The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS . TUESDAY EITENING, AUGUST 3, 1858.

Oaths which excluded the Jews ;the vote of thanks
for services in India; and, we may add, the re-
appearance of Mr. BRIGUT in the House as Mem-
ber for Birmingham.
It was evident that the late Ministers, and espe-
cially the Premier himself, relied en en immediate
return %Glace, from the supposed impossibility of
any one alas forming &Cabinet. They over-estimated
the force of the crisis, however, as much as their
own prestige. The testimony against foreign inter-
ference being once delivered in the name of the
Nation, the excitement went down ; the popu-
lar liberties were safe, and there was no hurry.
The QUEEN sent for Lord DERBT, who undertook
the task of forming • Government, requesting an
adjournment from Monday to Friday for the pur-
pose. On Monday, March let, Lord DERBY made
hie speech, which professed to be a declaration of
his intended policy. Oar readers do not need to be
reminded how disappointing it was, how little it told,
and how unsatisfactory was that little. There was
to be another India Bill, instead of a postponement
of legislation to a better time : we were not rid of
the Alien Bill; Count WALEWRXI'S insolent de-
spatch was to be answered, but we had still no
security that we were not to legislate under the
direction of the French Government. Lord PAL-
mEastos from the first assumed the position, sat in
the seat, and put on the airs of Leader of Opposition,
stimulated by the faction of his followers, but greatly
to the discontent of Liberal members, who regarded
him as he now appeared to the world oat of doors.
It was not long before the complaints of Lord
DERBY for having no policy began to relax in vehe-
mence on the Liberal side. Humiliating mi i.
such a fact in the history of constitutional go-
vernment, it soon became a question whe-
ther it was not, at the moment, the least
of the besetting evils of the situation.
From week to week the factious character of the
opposition of the PALMERSTON clique became so
evident; the utter disintegration of parties became
so undeniable ; the efforts to organise a new I.iberal
party were so fruitless, and so increasingly hopeless,
that men began to ask whether it might not be best
to use great forbearance towards an Administration

brought into office against all expectation, and
without notice ; to obtain from them what good mea-
ger's they would grant ; to support them wherever
their grounds were unobjectionable; to use the in-
terval thus obtained to provide against the return of
& PALMERSTON and CLARENDON Ministry, and to
prepare a future field of action for a Liberal party
yet to be re-created. In short, the time really
asersed to be one for " measures not men"—rare as
sash times are. The acquiescence of Members and
their constituents in this course became more decided,
when it was found that, on the one hand, there was no
more a Conservative Party, with a policy to urge.
than a Liberal one; and that, on the other, Lord
Ptimaneron's Cabinet had actually been unpre-
pared with a Reform Bill, though the promise of
that measure had been the bait with which the
Minister had fished for support among the Liberals
of England while playing his re-actionary game
among the despots of Europe.
When the Houses met on the 12th of March, after
another adjournment, every Member's mind was full
of the new document of instruction which had just
arrived from France—the pamphlet of M. GULL-
RONIERR on Alliance. The effect of this pre-
sentment of the French argument was just opposite
to that which was intended ; for the whole delinea-
tion of the EMPEROR'S achievements and policy went
to show that it wee nobody but himself who had
peopled neighbouring countries with discontented
refugees. It was, therefore, his own police, and not
his neighbours' laws and Executive, that was bound
to protect his person against the consequences of his
own acts. This conviction, and a daily growing
uneasiness and dissatisfaction about the state
of our two countrymen in the Neapolitan
prison, began to arouse visibly the spirit which
has made the Parliaments of England venerable
in the eyes of the world. There was no chance for
the Conspiracy Bill, nor for the administration which
had gone out upon it. Count Waxman's menacing
despatch to the Series Authorities on the refugee ques-
tion, published at the same time that the French Go-
vernment wasret resting from itsaggressive position is
reglad to England, prevented the latter change from
gain for more than it was worth, and rather en-
hawed the patriotic spirit, in Parliament and out of
deers. Mr. DISILLZLI'd assurance that Count WA-
=WWII', DOW deslarations were conclusively satis-
factory was received with distrust—and not the less
because his tone in regard to the Cagliari business
was far below what the occasion required. When
the news of Mr. ERSKINE'S mistake arrived, and it
was found that the Sardinian Government had been
led to expect a kind and degree of support which
oar Ministers had not proposed to render, the en-
tanglement appeared serious. The only way out of
it was that which the new Ministers adopted—
taking high national ground in regard to Naples,
sad insisting on the justice which had been so
grossly violated towards the men, whatever might
be the uncertainties of the law in regard to the
vesseL Warr returned home at the end of March ;
PA= was liberated on the Bth of April ; compen-
sation was awarded to them, and the Cagliari was
esasigned to the British officials on the spot, for
restoration to Sardinia—all in a trios, as soon as the
new Ministers had an opportunity of fastening on •
declaration of Lord PALNenorores, that his Cabinet
were about to re-consider the whole question when
they went out of office. By the vigour which
achieved in the count of days what Lord CLAREN-
DON had allowed to linger for eight months the
sew Administration gained a popularity which in-

