The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-05 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5. FROM time to time hints are thrown out by the official and semi-official organs of Government that an increase of a million or two may be expected in the Army and Navy Estimates. A policy so congenial to the traditions of the Tory party will need no excuse or recommendation in the eyes of the rank and file of Lord DrEBY'I3 supporters. And it is studiously suggested that the present circum stances of Europe, the experience of last year's warfare, the uncertainty of the future, the universal armaments, make it imperative that England too should follow the general example of military preparation, and must convince the most economical that the time is one fur expenditure rather than retrenchment. There is much that is true in these pleas. But the truth is so mixed with error or falsehood, and the system which they are adduced to support is one so contrary to the principles of the Liberal party, that it is necessary, even while the scheme is in embryo, to demur to it, and to point out the grounds on which it must receive unqualified opposition, should it come to be formally proposed. The excuse for an increase in the army must resolve itself into one of two alternatives—either we are in danger of being attacked, or we are likely to attack. We do not care at present to discuss the probability of either chance. But there is one element which is common to both cases, and that is, that whether attacked or at tacking, there must be notice before war actually involves us. There can be no descent upon us, no invasion even of any territory of an ally, with out palpable preparation of months beforehand on the part of the Power which takes the initiative. History, ancient or modern, fails to show us any instance in which a great army has been sent into the field without long prior organization, as well as concentration. Though troops may now be rapidly moved by railway, there must he an in evitable and unconcealable prior activity in the preparation of provisions, stores, clothing, ammu nition, in the purchase of horses, in the placing of the medical, the transport, the commis sariat services on a war footing ; and, over and above all, if any expedition by sea is meditated, in the collection of transports and the fitting up of boats. Forewarned, then, we must be, ere we can be attacked. Equally forewarned must we be, in the event of any European combination which might threaten a State to which we felt bound to render active aid—a forewarning in both cases, by signs which the clear-sighted statesman can read, for months before any hostile action can pos sibly be taken. If, then, in these months during which the imminence of war is apparent we can create an army sufficient fur our needs, it is evident that there can be no apology for creating one sooner. Now it is the fact that if we have suitable organi zation an army can be created in that space of time. If we make the service attractive instead of repulsive, if we offer to the soldier good pay, fair treatment, the certainty that he will be intel ligently led, and the prospect of rising if he de serves it, the military spirit which tills our volun teer ranks in time of peace would recruit our re gular troops the moment that war appeared on the horizon. And we can offer all these inducements if wo choose. By saving during peace we shall be able to double or treble the soldier's pay, if need be, when war breaks out. By abolishing purchase, by promoting for desert alone, by insisting un a gentlemanly tone in every regiment, by securing a hearing to every grievance among the men, we can make the service popular and efficient whenever we choose. And when we have got the men, to drill them into all the know ledge.that a private ever employs in service is but the work of a fortnight of steady and intelligent instruction. The occasion for prior preparation extending over a lengthened period is, therefore, not to be found in the ranks, but in the posts above the ranks. For it is an axiom which none who really and practically know the question can doubt, that to make soldiers is hat an affair of weeks, though to create inate'ricl is au affair of months, and to form officers is an affair of years. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1867. The necessity for expenditure in preparation during peace is, then, reduced to the two latter departments. And in neither will the Liberal party be disposed to offer opposition, pro vided that security be given fur a due return for expenditure. Let us have the beat rifles, the best guns, and the best ammunition that Healey can purchase, if only we can be sure that we get the best when we pay for it. But above all let us try to do something to get us a better class of officers. It is here that lies our real de ficiency and our real danger. Wu have enough of them to suffice fur an army double the strength it is at present, according to the proportion be tween officers and men in continental systems. But they have for the must part no military instruc tion. Our szientific services—the Engineers and .Irtilkry—are as well educated as any in the world. But the officers of the infantry and cavalry of the line, and the Guards, know, as a rule, very little more than the drill of the parade ground. What is almost worse, the tone of the sera ice is so unprofessional that few among them care to learn more. They enter to peas a few years of youth, or to buy their way up to rank, or trusting to interest to obtain for them further 'advancement and lucrative occupation. They do not enter for love of the profession of arms, and they do not study its principles. Hence the 'prevalent indifference and almost universal lucent 11,cience—indifferenee and incompetence for which the country pays dearly when war comes, but which it cannot avert by raising more battalions while we are still at peace. What the Liberal party will insist for, then, is not augmentation of number', but increase of efficiency in our army. It will grudge no sums necessary for that end. It will readily vote the amount, heavy though it be, required for the abrogation of the purchase system, knowing well that services given gratuitously cannot, as a rule, be worth much, and determined that when an officer's pay is made a fair reward for ser vice, due competence to perform the service shall be exacted. Whatever also is needed to promote the comfort and health of the soldier will be cheerfully acceded to. But it will not allow these essential reforms to be put out of sight by the alarmists who call for more men. It will rather answer, that part of the cost of making our army more efficient may be recovered by hereafter reducing its numbers. It will refuse to see occasion for keeping 70,000 men in the United Kingdom merely on the pre tence that we may wish to send out an expedition of 50,000 to some point of the Continent. It will require that our fleet be made our sufficient security against invasion. It will insist that our colonies shall be gradually, but rapidly, trained to rely on their own strength for protection from invaders, that India shall maintain a separate army for itself, and that thus the necessity for a great body of troops at home to supply reliefs for abroad shall be removed. To effect these changes is indeed the work at once of time and of prudence. But our object must be to lay the foundation for them, by making the upper branches of the service so really affective that our present force will be enhanced in strength, while we shall be able at brief notice to doable or treble its numbers when the occasion at last arrives. And we cannot afford to be turned from this needful work of improve ment by the demand for more men, in order that the present evil system may be perpetuated and extended. