The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-27 00:00:00

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

THE ISCAPI or TES "auto rziwan."
The Times is disposed to view the escape of Mr.
Stephens with considerable philosophy, though it ought to
be made much of, for it is really the only exploit that
Feminism has achieved. It was hardly worth while
to propose so large a awn as 1,0001. for hie capture. If he
lives for ever, how can he possibly be turned to so
much account :again ! That he may caught is very
pceeible. Ile has not, that we are aware of, bees guilty of
an agrarian murder ; and, whatever have bees the demerits
of the Fenian organisation, there never was a band of con-
spirators on the face of the earth mere ready to sell each
other on moderate terms to the ministers of justice. There
MOM to be a division of labour in the order. The fighting
men remain on the other side of the
attic;Atlantc the Fenian,
is Ireland are men of pesos, and, above hings, men of
law. If they have been a cures to everyone else in Ireland
they have been a reel blessing to the Irish bar.
The part of Jack tibeppud in the Fenian drama suits Mr.
Stephens exactly, says the Daily News. If he gets clean
away, we know sot why anyone on this side of the &Ansel
should be very sorry. We should never have suspected his
capture to be worth 1,0001. to the government. Wises
John Mitchel, a much more formidable prisoner, escaped,
• two pounds ten shillings was thought a proper reward for
I, his apprehension, and the public, the Daily News believes•
f were of opinion that the right figure waa hit on that owe.
sion. Meanwhile, es there is every reason to believe that
1 Stephens went out by the prison gate, there ought to be DO
5 difficulty is ascertaining by whose connivance the escape
El was effected. The importance of this or that prisoner may
e be variable or uncertain, but it is a serious matter when a
4 government cannot trust the fidelity of its own paid
servants.

im-
wel-
itated
aeping
below
that
not
. the
flint is
dficient
adopt
Irtainly
mum
le that
been
,er part
October

. went
,natralia and
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i to be
lemand
greater
At the
the high
force, and

we pro-
dances point
he rate

market is
demand,

tmodities
met two
' under-

i partially
maintained
law is

moment

. opposite
moral effeei
be no
Mal was
Y after
ret 7 per
it. is ac-
!notation

Jill of the
minims, in
of supply
I per cent.
Laid yet no
>licy of the
This only
4 principle
ithers. With
iw of sup-
thilista begin

THE CATTLE PLAGUE.
The Daily Nears musks that though the dearness of
meat is preposterous, there will be no reduction of prices
while the gloom of uncertainty hangs over us, unless by
the one resource of obtaining supplies of cattle from new
quarters. It la not necessary
to wait on any public authority
in this matter. Private interest in the demand will co-
operate with private interest in the supply. The Commis-
sioners must be diligent with their second report, and try
whether they can direct us to anything practical ; but the
country bowl not wait for them, either to get its cattle cared,
if possible, or to obtain animal food from any part of the
world. Both processes seem to be advancing. Commit-
tees and associations of homeopathic prectitiocers and their
public are forming in the chief towns, and there are eon.
carted methods of trying probably every kind of treatment
yet recommended. Almost as conspicuous are the sugges-
tions and experiments about foreign meat. Most of us
have heard of thine neighbour or another in town who has
become a customer of some butcher or agent in Devonshire,
or Cumberland, or other remote county, in which prices
are little above the ordinary rate. It is found also as
sides
for thine people to send to Holland or Denmark for sides
of mutton and quarters of beef as to Devonshire or
Cumberland, and the cattle ships and other steamers now
bring over meat at 6d. or lees per lb. This is a ?wince
which may be largely extended. The Admiralty, it ap-
pears, has sent out large orders for Lisbig's extract for the
use of the navy ; and there can be no doubt that the
American meat will be extensively used in our prisons.
dubs, dining halls, ltc., where meat is largely used for
soups and stews with vegetables. It may sot perhaps
be unreasonable to believe that, with sufficient provo-
cation from dearness at home, we may import from abroad
more meat than we shall lose from the cattle plague
An abstinence from lamb which Mr. Bracebridge has recom-
mended, would only result, were the suggestion practicable,
in the disappearance of lambs, and the farther restriction of
our meat supply. Oar object should be to increase rather
than diminish the variety of animal food ; and, therefore,
to welcome all the domestic lamb, fowls, and rabbits, tad
all the foreign most' we can obtain, in cedar to discourage
all premature slaughter of our fine-grown cattle. and to
being the prices of meat within the reach of all who need it.
The Daily Telegraph 1100.1111111 it to be finally proved by
the last returns that there is no chance of the subduing of
the cattle plague ; it will evidently kill itself out by
destroying the entire stock of many districts. The last
order in council is no better than those published
before it ; and there is 00 hope of amendment before par-
liament assembles. Perhaps some part of Western Europe
—France, for instance—may, in lf
se defence,
to sunset some rational plan. The report of the evidence
given before the Cattle Plague Commissioners has now been
published, and the Telegraph is of opinion that out of 45
witnesses a very small number had thy special knowledge
of the subject, the majority being entirely ignorant of the
rinderpeet before it reached this country and having
learned little about it since. It is distressing to note the
increased apathy of those in authority and the desire
which exists to leave the whole affair to &sum

