The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY ‘'EVENING, JUNE 20, 1866.

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mem.
The action of the American Executive since the
raid has been much applauded in this country, and
we trust that it may have the effect of showing
those • classes in America from whom SWEENY,
Rossurs, and Dlanowr have hitherto drawn sup-
plies, how vain are the hopes with which they
have been so long beguiled. It is said that the
arrest of liwzarrx and Roseate has made a great
impression on them, the ignorant masses having
believed that President JOHNSON would never take
active measures against those who so cordially
hated Great Britain. &smelts, too, is reported
to have been complaining in public that he has
been betrayed. The continued vigilance of the
United States Government, however, will form
the beat guarantee for the maintenance of tran-
quillity. The great length of the common frontier
makes it difficult, if not impossible, for either
Government to prevent, by actual physical re-
straint, the passage of small bodies of armed men
from one territory to the other, but the display of
a determination on each side to punish breaches
of neutrality laws, and to nip schemes of invasion
in the bud, will have the moat salutary effect upon
the relations of the two countries.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES•

(THIS DAY.)

THE RESIGNATION OP MINISTERS.
The Times has always thought that parliamentary
reform must be a creation of time, and that its work
should have been deferred till the new administration had
essayed its power. But when the measure did come, and
the public saw it was Mr. Bright's bill, there was no chance
for it ; and it was thrown back on the bands of its author.
The Times then proceeds to remark, in a sportive and
humorous manner, that Mr. Gladstone has never
put the principle of the admission of working
men to the franchise before the house ; that
the division of Monday was on a mere detail, and that,
therefore, the opposition cannot be charged with refusing
to enfranchise working men, and that the only comfort-
able reflection left us is that if the chiefs of the opposition
come in now, it is because they are invoked as mediators,
and called in to heal a party feud. Not a single item of
retribution is due to the new government, not a grudge ;
on the contrary, all possible co-operation. The liberals
are bound by the very terms of their own self-immolation
to give the conservatives a fair trial, and certainly
not to exact from them a task which, with everything in
their favour, they have found it impoasible to bring to
even a respectable end.
Honour and self-respect apart, observes the Daily NOM,
it was scarcely to be expected that Lord Russell or Mr.
Gladstone would be persuaded to sink to the level of
administrators on sufferance. In the present house be-
trayal has become an article of faith, and every true liberal
therefore, will rejoice at the determination of the govern-
ment to endure no longer to be the sport of the malice and
dissimulation of hungry rivals and disappointed partisans.
Mr. Gladstone had declared that he would stand or fall by
the precise figure of reduction of the franchise which the
government had adopted, and it marks the depth to which
the sentiment of public honour has sunk in certain minds
of so-called " philosophical " reformers, that they should
at the last moment have believed Mr. Gladstone capable
of treating his own declaration as if he had never made it.
Until Monday next the public business of the nation is in
suspense, and the country will wait without impatience
for the glories of the transformation scene which may be in
store. Meanwhile every true liberal may console himself
with the reflection that this tory triumph will be the libe-
ral purgation, and that after their recent performances, the
allied enemies and traitors to reform can expect no quarter
frem a liberal party restored to health and honesty by the
bracing air of opposition.
The Post, as in all times of trial, finds consolation in
dweing on the memory of Lord Palmerston. " You may
be succeeded, you cannot be replaced," was said to Mr.
Franklin. It will be long before we find a leader like
Lira Palmerston, who will so conduct the business of the
house as to win the entire confidence of his party, the
respect of his opponents, and the love of all. The Post
then proceeds to blame the government for risking their
tenure of office for the sake of passing an enactment
which the people regard with indifference.
A dissolution, says the Herald, is out of the question ;
it would be fatal to the liberal party for the next half
dozen years. Ministers calculate that the Queen will not
receive the resignation, and the Herald has heard that the
o'licial tender has been accompanied by a private sugges-
tion that it should not bo accepted. But the Queen ap-
preciates too highly the ability of the conservative leaders
to accept any such impertinent advice. If Lord Derby is
called upon by the Queen to form an administration, as
the Herald believes lie will be before the week is out, he
will submit to her Majesty within a very few hours a
list which will not only command the confidence of the
c.maervative party, but will give the country a guarantee
of a wise, an honourable, a peaceful, and a dignifi
policy, protective alike of its honour and its foreign in-
terests.
The Star says that a dissolution of parliament would
have the cordial approval of all true liberals in and out of
the house ; but the general impression seems to be that the
government have tendered their resignation. The course
which the country ought to take is plain. Everywhere
meetings ought to be organised to protest against the dis-
placement of a government which enjoys the confidence of
the people, and to insist that the question at issue between
the cabinet and the house shall be submitted to the arbi-
tration of the constituencies.
The triumph of Monday night, the Telegraph states,
has been gained by Lord Grosvenor, Captain Hayter, Lord
Duukellin, and their indefatigable agent in the press, Mr.
Robert Lowe. The consequences of a change in the execu-
tive might be momentous. The difficulties apply far less
ti the political complications at home than to the
threatening crisis on the Continent ; and hence the aspect
of events must enforce upon all who feel the responsibilities
of the period the policy of retaining the government and
calling upon the country for a new parliament. At such a
turn in our history it is for the nation itself to determine
what shall be the measures finally adopted.

