The Express. — London, England, 1857-04-11 00:00:00

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The word Liberal, how ever, cows oath a multitude of political opinions that we shall be Wined to watch a little how the sew Haw works bane we feel entitled to decide whether or not it adequately represents the strong wastes of the English mind that the time is now folly ripe for an immediate and extensive measure of Parilementary Reform. The liberalism of the can didata whose election is doubtful is one thing—the Illierallwa of the M.P. whose seat is sure is very apt to be quite another thing. On the hustings., hoe to doe with a middle claw eager for the satessisa of their privileges, and a non-electoral claw timorous for the cosoremion of their righter the paha= of a vane liberalism is an easy homers to the neesesity of the moment esti the spirit of the abilities. In the atmosphere of the clubs this bedtime and insulated virtue is not Lei in giving way to the blandishments of society. the persiflage of plowmen, and the suppled seiner of party. Men soon get ashammi pas e2sholleg a purism which is ridiculous in s MA the austerely sawn virtue of the indspeelbei emilliele speedily sahebs into that docile senkliseele he tie reasssion of the Secretary of the Tommy rani hymn so towhing a prat of the modest .calfsiewp Whoa of the British ihestor. After Paz meet has owe fairly gat Weelher it will be rosier to peen sootiest* and deg le mat. At the sew doe, ion appmemem or. met than mealy Welke% Awe era be Ude lemihm that the People, as well as Lord PerhilailleN, ben secured a majority in the new Have et Clammem r and we believe it greatly rests with the pee mil that portion of the press by which its and isdeseis I are advocated, to keep that majority to its and imperatively praising work—the readjustment et de the representative system to the actual weals., a• time. When even Conservatives of so deep • a Sir lemuot InLT have discovered nil 1 the seonsity of extending the right of Le d 1 those who are spialifled for its exercise kr Ws of education and residence, it must be the bell dee coustitaencies, or of those whose duty it is leigeekes ' their behalf, if an extensive measure of Parliswebey Berens is not successfully griped upon a Hewes. dear 1 and decisive majority of which is profeceedly Liked. And with this extension of the setter there mot come, as it was well put is the address et on al the metropolitan candidates, "Triennial Perlis:Dent% le mike that extenuate of selbsge a power, the Bast to make its exercise honest, and an Equal Division of Electoral Districts to make it just." Such is the out line of that new Reform Bill which Lord PALYII - of course is not prepared to grant, which the new Reuse very likely will not be advanced enough to support, but with lees than which the people will sot and ought not to be ultimately contested. Leaving for the moment the questions of a shortened duration of Parliament and a more equal division of the electoral districts, it is away not too much to expect from the new Reuse that it will be prepared to support by a &sided majority both vote by ballot and residential, oomideeil with educational, suffrage. We purposely kW these two portions of the reform programme is Ow bawls we end, much to oar regret, and still wee to oar surpass, that certain influential womb= of the Libra party still suffer themselves to be ple► pleased by an objection to the Ballot, in whisk ihr our own parts, even with the present limitable eff the suffrage, we can see no force, and to whit them who now attach importance to it miff de= all, v • the sir nee objection Is 111de. where the buy of . the framilies is a tibia the aimmissesse eigarela. Ilea le the gimewhelemdilit whet. 'eweemehrive eer- _sallisho ns would be = smash= o ens Ifewslise nag% Ilbsy assolsist would be? And yet surely so amain is clearer, vsloothor Limo or ecumnon sees', than &it, that !rule' pease reiseeeieri jeri pro as istrodwele. Zak thiesima, is the Mt answer. You ergo against the islet an objection preheardly taken as behalf at the non-electors, which the nou-eleeton would themselves be the first to repudiate. But, setoodly, we demur to the supervision theory altogether. If a teen is Not it to be masted with the Whop exespt nadir the inspection of his neighbours, he is not At to be traded with it at all. Again, the ohlectisa, as Wag as it it sustained, goes to perpetuate anal sad flagrant them and barialdp, out ci alleged desire to avoid a faitaithl asses and hardship. Dose anyone really toilers that If the prams electors, without any suffrage extenaon, cou ld vote remedy, their votes would be more unfa vourable to the interests or more opposed to the wishes of the nowelestors than now that they Tote openly ? Bat if no one does or can believe this, is it not ious that the alleged danger of the betrayal ci the ncm-sisetors by the secret Toting of the electors is • chimerical and daager—a pretty enough theoretical ab jection for a half or insincere thinker, bat an of whisk a reload sad mincers thinker bad better get I rid es soon as potable? But on the other hand, is it not squally plain—too plain for argument—ed. emitted, in bet, ea all hands—that the evils arising from the supervision of the humbler clam of electors by the more powerful class is pregnant with 'vib— rato, Notorious, sad lamentable? Are, than, these universally admitted evils to be perpetuated beanies them is a remote potability that once perhaps in am thoemad imitation • new kind of odiodalot might ormativably arise hem their abolition? Even assoming, thou. that there were to be so Bicommion of the Bangs, we wholly fail to me any prey imp Ames whatever in the orpiment spina the SAN waded ea the euppeeed right et the wa iled= to naprvim the Totes of the destoes. At the elm dm we most readily milt that the Ballot is oat be itself an