The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-04 00:00:00

TEM EIRRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY mots '4
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Revue Francai,se, the Journal dr Tours, the Cont. fpm, scram* gives in anotkigtoolumnithat eta engine.
mtrce A (Oriel', the Tribune Ourrittre, and thel not Lard Wodehomilk wee first at.
Journal de Cochers were several/4y suispressed for • nit Tina lands gm dignitiedleanner is *Wei the judi-
" treating questions of politics and social economy dalts~siry isle
*ten necessity whichir compelledh hbs e
governsaed
ment ;and.
menttti "in°
" without authorizatiots over
"n, and their managers and Ohief Justice Lefroy, who seems determined that a 's-
printers were sentenced to various terms of im- ' many in his high positioe shall not be conceded to any ex-
prisonment, and to fines amounting in all to three tarsal presume, odds that the manner in which Justices
thousand one hundred francs. One of the number Keogh and Fitzgerald have presided leaves nothing to be
aggravated its offence by publishing the speech of densed, and that should • Multi's' wave of fortune
the EMPEROR on opening the Chambers. The elevate either or both of them to the position of chief
accusation against editors and public writers which joumikmt the latwiswilltbet.atbe:Spilheentrdecued TN", t the
tuba administration at.Ta
is most in favour with the French Government is meaner in which the jams both at Dublin and Cork die.
that of holding the Government up to ridicule and ehsrged their office does them depths highest honour, and
exciting hatred and contempt of it, and some of the day will come when the miserable men who have fallen
the most refined minds of France have been held by into the heeds of the law will awake from their dream,
the courts to be guilty of this offence. The Courrier sad that awakening will be all the more bitter because it
will be attended with •a consciousness that they have lost
du Dimanche, which is frequently the vehicle of
M. PREVOST PARADOL'E keen satire, received a themselves use for •cm failure in which is probably better
for them than even ' .
warning on this ground in March, and that brilliant The trials, in the opinion of the Telegraph, supply mitis-
writer having at a later date published an article factory teeth:may to an improved state of public feeling is
showing that to punish for exciting to hatred and Ireland. Ws have had the hitherto unexampled spectacle
contempt of the Government would make ell of a disloyal conspiracy with which the Irish peasantry, as
o• body, haltionoolsytompathred ayt;i and w
tude ofhicthh the clergyuito had
serious discussion of governmental sate simply
impossible, the journal received another warning, their?
is a significant wieuing etol*ruut revo-
on the pretence that M. PARADOL'S argument was lutionista. The trade of agitation in Relied had already
"an attack on the existing laws, and an offence to ceased to thrive—and we may now hope that it is absolutely
" the magistrates who administer them." Ab- stopped.
surdity cannot be carried further than this pee-
tepee of denying that criticism, to be serious, must
be at liberty to ridicule and stigmatise the weak or
the bad elements in that which is discussed. But
the whole system of prosecutions and annoyances
practised by the French Government towards the
prase is inexpressibly petty and mean. It was
not in this peddling way that the great rulers of
past ages defended themselves. Ceomiezu.,
whose acts often challenged censure, was accus-
tomed to say, " My Government is not worth pre-
" serving if it will not stand paper shot." A just
and lawful Government may safely and even with
advantage encourage the freest discussion, while it
is only for a time that a reckless ruler can save
himself by harassing the press. The EMPEROR'S
system, however, has been so persistently adhered
to that it will probably be continued to the end of
his reign. Its natural consequences are disclosing
themselves every day, and may be seen in such
demonstrations as those which lately took place at
Liege. The EMPEROR is not the first who has
tided to govern a community the more easily by
putting out its eyes. In the atheism and blas-
phemy, the total perversion and confusion of all
moral ideas exhibited in the speeches at Liege, the
EMPEROR may see the qualities of the generation
which he is training up to trouble the government
of his son.

Wit. CARDWRLL AYD THZ JAMAICA, coinussior.

