The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-10 00:00:00

bt Court.

WHATEVER the biographers may say to the con-
trary, Lord Paumssarom is still the youngest
member of the House of Commons. We appeal to
every one who saw as well as heard that reply to
Mr. Dims= on Thursday night. What other
man could have risen an hour before midnight to
deliver one of the happiest and most telling replies
to one of the most elaborate and insidious attacks,
in a tone, and with an air and gesture, resonant
with vigour, and sparkling with freshness t Where
is the secret of this inexhaustible vitality which
seems to renew itself, not in ease and quiet, but in
the incessant wear and tear of public labours and
party contests, in days without respite and nights
without repose f Public life is evidently a pass-
port to health and longevity, a preserver of
moral, and probably of physical time. The
contrast between the two party leaders was pictu-
resquely striking on this occasion : on the one side
censorious intrigue decked out in borrowed domestic
under garments and in foreign finery ; on the other,
common English sense in simple everyday dress.
Mr. Doma•su, it seems, will never learn that the
bulk of Englishmen love generous errors better
than the shrewdest artifices.
We are certainly not concerned to champion a
Minister who is well able to champion himself, and
one of whose prime misfortunes it is to be praised
morning and evening for all he does and all he
leaves undone ; nor do we care to deify a Liberal
Chief whose comprehensive policy satisfies so many
Tories. Yet we would willingly plead guilty of the
vulgar weakness of preferring a statesman whose
principles, and even whose claptraps, are English,
to a statesman whose sympathies are as foreign as
the jargon in which they are expressed. And this
is why, though we are very far from being en-
titled to rank among the noble Lord's followers,
though on a hundred questions we should not be
fighting by his side, we would rather be beaten
with Lord PALMERSTON than triumphant with Mr.
HISRAELL It is just possible that even on the
back benches behind the Member for Bucks there
may be sitting English gentlemen of our persua-
sion in this particular, unless Mr. NEWDEGATE'S
opinions on the necessity of the " independence"
of the POPE, and Mr. BENTINCIL'S ideas of
" bloated armaments," have suffered a miraculous
conversion within the let few days.
It is not only that Mr. Dumasm is so obviously
incapable by nature or by grace of any sympathy
with English feeling and opinion, but that he
displays contempt for all parties in the House
by the coarse cunning of the baits he throws
to each in turn. Or is it that he counts on the
short memories of his hearers ? On Thursday
night he was industriously accusing her MAJESTY'S
government of pursuing a policy exclusively nw
tional, and of paying too little respect in their Ita-
lian policy to the susceptibilities of our Imperial
ally. Has the House or the country forgotten that
last year and the year before last Mr. Doum•zu
was with equal virulence accusing the same
government of playing into the hands of our
Imperial ally by preventing the execution of the
Treaty of Villafranca ? Mr. Dise•xu does not
pretend that the policy of the got.) nment
is changed ; yet, whereas a year or
two ago it was too favourable to French
interests and designs, it is now too independent of
the French alliance. So, too, with respect to the
" bloated armaments " which Mr. Hakim de-
nounces at this oonvenient season for condemning the
Budget of the year. These " bloated armaments,"
it seems, represent the " moral power " which a
Liberal English Government claims to exercise
in the councils of Europe. Yet it was the Go-
verment of which Mr. Disasm was a burning
and a shining light, that in a fit of panic and pas-
sion, when the Italian war of independence was de-
clared in '59, suddenly, by Order in Council, swept
into the navy ten thousand bounty-men, at an enor-
mous cost, in order to support Lord M•mansevey's
moral demonstrations in the Mediterranean in
favour of Austria, and against France and Italy.
Doubtless the sincere and eloquent author of
the "Three Panics" has not forgotten these ante-
cedents of his latest and most unexpected disciple.
That Mr. Disarm should abound in sneers at
mg moral power," is not more surprising than that
he should treat any mention of " political mora-
lity" as almost a personal insult. He is terribly
afraid of the HOLY FATHER'S going to " one of the
"cities on the Danube" some fine morning. Where,
we should be glad to know, did Mr. Dmaseu ex-
pect the HOLY Fares to go to in the spring of
1859, when he came down to the House of Com-
mons to announce the immediate departure of the
French troops from Rome t Austria, it is true,
was at that date in occupation of the Romagna,
and in possession of Lombardy, and the legions of
France had not crossed the Alps.
And this is the statesmanship with which the
Member for Bucks proposes to secure the waver-
ing allegiance of the honest country gentlemen of
England, and to seduce the intellect of indepen-
dent Liberals below the gangway. As to the in-

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BALMORAL, May 8.
The Queen drove and walked yesterday.

