The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-01 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT

Federal authorities spend hundreds of thousands
of dollars every year on their territories and ask the
inhabitants to make but little outlay. In conse-
quence of its infancy every British colony is de-
voted to chronic disormtent. In the United States
territories scarcely a remonstrance is heard. Our
country is killed by extravagant men at the head
of affairs, while other countries steadily progress
under the management of the people."

WOLVERHAMPTON.

WOLVERHAMPTON, Nov. 30.
There probably never was collected a larger crowd
in any spot in the United Kingdom—perhaps
excepting the metropolis itself—than that which
poured into Wolverhampton this morning from
every town, village, and hamlet lathe midland and
northern counties. The railway accommodation
afforded by our two principal lines was taxed to the
utmost, but in addition every road was
covered long before daylight with vehicles and
toiling pedestrians, all hurrying to see their
Queen perform a solemn act of devotion
to the memory of her late illustrious consort.
The great centre of attraction was of course the
" High green," or market place, in the centre of
which stood, closely veiled, the statue on its lofty
pedestal of Dartmoor granite. The statue, which is
of bronze, is hardly up to the heroic size, but is
very spirited and lifelike according to the
modern canons of sculpture. The height
from the bottom of the pedestal to the top
of the head is sixteen feet, but does not look so
much, probably in consequence of the marketplace
being surrounded by very lofty houses. The Prince
is represented in his field-marshal's uniform, and
with one hand stretched forward he seems graciously
to acknowledge the vivas of the crowd. The horse
which is modelled from the life, is a portrait of his
royal highness's favourite charger. The whole is
a most meritorious work of art, and Mr. Thorny-
croft, the artist, has the honour and pleasure of
knowing that it meets with the full approval
The Dean of Canterbury presents his compli- of her Majesty. During the morning the whole
ments to the Editor of the Daily News, and begs to • —rider, horse, and pedestal—was closely veiled
send him the exact words used in his lecture in lin by a drapery of the national flags,
reference to journalism. Speakiugof public opinion, ! and no one was permitted to examine
he said : i it until it had been formally unveiled in the Queen's
Powerful as this helm is, no wonder there should be r. presence. Immediately facing the statue was a royal
many aspirants to the steersman's place. Their number is, pavilion of handsome design, covered, and draped
indeed, enormous. Self-constituted at first, they have
gradually won their way to the favour and confidence of in crimson cloth, and surmounted by the royal
crown Pillars in crimson and white supported
the people, till at length their assumption has been tacitly '
the sides and corner, and the white rose of Len-
granted, and they hold a place altogether out of proportion
to any claim which they could subsuuniate a priori. It caster profusely studded the curtain and draperies.
ought to be fairly acknowledged that this, their high pod& A throne and two chairs of state stood within, and,
lion, is, in most cases, but the reward due to eminent dill- • a few stem
genes and ' Maned observation in collecting and & pavilionsae.covered with crimson, led up to the
from the entrance. All round the statue
remitting into • ace. At the same time let us not shut
the open area of the marketplace was
our eyes to the • vantages of the present state of things.
Our strange practice of anonymous journalism gives almost . occupied by an extensive amphitheatre with
any one the power of leading public opinion, however ascending seats, all draped and decorated
unworthy he may be to do so. Not unfrequently articles in harmony with the royal pavilion. In the front
are written on difficult and complicated subjects by men seats were representatives of the nobility, gentry,
ignorant of even the leading facts and tirstprinciples of the
men whose names, if appended to their articlescaw— and clergy of Staffordshire and other neighbouring
would turn the whole matter into a juke. Yet any such counties ; and the upper seats accommodated the
production, merely because without a name, passes about more influential inhabitants of the town and the
the country as " the article in this or that miluential
personal friends of the town council. A guard of
paper," and forms the opinions of hundreda. It is curious
honour of the 39th Regiment was stationed close
to observe how, with our constitutional horror of pure
democracy in state government, we have nevertheless to the royal pavilion, and they, with piled arms,
fallen into it, with all its mischiefs, in the government of and the amphitheatre company with eager faces,
opinion. The universally acknowledged danger of un- waited patiently fur the coming up of the royal
limited democracy is, lest it become an irresponsible procession.
tyranny in the hands of the least worthy, or, at all events, Her Majesty and suite, including the Earl of
of unknown persons. And it is difficult to say at this
Derby and Lord Alfred Paget, arrived by special
moment wherein our journalism fails in answering to
such a definition. It is in the power of our newspapers to train at the Groat Western Station at ten minutes
write up or write down any Man among us, totally irrespee- past 1 o'clock, where she was received by the Earl
tive of act or word of his. The fairest character may of Lichfield (lord lieutenant of the county), and the
