The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-07 00:00:00

THE -4)IXP!:tESS,

scattering dismay among merchantmen and whaler
and other unarmed vessels, but fro war eeleli of t
United States appears owe to have molested her.
Ii it possible that the expectation of recovering
from this country compensation for the losses re-
sulting from her depredations has made the Govern-
ment and people of the United States less eager for
her capture than they otherwise would have been ?
If the world generally should come to that
conclusion, from observing the impunity which
Captain \VADDELL has so long enjoyed, it would be
one of the strongest practical arguments against the
admission of such a liability as Mr. Sswasin is
just now endeavouring to establish against this
country. ---------

the preparation of meat for waTkearket en s nip" greater 1
disnanoe than eat sow within, reach. In ceinlisroct all
weals. them *any is no reams why we steed, win impel
oar butcher's meat from British Americaa sad' dim trans'
marine pastures. The trade is stilt in he infancy, sad
only requires the provocation of high prime to make s
lades improvement.

THE lIIPusIAL rummer ON ALGERIA.
The fresh illustration of "government by pamphlet"
which the French people have just received is spoken of by
the Daily News as a @levier set of homage to a public
opinion which is denied the right of comment, and • eon•
fusion that the most benefioent sod most glorious despot-
ism is powerless unless it rests on general approval. Nobody
can doubt, the Daily Mies thinks, the soundness of the
Antrum principles laid down by the Emperor, but unhap-
pily the pamphlet itself bears witness that the soundest
principles may be made futile by defects of adosinistratioa.
None, indeed, know better then we do how hard it ia to
reconcile justice and progress whoa two different races moot
on the same ground, and we must watch with some mis-
giving the progress of the idea of Arab education nailer
French paternal teaching.
The Post concludes • summary of the imperial pamphlet
by saying :—" The Emperor Napoleon has made an effort to
esothfy and ameliorate, we might almost sty, the laws of
climate, religion, and experience. If his suggested new
administration of the governing system in Algeria succeeds,
and Christian European civilisation is enabled to incorporate
the wildest tribes of the Oriental and Wahometan world, •
work of incalculable importance will have been scum.
plisheth and will late • new en in the history of the East.
We as only wish France every success, end applaud the
! Emperor's noble inspirations."

AMERICA.
The sweeping reduction which the government of the
rotted States has made in its military bowel, in
instanced by the Daily News as affording movie-
clog evidence that President Johnson's active policy abroad
will be directed to the =antitoxins of peace. It of
course belies the imputation of an intention to intervene
with arms in Mexico ; and there is every reason to hope,
because of the healthy feeling of national self-000fidence
which is extending throughout the Union, that the rejec-
tion of the Alabama claims will not in any aspect of the
case bo considered as assailing the honour of the United
States. The Daily News also mentions a rumour which is
very current in America, that the Emperor Napoleon ham
decided to abandon Mexico, and that the conduct of the
President is regulated by a common understanding at
which the Emperor Napoleon and Mr. Seward have arrived.
There are few grander spectacles, says the Telemspii,
recorded in all history than that which Is now presented
by the re• United States of North America. The most
enthusiastic believer in the good qualities of the American
people would bays hesitated, a few months ago, to predict
that the reconstruction of the Union would be so speedy
or so complete.
The Telegraph approves of the proclamation by the Em-
peror Maximilian, 'wording to which the members of the
armed baud, now wandering about the Mexican empire
will be 'Able on capture to be treated not as prisoners of
war, not even as misguided insurgents, but as common
highwaymen and aseenains, and will be tried by court-martial
sod shot within 24 hours. It does not believe that the
United Slates 'overawes' will eousteaance any aggressive
interference with this state of things.
The Star trusts that her Majesty's government will take
prompt action with the commander of the Shenandoah.
The ship is a British ship, and the greater port of the crew
are British subjects. Oar government did not take the
trouble to i sue orders for stopping her in our ports, as
they might bare done, and if the captain and mew are now
allowed to escape, the Foreign Enlistment Act will be proved
a farce.

MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS.
The Times congratulates England and the Brazils npoo the I
formalreconcillation between thetwogovernmeste,andpoints
out the possible deeelopmest of Brasilia§ production in the
supply of living animals and preserved meatt, which in
Brazil are almost without value in the market. Bread, how-
ever, may be reminded, without reopening the controversy,
that what has taken place shows that no Power in dealing
with England must presume either upon its strength or its
weakness. We persuade ourselves that we are not very quick
to take offence, but if they lea wrong it mast be redressed-
Incidentally, the Times remarks that in Brasil aloe., of all
countries in the world, the negro wee not an outcast. To a
event extent he was admitted to that equality which only
Ike extreme abolitionists in the United States venture to
advocate, and which few Americans seem prepared to sup-
port. There was a free intermixture between the black
led white races of the empire. Europeans, Africans, and
Indians married and lateen:earned, until now, as it is
thought, an actual majority of the whole population of
Brazil io of mixed extraction. This has never occurred
elsewhere, and the fact is worth recording.
The report of the Lancet commission upon the workhouse
of Bermondsey is drawn epos by the Times for various
facts. Bonn vigilant aad effective authority is needed, it
says, in order to ensure that the low shall be properly
administered.
The Post, enlarging on the tremendous importance of
keeping gas reservoirs without puncture, crack, or flaw,
draws a horrible picture of what might occur if, the
entry of atmospheric air, the contents of a gasometer
become filled with fire-damp, the gasometer °attributing
its charge into the gas main and to the myriad burners
and communications. With flame then applied, instead of
the mere explosion of a reservoir, it would be the ex-
plosion of the entire arterial system communicating with
the reservoir. Every male, every secondary pipe is oom-
munication with the main, would share the fate of the
Nine Elms reservoir. Thet atmospheric air found its
way into the Nine Elms reservoir the Post does not doubt;
the question for the jury to determine will be—how came
it there?
The Herald declares that the liberal impurity of election
was so great in 18.59 that Lord Derby's second government
was thrown out by the vete, of members not duly and pro-
perly returned, and who therefore had no right to vote 114
all, and it believes there is presumptive evidence of much
corruption nod intimidation prevailing, on the liberal side
at the last general election. It is, theref.re, with some
confidence that our contemporary anticipates the results of
the election petitions now in course of preparation.

the Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 6.

Her Majesty walked out this morning, accom-
panied by Princess Beatrice and Princa Federick William of
Prussia.
Penes Louis of Hesse went out shooting, attended by the
Gentlemen in Waiting.
The Queen, with the niece and Princess Lou's of Hems,
Princess Helena, and Princess Louie., and attended by the
Marchioness of Ely, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel H.
Ponsonby, went to Claremont this afternoon to visit Queen
Marie LmUlie.