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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 13.

IT WAS almost impossible that the spectacle
which has jest been exhibited at Paris, where the
most powerful Sovereigns of Europe have received
the splendid hospitality of the Emperor of the
Feesen, ahould not provoke comparisons to the
disadvantage of our Court. No foreign sovereign,
not nearly related to the Royal Fa:elly,
comes to England except by accident or mis-
take. Perhaps no class of persons have more
to learn by foreign travel than rulers, but the
journeys which they actually make seldom or
never load them here. The CZAR and the King
of PRUSSIA hare been to Paris, and it may rea-
sonably be supposed that upon due encouragement
they would have been pleased to come hither.
They are each now on their way home, it may be,
satisfied with the grandeur of their entertainment,
but they might possibly have learnt something
here which would have been useful to them in
their respective countries. While, however, the
doors of our palaces are closed, and the Sovereign
restricts herself to a domestic life, England will
continuo to be avoided by such guests.
There are those who tell us that this is not by
any means to be regretted. It is urged that it
would be deeply to be lamented if the
mourning of our Court were to be laid
aside for tho first time in order to do spe-
cial honour to Sovereigns of whose systems of
government we cannot approve. The remarks ap-
ply primarily to the CZAR, who has omitted to
come, and the SULTAN, who is expected soon to
arrive among us. We cannot agree with this. The
conclusion is based upon a number of assump-
tions which wo are unable to admit. It seems to
lug that our disapproval of what has been done
in Poland and Crete would just as much require
us to vrithdraw our ambassadors from Constantinople
and St. Petersburg as to withhold from the CZAR
and SULTAN the ordinary civilities of social life.
We maintain at Constantinople a Minister who
represents not only the Government, but the per-
son of his Sovereign, and we therefore could not,
without flagrant inconsistency, withhold from him
the customary recognition on his arrival in this
country. Nor is it just to snake these Sovereigns
perionally responsible for all the evil that is done
in their names. Insurrections would be repressed
in Poland with just as much rigour if Russia
were a republic instead of a monarchy : powerful
states do not permit themselves to be dismembered
without a struggle, whatever their form of govern-
ment. It may be rhetorically permimible to say
that the SULTAN is " an absolute despot, whose
" word is law, and without whose pleasure not a
" single act of violence can be perpetrated ; " but
a perusal of the latest consular reports just
laid before the two Houses of Parliament by Lord
STANLEY will, we believe, confirm the impression
that the SULTAN has nothing like the power attri-
buted to him. He is not the head of a highly
centralised government, and is the chief restrainer
of violence in his dominions. Oppression gross
and heavy there indeed is in Turkey, as there
must be when one nation is superimposed upon
another. Intelligent opinion has for the last
ten years been advancing towards the convic-
tion that nothing effectual will be done for the
relief of the Christian populations of European
Turkey until the Ottomans retire into Asia. But
it would be absurd to blame the SULTAN because
be does not collect his forces and his fellow-
believers of all classes, and finally cross the Bos-
phorus. We object further to the assumption
that the character or opinion of the nation
is in the least degree compromised by
the hospitality shown to sovereigns whose
systems of government we feel bound to
condemn. To say that we will extend our cour-
tesy only to those who come up to our standard
of morality, would be scouted in common and pri-
♦ate life as the merest pharisaism. The French
people held their own opinions as to Poland after
the CZAR had arrived, and would have held them
until ho went away, had not an assassin provoked
a reaction in his favour. We are not obliged to
have recourse to rudeness, whether expressed
or implied, in order to vindicate our cha-
racters and assert our conviction.. The policy
which our correspondent has so vigorously advo
cated, appears to us a misapplication of generous
ideas. It is not by excommunication, but by more
inter-communication, that we are to improve those
who differ from us. Let us by all means take
every fair occasion of making our principles
understood, but let us have no fixed antipathies,
and as for shouting " Poland" in the ears of the
Autocrat of the Russian, or " Candia" in those of
the Grand Turk, let us remember that our own
princes have visited St. Petersburg, and may visit
Constantinople, without hearing the names of India
and Jamaica offensively pronounced.
After all, the waste of those opportunities of
exercising a salutary hospitality is not the most
serious consequence of the continued withdrawal
of the QUEEN from public social life. The subject
is an ungracious one, and the journalist will avoid
it if he can ; but now that it has been raised it is
right to bear witness that the injury done to the
institution of the Throne by the long continuance
of the QUEEN'S retirement has not been aggravated
in the comments published within the last few
days. No one thinks of saying that the QUEEN is
indifferent to the duties of her position ; but very
many regret the mode in which Her MAJESTY
understands them. The QUEEN'S domestic life is
praised and her private virtues are admired by the
whole English people, but by too many only in the
same way as they might be and are in the United

