The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-26 00:00:00

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allowed to be Wooed in their bserloge
all in order to settle sae portion of a reform of which by
far the more important portion is to recta twinged. It
is not too meth to say that the tut is impossible. With
thorough impartiality sad with no other view than to
seenre ventilation, the rimer throws out the sug-
gestion that the till might be treated as pri-
vate bills are sometimes dealt with, wanly, after
Mint eompleted at the end of July by the addi-
tion of the redistribution of seats, that it be suspended
and resumed the next session at the same point. But the
Times doe, not diorama that there is no real necessity for
either attempting a reform of parliament within twelve
days, or stretching it over two or more sessions—it is hard
to say which is worse. It is the humble opinion of our
smut unporary that the saltiest can wait a little, and that
governmeut, without much further loss of credit, amid as
a respite to next session.

In another article the Times gives the substance of
report just lamed by the Amalgamated Society of Car-
penters sod Joiners with the eiaw ol pointing oat to poli-
ticians the spirit of trades unions, what they can do in the
way of organisation and oombinatioa, what they canton-
plate, what they accomplish, and on what principles they
sot. _ _

Th. Daily News remarks that the boldner of the govern-
ment has justified itself. Waverer' hews been bcosght
back to their standard, and the great eositltneeelle, so-
speeding to Mr. Gladstoaes appeal, will make their pur-
pose heard in unmistakeable tones before the second reading
emus cm. The fruits of Kr. Gladstaaes address =Xi
week to his eenstilwents sad the straightforward pokey of
the government will doubtlessly be conspicuously apparent
at the meeting of liberal members assembled by Earl
Russell on the 10th of next month. The amendmests have
dwindled to two, which are to be appropriately totem-
' mended to the hones by Earl Grosvenor and Mr.
Darby Griffith. It is significant that the represen-
tales of a great whig house should lead the op-
position, not seeing that if the groat families eel
wish to rola this country they must do so by
keeping abreast of its largest views and highest aims.
The late speeches of the monk premineet representatives
of the aristocratic principle almost force the conviction that
politically speaking the English nobility are declining
below the level of their office, and think and strive more for
the advantage of their order than for that of the nation at
large, of which they haws ceased to be in any special sews
the representatives. To men like Lord Cranborne, a oat-
opinions example of this deterioration, the ideas •nd the
language which spring from the acknowledgment
of a common interest in • common country
are sentimental and rhapsodical ; but if the English aris-
tocracy is to load the people, it must bring itself into biz-
moay with their mind and feeling, by aiding the growth of
public liberties and the promotion of enual rights. Opp*.
talon to reform, and especially opposition to it In the
selfish and eoatamptuosis spirit which has been displayed
by the tory party and its half-liberal anise on the liberal
side of the house, is, Lord Grosvenor may feel nesured,
the certain way to reduce his order to social and political
hisignifioenes.

