The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-22 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCL

KR. DISRAELI AND HIS CONEVITIVENTS.
Mr. Dirr•en has issued the following address te
the sleeken of the °aunty of Buckingham 2--"Giettentenv-...
A dim:dation of parliament being imminent, I bog
leave to unso•noe my intention et splinting, at Foss
hands, • renewal of that high trust whisk an
six previous occasions you have oedema on se, by
sending me ea one of your roproontativor to the Rowe ot
COCO 111011& Although the Mato of public affairs is, on the
surface, little disturbed, the impending appeal to tiro
country iaVOLVIM ansequarsoes as momentous as any ram-
ream to its muss by the crown has perhaps hitherto
offered. Six years ago, Lord Derby, then minister,
proposed • masers ou church rates, which. white it
maintaised the principle of • natiocal ohursb, relieved the
consciontions scruples of disseeten from He dairies§ or
polity. It was defeated by • large majority, on the pound
that nothing short of abolition could be satisfactory. A
month afterw•ds, anxious to fro" alike Um crown and the

parlament from the embernimmento in which they were
placed in reference to the questa& of the parliamentary suf-
frage, be introduced a armor" which would have greatly
extended it on principles in harmony with the camtittiticee
whisk wady recognise the oisMoral froasidos aa a }ranee%
sad sot as a right This measure wee also &destiny a Lego
majmity, ea the potted that so mamma of the suffrage
could be sofficima which did not Involve a loworiog of the
homelike in boroughs. Is this state of affairs Lord Derby
"dried an appeal to the country, and not having obtsleed
a majority, relived office ; an administration being formed
pledged to the total abolition of church MIN sad fo
• rosalors of parliamentary reform whisk shield mess
the lowering of the bosonsh (ramekin Sims that period the
parliamentary condition may be pnorally bat fairly de-
scribed m • motioned attack co the British coostitution
in church and state; if not always sumpoied by. her
Majesty's ministers, always mactioned by them, and in-
variably originated by the party on whose support Emir
existmion as a =Many &made The Mimeo on the
chinch, commeseing with triumphant majorities, hem boon
encountered fast with difficulty and defeat, bat alwape,willa
determination and constancy, and, finally, have both
signally discomfited. The maims schemes to derive the
clutch of its constitotiosal privileges have bees with-
drawn, sad the Hoes* of Commons has resolved that dieralt
sates shall not be abolished. The attacks epee the Met%
arm conducted with so mush 41111111/Y, ham Mover-
theirs been mere prolonged, and it woo ' • few *IIU
ago whoa the Roam of 000110010, harshest of prolnetact
inystification, refloated the candour of the omunnotty, and
declared by • mat majority that the [ramble in boroughs
should sot be lowered, and that the principle cm which
Lord Derby wished to extend it WI the just one. The
aorta of the omasmative opprottiso during the loss Ix
yams have, therefore, boss neither imignilleaat nor heft-
fruitless. They have defeated the measures to any whisk
the present ministry was formed, sad in the comae of the
draggle they hameducietadthe public mind to bring to the
Anal 'Dhaka a decision more materod and enlightened. The
mointaname of • natimal church involves the question
whether the mimeo's at ragas shall be era element of our
political ematiaition ; whether the steno shall be omen
crated, or whether, diagnosing the sanatioas that appeal to
the higher feelings of man, our ahem" of government
should degenerate into a mere system of Folios. I see
nothing in such a 'result but the corruption of latices
and the fall of empires. On the extension of the electoral
traosWoo depends, in fact, the distribution of power: It
appeani to me that the primacy plan of ear ancient emetatir
tics, ao rich in various wisdom, indicates she memo that we
might to plume in this matter. It maned our wear
rights by entrusting power, not to an indiaoriminato multi-
tude, but to the "stem or order of the 00111111011/ sad •
who government should be careful that the elements of that
estate should bear adm relation to the motel mid material
developanantr of the creates!. 'bislalbe may
not, perhaps, be yet rips enough to legitholo
ou the subject, bet it it suffloiontly hammed
in the question to poodle over it with advantage.
So that, when the time Gomm for eaten, we may legislate
in the spirit of the English conatitutios, which would
absorb the beet of every elms, and not fall lobo a democracy.
which is the tyranny of one class, sod that one the least
*Alabama. The leaden of the conservative party, although
they will never shrink from the responsibility of their acts,
an sot obtrusive candidates for office. Plain without
power may gratify the vain. but can never satisfy • noble
ambition. Who may be the mistier' of the Queen are the
accidents of history; wiped will remain ow that enduring
page is the policy pursued, and its consign/aces co her
realm. That will much depend upon the decision and
deterzathatioa of the roontititencim of the United Saida"
Is the impending goosed election. Subject to them ohmage'
which the peeps of meaty may demand, sod ithe expert.
epos of the aatioa may inaction, I trust they will resolve on
upholding the constitution in church sod state.—l have the
honour to remain, ho., " B. DISRAELI.
" Einghoodao Nana, May TO, 1865."

