The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-03 00:00:00

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Anglo-American Telegraph (Lim.), 14, I, 13j, 14.
Atlantic Telegraph, 50.
Do. 8 per cent., 82a, 5.
Australian Mort. Land and Frylanm (Limited), 5, zd.

Commercial Union (Insurance) 5.
Credit Foncier of England (Limited), 4.
Ebbw Vale, 9).
English and Foreign Credit, n.
Hudson's Bay, 16.
Imperial Land Company of Marseilles (Limited), 2i.
London Financial Association (Lim.), 10), 10.
National Discount Company (Limited), 15.
Ditto New, issued at 5 prem., 2 to be paid, 9).
Nerbudda Coal and Iron (New) (Limited), 5,4).
Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 61).
Ditto New, 56).
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance (Limited;
(15/. paid), 15), 4.
rlllOl2 Marine Liverpool (Limited), 5).

ELECTION RIOTING IN IRELAND.—TWERLy-LhTee
persons, all small farmers or farm-labourers, have been
sent by the Fethard (Tipperary) magistrates for trial at
the quarter sessions, on charges of rioting and intimidation
at the late election. The evidence showed that one man
has died from the injuries he received, whilst the case of
another is hopeless. Many persons received severe wounds,
skulls were fractured, and bones dislocated. Constable
Roche deposed that the mob, 250 strong, armed with
bludgeons, sticks, and atones. beat off the police in •
second encounter, having failed in a termer attack, and
took off voters. The mob rushed upon the constabulary
who accompanied the electors from both sides of the
road, caught hold of the horses, and instantly cut the
harness. The resident magistrate !Mr. Hort) stated that
when he and his force came within a quarter of a mile of
Fethard they found " a wall built across the road." There
were about 300 people, men and women, at one aide, and
a crowd at the other. The police pulled down the wall,
but afterwards found seven or eight similar obstructions
across the road, some stone and some wood. The people
built fresh barricades as soon as others were demolished.
The delay by these obstacles caused at Fethard a loss of
nine voters to Mr. Waldron. Constable Madden, at
another point, was stopped by a tree placed across the
road to prevent the care getting past.
A POLYGAMIST.—At the Liverpool police-court,
yesterday, Thomas Rigby, a returned convict, was charged
with being the husband of four living wives. The second
wife gave evidence, and the prisoner was then remanded
- for a week for the production of the others.
—* THE CONFEDER VIE CRUISERS AND THE BRITISH
GOVERNMENT.—But when our minister confessed the escape
of the Alabama to have been owing to the negligence of
English officers, and the weak health of a legal per-
sonage—and also the result of that escape was such a de-
struction of the American mercantile navy that insurance
became ruinous, and the docks of New York were emptied
—to persevere in refusing arbitration concerning losses on
eo great a scale, caused by our own confessed neglects,
effectually unites against us all parties in the States. At
the same time our odium is increased by the absence of
all effort to pursue the illegal ship, and hindering her com-
pleting her armament, or to command her seizure and
trial, whether before a common court or an Admiralty
court. In fact, by ordering her to be seized if she went to
ad Nassau, Lord Palmerston's government appeared to have
given judgment against themselves, that they ought to
have sent like orders to every English port ; instead of
tid which, the ship and its captain were ficed in English
64* ports by the Queen's servants, even after it had begun its
• career of destruction. Ostensibly its supplies of coal came
• from us. When to this it is added that the ship was
' built by British capital, manned chiefly by British sailors,
and even by many trained in Queen's ships, and that it
never entered a port of the Southern Confederates, to
whom it professedly belonged, but systematically shel-
tered itself under British guns from the United States'
cruisers ; we seem to have concentrated in this one affair
the most various and intense exasperations to a foreign
nation. Law is sometimes very odd—very surprising.
What is called international law, being often made for the
convenience of the powerful, may be odder still than the
municipal law. It is not for us to prejudge what an
honourable arbitrator might here decide ; but we say, that
to stand out and coldly refuse the arbitration which
twenty million persons ask and claim, who have certainly
been sorely harmed by our negligence, and believe them-
selves deeply injured by our wilful connivance, is the con-
duct of men who do not know to what hazard they expose
the English empire.— Fraser's Magazine for November.
A DINNERLESS PARTY. —A TENDER REPROACH.
—We are far from blaming the Whigs for the importance
they have attached to the social intimacy between the re-
public of letters and the party chiefs of a polished aristo-
cracy. On the contrary, we think that in this object their
ambition was as noble as their sagacity was profound. And
we have dwelt the more seriously on this brilliant attri-
bute of the whig aristocracy because it is well worthy the
emulation of those who adorn and lead the great division
of intellectual opinion which it is our pride to espouse.
We are loth to concede to Mr. Mill that a party which
is
the last generation included the names of Coleridge, of
Wordsworth, of Walter Scott, Southey, Wilson, and De
Quincy, and which in our time could produce in the lists
of encounter champions whose shields even Mr. Mill
might hesitate to touch with his lance, constitutes the
stupid portion of mankind. And seeing that there
is no parliamentary party in which political talent
is so readily acknowledged for itself, and estimated
ad at its own value, independently of the accidents of birth
and fortune, as that which arrays under conservative
banners the largest numerical army of men favoured by
birth and fortune, we cannot without a murmur of re-
proach against our own leaders concede to the whiffoli-
garchy the double privilege of monopolising political
power in the state and intellectual distinction in social
circles. There is nothing in the normal conditions of the
two great rival parties which renders the superior plea-
sentries, and sociability of whig houses an advantage
beyond the reach of rivalship. In the reign of Anne it
was the tory houses and the tory clubs which attracted
the proud giants of literature. And a foreigner or an
Englishman who wished to find Swift in his happiest mo-
. ment must have sought for him at the table of Harley
or St. John. Surely at this day, when conservatism, if
it mean anything, is infinitely more identified with the
cane of literature and art and science—the cause of culti-
vated irnafinatioe. refined taste, and severe reasoning—
than coula have been possible to the most graceful form
of toryism in the reign of Anne—surely at this day the
brilliant and seholarlike chiefs of the conservative party
might better contrive to gather and concentrate ironed
them those creators or illuminators of public opinion, who
have an interest far deeper than that of the wealthiest and
haughtiest noble in England in the maintenance of mat-
tutions so friendly to the liberty of thought.--Quarfer4
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