The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-20 00:00:00

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long catalogue of the things that he might
base done, but has failed to do, and of
ether awl better ways of doing the things
he has done, might of course be made
out ; but there are few persons who have
studied the lives of men who have successfully
carried nations through great revolutions, who will
not agree that this would be one of the least profit-
able of exercises. Nobody can ever predict with
certainty what the precise consequence of any poli-
tical or military step will be, or whether it will
have only one or many consequences, and as long
as this is the case, it will be foolish as well as un-
just to condemn any public man who has actually
done well, . for not having accomplished things
which bystanders conceive as possibilities. Two-
thirds of the criticism of Mr. Lincoln is about as
sage as the recent announcements of the Times, that
Grant would have been totally defeated in the
Wilderness if a flank movement undertaken by
Longstreet had not been prevented by that gene-
ral receiving a wound at the hands of his own
men ; and like the young officer who narrowly
siisped death at Gottingen by being sent 16 miles
away the night before the battle. Mr. Lincoln
promised, in his first inaugural in 1861, that the
power confided to him would be used to hold,
occupy, or possess the property and places belonging
to the government, and collect the duties and im-
posts ; but beyond what may be necessary for
these objects there will be no invasion, no using of
force against or among the people anywhere." He
added afterwards—" The course here indicated will
be followed, unless current events and experience
shall show a modification or change to be proper."
This, it must be admitted, is • modest peogramme,
and was traced out under a very mistaken impres-
sion of the magnitude of the task before him ;
but he has not only done all he promised
to do, but very much more than any one
would have imagined, when the full proportions of
the rebellion had been fully revealed could have
believed it was possible for him to do in the time.
What this is any one may ascertain by contrasting
the condition of the Confederacy in the spring of
1863 with what it is to-day. He has, perhaps, •
stronger claim, however, on the popular confidence
and gratitude than that which arises out of the
positive results which he has achieved. It is based
on the fact that he is perhaps the only man at the
North 'who has never wavered, or doubted, or
abated one jot of heart or hope. He has been
always calm, confident, determined ; the very type
and embodiment of the national will, the true
and fit representative of the people in its noblest
moods ; and to be this is certainly one of the highest
duties, if not the highest duty, of the leader of •
democracy. _ _ .

