The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-27 00:00:00

THEI EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27,

" humane man." We certainly shall not dis-
pute this dictum of the Buckingham bench;
we do not sufficiently know how reputation is
understood in Buckinghamshire. It is the white
garment which soonest shows the fleck, and it
may be true that the reverend defendant in this
case stands no worse in the estimation of his friends
and neighbours than he did before. But if these
magistrates seriously mean to tell the poor and
ignorant people of Buckinghamshire that it is the
part of a Christian minister, a gentleman, and a
humane man, to do as Mr. HARLEY has done, then
we take leave to tell them that they have used
the authority and influence of the position in
which they have been most injudiciously placed
to debauch the public sentiment, and that such
example as that of Mr. HARLEY and such teaching
as that of the Buckingham Bench are enough to
demoralise and corrupt a whole county. We hope
the Society which has brought this case before the
public will keep an eye on Turweston, for it is
still as true as of old that " the dark places of the
" earth are full of the habitations of cruelty."

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

GERMAN APPLIES.

To the cry that France is anxious to screen the
southern States of Germany from Prussian absorption, the
Times replies that it will surely be time enough to move in
the matter when the " oppressed nationalities" of Baden or
Hesse, of Wurtemberg or Bavaria, send forth their cry of
distress. If it were Count Bismarck's object to cover some
deep design to stimulate German patriotism by the prospect
of French hostility, there is no doubt that French sus-
ceptibility has been for the last twelvemonth admirably
playing into his hand.. The warlike preparations
on both sides of the Rhine are proceeding on
the largest scale, but every one puts off hosti-
lities till next spring, when both powers will be found
in • state of exhaustion. Even in this mad, ruinous
race, however, it would be found that Prussia not only
had the start originally, but would also be able to keep
ahead of her adversary by the superiority both of her
military and of her financial organization. Her breech-
loaders are all ready and her treasury is full, while in
France bread is dear and the new Army Bill is not popu-
lar. Besides, France would be fighting not against the
ambition of the monarch but against the aspirations of
the people. The Emperor himself has no faith in war.
Pity he is unable or unwilling to inspire his subjects
with confidence in peace.
To the arduous task of reconciling • number of dis-
cordant nationalities to a common sceptre and eight
millions of Germans to exclusion from Germany, M. de
Boost, says the Daily News, brings several high qualifica-
tions, each and all of which will be constantly required.
There is enough to occupy the ambition of • stream
statesman than H. Beast in preserving the empire from
disrupture and bankruptcy, and restoring its moral and
material unity on a basis of equal liberty. The only way
he can hope to obtain the confidence of the Germans is by
rigorously abstaining from Salzburg interviews, or seeming
to countenance foreign interposition. Liberty in Austria
still waits to be placed by fundamental organic laws
beyond the reach of reaction or caprice, and H. de
Benet seems rather to lag behind the spirit of the
Reichsrath. It is by the peaceful fruits of liberty, and
the harmonious development of the interests of all the
nationalities that acknowledge his sceptre, that the Em-
peror Francis Joseph will avenge the defeat of Bedews.
All liberal Europe will wish H. do Boost moms in this
good work.

CONRXIVATIVZ BLNQUITS.

The dull iteration of the venerable commonplaces of
resistance has given way, says the Daily News, at tory
gatherings, to a language which is neither liberal nor con.
servative, but which oddly blends the extr►vagances at
once of revolution and of reaction. Mr. Disraeli has put
• glamour upon these sober and solid gentlemen,
and there can be little doubt of their acquiesces°e
were he to ask them even to surrender the Irish
church establishment or to consent to the repeal of the
laws of primogeniture and entail, or to the installation of
unsectarian education. He has " eleotro-biologised"them,
and they can see only wh►t he tells them to see. In illus-
tration of the remark, the Daily hews quotes the de.
magogio fl►ttery recently uttered by Lord Fevereham
and Sir Henry Edwards. The language of these gentlemen
is simply an attempt to hide from themselves their own
terror at what they have done, and to conciliate the dread
monster they have fabricated. The " Who's afraid r'
generally comes from a sinking heart. The conservstim
party is dizzy with the revolution it has made, and nau-
seated with the professions it has swallowed. The medley
of democr►tic theories, demagogic flatteries, and tory
catchwords, which is emitted whenever its orators open
their months, shows that it is distracted by internal per.
plexities which must be fatal to its party union and
strength.

The Post deals with the same subject, pointing out that
when some of the orators depart from incontrovertible
generalities they are too apt to adopt a style inconsis-
tent with the usages whit& obtain among gentlemen.

Though the public in its exptetations of the Synod has
to give up a splendid illusion, the Times thinks that is no
moon why it should run into the other extreme. The
bishop have in their relations with curates and illet101•
bent*, in the constitution of new eccimisetical districts,
in the exchange of livings, in the entrance of clergymen
into their dioceses, in the standard of canonical obedience
and in similar subjects, topics which they can discuss with
advantage to the church. They have abut the doom on
the public—perhaps wisely ; but they certainly have •
right to do so, and the public, which by this time under-
stands the thoroughly private and quaid-domestio charac-
ter of the meeting, will readily acquiesce in the secrecy in
which it is likely to be shrouded, and not even be much
disappointed if nothing should ever come of it.
The conviction of the man Wiggins at the Central Criminal
Court is approved of by the Telegraph and Standard. To
the former the crime appears, however, to have been man-
slaughter rather than deliberate murder ; and considering
the element of uncertainty which still attaches to the case
it advises that effect be given to the recommendation of

the jury. The Standard foresees that this recommenda-
tion may yet rve the convict from the scaffold, but it re-
gards the mime u particularly cruel and cowardly in its
nature.