infallible mina tee the _____stile at the espremmtatire spin. Until Ihe mange Ile mide nodtheareae[ Tollag er ag bmged. ammemim ausret sea% Omagh a timeidasebts imporami. wadi ale calle d a tenth girt ci the admeingee w th lair east amain- Menses It would be capable et walkdag. Even thus, we may esMy eballinge any me, mat the vic tim of tentimsatal fallacies, to point eat nig harm it ie capable of doing—all that can be eSY b that in certain coon, ouch as the smaller beraughe for imams, it could do but little geed. Ad mitting all this, however, it is no argument spinet the ballot, bat a strong argument for extending the suffrage and equalising the con stituencies. We published in our yesterday's im pression the text of the law by which the ballot has been established in oar wealthy and flourishing (o kay of Victoria. The entirely satisfactory working of that law is already familiar to oar readers. Who can doubt that if the Englishelectors and non-electors ware free to choose for themselves, they would establish hare what their countrymen have taken the earliest opportunity ofestablishing there ? And yet we are told by great political authorities that to concede the Ballot without extending the Suffrage would be to infringe the rights of the non-electors. It is to be hoped that we have pretty nearly heard the last of such en argument as this. The People have a right to expect that Suffrage Extension and Vote by Ballot will both be carried by large majori ties in the New Rows of Commons. AlllDfr the absorbing interest of the general election, the half-yearly report, mid meetings of our Railway Companies have beer allowed to pass almost without comment. Let us endeavour, iron late, partially to sepair iie asision lid& has been in SIM *gees eeseilide. 'lt, prospects of English Whew poe, eon- AMA as a whole, are unimblelly •oving. BA hailear an increased dispagiles b sired to allies lee acts of railway administedre. soh% es they Mod the vigilance of shareholder lernssing um active, become more cautious theorises, The ihrrions in the press have, beyond surd" or Idholtd ready, of late yeses, towards &salmi or haviipat expenditure, inducing more herr& so. I ressesb ansrr a t: de As velop ri me b n lie t of IRO% ad ben.* aro stsysey to bear upon the fIISOM I voirs of noway accounts, the voice et Rio inniellire has acquired more practical hihraco. We cannot help thinking that the isreoved financial position to which most of the chief English railway companies are gradually at taining is in great measure traceable to these public dismission'. Such being the ease, railway reformers have the strangest pamible motive for persevering in their watchful attitude. Whilst recognising with satisfaction the present tendency towards a better state of things, they should remember that much yet remains to be accomplished. Of the numerous rail way companies of the kingdom two have of late been pre-eminent for an objectionable system —viz., the Eastern Counties and Great West ern. Within the last few months the direc tion of the former has been remodelled, and the proprietor. have thus far every reason to be gratified with the changes effected. Attention is now chiefly directed to the Great Wistern Company, in which the germ exists of an agitation that will probably at no distant period either lead to im portant modifications of management, or alto gether displace the present executive. What we are especially anxious, however, to impress upon railway reformers is, that attention should not be too much concentrated upon the affairs of any one Company. A gue rilla warfare must be purred; in every part of the kingdom shareholders, when assem bled in public meeting, ought to perseveringly demand from their directors explanations of each objectionable feature of the half-yearly balance sheets. If the explanations afforded be unsatisfac tory, the widest possible publicity should be given to the facts in the press. In saying this, we are not addressing osrselves to mere speculators in railway stock, but to bona fide permanent holders, whose earnest and natural desire is to see the railway in terest purified by the abolition of abuses still too rife. This is the class to whose sound sense and steady co-operation we look for the resuscitation of railway property. The field for exertion is a wide one, for it will be found on examination that, despite the program gradually achieved of late years, there cula S tis is ear el our great companies that is not by SO/20 palpable abuse, either financial If eve. As an illustration we may refer to the Irroaddre and Yorkshire Railway Company, whisk hot scant bat its half-yearly marls M IliSmissler. 'W a comparatively dirt this Company les rads grit sides Made . Its mils *WOW a arbsd broom rul li r tl dividssis lave srposeted how 11 per mt. to II per cent.,l!S hew being the ante last dared. The The repay. recently perribei ANSI i 1 steady increase of gross remit, ~.belts in connexion with the growing essmoss of LiverpooL The working expenses have at the same time been reduced, and hopes arc held oat of I a farther " material decrease" in the cost of fuel would be no cogency at all, were tl extended to its jut limits. The c Secret voting is indefensible, wb scuelectors is large, because th trust owe the exercise of which have a right to exercise a nurvisio ariplaitat. To u we confess it carries ever. It admits of two perfectly cos Thievight of supervision, &wended sea-elesten, to ate which they won] the fat to restates. Poll the Renew ea the question, whether, I t• have a► immediate extension at t/ veabler wield net have en Wawa 1611 01 Ma lily erne lade 'Nth E?PIITS3, The snits of tide tianpanis aseemit was sine ldghly eatideetary, emplomi milk the pod*. of this Important item he the behemeoliseb d riles railway trade:taking. The seem' oseinat, it has been debited with an anewest