The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-14 00:00:00

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TORN BROGDZN'S GOLD CHAINS by taw
er
weight. at niallaabla vales, and the wortreasahip at
',Monads manancturert Flom TWA:dn. the chaise gaa.
✓antmed, and re-parchseed at the Woe
" a the note.
How much loot chain weighs to the utmost carat
The Oneness of the gold, and charge tor Mahlon.
swamis.
Manatactory, N 0.16, lieuttetinatzeet., Coventcardon, W.C.,
London.
Amiga made of chains and lemony tale. each.
NB. MIN eatablislowca fa clonal ai 6 to the 'waning, sad oa
intontam at 1 o cloak.

Wan& WATHERSTON and SON,
Goldsmiths sad Jeweils"
Him Saadi for Impaction • Great arlets, of JEWELLERY,
of the Latest Deaigni, =name for
C.IERISTALLIS MUM and 2flW-Y1111.11:3 cuns.
xi. raualan a•si.t

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nVIRCOATS. —HAMILTON and KIMPTON
O
toll especial &Wotan to the NSW MIMS tiOODS ler
°mows, and Write eit esti, Impaction of the mato LB.
lipseinetio protente always on
No. 105. straw. Gnaw,. N.,_112/..0

,`TATTLE SHOW.--Loodou must have •
dUPPER aad MUSIC 10031 foe Gelltiallell.-.l•lnagabar.
ire watt toe you at EVANS," attar the Coveat.gardeo Opera.
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gc2:k as TY dAy ot pabicidles.
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HATILARINT.
Tais Masa, TIM °VINLAND ROUTE Mesas. Buck.
stan C. Matbaws. and omptaa ilisdsmos Mathews, Snow-
don • sad Wriabt.—wao KILLS° 00CIC ROBIN Alr. and
11112 s: C. And NIT HINSBaND GROAT.

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& liazray,, Wham, P. Vinto n, .T. G. Shoes G. Mu,
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UZON.
Tan minim TIM DST ASTIR TH3 WIDDING. Mr.
and Kra C. Rorstssn.—RUY BUIL Wats. Fodder. Dam,
rtigatriak. K. Raymond. sel Cifford; Mesdames Lamm
and &M
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LONDON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 14.

THE Roman Question is rains through a cu-
rious and interesting phase. To believing English
Catholics it may seem somewhat of an anti-climax
after the magnificent perorations of Archbishop
Pdarrtuzzo, but the simple fact is that the HOLY
FATHER,is his capacity of Temporal Prince,
is so lamentably " depreciated " that his very
subjects decline to take his notes, and as for his
coin--with his very image and superscription—
they melt it. Infallibility is becoming inconverti-
bility, and the balance of exchange is so he-
retical in its inclinations that the currency
of an excommunicated kingdom commands
the money market of St. Puts himself. This is
a very painful, we will not say a ludicrous, subject
of contemplation for the " Catholic world," who
must find it hard to imagine a Holy City not
exempt from such gross material embarrassments.
The Vicar of Cams; it seems, in very busy driv-
ing out the money-changers from the precincts,
not of the Temple, but of the Bank ; not because
they are money-changers, but because the course
of exchange is against him, and his credit at the
lowest ebb. To this complexion has the Power of
the Keys oome at last—to the binding and loosing
not of sins, but of rates of exchange ! Nothing, it
is said, but • miracle can put an end to this mone-
tary crisis, or restore the credit of • government
whose very coinage is scarcely worth the melting,
and good for nothing else. The HOLY FATHER, it
is true, has more than once in his Allocutions
hinted at • miraculous recovery of his lost pro-
vinces. Unhappily ours is not an age of faith in
miracles ; that is, in financial miracles. If, indeed,
some celestial visitant could be got to confer mira-
culous properties one Roman fountain, so that the
water might be bottled off and sold at • good round
price, perhaps a transaction of that kind might
help to readjust the balance of exports
and imports. The only earthly way of making
the Roman Government pay would be to provide
a perpetual variety of attractions--a jubilee for
one year, a grand canonization of martyrs for
another, the proclamation of a new dogma for
another, and so on. If the faith of the Catholic
world is to weak that even the Peter's Pence con-
tributions are falling from 400,000/. to 250,000/.
a year, it is evident that some new stimulus is
needed. For this monetary crisis at Rome is no
passing accident. It is not a momentary exhaus-
tion after • plethora of prosperity and a fever of
enterprise. Nor is it one of those violent fino-
tuitions from which the soundest currencies are
not exempt. It is but a stage of a financial
malady, from which there is no convalesunoe,
since all the sources of life are dried up. Hence-
forward pious Catholics, who desire to see the
Head of the Church delivered from the cares of a
kingdom of this world, may be content to find the
Temporal Power dying the natural death of all tem-
poral powers which in an age of labour and industry
endeavour to subsist by beggary. Better that the
temporal power of the HOLY FATHER should perish
for want of cash or credit, than that it sbould
be torn in pieces by its own brigands, or be snuffed
out by a revolution of contempt whenever there
is no longer a foreign garrison to impose its
paralyzed or paralyzing domination upon a
people worthy of • happier fate.
The age we live in is tolerant enough of mis-
rule, and indifferent enough to spare many im-
postures it has cessed respect. People who are
most impatient of the continuance of the Temporal
Power will learn to regard with tolerable equanimity
the lingering dissolution of a Government which, in
order to keep down the rate of exchange and to
adjust the balance of trade in its favour, issues a
decree forbidding money-changers to pursue their
business, and pays the panic-stricken public who
besiege the Bank in infinitesimal morsel' of silver
and intolerable heaps of copper.

