The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-09 00:00:00

prospects open to them by
unlikely that they will not I
between the lot of the man
• citizen of a free country,
atmosphere, with the opportunity -- -
competeooe, sod spending the evening of life in
ease and tranquillity, and that of him who dedi-
cates himself to • military life, to serve in severe
and unwholesome climates for • pittance and a pen-
sion. Such reflections will maw to the thoughtful
and be difftmed throughout the lower ranks of
society. And even where this mental promos doe.
not take place, the natural operation of economic
laws which we see going on around us, increasing
employment in a ratio eioeediug the increase of
labourers, will more and more disincline those who
have no thought of emigrating from adopting the
eadier's life. In this manner the field open to
the recruiting officer will be more and more re•
striated; and, therefore, in providing for the main-
tenance of our army in India we shall do well to
make the most of such soldiers as we can raise in
the country itself.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(TEM DAY.)

rsg WINISTIT.
The War-offioe, the Times says, is the:eake
Point in our whole administrative system. The is no
branch of the Chit 811111100 in which • drm hand is more
urges* required, as there is probably none on which
MO public money Le wasted. If only for this
seam the Duke of Betnermt would be the man for
leseelaryship of State for War, but • sdri
higher mfaificatku Is that he would show an indelible
mimeos of pail% interests to private influences. It
weal be =just to Lord De Grey ff we failed
to soknowledge the laborious &aerially which he has
brought to the other duties al hie oleos, but in that
paramount duty thus alluded to he has been found lament-
ably wanting. Those who are aware of the 'Scats that have
bum marls to weaken the Council of Military Education
well know the nature of the influential which he was celled
epos and boiled to resist, but to which he has apparently
yielded ; while at the Home Guards the hostility to all
safeguards spinet jobbery ir as strong as ever.
To stem this current a lees pliable minister
is greatly wanted. For the sake of the Duke
of Cambridge himself, the Tinsel should rejoice to eme
at the Weroides a man who would steadily exert his Nur
etilatiomal authority ageless the premiere of the Reese
Guards, and thus support him agelase that which is always
being applied to the Horse Guards from without. This
requites a tearless temperament, es well as an mired
social path" and there if, perhaps, no other member et
the cabinet who combines these gifts with admisistraUve
ability in so high a degree ea the Duke of Somerset.
Earl Russell, observes the Pod, L not a great rhetteiden,
but few men are capable of expressing earnest thought or
deep emotion in more eloquent tailgates, and, with the or.
caption of Mr. Cardwell, no member of the Cabinet an-
ticipated the pasegyeki upon his predecessor hbe
expected to promisee to-aight. Earl Remelt has MM.
Rood in • peition comparable with that which he will We
ersaing foe the bee time publicly take up ; bat if he ens
calf see that the rualreinents of themountry are practical ;
it be will allow that they were .repressed in the eleettom of
a parliament which it wee understood would support the
policy of Lord Palmerston, and will accordingly give up the
notion of a radical reform bill, he may form • working
edmisistration, sad retain the semlidemoe of the coustry.
The Telegraph is ready to maintain that even es st pee-
not
eoestituted the goverameat Is not only a better one
than any tory Administration which bee ever ruled this 1,
caustry, but that it is good in itself —aot to be praised I
only epee comparisom, but in virtue of its own positive
merit'. Dinerdisig the theory that the national
party has comae to the end of its resources, the
Telegrapt takes the Mt three same that owes to I
the welter, and asks, " Would not Mr. Stansfeld, Me.
Gooch's, and Mr. Forster be recognised throughout the I
wintry as valuable mends? They have gives completions
proofs ci their ability ; they are earnest and devoted Pb•
farmers ; sod they have all pined the ear of the House of
Oemmens." Nererthelms, the Telegraph is not Whaled with
the senation of the liberal piety. Its eagerness foe reform
admit Irani the desire to see large additions to the new
school of statesmen who, in the years to come, will hue
to carry on the government of England. It urges
the adenkslon of the working claws to the humbles
with the deliberate conviction that they would altar
the compodtiom of she House of Commons, and
that they would alter it emmiderebly for the better.
Hr. Bright and radicalism, Mr. Lowe and reaction—how
is a dial:acted minister, asks We Herald, to decide between
them, with • mob of heated partisans around him, each
screaming oat the name of his favourite candidate, sad
each vowing that it hie nominee is not at oace selected he
will withdraw his support from the rieketty cabinet
and go ioustinestly into opposition This is rather
• diffeeent state of affairs from that which made
the Metals oo jubilant at the close of the elec-
tion. Sash • government will add but one more to
the dreary catalogue of those ministries which have
existed °sly through the forbearance of their arilisgosishi,
which evades every important duty, and which allows a
long sneer of abuses to accumulate unredeemed sad unre-
moved.
The Star has purposely abstained from suggesting on its
own responsibility the earn. of any one for any of
great or small, during the present ministerial crisis. When
Lord Paleserston's government was formed, Earl Russell
proposed Mr. Bright should be invited to join the Cabinet,
and if Mr. Bright were inclined for office it would re-
quire no suggestions from any newspaper or newspaper
eorreeposident to plus it at his disposal. The seggestioss
made through it. columns were appeals to Mr. Bright,
and not appeals on his habit.

