The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11,

tient". Cholera is peculiar in respect of the fact
that in severe outbreaks the number of patients
simultaneously acted far exceeds the victims 4
any other epideak disorder. A preparation based
upon this fact is necessitated. It is for this
reason especially that the organization of cholera
hospitals is required. In every parish there should
be one or more dwellings immediately set apart
for the reception of such cases. Staffs of medical
men and nurses should without loss of time be
appointed, ready to commence their duties the
moment that the need shall arise. It is very
probable that in some districts the necessity for
their employment will not occur. This probability
does not in the least militate against the
utility of such preparations. When time
is of such moment, the chance of beds being un-
occupied and staffs unemployed is a small conside-
ration in comparison with the sense of security
which will be derived from the organizations being
prepared to do their work, if work is required of
them. Theoretically, considering that the power
of preventing attacks of cholera is infinitely beyond
that of dealing with the disorder in its advanced
stage, the establishment of houses of refuge for
the healthy members of a family in which cholera
has appeared, in the great need upon the present
occasion. But, practically, the dwellings of the
poor are often so ill-adapted for the successful
treatment of the disease, that we are bound to be
provided with the means of giving a cholera
patient in a suitable hospital that chance of
life which he would fail to find in his
own dwelling-place. This is one of the many evils
which result from the fearfully neglected condition
of the houses inhabited by the poorer classes. The
removal of a patient in the collapse of cholera is a
step which great necessity alone should be sufficient
to countenance. The best thing to be done for him
is to leave him at rest, and not subject him to the
fatigue of conveyance. But so miserable is the
accommodation, and so deleterious are the domes-
tic conditions in large numbers of the poorer
dwelling-places, that the risk incurred in removal
is often preferable to the certain evil incident
upon his remaining at home. There are, how-
ever, exceptions to such conditions, and it is of
infinite moment that, although hospital accommoda-
tion, both of a general and specific kind, should
be ready for the emergency, the superior advan-
tages derived from removal of the healthy mem-
bers to a house of refuge and retention of the
patient at home should always be borne in mind.
For this reason we repeat what we have already
urged, that one of the most important steps to be
taken by parishes at the present moment is the
preparation of houses of refuge into which those
imminently exposed to the danger of acquiring
cholera may be moved without lona of time.

the ride of which the campaigns of Bohemia and Lombardy
may be found to have been mere child's play.
The Daily New, which alone of the morning journals of
yestertley treated of this important subject, returns
to it again this morning, and proceeds to con-
sider the demand on its own merits, without being
prejudiced by the exaggerated pretensions of French
writers like M. Fortsade, or carried away by sympathy with
German national feeling. Recapitulating the events which
in 1815 deprived Franc* of the territory which bad been
conceded to her by the allies the year before, the
Daily New admits that though it may be doubtful
whether it be wise in France to make her demand at the
present moment, it proceeds on principles which have
been a hundred times admitted in diplomacy without being
thought dangerous to the tranquillity of nations.
However it may end, the Star thinks the policy of the
Emperor in this instance singularly ill-advised, unfortu-
nate, and discreditable, but in no case it adds can an
arrangement between Prussia and France become smatter
of vital concern to the English people.
The TelegrapA is of opinion that if any communication
has been sent to Berlin, it will probably turn out to have
been oouched in the form of a suggestion, recorded just
now for action at a future opportunity. By such a course
the Emperor would have a much better chance of gaining
his point than by pressure and violence.

