The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-25 00:00:00

'BESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1865.

W often followea. English good faith will biome sTlkull•
moos with pursue fides, and the doctrine of repadiation
snit bs accepted as a principle reeephied by English states.
men sad approved by Engliah judges.
The Star observes that the government could not
hays acted otherwise than it did, la 1863 it ab.
stained from Wring any more money for this subsidy ; and
it it had taken the other course it would certaialy have
been defeated, and defeated as an accomary after the fact
to a corrupt government oontract loads for the purpose of
edultsratiog the oomposition of the House of Commons.

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WINDSOR CASTIA Nov. 24.
The Queen, with Princess Helena, drove out
yesterday afternoon. attended by the Hon. Entity Callbeart.
The Orono Prises and Princess of Prussia, Princess
Louise, and Prince Leopold, also drove out in a carriage and

four.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Crown Prince and
Prioress of Prussia, drove in the grounds this morning.
The Duke of Nemonn and Princess Margaret of Orleans
arrived at the Culla last night on a visit to her Majesty.
Prinoe Edward of Sue Weimar also arrived at the
Castle.
The Duke of Nemours sad Princess Margaret took leave
of her Majesty this morning, and left the Cutle for Clare-

rag CATTLE PLAGUE..
The serious inures of the cattle plague, as proved by the
last retain, makes us look anxiously at the new agencies of
cure which are proposed, and the Times thinks of the
homurpathin method which is now to be formally tried,
that at all events it has been followed with as much
success r killing. We are at • dead lock, and
may as well try homoeopathy as anything else, espe-
cially as the terms an so easy. Some one has
said that "the faculty" would rather see all the cattle
in England die outright of the plague than be cured by
homoeopathy, but the rest o the world will not be of that
opinion. The regular practiftioners hsve retired from the
field, and it is now open to all corners.
The Daily News says that though the figures may be
larger the disease is net really growing more virulent, end
that this is shown by the circumstance that the returns
from eaoh district fluctuate much from week to week.
The number of recoveries, too, is greatly incressiog.
The consolidated orders furnish the public with a
code better defined, and in some cases mitigated. Local
authorities may now give directions that no fresh
stook at all shall be brought within the district. It
need not be pointed out bow seriously the power to issue
such directions may affect sorra departments of trade.
If they were generally carried mit they would, is feet,
effect the recommendation of the commission, and cause a
suspension of all dealing in cattle throughout the kingdom.
But we must trust to the discretion of the "local autho-
rities" to use the power with ration.

moot.
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar also returued to London.
Count (Reicher' visited the Queen to-day.
The Hon. Lucy Ken and the Hoe. Mary LameUes have
vacocedad the Kam Emily Cathcart and the Hon. Monocle
Seymour an Maids of Honour.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in
Downing-street. The ministers present ware—
Earl !Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
Arun, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the
Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Earl de Grey, the
Chancellorof the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset,
the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, and the Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers.

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Despatches Were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from tke Governors of Canada and Vancouver's

Tree PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALLS.—Their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales have
been so much gratified with their reception at Melford
that they have determined upon remaining soother day.
Their visit was to have terminated yesterday, but they have
arranged to depart by the 11.20 a.m. train to-day, en route I
for Sandringham. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wales will shortly visit Lord and Lady Suffield
at Canton, Norfolk. The Prince and Princess are expected
to arrive at Gunton on Monday, December 4, and will stop
three or four days. They will not pus through Norwich,
but will travel from Sandringham to Gunton rid Dereham.
The Prince and Princess ware, it is said, driving out
recently on their estate at Sandringham, when they
met an old woman with a basket of shrimps. The Prince
offered to purchase them, and asked the woman for what
she would sell them. " Seven shillings and sixpence," was
the reply. The shrimps were worth about a third of the
money, but the Prince at once closed the bargain, and in.
slated on taking the basket into the carriage with him.
The old woman was well satisfied with her sale, and ex-
claimed, as she watched the retreating carriage, that the
Prince was a " Good 'no."
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales will shortly visit Lord and Lady Suffield at Gun-
ton, Norfolk. The Prince and Princes' are expected to
arrive at Gunton on Monday, Dec. 4, and will atop three
or four days. They will not pus through Norwich, but
will travel from Sandringham to Gunton rid Dershaso.
The Duke of Devonshire is surrounded by a
family circle at Chatsworth, Derbyshire.
The Marquis of Hartington, M.P., left Devon-
shire House yesterday, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess
of Manchester at Rimbolton Castle, Hunts.
We (Times) have reason to believe that Lord
Augustus Loftm, at present minister at Munich, will
succeed Lord Napier as ambassador at Berlin.
The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh is giving close
attention to the affairs of his estate at Elvedon, Thetford,
Norfolk, the runagemeat of which he has in great part
taken into his own hands.
The Dean of Westminster will preach at the re-
, opening of the Chapel Royal, Savoy-street, to-morrow
morning.

