The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-14 00:00:00

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Prussia will take the price out of Borne neighbour's
pocket. The contemplation of this arrangement,
however, is calculated to confirm and increase the
hostility of Austria and the Ekiuthern States to
Prussia, and it is to be feared that the action of
France • k More likely to perplex tie Ifikirs of
Germany than to teach its people to stand by one
another in the unity of public spirit.

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they have made in throwing away thentipportunity of
paring a moderate and complete measure has been a most
serious one.
The Spedagor believes that Lord Stanley's 'peach, *vi-
and: sincere, liberal, and cogent, beyond even his own
standard in his logic, will greatly influence the country as
well as the house. Bari Grosvenor's speech was pale and
very feeble, and the Marquis of Hartington urged weak
reasons with laborious poverty. No one doubted
that the statements of the Quarterly Review were
groundless, except, perhaps, Lord Cranborne, who, at Mr.
Gladstone's pointed allusions to these errors, "like the
father that begot them—gross as a mountain, open, pal-
pable," threw back his head, and gazed as steadily at the
ceiling of the house as Sam Weller himself when chal-
lenged by the little judge to identify a parent who might
certainly have been described in similar language. The
Spectator proceeds to contend that if the sound, natural,
and simple view of this subject which the Spectator, in per-
fect unanimity with almost all intelligent politicians, has
taken of it—that this bill is a redistribution of power be-
tween different sections of the people, and as such ought
to be fairly and carefully adjusted, as any other redistri-
bution of power would be adjusted, with a full knowledge
of all the circumstances affecting that distribution and on

EARL RIISSILL has men the advisability of pub-
lishing an authorised report of his speech at the
meeting of his supporters on Tuesday last, from
the notes of the shorthand writer. The speech
fills two columns and a half of last night's Globe.
There is only one passage which we think it neces-
sary to reproduce. Earl Rusear r. having stated
in the body of his speech, that the rumour set on
foot that it was the intention of the Government to
dissolve Parliament as soon u they had got
their Franchise Bill passed was an accusation to
which he did not think it necessary to reply, " be-
" cause it would mean that the Ministers of the
" Crown were enitrely forgetful of their own de-
" clarations and their own honour," subsequently
said in reply to Mr. Avirroir,
If I am asked whether the Government pledges itself
immediately it has secured the sanction of Parliament to
the measure before it, to go on directly with the other
without considering the times and the opportunities, I
must answer that I certainly cannot pledge the govern-
ment to do so. (Hear, hear.) It must depend upon the
opportunity and the time of the ~ion, and some mea-
sures of very peat importance whisk may have to be
brought in may stop the way. But if by the question I am
asked whether our measure with regard to the redistribu-
tion of seats is to be considered as • part of the great
whole, and that the government will not remain in Ofik47
unless these several measures are carried in substanoe,then
I have no hesitation in saying that I certainly shall not re-
main at the head of • government—(cheer}—that does not
succeed in paring them. (Continued cheering.)
We trust that the experience of this week will
convince Ministers—and those who may hereafter
become Ministers—of the advantage of giving

facilities to the press at meetings for which it is im-
possible to claim a private character. Earl Russzaz's
speech would have been fully reported, widely
circulated, and eagerly read in the middle of the
week if permission to report it had been given to
the newspapers.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

LAW! NIGHT'S DINATI..-8111 Z. B. LITTON AND 118. J. 8.

some clearly intelligible principle—if this sound, natural,
and simple view of the subject fails to recommend itself to
parliament and the public, the failure will have been due
simply and solely to the false issue raised, or believed to
have been raised, by Mr. Lowe, as to the "ignorant,
drunken, venal, violent" character of the dill excluded clam
The Spectator would not now be surprised to see the go-
vernment win the-day on the strength not of any defen-
sible position in their own case, but a triumphant reply to
a mischievous and ill-judged attack upon their measure.
The Economist will not profess very confidently to fore-
tell the fate of a new measure, proposed by a new ministry
to a new parliament. But Lord Stanley, who always
weighs his words, and who never, perhaps, produced so
great an effect in parliament as on Thursday night, did
not hesitate to say that, whether Lord Grosvenor's amend-
ment was carried or not, the bill would not pass, and that
• more comprehensive measure must be brought in next
year. Where then will the more intellectual members of
the government stand They will have abandoned the
dignity of philosophy, bet not attained the lucre of prac-
tice. They will have stooped, but they will not have con-
quered.
The Press continues to urge that if the bill were to
become law the whole power of the country would pain
into the hands of the lowest class, and the character
el the House of Commons would be entirely changed.
If only all those that are to decide the question by their
votes could be persuaded to give to the masterly essay in
the Quarterly Review a careful and deliberate perusal, and

