The Express.
London, England, 1865-02-16 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16.

Taz Southern

and Mr. Lnicout

and Mr. SEWARD have met, and after four haus'
conference have patted to go their several ways.
No one at New York seems able to affirm that any
immediate result may be expected from their in-
terview. The more sanguine, who imagined that
an adjustment of the differences of North and
South might fairly be expected at the lint meeting
of the negotiators, emphasize their disappointment
by proclaiming the Conference a failure. And so
it would be if this view of the condition of things
were correct. But it remains to be seen how far
the intercourse of the Northern and Southern
statesmen has prepared the way for further pro-
posals. If it has done so in any considerable
degree, then, although the date of a recon-
ciliation may be delayed, the Conference
will not have been a failure. The de-
sire of both sections for peace has been
manifested in an unmistakeable manner, and the

two Governments will have to convince their
several supporters that peace is not obtainable,
and why, before they can restore the state of feel-
ing which existed before the recent meeting. It
may be that those New York journals are right
which predict that Generals Guam and S .
must find a basis for peace before the negotiations
can be resumed, though it would be rash to come
to that conclusion on their imperfect information.
But even in that case we shall look forward to an
early renewal of overtire.. The end has not come,
but we trust and believe it is in sight.

Ma. Cox, the member for Finsbury, obtained
leave on Tuesday evening to bring in a Bill to
amend the Publio-house Closing Act, which was
passed last session. Without opposing the intro-
duction of the Bill, the Houk SzcarrAßY contro-
verted the proposed amendment of the Act of last
year, and did more than hint a doubt of any altera-
tion of a measure which he insisted had worked
most beneficially both in the capital and in many
large provincial towns. The grievance which Mr.
Cox has taken up, though comparatively a small one
in regard to the number of persons and interests it
affects, is not unworthy of legislative attention, in
so far as it affects some very hard-working, de-
serving, and necessary people. No one will
be so fastidious as to complain of Mr.
Cox's championship of such a cause ; a mem-
ber for Finsbury cannot but be brought into
contact with many persona who have reason to
complain of the Public-house Closing Act, and
whose complaints it is his right and his duty to
represent in his parliamentary capacity. And we
take leave to suggest that he is far more fitly em-
ployed upon such useful and harmless tasks than
in wafting his name to all the winds of European
publicity as the Cox who sacrifices his " honour-
" able Friend" to his stern high sense of what is
due to the honour of his country.
The Public-house Closing Act, as our readers
will remember, was directed more particularly,
though not, as Mr. Cox considers, exclusively,
against the gross and growing scandals of a
certain quarter of London. The notorious nightly
abomination of the Haymarket and its neigh-
bourhood was the exciting cause, though not
the sole motive and object of the Act of last
Session. No measure of sanitary reform or of
police was ever more imperiously demanded by
the public voice than that Bill for the prevention
of a crying infamy which tainted the air of a
central district of this capital, and disgraced the
reputation of the whole country. The closing of
those dens and stews of the Haymarket and its
neighbourhood was a measure of public health and
morals ; as much a sanitary measure as a bill fee
the purification of the Thames or for the inspection
of houses during a season of cholera. But, though
the plague of the Haymarket was the cause of the
Bill, it was not one neighbourhood, or one
city only, that the Bill was intended
to purge. The Haymarket neighbourhood
was not treated as • "proclaimed die-
" trict " in Ireland ; the Ball for the correction
of the nightly abuses of the Haymarket was made
applicable to the correction of the nightly abases
of other large tetras. And we gladly accept Sir

(anus GSM's assurance that the gmesaal &dap-
tion of the provisions of the Act ham been &Mende*
with immense advantages. Mr. Clog wens
judicious or mistaken in treeitse VIP Act of
Elusion as if it had been levellii wiedliar Wily*
the Haymarket. Nor, perhaps, did he improve a
statement that could not well be too simple or too
short by airing his acquaintance with " the poet
" Carper," and dragging in • perfectly needless
and irrelevant allusion to the well-proWebed
wrongs of the landed interest. The Publio-house
Closing Aot in curing one sore, like so many other
sweeping and sudden remedies addressed to special
evils, has created another. It has done unmixed
good in some infected districts ; but it has in-
flicted suffering and hardship upon that humble
but indispensable and meritorious minority of the
public!, who are obliged to be up end doing at hours
when the majority are comfortably asleep. Such,
for instance, are the cattle-drovers, the market-
gardeners, and others ooncerned in the marvellous
organiastion of the food supply of a capital more
populous than some kingdoms. Such, too, are •
certain number of cabmen, who remain out all
night, summer and winter, for the convenience of
late and early travellers, and of other respectable
members of society who do not ride in carriages
of their own. The market-gardeners arrive in

