The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11,

them these things, and he supposed they believed thesa to
be true ; but he would remind his friends &snag the tenant
farmers that in private life a man Tel always veined, net
according to the compliments which he paid, but for the good
which hedid. Yet, when groat landed proprietors and apical-
toil Y.Y.■ west to parliament they seemed to say some-
thing like this :—" You are such an intelligent set of men
that you son now no longer climb's of managing your
roads, and therefore we will do it for you ; you are so
independent, and have shown yourselves independent so
long is protecting your kndlortie game, that now we
think you ought to pay for the preservation of it also."

We are left to imagine the highly reserved and
discreet attitude maintained by the landlord
orators as these words were pronounced. But
the reporters have recorded what passed lower
down the room. Cheers and cries of "Goon ;"
" Let's have some more of it," accompanied
the speaker, who, however, seemed to learn from
these exclamations that he had said enough to be
understood. " No," he exclaimed, " I will say
" no more than—Gon preserve the farmers from
" their so-called friends." Mr. Howse, M.P., who
was soon afterwards on his legs to propose another
toast, said the last speech called for a reply ;
but although greeted with invitations to "Make
" it now," he chose the more prudent course and
sat down. Be perfectly understood the situation of
these bucolic revolutionists, and could well afford
a little outbreak lice this once a year.

THE troubles of International Exhibitions seem
to begin with cooking. It was so in 1851,
if report speaks truly, and it is notoriously so in
1862. In 1851 a number of estimable gentlemen
connected with the great enterprise were nearly
poisoned by gastronomical experiments. In order
to cater pleasantly for their expected visitors, they
gave up their palates to strange and unknown
dishes. They realised that scene in Smottsrr's
novel which shows that one man's food may be
another man's poison. They tried how many
spoonfuls of Tartar broth could be taken without
nausea ; they choked themselves with birds-nesta
prepared by ignorant cooks ; they ate the best
substitute for alligator which could be found in the
country; and only broke up in the moat admired
disorder when an undisguised baked monkey was
brought to table.
The Gastronomic Committee of 1851 are worthy
of our compassion, and so are the Committee of
1862. They have made a great mistake, and they
are suffering for it severely. Unlike their prede-
cessors, they have preserved their stomachs, but
they have played at ducks and drakes with their
reputations. They are called upon for an ex-
planation of the " CADOCIAN scandal," when they
have none to give, and when a penitent silence is
the best answer they can make.

Zhe letter which we printed the other day from
Earl GRANVILLE is as candid a confession of error
as any one ought to expect that estimable noble-
man to make. The fact that it is written single-
handed from a distant German town is a sufficient
exposure of the board-room feeling on this matter.
Earl GRANVILLE, like many other good-natured
men, has many hangers-on, and amongst these is
the Hon. F. CADOOAN. That gentleman's busi-
ness aptitude must have been well known to his
lordship, who cannot have forgotten the Telegraph
Company squabble of 1858. An ill-natured man
would have refused Mr. CADOOAN the slightest fa-
vour, in spite of supposed family claims, but Earl
GasNviu.a is not ill-natured. The Hon. F. CAnoGAN
carried every point he wanted, and the French
refreshment contract was given to Masers. Veit,-
LARD, BROWN, JONES, and ROBINSON.
The four other Royal Commissioners have allowed
Earl GRAN-max to reply, if they have not called
upon him to do so, and he has replied by admitting
that he knew the aristocratic refreshment room
manager. No evidence extracted willingly or
unwillingly in the Bankruptcy Court—no produc-
tion of an ordinary business agreement drawn up by
such experienced solicitors as Messrs. FLADOATIL, no
further discussion in Exhibition corners, or in
newspaper articles, can now throw any additional
light on this unfortunate transaction. All that
need be revealed is revealed ; • foolish piece of
kindness has turned out badly and been exposed,
and everybody must be sorry that more prudence
was not exercised. Earl GRANVILLE has not
shrank from the duty of replying alone, and his
exonerated colleagues will be wise not to stir the
puddle further.

THE QUEEN'S RETURN FROM GERMANY.

The Victoria and Albert royal yacht has sailed
from Portsmouth to Antwerp, to be in readiness to embark
her Majesty and the royal faini,y, who will arrive at Osborne
Dent week.

MIL OLADSTONITS VISIT TO Till NORTE.

(rim • oomerommer.)
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, FarDAT.