then to record their votes in accordance with the honest

conviction produced in their minds by its arguments, the
fate of Mr. Bright's Reform BiU, and of the Russell-Glad-
stone ministry which lives upon the breath of his noirtrils,
would be sealed, and the country would be saved. The
majority against the second reading would in that case be
overwhelming. The stake is a fearful one. "Perish
England and England's glory !" This, or " Perish the
Russell-Gladstone Ministry !" is the issue virtually raised.
There can be little doubt to which side the decision of the
general feeling and voice of the country leans.

The Times attributes to Sir G. Grey last evening
a total change in his manner of addressing the home,
there being roger instead of his usual placidity, and a
fiery spirit indicating the hopekasnees of his argument,
and the impossibility of any statesmanlike result of the
government policy. Lord Stanley's argument is still un-
answered. The Times is willing to accept the
issue raised by Mr. Mill, and will challenge
anyone to assert his belief that a reduction of
the franchise to 71., retaining the existing consti.
tummies, would moors a better representation of the
working classes, a more effective legislative body, than that
we at present posies'. It is now perhaps too late for the
cabinet to withdraw from their false position, but as the
impossibility of carrying out their ill-advised plans be-
comes more apparent the Times day by day regrets that
the ministers of the crown have thrown away an oppor-
tunity rare in its promise, and have imperilled the solu-
tion of a question which it becomes the honour of parlia-
ment, as well as the interest of the nation, to have settled.
Having contrasted the sources of the fame of
the two most eminent men of letters in the House
of Commons, the Daily New proceeds to distin-
guish also between the characters of the two men
reflected in the speeches which last night raised
the debate above the ordinary level of parliamentary dis-
cussion. Sven opponents, the Doily News thinks, will
admit that up to the present time Mr. Mill's is the great
speech of the debate ; and that so masterly an argument
has seldom on any subject been addressed to the House of
Common& If the house had adjourned when Mr. Mill
sat down the night would not have been lost to truth and
justibe. But of the rest there is literally nothing to be
said, save that it was "words, words, words !"
The Post, agreeing with much that Mr. Mill said of the
working classes, holds that the objections to a piecemeal
mode of dealing with what is a single great question re-
main unanswered. Sir George Grey, at the close of the
night's debate, assailed in vain the position taken up by
his antagonists, and it remains to be seen whether, in the
adjourned debate, any of his colleague. or his supporters
will prove more successfuL

The Telegraph proclaims Sir E. B. Lytton 's speech to
have been a great disappointment, and unequal to his

great reputation. M. Mill, who, like the immortal Lan-
celot, picks out none but stalwart enemies for his keen
lance, rode past the Knight of " the Beautiful and the
Untrue" to strike the shield of Lord Stanley, out of all
of whose arguments Mr. Mill actually knocked all the
life. The address was delivered with a quiet and scholarly
manner ; it was suspended here and there by momentary
pauses of thought, but et :thout the least confusion of lan-
guage or sequence—although the speaker's links of argu-
ment had often a subtlety and a brilliancy rarely found in
parliamentary harangues. There might be beaten out of
such a rich mass of thought, as out of gold itself in nuggets,
enough " leaf " to gild a dozen ordinary speeches.