spirted an idea, in their own minds and other,
people's, that they might possibly remain in office,
and even without immediately ds•olving Lord
PALNIERETO!'.; own HORN of Commons. The as
qaittal of Dr. BERNARD, and the relinquishment of
the prosecutions on account of publications treating
of tyntnnicide, completed the reversal of the un.
English policy of the PALMERNYOLCLARENDON
Cabinet, and left the field clear for deliberation on
domestic matters; though the sabetitut ion of a military
representative of France in lieu of Count PERSIGNYI
the appointment of General PAPINASSE u Minister of
the Interior at Paris, repeated outbreaks of martial
wrath against England, and unequalled rapidity in
the military walleye' arrangements and oonoentra-
linden the other side the Channel, kept attention
alive to Cootinental interests, however heavily the
@abject of India was weighing upon us.
With the progress of the Session, the views and
temper of Parliament on India questions somewhat
improved. At first, the folly, the levity, the
ignorance, the selfishness, the factiousness were
something intolerable and almost incredible. The
early debates of the Session will be a great blot is
our ohronialse—bet little redeemed by the more
modest, grave, and disinterested temper which be-
gan to grow up when the scope of the question be-
same dimly disclosed by Lords ELLENEOROOON and
STANLEY having taken the place of Mr. VERNON
Smtrtt. The faction-fights set op by Lord PAL-
MERITON, in the true Donnybrook spirit, and panned
while there was any hope of success, though our
Indies Empire was waiting for redemption, are, mad
Over will be, too painfully remembered to heel'
to be enlarged upon. The only return for

time wasted, character and reputation lowered,
the indignation of all, good men at home I
and in India, and the exultation of the enemies of
constitutional government abroad, has been the
rapid decline of the influence of the late Cabinet, and
the extinction of Lord llALitiatirroN as a Minister.
The clearance of the ground for new combinations
is an advantage; and, if it be made the most of, we
may learn in time to regard it as some set-off
against the disgrace of our wares in respect to
India.