be taken away by a round of paragraphs. The meet pro- mayor and corporation of Wolv erliampton. The
perous commercial career could nut help seriously feeling
mayoress presented a splendid bouquet, which cone
the effects of a hostile combination to sow the seeds of du-
most most grata(
trust. Wen. our journals capable of such conjoint action,graciously received by her Majesty, and a
no man would be safe against their united power. But, handsome bracelet to the Princess Christian, which
happily, their disunion is our security. If ever parties : was also most graciously received. It took some
should cease among us, the evil would arise in all its m'llk . time to form the procession, which, however, was
nitude. But till then it will for the most part right it- ' exceedingly effective and imposing. In front
self. From what has been said, it will be evident how
were the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry,
totally unworthy, from their very nature, newspapers are
to be followed as guides ; how neces.arily uncertain is a splendid body of men and horses, and
the light which they show ; how great is their power of looking exceeding like tho mounted Land-
misrepresenting fact or motive, and how strong their temp- welir of Prussia ; then the corporation carriage,
tation is to make use of it. And if this is the case followed by the royal one, in the last of which, an
where secular matters are concerned, much more is
it so with respect to things sacred. Political open landau drawn by four horses, sat the Queen,
antagonism, as commonly carrieJ on, is after all comp:era. the Princesses Christian and Louise, and the Prince
tively harmless. A man may read' and good-naturedly Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. An escort of the
smile at the big-sounding articles which triumphantly Bth Hussars closed the procession, which proceeded
prove Lis theories a fallacy, his speeches nonsense, himself slowly through the principal streets of the town.
a dunce ; but when the battle is shifted to the sacred
It would be mere repetition to mention here again
ground of religious opinion and action, a very different
issue is being tried. The steadily pursued object of the the density of the crowd or the enthusiasm of the
less reputable of our religious party papers is to ;,rove reception. Her Majesty was highly pleased, and
those who differ from them to be, not mistaken men, hut bowed her acknowledgments very frequently as she
bail men ;to attribute to them sinister motives and un- , passed almi,g. The best order was preserved, the
worthy purposes, and this with an habitual and hardened
disregard to truth, which would be wonderful were it not, . people g at the places which theyon
remaining had '-
you gmally taken up, whilst the entire roadway was
alas ! so common. It is absolutely necessary to give
this warning, because it is these very pipers kept clear by the local volunteers who lined it on
which make the hellcat and loudest claims to ' each side.
prescribe and guide religious opinion, and because that I The approach of the royal procession to the
, claim is far too generally admitted and acted upon by that market square was indicated to the pavilion corn-
, losersss who hare adequate means of forming 1
pany by the gradually rising hum of the immense
proportion of those t crowd and the cheers which filled the air, both
op of their own. And when we consuler that amonang
this class must be numbered a great
whose time is absorbed in business, the magnitude of the grewing louder and louder every moineet, until at
evil becomes sufficiently apparent. Among other fonds, ; last the bright helmets of the yeomanry flashed
it takes this most undesirable one, that prejudgments ;
are formed of public men, especially in the church, having across the marketplace, and the carriages ot the
.co w at oration drew' up the entrances. The coin-
no reference to their real acts or words, but built up out
'of the blind partisanship of the adverse or favourable too councilmen occupied the two front rows of
journals. Such an one, it is assumed, can do no good. , the amphitheatre on one side, and on the other the
Everything he undertakes is of necessity to he carped at right reverend diocesan and his clergy, accompanied
, and objected to. The very opposite is taken for granted .by
all he does may be.ffi tho-cient sonic of the aldermen, took up a position close
with regard to another :
roughly depended on; his very name is a su to the entrance of the pavilion. About this time
Earl of Harrowby, and
guarantee for a book, or a scheme, or an opinion. whereas, . the Earl of Shrewsbury, the
in fact, both these good men, differing perhaps hardly Sir Robert Peel took their seats, and in-
appreciably from one another, are humbly and earnestly modiately after the royal carriage drew lip,
striving to do our common Master's work, both loved by
Islim, and owned by Him in its results. Or the difference the band pealed forth the National Anthem, and
I between them may be a real and substantial one—one her Majesty the Queen, the Princesses Christian
he state
which requires calm judgment and loving charity to pro- . and Louise, and Prince Christian, alit at t
nounceupon ; and we find that these Lave been utterly set entrance. By this time the ladies of honour, the
aside in the matter, the worst motives at once attributed, , l'rime Minister (the Earl of Derby), the borough
and the whole question prejudged—where calm suspense ,
of judgment was a positive Christian duty. Never was member, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, &c., had
a time when the thereplan command of our Divinedcircle by the two
Master, "Judge not, that ye be net judged," was more from which her Majesty, aceompanie
