The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-17 00:00:00

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of • compensation for (settle already slaughendt by ant House of Commons are sop, brothers, uncles, nepisews,
the government would have materially dean& the
progress of the WI, the Times rejoices that it has sons-in-law or brothers-in-law of the present heads of the
31 houses known in tie mimeos as the great governing
been mewed ter fuether oosesieratioa ; but it deeply re- families of England, exclusive of members standing in
pets that g wernmeat did net feel the esoemity of relation to the great botch and Irish families. At
ceding the clauses which, superseding the perplexing least another 30 might be added were the
agency of load authorities, were intended to plops the relationships extended to first sad second amine. The
prohibition of traffics and its excsptimas in the body of the lauded and county family interests are farther represented
act of parliament. These Mr. Haat has seen fit to with- by 170 near relatives of peers, 15 of them heirs apparent
draw on au agreement with Sir George Grey that he or presumptive, not included in the St families'
shall be allowed to in•roduce them in a bill to be brought and 60 baronets. In short, but little under 300
forward by himself. What may be the ultimate effect i oat of 656 members of the House of Commons
of this armagercest we know not ; the immediate result are more or less closely identified with Use great
Is that his measure for the prevention of the movement land-owning caste of the country, exclusive of
of tattle is, foe the moment, put aside, to be reremel I the scores of many-acrd squires who appear with the
with we know not what opportaoides or under what die- plain " J.P., D.L.," in their respective eouaty ffiseeteries-
advantages. The bill has virtually passed the Commons. There is no fear, during the present imam at least, of
and the result, in few words, may be said to be that, while cows being lost without compeosation, or of Mr. Bright
the prohibition of transit remains as it is now, very suffi soaking a false quantity in the name of a bunt without
Giant provision has beers male for slaughtermg and giving esatigation in the shape of ironical cheers. One hundred
oompensation foe diseased and exposed animals, and for and four members ether have served or are now serving
the creation of looal authorities whose duties are to be in the army, and a hundred and fifty are alarm in the
Maul M a bill introduced by a private member. militia, yeomanry, or voinatema, while nine only have
In the sharp skirmish last night, observes the Daily held naval rank. Ninety-five barristers, of whom about
News, between Mr. Lowe and Mr. John Stuart Mill, the ene-fif th are in actual practice, have seats. Ninety-three
right hoe. member for Oaloe, who undertook to teach members were educated at Cambridge, while a hundred
political economy to the writer whose works are text and twenty-seven of his constituents have the privilege of
books throughout Europa, fairly bit the pound. The sitting under Mr. Gathosne Hardy. Slightly under one
Impertinences which have characterised some of his later hundred members appear ostensibly as merchants, menu-
speeches are in a measure probably due to defects of tem. facturers, beakers, brewers, or shipowners. The 'Spectator
psrameot scarcely remediable. The tinge of insolenee farther gives a siagular table showing the form and extent
which runs through most of his spe Ashes is common of business enterprise in the house A hundred and twenty
to him and to most men, who being folly aware members are more or less ornmereed in the management of
of their own superiority to the majority of their audience, railways, while 115 are directors of insurance, banking,
do not equally realise their inferiority to the best among discount and financial joint-stock companies, sad 104
them. The member for Caine, who in his opening sea- directors of miscellaneous companies, including nearly all
two girded at Mr. Mill as too clever for the house, soon kinds and forme( joint-stock amodatimas before the public.
lamed that Mr. Mill het ben to, clever for him, Fourteen legislations °map, their leisure is attending to
sad one of the find muses, if we may say so, of the affairs of hotels, from the Star and Garter downwards.
Mr. M•ll's preseoos ie the house is to expose Ooe worthy baronet is concerned in the management of a
plausible sophisms such as those which he yesterday de- fishery company, a ooffes company, a brewery company, a
moieties!. The compensation theory will not hold water. fresh provision company, a library company, and a gun-
Diseased cattle are slain, no doubt in the interest of the powder company. One or two patient's are directors of
community, bat ea, for the benefit, first. of their owner, necropolis companies, but do not apparently relieve their
that Ms healthy cattle may be saved, ant, seesodly, of his gloomy duties by uniting with them directorships of more
adglibears and of the proprietors of stook papally, that convivial amociaticos.
their bards nay remain unaffected. What is offered by
the government in the name of compsuiation is provided
simply to tasks the man's own Interests clear to him, and
to lads'', him to act on his pelospto nof them. On these
points and many others Mr. Lowe 'apron led and Mr. Mill
exploded sophism after sophism.
The Telegraph greats that farmers es a body will not be
sufferers. Some, it is true, will be brought to the verge of
rain by the drain on their stook ; but others, who have not
bees visite ! by the disease, will grow rich on the enhanced
prices that th it rail s will Mill argon that
those who are thus lucky should make good the losses of
their less fort-nests brethren, and not apped to the coustry
for alms. That megame at M-. Lowe did sot refute, and
bet foe sae fact it would be unanswerable ; that
feet is that we sintibt sr the cattle far the good
of the country, not of a ease ; and we must
therefore pay the owner of beasts for what we v'n
badly take away from him. The ultimate easing will be
immensely greater than the immediate outlay. If we
insist that toe stockoweers shall reimburse each other far
the losses they sustain from as, would isolation be so loom-
plots, or the pole ixe wielded with such promptness, as
we may expest it to bs mw that the duty of reimburse-
ment has been taken in hand by tie nation itself' It is
difilmlt to believe that it would ; it is hard to see how the
policy suggestel by Mr. Mill would sad in anything bat
disastrous f else,.

