The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1867.

dictate of natural sentiment and political justice
as well as of expediency. A nation which owes
its greatness and independence, not to its rulers,
but to revolutionary leaders constraining them,
is not in the way to learn reverence for law and
government. In this way the example of GAM-
-IUIIIII, with all his nobility of nature and mo-
tive, is not purely good, and his successes may
be as dangerous as his failures. But those who
have imposed the necessity must bear the burthen
of it. Having closed up every outlet but one
from a false situation, the authors of the Septem-
ber Convention cannot justly complain that the
only path which they have left open is taken.

01711 CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

The Feniane in this country, the Daily News
concludes, do not expect to do any good to their cause by acts
of violence, but are driven to such schemes by the wild
desire to do harm to their enemy. Local authorities, in
the meanwhile, will but serve the organisation by the
display of anything like panic. The only real danger is
that the Irish portion of our population may excite the
anger of the working classes, by whom they are disliked.
A little additional watchfulness and • complete prepared-
neu will sultloe. There is no fear for order ; the only
fear is that hatreds of race and religion which already
exist should be exasperated by threats and outbreaks of
senseless violence, and create an underground social war.
The elements of such a strife unfortunately exist among
us. We have two nations in England, thanks to the evil
policy of centuries, and just now when that policy is ►bout
to be reversed its evil comes home to us in the shape of
an enemy in our midst. But the susceptible and generous
people who have been alienated from us by that policy,
and have been prepared to become the victims of Fenian
imposters, can be won from their enmity by even tardy
justice.
The Tines condemns the intention attributed to the
government of leaving the Fenian prisoners at Manchester
to be tried by the next ordinary assizes, and enlarges on
the advantages of issuing a special commission. Delay
being the Fenian policy, despatch should be ours, and the
would-be invaders of the United Kingdom should be
apprised beforehand, by • practical warning, of tha fate
reserved for them. One execution in October may save
the necessity of many executions in December.
So long ea these men remain in prison the Home-
office will Save no peace. One of them declared in open
court that he had been dressed in prison clothes in order
to insult the United States, of which he was a citizen. It
is easy to foresee the anxieties which may arise from their
prolonged detention without trial, and we have no occa-
sion to multiply anxieties for the ensuing winter. There
can be no insuperable difficulty in sending down • judge
before the commencement of next term, and the emer-
gency warrants the sacrifice of some convenience.

The Telegraph says that at present there is no evidence
that would justify even the committal of the prisoner
Groves. McDonnell is presumed to have been killed by
Fenian sympathisers ; the prisoner is supposed to be a
Fenian partisan ; but these two assumptions fail to connect
him with the crime, and the first is by no means clearly
established. It is easy to see how the polies were led, in
the first instance, to direct their researches in what, it is
to be feared, will prove a wrong direction.

flu Ea urt.

BALMORAL, Oct. 5.

The Queen drove out, accompanied by Princess
Christian and Princess Louise, and attended by Lady Ely.
Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, left
Balmoral, in order to resume his studies at the Royal
Military Academy at Woolwich. His Royal Highness was
accompanied to %Hater by Prince Leopold, attended by
Mr. Duckworth.

Prince Christian, attended by Colonel Poneonby, wont
out for a drive of deer. Sir Stafford Northoote ►nd Mr.
Albert Van de Weyer had the honour of shooting with his
Royal Highness.
Mies Macgregor has left the Castle.

The Right Hon. J. R. Mowbray has arrived at Balmoral.
The Earl and Countess of Yarborough and Colonel and
Hrs. Farquharson had the honour of dining with the
Queen and the Royal Family.

The Right Hon. the Speaker and Lady Charlotte
Denison left the Duke of Sutherland's seat some days ago
for the south, on their way to Ossington Hall, Notts.

DEATH OP LORD KINGSDOWIi.

Lord Kingsdown died last night at his seat,
Torre-hill, in Kent. He was born in London on the 11th
of February, 1793, his family name being Pemberton. He
descended on his father's ride from a family in Warring-
ton, and on his mother's from a branch of the family of
Leigh, to whose vast possessions near Wigan he eventually
succeeded. He was at no public school, at no university,
and he began his legal career in • solicitor's office. Yet
his scholarship was correct, and his taste for clusical
literature constant and unabated. He read for the bar in
the chambers of his maternal uncle, Mr. Cooke, and in
1816 Mr. Pemberton was called to the bar by the
Honourable Society of Lincoln's-inn. In 1829 be
received • silk gown, and for many years be
stood at the bead of the bar, in his own court,
the Rolls. In 1841, upon the formation of Sir R. Peel's
administration, he accepted the office of Attorney• General.
to the Prince of Wales. In January, 184 a, the death of
his aged and eccentric kinsman, Sir Robert Leigh, placed
Mr. Pemberton in possession of a life interest in the
Wigan estates, amounting to about 17,0001. • year. He
retired from the bar, was sworn of the Privy Council
as Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and shortly
afterwards entered upon his judicial duties as a member
of the Judicial Committee of that body. These duties
he continued to perform for twenty years with unre-
mitting diligence, but entirely without emolument, and
with no outward recognition of his services except
the peerage, which was first offered to him by Lord John
Russell in 1853, and eventually conferred on him by Lord
Derby in 1858. During the greater part of his career at
the bar Mr. Pemberton sat in the House of Commons, in
the conservative interest, for the borough of Rye, and
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afterwards for tb• bonne; at Ripon. La 1868, 14:1 the
formation of Lord Derby's administration, the Great Seal
wee offered to Mr. Pemberton Leigh (as;he wee then called)
but it was refused. The cases of " Gorham v. the Bishop
of Exeter," of " Liddell v. Waterton," " Long v. Bishop
et Cape Town," and " Essays and Reviews" were decided
by committees of the Privy Council, in which Lord Kings-
down took an active part, and they were decided
in entire conformity with his views. "Friendly"
sap • writer in the Times, " to the Church of
England, as • pions, tolerant, and beneficent insti-
tution, he abhorred the exclusive pretensions of dogmatical
theologians, and he held very cheap the claims of sacer-
dotal authority. To maintain the church of England on
the broad foundations of the law of the land, without
allowing any party to persecute or proscribe its opponenta,
was the scope and object of his views. This liberality of
opinion drew down on him the bitter hatred of the bigots,
which has recently been manifested in a peculiar manner
by Dr. Pusey at Oxford ; but it has earned for the memory
of Lord KiniMown the profound respect and gratitude of
the most em t, judicious, and enlightened of him coun-
trymen." Lord Kingsdown was never married ; his title,
therefore, is extinct. Of his property the larger part
reverts to a descendant of Sir Robert Leigh ; the remainder
passes to the brother and nephews of the late peer.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

the Emperor Maximilian had reached the capital
but had not been delivered to Admiral Tegethoff,
who had determined to return without it. The ad-
miral was endeavouring to effect the release of the
Emperor's confessor, who had been authorised by
Maximilian to publish his entire correspondence
with the Emperor Napoleon and Marshal Bazaine.
Porfirio Diaz had accepted the nomination for
the Presidency, and his adherents were organising
themselves for a furious campaign.

(BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, Om 7.

The steamers Erin, Liberia, and Hibernia arrived
out yesterday, and the Cuba, Nebraska, Saxonia,
and Pereire to-day.
At the end of the past month the debt of the
United States had increased 2,500,000 dole., as

compared with the same period in August.
Closing Prices :—Gold, 1451. Sterling exchange
on London, losi ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1121 ;
Illinois, 122 ; Erie, 70. Cotton—Middling Up-
land, 1971.

PHILADELPHIA, Ocr. 7.
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