On the 26th of March, the DERBY India Bill (No.
2) was introduced by Mr. DISRAELI, before the
adjournment of the Easter holidays ; and when
business was resumed, on the 12th of April, Lord
J. RUSSELL was prepared with the Resolutions
which he proposed as the best ground of procedure.
The eagerness with which the mover of the Bill sus-
pended it, in order to take advantage of the new
method, and the support which it implied; the
abandonment of the Resolutions again when • third
i Bill was ready, and the narrow scope of that Bill,
after all, seem to most minds to prove the wisdom
of the remonstrance, urged in vain a few
weeks before, against legislating at a time of
crisis without light, without guidance, and without
any adequate conception of the magnitude of the
interests involved. The East India Company, which
beet understood India, is abolished, while all the
great Indian subjects have still to be studied and
settled. The form of government at home is all that
is arranged by the great measure of the Session ;
and there are probably few men, of any party, who
believe that the arrangement will work. The real
business of governing India has yet to be, not only
done, but provided for. The new Bill passed the
Lords, in great haste, on Friday last, after receiving
some damage, which the Commons were in too great
• hurry for their breaking-up to repair. Such is the
account of our way of governing India which will
in a few weeks be talked over there by native gen-
tlemen in colleges, offices, and country-houses, whenl
the British prestige, as a ruling power, has stood
higher than it is ever likely to do again, unless the
mind and heart of England can speedily raise itself I
" to the height of this groat argument."
The two great interludes of the course of India
legislation were Lord Ettannonotron's resignation•l
giving place to Lord STANLEY as Indian Minister,
and the party move, led by Mr. CARDWELL, which
was adventured in consequence. The general regret,
at the loos of Lord ELLENBOROUGH at such a time
was probably stronger than the perplexity of the
crisis would allow to appear: but the ability of the'
New Ministry to stand after such a secession, much
improved their chances. At present Lord STANLEY
seems to be all that can be expected of a successor
of his years and experience; and the new measure
will have fair play in his hands. At the moment of
difficulty, when the Ministry were perplexed and
embarrassed, their watchful enemy, selfish and nn•
scrupulous, was upon them. On the text of the
Oude Proclamation, and the difference between Lords
PANNING and ELLENBOROUGH, resolutions of
censure were grounded, which were simultaneously
brought forward in both Houses, by Lord &urns-
BURY and Mr. CARDWELL. The immediate triumph
of the DERBY Ministry in the Lords, and the pro-
tracted debate in the Commons, extending from the
14th of May to the 21st, and ending in Mr. CARD-
waLL's withdrawing his motion, are memor-
able features of the Session in the eyes of party
men. So also was the unworthy turmoil raised
by a giddy and boastful speech of the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER at Slough, for which he and all
his colleagues were called to account in both Houses,
with even • keener eagerness than if the orator had
delivered his random assertions in the form of a
Ministerial Manifesto. Precious time was wasted,
for everybody knew before the value of Mr. DIS-
RAELI'S self and party glorifications ; and the
Ministry to which he belonged did not go out in
consequence of a speech on which they had not held
a Council. Every attempt to dislodge them failed.
Every attempt to organise a Liberal Opposition has
thus far failed. We have now (or we are told so) a
trace with France as to irritating conflicts of diplo-
macy. We are on present good terms with the
United States. We have the prospect of • fine
harvest, and the prosperity and social tranquillity
which attend upon that prime blessing ; so that
there is before us an interval of some months,
during which the genuine Reformers in and out of
Parliament may prepare for a campaign less discre-
ditable to Liberal principles and professions than the
last.

Jut at present, the state of the Thames appears
to all memories and imaginations the most pressing
of Parliamentary topics—at least since the great
Vote-of. Censure debate. It will probably have a
certain greatness of its own in history—not from the
magnitude of the nuisance (which will be forgotten
when once it Is disposed of), but from the arrange-
ment which connate it to the heads of the citizens
to be dealt with—thus loosening the grasp of the
centralisation which the sanitary reformers had im-
posed upon us as the drawback to their great ser-
vices. The Legislature has provided the money,
sad awarded the power ; and it leaves the decision
about the work, and the doing it, to the Municipal
Council and Executive under Mr. To...wstrEs. We
all look to the Metropolitan Bond, not only to
purify the Thames, but to justify the consignment
of such a work to municipal management. Oar
liberties may depend on the issue more extensively
than might be supposed by many who simply voted
against a stink, in fear of cholera.
As for the rest, the Jews have at last obtained
schnittance to the great National Council, where we
have need of all the wisdom that any class or
order of men can bring. We might have done
better for India this Session if, as Mr. Fox and
General THOMPSON suggested, some enlightened re-
presentative of the QUEEN'S 180,000,000 of subjects
there had taken his oath, in his own way, at the
table where Baron Rorztaant n has now been sworn.
The form and temper of the concession, on the part
of the Lords, were not reasonable or creditable ; but
the thing ia done, though in a way which may have
to be mended.

