The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-21 00:00:00

its independence. Lord Sramegio DE
CLIME also thinks that there ought to be scene
security for " existing territortsr afilmgem
else Europe may at any momete ewe:deposed se'
greatest dangers. We hope,
peace of Europe will rest on some better basis
than the connection of Venice with Austria and
the distribution of Germany into thirty-five
sovereign States, arrangements once approved by
the diplomacy of Europe, but bad enough to be-
come the cause of war at any time.

lad no time tothin.% of Austria, or to remedy abdis Gad
IIuTY air reforms in Aistris, bemuse they bye kiss
f gprupied in wing up # the ingrigues of the Gunn"
earns and . The ggrobable ha the
4riumphs • now 011 some . the
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of political students, and Prussia is see be the c -
pion and representative of Germany. Lc ' Stanley will
have an easy task in satisfying the Prussian government
that England has no desire to perpetuate the subdivision
of Germany. In diplomatic communications it is not
necessary to express sentimental predilections, or to assign
romps for a poliey which is in itself perfectly intelligible.
It would be unpardonable to insult Austria in her distress,
or to triumph over the humiliation of the petty princes ;
bat when almost all intelligent Englishmen rejoice in the
progress of German unity, the Foreign Minister has no
need to maintain a grudging °oldness. The two muses of
danger against which it is necessary to guard in negotia-
tions are a possible threat against Melgium and the re-
opening of the Eastern question. There is no probable
aggression of Prussia, of Austria, or of Italy, which
would compromise English interests. If other powers in-
vade the territory of unoffending neighbours, new ques-
tions will arise. In the meantime it will be prudent to
avoid too intimate an identification of English policy with
the diplomacy of Franoe.

To keep the arduous position she will have won,
Prussia mast unfortnnetely, sags the Zzaisiest, be
always ready to fight. That implies a military mon-
arehy, armed to the teeth, its services, liberties, and will
concentrated in one hand. We shall have thus another
of those Frankendeina, a military monster empire in the
middle of Europe. Bismarck means nothing else, sad
perhaps this is necessary in order to fight the two, one on
either side of it, as well as whatever may survive of Aus-
tria. However neeessary, it is not a pleasant prospect.
We should have wished to see German unity accom-
plished ander other conditions. But if the people of
North Germany like it—if they are ready to barter civil
freedom for military supremacy, what can we say f We
can only shrug our shoulders in silence. The ruling of
Badows, the Examiner greatly fears, will prove the re.
quiem of all representative and isonskitutional systems in
Germany.

The Spectator protests against an article in the Beferday
Besimeof last week against Berl Russell—an 'Miele whishwee
not merely petty and spiteful, but petty and spiteful with.
out that amount of common candour and common sense
with which men of the world usually season their bit-
terest attacks, since they know that, except by the help
of snob candour and sense, they fail to obtain an attentive
hearing for their most telling searcamm. It is not because
the Spectator believes that this very savage and yet rather
feeble attack on Lord Russell will get much serious con-
sideration from the public that it wishes to say a few
worts in answer to it on a statesman who has earned so
many great claims on our gratitude, in spite of the serious
political blunder, ot which he has undoubtedly been
guilty. But each an attack as this—so furious and
so blind—reminds the Spectator of the public
duty of showing our greater statesmen some gratitude
while they live, and not reserving it altogether for their
obituaries. If the feeble-forcible invective of the Sat ur-
day Revive had been published on occasion of Lord RUa
mella's death, all England would have been indignant.
We cannot see why it should be less resented because it
happens to appear at a moment when the subject of it is
still capable of feeling pain from the literary vitriol-
thrower, than it would be if the burning and blinding
Raid had been sprinkled over a corpse. No doubt in
some qualities Lord Russell was Lord Palmerston's in-
brim., but compare the substantial achievements
of the two statesmen, nay, compare even their
political chansetars apart from their achievements, and
. .

it is naively possible to hesitate for a moment as to
which of the two weighs the heavier in English history.
There was a wire of popular creed at the bottom of Lord
Russell's most sucoessfal Foreign-oak. achievements
which was wanting is Lord Palmerston's, whose creed
was never half so strongly and vividly cleaned, or based on
strong genuine principle, se Lord Russell's. But if we
turn away from foreign policy, who can doubt far a
moment that Lord Russell has achieved far more that is
durable for England than his great contemporary, and
again for the same reason, because there is more liberal root
in him by far than there ever was in Lord Palmerston.

the Court.

OSBORNE, JULY 20.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice ; and
her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning with the
Princesses.

General Peel returned to London yesterday.
The Hon. Mn. Wellesley arrived in the afternoon, and
had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal
family.

The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duke of
Edinburgh, rode out on horseback yesterday forenoon.
A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Moat Honour-
able Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council-chamber,
Whitehall, on matters relating to the public health. The
lords present were—The Lord President, the Right Hon.
S. H. Walpole, Sir Stafford Northoote, the Right Hon. H.
T. L Con 7, and the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy.
Mr. Simon, Mr. Helps, Mr. Harrison, and Mr. Lumley
attended.