The Post again dwells on the memory of Lord Palmer-
ston, to whom its readers are referred in every discussion of
political importance. The deceased statesman, the Post says,
weal the guide and guardian, counsellor and friend of the
nation, and all wise statesmen will make him their model.
He, it seems, would not have approved of the course which
the ministry are panning. The bill will survive the re-
oses, and then be decently interred, and the only epitaph
the Post says, suitable to be inscribed over its remains is
one furnished by the verdict of a jury ea an Irish coroner's
inquest :—" The child was found dead in a cabinet, having
been born alive and never breathed, and it died immediately
after Nude for want of proper oars and andstaaee at the
time of its birth." The Post further complains of the
soant respect and petulance with which Sr. Gladstone has
treated the house. If the reform question is to be settled
az a safe bans, it can only be done by a new administra-
thm.
The Herald ridicule, the embarraimsmeat of those
organs of opinion which appear to draw their information
from the non-reforming section of the oabinet. Their
anxiety to keep the present ministry in office is only
equalled by their desire to get rid of the unlucky project
on a hie& that ministry has professed to stake its existence.
It is not every liberal who occupies so independent a
position se Earl Grosvenor, and the unfortunate beings who
reoognise the soundness of his amendment are puzzling
their brains to find some plan by which the
ministry could continue in office although the
amendment were agreed to. It seems to the
Herald impossible that any person in his senses can sup-
pose that a ministry which bad stooped to accept mush a
negation of what they bad proclaimed the first necessity o
the state, could continue to enjoy the confidence of the
country, or to represent the nation In its dealings with,
foreign powers. The Herald also centred. the cha-
racterieties ad the reform movements in France and
England. In France people are not allowed to talk
about reform, and imeseqnimtly think the more. Hero
the ministers have talked more than anybody else
about the subject, but it is becoming painfully appa-
rent how little they have thought. At Paris minister,
' Ihave to combat a desire, which is allowed no voice out-
side the chamber, for an amelioration of their practice in
certain specific details ; at Westminster the cabinet seek
to stimulate a demand, which finds no echo outside the
walls of parliament.
The Telegraph reviews the debate of Friday night in •
Ulnae extremely friendly to the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer and condemnatory of his opponents. The govern.
meet, it says, cannot fight the battle alone. Unless the
nation support them vigorously and manfully they will be
overthrown by the hostility of avowed enemies or the
treachery of false friends. Therefore, agitate. Petition,
ought to come up from every lugs constituency in town
and country, shoeing distinctly what the unrepresented
classes think of the government measure for their enfran-
chisement, and every town in the kingdom mishit, if parti-
ble, to have its reform meeting between the present time
and the 12th of April.
The Star thinks so considerable a champ in the situation
has been produced by the aanoneeement of Friday right
that it is doubtful whether Berl Grosvenor's motion will
ever reach the dignity of • division. The government has
now a splendid chance of introducing a redistribution mea-
sure, which will settle the question for the present gene-
ration.

THE LATE WENS KAM MOUE.

The Poet describes the ex-Queen of the French as a lady
without ambition, and one possessing the simple desire of
fuldl/ing the duties of s wife to her husband in whatever
position it might please him to sesame. She could be, and
this she most of all preferred, the quiet, unostentatious
mother, solely engremed with family cares, or she could be
a Queen. If she has ever repined at what some might deem
a cruel fate, those repining never escaped her bosom. At
Olaremost there wss no mock court ; still less did its in-
mates indulge in intrigue. The princes of the house of
Orleans may permit themselves to hope that their exile
Men France will not be perpetual, but it must be admitted
that they do net give expression to those hopes, still km do
they skive fee their reelhation. Bat if they have thus
won far themeless the regard of the people with whom
they have taken up their residence, this result must mainly
be ascribed to the education which they received from the
deemed Queen.

The Herold observes that the ex-Queen has enjoyed but a 11
few weeks the hospitality of the Queen of Ragland and of
the English people. She had consented on Slag Leopold's
death to meek ft Claremont on condition that she sieve
ehoold be at the expense of keeping it up. Before perils.
runt has had the opportunity of considering the matter
the ex•Qaeea has died, and Clarement, therefore, will at
owe be av►ilable for ber Majesty or some members of her
family. It wee a matter of ordinary oonrtesy—we might
say, me imperative obligation—to place it at the disposal of
the venerable lady who had resided there so long as the
tenant of King Leopold ; the offer of it to thy members
of her family would be susceptible of a disagreeable inter-
pretation.

The Tdnyraph thinks that even the opponents of the
Orleans cause must be glad to remember that the outward
circumstances of her last years were singularly free from
discomfort. The last time she appeared in public was at
her grandson's marriage ; and those who were present are
not likely to forget that worn, colourless face, that look
of usutterable sadness. that air of command. surviving the
decrepitude of age, which characterised the lady whose
demise we reoori to-day.

and ancembled in the Bow Below.
The QOM, aftetnpanied by Princess Helene sad Prin.
one Loan, entered the White Drawing-roan shoal, Alta
12 o'clock.