el ler work dose daring the half-year, seed ois. &tad with the meal appropriation from rennet ef 38,0001., so that the balance to the debit of tai seems now stands at cooly 17,6481., the balsams lefeeskt from the 30th Jane Ism having been as meek as 34,398/. All theme points are justly ye. essied with favour by the proprietors. But we meet now tarn to the his re-assuring side of the platers. The only allusion made in the directs'', meet to the state of the rolling stock models of the bare statement that " the rolling stock is email t i lh i e ng efiverintemdeete to be in good earlihis • to the balimeeetseet, we find that, .iieihr the head el " working stock," the additheal men &me d the past hell-year wee as lesemelive Mock, 12,3001.; carriage dot, ; waggon stack, 14,9631. ; carrying and alkesillemesus stook, 4,0921. These sums make a total of 111V1371., added to the Company's capital for this pupae. The entire cost of the working sleek is thumbed to 4173,9391. Now, Oh Me of SUM bears no seleportant proportion to the gpeite say 318,09111, which has been dishthelei AMNIA on the WOW sheme ; end it was rise dy lesembent on the died= to show that they mew Jellied in cheetei the oneret to " espied? Poe Se yoe hulaseir he Immelleg public, and he lie sehhr Ilea et oehthi tiessbelfiss, points d this matte' disreed he Meet sqlsoilra in railway stab nele sal • sow where the hirsedso is with hid sea pespls will at anus hie Oh se valid, scphseatits out be assigned. The plat now raised is of the mom impulses seribesi in ommexion with the propomel date dkerlemi to create additional capital to the maim= extent of 787,5001. Convinced as we me hat this policy of constantly making enormous Widow to capital goes fez to account for the meenesne retire character of railway investors., la this emuitry, we have seratiniesil with care the seasons urged by the directors he Os ems now dueled; and we feel bound to helms het they de eat esrry conviction with them. The mot of he proceed ings runs thus : The Chairma mislaid that it was asessesly to aim this additional capital is odor putty to regimes sums bslosBtag to capital scostat at pliant paid sat at mantis and portly to imam acconamodstioa at Adios% to blows rolling stock, sad to relay porticos sf the Ike with new rolls. Ths stos ssaissiad as capital frecoaat beyond receipts was up wards of 300,0001., sad the sea rsepdred to lumen accost, wisdom flee War iscrannima Salle mess estimatoi at 400,0001. The statics accoommodatica and rain dock had already Moo below their wants. This is all the explanation vouchsafed by the board for adding more than three-quarters d a million sterling to the permanent ellerge of he undertaking. The fact, m stated hp the Chaiseelhe that upwards of 300,0001. of the sum, foe vlie sanction has just been athedhaselreadyiesseepsediek merely furnishes another proof et the easy esithre, with which railway beards call spa their ash taents to endorse their financial policy. Probably the SUMS in question have been borrowed from tinse l to time from the Company's bankers or other parties, but have at length grown so large that the directors thought the time ripe for casting the whole upon "capital." Then, again, as regards the good round sum of 400,0001. demanded to provide accommodation for the increased traffic, what assu rance have we, beyond the mere fps* dizie of the Chairman, that this amount can fairly be charged to capital ? What assurance have the shareholders that they are not providing out of capital money which ought properly, either wholly or in part, to be provided out of revenue ? The point is one of vital importance ; for, if the suspicions engendered are well founded, the Company u, to a certain ex tent, paying dividend* out of capital, and this we hold to be one of the most flagrant, dishonest, and widely mischievous of all railway abuses. The Report, with singular candour, alleges as one of the meow why the issue of new capital has not been proposed at an earlier period, the " wish of the directors to see the stock at par, and the shareholders in receipt of a 6 per cent, divi dend." And this brings us back to the question, has the dividend been unfairly screwed up to 6 per cent., by charging to capital the 36,7371. expended on working stock during the last half-year? It is symptomatic of the ease with which directors too frequently manage matters at public meetings that the shareholders, without further investigation, at once, and apparently as a matter of course, sanctioned the proposed increase of the capital by 787,3001. We, on our part, should neglect our duty if wo failed to draw attention to the facts, to raise a question as to the entire iota fides of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's dividend, and to caution shareholders generally against the dangerous facility with which sanction is given to such heavy additions to rail way capital. Whilst these are continued, what railway proprietor can believe implicitly that his dividend represents a real and honest profit ? (est- I The German Gazette of Bucharest publishes an address of the Caimacan, Prince ALEXANDLE OHM, to the Council of Ministers and to the Me tropolitan, enjoining the observance of impartiality in the approaching elections, forbidding the chiefs of provinces from interfering with any other view than to keep order, and threatening to punish any attempts at corruption or intimidation. Nothing caul be fairer than this document, whisk evinces respect for the opinion or the presence of the Commissaries. The British Consul-General, Mr. COLQ1:1101nr, has hitherto patronised and suggested a very different language to the Government, giving his full support to their tyrannical and absurd acts. Indeed Mr. CAMACHOUN is answerable for all the follies of the Government, for he selected and ap pointed it. That Sir HENRY BULWIR is animated by a very