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II ' It THE EX
TO BR fij c BIJOU- hence large sums are kept unproductive which'
al T LIZ COURANT) It MODig SPZCIAIII isaBFABRIQUIL
J. B. b•,•a bm. 8......,
with a „nketeei.b2reei et the rut:: . under other circumstances would yield a fair z
Universal Exhibition, VI • RAHall us turn. Setting this question aside. however,
taryxtl
lawitiGOLS al.CHtegAlS and eisztensiTlissretb.:mortzomilW 7.4:it JEWELITY, all , what real necessity was there for r
, made ea the presalses.-JOHN BROODSN, Goldsmith. Mann- ,
1.1 factory, No. 14 flearsettisotreet, Covent-garden. W.C. . i inlit
Directors
best:tee A.D. 1798. Molils so" a Cham and "TawaZa IL ; the Bank
la hodratethato 7 per/cent. I If the
power on oacsaion of ex-
ceed N.B. Mho establishment is closed at the sr • sad tending their imam they
need
never have
gone
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e BEST
WINTentiIIVAERnetTrT . ,t_if,n the
aale at doubt that the position of their accounts would be
HAMILTON and ELMI.TOIN-S, as good as it is now. The experience of the past
Tailors and Overcast Makers,.
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106. STltte Exeter eau. two months has been a conclusive proof of the utter
1, lir 4, inadequacy of the present currency system to meet
JA for n.-R be we welt for you at EVAN- sarS the wants of the day. Even the defenders of the
otter inn cored gcre •',,__..--------------••opera and the Theatre+. Bank Char. ter Act of 1844 tavcitly admit that, on
,t this occasion at least, they hae nothing to say in
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its favour.
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1 OUR CONTEMPORA.RIES.
TO OOREISPONDENTS.
Adveressments Intended for " The Erprese London EVOIHOIC (THIS DAY.)
payee moat be at the Moe, 10, Bonverie-strest. by Two
o'clock on the day of publication. --41--
Tux ESCAPE or TEM "HELD muds.*
HAYMARKET.
I Teo El-ENING, TEI OVERLAND ROUTE bless's. Duck- The Times is disposed to view the escape of Mr
stene,S. Mathews. and Compton ; Mesdames Mathews, :mew-
-1 den, lint, & Wright. -WBO MILLED COCK ROMP I Means. C. Stephens with considerable philosophy, though it ought ti
, • ' Mathews and,Chippendais ; Mrs- C. Matnews.-Aud the BALLET. be made much of, for it is really the only exploit the
------------ Fenianisin has achieved. It was hardly worth whit
MINCERS'S.
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I' 1 I Tau evssince, QUIET LODGINGS.-After which _IT IS to. propose so large a sum as 1,0001. for hie capture. If h
I/69U TOO LaTit In KIND. Mews. Sialathri.,ww . lives for ever, how can he possibly be turned to I
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i T. Mead, D. Murray, h. Calhaem, F. lathers. J. G. G. Misr-
much &comsat Again ! That he may be caught is us
, ray, and IL Cathwt . Misses L Moore and E. Rodgers.
possible. He has sot, that we are aware of, bees guilty i
LYCEUM. an ovarian murder ; and, whatever have bees the denseri
ti Tien gyurro, THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Mr. • •
and era. Korman. -THE WATCH CRY. Marra Vechter, of the Fenian organisation, there never was a band of co.
H. Widdicomb. n. Emery, C. Hollalall, Raymond. Fitzpatrick, spirators on the face of the earth more ready to sell ial
and Mad: Mum theworthy.-Aad NURSE? CRICK% KED. other on moderate terms to the ministers of justice. The
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nitITAN MIA NOM to be a division of labour in the order. The fighti,
Tim Etenne, ROSALIE MORTIMER . OR, FATE AND men remain on the other side of the Atlantic; the Penis
ITS VICTIMS. Messrs. Reynolds and Cranford . Mrs. S. Lane.
10 : -The rreesens.-etroa tins of Rcientific Gymnast'. -With is Ireland are men of pesos, and, above all things, men
Ritifill. THE PEALE DIVER. Mr. Drirramoud. Mrs. Varnold. law. If they b.,e boos a cum to ovary... else to trot.
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HIGH Weans. AT LONDON-BRIDOL they have been • reel blueing to the Irish bar.
The part of Jack Sheppard in the Fenian drama suits 1
Tea' DAT - skeane. Bh. 51e..... Afternoon. "0,- 4°V.• Stephens exactly, says the Daily Noes. If he geta cle
Tontosamr-, Morning, 9h. 18m.....Attern00a. on. 5401.