Che Court.

OSBORNE, Fat 16.
Her Majesty walked out yesterday morning, and
drove in the afkrnoon with Princess Louise, attended by
the Duchess of Bo:burets _ _

The Queen held a &anon to-day, which was attended
by the Earl De Grey and Ripon, the Earl of Bemboraosh,
and the Bight Hon. Sir C. Wood.
Previous to the clamed, Sir C. Wood had an audience
of her Majesty and resigned the Deals u Secretary of State
for lodic

Earl De Grey had also se audience and resigned the seals
u Secretary of State for War. _ _ _

The Marquis of Hartiogton was introduced and sworn in
a member of the Privy Council.
Her Majesty they delivered the seals of the India Depart-
ment to Earl De Grey and Ripon, and the seals of the War
Department to the itlerqu's of Hattioston.

Lord Hartiegton had so audienoe of the Queen.
Mr. Help was clerk of the mural.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury in Downing-street. The ministers pre-
sent were—Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George
Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon.
Edward Cardwell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon.
G. J. Goschen, and the Right Hon. C. P.Villiers.

The Herald, after enlarging; npoa the hnmiliation to
which Mr. Gladstone sabmits in yielding to the dicta-
tion of Mr. Bright, aids that it is sat:stied a measure
will be pawed shron‘h the L tire which wiU give us all
the means legislation as give far °opine with this tes.ible
disease. If this bill skonld fail In its effect then lOU be
nothing left us but to avow the impotence of all hen=
agencies to stay the course of this mysterious scourge, and
to appeal in all humility to that D vine Prot/Joao° whose
interposition her Majesty's ministms evidently think it is
vaM to ask.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. Present—The Lards Jartioes Knight Bruce and Turner.
Sir E. V. Williams, Sir J. Oolvile, and Sir Laurence Peel.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and
St. Helena.

The Star menses the government of consenting to berry
through the House of Commons a bill which involves prin.
alpha hitherto uoknowo to English law and practice, with-
oat allowiog the great bu'k of the ootuntunity time even to
know wh at it is a'l abaci.. Last niiht t►ey allowed Mr.
Lows ani his new el'iss to drive them Into imposing the
whole berth= of the comoeniation to cattle-owners apon
the peddle rater of the country. What old the consrmer
my when the rate-collector knock, at his door to levy a
new oentribution ea him for the benefit of the 0W.26111 of
stock, who, u he Well knows, must all this time have been
receiving in the shape of enhanced price, some compensa-
tion at least for the ravaxes of the murrsla among their
herds ?