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) The Ti mr+, discussing Italian affairs, expresses its belief that whatever intemperate members of the ex treme opposition may say, no Italian statesman would ever think either of a repudiation of the public debt or of the reduction of its interest from 5 to 3 per cent. The chi 4 fault which the Tiny:finds in Mr. Neato's speech is his laudation of the high tone of morality which he con siders characterises the public life of Mr. Bright —our contemporary instancing Mr. Bright's treatment of Mr. Lowe as one of the facts which lead it to protest against the upholding of the hon. member as an exemplar of political life. Mr. Howell, the surveyor to the vestry of St. James's, Writes a long letter to the Tina with a view of proving the impossibility of procuring the means to remove the snow from the streets at the short notice usually given. The Tutus will not believe a word of it, and taxes the vestries with never having seriously thought how to set about their work. Noticing some of the unfriendly criticisms which have been paned on Baron RinseWs letter upon the reciprocity of freedom between Church and State, the Daily Pears remarks that that statesman is perfectly aware that his interpretation of a free church in a free state is incom patible with the pretensions of a temporal sovereignty. The sole purpose of the letter was to make an appeal to the public opinion of free nations, and there is no reason to doubt that this purpose was attained. The extraordinary state of things now exhibited in Spain is described by the Daily Neal as exhibiting the monarchical principle of government working in its simplest form. It is well that we who at home see the system of which the present rigorous measures are the natural fruit at work, under influences which modify its character as well as restrain its operation, should now and then look abroad, and remark how it works in coon. tries where it flourishes without check or hindrance. Rejoicing in Mr. Lowe's reply to Mr. Gucdalla the Herald says the Reform League are unfortunate in their policy and in their leaders. The first has aroused the aversion of the upper and middle classes—the second exposes them to public obloquy and contempt whenever they unluckily succeed in crossing swords with a gentle. appliances failed to save his bou6c, which was on fire, consoled himself by saying, "Perhaps It will go out of itself." Our vestries, in like manner, except that they have not even attempted any other expedient, comfort us with the assurance that the snow, by which we are now made prisoners, must certainly, sooner or later, melt of The .s).ierlaks• finds some amusement in the dithyrambics composed by many of our contemporaries for New Year Even the Standard, which sometimes mimics " The Gaily Bellowgraph " so well, became lyrical itself, and did the trick commonly known on the stage*" tears in the voice," or in a writer, "tears in the ink." "Not all," it said, "at the commencement of 11417 have expiated the crimes or the follies of 1 The great connecting force of the moral life of the human race weds these atoms of eternity together, and makes them, after all, one for us—though we may scratch upon the surface figures, and dates, and reminiscent lines." A reminiscent line scratched on the surface of en atom of eternity ! How much is that ? Dues it mean a Letts' diary with the memorandum pages filled up ? " Books neatly prepared for scratching lines on atoms of eternity," would certainly be a most telling advertisement for Mr. Letts. The TelegrapA, however, is greater stilL The man who called the meteors the other day " baby stars perishing of teething," and who a year or so ago spoke thus of some stables, Aegean we think—" though the rack might be of beaten gold, and the corn of diamond dust, there was certainly to be found somewhere a loose-box in which was tethered a pale Horse whose name was Death," has been put on to " the New Virtr," and has produced this :—" Or wo may say that the commencing year is like a volume of events to be, with leaves uncut—with leaves indeed, to which Old Time's scythe alone can act as paper-knife." What a free, dashing spirit that man has ! with what a master hand ho dashes together the grand and the familiar. Putnam Smif, with his " Every alligator basking in his slime is in himself an epic self-contained," is nothing to this man—a mere " baby star who died of teething" in the com parison. the Erfurt. OSBORNE, JAN. 4. The Queen drove out in a sledge yesterday morning, accompanied by Princess Christian, and spin in the afternoon with Princess Louise. Her Majesty wilted and drove this morning with Prin oeu Christian. The other members of the royal family went out also. The Right Hen. Colborne Hardy left Osborne yester day for London. Mr. Arthur Helps and Miu Helps arrived yesterday. The Hon. Flora Macdonald has succeeded the Hon. Caroline Cavendish as maid of honour. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall on the subject of quarantine. A deputation consisting of Lord Eleho, M.P., Hon. A. Kinnard, 11. P., Mr. Charles Neste, M.P., Mr. Alexander McDonald (President of Miners' National Association), Mr. J. Normansall (Society of Miners, South Yorkshire), and Mr. W. Pickard (Secretary of Miners, Wigan), had an interview with the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, at the Home-office, yesterday, to request the appointment of a commission to inquire into the PLUMS of the recent colliery nocidenta at Barnsley and Hardcastle. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. —Their Rlyal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wsles and the Duke of Edinburgh are expected to leave Holkham hall, the seat of the Earl and Countess of Leicester, to day (Saturday). Although the inclemency of the weather has experienced no abatement, • very large quantity of game has been shot by the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Sutherland, the Earl of Kimber ley, Lord Suffield, the Earl of Dunmore, Viscount Powers court, &c. The shooting parties have confined their ope rations to the park, which Is of very great extent, and the adjacent marshes, the latter abounding in wildfowl. So considerable has been the destruction effected among the hares, pheasants, rabbits, on the estate, that on one day this week 2 tons 19 cwt. of game were forwarded from the Wells station of the Great Eastern Railway to Lead. enhall-market. The stay of the Prince and Prinoeu of Wales at Sandringham-house, to which they will return on leaving Holkham, is not expected to extend beyond the pre.ent month. The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Bart., M.P., and Lady Pakington entertained the following com. pany at dinner last evening, at the Admiralty, Whitehall: —The Hon. Reginald Abbot, Sir Charice and Lady Wyndham, Admiral and Mn. Seymour, Admiral and Mn. Dunlop, Mr. and Lady Diana Pakington, Commodore Vicker, Captain Stuart, Mao Temple, Mr. and Mm. Romaine, Mr. Bennett, &c. A select party assembled after dinner. Among the English families resorting to Cannes for the winter are the Earl and Counter of Mount-Edg cumbe, Viscountess Jocelyn and Hon. Mrs Jocelyn and Lady Florence Cowper, Lord Henry Percy, M.P., Colonel the Hon. W. P. Talbot and Lady Emma Talbot, Viscount and Viscountess Cast!erase and Lady Alice Kerr, &c. Lord Brougham is in the enjoyment of most remarkable health. On Thursday the marriage of the Hon. Caroline Stapleton Cotton, eldest daughter of Viscount Comber mere, with Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Cecil Lennox Peel, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, youngest 11011 of Mr. Laurence Peel and Lady Jane Peel, took place at Wren bury, on the Cheshire border of Shropshire. A letter from Rome of the 21st ult. says : Although the season is by no means ► full one this year Christmas pieties have commenced in society as well as in public. Mr. Hooker, Secretary of the United States Legation, gave his annual reception at the Bonaparte Palace on Christmas-eve, and gratified some hundreds of distinguished guests with the beautiful Christmas church music of the classic composers Basil', Cuglielml, and others, admirably performed by professional vocalists as at St. Peter's and the Sistine Chapel. Among the British guests were the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Marquis of Lorn and' Lady Edith Campbell, Right lion. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone and family, Right Hon. S. and Mrs. Cardwell, Mr. Ode Russell, and Sir J. and Lady Har rington. The Americans were in great force, comprising General and Mrs. King, Hou. Amos Kendall, Bishop Bedell, of Ohio, and other transatlantic celebrities." Another token of regard emanating from tho war has just been conferred by the King of Prussia upon Colo nel Walker, the military member of the British embassy. On the Christmas-eve the King addressed him an auto graph letter, thanking him for having shared the dangers and fatigues of the campaign with the Crown Prince, and regretting that the rules of the British service did not permit of his accepting a Prussian order of knighthood as • fitting and well-merited acknowledgment. Atthe same time the royal writer availed himself of the German custom of giving Christmas presents to offer to the colonel a mag nifioent letter-weight, having the names of the various battles at which he saaisted inscribed on it, and the Grand Cross of the Red Eagle inserted in Its centre. The coming series of Mr. Dickens's readings is to commence in London on the 15th, with " Barbox Brothen," and " The Roy at Mugby." - - The members of the Scholastic Registration As sociation will hold their first annual general meeting on Tuesday, the Ath of January, at 3 p.m., at the rooms of the Society of Arts. Mr. Thomas Purnell is succeeded as assistant secretary to the Royal Archeological Institute by Mr. A. R. Lodge. The election for associates of the Royal Academy takes place on the 31M of this month; there are two caoancies only. The Canard Company, in view of the expiration of their contract for conveyance of the North American mails, have applied for extended dock accommodation at Liverpool, to meet the anticipated increase of the met , eantile portion of their business with Halifax, Boston, and New York. Orchestral concerts, three a week in number, are announced at Her Majesty's Theatre, to be conducted by Signor Arditi. Didlle. Tietjeus is advertised as about to sing at Vienna. Antwnne, with Mendelssohn's choruses, will shortly be given there. Rossini, having entirely recovered from his fall, received company on Saturday evening for the first time since his accident. Several richly attired Arabian chiefs, who have lately arrived in Paris, were on Thursday the observed of all observers in the galleries of the l'alaia Soya/. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ROYAL PROSPECTS FOR 1867. We find the following language attributed to Victor Emmanuel in reply to the recent address of the Italian Chambers : For some days past I have been bearing a good deal about economy. Doubtless economy is very necessary, but we must take care not to introduce it where it would be fatal—for example in the army. 111-considered economy in the war budget might probably disorganise the army. Now it might happen from one moment to another that the army may be celled on not only to defend the frontiers but to acquire new glory on other fields of battle. The King of Prussia gave a grand dinner on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of his entry into the army, at which were present Generals de Moltke, de Falkenstein, Herworth, Bfanteulfel, do Boon, Steinmetz, and Count Bismarck. His Majesty proposed the following toast : In the midst of all of you I salute the new year and the end of ono the most memorable for Frauds. The fol lowing years ought to produce the harvest of the sanguinary seed time we have passed. For that we shall want all our forces, and then that blessing will not fail us which was so visibly with us during the past year. As a testimony of a solemn act, I have collected the heroes of an army in which I entered sixty years ago. Following the example of my father, I have led the army so cared for by hint and my late brother to the victories which you, devoting your blood and your lives, have carried off. I thank you all. Long live the nation which has produced such an army' _ _ . The same day tho King gave the names of Bis marck, Roon, do Moltke, and Herworth to four streets in Berlin. AMERICA. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Jas. 4. The public debt of the United States amounted on the let inst. to 2,675,000,000 dollars. Gold, 134 f. Sterling Exchange on London, 1091; 5.20 United States Bonds, 107# ; Illinois, 1211; Erie, 67. Cotton, Middling Upland, 36c. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 8 MC ID. f t! W. ILI ~-, les ---...., W. IH. l e t I a ir. D. I - 1..-..-..., a N 011787. .. 30.14 11 S.W. 1 1 B. W. [ 'bl - 2 Aherdmer 20.1414' W. 1 2 N.W. bm - 1 Leith 30.12 A I 9. 