The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-29 00:00:00

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opposed a p 'pie of their bill, moved , lous'
factious amendment, or led a desertion fro • .8 liberal
cause, but he professed to do so In the interest of reform.
The impatience which would rather pass any sort of sham
measure now than cross over to opposition for a few weeks
or months, may seem to Mr. Osborne a noble zeal to carry
reform, but will appear to the country much more like a
secret desire to get rid of it.

POPULAR DRIIONSTRATIONS.
The Times now appears impressed with the seriousness
of the demonstrations which have taken place in the neigh-
bourhood of the Houses of Parliament and at the West-end
of the town, and calls for the police to put a stop to them.
The leaden of the mob are evidently endeavouring to deter
members from eating as they think fit by making it appear
that they are the objects of public indignation. There can
be no doubt that these meetings, too, are organised w ith
the intention of influencing parliament. The Time thinks
it scandalous that the police should have allowed mem-
bers of parliament to be hooted when the persons who
hooted might easily be distinguished.
The Daily Hoes ridicules the awkward predicament of
those who but the other day were taunting reformers with
the silence and indifference of the people, and are now so
frightened at popular expressions of opinion that they are
actually asking for the protection of the polka against
a cheer. Really these natural enemies of reform are
difficult to please. When the people are quiet because
they have confidence in the government, you complain
that there is no agitation ; when the people move to pro-
test because they see their friends in power il;splaced, you
call a harmless public meeting " mob law," and demand
that it be pntdown. However, there is a fitneuin this appeal
to the Home Secretary, which will not, we trust, escape
attention. A tory government would be ti ce to all its tra-
ditions in ordering the police to put down a public meeting.
The Herald Is indignant with the police for not bringing
to the police courtsthe persons who hoot at the members of
the conservative party ; but it is gratified that at the lain
moment they have obeyed the orders given them to keep
' Palace-yard clear. The people who have taken part in these
demonstrations are described by the Herald as Mr. Glad-
stone's lambs-4s the vagrants and pickpockets of London.
The Telegraph would give a word of serious warning to
the tories. If their aim is to suppress these assemblies,
with the new power which the people have acquired, they
axe entering on a desperate path. They will fail more fatally
and swiftly than even liberals wish, if they go back to the
madness as well as to the political ignorance of Peterloo.
Not in Trafalgar-square alone but in every quarter of the
metropolis, and in every large town and populous district
of the kingdom let the artisans who cannot be heard in
parliament hold orderly and rational assemblies, to sup-
port sensible and practical resolutions. Let nothing
tempt them to forfeit by a single act or word the dignity
of the proceedings which so far have fortified their cause
and justified their friends. Thus exercised, their strength
is at once legitimate and irresistible, and the party who
has falsified their Queen's promise, and plotted the
momentary fall of their ti.re friends, cannot long exist in
face of such significant but quiet condemnations.
The Star denounces the exclusion of the public from
Palace-yard as un-English and unprecedented, and thinks
it particularly ungracious of Sir G. Grey to underrate the
importance of the meeting in Trafalgar.square.