OUR CO]

(THIS DAY.)

PLIIISAIMSTAZY =roan.
The Tilite4 observe& that the agitation to-day in
favour of parliamentary reform, differs from that which
soled in the paring of the Reform Bill by exhibiting men
al so longer giving determined wooden either in
favour of or *visit • particular moors. but showing
adhesion to various gradations of reform. The columns of
yesterday's papers, for =ample, presented as with half a
doom varieties ; Mr. Stanfield being one type :the several
comervatires who will swept reform as a necessity and
reject it if possible. another ; and workmen like those
at the St. Martin's Hall meeting supplying padations
in the other direction. The workmen alone told us what
are the tangible objects proposed by reform, and the Timei
hopes that in other meetings they will lay yet more as to
what they want and expect. They need not be afraid of
spearing out. Len them say whet they want to have
attend in our soda and political arrangements, and what
the existing parliament is too caution", or too selfish. or
too stupid, or too aristocratic, or too self.interestr I to

alter.
The Herald, reviewing the some meetings, gives the m-
istime to that at St. Martin% Hall, which Is freak and
thorough, the men tellies us they want reform because
they aim at taking the rate of wages, removing the tam.
wary 'dieting which follows the ietradoadon of ata-
thiaary. and providing work for everyone who weals it.
If the enthronement of Bing Nob be an objets for
platform speechifying, by all means let as User
it advocated by teen like the shoemakers and pladeren
at St. Berthas Ball, who do not take the pains to seneed
their meanies in a cloud of words, rather then by a member
of parliament like Br. Mandela, who demise ermliog •• •
folly, extols precipitancy a e virtue, and is ready to
decry any esteadon of the suffrage but that which w"1
give the realign and most overwhelming influence to the
least educated of the population.
Mr. fright's speech at Birmingham lad eight is criticised
by the Advertiser, which wonders that though the hoe.
gentleman has been 22 years is parliament he never an-
nounced until now his dip:every that Heti Russell was a
beam...born minister, and which characterises the speech
see failure if compared with the one which he delivered at

