The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-21 00:00:00

gratifioatiou. It is a private family dishloof with
which we have no concern.
Mr. Dimas:Xl attempt to raise
oonstitution, and the danger to •
by the attacks of the liberal peg,
The justice of that cry is precisely the subject of
the verdict which the country has just pronounosd.
He spared no pains to convince the public that its
affairs and institutions would only be safe in his
bands and those of his colleagues, and the amnia,
has pronounced his assurances to be all moonshine.
His party have been crying " Wolf, wolf," for the
lest thirty years, and now nobody heeds
them. It is the cry with which they
have resisted in turn every one of those reforms
which have identified the laws sad government of
llogland with the interest and feeling of the people,
and which, as Mr. GLAD:moors remarked on Tues-
day, at Manchester, have bad the effect of making
populations which once were disaffected to the
Government and alienated from the institutions
of their country, now regard the presence of a
minister of the Crown as an occasion of oongrstula-
Bon and rejoicing. But when Mr. DUIDANLI talks
of the verdict of the country, and magnifies the
value of such limited success as his party has been
permitted to achieve by means with which the
public are well acquainted, it is proper to remem-
ber to what extent a general election is a manifes-
tation of the intelligent opinion of the country.
And it is only necessary to read the
reports which are daily published to per-
Wye that this election, like all which have
preceded it, while it is a grand manifestation of '
public opinion, exhibit, that opinion in conflict at
the hustings and at the poll-booth, with other
forces of which Mr. Dissazu makes no mention,
bat which infinitely more than opinion have always
isonatituted the strength of his party. An election,
above all an election for a county or a small
borough, is a struggle between public opinion
and the various special interests which have grown
'up under laws that have created exclusive privi-
leges and established invidious distinctions between
class and class. Tradition and interest are the
powers to which Toryism has always appealed when-
ever the current of opinion has gone against it. The
Tories do not trust the free, intelligent opinion of
their countrymen, but seek to neutralise its
influence and limit the sphere of its action.
Their trust is in coercion and " muzzles."
This very Conservative minority, of which Mr.
Ikons'= is so proud, will appear in Parliament
commissioned to represent, for the most part, the
power of rural landlords, and will have for its chief
duty to oppose the representatives of the towns
and boroughs in which the intelligence of the
country is concentrated. Mr. Dise.ami knows
very well that it is only under a system which
robs the intelligence of the country of its due
share of the national representation, and permits
the great landed proprietors to return one-third of
the House of Commons, that the existence of such
• party as his is possible. If he talks so much
about the opinion of the country and the import-
ance of the verdict, he may some day unexpectedly
be taken at his word.

TEE EXPRESS, FRIDAY E'

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ELNASION COICOIBTS vatITUDAL
:014hirs ett '.l
. us lost .
is that : The • • Iv, .Walter '
, Bea , • thigi
y the isrliamest, no doubt 1 .
use whisk hos bees esffered by the liberal • daring
the praise* 'tedious. The strong* of the tory party
is Berkshire, the keg sad saergetie prepseattooe whisk
were made * them for the contest, sad ,the *oar
with Weida it was prosecuted at the lest may be see-
sidored sufficiently to Demount for the Result. But the
priacipal cause wee the ill-advised attempt to secure the re-
tain dame liberals. Is a county purely agricultural, sad
ansprising so large a body of voters pledged to the maw-
'sties caws, the &Meek ors the ea* ooneervative seat was
impolitic, end las ceded is diluter. The liberals are un-
titled to return two atembers, bat to grasp at the whets st
representation is to make an effort which, is the protest
state of parties, is pialely beyond their powers. They mass
accept their defeat with patience, sad wait until another
election gives them a °hence of retrieving what they have
lost." Aa to Booth Lancashire, the Tina suggests
that possibly if the two oilier beral candidates bad
bean lass el MOTO moderate opinions, they would have suc-
ceeded. "A large part of the oonstituency, made ap as it is
of town suburbs sad of oouatry, occupies politkally the de-
batable ground which divides the two English parties, and
will rather (he their votes to a man who steads on the
border-land of opinion than to very pronounced members of
either party."
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The Herat d mays that Mr. Gladstone was elected from
personal, not political, considerationa. "He is a n►tive of
the county. He is a man whose great abilities reader him
in some sort the pride of its inhabitant , and he be. a num-
ber of friends who have subordinated their political prin-
ciples to their personal regard for a friend. There are many
people, too, who still think of Mr. Gladstone as he wee
some twenty years ago, who look only at the conservatism
of his youth and prime, and relate to believe that he is the
radical he has proved himself to be."
The Herald and Standard, we may state, invariably at-
tribute the ancoeu of a Rhin in an election oontest to
local or accidental MOMS ; and the mow of a conserva-
tive to the remarkable growth of conservative feeling is
the country.