A deputation from the West Riding of Yorkshire, con-
sistingof Mr. Wiekham,M.P.,Lieutenant-Colonel Edwards,
M.P., Mr. Waterhouse, M.P., Mr. Beecroft, M.P., Mr.
John Hamerton (clerk of the peace), and Mr. B. Dixon
(deputy clerk of the peace), had an interview with
the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, at the Howe-Aloe
yesterday, on the subject of the allowances in erimiaal
prosecution' at quarter sessions in the West Riding, and
on the salary of the clerk of the peace.

Their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess
of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh dined with the
Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland last evening at Chiswick.
A select party had the honour to meet the royal guests.
After dinner there wee a dance, at which upwards of 200
of the elite of society were present.

The Countess of Eglington gave birth to s
daughter on the 17th inst., at Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire.
The countess and infant are progressing favourably,

Sir John Pakington, First Lord of the Admiralty,
has appointed his son. Mr. John Blaney Pakington, to be
his private secretary, and Mr. Herbert W. Domvile and
Mr. James Noel, his sasistant•secretaries.

The Herald says :—" A County Conservative
Registration Association on a large male is being formed in
London, and we are given to understand that the leaders
of the party and large numbers of the principal conserva-
tives throughout the country have already aignified their
intention of supporting it."

The Dieppe regatta, which was to have taken
piece on the 12th August, has been postponed until the
2nd September, as the former day has been fixed for the
benediction of the belle of one of the churches.

The France Medicate confirms in the following
terms a statement made by the Union Medicate on the
subject of the cholera having appeared in the French capi-
tal :—" We regret to announce the reappearance of cholera
at Paris. Some cases are reported in private houses, but
it unhappily is certain that amongst the admissions lately
at the Hotel-Dieu, the lariboissiire, Beaujon, Necker, and
Saint-Louis, there were persons attacked by the disease."
The tunnel of Breval, upon the line from Paris
to Cherbourg, having fallen in two days back, the traffic
was completely stopped on that section of the road, and
passengers from Paris to Trouville and the adjacent coast
have to pass by the Bonen line as far as Oiesel, whence
they take the new branch to Serquigny.
VISIT OF THE PILLNCE OP WALES TO DIIIIRODIN
CASTLE. —The long-promised visit of the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales to Dunrobin Castle. the Scottish seat of the
Duke of Sutherland, will, it is said, positively take place
this autumn. An enthusiastic reception, we need hardly
say, will greet them from all classes of the people, from
their graces of Sutherland down to the htunbleet cottager.
—lnverness Courier.

Caatrow CLus.—The committee of the Carlton
have passed a resolution to allow the members of the
Junior Carlton the use of their club-house in Pall-mall
. .

17os the alterations at their temporary club-horse in
Waterloo-place. As its a rule of the Carlton not to admit
friends of members, the members of the Junior Carlton
will have to dispense with this, privilege whilst they use
the Carlton Club House, so kindly placed at their dis-
port The new club-house of the Junior Carlton will be
ready in about three years' time.—iferald.

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1866.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPE•
DITION.