1 1 N. f - 1 Ardrosean.. i30.04 26 E.N.R 8 3 E. 4i - 2 Greencastle 29.961. I.E. 4 6 W. is 0.01 3 Holyhead .92 31 E.S.E. 2 1 Ell.E. eb - I l ie Penance.- 29.09 415 B.E. .10 9 72.8. L ai -. 8 Brat 06530 I.E. 7 6 R 8.2. n 0.12 5 Loden' 19 .7336' Z. 11 7 E.N.E. a 0.47 6 Plymouth .8227 E. 8 2 E.N.E. co - 5 Weymouth .429.91 RE. 9, 4 N.E. eo -- 7 Portsmouth :39.00 SO E.S.L 3! 2 i E.N.E. ,cm - 2 London .. 80.0919' S.R 1 3 ; W. 'tem - - Yansath., 130.12 341 B.E. 7, 8 . N.W. o - 6 Bcsrborough 180.12 32, ti. 1 2 N.N.W. Ise 0.11 2 Melds 20.13 2i S.W. 2 3 N.W. 1o - - TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA. Now that the Eastern question is assuming a very threatening aspect it is only prudent to con sider the position in which this country would be placed with regard to her telegraphic conununica tion with India if Turkey were convulsed with war. It is nothing but the fear of being punished by the Turkish government which prevents the wild Arab front destroying the telegraph wires which at pre sent carry our messages from England to Bombay, and the first appearance of weakness or disorgani sation in Turkey would put an end to the Indian telegraph. That in all probability would occur precisely at the moment when rapid communication might be of inestimable value both to the govern ment and to the merchants. How many lives might have been preserved, and how much money might have been saved, if the telenra„ ph had existed when the Indian mutiny broke out! Unfortunately our government never looks to the future; its maxim is, "enough for the day is the evil thereof," and the future is left to take care of itself. Even now, in a time of pmoe, the telegraphic communication by way of Turkey and Russia is so irregular as to be of comparatively little public utility. Sometimes messages are eight or ten days, and even longer, in transmission, and are frequently received so altered as not to be intelligible, nor can we expect any great im provement even if tranquillity be maintained, for when messages pass through so many hands, moat of whom are entirely ignorant of the language they are telegraphing, many mistakes must fre quently occur, and these mistakes must often lead to disastrous consequences. It doeatherefore appear absolutely necessary that a reliable telegraphic com munication should be established between England and Indiawithout delay; and fortunately that can be done at, for such an object, a very moderate ex pense—for there is now telegraphic communi cation as far as Alexandria and Suez. Men of the greatest experience and trust assure us that a sub-' marine cable can be laid from Suez to Aden, and then to Bombay, with as great certainty of success as across any other sea. It is true that government has already made the attempt, and failed ; but telegraphy has made great progress since that time, and the arrangement then made for laying the cable was not the best for securing permanent success. The attempt to lay the Atlantic cable was not successful at first, but all difficulties were overcome by skill and perse verance, and there can be no doubt that a sub marine telegraphic cable could be laid with much greater ease in the calm sea of the East than in the stormy Atlantic. But whether it be difficult or easy, no time should be loot in making the attempt during a time of peace, for it would be a more dif ficult and more expensive undertaking if war had once broken out. The Westminster Gazette (the new Roman catholic paper) believes it to be a fact that the government do not intend to bring in a reform bill this session, " though they are willing to meet the question by resolutions of the house, or by appointing a commission." The late splits in the cabinet " were purely on questions of finance. A dis solution before resignation is one of the courses resolved on, in order to appeal from the House of Commons to the country." THE DISCUSSION BETWEEN PROFESSOR Be. is AND Ma. EItNEHT Jol!Ea.—We learn by electric telegraph that Mr. Ernest Jones delivered bis address in reply to Professor Mckie, and in favour of democracy, last night. He was loudly applauded by the audience with which the room was filled, there being a few occasional hisses. • vote of thanks to Mr. Jones was adopted on the motion of Mr. M'foren, M.P. Lord Redesdale writes to the Times:—" I say delibe rately that if parliament enacts what is asked by the Lon don, Chath am, and Dover Company, andallows such lini ited liability bankrupts to fleece their mortgagees in order that they may retain and improve their own property, while it leaves the law unaltered which compels °then to sur render everything to their creditors, it will legislate un justly, and lay the foundation of very evil consequences." The temperature at Southampton on Thursday night in the open air was only 4 deg. above zero. This is colder in that town than it has been known within living memory. Several gentlemen have been driving sledges through the streets of Southampton. On the chalk hills near Buingstoke the temperature is intensely cold, and railway travellers find a much warmer climate when they approach Winchester. To give an idea of the frost which has prevailed since the let of the month at Dublin, the Freeman's Journal mentions that at noon on Thursday the Liffey was completely frozen over at Essex's-bridge, and at the fall of the tide groat gabs of ice were borne down the stream. The rising generation are enjoying the skating and sliding with the greatest enthusiasm in Phenix-park and wherever ice is to be found about the city. Sr. JAMEN'h PALACE, JAN. I.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Reverend William Henry Brookfield, honorary chaplain in ordinary to her Majesty, to be one of the chaplains in ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of the Ve7 Rev. Edward Meyrick Goulburn, D.D., Dean of Norwieb.-:Ga:efte. _ _ Ini•ar Pourren.—Mr. George Bryan, M.P., and Sir John Gray have made speeches to their constituents in Kilkonny,in which Irish questions have been discussed. The former thinks there is a better security against Fe niannon than a military occupation--a " good land bill." LITERARY AND SCIRNTIFIC MEETING.; FOR THR ENKCING WEF.R.—Blontlay--Asintic, at t , " Vedas of the Hindus, and Vedas of ' the German School,' " Professor Goldstucker. Entomological, at 7. Tuesday—Royal In stitution, at 3, "Chemistry of Gases" (adapted to a Jnvenile Auditory), Professor Frankland. Engineers, at 8, " Intercommunication in Trains in Motion," Mr. l'reece. Ethnological, at 8 : " Wild Tribes, Central India." Lieu tenant-Colonel Dalton and Dr. Mouatt ; "Cultivated Plants and Ethnology," Mr. Crawfurd. Wednesday— Geological, at 8, " Age of Lower Brick Earths, Thames Valley," Mr. Boyd Dawkins ; " Consolidated Stock., Drift of Suffolk," Mr. Maw ; "Jurassic Fauna and Flora, South Africa," Mr. Tate. Microscopical, at 8. Thunsisy—Syro- Egyptian, at 7i. Royal, at 81. Zoological, at 84, " Birds of Veiagua," Mr. Salvin ; " Hyalonema Mirable, Gray," Dr. Bowerbank ; " Lepidopterous Insects of Bengal," Mr. Moore. Antiquaries, at 84.