The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-05 00:00:00

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1864. The truth is that, precisely in proportion is in.
creme facilities of loeolootiou, we multiply OlXaGiong of
locomotion. Traffic is stimulated and augmented by the
very channels which we open for it. Mr. Haywood ad-
vises these should be one grand new thoroughfare, with a
new bridge (esat of London-bridge), running east and
west ; and another passing north of the Bank, but close to
that centre, to run north and south. Minor channels
should also be cleared out and improved, but the new
lines must be opened. Even they may be choked up
in the next generation, but at any rate they would help us
now. Not that Mr. Haywood is an advocate of excessive
breadth in thoroughfares, for he says this leads to conceit•
tratlon of traffic, whereas the great object is division. He
would rather see two moderately good streets or bridges
than one very wide. He thinks that as a general rule
" the great bulk of the metropolitan population selects
its residences with the view to the facility with which the
City can be reached," and so his great object is to make
the City accessible from all points of the compass by " a
well-arranged system of suburban highways and railways."
Very soon, indeed, we may expect that a million people
will want to go to the City every day, and we must pre-
pare for them while we can, and as beet we may.

solely as to what is best to see, read, or hear.
Amidst the infinite struggles of mediocrity true
merit could never make its way to fame. Those,
therefoin, who undertake to sift roughly the
bad from the good, perform an invaluable sertice
to the public, the author, and the artist. They are
the means by which, in the subdivision of social
labour, t►e intellectual gold is dug from the mine,
and separated from its surrounding impurities so as
to become conspicuous and admired. Such a ser-
vice cannot, however, be fully or rightly performed
without sometimes condemning. A merely stupid
performance may be left unnoticed, but sometimes
the really good is dashed with evil, and sometimes
the bad is too concealed, or so seductive, that it
needs to be displayed and denounced. The secu-
rity the public has that these duties shall be
rightly performed lies in the certainty that a critic
who is found to be untrustworthy loses his aim,
and loses his influence. But that they should be
not only well but firmly performed is clearly the
interest of the public above all. And it is the pub_
lie that is really injured when attempts are made
to silence honest criticism. The natural tendency
of the press is rather to be too lenient than to be too
severe. There is enough of good feeling among the
brethren of the pen and of theboards to make perfect
impartiality hard to be maintained. There are also
instances inwhich the power of the press is profaned
by being influenced by personal favours. These are
the true dangers that beset newspaper criticism in
the present day, and against these public opinion
ought to fortify it. For its fault in the main is
undoubtedly not severity, but rather a tenderness
to established reputations which misleads the
unthinking part of the world, which is unfair to
struggling merit, and which is hurtful even to the
objects of popular favour. A criticism, whether of
books or of entertainments, more firmly discrimi-
nating on the part of the press, supported by an
authority more decisively exercised on the part
of the public, is not one of the least among the
wants of the age.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

OZADITONE ALM

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of Calne.

THE EX.fIitES*,;:IIIURSPAY EVENINkt, "APRIL if; 1864.

F2' THIS S'VEPING.

KIEMSN'rEiI.