The Prince Consort Memorbl Oommitter held • meeting
yesterday afternoon, at the Palace of Westminster. Pre-
sent : the Earl of Derby, the Bari of Clarendon, the Lord
Mayor, and Sir Charles L. Imilake.
A deputation consisting of Serjesst Pigott, M.P., Mr.
Hadfield, M.P., Mr. A. Jones Leh am, Mr. E. C. Mallet
de Carteret, and Mr. R. Pipon, dan interview with
Secretary Sir G. Grey, yesterday, at the Home-office, and
presented a memorial, signed by 250 landowners and others
t the island of Jersey, making reppieentetions to induce
government to legislate immediately upon the reform
of the constitution of the Royal Court of Jersey.
A deputation from the Council of the National Amain-
ton for the Promotion of Social Science had an interview
with Viscount Palmerston yesterday on the subject of quo,
mettles regulations. The deputation ameisted of Lord
Talbot is Mathias, President of the Public Health Depart.
meat; Mr. Stephen Cave, 'LP.; Mr. G.W. Hadisse, gene-
ral Searstary of the Amostatios ; Dr. Lancaster and Dr.
M*lroy, Semistaries of the Public Health Department ; sad
Dr. Waller Lewis.
A deputation respecting the Customs and Inland Revenue
Bill, involving the abolition of local sasonors, had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Excheqaer yesterday, at his
-finial residence, is Dosoing-street.
The Committee of ;the Privy Council on Education met

yesterday.
The Commimionan for the Reduction of the National
Debt had • meeting yesterday, at the official residence of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, io Downing-street.
thereat: the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Governor of
te Bank of England, and the Deputy-Governor. Sir
Alexander Spearman, Secretary and Comptroller-General
to the Commimioners, attended.
A deputation from the overseers of the township of
Ohositon-upon-Medlock and Halms had an interview with
the Right Hon. O. P. Villiers yesterday, at the oßoe of the
Poor-law Board, Whitehall.
A deputation had an interview yesterday
with the Right
Hon. Sir George Grey, on the subject of the anomalous
date of the law as to the closing of public.houses, and
other like places of resort, with relation to the disorderly
' condition of the Haymarket, and the locality, during the
1 whole of the night.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
t from the Governors of the Mauritius and Canada.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MAT &
Notice is hereby given that the Queen will this
year bold no levees or drawing rooms. For the (save-
niggles of ladies and victimise going abroad, and who may
wish to attend foreign courts, her Majesty has been pleased
so permit the Lord Chamberlain to give certificates of pre-
sentation to ladies and gentlemen who would, had circum-
stances permitted, have been presented according to the
usual regulations to her Majesty. A lady or gentleman
desiring such a certificate must apply by letter to the Lord
Chamberlain, is order that it may be submitted for her
Majesty's approval. This letter must be accompanied by a
letter tram a lady or gentleman who has been presented to
the Queen, stating that the applicant is going abroad, and
that, had circumstances permitted, the writer would have
attended court, and presented the applicant to her Majesty.

