The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-03 00:00:00

ms TOPICS.

Commenting upon the opening of the middle-class school
in Bath-street, the Times observes that the great problem
which all such schemes have to solve is to supply exactly
the sort of practical commercial instruction which is suited
to the lower middle-class. English ought to form the
staple, and if properly used our contemporary is confident
that it may furnish the means of as sound au education as
Latin and Greek. The other subjects of instruction offer
less difficulty or less doubt. Arithmetic, bookkeeping,
and other necessary instruments of commercial work will,
of course, receive a due share of attention, end a study of
French and, in' time, of Germans will) also form moat
useful parte in the general scheme. If so moderate a sum
as 1/. a quarter be found sufficient in London, no financial
1 difficulty need be experienced anywhere else, while the
payment will be easily within the means of all but the
really poor classes. The whole country is interested in
the issue of this great enterprise, and its progress will be
anxiously watched.
The Daily News compares tho attempt to form a third
Tarty in the United States with the experiment of an
Adullamite section here. The American democrats have
used the few republicans who have joined them just as the
tory party here made use of Mr. Lowe and Lord Elcho.
Mr. Johnson has now gone over to the democrats heart and
soul, and feels at home in leading his old pro-slavery end
pro-Southern friends, while the small section of the repub-
licans who have accompanied him halfway, who have
cheered every step of his downward progress, and who
have magnified his office and lauded his statesmanship
till he believes himself a second Washington, are com-
pelled to confess themselves batlied,defeated, and betrayed,
and to fall back again disheartened into the old ranks.
Mr. Johnson may return to the feelings of his better days
and sacrifice his pride. For two years and a half he is
still President of the United States, and that is time
enough to redeem the past, if not even to shed lustre on
the future.

The Herald says that as soon as the affair of Lamirande
was brought under his notice the Colonial Secretary
promptly applied to the Canadian Governor for official
information. But, from the course events have taken, the
affair has already passed out of the department of Earl
Carnarvon into that of Lord Stanley. It is not by the
Canadian Governor-General and Colonial Secretary, but
by the Foreign Ministers of France and England that this
dispute must be discussed and settled.
Eulogising the character of Garibaldi in eloquent terms,
the Timcs declares that however black the priests at Rome
and their friends all over the world may paint Garibaldi,
because he warns Italian wo.nen a7„ainst the snares of the
confessional, it is quite certain that there is hardly such
another Christian hero ae he is in the world ; none
so chivalrous, none so fully entitled to the
boast sans pcur et sa-c reproche. Garibaldi has gone
back to Capron, possibly never again to leave his
island retreat. The Italian cause may have no further
occasion for his services ; the adventurous errand on which
be was sent into the world may have been fulfilled, but the
influence of his character will, it is hoped, long work for
good among his countrymen; and the very fact that the
moil of Italy can still give life to aura a man will be the
moat convincing answer to those who may still feel inclined
to entertain little hope of the mass of the Italian people.

rite Court.

BALMORAL, SEPT. 30.

The Quecn went out yesterday morning, attended
by the Marchioness of Ely, and rode up Glen Gelder in the
afternoon, accompanied by Princess Christian._

OCTOBER 1.

The Queen, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur, with
the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended divine ser-
vice in the parish church at Crathie, yesterday.

The Rev. John 3l'Leod officiated.

Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial-
office, froAn the Governor of Canada.
The Right Hon. Horatio Waddington left town, yester
day, for Brighton.

The Earl of Derby, who has been in attendance
on her Majesty at Balmoral for the past ten days, left the
Castle on Monday morning, arriving at Aberdeen at 3.40
p.m. In company with some ladies from the Castle, his
lordship visited the Queen's statue, recently inaugurated
by the Prince of Wales, and left ,for the south, cif Perth,
by the 4.15 p.m. train.

The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote. M.P.,
the President of the Board of Trade, hae gone on a visit to
the Earl and Countess of Derby, at Enovreley-park, near
Prescott, and will take his departure on Friday for Bal-
moral.

Lord Stanley, 31. P., has arrived in town from
Liverpool.

.
The Earl Cowper and Hon. Henry Cowper,
M.P., left Wrest Part on Monday for Scotland.
Next week King John will be restored to the
bills at Drury-lane, and performed for five nights, after
which it will be withdrawn to make room for the clAbat of
Mr. Talbot, a provincial actor, on Saturday, the 13th.
On the following Ssturday the production of G.ithe's
Faust is expected. _ .

At Sutton, in Dorsetshire, a few days since,
some Rowan remain., consisting of urns and human
skeletons, were dug up from only two feet beneath the
surface in an apple orchard.

The late rains in the south of England set in on
the 23rd of August, and only wised on the 301 h of
September. They therefore lasted with only short intervals
of intermission for .18 days.