The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-29 00:00:00

TIM IMPRESS, WEDNESD►Y EV AXING, NOVEMBER 29, 1865.

ins that any man about the workhouse might show
the wards, and receiving for answer that there was
but one paid officer in the house, and he was busy,
we left St. Olave's with the reluctant conviction
'that what with contradictory statements, damaging
statistics, misapprehension as to the size of a parish
affecting its casual responsibilities, and point blank
refusal to show the wards alleged to be then ready
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for all comers, the solution to the question had not
yet been reached.
It is as unnecessary to add that this visit was
I made with an honest desire to do justice to each
parish, as that the petty local interests of Ber-
mondsey and St. Olave's are profoundly indifferent
to us. The two masters contradict each other, and
while one quotes figures which seem to be unan-
swerable, and shows his wards well lit, well ven-
tilated, warm, comfortable, and ready for incomers,
the atber prates feebly of the small population of
his pariah, and finds it "inconvenient" to allow a
stranger to see the accommodation vaunted as ample
and complete. Seven taken in at one house, and
eighty-eight at another in the week just past, dis-
tance of a few stones' throw between the two, and
a supposed equal readiness to admit at each, furnish
a series of anomalies the elucidation of which we
think it safer to leave to the Poor-law Board and to
the public.

Peen that the °aromas of the empire are den ...tent
in the public spirit which is seemeary to *sable them
to AM to the height of the eatergesey. They cannot affirm
that the experiment of preening the whole empire with
*air erooperatioe only bad suoseetled, and they ought to
make great allowance for the exigeseies of the government
in discassieg the merely form►l aspect of its proceedngs.
This rear attack meanwhile implic►tl the situation in a
remmicable degree, and heightens the interest with 'Melt
Bumps will watch the negoti►tions about to be opened at
Path.

TIM AIR sortersa TO THE KETICAN 1/179111.1C.
Though the appointment by President Johnson of a new
minister, one of Sherman's lieutenants, to represent bias at
the ambulatory, and almost fugitive, court of President
Juror involves no departure from the policy the American
government hoe notoriously followed for the last three years,
it evidences, the Daily News neys, • disposition which wow
or later most produce the greatest of changes. It intimaters
that, la the opinion of the United States Ma
is
merely the head of a foreign
invasion ; and, while the
financial prospects of Mexico are gloomy beyond m-
inder:it, the hostility of America is more likely to increase
than to diminish. It is evident that the people of the
Union are getting more restless every month in view of the
ensconce of the French, and it will be no weeder if the
American government redoubles its exertions to procure the
withdrawal of the French army, in order to avoid a collision
which would seem otherwise inevitable.
The Herald depicts the position of the Emperor Maxi.
milian in the darkest of colours, maintaining that his
throne can only be established by the preemies of a Oxon(
force of European soldiers, for, like the Greeks in Earope,
the Mexicans are no more fit for constitutional government
than infants or savages. France cannot retire, and the
' Washington government should be warned against the
danger of such proceedings as that of the appointment of a
minister to the Mexican republic. If the expression of
sympathy for the Juarists is allowed to be made by mon
like General Grant and others, Mr. Seward may fled that
he has run his head into a hornet's nest of on nsiderable
magnitude, and the report that the Frau& misister had
demanded his passports may prove after all to have been
only preniature.

KISCILLANEOI3II TOPICS.
In the controversy upon the beet plan of extending nisi-
varsity education, the Tines sides with Dr. Temple, who
proposes to abolish all restrictions ; to allow university
education to be obtained direct from the university with.
oat any intervention whatever ; and under certain simple
regulations, for the purpose of maintaining good order is
the city, to admit anyone, living whose and bow he pleased,
to the university examinations and to the lectures of the
professors. The only objection the Tissa can am is that the
education thus provided would not be the same u the
present university education ; but this is inevitable if the
conditions are to be altered, and the objection would apply
with equal force to any alternative proposal. The Post,
on the other hand, has read Dr. Temples letter with mu,
prise and disappointment, and ran hardly believe that it
could have been seriously written.
The warning which hen just been given by the French
government to M. Prevost Pamela leads the Daily News
to show many objections to the theory of our neighbours
that liberty is beet served by enforced Osseo, and that to
blame a system of administration is to desire to subvert the
constitution. That the piling hardship of this restraint on
free speech is felt daily more and more by all the intel-
ligence of the nation, is apparent to everyone who reads
the French newspapers, or is °pavement with its • eurreat
literature. But the strange thing is that it seems to be •
sista of things is which the government and its single head
feel equal patification and comfort.
In 1862 a gent emso named Brows died in Dublin,
bevies directed by his will a sum of 20,0001., and the
mediae of his personal estate, to be paid to the Uni-
versity of London. This fund was to be applied by
the governing body of the University to the founding
sad upholding of an animal sanitarium within one
mile of London, Southwark, or Dahlia. The Herold
regrets the delay which has taken pleas in giving form
and 'abeam, to a project to which this yeer's violist=
has given a peculiar and exceptional importance.