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sonably good fat*, withithke pieclaimediltehhilk„
for the of puadown *e insiorection, aro, pny
, acts a • tell within thirinilla district, er
I the °Art of superior: ority, or selidertherike *Om-
tion. Military officers are further protected by
the mere proclamation of martial law, but the bona,
fides of each act will still, we presume, be open to
exception, while it may be omtendsd that semi
were commenced, though not completed, beyond
the proclaimed dietrict. It is possible, moreover, that
doubt may be thrown on the operation of a Colonial In-
demnity Act in this country, if the friends of the negroes
should institute criminal proceedings against Mr. Eyre on
his return. Such a course, however, oould serve no good
end whatever, and would assuredly fail to command the
sympathy of the public. No one believes Mr. Byre to have
acted from motives of private malice, or with any but the
best intentions, and it is this which constitutes the essen-
tial difference between an error, however deplorable, and
a crime, however trifling.
The Daily News shows the contrast between the singular
caution of the commissioners when they have to speak of
the horrible deeds which they report, and their copious-
ness when they think they have an opportunity of exte-
nuating guilt. With all this moral infirmity, which hardly
differs from cowardice, they have nevertheless delivered
a judgment upon the conduct of the Jamaica government
and it agents which fully justifies the severest censures
that have been pronounced on them in this country ;
and Mr. Cardwell has assumed the responsibility of charac-
terising conduct which the commissioners Lad treated
with such ill-judged leniency. Her Majesty's government
has declared Mr. Byre to have been not irresponsible ; but
if the matter ends here, to what will his responsibility
practically amount' The officers who have so terribly
disgraced their country are to be banded over to the
Admiralty and to the Horse Guards, and Provost-Marshal
Ramsay is to be tried before an Island jury, who probably
share his feelings, and, perhaps, even were his accomplices.
This is not a state of things to be acquiesced in.
Still it is something to have a formal and su•
thoritativa condemnation of the Jamaica atrocities placed
on record, and for this we cordially thank Mr. Cardwell.
How necessary it was to obtain this verdict will not be
denied by those who compare the state of public opinion in
England now with that which prevailed last November.
Meetings have been held in this country to glorify deeds
now stigmatised as barbarous, and dinners eaten in honour
of women-flogging, which moreover has actually been
justified by a portion of the public press. Six months ago
Governor Eyre and Colonel Nelson were heroes, and the
Mouravieffs, Bergs, and Haynaus of Europe were chuckling
over the thought that their acts had been matched, and
even surpassed, by pharisaical England.
The Herald can see in the report only the verification
of the opinions it has again and again expressed. Revo-
lutions are not made with rosewater, and rebellions are
not put down with kid gloves. When a handful of whites
find themselves suddenly menaced by a multitude of
blacks, when the hatred of race is inflamed by political
antagonism and personal animosity, it is almost a moral
necessity that things should be done of which calm and
cool judgment will disapprove. That this was iu some
measure the case in the Jamaica disturbances we have
always admitted ; but as we have throughout, so do we
still maintain, that, though motives of policy may justify
Governor Eyre's recall, no scintilla of reason has been
shown why he should be even temporarily disgraced, or
why his future preferment should in any degree be
Led. .

Eta Court.

BALMORAL, Jom 18.

The Queen, Princess Helena, and Princess
Louise, with the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, at-
tended Divine service in the parish church of Craithie yes-
terday morning.
The Rev. Dr. M'Leod, Chaplain to her Majesty,
officiated.
Dr. Dl'Leod left the Castle this morning.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Gran- '
vine, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the
Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Edward
Cardwell, the Marquis of Hartington, Earl de
Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon.
G. J. Goschen, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.

Mr. Sanderson hail the honour of playing on the piano.
forte before the Prince and Princess of Wales, at Marl
borough-house, yesterday afternoon.

A deputation, consisting of Mt. W. Gibb, Manchester;
Mr. C. Rowe, Mr. W. Just, and Mr. L Williamson, Liver-
pool ; Mr. H. Gibbs and Mr. C. Lambert, London ; and
Mr. J. C. Mayne, Valparaiso, had an interview with the
Earl of Clarendon, at the Foreign-office, on Monday, on
the subject of the bombardment of Valparaiso. The depu-
tation was introduced by Mr. T. Baring, M.P., Mr. T. B.
Horsfall, M.P., Mr. C. Turner, M.P., and Mr. S. it.
Graves, M.P.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday. The lords present were the Lords Justices Knight
Bruce and Turner, and Sir E. V. Williams.

