The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-22 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EILEWING, MARCH 22: , 1867:

concurs with that devoted Imperialist, M. GRAMM
DE CAIIIIAGNAC, in recommending that France
should "arm and wait ;" arm in such a manner
as not to arouse the susceptibilities of other States
or to menace the peace of Europe, but simply to
comfort and reassure France, and to preserve her
dignity unimpaired and her frontiers from attack,
and the balance of power from further
disturbance, he only emulates in talk the
inconsistent action which he denounces in
the Government, and he evokes the very dan-
gers he deplores in driving M. Rouliza to the des-
perately foolish and flagitious avowal that if France
has lost an inch in height by the growth of Prussia
in stature France must draw the sword. M.
Borman pays a poor compliment to his country-
men if he supposes them capable of applauding
the delirious vanity of his piratical proposition,
which can only have the instant and the certain
effect of stimulating and strengthening the appeals
of Count BISMARCK to the patriotism of the North
German Confederation. Indeed, the publication
of the defensive and offensive alliance between
Prussia, Bavaria, and Baden is the happiest and
most decisive answer to all this querulous fan-
faronnade from the other side of the Rhine. Much,
we daresay, of the apparent inconsistency which
seems to deface such splendid monuments of par-
liamentary eloquence as the speeches of M.
TRIERS and M. JVLES FAME is explained by
the political necessity of assailing the policy of
the Government at all points, and especially at
all the weakest points. To a Liberal Opposition,
ashamed of the prostitution of French honour to
the caprices of a personal Government, yet really
desirous of peace, these contradictions are pro-
bably nothing more than tactical feints. We
on this side of the water, who are not con-
cerned in the domestic politics of our neighbours,
except in desiring for them all that we can desire
for ourselves of liberty, of honour, and of pros-
perity, understand better the triumphant and un-
answerable question addressed by M. JULES Favas
to M. Rornea—lf you are at ease and content
with the state of things in Germany and Italy,
why do you arm to the teeth and put the needle-
gun into the hands of twelve hundred thousand
men, who would be better employed in the field,
the factory, and the workshop, as fathers of fami-
lies, as peasants, and artisans, than in peopling
Baron HAUSSMANN'S barracks with janiasaries of
Imperialism, and perpetuating the insecurity and
hypocrisy of that worst of all international con-
ditions—an armed peace ?

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

they should be defended by such arguments as we have
described.

There eon be but one opinion, says the Daily New, as
to the principles of political and aristocrage• favouritism
implied in Sir John Pakington's vindicailon of himself,
and explicitly asserted by one of the Lords of the Admi-
ralty, Sir John Hay. Mr. Ayrton and Mr. Gladstone ex-
pressed themselves on this subject in a sense which par-
liament and the country will appreciate. If four young
naval officers have been undeservedly advanced over the
beads of nearly half their brethren for the simple reason
that they are the sons of their fathers, then it is quite
time that our ministers should be reminded of the duty
they owe to the state. The country hu suffered too much
in past time from the prejudicial interferenoe of parlia-
mentary considerations with the government of the navy
to see with equanimity anything like a return to it.
The Star remarks that, during his brief lead, Mr. Dix'
raeli has only succeeded in debasing the spirit of the
House of Commons in reference to jobs, the serious treat-
ment of which has, at least, been a happy accident of our
party system. It will be one of Mr. Gladatone's high
tasks, as liberal leader, to introduce a spirit of aver-
sion to all sorts of corruption ; and it is mere
justice to one of his late colleagues to say that
in this particular matter the liberal Admiralty
stood well above suspicion. Sir John Pakington even
complains that the Duke of Somerset mule so few pro-
motions of the kind which in the case of Mr. Yorke is so
condemned. The duke enunciated some years ago, before
a committee of the House of Commons, wholly unexcep-
tionable principles of promotion to which, unless Sir John
Pakington has now succeeded in picking a hole in his ad-
ministration, be has always been faithful.

political difference, however profound, can ever
efface." The souvenirs alluded to are that M. de
Girardin'a only daughter (now dead) was at one
time the playmate of the youthful Prince on the
sands at Biarritz.