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

The Saturday Review, in an article headed

" Gladstone and Me," says the ex-Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, refining on the question whether Sir Edward Daring
was or was not morally entitled to retain the seat for East
Kent after his vote on the Reform Bill, is quite equal to
Suarez or Escobar. He mouths over and sucks and mumbles
the referred case with all the unctuous relish of the most
subtle doctors of the contortional He refines and distin-
guishes ; divides, and then confutes his division ; and ends,
just as they used to do four hundred years ago in the
schools, by saying that the thing is both right and wrong.
The ultimate conclusion is that it wair.pexhaps wrong to do
a thingwhich might or mightnot be justifiable or excusable
according to cirennutanoes or intention, on which there
was much to be said either way, and that, as it
was most likely the person who did it did not know what
he meant when he did it, or that the thing itself really
meant, or might be taken to mean, the exact opposite of
what the doer did it for, why, on the whole, perhaps it
might pats without being considered a mortal sin. Tedi-
ous all this, and subtle and elaborate ; but not very plain.
The vote was a bad vote, but it was given in what the
judgment of casuistry might consider a tolerabilis irupria.
The tacit and not complimentary inference is that Sir Ed-
ward was something of a fool ; but that great allow-
ance must be made for a fool, and we must support
him. As for Earl Russell, he clearly did not want
to be bored. He endorses what he familiarly Galls
"Gladstone's letter" en bloc, and pronounces that" Dering
ought to be taken back into the fold."
The Examiner, discussing the conduct of the police on
the 23rd, says it has been impugned in particular in-
stances, and vouched for in generalities. Inoffensive in-
dividual' who have been knocked on the head think they
have reason to complain of the behaviour of the police,
but the magistrates coolly tell them that they had no
business in the place of riot, and that, as they went to the
blows instead of the blows coming to them, the fault is
theirs. In one instance of great unprovoked violence,
the magistrate said the officer was justified in breaking
the complainant's head by mistake. That the mistake
could be excused, the Examiner admits, but cannot
see how a knock on the head of A., deserved
and intended for 8., can be justified. There is
some force in the argument that peaceable people
are in fault when they mix with a riotous mob.
But this doctrine, sound in the main, has been pushed too
far by the West-end magistrates, especially by Mr. Knox,
who seems to be named (idem sorsaas), like characters in
the old comedies, for what he favours. His judgment
upon all charges of violence against the police was,
substantially, " Served you right." The Examiner
believes the conduct of the police to be good in
the main, but it will not continue so if it is to
stand upon general character against all question as to par-
ticular misdeeds. The Marlborough-street court alone is
almost enough to ruin the police. Mr. Knox should
remember the moral of the fable of the thief at the gallows
who bit off his mother's ear because she had been deaf to
complaints of the conduct that had brought him to the
scaffold.

It is quite clear, says the Spectator, that reform must
next session, by some dead-heave or another, be got out
of the way of decent government. The existing system
fell, as the Carlton very well know., with the Hyde-
park railings, even if it had not fallen before. It
is also clear that this government, as it calls
Welt, is a mere ad iater►sa arrangement, with
scarcely a chance of life, and no chance at all of
ordinary longevity. The choice practically lies between
a quasi-liberal government, with no convictions and great
abilities, or a really liberal government, with strong
principles, and let us hope some decent modicum of ad-
ministrative nerve. The Spectator prefers the second, and
so it believes does the country, but we shall not have it
if Mr. Gladstone persists in declaring that his Reform Bill
came down from Heaven, ready-sewn, in insisting that
because whip and radicals are equally liberals, therefore
every whig is bound to suppress his convictions, whenever
a radical thinks their expression inconvenient. The party
requires re-cementing, and the only way to cement it is to
widen the bill till radical' feel they have little more to
ask, while Inserting clauses which assure whip that their
voices are not to be drowned in the multitudinous repeti-
tion of one single roar.
The Eounowast does not think the deputation of the
joint stock bankers to Mr. Disraeli to-day will have much
practical effect. They propose that the 10 per cent. clause
in Mr. Gladstone's letter of license should be cancelled.
The operation of that clause was, in the opinion of the
Economist, at that time injurious, but it does not think its
withdrawal now would much affect the policy of the Bank
directors. With regard to the suggestion of a loan from
the Bank of France, the Economist thinks no step could be
more fataL The evil from which we are suffering is a defi-
ciency of foreign credit, and such a loan would at once
diminish our foreign credit. It would be a frank con-
fession to Europe that we wanted French aid. If anything
could cause a new " run upon England," it would be a loan
so unadvised.

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081101INE, Ltrcursr 10.

