The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1862.

as to funds for purposes of relief. Can any one
explain to us why it is not imposed
Look at Coventry, whose ass !or the last two
years has been infinitely worse. No long-con-
tinned tide of commercial prosperity had fitted
the proprietary classes there to bear the
weight of casual sly:dumb of trade.
Dependent peculiarly on the fluctuations
of fashion, its industry has never attained
the solidity or the profitableness of many other
branches of production. Several causes contri-
buted in 1859, 1860, and 1861 to bring the trade
of Coventry almost to a stand-still. There was
great suffering, and unusual and great exer-
tions had in consequence to be made on the
spot. The people showed the most exemplary
spirit of patience and fortitude ; and at length
they are likely, we trust, to have their re-
ward. Trade is slowly but steadily reviving ;
rates are beginning to drop below the high-water
mark of want ; the atoneyard is about to be, if it
has not already been, shut up ; and, with compara-
tively speaking little aid from without, Coventry
is getting right once more. All honour to the
good old city and its self-helping people.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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YAMS, &YDAT Evzimia.

The Nord of this day has the following :—" We
are informed that the Boysl Commissioners of the London
Exhibition have refused to grant tickets of admission to the
representatives of foreign journals. We must be permitted
to remark on this singular proceeding. We are aware
that, notwithstanding the act of union, British hospi-
tality is quite distinct from the disinterestedness prover-
bially attributed to Scotch hospitality. In London, if you
wish to see the monuments, museums, churches, &c., you
most pay for passing from one room to another, from one
story to another. The trafficking genius of the modern
Carthage is to be discovered in this extremely inconvenient
union of fiscal formalities and national memories. But if
there was an occasion in which these utilitarian habits
should be departed from, it was this of the Universal Ex-
hibition—this convocation of the civilised world
who were asked to bring to the capital of
Great Britain the tribute of their sympathy,
and the treasures of their labour. If any privilege wm
allowable it should be in favour of those, without whose
publicity the grandest and most encyclopadic exhibitions
would be restricted and confined. Sorely the Universal
Exhibition has not been designed for some hundred
thousand visitors. An Europe ought to participate
in the information to be derived from this
ecumenical council of contemporary art and industry. And
who but the press will set twee and give wings to this in-
formation? In denying to the representatives of the Kew
of Europe facilities to which they are fairly entitled, there
would be at once a shocking want of logic and a pitiful shah.
binee• If the London Exhibition be only speculation, if it be
not • monument raised to intelligent and liberal England,
ea well as to laborious Europe, we no longer recognise in
this congress of manufacturers, merchants, and artists,
assembled from all points of the globe, guests invited to a
pacific tournament—to an international ffte—but merely
supernumeraries, who have come unwittingly to give •
varied representation for the benefit of England. ,

It is amusing to watch the attitude of the semi-
ofici•l journals which lately had orders to write up
the temporal power of the Pope, and are now tern
bly afraid that they have been made fools of. The
Patric says as little as possible, but it soes an
opening for "reserve " in the telegram which speaks
of an autograph letter, dated Naples, from the
King of Italy to the French Emperor. Either, it
says, this letter must be a forgery, or it must have
been made public, before arriving at its destination,
by a breach of confidence, and in that case "we
can have nothing to do with it." The above
dilemma does not seem to have struck the Pays,
which mentions the letter at the head of its
leading column as a genuine thing. The
Pays has been kept so much in the dark
by its patrons that it is reduced to publish this
evening only as " Latest Intelligence" the now very
old news that General de Goyon is recalled from
Rome, and elevated to the dignity of senator. With
modest assurance it says that it was unwilling here-
tofore to " give this rumour, by reproducing it, more
authority than it deserved." Under the same
heading it gives, also at second-hand, the inform-
ation that Prince Napoleon is about to embark at
Marseilles for Naples.
In a leading article the Pays betrays great anxiety
lest DE Pietri's pamphlet, which it thought mall
beer of at first, should turn out to be the beaoon ci
French policy. It calls to mind that, while an-
nouncing the republication of that opuscle "under
all reserve," it clearly indicated, nevertheless, what
" might be" its attitude in regard to it. The
bridled enthusiasm, the disciplined ardour, of the
Pays is something admirable. It stands wait'ug,
like a greyhound in the slip, " straining on the
start," or like Mr. T. P. Cooke, in the nautical
drains, calling upon his noble captain to give him
the word of command ; but protests meanwh;le that
it will make a clean breast " when the time comes,"
that M. Grandguillot, the editor-in-chief, has kept
the question for himself, and that he will speak
with the "utmost frankness" as soon as—he is told
what to say.
The Moniker notices in its bulletin that the
Times and Morning Post simultaneously express
themselves in favour of French intervention in
Mexico. The Patric has some curious observations
on the subject, tending to show that England
has been behaving badly and treacherously,
as usual, but has at length thought fit to
show signs of repentance. The article of
the Morning Post, it says, infers that the
sudden change in the attitude in the cabinet of
London is attributable to the apprehension of an
alliance between Mexico and Washington. But
this only a pretext. The true cause is to be sought
in the events themselves. It is at length perceived
in England that the tergiversations of the British
cabinet, and, let us not shrink from saying the word,
" the defection of which it was guilty," at the
moment of the convention of Soledad, have placed
England in • false position both as to its political
and material interests.
The Patrie announces from America that M.
Mercier, the French minister at Washington, has
had a long interview at Richmond with President
Davis ; that the object of his journey was altogether
political, and was well known to President Lin-
coln, and that M. Mercier may possibly run over
to France for a short time.
The Senate was occupied yesterday with the
consideration of a petition presented by the Arch-
bishop of Rennes, which appears to be a chosen
subject for a pitched battle between the Ultra-
montanists and the Gallivan. The archbishop
complains that whereas the municipal council of •
Icommune in his diocese voted twice over that they
wished to have • monk for a 'schoolmaster, the