Fllollgll.—Mr. William Phillips will hold his
first public acetic at the fladdsnes-ltsll, Isllegtce, to'
morrow *vain chair will be takes at half-pest
sale efeleek.
M.airLahOliff.—Lord Fermoy has addressed the
sleeks, d Maryleboace, intimating hie Wadi= to stand
apes for the borough at the general elipatioo.
A rumour that Mr. Kennett
Macaulay, Q. 0., hatesded to retire from the representatiou
of Cambridge as the pound et ill health to osotradioted.
The harried (optima will agate offer himself for the borough
fe coutemotion with Itr. F. 8. Powell, the other sitting
member. No liberal cesdriate hen yet appeared.
UNIVIRBIZT 01 01.1011.1. —Although a certain
mottos of the members of coevocation are ustes great eats
to overawes the CISIDOSIIOe of the Exchequer at the next
election for the University of Oxford, by the mid of Yr.
Gahm. Hardy, it rem wiry q • le il that genteme will steed a contest spinet Mx Gladstone, as the fol-
iates circular, addressed To the ledepeodeet Eleetore of
the Borough and Oet-parieh of Leominster" will slaw :
" Gentlemea,-1 am surprised to bear that some 01 my
DUI ere snoring that I am sot ping to a
="at the coming ekmtioa. 1 beg to aura you
that it is my firm 'awake to do so, and I trust
that the electors will Abe misled by such aseertioem.—l
nail; gentlemen, fattliftd servant, GATIIOIII
fiLIIAT. LS, Orosossor-oremeat, 8.W."
PLYMOUTII.—Mr. R. Stuart Lane has issued an
address to the electors of Plymouth, dated from Chishaer
Owe. Be le a conservative iepoham.
Pours:num.—Mr. W. bur, of London,
who holds liberal political views, has honed an address to
the electors of Poet:street, aeounciog his inteutcon to boa
tesdidat• for the ropresostatioo of the borough to 'puha.
meat at the next unseal sisetice.

FATAL. ATTRIUT AT TR. DATRIITORT
A scat sea* JorMbertarrt7 bee tat hi! dm* as Lint's,
in Derbyshire, through hying to emulate the Thltapin2
Brothers- in their rope-tying tricks. He was at • publie.
been the saes sight, mid amused ths companziolar
dames uskates, and also by being tied ia • cord.
he dela* ha resumed two men, named Siddale sad
IAIIY. to go often doomwith him, 'bleb they did. Who.
they had pas a blest a quarter of a ma, he mid be meld
show them a trick, sod stopping nodes a to,. peridestel •
rope with width be tied tunnel( round etch ankle sad
thigh, sad mead Wm body mere this soot' bat see roead
his nen. After this be threw the sod of She repo am •
bough of the hoe, and at his request one of the mitt
maned bin, mid the other ad the end of the rope to •
stake or itemeabiag of that met in the badge. He
was seopeaded about • yard from the paled, sad be
told his two ocompanioss that before they weld get to the
HaYybarh pedic.beees sad drink • glem of ski he would
be there luseesU,aad that if he failed io &tag so be would
pay for ban a pile, of ale. The two Noes thee est off far
6111 psi:Be-boom, drank their ale, and after Web* tor
pester an boar, as their osespiniee did sot sibs his
appraises, they returnedag te the spot where the, bad left
Ifeud litis be by the neck. having bimetal
oW sad alga. Thee two ems let kim der s. babble
Haid.
oltman) Americas Mans The folio=
mil sham= are doeatlasimeal this wen,with the
am sot Oaardhe meals :—The of Loudon. from Mgt
Yerk ee the mid the Perewien. with
bakes from Parnami, may be expected. the 7:=
ch.kb... Or QUNIONSOWS Old the latter at Greeemeile.
is the souses of *aerates (T•smasy). rimy
mart the Seat* hem New York es the Hth, will alel=
amok Ormathaves or Qsesassomi.
In IsSs tbeto wets 10k public libraries 11140
maw keeker with wends of 10,000 veinier a •OW
They easeaieed la she eggrepas 2.403,477. left al&
amid that awe see wpwrds of 12,000,000 'obtain Is the.
while of the peddle lAptlse Is she Hefted
newness Mir,