The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-03 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3.

tatious kind, and that manufacterenj were little
skilled in the pious art o Tattingirdrifs
right hand know what their „kind did. vl But
no injustice which, in the' cou -02 this untuippy
controversy, has been done to any clam, is so
flagrant as the wrong to those who live in the
very midst of suffering. For a man at a distance,
whose.ise•me is sure, or 'whose speculations are
prosperous, to put his hand in his pocket and to
send to Lancashire a 101. or a 201. note, is • com-
paratively easy thing. The self-denial is probably
not great, and the glow of virtuous complacency
quite as warm as the action merits. But no public
gift, however munificent, however often repeated,
can answer the demand made upon those whose
lot is now cast in the midst of a hungry and half-
clad people. There is this pressing case of want
to be relieved ; that poor woman to be helped
through her time of trouble ; these little children
to be tenderly nursed through the fever ; those,
to be sent to school or put out to service ; a new
plan of benevolence to be tried ; an old and well-
proved scheme to be kept in efficiency till good
times return : these, and many things more, make
a constant succession of petty demands upon purse
and energy, demands which, either in Lancashire
or elsewhere, conscientious and kind-hearted men
never leave without reply. The County at large
is now in a position to challenge conclusions with
its detractors, who if they be honourable will
admit their error—if they be wise, will
at least take refuge in silence. But
the men and women whose labours have been
incessant since this trouble began, who in money
have given all, and often more than all than they
could afford, and in addition time and effort, gifts
far more valuable than money ; whose resolution
still rises higher with the higher flood of destitu-
tion, that all that they can do shall be freely done,
deserve a more frank apology than we fear they are
likely to receive. But still, to have performed an
honourable work in faithful obscurity is a more
enviable lot than meanly and scornfully to deny, in
face of damning evidence, that the work was being
done. The beat revenge which the administrators
of private and public charity in Lancashire can
have over their crilumniators is, to point to the
hungry filled and the naked clothed.

trbe Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dm 2.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louis
of Heme, drove out yesterday. Major-General Seymour
was in attendance. _ -

Prince Louis of Herne rode on horseback, attended by
Lieutensnt.Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe. _ _ _

.....
Sir Andrew Buchanan, 0.0.8., arrived at the Castle
yesterday, and hail an audience of her Majesty.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Sir
George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. C.
Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon.
T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Card-
well, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers.

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey arrived in town on Mon-
day evening, from his seat Falloden, Northumberland.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer leaves town this day on a
visit to the Marquis of Westminster, at Eaton Hall.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. An appeal, " The Meander and Florence Nightingale,"
from the High Court of Admiralty (part heard), was con-
cluded. Judgment was deferred. An appeal from Canada,
"Beacon Fire Assurance Company v. Gibb," was com-
menced. The Lords present were Lords Chelmsford and
Kinpdown and Sir J. Coleridge.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian bland&

FOR many reasons, the Lancashire County
Meeting, held yesterday in the Manchester Town ,
Hall, deserves a more marked attention than
the numerous charitable assemblies of the
same kind which have lately drawn territorial 1
magnates to their county towns. For the im-
portance of this particular meeting is far less in
the actualpecuniary effort which there found a voice,
than in the opportunity of reply which it afforded
to those who have not scrupled to assert that the
county which is the seat of distress hap really done
sewn 'm mitigate it. Bo meeting, however con-
venient the place and hour of assembly, could
adequately represent all the varied social elements
of so wide and so diversified a district. But this
was varied enough for the purpose which it was
designed to serve. Earls and Commoners ; Whigs,
Tories and Radicals ; manufacturers, merchants,
tradesmen, and landowners, apparently forgot any
petty differences which in happier times might part
them, to join in the performance of theirdutyaa men
of Lancashire. Lord DERRY is not the statesman
whom Manchester is generally supposed to delight
to honour ; nor is Lancashire the stronghold of
the party which he so ably leads. His testimony
is, therefore, of the greater weight, when he boldly
declares that, measured by any test, Lancashire
has done its duty. The gage is now fairly cast
down ; let it be as fairly taken up—or let us hear
no more of the miserable criticism, which, to
pander to prejudice or serve the selfish ends of
party, is willing if not to check the current of
national generosity, to make the bread of charity
as hard and as unpalatable as it may.
The facts of the case are very few and simple.
Of the LORD MAYOR'S Fund we take no account ;
if by chance any Lancashire money has found its
way thither, it does not go to swell the amount of
the County's gift. The sum in hand, or expended
by the Manchester Central and the local Commit-
tees, is, in round numbers, 540,000/. Of this
40,000/. is to be credited to the colonies, 100,0001.
to England at large. The remainder, 400,000!.,
has been subscribed in Lancashire. To this great
sum must be added not less than 50,000/. of new
donations, announced at the Manchester Town-
hall yesterday. A month ago, Lord Sarron
issued 1,300 circulars of invitation to the county
meeting. Since the despatch of those invitations
the amount poured by Lancashire into the trea-
suries of various relief funds has been 130,000/.
These figures, for the accuracy of which not only
Lord DERBY, but Mr. FARNALL, the Poor-law
Commissioner, specially deputed by Government,
stands sponsor, prove that up to the present time
Lancashire, tested by the subscription lista alone,
has borne more than half the whole burden of the
distress.

