The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9.

Tna CiLtwcatiza of the EXCHIQUES has re-
ceived at Newcastle the honours due to his splendid

Wants, his high character, and his public services.
A great manufacturing and commercial commu-
nity honours itself when it honours a man who,
identified with them by his origin, has by oon-

spicnous merit raised himself to the highest position

in the State.

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Mr. GiinsroNz wisely spoke most fully of those
great national interests which he has done so
much to advance. It was impossible that the
French Treaty should not fill a large place in his
address. Attacked by a portion of the press with
every lawful and every unlawful weapon so long
as it was possible that Parliament might
withhold its ratification, the Treaty now justifies
the acclamations with which it was hailed by all
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liberal Englishmen. Many of the right hon. spealcer's
hearers--manufacturers, merchants, and work-
men—could have told him a great deal of the profit
which individuals have derived by means of that
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instrument ; but he could speak of its beneficial
operation upon the whole country. The Treaty
has been in full vigour just one year, and the grand
result is that the exports of British products to
France, which in the year before the Treaty were
of the value of 4,749,0001. in the first year under
the Treaty, have been 10,640,0001., an increase
of 5,891,0001. Thus the exports of this class have
been more than doubled. And lest any should
object that this increase is wholly or in great part
one of products into which British industry enters
in a low degree, Mr. GLADSTONE UM us that in
the two years before the Treaty the value of
the exports to France of the principal metals
and tinned into which labour enters largely

wee 2,451,0001., in the first year of the
Treaty it has been 6,708,0001. In the case
of iron manufactures and machinery, the result is
still more remarkable ; the increase is from

614,0001. to 1,796,0001., an augmentation of
nearly 300 per cent. If we extend our view and
take, as we ought, the foreign and colonial trade
into the account, the result is even more
striking. This foreign and colonial pro.
duce has become ours by being taken in exchange
for our manufactures previously exported, and the
neighbour who relieves us of it enables us to
renew the operation. The value of the exports of
British, foreign, and colonial produce on an average
of the two years preceding the Treaty was
9,402,0001. ; last year it was 21,000,000/.
When the Cnescutos of the EXCHEQUER could
adduce these figures he was well entitled to say
that the Treaty had fulfilled, and more than ful-
filled, the most sanguine expectations of its
authors and promoters.
But the French Treaty was not a purely com-
mercial instrument ; it was strongly opposed in
the House of Commons as something certain to de-
range and depress the finances of the State. Mr.
Dissent' having declared that its influence on
these would be pernicious, and having failed to carry
the House of Commons with him, appealed to the
future to prove that the principles of the Opposi-
tion were sound. Tho present state of the public re-
venue enables us to form a judgment on this point.
Without the hop duties, without the paper duties,
and with a penny in the pound leas of income tax
collected, the yield from operative taxation has
been 600,000/, more during the last six months
than it was in the corresponding period of last
year. The reason is that, according to the
foresight and intentions of the authors of
the Free-trade policy, a force has come
into operation which its parliamentary oppo-
nents persistently ignored. Mr. ChenwrosE
observed at Newcastle :—" Although it is PE-
" cult to trace the effect of augmentations of trade
" upon revenue so as to draw particular conclu-
" sions, yet if we look back over a series of years
" we shall find that this rule prevails—that for
" every 10 or 12 millions added to our foreign trade,
" since the bulk of that money is paid in one shape
" or other for the remuneration of British labour,
" about a million sterling never fails to come
" back to us in the shape of increased consump-
" tion of taxpaying commodities." In this manner
revenue wisely sacrificed for freedom of trade,
which means freedom for energy and intelligence,
is certain of replacement.
It was impossible to speak of commerce and in-
dustry, their triumphs and their hopes, without
thinking of the severe trials through which a large
portion of our working population is passing. Mr.
GLADSTONE reminded the rich of their duty, and
spoke, what every Englishman feels, of the manner
in which the distress in Lancashire is borne. He
even doubts whether our English society contains
any class that could have experienced equal priva-
tion with fortitude, resignation, and self-denial equal
to that of the factory people. He is indignant at
the advantage which some have meanly taken of
their affliction to degrade them politically, by de-
priving those who have received parochial assist-
ance of their votes. He cannot help expressing a
hope that when the subject of the elective franchise
is again before the Legislature, the conduct of the
men of Lancashire in 1862 may be favourably
remembered and considered by the middle classes,
and by all who may be called upon to deal with
the question. The sentiment was warmly ap-
plauded by Mr. Gtenwronz's bearers, but it is
one which we confess we read with something of
alarm. On the part of the right hon. gentleman,
the wish is undoubtedly both simple and sincere,
but we hope it was well considered. This is not
the first time that the common people have asto-
nished the country by the display of great virtues,
nor the first time that men in high
places, acknowledging the fact, have recog-

