The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 17.

So large a part of the life of an English Ministry
is spent in Parliament ; so much of the actual go-
vernment of the country is transacted within the
House of Commons, that to Englishmen and to all,
whether natives or foreigners, who would study
the working of our constitution, nothing that
affects or indicates the temper of the most power-
ful legislative body in the world can be alien or
indifferent. Hence, perhaps, the increasing curl-

osity with which of late years what may be called
the physiognomy of the House has been noted by
writers who consult the tastes of the public. Yes-
terday, for example, was the first regular meeting
of a full House for the resumption of business after
the Ministerial recess ; that is, of a House in which
a responsible administration sits face to face with
a responsible opposition, and the defeated rulers
of yesterday aro become the critics of their
conquerors. A stranger who entered the
House yesterday for the first time since the
debates and divisions of a month ago, could
not fail to be struck by the great calm and still-
ness which had succeeded to the tempestuous
conflicts of May and June. This immense ap-
peasement of party passions is neither so strange
nor so sudden as it looks ; the subsidence of the
storm has passed unnoticed between the setting of
one luminary and the rising of another. Public
and private life resemble each other in this :

the preface is better than the book ; expectation
than possession ; desire than fruition ; &Tort than
attainment ; contest than victory. In the very
moment of success, so eagerly pursued, the some-
thing bitter rises from the cup ; the flowers
wither at the touch. Even so when all the forces
of an ardent Opposition, thirsting for place and
power, and all the arta of factious spite, have done
their worst, and the powerful Minister has covered
up his head in his mantle and accepted the fatal blow
from the hand of a friend, and the rivals have
rushed in to divide the spoils, there oomea over
the victim a saddened sense of the fugitiveness, the
emptiness, and the weariness of triumph. Lord
DERBY, with that almost boyish petulance
which never deserts him on the gravest occa-
sions, was bewailing the other day the misfor-
tunes of a Premier who, once in six or seven years,
has to distribute thirty or forty places among a
host of hungry placemen, conscious of their deserts,
and loud in their professions of disinterestedness.
The late Sir ROBERT PEEL once said, with a pathetic
simplicity of expression which, perhaps, is not in
Lord DERBY'S temperament, that power had no
charms for him, so far as the patronage was con-
cerned ; he knew that for one place filled there
were a score of friends who must go empty
away. Nor is the bitterness of satisfied ambi-
tion known only to the chiefs who have honours
to dispense and offices to give away. It is
felt by every one of those eager partisans who
have exchanged the reckless liberty of attack for
the defensive reticence of responsible action.
What with these and other sobering and sub-
duing influences of authority on the one side, and
the sense of release from servitude, the conscious-
ness of duty done, and the relish of changing from
actors to audience, on the other, the holy calm
and brooding peace which seemed to possess the
House last evening are easily imagined.
Nor would it be fair to deny that the Tory
leaders are, under the auspices of the member for
Buckinghamshire, models of good manners and
obliging temper. Mr. DISRAELI has his defects
as a leader of the House, no doubt, but in suavity,
in patience, in modest deference, and in assiduity,
he does honour to his party and to thegreat assembly
of English gentlemen. Forthebrief remaining period
of the present session, indeed, his position will
be only too easy and secure. And the principal, if
not the only, function of the leas discreet or less
experienced colleagues who sit beside him, will be
to learn to look as if they were accustomed to
their dignities, and to hold their tongues.
We are almost tempted to acknowledge that an
occasional change of Ministry is according to the
providential order of things, and necessary to the
harmony of the universe, when we 00111011i-
plate the probable effect of the Trappist disci-
pline of the Treasury Bench upon the exabsrant
parliamentary vitality of Lord Csarsougs. Mr.

DARBY GRIFFITH (who, we fancy,

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other day that there were no cross benches for
members of diagonal opinions and comprehensive
rviaws onforeign politica. Really, if the Opposition

'Mai/Webs-4e sides once every six or seven years,
it is not cross benches but cross bars that the
safety of the Government for the time being would
require, as any one who -.remembers the recent
discussions on the Reform Bill will understand.

Now all is changed ; nothing can be more en-
gaging and endearing than the tone in which the
SBCILETAIIY for WAR announces that he is going
to provide the troops with the last new thing
but one in breech-loaders, regardless of expense,
and that at the risk of a trifling supplementary
estimate he will give the British asmy a con-
verted Enfield almost as soon as the needle-gun is
superseded in Prussia, and the repeating rifle is
adopted over the water. There is something very
pleasant in all this zeal and bonhomie combined ;
and though Mr. Bateaux OSDOENS was in his very.
best form last evening, and delivered his hits with
the happiest effect and with uncommon neatness
at the venerable batch of Irish law appointments
(which remind one of nothing so much as the
Chorus of old men in the opera of Faust), we dare
say Mr. Disassit was very little discomposed
at the member for Nottingham's sparring.
Perhaps, indeed, it served as a condiment to the
discussion that followed on the supplemental
Charter for the Queen's University—a discussion
enjoyable enough to those who are not solicitous
to bind up the wounds of the Liberal party.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)