'----j----- away, we know sot why anyone on this aide of the chant
should be very sorry. We should never bare suspected
LONDON. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 27. capture to be worth 1,0001. to the government. Wi
--. John Mitchel, a much more forruideble prisoner, swap
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' AFTER two months of more or lea severe pros two pounds ten shilliop was thought a proper reward
belie'
sure, the money market is beginning to show signs his spprehensioo, and the public, the Daily Noes
of a return to comparative ease. The reduction of were
.of opiniou.that the right figure wee hit cmbelievee'
reason t
the Bank rate of discount in the past week has Stephens went out by the prison gate, there ought to be
been an especial boon to commerce, leas from the difficulty is ascertaining by whoee connivance the use
1.),\1 ' mere difference in the charge for accommodation Val effected. The importance of chiis or that prisoner z
than from the re-assuring effect produced upon the be variable or uncertain, but it is erious matter who
4 public mind. With money as high as 7 per cent. government cannot trust the fidelity of its own I
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there always prevails an uneasy feeling that a coca- -_
r mercial crisis is, if not impending, at least not Mt- THE CATTLE PLAGUE.
probable. The reduction has been the more wel- The Daily Noes remarks that though the
desrnes
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I come since the Bank of France have not hesitated meat is preposterous, there will be DO reduction of p
to adopt a similar movement, thus keeping while the gloom of uncertainty hugs Mar WI, tithes
otheir rate of discount still 2 per cent. below the me mourn* of obtaining supplies of cattle from
ours. It may, therefore, be inferred that quarters. It, is cot necessary to wait. on any public oath
in this matter. Private interest in the demand wil
the highest foreign financial authorities do not 0
perste with private irate
is the supply. The Con
apprehend for the present any recurrence of the
i • ; gimlets must be diligent with their second report, sue
tension that has only just pseud away, or what is whether they can direct us to anything practical ; bra'
I more likely, that in any case they have sufficient ountrybeed not wait for them, either to get its cattle c
power to meet it, without being forced to adopt if possible, or to obtain animal food from any part o
arbitrary restrictions. The last account certainly world. Both processes seem to be advancing. Coo
tees sod associations of homirouthic practillooen and
I shows a very large accumulation of the resources
public are formiag in the chief towns, and there are
of the Bank of England, and it is probable that
carted methods of trying probably every kind of fuel
the movement continues. The coin that had been yet recommended. Almost se conspicuous are the in
withdrawn for internal circulation in the latter part toes and experiments about foreign meat. Most •
of September and the commencement of October have heard of some neighbour or another in town who
i 1 1 appears to be returning almost as rapidly as it went become a customer of so b teh
me _a_6ll Of agent in DOVOII
. out, while the arrivals of gold from Australia and or Cumberland, or other remote county, in which
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i America during the last week have been so consi- au little above the ordinary rate. It is found also a
for some people to send to Holland or Denmark for
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derable—nearly a million altogether—as to be
- - of mutton and quarters of beef as to Devonshi
far more than sufficient to meet what little demand Cumberland, and the cattle ships and other steams
prevails for exportation, and hence the greater bring over meat at 6d. or lea per lb. This is are
portion has been sent into the Bank. At the which may be largely extended. The Admiralty,
I , same time the check to trade caused by the high pears, has sent out large orders for Liable's extract
' 1 rates of discount has now come into full force, and use of the navy ; and there an be no doubt the
