The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-05 00:00:00

Tilt EXPRESS, SATURDAY VENING, MARCIit 5,, 1889.

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duirtieme did at show the amber of darters, fee mew
mes had annul um or twelve 13141A5. The amber et ma
selieted from the lee of January, 1838, to the Stet of De-
amber eel 47,141. The number of volunteers be the NA-
N* men 7,700. Theeember of theaters wee 9,0.17. et /AIM
1,106 had rebutted. The (*Heat general gees soree father
enithotAlates, tette* were mendable In the gallery.
t. HIRBERT bore testimony to the improvement,
uay, at thought thet the estireau, though large,
mold net et this sonnet he eafely redacted.
her J. ratarwin with:teed certain items of the esti-
mei&

ilk W. CODRINGTON strongly areal the defects of
oar recruiting einem, and the want of midden' inducements
bunter the SerVioll, el that in a time of prawns the roger
whip vas not obtained.

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On the wet WI ham 54,4741. fur pay and elloweasee of
Ls had Stift lAnd abroad,
Mr. liONSELL drew attention to the grievances ender
with* ha enik the seisatific corps laboured.
Thee" aAe a brief diememon, was agreed to.
The fallewieg geese wee likewise agreed to
atheellinesse nes.
Ll4oolll. Z. Uthda.
50.0001.,* vaunter wee next proposed.
ILLY. M. EE=[ELST aset_epp.sa thia vote. He
drew • Methatiew betwew the Militia and the Metaled
Tiewen. He believed that ell beemisery wpme foe the de-
fence of the weintry amder at
eireameteintes,
whom we bed • at eshim what could net be re-
garded r ether Wes • weeds; attitade—that nelgbhow
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ea
pater ea oats, whit the Climatal bridged owes with steuthre
—be cheerfully punted ; bat 18,0001. upended in whit was
no mom than • toy of the mobility, was yam In the peewit
pond,* of the ooentay maid not be tolerated. (Hew, beer.),
He bad no doubt that every oar of these wee was se hewer
Isar Comer, bet what ass maid they be as meshy
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that bb eleseden was net Mill at the ma at a
year Raw Itha an it parpla that pessary corp. owed
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if hey willed thee ray eel end, let then ales the title in
the bras ei the penis sad died shwa thalltita tar teeming
tie tren (Meth) let ismithre, Instead of putting set
their his degas sue a yew, end looldng uscomhetable on
bwrikeek, set epeepteln their parka, and then the inhabit-
sets of this coy would know how to protect their wives
nod fanlike, hoe an invader, lasted of • frightened,
peakvetrickta wok, me all sadieciplined bodies were, they
weal have mem who wield be able to defend their beaten
(Chum) He he lately applied to the goo ascent on
of thew*, al Bristol, who ware deities of learning
the an dame, bat his application bad failed. It wee sap-
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(Chem)
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manry wows ewe fa estelly • wet rateable hietimaket.
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west forty epees • her hews every week Ms de peeped of
leantiarg to wer the ride, sad be did net at. why air dr-
vbs., druid set be seeped by the irrenharat. (Crim)
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boa. yeadenew Weld very peperty I. nu thatbject for a
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LONDON, 84TUND47, MAR CS 6.

Oita of the provisions in the proposed Reform
Bill of Ministers is intended to disfranchise the
workmen employed in the Government Dockyards.
Sir FRANCIS BARING has given notice that, should
the Bill he read a second time, he will move that
this clause be struck out in committee.