The executive committee of the Gladstone ban-
quet to be held at Liverpool this evening have issued the
following report :
" The executive committee of the Gia4tlon• banquet
desire to place on record a few facts as to the arrangements
which have been made as to the 'me of tickets to those
gentlemen who will be present at the Philharmonic HAIL
Of course there could have been no difficulty in selling
2,000 tickets on Inch an occasion to gentlemen who wished
to hear Mr. Gladstone ; but that is by no means the simple
course which has been adopted. Before any public notice
had been given of Mr. Gladstone's intention of visiting
Liverpool, 189 circulars were toned to the liberal county
and borough magistrates, town councillors, and other
leading politicians in the hundred of West Derby, in-
viting them to act as stewards. It will be observed that
136 have accepted the office, 49 of whom are wag's-
trines for the borough or eounty. On the same day,
24th March, about 250 circulars were issued to leading
voters in the county district of the West Derby Hundred,
asking if they wished a guinea ticket reserved for them ;
and on the following day 150 more circulars were issued to
the leading liberal politicians, in the Liverpool polling
district. The acceptances to the invitations were suffi-
ciently numerous to exhaust the places at the disposal of
the committee, who then proceeded to the distribution of
the seats in orchestra and gallery ; 40 or 50 of the gallery
tickets were in the first instance placed at the disposal of
the chairmen of the various polling districts. The
orchestra tickets were afterwards distrilrated to those
friends who had been previously disappointed of banquet
tickete. The 390 ladies in the boxes are, for the most
part, introduced by the stewards and vice-chairmen, and
are all of well-known liberal families. The committee
believe that they may safely snort that with the exception
of the representatives of the press, almost every gent/e-
-man taking part in the meeting is a voter for either the
county ar borough of Liverpool ; and they hope that theymay
further state that no tingle card of admission to some part
of the room has been refused to any voter. The invitation
to the high table have been sent to those noblemen and
gentlemen who were officially connected with the county—
to the liberal members for lenosahire boroughs and ex-
members for Liverpool and the county. The following
gentlemen have been compelled to decline, mostly in eon-
sequence of political gatherings taking place elsewhere
Right Hon. Milner Gibson, M.P., Right Hon. E. Cardwell,
M.P., Mr. Cheetham, M.P., Mr. Woods, M.P., Mr. Hib-
bert, M.P., Mr. Platt, M.P., Mr. James, M.P., Mr. W.
Gladstone, M.P., the Earl of Sefton, Lord Lilford, the
Bishop of Chester, and other gentlemen have also
expressed their inability to attend ; and the list
of guest* is finally fixed as follows : W. E.
Gladstone, M.P., Duke of Argyll, Mr. Gosehen,
M.P., vice-Admiral Lord Clarence Paget, C. 8., High
Sheriff, Colonel Sir John Jones, K.C.8., Sir Thome
Birch, The Recorder, T.B. Potter, M.P., George Wilson,
of Manchester, Hugh Mason, of Ashton, Oliver Haywood,
of Mai:charter, Thomas Ashton, Thomas Barley, M.P.,
W. Evart, M.P., Edmund Potter, M.P., Henry Grenfall,
M.P., Weld Blundell, of Crosby, Col. MoCorquodale, J. C.
Ewart, James Heywood, W. Rathbone, Jun. (chairman),
Dr. Temple, Robertson Gladstone, T. Brocklebank, H.
Hornby, T. 1). Hornby, Benjamin H. Jones. The exact
number of tickets noted is as follows :—Banquet guests,
25 ; Press, 24 ; Stewards, 136 ; 21s. tickets, 388 ;
total, 573 ; ladies in the boxes, 390 ; gallery--200
ladies and 604 gentlemen, 804 ; orchestra, 224 ;
total, 1,991. The committee fear that it is pos-
sible some of those whom they would most wish to have
included have been omitted ; and they sincerely regret if
(in the invidious duty of distribution) they have uninten-
tionally failed in recognising the just claims of every
friend to the liberal party ; they have only further to add
that on no previous occasion have they met with a mom
cordial and hearty and considerate response from the
liberal party than that which has been evoked by the wel.
thine visit of the Chancellor of the Exchequer."
The town to " the bishop of the diocese and clergy of all
denominations" will be responded to by the Rev. Dr.
Temple. Lord C. Paget and Lieut.-CoL M'Corquodale will
respond to the toast of the navy, army, and volunteers ;
Mr. Gladstone will then speak, and will be followed by the
Duke of Argyll, who will reply to the toast of the House
of Lords, and by Mr. Goschen, who will reply for the House
of Commons. There will be then • toast to the liberal
party of South Lancashire, and another to " Mrs. Glad-
stone and the ladles."

MR. ROBERT LOWE, M.P., AND HIS CON.

The following protest has been sent to Mr. R.
Lowe, by 61 of hie constituents :
" To the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, 3LP. for the Borougl