THE WEEKLY PRESS.
The Saturday Review complains of Governor Eyre'.
report that it scarcely furnishes the faintest explanatioe of
the nature or motives of the disturbances in Jamaica. It is
more occupied with a recital of his owe exploit. than in
communicating facts which would give an excuse for the
wholesale executions. The sect ifice of nine or ten insurgents
foe etch loyal victim indicates rather unreasoning panic
than calm sternness in the administration of justice. A
readiness to hang every suspected negro is no proof
of executive vigour. The governor seems incapable, as
in Dr. Usderhfirs cue, in his attempts to account for a
feeling of disaffection, of distinguishing between remote
causes slid deliberate incentives to; rebellioe. The extra-
vagant injustice of the charge against Dr. Uoderhill
throws a doubt co the jail.. of the sentence on Gordon.
It is absurdly unjust to treat a popular orator as the
author of a crime which some may trace to his
exciting rhetoric. At all events the governor
should have subbed the Collenialofface and the English
patios to jade* of the names for the soutance of the court.
The inference that the negro race is incapable of civilisation
is at least premature. Paul Bogle and his associates are
not worse than Fenian', and Mr. Gordon showed that
Africa* blood is not inconsistent with occupations which
eves when they are culpably pursued beloog essentially to
civilised life.
The Spectator wishes that Mr. Forster had been offered
• higher office. Mr. Forster, it says, hes a singularly large
influence over two classes over whom apparently it would
not be possible for the same man to exercise inflames at all
—the conservativesand the admixed radicals. His
tact in catching the temper of the house, his
frank and manly tows, jibe entire &bunco of bit-
terness in his antagonism, and the heartiness of his
blows, have gained him the thorough respect of
the opposition ; and his genuine sympathy with all those
who labour under any sort of injustice, or even social de-
pression, has won the fall confidence of the more advanced
liberals. He has. strong judgment, and something like a
suppressed enthusiasm under its control, which give his
speeches great force out of the House as well u in it. With
a chief in the Lower House to answer for his department,
the greatest advantage of Mr. Forster's unquestionable
power will be lost to the liberal party.
On the Jamaica question the Spectator says if England is
to come out of this matter without a permanent stein upon
her honour and her jutios, we must have a searching in-
vestigation into all its circumstances, and, should present
appearances be confirmed, an immediate censure on those
principally responsible. If there is any vestige of good
faith in our political professions, what all the world would
cry out for, if the persons shot, banged, and flogged in such
numbers had been Irishmen or Eoglishmen,l we must not
refuse because they have been blown or black.
Commenting upon the appointment of Mr. Gretchen, the
Economut remarks that in Emiland we exact from our
statesmen not only ease but fixity in money matters. Till
ately people of large landed property were the only ones
who could fulfil these strict conditions ; but now, a vast
main of industrial property exist' which is quite as certain
as anything in this world is certain. The new sort of
realised property is as politically servieeable as the old sort.
Goechen is an instance to prove that it is even better,
and this is his exceptional peculiarity. He comes out of the
City to take office, and he brings to office what nothing but
the City could have taught him. There is a tinge of the
amateur about every man of bruiser who has not lived by
business. There is a want which is hard to describe and im-
possible to define about him. A coarse attorney once said
of •delicate advocate fresh from University honour, " Ah,
dear me ! he is a good young man, but ho has tasted
blood? And a certain indistinctness, a certain tendency to
fall short on a sudden and when you least expect it, a
diffidence at heart often contrasting with an outward auda-
city, characterise asa rule and as a class thou who have not
known real business—the getting a livelihood by busi-
ness. Those whose fortunes, great or small, have depended
on the correctness of their decisions, acquire a correct
deei-
layettes" which does not waste time in irrelevant details,
which is often even careless of secceirsy order, but which
'mites to the root whatever is most critical and needful iu
the topic on had. It is because Mr. Goschen has had in
high perfection this consummate training that the Econo-
mist expects far more from him than if he had been reared
in the external techniedities of a public office, or belonged
- to the rank of the county aborigines.
Age