mentirif eztermiustion bsi been adopted, and that besides
the °otters In ibis district, three at Beekked lowa, Nate
River, &autos Land, he., have all ban burst down.
Among the rebels emitted yeetarday and subsequently re.
leased was Hoary Bog* son of Moses Bogle—be wss in a
very week state sad his left leg we. is s very bad stole.
oirisg to • serious wound ou the fool, rewired no doubt
during the insurrection. He showed signs of greet snarl-
Hon, sad said that bin wale Paul sailed his father end biro:
self, endowed his father's &mitts.

DESTRUCTION
BU OP
LLDOG. HER MAJESTY'S SHIP

On the 22nd inst. the Jamaica packet was
into by the rebel steamer Valongs*, off Acid. The Brill=
steamer Bulldog being mar by, approached her
ofd in-
gaited the came, when it wasexplaiasa by the captain
the Jamaica packet. The Bulldog said that unless the
Vslongue would cease firing into the Jamaica packet she
would be sunk ; she assisted and went tato the Caps.
Shave, on learning of the incident, ordered that all who
had taken refuge in the British Consulate should be taken
away by fares. The next day the Bulldog demanded
satidaction, and, it being refused, the captain beg= to
=ell Fort Circlet, and aLo sank the Valorogne and en
sinned schooner ; the powder mogul= of the rebel* wee
blown up, end fire was set to the town through the brisk
are kept up by the Bulldog from 9 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. The
Bulldog, in nancenvrieg, got on a reef, sad se she could
not be got off, she was fired by bar eommaader rather than
see her fall into passed= of the robeis.
President Geffrard, on hearing thin, plea= tinsteamer
22nd of December at the disposalof the ca of the
Bulldog. The crew and officers 01 that Assam were con-
veyed on board of the 22nd of Deeember. The lose sm.
Mined by then bels is very heavy. That of the English
amounts to two or three killed and about ten =ended.

"HE TREATY OP BETWEEN
ENGLAND AND Ausritu.

DEPUTATION TO EARL CLARENDON.
A deputation from the Association of Chambers
of Commerce of the United Kingdom waited en Earl Ms.
tendon yesterday at the Foreign-cam, on the subject of
the negotiation of a treaty of onnueseee with Austria.
After a brief introductiou by Mr. Solicleflehl, ILP., Mr.
S. S. LLOYD sated that great anxiety was fill in the coati
menial world as to the result of these probsete Degotia.
doge. The amoeiation had keg taken as to in this
question, sad begged to oak his lordship to tell them pre-
cisely bow matters stead.
Lord CLLAINDOII replied that she association bad done
quite right to come so the government for intertnatio°,
which they (the government) were always glad to give.
The English government quite appreciated the favourable
disposition of that of Austria, sad were just as anxious
se the Austrian government to conclude a treaty
beneficial to both imentries. About ten days
ago, he must say, the prospect looked gloomy.
Austria bed made demands which could not be
conceded. As what he now said might probably be
made publics, he could not be expecited to give the deputa-
tion minute details ealmilesed to embarrass the negotia-
time. He might say, however, that now the prospects
leaked brighter than they had dose previously, and he was
not without hope that very *hardy a treaty beneficial to
English commerce would be °occlude&
Mr. Emirs handed to the Earl of Clarendon a telegram
MATO by him that morning from Dr. 110011AOttlt, a
relative of the Austrian Minister of Commerce. The
telegram was to the following afoot :—" Preliminary con.
boot will he signed this week. It gives 25 per cent. ad
aileron as the maximum duty to bo levied by Austria on
British goods, without o:Boutin°. This is to cantinas
till 1870 ; thee maximum to be redwood to 20 pee
asst. Austria reeerves to herself the right of snaking
further reductions in the defialtive contract of 1868 (which
faults from the preliminary one). These latter reduction
depend, however, on the equivalent which may be offered
by England, in the shape of reduction of duties on wine and

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Earl CL.ABZ.NDON made 110 remark woentieg or dissenting
from Chia etotement, bat seamed well aware of ite purport
end the deputation, having thanked his lezdahlp, reeked.—
Binning/um Gazette.

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