nised in it a title to the political confi-
dence of those who now have the franchise. ip
was so in 1848. " The noble proofs which, la
1848, all classes of the population gave of their
loyal attachment to the Crown and to the existing
institutions of the country," was the reason assigned
by Cabinet Ministers in 1852 for an extension of
the suffrage. Nothing was done. In the terrible
crisis of the Crimean war still greater admiration
was expressed for the people so grandly re-
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presented on the heights of Iniermaini. Surely, it
was exclaimed, the class from which these men
have been taken have all the high qualities of
Englishmen. But when the time came to put these
emtiments to the test how was their sincerity evi-
denced t By such a recoil of middle-class Liberals
as has rarely been seen in the history
of the country. These things sink deep into men's
minds, and should not be repeated. We must
therefore express the hope that unless our
public men not only desire to see an advance in
the direction of political justice, but have some
definite intentions on the subject, they will re-
frain from exciting hopes which are not to be
, satisfied. _

From Lancashire to America the transition was
easy. Mr. GLADSTONS has never concealed that
he is favourable to Southern independence. From
so impartial a mind we should have been glad to
hear what best could be said for that cause. He
does not think that the special interests of
England will be served by the disruption ; he
rather thinks it was for the interest of England
that the Union should continue. One, and one
only, reason for approving the separation he ven-
tures to name. It will leave the negroes with
less compression on them than before—
bhe compression of their own masters, instead
of that of the entire Union. But can Mr. GLAD-
STONE think that it makes any practical difference
to the slaves whether they are kept down by
the Southern army which fought at Bull's Run
and Antietam Creek, or by that and the Northern
army added to it t We do not find fault with him for
reoognisingfhe progress which the South has madein
establishiog its independence. It is the proper
business of a statesman to look before all
things at the facts. Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS
has probably made a nation of the South,
and in the place of a group of commu-
nities, with various pursuits, characters, and civi-
lization, developed in peace and freedom, we shall
see "nations," which in Mr. DAvis's sense were pre-
viously unknown, with standing armies, standing
navies, standing debts, and undying national
enmities. It will be a poor day for England that
ratifies this change in the character of her hereto-
fore prosperous customers. Mr. GLADIroNE spoke
of the South. But he knows that North and
South are not all. Could not he have said one
word in favour of saving from the curse of slavery
the vast countries which must fall to one or other
of the combatants, but whose destiny is at present
undecided? Since he spoke of British counsel as
a possible element in the final settlement, he
might have touched on that topic. But we must
do him the justice of acknowledging that his re-
ferences to the North were most kindly and
honourable.

A gratifying offer bas been made to, and ac-
cepted by, the Manchester Albert Memorial Committee.
The brickmakers of the district, anxious to give expression
to their sympathy with her Majesty, have undertaken to
supply, free of cast, the bricks required for the foundation
of the memorial to be erected in that city to the late Prince
Consort.
The Duchess of Cambridge purposes paying her
usual annual visit to Brighton in the course of a few days,
accompanied by the Abeam Mary. A mansion in Adelaide.
crescent has been engaged for her royal highness, who pur-
poets remaining in Brighton about six weeks.—Brighton
Gazette.
The Archbishop of York has arrived at Claridge's
Hotel.
The Earl of Chesterfield, the Earl of Winchilsea,
Sir Courtney and lady Ragweed, sad Mr. and Mrs. A.
B. Page, have left the St. Georp's Hotel.
Sir Culling Eardley has arrived at Claridge's
Hotel from Bedwell Park, liens.
Mrs. Lane Fox has returned to Dover-street
from visiting Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston at
Headlands.
The Earl of Derby has presented the Rev.
Edward Marston, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, his
lordship's chaplain, to the rectory of Holy Trinity Church,
Chewier.
Signor Gavazzi was about to lecture on Italy in
the town of Newry, but the magistrates received information
that if he did so serious riots were certain to take place,
which would end in the destructioe of property, perhaps loss
of life. Two of them intimated this fact to the minister in
• whose church the lecture was to be held, and, consequently,
• the lecturer did not appear.
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Cardinal Wiseman has given Lis formal consent
to the erection of a Dominican church and priory oa Haver-
stock.hill, Kentish Town. For this purpose about three
acres of land have been purchased, and the buildings will be
erected without delay. . . .

