The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-02 00:00:00

THE DISASTER TO THE BELGIAN

TROOPS IN MEXICO.

The Brussels correspondent of the Temps, writing
on the 30th ult., says :
All the Belgian journals will have brought you the
official account of the espgemest at Taisainhuro—an en-
pgement so disastrous to the Belgian troops =gaged in the
service of Mexico. Cruelly afffieted in his paternal Ow-
tics by the death of one of his sone killed at Tocam-
buro, the Minister of Wu thought it his duty to
make =own to the army, by an older of the
day, dated the 28th, the =Lent wooded and the
glorious =teat of part of the Belgian wakes who have
you forth to fight nailer the banner of the Emperor
Maximilian. It must be admitted that both the spirit and
the letter of this order of the day, evidently drawn up under
the ant impression of grief sad sonsternation, have bees
very generally conderened. Sad Belgium herself been
mimed is • war, and bad she experienced an =fortunate de-
feat, the Minister, is Warm* " the country sod the army
of the =moose and glorious lose they have sustathed,'
could not have employed other terms than those he bee
made use of is announciag the partial defeat of an expedi-
tion which does not directly cowers either the country or
the army. Such a manner of soling and speskieg was
doubly impolite; oonsidertsg the violent debit= which
have tithes plan in the Chamber relative to this MUM
Mexican expedition, the recollsetioe of which is still vibrate
gag in the heart of the woos. The official journal did sot
therefore publish the order of the day of the 28th until two
day. afterwards, and prefaced it with some apologetic liars
thus worded :—" Brave officers and soldiers who were n-
asally eervieg in the ranks of the Belgian army, having
gloriously fallen is as heroic struggle, the sereinut of which
we gave yesterday, the Minister of War has brought the
tact to the knowledge of their old compasioss in arms by
the following order of the dry." I ought to add that while
disapproviog the conduct of General Chazal, public opinion
has readily overlooked the error of the minister in coed.
&ratios of the grief ol the father.
We find by the Belgian journals that the
subject has been brought bocce the Chamber
by one of the members, M. Caimans, who
asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether
this order of the day did not consti-
tute a fresh and veritable act of intervention
in the atisia 91 Meiioo, The Minister ill hip
reply excused the conduct of his colleagues an the
ground taken in the remarks of the official
journal, given above. Another member then
asked whether the government felt no apprehen-
sion as to the attitude the American republic would
Resume towards it in the event ut a war between the
United States and Mexico. To this M. Bugger
replied that as the United States bad recruited
men for themselves from all parts of the world,
they would tot care about a few thousand Belgians
having been enlisted for the imperor Maximilian.
As to a war between Mexico and America, the
minister raid he lookd upon it as impossible.
The Libels of yesterday refers to the disaster
which the Belgian troops have experienced in
Mexico, and adds :
Doubtless we have not the name muse for grief as our
Belgian cousins ; but what is occurring in Mexico is not the
lees calculated to {aspire us with serious reileetions. As M.
Begin has justly observed in the Belgian Chamber, there la
only with the Bower= Maximilian a corps a volunteers
freely recruited = Betels' territory, bet Belgium
as a country is not in any way committed in Mexico,
neither new nor for the future. Unhappily, we French
cannot say as much for ourselves, and it is sot without
pus anxiety that we see indefinitely prolonged a war
whose near termisation °Elia& declarations have Often made
es expect. To.dsy, again, despatches whisk have arrived at
the Ministry of War, end are published is the Moniteur,
give details concerning the continuation of military opera-
Boas which preveut us from yet believing that the Juarist
chiefs are disposed to lay down their arms :—" Marshal
Base= (says the official journal in ooeclusice) 11000U120118
hie intention to proceed Is person to San Luis, when he
Is oomentrating troops of reserve, in order to be in a
position to direct operations himself. Without misunder
*trading the importaace al the facts which have just
occurred in the north, the marshal coininandintin-chief
sees in them only one of those incidents of war which can no
more deceive his vigilance than shake his 000tdence in
onesem." Circumstances must be of a certain gravity for the

marshal commaedierin-shief to think it necessary to pro-
ceed to the theatre of war. The devotion end the COUII4III
of oar troops will triumph without doubt over all the diflL
unities, sod our military glory will derive sew eclat from
the new successes which are being prepared ; but France ia
rich enough is this respect to be permitted to await im-
patiently the mid of this harvest of laurels, sod the return
of its army from Mexico."