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'•The rejection, by the University of Oxford, of Mr.
Gladstone as its representative in parliameet, has tensed so
much seasation," save the Reader, "that those who were
instrumental in occasioning it appear to be frightened at
their act. The singular breadth of view and the remark-
able vigour charaoterising the speeehs which the right
honourable gentleman has tines delivered, while canvassing
the els:tors of South Lancashire, and the neconosaled
satisfaction at hie divorce from Oxford on the part of what
are called the 'more ashamed' of the liberal pasty, have
inormieed the numbest of the non-resident University
sexes by whom the mischief was done. But the
Step la a final one. Yr. Gladstone will never retort. to Ox.
ford. As the liberal member for Booth Lancashire be en-
ters ea mi., career. Till he was • candidate for the re-
preseatation of that county, we did not know great an
orator he was. He has now shown that in addition to
swaying the Hones of Commons, he can rouse a popul►r
assembly to an unexampled pitch of 'mall/AIM Having
proclaimed that he is sot afraid to test the people, he
has bat to carry his convictions into effect in order to be-
come the favourite of the people, and to be regarded by
all thinking men as the greatest statesmen this age has
produced."

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OSBORNE. JULY 20.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena
and Prince Albert Victor, drove out in the grounds yearns.
day morning.
Prisms Helena rode cm horseback to the afternoon, at.
tended by the Hrs. Emma Lena Ike.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council at yester-
day; pressor, Lord Chelmsford and the Lords Justices
Knight Bruce and Turner.
Despatches were received yesterday ►t the Coloni►Lomae
from the Governor of Heligoland. Dispatches were soot
to the Governor of Canada.

Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands,
attended by her Lady in Waiting and the Baron Warne*
heeesred the ?reach Gallery, 120, Pall-mall, with a visit

yesteeday.
Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands will
embark from Woolwich to-morrow for Rotterdam. We
understand that hie Royal Highness the Prince of Orange
purposes to remain some weeks is England. Before he
returns to the Hsgue his royal highness will ebb ficet-
lee&
His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange
Meowed the Countess of Fife with his company at lianas=
ea Wednesday.
FULHAM PALACE.—The Bishop of London and
Mrs. Tait were home:wed by a visit from her Majesty the
Qum of the Netherlands yesterday at Fulham Palace.
The company at luncheon included the Bishop of Gloucester
and Bristol, Lord sad Lady Lyveden, the Earl of March,
Sir Thomas and Lady Fremantle, the Ileac of Centerbury,
the Archdeacon of London. Miss Burdett (butts, his
Excellency Baron Bentinck, Count Basdwyk, Baroness de
Pabst, Blllooollllde Decline, fro. There was afterwards a
reception invited by Mrs. Tait to meet her Majesty in the
palms gardens.
The Right Hon. Frederick Peel is, we learn, in
improved health, and has been gradually getting better
since Tuesday. The right hoe. geatlernsa is still confined
I to his chamber.
His Excellency Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne
will leers the French Embassy or Monday or Tuesday next,
for Paris, on a short leave of absence.
His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and
the Count's' Bernstoeff have Left the Prussian Embassy for
the Costieent for a few weeks.
Baron and Baroness de Rothschild and Mr.
Alfred de Rothschild intend to have on Tuesday next for
Wiesbeden.
A correspondent writes :—" Brighton is rather
' fall, considering that it is not the visiting season there at
present. King's-road is crowded occasionally with members
of the ariatocsacy. The ladies dress superbly ; black tulle
basses, with gold flowers on the outside, and rows of
sequins (small gold coins) round the front, appear to be the
rice at the present 11101011."
At the South Haute election Mr. J. T. Tucker, a
freeholder, attempted to draw the attention of the elected
members to the game laws, but be was cried down. Sir
Jervoise Jerroise, one of the members, said that perhaps
Mr. Tucker "had the best'of the argument against preserving
game, but that be (Sir Jervoise) and the landlords had the
best of it as far as eating the game was concerned."
At the polling•booth (South Lancashire) at Bury,
yesterday, two brothers, each 86 yeses of age, cams to the
town to vote for the liberals, but are had 'mottos the
names, and by mistake peentsuaded the word Egerton. He
was not permitted to recall the word.
The Derby Town Council were summoned yester-
day, to set their common seal to the convenor* e/ alt
aorta of the Holmes for a public recreation ground. The
generous decor is Mr. M. T. Bess, M.P. In addition to
I the cost of the land, 3,0001., it is said he is about to set it
out and plant it at a farther expease of 1,0001.
,The Reader says :—" This year's matriculation
examination of the University of Loodos, which h just
over, h►s been so azosedingly fatal to ceodidates, that it is
Idieoult to believe that the unhappy victims can clearly
i have understood the regulations which should have guided
Itheir preparation. Of more than 600 candidates, more than
300 were plucked, a fact which is at least creditable to the
strictnese of the University examiners Bat strictness is
oely one of the condition of fairness ; soother is that the
I questions shall not exceed, either is breadth or depth, what
the oandhlates bad been led to expect by the official regu.
lations."
The marriage of the Princess de Polignac, for-
merly Mdlle. Mitts, with M. Roan, a merehant of Mar.
mills; has just bees oelebrated at the Madeleine. The
witnesses for the bride were her two brothers-in-law, the
Princes Camilla and Edmond de Pelicans, and (leant de
Perot; and for the bricligreare, his brother Reese and M.
Louis Veuillet.
ATHENA, JULY 20.—M. Rehaya, the ministerial
leindidate, has been nomisated President ol the chamber
by 96 evilest 67 voter. The Kiss ban esteemed to this shy
from Ocala.