The Queen drove ont yesterday afternoon with
Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, attended by Lady
Augusta Stanley, and honoured Mr. and Kra. Sheddon by
a visit to Spring Hill, where her Majesty walked in the
grounds.
Prince Leopold drove yesterday to Sandown with the
Rev. Robinson Duckworth, Mr. Bahl, and Mr. Legg, going
there by Hyde, St. Helens, and Wading, and returning
by Arreton.
Count Lavradio arrived yesterday, and had the honour
of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family.
Lady Waterpark has arrived as Lady in Waiting to her
Majesty.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterda at the
official residence of the First Lord of the
in Downing-street. The ministers present were the
Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
Buckingham, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right
Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Earl
of Carnarvon, General Peel, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northoote,
Lord John Manners, the Right Hon. Gathorne
Hardy, and Lord Naas.

A deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Birmingham,

Mr. Aldermen Phillips, Mr. Councillor Avery, Mr. Coun-
cillor Wedham, the Town Clerk, and Mr. Hanman, Super-
intendent of Birmingham Markets, had an interview with
the Lord President of the Council, at the Privy Council-
office, yesterday, on the subject of the cattle plague and
the extension of districts for licensed cattle markets.
Colonel Harness attended the interview.

Mr. Graves, M.P., had an interview with the Right Hon.
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence
in Downing-street, yesterday.
Mr. Risley, M.P., had an interview with the Right Hon.
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street,
yesterday.

Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday
to the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, and
Malta.

Her Majesty, accompanied by the younger mem-
bers of the royal family, will arrive at Balmoral on the
24th inst., orders having been given for her Majesty's re-
ception on that day.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, according to present arrangements, will arrive
on Saturday next at Abergeldie Castle, for the shooting

The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and Lady
Caroline Gordon Lennox have passed through town on
their way from Goodwood to Gordon Castle, N.B.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have left
their residence in Great Stanhope-street for Kimbolton
Castle.

The Duchess of Hamilton (nit Princess Marie of
Baden) and Lady Mary Hamilton hays left Paris for the
duchess's palace at Baden-Baden.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and
Lady Victoria Cecil left their residence in Grosvenor-square
yesterday, for Burghley House, Stamford. His lordship is
so far recovered as to be able to remove to his country seat.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby and
Lady Laura Phipps arrived at Bishopthorpe on Thursday,
from Mu'grave Castle, on a visit to the Archbishop of York
and Mrs. Thomson.

The Marquis of Hartington, M.P., left Devon-
shire House on Thursday on a visit to the Archbishop of
York and Mrs. Thomson, during the ',lay of the Prince and
Princess of Wales.

The Marquis Conyngham is expected to leave
Cowes next week in his yacht to visit western ports, on his
way to Ireland.
The Earl and Countess Granville have left town
for Studley Park, Yorkshire, on • visit to the Earl and
Countess de Grey.
The Earl and Countess of Dartmouth and Ladies
Legge have left their residence in Groavenor-square for
Patshull Hall, near Wolverhampton.
Viscount Hamilton, M.P., and Lord George
Hamilton arrived yesterday at Chesterfield House from
Eastbourne, Sussex.

Lord and Lady Londeeborough are entertaining
a distinguished company at Grimston Park, near Tad-
cuter. There is to be a large party on Monday afternoon.

We understand the marriage of Lady Roaa Fane,
daughter of the Countess Dowager of Westmorland, with
Mr. Weigall, is to take place on Wednesday next at West.
minster Abbey.

We have to announce the death of Lady Hislop,
who died yesterday morning at her residence in Chester-
square. Her ladyship was the only daughter of the Right
Hon. Hugh Eliot, formerly Governor of Madras. She
married, in 1823, General Sir Thomas Hislop, Bart., G.C.8.,
who died in 1843, when the baronetcy, which wee created
in 1813, became extinct

The Right Hon, the Speaker and Lady Charlotte
Denison have left town for Orpington, Notts.

THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES.

