The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-23 00:00:00

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The Archbishop of Yoiu was hy y ymitified Jarr
saying on, Thursday, " that Se %wage held in
" some quarters towards any bishop who opposes
" ritual innovations is such as no Episcopalchurch,
"In modern days at least, has heard within it, and
"that i is more coexistent to deny Episcopacy
" altogether than to take away those ties of filial
" duty on one side, and of fatherly guidance
" and protection on the other, which have always
" been the essence of its working."
Notwithstanding the heated language that has
been heard in some quarters, we believe that as
soon as an authoritative decision has been pro-
nounced against these objectionable practices the
greater number of clergy who have adopted them
will return to a more sober line of conduct. Great
latitude is wisely allowed to the various tastes and
feelings of ministers and congregations, but it is
evident that a limit must be drawn somewhere, if
order and unity are to be preserved. The ten-
dency of the action of certain parties of late has been
to make the Church a mere congeries of sects, and
should that work ever be accomplished the hold of
the Church upon the nation would be very much
weakened, if not altogether destroyed.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

TIM EXPECTED DISAOLITTION.
The Times can see no justification for a dissolu•
tion of parliament. Mr. Gladstone has been met with
weapons and tactics st least as fair and open as his own:
'lt is inconsistent, moreover, to wish to refer the present
question to the existing constituencies, when the very
ground of the appeal is an opinion that the constituencies
are corrupt usurpations. There is no reason at all why the
Reform Bill should not be handed over to next session, for
the house has dealt more seriously and respectfully with
the abject than the government itself has.
The chorus of frightened dissatisfaction with which
a certain portion of the press has received the
suggestion that ministers have another course open to
them than that of abandoning office convinces the Daily
News that the idea of • dissolution deserves more con-
sideration than may seem to be due to it at first sight.
The national voice, they say, pronounced last stammer in
favour of Lord Palmerston ; the simplest way therefore of
determining who it would have as his successor is to take
the votes over again. If such • step can only
issue in the hopeless ostracism of the great liberal
statesmen, as they say will be the case, it is not
easy to see why the opposition should protest against it.
But, as everyone knows, the ministers chiefly owe their
difficulty to the Adullamites, and it cannot be 'apposed
that fur their sakes ministers can disregard strong expres-
sions of opinion which come from the great centres of
industry and intelligence. The only course the Adullamites
could adopt would be, before ministers have taken an inv.
vocable step, to signify their readiness to support the
government in its honest endeavours to satisfy the just
expectations of the unentranchised by carrying a reform
bill. Vague and general offers of support, such as those
of which rumours are just now heard, are worthless to a
ministry pledged to • reform policy before the country.
If the parliamentary defaulters who were elected as
liberals, are ready to return to their allegiance and sot
with their party instead of against it, well and good •if
not, they cannot complain if ministers appeal to the
country for a judgment upon their conduct.
The Poet revives " the memory of the great minister,"
and at the same time endeavours to convince the govern-
ment they have everything to lose by a dissolution. Our
contemporary believes that the cabinet will delay its de-
cision to the last possible moment, and adds that this does
not tend to give increased confidence that, when the de-
cision is arrived at, it will be the one most consistent with
that high sense of honour which has all along been so much
professed.
The Herald appears to believe that the government have
not offered an unconditional resignation to her Majesty,
but a threatened resignation in the event of the
Queen's refusal to agree to a dissolution, but it does not
for a moment suppose that her Majesty will give her assent
to so mischievous and unjustifiable • measure. Only
in the event of the inability of the leaders of the conser-
vative party to form an administration could her Majesty
ask the present ministers to withdraw their resigna-
tion, or consent to the dissolution which they propose. To
entreat or command them to remain in office, to give
them the power of dissolution without first ascertaining
that no other administration could be formed, would be
to take aides in the party conflicts of the country. No
one will be foolish or wicked enough to impute the possi-
bility of such partisanship to the Queen.
The Tel gra IA and Star continue to urge a dissolution.

mirettive part?sppear to ictve survived trir domestic
Paliudion, bat !Mx adminispifilon tented bV Lard Stanley
night perhipteseape wander she diffiesiiies wile& would
beset a strictly conservative government. & The party
might without discredit accept the leadership of a states-
man who is largely trusted by liberal politicians within 1
and without the walls of parliament.
The Spectator, which has been one of the roost persistent
opponents of the Reform Bill, and therefore of the mi-
nistry, thinks it would be beat for the liberal party to accept
the natural consequences of the recent defeat, and that the
statesmanship of the moment is likely to consist very much
in vigilant inaction.
The Economia sees no good prospect for the country
except in the reinstatement and still better in the recon-
struction of the liberal government. The vote of the house
is not in itself one which compels the resignation of the
ministry.
The conservative journal, the Preu, says various
rumours are in circulation with respect to the intentions
of ministers. They seem to repent the haste with which
they resolved upon resignation, and numerous modes of
evading the difficulty have been suggested. It is believed
that reconstruction will be attempted, though, in the pre-
sent state of the liberal party, this seems altogether hope-
less. Some more reckless politicians advocate a. dissolu-
tion, but the effect of this at the present crisis is not
likely to be favourable to those who have made such a bad
use of golden opportunities. The Queen is expected to
return from Scotland on Tuesday, and nothing very
definite on the subject will be known until ministers have
been in direct communication with the sovereign. The
public must restrain their impatience until next week,
when they will learn what new surprise Lord Russell and
Mr. Gladstone may have in store for them.