M. Thiers said, in his great speech, that 3,000
leagues separated France from the United States,
and M. Rouher, while echoing the statement, called
them " sea leagues." Both these eminent states-
men were terribly out in their figures. The asact
distance between Brest and New York is 2,835
nautical miles—in French measure 5,306 kilometres,
or only 1,326 leagues and 4 kilometres, instead of
3,000 leagues.
The Bourse was greatly depressed, from political
causes. Rente fell 40c. for cash, and 42ic. for
account, closing at 68fr. 60c. in each case. Credit
Foncier fell 27fr. 50c.; Mobilier, lofr. ; and Comp-
toir d'Escompte, Bfr. 75c. Railways, which have
long been almost stationary, felt the downward
impulsion very severely. Northern fell 28fr. 75c. ;
Lyons, 11 fr. 25c. ; Southern, 13fr. 75c. ; Orleans,
Bfr. 75c. ; and Eastern, 3fr. 75c. Italian was com-
paratively firm, and fell but 10c.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

FRIDAY, MARCH Y 2. I A.M.

P. Extreme. MCA.
B. T. W. Ito .---A---... W. E. lae
12 P. D. 9.
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Nairn - & 8 8.8. c- 2
Aberdeen W.W 35 S&L 2 E. he ,0.03 4
Leith 20.82 371 &E. 2 Z. co I- 2
Ardrowian 19.7024 E. 5 IL co :0.01 3
Oreencaatle 29.56 84, 1 5 &L on '0.06 4
Valentin .....211 .65 40 8.& W. 4 8. oc 0.241 8
Cape Clear - -I
Uverpool 29.0682 MAE 4 ES.E. co 1 2
Holyhead _72047 38 NAL 3 Z. oo 0.08 3
Penzance.- '23.59 47 W.S.W. 3 B.E. re 10.90 3
Breit 29.0550 &W. 4 LE •rio 10.16 6
Lorlent 29.69 50 B.W. 8 B.l rb I oafit 4
Rochefort
Plymouth 00.69 46 Z. 0 RILE ob ;En. 8
Weymouth
Portemouth 20.00 hi 8.1 4 LE or '- ' 3
London -
Yarmouth 29.8416 8. 8 NIL Ibo - 6
Scarborough. 29.0436 9.& 4 ELL co -. 4
Shiebla 29.8838 6.1 6 ILE Ico- ' 6
Helder - - -

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THE MEETING AT MR. GLADSTONE'S.

The meeting at Mr. Gladstone's house, yester.
day, was attended by 278 members.