Despatches wave sent to the governoi.; of the West Ind
'viands, British Columbia, and Vancouver's Is'and.

THE Cotrm—According to the latest arrange-
meek, her Midway, with their Royal Highnesses Priocesses
Hakes, Louise, and Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, attended
by the 'dies and geotlemeu of the court, will return either
on Tuesday or Wednesday from Osborne to Windsor
Castle.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales will next week honour the Duke of Rutland by
their company at Belvoir Castle for • few days. Early in
the ensuing mouth their royal highnesses are expected to
confer a similar honour on the Bari and Countess Spencer,
at Althorp, Northamptonshire.
Tau PRINC3 AND PRINCIIIB or Warm,—Unless
coloration obstacles should arise, the Prince and Princess
of Wales will honour ►be next musical festival et Norwich
with their presence. Although they have now made fre-
quent sojourns io Norfolk, their royal highnesses have
Dever yet visited the capital of the county. Great prepara-
tions will be made at Norwich for thew reoeptioo.

Panics or WaLss's THEATRI. —Theperformances
at this theatre were last eveolog honoured by the presence
of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Crunbridge, who
way attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Lord William
Pauli&

The Archbishop of Dublin hm left Maurigy's
Hotel for t►e Pilate, Dublin.

Lord Overstone and Colonel Loyd-Lindsay,
/LP., and Hon. Hrs. Loyd-Lindsay, have arrived at their
residence in Carlton•gardens from Lord Overdose's sett is
Berkshire.

Colonel Patten, on Monday, will ask the Secre-
tary of State for the Home Department, if the governmeat
has advised her Majesty to confer a charter oa the catholic
university of Ireland ; and if so, whether such chart: r will
r Mate the catholic university to the Queen's University,
and oo what terms.

Mr. Bruce brings forward a bill to consolidate
and amend the laws relating to vaccination, on Tuesday swat.

Mr. Aytoun intends, on Friday next, to auk
the Seorstary of State for the Colonies whether he
has any objection to ley upon the table papers connected
with the alleged illegal procccdiogs of the Governor of
Victoria and his micisters, consequent upon the refusal of
the Legislative Council tomes the Appropriation Bill ; and
when such papers will be ready.

The Spectator publishes to-day two replies to
Lord Shaftesbury written by hammers is Donstshim, and
printed as they wrote then. "We have their names, and
can vouch that they ars common day-labourers, in no re-
aped different from those around them." The substance
of their evidence is that Lord Shaftesbury knows little or
nothing about his own people, that he has uederstated the
hours of work, and overstated its prelim by cee•half.

We (Post) understand that within a few days the
HO4llO ci 00/110100$ will be moved to pant a sum of
motley for the erection of a monument to Lord Palmerston
over his tomb In Westminster Abbey. This motion will
undoubtedly meet with the resiy 'section of an sasembly
which most desply feel his lose, and be anxious to do
honour to his great enscoory.

At the weekly meeting of the members of the
Royal Inatitation yesterday eveciog, re lecture was de-
livered by Oolostel Sir Fleury Jams " On the Ordeanee
Survey of Jerusalem,' on which occasion his Royal High-
ness Priooe Arthur was in the chair.

Admiral Sir William Fanohawe Martin, Bark,
1C.0.8., will, we (Amy and Navy Gaulle) believe. asper-
sed. Sir Charles Howe Fremantle, K. 0.8., cosmatider-is
chief at Devosport.

The iron-elad ship Northumberland will be
lannebed from 14Swan ea the 17th of Mara. She will
then be taken Into the Vlotorie Dooks Ito be prepared for
ese. She will proceed to Deamport t 3 be finally equipped
aad prepared for entessissios.

Mr. Horace Wigan, the manager of the Olympic
Theatre, ancataces his benefit for next !!sturdily. The
entertainment mamma with A Sheep le Wolfe Clothing.
followed by Cleft Stick end Box and Cu. in the letter
Mr. Backdate end Mr. Oomptat perform.
Anornaz ROYAL Arrzon.—The Crown Prices
of Piesde is aimed en initial( a ittstery of the Blectoral
of
Breebarg.