Blackburn.
The Telegraph blames soma of the
to
at the Re-
form Lague meeting for their indispomition to wept any
I iastahoent of the lIIIIIMIS they desire. When the nation is
ecnvineed that manhood same is toed,sthissldlY the full
nosisars of reform will ha granted ; bat it is peeposucons
to Okra that the majority of the people have as yet
arrived at that aoaclasion. The less that is said shoat ib•
strut right in these amnions the butte%

ml CATILZ ?WAIL
The Times conclude' that we an be drawn by the
spread of the cattle plague to one desperate remedy, whi-h
in its ultimate and practical form is the general and per-
manset substitution of meat markets for cattle markets.
Put butchers on the read instead of the oxen and the whole
difficulty will be at an end. In all animafood except
butchers meat, the markets we almost all dead markets
already; and they are so to a great extent in butchers'
meat itself. All we have to do is to complete this
system, and make an end, in some way or other,
of sending the ox to the twitcher. How the butcher
should go to the ox is matter of arrangement, but the
Times cannot beam that the orpoleation of such a system
would Mier any insurmountable difficulties, and. if it IMO
once organised, the movement of cattle would cease of
itself without orders or iojanctions, and the cattle plague,
though for •a time it might infest the country, could in
future do us little harm.
The Teloiraph attributes the freedom of the cattle at
the Smithfield Show from the plague, wish the minima of
which some of them must have come into contact, to the
WO with which they mast have been housed and fed.
They are pestilenwproof beano", by breeding aad feeding,
they are to good Bad mound that the seeds of the plague
cannot fasten on them ; and we should be riuprised done
of them took the murrain, although a herd of stricken
cattle were driven into the Hall. If such Is the case, how
the fact illustrates the ravages of cholera and fever among
the poor ! With regard to the murrain which is raging
outside the healthy precincts of the show, the Telegraph
is far from thinking the resolution of the Smithfield Club
to urge upon the government the instant necessity of adopt-
ion uniform central measure* premature.

JAMAICA.
TllA:Dagy News devotes • pep of ita epos to •
tire coconut of the occurrences in Jamaica, drawn ex.
elurively from authorities which have the sanction of
Governor Eyre. It is divided by the following headiogs
"The outbreak," "The suppression of the outbreak,"
"The operations of the troops," "The court-martials,"
The trial and execution of Gordon," and " Governor
Eyre's responsibility." The newspapers from which the
amounts are compiled ere put in evidence by Governor
Eyre, who gays in his despatch to Mr. Cardwell that
"he sends copies of the local newspapers ;" sod he
sends no other documents, except copies of lettere
written after the mammasa
had begun. Further-
more, the Jamaica Colonial Standard, from which
met of the extracts are takes, explicitly nye :
" His lizoalleney Major-General O'Connor, C. 8., has
been pleased to convey to us his approbation of the celerity
and accuracy with which the public has been supplied
through our columns with official and other news ; and we
have gratefully to acknowledge similar expressions from
gentlemen holding the highest official positions in the
island." Thus the narrative is, is truth, that of Governor
Eyre himself, and of hie officers, his supporters, and the
witnesses whom be himself cites and approves. The points
t r which this narrative compels our attention, observes the
Daily News, are these :—First, to obtain infonnetion of
what pounds exist for the assertion that a general rebellion
was in ripe agitation, of which the riot at Morant
Bay formed only a premature stage. Second, to in.
quire what excuse can be made for the harken-
ties of the troops in rizooting fugitives, and in hanging
and ratting prisoners, men and women, after it was
apparent that there was no 'armed resistance. Third, to
learn what excess can be made for the continued suspension
of the oonstitutioo, of trial by jury, and the sittings of the
regular courts, and for superseding the latter by courts-
martial, turning over a daily average batch of a dozen pri-
soners to the hangman, alter even the military authorities
reported everything quiet. Fourth, to hear if any halal
(for palliation is inadmissible) can be offered to the state-
ments merle by the special correspondents of the local news-
papers respecting the horrible cruelty of flogging men and
women on suspicion only, and of flogging others before
trial. Fifth, to istertein whether any preteece of neces-
sity can be alleged for the legal murder of G. W. Gordon,
by transferring him to the jurisslietiou of military law,
instead of prosecut log him before the legal tribunals which
have cognisance of the crimes he was charged with. These
are the accusations Governor Eyre states against himself,
by his own words or those of his own organs, and we have
now only to ask him what he can allege and prove in just'.
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