The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-20 00:00:00

ICSCILLABROUS TOPICS.

Returning to the Commons' debate of Saturday the Tina
contends that the questions opened by Mr. Bright were
foreign to the ocoutoo. No single *abandon to the
agitators would arrest foe half an hoar the machinations
in progress or make them less dangerous to the public
security. When a brigand is about to strike a fatal blow
a reasonable person will not refuse to move aid will not
set about imagining the possible ill-usage of the brigand's
great-grandfather. And, thee, no cause of natiosal
importance will ever be promoted by men who decline the
responsibility of the hour and take refuge in generalities.
The reason why there are so many politicians who are not
statesmen is because they are not men of salon. They are
men whose very fastidiousuess and amity prevent them
from entering the arena of work, socepting the small
duties and doing the small things that constitute not only
the ordinary badness of life, but also the chief school of
practical power and real goodness. The only lesson Mr.
Bright learns by the part he has just taken is that of the
separatist—that everything is bad, and nothing can be
done, and virtue consists in declaiming and doing nothiog—
a course which has only to be taken by all good men, and
we shall soon be at the mercy of those who are not so good.
The Herald publishes a rumour which will be read with
something more thee surprise is Ireland, viz., that Sir
Hugh Roes, in demanding further instructions from the
government with regard to his duty in Ireland, says that
he has the example of Governor Eyre before his eyes ; that
he snows bow to put down a rebellion, but that he cannot
act without further orders.
Mr. Oirdwell'a Jamaica bill allows ministers to endow
the island with that government which may be thought
best rotted to its present ciroussiancisa The Daily
News remarks that to be seasesful our legislation mat
supplant Jamaica incapacity by British statesman-
ship. Those who undertake the task of plating
the island as a sound social base cannot with.
out embarrassment accept the active oa.operation of
the people of the colony to any peat extent, though they
must be able to eommand confidence. To be impartial,
the local government must be of British origin, sad its
business to regenerate Jamaica by mesas of British civili-
sation, British ideas, British justice, British capital,
British order. The problem is mot likely to be solved
by working up the old bed material of former government■
into new and arbitrary forms. The Daily News does not
find fault with the ministerial bill, which seems on the
whole a wise one, reserving to the imperial government the
liberty necessary to deal with the island according to the
highest wisdom it can command ; but thinks it is important
that at the present time the full extent of the emergency
should be recognised, and that it should be felt that hence-
forward England, not Jamaica, will be responsible for the
condition of that Island, and that we cannot afford to make
any more =bakes.

Che Court.

OSBORNE, Fla. 19.

The Queen, Princess Helena, Princess Louise,
and Printer Beatrice, attended Biel's, service at Whip.
pingham eltareh yesterday morning, where the her. G.
Prather* officiated.

Prince Alfred, attended by Lieutenant Haig, arrived at
Spithead in her Majesty's ship Raooooa, from Gibraltar,
yesterday.
The Prices name shortly afterwards to Osbor se, where
hie Royal /Lemma remains.

The Prince of Wales went to 'the South Kensington
Museum yesterday morning, and presided at a meeting of
her Majesty's Commissioners for the Preach International
Exhibition of 1867.

His Royal Highneas went to the House of Lords in:ths
afternoon.

The Duke de Nemours and the Princess Marguerite
visited the Prince and Princess of Walos at Marlborough.
hakes.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. Present—The Lords Justices Knight Bruin and
Turner, Sir K. V. Williams, Sir J. Co!vile, and Sir Lan-
recce Pad.

Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon,
How; Kceg, Labile°, the Australian Colonies, and New
Zealand.

Tai Counr.—Her Majesty, accompanied by their
Royal Highnesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prin-
t:4M Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, attended by the ladies
and gentlemen of the royal suite, is expected to leave
Osborne House to-morrow (Wednesday) for Windsor
Castle. At Windsor Oartle the private elute of apartments
have been prepared in readiness for the arrival of the
Queen and royal family. Several members of the court
have already reached the palace.

ROYAL OLTIIPIC THEATas.—His Royal Highness
the Mace of Waleo, with the Duke of Sutherland, Major
Teesdale, &c., visited the Olympic Theatre yesterday
evening. . _

It is understood that the provision to be made
for the Prime's Helena on her marriage will be brought
before parliament on Thursday. A contemporary states
that a provision will also be proposed for Prince Alfred.
The Countess Russell will have a second as-
sembly to-morrow night at the noble Premier's official red-
den°, in Downing.street.

Lady Stanley of Alderley will have evening
parties co Saturday, the 10th and 17th of the emitting
month.

The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and the
Right Hon. Chichester Forteecue do not return to Carlton-
'arises so soon as originally intended. The counteis and
the right hon. gentleman will remain in Ireland till after
the Chief flecretery's re-eleotion for the county Lowth.

His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador re.
mined yesterday the melaaeholy news of the death of his
mother' Madame Casaadis Mutants. The dammed lady
had reached the advanced age of 80 years.

Information was received in town yesterday of
the death of the Earl of Sinnott!, whioh took p'soe on
Sunday at Torquay. Hie lordship was born in 1785, and
married 17th August, 1824, Miss Louisa Barton, second
daughter of the late Admiral Sir Chas. Rowley, Bart.,
G.C.B. He is encoeeded by hie eldest son George, Vie.
roust Dapplin, who was born in 1827, and married in
July, 1848, Lady Blaneke Somerset, third daughter of the
late Duke of Beaufort.

Sparrows are now seen in the streets of Ballarat,
is Mukalla, haviss been cimpletaly aoclimatind thin.