The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-28 00:00:00

THE . EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1866.

paying regard only to its material ahiliteats- The
renewed outburst of Fenian cb safilie eon in contain-
poraneous with a decrease hi the rwintber 4
paupers, a diminution of ordinary crime,
and an increase in the agricultural wealth
of the country. Divorced from the soil,
and with the memorials of conquest and
oppression before them in the alien church
established in every parish, the Irish, even
with higher wages, feel themselves strangers
at home. Their allegiance is not given to
the institutions and the social order around
them. The absurd plea is sometimes advanced
that since the Fenian aim at revolution, reform
would be useless ; as though the delay or denial
of reform were not the strongest incentive to
revolution, and to refuse just claims the surest
way of provoking monstrous pretensions. We do
not wish to prejudge the present Ministry ; but we
have still to wait for the first indication of any
perception on its part that the permanent paci-
fication of Ireland requires the frank abandonment
and complete reversal of the policy of ecclesias-
tical ascendancy and territorial monopoly in Ire-
land.

'quince in the refusal of the French government to give
beck the prisoner Laminas. The OM, it says, comes
Irjtktin t►t,sgis which Joys that itssgalarities, or era
improprieties in form, may be cured bp:subsequently
occurring facts.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE,

(NEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
HUNGARY.

PESTH. Nov. 28.

The Left has agreed in principle that the Hun-
garian Diet shall vote an address in reply to the
royal rescript, provided the address states that the
Diet will suspend its labours until a constitutional
state of things is re-established in Hungary.

A Florence letter of the 24th, in the Moniker,

says :
The King was present last evening at the performance in
the Pergola Theatre ; the house was lighted a giorno.
His Majesty was received with tremendous applause,
which was twice renewed when the Princes entered.
General Fleury was present in the box of the Baroness de
Malaret. In the afternoon a banquet was given by the
municipality of Florence to the Podesta of Venice, Count
Giustiniani, in the great room of the Casino Borghese. In
addition to the members of the municipal and provincial
deputations, and of the committee of the Club, the follow-
ing were among the guests :—Count d'Usedotn, Minister
Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia ; Baron de Malaret,
French Minister ; Mr. Elliot, English minister ; General
La Marmon, the Marquis de Brume, &c.
The Piussian Minister, replying to a toad.
acknowledge the agreeable surprise which the honourable
syndic has given me ; and I ask permission toexpress a wish.
One of our poets desired that Italy were lees beautiful or
more powerful ; we have now reached the happy period
when Italy may be more beautiful and stronger than aver.
I propose the toast of " Italy—ltaly more powerful and
more beautiful."
Deputy Miami afterwards said—l have asked and
obtained permission from the honourable president to say
a few words. Gentlemen, I invite you to join with me
in discharging a debt of gratitude and affection. I ask yon
to cry Vivat '. to the l'rosperity of the city of Turin, that
city which has served as country to every illustrious
Italian, when Italians bad no country; to the city of
Turin, the cradle of our dynasty, the birth place of Vin-
cenzo Gioberti, of Cesare Balbo, of Massimo d'Azeglio, of
Count Cavour, and numerous others, whom time does
not permit me to mention ; to the city of Turin, in which,
for the space of ten years, at the cost of great sacrifices
and with an admirable perseverance, was kept alive the
I sacred fire of the national idea. In raising the about of
" Turin for ever !" we cry, "Civic virtue for ever !" " Long
live the cultivation of great ideas and great principles !"
Genuine cordiality prevailed at this banquet, and Count
Giustiniani was the object of the most friendly attention
on the part of aIL

MR. STANSFELD, ALP., ON REFORM.

Amongst the letters of apology for non-atten-
dance -
at the recent reform banquet, in Manchester, was
one from Mr. Stansfeld, M.l'. In coneerrence f the
length of the programme the reading of this and all other
letters of apology was dispensed with. Mr. Stansfeld's
letter is subjoined :
"Moorlands, Halifax, Nov. 19, 1866.
" Dear Mr. Wilson,—lt is with great regret that I find
myself, at the last moment, compelled by indisposition to
absent myself from the Manchester Reform Banquet and
Conference of to-morrow and to-day. It is the same cause
only which has prevented me from attending any one of
those great meetings which at Birmingham, Leeds, Man-
cheater, Glasgow, and elsewhere have conclusively refuted
the charge of political indifference which had been
brought against the masses of the people. I should
have felt no difficulty in attending any one of those
meetings. I think it right to take this opportunity
of saying so distinctly. The cry of manhood suffrage
as an ultimate object and as a natural right would not
have deterred me. The demands of those great meetings
have, indeed, been thus wide, but who can have failed to
remark the readiness—admirable in its common sense and
moderation—which has been invariably shown to receive
with corfldenoe and with favour—without seeking in any
way unduly to commit them—all those in whose good-will
and sincerity the people believed, however clear it might
be that their views of what was possible or of what was
desirable in a practical measure of reform would fall far
short of the principles which those meetings proclaimed.
I confess that I felt honoured by being invited in such a
spirit and on such terms as then ; and had I been able to
attend, I would have sought to meet the trust thus
shown in the beet way, by the frankest speech. Your
meeting is of a different order, you are about to hold
common counsel, in the words of your summons, 'on the
beet course to be taken (with reference to the question of
reform) in order to support the liberal party in the House
of Commons, and on the means necessary for carrying on
the agitation riming the winter.' Let mo then, before
I conclude, say at least one word on the future policy
of reformers in the house. I think our course is
clear. We have heard something lately about the
duty of fair play to the present administration, in
any attempt which they may make to deal with the
question of reform. I am for fair play ; but the fair play
which I hold is before all else needful to secure, is fair
play, not to any party, but to this great question of reform
itself. Speaking for myself alone, if a bill is brought in
which, however moderate, is straightforward, and which,
without trick, without party purpose or device, shall pro-
pose in some measure to do that which I desire, viz-, to
Omit to some real shale of power, and of consequent re-
sponsibility, the working population of our towns, I, for
one, regardless of its source, will accept it in principle, and
endeavour to amend rather than to defeat it in detail.
But if that bill—if bill there be—should be a tortuous
measure, keeping the word of promise to our ear to break
it to our hope,' my voice would be for its rejection as an
unfit basis and starting point for legislation on this great
question, which, of all others, requires to be dealt with in
since'ity of purpose and with good faith.—l am, dear Mr.
Wilson, yours truly. " J. STANNFELI), Jun.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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