The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-20 00:00:00

J.IFKBOAT BERVICEI3.—During the storms of
-B al the pest year the National Lifeboat institution, by its life-
boat we other means, oontributed to the saving of 707 persons
from different wrecks on our mate. The institution also es-
pended L 11.374 In the same period on its lifeboat esemesseots,
inaddition to granting 14,960 for rewards for moving life end
exTheercising the lifeboats.
oommittee of the Inatitntion earnestly APPILAL to the
public for AMISTANCI, to enable them to meet the continued
heavy demands on the institution's 153 Lifeboat Stations.
Contrtbutione are received by the London and Orvestry
Bankers : and by the Seotetary Ylchard Lewis, Zed., at the In-
Attalla°. 14. Admire* hifelphi. London.

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room on the first floor. nts subscription rooms are now open.
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D. Cameron, 4D, St. James-street.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 20.

IT is not to be expected that anybody outside of
the United States should feel any strong interest
about the movements and the fate of parties, ex-
cept in those rare conjunctures when the national
policy, at home and abroad, clearly and indispu-
tably hangs on the special struggle of the hour.
Thus, it is quite natural that in England and
France there should have been a somewhat languid
reading of the records of Congress, with its con-
flicts of parties, and its long list of constitutional
amendments and other proposals, and the com-
parative forces by which they were supported.
The time has oome however, when a broad light
has been suddenly cast on the whole political

scene and prospect, and the reconstruction has
become as interesting, and quite as important
to us, as the rebellion ever was. The Veto Mes-
sage, and its reception throughout the Republic,
Mr. WAWA speech upon it at New York, the
PEESIDEIree speech on Wainmoron's birthday
(the doctrinal part of it), and the published expo-
sition of his views, as given in an interview with ,
Governor Cox, of Ohio, have within a few days
rendered the great questions of American policy i
so luminous, that whoever chooses may know what
to expect as well as to desire. As the darkness
and the confusion are cleared away a brighter hope ,
and a stronger confidence grow up, and we may
not only retain our faith that all must end well
with • nation which has shown such a capacity of
self-government, but begin to see how the conva-
lescence from a deadly political and moral disorder
is likely to issue in political health. There must
be drawbacks, and difficulties, and seasons of suf-
fering ; but the new clearness about the regimen
justifies the strongest hope that all these may be
passed through safely.
The PUBIDENT points out that the proclama-
tion of the close of the war and the restoration of
the Union has not yet been made, and that the
existing Freedmen's Bureau must operate for a
year from the date of the proclamation, unless the
Southern States should give due security for dis-
charging its office themselves. Already the citi-
zens, North and South, are beginning to discern
the advantages of the continuance of the present
Bureau for a certain interval, in preparation for
future arrangements. It will be well to have
experience of the first free-labour crop, and to see
how the system of contracts works, and to observe
the temper and the mutual relations into which
employers and employed settle down as the months
pass on. It is already plain that this process of
observation will require time, for the conflict of
reports from the South is so great as to render
immediate legislation very hazardous. On the one
band, the most fearful descriptions of the state of
the negroes and their friends are sent to the
North; and on the other, there are glowing
accounts of the success of the free labour
experiment, and of the good humour of the
whites and the welfare of the blacks. There
is probably • great deal of truth, and a
great deal of exaggeration, on both sides ; and
however this may be, it is no small advantage to
have a year certain, and more if necessary, in
which to learn the truth and observe the progress
of the new training. The 70,000 children in the
schools of the Bureau have a year before them ;
and more and more schools undersrivate manage-
ment are rising up, while the labourers are entrain-
ing under their industrial contracts, and the em-
ployers are learning how to manage free labourers.
If the parties are wise enough to manage their affairs
at the end of the term, well and good. If not,
then the Government can prolong the control in
such form as may seem best. It certainly is
a question, North, South, and at Washing-
ton, whether the constit➢tional courts may not
afford as much protection and as good justice to
the freed people as they could obtain, in a very
invidious way, from special tribunals which must
stand directly in the way of a good understanding
and a common interest between the two noes.
In this respect, as in every other, it may
be a question whether the negroes have not the
strongest interest of all in the replacing of
Southern society under natural economical laws in
the first pleats ; but also under the general laws of
the Republic, superintended by Government pro-
tection till those laws have attained their true
working, and only till then.

Tzwxxantray• ELserion. The nomination of
candidates for the met vaosot in this borough by Mr.
Dowdeserall accepting the Chiltern lluedreds took place
yesterday at hustings erected in the middle of the town.
There was a good deal of excitement and a fight or two, bat
beyood that so actual breech of the peace. The rain
poured down sll the morning, bat the " free and lode-
pendent" were some of them evidently se " wet" inside as
out. After the writ had been read sod the usual fermi
rrlegs gave through, Mr. R. Sergeant proposed, sad
homas seconded, the uomiesaion of Mr. James Mar-
tin, who repeaeeted the borough 1. the laid whammed,
as ait •nd proper penes to be elected. Mr. Thomas
objected to Tewkesbury Wag made • " warming pan."
This wu in allusion to the face that both Mr. Dowdee-
well *ad Mr. Lygon ((now Earl Beauchamp) had left
Tewkesbury for West Wormatirshire. Mr. Allard then,
amidst great interruption, whistle was osly quieted by the
interposition of the mayor (Mr. G. Blimardj, proposed BM
Edmund Aathony Harley Lochner*. Mr. E. G. atom.,Chambers Owe* seconded the aumbielion. Both alba-
alik• addressed the electors, and so other candidate being
• show of heeds wee called for, and was declared
favourCefta'
of Mr. Martin. A aweigh brook was lwidl
among the piles la fav•iur el Mr. MarUe, sad • eke
umbrella fait Sir B. Iranian A poll wee demanded, and
appointed he to-day. The mmuthiamey nambms 350.