The Express. — London, England, 1868-11-11 00:00:00

DELICIOUS COFFEE. WILIJAII and OZOWII LAW, coniss 11 ailtellAWTA ut. qguirc. lIIIVORmATRIIWr. Oith bait DIiNS CLASBIO JIiWAL f. alio, I. I I LAN,bLLVKM MICDAL 1867. JOHN :i)101'8 111-earat OOLD OILLUDI. T7--WIN _ i--______ ii0G1021 4 13 kiItACEL2II4. JOHN NJ Ofr.141:1 BROOCHES. OW4 liNuuDlo4'B G A SH aad WEDDING R JOHN Mt°UMW'S NECKLACBS. JOHN RitOODffilli RUIRINOB. LGDIAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY. NO. 16, lIIWILIZITA-STREHT. Coyest- Sofia QANGSTERS' UMBRELLAS (Four Prise Wash areeded), resesta Wrsimes—All risme of Pox sad tW's ewteteserd mato their Wed" mirk. lie prom. sehearee fte rah" are Irrimel test Itaftemar•' Voter it have test some ad that their es/7 gee& bashassts er• leseeeetreet: : ft l em ahlrohl I Revd izabange.-7(.1. Merv" Warr sad mi D •IL N We. PlllO3 OW. MM. *CALM ul MASAI= PIM Wi Um! L LI. almon= WNW OOMPIURIK er. WORTS 1.111/1108 sad ILSO 1 7 lbw 10 4 w Ob 1 • TION2 MILL NOTICES U de. II • do. 1 0 YIIRLIO ooKr A Num taluatubso. as, I do. 4 • do. 7 • Ditto, &cm. 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Stuart. twat Matthews, to.—And • UPLAND BALLET D'At'l 10N ruthhai BLDA. HAYMARKRT. Till- Erman, Yaws. Rwers, and ti. rdon Mimeo Burke and Winght.—Lrall. H owe. Dawn., F. itti,kstnne, Se ; M es d ames Batman, Pttzwillim, St^. —JuaJ lILS klitta CRAMPAONII. ileum Campton. Tata *mum THE Aran. TEE WEDDINO.— AlFllit Latish: CALE OE LONDON LITIL Kr. Vials*, Yeas. Walter Lacy, Ontaktielt Murray, Harootut, Mum. ; Mimeo E. Parn(tt and Roe. Laterreq.—Aad MASTER amours QUEEN'S THEATIA _ LOK G-AC 22. Manager. Kr. W. L. Taut Imam, at L THE LANCASHIEI LASS. Kowa Irving, L. Drawly Stenbean Wyndham. Clayton, and IL limorr: illradanwe Hodson , liontanna, and Way Kass. And THE NTEANOER, RAMA:B THAN EVES. Kr. L Branch. sonars. TEI Wayne, at 7. A WIDoW HUNT. M.ears. Clarke, Petard. and Join oe,. Button and Wratland.—Tlll MILD OP' 7EII Ctl.Cfri ; M oe,.. Thorne, Jam..., Robson. and Fenton; Kiss Goodall, tee—and BILUMAGI AT ANY 221C3. Tan !Mink IL TEOVAT)RE. Mesas. Reynolds. Pitt, Chu% n, and Pstwood Mesdames Harcourt. Cqvensy, Booth, Br.—Mr. A. Itennokf.—And THE OLD, tILD OTORT. Mn. t. Dire. NM WA? ♦T LONDON 11111/DOIL To-DAr —Karam lA. itia.......Altasea. Ilk. Rm. Trit•saew —Moran, Ob. 055.—...11210280" 011. Um OTICZ. Omar at Bans. Nisai N mus, sal Dawns, am noshei lista 1$ Wale* kw hinnies am evislas. Pries b. 111. A SECOND EDITION of Um EXPRESS, corrAnatio Tka Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Spirting, and General Intelligence, EVERY EVENING. LO2VDOX, WEDNESDAY, NOv.ll. THF ELECTIONS AND 7'HR DAtirIER OF BRIBERY. PAkLIAMENT is dissolved to-day. To-night will be conveyed through the Poet-office the write for the election of a new House of Commons. The " sovereign people " will in a few days be called on to exercise the serious and sacred duty of choosing the men who are to compose at once the most powerful and the most popular organ of the Constitution. How far the coming elections will differ from those which have taken place under the old law it is at present impossible to say. The con ditions of the context are so entirely changed that election agents and candidates are now beginning to realise the full meaning of Lord DERBY'S "leap •. in the dark." Old traditions, of course, are powerful over them, but they have an uneasy sus picion that those traditions may mislead them. The old organisations still put themselves in action, but they find that a power has arisen around them which knows them not. The old local leaders, accustomed to manipulate elec tions in their boroughs, find the power to do so slipping through their fingers. Probably it is for this reason that we hear so much said about the probability of extensive corruption ut the coming •lectikn. According to some writers the next rarlisnecit is to be a plutocracy, and they have elretely styled it by anticipation the capitalist l'arlipecerst. But persons who are practically ngag(ll in borough elections assure us that the signs at present are rather against the probability of this result. The Reform Act itself, by so vastly increasing the number of electors, by disfranchising all paid agents what soever, and by forbidding the conveyance of voters to the poll, has cut off two gnat sources of the illegitimate influence of wealth, and rendered the exercise of that influence in other dinetions more complicated and difficult. Under the old system every bribeable man in a constituency was well known, and his price was quotable in the market. The Tory agent knew the Liberals he could buy if Le doubled the Liberal offer ; the Liberal agent* knew the Tories they mould win by the same process. But now, in moat towns the new constituency hoe outnumbered the old one, and nobody yet knows what, from the point of view of election agents, the new men are made of. It is continually complained that •' nobody knows who's who now." Then, too, it is rather more difficult than it used to be to apply the pc euniary test to the political virtue of the new voters. The Corrupt Practices Act has not added much to the penalties of bribery, but it has made the machinery for its discovery and punish ment far more efficient that it has over been before. t will Le a dangerous thing to offer money to a man whose corruptibility is not fully and certainly known. Indeed, it will be a dangerous thing to singer bribes et ell, unless both parties to the transaction are ui on that footing of dishonouraMe lc Grab:nee which corruption 1,10e515. Such con gide:ices, however, take years to e4tablivii. They ..L^~ rra~y THE E, cannot be improvised with respeot to so class as