The Herald allows it would be as unworthy and ridicu-
lous on its part to depreciate the knowledge, philosophic
thought, and lucid style of John Stuart Mill, as it is in
some of its liberal contemporaries to sneer at and make
light of the exquisite taste and brilliant imagination of Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton, because he does not happen to
share their political opinions. The encounter was an in-
teresting one, and, in the opinion of the Herald, resulted
in the victory of the right hon. baronet. The proper
arena, the Herald proceeds to argue, for those controver-
sies, which Mr. Mill proceeded to contend with measured
and tempered eloquence should be heard in parliament, is
not the Boum of Commons, but the press.
Placed in contrast, the Star says, the two speeches sug-
gest how the most generous of personal sympathies may be
chilled into practical cynicism by political prejudices, and
how fully the really philosophical mind, when allied to an
open and kindly heart, can apply itself to every situation
in public affairs. The false prophets who foretold that
Mr. Mill would prove, as Mr. Lowe insolently said, "too
clever for the house" must have experienced a mortifying
revulsion of feeling when they saw Mr. Mill surrounded by
• leveed congratulating legislators, and heard the lobbies

buzzing with praises of a speech not leas remarkable for its
popular oomprehensiblenees than for its lucid English and
its severe and irrefragable reasoning.

AWE 'II2EPIESS, SATURDAY ,FittliiNtt, APR

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14, 1866.

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THE PO]

LAMS* INTELLIG.
AtIBTRIA AND PRUSSIA.'
The Independanee says that at the last dap)
Berlin the horizon there was clearer. The Pro;
ancial Correspondence admits that the Austrian
teply had not the menacing character which was
attributed to it. It did not present any summons
to Prussia, but rather reiterated denials couched
in becoming language of military preparations on
the frontiers of Bohemia. The Cologne Gazette
asserts upon information which it regards as emi-
nently worthy of confidence, that the explanations
which have been excluinged between the two powers
exclude the possibility of a rupture.
The Avenir National says, on the other
hand, the serious news of to-clay is Prussia's
refusal to disarm. Still more, Prnaia continues to
adopt measures which can only be explained by her
firm resolution to enter immediately upon a cam-
paign. The Silesian Gazette announces that the
fortresses are being armed with great expedition.
At Kotzel the ditches have been filled with water.
The trees on the ramparts have been cut down.
They have been replaced by cannon, and the
approaches have been protected by barricades. The
garrison are lodged in casemates.
On the subject of Federal reform, the Austrian
Gazette says :
Primula has formally then hid ea the table the proposi.
Lion of federal reform. We shall not pronounce lightly
on the value of a proposal for which we have not yet the
data on which to found a just appreciation. Praia* no
doubt, has a right to expect from the Diet a serious emu&
Aeration of her proposal. end Austria will be the last to deny
the obligation of -mea=ning seriously and without prejudice
whatever may be advenoed in the interest of a pacific and
jag solution of the constitutional question. But we can-
not dissemble from ourselves even now that Frames's plan
of reform has not been launched under happy empires.
The Monde has the following reflections :

CM THE RIVER THAMES.

REPORT OF TSB COMIKISSIONEBB.
This morning was issued, in twobulky blue books,
lie first report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire
into the best means of preventing the pollution of rivers,
commencing with the Thames. The Commissioners have made
a personal inspection of the Thames, and have visited
and made public inquiry in Oxford, Reading, Windsor.
Kingston, Richmond, Lechlada, Great Marlow, Wort*.
Croydon, and South Norwood. The main conclusions to
which they have been led are as follows :
"That the navigation works on the upper Thames are in •
neglected and ruinous condition, and that Nome of the
weirs and locks are dangerous. That some weirs pous6
their water at too great a head, and thereby permanently
water-log adjoining lands and the suburbs of some cities
and towns, as Oxford, Eton, and Windsor. That the
existing method of working the navigation by flukes' is
antiquated, rude, and destructive to the channel and
banks of the river, and, at times, to the crops and produce
on adjoining meadow and other lands. That
ballasting, osier-growing, and weed-cutting are net
exercised with due care for the even flow of the river
water and the safe maintenance of the navigation.
That there is no systematic forming and maintaining of
the banks, islands, and sits. That some portions of the
river have been privately embanked so as to prevent
flooding of adjoining lands. But that, for the plater part
of the distance between Cricklade and Kingston, the land
is liable to extensive and injurious flooding. That sewage
from towns, villages, and homes on the banks of the river
pollutes the water. That the river is fouled by refuse
from paper mil sand tanneries, ualso byfloeting caresses of
animah. That there are many shoals and some mud-
, banks in the river consequent on the incompetence of
the Thames Commissioners to maintain it in a navigable