The derdatton—oossisting of the Archbishop of Gutter
bury (attended by hie chaplain, the Bev. Henry R. Lloyd),
the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of My, Dr. Twies (Vieer.
General), Mr. F. H. Dyke (Bights.), and Mr. F. Knyvett
(tnparitorGeneral) from the Upper House and the Prole.
outer, the Dien of Westminster, Aroirclesece Hale, Arch.
deacon Clarke, Owen Hawkins, Canon Harvey, and the
Bev. Ashton Oxendon from the Lower House—wee intro.
&reed by the Lord Chamberlain and presented the address
to her Majesty.
Her Malady received the sddreu, and returned = gracious
=ewer.
The Archbiabcp of Oanterbury, the Bishop of Oxford.
and the Prolocutor were severally presented to her Majesty
by Sir George Grey, and had the bon= of kissing her Ma•
jeety'sterol
The deputation then retired.
Prioress Beanies, attended by Lady Caroline Barriagton
and Colonel Moppets, honoured the performance at the
Lyeeum Theatre with her proems last evening.
The Prince and Prinoess of Wales ,dined with the Queen
and the Royal Family.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Prioress Helena, Princess
Louise, Prisons Beatrice, and the Princess Hohenlohs
Laegerthourg, left the Palace at 10 minutes before 1 for
Windsor Castle, and was assorted to Paddington by a
detachment of the 14th Humors.
Prince Leopold, attended by Sr John Cowell, met her
Majesty at the railway static., and accompanied her to
Windsor.

The Queen has appointed Lieutenant Walter George
Stirling, of the Royal Horse Artillery, to be Governor to
Prince Leopold, in the place of Sir John Cowell, who ha
been appointed Master of her Majesty's Household.
The Queen inspected yesterday, at Baron Marochetti'm
studio, his model for the Metre al the Prince Consort, for
the anima memorial in Hyde-park ; and also one of the
bronze lions, derived and met by Sir Edwin Ladner, for
the Nelson Monument, in Trafalgsrequare.
Lady Waterperk has enomeded the llarchionese of Ely
ss Lady in Waiting to the Qum.
WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 25.
The Queen, smompanied by the Prisoess Helens.
Princess. Louise, Prime= Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and
the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenbrarg, arrived at the
Castle yesterday, at a quarter before two o'cloek, attended
by Lady Waterpark, Lady in Waiting, the Hoe. Mr.
Bruce, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, the Hoe. Mary Lueelles, and
the Equerries in Waiting.
The intelligues of the unexpected dealt of the venerable
and highly-esteemed Qum Marie Ainslie, who expired at
Claremont yesterday, wee received by the Queen and the
Royal Family, with whom she was connected by so many
ties of relatlouship as well se of the sincerest friendship, with
deep regret.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Helena and
Princess Louise, and attended by the Hon. hire. Brace,
Major-Guend F. H. Seymour, and Colonel H. Pormonhy,
Equerries in Waiting, drove to Claremont this afterooou,
and paid a visit el condolence to the afflicted family of the
late Qum'.
The Queen, Princess Helena, Prince Louise, Ninon'
Beatrice, and Princess Hohealohe of Luneburg, and the
Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended d service
this morning in the private chapeL His Grace the Arch.
bishop of York preached the sermon.
The Archbishop of York, Leib, Susan Melville, and
Lieut. W. J. Stirling, Royal Horse Artillery, arrived at the
Castle

yestarday.

The Prime of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel
Keppel, hunted with his harriers neer Winds): c n Sator.
day.
The Prince's of Wales took a carriage drive, attended
by the Hos. Mrs. F. Stonor.
The Prints, ant Princess of Wales, with the Hon. Mrs. F.
Stonor, sod Lientenant-Colonel Keppel in waiting, attended
divine service at the Chapel Royal St. James's, yesterday.
The communion service was reed by the Rev. the Bab.
dean, and the Rev. Thomas Hebnore. Anthem, " Who Is
this r Arnold; sung by Megan. R. Barnby, Carter, end
Lawler. Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The sermon
was preached by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, from
St. Luke, chap. 23, v. 43. . .

At the councillheld by her Majesty the Queen at Bucking-
ham Palace on Saturday, an order was passed extending
the prohibition of the movement of cattle by railway.
Another order was also passed (to take effect on and WAN
Wednesday next) to prohibit the importation of cattle
and sheep from liollind.
A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour-
ablePrivy Council met in the Council Chamber, Whitehall,
at 1 o'clock on Saturday to consider certain matten relating
to the cattle plague. The Lords present were—the Lord
President, the Duke of Somerset, Lord Stanley of Alderley
the Right Hon. T. Miser Gibson, the Right Hoe. H. A:
Brace, and the Right Hoe. G. J. Goechen. Mr. Baring wee
also present. Mr. Helps (the Clerk of the Council) and
Mr. Harrison (the Deputy Clerk) were in attendance
Colonel Harness and Mr. Thring also attended.