the nowly-enfrenehised voters. agents of corruption must feel t'. air way, will do so with so great an additional sense certainty and danger as will opale heavy discouragement in their week. will they feel as much contempt " petition" as they have hitherto shown. presentation of sueh a petition is easier , was, and its trial will be a very different ani much more formidable thing when oonduoted by a judge upon the spot than it was in a committee room of the House of Commons. In theseoironm stances, and under all these disoouragement", we cannot see resew to anticipate any unusual ex tent of corruption in the approaching elections. There may possibly be but little less, but we can not believe there will be sure; and, though there may be a larger number of petitions, they will be due rather to the greater facilities for petitioning than to any breakdown of the law for suppreselog, bribery. One other fact mud be named which may have considerable influence on the chances of corrupt influence being widely influential. Hit to bribery has thriven in towns where the divides of the electors between the two parties wee Mau , : ably close, But, with the exception of the purely agricultural boroughs, that division is not only . far lees close than it was. but a vastly prepaid'• rating power has been given to the Moral side. In Birmingham it is found that nearly all the now electors are extreme Liberals, and the preponderating Liberal majority is be lieved to be sufficient, not only to counteract the ingenious device of the minority clause, but to give the lowest of the three Liberals a clear majo rity of 4,000 votes over the highest of the Tories. In many other large towns a similar result is antici pated, and the only danger to Liberalism in such boroughs is that the new electors look for candi dates of a too advanced type to be pleasing to the mor c moderate section of the party. But this pro ponderance is fatal to the arts of corruption. It renders those arta needless on the ono side and us, lees on the other. There is no possibility of safely bribing many hundreds of voters in one constituency, yet there are few borough constitu. encies—exoept those of small agricultural boroughs—in which the purchase of many hun dreds of votes will not be needful to influence the result. We believe that all these considerations will tell so formidably against corruption that, with a little watchfulness on the part of those who desire to suppress it, •it may oven now be eliminated from many constituencies which, in other times, have boon unfavourably aft,eted by it. Cu, to discern idea in numerous cases. presence WHAT 18 ITI Tun subjoined advertisement appears oonspi enously in the seoond oolumn of the Mom : 11 B.—Retained alree for the Conservative irellutesee.. rt "rtiu mad vtai rg r e snes= l" Lit a legal gentleman with • fluent tongue or front of brass, and no particular prissolides, "re " Mined to eons* formed at the last mement as • third or fourth " liberal" candidate, to open a breach for • Tory omaidae to pass through P Or is it limply a distinguished pugilist, or a select troupe of roughs P OUR ca mils DAY.) a tears .L sereureor. The Timea ooatabre ea elaborate review of the histrei of the reformed parliament from 1131 to the pre sent thee, and arrives at the general criarinsion that the country has governed itself, and can chasers impulses in that respect with any former period. The moral, how ever, of this history is the vary contrary of what it was to be by au enticipatiome. One fault has pervaded all the governorate of the period, and that was that they have really not kept pace with the natural progress of the nation, with its nermaities, or its sentiments. In the sense of metro!, there has been too much government; in the higher sense of animating and guiding the life of the nation, there has been too little. All the great resistances have, however, failed, while many petty victories of conservatism only remind us of what Is now to be done. The political mate is not deteriorated. The traditions are almost intact. It is still as difficult as ever for men of inferior metal or lees calibre to force their way to the frost. If anybody expects a dissolution of political manners and prejudices in the days that are at band be is expecting probably what his father expected before him, and the event may possibly prose him wiser than his father; but it also may prove hies to be no wiser, and that is the alternative which the Tinn thinks the more probable of the two. 1 . 0 NNW POLMC/J. LIPS. The Doily News thinks it difficult to imagine a period more fruitful of results than that on which the leaf hat kit been turned. The revolution which England has weed through has been a revolution of thoughts, feel ings, and policy, rather than of institutions. All the ex tarsal feature*, eo to speak, of the constitution remain the mom The throne, the Rouse of Lords, the church, us in appaaraisoe what they were. But the spirit of everything has been renewed. Possibly the new political generation on which England enters to-day will resemble m its essential features that which is now closed. A new force had obviously become necessary, not simply to give additional strength to, but to continue in its original vigour, the movement dating from 1832. The old impulse had spent itself. Most probably the changes which are impending, whatever they may be, will m little affect the forms of things as the revolution which dates from 1832. XI. DIIMAILL There is nothing, says the Ref, more strange and singular io the career of the Frowsier than the utter care lema with which, at caftan IDOMeltll, is order to make • party:cry, he deals with facts