Prefect of the Ile et Vilaine appointed a layman.
M. de Larochejaquelin presented a report
strongly condemning the prefect's conduct, but he
was constrained to admit that the letter of the
law was on his side. MM. Baroche and Billault
were in their places, prepared to defend the
prefect; but some senators discovered that
the report on the petition did not raise
with sufficient distinctness the question whether
the Senate was called upon to interfere,
on the ground of the "unconstitutionality"
of the prefect's decision, and therefore it was re-
ferred back for further consideration. The petition
will now probably be burked. The Debata takes
part with the archbishop, on the ground that the
vote of the municipal council ought not to be
treated by the prefect as merely consultative, and
that it is false liberalism to side with the prefect
in this instance merely because his opponent is a
bishop.

A GOOD WORK OP !RENCK PROTESTANTISM.

We read in the Journal de Bergerac :—" We had
the gratification of witnessing on Monday last a religions
solemnity which we shall never forget, and an never =IC
of without emotions of deepest sympathy. It was at Ls-
force. This village has, as is generally known, become
within the last ten or twelve years the centre of works of
Christian charity which have attracted the attention of all
France : the sight of that which the courageous faith of a
' good man has effected here lifts the soul up into s pure
atmosphere which strengthens while it softens it. Three
institutions bad already been established at Warne—the
Family, an orphan house where nearly a hundred girls are
maintained; Bethesda, an asylum for sixty incurables,
idiots, crippled, blind ; Silos, for boys similarly afflicted.
It would seem that to have created, organised, and eon-
ducted these three establishments would be enough for the
strength of any one man. Not ro. Charity is never ex-
hausted while anything remains to be done. The Epileptics,
this class alas! so numerous in this age of over-excitement,
this class repelled by all but the deepest Christian charity.
What NM be done for it? How can it be relieved' Where
as we (*Beet without peril to other afflicted ones this
misery of miseries' These questions arose formidable in
the heart of the pastor, John Bost. It was necessary for
him to resolve them. Applications increased ; promises of
help had not yet arrived. A house and a qualified directness
ese resumed. natl. iaptled, •We 4..11 Sad all that.'
The establishment was named Ebenerer—a name of happy
augury, literally the stone of help, or, hithertofthe lard
bath helped me. This name might be inscribed over all the
institutions of Worm ; it is indeed the Lord who has in-
spired,
founded, provided for them. On Monday then, a
beautiful morrow of a beautiful Easter, the Ebenezer was
inaugurated, and drew crowds of protestanta from all the
neighbouring churches—pastors, elders, members, whole
families. nine was no pomp, no ceremonial, no observ-
ances, except those which the duties of hospitality imposed,
but all that there is in evangelical works, most solemn,
most affectionate, and we may add most comprehensive, for
to the right and to the left of Professor Feriae, who pre-
sided, were pastors of the church recognised by the state,
and pastors of the free church. Christians of both denomi-
nations have an equal love for the work of M. Bost, which
is the work of the whole reformed church of Fiance. It is
protestant unity in Christian diversity. The opening prayer
was offered by Pastor Hughes, President of the Conaistory
of Bergerac ; the concluding prayer by IL Heariquet, pastor
of the free church at Sainte Foy. la the discourse of M.
de Felice literary merit was united with lofty piety. The
church and its Fenton, France and her government, the
Emperor and his family, and the local authorities, bad their
just part in the prayers and solemn vows of the useably.
At the close of the services every one wished to visit in
detail these useful establishments, and came away grate-
fully thanking the Lord for the pious phase into which
the protestant church of France has entered within the
last few years."