A Cabinet Connell was held on Saturday at
the official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre-
sent ware—Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, 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. Goschen, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.

Despatehes were received on Satur3ay it the CoJovial-
office from the Governors of the Care of Good Hope, Natal,
and St. Helena. Despatches were sent to the Governor of
Canada.

At the court held by the Queen at Buoiriagham Palace,
oa Friday last, Viscount Castleman wee presented, as
appointment ma lord-lieutenant of Kerry, by Viscount
Sydney.

Prince Alfred, attended by the Hon. Eliot
Yorke, left the Obaring-erees lerminos on Saturday even-
ing for Dover. on his way to visit the Doke and Duchess
of Saxe-Coburg Goths at Coburg. His royal bighead's is
not expected to prolong his viait to Germany beyond a
month.

Duke Philip of Wartemberg and Marie Thdrese
Duchess of Wurtembexg arrived at the Clarendon Hotel
yesterday from Paris, and received the Tint of their
august relative', the Count de Paris sad the Duke do
Chartres.

Frances Countess Waldegrave and the Right
Hon. Cbioherter Porteous,. LP., rewired at diluter on
Saturday evening the Prussian Ambassador and the Conn-
teas Berostorif, the Italian Minister, the Spanish Minister
and the Marchioness de Molina, the Duke sad Duchess of
Argyll, the Earl and Countess Dudley, Lord. Dufferia,
Lord sad Lady Edward Clinton. Lady Moksworth, Lady
Same Vane Tempest, the Right Hon. Sir Hamilton wad
Lady Seymour, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer and Mrs. Gladstone, Mr. Leyard, M.P., Mr. Wit-
limn Harcourt, M. dm Robe*. he. Later in the evening
her ladyship gars her first asnemb'y this season, which was
munerottaly and fashionably attended.
The Solicitor-General and Lady Collier reeeived
at dinner on Saturday evening, at their residence In
gatcs.ph:os, the Attorney-General and Lady Inure
Palmer, Mr. and the Hoe. Mrs. Graneille Vernon Har.
court, Hoe, Mrs. Norton, Han. Ashley ant Mn. Pon-
Booby, Mr. sad Mee araminghant, Lord Healey, w.p.,
the Marquis Fortnnalo. the Right Hoe. 0. P. Mien.
M.P„ sad Mr. G. Maw Lefevre, M.P. Her Indyaltip and
family hive town early is the week fat Grimetwee, fee the
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longer possible ; the pa's-
Gaidat• Oriaysstkat
, paralysed, sad diplosessy
this oonti•asd tiseartainty.
armies smoillimed, d tee-
Wawa, pot he • state of
*es sad esetersk Are wo
thirty years or &soden
el sirloin joareals In
Afoot so. BIMII, in spits of
preparatians so waist's*
that two peat Powers
sat•po•laa, hemp so

