The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVEW, APRIL 6, 181

can command the best disposable tai‘s‘ in the
country f If so, the time for intimating their
wishes is when the election is to beiussie, and
not after they have consulted their vats feel-
ings and their interests, and lb s ! rea-
sons have returned a gentleman who they lmew
would oppose a Reform Bill. The sixty-one must
already see how false is the position which they
have been led to take up. X. Lows's magna-
nimity will overlook their momentary forgetfulness,
and the firm but gentle hand of the Marquis of
LLIIBDOWNE will repress this unlooked-for domestic
mutiny and efface the consequences of a family
mistake. In the meantime, if there are any large
unrepresented populations in the north of England
or elsewhere inhabiting a town without a history,
boasting no Roman remains, no palace of Saxon
Kings, no generous and noble patron, but busy,
productive, intelligent, and interested in the pro-
gress of the country, we commend this harmless
and diverting little episode to their study.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY. )

MI Amur AGITATION.—Na. WOW AND NIL LOWL

The Tines represents Mr. Bright as having come
to rest at Roadsle, after osrlU•ting violently between his
own most passionate instincts and the politic mode-
ration forced on him by his friends, in his usual
mean of illiberality and injustice. The govern-
aunt memory was received with surprise and contempt,
not only by the conservative party, but by many of the
most enlightened and thoughtful liberals in the Home of
Commons, it still is opposed by the most able and inde-
pendent part of the liberal press, and the opinion of edu-
cated society is equally hostile. No me believes that if
the membess of the house were to vote according to their
own unbiarned opinidn this bill would have the smallest
chance of peeling; sad yet, from beginning to end, Mr.
Bright has not a word of argument, not a syllable torersove
these widely entertained objections. The wickedness of
tories, the nsesonees of their pseudo-liberal allies, the
dangerous designs whisk the conspirators may be supposed
to entertain against English Musty and the palm of
Europe, are the themes on which the leader of the people
expatiates. What but harm can come from the use of
Each longues* ? No one who reads the Rochdale speech
will have a worse opinion of his tory neighbours, but if he
be a man of refined feeling he will be apt to conceive an
undue prejudice against a cause which is advocated with
such violence and injustice.

If we have a conservative administration, it will be
mainly owing, the Post contends, to Mr. Bright. He has
more than once before helped them woes to the minis-
terial benches, and bowed to them when they were seated.
Of the franchise bill, however, the Post speaks in altered
tones, evidently regarding its success as probable, and
ooncentrating its efforts rather upon securing a moderate
redistribution bill than upon defeating the franchise
measure.

The Herald speaks of Mr. Bright's speech se illustrating
the &Meg style of oration, es consisting of hoarse reviling.
and the nastiest epithets that his extensive vocabulary
of abuse could supply. It is sheer rubbish to talk of the
tories being opposed to say further extension of political
freedom. They will be glad to extend the franchise

slowly and safely. The tort' party has always been
the party al peace. It has been the whigs who,
for their own sinister purposes, by their scanda-
lous blunders, have involved the country in war.
The Harald proceeds to assert that the franchise bill does
not represent the feelings of one-third of the government :
that the confidential whigs go about whispering " only
vote to keep us in oar places, and we promise yon the bill
shall never pass !" Is it honest towards the people to ex-
, cite and mislead them in this manner, when there is moral
certainty that should it pass the second reading the bill
. . .

will never become law this searing'! Notwithstanding the
machinery of agitation set in motion—that machinery
which once in operation is so difficult to arrest ; in spite of
the sophistry of the educated and the violence of the igno-
rant agitators, the Herald still believes and hopes that the
good sense of the country will prevail.
The earrespondenee between Mr. Lowe and hie condi-
Monts is quoted by the Telegraph, as an example of the
force of sincere opinion, which is all the more welcome be-
cause unexpected ; one which, by its simple occurrence,
has already undone almost all the little mischief that
Mr. Lowe'. ability could work, and has left him,
like his colleague in the sour duumvirate of this
" dirty conspiracy," a member without constituents.
Mr. Lowe's reply is painful and feeble in the extreme.
It has just the kind of timid skill that comes of intellect
detected at tricks, ashamed of itself, and hemmed up in a
corner, from which there is but one outlet, and that the
distasteful one of absolute honesty. He is now like the
desperate miner of the colony which he personally knows,
who leaped across a chasm to get what seemed a nugget of
gold, and, finding it merely worthless mica, tried to get
beck again, but could not. History, viewing the skeleton
of his reputation and noble powers, will, we earnestly
hope, forget altogether how they perished.
The Star observes that its columns continue to flow over
with the reports of reform meetings, and half of those that
come to it, it is compelled to exclude. Opposition to
the bill seems to have been fairly swept away. Mr.
Lowe would have done better to have frankly followed Sir
W. Hutt's example, and Mr. Doulton will find that he
cannot serve Lambeth and Lowe together. The Star pre-
dicts that when the time of trial comes about the fortis
will find themselves deserted by more than one of the very
men who, professing to represent a liberal seoestion,
brought on the opposition which in the end they will not
dare to support.