States, as those of the most illustrious holy of the
Anglo-Saxon rice. The QueiN is teithing the
people to think too little of her ce::ese. Considera-
tions such as these have been presented before
without elect, possibly because they were pre-
sented too soon. Now, however, live years after
the hunented cause of the Qut EN's and the nation's
sorrow, they may perhaps be worthy of attention.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

CS SPEECH AT THE NEISCHANT TAYLOR'S'
HANqt. ET.

describing Mr. Disraeli as having,
in his attempt to pass oaf a democratic reform fur a bit of
good old toryism, surpassed any feat ever tried by the
biological prefessors who will make you handle a hot poker
and feel it cold, or drink milk and think it brandy, the
Tiede proceeds to paraphrase the rilbt hon. gentleman's
last speech. restating Lis position rather than expressing
any of its own. 31r. Disraeli is repre-
sented as having avoided the error of the liberal
lead,rs of attempting to eitilorice in the constituency
only the skilled workmen and artisans, and as intro-
ducing everybody who can give the usual pledge for
his stake and interest in good order and the COlll/1,011 weal.
lie coneeives that both in town and country lie has found
the social basis in which domestic and social feelings are
the strongest, and in which the institutions of the coun-
try may be said to have their morel foundation. Find
the people who are naturally, by lung tradition, and by
runny assosdations, loyal, subordinate, respectful, and
religious, and hero you have the true platform of Kings,
Lords, and Cormucess, and the proper constituency of the
lower &mac. Mr. Diarseli proclaims that he has found
it, and that the most anxious conservative may feel hurl-
self safe u such hands.

Deliberating convivially lends men, the Dail!, News
says, to make up occasionally for a lack in discretion by
superabundant candour; but the blundering compliments
of the Warden almost compelled, at Tuwalay's banquet, a
response which was a transgression of the conventional
limits of good taste. The sneer at the American de-
mocracy in the presence of Mr. Adonis, and the renewal
before Mr. Beresford Hope of a pending controversy, must
Lave been felt as an invasion of the privilege of the guests.
In the body of the speech, Mr. Disraeli openly avows that
he relies upon the unskilled and untaught portion of the
working classes, the re.,idit um which Mr. Bright views
with some distrust, for the safety of the state and for the
maintenance of the conservative pasty, endangered by the
independence and intelligence of the skilled artisans. It
seems as if he desired to enfranchise a rabble of voters
whom it m:.y be easy to influence, we will not say, with
Mr. Lowe, to corrupt, Last session the tones, with wear'.
some reiteration, and with Mr. Disraeli and Lord Stanley
at their heal, declared that their desire was that the
skilled artisans of the great towns—the "choicest members
of the working classes," to use Mr. Disraeli's language—
should be enfranchised, but that they shrank from
opening the gates to the rush of the multitude. The lan-
guage Mr. Disraeli now uses as to the safety of our insti-
tutions came last year from the liberal benches, and was
barely listened to, for fear and anger, by the very men
who now applaud it to the echo. The right Lon.
gentleman's reliance on the most dubious of the new ele-
ments which he proposes to introduce, betrays& disposition,
against which liberals should be on their guard, to mani-
pulate the least intelligent and least independent portion
of the sew constituencies for tory purposes. The ingenu-
ous confessions emitted over the hospitable board of the
Merchant Taylors contain matter in this respect worth
pondering.

The 'Olt is tempted by the speech to inquire how it
happened that is the debates and party struggles of last
year Mr. Disraeli and his friends sought to reduce, and
not to extend, the scope of the measure submitted by Earl
Russell's government. Throughout the speeches made on
the opposition benches last session, the Pude cannot call to
mind one in which were to be found any of those senti-
ments to which Mr. Disraeli gave expression at the Mer-
chant Taylors' dinner the day before yesterday. Surely
this is a circumstance not unworthy of explanation, and,
on the next occasion on which Mr. Disraeli thinks proper
to justify the present action of his party, perhaps he will
clear away the difilzulty. By his own admission the
policy of the conservatives ought all along to have been
liberal; the mistake has at length been corrected, and
henceforth the conservative party will be distinguished by
the extreme liberality of their policy. The gushing candour
of Mr. Disraeli is only to be equalled by the egotism with
which he takes credit to himself and his party for a bill the
distinctive features of which have been created by his op-
ponents.