THE ESC THESTE HEAD FE
APE
PHENS, PRISONNIAN OF JAMES
.

The Dublin Evening Mail of last evening has the
following account of the escape yesterday of Stephens, the
Feniao, from prison :—James Stephens, who was looked
upon as the chief of the Fenian conspiracy in this country,
has contrived to effect his escape from the Richmond
BrideweU. It will be remembered that Stephens, at the
ezamivation before Mr. Strong°, affected • manner which
would justify the belief that he felt little concern as to the
difficulty in which be was involved. At that time it was
expected that he would be indicted for high treason. The
governor of Richmond Bridewell, who had from the first, en
additional force of five-and-twenty police-cm:stabled to watch
the Fenian prisoners, recently, under directions from the
Board of Superintendence, sent in a requisition for the
reduction of that force to three, with a view to ourtailiag
the expenses to be charged against the rates of the city.
Three constables only were accordingly employed to aid the
prison officials at night, but how valueless their services
were may be learned from the fact that they were
separated by a substantial well and a formid-
able iron door from the department in which the
men to be watched were located. Mr. Marquis, the
governor, with • commendable anxiety to prevent say
communication between the several Fenian prisoners,
placed an ordinary prisoner in each cell intermediate be-
tween two of the alleged Frisians. The prisoner so placed
between James Stephens and Charles J. Kirkham- whose
cells are situated on the second stony—states that he heard
this morning, at a few minutes before 1 o'clock, a noise as
of feet mounting the stain. Shortly afterwards a sound
struck his ear as of a lock being opened, and then, to use
his own expression, "two sets of steps" going downstairs.
Re did not raise any alarm at the time, not suspecting that
an escape was being accomplished, and thinking that it was
the tight watchman who created the noise. At 4 o'clock,
however, Mr. Marquis, the governor, was roused by
the watchman, Byrne, who told him that Stephens was
missing. An examination immediately took place, when it
was discovered that a duplicate key was in the lock of the
cell in which Stephen" had been confined, sad the the
lock of six other doors, leading from corridor to oorrt idor,
had been opened with a pass key. The mode of escape
from the prison is easily explained. The massive tables
of the dining-hall were removed to the garden and placed
against the wall, so as to afford an easy mode of ascent to
the summit. Whoever did this must have been thoroughly
acquainted with ihe topography of the prison and its
vicinity, as, immeliately outside the wall, in Wellington-
place, on the grand canal side, and corresponding to a
nicety with the spot at which the tables had been raised,
there stands a tree offering a most facile means of descent.
In this way, it seems, Stephens made his escape, and up to
the present no trace has been found of his whereabouts.
We believe we state the general opinion when we nay that
his recapture is exceedingly prohlematicaL His understood
power of chaegiog his appearance is such that the polioe
can have little hope of capturing him.
Another account rays :—"lt is gsaerally believed that
he was aided by the prison officials, and it is rumoured that
he has got out of the country by means of • fishing-boat
from Flowth. A reward of 1,030/. has been offered for his
capture, and 3001. for information leading to the arrest of
accomplices, or free pardon and 3001. to any accomplice
-..rg wbo will give ir.formation leading to recapture."
,Ifred,

