The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-22 00:00:00


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OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

The triumphal entry into the Prunian capital of
the troops is made the occasion by the Tina/sof celebrating
the deeds of those victorious forces, and of enlarging upon
their numerous virtues. It is not, the Times says, merely
for their efficiency as • fighting material that the Pray.
miens have won the admiration of the world no less than
the-gratitude of their country. They have also well-de-
served of the mum of humanity. By the aelmowledmnent

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of their ►ery enemies, the Prnssisas are the best-
bihaved soldiers that ever took the field. The
amiable and gentle disposition which has cha-
racterised them when among the vanquished
populations is something unexampled in military annals,
the chief cause for this gentleness being that every Prue-
elan soldier is at the same time a citizen,—educated, and to
a great extent polished and humanised. Men of the
greatest refinement and of the highest attainments are
mixed up with the merest boors in the rank and file ; end
their presence necessarily exercises a beneficial influence
over their lower comrades, leavens the mass, and raises the
tone of the whole army.
The Times publishes an important communication on
the Spithead defences, the writer of which impresses on
General Peel and his colleagues the following fedi :
L All the batteries and forte that can have the power to
defend the approaches to Spithead against an ironclad
fleet are without their iron embrasure; and their guns.
2. The marine forte of Spithead have no existence beyond
their foundations. These considerations have been re-

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BALMORAL, SEPT. 20.

peatedly at various intervals enforced in the columns of
the Daily New. The Tides to-day plainly says that the
foretellers of difficulty were no false prophets. Founda-
tions have mumbled under our feet and let down the
superstructure ; indeed, we have had literally the task of
building an the sand.
The Daily News gives some account of a letter which
Signor Matteuoci, one of the most enlightened and eminent
Italian statesmen, has addressed to the Journal des Debate,
in which he criticises with wholesome severity the Italian
propensity to trust to mere patriotic excitement and
occasional exaltation for the fulfilment of results which
demand long and patient discipline and organization of all
the forces of a country, with knowledge, experience, or
genius in command. In another article the Daily New
look. into the Austrian version of the affair at Isola della
Scala, of which our special correspondent in Venetia sent
us • report the other day. By way of softening the ease
to English ears, the Austrian story describes this nazis
upon an Italian village, and this wholesale robbery at
the point of the bayonet, as nothing more than •
moitary fashion of distrsining for rent or pressing for
payment of a rate in arrear. What are we to think,
asks the Daily News, of the policy, of the prudence and
generosity of Austria, granting her extremest right, in
calling Italy and Europe to waned that even while
she is negotiating • peace, and pretending to desire
• lasting peace, she is determined to exact the pound
of flesh, and that she is not ashamed to ill-treat and
plunder to the last hour • population all her severities
have never coerced and all her blandishments have never
conciliated to her rule?

The revolutionary movement at Palermo is to be traced,
the Post thinks, to a own* at Rome. It is manifest that
while the temporal power of the papacy remains what it is
Italy cannot preserve the peace she needs and is entitled
to enjoy, and that the opposition to its modification points
directly to • more definite solution.
The Herald would be sorry to speak with severity of Mr.
Pope Hennessy, whose temporary exclusion from parlia-
ment it thinks is a matter of grave regret; but his pam-
phlet on Napoleon 111. and the Rhine appears to our con-
temporary as deplorable a specimen of false reasoning, un-
sound views, historical inaccuracy, and vicious morality as
ever emanated from the perversion of a mindtposseued byta
single idea. It a future ruler of France were to contem-
plate the crime to which Mr. Hennessy would urge him,
he certainly might count upon Wing in this 00U.ntry3 net
• willing seeomplice, but a chief and ;,surmountable
obstacle to the realisation of his designs.
The Telegraph thinks if ever there was a man who had
especial reason to be grateful for the English system of
inquests it is Dr. Part. But for this public inquiry he
might have lived the rest of his life under the suspicion of
being a mercenary murderer. As it is, the evidence shows,
beyond the shadow of • doubt, that he has suffered from a
most infamous calumny.

