The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-03 00:00:00

individuality of character
dull uniformity. We thir
as we dress alike, and v
of solemn languor.
with the writing of the present day. All the old
vigour, it is said, is gone together with the old
codisbneas and personality. We ought therefore to
acknowledge especial obligations to a nobleman who
dares to be before all thinethimself, and puts his
feelings on paper in homely Saxon. The Earl of
WINCIIIISR• and Norruwnxrs scorns to defer
to the prevailing weakness, and his letter to
the Chairman of the South Western Railway Com-
pany recalls the days when language was not used
to conceal thought. Lord Wrxoanssa was sum-
moned last week for smoking in a railway car-
riage of the South Westernßailway, whereupon he
wrote the letter aforesaid. His opening is espe-
cially to be oommended—" Sir, I demand the
" dismissal of the station-master, named Arras,
" at your Vauxhall-station." This is in the im-
perial style, but still tempered with • certain
moderation, for had his lordship been inclined
to extremes it would havebeen just as easy for him
to have written an order dismissing Arran on the
spot. But to proceed. Lord Wittcniusa• informs the
Chairman that the station-master has "had the
" cffrontely to apply for a summons (involving •
" breach of privilege) against me at the Wands-
" worth bench, for wh►t he has the impudence to
" term smoking contrary to the Company's bye-
" law." His lordship's language appears some-
what unsteady here, Arras's unexampled conduct
having Shaken his nerves. The impudence
of describing Lord WINCHLISILes smoking as
" contrary to the Company's bye-law " has
greatly shocked his lordship, as if bye-laws were
made for him. The next and last part of the
letter is, however, much more serious. His' lord-
ship's wrath is not to be appeased by the sacrificed a
station-master, " I beg you "—he "+►rites to
the Chairman—" to observe that this piece
"of impudence involves a breach of the
" privileges of the House of Lords, and that you,
" the chairman of the Company, shall be held
" responsible for it. —WIRCHILSZA and NOT-
" rugoßmL." The noble author's style moven
its earlier force and simplicity when leaving
description be returns to the language of command.
It will be interesting to see the Chairman of the
South Western Railway brought before the House
of Lords to answer for • breach of privilege which
somebody else has committed, and still more so to
hear the Loan CHRNCILLOR inform him that the
right of peers to smoke in railway carriages is •
part of the British constitution. It is to be hoped
that the noble Earl will keep his word. The advisers
of the Railway Company affect to believe that
there is no such privilege as he pretends, but that
the laws of railway travelling are equally binding on
Lord WINCHILBRA and travellers of common blood,
and that his lordship must obey the Magistrate's
summons. We shall see.

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A Cabinet Connell was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The miuizters present were
—Viseount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Dule of Argyll, Sir George
Grey, Earl Russell, the Right Hon. Edward
Cardwell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charlee Wood,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of
Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord
Stanley of Alderley, the Earl of Clarendon, and
the Right Hon. 0. P. Villiers.

LYONS, Jaw 2.
K Nadas and eight passengers ascended at 6
p.m. to-day in the balloon "Grant."
he " Geant" took a southerly oourse.
'The weather was magnificent.

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LATErrr.

NEW YORK, Joss 22, P.M.

Jefferson Davis, in his farewell to his troops,
says :—" The fact is evident that as an indepen-
dent nation we are badly whipped. Let each man
determine when he leaven this place to go to his
home, there to remain and work night and day to
repair the damage tnat has been dose by the war,
and never go off his farm except to go to mill.
If there are private quarrels between himself and
neighbours he bad better pack up and hunt
another neighbourhood, and if not willing to sub-
mit to the laws of the United States, be had better
leave the country."
The Times' Washington despatch says :
" Among the petitions for pardon to-day were
General Ewell and ex-Governor Aiken, of South
Carolina, Trenholm, and General &bole. The
latter is charged with inhumanly banging five
citizens of Virginia for being unionists."
The wife of Secretary Seward died in Washing-
, ton yesterday.
i Returning regiments are being received all over
the country with every demOnstration of hearty
i welcome. _ .

Havannah dates are to the 17th inst.
General Slaughter bad arrived there.
John C. Breckinfidge arrived at Cardenas on the
11th in an open boat, and from that point was
accompanied by a Spanish of sent by the go-
vernor of Cardenas to present him to the captain-
general at Havanoab.

CANADA.
HAMILTON, 0.W., Jumi 18.

The harvest prospects throughout the province
are favourable, although trade generally is very
dulL There is no political news whatever. People
are awaiting impatiently the return of the delegates
from England. It is thought, in well-informed
quarters, that they have not succeeded in their
mission.

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