at home and abroad. He appeals to the country m the saviour of the comalitutioa, as the founder of goodwill with America, and as the triumphant pacificator of Europe, bat within a fortnight the elections will slow the value which the country Saar on Hr. Disraeli's estimate of himself and his deeds, and, in spite of his brilliant audacity, he will fall "sever to ries 'gala." The Herald so far einem with the Timm that it is re joiced to think there is still one great statism who will do what in him bee to prevent the debates in parliament and the election speeches from degenerating into as dreary a record as that book on the Wan of Pisa by Oiniciardiai, to the peraal of which a Florentine criminal, who it was armed to him as an alternative punishment. preferred immediate execution of tho than we bins crwried oa MF roh000" , pope modification of mug artitise the *lndy of Pgria, PIO 1 lam of prevailing any singleeM exerShing billnenee is the internal of the Danubian inaipalitiee, sad to roadie the supreme power • Porte over the Priadpotitios leas illusory %hitherto been the owe.' HUNGLItY. I~er' 11* mend** below*. to the 7 17: 1 5 thelltn garb* delegation have Caned their meek in ma ieff el the reeoleeles team by the Lower yesterday Drelative to the title to be borne by seedgas it Austria sod Thuggery. Iliwyeror left for Vienna last night ITALY. 1118114111, Nov. U. last" &Nisi& boat Psycho has arrived Hcr Imo, • mow: dam trivia Hadyidoa is daily ovoidal bin, whoa oho will mho& tho Earl of Mayo, tie mow "%away of India. rn (Via Briiliel.) BOMBAY, Oar. 24. It is announoed that Muscat has fallen without a atingle, and that flynd Botha, the Imam, has been deposed and suceeeded by the chief of the Wschabres. Te cotton crops in Behar are reported to be most luxuriant. Cholera has almost disappeared at Bombay. Terms of peace have been oonoludad with the tribes of the Hussunzym, Ahamies, and Cbiggursales, and alio with the Bands of the Purraroe district. The exixditionery fords is how operating against the independent Bwateee. Bieknee-s is on the increase among the troops owing to the recent hardships and exposure during the mountain warfare. Accounts received from Bajpootans, in Central India, are still very unfavourable as regards the impending famine. CALCUTTA. OCT. 20. The meteorological department has organised the system of storm signals to be exhibited at seve ral prominent places in this city. Reports from Assam represent the condition of all crops as satisfactory. SINGAPORE, Oar. 9._ A public meeting has been convened at the Town Hall to protest against a breach of faith on the part of the Home Government with that colony in the matter of military contribution. SHANGHAI. Barr. 26. The survey of the Yellow River in China under taken under the auspices of the Asiatic Society, bad commenced. _ Mr. Cooper had reached as far as Bathange when the Chinese authorities refused to allow him to cross over into Thibet. He has fallen back upon the Bliamo route in the direction of Calcutta. At Hong Kong the fees for gambling licenses have increased from 136,000 to 206,000 dollars per 11311111111. _ _ Advice. from Yokohama to the 20th state that the political aspect of affairs has undergone no AXIIRICA. RIM YORK. No•. 10. Closing prices : Gold closed at 1341; the highest quotation during the day was 1351; the lowest, 1343 ; sterling exchange on London, 1091 ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1085 ; ditto, 1885, 1065 ; ditto,lB6s, 109 j; 10-40 United States Bonds, 105; Illinois, 142; Erie, 39 ; Cotton, middling upland, 241; petroleum, standard white, 273 ; flour, extra State, 6 dole. 45c. to 7 dolls. sc. ; corn, old mixed. 116 doh,. advocates, the bit. opening . Bsudin Nation-4k an 01.31 - ," pawed memory, Oreini's crime. That such a law should v seventeen years of empire. after the amnesty, and after the letter of hammy 19, is astounding. Of two things, one, either the government is influenced by has leper, fears, or it feels itself in reel danger. In the latter ease, what becomes of the repeated esseveratione of the Alicia press, that the old poetise are reds:ate a stall without any soldiers? The latest sews of the health of Baron James de Biotheoldid is fee from eatiefeetory ; he has peened a bad night Romini is not much better. The Curt of Palsy who mane to me him wee politely refused Mais el= to the sick chamber. The Pope's Nuncio paid the maestro a short ridi the other day, but gavelullatee by asking whether he had lately per il:l:mit& the duties of a good catholic. l i e _ AN ANGAGBNANT rirm MAUS. * met x Darlira , 46Vh. al 1 ... an armoaat of • "Med wrgsgpossal with *rake at CheaCtd. The teas Ches.Chilas, bum tune issassmorial, °Detained • perslaticw el pirates, who have reedssed the transport of seercimedise from the esteem by the River Han a matter of extreme difilsalty sad dearer, sad may bays been the complaiats el asseeheate whose boats lave been pleadered in light of the ships awaiting their cargo in the harbour of Swetow. .. . . . .. . . . " It amens," says& correspondent, "that on an unlucky day, times rascals fired epee and robbed a boat that was bringing down stores for her Majesty's gunboat Bustard, and ill-treated a British subject in charge ; upon which the officer commanding the Bastard demanded of the authorities the immediate apprehension and punishment of the offenders. The chit mandarin replied that he wculd most wiringly comply with the demand, but that he was rot ab'e t do so, as the town of C'hoo. Chi was tri ugly fortified, and too well manned and armed to be attacked by the force at his disposal. On the 2)th of June last, whether in obedience to superior orders or