tram otra SPIOUJ. ooaansrosesss.)
TOILHOMMKRUM BAY AMY 19(1
A few hours more, and the Great Esabern
have pad out the whole of the cable in the dt
tank, and will proceed with the coil stowed in
tank forward. The contents of the main or mid-
tank will not be touched until the other two are
emptied? eo that when 840 miles of cable are laid,
the paying out will be from the opposite end of
the ship to now. The object of thus skipping, as
it were, over the 864 miles stowed in the centre of
the great vessel, is to preserve as far as possible a
level keel. This is one of the essentials in cable
laying, and as a large proportion of the contents of
the main tank will rennin Untouched while those
fore and aft are emptied, water is pumped into the
Great Eastern as rapidly as the cable leaves her.
But for this she would now be considerably down
by the head, instead of in the good trim which
enables her to proceed so satisfactorily and re-
gularly with her great work. Up to the present
the cable has been carried direct from its resting-
place to the machinery at the stern, and
from thence into the ocean. Now it must be
brought along the trough running from stem to
stern on the deck of the Great Eastern, and when
the watchers pass the word that the last of the
huge rings of rope in the aft tank is about to be
paid out, both mechanicians and cattle hands will
be on the alert to see that the portion of line be-
tween tank and tank runs freely along the paying-
out trough, and that the transfer is properly made.
The immense length of the Great Eastern makes
this one of the many critical points in the expedition.
Fortunately it will occur, according to present cal-
culations, about 3 to-morrow afternoon, and dark-
ness will not be added to the minor risks inevitably
attending so long a " lead" from tank to sea. The
first 226 miles laid after the splice with the shore
end were guarded by French charcoal iron wire,
which is less strong, but cheaper than any other,
and is used for comparatively shallow depths of
water. Next came 267 miles of the cable not used
last year, while the remaining 346 miles are covered
with the galvanic wire and Manilla twist
so frequently described. The whole of the 670
miles now to be paid out from the fore tank are
likewise the present cable of 1866. When this is
laid, and the paying out from the main tank com-
mences, the first 217 miles will be also of this cable,
while the remaining 647 miles in the middle tank
are thus made up-165 miles covered with charcoal
iron wire, and 482 miles of the cable of 1865. Out
of the total! 2,376 miles of deep sea cable which
the Great Eastern carried from England but
1,800 miles will be required for the line between
Foilhommerum and Heart's Content, so that no
further portion of the 1865 cable will be required
for the present experiment. This calculation in-
cludes a liberal allowance for slack, and it will be
seen that the amount of new cable in the fore and
main tanks, when added to the 840 miles paid from
the tank aft, make up 1,892 miles. The charcoal iron
wire will be used last, that it may be spliced with the
shore end at Newfoundland, while the surplus
cable is designed to join the portion now lying
broken in the Atlantic, so as to complete the second
line. The teats frequently applied to this broken
part continue to show it to be as electrically per-
fect as when laid, and its ultimate usefulness as a
second Atlantic line is fully believed in by the
leading authorities here. At the present rate of
paying out the cable unused on board the Great
Eastern when she reaches Heart's Content will be
nearly 600 miles. The Albany carries a like quan-
tity, so that there will be more than enough to
make the second cable complete, should the pick-
ing up to successful, and the 1,060 miles now
lying useless in the sea brought into work. The
telegram received from the Great Eastern this
afternoon says that 600 miles have been run, and
882 miles paid out. A heavy sea, and strong head
wind, under which the Albany was seen to be
rolling heavily, while the Great Eastern main-
tained her steadiness, together with the usual
" 0.K.," made up the bulletin, which reached us
in the midst of sunshine and sweltering heat ;
for the weather has changed here suddenly, and
whereas during the days following the splice an
overcoat was a necessity, it is now such complete
midsummer weather that the Great Eaatern's
complaint of cold struck us as a curious but
refreshing paradox.
Early on Tuesday morning this telegram was
received : " Don't forget to send pr ieis of news by
wire directly the post comes in." And, in accord-
ance with the promise made the day before, an
abstract from Monday's Daily News and Times
was drawn up, and forwarded to the Great
Eastern.
It was acknowledged immediately, and forthwith
printed off and disseminated among the passengers
and crew. This course was repeated, at even
greater length, yesterday, and the editor of the
little journal, lithographed and published on board,
will be supplied with a similar budget every twenty-
four hours. The appetite for news grows at sea,
as on land, by what it feeds on, and requests come
constantly to Mr. Glass for intelligence on subjects
of special interest to those on the Great Eastern.
On the other hand, whenever a question arises as
to what Mr. Canning or Captain Anderson is
likely to think or say on points mooted, it is solved
as rapidly as it occurs by the simple process of
passing word to the testing-room, Glass to
Canning or Anderson," and waiting for their
reply. Ample evidence, too, of roused interest in
the cable, and increased public belief in its
success, is forthcoming. Many applications for
priority of messages have been telegraphed
to the managing director from London, and the
chief capitals of commerce. Among the earliest of
these was from the representative of one of the
leading journals in New York, and there seems
little doubt that the intelligence of the line between
England and America being opened will be followed
hy a perfect flood of messages from every part of
Europe. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to add that in
no case will any engagement be entered into until
the cable is certified, and communication esta-
blished. After this, all messages will be taken in
the order they are received. The English govern-
ment alone will have a guaranteed right of priority,
and it is now confidently hoped that messages of
congratulation will be exchanged between her Ma-
jesty and the President of the United States before
many days have passed. With but one line at
work, it az obvious that should the demand for
communication approach what is anticipated, con-
tracts for first messages would involve hardship to
the general public, and be opposed to the interests
of the company. Captain opposed to the interests
of the company. Captain Bolton's code will be-
come a necessity directly the demand exceeds the
powers of the cable, and it is satisfactory to know
that the means of doubling or trebling its capacity
are at hand.
When alluding in previous letters to the warm
cooperation afforded by all the officers of her
Majesty's government whose duties have enabled
them to give the Great Eastern a helping hand,
the name of Captain King Hall, C.B. superin-
tendent of Sheerness dockyard, has been inad-
vertently omitted. But for the active and prac-
tical aid given by this gentleman in allowing tho
dockyard labourers to assist in getting the great
ship ready for sea, it is more than certain that the
appointment for leaving Sheerness, Saturday, 30th
June, at noon, made by Mr. Glass six months
before, could not have been kept. Captain Ander-
son was keenly alive to the substantial help given
him by Captain Hall, and one of his latest cares
before weighing anchor at Berehaven was to write
this officer a letter of hearty thanks.

VAL!INTIA, JuLT 90.

The following telegram received from Great
Eastern this day :—Noon (ship's time), July 20.
Canning to Glass. Latitude 51.36 N., longitude
32.57 W. Cable payed nut, 938.6 miles. Distance
run, 830.4 miles. All going on welL Insulation
and continuity perfect. Weather fine. Shifted
from after to fore tank at 1.14 this morning, with-
out any difficulty.

INVASION Or HONG/AV.—One of the telegrams
announces that a portion of the army of Prince Frederick
Charles has crossed the river March into Hungary. This
movement ha% no significance. The ri►er lies parallel to
his line of march, and the portion of Hungary referred to
is north of the Danube.