es r
openly and complacently violated by those who most
Princess and Prince Ch istian, presented them-
ostentatiously call Him "Lord, Lord." I speak ' selves at the front of the pavilion. The cheers
, with no bitterness—God forbid that I should, but it is a ' now became deafening,
high responsibility to stand here and address a crowd of her Majesty bowed grace-
the young men of London ; and I felt that I could net in fully
, again and again, and with eyes suffused with
any sense discharge this duty worthily without warning , tears gaze
you solemnly in this particular matter. I would hope , There was real and deep emotion evident in every
d earnestly at the. still tmiled. statue.
I that you who hear me have better guides to your estimates . feature of the Queen, which her surrounding sub-
of[ men and things than the so-called organs of party. i ject were quick to perceive ; they gave cheers of
You could not well have worse. You may not re- , sympathy, the meaning of which could not be
1
member, but claibtless there are sonic on this platform .
now i mistaken. .
interest—so
cosIV3l3 a remarkable scene, almost
' who remember, when an eminent servant of God,*
gonethe various deputa-
indignant protest on this matter in his own fearless and , of relief was experienced when . .
to his rest, stood where I stand, and lifted up his painful in its much so that a feeling
trenchant words. I was then working under him in the ;ions advanced to the dais, and the officials coin-
ministry of the church, and I therefore may be excused
DOW for having taken up and prolonged the echo of his n . .
warning tones. read ' teprayer, and the
of Lichfield an appropria
I Recorder of the borough (Mr. J. I. Powell) de-
[No great harm, we trust, has been done on , ienced their portiOna of f}l4 Certmonial. The Bi slit li
livered an address.
either side. The newspapers,which criticise every- • Her Majesty listened apparently with pleased
body, must expect in return to be criticised them- I attention, and at the conclusion of the address
selves. Our observations upon our reverend censor
were merely designed to show that criticism might his turn whispered to the Mayor, and that lune-
beretorted on the critic. We should he sorry, whispered something to the Earl of Derby, who in
however, if more importance were attached to them tionary coniiii,g
Pet handed her Majesty his sword, and the
than the occasion deMayorserved. We are happy to ad-
,forward and kneeling, Lord Alfred
rose to his feet Sir John Morris. The
mit that Dean Alford's remarks, read in connexion compliment was accepted with delight by this
with the qualifications with which they were origi-
worthy gentleman's fellow-towusmen. M
Thorny-
nally delivered, have not the aggressive character croft then unveiled' time statue, whilst the band of
which they wore in the condensed and necessarily r.
the 39th played the Coburg March, and the as-
imperfect report, and that there is much in them
that is true and well deserving of consideration. e Majesty stood gazing for a few minutes stead-
cannot bring ourselves to quarrel with one who re- sembled people cheered enthusiastically. Her
W
fastly and earnestly at the statue, her eyes be-
minds us of our responsibilitiesixi aspirit of fairness. coming again filled with tears ; but soon she seemed
Correspondents who have written to us respecting as if by a strong effort to recover her self-posses-
our remarks on Dean Alford's published writings,
sion, and conversed calmly with Lord Derby.
will excuse us if we do not think the matter im- I After a few minutes' pause, during which the
portant enough to be pursued further. We will cheering of the assembled people was more than
only mention that our objection to the Dean's deri- once renewed, her Majesty descended from the
vation of "neighbour" from the German nachbar (or pavilion, and walked slowly round the statue,
'
the Danish who, one of the Dean's alternatives) is minutely inspecting
the word has come to ua directly from the it as she passed along. Mr.
that
Thornycroft was graciously spoken to, and his
Angle-Saxon ; that the field spoken of in the notes
work commended, after which her Majesty returned
to the Parable of the Tares was not in Kent, as we to the pavilion, where she remained in conversation
wrote from memory, but at Gaddesby, in Leices-
with the Earl of Derby, Mr. Villiers
tershire ; and that the Dean's remark on the ex- two other persons of distinction, whilst and one or
ilst the mem-
presaion " them that sell "in the Parable of the hers of the corporation were taking their places for
Virgins was verbally that it was a testimony ill the return procession.
favour of "an appointed and paid ministry."— I The return, although passing through a new
ED. of 1). N.] • series of streets, was only a repetition of the earlier
progress to the market-place. The volunteers still

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, Nov. 20..

Intelligence received here from Vera Cruz to the
13th inst. says that Maximilian's ministers will
retain their offices. Maximilian remained at
Orizaba. An expeditionary force under General
Mejia would shortly leave Luis Potosi to attack
Tam.

kpico.

CANADA.

HALIFAX, Nov. 21.

It is reported that the Canadian government
has declined to ratify the confederation arrange-
ments to pay 800,000 dole. to Prince Edward's
hated.

MOBILE, Nov. 21.

The receipts of cotton at all United States ports
since September are 330,000 bales, against 450,000
during the same period last year. The week's ex-
ports from Mobile and New Orleans amount to
13,000 bales, chiefly for England.

THE DEAN OF CANTERBURY ON THE

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