The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING,

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that any neglect of regulations, or infraction of
the law, shall be followed by his dismissal. But
even this would be unsatisfactory in practice unless
the official policy is altered, and justice to the
pauper be made the ruling spirit at head-quarters.
Almost the only check we have at present upon
the cupidity and heartlessness of those to whose
care the sick and dying are entrusted comes from
sources outside the official world ; and the
duties of a great department are being discharged
by the representatives of a few public journals.
The heavy cost of the protracted Farnham inquiry
will mainly fall upon our contemporary the Lancet,
and with no other result than a corrobora-
tion of what is already known. We have
no hesitation in asserting that there is no Poor-law
district in the kingdom in which the discipline and
appointments of the workhouses are decently
proper ; none in which the inspection Lord Davoig
praises has fulfilled its purpose. The House of
Commons will probably see fit to give the powers
asked for ; but before doing so, it will be wise to
ascertain something more than tho merits and
usefulness of a system which has broken down,
and to obtain the information hitherto studiously
concealed concerning the constitution and practices
of the large and costly establishment at Whitehall.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

The Times is not edified by the spectacle of
France and Italy talking at each other through their
parliament. Italy had missed a great opportunity, made
by duplicity, and lost by pusillanimity. Bat all the
blame should not be laid upon her, for equal
cunning has long been displayed by the potentate
who has humbled Italy to the dust. Expressing
something more than astonishment at the coarseness
of the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Times pro.
Geed. to remark that Italy need not think much of the
other minister, M. Ronher's, declaration. Last year he
was equally sure the frontier of the Main should never be
overstepped. There Is something in this Roman question
which allows of no provision for the morrow. The future
belongs to Italy, if she will only recognise her true posi-
tion and accept it with moderation and self-control. As
to the conference, the speech of the Foreign Minister him-
self has given it a death blow.
The other articles in the Times treat of the Abyssinian
expedition, the cab question, and the memorials to the
Home-office in regard to the sentences of capital punish.
ment and penal servitude.
The Daily News observes that M. Rouher, Minister of
State and rhetorician-in-chief of the Second Empire, has
won another of those facile victories which are more diffi-
cult to repair than many disasters. For disasters, at
all events, inspire caution ; such victories as this en-
courage infatuation. In a single sentence M. Rouher de-
stroyed the Italian alliance and extinguished the
last flickering hope of a conference. To ask inde-
pendent and non-catholic powers to lend their
signatures to a settlement already concluded by the go-
vernment of France, and to register the decrees of the
clerical party, would be a mockery and an impertinence
which we are persuaded the Emperor of the French can
never have contemplated. M. Bollixes admirable elo-
quence will be cordially appreciated at Berlin, and the
Daily News trusts that the Italians will have the good
sense to feel no discouragement. Patience win work
greater wonders than the Chassepot.
Another leader of the Daily News is devoted to the
Abyssinian expedition, a very interesting account of which
is supplied by its correspondent, who writes from Annesley-
bay. The Daily News infers also from the letter of Dr.
Blanc that the peril of the captives is extreme, though it
is not appreciably increased by the expedition. The best
hope that can be entertained is that the letter of Sir
Robert Napier may reach the Abyssinian tyrant on one
of those intervals of good sense which occasionally inter.
rapt his frenzy.
The conservative papers rejoice over the attempt to
establish a conservative club in the City of London,
though regret is expressed at the absence from Thursday's
meeting of many who might be expected to have been
there. The conservatives in the city, the Herald observes,
are now placed in a great advantage by the minority clause,
and the Standard encourages its readers to think that two
seats may be obtained.
The Teleorapls says that 31. Ronher's speech is simply
the Papal non possesses translated into French. Our con-
temporary regrets it, and foresees that the failure of the
conference s'.ll surrender the Emperor more and more
to the party of the priests in France.
The Star does not believe that France has gone back to
priesteraft, but that the Ministry of to-day mistakes the
opinions of the people, and suppresses all means of under-
standing that opinion by muzzling the press and refusing
to permit public meetings.

DECEMBER

of the people es loyal. If we are wise we shall ie>•ssn
then this ; we shall try to take away that @tending•ground
which the revolution gales from the existence of abuses
which are manifest, and we shall also try to establish •
governing power with more force and energy than any
which we have at present.
The Chronicle thinks it doubtful whether the erode
aiaatical policy of Baron Beast will be supported by more
than a third of the new peers. Upon all matters in which
the church is concerned, the House of Lords is divided into
two parties. Of these one utterly disbelieves in °mei-
tationalism, and still cherishes a hope that absolute
government may be restored. Count Rechberg, notwith-
standing his having been a member of the Schmerling
miniatry, is a leading member of this party, and where
the Concordat is concerned is more conservative and more
opposed to compromise than Cardinal Rauscher. The
other party is official and bureaucratic. They will support
a liberal government because it is the government, but
they do so against their real wishes. This element, united
with the very few liberals like Count Auersperg, is all
that Baron Beast has to rely upon in carrying his measures
through the House of Lords.