" We, the undersigned liberal electors of Caine, hereby
protest against the course you have taken on the introduc-
tion of the government Franchise Bill into the House of
Commons. We consider your speech on that occasion to
have been given in utter recklessness of consequences to
the liberal party and to the government of Earl Russia
You were sent to parliament to represent this borough
as a liberal member, and now you are found running from
your allegiance to the liberal cause on a vital point, and
eliciting by your animadversions on a great liberal prin-
ciple vehement cheers from the tory benches. We have
observed with pain and regret the ungenerous and unjust
satire you have flung on the masses of your fellow working
countrymen, ignoring their prudence, self-reliance, and
perseverance. Speaking of them, you say, `if you want
venality, ignorance, drunkenness, and the means of intimi-
dation ; if you want impulsive, unreflecting, violent people,
where would you look!' Against this we, 61 of your con-
stituents, think it our duty to protest, lest our silence
should be held longer to countenance your reaction. And
we have the honour to remain, Jotts D. 111880 P, and
sixty others. Caine, March 28."
Mr. Lowe, in replying, says that he views with the
greatest concern the divided state of the liberal party, but
this is due to the government of Earl Russell, who have
committed themselves to such a measure as renders it ne.
pessary for many moderate sad conscientious men to
choose between them and the permanent interests of their
country. He has not run from his allegiance, as in May
last he strenuously opposed in the House of Com-
mons any reduction of the pecuniary amount of the
borough franchise, and in his election address in
June he said that he saw no reason for great organic
changes. With regard to the expressions which are
complained of, he applied them, not to the masses of his
working fellow-countrymen, but only to practices which
notoriously exist in some borough■ among the poorer
classes of electors. " I entirely agree with you, gentle-
men," adds Mr. Lowe, " as to the possession by large num.
hers of the masses of my fellow working countrymen of
great prudence, self-reliance, and perseveranoe, and, in-
deed, of many other qualities to which we owe the present
position of England among the nations of the world. But
you will now see that as I was not, as you suppose, speak-
ing of those masses, I cannot be correctly rill to ` ignore,
these good qualities, because I did not mention them. My
view has always been, as I expressed it in my
speech on the 3d of May last, that the fran-
chise, as at present established, is a ' vast instrument of
good, a lever by which we may hope to elevate the
working classes, requiring a little and only a little effort
and self-denial on their part ; a little security that
they are able to conduct their own affairs, before we
intrust them with ours.' Since I made that remark it has
been proved by the government returns that at least a fifth
of the borough constituencies is made up of working men.
I rejoice at it, and, as a friend of every class in the commu-
nity, I think it much better that this natural process
should be left to work itself out than be artificially ac-

celersted, and should consider it very unfair to the work-
ing men who have already achieved this honourable dis-
tinction to mix them up with others who may not have
exercised the same prudence and self-denial. Such, gen-
tlemen, are the explanations I have to offer. It would
give me great pleasure should I find that they have induced
any one of you to reconsider the censure which he has
~passed upon me."

It is stated (says the Efiterkorne Journal) that
Mr. Coleridge, in ceder to make his maiden speed' in the
Henn of Commons, returned retaining fees given him at
Bodmin to the amount of 400 k

The death is announced. of Sir George Law Mar-
ehall Parker, fourth baronet, of Ha/burn, Waridokahiru.
in hie 26th year. He was barn in 1340, sweeeded kis
father, Sir George Parker, in 1867, sad at the time of Ids
death was lieutenant in her Majettrs 3rd Cloorldia Regi-
ment. He la susersbil try bk.me* sew air Raw Parkek
fifth baronet, bore in 1822. The first baronet wee Sir
William Porker, Rear-Admiral.

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AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.
The '../itelepeNdanct says that, in consequence of
the last diplomatic note of Austria, the danger of
an immediate conflict is postponed, and this fact
deprives the report. of warlike preparation, whether
on the part of Austria, Prussia, or Italy, of
much of their interest. The Vienna Gazette, in
its evening edition of the 3rd of April, says that
the step taken by Austria with regard to the note
of the 31st of March is eminently pacific and
eminently legal, and should Prussia refuse to
make a corresponding declaration on her side she
will not only prove that she does not respect federal
right even at the very moment when she pretends
to be making efforts to develop it, but will also
manifest her intention of disturbing the peace
of Germany. The Vienna Gazette hopes that
Prussia will avoid taking this decisive step. The
cabinet of Berlin must be convinced that their
military demonstrations have produced through-
out the entire of Germany a legitimate dis-
trust, and that their efforts to make Austria
, suspected of the odious design of provoking war
t have been unsuccessful. The public opinion of
Germany, which has already spoken with a rare
unanimity, would not hesitate to confirm by its
t, acts the judgment which it has pronounced.

(uoirsoes

KAILLSRUIIK, Anw. 5.

The official Karisruher Zeitung publishes a letter
from Vienna in which it is asserted that besides the
despatch to the minor German states Prussia has
also addressed a circular note to the non-German
powers. In this note Prussia expressed her appre-
hensions that she would hardly be able to avoid the
appearance of an aggressive policy if to prevent the
now threatening attack of Austria, she should be
compelled to commence hostilities.

EVACUATION OF MEXICO BY THE
FRENCH.