—Atheno use. WHAT THE REFORM BILL MUST —Unques tionably, it must be a liberal bill. There is no blinking the fact. And if they are wise in their generation they will pass it with a good grace. They have always resisted every improvement to the uttermost, doggedly. And then, when it became inevitable, they hays turned round and carried it. They resisted the Catholic Emancipation Rill, and carried it. They resisted the abolition of the corn laws, and carried it. They resisted the admission of the Jews into parliament, and admitted them. They have resisted reform, a liberal reform, with equal pertinacity— let them be true to their antecedents, and carry a liberal Reform Bill. The time seems ripe that they should. It seems absolutely impossible that they can hope any longer in a policy of delay. Is it not then better, we do not say from our point of view, but from theirs, that they should carry a genuinely liberal Reform hill, and get all that credit for it, of which at this moment their party stands in so much need in the eyes of the country? Besides, is it not one of their boasts that they, the true conservatives, are also the true liberals ; that they do not fear the people : that they trust the working classes, and that the working classes knit them? Let them clench their professions by enfranchising the working man, and not at the same time betray their dread of him by giving the landowners additional powers to keep him in order. We know there is a class of men who, without professing the divine right of an aristocracy, or the divine wisdom of landowners, are haunted by the idea of the working man as a unionist, and they dread his admission into parlia ment, when, as they say, from land's end to land's end, labour is in open insurrection against capital, and every servant's bands against his master. Even if this were strictly true, it would be the crying reason above all others, for admitting the working classes to a share, a large share, in the open, public, and recognised debates of the country at large. This is a ground, above all others, which must have weight with the conservatives. They must, above all other men, desire that questions so vitalais those of labour and capital, master and servant, should rather be fought out in parliament than settled secretly with closed doors in the teeth of parliament by unrecognised societies. Thous who maintain, as Mr. Lowe maintains, that ours is the very beat parliament, in the very best country, forget that no parliament is a good parliament which leaves half the country unrepresented. And we are not here advocating—we are opposed to man hood maker. We only want labour to be represented in the same sense as land u represented, and in that sense it is not represented at all. This is one defect which Mr. Lowe's principles will not cover. Neither will they oover the sins of omission of the present parliament. :gland is uneducated, England is the most pattper.ridden, the most crime-ridden country in the civilised world ; and these three cardinal curses—we might go into further de tails, but let this mace—we lay distinctly and with con viction at the door of a parliament from which the work ing classes are excluded.—British QuarGrly &cute, January number. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The dream that exhibitions would prevent war has long ago, the Saterdag Review says, been dispelled. There can be little doubt that the proposed reorganisation of the French army will be carried out, and it is only de bated whether the government ought to have the control of this vast machine. This is all plain easy ground for the Emperor. He knows bow to manage constitutions and assemblies, and will find some ingenious method of giving with one hand what he take, away with the other. The time is soon coming when all European male adults will be militia-men or soldiers. No one can pretend to pronounce what the result will be. Possibly the interest. of peace may be served in the long run, and the ultimate liability of everyone to be killed may be a more effectual preventive of war than the handsomest glass-sheds and the most tasty collections of rival upholstery. Not that exhibi bitions—or rather the commerce which exhibitions repre sent—will cease to have a pacific effect. Wars will be on so big a scale, will cost so much, and disarrange industry so much, that men will find peace more and more to their interest. Still, when war does come, it will be on a new scale and will involve wider issues ; and the statesmen of Europe will learn to take this into account, and will see larger possibilities both of evil and good than have hitherto lain before them. To the argument of impossibility, distance, &c., in re lation to the removal of the snowdrift, the Examiner points to Paris, where no such impossibility exists. It is no use disguising the fact that London is stationary, or, we fear, receding, in many of the arts of civilisation, while the neighbouring capital, at which we used to enemas ignorant of the comforts and decencies of life, is leaving us in the distance. Self-government, to be success ful, must be endowed with liberality, energy, fore thought, and at least common sense. Children awl imbeciles cannot be trusted with the reins; they would be too apt to wait till the effected disaster had befallen before thinking of the means of guarding against it. Our old friend, sir Abel Handy, when all his famous REIIARKES. Barometer have risen in the nor h and east, but have fallen in the wait and southwest of the British Isles. Temperature has declined on the north coast of Scotland. and rime generally on our other coast., and there was a difference of 34 deg., between the temperature at Nairn and Penzance this morning. A south easterly gate is blowing on our southwestern coasts, with a high sca , on our other coasts the winds are light and variable. " We understand," says the Army and Nary Cla:ef le, " that the Lords of the Admiralty have informed Mr. R. J. Reed, the chief constructor of the navy, that it is their lordships' intention to increase his salary, and to provide for his being placed on the highest grade esta bli►hed in the public service with reference to his superan• nation, whenever his health or length of service may in duce him to retire. It will be gratifying to Mr. Reed and his friends to know that their lordships accompanied the announcement of these marks of their favour with a very handsome acknowledgment of the manner in which the chief constructor has hitherto discharged the important and onerous duties attached to his office." Lieutenant Brand, R.N., is expected to arrive in England in the West India packet La Plata, due at Southampton on the 14th inst. For nearly a year a case has been going on before Sir Joseph Arnould in the Bombay High Court, in which the Mussulman sect of Khojabs are concerned. In his