The death is announced, at his residence, 16,
Onslow-crosoent, South Kensington, after a long and pain•
fal illness, of T. J. Pettigrew, Esq., P.R.S., F.S.A., is the
75th year of his age.
We (Berke Crtroniete) learn from our Abingdon
correspondent that Mr. Joseph Phillips, of Ardington, one
of the most eminent agriculturista in the kingdom, died on
Mooday. Mr. Phillips. who was celebrated fur his " Here-
fords." had pined groat numberless prizes at the exhi-
bitions of the various agricultural societies.
Rover. RETREATS rums WINDSOR Cssms.—Since
the Queen's return from Scotland her Majesty has ordered
Cranbount Lodge, an ancient edifice emoted between
Windsor Park and Forest, to be prepared for the royal
reception as a reatieg•placts after an 000scioeal excursion
from the Castle. Cranbourn Lodge was built by the Earl
of Ito.nelegh, Paymaster of the Forces in the reign of
Ch.rlss 11., and was rabesquently occupied by William,
Duke of Comberlind. Prince., Charlotte of S.xs-CoF
also lived herm and, later still. our own Prime AL
who, while a mere boy, resided in the tower for some little I
time. The lodge is a plain-built structure, with the ex- THE CATTLE PLAGUE.
time.
• of the north front, which is stuccoed and battle.
The Cambridge Lviepea dent of to-day reports
the
mooted, and is situated on a gentle elevation ooninmediog
an extensive prospect. The Belvedere, which, under the
name of a fort, playa so prominent a part one the occasion extension of the nettle plague in the Cambridgeshire sod
of the numerous royal birthritya, has also been prepared in Huntingdonshire parishes. M
The Hertford ercury records
• simlitar manner by the Queen's oominands. It stands on wen between Hitchiu and Stevenage, and the Bucks
the summit of a entail wooded eminence overhanging Vir Adrertiser says the disease is making alarming program at
giaia Water, and is a triangular tattlemonted
with a tower at each eagle, the priodpal apartment in Adstock, ThortburY, and AnornfAnt• .0 the
which commands a delightful view over the whole of this disease continues its fatal ravages, the York papers to.day
favourite retreat of royalty, with a far-stretching prospect giving more wimp accounts than ever. The cattle trade
of the earronedieg country, bounded by the Surrey bills. tt completely paralysed. is Cornwall, in the neighbour-
WINDROB CASTLE, Nov. 20.—The Queen was this
hood of Truro, there is hardly a farmer or dairyman whose
day pleased to ceder the hamar of knighthood noon Ro- affected.
Dort Lust, Esq.. Serjeentat.Law, one of the justices of the herds are
Court of Queen's Nov
4t.t.
WINDOWS CAMS, Nov. 20. —The Queen wan THE NEw LINE or STRAxzga ByTwzrat THE
day pleased to ceder the honour of knighthood upon John Therm STATES AND Beam.—The new steam line be
-
Campbell E.g..' late chid jualk" the Bahaman.— tween the United States sod Boma has already been
OaDtte. this Harass
On the 30th September the screw steamer
Wnrnuou Cams, Nov. 20.—The Queen was this Harass sailed from New York for Rio Jainism, taking out
day pleased to confer the honour of knighthood upon Ed-
ward Hilditch, Eq., IL D., inspector-general of hospitals meat the service will be only 'Deathly, bat se soon be
the mails and a fair 'umber of pasesegen, Toe she
sad gleets.—desorne. the company can build three new steamers, tripe will be
Mr. J. Stuart Mill was on Thursday elected made senti•mouthly. This lion, es we have heretofore
rector of St. Andrews University, by 95 votes against Mated, will ran batmen New York and Rio Janeiro,
45 for Lord Kiontird—L•ird President M'Neill's name touching at St. Thomas. West Ladies ; Para. Pernambuco.
having been withdraws. It was, however, Mated in St. and Bahia. in Beal It is *Needed the lime will soon be
AnArwrits is Um aftereara that Mr. bad declined to extended to Mastevideo and Basses Ayres.—Peassts
swop. reetesehip. Star.