During Mr. Gladstone's visit to the North he has
had, u people here remark, Queen's weather, and everr
where a Royal reception. No expense was spared, every
possible element of splendour the towns or rivers could com-
mand was put into requisition to do him honour. The Tyne,
the Wear, and the Tee*, resounded with congratulations to
him. The famous river men of Newcastle and the Naval
Reserve of Sunderland, and all orders and classes
beside*, gave the right honourable gentlemen ape.
oilmen, he will not soon forget of their thoraxial regard.
Mr. Gladstone's servant appeared at every railway station
loaded with addresses which had been showered upon his
master ; and Mr. Gladstone in return flung orations among
the crowds such as never greeted northern ears before. Mr.
Gladstone conquered by his eloquence, and his wife by
genuine graciousness everywhere. The whole country
reverberates with exultation. Middlesborough, which made
its maiden effort to welcome a distinguished visitor to their
town, taxed all its invention in banquet, river procession,
and commercial display.
The Chaocellor of the Exchequer wee conveyed to the
Eaton Iron Works of Messrs. Bolckow and Vaughan, where
he was soon seen entering sulphureous flues, and crouching
under furnaces, studying their construction. Mrs. Gladstone
was equally intrepid in approaching the iron lava as it ran
in molten rivers to the acres of pig moulds. The return to
Middlesborough was made by the Tees. The whole town
met Mr. Gladstone on the river in vessels. A barge with a
band preceded the nautical prooession. Salutes were tired from
thogreat works which line the Tees. The soot-begrimed,
perspiring, half-nude sons of Vulcan crowded the shore,
and gave the ilinetrieue visitor, hearty Teesside welcomes.
Mr. Gladstone went to their Town-hall, and contrasted
Oxford with Middlesborough ; went to the banquet, and
beat the iron masters in his knowledge of the great iron gum-
, lion, as the chief among them, Mr. Bolckow, confessed ; and
though he bad spoken twice at Sunderland in the morning
—an hour at one time—he rose at the banquet at night
as fresh as though he bad Mr. Disraeli for an opponent.
Everybody strove to prove to Mr. Gladstone that the people
of England know how to appreciate a minister who had
shown a regard for them. I have seen royal and other
ovations in England and elsewhere of many kiods. I never
witnessed anything in variety, intensity, or universality,
equal to what Mr. Gladstone has experienced in the north.

THE PROPOSED GARIBALDI MEETING IN
THE CITY.

The sub-committee appointed to arrange the de-
tails of this meeting met last night. Mr. Richardson, one
of the hon. secretaries, reported that the London Tavern
could not be obtained for Wednesday next, the day fix: 1
upon. He had received a large number of letters from
members of parliament, clergymen, merchants, bankers,
and other gentlemen in the City, men of all parties, and
many of whom had not signed the requisition, all strOugly
disapproving of the conduct of the Lord Mayor in refusing
the use of the Guildhall to the requisitionists. The majo-
rity of these letters contained offers of personal and peen-
niary aid to make the meeting at the London Tavern an
effective one. It was finally resolved that the meeting
should be held on Friday next, the 17th inst., at the London
Tavern, at 2 o'clock, Mr. Western Wood, M.Y., having con-
seated to take the chair • and that Baron Rothschild, Sir J.
Duke, and Mr. R. W. Crawford, the other City members,
should be invited to take part in the proceedings. It was
also arranged that the s era should be chosen, as far as
possible, from City men, so that the meeting might be
really what it professed to be, &LI expression of the citizens
of London. Every precaution has been taken against dis-
turbance.

• 1862.

!dl RIGHT HON. 811 P. T. BARING, 8AL1...
.M.P., SIR JAMES D. ELPHINSTONZ, BART.,
Y.P., AND SIR J. C. JIIIVOISR, BAIT., M.P.,
AT PORTSMOUTH.

The 108th anniversary of the Portsmouth Benefi-
cial Society was this year attended by Sir F. I'. Baring,
M.P., and Sir J. D. Ephinstone, M.P., the borough Mein.
bars, and Sir J. C. Jervoise, one of the members for South
Manta. The Mayor (Mr. Alderman Hamby) presided, and
about 150 members and friends sat down to the banquet.
The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been propmed,
Mr. Alderman Swarvalin proposed "The County
Members."