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NEWHAVEN, OONNECTICUT, Itasca 7.
The Presideat has been inaugurated, and has
delivered Oak is, I @appose, the shortest "in-
augural address" on record, probably for the best of
all remelts, that he had very little to say. He has no
new policy to trace out, nothing to explain that has
not been already explained half-a-dozen times. In
fact his real inaugural address was his last message
to Coop's, which was written immediately after
his election, and was virtually his response to the
country. What he said last Saturday was little
more than • formal acknowledgment of the honour
which has just been conferred on him, but though
formal was hearty, and what is perhaps better still,
and certainly rarer, it was in excellent taste. His
English is about as good as Lord Malmesbury's,
but he hardly ever says a feeble thing, and
except when be undertakes to discuss questions of
political economy, which are far out of his depth,
he is invariably shrewd, it not wise. There is
nothing in his state papers, admirable as they bsve
been in many respects, so creditable, however,
both to his head and heart, as the entire absence
of all violence, either of language or opinion. I
believe he has never once been betrayed into those
paltry outbursts of passion and spite by which
nearly everything that his Confederate rival says or
writes is disfigured. Lincoln never attempts invec-
tive, and although there is probably no living man
who has been the object of more blackguard abuse,
it has never, so far as I know, elicited from him a
single expression of impatience or resentment,' I use
the term " blackguard" advisedly, for I believe he is
the first public man, either native or foreign, with
regard to whom the English press has thrown aside
those restraints of which it is ordinarily and justly
so proud. The rules which writers laying claim to
decency in all countries agree to observe have been
suspended, by many of the most respectable jour-
nals, both in England and America, for his
annoyance. Even his dress and personal appeart
auce have been made the subjects of indignaht in-
vective, and this, not by " the ruffians of the press,"
but by scholars and gentlemen. His humble origin
has been treated as a crime by men who were
actually Eating the grandson of a small New York
tallow-chandler as a "Southern cavalier." His
want of book-learning has been bowled over by
men who are opposed to competitive examinations,
on the ground that physical and moral
qualities are on the whole more impor-
tant for the public service than mere know-
ledge, and who think a man may make a very good
Indian civil servant, though he may never have
heard of either Shakespeare or Milton. Mr. Lin-
coln's acceptance of the presidency has actually been
treated as • proof of depravity, and Mr. Beresford
Hope, in one of those extraordinary outbursts of
rage which he called " lectures" on the American
war, likened him to the most sensual and unscrepu.
lons of Eastern tyrants, apparently for the singular
reason that he had not been sufficiently penetrated
with the sense of his own worthlessness to decline
an honour conferred on him unasked by the ma-
jority of a nation of twenty millioas. The opposi-
tion press in this country has, of course, not spared
him either, though I do not remember to have
seen many things in its columns which could be
said to surpass in sheer brutality much that
has been written about him in London. And yet
I have never heard of his uttering or writing
one word to show that these shameless attacks ever
roused in him a single angry impulse. How many
men of high breeding and culture are there who
could peas through a similar ordeal with as much
credit ? His great rival, Mr. Davis, though an
object of the highest admiration to half Europe as
well as half America, never makes a speech, or
writes a message to congress, that is not half made
up of railing and accusation, which sometimes sink
into mere Billingsgate.
When one comes to examine what this " baboon,"
"buffoon," "clodhopper," "peasant," " rail-
THE AMERICAN NEws. —SAO ACCIDENT.—The
splitter," has done, to compare his promise
boat belonging to the tender which intercept. the American
of four years ago with his performance steamers as they pus Crookbaven for Queoutown was
since then, the secret of his patience is at °wired on the 15th inst. off the Fastest, and the captain
once revesled—" They may laugh who win." was drowned. He has left a widow and seven young
Tax BIKKENBIAD RAMS.—At last the rams are iHe found himself uncouth, illiterate, with no orphans totllll7 IloProTided for, The estrus of UN poor
shoat to move—Ai least ape of them. Go Saturday last Cap-
tain Bunter, of the Doins!, 81, mategrard at Liverpool, experience of life, except such as could be gained felllns'e duel" requiring him to Intercept vessels M ell
sailed from Liverpool in the sun Scorpios', late El Tod• times and for the benefit of the public in ral,
in one community, and that by no means in the
