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

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(Tills DAY.)

zag c/HINTT.
The Post believee that the resignation of the
Duke of Somerset, who is one of the chief supports of the
admieietratioo, does not imply his 1101:4811i00 from the
cabinet. The Post understands that Lord Napier will
give up his poet at Berlin to prooeed to the go-
vernorship of Madras, and that it is by no means
unlikely the embus), at Berlin will be =trusted to
Lord Granville. If the Duke of Somerset will accept Lord
Granville's poet of Lord President of the Council, two
cabinet places—the Tint Lord of the Admiralty and the
Duchy of Lancaster—will remain foe disposal amongst the
ministerial supporters in the House of Commons. "If the
quest= of reform is to be adjourned, as it probably will be."
We tl e Post, "Mews. Rogues° sad Lowe would ml,l
immensely to the weight and debating power of the treasury
besot'. If, on the other band, reform be urged, we do not
see where the ministry coo gain anything but additional
weakness."
The Dotty News his repeatedly warned the =bile
against the misrepresentations which would make it appear
that the reconetru Coe of the cabinet was impeded by
weasel jealousies aid rivalries. The Duke of Somerset's
offer to plane his resignation in the heeds of Earl Russell,
in order to enable bun to have one more department of
the government represented in the Home of Common by
Be chief, is only smother illustration of the readiness
which each member of the cabinet has displayed to post.
pone his personal claims to the requirements of the
country's service. The Times appears to be under the
impeasioe that it was the first to discover the weakness of
the admisiatration for debating plumes in the House of
Commons; bat, in fact, the Daily News says, that week-
lies' and its coned s were first laid bare, not by those who
are merely look.ut about for atones to cast at the goners.
meet, but by others who sincerely desired to see the defect
supplied.
Two vacancies being now at Earl Rowell's disposal, ru-
mour is busy with the names of men supposed to be
marked out foe office. The Star hopes, at all eves* that
his lordship has no intention of tendering • place to a
gentleman who of late years his mainly distinguished
himself by • vehement and virulent opposition to every
measure of political and commercial progress. A fluent
declamatory style, a powerful capacity for the resonant
delivery of carefully prepared antithetical commonplaces.
and an unscrupulous employment of so much of
the art of invective as consists of I broad per-
sonal abuse—all these are doubtless gifts and ae-
quiremente which secure to a man • sort of =ems
in debate, end may pane him off upon' certain in.
tolled§ as a genuine ora'or. But even them characteris-
tics, value f at their vary best, do not eetitletto a place in
• liberal and progressive administration a pollees= who
has this long time bank shown himself to be practically can-
sweeties and reactionary. There are seats ea the Treasury
Beech which would not be filled sa we now a= them, if some
family arrangement had not to be considered, and it is all
the more necessary, therefore, to employ in the moat =van.
t teepee way possible, such oppoetunitiee of general recon-
struction as the circumstances at the hour allow.

MI. GLADSTONE.

The Times returns to Mr. Oladstones farewell address to
the students of Edinburgh, which it assumes to have been
compose 110 the comparative leisure of the earlier part of the
recess. His thesis was mot new, though his arguments had
the merit of novelty. After observing, is opposition to Mr.
Gladstone, that idols were made by the Jews ia the likeness
of men, and that there wee as much reverence for 110M1111
among the Jews as among the Greek', with whom at the
time when Greek civilisation came into contact with Chris-
tianity, a courtesan alone received honour among women
and every conceivable vice was practised as a virtue—the
Tines proceeds to claimed that the effect of Greek culture
upon the future history of the world depended apes what
it was thee, not upox what it had been, and though there
was much left in it that was noble, the things which Mr.
Gladstone selects for omornent had pawed away. That
Greve has exercised an enormous inflames eoliths world
cannot be doubted, bat that Mr. Gladstone has rightly
analysed that influence meat be conceded. Greek phi-
losophy, Roma law, Northern energy, sad oar all.
Christian morality ant doctrine went to make up the new
world; but it was not until that world had been
regenerated by other helluesces that thelparity of Homeric
life recovered the admiration it hadiloet. If Mr. Glad-
stone carried into political life the fantastic method, the
facility of belief, and the disparity of argument which he
exhibited in his academie exercise, we might well be
anxious for the republi 3. It is pleasanter, and the Times
believes it is the sounder view, to regard his address as the
by-play of an intellect which is unsatisfied with economise
discussions and the conflicts of legislation, but which will
return with renewed energy from its erratic diversion to
homelier if sot more useful compation.
The Pod gives °impious, place to a letter signed "C,"
in which the " few paltry words" which Mr. Gladstone
spoke at Glasgow ca the late Lord Palmerston am con-
trasted with what he said of the Prince Consort and Mr.
CoDdee. " Mr. Gladstone," rays the writer, " knows as
wall as any man the pit ieeos end magnanimity of Lord
Palmerston ; and his ape sch proves that while he may be
the most eloquent of omens eel the meat liberal of poli-
ticians, he is in truth the hut generous of mauled."
The Herald again eadeautus to show that whatever zeal
Mr. Gladstone may Dave affected on the subject of reform,
and however be may have excited expectations of future
legislation, he has really by his late speeches committed
himself and his colleagues in the ministry to clothing. He
preferredto feed the imagination with empty hopes, to in-
dulge in Immune whiob seemed to imply a promise, but
yet which would allow him in after years to refer to, and
my to some complaining dope, " Where is there in the
whole compassed my speech a single expression that com-
mits me distinctly to the introduction of a measure of
reform?" It Lino doted m'ghtily cenvenient to be able thu
to play fast and loose with a question. But is it honest?
Ta that question the Herald would rather sat return an
answer.