It can hardly be forgotten how, in 1862, when the
Duke of MOSTIIIIIIBULLAND war at the head of the
Admiralty, the artisans in question were subjected
to a degree of departmental pressure which led the
House of Commons to appoint a Select Committer of
Inquiry into the matter. The Report of that tri-
banal, which was presided over by Lord Say-
Nous, declared that the practice of non-
interference with the votes of the workmen
employed in the yards, which had subsisted
during the time Sir Pianos BAILIN° was Pint Lord
of the Admiralty, had been wantonly and wilfully
departed from. It pronounced in strong terms a
smears upon the conduct of the then Secretary,
Mr. STAFFORD, for having participated in and Nano-
tioned the acts which were done with a view of into-
cueing elections; and it declared that in future all
promotions and pensions in the public ship-building
establishments ought to be rigorously pined upon
the footing reocenniendecl by Sir BALDWIN WALK'S,
and acted upon previously to the change of Govern-
ment in February, 1862. The House, after due con-
sideration, unreservedly adopted this report ; and we
believe we are correct in saying that the principles
of nos-interference therein laid down have
been banoterably observed under the various heads of
department that have been in office during the last
sewn years. We certainly do not recollect hearing'
any complaint of either inducement or intimidation
to rots having been held out under the administra-
tion cl the &puissant by Sir Lassie 011 trIAN, Sir
MARLIN WooD, or Sir lons PARINOTON ; and we
are disposed to think that had such improper
infioenos been exercised or attempted we should
have heard of it. We are very far, indeed, from in-
tending to express an unqualified confident* that all
future Fint Lords and their subordinates will be
equally abstemious and fathoming. The vote of
censure of 1882 will grow old like all other things.
and as it growl old there is of course a danger that
it may gradually become obsolete. Far from being
insensible to the insecurity of the tenure by
which the shipwrights of Devonport and Chatham
claim the liberty of voting like other intelligent and
industrious citizens, as they please, we are prepared
at all times to contend that their case is one of the
clearest and most irrefragable in favour of the Ballot.
No impartiality at Whitehall can prevent the know-
ledge or belief among the hands at work in the
dockyards that the surveyor or superintendent has
strong party leanings, and that his favour may be
propitiated by electoral oompliance with his un-
spoken wishes; and no conosivabls rigour of depart-1
mental rules can extinguish wholly the idea that,
consciously or unconsciously, such a man may be
sometimes swayed by his political likings or dislik-
ing. in the confidential reports it is his duty to
make, or the discretionary favoan he has it in his
power to bestow. Voting by ballot, the 'artisans
engaged in the building of government ships
would be thoroughly and completely relieved from
all such demoralising fears. No official of any sort
connected with the establishment would venture to
pry into the mode in which their votes were given;
and whatever espionage might possibly accomplish
elsewhere is violation of the legal secrecy of the
Ballot, it could never vesture with impunity to
meddle with such men. This, then, is the prow
guarantee for their permanent independence and
safety, and one which, we trust, ere long they will
obtain.

But what is the meaning of this proposal for a
special and specific disfranchisement? What bare
sober, loyal, ingenious, and able artificers who build
for us the floating ramparts of the land, and who are
confessedly as useful and fine a class of men as
any in the realm—what have they done that
they should be marked and breaded with political
incapacity to give their raise; like their neighbours,
for reprees•tativea is Parliament! Is it their fault
that seven yews ago • foolish Secretary of the
Admiralty, sad an anscrepaloas First Lord, were as
regardless el public decency and public duty as to
try sad browbeat them in the QUEEN', name, Or
bribe them with the Quitas's wages ? If anyone
should do so in future, that would be very good
41111011 for denouncing the wrongdoers in the press,
and indicting them in Parliament; but surely that
la no reason whatever for robbing these men of their
rights, without accusation or shadow of proof that
they have misused them. Why, this la the
penalty that is inflicted on the vilest venality.
When the freemen of a particular borough have
been found guilty, after careful iavestigstion, of
habitual eorruptioo, the worst that Parliament can
do is to disfranchise them; and when the majority of
a constituency like St. Albans or Sudbury are judi-
cially found guilty of taking bribes, Parliament
sentences all to disfranchisement. Bat whoever
heard before of a whole class of industrious men,
against whom no charge of the kind has bee►
proved, being arbitrarily stripped of their rights
because, forsooth, their rulers mistrust, not the vie:
time of their injustice, bat their own administrative
honesty, and for fear they should be tempted some
day or other to steal the votes of these humble
um, the ♦otes themselves mast, once and
ill all, be taken away! But there is sums.
thins mew the. this. We hear a great deal
about tha high importance of establishing principles
of anikemity in our samided Franchise laws. Bat
whom ill the uniformity hen? Why are the work-
ing uses fa the natiral dockyards to be deprived of

