The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-24 00:00:00

to the contrary, tboy will Do kg' i
1 thing coons oat of tho dolibsratioos

that something as some
Iwo& as the fever mason in Opt
searable weather is paining silty
turned te assault. Ns army has been
esemsplep, and chill, timpani winter,
may be many reused by the mlentores -
of a bot sammer. The borrowing tale at
winter seaming. ,versed the people to indiglietkei ;
if a tele equally harrowing of summer milking. is to
follow, it, will goad them to frenzy. In sash an
mitt it will not be mere votes of smart that
wUI
Ististy the public rep. The nation will
not be pat oit by whispers sad Maim-
done *boat diaonities originating in the way-
wardness of oar Allies, or by the samifloe
of a gland or two. They will demand judos on
the principals, sot en the subordinate agents; on
foreign pvernments they have no hold, but their
own goveensint is within their reach. Impeach-
ments have gone out of fashion for the last half
century, but they have not been oblitersted holm our
sods of oonstitutional law. We speak sot of what
is desirable, bat of what is both possible and pro-
bable, if ministers persist in wasting the mama far
Mien by waiting to see what subterfuges the,
lbableas Cabinet at Vienna can devise for them—
' w News.

THE BALLOT.

IP the eased debate and division on the Ballot
I have been marked by no features of peculiar novelty,'
they are mortheless not wanting hi points of specific
lowest. It is hardly to ha leseilerei at that time
should bays been, under asiodig aboomobomoo,
hirer and briefer epochs@ than used. Made mils
are absorbed in the fate of the mighty demob in
which the nation is sagged f sol Mr; BMIZISZT
was fain to pray in aid the imperious which prevails
at the halfhearted oonduot of the war, as a sort of
special reason on which to claim the support of all
tree men for an improvement of the electoral system.
19e are not son that many—perhaps it were nearer
to the mark to say that any—of the votes recorded
upon Tuesday night against the continuance of intimi-
datios and bribery at elections, are to be set down to
the credit of the special motive thus adverted to. Most
of those who are animated by an earnest desire to
see the contest with Asada carried on with reel
vigour and a definite aim, are instinctively disposed
to advocate thorough freedom in the exercise of the
suffrage and the maintenance of self respect on the
part of the individual elector. While every hoary
bask and 'prentios impostor in the rival ranks of
Whiggery and Toryism was ready to strengthen the
compact alliance formed to resist the emancipation of
the voter from illegitimate control, we find among
the supporters of tbs motion the names of nearly all
the men who have recently shown a disposition to
shake off the miserable superstitions and superficial
&dodoes of party, for the sake of the great cause
of. national honour and international right. And
ia addition to these, there are numbered
amongst the friends of the Ballot some batt-
alion individuals whose sympathies on foreign
pally are at variance with those of the
nodes, it is nevertheless true that almost without
adoption, the entire staff of the three oligarchic fee-
dos who have hitherto assumed the right singly, or
he various forms of coalition, to rule irresponsibly
Wee the land, clubbed together their strength to
defeat ones more the just and reasonable demand for
the Ballot. We commend to careful study the divi-
sion lists on Mr. Bitaxsures motion taken in con-
junction with those on the different propositions
made during the last three months, involving the
principle of Administrative Reform. It will be
found that in the main the cause of executive
redeem, and more especially that of justice to the
army, has been supported by the same man who are
new found advocating freedom of election; and that
the aristocratic majority, by which every proposal
for practical ameliorations in our civil and mili-
tary systems has been opposed, is the same substan-
tially as that by which the most essential item of
Parliamentary Reform has been again defeated. This,
mown, is Ward enough. Monopoly of ppwer and
polteeddaot be maintained if the Hoses of Om-
'Ws were really and truly chosen by the meowed
aid urnalyrepted suffrages of the people; and although