Covent-garden from an parts of the country round,
a few, perhaps, loon after midnight, but many
between one and four in the morning, precisely
within the hours when, adder the Act of last mo-
no°, not only every public-house but every coffee-
house and place of refreshment is closed. So, too,
the cattle-drovers who reach the heights of Isling-
ton in the small hours of the night, having be-
velled perhaps from thirty to a hundred
miles and more without refreshment, are
obliged to remain out in the cold without sip or
crumb till four o'clock in the morning. The mem-
ber for Finsbury was good enough, moreover, to
take "the gentlemen on the morning newspapers"
under hie comprehensive wing ; but, with every
isposition to be grateful„ we must decline to
minister to his generous ambition, and to
mix a real hardship with an imaginary one.
We should be very happy to share Mr. Cox's
exuberant patronage in company with our
excellent friends the cattle drovers and the
market gardeners ; but if the bon. member will
excuse us,we don't ask him to get up in the House
of Commons, and in the character of "an intelli-
, " gent and bard-worked gentleman," vicariously
exclaim, " 0 I my country, what I suffer for thee."
The cattle drovers end the market gardeners, and
the night cabmen, are now suffering from the effects
of an Act which wee certainly never intended
to deprive them of just and necessary refreshment
during their working hours. There was, in-
deed, an attempt to meet their case in the sth
clause of the Act : unfortunately, that clause
appears to have been found inoperative sod
impracticable, or, at all events, indecipherable by
the authorities. But our unsolicited protector
weakens a good cause when, with what warrant we
know not, he comes forward as the champion of
the poor distressed gentlemen employed on the
morning papers, and confounds their miseries with
those of Covent-garden and Copenhagen-fields.
Except that he gave the member for the Tower
Hamlets, who probably has no victim of the Act
among his constituents, an opportunity, of which
he was not slow to avail himself, of pay-
ing homage to a particular journal, we
are afraid that Mr. Cox threw his Bill
overboard when be took the gentlemen employed
on the morning papers in tow. For our own part,
we beg both Mr. Cox and the Hour SnoirrAny
' to understand that we ask neither for the interfer-
ence of the one nor for the suggestions of the
other. There is nothing that we know of to
prevent any person employed upon any morning
paper from taking whatever refreshment he may
need at the office where he works. He cannot
and need not seek that refreebment in a public-
house between the hours of one and four ; he may
enjoy it at his own convenience on the premises.
No doubt there are a few persons in all professions
and trades who will always oomplrin of finding
public-houses closed, even at the moat unhallowed
hours. But the Legislature cannot be expected to
alter Acts of Parliament most beneficial in their
general purport and operation in order to accom-
modate the tastes of undomesticated persons who

at three in the morning prefer a tap-room or a
bar parlour, with spirituous gossip on the affairs
of the nation, to the soc;ety of their wives or the
comfort of their beds, Having said thus much
pro doeso,we must add that Sir Gromaz GREY cha-
racteristically exaggerates the difficulty of enabling
conditional licensee to be granted to the very
few refreshment houses in certain localities which
would be likely to compete for a profitable trade
in supplying the wants of cattle drovers, market
gardeners, and night cabmen. Surely the Hors
SECRETARY'S fear of setting up monopolise in such
a line of business is chimerical. On the other
band, Mr. Cox diverts the sympathy of
the House from his poorer clients by de-
tailing the losses of certain publicans whose
confidence be enjoys. The House is well aware
that many of the public-houses which the Act
of last Session has closed between one and four
in the morning were the nightly resort of ruf-
fianism and vice, not of honest wayfarers or
working-men. At all events, it is no concern of
Parliament to protect any oofiee-house keeper's
" goodwill "; to take care that honest men do
not suffer with rogues and vagabonds is enough.

Ut Court.

06B011N11, Irms. 15.

The Queen walked and drove yesterday morn-
ing, accompanied by the Prisms Lanes, and drove out
in ithe atternoce, attended by the Dowager Dears of
gads. _ . .

Mr. Blamelard, jun., bad the honour of ruhreittiag to
her Majesty yesterday the proof summing of Mr. John
Pbuiple picture of the Marriage of the Primes, RoyaL
The Prime of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale, went
to Windom yesterday morning, sod returned in the &Rei-
ner/a. _ _ _

The Primes of Wales took a earrings drive, attended by
the Hoe. xis. &otos.

The Rev. John Colbourn.. and the Rev. John Strickland
Lad an interview with the Right Rea. Edward Qwdwell.

at the

pwieMay.