be extensively used in our f
the demand for circulation has therefore pro- American meetill w.
dining halls, Am
~ where meat is largely u
portionably lessened. These circumstances point soup, and stews with vegetables. It may not i
to the probability of a further reduction in the rate
i . be unreasonable to believe that, with sufficient
4 1 of discount at an early period, cation from dearness at home, we may import from
i ! It is usual to suppose that the money market is more meat than we shall lose from the cattle
d, An abstinence from lamb which Mr. Brecebridge has
governed solely by the law of supply and deman
same way as other commodities mended, would only result, were the suggestion prat
in precisely the
. . in the disappearance of lambs, and the farther restri
• i are affected. The experience of the past two
our meat supply. Oar object should be to lemmas
'0 4 months shows, as was already pretty well under- than diminish the variety of animal food ; and, th
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' stood, that this conclusion is at best only partially to welcome all the domestic lamb, fowls, and rabbi
true. As long as tho rate of discount is maintained all the foreign meat' we can obtain, in order to die
at a moderate point this often quoted law is all premature slaughter of our fine-grown cattle.
r certainly left to work itself out, but the moment bring the ulnas of meat within the reach of all who
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that the limit is passed considerations opposite
in character and having reference to moral effect The Daily Telegraph sesames it to be finally pr
the last returns that there is no chance of the subd
the cattle plague ; it will evidently kill itself
alone prevail. For example, there can be no destroying the entire stock of many districts. '
question that the supply of available capital was order in council is no better than those p
as large in the earlier part of the week as after before it ; and there is no hope of amendment be
I , the reduction in the Bank rate, and yet 7 per Hainaut assembles. Perhaps some part of Wester
cent. was required then, while 6 per cent. is ac- -Franc, for instance -may, in self defence, vs
cepted now. According to the market quotation to suggest some rational plan. Tbe report of the
1 het r the Cattle Plasma Conamiesioners has •
it might fairly be argued that the Directors of the g"" ° ° -
published, and the Telegraph is of opinion that
Bank were wrong, as a matter of business, in
• • witnesses a very small number had soy special k
reducing their terms at all. If the law of supply
. • PP of the subject, the majority being entirely ignorai
and demand enabled them to obtain 7 per cent. rinderpest before it reached this country se
for their discounts, why go to 6 ° And yet no learnedlittle about it since. It is distressing to
1 • one imagines for an instant that the policy of the increased apathy of thou in authority nod t
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Directors was not perfectly judicious. Thie only which exists to leave the whole affair to chance.
shows the futility of applying one narrow principle
THE DIVORCE COURT.
to a question that really involves many others. With The Divorce Court, at all eves* the Times
I the Bank rate at 6or 7 per cent., the law of sup- not presented vice to lit is attractive colour..
1 il! I' ply and demand is in abeyance. Capitalists begin there is no ester antidote to the romantic ideal
to get frightened, scrutinise eagerly the state of rality which Prowl' novels have done so much to
I All i ' the reserve, refuse to lend, except on the highest than au "calla"' Parma' of the cases tried
terms, although perhaps holding a superabundance Judge-Ordinary. The peculiar evils which the
of the court loveless, are conspicuous when a
of money, and very frequently decline to do once
of
i' nee altogether. Nothing approaching to this sort ht without the least hope of obtaining i
the dissolution of marriage, and screw no other
of feeling is seen elsewhere than in the money expose the shame of • wife or the infidelity of
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II . :I ' market. Thus, in the last two years the almost Sub was the petition in the case of " Broadwoo