on hie own respoosibility does not appear, Lieutenant Cecil Jot uson, commanding the Bustard, steamed up the river and anchored at about a mile and a quarter from the town of Chop-Chi. Having madearrengements with some man darins commanding 300 troops, Lieutenant Johnson sun mooed the town to surrender. This was at once peremp torily refused, and he landed, accompanied by fir. Thompson, acting British consul at Swatow, as interpreter, and Dr. Jones, also of that place, who had volunteered to attend the wounded, there being no medical officer on board the Bustard. Lieutenant Johnson placed himself et the head of the mandarin's troops, and marched on ' the town, which was well fortified, and mounted two guns. The Chinese troops seem to have fol lowed we 4 under a fire from two guns and a large body of small-arm men, until they got inside the outer stockade, when suddenly they came upon ground that was staked with spikes of iron and hard wood, and being with out shoes, and exposed to a galling fire, their further advance became an impossibility, so they retired, the wounded being well cared for by Dr. Jones. Finding it impossible to storm the place with the small number of Englishmen under his command, and it being evident that the pirates could bring at least 600 men to any given point, Lieutenant Johnson returned on board his gun- Wet and weed fire on the place, which was kept up till dark. In the night of the 29th Lieutenant Johnson landed a 24-pounder howitzer, which, manned alro tected by 16 men from the Bustard, was got into positi on within 600 yards of the forti fi cations, and opened upon them on the morning of the 30th. After some hours fire had breached the earthworks of the inner fortificatione, the imperial troops again took courage and followed the English lieutenant to the assault; they were, however, driven back with great less, and it was only after two lays' bombardment, and when the town wee on fire in several places, that Lieutenant Johnson succeeded. with 24 at has own men, in getting pommies of the town, which, having levelled its fortilostions and burnt the stockades, he handed over to the mandarin authorities." The Hwy Keay Daily Rem says that the town of Choo- Chi sten& in an opsnain surrounded by rice fields. The ferliiketiens eowskeed of two lines of earthworks, three lines of deep breed ditches tilled with water, and, outside all, a strong banshee stockade, the whole covered by two heavy guns of English manufacture. The town of Moo- Chi, having become rich from centuries of plunder, has long been the terror of the mandarins, and a source of great lore and anxiety to the merchants of Swatow, to whose thanks, the imeW paper states, Lieutenant Johnson is entitled, for having taken and placed under imperial control this den of robbers. Zbt Court. WIN — DOOR COSTLY!, Nov. 10. The Queen drove out yesterday morning, accom panied by the Princess of Wales, and walked with Prinee4.s Louise in the grounds in the afternoon. The whole of the royal family and Count Gkichen dined with the QOlllll. _ _ . After dinner Der Majesty's private bend played in the drawing-room before the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal), Prince and Primal Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess Bestrice, and Princess Charlotte of Petunia. . . . The ladies and gentlemen in waiting and visitors at the Castle had the honour of joining the royal party. The following bad the honour of being invited after dinner:—The Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's, General the Hon. C. and Mn. Grey, Colonel the Hon. D. and Lady Elisabeth de Roe, the Hon. Mrs. Ponsonby, M., Madame. and Miss Van de Weyer, the Dean of Windior, Captain Arthur Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. 0. D. Engl....heart, Mr. Collins, and Mr. Woodward. The band played the following selection : Overture, " Roy Rim". . . . Allegretto, "et gisfertio" Demo ekeiloodukatio, " Memos et Dwane. C. tiosoxl. Overture, " Borame" F. &tuber , MT de Billet, "Lee Rogoeseirr .. ... . .... rar eir Overture, "_ (pens" licaklmohe Beethoven'. Im Bouquet der Demo Wawa The Queen went out this storming, accompanied by Princess Beatrice and Princess Charlotte of Prussia. The Princes, of Wales and the Crown Prince.. of Prussia also went out. The Queen of the Netherlands visited her Majesty to day, and remained to luncheon. Ifer Majesty was SC\lOll3. panied by the Crown Prince of Prussia, who visited the Queen of the Netherlands in London this morning. On her Majesty's arrival at the Castle she was received at the entrance by the Queen and the royal family. at tended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting. The Queen of the Netherlands. attended by the County" Bentinek, Baroness de Dedem, Count Itandwyck, and Captain Oeraerts , de Simoinhaven. returned to London by the Great Western Railway in the afteruoon. Count Gleichen, General Sir William Knolly., Mr. Fisher. Dr. HoL:mann. and Ur. ltob.•rtc.m. b•ft the Castle this morning. Major-General F. Seymour, C. 8., has filllCANWhili W. H. F. Cavendish as Groom in Waiting. The Queen will hold acouncil at Windsor Castle to-day (Wednesday). 