The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-09 00:00:00

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• choice selection of operatic and dance music. Open at half
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KIN•HAN'S LL WHISKY.
DUBLIN MBOMOU, ISSIL
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" libacgwoon's Picrritg."—We are not alarm-
ista--quite otherwise ; but we express, it is believed,
the opinions of all thoughtful people, when we say that
not within the memory of living men, nor long
before it, has England stood in a position of greater
danger or difficulty than that in which she stands at this
moment. Be the causes what they may, the old feeling
of loyalty to the constitution of which their fathers made
their boast, has very much died out among large sections
of the population of these islands. We say nothing of the
temper which is so painfully manifest amid the great bulk
of the Irish people. With them hostility to England and
to English rule is patriotism. They are ripe for armed
revolt ; and the late demonstrations in Chester, Liverpool,
and even in London, show that a far more perfect organi-
sation subsists among them. not in Ireland only, but in
England also, than had been supposed. Again, a consider-
able section of the working classes of England and Scot-
land, misled by designing demagogues, and hardly know-
ing what they are about, demand from the legislature
such changes as, if conceded, would amount at once to
revolution. And the language which is held at their
meetings, as well as the mottoes which adorn their ban-
ners, distinctly indicate, if we can accept them literally,
that unless their demands be complied with fully and
immediately, worse evils may conic. Not that we desire
for a moment to connect Fenianistu with anything that
Mr. Beales and the Reform League are doing. We believe,
on the contrary, that, impatient as the League may be of
the just influence of property and rank in the administra-
tion of public affairs, it would never make common cause
with men whose dream is of indiscriminate massacre and
plunder. But mixed up with the League Sr. many indi.
vidual Fenian, who, however powerless to bring over the
onus to their own way of thinking, are yet in constant
communication with their brother conspirators outside the
pale, and so do their work for them unsuspected. Who
can doubt, had the attack on Chester Castle succeeded,
but that in St. Giles's, perhaps at Islington, not less than
in Kerry, disturbances would have broken out And,
blood once drawn, especially in the metropolis, it would be
hard to say what consequences might not follow. In like
manner, the trades' unions, departing from the purposes
far which they carosat first intoexistenos, ars • them.
selves on the side of democracy, and asking for w at, ac-
cording to Earl Russell's declaration in the House of
Lords, there is not a single member of either House of
Parliament prepared to concede to them. And cheering
them on are members of the legislature itself, who either
cannot see to what the general movement is tending, or see
it and approve. Nor is this all—the proceedings of the
Reform League, and their allies the trades' unions, are as
much condemned by the leaders if one section of the
liberal party as they are approved and urged on by the
leaders of another. Yet so strung are the ties which link
these antagonists together, that they will not be found
standing apart when a political crisis comes, though per-
fectly aware that their ultimate ends are different, and
that sooner or later they too must be at strife among
themselves. And, finally, we have a government composed
of gentlemen of the highest honour—able administrators,
able debaters—who cannot count upon being supported by
more than a strong minority in the House of Commons on
any question on which it may suit the liberals so to agree,
as to render it a fair reason of expelling them from office.
If all this do not justify the language which we have felt
it our duty to employ, when speaking of the crisis to which
the affairs of the country have been brought, we really do
not know where to turn for further evidence of the fact.
A weak government, confronted in the legislature by a
numerous yet divided opposition, while both am libelled
and threatened by well organised bodies of men out of
doors—this is a state of things which no thoughtful person
can contemplate without alarm.— Blaelsood'e Magazine
for March. . .

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Tna Immo/mi.—l remember one night going
to a masked ball given at the theatre during the carnival.
During the evening a young and apparently elegant
woman came towards me, attired in a domino and mask,
and putting her arm within mine, accosted me thus :
" The signor has not found her whom his eyes seek ?"
Now I was seeking no one in particular, so inferred that I
was not speaking to anyone acquainted with me,
and I replied, " The signora can jest at my disappoint-
ment ; does she wish it less ?" " Disappointment belongs
to most who trust women ; to all who trust men." " The
signora," I urged, " is too young and lovely to have dis-
covered that herself." " I have not complained ; the heart
is silent on its own sorrows, signor capitnno." I was only
lieut.nant, but the idea did not displease me. " Signora,
if it were in my power you should never have reason to
feel saa," I answered. And so this light badinage was
continued for some little time. I besought her to tell me
who she was, or to unmask, but this she declined to do,
and in return told me so many little matters about myself
and my daily habits that I could not imagine bow
she could possibly have learned them, and became
thoroughly intrigue. As she was very obdurate, I
wished her adieu, when she promised that if I would stay
until the conclusion of the ball she would unmask. For
want of something else to do. and also, perhaps, from
curiosity, I stayed, and about three in the morning I
posted myselfsoo espied my
doo to
jugtoll
laso.,lhmeye
walkpelS
with a most coquettish air, raised her mask, and disclosed
the not uncomely visage of—my washerwoman. She was
childishly diverted at her success in playing me off—
much more than I was myself. The following evening I
received a note from another lady, begging me to go to
the ball again ; but as I was aware that my washerwoman
heal a dear friend, who was also a clear-starcher, I felt
sure that the two had concerted another joke at my ex-
pense, and judged it advisable to disregard the invita-
tion.— Cornltill Moonrise for March. _

THE VILLAOXR'S HovszHoLn.—Salmon's weak-
ness is, however, now betrayed to those who did not pre-
viously know it—it is well understood emongthe villagers.
Not content with the abounding life of his little house-
hold, this worthy man was fond of gathering about
him a little population of the inferior creatures—rabbits,
dogs, mule-canaries, and such like. On a Saturday even-
ing. when his heart was quickened and his wits were
slackened by the social draught with which he bade adieu
to the labours of the week, he was but too apt to
" speckilate" in what he supposed to be rare speci-
mens of those familiar creatures. Dog•fanciers, bird-
catchers, and rabbit-fanciers, who knew his weak-
ness, traded upon it, and tempted him further
and further onward in the perilous but fascinat-
ing path. He looked at it in the light of genuine mercantile
adventure; it really was—gambling, But some of his
early risks having proved unfortunate (lop-eared rabbits
and recondite varieties of guinea-pig being difficult to
rear, where there are eight little students of natural
history eager for experiment), Mr. Salmon lost so heavily,
that he was unable to pay up some " fines," and thus
dropped out of the ranks at his building society ; known
in the village as the Brickbat Brothers. Now as his great
object in life was to have a house of his own (subject, of
course, to the usual mortgage to the society), what could
be do but go on speculating in these small deer, until the
luck turned! And what could Mrs. Salmon do but
acquiesce, and cultivate ber little noisy brood amidst all
the responsibilities of a menagerie? Mr. Salmon was
always eood-humoured like herself—be usually cams home
cheerful to excess, though scarcely tipsy, at the end of
the week, with half his wages gone, and a fresh dog in
his pocket, or a piping bullfinch wrapped up in his hand-
kerchief. Over the new prise there was usually a con-
jugal word-combat, but the happy pair &lira), came to
terms again over some anecdote of one of the children.—
Argos, for March.