Sir J. C. a:Racist, Bart., in the course of his reply, mid
—The success that has attended the defensive exercise of
that great branch of metallurgy—the coating of our vessels
—the sumoss seems, up to this point, to be pretty well with
na, and I doubt if that terrible Le Clare would cut a very
good figure if placed alongside some of those creations of oar
own artificers. (Bear.) With regard to our guns, I think the
program we are making with them will leave the question of '
offence and defence undecided for some time tocorue. (Hear.)
Costly as the experiments are, they are better than the cart
of action, as less costly for us to bear, and more to the ad-
vantage of the country and of Europe at large. (Hear.)
With regard to the policy of our neighbour over the water,
it is still one of those grays matters that time alone can
solve. (Hear, hear.) But we meet it with a policy on our
parte that is equally difficult for other nations to oombat
with. I believe after all the _policy we shall be found to
have adopted is the beat—and that policy is honesty. (Hear.)
A word has lately come in vogue, and I think it is one of
the best ever coined—it is the word " non-intervention,"
a terrible puzzler to the diplomatist. of other countries.
(Laughter.) It seems to be a word of Almighty Power
if I may use the word ; it is a word that seems to me to
upset all the syllogisms of the inexorable logic of facts.
When the vexed question of Italy was brought on the
carpet, the word non-intervention is a very great touch-
stone for all the correspondence that has taken place
between the ministers of a attain great man and himself
and the ministers of a nation he has gone far to establish,
with what motive I will not inquire into. But that
nation has a very difficult card to play and has been left
considerably in the lurch. What will be the result of
Italian policy it is difficult to comprehend, but we must
hope that the great principles of liberty will ultimately
prevail in • country which was so unsuited to receive them
when the great blow was struck. (Hear.) Having touched
upon the American struggle and the affair of the Treat, he
said the policy of non-intervention was a very useful one
for us. It was a policy that was most useful, and it bad
been most consistently carried out, and be thought they
would agree with him that the foreign policy of this country
under the present government had been marked by great
firmness and dignity. (Hear.)
Mr. VANDENBILEIG briefly proposed " The Members for the
Borough," and the toast was received with the greatest
enthusiasm.

