The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-11 00:00:00

SPORTING DIZSLLIGENCR.

♦ lIPECIAL EDITION of ths "EXPRESS,"
containing tke results of the day's Races, is pub-
lished erssy evening daring the Sporting Sestisso, at
six o'cloek.

To judge by recent sweats, whenever the Times has
stare wan...daily at heart, it would be wise in that
journal to attack it. There seems to be a spell upon
our contemporary. Its patronage is ruin ; its hoe-
taity ensures success. The Times scouted the idea
of poseeding to legislate fur India by Resolution in
Onmetittee of the Whole, and that mode of pro-
cedure was adopted. The Times vowed that a Con-
sFirsoy Bill we must have, and the Conspiracy Bill
wee rejected. The Times took Lord PALKEPATON
under it. especial protection, and thereby effected
in a few months that overthrow, which it
had vainly been labouring for years to bring
about by writing against him. The Tines sup-
ported Yr. CARIWKLCS Resolution with might and
main, and the Resolution had to be withdrawn. It
was natural, therdore, in the citizens of London,
after reading the diatribe against Mr. Loch
KINGN Bill in the Times of yesterday morning, to
prognosticate that the Bill would be read a second
time. Their sagacity was not at fault : at an early
hour of the 'vetting the Bill was read a second time,
and its principle affirmed by a majority of 226
So 168.

It would, however, be premature to consider the
reassure in safety. The Time. may tura
resod—it has been known to do so on very
short notice—and advocate it; and it is pretty clear
that its advocacy would be fatal. And the Bill is
exposed to a more obvious danger. Lord Pausea-
•rott—with that cynicism which appears to grow
upon him daily—frankly told the House of Commons
that he voted for the second reading of the Bill to
spite Ministers ; and that he would do his best to
burke it in Committee to please himself. A more

audacious display of jocular defiance of principle
could not have been made by Mephialopheln him-
self. Lord l'ALu LUTON admitted that he bad been
the means of throwing out the same Bill last u►
lion ; and the only MOOSE be signed far changing
his vote were that the Bill was this year called by a
different name and that Ministers bad been hanging
oat signals of distress to bin which he was deter-
mined not to attend to. Having thus intimated that
he voted for the second reading simply to put
Ministers into a minority, Lord PALMERSTON added :
—" The purview of the Bill .lees not imply simi-
" linty of the borough and county franchise. The
" manner in which the blanks are tilled up will show
" what is its real object. Those who, like myself,
" adhere to the opinion which was expressed by
" many—that it would be undesirable to assimilate

" the borough and county franchise to 101.—those per-
" sons may with perfect coos stencv vote for the second
" reading ef the Bill, with the intention of proposing
" an alteration in the franchise to be established as
" the franchise for county voters. Therefore every
" man who contemplates a redaction in the present
" rats of county franchise may with perfect oonsis-
" tency vote for the second reading of the Bill,
ra-
" serving to himself when the Bill goes into Com-
" suttee the right of proposing the particular
" amount of qualification which he thinks ought to
" exist." The cries of " Oh, oh," with which this
Ishmael/se declaration was received in the House of
Commons express but feebly the disgust with which
it will be read out of doors. To rote "aye "one night
and " nay " the next is bad enough ; but to avow
beforehand the intention to do go, and to rest this
pattering upon no better grounds than the grati-
fication of personal spleen and the promotion of
factious ends, is trying the public patience a
little too severely. Lord PALMERSTON may
see that his career is at an end; and, like
Titioe of Athens, may seek to wreak his
rage in cynical speeches; or he may feel so secure of
his pocket borough as to think that nothing can en-
danger his election. But any other member of the
majority which voted for the second reading of Mr.
Lome KING'S Bill will do well to pause
before he acts as Lord PALMERSTON has
spoken. The object of the Bill is to enfranchise

all £lO occupants in counties. By voting for the
second reading of the Bill the majority have declared
that the county franchise ought to be extended so
far. If they retract this vote in Committee they
will merely have been wasting the time of the House
by voting for the second reading; for it will be
understood that in so voting their aim wee not to
carry the Bill but to weaken Ministers; and it will
also be understood that in reversing the vote they
have sought to perpetuate undue aristocratical influ-
ence in the counties. Such unprincipled trifling
cannot be indulged in by members of a Legislature
without bringing both themselves and the body
of which they are constituent parts into contempt.
The country is thoroughly tired of seeing so mesh
time wasted in ainileas faction fights as has beat
the case this session ; and the perpetration of such
an exaggeration of the unprincipled folly as his
been announced by Lord PA LNICEMTON would carry
the national impatience beyond all bounds. It is
scarcely credible that the most close or corrupt
borough could venture to outrage public opinion by
again returning any representative who should play a
part trifling, fickle, and false. The majority which
carried the second reading of Mr. LOCKS CMG's
CCM, Franchise Bill will, if they value their scab,
do their utmost to ensure its oafs passage through
the Moues of Commons.