their electoral prlvileges, while the employ!' of
every grade stove them are to beenffisrea to retain
theirs Does any man in his seam; believe that
the superintendent, or the surveyor, or the chief
deck, or the accountant, or the deputy, or the
assistant, or any other of the looms of demure, well-
dressed, ambitious, and unsatisfied individuals who
I earn their livelihood in the various branches of the
Admiralty, are not as likely to be influenceable by
the partisan opinions of its Parliamentary chiefs for
the time being, as the carpenters and caulkers,.
the smiths and founders, who earn many of them
more money per annum by their handicraft skill in
the dockyards, than these do by their punctuality at
the desk ? L it because the one are paid by the
quarter and the other are paid by the week that the
broad and impassable line of right and no right,
franchise and no franchise, is to be drawn between
them ? If there be any good reason why every man
who fills an administrative post, or lives by public
employment, should be expelled from the roll of
citizens, let us have the reason, and let the rule be
impartially laid down. But while dukes and mar-
quises, drawing salaries and pensions from the Civil
List, are allowed to nominate Members of Parlia-
ment at their will, and while admirals, judges,
and ministers of State subsisting out of the
public puree are not only allowed to vote at
elections, but, if they please, to influence the votes
of others, and while hundreds and thousands of
salaried officials take part in the choice of Members
of Parliament in University, county, and town, it would
be, to our thinking, the most unqualified injustice
to brand with political incapacity the bumbler tier- ,
rants of the public merely because they are working
men, and are not called gentlemen.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

BXPRESS FROM PARIb.

MON 0.011 OWN 00111

PARIS. FILIDAT ErilltNe.

The confident opinion which I expressed from
the first, that the French government had no serious
intention of evacuating Rome within any definite
period, will perhaps have seemed to you to have
been contradicted by the news of the last two days.
You now see by the Moniteur that the contradiction
was but " seeming." My letter of yesterday indi-
cated the certainty which I felt in my own mind
that the oonlirmation apparently given by the

to the statement Marie in the En-
glish parliament was essentially hollow and false.
Maiden must by this time feel themselves fooled
to the top of their bent. How pungent is the
expression of the ifoxiteur that the news of the
anstitutionnel is, "at least," premature (au nooks
prematuree). This means plainly, " there is no
prospect of the evacuation at present, and very
likely it may never take place at aIL" du moires
is delicious. Observe that the denial applies cate-
gorieally to two facts stated—the order for" the
evacuation, and the order that the • troops should
march to Civita Vecchia. What precious instruc-
tion is there in this incident as to the degree of
good faith with which political matters are managed
here. For three days running the semi-official
journals have announced in the most positive terms
that the evacuation of Rome by the French troops
would take place with the utmost speed. On
Wednesday evening M. Paulin Limayree said, in
the Patrie, that the request of the holy father was
a command, that France had but one policy—that
of loyalty and sincerity, and that, although unfor-
tunately the Pope had probably overestimated hie

own ability to keep order in his states, Fiance
would, in compliance with his demand, take away
her army, and would, moreover, be delighted to have
the free disposal of her troops for other purposes.
Similar news is furnished to the Nord of Brume%
and other foreign organs of the French go-
vernment. On Thursday M. Boniface, in
the Conseitutionnel, gives the paragraph Wok
WWI at once sent by telegraph all over
Europe, and universally received as official.
and which is now denied by the Moniteur.
This very morning M. Boniface, following his orders
of yesterday, states in the Constilutionmel that the
movement of French troops from Rome to avite
Vecchia has actually begun. And, simultaneously, the
Mositeur, laughing at all Europe, and at the English
ministers more especially—after having stood by for
three days, and allowed the false news to be pro-
mulgated under official colours—tells the world that
the announcement of the Consfitutiossal is "at
least premature." After this can a Paris cor-
respondent be blamed if, instead of abounding in char
citable presumptions, he yields to the teaching
of experience, and adopts " suspicion" as his
guiding star ? _ _

The Bourse was better today. Very large 'peen.
lative purchases were made, on the strength of
rumours of a more encouraging nature, touching
Lord Cowley's mission to Vienna. At the worst, it
was believed that he would not come away with any
positive refusal of a distinct proposition, and that
the manwuvres of diplomacy will probably furnish
grounds for fluctuations, of which speculation may
take advantage. The Rents rose 460. for cash and
25c. for account, closing at 67fr. 850. and 67fr. 760.
Mobilier rose 10fr. The Orleans railway rose
I Ifr. 25c.; Southern, 7fr. 50c.; and the other linen
from 2k. to Mr.