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delMakeaby '''=( ' But that' aw* was imminent.,
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Mesas steps w taken to 't tane4 to tit French
uncupition of , no will Attend to deny.
16; Ansa • . -at the usOlical debt el Meximalone
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*Mounts to abomi three millions, independently of which
the Mexican government are pledged to pay as million
annually to the French government to meet the expenses
of the army of occupation. The revenues of Mexico for
the year 1865 were estimated at only • little more than
four millions, or only safiledinft to oover the interest of the
debt and the subsidy to the French government, and con-
sequently leaving the expenses of the state totally unpin-
Tided for. Some means of meeting this large annual deficit
must be discovered if the new empire is to take firm root in
Morison moil. _ _ .

The Tetegrapit observes that if the struggle between the
Federal and Confederate sections of the North American
Continent had terminated—es Napoleon 111. was not alone

in thinking that it would terminate—in the established in-
dependence of the Southern states, the expedition to
Mexico would have been the crowning glory of his morass-
ful and enterprising reign. How far the policy which in-
duced him to commit himself to a distant and hazard-
ous enterprise, and to abstain from following it up
by active participation in the American war, was
in conformity with the sound and far-seeing moat,
of such a statesman, it is of little moment at present to
inquire.

But it could not be otherwise than apparent to I
►ll that the collapse of the Southern Confederacy left the'
French Emperor, so far as his Mexican expedition is con-
earned, in a perplexed and embarrassing position. In the
Ream da deux Monde M. de Karatry, in a narrative Si.tending ever morethantwoyeers,makesapparent to all that
the antipathy of the Mexicans to the French invaders has
been censtantly on the increase, and the death of Maximilisn's
Finance Minister seems to have plunged the finances into
inextricable confusion. So far as the Telegraph can judge,
the young and amiable Austrian archduke will be wise if
ha accepts the lesson which his last three years in
Mexico have taught, and withdraws once more to his
donning home at Miramar, and to renewed intercourse
TIM the blue waters of the Adriatic.

Is TOPICS.

The Times describes' very fully the recent fanatical mu.
same of protestents at Barletta, and expresses surprise
that tke responsible organs of Roman catholic opinion in
Italy have uttered no sentiment of indignation against
outrages by which the cause of their religion is so grievously
disgraced. Indeed, the mere fact of the toleration and of
the presence of a protestant form of religion is seriously
alleged by a Roman catholic journal in Italy sa constituting
" extenuating circumstances" in cruses' of the most savage

murder andineendiarism. It is even more melancholy to
hear that the feeling from which these terrible outrages
have arisen is by no means confined to Barletta, and that
the religious journals have been for some time
announcing that " certain southern populations,
faithful catholics, and disgusted with the atheist
government which rules them, were on the point
of manifesting their sentiments in a striking manner."
The Tim* learns with regret that the Italian government
@howls a disposition to make as little as may be
oi this disturbance, and to wish it rather forgotten
than avenged. A more shortsighted policy could not be
imagined. To coax these savage priests and ruffians may
appear to save trouble for the present, but it will only
Greats far greater difficulties in the future. It is fax
better, at any cost, that the whole truth should be brought
to light, and that the most aignal and public punishment
should be inflicted on the offenders.

The Herald applauds the Italian parliament for refusing
to declare Mauini's election valid. Guy Fawkes might as
well be suggested as a fit and proper person to represent
en English constituency in the Howie of Commons. Few,
indeed, except zealots like Mr. Stansfiald, would vindicate
the policy of the dagger distinctly adopted and defended
by the ex•triumvir of Rome. Neither Denton nor Robe..
pierre could have been more fanatic or more desperate
than Massini—only they rode the whirlwind of their own
creating, and did not gate at its victims from afar in •
safe retreat, es is the fashion with illustrious patriots is
our degenerate time.
The Telegraph thinks there are two or three strong--it does
not say conclusive—reasons for the existing arrangement as
to the exclusion of certain members of the civil service
from the exercise of the suffrage. Civil servants may have
strength to resist the importunities of their superiors ;
but, in times of great political excitement at least,
such influence would be certainly exercised, and
the subordinate with • wife and family to min.
tain would rarely be disposed to brave the dis-
pleasure of those on whom he depended for promotion,
or even for the retention of his post. Agiiin, the
executive has a direct inducement to multiply small go•