decision the Judge described the peculiarities of the Suni and Shia sects of Mahomedanism, and ruled that the Khojahs (with the exception of the relators and plaintiffs) were Shim of the Imami Ismaili persuasion. The reform ing party in the sect is defeated. Lieutenant Grimble, 2nd battalion, Gth Regiment, has been appointed aide.de.camp to Sir J. P. Grant, Go vernor of Jamaica. At Bombay the Italian Opera Company have had a special evening for native ladies, " under the patronage of her Highness the Ranee of Jam Khundec." A grand opera and ballet formed the entertainment. It is announced, says the -Vont, that the Grand Duke of Russia and his young wife will pay a visit to the royal family of England in the course of next summer. A letter from Naples of the 30th ult. says : " Foreigners, especially Americans, continue to arrive, but nearly all remain in the hotels. The Grand Duchess of Russia, the Princess of Oldenburg, arrived here early in the week from Rome, together with a considerable suite. Prince Alexander Lieven is also among the recent arrivals, as are Generals Nunriante and Custom', who so distin guished themselves in the late campaign. The weather boa been beautiful, even for Naples, and is still mild as spring, though disposed to rain." The birth of a son of the Duchess de Mouchy, says theSport,is a aubjectof much congratulation amongst the whole of the family of Noailles, who have been so greatly afflicted during the last few years by many deaths. The Duke and Duchess de Mouchy,grandfather and grand mother of this infant, died both of them quite young ; their son, when little more than a child, followed them. The Count and Countess Maurice do Noailles died seen after their union ; Count Antonin de Noailles also died young, and the last-born are the son of the Duke de Ayen, and that of the Duke de Mouchy, who died a few days ago. Yesterday the case of the 22 persons who were arrested in the Café de la Renaissance, Paris, on a charge of forming part of a secret society, came on for hearing in the Sixth Chamber, presided over by M. Delesvaux. All the persons accused ware present with the e zception of Protot and Lalourcey. The case was adjourned at the end of the bearing. The Vienna Gazette calculates that as the result of the new military system adopted in Austria the army will amount to 1,300,000 men, of whom 800,000 will be on the active list and the residue in the first and second reserves. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN SWITZERLAND.—The ques tion of religious liberty is being warmly agitated at the present time in the city of Berne. M. Langbans, almoner to the normal school of klunchenbudisee, published a course of religion which was brought under the notice of the Grand Councilof Berne, whichaasembly decided by 73 votes against 61 that the Council of State should be requested to take steps with a view to preventing anything con trary to the doctrine of the national church of Berne from being taught. But what is this doctrine? The Minister of Worship ham in vain asked where it is to be found. In Scripture, it is said. Very good. This im also the opinion of M. Langhans. But is this pro fessor to be prevented from adopting as true that which his conscience tells him to be true ? The decision of the Council of State has produced great agitation in the canton, meetings have been held, and a journal founded to defend the principles of religious liberty. Let us hope that it will penetrate into the old citidal of protestant orthodoxy.— Aormir National. BOARD OF TRADE, WRITIIRALL, JAR. 3.—The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received a notification to the effect that in consequence of the appearanee of cholera in the island of Bt. Thomas, the Bard of Health at Barba does have passed a resolution recommending that a qua rantine of twenty days should be imposed on every vessel arriving from St. Thomas, or any other infected port.— Gmxtic. LANCASTER ELECTION COMMISSIos. LANOASTIE, FIUDAT. Mr. T. J. Baratowe and Mr. K. M. Newt.m, two of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the ei lattic e of bribery and corruption at the last and the pracedic 4 elections for the borough of Lancaster, resumed their it, vest*ation in the Shire-hall this morning. it will be recollected that the inquiry was opened in August lust, and that, after sitting uninterruptedly for five weeks, th e commissioners adjourned without fixing a date for the resumption of the investigation. We belies a that the examinatiom of the witnesses already called so clearly established the existence of bribery . mn i corruption of the most open and unblual t i k character that the commissioners have detenuit h el to examine every voter in order to ascertain the exact number by whom bribes were taken. At the kit ektica the constituency numbered about 1,400, au exceptionally large number of freemen. Of these, 1,4111 recorded their votes, and it has already been a.scrticea that close upon 800 were bribed by sums varying from st, to 20!. The first witness called this morning was, Richard Atkinson, • labourer, who said he rotol at the last election for Fenwick and Schneider, and received 101. for doing so. Robert Ball, • coachman, voted for Lawrence, aul es oeived 12/. John Ball, a farmer, said he farmed 50 or 60 acr es o f land which belonged to himself. At the last election be voted for Fenwick and Schneider, and received luf. for " expen ses. Barro " w a draper and commercial traveller, o f Lancaster, stated that he interested himself at the last election on behalf of Mr. Schneider, and received a inui of 501. for the purposes of the election. On the day of the election he visited one of the public-houses in the town, and found a number of voters who were trying to get away. He gave IW. to one of them to vote for Lawrence and Schneider, but after receiving the money the voter ran away. Witness had promised a man named Hoskins, who was in the employ of Mr. Schneider, that if M r . l aw . refute were at the bead of the poll and sure of his seat, be (witness) would spend 50/. in buying votes for Schneider, so that he might be second man. Mr. Thomas Johnson, solicitor, was next examined. He said—l voted at the last election for Fenwick and Schneider, but beyond voting I took no active part in the contest. At the single-handed contest between Mr. Fen wick and Mr. Saunders in 186411 acted as agent for Mr. Fenwick. Up to that time I had refused a retaim , r for the liberals for more than 20 years, and I regret that I was induced to accept it then. I have no personal knowledge of money having been spent for illegal purposes in the election in 1864, but I have reason to believe that a good deal more was spent than passed through my hands. The Chief Commissioner—What was the amount of the legal expenses?