The Protestant Bible Society of Paris has just
held its annual general meeting is the Church of the Be-
demptios, Rue Chauchat. ht. Gulick in the chair. It may
be remembered how groat a sandal was caused last year by
the defence of the temporal power of the Pops whir& that
gentleman so unexpectedly introduced into his opening
nickels. Oa the precast occasion the hen. president re.
trained, sot only from all allusion to that subject, bat kft
politics aside altogether.

THE ItorAr BiIfIBITION COMMISSIONERS! LAMBETH ELECTION.—(THIS DAY)- P
AND THE HBPRESENTATIVIS OF THE
PORNO: PRESS.

OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF THE POLL.
This day Mr. Onalow, the returning officer, wade
the official declaration of the poll m follows
Dotiltkn. Wilkievora.
Camberwell Green
Wayles Field
Mill Street

Vauxhall

C76streh4trest, Waterloo•raad 47.. i
Palace Road 379

48 12
97 13

Chan* Row, Kennington
W4wl Btnal 829 146 44

York arrest

60 13

Trinity Square 6153 24

5,124

Majority for Donlton over Sleigh 4,370.
Majority for Doulton over Wilkinson 4,777

Mr. Do;LYON then presented him.elf to return thanks,
and was loudly cheered by his friends. He said that be
bed not been disappointed in the expectation which he
confidently expreseal on Friday—that he should be re,
turned u the representative of the borough of lambeth by
a triumphant majority. He accepted the result, In the
&deplane, u • recognition of the general political principles
on which be nought their suffrages, and in the next place as
a proof that the electors were satisfied with the coulee
which he had taken in the borough with respect to
Vocal events. He did not entertain the least ill-feeliog
towards his opponents. (Hear, hear.) It had been stated
in some of the journals of that morning that the number
of electors polled bore no proportion to the amount
of the constituency, but the reason of that was that the
election was virtually over by 10 o'clock in the morning,
greater number of electors having voted for him br that
time than for their late member. Mr. Hoops% when he first
came forward as a candidate. They might have heani a
piece of machinery called the Nasmyth hammer, which was
eguallyfittedtocracka nut or toilette° a piece of solid metal
of 40 toss weight. It was so with the present caution. The
nut had bele cracked and that was sufficient. Somethag
bad been said of the expenditure of the election, but whoa
all his amounts were made up and published he belinel
it would be found that his expenses were less in proportme
to the numbers polled than those of both the outer condi.
dads together._ He thought it only fair that those who
brought tonsure Mr. Wilkinson should pay the expenses of
that 'petioles°. (laughter.) He had a majority of new
5 to 1, not oily I. one place but in almost every district of
the borough He should conclude by thanking them, and
assuitig them that he should take his place in the Howe
of COIIIOIOOI that evening, determined to do what he could
to promote the interests of the nation. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. BLrIG a then came forward, awl was received with
cheers. Although defeated, he thought it the first duty of
a candidate to come forward, and to thank those who ex.
acted themselves on his behalf. (Hear, hear.) The mall-
ows of the numbers who voted showed that there was great
potiticalapathy in the borough, es4roved the neasseity for El
extsasioo of the franchise. (Hear, hear.) He had reflected
on this subject since the termination of the contest, and, as
the franchise was a trust, he thought it should be loam-
ponied with the condition that every voter should re-
cord his opinion under some pecuniary fleet if he
did not do so, such fine to go towards the ex-
of the election. (" That is not Iteirli.")
rill not mean to say that a man should be cow to
vote for one of two candidates if he did not like ei er, but
that he should either record his vote for one or declare
that he abstained from voting. He had no
ill-feeling towards his friend hie Dalkon, from
whom and from whose supporters he experienced
every courtesy during the election. (Cheers.) Be the time
ter or sear when he should have the honour of taking his
seat is the Hoene of Commons, he should devote it to pro-
moting the political freedom and enfranchisement of the
trorkisg climes. (Hear, bear.)
Mr. Wilkinson did sot appear.
On the motion of Mr. Doeuroer, seconded by Mr. MITCH,
a vote of thaeke was passed to Mr. Onalow, the returning
officer.