The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-13 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms
of the present year the National lifeboat Institution has
contributed to the sating of 787 lives from various shipwrecks
and tfi vessels from destruction. The Institution also expended
Cti,29o in the same period on its Lifeboat Establisluncnts, In
addition to granting s;:,usi, for rewards. The Committee of the
Instituthet earnestly appeal to the public for meantime' to
enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on their Ib3
Lifeboat Establishments,
Cautrlbulions win 1 e thasktay received by lb. Leann and
country bankers, and by the tleeretary, Richard Lewis, Lig , at
the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London.

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nil DAY —Mamba, 21t. 284i..--Alternoon, 2h. Ohn.
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13.

Jr Mr. Disaseu wishes his " Conservative
" Working Mau " to make a decent figure in
the world, he should begin at once to do for
him what he boasts of having done for his
party. The well-meant attempt at the Crystal
Palace on Monday must show him that he has
no time to lose. The poor fellow is grateful
for the notice taken of him, and moat willing
to oblige, but his ideas, so to speak, are in a
very rudimentary state, and his faculty of articu-
lation is undeveloped.' It is not dealing fairly by
him to produce him to the public in the present
stage of his education ; but if the exigencies of
party are pressing, and he must be brought for-
ward prematurely, he ought to be heard with
patience, and not overwhelmed with cries of
" Sit down." It is disappointing, after all we
had been promised in the journals of the party, to
find that not ono person could be found on
Monday to tell us what Working-class Con-
servatism is. That there is such a thing, and
that it has an important part to play
in the future of English politics, wo gladly per-
suade ourselves ; that it will sit at the feet of the
educator of his party, and learn to speak Disraeleo
with fluency, we shall believe when we see it. If
no one was prepared on Monday to state what the
Conservative Working Man does think, Lord Jour(
MANNF.Ri showed very elaborately what he should
and must think. Lord JOHN was much concerned
to show, in answer to the Earl of Carts...avow,
Lord CRANBORNE, and other eminent members of
his party, that there had been no Conservative
surrender; and asked, with an air of simplicity,
" What have we surrendered ?" The obvious
answer is—" Precisely that which for thirty years
" you obstinately refused."

THE Prussians have become a great and power-
ful nation ; but an occurrence just reported from
Berlin reminds us that they have yet to acquire
what are generally regarded as indispensable gua-
rantees of liberty and constitutional government.
The Prussian Parliament itself is not free. A
member of the Chamber of Deputies may be
prosecuted and imprisoned for words spoken in
that assembly. This is what has just happened to
Herr TWESTIN. The Government proceeded
against him for some observations occurring in a
speech on the administration of justice in Prussia
which he delivered in the Chamber, and he has
been convicted by the Berlin Stadt-gericht, and
sentenced to two years' imprisonment. The attempt
to make a member of the British Parliament
answer in Westminster-hall for words spoken in
the House of Commons would rouse the indigna-
tion of the whole country. We should forget to
ask whether the member sat for Birmingham or
for Calne, whether he was useful or insignificant,
popular or disagreeable, in our resentment of the
affront put upon his constituency and upon the
very principle of parliamentary government. But
they manage these things differently in Prussia.

Tun public will be glad to learn, on the autho-
rity of the Secretary to the Committee of Council on
Education, that the late Mr. NEALE's extraordinary
" English History for Children" is no longer dis-
tributed to schools with the sanction and aid of
that department. That it figured for many ye us
on the list of educational works published by the
Committee, and was never disavowed, but held its
place among the works brought under the notice
of teachers and managers until the publication
of the list itself was discontinued, are facts which
we do not understand Mr. LINGEN to call in ques-
tion. It is remarked, however, by that gentle-
man that the principles on which the list was
compiled neither made the Committee respensible
for Mr. NEALE'S opinions nor warranted the ex-
clusion of his book. No better reason could be
given for the discontinuance of a list so compiled.
But let us look at the facts. The Royal
Commission, to whose report Mr. LINGEN
refers, states that the Committee of Council,
observing that " the teachers of elementary schools
" are more dependant than those of the higher
" schools on the quality of the books," has not neg-
lected this important department of the subject.
The Committee therefore issues a list bringing ele-
mentary books of all kinds before the notice of
managers, and by grants of money assists in the
purchase of them. This is the list on which Mr.
Ntsi.es book was put. It is true that the
Committee repudiated all censorship of the works
on the list, but we are only concerned to show