—They were returned for Mr. Fenwick ' alone at somewhat more than 900/. I received 1,0001. for the purposes of the election, and at the close of the poll I had a balance of about 551. left in my hands. When my book was closed I asked Kr. Fenwick what I was to do with it. He told me to pay it over to Mr. Henry Welch. I did so, and when I received an intimation that I should be required to give evidence here, I told Mr. Welch that I should mention the fact of having paid the 551. to him. He then told me that if I added a couple of cyphers to those figures it would about represent the sum which passed through his hands. The payment of 551. was made several weeks after the election, and I dis liked the transaction so much that it confirmed me in my resolution never to accept a retainer again I received twenty guineas for my own services, but I felt that it wan impossible for me to apply it to my own use. I therefore gave ten guineas to the teetotal society towards paying off their debt, and distributed the rest among the public institutions of the town. At the last election I spent the day with some friends ten miles from Lancaster. The Chief Commissioner—You seem to have voted, how. ever?—Yes, at eight o'clock in the morning. Robert Baxter, farmer, of Middleton, maid the rent of his farm was 180/. a year. He voted for Lawrence, and received 101. from a stranger for doing so. Thomas Baxter, publican, and formerly farm baili ff to Mr. S. Bolden, secretary to the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company—At the election in 1864 be voted far Mr. Saunders, the conservative candidate, but at the last election he voted for the liberals—Fenwick and Schneider. The Chief Commissioner—What induced you to do so,— Mr. Bolden would not allow me to vote for Mr. Lawrence. Did not Mr. Bolden propose or second the nomination of one of the candidates!—Yes, I believe he nononatul Mr. Schneider. John Bond, landlord of the Three Mariners, voted for Lawrence, and received 3/. for the use of his house, 11/. for refreshments, and IW. for his services during the elec. tion. Edward Bradshaw and William Briscoe vuted for ' Fenwick and Schneider, and received $l. each ; Eriscos also received 71. from the other side; John Brown, a plumber, got SI. from the liberals; Thos. Butcher, tailor, $4; Richard Butcher, 54 ; George Cie:mason, plumber, re ceived 51 from MrWelch, and expended about 40W. foe the purposes of the election. The rest he returned to Mr. Welch about two days after the election. Thomas Her mess voted for Lawrence and received 101. The next witnesses were three farmers named Cotters, who reside a few miles from Lancaster, and vote as free- men. The first, Adam Cottam, of Heaton, pays 1304 a year for his farm, and re ce ived 104 for voting for Law. recce; John Cot tem pays 13$/. a year, and received 101. ; and Thomas Gotten, of Overton, who, besides paying a rental of 7.361. a year, farms land of his own, received 104 from Mr. Haddocks, of Liverpool, and 104 from Mr. Denson. The last witness said that Denson knew he had received 101. from Haddocks before he paid the second 10/., and it was not unlikely that be toll Denson after. want that he would not vote at all unless he got a third 10 1. AU the Cottanis voted for Lawrence. -- .iaseph (,Ywalcill, farmer , of Overton, pays 3 year for his farm, and received 12f. for voting for Lawvenca.. Some evidence of a similar character was being taken when our parcel was despatched. CO.YFESSION-DR. PUSEY ON ALAERIAGE. Dr. Pusey has forwarded to the Times the fol lowing statement : TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. " Sir,—' S. G. o.' mike me in your columns, Did he, as • minister of our church, dissuade her (the young Lay about whom he wrote to you) from it (from choosing a life of celibacy) V I answer, first, such a choice was never irre vocably made. Secondly, I know of no duty in any ' minister of our church' to dissuade from it. The mar riage service of our church speaks of the celibate life se ' a gift 'of God. Art. mil., in vindicating the freedom of the clergy, as of all other Christian people. 'to marry; speaks of it as lawful to marry as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.' This implies, by the form of the terms, that any might think lik e St. Paul (1 Cur. ix. 5) though they were free, it served better to godliness in them to remain unmarrried. The whole church, from the first, has so understood our Lord (St. Matt., xi:. 12) and St. Paul (1 Cor., ix. 5) who. when he says, ' The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband,' enunciates a principle founded upon human nature. Ido not see, then, upon what princile I could be bound,' as • minist e r of oar church,' to dissuade any person front choosing a stale of life which our Lord pronounces acceptable to Himself, if chosen for His sake, which St. Paul speaks of as one which is comely, that 'ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction,' and which our church, in conformity to the whole church, .peals of as • ' gift' from (sods In regard to the case itself, I will only add that the lady gave this evidence that her choice was from God ; that she never for a moment varied in it ; that she remained single because it was her own free, deliberate, sleep choice, uninfluenced by me : that she lived and die,l happy in her choice; that her own fooling.; on the subject were mot fanatic,' but the deep, simple feelings of one who bad taken our Lord at His word ; that her ' original incline tion was never made an obligation, but that she died un tr.arried,believing,witha depth of feeling which no human being could infuse, that it was the state to which it had pleased God to call her.' " Her history I well remembered, as of a soul deer to God. I had only forgotten the fact of the two years' vow, because it had no influence upon her life. " For the rest, I roust leave the subject to her my friendship with whom was never in the least nits! , rupted, and who in • kind letter has written to we that he is much grieved that his daughter's history :la , (witlisat any reference to him) been made a matter of ',Wile discussion by those who forwarded the information to ' S. G. o.' " NATIONAL REFORM UNION. The Padiharn branch of the union held a public meeting, on Nv. an , evening, in the Oddrellowe'diall, the Rev. G. H. in the chair. The meeting was a crowded and • lith*.! . siastic one. The chairman condemned :dr. s speeches, and said he considered inch a tio.'e eu went as that adopted by Mr. Lowe would Lot retard, but help forward reform. The working men were eons scions of their own worth, and would prove still further their fitness for the exerebe of political power, if it wrru nexesary. He exhorted the meeting to be united and ile.