been made without • sigailksiat purpose. YerawbUe, If,
ii may be presumed, the dignity of Enibuid would not be
compromised by accepting some forts of commission or
°oppose to provide for the future, it is difficult to under-
stand why our dignity bid honour should prevent us agree-
ing to • similar prooseding for the purpose of adjusting
what is peit. If it be wise to provide by mutual arrange.
moat for the avoidance of possible difficulties, bow much
more neoemery is It so to disposeof this difficulties which
I have actually occurred?

VIZ 11101.01111 D HIM SCHOOL OZ BOHOOLS 124 THZ CITY.
The Time' remarks that the principle of Mr. itogers's
suggestion ea to the appropriation of surplus charity
funds, is oonstantly sated upon by the Court of Chanosty
in the admiaistration of charitable trusts, though it is to
be hoped the Mansiou.honse Committee will be able to
esrry out their Belleau without havh3g recourse to that
venerable but expensive tribunal. At :the same time it is
law:rabbi not to see that the whams can only go •
small way to the removal of the evils which everyone
deplores. The education of the lowest elan Las been
artificially foroed upwards, and the class next shove
them are pet to • permanent disadvantage. It is
evident that this difficulty is too despecated to be removed
by schema like that of the Manion•hoese Committee, but
the good such &whams can do must Dot be despised berths,
it is limited. The committee will probably find their
greatest difficulty iu excluding from the advantages of
their scheme any class except that for which it la strictly
Weeded. A limitation of the education to be given is one
of the soot efficient safeguard' which can be adopthd
bat this limitation must be coupled with a determinatiou
to make the school saltespportieg to prove absolutely

*Statue'.
The oomiltudon may be galling to our nationel vanity,
bet stlll [tie simple truth, the Tekgrapb contends,
that, taking Into amount the advantages we enjoy
in point of wealth, the middle dames of this
country are the worst ednosted under the ma. This is due
to ear imperfect appliamea for public ladtmetiou. A semi-
nary uniting, so far as is poinible, the charactetistioe of the
national with the public schools and universities—offs/tog
some approximatioo towards the cheapens of the first.
come approach towards the tone and scope of iostrontiou
afforded by the emond—that is the aim of the father of a
family el the lower middle clam fa wetting out on a voyage al
discovery for a good wheel, but he meet 4001111 out el a
mighty mob of self-inetituted establishments professing to
teach, with more than dubious ohmic* of obtaining the
tuition sought. If seminaries constituted to meet this want
and offering instruction at a sufficiently cheap scale, were
to be reared throughout London, not only would a vast boon
be maimed oe the metropolis, but, indirectly, the country
would basalt by the *rise example.

