The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-23 00:00:00

MISCZLLA.S7.OLtS TOPICS.

The 'Drab( believes that France, and especially the
French tress, have obtained by the recent changes a
large and real extension of liberties, but at the same time
cannot deny that the unfortunate and most unseasonable
suppression of the address, which i 4 made to head the
list of these new liberties, justifies that coldness and sus-
picion of the press and the public for which we shall be-
fore long hear them denounced as ungenerous and un-
grateful.
If the address just famed by the revolutionary
junta of Spain is to be accepted, the Daily News
says, as a true indication of public feeling in the
capital, the next crisis in Spanish politics will
be the fall of a dynasty. As to what shall be substi-
tuted in its place the only remedy is the installation
of a government which shall role constitutionally. A
liberal and progressive government in possession of office
would command a national majority. This it would use
for no subversive purpose, though it would not stoop to
be the accomplice of illicit influences at the palace, nor

consent to be the dupe of bleeding nuns, nor place the
tummy st the sommand of favourites. In fast t►e Queen
herself is almost the sole cause of the insecure and trouble-
some state of the county, of its deficit, its disaffection,
and it rule of terror. Brain does not want Cresarion, nor
Bourbonism, nor Ultramontanism, but a decent and honest
constitutional government, and in the palace and the
council at least an outward show of respect for morality
and law.

The Star thinks the Ludgate•hill conference will show
the clergy that to win the mama they must lay themselves
out for the masses. They must, in the Pauline spirit of
being all things to all men, come down from their social
dignity as chief philistines of their respective districts,
and not only mingle with the people, but learn to view
life temporal and eternal from the people's point of view.
There is this consolation at least, that if a workman does
attend church or chapel it is because he is interested, and
not because it is " the thing to do." As yet, however,
workmen are not interested.

Ititt frintrt.

OSBORNE, JAN. 122.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, at-
tended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole ; and her Ma-
jesty walked and drove this morning, accompanied by
Princes■ Louise.

Prince Arthur skated in the grounds this morning.
Princess Beatrice went out walking.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre-
sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of
Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Wal-
pole, Lord Stanley, General Peel, Viscount Cran-
borne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John
Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, Lord John Manners,
the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Naas.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall on
the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were
the Lord President and the Right Hon. H. Cony. 31r-
Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the com-
mittee.

A deputation from the National Society, consisting of
Archdeacon Sinclair (treasurer), Sr Thomas Phillips, Mr.
J. E. Curet, Mr. F. S. Powell, 31P., Rev. Canon
Jennings, M.A., Rev. Robert Gregory, M.A., Rev.
Alexander Wilson, M.A. (secretary), and Mr. W. Holgate
(secretary of the Church Institution), had an interview
with the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, at the office of the
Poor-law Board, Whitehall, yesterday.

The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and
Mrs. Gladstone and daughters, arrived in Paris on Mon-
day from Florence. The right bon. gentleman is expected
to arrive in London on Tuesday, the 29th instant, for the
meeting of parliament

" Earl Russell," says the Courrier da Gard,
"alighted at the Hotel du Luxembourg, at Simms, on
Saturday last, where the noble lord will remain some
days, one of his children being ill."
The Herald is authorised to state that the
rumour of preparations for an expedition against the Em.
peror of Abyssinia is entirely without foundation.

The Times thinks that in the republication of
Mr. Disraeli's speeches on parliamentary reform few
would have complained if last year's blunder of import-
ing Mr. Gladstone's boyish essapodes at the Oxford
Union into the final speech of the great parlia.
mentary debate bad been quietly effaced, but it is
reproduced without an attempt to soften the outrage
on good taste. Some future readers, again, may be
puzzled to understand why Mr. Disraeli should have
spoken of himself in 1860 as the leader of the opposition,
" the Quarterly Reline notwithstanding ;" for though Mr.
Disraeli's editor, Mr. Corry, faithfully reproduces the
phrase, he adds no note to explain its meaning.
The Emperor Napoleon has sent to the Prefect
of Police a sum of 50,000 fr. to be distributed among
the moat necessitous families in the capital.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 21. —The Queen has been
to present the Rev. Frederic Thomas William
pleasedi
te, M.A., to the recto): of Maker, in the county of
, Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, void by the death of the
Rev. Edward Trelawny. The Queen has also been pleased
to present the Rev. George Huntington, M.A., to the
united rectory and vicarage of St. Mary, Tenby, in the
county of Pembroke, and diocese of St. David's, void by
the resignation of the Rev. George Clark. The Queen has
also been pleased to present the Rev. John Darroeh to the
church and pariah of Parties, in the presbytery and Isle
of Skye, vacant by the death of the Rev. Hugh M'Arthur,
late minister thereof.—Gazehe. _