will on account of
• paltry ambition or an exaggended ease of
honour, toreprontiw the rearal pease of Europe. Before
adopting extreme mama, Andra and Paula may sub-
mit their Materna to the diadem of the federal diet.
mr, if this diet ispow but a rare name, they may with ad-
lerstege have mane to the Eames& nevem that is now
sitting in Paris. Unlcatunstely 'history affords but few
examples of preventive =grams : that description of
diplomatic oonneibi generally sparks only after the riff ista
ratio mum, the cannon, has spoken.
The New Free Press says :
We learn from a well-informed aurae that Herr Von
Bismarck recently declared to the Austrian Ambassador and
to the repressniatives of the Western Powers in Berlin that
Its would abide by the Convention of Clatein, but at the
same time he intimated that he proceeded on the supposi-
tion that Amp& would swept the Pravda& interpretation
of that treaty. As the question at bone is the interpre-
tation of the treaty, the latter suppallion destroys the
importance of the former declaration.
The Publicist of Berlin says :
Austria, with her arrogant Hama with her intractable
Cracks, her soldonol &dare nationalities, is simply Austria ;
the will new be • German power. But this is exactly what
Prussia I. If Pram& at the end of • desielve war
bad to seek for her centre of gravity elm
where thee at Harlin, it would be at Presided., end
once there the flagstones of Vienna would not burn the
salsa of the Prussian Oreneddes If Austria were u wise as
she is blind she would perosive that Prod• has We
time fortunately gone too far to reads ; that she
must, if needs be, stake her whole existence
in conquering that which Andra will not cede
willingly. Prism* notwithstanding her internal em-
barrassments, is in • better position than she wee lb years
ago, Austria In • far wens patios. If people ►t Vienna
persist in keeping their eyes chat, if they cease to be
modest and just towards Prima, good ! Let fate and
force► then to deckle whether Hada or Etnlpberg is to be
the costae of gravity.
To the above article the New Pro Press repllei
The victories of Dilppsl and" Alms seem to have so
anted the heeds of certain peruse is Panda that they
believe themselves invincible. This PRIM* whom •
happy destiny has preserved from all the storms which
have agitated most of the great States of Europe, who
owes be prosperity to a fifty 'yam' peace, who has
always had the knack of cooking her soup on the fire
which burned her neighbour's home ; this Prussia. all
whose military =pelisses for the last fifty yews has mos-
sided in a campaign with the Grand Duchy of Bade., an
affair at liserunds, and a cannonade at Duppel, In all of
which she Diet fewer men than Austria in the single battle
of Oversee, nevertheless anumes the air of h►ving con-
quered net only Denmark bet Austria. This Prussia,
whom fate has hitherto preserved, must have become very
presumptions indeed if she does not strain from a war In
which, al the Publicist truly aye, her whole existence
-411 be a stake.

CONCENTRATION OF RIJIMILAN TROOPS.
A oommunioation to the Cede from the banks of
the Dniester says that 60 battalions of infantry, 26
squadrons of cavalry, and 98 pieoes of artillery,
are en echelon, and within three days' march
of the Austrian frontier. Moreover, 23 battalionsof
infantry,2o squadrons of cavalry, and 140 cannon are
concentrated near the railway station of Balta. These
troops could enter Moldavia in three days by
TeropoL The district officers have received in-
structions to be prepared with the means of trans-
port for the troops, in case of their entering the
Danubian Principalities.

LOSS OF A STEAMER WITH ALL THE
PASSENGERS AND EIGHTEEN Off THE
CREW.

PLYMOUTH. Stnnms..

The liner Spirit of the Ocean, Captain
Cary, belonging to the Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick line of steam and sailing
packets, from London, on Monday last, for
Halifax, was wrecked at 6.40 p.m., on Friday, at a
wild spot on the coast of Devon. Out of 20 passengers
and a crew of 22 the only survivors are the mate and
three seamen. The Spirit of the Ocean was drifting,
with split sails, trying to take shelter at Dartmouth.
lOn passing Pear-tree Rock she became unmanage-
I able, drifted upon a rock between Start Point and
and Pear-tree, and went to pieces almost imme-
diately. ♦ terrific gale was blowing at the time
from the southward.

(suirns's IMIGRAJOS.)
THE HUNGARIAN DIET.
PPETH, Nix= 25.

The sittings of the Lower House of the Hunga-
rian Diet have been adjourned to the 10th, and
those of the Upper House to the 16th, of April
next. The latter on resuming its sittings will dis-
cuss the second address to the King adopted in the
Chamber of Deputies.

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superfluous to say that the latter mould not be sad eee of the chief um of a financial society Is &ma- Sir George Grey, and received the honour of knighthood. mote on the leeeth, of Imbue
red this session. The time .or the franchise bill The grand error of the financial companies has been the I Led idetheee and wawa giassoots wenthe L,,,,d .4 dd., of opuses of slam= i
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payment of dividends which It was easy to perosive could Groom in Waiting. them am the eve of another this
used for a discussion in which every variety of opt• only have been obtained by imeretinate risks, or enormous I Mr. Helps was Clerk of the Council.
ma be allawadta lairdifY itself, all Mode of Prai•diao bennaes paid for services of a more than questionable elta- 1 The Queen anemias held a cant at which her majesty ve-_-"V" yer_lc wv-e_? Tll.-_,.langillge__,__ ___ .4,
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