His Excellency the Swedish and Norwegian
Minister had the honour of entertaining at dinner, op
Thursday, at the residence of the legatioe. in Strattoe-
street, his Royal Highness Prince Oscar, his Excellency the
Danish Minister, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Rummell, Lord
Clarence Paget, Sir Edward Cost, Sir Hamilton Seymour,
Admiral Washington, Captain Falbe, Colonel Hinge:iota,
Count Cronstedt, Lieutenant Robin, Mr. Charles Bills, and
Mr. Dement.
The Marquis of Boa mont has arrived at the
Clarendon Hotel from Floors Castle, Helm, N.B.
The Countess of Kinnoull's dancing parties are
axed to take place on the 2nd and 9th of next month.
Viscountess Palmerston will give her second as-
sembly this evening at Cambridge House.
The lion. Charles Murray, British minister at
Dresden, has arrived at Claridge's Hotel.
Lady Caroline Kerriaon has issued cards for an
assembly on the 20th lost. at her redden:le in Piccadilly.
Lady Howard had the honour of receiving at her
boom in Betrays-square, on Thursday evening, the Bth
Met., their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duchess of Meck-
lenburg Willits and the Princess Mary of Cambridge, and
her Royal Highness the Duchess d'Aamale.
Sir John Romilly has appointed Mr. Rawden
Brown to calendar and abstract the valuable papers relating
II to England in the archives of Venice.
Onr readers (says the Atherveum) will learn with
latidaction that ber Majesty, on the recommendation of
Viscount Palmerston, has acknowledged the services of the
late Mr. Superintendent Piers°, in saving the crown jewels
at the are at the Tower, in 1841, by a munificent gift from
the royal bounty to his sister, Mrs. Nash.
The royal gold medal placed annually by the
gam at the disposal of the Royal Institute of British
Arelitechs, for bestowal upon any distinguished British or
maga architect or eminent parson who may have contri-
hated to the advancement of the art, has been presented
this year to Professor Willis. Other prizes bare beet
provided :—To Mr. Wilebam (the Some prise of 51. 55.) ;
Mr. Oodierers, 104 10s., to Mr. Davies ; Mr. lies's, 101.
10s., to Mr. Legg ; the first student's prise, to Mr. Oar.
poster ; the second student's prize, to Mr. Fry.
The council of the Royal Society recommend the
following gentlemen for election into the society :—Meews.
G. Bentham,. H. W. Bristow, A. R. Clarke, ea pt. J.
W. Dawson, F. J. 0. Evans, J. B. Hicks. 11. D., the Very
Rev. W. F. Hook, D.D., G. Monate°, ILD., C. W.
Siemens, M. Simpson, B. Stewart, T. P. Teals, Sir J. E.
Tenant, L Todhuster, and C. G. Williams.
The Exhibition of Modern Pictures at the British
Institution closed to-day (Saturday) ; that of the Old
Rasters' paintings is expected to contain a large and fine
collection of Vandyke's portraits.
There was purchased a few days since in the
public market at Munich for • Amin a Picture painted on
wood, which has Arnee been purchased by the Royal Gel-
lery for 400 florins. It is mid to be an original sketch by

RUbeita.
The Illustrated rllll4l states that the report which
ban been circulated that Mr. E. Yates will act as step
manager to Mr. Yachter, at the Lyceum, is wholly without

foundation.
A public meeting has been held at Weymouth
for the purpose of rasing a memorial to the memory of Sir
W. L. Freestun, the late member for the borough.
The turn of 6,8271. has been already collected
for the cathedral to be erected in Belfast. including 1,0001-
from the Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, and 1001.
from Lord Carlisle.
The whole of the extensive cathedral yard at
Exeter Is to be enclosed sod turfed.
The 'elect committee of the Howe of Commons
for inquiring into the expediency of providing an abstract
of parliamentary proceedings will meet on Monday to exa-
mine the chief clerk of the loursal.ollee.
£930,000 has already bean voted by parliament
for Portland breakwater. The total estimate *zooids
1,000,0001. ; 5,000,000 tom of rough stone bare been used
fer the breakwater. The boy that it will shelter L %DO
acme in extent. The centre of the oath head of the break-
water is 8,512 feet from the shore. At low water, 'ming
tides, the depth is 57 feet. During the last heavy plea
nearly 120 vemels at one time took abetter in the harbour
for woe days.
Large quantities of mackerel have been seen off
the Roast of Portland, is Dorsetabire.
The vessel which is now building in the Isle of
Dogs on Captain Colas' plan is to be caned the Prince
Albert.