REPRZSENTATION OP NORTH NORTHAMPTON-
muRE.—There is every appearance of a keen contest for
the seat for the rortbern division of Northamptonshire,
vacant by the elevation of Lord Burghley to the p
Mr. Shekellle Stopford will be the conservative, and Mr.
FitrWrick Vernon, eldest son of Lord Lyveden, the liberal
candidate. Viscount &union, the eldest son of the Earl of
Harrowby, and brother-in-law to the present Marquis of
Exeter, is also spoken of as a candidate on liberal conserva-
tive principles. At the last general election Lord Burghley
and Mr. s:ard Hunt, both conservatives, were returned
"FIEsegtATE OF THE LIBERAL PARTY.—When Mr.
Lowe and his friends threatened to defeat last year's Re-
form Bill it was clear to us that their success would break
up the organisation hitherto known as the liberal party.
They did succeed, and the liberal party is broken up.
A very large majority of the party, almost one-
half of the Roues of Commons, stood by their
leader and their principles, indeed, but a section of
the party large enough to tuin the division seceded
and left the liberal party broken into two unequal
fragments. The great bulk of the party remained
staunch to the principles that are necessary to
form • liberal party, and the seceding section re-
pudiated those ciples not openly or frankly indeed,
but in a perfectly uninistekesbls manner. These seceders
now begin to feel the discomfort of their new position. They
have left one party and have not joined another, and by
themselves they are perfectly impotent, except for
mischief. They desire again to form part of the
liberal party ; but instead of going to the
party they ask the party to come to them. Relying
upon their ability to keep their ancient comrades
from power, they have the audacity to propose
that the great bulk of the liberal party shall sacri-
fice their distinctive principles and submit to be
governed by those who so recently betrayed them.
This we take to be the real meaning of an
attempt to displace Mr. Gladstone in the leader-
akin of the party. Those who desire to get rid
of Mr. Gladstone desire still more to get rid of his reform
policy. Indeed, there is ration to believe that they would
waive the personal dislike if he would only give up
the obnoxious policy. It is, therefore, • question of prin-
ciple—a question of whether the great majoi:ty of the party
shall or shall not surrender their distinctive and necessary
principle in order to secure the adhesion of a small number
of members of the House of Commons whose principles are
on this point those of the opposite party. There is no doubt
great love of power in the liberal ranks—a love of power
that is in some eases selfish, and in some asses patriotic—
but we should be surprised indeed to and any willing.
ness to purchase power at such a price. A firm
resistance to the attempt of • small minority
to dictate to the majority of a great party—a
firm adhesion to principle, even if it should be at
the expense of a temporary exclusion from power—
is the course which we may expect the liberal
members to adopt. It is the only course that can
preserve the liberal party as • great political organisation.
The course of the Aduliamites may be left to their own
good pleasure. They will soon find their preeent position
neither honourable nor profitable, and then they may
perhaps become willing to rejoin their old colleagues on
more reasonable terms. —L•eds ilereurg.
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THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE POOR LAW.
Last evening, at the usual weekly meeting of the Strand
Union guardians, as many as 400 persona mule applications
for relief. /Some of the applicants were "frozen out"
labourers, whom a few days' frost had brought to the ranks
of pauperism. Not • few of the cues would have been well
met by the offer of the " bowie," but the house is now
a largo hospital, and therefore has not room to apply the
labour test tithe improvident. The majority of the cases,
however, were really deserving, and the people were thank-
ful to receive relief to the extent of a shilling and two
lovres, and in some cases the supplement of • little meat.
Whet, the applicant had several children, • liUlo addi-
tional relief in money and kind was given. Altogether it
was apparent that the guardians, in the discharge of the
onerous duty of paying away the ratepayers' money, gave
no relief but in cases which had been thoroughly investi-
gated. The increase of out-door pauperism in this central
union of parishes is shown in the statement th►t at this
time last year there were 1,432 names on the books as re-
ceiving out-door relief, while nowthere are 2,252 recipients
of relief. The relief given in money and kind this week
amounts to 184/. 13s. 4d., while last year in the correspond-
ing week it amounted to 113/. 16s. lOd. The statement
firing the numbers of in-door poor shows that of 507 adults
in the house only 88 are able-bodied. In addition there
are 17 children in the house and 243 at Edmonton, the
guardians having t iken the excellent advice given by the
late metropolitan inspector, and separated the children
from conta:t with alult l superiam.