The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1867.

do for labour what the existing house has done for capital
—sweep away every obstacle to its free employment;
everything, ignorance included, which Zits way to
prosperity ; will first of all grant comp education,
compulsory hygiene, and perhaps by regulating instead
of fighting the trades' union idea, compulsory provi-
sions against thriftlessness, sickness, and old age ; will,
partly by organising co-operation, partly by building
strong tribunals of arbitration, make strikes, i.e., servile
wars, historical ; will, by making a field as saleable
as a watch, render agriculture as free as any other
trole; will give each city the opportunity of a municipal
development of its own, will make this vast capital
as habitable for the poor as for the rich, and will by
these measures, and the expansion of Mr. Gladstone's half
uttered thought of using state credit to protect the
capital of the poor, ultimately extinguish pauperism. And
possessing popular force it will dare give the nation what
this house dare not give, either an adequate and costly
free anny or a compulsory national organisation for war,
such as Prussia awl America maintain. Being strong, it
will dare to use the knife trenchantly on abuses like dock-
yard management, to laugh at the feeble dread of a par-
liament for London, and to beat down the class resistance
to Irish reforms. For the first tune in our history the
house would cease to be jealous of the executive, and
that single change opens an endless vista of possible
improvements. These (internal reforms, once completed,
our foreign policy would not be far to seek. With the
nation armed, Great Britain would be as powerful as the
Union ; a popular House of Commons will see in that
Union its most fitting ally ; and the Anglo-Saxon race once
united in a strong alliance, Washington, London, Mel-
bourne, and Calcutta acting with one will, let the despotic
governments menace as they please, freemen are masters
of the globe.
Reviewing Mr. Johnson's career as the "obstructive
President," the Sprernt.r adds that his proceedings are a
mockery of the whole policy of the war. If these be con-
stitutional, it was far more constitutional to permit MOM-
siop.at first, than for the nation now, after paying hun-
dreds of millions sterling to prevent secession, to foster all
the springs of secession into a new and still more threat-
ening activity.
The Saturday Relict,' thinks it reasonable to believe that
the longer a reform bill is delayed the more trenchant It
will be. The progress of affairs on the Continent will aid
the democratic movement in England, and the liberals can
afford to be patient, because they are not yet organised
enough to construct a better ministry than that of last
year. The next liberal government, if it is to be stronger
in ability than the last, must contain a stronger radical
element. Men like Mr. Mill and Mr. Forster cannot be
continually excluded from the cabinet, while men of
inferior capacity, but superior social position, are admitted.
So much is certain ; but it is not certain, upon the other
hand, that the liberal party is prepared for so
startling an innovation as the introduction of
the radical section to a substantial share of power.
Upon the whole, however, it is plain to the Saturday Re-
rine that something must now be done, either by a tory or
a liberal cabinet, about reform. The question which of
the two is to do it is at present perhaps occupying that
portion of the a.tention of Lord Derby and his colleagues
which is not taken up by the state of Ireland and Mr.
Adams and the Alabama.

Both the Spectator and Examiner condemn the scheme
for marshalling a mob in Palace-yard, and making them
troop by detachments through Westminster Hall.

the Court.

OSBORNE, JAN. 11.

The Queen and Princess Beatrice rode on ponies
yesterday afternoon, attended by the Dowager Duchess
of Athole, and her Majesty walked in the grounds this
morning, accompanied by Prinoeu Louise.
Prince and Princess Christian walked in the grounds
this morning, and the other members of the Royal Family
went out also.

Sir Stafford Northeote bad the honour of dining with
the Queen and the Royal Family yesterday. He left for
London this morning.