different spirit is evident from the address of the Caimacan. But whether such language is anything more than an attempt to deceive the Commissariat • and the European public still remains doubtful. For the ministers of ALEXANDER OAHU are most of them as retrograde as they are incapable. Until about six weeks back the Wallachians suf fered all the rigour that a stupid police could indict. They dare not meet, dart not talk. No such thing as a journal was allowed. And to breathe an opinion favourable to the Union, instantly drew down dismissal on a functionary. All of a sudden, after the appearance of the declaration in favour of the union in the Moniteur, the Ministerial severity collapsed. The police became inactive, journals started up, and, the Austrians withdrawing at the same time, every one met, spoke, and wrote as they pleased. Instead of allowing this to last through the elections, Turkey has remonstrated, nay, collected troops. How can Turkey as a Government be ex pected to understand the working of an elective or free system? Ramis has insisted on Turkey with drawing her troops from the Danube. But the Cannican's Government has obeyed injunctions from Constantinople in the suppression of the Wallachian news. In Moldavia matters are worse, for there there baa been no interval of liberty. Young VOGORIDES sesirs, - nansed by the Porte without consult leg a side Ambassador. England and France, as wall es Austria, yore taken by eurpries on horning the nomination. The circumstance is seamier far Hie anglish end the Austrians red to insult co Itsiglai the sondestios of Hoepodars is the hands of the Ports, Ranee= PAOLA Myhre promised that they should always be consulted. Yet, at the first opportunity, they are not consulted at all, the Porte noesiaating a Fanariot. Woman= he. made a ministry oosagesed of ultra -Angrier' and ultra-Ras elan elements. And, al muse, he has prohibited every journal, and prima puoirrely as COBOXERI Or 0011T mum', would desire. The attempt to govern in this manner without troops is dangerous. The liberal Bayard% with their peasantry, will defy the Go vernment in the elution,. And the only resource of Worming's will be to create & disturbance, in order to find a pretext to all in the Austrians or the Turks. the Porte was well advised, it would seek to retain its bold over the Principalities by concilia ting than. The Moldo-Wallechs do not seek or desire to throw off Turkish suzerainty, provided the Turks measure that sanerainty by the treaties and espitulations which their greatest Sultans thought it wise, politic, and just to enter into with the Rottman people. If the Turks will tear these treaties, will enact the part of immediate sovereigns and retain all power in the Principalities, each es they have wielded them lest months, then they will certainly have the Moldo-Wallschs for enemies, and will find them to be what the Lombards are to the Austrians, easel arbor .frovisositi. But Austria has a disciplined and numerous army, with no great and hostile power an her Italian frontier, reedy to take advan tage al her tyranny end her faults. If Turkey will not sondseenrd to conciliate the Reassure, and rant them at boot the same privileges which she has granted to /Jervis, there is not a single Ream of the five millions who will not become Russian in heart and in hope. And should this be asess plished, and engrained into the sentiments of the Moldo-Wallacba, we fear much for the consequenem. Some writers argue, that the more independent the Turks make the Roumans, the more Remise they will become. History belies the assertion. As long as the suzerain Turks respected the geosi-inde pendence of the Roumans, so long did the Rumens successfully resist Pole, and Austrian, and Russian. It was only when Turkey oppressed, and disarmed, and reduced the Rumens to nullity, that Russia began to encroach and at last pushed her mastery to the Danube. This was the result, not of Turkey's granting mere independence to the Moldo-Wallachs, but the posi tive catesquence of her not respecting that degree of independence which was their traditional, and diplomatic, and historic right. It is argued, that the Moldo-Wallachs resemble the Tartars of tho Crimea, and that when the Porte consented to the independence of those Tartan and their Princes, Russia swallowed them up. There is not the lent similitude in the two eases. The Crimean Tartan were Mahommedans, who looked to the SULTAN as the chief of their religion and the lord of their race. For the SULTAN to have abandoned them was impolicy and weakness. The Crimean Tartan bad not a population of more than a quarter of a million. They could only resist Russia by the aid of Ottoman armies sent by sea. Ramie was at their doors with an overwhelming force, end Turkey was too far, too disorganised, and too weak to defend them. Moldavia is just as far, and the Porte just as un able to defend Jassy, us it was to defend Caffa. And when the Moldo-Walachs were left solely de pendent upon Turkish military support, Russia conquered them ; and Russia would do so again to morrow if Moldo-Wallachia be flung back to the status quo of the last century. But the Moldo-Wal lochs are not, like the Crimean Tartars, a mere quarter of a million. They are five millions of men, Christians too, not Mahommedans, with a national pride and a history full of military glory. The Moldo-Wallachs arc strong enough to defend them selves against Russia, and all they require from Turkey and from Europe is timely support, with liberty to enjoy their ancient privileges, and provide for their own defence. APRIL 11, I&7A Cbt Court. Him Royal Highness the Prince, the Prince of Wake, the Prisms Royal, the Princesses Akre sad Heim, the Prisms of Helmick* Lasisobarg, the Prime no dm, the leas and gladness of the emit, sad the domes tic lassednad, attended diviee amiss putted', in the private chapel of Beekieghara Palace. The Him end Very Rev. the Dm of Winder* calletaied. The CiPtoll tad Priam drove out in the Amon In la oPma oerimge. The Duchies of Heat took a carriage drive yesterday. Daggett's from the governor, of the Anibal= cokmiss, sad also from the Governor of the Malvinas, men received yesterday at the Colonial-cake. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry will team town early in the ensuing week art Peri.. The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers will leave town in a few days, on a visit to Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Ensby, at Orizosthorps, Lincolnshire. The noble earl remains in town• . _ . The Earl of Wilton arrived in town, a few days since, from Melton Mowbray. The Earl Cawdor has left Carmarthen to join the Counties, who la staying on a visit with the Countess of Ellesmere, at Ratchford, Cobham, Surrey. Admiral the Hon. Richard Dundas has arrived in town from • visit to the Earl and Countess of Westmore land, at Apthoepe Home. Northamptonshire. We ( Weskra Times) have the pleasure to elate that Lord John Russell has oontributed one hundred pounds to the expenses of the committee for conducting Mr. Buller's election. Ilia lordship L, we understand, expected at Castle Hill to spend the Easter holidays. ILLNESS OF THE BISHOP OP GLOUCESTER AND BIUSTOL.—The public feeling ham been awakened by reports of the alarming illness of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bris tol. The Bristol Gazette of Thursday is authorised to state that Dr. Watson and Dr. Burroughs, having been in great anxiety about him on Saturday end Sunday last, now pro nounce the bishop to be out of danger, but In a Mato of ex • emote weakness, and unable for the present to transact any of the duties connected with his diocese. The Pays announces, as official news from London, that the Grand Duke Constantine will visit England, and may be expected in London in the second fortnight of May. General Totleben, the famous Russian engineer, is jest now at Paris, and all the French officers of distinction hasten to his hotel to do him honour. Ws ( United Service Gestic) hope devoutly that he purposes paying England a visit when France shall have eshausted her courtesies. We are convinced that the British ofikers—the British coext— end the public at large, will rejoice to have an opportunity of paying generous homage to so distinguishad a soldier. The Chevalier do Sell, one of the functionaries • , attached to the Ministry of Conamwoe at Vienna, blew oat his brat= a few days back, to cosaaptence of heavy losses by Bourse speculations. Madame Otto Ooldamidt gave birth, on the 31st ult., at Dresden, to s daughter. The Duchess do Montpcnsier hada fatale-couch* on the 31st nit. at Madrid. It is expected that the King of Bavaria will ar rive in Paris &boat the 15th of May. Kb Majesty, Maxim'. Nag 11., is 46 years of sp. He ascended the throne on the 21st March, 1348. iL04217121CA the "Jur owes -4l IT. Ohms the lfeasehor.) If the mind si this country were governed by almemee, owleinly the °presides should carry everything bin it. Whet a army of debating power ia promnied by Lord Derby, Lord Lynd hand, Ph. Oledeleme, Mr James Graham, Mr. Sid ney Hastert, mad, an merle% Mr. Disraeli. But what Is the id ef lids dowse% what doss it tell for, what is it good kr, what tangible materiel results can be shades ? It really erne to be nothing more than a reel pedemence, wbkh is beard with plasm% applauded, end hem no sad. Then le no dart extending to the eerie* gat Mien d ons. TM thing la all operatic, re et Me. tai ef preemie reason. To glowers a cards snit el sigh in readily accorded, bat there IN so =mew at thejnignent be M. Oa the statism ile mull spier emehniese es OrevnieL The decline d *germ is a fermen-phes ef ser time nod seeing the purr Mies( its illerces, the only metier of swim le that se math is left of a Ire so inellbetumL The mug lamely misheined MOM nod arlier-edhet mind, embed with masselneas and aerighillermrel pipes, seek es wen pos eurs& by horn Jos ph Hens, are to the lag tae more tics • meek he the dory debating powers. Theme wine a haft newt and harnes, in spite at the ridicule of the prig leer, the Mew has a &sting admired:a, no perm red held, no *glib air. We her hem walling with swath mirky eh Mori' ✓ast dike pewees of drama is this deeds. lit. OM- Mr went dews yodel he the Ineyers my) to le Ogle the betlie el Ids bathe-In-law, Sir elephie Ohms, spied Mr. Karp. In the old Mesta& phrase, he eat down Wore the phial, awl ponied away at it with all his powers ciremh. He me net in eh hid militia, he we. not the dew-eplitler, he Mr better than to try the mnapitynkel relieemenle a Flier Be spice roundly imsgb, too mundly to squire hi similar with With, ad lime wee of the darer in hie henwpwa, amp, beak the rile. It we the plenums tried me it • mill nib bargees. Mr. Orkstone did not scruple to tell the Flints kir that the bodge& of the government would harem the expo.