ma are willing that each specific proposition for cur-
the usurpations of hereditary lemeineteacy
be brought forward end dilemma on its
own merits in the existing pediment, IPOlllallashut I
our eyes to facts such as those we have allniedlia and
to their inevitable tendency to abbreviate thole/oin-
the life of the present House of Commons.
Another view of the matter is thet suggested by
the disparity of political value listmot the minority
and the majority of Tuesday I. In the 'smarm
have the representatives, with very few szseptilahot
all the great ooestimencies of the United lingikee.
If Liverpool and Brighton and Norwich cheese *be
self-neutralised by sending as their opeessetatives
two men each, whose only function seems to be to
destroy the force of each other's votes on ell great
mambos, let us stoics that the other great aide al
the empire are wiser and more honorably maiden§
of making their sentiments known, and their heti-
mate influence felt in the supreme council of, the
nation. Bristol, Southampton, Birmingham, Shea. ki
Sold, Manchester, Neweutle,lldinborgb, Glasgow,
Wolverhamptoo, Coventry, Beth, and a great num-
ber of other towns, were as usual represented
faithfully on this occasion. We notice with sur-
prise end regret the absence of certain names,
like those of Lord Reuxeron, Mr. Lows,
sod others. Bed every place been represented in
the division, as it had a right to expect it
would have been, the friends of foe-voting world
have been found to number a full third of the entire •
160, 111011111 Si 196. For the carrying of elei ma.
the Menace may be deemed immaterial; but '
bre the coodenes of each constituency the question
teal amusedly orise—have their delegates done :
their duty ? Bat there is a Min of votes in the
majority to which, though small, we cannot forbear
selling attention. We allude to those of men who ,
witty or openly, in times past, have allowed them- .
yes to be ranked amongst the advocates of an- '
hems* tad notaloitied suffrages, and who yet are
boa In oaks swelling the numbers of those who for
oligarchic purposes persist in preserving the mare
sit arraption and intimidation. Sir O. C. Lim s
mid Mr. Kerns are no new offenders in this WI .y.
Their apostacy from the faith they professed in be' „ter
days has long been known, end appreciated as it de-
fense. But we own that we were not prepared U dad
the eentegion spreading under the influence of Lord
Peaussirron. That the Clerk of the Ordnance
sleald renounce liberal opinions in polities h nay not
roper strop to those who recollect his fir totootioa
et views is religious matters t but we own .our deep
regret that the President of the Poor. .law Baud
should have been Wood to take the wear* side
apes a question which his sagacity ought to hove
UM him wee one certain of being ear tied at no die-
tut day.
Of dierirgimenteaddetedo ea dither side tt were
napes" leolis to apse. We are glale to end so most
an soknowledgesentof .the utter 'utility of the meek
afamtre d led year for the pretunded sinned= of
WNW. Oui regamdmialksis deed him bees

the °sprouts alibi Ballot. But we observe that be
still haidtent.the'inenau that be _will seek to istre-
dues what he ludicrously terms a " permissive nes-
sure." Any soustitnemey which desires it, aid a
majority of which shall duly signify the same, may
have the luxury of the experimental Ballot. It
would have bean about es preposterous to have met
the outcry that the hospitals at Scutari were dens
of pestilence in consequence of the filth scum-
Lied therein, by telling all who were this
that they might walk out if they plumed
and take the fresh air ad laibms. It is not for Cues
who are saffloiently independent to sign a legal requi-
sition for the adoption of the Ballot that the Balbt is
required. The greater number of oonstituenciesdare
not sign any such requisition ; but, if a nominal per.
mission were given them by statute to do so, we
• should be told by Lord PALIMISTON when they did
not avail themselves of it, that the Ballot was con-
trary to the feelings of Englishmen. What is called
a "permissive Ballot' law would help to make this
sort of cue, and so help to frustrate and damage the
principle of actual protection to the voter who really
wants it. Other effect it could have nom—Daily
News.

