The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-23 00:00:00

which the presbyterian church holds public authority in
Sootland, and in offering • alight to the established
church of the sister ldngdom he is disparaging his own
title to public recognition. fie has no more right to inter-
fere with the establiehai shush of Scotland than with
the province of the Archbishop of York or the Archbishop
of • Dublin, or than the Pope has to interfere
with the &mew . of ;the Archbishop of Ossiterbury„
Tits 101%0 of the speeches at the inaugural banquet doornei
*ern the error. The archbishop absolutely repudiated
fellowship with the church of the Scottish nation, which
the Times, on the contrary, maintains is the true reprr
*dative of the English establishment, and receives pr.-
steely the same recognition. The climax, however, was
reached by the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles. Archbishop
Laud gained an commvishle notoriety for dmilsrly injn:
dicious prooeedinp, but we should hardly have thought
that anyone would have had the audacity to quote the
precedent. The Bishop of Argyll, however, rejoiced at
the presence of one who was the representative, among
others, of " k-Becket, who contended for the principle, of
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eeolasiaetioal fnedom ; and of Load, who saw in mon-
soft," sad, we may add, in episoopmy, " a divine right.''
After this ebullition, nothing further, the 2Nriat think*,
can be needed to condemn the course taken by the arch'
bishop.

MB TOPICS.

By the result of the plebiscite, which in this case was an
idle farce, Victor Emmanuel, the Time says, is now Dogs
of Venice, by all the titles acknowledged in ancient or
modern times. Poor Venice coma last. to the gathering
of her Italian sisterhood. She who was the inn to emerge
from the flood of northern invasion in the dark ages, and
the last raft of her freedom in days of national hiunilia-
Eon and enslavement—she, too, at last, has seen her re-
demption.
The Herald says that the spirit and fairness with which
the Mexican Emperor maintains his throne, prove at least
that he is worthy to govern, and it is too soon as yet to
pronounce his attempt a failure. Time is in favour of the
Mexican Emperor, together with the irreooncileable hatreds
of the factions opposed to,bnt not banded together against
him. The undertaking at any rate will never be despised
by history ; while those who refute the Emperor Napoleon
the credit of a generous idea, conceived in the common
interest of mankind, will simply deny him the joint)e due
to all disinterested motives. _ _

The Timer is inclined to believe that President Johnson
will no longer oppose the declared will of the North. He
has spoken violently and menacingly, and his phrase, a
re►olutionary body," applied to Congress, may well excite
alarm among the members, and induce them to take
measures of self-defence. On the other hand, Mr. Sumner
and others of the opposite party, among whom General
Butler is conspicuous, have inveighed against Mr. Johnson
in a style seldom applied to the chief of a State. It must
be remembered, however, that these speeches were made
before the electicos, and with the avowed purpose of stir-
ring up party energy to the utmost. They all have the cha-
racter of hustings' harangues, and must be estimated as
The Tdegraph denounces an extraordinary sentence of
the Bolton magistrates in one of the grossest cases ever
reported. A ruffian who the other day waylaid a young
lady in a lonely lane, and in his vile, though unsuccessful
attempts injured her so much that when help
tame ohs was bleeding much about the head, great
quantities of her hair having been torn out by the roots,
has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment. In
explanation of this leniency, we are informed that wit-
nesses were produced who testified "to the good moral
character of the prisoner." Good moral character (exclaims
the TefegropA) of a man proved guilty of such an atrocious
offence ! For the future our thieves bad better produce in
evidence that they have learned the church catechism, and
our murderers should bring witnesses to show that hitherto
they have been weak to a fault in their horror of blood-
shed ! The trial of this man is a signal failure of justice,
a disgrace to the perception of the Bolton bench ; and
when the scoundrel comes out of prison he will be a walk-

ingproof that in England it is safer coolly to outrage the
highest moral laws than to commit a theft under the
pangs of hunger.

Elie Court.

BALMORAL, Oar. 20.

The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess
Christian, and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe
went so the Lynn of Quoich.
Princess Louise rode in the morning, attended by the
Hon. Emily Cathcart.
Prince Arthur left the Castle for the Ranger's Lodge,
Greenwich, attended by Major Elphinstose.
The Duke and Duchess of Aumale, attended by Mdlle.
Clincharap, dined with the Queen and the royal family.
The Duke of Buckingham has arrived at the Castle, and
is minister In attendance upon her Majesty.