= by 6,000,0001., or, aa he phrased it repesendly, that It wail pick the people's pother Is that meat. He der sweat them that the inoose-tax would lie pepened, to If the braced expenditure die misilry, ad amek mare to the same perm. In all this Mr. Ole& slew Mewed clear of his mid halt of Minim qualifying, end uphialeg. Me hewer, if they believed him, met have supposed that the goverment ms adding On mouse to the Merges et hit yew, end laying no Wicked duties no tea and mgr. Ikerestaa of rieernt sat, le winkle Demosthenes Ms ern • mem me never noes ushilered by Id the that of Mr. Gladstone in Flintaire. hortien seed pars lest all their helps to hie invective. Time we also no lack of perseverance end pertinacity. He besieged in set form, and thundered away day after day, unifying against the estravesmer end imormities of the Palmer* administration, mil priding spirt the Ms it is Why ing on the Ismer et the nation, sad the iatimirial te tercets. And what owns of all this drum in Wiry? Nothing, abeetaisly sothieg, loader et the r. ; sou mood perhaps in eMet. Mr. Konya, to vilify whom (es that gentlemen says) Mr. Gladeine, the most element men of hie time, bad come down expire lam Oxford, we sherd by a majority of nearly 300, the numbers having been 1,148 to 867. Had all Mr. GitedeteMs powers of epode re a single rote—duped the meet dimple vote? The ear we more probably the other way, and we sniped that Mr. Gladstone with his bluster did bat moat the part played by Borer of old on the traveller's cloak. If Mr Stephen Glynn. pareases any priers be will depreere his brother-in-law's peculiar Wee the next time he pre sents himself as a can/Mate, and breech him to transfer his advocacy to some enemy's cense. Mr. Gladstone be longs to that claw of men who are commonly said to be "too clever by half," and that moiety in exam is away, committing him to some miscarriage. He did better when ho had more temper. Since his budget was touched the pea= of the mother kr her young, called by the Greeks the storm, has premed him to • furious degree, carry ing him out of all his farrow obeervances end proprieties. The change reminds as of a day the late Lord Holland applied to a similar iniennee atlas metamorphosis., the Life Guards intomaide oftworr,and the maids of honour into Life Guards, in which escheats of parts the Lid Gnarls as ladles, though rather over mescaline he pit, did keep themselves within some Wanda of drawl ; while tie maids of honour, unerring in jack bona, exoteded all the licence of the barrack-yard, sod scandalised Colonel Orrin himself. THE BEGISTILITION (Front the Solicitors' Journal.) We print the report of the Registration Commis sion. AU the twang points which had to be decided be fore a working scheme could be framed will there be found fully end ably discussed; and we think that few who study the report with nisi will hesitate to concur in the commis sioners' conclusions as to the general form which the machi nery of registration should he made to assume. The part of the proposed arrangements which is most open to question is, the suggestion of separate registry for ownership, charges, and levee. With respect to the last, it is certainly true that the intents crested under building limas are, is ordinary dealings, seldom mixed up with the ante of the freeholder; end this is, perhaps, a sunniest reason why they should hare a special register, on which the title to the tern . . say apples., gaited of lesviag ft fn the positket of en equitable or unregistered ownership, subordinate to the n• gietered fee. Neither can it be denied that some advent/gee would result Ikon having a &Want register of al the in• ___Dior an met fain. It weal be no small gds, that wiry araefro darned Ids mussy would know at mos dm gale* le which be was otitis% and the amount of air usallsr sharps us the inheritance. On the other hand, raw dear haw the commaissimess propose to recon- Ilie trims Wilk the esalbramors el the facility which is noweeirpei by the swan al seal property for raising money by a dumb we lame OA me odes at registration will be satiafec tory to the immrsda weld which has the effect of disclos ing to any eushiss beim the extent to which the real pro lattY of a.spant age at any time, be mortgaged; and, In principle, the mmalaffassem fully recognise the scoemity of arietakars Wen ths illualties of obtaining ten:quer, loans orlthsetthis publicity denigration. Indeed, they consider it mudtbsezeng points attbsir proposed method of registration, that it would improve the security of lenders by way of equitable mortgage. So far aa the details of this put of the scheme am shadowed forth by the report, the idea memo to be that every registered landowner shall, upon registration, receive a certificate, and that, on every bander of the nes- , tared ownership, the old oartilleate shall be cancelled, and a new one Maned to the transferee. This, in fact, is just what is done by railway companies on banshee of stock ; and if the land registration were confined to • single record of ownership, as is the cam with stock, it is clear that the possession of the oertlAcals would effectually pre vent • fraudulent transfer, and would place the mortgagee with whom it was deposited in perfect security. But the working of the whams would be somewhat less simple if • register of incumbrancas were created, as suggested, side by side with a register of ownership. The Commissioners recommend that the priority of charges shall depend upon the order in which they may be placed on the register of charges, and that unre gistered charge* shall be protected only in the same way as other unregistered interests. The protection to bo afforded to such interests is by means of inhibitions or caveats, which are to operate like stop-orders on a fund in court, or distringams on stock, and to prevent any dealing without notice to the person by whom the caveat may have been entered. This would suffice in all came where no objection exieted to the entry of a caveat; but we should think that a man who bad raised money by • deposit which he wished to keep secret, would be loath to .ee the name of an aesurance OEO3 Of of a Jew discounter figuring among the caveats entered against ble property. In point of fact, there would be shame as much publicity by such a course as if the in cumbranoe were regularly entered on the list of regis tered charges, the only difference being that the caveat need not disclose the amount of the loan. It is quite clear, therefore, that same means must bo found for protecting lenders on deposit other than • system of caveats, which is free enough from objection when nerd merely to guard the ulterior interests under • settlement. The only way in which