The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-16 00:00:00

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The comeniemico proposed by Earl Russell being out of
the emetics ss a mans of disposing of the Alabama claims,
the Thai* maters, the Drily News observes, is 'moon-
ditionelly remitted to public opinion. Examining the
arguments, the Daily News comas to the conclusion that
Mr. Adams has failed to show that our recognition of the
Ocededmates se beWgerants was premature. The act may
have sometimes been defended on improper grounds, and it
may have taken place a day or two too early ; bat the
issue of a proclamation announcing as intention to
blockade an enormous omit line wm surely a
warning to neutral maritime powers to place them-
selves in definite position towards the belligerent".
If this view be correct, it matters not how successful Mr,
Adams may he la traeleg the losses his countrymen have
sustained by the war to the reeognitioa of the Oodederates
es
belligerent' by this country ; those losses ue so far
merely part of the ordinary incident& of war. With re-
geed to the facilities gives to the Confederates for building,
arming, end equipping ships in our ports, the Daily News
says that soma of the ships would have escaped, notwith-
sisodiag any possible vigilance ; but it censures
the wilco of the customs officers who permitted
the essays of the Alabama. As to a third complaint,
it is impossible to aneertain how far an alteration of the
law would have pruested the operations of which the
American goverment complains, and therefore impossible
to decide how far the refusal of oar government to take
that step became • source of further loss to the Uotted
I States. Asa malt of this inquiry the Daily News is in-
dined be thiak that the ass. which Mr. Adams hes pre-
sented spigot the British government cannot be up-
ped u a whole, while at the same time its govern.
mut have some grounds of complaint. I cannot
for a moment be admitted that we ars absolutely
MMIIIIIISNO for all the harmses to the Americans
by vessels built in our ports. W are not bound to pro-
test the United State. better than we can protect our-
selves, At the same time the United States government
has pound for serious complaints, and it is mush to be
ragestied oa all amounts that the offer to refer the whole
epenetise to impartial arbitration veu not accepted.
The Star now thinks that on the proposal of an arbitra-
Moe Lord Rumen has been precipitate, and has added to the
difficulties of a position already embarrassing. The state-
ment published by the Tiers ou Saturday to the effect that
Mr. Seward bad recently sent a despatch to From directed
spinet the interrentioc in Mexico, is believed by the Star
be be • canard, and baud upon the publication of dun'
mute more than a year old.
The Post thinks it I. no reproach to Mr. Johnson that the
work of reoonstruction goes on bat slowly, considering the
moderful abeam, social as well as which have
bees effected by the late war. If the present government
bed consulted their own wishes alone, the Post believes that
they would have left slavery is the South as they found it.
The pressure which the Abolitionists were enabled to put
was the Republicans was, however, too Breit to be diem-
peeled ; and nothing remained on the submissioe of the
eon* but to give practical effect to the emancipatioe pro-
clamation of the late President. But beyond the right of
labouring for wages Witold of subsistence, the government
seem disinclined to add much to the negro's political status.
The Post takes the Primo de Joinrille to task for
disparaging results upon the British navy. What has
been spoken or printed here by Englishmen to give the
prince authority for hie statements! end what have our
seamen done or failed to do that his abolished our proud
»bases on their skill and devotion The partioularly
unpleasant part of his letter is that, in the opinion of the
Post, he almost distinctly invites the Americans, and gives
them authority to share his contempt for tin latropean
navies, their crews, their affirms, their system, slips,
and artillery, at a period when having, as he tells them,
" a feeling of confidence which is half the aucoess," they
might so very lightly be tempted—were there not grave
considerations to restrain them—to try the force of corn-
when.

Looking at the oireumataoces connected with the recent
outbreak of cholera in the neighbourhood of Eppiag, the
Daily NM. says we may safely conclude that the disease
was introduced by Mr. Groorabridge, who had lb.= at-
tacked at Weymouth, and had not recovered when he re-
turned to his own home ; sad that if we mooed° the pro-
bability of a oommunicatkes muting between the cesspool
of his house and the drinking well, the remaining attack'
are explained. If there is one fact more completely proved
than my other in the history of cholera, it is the capability
of transmission of the disease throegh the medium of
drinking-water. It should be borne in mind that
the 'Anal material of the disease may be so excessively
minute as to defy detectios by the senses, and this
&elates exoessive °tousling's. Let us at oace arrive at the
ecoviation that the germs of the disease, although rumen,
pervade the cholera patient and everything connected with
him, and we can easily, by dint of care oo greater than is
wed is the powder mistime, prevent the chance of their
transportation. hod as regards the dirokiag. water, the
matter is even more simple. Let all water which is So be
swallowed be thoroughly boiled and filtered, and it will to
I very difficult for a living germ to and its way into ot.r
systems

In addition to alleles notiesd abo►e, the Past treats of I
the correspoudeace by which the diplomatic representation
of the ex-Sing of Naples at the Spanish oourt has been
brought to a sloes ; the Herald mantises a rumour that
the report of the new °emulsion upon the army grievetoe,
without being quite satisfactory to the claims of the Indian
service, has carried consternation into the Home Guards
by the prejudicial incidence of its conclusions upon the
Line, and notices the principal features in the °sae of the
Royals, gathered from the latent Overland Englishman,
coming to the °occlusion that the only way oat of the diffi-
culty to satiety both the Royals and the Indian interest,
and ►t the mime time meet the requirements of effloiency,
is the re-establishment of a separate local army ; sad the
Star ridicules the complacency which it recognises in the

opera of Sir 0. Wood at Ripon.
The Telegraph deduces a moral from Dr. Lethebfa
last report on the health of the City of London ; and
looks into the last blue-book respecting our public school,.
indorsing the conclusions of Dr. Temple, who, while he
willingly admits and adopts the coselasion that the
natural sciesoes, modern languages, and rudiments of
art should be largely introduced, " stands up for
the grand machinery which Rome and Graces hare
bequeathed us to train and fortify the mind."
The jubilant eritic'ems of a portion of the continental
prey over oar Fenian trouble, and the cattle plague are
discussed by the Tekgrapk Oa the latter hied oar cow
temporary °maiden that Professor G.mges's advice that
the many be preserved by the early slaughter of the few,
should not be embossed until we have the substantial
foots cc which the opposite party grounds its hopes of our
deliverance by the use of draughts and careful nursing.
The lanstothuse at E iiubsugh have eltaily failed.