The Star contend' that when the jury takes three hours
to consider a case of this kind, and arrives at a conclusion
on the face of it not very intelligible except as expressive
of anxiety and doubt, a depee of uncertainty and pain is
sure to ensue in the public mind which, in the present
case, will probably avert from the condemned man the ex-
treme penalty of the law.

The first of the statues to be placed in the vacant
niches in the west front of Salisbury Cathedral has been
fixed. It is the statue of Christ holding a globe, and is
7 feet high.

A geological museum is about to be formed in
the town of Sherborne, in Doreetehire.

Some mural paintings have been discovered in
St. Thomas Church, Salisbury. The part of the church
where the paintings have been discovered was built in the
reign of Edward IV.

A peremptory order has been received in Limerick
for the removal of the 78th Highlanders to Dublin. It is
hoped that a better spirit will now prevail between the
military and populace.

. .
Some extensive improvements and alterations are
being carried out in the military gymnasium, Chatham,
for the purpose of obtaining increased facilities for carrying
on the physical training of the aims and troops under
instruction in gymnastic exercises. In the mechanical de-
partment of the gymnasium, the materials of which the
flooring was originally composed have been removed, and
a bottom of a more suitable and elastic character substi-
tuted, so as to lessen the chances of the °dicier, and men
receiving injuries from falls during the time they are un-
dergoing their course of instruction. The alterations
which are now being carried out have necessitated the
the closing of a portion of the gymnasium until the pro-
posed improvements are effected.

the Court.

BALMORAL, tiapr. 23.
_ _ _

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, and
attended by Lady Churchill and Major-General Sir
Thomas Biddulpb, went yesterday morning over to the
Duke of Richmond's Lodge Glenfiddich, to remain a few
days.
Prince and Princess Christian went out driving.
The Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy left the Castle yes-
terday.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon.
Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Conneil-offloe,
Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords
present were Lord Robert Montagu and the Right Hon.
E. Hammond.

A deputation, consisting of Mr. G. C. Graves, Mr. W. G.
Guerrier, Mr. J. Renck, Mr. Louth, Mr. J. Irwin, Mr. R.
Phillipps, Mr. T. Graves, and Mr. Giblett, had an inter-
view with Lord Robert Montagu, at the Privy Council-
office, Whitehall, yesterday, on the subject of the impor-
tation of foreign cattle.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office from the Governors of Heligoland, Gibraltar, and
Malta.

Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar,
Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, the Straits Settle
meats, the Australian Colonies, the Cape of Good Hope,
Natal, and the Mauritius.

The Queen, with attendants, left Balmoral on
Tuesday, at eleven o'clock a.m., on a visit to the Duke
of Richmond, at Gordon Castle. Relays of horses were
previously sent forward, and ellies on horseback proceeded
on Monday to Tomintoul, where they were to lodge for
the night. Her Majesty is expected to be absent from
Balmoral for two or three days.

His Excellency the Hon. G. S. S. Jerningham
has left hianrigy's Hotel for Coaey Hall, on a visit to Lord
and Lady Stafford.

The Earl and Countess Stanhope and Lady
Mary Stanhope have returned to Cbevering, near Seven-
oaks, from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Salis-
bury at Hatfield House, Herts.

The Bishop of London entertained on Wednes-
day at dinner, at Fulham Paler, the Archbishop of Dublin,
the Bishops of St. David's, Chester and Mrs. Jacobson,
Lincoln, Gloucester and Bristol, Oxford, Bangor, Lime-
rick, Meath, Christ Church, New Zealand, Argyle and the
Ides, lowa, Louisiana, Arkansas, Fitter:Lig, Alabama,
Tennessee and Mrs. Quiatard, New Jersey, Grahametown,
Nova Scotia, Quebec, Liberia, Dunedin, Bishops Anderson,
Chapman, Smith, Bishop of Aberdeen, Bishop Coadjutor
of Edinburgh, Miss Spooner, Venerable Archdeacon Words-
worth, Rey. C. W. Fare, Rev. E. H. Fisher. The dinner
took place, u it has done each evening this week (commen-
cing with Monday night), in the ancient (restored) hall of
Fulham Palate. Covers were laid for 40. More than half
the company are residents in the palace for the week. The
same hospitality will continue in honour of the American
bishops and others until Saturday.
The Bishop of Rochester and the Ron. Mrs.
Clanghton and family leave the episcopal residence in Essex
to-morrow for Himley-hall, on a visit to Lady Ward.
Lord Stanley will accompany her Majesty the
Queen of Holland on her visit to the Earl and Counter of
Derby at Knowsley.

Mr. William Lowther, Secretary of Embassy at
Berlin, has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at
Buenos Ayres.

LATIST INTELLIGENT.

(arrna's Taxamme.)
ITALY.

FLORENCE, Si r. 26, 10 P.M.

All despatches received here up to the present
hour from the provinces announce that no fresh
demonstrations have taken place.
Signor Rattazzi has sent a letter to the Syndic of
Florence desiring him to thank the National Guard
for the services rendered yesterday for the mainte-
nance of order.
A telegram from Messina announces that the
former minister, Signor Watoli, is dead.

HUNGARY.
PESTH, srpr. N.

The Hungarian Credit Fonder have been
authorised to extend their circle of operations to
Sclavonia and Croatia.

Herr Deak is expected here on Saturday next.

MALTA.

VALETTA, air. 26.

Arrivals at Malta from the uninfected ports of
the continent, and Italy, Austria, the Regency of
Tunis, Albania, and Algeria are admitted to pratiqne,
but those from the infected ports have to undergo
15 days' quarantine ; and from Sicily 30 days. The
residence of passengers in special places for 30 days
is no longer enforced.
There were 11 cases of cholera yesterday, five of
which proved fatal.
There were no cases either in the garrison or in
the navy.