The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 24,

ALL TEAS at ISERCRANTS' PROFITS.
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answered o(--hand„ as Mr. Ric Anno and Mr. Hug-
BMW answer it, wit► recognised authority, on purely
financial grounds. Terminable annuities are, so
doubt, not unfairly described ass wasteful mode 011
raising money for the public service. But this it
but one, and not the larger, aspect of the ques-
tion. National expenditure for national defence
is a political and moral, as well as a financial
question. It may be correct to say that
we are providing for the safety of our pos-
terity ; but our own life interest in the
proper execution of this work is more appreciable
than the interest of our descendants. Is it not
better and juster, and safer, that we should pay,
and feel that we are paying, for our peace and
safety, than that our posterity should pay for our
blunders and our jobs?
Lord Pammsurrox has wisely and with a good
grace acceded to the request that the discussion of
the Ministerial Resolution should be deferred till
Monday next. There are probably few English-
men who, like Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE, are afraid
of giving publicity to these questions. We shall
not be a whit more assailable or defenceless be-
cause we tell all the world where our weak places
and sore points are. We are accustomed to this
public flaying and anatomising process, and we
manage to survive it.

ebt Court.

08BORNT, JULY 23.

Earl Granville returned to London thu morning.

A meeting of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall was
held yesterday at the Duchy-office, Buckingham-gate, St.
James's-park. There were present the Chancellor, Lord
Kings town ; the Keeper of the Privy Seal, Sir William
Dunbar ; the Attorney-General, Sir Wm. J. Alexander,
Lord Portman, and the Secretary, Br. James R. Gardiner.
A deputation from the National Association for the Pro-
motion of Social Science had an interview with the Bight
lion. C. P. Villiers at the office of the Poor-law Board,
Whitehall.

Despatches were received at the Colonial•otBce, yester-
day, hero the Governors of the North American Provinces,
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward's Island.
Despatches wens sent to the Governor of Canada and the
Governors of the settlement, on the West Coast at Africa.

The Marquis La Greca has arrived at the Cla-
rendon Hotel, from Paris.

The Prince and Prinoma Koutchikoff and family
have left the Brunswick Hotel, dermyowtreet, for

Frances Anne Marchioness of Londonderry has
left Holdernesaelklooae for Wynyard Park, Stockton•on-
Tees.

The Earl and Countess of Fife and family have
left Groevenor-cieseent for Scotland.

The Earl and Countess of Warwick have left
town for Kingston-on Thames, where the noble earl has
taken a house for a few months.

The Hon. Spencer and Lady Harriet Cowper
have left Parrance's Hotel for Sandringham Hall, Norfolk.

The Wednesday receptions of Mrs. Dallas at the
American Legation are discontinued owing to the death of
a near relative.

Lady Charlotte Watson-Taylor was 'safely deli-
vered of a daughter on Saturday, at her residence in
Grosvenor-square.

Mr. R. J. Mulford, M.P., and Mrs. Holford
have left Park-lane for their seat, Westonbirt, Gloucester-
shire.

The Lord Bishop of London has appointed the
Rev. James Matthew Roberto; ILA., at present secretary
to the Church of England Scriptnre Readers' Society, and
curate of Grosvenor Chapel, to the perpetual curacy of St.
Botolph, Altlgat4, in the City of Loudon, now vacant by the
death of the Rev. Richard Pease Baker Y.A.