Though the Colonial Secretary, according to the Times,
has shown an excessive deference to a small and by no
means important part of the community, he has not, it
adds, received a ward of common acknowledgment from them,
but, on the contrary, is spoken of as incapable and preju-
diced. Hi language at Oxford the other day appears to the
Times to evince a wanes and a generosity of spirit which
have been hardly apparent in some ministerial utterance'.
Perhaps the government hive discovered within the last
month that there is* large, though comparatively quiescent,
mass of public opinion in favour of supporting men who
have successfully performed an arduous duty, who have
saved a British colony from murder and rapine, and whose
conduct has been approved in the most deliberate and em-
phatic manner by the constitutional representatives of the
island, as well as by the entire class which possesses educa-
tion and property. Although the vituperation and menaces
of a party in England might justify the Governor and the
principal officers in considering themselves as prisoners on
their defence, and as entitled to maintain a due reserve in
their answers, the Times cannot doubt that they will give
the Commission all the support in their power in its teak of
asairtaining the truth.
The Advertiser accuses the Tints of suppressing the
details given in the Jamaica newspapers of the l►te dis-
turbs's'''. The readers of the Times have been kept in
ignorance up to this moment of the appalling fact, stated
distinctly in the Jamaica journals, that the death of four
or five-and-twenty whites in an affray was revenged
by hanging and shooting more than 2,000 negroea.
Following the lead of the Time, all the partisans
of Governor Eyre, add" the Advertiser, positively re-
fame to credit this fact, persisting in the groundless plea
that it is "an exaggeration." How do they know it to be
an exaggeration? They accept, from these same Jamaica
journals, every little detail concerning the cruelties com-
mitted by the negroes ; but when they come to the opposite
view and meet with the statements of these papers as to the
number of blacks who were put to death, they at once
refuse to credit the account What is this, but to say in
plain terms, " We will not believe these statement', because
we don't like them." The truth, however, of these ao-
counts is daily becoming more firmly established.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

TOPICS FOR PI

The Times comments on the fresh aspect which is
given to the question of our national debt by the sudden
growth of • similar debt in America, and the intentions
there expressed as to its treatment, urging an effective
acceleration of our present rate of repaymeat. Supposing
we went on steadily at our present rate of reduction, we
should not have the ple inure of cancelling the last bond,
and declaring the state out of debt, before the year A.D.
2,270, and then under circumstances probably very different
from any we can now anticip►te. England at present is
trifling with her duty. It is little else than child's play to
leave an existing obligation to be dischsrged by the people
who may happen to be living in these islands, and inheriting
our name, in the 23rd century of the Christian era. The
United States government finding itself in our case seriously
talks of liquidating the debt not in four hundred years,
not in • century, but in thirty years. What if it should
accomplish that bold design ? The United States will
then, if all be well, be twice as populous and twice as rich
as they are now ; and if they ohs.' also have paid off their
present debt, they will enjoy a confidence far stronger
than that from simple uniudebtednees—the confidence,
namely, of those who have both borrawed and paid, with
still increasing resources. Is it, then, quite out of the
question to suggest • rate of repayment that shall contain-
plate, we will say, some such period as one century. in-
stead of the four centuries supposed in the present rate ?
The Herald disputes the calculations wh'cb would give
to the national balance-sheet on the 31st of March a con-
siderable surplus, for it is in the quarter now running that
the reductions will be principally felt, This quarter will
probably have a decline of at least • million in the income
tax, and " stamps" and the fire insurance may be expected
to show considerable desrease. There may be • surplus,
but it will be nothing like the sum which our ministerial
contemporaries have predicted. The budget was a good
one, but it simply carried out the principle. which the con-
servative opposition urged with so much energy, and which
in the first years of his present chancellorship Mr. Glad-
stone resisted with so much violence.
The same journal discusses the question of the reduction
of the army, arguing that to sacrifice any of the national
strength without the tallest security that it may be dis-
pensed with for a considerable time to come, is a weak
and mischievous policy ; and to run the risk for • mere
party purpose is something a great deal worse. The former
justification certainly does not exist at the present moment,
and let us hope that the latter tactic is one to which even •
whig government would not descend. But appearances are
suspicious, and the peril to oar national position which
seems to be threatened might well be attributed by an un-
charitable Opposition to the government ueosseitiee and Mr.
Bright.
The Daily Telegraph finds that the large towns which
have sprung up into importance since the era of the last
Reform Bill are eagerly demanding enfranchisement. Dar-
lington, Dew.buty, Burnley, Doncaster—all these are
anxious for mere direct representatioo ; and no doubt can
be felt that other claimants will speedily make their voices
heard. Whether or not the precise claims put forward at
these reform meetings can be substantiated and enforced,
the discussions themselves are an index to public opinioo.
While the governmens, supported reluctantly by the
" moderates," are preparing to press on a measure
of enfranchisement, and the tories are making ready for •
struggle, it remains only to see what will be the course of
action pursued by those who are vaguely termed "radicals,"
and who are equivocally dubbed "extreme." On this
point the speeches of Mr. John Bright are all important,
and they prove he is ready to accept any well-considered
measure which will enfranchise • greater number of En-
glishmen; that he is becoming, in • word, nationaL The
Telegraph welcomes the aid of so grand • combatant, so
fearless • popular tribune, and looks forward to the time
when men of his stamp, having reconciled themselves to
the practical statesm►nship of the day, shall propose me►-
sures in the cabinet itself instead of supporting them
ujoi the platform.
The Star summarises the speech delivered at Rochdale
yesterday by Mr. Bright, especially pointing out that the
hon. gentleman is prepared to go for a simp'e suffrage bill,
even advising the government to postpone the ballot and
the introduction of any measure for the redistribution of
seats. Not that he has ceased to desire such a reform, but
simply because it is not one in which the unenfranchised
class ha►e so immediate and deep an interest, and because
he would not peril by any avoidable complication the
instant settlement of their just claim. These views, which
Mr. Bright impressed upon his hearers last night with so
much of calm and commanding eloquence, are likely, the
Star thinks, to receive from the country at large the same
approval which they obtained from the important consti-
tuency of Rochdale.