Mr. GLADHTONZ commenced his address by referring to
the meeting of liberal members held a few weeks before
in the same place. On that occasion he had dwelt on
the necessity of the united action of the party, and had
expressed himself as in favour of reading the government
bill a second time and dealing with its details in om.
mince. The bill now before the House of Com.
mons he considered to be the worst measure
proposing electoral reform that had ever been sub.
matted to parliament. It would be found in practice
exceedingly difficult to pan what good provisions there
were in it, and threw out the bad. It was the opinion of
some members of the party that the second reading of the
bill should be opposed-{cries of " hear, hear," " no, no,'
and " yes, yea")—while others thought it would be a ohs.
take to take that course. After giving the subject hi,
most anxious attention, and having considered the result
of the Droitwich disclosures, and the Downing-strest
meeting, and after having studied the bill, he personally
considered that opposition to the second reading would
be the wiser course. But if union of the party Ina
not to be obtained by taking that line, it roust not la
adopted, especially when it was remembered that they had
to do with opponents in whom the wisdom of the serpent
was not quite counterbalanced by the simplicity of the
dove. Mr. Gladstone then proceeded to point out the obis,.
tionable features of the bill. Passing over the .mestions of
boundaries, re-election on acceptance of office, and poll-
ing places, he came to the county franchise, the quali.
fication for which was placed at too high a figure ; then
came the redistribution of seats, the plan of which must ba
entirely recast, a most difficult thing for an opposition to
do. Voting papers, again, were objectionable, and so were
the fancy franchisee, while the introduction of • lodger
franchise was essential. The franchise derived frets
payment of income and assessed taxes would lead
to the wholesale manufacture of faggot votes. The
household franchise, as it stood in the bill, would
involve an infinite amount of trafficking with the
lowest class of voters of a kind which the anti-bribery
clauses of the bill would be quite powerless to prevent. Par-
liament had always, in conferring the franchise, proceeded
to do so without making distinctions between the enfran-
chised, but this bill would divide the borough constituen.
cies of England into five classes. First, there were the dual
voters, who were the most favoured clan. Next came the
101. householders residing in the towns; then the 101. house.
holders resident within seven miles, and who could qualify
for any building within the borough. Two classes of these
householders would come upon the register without effect
of their own. Then there were the new householders not
being compound householders, who can qualify only for
dwelling-house, and must reside two years; and lastly
came the compound householders, who, in order to vote,
must go and claim to be put on the register, which would
depend upon the parish authorities—the fact being that at
prevent not two per cent. of the compound householden
under special acts came upon the register; whilst of 750,000
houses which at present do not give their occupiers votes,
1100,000 are compounded for. Having thus reviewed the
bill, Mr. Gladstone went on to say that from the
extreme difficulty of dealing with a measure of
this kind in committee, be thought it was very
problematical whether it would come out of com-
mittee better than it went in. If they were to go into
committee it must only be after getting from the govern'
meet some acknowledgment of better principles than
those which the bill at present contained. He had
reason to believe that it was the intention of the
government to fix a considerable interval between the
second reading and going into committee. They must
I therefore insist on the appointment of an early day,
and also the recognition of the principle that equal
facilities should be given to all those whom it was
intended to enfranchise. The dual vote must be
got rid of, and the arse of the compound bongo
holders equitably adjusted. These matters might be sr
tisfactorily explained in the speech of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer next Monday, but if they were not, the
, liberal members would be naked to meet again, and in his
opinion it would be wise to take a critical vote upon the
question that the Speaker do leave the chair in order that
the house may go into committee. In the course of his
remarks Mr. Gladstone said that an expression which had
fallen from him in debate had been miaundentood. It
had been supposed that he bad proposed to limit house-
hold suffrage at a 6/. rating, but this was not his
intention.
Mr. ROZBECR asked if Mr. Gladstone was in favour of
household suffrage pure and simple.
Mr. GLatorroNg said that he did net ask the meeting to
pronounce an opinion as to the point to which the fray
chin ought to be lowered.
After a few observations from Mr. Ayrton and Mr.
Cogan,
Mr. BRIGHT felt he had really little to say after the
clear statement which had been mad( to the meeting by
Mr. Gladstone. He thought, under the circumstances in
which they were placed, that statement was one in which
they might all concur, and the course which 1,148 recoup
mended was one which they should all support. At the
same time he did not wish it to be concealed that he would
himself have recommended a different course. But in

mere question of procedure, in which there was no great
principle involved, he should not like to set his owu opinion
up as being better than the opinions of others. He would
always go willingly and loyally with the political
party with whom he was connected, but he begged
to clear himself from responsibility if all should
not turn out as well as seemed to be expected, by saying
that after more than twenty years' experience in midis.
moot, he never knew • bad bill brought in by a govern.
meet made • good bill in the course of its passing through
the house or through committee. He feared it was hare,
to be hoped that they could by any possibility make such
an entire change as was necessary to be made with this
bill in order to render it satisfactory to the country der
ing its passing through the house. He cousidered the
constitutional plan of parliamentary action was this—that
the majority in the house ought to provide the members
of the adininistratMo, and that a great qualities
like that of reform should be in the hands at
its friends, and not in the hands of its enemies.
If the spirit of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
could be there and could inspire them what he wished
them to do, they would do just what they had determined
upon doing to-day, and when he had succeeded in that
be might say, "The Lord hath delivered them into my
hands." Notwithstanding, however, these rather gloomy
anticipations, Mr. Bright expressed a strong hope that im
might in the result be proved to have been entirely mit,
taken. Whatever he could do he would do most cordially
whilst the measure was passing through the house to inste
it such • one as would settle the question ; that is to ay,
not settle it merely in the House of Commons sense, bet
in a sense satisfactory to the great body of the people.
After some remarks by Mr. Graham, the proceeding'
terminated.

