The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-22 00:00:00

If, indeed, the character of a nation or of an epochl
is to be judged from the obituary notices which
reflect its ideal of public virtue, we cannot envy
the reputation which history will bestow upon the
" remains "of what was once the Liberal party in
this country. And it is of some importance to
those who aspire to belong to the Liberal party
of the future to let the dead bury their deed,
and to protest, at least by absence from the
ceremony, against the apotheosis of Radicals of
fifty years ago, long destitute alike of colour and
of flavour, and with nothing bat the crust to swear
by. The Whip are passing away, and a new gene-
ration of Reformers is coming on the stages Let
us not be ungrateful to the golden prime of Radi-
cals of fifty years ago, but neither let us be dupes.
We have only to peep into the House of Lords to
see what young Radicals of much less than fifty
years standing can become under the training of
their elders. We have only to look at the living
disciples and followers of the Radicals of fifty
years ago, to beware of emulating the funereal
pathos of devoted friends of the Family. All
England reckoned the death of an Outman, a
HAVILOCK, a MACAULAY, a CLmI, as • public
loss. Literary gentlemen of the Whig persuasion
assure us that the death at eighty of a gentleman
who was • Radial in 1818, and a fanatical
Conservative convert in 1863, who in 1831
carried the beg for the Whip, and as Patronage
Secretary and House of Commons whip managed
the "details" tithe great Reform Bill transaction,
is also emphatically • public lose. Probably by
" the general body of the public," that is by all
but some two or three hundred choice
spirits, the loss of the unknown will not be
very severely felt. Doubtless it is advantageous
and instructive to young men to tell them
how a young clerk in a city counting-house,
by his business habits and strict punctuality,
and the advantages of a public school education,
rose to be a flourishing British merchant ; bow at
a ripe age he launched late the troubled sea of
politics, taking care to have both wind and tide
in his favour; how by a judicious marriage be
became an aristocrat ones removed, but as near as
possible to the Prime Minister of the period ; bow,
thanks to that fortunate oonnetion, he was ap-
pointed political secretary to the Treasury, and
applied all his business habits to the coeval son of
doubtful votes ; how great was his " moral
" courage " in the conduct of confidential affairs ;
bow much greater his disinterestedness when be
allowed himself to be persuaded to accept the
office of Secretary for War instead of attending
to his private business ; how soziows he was not
to take office, how glad to resign it, zealous only
for the promotion of his young friends whose
ambition he had outlived already; how for well
nigh forty years he remained content with being
the dispassionate adviser of Whig Ministers, with.
out sharing their responsibilities ; and how as a
member of Parliament, to the day of his death,
be continued to resist in the blandest I
manner every new measure of Reform, whether
for fear that the one great measure of his own
public life should be eclipsed, or because he was,
like all new aristocrats, afraid of " the mob,"
His sympathy with Austria in the Italia& war of
liberation, his warm interest in the cause of the
American slaveholdere, his fearful prophecies of
impending rain to the Northern States, are they
not written in the columns of that journal
in which all public virtue, combined with
a judicious hospitality, is sere to find
its epitaph f Yet who shall say what would have
become of the fame of a " statesman " so disio-
terested as to retire from public life at the early
age of fifty, if he had not added to all the good be
did by stealth to hie country and his cause the pri-

The ei-King of Portugal, who has for some
Uwe two living at the Grand Hoed on the Boulevards at
Paris, frequently esohauges visite with the Priam Napoleon
and the Primus Clotba.le at Mandan. It hue been ar-
ranged that the Friesian Olothilde, together with the prime
her husband, should visit Lisbon, to be present at the as-
eouchement of her sister, the Queen of Portage!.
Priuoe Napoleon has decided on visiting the iron-
wed squadron at Cherbourg.

A letter from Rome describing the scene at the
fele of the Redoing., on the Bth, says :—" The faithful
weft programed a great treat; than was to he a great
dmaciastratioa in favour of II Papa Re, bat, alas, far the
natty of human expectation, they was doomed to be dis-
appointed. Notwithstanding the presence of a large num-
ber of Fence and Roam 'alders, the Pasta was sparingly
eampled. The Pope wars an hour behind time. He looked
materkably well, but hie reception was frigid is the or-
law The people seamed totally indifferent, aid sot •
single puma within the compass of a glean tsfl as his
lases. There were, belled, dithath patches of handker-
chiefs, white, relsals or planted along the line of procee-
d" tram which a cry issued, but which was last fa space,
sad towed scathe slightest echo from the crowd."
At a late sitting of the senate at Corfu a
emedalout mesa took place reembling the famous ea•
muster between Jahr: Dollar and Slick of Tecinemee so
graphically described by Boa Gaultier. Two awakes
having differed in opiates, expressed themselves is terms
tame befitting @twist porters than mialthers ; and having
exhausted their vorehalary of abuse, in which thither
spared his thareet female relatives, and which was Nay
limited by • lack of satand altgarea, they prooseded to
harem seek caber with their respective views in a seers
laughable faea The other fear uteutheee sow Isterelesid,
sad separated thee mod illustrious combatants, while the
mob outside the Palace "assisted" at the ground-Son,
window with appropriate cheers and groans.
A charter of incorporation has been granted to
the basset of Reigate. The election of the onaleipal
fuectioaaries is to take place they in December.
The project for connecting Aldershot camp with
Latham by a railway junction la sow atearalag a more cl•-
ilaite hem. According to the "preliminary prospectus"
Nth fussed, the proves 1 line will be about 71 mile in ex-
teat, emeaseateg from the Boath•Wesiera Railway Intim'
the Waking bed Faith sough atalisca, proceeding by a
direst rests to Aldenbot and theme to a psiat Dear to
the /Parehem station of the Loader and Routh-Western
Railway Company. It can be connected also with Rail,
Bostic Reetwne Railway at er sear North Camp or Ask '
Oleueh stations, whereby the whole of the military mate-
rial sad amwebeariat awes from Chatham, Woolwich, and
the Tower will be conveyed direct to the government stores
by rail. The capital calculated as suflioitht to complete the
uedartakieg is 75,07.0'. which it is proposed to raise I.
TAO shares of 101. each..