PARIS, Arum 5.

In consequence of communications exchanged
between Marshal Baraine and the Emperor
Maximilian, the Emperor Napoleon has decided
that the French troops shall evacuate Mexico in
three detachments. The first detachment will
leave in November, 1866, the second in March,
1867, and the third in November, 1867.
Negotiations are being carried on between
France and Mexico for substituting for the present
financial arrangements of the treaty of Miramar
a fresh treaty which shall afford guarantees for the
debt owing to France and for the French interests
involved in the Mexican loans.

DENMARK.

COPENHAGEN, A? IL 5.

It is officially denied that the United States have
demanded permission to construct an American
war port at the Island of St. Thomas. No negotia-
tions are being carried on on this subject between
Denmark and the United States.

RUSSIA AND THE PRINCIPALITIES.

ST. PETERSBURG, AriaL 5.

The Journal de St. Peterabourg of to-day
publishes an historical review of the question
of the Danubian Principalities, accompanied
with official documents. The object of this
review is to show that from the year of
1856 to 1864, Russia has always insisted upon the
expediency of consulting the wishes of the Moldo-
Wallachians, and has given her consent to a union
of the two peoples so long as experience should not
prove such a course to be prejudicial to the welfare
of the Principalities.

CALCUTTA, CHLNA, AND AUSTRALIAN
MAILS.

ALEXANDRIA, APRIL 4.

The Nyanza left at 3 p.m. to-day, with all mails
and passengers ; she may be expected at Marseilles
on the 10th, and Southampton about the 19th inst.
The Maisilia, which would in the ordinary course
have taken the Marseilles portion of the mails, &c.,
has arrived at Alexandria with one of her paddle
wheels disabled.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(►llor OCR OWN CORRNSPONDE2 T 3
PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVILNLIGh

There is as much anxiety as ever on the subject
of the apprehended war. The event now imme-
diately looked for is M. de Bismarck's reply to the
Austrian note of March 31. If he should decline the
jurisdiction of the Diet appealed to by Austria, as,
to be consistent with his recent declaration, he
must, many people think his answer will be tanta-
mount to a declaration of . war. The Bourse has
more than lost the slight rime of the last two days
Rente fell 15c. for cash, and 274 c. for account,
closing at 67fr. 60c. and 67fr. 624 c. Mobilier fell
10fr. ; and Italian, 40c.
It is announced that M. Hidalgo, the Mexican
minister in Paris, the delay in whose return was
attributed the other day to the death of M. Lang-
Isis, has resigned his post. I am not surprised to
hear this. He left with an unpalateable message
for Maximilian from the Emperor Napoleon, and I
heard at the time that he accepted the mission with
a will. Maximilian will probably not last long,
but he enjoys acting the emperor, and stands upon
his dignity as much as any monarch who sits on a
solid throne. It is rumoured that the new Mexican
minister will be General Almonte, the principal
agent in getting up the ill-starred French inter-
vention which is now so great an embarrassment to
the Tuileries.

Madlle. Bouvet, the Empress's reader, who was
said some time ago to be about to marry M. Emile
011ivier, is now positively engaged to M. Carette,
a rich landowner and a member of the Council-
General of the Ain. The marriage will be solem-
nised very shortly in the chapel of the Tuileries.
At the Castellain sale this afternoon the unique
specimen of terracotta of the fifteenth century
" La Chanteuse"—lately exhibited in the " Retro-
spective Exhibition" of the Champs Elysees--was
knocked down for 8241. Ido not know who is the
purchaser. I hope it may be Mr. Newton, who is
here to look out for the British Museum. _ .

Batty, the lion tamer, had a bad scratch on his
hand from one of his lions, at the Cirque, last
night. The Moniteur, in recording the accident,
says that although the sight of blood might be
supposed to add to the danger of the performance
it was continued without interruption.
M. de Ladoucette, a senator, has just been
created a baron.

An old man, aged 65, who lived alone and in a
Sate of pest wretchedness at Saint Mende, bad not bees
seen as anal for some days. The police being informed of
his disappearance made an entry pearly into
the room be occupied, when he woo found there
lifeless, having Swum* expired from apoplexy. Only
a sum of ffir. doe. wad diestared in emit, but beneath •
heap of age wire iesnd smassied shares and bonds of
venom I-away ameasies,repesesting a Peas of 48,000 fr.
Nothing whatever is known of the miser's fns Dy.