—.—...
The Earl Grosvenor and Loed Echo were preventel
attending the meeting.

THE REFORM BILL.

PROPOSED AMENDMENTS.

Captain Hayter, on going into committee on
Representation of the People Rill, will move :—"That an
parliamentary borough in England or Wales having a pops.
!titian of less than 10,000 persona, according to the ceumt
of 1443, shall of itself return a member to parlianu at ;
and that all parliamentary boroughs having a less pops.
lotion than 10,000 persons, shall be increased by addict
either from the immediately surrounding district, or from
one or more neighbouring boroughs or towns, a sufficient
number of inhabitants to give to every parlisinentar/
borough a population of not less than 10,00 st persons."
In committee on the bill Sir G. Bowyer is to wort
amendments, and Mr. Fawcett will move to !cave out
Clause 24, and insert the following clause: - "(Expenses of
necessary requisites for conduct of election to be defrayed
from rates)—That all expenses lawfully incurred by the
proper officers fur the provision of hustings. poll clerks.
polling booths, and any other necessary requisit.s for the
conduct of the election, shall be defrayed, in the case of
any county from the county rate, and in the case of sal
borough from the borough or municipal rate."
Mr. Serjeant Gaselee will move " That every borough is
which the population is under 5,000 be disfranchised, and
that from every borough in which the population is under
10,000, and which now returns two members, one ntemh.r
be taken."

Quails and prairie chickens are selling in Kansa'
city, Missouri, st sd. and TA each. •

AND THE! EN
VGLISH CHURCH UNION
AV IA USN.

evening a meeting of the English Church
woos held ut the WhittingtonClub, Arundel street,
• . t 3., ty:s room being too small for the large
. . •., eof members :attracted by the presence of Dr.
. ...•I present:4nm and discussion of a report by
, • , o:: the resolution upon ritual of the Upper House
• , • of the province of Canterbury, as partly
to by the Lower House on February 15. The
, • .. :a LIN isav
submitted a revised report on the present
• the question. The report concludes as follows :
• • it of great importance, as at all times so
..t the present juncture, that churchmen
. : ieli avour to exhibit a ready and loyal deference,
be. to the voice of the whole or major part of
the president and council desire resiect-
, ...loon to the members and associates o the
. following revolutions, as expressing their own
T.. 11 iii revolutions of both houses which they
~N .It cussed, and they earnestly advise the Union
~.pt them : I. That, having in view the first clause
1,• ,n,lde to the resolution adopted by the Upper '
ad. the English church union feels bound to
.1 olive:6°n that the said clause could not, ac-
-1,, any fair and literal construction, have been
a censure on the maintenance in the
,rch ..f England of those catholic doctrines as to the
rament of the Eucharist which have been held
t,., beginning by the church of God. And that the
• • •• ',ferns! to as ' deliberately rejected by the church
,?..ter con on!y be such opinions as are condemned
1.. 1 ferniularies. and not the divine truths which
p ii it ignorance. or ads-construction of those forum-
: may have uuhappily confounded with them. 2.
a 3.6 in the Player Book of 1859 (which the highest I
at ..f Appeal ,I,cided in 1537 to be the authority of '
referred to in the rubric on ornaments)
• 1 .1- a here, the English reformers retained the
• el...trances ' apparently referred to in the same
..f the preamble: All.l as those observances were
•1 being eajository of the divine truth. referred
.s. tac test resolution, though erroneous opinions pre-
:.tv connected with such truths as had been then de-
. ~.rely rejected by the church of England,' the
• eonsiders that the restoration of such ' ritual ob-
: fur the like purpose now, ought nut to be
• •1.1-scal to have been censured by the upper house of
..sation, seeing that they were not unfavourably re-
...ard in the report of the Lower House as being lawful
. he church of England, t. That in now again (as in the
..et of their President and Council of July lf., 156.1)
elly recognising, upon acknowledged minciples of
aaciiml government, ' both the paternal counsel of
Maiop of the diocese and his legitimate authority in
at. is of ritual, no less than of doctrine end discipline,'
Le Union trusts that it will yet appear that the bishop
...t, hied to recognise the report and judgment of the
Lower 'louse ; and consequently to afford such counsel
:..I exercise such authority in conformity with the law of
church of England which they are caned upon by their
• -.lwo to mh ll ill later. 4. That, in the hope of thus ascer-
t that they hare not misunderstood the intentions of
tia l'operand the Lower House, and trusting that the object
.1 both houses was not to supprese, but to regulate, iu
r.r,lonce with the report and judgment of the Lower House,
the ' ritual observances' discussed in that report, the Union
delires now to express its readiness to acquiesce in the
solution as thus interpreted, believing, as it does, that
tiw pt inciple which it embodies (if fairly, liberally, )udi-
,taidy, and canonically acted upon by the bishops) will per-
tot the safe and gradual prevalence of the lawful ritual of
tae church of England. 5. That the union fully trusts
tat a cautious adherence to the lawful ritual,
:CA a careful avoidance of needless causes for
tajitit imputations' will in time lead the English
wooed to perceive that the fears which the Upper
Huse has expressed have no real foundation; and
sill also enable it to see that the teaching set forth by
Le ritual now objected to (being the true doctrine of the
catholic church, as transmitted to and held by the church
of England) tends to draw towards her those of our sepa-
rated brethren who are seeking after the truth. Thus, as
union believes, a ritual, which could not now be en-
Neel without perhaps incurring a charge of contumacy
al other risks, will, when the present excitement shall
Lee subsided, be ultimately accepted, to the honour of
.1111,iility God and to the wellbeing of His church.' "
The Rev. Dr. rt's•Eli moved the adoption of the report.
He said hr had no doubt the two first resolutions expressed
the distinct meaning of the bishops. The real objective
presence we learned in the catechism and drank in in
our devotions, and it was utterly inconceivable that the
I.:shops could speak of it as rejected by the church
of England. Nothing could be more unjust than the
a,sertion that high church teaching tended to reduce
Teeple from the communion of the church. Nine-tenths
.f the secessions had been brought about of late years by
taose who opposed high church teaching. They said, "If
you don't believe so and so, you may as well go out at
once."

