The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-06 00:00:00

REM ARKS.

Atmospherics] pressure diners but little from what It was yes.
tanlay, and Is unsteady. Temperature has increased to the east
and north ; and moderate westerly winds generally prevail with
an overcast sky, and with fog at places In the south-west.

THE Paiwcass of WALES.—" We regret to state
that during the past week there has been very little progress
indeed in the condition of the knee-joint of her royal high-
ness. There have been slight alternations, but the pre-
sent condition is very little in advance of that which we
rep irted last week. On some nights the princess has
slept well ,• at other times her rest has been disturbed,
and there have been periods of pain. The general health
of the princess has not, however, we are happy to learn,
suffered during the week ; and medical men will know
bow to appreciate this important and favourable fact.
The limb is mall confined in splints, and slung, to give it
ease. We hope in our next impression to give a more en-
tirely satisfactory report."—British Medical Journal.
WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 26.—The Queen was
this day pleased to confer the honour of knighthood upon
Rear-Admiral Henry Mangles Denham, F.11..5., and upon
George Harvey, Req., president of the Royal Scottish
Academy.—. Gazette. . . _

At a religious meeting last week, at Church-
street Chapel? Camberwell? an " unconverted" visitor
paid for two sixpenny tea tioketa with a bad half-crownl;
and after doing Gargantuan trencher feats, departed ere
the collection, with three purses abstracted from the
pockets of absorbed hearer.—South London Preu. _

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A Conference of English Presbyterians in Lon-
don was held on Wednesday ' at which it was announced
that the Rev. 13. Cairns, of Berwick, hiss declined the
vacant chair of theology in the Presbyterian College in
London, to which he was invited. A long discussion
then took place on the union question, in which there
was a general feeling expressed that, in the event of no
gr being made at the ensuing General Assembly and
y node: the Presbyterians in England should set about
seeing if • union could not at ono* be effected amongst
themselves. _ _

FAME WEIGHTS AND MEASUBS.S.—CAJNVICTIoNR.
—At the Sessions House, Clerkenwell-green, this after-
noon, before • bench of county magistrates' Mr. Warner
in the chair, 25 tradesmen were summoned for using and
keening improper weights and measures against the
public. Mr. Faulooner, the inspector of weights and
measure', stated that some of the parties who had offended
had been before fined for the same kind of offence. The
fines inflicted varied in amount from 2s. 6d. to several
pounds.
UNPRECEDENTED QUANTITIES OF Tex IN THE
NORTH ATLANTIC.—It has been asserted that the severe
weather recently experienced in Great Britain and France
was due to atmospheric disturbances in the North Atlantic
o Han, and all arrivals at Liverpool from New York and
other ports in the Unit, d States and Canada report un-
p.ecedented quantities of ice in mid ocean, about 44 N.
lat. and 53 W. long. One vessel had to sail for nearly 200
miles in a southerly direction alongside • perfect conti-
nent of ice, while others passed weburgs of enormous
size, all much further south than is common at this
season.
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1E HEREFORDSHIRE HOONDS.—The danger
which has lately threatened fox-hunting in Herefordshire,
arising from the difficulty experienced of finding a slimes-
sof to the gentlemen who have hitherto hunted the county,
is now considerably lessened by the fact that Sir Velum
Cornewall, Bart. and Mr. John Hungerford Arkwright
have, under a certain condition, offered to retain the joint
mastership of the pack. The condition stipulated for is
that a subscription of 1,5001. a year toward.; the expenses
of the kennels shall be guaranteed, and an effort is now
,being made to raise she necessary sum. A circular solicit-
ing subscriptions to the hunt has been forwarded to the
leading gentry of the county, and the committee state
that in making the appeal they are actuated by the belief
that the break-up of the Herefordshire pack, which it
appears to them would be the almost certain result of the
failure of the arrangement now proposed, " would be felt
as a general misfortune by the county at large, and they
hope that a hearty and early response will be made to their
application." _ .

Are HONEST CABMAN. —The following appears in
the Times :—" Sir,—l loot a purse yesterday in • cab, con-
taining 15f. in Bank of England notes, and as I had not
noticed either the driver or the number, I was altogether
without redress. In the evening a cabman came to my
lodgings with my purse, but, finding me out, said he
would come again this morning at 10 o'clock. Exactly at
10 he came with my purse and its contents. I
gave him 5/., and much commendation for his honesty,
and before he went away he ea'd he bad a little favour to
oak, and that was to have it put into the Times that
' there really was such a thing as an honest
remain, yours obediently, J. P. London, April 5." The
Tintea adds, "We believe, from no inconsiderable expe-
rience, that there is no equally numerous body of men
more unjustly belied than the metropolitan cabmen."
ADMIRALTY, APRIL S.—APPOINTMENTR. —Mas-
ter's Assistant H. F. Yonge, to the Orontes. Chief Engi-
neers J. Sanders and C. F. Jordan, to the Minotaur.
Engineers W. Holloway, J. Hopwood, and H. Harrison,
to the Minotaur. First-class Annstant Engineers W. Han-
kinson, J. A. Rowe, and A. B. Gutteri.lge, to the Mino-
taur. Acting Second-class Assistant Engineer J. F. Lewis,
to the Minotaur.

MR. GuinferoN-E.—But the great superiority of a
man like Mr. Gladstone is that there is no limit to the
development of his mind. Had an inferior man written
his work on " Church and State " he would have remained
the eulogist of the church to the end of his days, for
he would have been unable to answer, and perceive the
fallacy of his own arguments. His mind could never
have ripened so as to tender it clear to him that it was
for the benefit of the nation at large that clerical inter-
ference should be restricted within the narrowed limits.
Indeed, it is but a year since the question of terminating
the disputes about church rates appeared to Mr. Glad-
stone to be paramount to maintaining what had seemed
to him to be a bulwark of the church ; consequently, he
began to labour as hard for a settlement as he h►il for-
merly resisted every attempt at compromise. If it be
once clearly put before Mr. Gladstone, that to persist in
a particular course is to foster discontent and perpetuate
injustice, he cheerfully sacrifices convictions founded on
theories, sets himself to grapple with the question as a
practical one ; and doss this with such evident sincerity
that the most spiteful opponent is unable to find a reason
for charging Mm with reckless inconsistency. In him the
theorician who can chop logic is combined with the com-
mon-sense man of business. Hence his budget speeches
are such masterly expositions of general principles applied
in the most effective way to the case in hand. He recon-
ciles what ought to be done, with what is practicable at
the moment. He resists the temptation to obtain a
temporary reputation as a brilliant financier at the ex-
pense of workable schemes of retrenchment, venturing
much in order to reduce taxation, yet retain a surplus ;
but always taking care that a future surplus is almost a
certainty. Watminsfer &ricer, April number.