Count George Apponyi, judex curing, President
of the Supreme Court of Justice of the kingdom of Hun-
gary, has just passed through Paris on his return to Austria,
after a stay of a month at Biarritz.
Dioema or LosooN.—The Bishop of London, at
his approaching visitation of the metropolitan diocese, will
deliver his charge to the clergy under the dome of St. Paul's
Cathedral, on Tuesday, December 2.
ELECTION or Sussirrs.—The election of sheriffs
to serve for the various counties of England and Wales for
the year 1863 will take place before the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Lord President of the Council, the Horne
Secretary, and her Majesty's judges, on Wednesday, the
12th of November, being the morrow of St. Martin.
GREAT BL-CENTENARY MEETING AT ST. JAMES'S-
HALL—Last evening a crowded meeting, in connexion with
the Congregational Union of England and Wales, and to
commemorate the ejectment of the 2,000 Norionciformht
ministers of 1662, was held at St. James's-hall, Piccadilly,
Mr. J. It. Mills in the chair, supported on the platform by
a large body of Nonconformist ministers. The chairman
opened the proceedings in strict speech, congratulating the
=eating on the great manifestation of public sympathy and
feeling that had been shown in celebration of the move-
ment and on its success as a public demonstration. The
merits, labours, and sufferings of the ejected 2.000 were
now fully vindicated and universally acknowledged, and
would continue to be held up to the admiration not only
of the present but of all future generations. (Applause.)
Mr. Hadfield, M.P., proposed the first resolution, mottling
with gratitude and admiration the memory of the 2,000
ejected ministers who, rather than surrender the faith that
was in them, or submit to ecclesiastical tyranny, sub-
mitted to social degraiatiou and temporal loss, but whose
Christian heroism gave a hallowed impulse to the interests
of liberty, patriotism, and evangelical truth, and the influ-
ence of whose example is intimately connected with the
present position and future well-being of the human family.
Although they had received no assistance from the state,
they were able by their own unaided assistance since 1662
to establish 25,000 chapels in the United Kingdom, with
3,000,000 of children in the Sundae-schools, and 350,000
gratuitous teachers. (Cheers.) All this has moreover bed
the effect of renovating the church of England
(Cheers.) The Dale, of Bermondsey, seconded
the resolutioo, which was carried by acclamation, and
other gentlemen having addressed the meeting, the pro-
ceedings terminated.
LORD HELPER AND THE NEW POACHING Act.—
At the Shire Hall, Nottingham, yesterday, Lord Helper, in
delivering judgment in a ease which came under the new
Poaching Act, said the defendant bad been proved to be on
a footpath with nets for taking game in his ion. The
magistrates had considered the wording of • new act, and
they found that it was impossible to make any conviction
unless it could be proved that the oats had been used for the
taking of game. This had not been done, and the bench
bad no alternative but to discharge the accused end restore
the nets to him. Mr. Robert Snellie, surgeon, of Budding-
ton, Notts, was also charged before Lord Helper. the sitting
magistrate, with poaching on land over which General Sir
Arthur Clifton has the right of shooting. It appeared
that on the 3rd instant the defendant was driving through
the above-named preserves in his gig, and omairlonally the
vehicle was stopped, and he shot several birds and • here.
He was observed to get out of the gig to go and fetch the
erne, and afterwards return. The beach convicted him and
ordered him to pay a fine of 40a.

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LIVERPOOL, THERUIDAY..

The Canadian mail steamer Bohemian, Captain
Borland, which left Quebec on the 27th ult., and
which called off Cape Race for telegraphic des-
patches on the 30th ult., arrived in the river about
12.30 this morning.
The telegraphic summaries have already been
published, and the New York journals are only
i one day later than those received by the Aus-
tralaaian. - -.

The following is the text of the proclamation of
the President suspending the writ of habeas corpus
against persons opposing the war policy of the
government :