The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 12.

IT may have been worth while for Lord
STANLEY to ran down to King's Lynn to ex-
plain to his electors the supreme duty of reti-
cence in a Foreign Minister at such a crisis as the
present. At any rate, the audience who heard him
in the Court-house took for granted that—as
Foreign Minister—his business was to be cautious
and reticent, and this duty Lord STANLEY ful-
filled yesterday. He went so far, however, as to
express an opinion that the one point upon which
all parties in this country were agreed, was to
keep out of continental quarrels. We trust this
tolerably correct estimate of public opinion will
preserve the FOREIGN SECRETARY from more than
one danger which Lord CEANBORNE, with his
bitter spite against Italy and Prussia, or Lord
MaratEssuaY, with his weakness for Napoleoniam,
might have been tempted to forget. Lord STANLEY,
we hasten to acknowledge, did not attempt to
disguise his thoughts in mere generalities. His
speech was singularly frank, unflinching, and
explicit, and if we cannot quite accept his account
of the reception and rejection of the late Reform
Bill, we are bound to own that he met the special
charge which has been made against his own
conduct in one particular instance, in the only way
worthy of his name and fame, by a positive denial of
the charge. For our own part, having been accessory
to the misrepresentation and misunderstanding of
which he complains, we very cordially and sincerely
acknowledge the error of interpretation into which
we had been betrayed, in common with a
majority of the House of Commons and of the
press, by the simple fact of an amendment
being moved by a leader of the Opposition without
any previous public notice, which proposed that
the Government should proceed with the second
and subsidiary portion of the Bill—the re-distri-
bution of seats—before the first portion—the
borough and county franchises—had been settled.
That no notice of such amendment had been
given in the customary form is no more a matter
of dispute than the authenticity of the Journals
of the House. But when Lord STANLEY
contends against the probability of his at-
tempting anything so unfair, so silly and un-
meaning, as a " surprise," because a majority
obtained by surprise could have no moral weight,
and a decision so obtained would be liable to be
reversed by a more deliberate vote, we need only
remind him that his amendment was defeated atonce
by a majority sufficient to dispense with a more deli-
berate vote, and that it was rejected even by op-
ponents of the Bill. We recall these circumstances
in our own behalf, as not hawing brought an idle
and malicious charge, but we are not the less
willing and happy to accept without reserve
Lord STANLEY'S vindication, and to add
our humble testimony to his own, that what-
ever may be his political defects, he has not
been chargeable hitherto with "being led into
" extreme courses by an exaggerated feeling of par-
' tisanship." May we be permitted to hope that
he will be able to pay himself for many years
to come a tribute for which the Lord STANLEY of
an earlier generation will not be his competitor.
The FOREIGN SECRETARY'S references to the affairs
of his department were properly reticent, yet
not so reticent as to be trivial or unmeaning.
He is fortunately in a condition
to speak of the United States, and of
the supreme importance to this country of a
frank and friendly understanding with the great
Republic, without embarrassing recollections of rash
speeches such as those in which more than one of
his present colleagues indulged during the civil
war. In his large and wise views of the true neu-
trality of England in Europe, and of her true
place and duty in the world, all sensible and
thoughtful persons of all parties will heartily agree.
On the whole, we may very honestly congratu-
late the new Government on the freshness and
vigour of thought and purpose which are so con-
spicuous in the FOREIGN SEcarttay's declara-
tions, and we trust his acts will be as good as his
words.

Of the SECRETARY for WAR'S characteristic per-
formance at Huntingdon yesterday, there is
little to be said. The gallant General is a
very old soldier in politics. It is difficult to
take him at a disadvantage. His good-nature is
irresistible, and his very defects are the qualities
of a thorough Englishman. There is the smack
of the good old Tory in his talk, and yet he is
the only member of his family who calls himself a
Peelite. He claims to be the legitimate repre-
sentative of his great brother—though whether of
the ROME? PELL who led the Tory party, or of
the Rorrar PEEL whom the Tories rejected, he
doss not explain. On the subject of Reform he is
rather vague than evasive ; he would be happy to

admit to the suffrage numbers of

chided ; but he makes a Nint
against any Reform Bill, west
cures of anykind, not introdu6ed by

But what can we say against a Secretary for
Wair -*lto, Wore be Ma been in office

bas ordered 100,000 breech-loaders f
That is something like a policy ! And it comes with
all the bet* pace from a Bliniatar who, as a tier-
respondelit reminds us, threw 3,000,0001. " as it
" were into the sea," to Pay for the patent—
which was not a patent—of a gun already consigned
to the limbo of the unserviceable..

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)