and peeper date. That the several acts of parliament
regulating the upper navigation have been proved
to be ineflicient for their intended purl:vines, and Moon-
@intent with each other. That the available income from
all sources at the command of the Thames Oommiesioners
has for some time back not been sufficient to meet cur-
rent expenses. That the Thames Commission, as now con-
stituted, is far too numerous for efficient working. That
from experiments conducted under the Sewage Ocemnie-
donate, and evidence taken an the subject of sewage
utilization, and also from our own inspections and investi-
gations, and from the evidenos appended to this report, we
believe that town and house sewage may be so ntilinsd on
land as to preserve the river from the danger of pollution."
The Commissioners also submit the following recom-
mendations : . .

Should M. de Bismarck fail with the Diet of Frankfort,
his last proposition will not have been absolutely ste-
rile. He had the Revolution against him, on account
of his unparliamentary proceedings, but now he ,
has it with him. The ultra journal of Paris
salute the accession of German democracy in
its precursor, Count de Bismarck, Minister of the
King of Prusi► There is se longer any middle course
for the Count ; he must risk the power of Prussia, her
existence perhaps, or fall into ridicule. The hand of the
absolutist minister has raised the red Rag of revolution in
Germany, and it will be either the signal for blood—or a
scarecrow to frighten birds. We should be much snr.
prised if M. de Bismarck did not prefer anything to ridi-
cule. In any cum, he has often proved that he is troubled
neither by scruples nor by principles. The Prussian pro-
position will pursue at Frankfort its regular course.

" That the whole river be pinoed under the superhaton-,
donee of one governing body. That this body be the exist-
ing conservancy board, provided that the board receive an
addition of an adequate number of represeatatives of the
local interests of the upper Thames ; and such repre-
sentatives to be elected by the persons who now con-
stitute the Thames Commissioners. That, after the

lapse of • period to be allowed for the alteration
of existing arrangements, it be made unlawful for
apy sewage, unless the same hes ,lsen pared over
land so as to become purified, or for any injurious refuse
from paper-mills, tanneries, and other Works, to be east
into the Thames between Criaidade and the mincemeat
of the metropolitan sewerage syetem, and that any person
offending in this respect be made liable to penalties to be
recovered summarily. That it be made incumbent upon
the conservators to see to the usioromeat of the above
prohibitions against pollution of the river, and that
for this purpose power be given to them to Tint and inspect
works and, after due notice, to close the outlets of sewers'
drains, and discharge-pipes into the river within the
limits described in the last preceding reeminneadatkm
That, subject to proper safeguards to prevent abuse, powers
be given to local authorities to take laud compulsorily for
the purpose of sewage irrigation, to an extent not exceed-
ing one acre for every 50 persons whose amigo is to be ap-
plied. That the upper navigation from Lechhole toStaines
be put into good working order, and so maintained. That
the rights of private persons to take tolls at locks no longer
used for the navigation be abolished, and that the property
in all webs on the Thames now belonging to
private persons, together with the liability to math-
tain this same weirs, be transfensd to the conservators.
That all biting rights which interfere with the level or
free flow of the river be abolished, with such compensa-
tion as may be settled by parliament. That the conser-
vators be empowered to levy upon all waterworks, taking
water for domestic or trade purposes from the river
Thames, a rental in proportion to the volume abstracted :
the maximum of sock rental to be named by parliament.
That the conservators be empowered to borrow the news-
eery money for the restoration and maintenance of the
upper Thames. That in order to provide adequate
security for money so to be borrowed, the conservators be
authorised to give a first charge upon the future revenue
of the upper navigation to the postponement of the ex-
isting bonds, and to pledge, as collateral securities, the
rental abovementioned upon the waterworks and also the
revenue of the lower navigation. That upon the afore-
said security the Public Works Loan Commissioner. be
authorised to make advances to the eoneervaters. That
powers be given to the conservators to compound with
the holders of existing bonds on the upper navigation.
That powers be given to the conservators to make em-
bankments throughout the valley of the Thames, and
carry out arterial drainage operations, the coat of suck
improvements to be met by • tax upon the properties so
improved."