THE W.%P
Though unable to bring the Austrian and Prussian
bulletins to agree as to the final results of the affair of
Skalicz, the Times think there is no doubt the Austrians
had the best of the encounter, though the advantage they
had obtained may have been by no means decisive. The
onward march of Prussian invasion has probably been
checked for the present, anda furtheradvanceintoßohemis
will be found impracticable. The Times adds a tribute to
both Austrian and Prussian armies for the gentle and
humane feelin7s which they exhibit towards the defence-
less populations among whom they are quartered.
Waiting for more detailed accounts of the action in the
neighbourhood of Josephstadt before forming any de-
cided judgment, the Daily News proceeds to describe the
events in Bohemia, expressing the opinion that on the
road between Nachod and Josephstadt the Prussians
have met with a decided repulse. It is important, how-
ever, to beware of exaggerating the effect of this meeting.
The tactics of Marshal nenetlek in Bohemia are, after all,
strictly defensive, and will not enable the Austrian general
to recover any of the ground that has been lost. To the
bystander, it seems a strange infatuation on the part of
Prussia to attempt any great aggressive movement. It is
obvious that the Prussian army is already in n"litary pos-
session of the whole of Northern Getinany, and appa-
rently the ti le policy for Prussia ought to be to keep and
consolidate that which she has already war.
How desperate is the case of the Hanoverian army may
be seta, the Daily News says, from the direction it took
after the battle with the Prussian force. It went north-
ward, where it must inevitably capitulate or be destroyed,
because to go southward to join its friends was simply im-
possible.
The Herald expresses its satisfaction at the successes of
the Austrian arms, and is even san‘aine enough to believe
that the King of Hanover and his army will be able to
make good the's- passage through the hest. of northern
Germany to the ftiends who are waiting for them in the
south.
The Pest sympathises :th the unfortunate King of
Hanover, but points out that in his kingdom constitutional
government in no sense of the words has existed. The
Sovereign, by the aid of ministers, who are perfectly
'Tensible, II `ells not only the executive bat the legislative
power. Parliament, 'u the English acceptation of the
term, there is none.
The Star describes Benedek as in the position of a man
in the centre of a big house, who requires to guard
both the front-door and the back. If the
Crown Prince br-ets in by the back-door, and Benedek
rushee to eject him, the other combatant dashes in by the
front, and both fall upon the common foe. The strategy
of divided forces is, however, a dangerous one, as the Italians
have already learned to their cost. An agile and deter-
mined leader would find means first to leap upon the one
and then the other. The great Napoleon would have
defeated both Prussian armies before this by rapid con.
centration and relentless crushing of one before the other
could assist. The fierce game has only begun ; the engage-
ment of the 27th is but a preliminary passage of arms ;
and other battles will doubtless take place surpassing in
destruction even the sange,naty sti aggles of the American

COLONEL BIDDCLPH AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.-
The recent vote of Colonel M. Biddulph, one of the two
members for the county of Denbigh, against the 7/.
rental franchise, has caused general dissatisfaction among
the liberals of the conn.y, and initiatory steps have been
taken to obtain a worthier representative at the next
eneral election. A meeting of prominent and influential
liberals was held in Wrexham, on Wednesday, to devise
means for giving expression to the popular feeling. The
hoes. member's conduct, in persistently voting against the
Reform Bill while professing liberal views end representing
the county solely on the strength of liberal promises and
pledges, was condemned in unmeasured terms and the
feeling of the meeting was unanimous in favour of looking
out for a thorough-going liberal to oppose him the next
election.
MEETING AT litsovra-squana Rooms.—The
Rev. F. W. H. Layton, DA., of St. Peter's College. Cam-
bridge, delivered an address yesterday afternoon to a full
and fashionable assembly on " The instant coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ and the only preparation by which the
church can be enabled to meet Him," at Hanover-square
Rooms. The Rev. H. J. Owen, formerly minister of Park
Chapel, took the chair. The lecturer alluded to a recent
article in the Times on the European crisis, which was near
at hand, and considered it very portentous of coming
events. Some thirty years ago few perrons believed in the
crisis he had mentioned, nor in the restoration of the Jews,
nor in the coming of the Lord, but now those events were
being commented upon by the newspaper*. He proceeded
to show from the Scriptures that the fourfold ministry re-
vealed by the Word of Cod, and now brought out ass fact,
was n misery to prepare the church for the great event he
was expecting, and it behoved every Christian to consider
the matter.
UNIVERSITY of Drattie.—We are requested to
state that, in the event of a vacancy, by the retirement of
either of the present members for the university, Sir
Edward Grogan, Bart., will offer himself to the consti-
tuency for election to the vacant seat.—Dublin Express.
CHOLERA IN CHESHIRE.—The Northicieit Guar-
elian reports several fatal eases of Asiatic cholera at
Winsford. The disease is supposed to have been intro-
duced from Liverpool. The number of attacks in increas-
ing, and it is necessary that more energetic steps should be
taken is the present emergency than the local authorities
are likely to take.