,ernment places when they confer electoral power ; and
the pernicious effect of this temptation in producing an
enormous bureaucracy is seen in France and the Unite
States. Lastly, an army of official voters would greatly
affect the elections, not only by their suffrages, but also
by their influence. A customs °Soar may make himself
extremely obnoxious, or the reverse, towards the mercan-
tile community ; a tax gatherer has it in his power to put
the screw on the tax-payer when be is not quite prompt in
his payments.

the Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, APRIL 5.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena
and Princess Louise, went to Aldershot Camp this morn-
ing, attended by Lady Waterpark, the Hon. Mary W-
eenie, Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey, and Major-
General Hon. A. N. Hood and Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat,
Equerries in Waiting.
Her Majesty travelled in a carriage and four, and was
escorted by detachments of the Royal Horse Guards the
Bth Hussars, and 17th Lancers, to the South Camp, where
her Majesty was received by Lieutenant-General the Hon.
Sir James Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., and his staff. The
Queen then drove to the Prince Consort's library, and
afterwards to the gymnasium ; and from thence to the
Pavilion, where her Majesty took luncheon.
Shortly before three o'clock her Majesty proceeded to
the North Camp, accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge
and the Adjutant-General and the Quarter-muter-General
with their staffs, and was there received by the troops with
• royal salute.
The 89th Regiment formed in front of the line, com-
manded by Colonel Boyle, and received from the Queen
new colours, in lien of those which her Majesty gave to
the regiment as Princess Victoria, at Plymouth, in the
year 1833, her Majesty at the same time addressing the
troops in a few words.
The regiment then marched past her Majesty, and also
the other troops in the camp. _

. .
The Queen then left the camp, and returned to Windsor
Castle, stopping on her way at Bagahot to pay Sir James
Clark a visit.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Mart
Honourable Privy Council met yesterday at the Comm&
chamber, Whitehall, on the subject of smallpox in sheep.

