The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TuESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1866.

is just what all our wile men have foretold.
Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. Lows, Mr. GODLEY, Mr.
GOLDWIN SMITH, and others have warned us that
if we went on garrisoning our colonies we should
demoralise their inhabitants, and render them help-
less and paralytic. Four years ago Mr. ADDERLEY,
in his masterly letter to Mr. Disx&exi, recom-
mended the withdrawal of our troops from British
America, on the ground that the presenoeof English
soldiers there furnishes the colonists with an excuse
for not organising an efficient local force. Since then
the Duke of NEwcairrxr and Mr. CARDWELL have
insisted on the duty of the colonists to provide
for their own defence. In return they draw out
a scheme of military organization on paper, accuse
us of parsimony, and declare that we cannot exist
without them. Their militia is not ready, and
their volunteers cut such a figure when lam. they
were wanted that we cannot wonder if Lord
Moses does not feel safe under their protection.
And let it be noticed by our legislators rnd
politicians that it is these same Canadians, who
talk of our being bound to defend them as we
should an English county, who are now asking
to be entrusted with the government of all
British America, wanting to be among the other
provinces what Prussia is in Germany. A State
which, like Prussia, can knock down and trample
upon its most powerful neighbours, has at least
one qualification for leadership : there may be
danger that it will oppress the weak, bat at any
rate it can protect them. But the people of a
province which cannot defend itself against
marauding bands are not in a position to claim
authority and power over their fellow-subjects.

Chins& nobly because of her connexion with England,
and we have no alternative but to enema* the gamy
with the whole power of the empire.

atiscxusiticove TOPICS.
In narrating the chief details of the lamentable ems of
medical mischance, which is given in another column, the
Times urges that every bottle or other receptacle ought 1
to be labelled with the popular English name as well as
the professional name, and with • brief statement of the ,
poisonous qualities of the content.. If the bottle con-
taining strychnia bad been labelled with the warning
that half a grain of it was certain death to the
strongest man, and if the shop-lad had been
able to read, and had been possessed of se
much sense as an ordinary ploughboy, we do not
see how he could possibly have read the label and
immediately sent • lady enough to kill sixteen men with
directions to take it in half-a-dozen instalments. The
great danger is the class to whom the mixing and manipu-
lation of our drugs is confided. How many mistakes are
made and never discovered. How many are made th►t
may ruin the health, or 'cave life-long traces, without ab-
solutely killing ! How often, for example, has • patient
gone on for months, and eves years, taking twice or
thrice more than was intended of some very potent drug
through the bad writing of the physician or the false
reading of a chymist ! Thousands of blunders never
have been, and never will be, detected.
India costing the British people nothing in money, the
British public spends upon it a corresponding small amount
in thought, but whenthe death rate of the troops has been
brought home in the shape of an inoressed rate of pay to
the whole British army, the Daily News thinks the atten-
tion of the average Englishman will be roused. The
'avenue which could readily bear the cost of • cheap native
army is less able to sustain the incubus of a numerous and
expensive European force. The Daily New proceeds to
contend that the outcry regarding the danger of native
troops is scarcely just. Two native armies out of the
three in India remained faithful; and amongst far-seeing
men the condition of the third army, which eventually
went wrong, was long a source of great anxiety. Sir
Charles Napier almost predicted the event which actually
occurred. Nevertheless, the European army in India
should not be reduced until confidence is restored, and in
the meantime the efficiency of the native troops should be
placed beyond a doubt.
Noting the commencement of the hospital winter session,
the Post remarks that the large majority of English stu-
dents find an opportunity of visiting, if only for a few
months, some one or other of the continental schools,
whilst the medical ren:ews and the text-books which are
printed abroad are directly or indirectly brought under the
constant notice of English practitioners and students. The
result is that the medical profession has become more
liberal in the true acceptation of that term, its members
have become not only more accomplished gentlemen, but
more efficient practitioners, and the lives of the pub"c
have been enti isted to safer keeping. With multi such
as these the country has good reason to be satisfied.

the Court.

BALMORAL, Szpi 29.

The Queen went out in the morning with Prin-
cess Louise, and drove in the afternoon with Princeu Chris.
tian to Alt•na-Guithasach. .

Princess Louise rode in the afternoon, attended by the
Hon. Miss Cathcait.
'

Prince Christian and Pr'-tce Arthur went out deer.
stalk'n.

Despatches werepeceived yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor-General of Canada. Despatches were
sent to the Governors of the West India Islands, British
Columbia, Vancouver's Island, and, the Austre"sn
colonies.

^T
The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote left t3wn rater.
day for Liverpool.

LATEST INTELLIGEti

(mural's Txuaami.)
RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Oar• 2.

The Spenersehe Zeitung of to-day says :—" We
learn upon most trustworthy authority that the
relations between Russia and Prussia are very
cordial.
" Of this Prussia has received from the Czar and
the Imperial Cabinet unmistakable proofs.
" The old Russian party alone evinces distrust
at the aggrandisement of Prussia on account of the
Russian Baltic provinces."

THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE COLORADO.

(M ZLZOTXIC TBLEMLAPIL)
SOUTHAMPTON, TUMDAY.
The United States frigate Colorado left here this
morning for Cherbourg.