The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20.

Tas Peers have once more proved themselves
worthy their reputation. The Church Rate Abo-
lition Bill is added to the list of measures which,
having been repeatedly approved by the House of
Commons, have been peremptorily rejected by the
House of Lords. Of course everybody expected
this result. It is so generally understood that a
measure need only have the practical sense and
free spirit of the country on its aide to secure the
stern disapproval of their Lordships ea democratic,
lawless, and revolutionary. Lord LYVIDEN per-
formed with great judgment and ability the delicate
and difficult task of explaining to the most exclu-
sive assembly in the world the opinions concern-
ing Church Rates which the untitled public
presume to hold. People who are too busy to
study the House of Lords in the awfulness of its
power arc not aware of the temerity implied in
an attempt to represent the opinion of the com-
munity to that august assembly, nor of the good
fortune which sends them from time to time some
new peer ready with the rashness of inexperience
to undertake the task. As Lord LYVEDEN reminds
us, Lord Diary had demanded in the House of Lords
on a similar occasion, who would "have the
" courage" to appear before their lordships with the
same bill. This is how a measure adopted by the
representatives of the people is received in the
House of Lords. Let Lord Lr miss then have
credit for courage in taking charge of the bill.
The arguments brought against the bill were
suitable to an assembly which votes by proxy, and
appear to have been employed only to simulate
a genuine debate. The striking argument of
the Duke of Muumuu:woe, that the fruits of the
industry of this generation were assigned to our
Protestant Church in a clause of Magna Charta, is
sufficiently answered by the report of the Select
Committee of which his Grace was president, and
which recommended the abolition of Church
Rates and the substitution of what Earl Da GREY
and RIPON correctly described as a voluntary rate.
The great fact to be noted in the proceedings of
last night is the full and express recognition by all
parties that all compromise on this subject has
become impossible. In this respect the Duke of
NIWCAMTLR'S speech deserves attention. The
advocates of Church Rates would not hear of con-
cession while compromise was practicable. They
stood upon principle. They have since aban-
doned their principle in Mr. Wiarota's Bill, and
again in the reconanendations of the Lords' Corn•
snake. Church Rates are supported now by
nothing but the obstructive power of the House
of Lords.

Ws are officially informed that the following
arrangements have been made for the issue of
tickets of admission to the galleries to be erected
in Hyde-park upon the occasion of the Volunteer
Review on Saturday next :—Members of the
House of Peers will obtain tickets at the House
of Lords. Members of the House of Commons
will obtain tickets through the Speaker. Tickets
have been forwarded to the officers who are to
command brigades for distribution among the
several corps of which their brigades will be com-
posed, and therefore all volunteers who wish for
tickets must apply to their commanding officers.
All Akers, however who purpose attending in
uniform will be admitted within the lines in a
place set apart for the purpose without tickets.
The remaining tickets will be distributed at the
War-office, except in the case of a certain number
of reserved seats, for which tickets are to be ob.
tallied at the Office of Works.

TH.It CROWN AND THE GUARDS.

TO TER UNTO, OF TIM nrar-4.4.
MAN omigutis
Partite vabia.

Mia,—Whatever Alexander Humboldt may have
written in his confidential moments about
" star•terraces," the Prince Consort is very
well up in the annals of his Regiment of Guards;
and he renders hearty justice to their glorious
serviont abroad and their temperate and orderly
conduct as the permanent garrison of London.
But here, sir, I patine aghast. I nib my eyes and
ask myself whether, by some inexplicable process,
I have in a moment passed over to Hanover or
Hesse, or to the Grand Duchy of Mangold-cum-
Wurzel, and and listening to an harangue of that
fierce representative of the monarchical principle to
his formidable Intly-guanl of four men and a cor-
poral I Or, worse and worse, am I liitening to the
Grand Duke late of Modena, or to the enlightened
and humane Francis (still) of Naples, feasting his
faithful troops, who, if Lis Austrian mother is as
good as her word, are &tinned to convert Naples
into • Pompeii t What in the name of a free,
loyal, and united nation, and of • monarchy esta-
blished is the hearts of a faithful people, and not
on the bar mete of devoted regiments, does language
of this sort mean d I have heard it at Paris, at
Vienna, at Berlin, at Naples ; but in London, iu
1800-0! Richard ! 0! mon rod !—is a strange
theme for so eminent • composer's variations.
Rut, gentlemen, the duty al the British soldier is, mil, r.
Unwisely, not e+milsod to ornate( the external seetnies of
his country It has hem Aw Jb4 aosidisies to stand is
arms cyst; al I ita Ads NM reessrpeni—a moundul task,

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