'Vines Hassan, second von of the Viceroy of Egypt., had an interview with Lord Stanley at the Foreign-otriee yes terday. It ie understood that the reversion of the Mar quis of Hastings in the whole of the family eatute e. both in England and Scotland, was some time sine* sold to his Oster. Count von Normann, seuretary to hie Royal Rigtutees the Crown Prince of Prussia, has left the Palace Hotel, Buckingham-gate, for Berlin. Lord and Lady Nigel Kennedy and family have left their residence in Grosvenor-place for the Continent for the winter. Lady Leigh and the Hon. Miss Leigh, Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart., and Lady Octavio and Miss Stewart have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley- square. Hir Walter Riddell, Kart.. and Lady Riddell have arrived at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham-gate, from the Palace, ILaidetoue. Tehterday morning the Earl of March, eldest eon of the Duke of Richmond, wail married to Mize Amy lacy 'Moira°. eldi , t daughter of Mr. Percy Rioardio, at St. Venn. Chtint, Knightdiridge. Captain Chaplin acted as giconurten. The bridesmaids were the doter and two totieine of the bride end two other young ladled No ininudiate relatives of the bridegroom appear to have been prevent. LONDON AMUSEMEN (THIS EVENING.) -----•• Dsuav Las." A V aid limb." " Rim 011osie." " Balla" ? (Mom. Havausarr.—° Err lhaving." "Lea" "Er Tint Ohm. Lae"—T (a*. Assura.—""Up Ise Ur CaLlio are." ")Leib Oirlo." Thererfe.—" Tin Dee Ater Ur W•idair." " Mkt Dirk.* " glare haft Vtrairy."-1 ram*. Lawor.—" Lai he ThreeU." "The itighttel lisle."-- bees*. Oara.—"llkehae sal Cadre." "TM Yellow Parer.* —V tide*. Qaeroe.—" Tie Crashes Leas." " The ereagee, &mew them Iter."-1 reef. Tee pranisee re rat. 812"Tae Warr Hour." "The MO et the mu. et " "Ilisserge at Lay Preer."—lath rank. Pukes Wirres.—" LW I" " Ihelity."-130 rieek. liewsww.—"lhow it Wow." "Imwelik r, Oar& Diatesss."—/ debut. Rovaion.—" La VW Often is and (leiL" " The lie all IVA a Mark " The Oleekrekro e Hr." —ea deka. iv san.—" WWI /Bay." "Load Bats sad Wake 11.4." "Ileriail Mr ares."—T thlssic. aimaa's Whoa.—" Hmist."—T.O. ROTA& Asourniaassa, 11144.30111, Ards. Bosses is, to arm. illis.-1.311 ear& ItarroorrA.—" n 'hovels's." " 21s 014 ou suer 41 litarlPAßO.—" Doasse." Saloctioso bon " pub." sal Ns "71bo Ikhoot tor Scosiot."—, Wink. Cowry Karensta, YT. JaN/ell zeTrlnAl PIOOIJOILLT.-10. Vissitasi Slaw . _ . teimist.--11 ✓a.& /WAIL Pamencesm.- or advt. 1t.,.. , Towers's. Mattis Oriels, &e.—l'or partinalm. MR. BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM. Mr. Bright yesterdsyevening, in oomplisnoe wit► a anaseroualy limed requisition, addressed a crowded meet. lag of the gun trade of Birmingham in the Town-hall. Mr. Wm. Soon preeided ; and =conga theee present were Mr. Dixon and Mr. Muntz, the liberal candidates for t►e bon:mgt. ; and Mr. G. F. Muntz and Mr. Flower, the liberal candidate for the representation of North War. wickshire. The CHAIBYAN, in opening the proceedings, said that up to the Crimean war the government of this oocntry had alway 6 relied upon the gun trade of Birmingham tar its supply of small arms for the public service. At that time the government stocks were at a very low ebb, and commissions were sent out to Belgium and America, he: he believed not a single rifle was received from either country during that struggle. At the same emu the now enormous establishment of the government et Eutr.:d was begun; but he believed that it .L.I n o , furnirli a single arm until 18.58. He complainel .tren.ey of the injury done by that establishment to the gun wets of Birmingham. and characterised it as mod unfair set unjust to that department of the trade of the town, whisk in the great emergency of the Crimean war, and all pre vious occasions, had rendered such good serviee to the country. In conclusion, he strongly appealed to the tam ben of the country to return representatives who would apply all their energies to redress this monstrous piece injustice. Mr. BRIGHT, who on riming was received with meek chewing, paid—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, if we were to jug/e by the advertisement under which this meeting has been assembled we should conclude that it was one not only of a peculiar character, but that it had reference to private, or sectional, or trade interests, rather than the great interests of the country ; but I understand that those by whom this meeting has been convened have no intention whatever of urging upon their present or their future representatives any course in regard to say particular trade or industry which shall not be consistent with the true policy of government and the true interests of all portions of the people. 'Sheen.) I have always been of opinion that it was a great mistake for the government to undertake the chine ter of manufacturers. I believe it is so with re gard to the building of ships. I believe it is so with re• gard to the manufacture of clothing for the army. I believe it is so likewise in the manufacturing of true.; and I recollect that so long ago as 40 years since a committee of the House of Commons peered a resolution which seems to me to include nearly all that can be said upon this matter. In the year 1828 a committee of the of Commons reported thus :—" The committee are not disposed to place implicit reliance on the arguments which have been urged by some public department. against the contracts by competition, and in favour of work by themselves—the latter plan occasions the employment of a great many officers, clerks. artificers. and workmen, and not only adds to the patronage, but te the appearance and the importance of • department . ear can the committee suffer themselves to feel any prejudice against the contract system by reference to some instances of failure ; they believe that most cases of failure may be attributed to negligence or ignorance in the management of contracts rather than to the system itself, - Now. ii I were to put into one sentence my opinion upon du , matter, I should quote this sentence, which I find in a speech-the most able speech on this question I suspect eve , spoken in the