The Star calls upon the people of Manchester on Monday
next to show they are worthy of their old reputation as
reformers. " The eyes of the world," says our contem-
porary, addressing them, " are upon you—do not disgrace
your name and your fame. Let your demonstration be
overwhelming, your speeches moderate, your resolutions
earnest, and your conduct unimpeachable. Thus shall we
win the victory."

DELEGATE MEETING OF SALESMEN.
(THIS DAY.)

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1866.

Tears Europe would be unable to resist their joint action
or declaration, unless it prepares itself better by th•
formation of a large and compact empire, instead of the
powerless little stake, which paralyse the action of thole* el.
due a thing, certainly, bodes no good to Belgium and
to Holland, mad if Prussia and Franca were to unite to
swallow up the Austrians, one upon the right, the other
on the left of the Rhine, the recently proposed doctrine
of Bismarck, echoed in the diplomatic circular of France,
would amply serve for a pretext and defence of the new
spoliation. Many will persist in considering the passive
manifesto of M. Lavalette as an artifice to gain time to re-
knit alliances and re-organise an army.
The Examiner expects that we are soon about to enter
another phase of the Eastern question, and says our
true policy is to encourage and hasten, if it be possible,
the renovation of the Greeks as a nation, not only because
they have proved by their tenacity of national spirit their
worthiness of national life, but because they are • race
loving freedom and industry, who would be less venal if
they were more free, who are capable of improvement and
development, who sympatlus' e with SID in most of those things
that form the elements of modern civilised existence, and
because they are the only people in the Levant capable of
taking the place of the Turks as an independent power, or
capable of being sustained as a bulwark to the overweening
ambition of Russia.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian
and Princess Louise, went out yesterday morning, and in
the afternoon drove out with Princess Louise, attended by
Lady Susan Melville.
Princess Christian, attended by Lady Churchill, went
out driving.
The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with the Queen
lest night.
The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by Lieutenant Haig,
left the Castle this morning for Dunrobin, to pay a visit
to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland.

Mr. W. P. Andrew had an interview with Lord Stanley
at the Foreign-office yesterday, upon the subject of the
Euphrates Railway.
A deputation from the Prestwich Union, consisting of
Mr. John Taylor (chairman), and Mr. Thomas Worthing-
ton (architect), had an interview with the Right Hon,
Gathorne Hardy, at the office of the Poor-law Board,
Whitehall, yesterday.

TEE Qonnrc. Her Majesty and the royal
family are expected to return to Windsor Castle about
the close of next month, and after a short stay at the
Castle will, it is understood, proceed to Osborne, where the
Queen will probably keep Christmas.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESA 07 WALES.—The
Prince and Princess of Wales will probably be present at
the marriage of Princess Dagmar, at St. Petersburg.—The
new ball at Costessey, near Norwich, which was begun some
fifty years since by the late Dowager Lady Stafford, has,
in anticipation of the approaching visit of the Prince and
Princess of Wales, been finished, re-decorated, and re-fur-
nished. The game in the park has of late been carefully
preserved with a view to his royal highness enjoying a few
days' shooting. The ball is within half an hour's drive of
Norwich. ♦mong the visitors who will be invited to meet
the Prince and Princess are the Earl and Countess of
Leicester, the Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmondeley,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Lothian, the Earl and
Countess of Albemarle, Lord and Lady Suffield, Lord
Hastings, the High Sheriff of the county and Mrs. Tyssen
Amhurst, &c.

The Duke of Edinburgh arrived in Inverness on
Thursday night from Aberdeen, on his way to Dunrobin
Castle. His Royal Highness was received by the Duke of
Sutherland and Mr. Mathieson, M.P, A large crowd had
assembled in tht itation, and on alighting from the train
the Prince, who wore the Higland costume, was loudly
cheered. The cheering was continued while the Prince
proceeded to a carriage which was in waiting to convey
him to Reesock Ferry, where the party embarked in the
Duke of Sutherland's yacht for Dunrobin.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, on
his way from Scotland, has arrived on a visit to the Earl
and Countess de Grey, at Studley Royal, near Ripon,
Yorkshire.