According to the Examiner both politicians and military
men wonder at the rash policy of Prussia in pushing so far
without possessing an overwhelming force. It looks as if
she were aiming not only at the subjugation of North
Germany, but of all Germany. It is needless to point out
the impolicy of such conduct, which would infallibly
bring both France and Russia into the field. But after
all, good must probably come of this fearful tempest.
Germany will be reformed and unified, whichever side
conquers.
The Saturday &rim says that the real stream of Prus-
sia after all is not so much military as politicaL The genius
of Austrian generals and the disciplined bravery of Aus-
trian troops may prevail, and Prussia may be driven back,
crushed and humiliated, within her own borders ; but
nothing can undo the effect of the great political revelation
that has been made this week to Europe. Wherever the
Prussians go in North Germany, they go really as friends
and not as enemies. They have shown that it is true that
the courts, and not the people, of North Germany are
against them ; and they have shown that these courts
have no hold over their subjects, have won neither popular
respect nor affection, and that the whole structure of these
petty kingdoms and principalities is rotten.
The Spectator thinks • new possibility of compromise
has arisen which the first great battle may make it both
possible and expedient to work out. Silesia once fairly
occupied, and a pitched battle won, the two powers could
cease from fighting, find each other enormous gainers, and
by a new alliance protect German territory across the
Rhine.
The Examiner characterises the report of the Jamaica
commissioners as a whitewashing report, though parte of
the case are so black that they cannot be whitened, and
the blackness stares through the whitewash. We do not
detect any suppression of the truth ; there is admission of
much that was wrong, of some criminal acts, but for all
excuses are suggested directly or indirectly. A narrative
of St. Bartholomew might be so drawn up as to make the
catholies appear more sinned against than sinning.
The Spectator says that the language in which the com-
missioners censure practices and language which they
admit to have been culpable, is soft in the extreme. There
is no piano-wire in the lash of the commissioners.

ffht Court.

BALMORAL, JeNs 21.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena
and Princess Beatrice, went out driving yesterday
morning.
In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by Princess
Helena and attended by the Duchess Dowager of Athole
and Miss MacGregor, went to Allt-na-Guithasach and the
Glassalt.
Princess Louise and Prince Arthur went out riding,
attended by Miss Cathcart.
Princess Beatrice went out driving.

On the receipt of the unexpected news of the defeat of
the government in the House of Commons the Queen
ordered the arrangements for the return of the court to
Windsor to be hastened, and will now leave Balmoral on
Monday next, the 2.5 th inst.
The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at a meeting at
the South Kensington Museum of the Royal Commissioners
for the Universal Paris Exhibition of 1867.
The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive, attended Ly
the Counteas of Maccleafield.
The Prince of Wales rode out on horseback, attended by
Lieut.-Colonel Keppel.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were '
Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Gran-
ville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the
Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Edward
Cardwell, the Marquis of Hartington, Earl de
Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon.
G. J. Goechen, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.

A deputation from the Sanitary Committee of the Vestry
of St. Pancras, introduced by Mr. Harvey Lewis, M.P.,
and Mr. Thos. Chambers, Q.C., M.P., transacted business
with Mr. Waddington at the Home-office,yesterday, on the
subject of the excavations being made by the Midland
R.iilway Company at the burial ground of St. Giles-in.the-
Fields. The deputation consisted of Mr. Churchwarden
Eckett, Mr. Seaton, Mr. Wade, Dr. Hillier, medical officer
of health, and Mr. Oath (clerk to the Sanitary Committee).
A deputation, introduced by Mr. Ayrton, M.P., and
consisting of Mr. Cave, M.P., Mr. Charles Moore, M.P.,
Mr. J. L. O'Beirne, M.P., Mr. James Goodson, ALP., Mr.
Charles Capper, M.P., Mr. Anthony ,Wilson, Mr. James
Jackson, and Captains Charles Scott, James Toynbee, J.
Smith, P. Campbell, R.N.R., J. F. Trevett, R.N.R.,
Joseph Leeman, R.N.R., J. B. Swansea, R. Maynard,
ILN.R., W. Dale, R.N.R., A. F. Pearce, J. W. Hurst,
G. Gregs, R.N.R., and H. Phillippa, bad an interview with
the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, at the office of the
Board of Trade yesterday, upon the subject of Marine
Courts of Inquiry.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yester-
day. Present—the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and
Turner, Sir J. Coleridge, and Sir E. V. Williams.

We are authorised to state that the Queen's even-
ing party, which was fixed for the 22nd June, will
take place on Monday, the 9th July.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as
Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, held leTe. yester-
day afternoon at the Horse Guards. Upwardsof 200 officers
attended.

His Royal Highness the Cuunt de Flandre is
expected to arrive in London from Brussels to-morrow.
Apartments have been secured for his royal highness at

Ciaridge's Hotel.

Lady John Dlannera has been suffering during
the last few days from a aevere attack of inflammation of
the throat. Fier ladyship, though still very weak, is
gradually progressing towards recovory..

. _
The annual grand fancy dress ball, under the
patronage of the Prince and Princess of Wales, the surplus
proceeds of which are appropriated for the benefit of the
Royal Caledonian Asylum and the Royal Scottish Hospital,
took place on Thursday night at Willis's Rooms, King-
street, St. James's. Upwards of 900 persona were pre-
sent, and consequently, in • pecuniary point of view, the
ball was a great success.

By the death of General the Earl of Rosalyn,
Lieutenant-General Knollys, colonel of the 62nd Regi-

meat, becomes a general; Major-General J. R. Young,
colonel of the 80th, a lieutenant-general ; and Colonel
John Yorks, C. 8., Commandant of the Royal Military
Asylum, Chelsea, a major-general. Lord Rosalyn was the
junior of his rank, having attained it so Late as April last.