The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-28 00:00:00

but due to the Select Committee to point ont
the moderation they evince in recommending that
twelve of the twenty-tour Almoners shall be selected
from the members of the exibting body. This shows
that their aim is really reform and increasing the
efficiency of the management of the Hospital, not the

lubstitution of one set of men for another.

We observe that a kind of protest against the
Report of the Select Committee, signcd by two of its
members—the Treasurer and Mr. Archdeacon Hsi x--
hes been circulated amongst the Governors. The main
ground taken up in this document is, that " the
Select Committee had no authority from the Court
to inquire into the general condition of the
Hospital." Little weight is due to an objection so
purely formal. The Court of Governors have not
been taken by surprise by the Report. Ample time
has been allowed them to consider its arguments and
recommendations. If the measures it proposes are
right, it would be the veriest trifling to lose time by
appointing another Committee with extended powers
to bring forward on a future day a report substan-
tially the same. Besides, it ought to be kept in re-
membrance that a Committee wan appointed on the
30th of May, 18M, to inquire into the general
management of the Hospital, and that it has done
nothing from that day to this. By extending the
range of its inquiries the Committee of December
has made amends for the lifelessness of its predecessors.
The necessity for extensive reforms is urgent, and the
thanks of the Governors are due to the Committee of
December, for doing what its predecessor had failed
to do.

The Almoners, we are given to understand, intend,
on Tuesday, to meet the resolutions that are to
be proposed for carrying out the recommendations of
the Select Committee, by what the French call a
condreTrojel. The Almoners propose that the present
Committee shall be reduced, from forty-eight to
forty-two ; that six members of the new committee
shall be honorary, chosen by the present body ;
that twenty-seven ordinary members shell also be no-
minated by the present Committee ; and that only nine
shall be elected by the Governors. This infusion
of nine elected members into a Committee, thirty-
three of whose members are to be virtually self-elected,
irresistibly reminds one of Falstaffa poor half-penny-
worth of bread to his moustrous quantity of sack.
The counter-proposal of the Almoners may fitly be
designated "A concession by which nothing is con-
ceded." They are meant to give these gentlemen the
appearance of yielding to the just demands of the re-
forming Governors, without in any way endangering
the exclusive power to which they cling. As to what

object can be propostd to be attained by diminishing

the number of Almoners from forty-eight to forty-
two, it would requse an Clinotrus to nnriddle that
puzzle. Still the proposal of the Almoners
is not altogether without a meaning. It is a tacit
confession on their part that the time has gone by
for boldly and barefacedly resisting the general call
for a reconstitution of their body. It ought to en-
courage the Reformers to persevere, inn-much as it
shows that they are already strong enough—or EOM
will be—to obtain all they desire.
We have devottd so much space to the elucidation
of the importance of the motion for a reconstruction
of the managing tody in Christ's Hospital, that we
have left ourselves no room to enlarge on the reforms
which are proposed to be obtained by means of it.
We wiil take up this branch of the question on Mon-
day, for it is the importance of the rctorms advocated
that lends weight to the constitutional innovations
recommended. And it is most desirable that Gover-
nors at a distance should be impressed with a con-
viction of the meessity of their making an effort to
be present on Monday, as wt 11 as of the likelihood
that a strenuous exertion now may save them much
trouble in future.—Daily Aews.

ZDe Court.

The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday
at Buckingham Palace.
Prince Albert reds on homback with the niece of
W.11,P, attended by Colonel Seymour.
The Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, end the rein-
rewire Adele de and Poseidon) of finhenlohe 1,-.ngenburg,
visited the Z iologieal Gardens in the ltegent's-park.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert took a drive in the after-
now) in an Nun landeu sod four, accompanied by the
Princess of Hohenloho and the l'rince of L•iniusren, and
attended by Lord Charles File Ruy and Colonel Seymour •

on horseback.
The Queen bad a dinner party in the evening. The cens-
patsy included the Dualists of Kent, the Princesses of Ho-
, heolohe Laugenburg, and the Princ, 14 Adelaide and Peirce
Victor of Hohenlohe, the Prince of Leiningen, the Duchess
of Grafton, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Earoatss de Speth,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane. the Earl of
Huston, the Marquis of Granby, Lord and Lady Colville,
Sir George Coupes.. Major-General B•ritinek, and Major-
Gerreral Wylde. The band ct the Royal Horse (lauds
attended is the palace, and performed during dinner.

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