continuous pressure has arisen from simple ap. wood and the Duke of St. Albans." TI
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prehension, and its effect has been fully as serious lion of the Diverse Court Is prostituted
as if the more practical evil of an important drain
of bullion had existed.
Just before the close of September, the Bank J. compelled to cooduct such a mesa
Wry. The expressions of indignation on be
Duke of St. Albans are not all deserted. Those
is such ea to encourage extortionate demands I
Ii { t 1 rate of discount stood at 4 per cent. It was of exposure should he the more careful to k.ei
a' • '1 t then rapidly moved up to 7 per cent., and was only oat of ambiguous positions. Meanwhile, bookie,
: ) ' reduced last week to 6. Of what benefit was the rests of society, there is an easy answer to thee
sudden rise of 3 per cent. productive ? Did it liberate the principal parties to suits of this
check speculation, stop an export of gold, or die- as they may be, from obligations which they hi
violated and allow them to re-marry. It nu
courage the waste of capital in foreign investments? fortune
f The first it did not do, for there was little or no and
Mrs. Ettoadwood. having bees
1 honest woman" once, cannotregain that u
speculative business going on with the exception of would be a far greater misfortune if her de
a demand for cotton, which, however, can hardly should have led others squally frail to imitate
• be called speculative, since it was the legitimate the hope of afterwards imitating her recovery
I . • t consequence of the large orders for our menu- The Post Wake it a natural question to ask
good can be obtained by keeping such co
i • factures from the United States. There was no
Mother ? What a spectacle and what a
demand for gold for export, so that no drain of 1 the children and relations of both parties
bullion could be stopped. Lastly, there were no ' father and mother, their brother and sister, I
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foreign operations hanging over the market, with daughter living in adultery ; and wk
and social
the exception of a reported new loan for a scandal ! Of coarse these r
limited sum for Buenos Ayres. Thus the cur- a divorce kac been refund, aught to
into immediate rep !oboes .in eveleclott
ternary reasons for a contraction of the ordinary
• .and henceforth live aWs of celibacy. But I
facilities for business were entirely absent. It
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k Ai of the past two thwavand years leads to the e
need only be repeated that the sole cause for the it is not iu humps sauce. taking it is the a
i pressure that is but now abating arose from thus, and the law ought to recognise the
nothing else but the injurious working of our car- experieece sod of human nature. Though
11 1 ; rency system. Money was largely in demand for DO pliValO I/IOOH to redress where the bus
. 1 the purpose of extending our commerce, end the wife vas
e guilty. sad no claim for dam
beneficial Bank was compelled, under the
action of the Fe-
teract this influence as
much as possible. It will be difficult to estimate much to sty that, so for as the social wand
s• for as the interests of public morals a
sent law, to counteract
there is twine the reason for granting a I
cane that there is in the apse Witaill only the
the losses that the nation has thus incurred, but The TelegrapA,dwolliai co the ducal &en
'l, I they must necessarily have been very large. The observes that when a patrisian reaches th
I argument frequently used, that whatever profit the hood without attang those of durtic+
il i ordinary trader loses in paying abnormally high pity that be caa"t be Pat under /ash and I
who has escaped •
rates of discount is, on the other band, gained by "commend the duke%
1 the banker or discounter, appears specious at first shined, not liking the idea el hi stepping
Divorce Court isti the Matelot rum. H
i sight, but does not apply. if money is tight, I ever natural sooordieg to derai.mundeue
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1 there is invariably an unwillingness to lend, and , fee m, present fan ...o.netioe nu
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