The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-05 00:00:00

PAINCES,S.

Tin Imam, PAUL* / latilltN7 Meson Inning, Nelson.
Tidier: Mesdames Marston and Bat', Sarille.—THE COL EDY
OF MAORI. Menem Yining. Nelson, end the brothers Webb.
—And DRAWING-COOL, SACOND FLOUR AND Arm:

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TED Er=tan, A DAY iireriime FATR. Mr.Wldeleoenb
and aim Lavenua—And BQ, DEnONIO„ Basra Fortner
Brougham, Emery, Moreland, Charles, and Jordan ; scam
Terry. Uranus, and Elsworla p, and Bra. Um.

BILITAIMA.

TIM EVININO, THE LEFT4III2ND&D MAIRIAOR. Mr S.
Lane sod all the Company.—THE °SEAT GHOST EFFE,..7.
—And TILE FOUR MOWBRAYS. Master Percy Roselle.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 5.

LORD PALMERSTON DO doubt congratulated him-
self last year upon having secured the services of
a man of the noblest nature and character, of
signal capacity, of extraordinary promise, and
a man withal whose name in the Administration,
if not equivalent to a vote of confidence out of
doors, might be at least a pledge and a passport of
which the Government stood very much in need.
Nor was the PREMIER for a moment unaware of
the manner of man he was inviting to lend him
tilents and his character to a Whig Administra-
tion. Nothing, it might be said, became Mr.
STANSFELD in his official career like his leaving it,
If it were not equally true that nothing became
him more than his entrance upon it. His accept-
ance of office was characterised by all
that perfect straightforwardness and integrity
of conduct, at once towards the Government,
his constituency, and the great party to which he
belongs, which has signalised his withdrawal below
the gangway. Lord PALMERSTON did not ask Mr.
STANSFELD to become a Lord of the Admiralty
because be did not know whom or what he was
asking, but because be did know all that such an
accession to his Government implied. He
might have foreseen that he was committing an
inexpiable offence against his order in admitting
a mere plebeian of high character and capacity,
but possibly of dangerous connexions, into his
Administration, whilst the stock of juver,le and
incompetent aristocrats, born to office si
the sparks fly upwards, and with never an idea,
a principle, a belief, or an emotion in heart
or brain to compromise anybody or any .ping,
remained unexhausted and inexhaustible. Ob-
viously, then, Lord PALMERSTON on this OCCA-
Rion performed his duty to the county and to his
administration to the prejudice of hs order. And
we are convinced that the PREMIER uttered
no idle compliment when he expressed the
deep regret which he and his colleagues
felt "at having lost the official assistance
" of one whose great ability, whose mit' i'ng
" industry, whose perfect truthfulness, and whose
" unswerving integrity of mind endeared him to
" all those who had the advantage of his fiend-
" ship, and made him a most valuable member of
" the Government to which he belonged." These
words are too literally and scrupulously correct
and just to leave a moment's doubt of their entire
'inanity. Indeed, when Mr. STANSFELD wan
stating to the House the reasons of his ret'e-
ment, not one among his former colleagues but
must have felt that the true type of an Engl'lh
gentleman of the better time was there. It is
very long since the House of Commons listened to
eloquence so noble and pathetic in its courageous
dignity and simplicity, so moving yet austere.
so guileless yet persuasive and conrinc'
so unexaggerated and pnaffected, as Mr.
STANsFELD.S personal explanation last evening.
It was listened to by the Opposition in silence;
the silence, let us believe, not o mere assent or
ordinary respect, but of shame and self-contempt.
Even from the Opposition benches, however, came
a few scattered cheers, for Feench Imperialism has
not yet killed all sympathy with private and public
virtue in an assembly of English gentlemen, or all
love of generous treatment and fair play.
So the country loses at a critical time an able,
an indefatigable, an invaluable public servant in the
most important department of the administra-
tion. Is there any rashness in predicting that the
day will come--and that before even the present
generation of English Whig and Tory statesmen,
or the tawdry orgie of the French Empire which the
PREMIER extols in language so Pickwickian, have
passed away—when fidelity to noble friendships
and convictions will not banish a man of Mr.
STANSFELD.A worth from the service of the State I
Mr. STANsFELO can well afford to wait ; for the
political future of England and of Europe will be
neither Whig, nor Tory, nor Imperialist.

THE ARCHDUKE MAXLMILIAN AND

MEXICO.

Fresh difficulties have arisen as to the accept-
ance of the Mexican crown, and the departure of
his Iroperiai Highness is again delayed.

MIL STIRLING, M.P.—We (Scot nuts) are glad to
1-evn that the tccompl,thed member for Perthshire, who
Itu bees seriously ill, ie now steadily recovering.
Tae Sc, to DrTll.l AND THE LIVERPOOL CH•SI-
Era OF COMUERCL—The Council of the Liverpool Chamber
of Commerce yesterday agreed to the following resolutions,
after having been engaged in a discussion upon the sugar
duties question for several bows : —l. " That no system of
charging duty can be quite satisfactory that dote not put or
leave producers, refiners, and coasumersof all oonutries each
," the same relative situation as if there had been ro duty at
all." 2. " That so long as teazle' ia hood is not permitted
by government the principle of cfusification in levying the
duties be advocated by this chamber." Mr. Robertson, in
the course of the debate, moved the following amendment,
which was naratived, viz. :—" That government be memo-
rialised in favour of redoing in bond, JO order tc put radian
on a fair footing without doing any injury to importers of
suflu."