taken before t!
One of the prisoners is a Russian subject, the
Greek. An Austrian lady was aftervrarsis arrest . •
two or three females who were with her. . •
immediately followed. Thu examination of the • .
has been in private. I await fuller informati
sending you further particulars ; but people's r: :..• •.•
quite filled with this mysterious affair, which
involve matter of a most serious nature.