Mr. Sclater-Booth has accepted the office of Se-
cretary to the Poor-law Board, rendered vacant by the
rt,i6mation of Mr. Ralph Earle. This acceptance does
sot Involve the vacation of his seat by Mr. &later-Booth.

Thu Pilkington footpath case:ariaing out of cir-
cumstances which created so much excitement some time
ago. came before Mr. Justice Mellor at the Manchester
assizes yesterday, in an action against the Earl of Derby
for obstruction of the highway. His lordship was ordered
to pay if. Images. The question whether the plaintiff
Lad sustained special damages by the obstruction was re-
Krved for a superior court.

The South- Western Mail Steam Packet Company
have added a new steamer to their fleet. She is named
the Uwaarea. The fleet of the company now consists of 13
&hips.

ZooLociem. So(ierro —At the monthly general
meeting, held yesterday, at the Society's-house, in
Hanover-square, Mr. Ed. Greeaway in the chair, Sir
Archibald Lamb, Bart., Sir William Throckmorton, Bart.,
the Hon. 0. Toler, the Hon. A. Morgan, Lieut• General
W. L. G. Williams, Lieut.-Colonel W. B. Fords, M.P.,
C.mtain A. Elruhirst, Captain A. Ewen, Miss Lambert,
and Messrs. J Ashbury, W. Bradshaw, J. W. Brittain,
Charles Chester, C. B. Colvile, M.P., D. J. Davis, C. C.
Ellis, C. Fowler, Henry G. Franklyn, J. Goldsmid, M.P.,
C. A. I). Halfonl, W. Hart's*, L. It. liaalewood, A.
Hoyden, C. 0. Humphreys, A. Ingcnohl, It. IPKerrill,
Wm. Marriott, H. Matthews, Jas. Matthews, John Mat-
thew, C. W. P. Overend, W. Overend, (..C., J. Papt,
J. Raphael, W. H. Sams, J. S. Schilizzi, W. WAdam
Stewart, C. E. Swan*, H. Y. Thompson, H. C. L. Werth),
LC. Watson, W. Weld, and H. Wetherell, were elected
fellows ; and W. T. Blanford, of the Geological Survey of
led* and Thos. Oldham, A.M., F.R.S., director of the
Gndegical Survey of India, corresponding members of the
tociety. Candidates for the fellowship were proposed, and
ordered to be balloted for at the next monthly meeting, in