The Herold and Standard have been treated with the
neglect which appears to be a necessary part of the ex-
perience of the organs of the conservative party. The
Merchant Taylors• Company is purely conservative, and
therefore the representatives of the conservative journals
were carefully omitted from the ordinary invitations. With
a natural feeling of self-respect the two papers in question
make no reference to the banquet either as a matter of in-
telligence or as a subject for comment.

Certainly it is a conservative bill, observes the Telegraph,
for only see how many things it conserves ! First it con-
serves the salaries and appointments of ministers and their
adherents ; next it conserves the peso* and patience of the
realm ; and then it conserves the present parliament a
little longer, to the undoubtedly great delight of the
house. Mr. Disraeli adds that it will conserve the tory
party also; and so it will—in history—even though the
remains be like a mummy of Egypt, swathed in cloth
which toryism itself spun while alive.

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1867.

an elected boas, The Engirds people will never allow
bresponsibbilig berediteryeenators to arms anythingl
more than what is called a moderating or ountrolling in-
fluence ; and only that on condition of being very
cautiously and sparingly used. The .Star does not see that
there is much to be done in the matter unless the country
is really anxious for a genuine Upper Chamber of Legis-
lature, and in a position to construct one.
A speech of the Bishop of Ripon at the dinner of
the Merchant Taylors leads the Tim,* to treat of
the opposition to the name and reality of protest.
autism which is now to be found in the English
church. The temporary success of what are called
humanising tendencies is attributed to the study of the
senses in the ceremonies, the pretence to a possession of
supernatural right which will always prove seductive to
young priests, and the effect on feminine minds of the
spell of genuine devotion and the example of a holy life. II
The evil is in truth far short of what many people seri-
ously apprehend. Let anyone who trembles at the pro-
gress of Romani= and Romish doctrines in this country
look abroad into the Continent of Europe, estimate the
nature and relative force of the rival principles now '
struggling for the mastery in the world of politics no less
than in the world of speculation, and then ask himself
what chance there is of authority triumphing over resume
in our own age. The same lesson may be learnt by the
observation of facts nearer home, the prevalent tone of
literature, the debates on certain questions in parliament,
the latitude of opinion in unreserved con% eisation, the
impatience of dogmatism among the ablest students at
our universities. It is only by narrowing unduly our ideal
of protestantism that we can be kat to loos faith in its
destinies.

LAngs? L TELLI GEN CIL

(IitrUTER.B TELMOILUIB.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, ..Trxt 13.

The 11/imitettr of to-day says :—" The Emperor
of Russia, fully recognising the evidences of svm-
Pithy elicited by the late attempt upon his life,
has directed the Russian Ambassador in Paris to
express his thanks to the signataries of the various
addresses presented to him."

THE NORTH SCIILESWIO QUESTION.

COPENHAGEN, JUNE 13.

The Danish government has declined the propo-
sals made by Prussia that it should guarantee the
national rights of the German inhabitants of North
Schleswig. The reason given by Denmark is that
in ease of the restoration of the province, it could
only regard the laws of the country as governing
its attitude towards the German population.

SPAIN.
MADRID, JUNE I'2, EVENINC.

The Deputies have adopted the amendment to
the buket imposing a tax of 5 per cent. on the
monies deposited in the Claw,' des Dept.e from the
Ist July.

Tho motion of Senor Gilbert, censuring the
government for arrest of some deputies last Decem-
ber, has been rejected by an immense majority in
the Congress.

SHIPMENTS OF GOLD TO ENGLAND.
MELBOI.TRNE, AzAtm 2T.

Tho shipments of gold to England since the de-
parture of the last mail are as follows:-22,500
ounces by the Wellesley, 30,000 ounces by the
Omar Pacha, and 33,000 ounces by the Dover
Castle.

AMERICA.
SOUTHAMPTON, JrNE 13.
The Royal Mail Company's steamship Atrato
arrived oil the Needles at 12.30 p.m. to-day.