A deputation conslaing o lir. Adana, M.P., Mr. Black,
U.P., Sir Graham Montgomery. M.P., Woad Sykes,
M.P., Major Cumming Brum, LP., Mr. Duff, ILP., Sir
John Ogilvy, M.P., Mr. Caird, M.P., Mr, Mier, LP.,
and Mr. Johastone, bad an interview with the Right Hee.
T. Milner Ottawa, at the oleos of Board c 4 Trade, yester-
day, on the subject of the prepond Forth Bridge Railway.

Rzruits or lira MAJIWIT TO WINDO3I.—The
QlllllBl4 asocosposiod by the mai %oily, treordias Ss Us
Wait aresasersosta, will Ism °shores to-worsow of
aad skarn to Whelan. OaMZL The loamy will be
parlaromml via the Booth Wadies sad Groat Wadden Rail-
ways

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
satartaiaad ilia Prince and Primese of Waage., the Duke of
Cambria" and a select circle at diaaar last ovoniag, at
her madam ia the Ambitaadonf dam* Bt. tillage&

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,

Field-Mania

F, hold • lww yes;a4sy

afteresow, at the Hares Gouda. Upwards of a kaadisi
idiom alltarshol.

A SPEWS BY ME. BIWA

A meeting wee bald by the Christian C
to the Hall oI Vspesesiotives, on Saturday, V
flecintery fiellerni peeking Awns the
!redden Linn& and members of the c►binet.
Kr. Seward, on takieg the chair, said :—'• Ia cionsing
ens mere into then belle at the Nonni Legitimism
although for ouly an aissionel purpose, my thengide rear►
to the eireemstaeose seas Aldine& them. Four nen ego
misguided legislators bed fond the ins-delayed nessiers.
and had spoked • fearful rehellios. They bad appetend
their leader, bad need by surprise ioncartent lots, ports,
end places, and their armies were nuseting into the &id,
en efts another. The °Pulpiness thee threw eV the
meek sad departed from the capitol, hurling beak sorsa
and defines spied the government. Foreign nations,
costonaded by the holders of the insurrectioe, prepared so
annowiedge • divided empire. On the side of the peers-
mist was assn and heard only alarm and oonfasion. Un-
availing •ppsals to naafi s. and proposition for °oscilla-
tion come forth from every section of • country
which regarded • fratricidal war as the gonna
curse an most Irretrievable of calamities. The pee*
celled lint one the oat-goks president, sad
epos the hicooring prerideut„ and thus sucessinely apes
each of oar braved geeerals sad most bosomed eletaness,
to save the Minn, and to save it quickly, an by ens
nneter.stroks. To these front& appeals rely one trelkinl
newer could be giver; or win gives. Thai newer wee, by
no one sot, and by no on man, could the Union be saved.
It could be saved only by the volontisry, energetic,
heroic, and persistent efforts of the whole people. The people
promptly ass* to make that supreme effort. They have
&Vitally penevern in It, and It is sow soon to be sac.
medal Last forts, ports, end pines, without which the
Warren/ea cannot noosed, have been repined. The
oerner-etoos of the rebeillas hr ben uplifted and cast
out,

, sad we wait ally at the heads et the rebels for the
Anaheim which, however deleyed, auseetrily follows
military defeat and overthrow. In this achievement the
people of the United litotes have not waited to
follow, bat they bare sou before the exesatiu,
the legislative, sad the judicial authorities of the
rummest. I have heretofore borne my testimony to this
popular sassy in the deporteseats of war, firms" sad
polities. Bat the war has *rued another field of activity
and labour—a field not less important or interesting than
those which usually Ile directly In review. That field is the
department of charity. We have here In oar onatry leo
established chart* or recognised ecclesiastic authority.
They taunt u with not even nooguleing a Cod is
our national constitution. All effort,
ell sseoia-
tics. all eubmision, is palely voluntary. Neurthelem
the Christian Commlision and the fissitso Oomminies,
working together in perfect harmony, uorpaised, unpaid,
unprompted, and eves clanotioed by the goveramest, have
cultivated the broad fields to which I have adverted with
complete and full enOC44l. They have left so weeds, or
sickness, or sorrows ushealed aad unrelieved, which Gould
be reached by any other than a divine haul. I have ace-
seated to take the chair oely became it affords me a tittles
opportunity to proclaim my slicers COUTiOtiOII that the
charities of this—tie greatest and meet fearful of all civil
ware—though valastarily rendered, have severtbsiess bees
administered by the Christian people of the United States,
without say seerilsgioas holding beck, aid Is • spirit of
lofty patriotism sad pure sad undefiled