The Prince of Wales presided ►t a meeting of the Royal
Commission for the Paris Exhibition held yesterday at the
South Kensington Museum ; and afterwards at a meeting
of the Associate Commissioner, for the Paris Exhibition,
held also at the South Kensington Museum.
A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho-
nourable Privy Council sat yesterday, at Whitehall, on
the subject of the cattle plague. The Lords present
were the Lord President and the Right Hon. H. L. Corry.
Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the
committee.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of Victoria, South Australia,
Queensland, Tasmania, Natal, Gibraltar, and Malta.
Despatc.bes were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar and

The Right Honourable Sir Stafford Northeote returned
to town yesterday from Osborne.

The Earl of Derby will give a parliamentary
banquet on Monday, the 4th proximo.

Lord and Lady Londesborough have arrived in
town from Grimston Park, near Tadeaster, Yorkshire,
and towards the end of the month go to Bournemouth to
join their youthful family.

We have to record the death of Lady Caroline
Cavendish, who died at an early hour yesterday morning
at Densworth, Sussex. Her ladyship was the youngest
surviving daughter of George Augustus Henry, let Earl of
Burlington, by L►dy Elizabeth Compton, daughter of
Charles, 7th Earl of Northampton.
The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer
will entertain the Right lion. Sir John Pakington, the
Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Viscount Cranborne, the
Right Hon. Lord Stanley, General Peel, Sir Stafford
Hartheote, ar d a large party on Mouday, the 4th of next
month, at his residence in Grosvenor-street.

The Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Zinily
Peal have been entertaining a party of friends during the
week at Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. Among the guests
have been—The Marquis of Downehire, the Earl and
Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope, Lord and
Lady Dufferin, Sir Henry and Lady Sophia Dee Yams,
Count Strzeleeki, the Right Hon. Abraham Brewster, the
Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., Colonel Daniell, Mr.
Henry &vile, Re. _ _

The committee appointed by the council of the
Royal Society to co-operate with the meteorological depart-
ment of the Board of Trade in the proposed new scheme
of British meteorological observations, comprises General
Sabine, Mr. Gassiot, Dr. W. A. Miller, Mr. Warren Deis
Rue, Mr. F. Calton, Mr. W. Spottiswoode, Captain Rich-
ards, hydrographer to the Admiralty, and Colonel Smythe,
R. A.

The annual general meeting of the Entomological
Society will be held at Burlington House on lload.y, the
28th inst., at 7 p.m.

We rend in the Aar/imam :—" By parallel quo-
tation., the author of Travelling in Spain' convicts
Lady Herbert of unauthorised conveyance (to phrase it
gently) in the book reviewed by us list week. This is a
pity in a book of such high religious pretension. Lady
Herbert has explained the matter as follows :—' Wilton
House, Salisbury, Jan. s.—Having read a letter in the
Tins,. of this day, signed by the author of Travelling in
Spain in the l'resent Day,' I regret the extraordinary co-
incidence of parallel description, which might have been
avoided bad I read the book before my manuscript went to
press.—l remain, sir, your faithful servant, MART ELIZA•
BETH HERBERT.' Will anybody be good enough to ex-
plain this explanation ?"

The Army and Nary Gazette says :—" A corres-
pondent tells us that, having to go into the barrack rooms
of a cavalry corps at an early hour daring the late frost,
he found the men with pieces of candle stuck into bottles,
endeavouring to remove the protection to their throats
which God had given them, but which the Home Guards
had taken away. The following remarks were distinctly
heareci by him, coupled, of course, with the expletives
usually expressive of bad humour:—` I my, Bill, why
don't the Prince have to do this here? He's in the 10th
Hussars.' Answer—'Blest if I know! Why don't the
Duke have to dock his Newgate frill? that ain't regula-
tion.' We hope we are not unduly irreverent in reporting
these remarks."

We (Army and Navy Gazette) understand that in
the forthcoming navy estimates a sum of 10,0001. will be
taken for "experimental purposes," with a view of testing
the resisting powers of turrets.

SIR J•xEa BROOKE. —Rajah Sir James Brooke,
who was recently attacked by paralysis, is much better.
Sir James is considered, indeed, to be regaining health.