The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-13 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS.

Considering the subject of the cholera visitation, the
Times assumes that as it would appear that we can do
nothing better with the disease than we did with the
rinderpest, and that stamping out is the only system of
action, there is nothing at all chimerical in the proposal to
track the disease to its original source, and there stamp it
out before it reaches Europe at all. We should have just
as much reason, in short, for maintaining barriers against
cholera in Turkey as the Prussians and Austrians have for
maintaining barriers against rinderpeat in Russia and Hun-
gary. Suob cordon', we are told, if notabsolutely effective,
are effective for long periods together, and are only excep-
tionally known to faiL On the prospects of futures. zarity
thus opened It is perhaps too early to enlarge, but it would
certainly be wrong in us to neglect a most important pre-
caution brought apparently within our command.
The Daily News reminds its readers that while
the friend, and opponents of Governor Eyre are disputing
whether that gentleman " saved" Jamaica, there is
another ex-colonial governor lately arrived among us to
whom belongs the merit of saving the colony of Victoria.
By this we mean that he averted an insurrection, and the
ulterior loss of the colony to the British crown. That and
nothing less is the service which Sr Charles Darling has
rendered to his country. Without the suspension of any
security for personal liberty, without imprisoning • sitr.,,le
man, he has carried Victoria through a crisis which the
Colonial-office did its best to aggravate, and for that ser-
vice he has been disgraced and ruined. Sir Charles Dar-
ling, it is known, intends to appeal from the injustice of
Mr. Cardwell to the House of Commons.
The Herald has an article which has a curious
effect upon those who remember the policy with which,
until comparatively of late, it has been identified. It is
an argument against the extension of the suffrage, founded
on the fact that Victoria, which is so democratic in its
government, adheres to a protectionist tariff I The reasons
and arguments used in its favour, it says, are such as
might satisfy " the shade of the much-abused Chowler or
Sibthorp." The tariff is "as curiously miscellaneous as
any tariff in the worst days of protection. It is a model,
In fact, of all the worst fiscal errors of the darkest financial
age. It revives every fallacy which in England his been
exploded, and returns to every abuse which England has
corrected."
Of Mr. Carlyle the Star asks,—must every true ruler be
a usurper'—every true governor the man who traits sole')
in his own notion of what is right' For, according to Mr.
Carlyle's system, the man fit to govern must show himelf
fit to govern by grasping power ; and as it is in the nature
of things that few great men have equally great sons,
it follows that • succession of good governors is
to be secured only by • succession of revolu-
tions. What became of the protectorate after
Cromwell's death' What became of Prussia's
vast territories after Frederick's death ? To take • modern
instance, who will bolster up the present state of things
in France when he who has raised that stately but inoon-

groom; edifice is no more? If hero-worship means that
there shall be no law in a country but the will of a weak
and vacillating, or a violent and unprincipled man, then
the less of hero-worship we have the better; and, instead,
we would rather be guilty of that " blind and disgraceful
act of public injustice" which declare* that an English
lawgiver is not beyond the trammels of English la ar.
The Telegraph supporta Mr. Gladstone in his abstention
from a formal alliance with the National Reform Union.
The statesman who is in office, or who has been in office,
and is to be there again, cannot become the promoter of
political sedation' without sacrificing his public efficiency.
A man of strong convictions may with perfect honesty,
and without any sacrifice of self-respect, take upon him-
self the function of missionary preacher in promulgating
the doctrines byforce of which he seeks to obtain popular
support. But the work of the expounder and teacher Is
altogether distinct from that of a practical statesman, and
the two characters cannot be combined without injury to
both. A minister of the crown is not called on to
proselytise.

The Commissioners of Inland Revenue acknow-
ledge the receipt on the 11th instant of the first
halves of Bank notes for 951.

Mr. O'Donnell, one of the divisional magistrates
at Dublin, attended at Mountjoy Prison on Tuesday, and
admitted to bail the following prisoners who bad been de-
tained in custody wider the Suspension Act :—JohnLehey,
Thorns@ Lennox, Garret Doyle, Thomas Gallagher, and
Patrick Mu!hewn.

Her Majesty's ship Esk arrived at Wellington,
New Zealand, on the 22nd of July from the north, with
the celebrated Waikato chief William Thompson on board
who came down, in accordance with his promise to the
Governor, to lay before the Assembly what it is the na•
tines really want.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE DEATH OF GENERAL.MOURAVIEFF
On this subject the Temps of this day comments
as follows :

General Mouravieff was found dead in his bed in the
country. Did he die, as is stated, of apoplexy? There
was a time when it was said that men of
mark in Russia rarely died a natural death. No one
in Europe has forgotten the cynical ferocity with
which this blind servant of the Czars spread terror, ruin,
and punishment throughout his government of Lithuania.
and determined to obliterate in that unhappy
country every trace of the Polish element. Mouravieff
was recalled from his post, but we know that the imperial
favour was bestowed on this gloomy tormentor, and that a
letter of the Russian sovereign publicly thanked him
for his inappreciable services to his country. He
was again brought upon the public scene by the attempt
made on the life of the Emperor by Earakaaotf, and was
appointed president of the commission charged with the
inquiry into that matter. He set himself to work
at once, and soon succeeded in making out of what
probably was but the crime of an individual an
immense conspiracy. A portion of the labours of
this commission has been published which reads like a
reminiscence of Tacitus. Nobody escaped from suspicion.
Owing to the wanderings of imagination, suspicions, and
deletions, he succeeded in bringing even a member of
the family of his master into complicity with the attempt.
But he found!one day that he displayed too much zeal ;
he was dismissed from the presidency of the commission,
and the commission itself was dissolved. His papers,
however, remain, and there are many persons in Russia
whom the shade of the sanguinely Mouravieff w:'l haunt
for many a day.