The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1867.

tallied. AU the treaties in the world will not
prevent two rival military monarchies coming to
blows at their own ounveuienoe, but it is worth
more than a couple of sittings of a Conference to
gain time for the peace movement which has made
such wonderful progress cithiu the last fortnight
ernong the French people.

Tux announcement by Lord DERBY last evening
of Mr. WALPOLE's resignation will probably not
surprise the public, but unless we greatly mistake
the temper of Englishmen, it will cause a pang of
regret even to the severest critics of the Hone
Bacitersex's administration. In common with
most of our contemporaries, on more than one
occasion we have been unable to do justice to Mr.
WALPOLE'a irreproachable motives and intentions
without calling in question his discretionary
official conduct, and discovering a want of firm-
ness in the discharge of his duties as a Minis-
ter responsible for the administration of the
law and the preservation of the public peace.
But we feel a satisfaction which is superior to all
considerations of party :old to all respect of persons
in recollecting that throughout his brief but
anxious and troubled terns of office no single word
has ever escaped us inconsistent with the respect
the press of a free country owes to the perfect
purity and integrity of a statesman whose faults
were only virtues in excess, and who never
erred but on the side of gentleness and good-
ness ; who was sometimes too scrupulous per
or too austere, hut always high-minded, I
always kind-hearted. Always speaking and acting
with the singleness :and simplicity of purpose of
an honest Christian gentleman. Our readers, we
are persuaded, will not complain of the sympathy
and esteem so emphatically and so chivalrously ex-
pressed by Lord DERRY last evening in regard to
the lions Seearrsay. "We shall feel," said the
PREMIER, " that we are parting with a man than
whom one more amiable, nom) honourable, more
" thoroughly conscientious, I have never had the
" good fortune to act with.-

There is not one of Mr. WALPOLE'S political
adversaries—private and personal adversaries he
certainly has cone—who will not join in this un-
affected and unexaggerated acknowledgment.
Under other circumstances we might perhaps
have coruidered it a duty to discuss the PREMIER'S
apology for the proceedings of the Government
towards the recent meeting in Hyde-park. The
second reading of the Bill of which Mr. P. A.
TAYLOR will move the rejection will afford us an
opportunity of reverting to a subject which we
would gladly have consigned to oblivion. At
present we shall best interpret the feelings of
those whom we care to represent by assuring the
right honourable gentleman who has resigned the
seals of the Home Department, in consequence,
u we are truly sorry to hear, of impaired health,
of the respect which we have never ceased to feel,
and never hesitated to express, for those noble
qualities of a kindly and sensitive nature which,
long after the mistakes and misfortunes of his
ministerial career are forgotten, will live in the not
ungrateful memory of the English people.

OUR OONTEMPORARIEI3.
(THIS DAY.)

of the aff.iir, the Time, believes, is that Mr. Walpole, taking
a hint from the history of Chinese strategy, had intended
to frighten the League. and that when the League dine-
garded his paper n fasces, he and his colleagues had no-
thing to do but to surrender at discretion. People, how-
ever, will he OA to forget it if the government will allow
them. The beat thing will be to give up the idea of legis-
lation, At lust for this seuion. 'We must he content with
the present law as it stands, for no good will be done by
fighting over again in parliament the miserable bottle of
last week.

The TelegrvA mays Mr. Walpole has been made the
scapegoat of the tory congregation. Loral Derby led bins
out into the wilderness last night, and with a parting
sacrificial sigh, left him all alone to bear the sins of the
cabinet. A very few more changes, resignations, and
dismissals, and there will be about as much left of the
original Ministry as there was of the Salaminian trireme
at Athens, which had been cobbled all over from stem to
stern, five times since her launch. This is the fourth
cabinet minister who has disappeared from Lord Derby's
councils in ten months' space.
The Star describes Mr. Walpole as simply a man in
wrong position. His good qualities availed him nothing in a
situation where breadth of view, decision, and aelf-
reliance are essentials to any manner of success. Far
more liberal than Lord Derby, he was denounced by
liberals as Lord Derby never was ; infinitely more ingenu•
ous than Mr. Disraeli, his very veracity has been impugned
by writers with whom Mr. Disraeli is almost a here.

REPRESENTATION OF THE
PEOPLE BILL

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION LAST NIGHT.
In the Committee,—Clause 3 : Amendment again proposed,
in page 2, line 8, after the word " rated," to insert
the words " as an ordinary occupier—The ChAncellor el
the Exchequer : question put, That those words be
there inserted." The Committee divided: Ayes. 322 ;
Noes. 2.W.

catholic constituencies) who voted with the government
against Mr. Gladstone's amendment, all but 10 continued
their support last night to ministers.
The minority consisted exclusively of liberals, counting
with them Messrs. Horsman and Lowe.

The names of Lord Cmnborne, Mr. ft. A. Earle, Sir W.
Heatbcote, Mr. Iteredord-Hope, and Mr. Hubbard do not
appear in the list ; General Peal voted with the govern-
ment despite his speech.
Had the liberal seceders voted with their party the re-
ult would have been a majority of 50 against the govern.
went.