The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-16 00:00:00

Etre Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 15.
The Queen, accompanied by Prince/La Beatrice,
drove out this morning. The Hon. Emily Cathcart was
in attendance.

Princess Louise walked in the grounds, attended by the
Hon. lioratia Stopford.
The Prince of Wales dined with Prince and Princess
Christian at Frogtnore on Tuesday evening.

Mr. Graves, M.P., and Mews. C. E. Rawlins and P.
H. Rathbone, of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce,
had an interview yesterday with Lord Stanley at the
Foreign-office on the subject of the government survey of
the route from Rangoon to Western China.
A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's most honour.
able Privy Council sat yesterday, at the Privy Council-
office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The
Lords present were the Lord President and Lord Robert
Montagu.

A deputation from Liverpool introduced by Mr. S. It.
Graves, M.P., and consisting of Mr. Yates and Mr. P. H.
Rathbone, members of the town ooancil ; Mr. C. E. Raw-
lins, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Mr.
and Mr. T. R. Shsllcross, members of the Shipowners'
Association; Mr. M'Donald and Mr. Allen, members of
the Undenniters' Association ; Mr. Thornely, president of
the Law Society ; end the Town Clerk, had an interview
with the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, at the Home.
office, yesterday, with reference to the Court of Passage
at Liverpool.

The Earl of Derby is said to be fast recovering
from his attack of gout, and in all probability will be able
to bo present at the opening of parliament on Tuesday.
His lordship is still suffering from weakness in bis feet.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and
Mrs.Oladstoes will arrive in town on Monday next, accom-
panied by Mr. W. EL Gladstone, Zil.P., from Howarden
Castle, Flintsbirs.

The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle hare
arrived at their residence on Carlton-house-terrace from
Clamber Park, Notts.

Lord and Lady Grosvenor and family hare ar-
rived nt the Hotel Bristol, Paris, trom Loudon, on their
way to the south of France.

The Address in the House of Commons, in
answer to the speech from the throne, which, as already
stated, will to moved by Mr. William Hart Dyke, mem-
ber for West Kett, will be seconded by Lieutenant-
Colonel Hogg, member for Bath.

t-, Uit CON TEI%,IPtIItA Ka",
(THIS DAY.)

The Times, observing that the King of Prussia
has now opened or closed five parliaments since his great
success on the field of Sadowa, goes on to say that these
numerous assemblies can only be looked upon as temporary
contrivances suitable to a country in a state of transition,
and that as she proceeds her advanced civilisation and
habits of temperate but unbounded freedom of opinion will
enable Germany to organise herself on principles equally
combining the greatest central solidity with the utmost
local development.—ln other articles, the Times says of
Mr. Ernest Jones that there is scarcely an economic fallacy
known in history which ho does not support ; it inter-
changes tadioage with Mr. Berkeley on the subject of the
ballot; and sketches the b►ttle•ground of public and
proprietary rights presented in the case of Leicester-
square.

The French alliance, the preparations for the war in
Abyssinia, and the King of Prussia's speech are among the
topics discussed by the Daily News. On the first bead it
is remarked that the Emperor Napoleon will find in our
new ambassador a perfect representative of the highest
qualities attributed by generous observers to the national
character of Englishmen—a serious simplicity, an unfailing
conscientiousness, a vigilant sagacity, • resolute frankness
and firmness of purpose.—Apropos of the Abyssinian war,
it is urged that we require • well-appointed commission,
composed of representative officers taken from every
branch of the service, to superintend the commissariat
purchases and army contracts generally.—The tone of the
King of Prussia's speech is described as conciliatory, and
as governed by a determination to keep unpleasant facts
out of sight. If the prospects of Europe are so settled as
the King's language implies, the Italian government is
needlessly spending money which it can very ill afford in
its vast military preparations. And yet Count Menabrea
and his colleagues are cautious and conservative states-
men.

The Post advises the men of influence in the Princi•
panties to heal their strifes and stop in a course which
may plunge their country once more in anarchy. The
Post also attacks the lecture of Mr. Ernest Jones, which
it describes as a vehement sermon in favour of socialism.
A foommunication which has recently appeared in the
Tinto, professing to be written by " a Scottish artisan" at
Detroit, and upon which our contemporary has commented,
is described by the Star as so extraordinary a statement
that only delirium tremens can account for its having
been written, unless it is another attempt to hoax the
Times.

Too Tplegrapk warmly espouses the cause of Mr. Jacob
Bright at Manchester.

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

The conference, so far as the Spectator perceives,
can accomplish nothing unless Napoleon is honestly will-
ing to confine the sway of the Pope within the walls of
Rome. If he will do that, pleading a European
consensus as his excuse, there may be a temporary
truce. So vut will be the gain to Italy in securing
complete control of her own ooast, so immense will
be the addition to her real strength, that she
may be able to accept such a solution for the pre-
sent with something of cordiality. It will give her time,
at all events, to recommence the work of reorganisation,
to 'purchase those terrible rifles before which daring and
patriotism alike wither away, under which men fall not
only shot, but with their heads, as an eye-witness relates
in the Post," riddled with balls," their skulls turned into
mere tullenders of bone.