Tau LATE MARQUIS TO'WNSIIIND AND THD POLE.
The Hertford Memory, in giving se erestant of the tweed
of the late Marquis Towsshead, says :—" Atwood the
mounter@ were also a another of distinguished Poles The
death of the Marquis Townahend, who for wee years bee
oboist supplied the place of the late lamented Lord Dudey
Stuart Is the affections of the Polish refugees and the Polish
nation, is most keenly felt by them ; and • deputation heat
the Literary Astociatioe of the Edited' of Poland (of which
the dammed nobleman was president), mosiating of Edmond
Belles, Esq., Edward Johnstone, Esq., Thorns. Yoaag, Esq.,
aid Major asidenewski ; sad another &polities hum the
Polish Malngess, emitting of Melee Oielgsd, Oaptates
Miehala'd mei Heamdan, ••11 Mom of
ead
Stalissewski, eticsaled te pay their het • ibnie of map en, bo
the memory af their Walla end scalene friend. A rash
emblems. was also deputed by Prises Cillrbstylek who wee
tumble Is Wee Paris, to Nese ewer I. thin eaustry for the
express purpose of off eMeg his andelesen to the family of
the Marquis Towehead sad attend's' the funeral."
FOXIMAL OF TWR LAM PRO/IMOD CWICIIIIILL,
R. A.—Ate meeting of the Conned of the Royal Institute
of Brinell Arehiteete, held os the 19th inst., to eimeider
whet step should be takes to do honour to the memory of
Professor Coskerell. the following reaolutioa wee made:-
1. The Connell having learnt with great DCWIMII of the death
of their forme menisci, the late Preform Ceekerell,
1 E. A., sad feeding it Oman:Meet open the Institute to pay the
highest tomour M their power to his stessery—resolve, with
tLs seseerreeee of the family, to metre ea applkatioe to the
Dose and Chestier for pew Seim to hater hie reemies is the
eatiledral of Is Pours, sad to invite the 'Wedmore al the
members et the fumed. 2. Readved, that the members of
the Royal Acedemf be invited to asioalses Ibecomelcce with
the Institute es tiis accosies._flm martins of the Noe
sad Chapter is. bees chemist& eel the day filed is Thew i
day nost
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Accounts from Japan viA San Francisco are to
the 24th of July. According to these the English
ship Medusa was, on the 15th of July, attacked by
some forte and vessels that had previously fired on
the American ship Pembroke. The Medusa re-
ceived twenty-four shots, and was much injured.
She had four men killed and six wounded. On
the 20th of July the American ship Wyoming ar-
rived at Kauagaira from a trip to punish the
Dainaio whose vessels and forts fired on the Pem-
broke. The Wyoming reported that she had blown
up the Japanese steamer Sauoefield, silenced nearly
all the neighbouring forts, and left the Japanese
steamer Laneck in a sinking condition. The
Wyoming received twenty shots, and bad five
men killed and six wounded, when she deemed it
prudent to proceed to Kanagawa. Two thousand
Japanese troops were reported to be descending
towards the British vessels, but it was not thought
that they would attempt to pass within the range
of their guns. On July 24 Admiral Jure:, in the
British steamer Semiramis, returned to Kanagaws,
atid reported having arrived with the Semiramis on
the previous Monday in Simonosaki Straits. The
British steamer Tancredi received the fire from the
Japanese batteries, which, with the forts, were
bombarded for about three hours. 153 British
troops then lauded, who destroyed the forts, batte-
ries, and the town, spiked the guns, blew up the
powder magazine, and burnt the village.

(ulna's Tzusgamm)
FRANCE AND POLAND.

PAM% Bar. 22.
The Moniteur of this morning re-prodnoes the
letter from Warsaw, d►ted 15th August, addressed
by the Polish National Government to Prince
Czartoriski, and already published in the English
journals.

MMIL.