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"The return to France of the troops forming the
corps of occupation in Borne," says the Petrie, " will pro.
duos in the ministry of war • notable saving, estimated at
aurcazars' mums. ____ ___ _ about •2,400,000 fr., and st the same lime the country will
The butcher, the Times aye, is the man of the situation I recover 13,000 men and 1,200 horses."
at the prompt moment. He commands both sides of the I The three royal princesses, the Princess Louis of I M. Dupin, the French Procnreur•Gindral, bat
market—the agricultural, for the supply is ample—the Inns., and Princesses Helene and Louise, wen dressed suffered a relapse In consequence of attending the last
public, for the panic is rut. So long as fancy prices are yesterday, on the occasion of their visit to Claremont, in I sitting of the Hygienic Commission before being sufficiently
charged on that singularly helpless creature the British ; black velvet jackets trimmed with gimp and bugles, plaid recovered. His state occasions some uneasiness to his
public, and so long as it is content to pay them, the cattle ! silk deems, and black velvet bonnets trimmed with white, friend,
plague will last It is no exaggeration, but • sober fact, that i the crowns of the bonnets having the prevailing band,
The Commander General in the Caucasus hue
every briefoomsoming household of • dozen persona, master I which is this instance was of white bulls,
issued an order enjoining that no spirituous liquors shall be
and servant, old sad yens', will have contributed, with a i His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and
henceforth distributed among the men, except in wet or
twelvemonth of the present Prime ample compensation 1 the Countess Benrsterff, leave town to-day on a visit
cold weather. Soldiers engaging to become teetotalism
for the sanitary slaughter and burial of • fat beast. At ito Lord and Lady Egerton, of Tattoo, at Totten Park,
will
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sod with other meat on the ordinary proportion of beef to s. • Lancashire. receive additional pay. Inebriety, owing to the &bah. '
of the monopoly on spirit., has of late become more
the prices ranging from from ls. 4d. for rump steak to 1 The Duke of St. Albans, the Doke and Duchess rampant than ever in the lower orders in Russia.
10d. foe soup meat, the cattle-plague-gelt extorted from iof Newcastle, the Marquis of Carmarthen, Viscount and 1 A few days since a strong band of brigands bad
the householder amounts to • shilling or two every day, or . Viscountess Sonsertoo, Mr. and Mrs. Scrape, and Mr. and
from twenty to thirty pounds in the year. Meanwhilethe effrontery to enter the town of treas,a, In tho Velecian
Mrs. and Miss Preston have been among she visitors of •
I 11 and to attend mass in the principal church, armed to
graziers, wholesale dealers, and country people in Mr. and Mrs. Webb, at Newstead Abbey, None. Sir Int
Loth and gaily dressed, with flaunting ribbons round I
general, declare with we voice that there is nothing ' George and Lady Lambert and Miss Lambert joined the ' the --- contempt of the few Papal gendarmes ;
to justify this rise. The compensation exacted from the I their hats, in utter
circle yesterday. The Duke of St, Albans sal Lord w -
lin form the garrisonof the town, and who, of course, bad i
consumer don not reach the agriculturist. The wholesale and Lily Somerton took their departure yesterday for •
the prudence not to molest the unexpected visitors.
prices at Smithfield are very much what they were • year Lando.. I A letter from Berlin, dated Saturday, any.
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ago. There are parts of the 'met"' eel'. • few ' The Earl of Dudley arrived at Dudley House,• be a fatal day to many a Polish mother !
hours from London, where there is no rise, sad no corn- e, I „To-morrow will
Br se yesterday, from Paris.
bioation could make a rise. London is the victim. '' h-le ' . • • ' and bride. For the first time since the exhausting drain's
Great cities are always the most susceptible of panics, We (Post) believe that a marriage is arranged attendees on the Crimean war, • conscription will be carried
and it was here that the most fearful casualties on- between Miss Montgomery, the eldest daughter of Sir out in Poland. Seven years the Czar had &worded soon- 1
curred—cot so lunch among fat bout' as la the caw stables. Graham Montgomery, M.P., and the Marquis of Queens- asneoosly for his people to recover from the havoc which
The total cases reported are wider 14,000—not one-sixth of berry. had been wrought among them on the walls of Sebastopol.
the difference which a good barred or • bed harvest makes • The Earl of Clarendon received the whole of the Two years ago the decree went forth that the terse for the
in the total bend of cattle is Indeed, where rent isms be diplomatic corps yesterday at the Foreign Office in White- : recruiting ground to lie fallow was to issue in his satire
paid in cattle if it cannot be paid in coin. If we ate leas hall•gardens, on his taking office. dominions, but the Poles broke out into rebellion on the
beef we should be the heifer for it, aid Wirer would soon i The uraud Duchess Mary, sister of the Emperor first appearance of the recruiting officer in their midth and
come down. Meanwhile the disease will have done good in of Itassig, is now in Home, accompanied by Count Stro. thesis Russians had to supply alone the necessary quints=
many we's, among others in setting people to work in pool. ders."