• termined, in order that a comprehensive reform 11101100 might be secured. The first resolution, inclieling .01 r‘• tension of the suffrage to everyone rated or liable t.. rated to the relief of the poor, an equitable redistnhation of seats according to population and property, the pr..! , ..c• tion of the ballot, and shorter parliaments, wa.. tOO% ed b 1 Mr. B. Waddington, seconded by Mr. T. Giimshas. of Bolton, and carried unanimously. Mr. Hudson, of Pro ton, proposed that the thanks of the meeting should he given to Earl Russell, Mr. Gladstone, 31. P., Mr. John Bright, M.P., Mr. J. S. Mill, M.P., and those liberal hers who supported the measure introduced by the 140 liberal government. Mr. Marie Price, who attended from the central executive, seconded the resolution in an able speech, when lb it was carried amidst great enthusi.va_. Mr. B. Piling and others addressed the meeting, whic h closed with thanks being passed to the chairman and to Mr. Price. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. —The ex , r cutive committee have nominated Mr. C. .1. sd.yn, 9.c.. standing counsel, in place of Vise-Chancellor M.6l; , 'N ho had tilled that position since the formation of the society, in lti:J2. LAW INT (THIS COURT OF (Before Yr. Com. 111 ilili MAITtli Or A 1 Mr. Lindus appeared for t the party summoned. The debtor did not attem it was stated by Mr. Denny pression the summons woul Mr. Lindus, for the credit standing over aa proposed. Mr. dommiesiater'NVinslc the summons until Monday If the creuitor chose to abed do so ; but the court would mint which was not for the 4 an individual creditor. Order seoonlingly. IN RE DAVID HALM-) The bankrupt, • builder, Maidstone gaol, and now iebta being under 3001, s necessary for leave to pie • the ociunty court, which Them WAS no opposition, Doyle, 's Honour made an or& IN RI MOTT.- APPLI The bankrupt, described &misting in promoting I al out of custody. The red cause of bankruptcy ritenta which did not ved on behalf of Mr. for a week's further tii grant was for the c or the bankrupt. adjournment for a weel THE POLIO (THIS HOW-ff THE SHOW DIFFICULTY, Mr. Scott, saddle and hart nt-garden, one of the Mids, waited on Mr. Fl don to the following effect Mr. Scott said that in the c N number of men, of 11101 nit the streets in bodie the usual sloprel als ester,"andlriving "4oi of these sturdy menthes could get plenty to do, at the Vestry-hal iy number could be the snow in the anxious to get men fa difficulty in obtaining for the advice, and dec the Vestry-hall at once, I be suspected that they I to be stout, hearty r 4 work. He wished to m begging about the street giving them in custody foi Mr. Flowers thought the m ed in doing so under the Vs Mr. Scott said it was most i Iple were thrown out of en weather, that it should Id gladly employ all who SOUTH' FRACAS AT A SA _ 77infieas /knew, a respect' lerchant, was placed at tit ..narged with being drunk at terminus, London-bridge, cram , ng one of the officers, and n 'tested. Joseph Wakefield, a conat London, Brighton, and Soot! about 10 minutes to 7 on the duty at the gate leading to tl platform, when he saw the pr booking ffice, pushing perm manner. He came to the gati endeavoured to force his way Witness stopped him an not , pass, when witness toxicated, and then he I travel in that state. The violent, and struck him delibe knocking him down. His cow he was compelled to seek ass the station. He would then he not assaulted him again. B into custody. One of the ticket collectors the tickets at the South Londc goner strike the complainant ( was so uproarious that they Ix The me prisoner here said the some friends in the City and 1 much, but he thought that al hooking-office they ought to hi The constable informed his had a return ticket, comet' attend the booking-office, the orders not to issue tickets to of liquor. The defendant said that het ever he was very sorry for wha very much having struck the Mr. Burcham told hini his c and under all the circumstance 7s. and the costs. The money THAI IMPORTANT To CON: Jorl Iff"orr, • carntan, age, maul before Mr. Partridge. sacks and lhilba. weight of coal Plume, coal merchant, of Clerkenwell. The surer was for semi George nuq, horse and cart el street, King's-cross, who teas coals to Mr. Plume's custom prisonerreceived two tons of co.l way station to be delivered to It in Dock-street, Whitechspel. horses and waggon opposite th the corner oi - Lernati-street chapel, took a lump of co one of the sacks and gave a police-constable, No. 78 11, mitted, pursued the woman, house by one doorway, made left the coal behind one of tt taken to the station-house. I waggon and horses he found tl of the full ones, of • Lich the Boner had :X) full sacks at the i Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, 'd there was no proof that ere stolen before the prisoner d waggon were left i n th e Id have been removed in th Mr. Partridge said there we len the lump of coal p ro d w Mr. Charles Young could no hat. The prisoner, who wool, me of coal to a poor wenn; right to do so. The pri &meter, and regrettecl wh at 11 Mr. Tilley complained that ws stealing coals in transit, by ntracturs fell into undesen 'miner very good wages. 4 Iludson said the prisoner wa d coals to deliver to Mr. (isle, etch, on the 10th of lest i IlLi ency of 6 cwt. 2 gra. and 17 rMr. Partridge—More than t e enty, and here is another ea can only convict the pri f ooals, but I am by robthis as • light case of ry of coals in transit is, tipectable °nal merchants are , rured, and waggoners et and drunkenness I cannot tosication set up for the prise case indeed. The stealing of c/ to a great extent. and consumes tenee the primmer to be init labour in the I louse of Corrccti, THE RAILWAY IN LON Do in London begins to make so turns. In the year 156.5 the 0 21.275 pieeengers the N, the Blackwell, 4,•_'7,41,159 of figures do not include the 6,000 holders, as the n um b er of theirTb ese , 2,4 ,090,000 of London p twenty two wiles of railway millions than all the passeng t of the great and prosperous Lot owl more by several millions linos Sport th e 1...01 wiles of two of the Midland and the Noll Las now made an addition to Illannon.street and Charinc.cros l Avtropolitan runs int o M ooim 'l' a ltertgers by ra il way i n the Asa these 2 ‘. 1 ,000,000 ; that m t4 ere being no return of the mill] trtions of the long railways, nclie s -a class especially larg4 metropolis, where railways carry from the very heart of London. estimate the London rnilway trs when the "inner c i rc l e " s h all t"Ple Mal " take Coe WI" fluni is enough that London railron " London possible. 11l T 1 Mr. Liz the party The de it was sts pression 1 Mr. Liz standing i Mr. Col the summ If the crei do so ; bu ment whit of an indi Order ai IN Ni The ban in Slaidsk debts beic necessary of the coin There w Mr. Doyle His Hot IN The ban ton, assist leased out Alleged ca out patent opposed of asked for I Mr. Oral , 0 • '.for t An adjot 1 THE Mr. Scot ovent-gar he-Fields, cation to tl Mr. Scot n a num • • about t inging the !unchaste] • me of the hey could plgYing !most any clearing ti most aunt great diffic him for tl to the Vest took be sui peered to b sort of won] men . beggin air. Flow fled in doin Mr. Scott people wen the weathe would glad! Von was I a merchant , charged wit terminus, L ing one of t quested. _ Joseph 13 I