...cer,le AT ALDERSHOT.
lee Neje* like Qum' visited Aide •
1) day efterikomilitery display o
(Blaney Irk glace: • • cipal part of the p
Ip of the Ifig !pa Cation of new oo • •
leth Regiment. .
Her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses
Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Field-
Marshal the Duke of Cambridge, and attended by Lady
Waterpark, the Hot. Ws. Lascelles, Gieeeral Grey,
General Hood, end Colonel The Plat, left Windsor at 20
minutes past 11, escorted by a squadron of the Royal
Home Guards. At Bagdert the escort was relieved by a
par* of the Bth (King's) Royal Irish Human, and at
Frimley by another of the 17th Lancers under the corn
mend of Lieutenant and Adjutant Billing. Her Majesty
was met at Farnborough by Lieutenant-General the Hon,
Bir James Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., and his staff, and by
him conducted through the camp. The Queen's arrival
was notified by a royal salute of 21 guns from the D
battery Royal Horse Artillery, under the command of
Major Stirling, and which were stationed on an eminence
short distance from the lines. Her Majesty first
visited the Prince Consort's Library, an institu-
tion, it may be mentioned, which was established
by the lamented Prince Convert for the use of
officers and civilians at Aldershot Camp. After a stay
of ten or fifteen minutes in the building, the Queen
drove over the head of the Smith (lamp, down Hospital-
hill, and so to the permanent barracks, where an interesting
incident occurred. The regiments forming the 2nd brip.de,
via., 63rd and 28th Regiments and 13th Light Infantry,
were mustering preparatory to "falling in" to take part in
divisional parade, and her Majesty being observed by the
men of the regiment nearest to the road (the Bird Relit
ment), the whole corps, the men of which were in heavy
marching order, with rifles and knapsacks, but had not
" fallen in," rushed up from all parts of the wade ground
as if moved by an irresistible impulse to the side of the
road, and gave the Queen cheer after cheer with
deafening effect ; the men of the band " fell in" appa-
rently from a similar feeling, and in a moment the magni-
ficent strains of the " National Anthem" resounded (with
striking and impressive effect through the air. Her Majesty
repeatedly and most graciously acknowledged these demon-
strations of loyalty on the part of her soldiers. The
Queen then drove through the "Covered-way" of the
' centre block, occupied by the 28th Regiment, where, in
I the same unexpected manner, the soldiers of the corps
evinced their feeling with such plaudits as in all likelihood
had never before re-echoed from under the glass roof of
the Wracks. The royal acknowledgments were again
repeated in the same condescending manner. The Queen
then proceeded to the Gymnaidum, where she was received
by Major Hammenley, director of gymnastics. She next
viewed the twelve instructors attached to the institution,
and ranking as non-commissioned officers in the army, go
through a series of gymnastic exercises, both trying
and novel. Some of the exercises were of a character
that appeared to highly please her Majesty, and who,
with the Princesses, laughed heartily at some of the feats
performed. After a stay of shout a quarter of an hour
in this department, her Majesty proceeded towards the
Royal Pavilion, and on her way passed the quarters of the
13th Light Infantry. The battalion was at the time on
parade, and at once presented arms, the royal salute being
completed by the band playing " God save the Queen."
On arrival at the Royal Pavilion her Majesty was received
by a guard of honour of 100 men with the proportionate
number of officers and sergeants, Queen's oolour, and ben 1
of the lit battalion 13th Light Infantry, under the com-
mand of Major Cleeve. Here her Majesty partook of lun-
cheon, and remained for some time.
Precisely at three o'clock, her Majesty and the
other members of the royal party, preceded by Captain
Wolfe, D.A.Q.M.G., an escort of the 17th Lancers, Colonel
Herbert, A.O.IiLG., Generals Grey and Hood, &a, arrived
upon the ground, and was received by the customary
salute, General Scarlett, with his staff, being at the head
of the troops. The royal carriage taking its position at
the saluting point, the ceremony of the day commenced,
the 89th Regiment advancing to the front, and forming
three sides of a square. The troops on the ground num-
bered about 7,000.
The military police, under Mr. Provost-Marshal Trout,
had their powers of persuasion taxed to the very utmost
in endeavouring to keep the great councourse of spectators
within the boundary lines, force being almost necessary,
and in consequence of the crowding one or two slight
accidents did occur. A noticeable fact was that the whole
of the troops were attired in their new clothing. The
89th-was remarked as being a very fine corps, both in ap-
pearance and bearing, and their high Mat?. of efficiency is
attributed to the unvarying exertions on the part of every
officer, from the colonel downwards. The officers of the
regiment give a grand ball this (Friday) evening at the
club-house, and to-morrow the men of the regiment will
keep high holiday in honour of the occasion.
iced

We are requested to state that a separate depart-
ment has been formed for the transaction of busi-
ness relating to the cattle plague, under the super-
intendence of Colonel Harness, R.E. C. 8., to
whom all communications on the subject should in
future be addressed, as follows :—" Colonel Har-
ness, R.E. C.B. Cattle Plague Department, 7,
Westminster-chambers, Victoria-atret, S.W."

THE SPI tHER or THE House or COMMONS.-
This right hon. gentleman, though somewhat improved in
health, by the advice of his medical attendants has not yet
left his official residence at Westminster for the seaside.
It is therefore thought that • further cessation from bi,
official duties will be considered necessary at all events
till after the Whitsuntide rear. .

•••--
DEATH or THZ BISHOP or Li/MUCK.—The Bishop
of Limerick died yesterday morning at the University
Club, Dublin. He had been for some time suffering from
bronchitis. His son and his chaplain were with him at his
death.

During his brief stay in Liverpool Mr. Glad-
stone will be the guest of Mr. John Pemberton Heywood,
at his residence, Norris-green, West Derby. The Duke of
Argyll is entertained by the Rev. Dr. Howson, and Mr.
Meehan by Mr. George Melly.
The Vicarage of Creasing, rendered vacant by
the death of the Rev. Sir John Page Wood, Bart., has been
conferred on the Rev. Robert Townsend Crawley, M.A., of
Christ Church, Oxford. The Rev. John Bramston, vicar
of Witham, is the patron.
The "Christian Year" has reached its 80th
edition. A writer in the Tines says :—" Hwe venture
to say that the ' Christian Year' is too exclusively the
manual of well-educated churehpeople, we must take a
test. Let that test be the cleverest and best girl in
a N►tional School, the teacher—perhaps we might
say the schoolmistress. Can she use these medita-
tions intelligently, easily, and usefully, even with
&very favouring eiretundanee ? We fear not. Out of
more than a hundred poems only twenty are not
absolutely obscure, though even in this ease we should
expect such a person as we have supposed to read them
with some fixed and inveterate misunderstandings of the
text. That there are about fifteen more that such a person
would master with more difficulty and even leas succeed.