The following letter ham been received from Mr.
Stern:

" Z.*eh, Lake Tsana, Abyssinia, May 211.
"My dear Dr. Beke,—Little did you or I anticipate,
when we last met in London, that I should be a prisoner,
and you the good Samaritan to come to my own and
others release. A Turk would say it was Kimmel, but a
Christian sees in it the finger of God and the proceedings
of an inscrutable Providence. You have probably heard
lots of strange stories about my grievous offences ;
but, believe me, if an angel from Heaven had been
placed in my position he would not, after certain occur-
rences on which I must not dilate, have got unscathed
out of this country. Thanks to Him who is with His
servants in the tempest and fire, sad who has almost
visibly been with me, and afforded me strength according
to my day. Our future is still enveloped in mystery.
We have been released from our fetters, and enjoy once
more the use of our unshackled limbs. When we shall be
permitted to leave Abyssinia is still problematical.
I have become a regular soured sceptic, and do not
worry my mind about visionary prospects, which,
till bow, have always turned out to be phan-
toms of an excited imagination, or merely soap-bubbles.
His Majesty is ' kind' to us, and we hope that his
favours will not diminish. Our whole party are tolerably
well, and very likely when the camp moves we shall find
is active exercise something to relieve our distracting sus-
pense. lam thankful that my family are well. His Ma-
jesty was deeply moved by the petition you forwarded,
and he has also written a gracious reply to the relatives of
the captives. We have heard wonderful accounts of Mrs.
Beke's hunting exploits. Please to give her my best
Christian regards, and accept also the same for yourself.
That our heavenly Father may be with you and us is the
prayer of, yours in the bonds of trouble and gratitude,
If. A. Stu:Y.—Charles Bake, Esq."

THZ RIPEZIHINTATION or ABOYLLBHIRZ.—In
connexion with the festivities at Inverary we may state, as
a bit of gossip in parliament, that it is expected. if not
arranged, that the sitting member for Argyllshire, Mr.
Finlay, will resign the seat in favour of the Marquis of
Loin.—Xi Journal.
THE WILSLZYJN CONFERZZCZ.—At the Wesleyan
Conference, on Thursday, a building committee was ap-
pointed to superintend the erection of a theological insti-
tution at Headingley,at a cost of 12,000/.; and a committee
was also appointed to consider the desirableness of the
erection of another theological institution in the neigh-
bourhood of Birmingham. It was also decided to appoint
the Rev. W. B. Pope successor to Dr. Hannah in the theo-
logical chair at Didabury.
The Lords of the Admiralty will leave London
(mays the Army and Nary Gazette) for Portsmouth on Mon-
day, there to make their usual annual inspection, which
is expected to be one of more than ordinary strictness.
Their lordships will, es soon as they have finished at
Portsmouth, proceed to Portland, and probably thence to
the Channel Islands. They will then go on to Devonport,
and will most likely transact all their business at that port
by the end of the week. The Comptroller of the Navy
will accompany their lordships.
We (Army and Nary Gazette) understand that
on Captain Astley Cooper Key forwarding his resignation
of the command of her Majesty's ship Excellent and the
Governorship of the Royal Naval College to the Admiralty,
their lordships declined to receive it, but instantly ordered
the annoyance of which Captain Key complained to be
removed. Captain Key, therefore, continues to have the
sole direction of all naval gunnery matters at Portsmouth.
Mr. Snider, the inventor of the system of con-
verting Wields adopted by the government, is, according
to the Engineer, suffering from paralysis of the brain,
said to have been greatly accelerated by the worries and
anxieties caused br,oar his uncertain and harassing relations
with government
"THE Lotto Vaeartotr."—Yesterday the long
vacation commenced, and will continue at common law to
the 24th October, and in Chancery to the 28th of the
month. There is now a rest for all pleading'.

1866.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE FRENCH DEMANDS.

Tim Buell, in reference to the demand of territory
made by the French government, contains the

following:
The private despatch which we have received announcing
some difficulties which have arisen between France and
Prumia appeals to us to indicate a new phase in the
internal questions to which the Austro-Prussian con-
flict has given rue. The French government, referring
no doubt to the circumstanoes which were fore-
seen in the Emperor's letter of June 11, has de-
manded, in consequence of the enormous increase
of the power of Prussia, guarantees for France. We
do not as yet know the extent of the rectification of fron-
tier proposed by our government, end, therefore, we re-
serve our judgment ; but it is impossible that on a question
of such gravity, the consequences of which may affect the
repose of Europe, the government can long defer en-
lightening the country on the extent of the demand made
in the name of France.