We have no Reform Bill yet; but we are promised
one. The constituencies most take are that it is a
good one, and that it revokes the new permission to
bribe in the form of conveyance to the poll—ass
enactment which is the blackest disgrace of the Ses-
sion, and which ought to be fatal to the House of
Commove which passed it. The abolition of the pee.
petty qualification of members is a compensating
gain. We have not got rid of Church-Rates yet;
but we are as sure of that riddance now as we were
of the admission of the Jews after Lord DERBY'S
speech of surrender on the let of June. The strength
of the objectors to Church-Rates in the House nudist
the country is evidently sufficient to shame all owe.
promise, and obtain a total repeal ; and there seems
to be every disposition to put it forth.
About ear finances there is seldom so little to be said
in the review of a Session. Some reductions of taxed=
have taken place as decreed last year ; there is *OM
postponement of payment of debts. Some slight and
partial additions have been made to oar taxation;
and Parliament is pledged to the abolition of the
paper duty as soon as it can ►e done. The new
CHANCELLOR of as EXCHEQUER under-estimated
his outgoings in April; but in July he finds that he

and all the world under-estimated the rate of reco-
very of the country from the commercial disasters of
last Autumn ; so that the increase overbalances the
deficiency. After strong and bitter conflicts with
aristocratic selfishness and prejudice, the principle
and practice of testing candidates for the civil and
military services by competitive examination may
be regarded as established. Ireland is to have
reformatory schools on the English footing;
and there are abundant materials now pro-
vided for the reform of endowed schools there,
by which the middle classes may have means
of education not inferior to those enjoyed
by the classes above and below them. The Corpo-
ration of London still awaits the reform it eo keenly
dreads. There is as yet no equalisation of metropo-
litan poor-rates, nor any advance in Statute Law
reform, nor any scheme for the collection of agricul•
turd statistics, nor the expected reform in the work-
ing of the Medical Profession. But, on the other
hand, the Commission of Inquiry on the Weedon
affairs promises to carry reform of army administra-
tion further than Weedon, as does the inquiry about
Netley Hospital further than the shores of South-
ampton Water. We have not got the County Fran-
chise lowered ; but then we have got rid of the pro-
perty qualification of members. Under the provision
for revising the whole subject of diplomatic salaries,
we have the means of obtaining a reform of our
Consular system, and even of patting an end to the
evils of diplomatic seoreey by rectifying the respon-
sibility of our diplomatic representatives from the
highest to the lower•. In the same way, the pro-
mised improvement in the pay of Medical Officers of
the Army is significant of the reform of the whole of
that department, under the new Inspector-
General who has succeeded Sir AnnnEw SMITH.
The Irish estates which may obtain a
parliamentary title need no longer be encumbered ;
and this sanctions the hope that English estates,
encumbered or free, may ere long be transferred no
less easily and conveniently. Next year, the fate
of the Hudson's Bay Company will have to be de-
cided; and meantime there must be a trial of the
powers obtained by the new Colonial Secretary for
the Government of New Caledonia,—henoeforth to
be called British Columbia. We are on good terms
with the United States for the hoar, because of the
wise and prompt surrender, by Lord MALMEBI9OIIX,
of the always disputable and now condemned claim
of the Right of Visit; but it will be one of the duties
of Parliament to watch, during the recess, and in-
quire at the end of it, as to the agreement we are
about to make with the Washington Government
for the prevention of the Slave-trade being carried
on under the American flag.
The Coolie Migration Bill is among those with-
drawn ; and this makes it necessary that the trans-
port of all labourers, of any nation, to any colony,
British or other, should be vigilantly observed, with
a view to any action that may be needful when
Parliament meets again.
Thus much is done, or remaining to be done. The
prime duty of the recess is, however, to obtain a due
expression for the Liberal opinion and sentiment of
this country. Each wheel of the engine may be of
importance in its place ; but the first requisite is the
fire in the furnace, and the next is the boiler. The
fire burns strongly, we believe. We want a trusty
boiler, which will not collapse whenever we attempt
to get on. The present Ministry has served our
turn at an awkward curve or two; and it may carry
us along the level of the recess fairly enough. Bat
we must have something that we can better rely on
before we can make a vigorous fresh departure. So
we must exert ourselves now to obtain a Parliament
which shall not be Palmerstonian, nor any-
thing but true British. We have got through a cri-
tical Session better than might have been expected ;
but we must have a more effective and
creditable one next time—whether the whole or only
a part is transacted by the existing House of Com-
mons. We must take for granted that there will be
a dissolution, and prepare for it. We still have to
provide for the settlement and government of India ;
for coming to terms with China ; for probable
diffi-
culties, and perhaps war, in the Levant; for the
final disputes and troubles in regard to the slave-
trade which always attend the extinction of a vicious
institution : for all these, and any other foreign
questions, such as are always arising during the
Recess. But before and above all these, because
the means of settling them all, presses the domestic
Reform question, the postponement of which will
not be much longer endured. We did not believe
we should have a Reform Bill this year—deliberately