SE AEONS . PREACHED TO WORE INO PEOPLE. —A
few weeks after the conference held at the London Coffee-
house between a number of ministers of religion and re-
presentative. of Loudon artisans, to consider the causes
which alienate the latter clam from public worship, a Sun-
day was appointed for preaching special sermons on the
subject, and special provision was made for the working
classes, who attended in unusual numbers. Eight of the
sermons thus preached have been collected by Mr. Arthur
Mall, of IS, liouverie-street, and are published for six-
pence. The names of the preachers are the Very Rev. A.
I'. Stanley, Dean of Westminster, Revs. Henry Allen,
Edward Whits, James Hamilton, D.D., Samuel Martin
It W. Dale, M.A., A. Mackennal, 8.A., and Mark Wilk's'.
The sermons are of a superior order, solid, real, and to
ibuoint.

AND Bzurawra.—The will of the Right
Hoe. William Keppel, sixth Viscount Barrington, late of
lteckett House, Elbrivenham, Berke, and Cavendish-square,
Loudon, passed the seal of the principal registry on the
Lkh ult., and probate granted to his relict the Right
lfri. Jane Elizabeth, Dowager Viscountess Herrington,
the sole executrix. The personalty was sworn under
10,0001. The will is dated Feb. 28, 1861, and his lordship
died Feb. 9, 1867, aged 7:1. He leaves to his wife 1111 his
real and personal estate not otherwise disposed of in his
Will, together with the plate kept at Beckett House, and
such of the funitnre, books, and other effects as she
ILLY select ; the rest he directs to be added to the list
of property contained in the family mansion of Beckett
House, and to be held as heirlooms in the same trusts ea
those under the will of his great uncle, the Hon. and
Right Rev. Shute Barrington, Lord Bishop of Durham.
To hi, son, the present viscount, who succeeds to the
estate, he leaves an his wines and consumables, and twenty
shares in the Great Western Railway Company. The will
of the Right Hon. Lady Caroline Cavendish was proved in
"melon, on the 2Gth ult., by her nephew, Colonel William
Heine Frederick Cavendish, and her niece, Mrs. Henry
Lee Steere. The personalty wee sworn under 45,01/0/.
The testdrix was the daughter of the first Earl of Bur-
hugton. Her will bears date May Z 3, 1866, and she died
ha. 9, Pa 7, at the age of 69. Her ladyship has made
L quests to her nephews and nieces. To Mrs. Lee Steere
‘Le leaves 5,000/., and appoints Colonel W. Cavendish
residuary legatee. To her sister, Lady Charles Fitzroy,
sic leaves a life interest in 15,000/., and after her decease
du ,cts the same to be divided amongst three of her
wees. Liberal legacies and annuities are left to
her servants. All legacies to be paid free of duty.
Esq., has bequeathed to the Church
Aid Society, 1,0001. ; and to the Society for Pro-
Diet mg christianity Amongst the Jews, the Church Mis-
iimi,ry Society. and the Naval and Military Bible Society,
each a kgacy of BM/. His personal property ass sworn
coder 12.000/. John D. Middleton, Req., has left 2001. to
each the four following hospitals—viz., the Charinc-
cm,. Westminster, Middlesex, and the Convalescent. His
frrs,rialty was sworn under 30,0001.—IllaWrakd Lundow
The feathered tribes are suffering much from the
continued severity of the weather. Nesting time is post-
P"ned, and starvation is making birds of all kinds bold and
t" t""• We never recollect to have seen such large flocks
ls,rh ;:reen and golden plovers as has appeared for
seiei.,l weeks in all the low fields along the coedit, forced to
led for time the frost•bound soil of the hill country.
vr Atietrtiser.