rent, or route for Plymouth, where it will be placed under of course, exposed him to great risks ;and a subscription
the command of Rear-Admiral Dame, C. 8., commander•
most advanced stage of culture, without any of has been set on foot for the widow and children. Many
in-chief of the Channel fleet. In the rea to Holyhead, op the the gifts which usually captivate the people or gas d ...in have already liberally responded, and &abater
way to Dimond:set, she made eleven knots an hour against tide.
attract their confidence, either commanding pre- this public announcement will induce other' who are in-
Her behavour is stated by those on board to have given
the captain great latiafactioe. The Scorpion ie 225 feet senor), or silver tongue, or long official experience, tweeted in the early reception of American pews to. do the
loss, 421 feet bread, and 20 feet deep ; her tonnage islea ca
East, Liverpool
1,00 ; horse power (nominal), 350 ; and she is clad with saddled suddenly with the responsibility of con- "me. Mr. Stuart, of 10! Ex. . . ,
the sot
tofortoktheo t, of
of rooony ofoototAmneprraimon teleg. dm', will
know-
44.ineh plates and 10 inches teak. She has two Cole's fronting, and of directing, what everybody ac
turret; each pierced for two agspounder Armetroup. In ledges to be the greatest political convulsion of ,
W 0011=11 of a few weeks the ether ram, the Wy vela, will urREIT TELEGRAPHIC FEAT.—The Washington
leave the Mersey for the same deitiaation. modern times. Be was placed at the bead of a Otroairk of March 641+. publishes the following :—" New
RuralgrisralioN or Hrsaros.—Rumour is again democracy, in the hour of its greatest peril, and York,, Marsh s.—Toelay
.messages
.were sent direct from
New York to Sin Fraocaco, a distance of nearly four
busy concerning the forthcoming changes in the represents. you must not forget what English philosophers at thousand miles ;'the largest length of wire ever worked
don of Helstvo coessiguent upoe the announced retirement
that time considered it—fickle, demoralised, cow- over in one circuit. The wide worked well, though it
of Mr. Jerre Reimn at the clued the prompt parliament. It rained at several points oe the line. This is considered a
hi stated that Major Grylls wavers in his determioatioa to I sadly, unwarlike, unused to arms and to horseman- remarkable fist in telrhing..
contest the borough the conservative ioterest. It is oar-. ship —The will of Miss Rachel
tale that he is • tto start on a prolonged motroutal i ' impatient of taxation, incapable of discipline, wium AND Bigussis.
tour without having once publicly addreeled the electors, singularly averse to prolonged effort, without Lamm., of Beulah °mama, stoke lza wipe.... sad of
the trip being designed either to recruit his energies for the 1 leaders, and inordinately conceited and indocile. Oaf ord'temier was
date P1eet1U6117012.,..0r t personalty. leletr. The
political of
the aullr", or, as
his °P"mit. int"' to ' had to be organised, and from the will been
back decorously out of the too arduous task he bad medi- .Everything to bare any August
as 'the bequests areapmPlarciao
tated. If the latter should to the case, probably smoother 1
1 rawest material—army, navy, and civil service. to friends sad sequaintames'aed to her tradesmen, sad to
ceedidate will be found, as the conservative interest at , tu To her ex • Ed '
1 The task before this railsplitter was in r^ mg onven_siiset, she Lases haves 10e1. . Joh. .iannfinsa,
Holston, comprising as it does outlying parishes, ia toostrong ,
to render it probable that the Carlton will allow the seat to " short Brampton, 5001. • ;he Ray T Baxter
such as no European statesman has dcoutta's Osekaad of h , . . . I
remain uncontested. Meanwhile Mr. Young, the liberal !eves faced, and every foreign observer, and • Aube& of Sbaddemell, 2001. ;to t e wife of her executor
candidate, formerly M.P. for Yarmouth, is gradually I ~ were confident he would Z"le and wal
Carpenter, 100 i. She has devised • freehold estate
strengthening his positiou by purchasing add/timid pre Veal many native ones, to the. Freers Ws. CastsO•
W 31' "Ad et' the
ewitabiltr
party in the neighbourhood, and intends, we hear, to come fail. Three things were predicted with the utmost 01 thetloartteor,
oci
to
their
ohda .
tore
lysozo.
oe o
orer
does in the course of next month and again address the
certainty—that be would never be able to raise a
electors.— Western Morning News. emostses ' for his upright oonduot • and liberal
. ashen • to
REPIMENTATION or DISHY.—It is stated that second army ; that be would never be able to raise bequests to. her
hacyceinit er, lasadzehe,coand
101. ,The
Mr. Colyile, who was for 18 year' one of the representa. any considerable portion of the revenue by taxa- fr.°. T'.
tires of South Derbyshire. will offer himself at the next ,ii soma are the iiiaritaafie baguets :—To the Germ..
tion • and that if he attempted to do either of these Hospital,a
the Royal Free Hospital, Loudon Fever Hospital,