EMIGRATION TROM TIN PORT 07 LITRZPOOL.
Dui% the past mouth 36 enigma' vowels left Liverpool,
oesroyiag abroad 594 obis se4 16,670 Swage paseeogers.
Of the steerage plummier, 4,830 were Eaglish, no
8,472 Irish, sod 3.Mt3 tempers. The oomparison with
the sorreepooding mouth of last year is as follows :—ln
lifeJ. 1864, the Dumber of criegrants who sailed from Liver-
pool, under the provinces of the act, was 17,338 ;
is illay, 1865, 17,263 —beteg decrease of 73; the
number oot seder the set is May, 1)164, was 964 ;
is Key, 1865. 622—being a decreer* of 335 ; or
there were 28 ships, 392 ibis passengers. sad 13,880
steerage. Of the latter clam, 2,408 were Eosin)), 233
Scotch, 7,329 Irish, sad 2,410 foreigners. Four ships, 153
cabin peessegers, sod 1,525 steerage-705 Emilia, 210
Irish, sod 610 foreign—passengers, sailed for Coos& ; 2
ships, 34 cabin pasmogess, 611 steerage-247 Euglisb, 66
Scotch, 235 Irish, and 13 foreseers—for Fictorie ; lsti4
14 cabin pemongers, 506 steerage-351 English, 700
148 Irish—to Quessiand. Ose ship, having on board 148
Welsh sailed for Nana Bay, ie Estagortia,
where it is late dto form s Welsh settlement
SCARCITY OP COTTON OPRILLTIV IS AT ROCMDALR,
—Os Wedassday seversl entice rosortfartarem visited
Rochdale for the pummel of eagagpeg woman§ to work fa
their mills, but oonsperatively few Yrs& could be °Maisel.
Keay stile-bodied men who were employed in the mills
Wore tie diversities le the settee trade, sad who have tem
worker; ever stem as *adorn labourers, bow prefer the
letter trade, although the wages are lower, and they give
as • new that it is healthier thus till work. Keay of
the itirwealactarurs, u ermqvmes ti this state ef threes,

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sot able te pt their fall ~small et Pale, *elk am thus
persisted petting the wilds of their anehloery is tootles.
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James Mimes), which hes be.. slimed for three pars, is te
be set I. tootles, sad at this EC than said to be employed
arms& of 700 nesispospla
An American paper says that the New York
police uniform Is Dow made of bias ftesard, sad blesses ere
went mooed of costs.

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LONDON. FRIDAY, JUNE 2.

MR. Gz.►neroxs has addressed at Chester, on
behalf of his son, a constituency of very different
composition from that whose suffrages he asks for
himself. Cheater, it seems, retains a body of free-
men in its electoral lids which opens the franchise
to 900 working men, or very nearly a half of the
whole number of voters. And this constituency,
being all resident in a single borough, has, and
doubtless profited by, the opportunity of hearing
with its own ears and applauding with its voice as
well as with its vote. Oxford University includes
no "working men," at least in the manual sense,
and its members being to so large an extent non-
resident. their understandings must in great de.
gree be reached by that colder channel of elo-
quence which is found in written words. But,
save in some incidents of manner and some
peculiarities of local topic, the Cuaricxxxo• of the
Exciesnrwe appeals to both in the same way. He
avows with firmness his opinions, and he claims
to be judged by his acts. He repeats
in Chester, with only local application,
the sentiment which be uttered to Oxford
and the nation when in Parliament he declared
that the measure of fitness for the franchise lay
nob in property, but in intelligence and pelf diem.
He points to the conduct of the Liberal party
during not merely the period of the present Go.
vernment, but the history of this generation, and
declares that be belongs to the party by which so
muck good has been done and so much evil re-
moved. And it is for both constituencies, as
indeed it is for all, to decide whether they will
select men whose opinions are thus approved by
their acts, or whether they will choose repre-
sentatives who say indeed that they are not op-
posed to these principles, but who avow that they
still belong to the party which bitterly opposed
every measure by which these principles were
vindicated.

