The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-04 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1867.

' now it has remained a dead letter, and that the
French have never been able to obtain the delivery
of any criminal under its provisions, and only since
France denounced the convention, and when it
was liable to expire under the notice given by its
Government, has any person been handed over to
the French authorities. This is a political rather
than a legal argument. The notorious objection
of French lawyers and statesmen to give the
judicial clement that importance which English
opinion would assign to it, in the operation of ex-
tradition, is mainly accountable for the difficulties
which have attended the working of the treaty on
our aide. Public writers in France should know
English love of law sufficiently well to feel assured
that if the mutual extradition of accused persons
can only beo.nto an established practice on con-
d'tiou that our Government shall, from time to
time, place itself above the law, then, as far as
we are concerned, the advantage of extradition
amid be relinquished. If the Go-xtfr, perceiving
this fact, is prepared to maintain that LAM MANDE
must be held fast, because he is the last accused
person whom France will ever get from England
by the method of extradition, we can appreciate
its argument, but not otherwise.

porting any portion of them Into our oa a too mach
troubled church at home.

A statement in a leading article this morning of the
Strtedard, which will be read with more or less =prim,
is one to the effect that during the late American civil war
the conservative party in England " did not support the
South."

While giving high praise to Lord Dnfferin for his late
letters on the Irish question, the Mau thinks it right to
say that his lordship's arguments will excite some qualms
in the minds of the statesman who will not consider it
his mission to proclaim to Irishmen the duty of leaving
their country and their allegiance for that of
foreigners and rivals. Should we happen to want more
men for the army, there will be fewer from Ireland ; and
even our great works in this country, whether public or
commercial, will feel that leak in the great reservoir of
unskilled labour. Writing on the same subject, Mr.
Chichester Fortescue protests in the columns of the Tinter
against the doctrine of " let well or ill alone" in Irish
affairs. Ile regrets Lord Dufferin's adoption of a hue of
argument which fails to recognise the deep and pervading
connexion between bad laws and unjust institutions on
the one hand, and hatred of the law and political disaffec-
tion on the other, and so cuts off the most powerfnl mo-
tive which can drive governments and parliaments into
the road of effective reform.

OUTWAN 07 CAM. KPLAOUE IN ISLINGTON.

A virulent outbreak of rinderpeat has just taken
place in Islington, in the dairy of Mrs. Nicholls, Liverpool-
road. The first case of the disease occurred on Mon-
day last, and on being reported to the authorities a notice
was issued by the Metropolitan Board of Works declaring
the premises "an infected place," in accordance with
the provisions of the " Cattle Diseases Preven-
tion Act, l 8611." Immediate steps were taken
by those in charge of the dairy to separate the
healthy, cattle from those who showed symptoms of
the disease, but without any beneficial effect,
for on the following Thursday four additional cues
occurred ; the infected animals were at once slaughtered
by order of the cattle plague inspectors, but the disease
had taken root, and on Friday five more cows were
attacked, and had to be destroyed. On Saturday last
seven additional cases occurred, and fears being enter-
tained of a further spread of the disease, it was decided
at a meeting of the committee of the Metropolitan
Board of Works, in whom power is vested in each
cues, that all the animals on the premises
healthy or otherwise should be destroyed. This order
was at once carried into effect, and the entire of the stock
in the dairy, consisting of 4.i cows and one bull, were
slaughtered on Saturday evening. The carcases of those
which were diseased were ordered to be burned, and the
others were sent to market after undergoing a rigid ex-
amination by the inspectors appointed for the pur-
pose. rp to noon to-day no further eases were
reported in the district, and it is hoped that the vigorous
measures adopted to limit the spread of the disease may
have the effect of completely " stamping it out."