and repeatedly as it was promised by the late
Government. The only way is to obtain it for our-
selves. Now that their Members are going to play,
let the constituencies go to work.

gbe Court.

08BORNS, Arguer 2.

Her Majesty, the Prince Consort, Prince Alfred,
Prinoms Alias, and Primate Helena attended Divine &Mos
at Osborne, yesterday morning.
The Service was perforrosd by the Very Rev. the Dealt of
Christchurch.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
in Downing-street. The Ministers present were :
Tbe Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli,
the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbary, the
Earl of Ilardwicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the
Earl of Malasesbury, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Sir
John Pakington, Lord Stanley, and Lord John
Manners.

Mr. Victor Moulton had ea fatirreiss with Biz B. &direr
Lytton, at the Colonial-aka, 'mayday.
Devonian wen rind yesterday at the Cdonial-offics
from the Governess Mae W. India Islands, Ceylon, fiong
Hoeg, aad Malta. wire seat from the Colonial-
dike yesterday I. Me of lie Marmitiss.

This morning Was celebrated, st St. Georges,

ilaiwww-agoare, Oa atarriaga of Lowl Wonky, M.P.,
'lama an at Ur Zit.' of Yarborough, with lady NUM'
Nara sister of Bat Lidatral. The church was crowded
with sambas of WOW of high real.

His Excellency the Duke of Malakoff left town
te-day to join Lord Lyons at Portsmouth, and accompany
the gallant admiral to Cherbourg.

.
The Doke of Bedford as poring the summer at
liimdsisiatt Cottage, his grace's seat near Tavistock. The
sale duke is la the *avant of excelleat health.

The Earl of Derby joined the Countess and Lady
Emma Stanley at Oster* Park, war Brantford, from town
last evening. The noble primate, intends to remain aboat a
001iik at Wady, sad the. so to Knowsiey Park for a few
meek& •

11a star of 3ovey sad Lady Clmentias
Pinks an expected to leave Berkeley-pars to-day Ice
Ganeary toe a taw weeks.

LeiDuiferiee beautiful new screw steam-yacht
wee bibs' at Ste does ot beat week. The noble lord, so-
ecompotted by** Right How. Sir Jonas Graham, M P.
Wet Graham, end a Nelms% party, let the Southampton
Water title lees Map for Cherbourg.

- -
The Hon. A.Stourtoa took his departure from
Cox's Hotel yesterday for America, on a shooting excursion.
Sir David Baird, aide-de-camp to his Excellency
Sir Colin Campbell, has arrived in town from India. Sir
' David has orate hoots on sick Isere for the recovery of his
health.
Awonget the arrivals at the Oatlande Park Hotel
ere the Berl of Cladagen, Lady Byron, Cienersi and Mrs.
Lightfoot, sad the Hos. A. D. Willoughby.
Lest year the =Ski wee not prorogued till the
Rath of August; ia 1866 it eat till the 29th of July; sad is
' 18.i.5 the 14th of August.

EXPRESS FROM PA Rib.

(xxox ova owx ooxxxoroxoxxr.)
PARIS, MONDAY ETZNI3O.

The Emperor presided at a ministerial council
held at St. Cloud this day. At this council the
Emperor gave final directions for the conduct of
public affairs during the seventeen days that he ex-
pects to be absent from Paris. It is also said that
he confirmed his uncle Prince Jerome in the presi-
dency of the council, with exceptional powers as
his alter ego. It cannot, however, be anticipated
that any occasion will arise for the exercise of these
powers, because his imperial highness left Paris
this morning for Frascati's, at Havre.
It is said that the Western Company have received
43,000 letters asking for free passes on the railway
to go to Cherbourg, and that they have actually ad-
mitted the claims of 10,000 of the applicants. By
the side of this statement it would be carious to see
a return of the number of people who go to Cher-
bourg from Paris from mere curiosity and at their
own expense. I suspect the numbers would be very
few indeed.