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pith:Awl /Wee ffierresiene dike Colonies OR the Weft
Coen Atrinainese mat .kern needs from the Coladd•
eillas - , 'v. •
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lir Doke de Saxe.Cotarg and Gotha has bit
Iltesels, dter bas day's stay, tor Gotha. The p.s
date, Enid 11., who ha jot finished an exesested to
:towLando", and Brussels, is the depilate of Sing Leopui‘
pall of Prima Albert, the consort of our Clasen.
Phinn, Q.C., M.P. for Bath, hen been tip-
'
Sesend Secretary to the Admiralty.
Ora nos=y to announce the death of Lieutenant-
Genesi Sir George O. D'Aguilar, X.. 0.8., and Colonel of
the Ed Boyd Welsh Position.
An act intended to limit the hours of work of per-
sona meployed end resident to the establishments of drew
makers sad Wiliam la the metropolis bas bees printed.
The opreisibibed hours, eashoin of Sunday, are, from
March Ito Aviedl in every year, between half-pest alas in
the mein, and eight in the morning; sad from August 1
to Marsh 1, from between eight in the amusing and eight ia
tb. nonsisg. It is proposed to anew an hour and-a-half
for ands daily. Penalties to be enforced before a polies
magistrate, without power of appeal.
A blue book has been leaned this day containing
the remainder of the evidence taken before Mr. Roebuck's
eommittes. In an appendix is the carrespondenee between
the Earl of Aberdeen and Lord Joha Russell, relative to
mints changes in the War department, alluded to by the
noblelEarl fa the 0011 M of his examinatioa.
It in actually a fact that the usually acute and
well-informed ladipeadasse• 8e,., has been hoaxed by the
pretended report of Lord Raglan relative to the expeditioa
to Kutch, and gives, in its number of yesterday, that ab-
surd document as an official despatch from the London
Gamin!
Correspondents of the Das7y News, writing from
from the Crimea on the 12th, give acoounte of the progress
which is being diligently made in the weeks of attack end
defame. The late eortioe of the Russians are described,
and the sudden change of the weather, from oppressive heat
to heavy rain, is recorded. Several cases not unlike cholera
have occurred among the French troops, and a few isolated
cane amongst our own men, bat the general health is satis-
factory. Mention is made of a rumour to the effect that
another expedition is to start for Kutch.
Miss Nightingale acknowledging the receipt of
various contributions from the beasvonnt publics at home,
states that the gifts have, during the last two months,
pouted in so bountifully that there is no present occasion for
more of say sort or kind, nor, indeed, room to store them.
Lord Londesborough will have a conversations on
Monday. at his residence in Carlton-terrace, as President of
the Numismatic Society.
Major General the Hon. Thomas Ashburoham,
C. 8., has arrived at the Countess Dowager of Ashburn-
hem's, is Itaton-equare, from service in India.
Parliament adjourns to-morrow for the Whitsun-
tide holidays, until Monday week, the 4th Jun.
Alderman Sidney is to visit Worcester on an early
day to " expound hie political matintents."
Viscount Palmerston had a Cabinet dinner, last
smiting, at his mansion en the Terrain, Piccadilly. The
following members of the Administration were present:—
The Earl Granville, the Disks of Argyll, Lord John Russell,
Lord Penman, Sir Charles Wood, Mr. Vernon Smith, the
Earl of Harrowby, Viscount Canning, Sir William Moles-
worth, and the Earl of Clarendon. The Marquis of Lens-
dowse and the Lord Chancellor same after dinner. Sir
George Grey was prevented being present by indisposition,
and the Chancellor of the Pathogen through having him- I
self a dinner party.
The Sherlsourne Mercury mentions a rumour that
Major Reed will present himself at Bristol on the Liberal
interest in the event of a general election. The boo. mem-
ber for Abingdon was originally a cornet in the Duke of
Cambridge's regiment; he has, however, left the regular
Derwin, and his title of Major is derived from a Volunteer
Artillery corps.
The beautiful estate of Lauriston, the property of
the late Lord Rutherfard, has been sold to Mr. C. IL Isglis