House of Commons by our lamented friend Mr. Cobden. (Cheers.) On the 22nd of July. within lee than a year of his death. be delivered this speech ; and this is an extract from it. He says:—•• This is the principle that I have always advocated—that the government ought not to be allowed to manufacture for itself any article which can be obtained from private producers in a competitive market—(cheers)--and if we have entered upon a false system in this respect, we ought so far es poadble, pomible, to retrace our steps .' (Hear, hear.) Now. if all the speakers to-night devoted all their attention exclu sively to this topic, they would not be able more thoroughly to examine the whole question and to explain it than as done in this speech. (Hear, bear.) The etPendi ture of our ivernment is excessive in every depart ment—(cheer —and wherever it is exceed there exceeded grows up rap* y a powerful interest which is not in har mony with the Interest of the people. (Cheers.) Every man who lives on the public expenditure, whatever be his service, comes natura lly to have an interest—a personal in terest--which, if he is not very careful, takes sides velar the interstate of the taxpayer—(mar. hear) —and you have in this country. with your expenditure, your mili tary expenditure only--I mean military an naval—you have an expenditure of more thee 28,000,000/. per annum ; and there live upon that 26,000,000/.. so vast a body of men—men looking for better wages, better salaries higher Promotion. 'lil t they form necessarily a moat powerful ineuenoe, saner constantly upon the executive. and against the interests the taxpayer. (Hear, hear.) . Let me tell you this: the present House of Commons. on its present system, seem= to be whollyincapable of contending with thei power. Io fact, many scores of men are Mee/teed in this expenda tute. I suspect May hundreds who have seats in that house—and if you will trace fora moment the manner in which the expenditure is determined on and the este mates are p ropueoloou will see how di ffi cult it is for three members for Birmingham, or for thirty, to make much difference in this matter. The heads of departments — the Horse Guanle for the army, the Admiralty for the navy produce certain proposals with regard to expenditure which are laid before the caleuct ; but the public are never heard et the Hone Guards, or at the Admiralty. (Hear, hear.) I hare not referred to any throne le preparation for this meeting. but I suppose that within the led twenty years, or little more, the expenditure of the country has risen by nearly 20.000.0..1W. per annum. I peppiest,. that sauce the t ine when the Puke of Wellington and ter Robert l'oel wen? at the head of the government, a few yearn after the peeing of the Reform Act of lee/ the military expemhturo of the government has been doubled. and all this when the changed, and when we dotetlretend to mdertaketo settle all the a ff airs of Europe--- leughl and when we twe foreign policy of the country has been reformed end told continually that her ajeety's relation.. to . other states are of the most amicable kind, end there o . not so much as the slightest cloud in the sky. Now. what is wanted is an entirely new eystem. and I will in one single sentence tell you a tb estimates should no longer be left to be determined ought to be; in one particular . t he formation .!‘ Hone el uards, or the Admiralty. or the Cabinet ought to be an honestly chosen committee of the H Commons, which pretends to hold the . puno nation —it does so, indeed, but its always in it (Loud cheers.) Vihy stmid of having 6:10 gentlemen, who for ~.. pert know nothing about the mates, to determ ine questions, all the estimates ought to be referred honestly chosen committee of the House of Common that committee ought to go into the consideration whole question, ought to bear opinions to take and make make a report with regard to every item mates which it resents to the house. opiuiou that the time is coming when England will begin to discover that this ~ very grave importance-70 millions a year Seventy millions a year! I got a letter to somebody— I have not brought it with me—but a gentleman who has read what I said the at Edinburgh. Ile tells me that I do anything about seventy millions. for know correctly how much one nulhe and 1w bap sent me a calculation o f how many bat , it would take, pal.d one upon another. and peeved . to resell as high as the Monunieut : but if pin w 70 millions, and think what it is in tee years, 11 Pr ml up its at EXPRESS WEDNESDAY EVE li t , • OVEMBER 11, 8. 8. .....- to la .11, • 0%. • .. i..n ; , when , •• a it mug. m, 04{, .. 2, \ ,‘,), 1 NE W ... Iflg. i i • • I. r.. 14 1 Latirior, ad '" have _,., .. ••. an ..... to which rs. . then ' '''' 1 it.'' '" ? : 7 r A.( - ii 1 t 41 .•z i , edherellf. • ' that the an. „,..• ... l,, g t • \ ! I ( r Bl' ' .) -a' • • flou t for a 7 • tto M. I se I rani ::.- 11 'til to -I ? •.. , I, thei ' , 1 I " le . A r no°. 