such loans could be made perfectly secure without publicity would be by giving to the mere pomession of the certificate the name power of preventing any dealing with the land which would be obtained by attain a caveat For this purpose it would only be necessary to enact that no fresh chugs should be' entered on the register without the production of the eld metiticate, and theft all such inesunbranoee Should thereupon be tedmeed upon the oretificate WON it is restored to the hands at the owner. If this mete done, the deposits@ of • certificate would be in • batter position than en eqtddable mortgagee enjoys •ow. It is possible, though not always very ossy, for • houdelest mortgagor to create • legal mortgage after having do. pointed his deeds to enure an advance. If he can succeed In explaining the absence of the deeds, so &I to blind the legs! mortgagee, the slot is in the absence of gross negligence on the part of the mond in anbrencer, to give him priority over the equitable charge which was that created ; end many b a d cams have occurred in which equitable mortgagees have been deprived in this way of their security. Bat if the production of the certificate were • 8414 god am to the creation of a new registered charge, the parson with whom the document was deposited might met assured that nothing which could happen behind kb back could possibly inmhdate his security on the land. We hare bees led to enlarge on the necessity of a plu vial= of this kind, because the report itself is not very es. plicit on the subject; and the till which is added, by way of appendix, seems to contemplate the creation of charm, by the mere written comment of the registered owner, without requiring the certificate to be produced. le Ibis form, the measure would trench very seriously OR the power ot raining money wily, or lending it safely, upon a deposit ; and some such provision se we ham mentioned seem to be needed to remove all doubt as to this essential point. It is, perhaps, not quite fair to criticise the details of a bill which the amorninioners put forward rather as a specimen to show the possibility of carrying a scheme of registration into practice, than as a perfect measure, which they are prepared to intro. duce without shanties. In some respects, indeed, the commissioners tell us that the bill differs from the mem. aims contained in the repeat, and the subject is Wades -7 so complicated that no measure ought to be Muted TM gnslly approved until it hex been thoroughly ventilated in the profession, as was done with the only succemful statutes which have been passed in modern tunes on the subject of rial property law. In pointing out what appears to be a *Brio= omission in the present draft, we are not seeking to cavil at the work fur which the profession has good reran to be grateful to the Commiaalon, but rather to contribute oar mite of suggestion towards a valuable reform. There are other parted the measure to which we shall hematter have to refer, but the importance of meaning the balks for temporary mortgages is so fully recognised by tbs report, and is so obvious in itself, that any doubt sa to the o ' of the whom on such transactions seemed to for our earliest attention. Regietration affords the means of greatly facilitating loans of this description, and it is the more essential that the general scheme should nut be Impaired by a want of precision in so material a point. BATH.—Mr. A. E. Way, the liberal-conservative candidate, in a letter to the Bath Chronicle, contradime a report that he had abandoned his intention of instituting a parliamentary scrutiny of the votes recorded for Mr. Tits at the lota election. Mr. Way expenses his deter mination to tarry out the scrutiny to the last vote. AN AUSTRALIAN OPINION.—The Adelaide Ob• asysar rye: " The chief thing that smuts our notice in cue nualffiet with this business (the bombardment of Canton) is ▪ reglatig, end, we might slued add, the rionchelasee wilt Ilia tb ooesdfogs are Initiated by the Britiah effiniaal. • arises; a few hasty despatches are for e/Wel Se 'ffiewsnerYek ;* the replies ere not conidend maillinamer; Ileammi-twenty hours are then graciously aimedUM miinggypotentate ; and as bar answer is Ina meseffillestley: the twenty-fifth hour witnessesthe bee lembeent Ms wises and the tlring of his capital. No &nig GIMPRIMOM 'Ai was in the wrong, and Admiral Sey mew ebeffiglet gMO doubt it wan eufficiently provoking Ikea lei mods by the British ousel' were net seffiseleil wlri .liar-aad-twenty hours.' Nu doubt, Ikm~eq Ike banhseimesi of Canton, under such circum stances, was molly • wake We do not complain of it; we only tomcat such extraordinary promptitude in the Chinese waters with the dilatory policy that suffered a whole season to depute in the Euxine and en the Baltic ; we only contrast the War-and-twenty hours' warning greeted by Admiral Seymour to Governor Yeh with the weeks and months of precious time frittered away in the elegant sun ties of our Parisian and Viennese diplomatists. It is, how ever, no trifie to bombard Canton, especially when the red hot shot is directed, in the Bret instance, toward the palace, and ' what appeared to be the treasury.' It is no tribe to pour in upon a crowded city like Canton, and almost without warning, a storm of iron hail, causing 000dagnatiens in every direction, and compelling the unfortunate inhabitants to abandon their property, and to hurry bean the city in thousands.' We should cell this gather sharp practice, as occurring upon twenty-four hours' notice, and especially as compared with the policy that spared Odessa when both right and might availed for its downfall." SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WHEAT.