DIIIAN WESTMINSTE44IID
BU OF MR. CORD
The fo'howiriapetition was presentea*the Xi=
ofiFeetmim4eron the 4th inst. :
Coldialdbla permission has been obblieted from the
authorities of Westminster Abbey to place within
building a bust of the late Mr. Cobden, One hu tr,
executed by Mr. Thomas Woolner, to the entire satidao-
tion of Mrs. Cobden, whose family regard it as a very per-
fect likeness of her lets lamented bullhead. It has also
been ascertained that a suitable position can be obtained
for the bust. Considering the greet and disinterested ser-
vices which Mr. Cobden rendered to hie country, the un-
dersigned beg to express their hope that his likeness may
not be looked for in vain within the Abbey. And they
now respectfully request leave to bring . their wishes under
the noticesif the Very Reverend the Dean of Westminster.
(Signed) ARGYLL.
Jests CLARK.
CHARLES DICKENS.
B. Disnams.
W. E. GiAospoirs.
Jaime Room'.
B. Jowirrr.
lEDINAIRD.
F. D. }taunter..
B. OXON.
ALFRED TENNYSON.
London, May 19. W. IL THOMPOON.
The dean, on receipt of this petition, imme-
diately replied that "he gladly assented" to its
prayer.

• LAM.

TEE WAR.
In Germany and Italy the electric wires and the
*always Mails- taken under the control of the
governments for the double purpose of special use
and for secrecy it is difficult to obtain authentic
news of the movements of the different army
corps which are now moving to battle. The
southern federal states are displaying un-
wonted activity. The Bth federal army corps was
mobilised at once, and proceeded to take up a posi_
tion near Frankfort- The Hesse Darmstadt troops
were the first in position. Four thousand of them
entered Frankfort, when the news arrived that the
Prussians had occupied Giessen. Military trains,
run every two hours night and day between
Bruchsal and Frankfort. Wurtemberg has re-
quired 22 trains for the transport of her
troops. All the Baden regiments are in
barrack, and are awaiting orders to march.
At the railway stations the troops are cheered,
and the popular sentiment appears to be
decidedly anti-Prussian. Prince Alexander of
Hesse, who commands the Bth corps, is the inti-
mate friend of the Emperor of Russia. The
advanced post of the Federal army is at Friedberg.
The Prussians were hissed on- their entry into
Hanover by a portion of the population. The
Nord mentions that King George left for England.
Military men expect that a great battle will be
fought near Glatz, in Prussian Silesia.
The Austrian General Count de Clam-Gallas,
who commands the Ist corps in Bohemia, with
headquarters at Olmutz, has received orders to
advance towards the North in order to join the
Saxon army either towards Pima, about 15 miles to
the east of Dresden, or towards Kwnigstein, a
small fortified place nearer the frontier.

THE ADVANCE OF THE ITALIAN ARMY.
The whole of the Italian army is on the march
towards the Mincio andthe Po. Piacenza, which was
a few days ago crowded with soldiers, has now only
a garrison left in it. The most complete secrecy
exists as to the plan of operations. The troops ad-
vance by night in silence. The strictestinjunctions
have been issued from head-quarters as to the
direction the army is taking. That the Mincio
and the Po will be crossed is confidently
believed, the former by the King and La
Marmora, the latter by Cialdini, but at what
points has not transpired. It is doubtful
whether the Austrians will dispute the passage of
the rivers. They have been concentrating for
some days back on the line of Verona, Vicenza,
Padua, and Rovigo. Being masters of the roads
and the railway they have it in their choice to
select the place of battle. From the present
aspect of their position it is not improbable that the
first great battle in Italy will be fought in the
centre of the quadrilateral on the attempt to pass
the Adige. Garibaldi will probably undertake
the difficult and dangerous duty of getting between
the Austrian army and cutting off their commu-
nication with Vienna, or will harass its
flank, which is protected by a corps of
20,000 men under General Kunne. The en-
thusiasm of the Italians remains unabated
Signor Sella, the late Minister of Finance, has
enrolled himself as a volunteer ; and the Italian
commissioner for the Paris Exhibition is stated to
have left Paris for the purpose of taking arms
under Garibaldi. The walls of the Italian towns
on the frontier are covered with placarda contain-
ing patriotic sentiments such as" Venezia omorte!
Fuori Stranieri !"
Advices from Turin state the Italian plan of ac-
tion isthat while the Ist, 2nd, and 3rd corps bear
down on the Mincio, to the north of Villeggio,
between Salluzzo and Peschiera, in order to cross
the river, the 4th corps, commanded by General
Ciahlini, will make a demonstration on Venetia,
supported by the fleet.

(REUTF.R'S TELEGRAMS.)
GER2VUNY.