emend elective for the Mouth of Derby. upon Wet. I '
peedeut liberal principle'. It is also rumoured that Mr. I things by force, the Western secede Middlesex Hospital, St. Thomas's Hospital, North Linder'
States would , Hospit4 thi.ssis ems Bathing Infirmary Hospital foe
W. M. James, who was defeated at the last general election "
I and either set up a separate Confederation or join locnrables,WriiDlOt. ; Oharingorees Hogiital sad Stoke
by Mr. Beale, will again be brought forward.
RF.PHILSINTATIONOT WILTS.—We( Wilts Standard) that of the South. Nowiegton Dispensary, 501. each :rho Bible Society, 1001.;
Tract Society, 50i. ; Asylum for Fatherless Childria. 100 i.;
understand that it is istooded to present a requisition to I Well, be has raised army after army, fully a Looses myak.ry Society, 501. ; N., Infant school,
Lord Eliot, the eldest son of the Earl of St. German's, to I million and a half of men in all ; he has equipped !Hovland, 19 pima. The residue of her property du
become a candidate for this borough at the next siestas°. ' ham to Mrs. Aydin', Mrs. Maria Fruer, Mrs. Good.
Laid Eliot, who is at present in Lisbon, is and has been for ; one of the largest, perhaps in the number of guns
has, and Yu Nowell, in equal proportion:l.—illustrated
nosy years in the diplomatic service, seed from byknown I and of men, the largest navy in the world ; he is Leaden /yew&
thorough business habits and connection with the borough . .
sad its hundreds, is well qualified to become de representa-
• at this moment raining nearly 100,000,0001. by Couaos or Pazczeroas.---At a meeting of the
tree. He is, we are informed, a liberal conservative. inland revenue alone, and after four years of cur- cosseil.odf ibis corporatioe on the 18th hots:, the following
WORKLNO BEEN'S CLUBS AND INSTITUTES MOVE- I derous warfare, conducted with varying success, he irzn. Age°
.B.1:47.:„ Tbeented nrra. Briar::;e11/2L;
morr.—A public meeting was held at Liverpool oe Fri- ,
day evening, in connexion with a movemeet lately set ca I bas nevertheless managed to inspire such con- .C. E. Berne, Lyed• lmpirial. Bodes ; Mr. George Deride,
foot for the establiehmut of working men's club" and I. : Science in the nation of which he has mph... Kr. yam
I Grovlahouse, Oolluat:; Mr. H. J. Dude. Manerotrest,
Billets" in that town. Mr. N. Caine oocupied the chair.:ge, British School, (borders • Mr.
The meeting was addressed by the Rev. H. Sally, the Rev. ;
exacted such sacrifices that he has been re-elected ' John Guides, Bath-home, Hartlepod ; Miss H. J. Warns,
H. Stowell Brown, Mr. Conacillor Bowing, Mr. J. ,by an almost unanimous vote, the Western States I LPoen-h°T4e, Stoke less
orth Load.. =L•sed C Ige. Jobs Beeper,
R. Jeffery, Mr. W. Cradidd, jun.. Mr. John Campbell, casting the heaviest majorities in his favour, to the Mesa Dr. H. Elm,
Mr. P. H. !Catbird's, sad Mr. T. S. Bales, the stipendiary highest . Othfield-homes, BirkershearT7K— Henry Ramsey, Grammar
magistrate. Rewhitioas favourable to the movement were
office in their gift. There ie something ; School, Folkestone; Yr. Joan Robiesoe, GrammarEchod,
Brutes, Semenet ; Mr. T. D. Turner, 13edwarth, Nun-
uusuunuudg adopted. A large and successful meeting almost painfully absurd in the spectacle of writers awia
in support of the lams movement was held at Bury as the
...„, orators in London, who aro
memo= evening, when the chair was occupied by Mr. J. •••••••
incapable probably them- Fire rir rim Emir hums Dopes. —Yesterday
Beep, and SD Wrier was delivered by . Betty. AS the selves of managing a parish vmtry, lobo- lesruins abut aloe (41013 k. •gm brake cut is ems ef Bo
doss of which the Rector at Bury impreased hi cordial eon- •ocud. proving, in the teeth of all this, hir. Lin_ dorm es the meth quay of the Fist Ida Darks, at Black-
Purdue in the oh** sad moved a vote of thanks to the n "........1" well, and extended to another building throws acmes from
speaker. A good provisional committee wits then appointed coin's incompetency. The final test of his states- the dock wall. la them ware dared ea immense verity
by
wand.' men trim mu
the.'"l"a. bet isol"a2 manship will of course be the condition and I lal? i• bales,
articles. iiirso". deoTrkel 'IN "PA
extiagsfrhd seated twome ethsr
ed.ek
. Heap, the eltairmu.
At the Tyrone Noises, on Friday, John MrLatigh- prospects of the South ten years hence ; but every to tho setenupea, sag the &Twee =led reach to menu
lea was fooled guilty et the mud., of Mr. M'Cromo, other test short of this has been applied to him, thoemoodl_ °lii=ek... The cause... el the fin least baser.,
UN attorney, by thrusting • book into his throat. He was ROYAL XI OSIPTTAL, WRAY'S- umsoAD.--
eseteacred to be executed, but there wee •
the and it is difficult to conceive of any man's bearing I weber et pewees, mises 4 at this hospital "rim the week
to miry, whelk the Judge will forward ter the crows. it more successfully under all the circumstances. A 'adios Amok 18 wee 4834 of which 1,244, were mew cues.