"The ministers of Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover,
Baden, and Sardinia," says the Union, " have
joined in freighting a steamer at Havre to attend
the fBtes at Cherbourg; the Ruskin Minister, M.
de Kisteleff, is to go alone. M. de Hatzfeldt, the
Prussian Minister, has not recovered sufficiently
from his indisposition to be able to attend, and M.
de Hubner, the Austrian Ambassador, though
invited, has not yet received the instructions of his
court as to whether he is to go or not." The Nord
of Brussels, however, asserts very positively that
Lord Cowley is the only member of the Corps
Diplomatique who has received an invitation, and
it suggests that the others who may choose to go on
thir own account will be in a false position, because
no place will be reserved for them.
The very last programme published states that
the 6th of August is devoted to the reception of the
Queen on board the Bretagne, and that subsequent
order, will provide for other arrangements if
necessary. It would appear from this that the
question of the Queen's landing is still undecided.
Among the persons who have received official in-
vitations to the fetes are the living members of the
family of the engineer who in 1781 devised the sys-
tem of cones which was adopted for the construc-
tion of the breakwater.

The Gazette de Prance endeavours to take the
wind out of the sails of the impetial progress to
Cherbourg by publishing from old records a long
account of Louis the Sixteenth's visit to that port in
1788. It complains of the ingratitude manifested
towards that monarch, "the most thoroughly
French of ►ll our kings," by the concerted oblivion
of the fact that he was the first to commence the
execution of Vauban's plan, and suggests that Louis
the Sixteenth's statue ought to be placed upon the
centre of the breakwater.

The news that Lord Stratford de Radcliffe is
going to Constantinople to take a formal leave of
the Sultan drives some French journals, who are
jealous of English influence in Turkey, nearly out of
their mind. "I hey assume that his mere presence will
undo all that M. de Thonvenel has accomplished
with infinite pains and astuteness, since he was freed
from the European diplomatist, who of all others has
the credit of knowing how to impress his individual
will upon the march of Eastern affairs. The Univers,
always prone to extremes, publishes—not in the form
of a joke, but as a serious announcement—that Lord
Stratford de Radcliffe is about to return to Cm-
stantioople in the character of privy councillor to
the Sultan.

M. Bare, a qutestor of the National Assembly in
18M, whose name is celebrated for his resistance to
the policy which foreshadowed the coup d'etat, has
been permitted by the Emperor to return to France,
and his inasribed his name on the list of practising
barristers.

The Algerian papers publish a letter sent by
Prince Napoleon to the Chamber of Commerce of
Algiers, in answer to an address of congratulation
on his appointment. The Prince, confirming the
rumours which have been current on the subject,
expresses a hope that he may shortly be enabled to
pay a visit to the colony.
The settlement of the Bente went off well, and
the Bourse is firmer. The Rent* closed at
68fr. 25c., both for cash and account, with a rise of
sc. and 100.; Mobilier rose Bfr. 75c.; the Orleans
Railway rose 7fr. 50c.; Eastern, 10fr.; Southern,
Bfr. 73c., and the other principal lines about 3fr.

PIEDMONT.

Count de CANON' returned to Turin on the 31et
ult.

According to letter from Turin, the recent con-
ference between the Emperor of the French and
Count de Cavour at Plombieree was on the general
situation of the affairs of Italy, and terminated by
a strong recommendation from his Majesty to the
Minister to adopt a moderate and circumspect policy
both towards Austria and Naples. This is, how-
ever, only one of several stories relating to the in-
terview, and cannot be accepted u reliable. Count
Cavoor, on his return from Plombidru, passed by
Lugano, where he paid a visit to the leader of the
Left, M. Broserio, who was not a little astonished
to see him. The Prime Minister stayed to dinner,
and met at table MM. Torelli and Farini.