of Cramoad for 22,2001.
We (Eastern Counties Herald) understand that
Mess. Cresskill, of Beverley, have completed their first
seem MI SSD carts oonsidenbly within the time given by the ,
nomeamssa, viz., one month, and that they have tanned a
farther elder for 700 carts and waggons, making, together ,
with the first order, a total of 1,000 vehicles.
The Marylebone Cricket Club has won in a game 1
with the Sr. John's Wood Club by 174 runs on the fist ,
lettings. Royston alone marked up 116 runs.
Lord Dundonald appears again in print, expressing ;
big surprise at not having been called on to explain any i
doubt as to the practicability or efficiency otitis plans, if, in
ihe opinion of a professional and scientific commission, such
to reality exist.
By a singular coincidence, the inscription on the ;
esstlimaiil (an elegant silver salver), selected by 80 Lamers i
efileam and sailing transports for presentation to the late I
Oliptein Christie, was dated the Ist of May, the day of his '
eistb. I'h. testimonial is to be handed to his family.
L a elsolution transmitted to Lord Tinware, the 1
lied College of Surgeons of Edinburgh protest against the ,
appointoteat by government to the local rank of assistant-
wpm in the army of persons not possessing a sencied
diploma, " or any other public testimonial of fitness for the
'dice." 1
Dr. Bryce, who has received the appointment of I
rl
shit physician at the &nun hospital establishments, for- 1 I
'early resided in Turkey, and his "Memoir on the Fevers ,
[of the Levant," was prepared at the request of genromed i
lest year for the special use of the Radical staff of the ape- (
allimary army. 1
Mr. Jams Sheridan Inowlee has published a tab. '
Alms pamphlet, compiled with the object of proving that ,
"the Gospel attributed to Matthew " was composed as a
fall, formal, and sufficient record, by all the spates tog*-
Cher, who employed Matthew as their penman.
The " Creation " will be repeated by the Sacred
Harmonic Society, at Exeter Hall, to-morrow sousing.
Th. yacht America, now lying at Gosport, is ad-
vertised as for sale.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge m-
ettles at the, aosiveliny festival of the British Beneficent
lestitation, on Wednesday nest.
The youngest sos of the Lag of Sardinia, who
atad en the 17th, had always beets a sickly child, and was
hant only a few hours before the Queen's death.
To-day is her Majesty's rad birthday.
Mr. Phinn'a aeceptinee of offs ha camped a n-
eaps, la the representation of Bath. Mr. Whitely offers
Morel on the Conservative interest.
On Tuesday the Lord Lieutenant of Inland assisted
st the tsunami= of the New Alinement at Cork. The
essepeay present included all the teak and fashion of the
4111, led the seiglthourhood with a large number of visitors
Ilals Dalian NA ether localities.
' 'Dm &voted.° who recently waited on Lord Pal-
isseetsa vela a memorial -praying for the stinioaditioeal
prim ei Mr. Smith O'Brien, confidently expect that the
sally will be favourable. Tha piece of plate presented to
Me. O'Brien by the inhabitants of Melbourne is now at
Ilkarasie on its way to the French Exhibition.
'roe Mowers says that the French caravan of pit.
rites has "happily termiaated" its excursion to the Holy
Land. Oa the 10th ult. they embarked in good health to
musts to Europe.
A telegraphic despatch from Madrid states that
the law relative to the sale of the Church Leads is to some
into effect on the Ist of June.
Tan GotranantEtrr now decline to render any
assistance to the emancipated slaves who arrive is this
country from Cuba on their way to Africa. These nun-
;t
os id, as they are called, are possessed cif large quantities
gold and silver plate and oreasseals, in wisfA they invest
their wealth for reavenience and safety.
DIMS or Mn. Teams, ran Vocauor.—The
death of Mr. T. R. Travers, the popular vocalist, late of
Drury-lane and the Surrey Theatres, took plus at Ken-
slants. on Sunday lot. He was town is the mulled
pedeselea by the noes de germ of Travers, but bb real
, mem was Romer, and he belouged to the talented ba
eg the Emote, the difemat iambus of whisk bare beet
bag popsially identified with the ivied dream

