The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1853.

Ladierons as the detain concerning thin boyish
freak appear, they assume importance in connexion
with events that have happened lately. There is a
reckless, wanton employment of the engine of pres-
sure, termed a strike, that leads to the worst copse-
' qualms. A strike may be entered into in a moment
without due preparation or proper consultation, or
any debate upon the elements in dispute. This does
not apply, it is true, to every case, but it is
applicable to so many that we are warranted
in looking upon it as a most serious symp-
tom in our soda? system. A step, that can
only be justifiable after mature deliberation,
is commenced with as much thoughtlessness as if it
meant nothing more than a holiday. What men
and women undertake so carelessly, seems now
likely to be imitated by the young—as in the present
instance. All feeling of the moral importance of the
effects of a separation of capitalists and labourers is
lost, and the road to dearth and ruin is begun as gaily
as though it led to plenty, comfort, and happiness.
This is a most sorrowful feature of the present crisis,
and one which threatens the operatives with sad
results. It is bad enough to see grown-up men and
women in a chronic state of opposition ; but what are
we to expect when a whole population, from adults
down to children, are engaged in playing uncon-
cernedly with edged tools

A journal sometimes used as a channel for minis-
terial purposes, gave yesterday the following curt
paragraph : " The Admiralty Court. Henry
Cadogan Rothery, Esq., has been appointed Registrar
of the High Court of Admiralty, in the place of
Henry Birchfield Swabey, Esq., who has resigned
that office." It would have been well if the jour-
nal or its informants had allowed the public to know
why Mr. Swabey has left the Admiralty Court. Ills
departure from office is au event about which
the public is entitled to the fullest information ;
and, the more so, as all reforms of the
Courts, to one of which Mr. Swabey was attached,
have hitherto been studiously refused. The present
government may win golden opinions by a reforms
Lion of all the courts that sit in Motors' Commons;
but meanwhile we ask for a public explanation of
the circumstances attending Mr. Swabey's retirement.
Why has Mr. Rothery been appointed Registrar of
the High Court of Admiralty in the place of Henry
Birchfield Swabey, resigned s'

We have every reason to believe that Sir Charles
Hotham, K.C.8., has been offered the Governorship
of Victoria, in Australia. Sir Charles Hotham is eldest
son of the Hon. and Rev. Frederick Hotham, pre-
bendary of Rochester (who is uncle of the third Lord
Hotham), by the eldest daughter of Thomas Halle t
Hodges, Esq., of Hampstead-place, Kent. He was
born in 1806; entered the navy in 1825; became a
captain in 1833; was midshipman of the Naiad, and
assisted at the reduction of an Algerine brig of war
under the batteries of Bona in 1824; was nominated
a K.C.B. for his distinguished services in the opera-
tions in La Plata, 1845 ; was commodore on the west
coast of Africa from 1846 to 1849 ; and more recently
the diplomatic representative of Great Britain to the
Argentine Confederation.