1 i t , pinion A do - in ' wltle •'' • • 04 ii ll . ( T eirairau 's Lower.) . if . Of - flasscs.'without to 'their " aleidnotiro Anna." . \ A • \.,.. Aye ; 1 4 . meal al fifinsied upon art lion It • odious law of " public safety, for a The risk has only a hypothetical footing in* VlSZflfk, Nov* 11 . undo. 4 i,* . . , ministry, of lugubrious: we. The "each of the honourable gentleman at Tavistook ; in o "see of to-do 1 71 0 702 —" Nifl° 4 aa tim ' s under the exidtoment occasioned by Orsini r than it Lut it is easy to discern iti rte." . " 6 fized ere b e i ii . carr i e d on irs mitemp, „IP, 1109 16 That such a law should be revived after is rained by the ihetv 't▪ he House of purse of the 9 hand is urely, in- ,r the most terrain' , these 'starred to !ommous. ',ration of the aka evidenee. iu the esti- Now 1 am of the pmile of queAlon is of ser of taxes. to•-dalt from -but it vs treat he other day lo n o t know • I did not union was. sy bank-notes asseed down. volt will take 4 "'Oa suillioaa, MR. BRIGHT ON THE ESTIMATES. MR. ItitionT's suggestion last night that a per manent committee upon the Estimates should be appointed by the House of Commons is eminently practical and sound. The general tendency of all governments is to expense, and the existing system of voting the supplies gives a direct encourage ment to extravagance. The nights upon which the largest sums are voted are those when the House seems dullest and most empty ; and the fate awaiting any adventurous advocate of economy is not one to tempt men to undertake the role. The ministry of the day are dependent upon the permanent heads of departments, who have a direct interest in increasing the amounts asked for from Parlia ment ; and when questions are raised by would-be guardians of the public purse, the Government are put on their honour to defend what they have proposed, and the officials behind them rejoice in furnishing the means of doing so. A cross-exami nation of witnesses is impossible. The doubts ex pressed, or the difficulties raised are disposed of by a cut and dry answer drawn up by the department, and the vote is, as a rule, carried as surely as if no objection had been raised. But if every demand for an increase in the esti mates were subjected to the rigid scrutiny of men specially qualified for the examination of accounts every official were made to feel himself person ally responsible for the additions he proposed ; and if the public money were only voted after the delibe ration and reoomniendations of a committee, more good would be done in a single session, than could be accomplished by the labours of the most carnet-minded private members in years. The heads of departments would pause bet ere they in dulged in applications they would have to justify in detail; and instead of the old horse-leech cry to the Treasury of " Give, give !" we should have some of the consideration and forethought which perforce attends the requests for money made to private firms. The new Parliament will disap point the country if it does not succeed in manag ing the national business more cheaply than the one it succeeds; and Mr. BRIGHT'S latest recom mendation merits the attention of all interested in financial reform. PROST ECT IFE DETERIORATION OP THE WORKINU CLASSES. Mn. ARTHUR RUSSELL M.P., has, in a speech made at Tavistoek, boon warning working men against their political flatterers, or courtiers. The spirit of the warning is admirable, and some of the honourable gentleman's remarks seem to us excellent ; but after all, it may be observed in passing that the political flatterers of the working classes are not a very large or prominent body of men. Mr. MILL never flattered them; on the contrary, some of his honest criticisms of working 'lase morals have been dug out of his books and used as election placards by his enemies. Mr. GLADSTONE, it must be confessed, once avowed his conviction that working men were of the same flesh and blood as the members of the House of Commons—a piece of gross flattery, perhaps; st all events he has never been forgiven for it. There is something like humour in one passage of Mr. RUSSELL'S speech as it stands re ported :—" I will tell you why I do not believe in " the sincerity of these courtiers of the working " man. They propose, in the same breath, to im " prove his material welfare and to instruct him "by compulsory education. But when that has " been done, when the working men are ma " terially better off and intellectually better edu " exited, will they differ from the middle classes, " who are so selfish and so bad ' Will they not " lose those distinctive virtues which are the eha " racteristies of the working man ?" But was it ever alleged that the peculiar virtues of the working man arose from his being unlike the middle classes iu respect of his poverty and his ignorance ? or that it was the culture and pros perity of the middle flames that made them poli tically selfish and base ? Class privilege, an un fair share of power, tends to make men base and selfish ; but it is not easy to see why the working classes should lose their distinctive virtues when they are, as they hope to be, better fed and better taught. " For myself," said the honourable gen tleman, " I believe the clay is very far distant " when it will be found necessary for us to warn " the people of this country against the danger of " • 1111 4111014:1-AIM2ZCA1 DISIVTIL The Daily News reminds its readers with respect to the plan speed upon for the settlement of the matters In dispute between England and America, that if Mr. John son represented a constitutional monarchy, the emotion of ►is government would roam to ratify an arrangement of this kind, but, as minister of the United &Mee, his action will need to he confirmed not only by Xr. Andrew Jobs eon and Mr. Seward, but by the Senate at Washington. The powers vested in the American minister are only such as the President sea of himself confer, and, in this view of the case, the Daily Nero thinks that the dabs of opinion in Use United States is possibly deeming of more atten tion than it bee received. The Telegraph remarks that if nothing more than the great result of setting this ecentry on a puteetly clear and ode footing towards America had marked Lord fitanley's tenure of once, there would have been came for thankfulness that the ministry now in pewee hs been able to