Treating of the leadership of the liberal party, the
Examiner contends that each individual must be left
to answer for his dissent to those who primarily
and peculiarly are entitled to ask for an account
from him. The imputation of unworthy motives to
those who differ from us is nearly always wrong—
an honest man is but exasperated the more by tbe injus-
tice ; a conscious traitor is but likely to be inflamed by re•
sentment at the exposure of his treason. If the pressure
of public opinion, undrogged and eindebauched, cannot
keep the party of progress sufficiently together for the at-
tainment of sound and well-matured measures, ill-temper
and ill-talk will not do so. The Examiner trusts that the
chaste, generous, and enlightened language of Mr. Glad-
stone will always be an example to his friends, and that he
may bring to the renewal of his arduous task refreshed and
reinvigorated powers.

The Saturday fierier,' sees in the recent rioting and in
the Fenian alarms a general conspiracy against the middle
class by the roughs, who find that to foster suspicion and
to keep society disquieted is a better strategy than a large
and open outbreak. Those on the scene of these riots
trace the local incendiarism to foreigners and stranger.
The rural police suspect, or think that they suspect, the
influence of alien agents. There is, we all know, a good
deal of filibustering loose on the world. Yankee rowdyism
takes the form of Fenianism ; mere vagabonds unattached
are arraigned in our courts am colonels and generals. All
this gives a fictitious importance to ordinary and shabby
disaffection. Very likely, if we could get at the bugaboo
of the hour, we should only find the old scooped turnip ;
but just now we have got the blue light and flaming eyes
and the white sheet, and the stalking, gibbering ghost in
fall. And we are all frightened accordingly. And unless
we take to our cudgels and bear ourselves like men, we
richly deserve not only to be frightened, but to get some.
thing worse than a fright.

The Eastern Question, remarks the Chronicle, is no
nearer a solution now than it was before the war in the
Crimea. The etftrts then made by England and France
simply resulted in postponing a settlement. The views of
Englishmen have greatly changed in the interval, and,
since Lord Palmerston's death, there is probably no poli-
tician of any importance who believes that Turkey can
ever again be an independent and self-anirtaining power.
She has never had but one function in the European
system—that of serving as a barrier, accepted in default of
a better, against the progress of Russian aggrandisement,
and it is no part of true statesmanship to seek to maintain
her in a post for which the coarse of events is steadily
making her less fit.

The Earl Brownlow has been appointed Lord
Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, and Mr. Elliott Lockhart, of
Borthwicko Bras, Lord Lieutenant of Selkirkshire.

Mr. Norton's invention for discovering the ex-
istence of water on arid land is attracting attention in
Paris, and experiments are daily made with it. The Em-
peror has purchased the machine, and personally superin.
tmds the experiments going on in the park of St. Cloud.
The instrument consists of a long iron tube, terminating
in a sharp point, which forced into the ground has never
failed within twenty-two minutes to bring water to the
surface.

On Thursday next the Society of Antiquaries
will hold their lint meeting for the ensiling session.

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The concerts of the Sacred Harmonic Society
will be resumed on the 22nd with Ei(jah.

Herr Pauer intends shortly to give three piano-
forte performances of classical music, at the Hanover-
/ItMare rooms

Mr. Ryder will open the Lyceum Theatre, after
Mr. Fee:thaw has departed, with Romeo and Juliet.

The Government of India are about to appoint
a commission to examine and report on the historical
buildings in that country, m►ny of which are extremely
Interesting and ancient, with • view to the repair and
preservation of the latter. Photographs. plans and accu-
r►te measurements are to be made and published of all
remarkable edifices.

The Egyptian pleasure boat Dahabii, purchased
by Prince Napoleon at the Exhibition, has arrived at Havre,
having been towed down the river by the steamer Tatnaris.
She has already been visited by a large number of persons,
and excites great curiosity from her singular form, which
resembles that of the ancient triremes.

Captain William King Hall, C. 8., auperinten-
dent of the Sheerness dockyard, has, we (Army and Nary
Oa:elit) understand, received an intimation from the Ad-
miralty that he will be relieved from the post which he
has for some years so worthily held, on the Ist of next
April. Captain Hall has served his allotted time, and the
Admiralty have no alternative, however reluctantly, but
to appoint a successor, who it is rumoured will be Captain
the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, C. 8., at present in command of
the steam reserve at Sheerness.

The Railways (Ireland) Commissioners met
yesterday at 2, Victoria•street, Westminster. Pre-
sent : Sir Alexander Y. Spearman, Bart.. Mr. John Fow-
ler, and Mr. C. E. Seymour Clarke. The secretary, W.
Nei/son Hanesek, LL.D., was also peessat.