AT IM' there is a fair prospect of Waterlog Wag
avenged. 'tre 18th of Jtute—the anniversary of the
battle in whisk :noise thirdly deeertzel NAroLaox

TEL GllZAT—has been named for the trials of
TavaLout and TCIIORZEWSKI, whole prosecuthms
were instituted to appease the ire 4 iilAroteoleg,
nephew. The trials have been allowed* stand int
long over—ouch a mysterious ailhaos• has boo
observed regarding them—they hive been allowed
to drift so completely into forsefelstem the
the general public had arrived at the con-
clusion they were to be heard of no more. This,
it is now apparent, has been a mistake. The
only object of the delay has been to make the
compliment to the great man in honour of whom
these victims are to be sacrificed more; pointed by the
felicitous selection of the day on which they are to
be offered up. No wonder Mr. lnaaseu flatters
himself that he has more than superseded Lord
PaLletaarelt in the good graces of the Emperor of
the FiIENCII. There was something in the intro-
duction of the Conspiracy Bill ; in the trial of Baa.
14ARD; in the arraignment of two publishers—
but to select the anniversary of Wattles
too for the trial of the alleged libellers was
a practical epigram ; and all the world knows
bow a Frenchman relishes the epigram•
matio. These coups de Worm however, are ersi-
• windy risky. As there can be no rehearsal, there is
always dassur to some hitch in the working of
the rnachism7—such as we sometimes see on the

firsenight of a pantomime; lad then the effect is
matirely spoiled. Suppose for a moment the trial
should terminate in acquittals. The thing is not
impossible. Many who have read the pamphlet
published by TRUZLOTS have expressed the opinion
that it is simply an argument on a moot point in
political morals, which it might, perhaps, have been
more prudent to have left undiscussed at
the moment ; but which, inasmuch as it
simply states historical facts, and contains no
exhortation to injure any individual, can scarcely be
called libellous or seditious. Many who have read
the pamphlet published by TCHOIZIWSKI have ex-
pressed the opinion that though tinged with vin-
dictive sentiments its vehemence is not greater than
may be tolerated as the railing of men who have
some cause to think themselves injured. We
pronounce no opinion on the subject ; the question
is pending in a Court of Justice, and it is not our
custom to discuss questions in that predicament.
We merely state the fact that such opinions have
been already expressed by private individuals
out of doors ; and add, that it is there-
fore not impossible that they may be adopted
by the jury after hearing the evidence at
i the trials. Would not such a consummation be rather

galling than otherwise to the illustrious person for
whose special gratification the prosecutions would ap-
pear to have been instituted ? And would themes be
much mended even though there should be a ver-
dict for the prosecution ? Is there not in that case
a possibility that the defendants may be looked upon
in the light of political martyrs? May we not
possibly hear of subscriptions got up for
them ? It was unwise at the first to
place a mighty sovereign before the public in the
rather undignified position of a suitor for protection
from two poor and obscure publishers. It is
doubly unwise to recall the memory of the blunder
by resuming proceedings after they had been sus-
' peaded so long that all the world had forgotten them.
If the publications in question had been directed
against the Crown of England, would it have been
thought worth while to bring them under the lash
of the law? Will any person believe that English
Ministers would, of their own mere motion, have
done for a foreign potentate what they would
not have thought it worth while to do for their own?
Will any person regard the prosecution in any other
light than as an attempt to narrow, by the infliction
of a judicial sentence, the range of political discus-
sion at the request or dictation of a foreign power ?
la it not the height of indiscretion to resume, after
an interval of months, proceedings so equivocal and
damaging to those who instituted them? Do Mr.
WALPOLE and Sir FITZROY KELLY approve of this
isspoliey ? Or has their sober judgment been over-
ruled by more indiecevet colleagues t

Nam-E.—The next examination of candidates for
direct commissions in the army will be held at Bur-
lington House, Piccadilly, on the 16th, 16th, lith,
and 19th of July.

THE EIGHT ROl4. MB. JUSTICE COM:RIMS.

The retirement of so eminent a judge u Mr.
Justice Coleridge, afier • service of owl, 24 years, is •
thing that &earns, voce than mare cursory remark, and
although he will probably never take • pleas In legal history
by the aide of the late Chief Justice Jervis for acuteness, by
that of the late Sir William Mettle for jurklical mooning, or
perhaps of the present Lord Chief Justice for Intense lepl
sequinned, neverthelese, for general knowledge, for •
thorough mastery of his duties as • judge, end cionschstioes
performaare of them, coupled with his groat and well-known
literary attainments, he will long be regarded se ow, of these
Alain lights who from time to time adorn the judge:ent-
reat in our courts of law. Mr. Justin, then Bedtime Cole-
ridge, was applitted judge by the late Sir Hobert Peel
during his sleet ministry in 1834. He was then in fair, but
not wry larva Meth= at the bar, and wee ow of the
bodies ei tie Weston Circuit. On that arena he was the
esmeramt sprimeat of Tenth, Wilde, and Erskine, and there,
although he held hi ours, he did sot show himself so pre-
method es as advents as be had subsequently proved
Himself as a jeigs He was never in parlianmel,
although trepamely solieited to stand for more than .ow
Pee ou his owe drank, but modest and retiring
be dieposltke be did not feel himself equal to the harms and
turmoil of political lib. Always of • literary turn of maid,
he was far hem born entirely segromed, se Is too often the
me, by hie prelloskie, although moot coesciantionaly re-
gardful of the Wesel. committed to his chirp. He under-
took at as* period, is sidltiat to his ether Moen, to edit
the Quarterly AV aPIN but that he Limed it ustassary to re-
lisquish es Mime Issesesed upon Us. Nor have his
literary labelers sod tastes preyed otherwise than useful to
himself, sad lestatictive to others, whilst disobarglas his
duties as the beast. Always grntle, always Jest, palest
alike to yew sod old, courteous to all, be hr shed thew the
dull technicalities of bpi deride= as apses if died=
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tabby wanting in mum of our shiest Jeeps. Ideated se
the Foundation if 1t.., afterwards a seheler of Corps sad
fellow of Imam et Oxford, and standieg in the proud and
eleepelee peelers if being alone In the first alms at his year,
he arse Is Lesiva with a muse already thasees amongst his
uoutemperarith Hi meth the pool, was this fa ble senish,
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had his sem slowed it, be would hare followed that, to
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