command, at the Foreign-aloe, the amebas, of one of our most able and most useful put& men. TED The afar urges 01 MOLL 1 sad candidates Is thin - . - country to d irect some portico of their attention to the interests of the Indian aspire; and contends that if mem. ben of the House of Commons were acquainted with the rudiments of Indian policy, they would quickly solve many of the problems that now perplex our statewnen. JIB. ULAL6IWNb ON 71118 BLACKBURN 0 U 2 ad iliii. The following letter was received yesterday by the chairman of the Gladstone Reform Club, Blackburn, from Mr. Gladstone, M.P. "Hawarden, N.W., Noir. 9, 1868. "Sir,-1 thank you for the letter and fur the newspaper with a further amount of those shameful proceedings by which some politicians in Blackburn have disgraced that town in connection with the present elections. The parties concerned, both high and low, would do well to remember th►t their proceedings may forma very proper subject of investigation by the House of Commons, and that the House of Commons is not likely to wont either the will or the power to vindicate freedom of election, and duly to •isit those who attempt to put it down.—l remain sir, your faithful servant, " W. E. GLanwrown.' " To the Chairman of the Gladstone Reform Club." ELUTION OP A MAYOR BT 1118 OWN CASTI!O Vora.—At the customary 9th of November meeting of the Hartlepool Corporation there was a full attendance, over which the mayor (Mr. G. W. Jaffrey) prodded. It wee proposed by Mr. Alderman Grovels, seconded by Mr. Councillor Neilson, that Mr. Councillor White be elected mayor for the ensuing year. As an amendment, Mr. Alderman Graham moved. and Mr. Alderman Walker ascended, that Mr. G. W. Jaffrey be re-elected. On the vote being taken, it wee found that they were equal, end the mayor, in the exercise of his privilege, gave the casting vote in his own favour. A precisely similar state of things occurred when the aldermen were proposed. On examination eirbt votes were found to be for Messrs. White and Todd and eight for Meads. Walker and Alder man, and the mayor gave his vote in favour of the two last-named gentlemen. Cardinal Cullen has issued a pastoral, rolling upon the Roman catholic electors of Ireland to avoid the immoderate nee of intoxicating liquors during the elections, end expressing • hops that the contorts ma be conducted without a resort to bribery. The reminds the constituencies of the many vital interests which are at stake, and points out the necessity for every eitimm to discharge faithfully "the duty which his Navin sod conscience dictate." He adds that no lasting good MU be Ncured by violence of any kiud. The death of Dr. Hillier Mrdicul °Muer of Health for St. Pancras, wee yesterday announced. .; " • OUR PARIS LETTER. WOO* OWi OWN PARIS, TOBIZIAT ETlOrnia. M. Edmond About, once a guest at Compiegne, and now one of the converts to the opposition whose name' were recently cited by M. Prevost Paredol, has an article in the Gaoled', adhering courageously to the Baudin movement, and, with an exquisitely fine pen, holding up to odium and ridicule that constitution which he professes all the while to be restrained by law from discussing. Baudin, on December 3, 1851, when he was shot by Louis Napoleon's suborned soldiers, represented legality and universal suffrage, against lawlessness and perjury. A fortnight later universal suffrage decided, in precisely the same terms as it had said the contrary in 1848, that Prance was not republican. Thenceforth legality was on the side of the author of the coup d'itat, and it was decided that " whatever he might do for the future would always be right." It is now Illegal to question the constitutional omnipotence of a man who is "as fallible as any of us." Although it may be demonstrated " eight millions of times over " that universal suffrage did not know what it was doing, a simple citizen has no right to ex press a wish for a better government. M. About thinks France was better off under the old kings, when to believe nothing against the affirmation of the priests and to do nothing against the will of the monarch was the simple rule of conduct for an honest man. Now, the duty of a loyal citizen is much more compli cated. Universal suffrage is not a principle• but a fact. " Civilisation is but a thin coat of cream floating on a mass of ignorance." But the igno rant mass, manipulated by despotism, is every thing, and the thinking minority nothing. For this state of things France has to thank the short sightedness of the Provisional Government which did not see that a republic and universal suffrage were contradictory terms. If Louis Philippe's ministers had bees better advised and had granted that extension of the suffrage to " capacities " which was so much asked for, a noble stimulus to progress would have been gives ; every successive election would have seen legions of newly qualified electors, and gradually an intel ligent and liberal universal suffrage might have been attained without either anarchy or despotism. As it is, M. About, admitting himself vanquished with that intelligent, but never discouraged mino rity which for 20 years has vainly fought the bat tle of the ballot box with a servile, ignorant mul titude, is resigned to obey the law, and not seek by other than constitutional means a reform of that constitution which he " curses in his heart." Pursuant to orders tele•geaphed from Paris every packet of newspapers despatched from Paris to the province* on liaturday sight was opened, and whenever the Tritass and the clovnir National were found they were taken out and madly-Med. Te drvoir Notional has 11(4.1i MeillNi three days running. iaas