The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25.

IT is not without reason that we have lately
been congratulating ourselves upon the limited
duration of the great wars of our time, compared

with those of which our fathers were wit-

nesse& The campaign which seven years ago

raised up the fortunes of Italy was an affair of
weeks ; and this war, which has destroyed thrones
and principalities in Germany and secured the
unity of the nation, has been begun and finished
within a month. On the other hand, great battles
fought in rapid succession enormously swell the
accumulation of sick and wounded soldiers. To
mitigate the severity of the lot of these unfor-
tunate brave men, and soften the inhuman aspects
of war, various proposals have been made from
time to time. One of the most fruitful movements
in this direction is that which initiated the Inter-
national Congress held at Geneva in 1864, and
which has since resulted in the signature by thei
principal European States of a Convention secur-
ing the neutrality of the sick and wounded
in war. This engagement, to which Eng-
land, France, and Prins* but not Austria,
are parties, guarantees the neutrality not only
of the wounded of the belligerent armies, but also
that of the medical offieera Aud their e'siatant4 of
all degrees. Until lately it has not been the cus-
tom of war to treat soldiers disabled by wourd',
or the surgeons and others in attendance oa them,
as neutrals when they have fallen into the hands
of the enemy. Occasionally a general has shown
himself humane, and at other times hostile com-
manders have severally considered it to be for t'"eir
separate interests to make an agreement giving a
neutral character to the wounded and to the me-
dical service ; but the general rule has been to re-
gard both the wounded and the surgeons as prisoners
of war, only to be given up on the principle of ex-
change. Under the new rule, however, a co-amon
flag covers the wounded soldiers, the surgeons, the
sick bearers, the ambulance, and the medicines
and surgical appliances. Ink is a great gain, but
it is not all. We have great pleasure in calling
attention to the following provision which forms
the fifth article of the Convention :
Inhabitants of the country who may bring help to the
wounded shall be respected, and shall remain free. The
generals of the belligerent Powers shall make it their oars
to inform the inhabitants of the appeal addressed to their
humanity, and of the neutrality which will be the cease.
quenoe of it. Any wounded man entertained and taken
care of in a house shall be considered as a protection
thereto. Any inhabitant who shall hare entertained
wounded men in his house shall be exempted from the
quartering of troops, as well as from a part of the contri-
butions of war which may be imposed.

During the last few weeks mention has fre-
quently been made in letters from the seat of war
of the appearance on the battle-field of Prussians
wearing an armlet with a red cross on a white
ground, and they have sometimes been spoken of
as belonging to some religious order. The red
cross on the white ground is, however, the dis-
tinctive mark prescribed by the Convention for all
the individuals neutralised under its provisions.
It is, therefore, not peculiar to any country, but
is borne by the medical officers and attendants
of all services, together with the national colours.
The arrangements just described have been
made with a primary view to the greater security
and efficacy of the regular medical service of
the various governments. But, besides these,
almost every war now calls forth voluntary
efforts, sometimes domestic, but occasionally on
the part of members of foreign neutral communi-
ties, to improve the condition of the wounded sol-
dier and add to his comforts in hospital. Since
FLORENCE N►carrwair.a did her great work at
Scutari we have seen the rise and operation of that
grand organisation of beneficence, the United
States Sanitary Commission, an institution the
example and influence of which will be prolific
Of blessing on many a battle field, but which is
likely to have few equals in the number
and variety of its agencies and the vast-
ness of its resources. The late war in Ger-
many came on too suddenly and closed too
soon to permit the growth of comprehensive
schemes of volunteer help, but private
charity has not been inactive either at home or
abroad. In this country there are as many as five
subscriptions open for the relief of the sick and the
wounded. The Earl of Daman is raising funds
fromamong the aristocracy, and the Catholic gentry
and the Consul-General of Austria are doing the
same among the great banking firms in the City,
for the relief of the Austrian soldiers who are
peculiarly exposed to privations. The Hanoverian
Consul is raising funds for the soldiers of his
State. The Deutsche Hilfs Committee, which has
FERDINAND FRZILIORATII for one of its presidents,
is accepting contributions which, we presume, will
be employed for the most part to camfort those

who have fought for German unity. And
lastly, we have seen win these
_Ow days,
the formation, mainly liisfough the exertions of
Mrs. Sams Solivraas, of 'a Ladies' AstrOft►on
" for the purpose of soliciting aid for the sick and
" wounded and prisoners on all sides in Ger-
" many and Italy." This association, which has
Irwasmm NIGHTINGALE, the Countess of Snarrza-
BURT, Lady LVELL, and Mrs. LIND-GOLDWILICIDT
among its members, appears eminently worthy of
the support of the charitable and humane. Any
money subscribed to it is certain to be wisely and
properly applied, while it has the great advantage
of being free from any mingling of political par-
tisanship with the noble work of philanthrophy.

OUR CONTEMPORARIS.

(TEM DAY.)

