The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-28 00:00:00

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(rms DAY.)

The rinses maintains the accuracy of its com-
ments on the misunderstanding of Mr. Bernie, with the
Home Secretary, but is so much obliged to him and his
friends for sparing us another three days' rioting, that it
has no wish to debate anything in a manner unwelcome to
him—hoping it will be long before so laborious an office as
the guardian of the peace over so great an area is again
thrust upon him. The Times perceives with disgust that
the police are accused of brutality, and lands the force for
their calm and forbearing conduct.
The correspondence columns of our contemporaries con-
tinue to be filled with letters treating of the conduct of the
police or of the mob. The Times has several anonymous
communications, describing disgraceful acts of assault on
the pert of isolated bands of roughs, while the Tekgraph
and Star have a still greater number of letters, imputing
acts of atrocity to the police. The Tekgraph quotes the
report of the royal commission which censured the conduct
of the force in 1855, when there were disturbances in Hyde.
park. The commicsioners, after taking a large amount of
evidence, reported many instances in which they considered
the police guilty of " and " unjustifiable violence.•,
The result of the inquiry was the dismissal and punish-
ment of several police constables, 'mid the official censure,
by Secretory Sir George Grey, of Superintendent Hughes,
to whom the general direction of the police bad
been assigned by Sir Richard Mayne. The Telegraph
hopes that at the Agricultural Hall on Monday
large gathering of liberal members of parliament
will Amid on the platform beside the members of the
League and the working men, to treat a subject of such
sudden sad vast importance, as Englishmen know bow to
treat their wrongs.
The Standard threatens the Reform League that if they
continue to hold many more meetings all open-air political
mtherinp will be prevented by the government.
The Pall Mall Gazette compares the interviewbetweentbe

deputation of the League and Mr. Walpole to an inter.
view with burglars, who, it supposes complain that the
police interfere with their trade, and who ask that they
may be removed from the streets. This article is quoted
by the Tian, with the heading " A ParalleL"
It seems that in 1855 the Times was strongly on the
ether side. The Star quotes from it the following lan-
guage :—" Eyde Park is the Champ de Mare of
the English race. We have fallen back on the
custom of our Anglo-Saxon forefathers, who in the
last resort assembled in some open plain, over-
ruled the resolutions of their notables, and decided without
appeal by the acclamation of the whole tribe." "We en.
tirely believe," it added, " that bus for the polies there
would have been no riot ;" and it went on to advise that
no attempt should be made to check the demonstration
on the Sunday following. This advice was taken. On the
Bth the park was open, the police had disappeared, meet-
ings were held, triumphant speeches delivered, and the
excitement rapidly subsided.
The completion of the Atlantic cable forms the topic of
congratulatory articles in the Poet, Tekgraph, Star, he.
Treating of the cholera, the Times dwells particularly

the welleacertained feet that the poison of the disease is
" almost or quite exclusively" contained in the matter
which the patient discharges from his stomach and bowels,
whether by vomiting or purging. Where scrupulous ears
is taken to remove promptly and to disinfect all discharges
from the rick, and where scrupulous cleanliness is
observed, them is comparatively little danger in even the
closest contact with cholera patients. The wards of a
cholera hospital are probably innocuous, not only to
casual visitors, but even to those who are in exemeaut at-

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