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Orkistal Botanical Preventing for Imposing sad Braun-
Wog the Complexion aad Elan. The ?Waal it it hapset.
to thachen, sad the senses§ sad delicacy whin It induces of
the lands and army, its segability of soothing irritstionand
removing all »dam, tea, =.4.erZsrtreoloiss, dieoden
lions, sod other demesne it indligeniable to
every toilet It Monne di the effects of encode on the skik
whether with reference to odd sad ladmency, dr Wenn who
Wt Mee is. it sad fo di per bottle.eld Y le, Bestow
; sad by chinifeis sad gerdniers. Ask for Sowiseds'
relVor," and beware of sparloas sad pernicious uncles under
tke aims e 4 " [drier."

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(120.1.11ei TIL3OILk118.)

THE MILITARY QUESTION IN PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, JlLscii 18.

The Minister of War was present in to-day's
sitting of the committee of the Chamber of
Deputies upon the military budget, and made the
following declaration :—" The government agrees
to fix the strength of the army by law as recom-
mended by the committee upon the following
conditions :

" 1. That the government shall be authorised to
increase the strength of the military force in times
of danger.
"2. That the military question now forming the
subject of dispute between the government and the
Chamber shall hereby be settled, and that the
hones shall agree to the other government pro-
posals relative to the military reorganisation.
" 3. The strength of the effective troops should
_

correspond to the necessity which exists for Prussia
to be in readiness in the event of war, The number
of 180,000 men for the regular Army would be in-
sufficient to meet this necessity.

" The limitation of the period of military service
to two years, as proposed by the committee, has
never been the law in Prussia. The general posi-
tion of the kingdom renders it necessary that the
army should be maintained at its present strength.
The state of Europe in fact demands an armed
pesos. The Landwehr is no longer sufficient, and
the system'of military substitutes, likewise proposed
by the committee, is incompatible with the insti-
tutions of the State."

The constitutional amendment, as I feared, has
not as yet secured the requisite ratification from
two-thirds of the States. • Only 18 have as yet
voted for it, while 25 are necessary, and three of
those whose vote was counted on by the friends of
the measure, New Jersey, Delaware, and Ken-
tucky, have thrown it out. In New Jersey, however,
it failed, owing to a "tie vote" in the legislature,
and it is not improbable that republicans may se-
gue a majority next year. But in any event
I think it will be two or three years before the re-
quisite number of States join in the ratification.
There is no news from the seat of war beyond a
rumour, probably true, that Sheridan, who has
again been moving up the Shenandoah, has cap-
tured Early with his whole force, now reduoed to
1,800 men, and is pushing on for Lynchburg. But
in spite of the sanguine anticipations now current
here, I doubt very much whether the movement is
anything more than a demonstration. The reasons
which prevented his reaching Lynchburg last
autumn still exist, and are just as cogent as ever.
The demonstration in honour of the late Federal
successes in the field, which took place yesterday in
New York, was, I think, the largest and most im-
posing which has ever taken place in the ity.

PARIS, MARCH 19.

MADRID, !Wes 18.