Pleading for his son, this is indeed all that Mr.
GLADSTONE can say. That young gentleman ;+
not as yet, save by birth and by choice, associated
with Liberal policy. But Mr. GLADSTONE, with
perfect justice, put in a claim for him founded on
his youth itself. It is quite true that the aboli-
tion of rotten and nomination boroughs has been
attended with the disadvantage of placing a diffi-
culty in the way of young men of ability, willing
to devote their lives to the science of politics, find-
ing • seat in the House of Commons. The diffi-
culty has been frequently made the subject of
remark, and various ingenious devices have been
suggested, by Earl GREY and others, for obviating
it. But the simplest plan of all is now in the
power of the Chester constituency. It does not
appear that that borough has the happiness of prc
ducing any citizen of its own with overwhelming
claims to the honour of representing it. It might,
therefore, wisely accept a young man come of so
sound a stock, in the hope that he wi'l some day
become a distinguished man, who will pay back the
honour it now does him. And even if he should
not ultimately rise to the height of his father's
genius, it can scarcely be that with his training he
will not do the country service and Cheater credit.
For as the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER justly
remarked, the House of Commons already contain•
a very ample representation of business; in-
terests and business habits of mind. It
crowded with railway directors, merchants,
manufacturers, landowners, military men, and
barristers. But it has far too few of those
who, having sympathies with all but not over-
powering interest in any of these avocations,
can devote themselves to the business of states-
manship fur its own sake ; a profession not
less arduous than any other, not leas absolutely
demanding devotion of the whole time and whole
mental powers, not to be picked up suddenly
by those who have already spent a lifetime
in other pursuits, but yet one of the
greatest and most important, because one
essential to the prosperity and greatness of our
common country. So for Mr. GLADSTONE the
younger, &put from anything he has done, apart
even from the question of what party be is to ally
himself to, we should have a good wish in this his
entrance into the profession of politics, sure that,
even without genius, industry, firmness, and
honesty will be able to render service to the State
in that pnr..lit all the more if untrammelled with
the cares of other avocations.

But depending at present necessarily on his
father's merits, it will be after all by his father's
opinions that he will be judged. And Chester is
already distinguished in that it has been the means
of drawing out more explicitly the opinions of the
future leader of the Liberal party. Since Mr.
GLADSTONE last spoke on Reform the question has
made progress. A certain proportion of those
who professed it have indicated their concealed
fear and dislike by the suggestion of plans for
neutralising while granting it. Another section,
more candid, has confessed its fear and dislike
openly, and has voted against it. Mr. Grannotrx
sympathises with neither. He accepts the idea of
a " lateral " exclusion, but does not the less aban-
don his demand for • " vertical " extension. Hs
has no mistrust of the working men. He has sat
for a working man's constituency, and has found by
experience, worth • thousand times the ugeat
theories, that working men would not vote u " a
" class," or " set up a separate interest." Therefore

he is in favour of a liwilisesilinion of qbtifing
to the franchise. He dim net desire to go too fat.
He says that his "Witte :go salty end steadily.
But he avows hip re lis that the &A and lot con-
stituencies hays been *Wished, di perhaps
would be fair to translate this into modern
phraseology by saying that he would approve a
borough rating tranships.
These are expressions which are of good omen to
the Liberal party and the country. They show
that Mr. Gr.aceroza's mind is still progressive, and
that he is ready to accept in full enmity
those modifications of his former opinions which

the growth of the popular intelligence, and
power of self-control, suggest, and he is well en-
titled to take some personal credit to himself for
that growth. The French treaty saved us from a
collapse of trade which might have been more than
we had strength calmly to bear. The fiscal im-
provements which he has beenthe means of carry-
ing into effect have increased prodigiously the
phyalcaloomfort and well-being of the people. Tf e
facilities he has offered for prudent economy by
means of the post-office savings banks, and for
making a provision for children, or for old age, by
means of the post-office insurance arrangements,
have shown his anxiety to aid the moral improve-
ment of the population, and have heppay elicited
the strongest evidence of the popular confidence in
Government, and of the wide-spread desire to
achieve independence in its best sense. These
are the measures for which Mr. GLADSTONE
is personally entitled to praise, and it is not too
much to say that they are almost the only measures
of domestic policy by which the present Adminia-
tastion will be known in history. It I. of course
only graceful in Mr. Gransrons to allude to the
past services of his colleagues. But the burden
of the present and of the future lies on his
shoulders. And as the present and the future are
what we have to provide for, and what in the
ensuing election we must chiefly contemplate, it is
well for us that we can draw some assurance of
Mr. GLAASTONK'S course from his own more recent
sots.