The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-25 00:00:00

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REMARKS.
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it has declined 15 deg. Barometric pres-
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The marriage took place on the 23rd inst. of 10
Daniel O'Connell, youngest son of the late Daniel O'Con. 11"
nell, Esq., of Denynane Abbey, county Kerry, to Ellen,
only child of Ebenezer Foster, Esq.,The Elms, Cambridge.
The death is announced of the celebrated steeple- .-
chaser, Mr. Jas. Mason. " Argus "of the Post says :
" Throughout his lengthened illness he was visited by the is
very highest members of the turf and chase, who vied with *
each other in their delicate attentions to mitigate his suf- 1
faring*, and he may be said to have died without leaving an *
enemy behind him. His seat on horseback was the perfect. ;
tion of elegance, and the way he put his horse at a fence
could not be exceeded ; but, from being a weak man (for
be would often faint away as • boy when he came home
from hunting), he was not a strong finisher. With Jem
1 Mason, in conclusion, I may say with great truth, the lust
of the great steeplechasers has passed away."
It appears that the amount of gold sent to
Alexandria for cotton since the commencement of the pre.
sent month by English and French vessels has been little
short of a million.
Ma. ISAAC Burr, Q.C.—A gentleman in Dublin i
who is personally known to us, and of whose intimate and 1
confidential relations with Mr. Butt, Q.C., we have the 1
clearest evidence, writes to us " to give the most unquali-
fied contradiction to the rumours as to this distinguished 1,
Irishman having changed his religious principles," and we
most willingly comply with his request that the widest
publicity may be given rep this contradiction, which we
have no doubt will be üblished by every journal in
which the rumour in question was mentioned. —Nonlicrn

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THE LATE JOURNALISTIC DUELS rll FRANCE.- 4
The Correctional 'Tribunal of the Seine yesterday beard
the case brought before the court by the law officers of the /A
crown against MM. Duvernois. aged 30 ; de Fonvielle, 38 ;
Alexandre de Girardin, 27 ; all three attached to
the staff of the Liberti ; Choieski, 44, a writer, I‘,
and librarian to the Senate, and Saint-Valry,
editor of the Pays, for having been concerned in the
duel which took place on the 2nd inst. in the wood of
Vincennes, between M. Barmy, theatrical critic of the
Opinion Nationale, and M. Duvernois, editor of
Liberte. The tribunal, after hearing M. Desmareek the
advocate of the three first accused, and M. Nogent Saint-
Laurens for the two seconds of DL Sarcey, condemned 41.
Duvernois to two months' imprisonment, and MM. de
Fonvielle and Alexandre de Girardin each to one month.
MM. Choieski and iiiiint-Valry, M. Sarcey's eeconds, ware
sentenced to 100 fr. fine. The first three condemned have
apEealed against the decision.
THE " QUARTERLY REVIEW" ON A REFOEM BILL.
—Certainly it is our earnest desire that Lord Derby's go-
vernment may introduce no measure of reform, if they see
no fair chance of its success, either with the present par
'lament or in an a to the country. An unsuccessful
measure, p ed by conservatives, is exposed to this
perilous hazard—that every concession made, in the way
of a conciliatory compromise between parties, is accepted
as n surrender of principle and stripped of all the counter-
poises which the scheme, as a whole, may comprehend. In
the Reform Rill introduced by Lord Derby's former go.
vernmeat, the 50/. county franchise was reduced to 10/. ;
but it wat on two conditions : Ist. The ultimate eating-
certain
tion of a class of county voters which had
up in boroughs ; and 2ndly, the preservation of the b= I
franchise itself, at the 101. house rental, which still left
to the middle class that predominance over classes above
or below it which is most favourable to the debility of
free institutions. " A wigs legislator," says Aristotle,
" will constantly endeavour to comprehend in his scheme
of polity men of the middle rank, and to render them, if
not more powerful than both the extremes, at least
superior to either ; because when this takes pleas, the p.
vernment is likely to prove durable." The conditions on
which Lord Derby's government conceded the reduction
of the (aunty franchise were rejected ; but the sioneresion,
pere:nmpie, has been ever sines taken for panted.
is no weapon mac dangerous in the hangs of an
opponent than the olive branch he accepts only to shape
into his own shaft, and tip with his own five--Quarferty
actin:, new number.