—The Victorian market is Moly so be superseded fa the estimation of the South Meridian bunters, if we are to believe the subjoined extract from the Register :—" We understand that arrange ments are now being made. on a somewhat extensive scale, for exporting when to England. At the pekes ruling in the London market, a very good margin is now permuted to ex porters. Taking the London averages for hest wheat at 70e. per quarter, and the Adelaide averages at 405., a margin of 30s remains, of which about 200. would be absorbed in ex penses, leaving some Ito. a quarter profit. In addition to this must bo reckoned the premium at which South Austra lian wheat always sells in the English market, and which, at the present _time, would be above the average, on account of the twed character of a considerable portion of last season's home harvest. We understand that the banks are read to make advances to the extent of 4s. per bushel upon causignmeaL of wheat for England ; and we du have rea son to believe that several of the leading merchants of Ade laid/sere prepared to advance to respectable parties se high u 6s. per bushel, upon bills of lading, for goodi wheat, and to charge reasonable rates of freight. Uuder these circum stances we may, therefore, not unreasonably anticipate ea tecurive shipments before long, eapecially at the present rate exchanges."—Neldourne Herald, Feb. 6. EXODUS OF FREE COLOURED PEOPLE FROM FLORIDA.-111 consequence of the recent stringent enact ments in Florida, touching their interest, forbidding trade with them and appointing guardians over thou, a large number of the free coloured population of Pensacola, mechanics, de., have determined upon chartering a marl in the spring and emigrating in a body beyond the confines of the Lnitd States, Tampico being their immediate destine tion.—ffilerkston Standard. RAILWAY RECEIPTS.—The traffic returns of rail ezrimin the United Kingdom, publiahed for the week April 4, amounted to 420,3471., and for the earns irgtweek of 1856 to 407,6731., showing an inerenre of The gross receipts of the eight railways having their tarraini in the metropolis amounted, for the week ending u above, to 172.3671. ; and for the cnrresponding week of last veer to 170,131!., showing en increase of 2,2561. The increase on the Eastern Counties Railway amounted to 9501. ; on the Great Northern, to 981. ; on the Groat Western, to 1,2141 .; on the London and North Western, '7631. ; on the London, Brighton, and South east, to 72/. ; and on the London and South Western, to 205/. total, 1302/. But from this must be deducted 571., the decrease on the London and Blackwell, and 989!. on the South Erman; together, 1,046/. ; leaving the in reuse as above, 2.2561. The receipts on the other lines in the United Kingdom amounted to 247,0801., end for the cor responding period of 1856, to 237,542/. ; showing an increase of 10,4181. in the receipts of those lines, which, added to the increase on the metropolitan lines, makes the total in crease 12,6741. as compared with the corresponding week of 1866. Tan IinvENENT OF GLACIERS.—In fact the gla cier is a river of ice, and the ;tire is its source. What is the tackling, and rushing, and grawag one hears all day upon a glacier ?—lt is the noise otf ice-torrent. What are the long line of masses of rock of all gees, from mere splinters, to huge blocks as big as a house, which one sees nattered along the flanks of the glacier, and ranged in the middle wherever two glaciers have joined into one ? These ore the sticks and straws which are being floated down by the ice river. In fact, the some prune is gnng on in the walla of the glacier valley., as in all other rocks which are expensed to great alternations of temperature and moisture. Massa, constantly being split off, fall down; in an ordinary valley they would accumulate at the foot of its cli ff s, and if the rod at any particular point were being more rapidly destroyed than elsewhere, It would produce a great conical heap or talus"—seic.h as every Alpine traveller must have con stantly remarked. But where the fragments fell upon a glacier, they are constantly carried down with the florin; mane; and then Instead of forming heaps, they are arranged in those long, linear aggregations known as lateral and me dial " morainn."—Wastiriiiiiter Bellew, new number. THE KIT-RAT CLUB.—The Whig leaders, on their part, had their club in Shire-lane, at the house of a famous mutton-pieman, one Christopher Katt ; from when the club, and the pies that formed a standing dish st the club-suppers, both took their name of "Kit-Kt." The portraits of the members were all painted for old Jacob Tore son, the bookeeller, and secretary of the club, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, on canvases of a uniform rise, thirty-Kix huhu by twenty-sight, since known among portrait-paint/in sa '•• kit-kat" size. It is lard to believe, as we pick our wsl along the narrow and filthy pathway of Shire-lane, that it this blind alley, some 150 years ago, wed to meet miry a 1 the finest gentlemen and choicest wits of the days of Qom, Anne and the first George. inside one of those frowsy so low-called MOMP,—now tenanted by abandoned aorom., devoted to the sale of greengroceries and email coal,—Hahhf has conversed and Somers unbent, Addison mellowed of a bottle, Congreve fleshed his wit Vanbrugh Ist loose ne easy humour, Garth talked and rhymed. The Dikes d Somerset, Richmond, Grafton, Devonshire. Marlboro f b ' and Newcastle, the Earls of Dorset, Sunderland, Mandarin Wharton, and Kingston ; Sir Robert Walpole, Omar& Maynwaring, Stepney, and Welch , — all belongsd_t to the Kit-Kt. The club was literary and gallant, as political. The members subscribed four hundred for the encouragement of good comedies, in 17 6 r: toasting-glasses, each inscribed with a verse to WO "toast" or reigning beauty of the limo, were long fines' The beauties have returned to dust, the dl since shivered ; !tut the mess reimetn.--/ttronal me OA new number.. for thr eta a imi alr tat