The following notice of the Queen at a child's
ball at the Duchies of Gloucester's, in 1837, occurs in the
new volumes of Lady Morgan's autobiography :—" The
young Queen was there, looking quite • child her-
self. When her uncle. the Duke of Sussex, was leaving
the room, she ran after him and said, ' Won't you give me
a kiss before you go?' and then whispered in his ear,
' You have forgotten to wish mamma good night.' What
a charming trait—it is • pity to make a Queen of this
creature with these warm affections.'"

The Prince and Princess Royal of Prussia
intend, it is said, stopping some days at Vienna, on their
way home from Italy.
. _ .

"It will be seen," says the Bury and Norwich
Pan," that our member, Lord Alfred Hervey, is appointed
a lord of the bedchamber in the household of the Prince
of Wales. We have reason to believe that the noble lord
was designated for this appointment by the lamented
father of his royal highnees,"
The Count and Countess de Flabault and Miss
Elphinetone de Flahault will leave town early next week,
' for Bowood, on a visit to the Marquis of Lansdowne.
The Duchess of Athol' has left the St. George's
Hotel.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and
Lady Georgina Hamilton have left Chesterfield House, on a
visit to the Earl and Countess of Mount-Edgcumbe, at their
seat is Devonshire.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath have been
entertaining his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
and a select party at Longleate, Wilts, during the part
week.

The Earl of Malmeibury left Stratford-place
yesterday morning, on • visit to the Earl and Countess of
Derby, at Knowsley Park, Lancashire. Her ladyship re-
mains in town.

The Earl and Counteß4 of Carnarvon have
arrived at Bretby Park, Derbyshire, on a visit to the Earl
and Countess of Chesterfield. _ .

The Earl of Eglinton attains his majority
this day, and greet preparations have been made at
Fenton Castle, Ayrshire, for the celebration of this event.
Lord and Lady Huntingfield have left the St.
George's Hotel, for their seat, Heveningham Hill, Suffolk.
Lord Henry and Lady Ulrica Thynne will leave
Worthing oil Friday for their seat, Maiden Bradley.

Lady Goodria has arrived at the St. beorge's
Hotel

But none know better how unfair is the appeal
to the subscription lists than those who make it.
That the County can afford to be so tried is only
what those who are most intimately acquainted
with it would confidently expect. But such an
appeal altogether excludes evidence as to rates,
the whole amount of which, whether great or
small, as critics with various prepossessions might
decide, falls not only on the County, but on those
very parts of it where the distress is most intense.
Places like Ashton, Stockport, Oldham, Glossop—
where one-third at least of the ratepayers are
already insolvent, and where rates which really
come to from Bs. to 15s. in the pound, are being
paid by the owners of cottages which yield no
rent, and mills where not a spindle turns—
may surely be excused from any large contribu-
tions of a voluntary kind. We will say nothing
of the great expenditure which is made week after
week by the millowners—an expenditure which, if
we are to believe Lord DENBY'S emphatic testi-
mony, far exceeds in munificence any other dona-
tion to the needs of the distressed poor. But
those who will give Lancashire credit for only
those amounts which adorn the columns of some
local or metropolitan paper, would no doubt be the
first to point attention to the fact, could they do
so, that the County's liberality was all of the osten-

Sir Redmond Barry has left the Cavendish
Hotel, Jermyn4treet, for Melbourne, Australia.
Sir William Jardine, Bart., has left the Caven-
dish Hotel, for Jardine Hall, Lockerbie.
The members for the borough of Nottingham,
Charles Paget, Esq., and Sir It. J. Clifton, have accepted
an invitation to dine with their constituents in the Ex-
change Hall early next week.

In one of the letters of Lady Morgan—who died
lees than four years ago—given in her autobiography, just
published, is the following passage. She is writing from
Rome, Feb. 4, 1820:—" Cardinal Feeds (Bonaparte's uncle)
is quite my beau ; he called on us the other day, and
wanted me to drive out with him, but Morgan looked
at his scarlet hat and stocking, and would not
let me go. We have been to his palace, and he has
shown us his fine oollection (one of the finest in Rome).
Lotd William Russell, Mr. Adair, the Claremonts, ha., are
coming to us this evening. Madame Mere (Napoleon's
mother) sent to say she would be glad to see me ; we were
received quite in an imperial style. I never saw so fine an
old lady—still quite handsome. She was dressed in a rich
crimson velvet, trimmed with s►ble, with a point lace ruff
and headdreae. The picture: of her sone hung round
the room, all io royal robes, and her daughters and grand-
children, and at the bead of them all old Mr. Bonaparte /
Every time she mentioned Napoleon the tears came into her
eyes. She took me into her bedroom to show me the
miniatures of her three children. She is fall of muse, teeing,
and spirit, and not the least what I expected—vulgar."'
M. Mario was amply compensated on Sunday,
at the Theatre Italie', for the rudeness with which he was
treated atlhe French Opera a few days ago. The former
building was crowded, and the illustrious tenor was received
throughout with the warmest applause.

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVErNG, DECEMBER,. 3; 1862.

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