The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-10 00:00:00

TRE EXPRESS, I'ituESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1867.

ciaion inculcated are an equally alnable train-
ing for the mind.

But the advantages of the scheme are neither
limited to those which it proffers in case of war,
nor to those it extends to pacific avocations. It
could not but be an invaluable aid to our ordi-
nary recruiting. When a lad has already learned
his drill, all the fear of awkwardness, and of being
subjected for months to the browbeating of a
drill sergeant, will be removed. He will know
that on enlisting he will at once step into the
place of a soldier, without experiencing the preli-
minary indignities attached to the position of a
recruit. His mind will have been already turned
to the subject, and any latent inclination he may
have for a soldier's life will be roused and deve-
loped. Mr. Cu anwicx gives some figures, taken
from schools in which the system is already in ope-
ration, from which the impetus which would be
given to voluntary enlistment, if school-drill were
made general, is shown to be enormous. But the
advantage would not end here. All who thus en-
tered the army would necessarily be educated, and
presumably respectable. They would elevate a ser-
vice which would l, longer be regarded as the
depot for either scum or dregs. And if as a con-
sequence it became necessary to introduce im-
' provements into the superior branches of the ser-
vice, and when the men were educated and re-
spectable, to insist that their officers should be
accomplished, and gentlemen, we should find in
this only one more recommendation.

We must not omit to mention that Mr. CHAD-
WI. K proposes the addition of naval instruction in
at least the schools of our seaport towns. As a
useful variety of exercise, as affording a better
supply of trained seamen, and as enabling sailors
to act as soldiers, and soldiers as sailors, in time
of emergency, the suggestion is no less deserving
of approval. We strongly commend the whole
pamphlet to the perusal of those who are in-
terested—and who is not?—either in our military
or naval prowess, or in the healthy, physical, and
moral training of the rising generation. We are
not surprised to observe that its suggestions have
already received the approval of very eminent
authorities in both services.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

pamphlet abounds, the Daily News quotes as a sample el
his political asperity his lordship's statement that as
Irish settlers in America have no reason to be hostile to
England therefore they are not, end his explanation of
the Fenian subscriptions by the sweeping generalisation
that in a democracy men are not free agents. In his dis-
quisition on political economy, Lord Reese's principal
object appears to be his desire to asperse Mr. Mill as a
preacher of disaffection and revolution. His confutation of
Mr. Mill consists in stating as an answer to that writer's
doctrine what he had himself stated as a limitation
of it. On the Irish question Lord Rosse only re-
pe eta, in a feebler and more confused way, the
more doubtful points of Lord Dufferiu's letters in the
1.114(A. Lord Bosse furnishes a notable example of the
vanity of concluding from eminence in one department to
capacity in another. He is a standing argument against
each proposals as Professor Mackie has put forward
for the enfranchisement of men of science as such,
by conferring parliamentary representatives on the
Royal Society. The late Sir William Hamilton, of
E linburgh, in a well-known essay, has elabo-
rately contended that mathematical and physical
undies tend to disqualify for philosophy and for affairs.
Their professors, accustomed to demonstrative reasoning
from fixed principles, are unfit, he says, to balance those
moral probabilities upon the discrimination of which the
business of life depends. He compares them, when deaL
ing with such matters, to owls in daylight. Mr. Mill has
vindicated, and in the main, perhaps, successfully, vintli-
'tea, these pursuits and those who follow them from Sir
William Hamilton's attack. But Hamilton's doctrine could
not have been framed if there had been no instances sip
parently confirming it ; and rth an instance we find in
Lord Rosse.

THE TORT JOURNAL% AND MR. CEORGE POTTER.
The 11, rah! ana the Standard of Chin morning publish
the following In their leading article columns :

We have to express our sincere regret that an extract from
Blackwisal's Magazine" for the month of January appeared ill
our Cllitlllll.l of the inl Inst. severely reflecting upon the character
id Mr. George Potter. We are assured that the several allega-
tions to the extract are without foundation; that although Mr.
Potter has been an operative joiner during many years of
his life, be has always given satisfaction to hag employers, and
never on any occasion been distal •sed ; that the only tine he
ever worked under any person of the name of Smith was darling
two or three days in iss6, and that then he left solely on aces snit of
the lowness of the wages ; that there is no pretence for ea) ing that
he WIN ever dismissed by them or by any other person under
whom he has worked ' • that he never Ilia lICCOIIIe a waiter at
le any eatiuginse or hotel, or at any other plate of the kind ;
that he never was in the employ of a railway company, and,
therefore, never was In any sense of the word a railway
that he never wrote for any other peel... Heal than the
" Beehive," 1.1 which he is now the manager that. although in
11:0, during the lock-out, he became secretary to the delegates
of the Loudon building trade, he has not filled any similar post
since !sal that from the time of his apprenticeship to the time
when he accepted the post of secretary he worked at his trade.
and receives! the highest rate of wages as a skilled and expe-
rienced workman. Having every reason to believe these
assurance., we regret that we should have been the medium of
eirculathig the misstatements referred to. and we beg to tender
our apology to Mr. Putter fur the insertion of the paragraph.

the Court.

OSBORNE, JAN. 9.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by Princess Louise, and her Majesty walked in
the grounds this morning with her Royal Highness.
Prince and Princess Christian drove out yesterday after-
noon, and the Princess walked in the grounds this morn-
ing, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole. The
other members of the royal family went out also.
Prince Christian, attended by Colonel Ponsonby, drove
to Parkhurst-barracks to-day, where his Royal Highness
wu received by Colonel Jeffreys, C. 8., commanding the
depot battalion.
His Royal Highness inspected the battalion, cud after-
wards visited the Female Prison at Parkhurst.
The Judge Advocate-General had an audience of the
Queen yesterday.

