The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-08 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 8.

Ax application was made to Vice-Chancellor
Wow) on Thursday for an injunction to restrain
Messrs. Rama ARD and SOW from publishing an
engraving from the famous photograph represent-
ing SAMUEL Lord Bishop of Oxroxn standing just
like an Apostle, in lawn sleeves and rochet, wear-
ing the collar of the Garter, holding an elegant
pastoral staff in his left hand, while his right is
raised with two fingers extended to give his Epis-
copal benediction. The engraving was an illus-
tration, in the proper sense, of the pamphlet;
and those of our readers who have read the latter
may be surprised to find that its publication
should become a matter of commercial dispute.
But—and let the fact humble the pride of genius
—this photograph, to which art has contributed
about as little as it could do to a portrait, is a
valuable property. At an outlay of perhaps
thirty shillings Mr. MOWBRAY has become the
proprietor of a portrait which is worth to him a
sum larger than many of the best pictures in the
Academy collection are now selling for. And this
is quite right, for if Mr. MOWBRAY has not pro-
duced a work of invention or originality, ho has
rendered a public service, for which it
is proper he should receive a reward.
By issuing this photograph—the genuineness of
which was contested by some of the Bishop's
friends ou its appearance—he has done more to
help us to understand the age in which we live
than half a dozen able writers could have
effected. The incredible has been ocularly de-
monstrated. The sophistical explanations of melli-
fluous Jesuitry have gone down in a moment
when this portrait has been produced. To see
it is to see at once what the Bishop of Oxvoae
is ; what his relation to the Ritualistic clergy,
and what type of priestly character ho is encou-
raging in his diocese. The law is certainly
very favourable to Mr. MOWBRAY, and we
can hardly think was made in con-
templation of such a case as this. It
gives that gentleman practically an ex-
clusive property not merely in his own work,
but in a particular appearance of one of our
public men. Ordinary photographic portraits
have so distinctive a character that as soon as one
photographer has taken Lord DERBY or Mr. GLAD-
STONE, others in quick succession apply for the
same privilege, and thus the public get a number
of likenesses of the same person differenced by posi-
tion, or aspect, or expression. The representa-
tion of a well-known person in a particular official
act, however, must always be essentially the same.
The posture and expression of this photograph
are those which the Bishop habitually assumes
when he pronounces a blessing, and would be
the same in any number of original portraits.
It may be hoped that these proceedings will still
further extend the circulation of the pamphlet
which illustrates the moral, as the photograph
does the physical, attitude of the Bishop in his
diocese. It is a statement of important facts,
not now presented to the public for the first time,
but which have in their development a significance
not suggested by each as they separately arise.

lx a telegram from Madrid, of the 6th inat.,
General CALONOE is represented as having de-
clared that " there is no truth in the statement
" published by the English papers " that the legal
proceedings in the case of the Tornado have been
declared null and void. As we were the first to
snake the statement referred to, we feel called
to point to what Lord DERrf said yesterday week
in the House of Lords. "He was happy to say
" that yesterday the Government received an in-
" timation from the Spanish Government that the
" superior court had held that the former pro-
" ceedings were null and void, and had quashed
" them, on the ground that the case should not
" have been treated judicially, but administra-
" tively." Since then, certified copies of the
judgment delivered by the Supreme Court of War
and Marine, on the 23rd of May, at Madrid, in
the case of the condemnation of the Tornado and
her crew, have arrived in this country. The fol-
lowing is a translation :

The sentence of condemnation appealed against, and
which was pronounced by the Court of the Department
of Marine of Cadiz on the 30th of January last, and
spinet which Edward M. Collier, captain of the steamer

Tornado, has appealed for himself, and all those whom he
represents, is hereby aomailed. This supreme tribunal de-
clares itmlf isecomptte‘d to take cognizance of the proceed-
ings, and as the original documents, from which certified
copies are taken, are in possession of this supreme court,
all of then documents are ordered to be transmir ted to
the Minister of Marine, along with a copy of the preceding
opinion of the fiscal (legal adviser) of this court, that due
effect may be given to it. Let this judgment be notified
to the before-mentioned Court of Marine at Cadiz, and let
a certificate of it be endorsed un the proceedings to ensure
its success. De. Dots JOSE Luis RETORTILLO.
Madrid, May 1867.

We notice with regret the character of the
reply, given in another column, which Lord
STANLEY has just returned to an applica-
tion made to him on behalf of the crew
of the Tornado, who, upon any theory of the
character of the vessel, have been shamefully dealt
with. Lord STANLEY speaks of claims upon the
Spanish Government which have been preferred
by the crew, but surely the British Government
•ade the case of those poor men its own when
our Minister formally presented those claims
last February. Is it for the honour or interest
of the country that claims for redress of grievous
injustice should be made and then left to lan-
guish, until the most that the Foreign Minister of
England can say of them four months after is that
they " have not been lost sight of "

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

The would-be assassin of the Czar cannot even
have supposed, the newt remarks, that his act would bring
redress of any kind to his countrymen. His motive, if ra-
tional at all, must bare been purely vindictive,snd there-
fore not to be palliated by those specious but unsound
arguments which have been urged in excuse of tyrsnnicide.
As it is, this detestable outrage, isolated though it may be,
will have no insensible effect in quenching the sympathy
still felt with Poland. The offence involves the highest
degree of guilt, and it is (essential to the very existence
of society that political motives should not be admitted
even in theory as extenuating circumstances in such eases
of murder.
The senseless as well as execrable character of the
outrage is enlarged upon also by the Pant, the
Standard the Telegraph, and the Stor. It is generally
observed that nothing could be more likely to make
the Czar popular even in Paris, or to bring the real Polish
cause into disrepute. The Star expresses a hope that the
Russian Emperor, instead of being vindictive under the
offence, will endeavour to find immunity for the future,
not by treating Poland as a conquered province but by
wielding his sceptre in the spirit of justice and clemency.
The painful death of the Archduchess Illatilda, the
intended bride of Humbert, Prince of Piedmont, must be
,looked upon, the Tines says, as an inauspicious and even
calamitous occurrence both for Italy and Austria. Never
since the close of the revolutionary crisis of 1848, were
the public fortunes of the House of Austria more in the
ascendant, but this open grave, and the events at Quere-
taro and Miramar constitute a complication of domestic
sorrows which spread over popular exultation the gloom of
irrepressible foreboding.
The Daily News grapple', with the question of the repre•
mutation of minorities, opposing the arguments of the
Tine*, and contending that the essence of reform lies in
the further development and just application of our exist-
ing system of representation, and not in its reversal. The
reception given lately by the House of Commons to the
project of ;personal representation devised by Mr.
Hare, and explained by Mr. Mill, is conclusive,
probably, of the fate of the clumsier schemes
propounded by Mr. Dillwyn, Mr. Lowe, and Mr. Hughes.
Mr. Hughes and Mr. Lowe would allow an elector in a
constituency which has three members to say three times
over that he thinks one man is the best ; in other words,
to be politically three single gentlemen rolled into one. If
the plan were adopted two members would be returned by
somewhat less than half the constituency ; one member by
about a fourth of it. As a rule it is vested interests and
oligarchic ascendancy that seek the protection which the
representation of minorities would give them.