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LATER INTELLIGENCE. '
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SHOCSING DEATE OP .4 WOMAN BY 7111
l8li0(1011 WAURING CRINOLINS.
An inquiry was held by Mr. Richards, the
devote oftener, at the London Hospital, last night, re-
spelling the death by fire of Selina Taylor, aged 28 years.
David Taylor, 20, Princes-oourt, Bethnal-green' a taxman'
maid that the deceased was his wife. Os last Christmas.
eve about 5 o'clock in the evening, witness heard loud
screams, and upon running into the back yard he
found the deceased standing in a corner of the
yard, a
with her head and neck thrust down
into dast-bin. Her clothes were all on fire, and she was
trying to cover her face and neck with the dust in order to
prevent their being burnt. Witness ran to her assistance,
and extinguished the flames, and she was removed to the
hospital, where she lingered in great suffering until Satur-
day last.
Johann Cecil, No. 9, Prince's-court, said that she knew
the deceased. On Sunday, the 24th of last December she was
seated opposite the fire in her own house dressing
one of her children, • little (41 7 ears of age, when
her limey dress, which wasdistended by • crinoline,
went near the brd of the grate and instantly caught fire.
The accident occurred in a minute, and the whole of her
clothes burst out into • blase. She threw the little girl
from her, and rushed out of the room and ran down the
stairs and into the yard enveloped in • mass of flames.
Mr. Bathurst Dove, house surgeon, deposed that when
the deceased was admitted to the hospital she was suffering
from the effects of severe buns all over the lower part of
the body. She expired on Saturday, from the affect' of
her injuries.
The jury returned a verdict of " Au:ideate death by fire.*

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT TO A LIFEBOAT.
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LIZARD, CORNWALL, WZDNIBDAT Ntowr.
The Rev. P. Vyvyan Robinson states :—" With
the deepest regret I have to report that yesterday a fatal
accident happened to the lifeboat on this station. I was out
in the lifeboat with her crew yesterday, and for two
hours she bad behaved se gallantly as possible in
• very heavy sea, but while returning • tremendous wave
overwhelmed her, and capsized the boat, breaking every
oar except one. Out of ten of us in the lifeboat seven
succeeded in getting into the boat, but with ow car
only we could not manage her, and she was quickly
carried on to the rocks over which with great
difficulty and hazard and meaty bruises we got into a
place of safety. Meanwhile the three lost men whom I
saw and heard on rising to the surface had been carried into
a counter current behind the great Slay Rock, where they
could neither get backwards nor forwards.
" One was shortly carried out to sea, bat the other two
might have been saved had we had the rocket apparatus
at the Lizard ; but when that arrived from O•dgwith it was
too late, and the men were dead. Unfortunately there is
no house here where the apparatus could be kept. The
boat held on with her anchor most marvellously for
more than hoar bumping about on the ledges, but at lest it
f, and she was quickly knocked to pieces on the rocks,
or by d this time the gale bed increased to • hurricane. The
names of the poor fellows who were lost were Peter Mitchell,
the coxswain, who has left a widow end three children ;
Richard Harris, second coxswain, widow and two children at
home ; and Nicholas Steven; a widower, without children.
I shall be very glad to receive the contributions of the bene-
volent towards the tater* support of the poor widows and
orphans."

tWemay add that the case of the families of the
deceased lifeboatineo will be taken into consideration at
a meeting of the National Lifeboat Institution to be
held this day—and that a sew lifeboat will be
sent to the Lizard in a day or two, as the
institution always has boats ready to meet such emer-
gencies, which, happily,are of very rare occurrence. In fact,
the lifeboats 3f the society have been manned during the
peat three years by upward of 18,000 persons, and sir lives
only have been lost from them, including the
_three men
above-named.)

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