Sir J. D. H. Eceurnstroint, M.P., was received with
enthusiastic cheering. The honourable baronet proceeded
to notice the events of the lest session, and said—
As regards Portsmouth, the principal measure was the car
tying out a system of fortification which is henceforth to
minion this port, and I trust prove a guardian power to
defend a nucleus of forces which at present doss not
exist. These defences compared with the first plans
offered to parliament were curtailed and modified to a
material extent. I must say my opinion is, whatever I
thought of the scheme when first brought fot ward, that
now, it would be the most politic to carry out these
defences in the most ample manner, for the purpose for
which they were intended. This was a question as to
what extent land defence was necessary for these put.
poses. But that having been settled I think they ought
to be carried out to the full extent. (Hear, hear.) The
means by which the harbour is to bo defended will be by
fortifications of a new description, supported by iron-
plated ve:sels, either moveable or fixed in such positions
as to effectually resist au enemy's vessels, and that the
full artillery of those fixed defences may be brought
effectually to bear on them. I believe these objects will
be perfectly and completely effected and I am happy to
say that an effort which was made last year for the
purpose of disparaging this harbour, and to carry our
dockyard to some other and snore protected spot, com. 4
pleisly failed. (Chews.) The lagoon of Portsmouth has
been held by Sir John Rennie and other eminent
authorities to be the finest port in the British channel.
After all the examinations that have taken place, Ports-
mouth is still found to be the point, and the point alone, on
which the main arsenal of Great Britain can be centred.
(Loud chcers.) This being the case, lam happy to say that
it is a fact, the government having carried the proposition
to surround Portsmouth by a circumvallation of a strong
and most powerful nature, have also settled that they are
to create basins here upon a scale of size and magnitude equal
to the maritime power of this country, and which has been
urged upon them for many yearn by competent men, able
to judge of what is necessary for the development of our
naval power. (Hear, hear.) I believe we Snail see here
docks and basins, and thole auxiliary barracks and
buildings, which are so absolutely necessary far the
enormous fleet which we have been obliged to create.
(Hear, hear.) I feel quite certain that nothing will
conduce more to the economy of our shipping, and also to
the well-being of our men, than that the fleets of this
country should be concentrated in floating basins for the
purpose of their equipment, instead of this being carried out,
as at present, partially in the stream and partially at
Spithead, and that the men are now subject to discomfort
and inconvenience has long been strongly felt by all who
have the well being of the naval service at heart. (Hear,
hoar.) The barracks will enable the government to keep our
fleet Moor port at periods of the year when it is impossible
to carry out evolutions with any degree of comfort at sea,
instead of sending them to upend money in foreign countries.
Sir FRANCIS T. BAKING was received with loud applause.
He also briefly reviewed the past session. With regard to
the defences of the country he said,—" My impres-
sion,
reluctantly *doped, was that it was necessary that '
the country should make exertion both as regards its
defences by sea and land. With regard to the hod
defences, one to a certain extent might look into the matter,
and form his opinion, yet at the same time 1 think it fair to
admit that my opinions were mainly formed by the decision
of the government, and the reports of those able officers--
the lint men of the country--and upon their responsibility
who suggested and recommended to the government the
measures they thought necessary for the protection of the
country. My gallant colleague bas alluded to one member
of parliament who was very noxious to remove our arsenal
and our dockyard. Ido not think we have the slightest
reason to quarrel with Sir Morton Polo, for I believe be
did it conscientiously, and thought he was right. It was
of advantage to us, for the question did not pass by without
coosidevattun • the government looked into it, and I think
that Sir Morton Pete found himself in a very small minority.
(Hair, hear.) Sir Morton Peto very naturally opposed
the fortifications,: and ho said " You will have to move
your dockyard after all." We believe Portsmouth to be
what Sir Morton Peto does not mean it to be, for
although he says " Don't spend sixpence," the money is
going to be spent, and after the fortifications have
been built, and the money qgpended io their construc-
tion, it would be still matt difficult to remove the
arsenal, and so far you have the advantage. But when
the bill comes to be paid for all these measures I find a
large number of persons. and among them those most
anuismobuilsl.fora.theugmessht.r3reeNtohwemaelvthates, do not
is
very.thuraike
—to pay
(c.n.
tinued laugliter)—but just allow me to tell you, gentle.
men, that you will have to pay the bill, for nothing could
be more childish than when • great measure of this kind
has been decided upon for the security and honour of your
country—decided deliberately, after repeated discussions,
great difficulties, and after much consideration—nothing, I
say, is more childish than for men to turn round and say,
"It cost inure than we expected, and therefore we do
not wish to pry." (Hear, bear.) If you expect me
hereafter to refuse to find the money—and you will find
that there an some sitting on our side who are much disin-
clined to find the money—if you expect me to aid them I
am bound to tell you that I shall by no means coincide with
them. (Hear, hear.) The hon. member next proceeded to
refer to the American question, and expressed ao opinion
adverse to any mediation on the part of this country. He
believed there exists on the part of the government of this
country an earnest desire to contribute as far as possible to
peace between the contending parties. They were the beet
judges, know most, and have the best information on the !
subject. (Hear, beer.) He believed, therefore, that we
may fairly rely on their judgment, and leave it to them to
interpose if they see there is the slightest possibility of doing
so with effect.
.The meeting shortly afterwards separated.

" It is believed," says the Army and Navy Gazette,
"that Lord Lyons, who is expected to return to Washing-
ton in the course of this month, will be placed in a position
to define the course and views of her Majesty's government
without soy uncertainties or doubts in view of the various
phases which the contest in North America may assume ;
and that the ministry will have arrived at positive concha.
aions, and have determined their policy in reference to the
affairs of the United States, before his lordship returns to
his post. The views of Russia are, it is believed, assimilated
to those which the march of events and the inexorabLe
logic of accomplished facts' place broadly and clearly before
the government of the Queen and that of his Imperial
Majesty."
FOREIGN•OFFICE, SEPT. 30. —The Queen has been
graciously pleased to appoint the Honourable William
'art, now Secretary to her Majesty's Legatioe at Athens,
to he Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Washington.
ThelQueen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Horace Rumbold, Esg., late Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation in China, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation
at Atheus.—Gazette. . . . .

The Crystal Palace Company's School of Art,
Science, and literature, has now established itself as a lead-
ing scholastic institution, and will commence its third
session ou November lst. No less than 150 ladies joined
the various classes, which were allcooductedby ismieent pro-
(tenors during the last unsioe, a fact sufficient to prove that
the praiseworthy efforts of the directors to nails the re-
sources of the Crystal Pals,, for educational purposes are
being properly and steadily appreciated.
The pioneer of a fleet of itumenme iron-clad ships
is now building at Jersey, U.S., for the protection of the
Pacific coast.