UIaCILLAIMOIWI TOMS.
After giving some aceoent of the roosting of the Nae
Bowl Voisin, on the 29th alt., at Frankton, despite the is
menaces of Austria and Prussia, the Times observes that VI
the two governments unit be§ more timid or vindictive
than we core suppose possible if they inteefem with so harm-
less a *Meal display. Aaother meeting. however, is to be
held, and the prospect of it may load the Pemba& Minister
to take mare determined meneuree. In the assmatime the
absorption of the Debbie" by Prussia seems Steely to be
boldly and rapidly carried oat. The parities of the un-
happy Atigastemburg might well excite pity were hoot that
the original vanity of hie claim and the mischief he hes
caused by his intrigues make it a jest retribution.
The Pneumatic Despatch Company is simply, the Times
says, a question of wind—how to rein It, how to apply Be
how to direct it, how to economise it, and how to control
it, There is not the least reason why this new system of
looomotion should be undeeground. The " tuhe " need be
no more than a paseage or gallery strong enough to stand a
high wind, with an extra gust sow and again. The gallery
would be required to bear nothing heavier than a light car- '
liege. It could traverse our towns on viaducts of light iron
work, II might be glazed at the level of the eye. There 1,
are materials in the Crystal Palms for 20 miles of such
a gallery. There might be safety valves for the
probable contingency of excessive atmospheric pressure or
exhaustion. There might, too, be the mesas of letting air
is or out in we of en aeoldeatel stoppage. If there be 1
my serious difficulty in the way of en unreserved applies.
tun to passenger traffic, we should like to know it. To our
wiedentific genes the east seams perfectly clear. The'
velocity of our ordinary trains. it appeal", is sexily attainable
by this method. The question of economy meat be In its
favour, as the ponderous locomotive, with its heavily laden
tender, and its own delicate machinery always shaking itself
to pieces, is one of the &let items of exposes in the ',Listing
railways. Whether it can be easily adapted tothe frequent
stoppages required in our suburban lines can only be foiled
by experiment ; but it would be a very great object to make
our suburban lines lees noisy than they now are.
The Daily News reviews the notes of President Job:eon's
late conversation with 11r. Steams on the subject of
reconstruction, and shows that these ottoman disclose the
following points : that Mr. Johnson's aim in the first place
is to keep the power of the central government within its
proper bounds ; next, and with this view, he endeavours to
bring about a reconciliation, trusting to Congress, and to
its alliance with the Supreme Court, to keep the Southern
action from going wrong; and, finally, he hopes and trusts
to see the future become better than the past by the eleva-
tion and purification of the ballot, which includes the
establishment of negro suffrage.
The Daily New censor's in strong terms the appoint.
moot now potted of Colonel Arthur Cavendish Bentinck,
to be inspecting field officer of a moulting district, one of
the bob appointments which as officer of his rank can
hold. Had it been the deliberate intention of the Duke of
Cambridge to destroy all confidence la his desire to admi-
nister the army with an eye to the public interests, and to
dbigast every officer in the array with the favouritism of the
Hone Guards, be could not have taken a coons better
fitted to accomplish hie object. If Earl de Grey bed been
the firm and wise administrator which the public amoe—
ba* long ago—hoped to find him, we should not now see
merit, and age, and services all pushed seas by a royal duke
to enable him to pay a compliment to birth and rank.
The Herald doubts very much whether the commercial
treaty between Great Britain and Austria nearly agreed to
'Aldo much more than give the former something like
the advantages which are already given the Zollverein. and
if it does nothing more it will not be worth the coot of
Mr. Hutt's journey to Timm. The Austrian government
mentally desires that English capitalists should invest
their money In the construction of Austrian railways, but
semething more than petty tariff reductions are needed to
I swam their co.operatiou.
Over •

Ut Emu.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 8.
The Queen, accompanied by Prince Arthur and
Prince Leopold. drove in the grounds this morning.
Princess Helena, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington,
also drove out.
Prince Louis of Hem% attended by Baron de Bahama
and Colonel the Boa. Sir C. Phipps', waat oat shooting.
Prlaems Helena, Prince= Louise, sod Prior. Arthur.
with their suite in attendance, arrived at the Castle last
evening shortly atter 7 o'olock, from Bishops Waltham.

Mr. C. Jr. Bayley, air Henry Fax Young, and Chief ,Tne.
ties cur (Sleeve Loose) severally had na interview with
the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, at the Colonial-oleos
yesterday.
Despatches were received yeutsrday at the dolooial-odlee
from the Governor') of Osneda, Gibraltar, and Haligolaad.
Despatches were sent to t►e Governor of the Falkland
Wends.
The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived
in town yestrieday hoes Liverpool.

THZ ANNIVERSARY or THE PRINCE Or WALES'
Breranay.—(Tflis Day.)—This day being the anniversary of
the birthday of his Royal Highness the Priam of Wales,
flags were hoisted op the various government and public
building, the shipping in the river, and on most of the
churches in the metropolis ; the bells ringing forth a merry
peal from an early hour.
A Cabinet Council will be held on Tuesday, the
14th Met.
The Duke of Somerset left his official residence
et the Admbalty yeitcsday, foe Buleirmle Park, seeks.
where the Dries sod the Rut It. Near are deem

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