The Belgian Minister andMad►me Van do Weyer and Sir
Thomas and the Hon. Lady Iliddulph had the honour of
dining with the Queen and the royal family in the evening.
Lieut.-General the Hon. Charles Grey has succeeded
Major-General F. H. Seymour as Equerry in Waiting.

Despatches were sent from the Coloniaboffice yesterday
to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and St.
Helena.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is
laid up with an attack of gout, at Gloucester House, and
was unable yesterday to attend at the Horse Guards.

The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor and
family have arrived at Calverley l'ark, Cheshire, from
visiting the Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland at Cliefden,
near Maidenhead.

The Duko of Rutland is entertaining a select
party M Belvoir Castle.

_
The Earl and Countess of Derby arrived at their
residence in St. James's-square, on Tuesday evening, from
Knowsley.

His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the
Countess Ikrnstortf, and the Countess Theresa Bernstorff,
left Prussia House, on Carlton-house-terrace, yesterday
afternoon, on a visit to Frances Countess Waldegrave and
the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., at Strawberry-
hill, Twickenham.

The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle have left
town for Scotland.

The Earl and Countess De Grey have arrived at
their residence in Carlton-gardens from their country *eat
•

The Countess' Cowper and Lady Amabel Cowper
have passed through town from Ponshanger, on their way
to visit Viscountess Palmerston, at Broadlands, Hants.
Lord and Lady Llanovcr have arrived at their
residence in Great Stanhope-street, Park-lane, from their
seat in Wales.

On Tuesday last the Rev. William Belcher Clerk
was licensed to the perpetual curacy of Walbemrick, in
Suffolk, on the nomination of Sir John Ralph Blois, Bart.
At the meeting of the London and Westminster
Bank on Wednesday next a dividend is to be recommended
of 16 per cent. for the half-year, making, with the 14 per
cent. paid six months ago, a total distribution of 30 per
cent. for the year 1866. The reserve is to be increased
from 450,0001. to 400,0001., and 45,0399. will remain to be
carried forward.

During the Christmas holidays the Cardinal
Archbishop of Naples called upon Cardinal d'Andrea,
who immediately returned the visit. This incident is of
importance, as showing the conciliatory spirit by which
his Eminence the Cardinal Riario Worsa is animated ; but
it has created not a little surprise as well as pleasure, for
Cardinal d'Andrea is at present under the displeasure of
the Pope.

We read in a letter from Naples :—" On the last
day of the old year the law for the suppression of monas-
teries was carried into complete effect, and it was done
with so much gentleness that there is not a single
painful incident to record. Vety little, indeed, re-
mained to be done, as most of the monastic
est►blishments had been already vacated, and I
believe there were not more than seven or eight
where the fraternities continued to reside on suf-
fermice. As far, however, as the monasteries are con-
cerned, the work is now complete, and there has been a very
perceptible increase of the number of friars in the streets
on foot, or in carro.r.efia, throughout the week. As regards
the lay brethren they will receive their pensions, and be
turned into the world to employ those powerful sinews
which are proverbial here in healthy and useful labour,
while those in priests' orders in some cases congregate
together, as in the ease of the fraternity of San Martino,
who have taken a house near the Castle of St. Elmo.
Wherever a church waa attached to the monastery two or
three priests, and as many lay brother*, have been left to
continue in the offices of religion, the selection having been
made under the direction of the civil authorities."

Letters from Vienna state that the performance
of Berlioz's illustration of Faust was a success, and that a
banquet was given on the eve of his departure, attended
by the leading patrons and professors of music, poets,
critics, and literati. Mdlle. Marsha, the attractive prima
donna of Her Majesty's Theatre, has not renewed her en-
gagement at the Vienna Opera House. Now that the war
in Prussia and Italy is over, there is some probability of
the new grand National Opera House being inaugurated
the present year ; the scenery for the standard favourite
opera is already painted, and every part of the interior de-
coration of this magnificent theatre is near completion.
Gounod's new opera, Romeo and Jvliet, Is anxiously ex-
pected early in the forthcoming spring.

The white flag, bearing the red moon of Japan,
floats from the first floor of the Grand Hotel, Paris, the
Japanese mission, consisting of two Grandees of the Court
of Yeddo, being there domicilcd.

THE BOMBAY MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, JAN.IO.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ceylon, with the heavy 'portion of the
Bombay mails, has arrived here. She brings 62
passengers, 1,412/. in specie, and a general cargo, in-
cluding 1,572 bales of raw silk, value 140,0001.
sterling. After leaving Gibraltar she experienced
a strong south westerly gale and high sea. On
the Bth instant she spoke the steamer China.

GIBRALTAR, JAN. 5.
This port and the coast of Morocco especially
are suffering from want of rain.
Exchange on London, 49'..% Paris, 5.15 to 5.17.
Madrid, E dia.
Her Majesty's ships Skylark and Redpole arc in
the harbour.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE DEIJTSCHLAND.
SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 10.

The North German Lloyd's steamship Deutsch-
land, from New York on the 29th ult., has arrived
with 77 passengers for this port, Havre, and
Bremen, 193,208 dole. for England, and 3,600
dole, for France.

She experienced strong variable winds through-
out the passage, and at times much snow and rain.

(By ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, JAN. 9.

The Judiciary Committee of the House of Re-
presentatives is examining the grounds for the im-
peachment of President Johnson.