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WIDNIADAY EVINING.

ilicitons guess yesterday
morning papers would
A same trap which had caught the Petrie
Press.. With the single exception of the
Yawed, they have every one swallowed the
• 411eele sagely observes that Lord Raglan's
expedition to Xertch throws no light
on the subject, and it only publishes the first fear
lbws, setting forth that the troops had Mussed
"Ask and sound" from their "exceedingly dangle
sun and highly important" service. The Annaba
Aida the report " not very interesting," but sires
it at full length, as does the Union, with the each
neat that "it leaves much unexplained." The Pays
publishes the whole without remark. The Debate,
which prides itself upon careful editing, appears to
have read the facetious document with attention, for
it has struck out as a palpable mistake the phrase
about Sir George Brown's "youth and hopeful pro-
, miss," but it never occurred to the Debate to doubt
the genuineness of a despatch which makes Lord
Raglan select Highland regiments with the double
purpose of frightening the Russians by their pecu-
liar costume and attracting the sympathy of the Cir-
cassians who might see their naked legs from the
shore; which, speaking of troops assumed to be em-
ployed on a service of danger, notices nothing but
the way in which they carried their arms and wore
their shakos; which attributes to an aide-de-camp
the right to offer whenever he pleases his unreserved
opinion to the commander-in-chief; and which winds
up the satire by the transparent bull—" The enemy
contented himself with replying to our batteries, and
in order to prevent him from firing too frequently
we did not tire a single shot!" But the orecun of the
joke is that all this absurdity is published by the
Moniteur itself as an extract from the London Ga-
zette. The Moniteur, with its forced circulation in
every village in France, will present to its millions
of readers the above caricature of the British com-
manders as a true picture, and will sorely perplex
the rare students who attempt to understand what
they read.
The latest Austrian proposition for conditions of
peace to be offered to Russia has been, as I am as-
sured in an official quarter, favourably received by
the French government; bat some doubt is felt, or
affected to be felt, whether it will be thought equally
acceptable in England. I understand that the pro-
position, whatever it may be, has been forwarded to
London this morning. When I say that it has been
favourably received here, I mean that the govern-
ment looks upon it as a pledge of the co-operation of
Austria in the war. It is not for a moment supposed
that the proposition will be accepted by Russia.
However, diplomacy is hard at work, and it is diffi-
cult indeed to say who is most likely to be deceived.
The Emperor and Empress paid a visit this after-
noon at four o'clock to the Universal Exhibition. The
Emperor on this occasion informed the directors that
he would pay out of his private purse for the admis-
sion gratis of working people one day in every week.
Arrangements will be immediately made for the issue
of free tickets, pursuant to the Imperial will.
The Bourse opened very strong, sympathising with
the further improvement in Consols. The Rents,'
apeasd at 691 r. 18c., and this quotation was main-1
Imbed for some time, but late in the day sales were
very much pressed, and it declined to 68fr. 80c., closing
at that price, with a fall of 100. The railways,'
although they did not maintain the highest quotations
of the day, all closed at an improvement. In some
instances the rise was considerable. St. Germain
rose 221 r. 80c.; Eastern, 18fr. Orleans, 10fr.; Lyons
and Mediterranean, lOfr.; '
Austrian rose lfr. 25c.
Palace of Industry rose r.
The ',dependant de la Moselle has received a first
warning tor publishing an article "containing violent
and defamatory attacks against a government in
alliance with France" (Austria).

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