The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-26 00:00:00

missariat, the tusenahl, the military aloes, or other silt-
able serwiets.

AMERICAY AFFAIRS.
The first condition of agreement between the North and
South is, in the opinion of the Times, a recognition of the
fact that the Federal Congress, as it now exists, is un-
fettered by any thread of legal obligation in the re-
construction of the South, but is bound by a moral duty
to make the benefit of the vanquished the first object.
Putting aside as impolitio the indefinite postpone-
ment of self-government and the proposal to
rule the South through such of its inhabitants as
are loyal to the north, the Times egos that some form
of self government, however limited, be allowed—though
for some time to come it must be supplemented, or rather
overlooked, by a federal agency charged with the duty of
maintaining personal security. Partial justice may be
administered, but even this is preferable to a system which
fails altogether to reach the offender because it is so
opposed to the feelings of the inhabitants that they will
not assist in carrying it out. The antipathies of race
cannot be expected to be immediately allayed, but
experience has shown that there is a sufficient number of
freedmen capable of taking care of themselves, and by a
natural law of progress the number must increase, and the
relations between them and their employers become more
definite and recognised.
Anticipating the tone and temper which will charac-
terise the new Congress when it meets, the Daily News ob-
serves that the first feeling which will pervade it 14:11 be
necessarily one of triumph, and that Mr. Johnson's policy
is not likely to receive much consideration or regard— a
new sense of power giving to the movements of Congress
an ease and freedom which in the early part of the
present year was manifestly wanting. Wilde induced
to believe that the return of Morrissey will expedite
the approaching and inevitable extinction of the
democratic party, the Daily News thinks, on the other
hand, that the return by Boston of two coloured men to
the Massachusetts legislature is a practical admission of
the doctrine of political equality, which will have a great
effect on public opinion both in the North and South.
The Telegraph thinks that President Johnson's message
can scarcely fail to contain an acknowledgment that his
appeal to public opinion has been unsuccessful, with the
admission that his duty as a magistrate will compel obe-
dience to the decree, whatever may be his private opinions
as a mall.

MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS.
In the Brand correspondence, the Post thinks that had
the lieutenant never sent his second letter, few would
have charged him with more than his bearillessneu could
face, but the insolence and vulgarity (to use no stronger
terms) of his retort leave very little room for excuse. The
slang expressions of his letters, and the entire absence of
that feeling of grave responsibility and awe which would
seem natural to men administering, even under a sense of
duty, the extremest punishment, will cause the Admiralty
verdict to be generally endorsed by England, though many
may add a recommendation to mercy.
Treating of the retirement of Lord Chief Justice Erle,
the Times remarks that the run of luck, as the world calls
it, which has fallen to Lord Derby's lot in respect of legal
vacancies has led to a very curious result. He will have
adorned the bench with one judge of remarkable, and with
two others of respectable, political capacity, and he will
have for his law officers, Sir John Itolt and Mr. Karalake,
two gentlemen of high standing in their profession, but
with little or no established influence in the House of
Commons.
The Telegraph returns to the subject of the rejection of
Mr. James Martineau by University College on sectarian
grounds. If the council, it says, will amopt no professor
of mental philosophy, however eminent, unless his re-
ligious opinions shall appear to Mrs. Grundy as colour-
less as water, then we must be permitted to
call their conduct as contemptible a display of
cowardice or inconsistency as we ever witnessed
in the ranks of educated men. Nor is that all.
It is more than cowardice ; it is high treason
against the interests of philosophy, because it is a delibe-
rate preference of mediocrity which cannot offend and can-
not instruct, instead of abilities which would shed lustre
on a college that is certainly not too rich in intellectual
power.