The Express.
London, England, 1858-11-02 00:00:00

SPORTING DiTELLIGENCE.

A SPECIAL EDITION of the EXPRESS,*
sustaining the results of the day's Races, is pub-
limbed every evening during the Sporting Season, et
eii e'elook.

Tee Cabinet meets to-morrow. After an interval
of more than two months i's members will naturally
be curious to Ware all about one another's program
in opinions, and to hear what is the outlook of each
in his respective department. The LORD PRESIDENT
may not, indeed, have anything more original or
suggestive to say than usual, the shine having been
quite taken out of the established ways of education by
the dueling diversity of voluntary proposals for
popular enlightenment we have lately witnessed.
The Hone I'ICRETARY, however, having been to
Ireland daring the recess, will probably have certain
propositions to make for enabling the Church party
in that country to undermine the outworks of Na-
tional Education, which they have so long beleaguered
in vain. How the Patellas may like being asked
kismet in the obeequies of the first and best offspring
of his legislative skill, we cannot tell. Tyra things
chiefly are remembered and retnemberab:e of him
during his days of Whig statesmanship : the Aboli-
tion of Slavery, and the establishment of the Neutral
System of Government Schools in Ireland. His
present Tory administration seems destined to
witness the re-establishment of the Slave Trade; it
would be a strange coincidence if it were still more
directly participant in the demolition of the other
good and great work of his younger and better days.
We trust Lord Inure, for the sake of his own
fame, as well as for the sake of the country, will
ponder deeply on these things.
If nobody asks the CHANCELLOR yet for his
programme of Law Reforms for next session,
it will probably be from a silent conviction
that they will have to listen to it time enough, and
that, judging from the pest, it is not likely it will
contain anything affecting vitally their joint-steak
administrative existence. Neither sea it be expected
that the COLONIAL SECRETARY will havemuch that is
novel to tell of continuous gold-findings in Tasmania
or his new colony on the American shore of the 1
Pacific. Were the projsct of federalising our
Northern Provinces on the Atlantic side ripe for
legislative execution, that would indeed be a noble
topic of consultation for the Ministers of a maternal I
empire, and one entitling so accomplished and elo-
quent a person as Sir EDWARD BVLW RR LITTON
to pre-audience. But the practical sobriety °flag-
ellant and the circumspect care which the right
honourable baronet has shown in his administration
hitherto of colonial affairs leads us to believe that
he will not hazard the stability of the buaiseselike
reputation he is building up by prematurely "snatch-
" ing at laurels while yet they are growing ;" and he
well knows that a federation of the North American
British colonies is en act which must be sponta-
neously and deliberately resolved on by themselves,
before any legislative interference by the Imperial
Parliament can with prudence or propriety be
attempted.
The new SECIANTARY for Item will, of coarse,
have hie oontidential narrative to give of the
final events of the great mutiny, and his
plans for reconstructing the administrative system
when be can get time. But he evidently feels more
and more that the one insuperable difficulty of hie
position is that there are not thirty-six hours in the
day. While all his colleagues have been taking
more or lees of relation during the autumn, he has
not given himself a single holiday. Be it exces-
sive conscientiousness or insatiable ambition, it
11 certain that Lord STANL IT has evinced untiring
seal in the attempt to perform the kw-
dinate duties of his office ; and that however
painful his own sense may be of the hopelessness of
ever overtaking his task, he has left the impression
upon all who came in contact with him of rare
single-mindedness, equanimity, good sense, and
eeriest solicitude for the public welfare. It is, of
course, too soon for the CHANCE:LLD* of the Ex-
CHILQUaI to divulge the thoughts it is supposed he
has been ruminating, fur making both ends meet
next spring. Fortunately far him the country is pee-
porous, end the revenue is steady, the funds are high,
and money is cheap. Um) unforeseen calamity arises
between this and Easter, he may fairly calculate
upon being able to present as mamba a Badget as
his last. His aim, we trust, will be to gain credit
with the country for substantial reductions of ex-
penditure, Dot by the curtailment of our means of
national defence, but by cutting down, wherever it
may be possible, the wasteful extravagance into
which we have been drifting deeper and clasper
during the last few years.
We trey we sae hear the PREEMENT of the
BOARD at TRADE availing himself of the first passe
to express his " wish to know whereabouts wear.
" just sow; because it must appear to him no doubt
extremely difficult to say, after so long °raising
'boat, each on his own hook, in rather foggy weather,
what is preci.cly their common longitude as a poli-
tical fleet jest now. And we can well imagine the
impatient and peremptory request of Lord DERBY,
that discussion of all general questions like Reform
should be deferred until definite proposals were be-
fore them; and that meantime they should de-
cide epos what really celled for decision
regarding For, ,gn A ffiirs. Will Lord M
E•i; Y be able to satisfy his colleague