SUMS FOR THE COLONIAL CLEROY.-lt appears
from a parliamentary return, issued to-day, that a sum of
20,3001. per annum is charged upon and issued out of the
Consolidated Fund, end is appropriated to the payment of
the following salaries, viz.:—Jamaica : Bishop, 3,0001. ;
Bishop of Nassau, 1,0001. ; Bishop of Kingston, MK ;
two archdeacons, 1,2001. ; clergy and catechists, 2,1001.
Barbadoes: Bishop, 2,500/. ; two archdeacons, 7501. ;
clergy, 2,0001. Antigua: Bishop, 2,000/. ; two &Medea-
cons, 750/. ; clergy, 1,1001. Guiana : Bishop, 2,0001. ;
clergy, 1,1001. Total, 20,300/.
We learn front a parliamentary return issued
to-day that the actual number of the peers of Ireland is
189, of whom 74 are peers of Great Britain or the United
Kingdom, and 115 peers of Ireland only. Eighteen crea-
tions, however, have been made in the peerage of Ireland
wince the Union ; and there have been the following promo-
tions-8 marquisette, 19 earldoms, and 16 viscounties.
The members of theoommittees on the Horsham,'
Maidstone, Holston, and Bridgwater election petitions
will be sworn on Monday.

Committees will be chosen next week to try the
Lancaster, Rye, New Windsor, Taunton, Wakefield, Hud-
derafield, Northallerton, and King's County election peti-
tions.

The Herald to-day repeats its objection, with
regard to the Jamaica disturbances, to " the policy of
putting officer, on their trial for having done their duty,
and modernizing by implication the men whoa Assume
[sic] and vigorous action has saved Jamaica for England."
Garibaldi, the Italian journals state, has been
made a grandfather. The wife of his son has just given
birth to a daughter, who has received the name of Annita.
Tan LATE LORD WILL° yarn' D'Eszsirf.—The
family residence of the late Lord Willoughb D'Eresby,
situate on The Terrace, No. 142, Piooadild7, between
Hamilton-place and Hyde-park, commanding views of the
Green-park and Constitution-hill, with excellent stabling
in Hamilton-mews, held on lease from the crown, for a
present term of 40 years, at a low ground rent, was yester-
day disposed of by public oompetition at the mansion, by
Mr. Phillips, of New Bond-street, by order of the trustees,
for the sum of 24,7001. The tenants fixtures in addition,
5501.—total, 25,250 f.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MRETI/lOR FOR THE
ENgVING WERE.—Monday, Royal Institution, at 3 ;
" Muscular Contraction," Professor Du Bois Reymond.
Mathematical, at 7i ; " Correspondence between two
Pointe on a Curve," Professor Ca ley. Architects, at 8.
Tueeday, Royal Institution, at 3; Non-Metallic Ele-
ments," Profennor Frankland. Horticultural, at 3 General
Meeting and Lecture. Anthropological, at 8 ; "Introduc-
tion to Anthropology of America," Mr. Bollaert ; " Notes
on an Hermaphrodite," Captain Burton. Statistical, at
8 ; " Frequent Autumnal Pressure in Money Market,"
Professor Jevons. Engineers, at 8; " Permanent Way,"
" Rolling Stock," Mr. Roehussen. Wednesday
Institution, at 3 ; " Muscular Contraction," Pro4ssoßTV
Boil &Tenni ; Meteorological, at 7 ; Society of Arts, at
8 ; " DLeaw of Meat and Health of the People," Dr.
Thudichum. Thursday, Royal Institution, at 3 ; " Non-
Metallic Elements Professor Frankland ; Zoological, at 4;
Numismatic at 7 ; Llnnean, at 8• " Myrtacess," Mr.
Bentham ; elennicali4,l; " Heat of Chemical Action:
Profaner Foster • at 81 ; Antiquaries, at
Friday, Royal Institution, at 8 ; "Church of England
Maya," Mr. Maclarren • Philological, at 8 ; Society of
Arts, at 8 ; " Transformation of Neutral Subetanoss"
(Cantor Lecture), Dr. Crate Calvert. Saturday,_ Royal
Institution, at 3 ; " National Portraits," Mr. Scharf.—
AthenausL