The Duke of Devonshire has returned to Holker
Hall, near Milnethorpe, from Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire.

The Earl and Countess Spencer have arrived at
Dunrobin Castle, N. 8., on a visit to the Duke and Duchess
of Sutherland.

The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor will be
among the distinguished company assembled at Dunrobin
Castle to meet the Prince and Prineess of Wales.

The Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole passed
through Perth on Tuesday on his way from Balmoral to
visit the Lord Advocate at the Cairnies.

Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel have arrived
at the Hotel Bristol from Geneva, en route for London.

THE EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT IN THE
BOOT AND SHOE TRADE.

This morning, soon after midnight, a crowded
delegate meeting of representatives from a number of
shops in the West-end district was concluded at the
Edinburgh Castle, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square. The
meeting, which commenced at a late hour last night, was
held for the purpose of inducing the employers in the trade
to grant a reduction of the present excessive hours of
labour; Mr. HOLMES in the chair.
The Citamitast sa'd the hours of labour in the trade were
excessive, and it had been found after inquiry that more
than 50 per cent. of the shops in the trade did not close
before 10 o'clock at night. They wanted to induce the
masters to close at 8 o'clock at night, excepting Saturday.
In the West-end district he found 80 shops ;
of that number 40 masters had signified their
willingness to close at 8. providing the movement were
general. They had the best wishes of the Early Closing
Association, which had promised the men their moral sup-
port.
Mr. Sumultita said they did not want any strikes, nor did
they mean to use any intimidation towards the masters.
They must use moral suasion, and he moved that an asso-
ciation he formed for the purpose of carrying out the
movement for obtaining a reduction of the hours of labour,
and for that purpose he suggested the appointment of a
committee to divide the metropolis into districts.
The motion was unanimously carried.
Nearly 100 names were at once enrolled as member, of
the, association, and the meeting having been adjourned
anal Friday, the 28th inst., the proceedings terminated
with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

The distribution of prizes and certiEcates to the
successful competitors at the late Oxford and Cambridge
local examinations was made on Thursday, at the Exeter
Guildhall, in the presence of a highly influential company.
The First Commissioner of her Majesty's Works
intends to have distributed this autumn among the poorer
inhabitants of London the surplus bedding-out plants in
Battersea, Hyde, the Regent's, and Victoria parka, and in
the Royal Gardens, ICew. If the clergy, school committees,
and others interested will make application to the super
intendenta of the parks nearest to their respective parishes,
or to the director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, they will
receive early intimation of the number of plants that can
be allotted to each applicant and of the time and manner
of their distribution.

The weather has been very discouraging for the
St. Cloud fête, which lasts many days, and is generally
attended by hundreds of thousands of visitors from Paris,
who delight in wandering about the peep natural carpets
of the spacious part, and amongst the grand old trees of
this crown residence of the sovereigns of France.

The Official Gazette of Venice gives the pastoral
of the Bishop of Treviso, in which he says that the catho-
lic religion does not meddle with political systems, but has
the high mission of preaching to subjects tranquillity,
obedience, respect, and honour to constituted authorities.
It is the will of God that the catholic religion should
spread through all time end all ?pace. " Empires, king-
doms change, and religion remains the same. Political
systems an a continual fluctuation, but the principles of
religion are immutable." Hence be ans.., that as God
disposes of the kingdoms of the earth, what we sometimes
Komi ler as due to second outset springs rea'ly from the
divine government, and it now becomes the duty of pastors
to teach the members of their Back, " without distinction,
to maim peace and tranquility, to pay obedience to
the authority intrusted to our sovereign Victor Emmanuel
IL, and not only obedience but reel act and honour, as we
are taught by the Evangelist."