The Queen of Denmark, the Prince and Princess of
Wales, Princess Thyra, Prince Waldemar, Prince Albert
Victor, and Prince George, with the ladies and gentlemen
in waiting, left Marlborough-house yesterday, for Sand-
ringham.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the Mauritius, the Australian
Colonies, Hong Kong, Ceylon, Malta, Gibraltar, and the
North American Provinces.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at_
tended by the principal members of his household, will
leave England on the 4th of the ensuing month for St.
Petersburg, to be present at the nuptials of the Csarewitch
of Russia and the Princess Dogmas..

His Excellency the Bavarian Minister and
Baroness de Cetto are expected to return to the Bavarian
Legation early in the ensuing week from Brighton.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and
Mrs. and the Misses Gladstone have left Bologna for home.

The Count de Paris, with the countess, and the
Duke and Duchess de Chartres, have arrived at Venice.

The photograph of " Lord Layard " appears in
the shop windows at Venice.
General Klapka, the commander of the late
Hungaro-Pressian Legion, has repaired to Paris. On his
way thither he had au interview with some other Hunga-
rian exiles, who met him at Cologne.

King Leopold's banquet continues to be the
theme of conversation at Brussels. It is not a little re-
markable that from the commencement of the feast to the
close no guest had to ask for anything. There were no
fewer than 230 servants in attendance, and every want of
any of the company was anticipated by them with an
intelligent readiness. The number of plates used on the
occasion was 20,000 ; there were 15,000 wine glasses and
2,000 dishes on the table, and yet everything was served
with as little confusion as if the party was a small one in
a gentleman's house. The King of the Belgians is said to
be nervous about his English ; but he had no occasion to
be so. On Saturday he spoke his English speech admirably.
There was no undue emphasis, and but a slight foreign
pronunciation. His French speeches are spoken with much
fluency.

On the Bth the Queen of the Sandwich Islands
took her departure from San Francisco for Hawaii.

The Sultan has presented the Sisters of Charity
of St. Vincent de Paul with a piece of land, called
Tchaukourßodon, ii Top-Kane, for the purpose of erecting
thereon an orphan asylum. The conduct of these re-
Sigieusea during the prevalence of the cholera in 1863 has
procured them this imperial favour.
The Roman catholic Plenary Council, met on the
7th at Baltimore, the proceedings being opened by a grand
service in the large cathedral of that city. Over 40,000
people in and around the cathedral took part in the open-
ing services. Two hundred and eighty-three ecclesiastics,
among them seven archbishop., twenty-eight bishops, and
three mitred abbots, are in attendance at the council.
The council was formally opened by Archbishop Spalding,
the primate of the United States, who presided, and ad-
, dressed the assembled clergy in Latin. The proceedings,
1 which were in secret, continued all the week.
St. Patrick's Roman catholic cathedral in lsiew
York has been destroyed by fire, the loss being estimated
at 200,000 dots.
In St. Petersburg tipsy people are lodged for the
night at the police stations, and in the morning obliged to
do penance as scavengers.

INTELLII

PRUSSIA.

of Herr Twesten, one of the most

the Progresist party in the
Prussian Chamber of Deputies, a prosecution, com-
menced nine days after the proclamation of the
amnesty, for is speech delivered by him before the
war on the subject of the elections, has produced in
Prussia a very *herd impression. The Cologne
Gazette asks whether the present ministers with
the exception of Count ton Bismarck and General
von Roon, should not, in consequence of their ante
oedents, retire from office in order to make room for
new men who would aid the PreAident of the Council
in carrying out the ruy al programme union between
, the nation and the crown. The Weiler Gazette
remarks that if Couut Bismarck was mutter of
his own actions he would long ago have separated
from his present colleagues. It is the general
opinion in Berlin that a partial modification of the
Cabinet is inevitable and that the replacement of
Count Von Lippe, the present Minister of Justice,
will be the first pledge of reconciliation which
the crown will offer to the desires of the nation.

A letter from Rome in the Debats says :

la entioipation of the great events which are in prepara-
tion, a kind of truce exists between the government and
its subjects. The latter are crushed by misfortune ;
they suffer from the dearness of provisions,
from the scarcity of cash and the absence
of strangers. But they are persuaded that this is a
transitory state of thing's. The government is aware of
its unpopularity and its weakness and knows that the old
machine will soon cease to work. Every one is persuaded
that a sweeping political change must soon be effected.
The Romans expect it with hope and confidence, the
poorer clergy without much apprehension—the prelates
and cardinals with terror. The liberals are doing
nothing to bring it about because they know it must come
of itself—the clericals are doing nothing to prevent it—
because they know it is not in their power to do so. There
is not a particle of jealousy in the satisfaction with which
the Romans view the liberation of their brethren of
Venice. It is their turn to-day, they observe ;it will be
ours to-morrow, for the unity of Italy will only really be
accomplished when the possession of Rome shall have
crowned the edifice.

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