THE HTDII PARK 11111 TING.
Speaking simply in the cause of law and order,
the Times repeats that, while it would have preferred
that the park gates had net been shut, but that those who
attempted to address the crowd should be apprehended, it
approves of the prevention of meetings in the park, and
is glad to see that Lord Granville in the House of Lords,
and Sir George Grey in the Commons, do not condescend
to join in the outcry of some of the radical member,.
It trusts that until an adverse judgment be obtained from
• court of justice the government will not abandon their
point, which would be simply to give up the park to every
kind of disorder. There is no wish to prevent the work-
ing class or any other class from holding meetings, and if
they had been willing to make their demonstration at
Primrose-hied, or some other convenient spot, it would
have been at their service. But Hyde-park has been
hitherto maintained for other purposes, and we hope that
the usage will nut be changed.
The apology put forward appears to be, observes the
Daily News, that the crown has an undoubted legal right
to close Hyde-park, and even to turn it into a private
pleasure ground or kitchen garden. Neither Lord
Derby's playful indulgence to frolics of the mob, nor Kr.
Disraeli's smooth protesting phrases of respect for popular
rights, nor even Mr. Walpole's painful benignity, wilt
remove the stigma of Monday night's occurrences from the
government. As to the mode and manner in which the
Home-office and Sir Richard Mayne provoked riot by
preventing it, there were not two opinions among the
independent members who spoke last evening. It was the
violent prevention of a peaceful meeting that did all the
mischief, for which the government—and the government
alone—are responsible.
The Herald describes all that has been said by independ-
ent members last night as rhodomontade, and everything
that was said by the government as irrefragable. The
Standard, in no less than three articles, takes the same
line, using language, however, more extreme and personal
than its contemporary. Mr. Layard is • political adven-
turer. Mr. Mill spoke with the felicity of • beggar set
upon horseback, with the voice and manner of an
angry woman, and with • disregard of truth
and courtesy never perhaps paralleled in Mr
House of Commons, deuonstrating that the ba-
lance of his mind is perfectly gone. As to Mr. Bright,
it would be difficult to exaggerate she guilt of his conduct
—his disloyalty, recklessness, and cowardice.
The Post contends not only that the park should have
been shut, but that the people should have been prevented
in the first instance from collecting into stationary obstruc-
tions of the highway at the various points whence they
started in procession and military array, with banners fly-
ing and bands playing, on their march upon Hyde-perk.
Two or three arrests of the most energetic and persistent
obstructors of the highway would have made the others
reflective and sensible. The Trafalgar-square meeting was
told that there was to be another demonstration in Hyde-
park next Sunday. It is to be hoped that this will be
dealt with in the beginning, upon the principle that pre-
vention is better than cure.

The Telegraph urges that the government has now corn.
pletely proved its incompetence to govern. They dis-
tinctly provoked the collision which has taken place.
Within eight days of actual tory sway the surplus of the
last government has become a deficit, the scheme to
lighten the land of the national debt has been contemp-
tuously abandoned, and the quiet of the metropolis broken
.7) intimmoil and lamentable encounters, of which th'
people are absolutely innocent, and their rulers indubit-
ably guilty.
The Acivreiler also denounces the conduct of the
government as irrational and indefensible. They have
begun their rule mart inauspiciously. Even the bank-
ruptcy reform and workhouse reform, the only things
promised, seem to be given up. The first act of the
government was the perpetration in Ireland of a case of
jobbery aimed unparalleled. They have begun to meddle
and muddle in our foreign policy. Mr. Disraeli osten-
tatiously proclaims his sympathy with mar.ial law, ille-
gality, and misrule in Jamaica ; and Lord Derby's govern.
ment take care to illustrate the announcement by a
manifest tendency towards similar 1110111111 VS at home.

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THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAZ:

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OSBORN% Jinx 24.
Silk. Quad* walked in the grounds yesterday
'afternoon with Princess Louise ; Ind her Majesty went out

tin Court.
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driving thin morning.
Press Louise (Leave out yesterday, attended by lady
Waterperk and Lady Caroline Barring/mt.
The Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Osborne in the after-
noon from London, attended by the lion. K. Yorks.
The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke of
Edinburgh dined with the Queen yesterday ; and the
Countess of Morton (Lady in Waiting to the Princess of
Wales) had the honour of being invited.

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. S. H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Earl of
Carnarvon, General Peel, Viscount Cranborne, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Pakington,
Sir S. Northcote, Lord J. Manner., the Right on.
Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Naas.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon.
Privy Council, consisting of the Lord President and the
Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, met yesterday at the Priv/
Council-office, on the subject of the Cattle Plague. Mr-
Helps and Mr. Harrison were in attendance.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. 0. F. J. Lord, W.
Camps, M.D., Robert Fowler, M.D., T. H. Smith,
F.R.C.S., J. Gibbon. M.D., G. Webster, M.D., A. Leered,
M.D., W. 0. Markham, M.D., E. Ballard, M.D., J. F.
Gibbons, F.R.C.S., A. Stewart, M.D., Dr. Brady, M.P.,
and others, had an interview with the Lord President of
the Council at the Privy Council-office yesterday, relative
to the Vaccination and Peblis Health Bills now before
parliament. Mr. Helps, Mr. Harrison, and Mr. Simon
were present.
A deputation, introduced by Colonel Barttelot, M.P.,
and consisting of Mr. Sclater-Booth, M.P., Mr. Howes,
M.P., Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., Mr. Surtees. M.P., Hon. T.
de Grey, M.P., Lord E. Cavendish, M.P., Sir Charles
Russell, M.P., Mr. Bagge, M.P., Mr. Bass, M.P., Sir E.
Buller, M.P., Lord Eustis*. Cecil, M.P., and Mr. R. Earle,
M.P., had an interview with the Right Hon. the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, at his official residence inDowning-street,
yesterday, on the subject of the repeal of the malt•tax.