The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-05 00:00:00

IIIBCILL&NEOU8 TOPICS.

Treating of our salmon supply, the Tines shows that
the ;ntervention of the government came not an hour
too soon, and that even the beginning of a better system
has resulted not only in a decided increase of supply, but
in a perceptible diminution of price. Our lordly fish.
mongers of the metropolis have not yet condescended to
lower their terms, but in the county generally nehmen, for
the last year or two, has been both cheaper and better. It
should be remembered, too, that this decline in price, if
not very considerable in itself, has been established in the
face of a general rise in the chief articles of food.
The large pecuniary resources of the King of Hanover
will enable him, the Daily News says, to keep up the
forms and state of court, but Englishmen will feel regret
at seeing members of our own royal family joining the crowd
of intrigu'rg princes without a definite and recognised
position. The King's course will place many of his
subjects in a position of great difficulty, but otherwise
make only the slightest difference to political history. The
regret which is felt for him in Hanover is personal rather
than political. He prevented improvements, both in
Hanover and in Germany, and even those who sympathise
with him would think twice before taking any
measures for bringing him back. We doubt whether
a single person out of his family believes there is
the s'ighteet chance of the restoration of his throne ;
and these considerations make it to be regretted that King
George and his son should surrender themselves to vain
wishes, and, to no purpose, keep their friends in Hanover
in a position of 1.1114/84310411 which ill rewards their
devotion.'
According to the Herald the person who has decided the
Brecon election in favour of the conservatives is Mr.
Bright, and it adds that he may rely upon it that he has
rendered the seine service in a multitude of instances that
will not be revealed until the next general election. This
=lea stupid and unscrupulous abuse of everything vener-
able, rational, or decent, has gone on for years with a sort
of placid forgiving and forgetting, on which he has at last
presumed once too often. England is a law-loving, order-
loving country ; but, as be will discover henceforth, hat
not a moment's toleration for fools and firebrands. This
the Herald takes to be the moral of the Brecon election.

the (court.

BALMORAL, Ocr. 3.

The Queen, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur,
attended by the Marchioness of Ely and Lieutenant-
General the Hon. Charles Grey, drove to the Spittal of
Glenshee on Monday, and rode on ponies over the bill to
Kindrogan, from whence the royal party drove to Pnlkeld.
Her Majesty Nisains at Dunkeid, on a visit to the
Dowager Duchess of Athole.

A Committee of the I irds of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Council
Chamber, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague.
The lords present were the Right Hon. Spencer H. Val_
pole and the Right Hon. H. Coley. Mr. Helps and Colo-
nel Harness attended the committee.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of Hon; Kong, Ceylon, Labuan,
Gibraltar, Malta, and Heligoland. Despatches were sent
to the Governor of Canada.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricardo
arrived at their residence in Stratton-street last evening
from a tour of visits in Scotland.

The Earl and Countess of Eglinton are enter-
taining a select party at Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire.
The Duke of Sutherland's yacht "(incline, with
the Duke of Edinburgh on board, was stranded on the
rocks, near Boryhead Harbour, yesterday morning, but
got off.

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The Right Hon. Milner Gibson, M.P., is on a
visit to Portland, in Doraetthire.

We (Herald) are informed that Mr. Rowland
Knyvett Wilson, M.A., bas resigned his fellowship at
King's College, Cambridge. It is stated that his ground
for so doing is his um; 'llingness to bold an office, the
tenants of which are assumed to be bona fide members of
the church of England. Mr. Wilson was the senior classic
in his year at Cambridge, and is the nephew and heir-pre-
sumptive of Major-General Sir Archdale Wilson, of Delhi,
Bart.

Yesterday, Mr. Taylor, the Government Com-
missioner, opened an inquiry at Liverpool intothe sanitary
condition of the borow3h, and heard evidence as to the
injury to public health caused by the various deposits of
night-soil. The report of the medical officer for the last
week states the deaths at 437, which is an incrc-se over
the corrected average of the fait ten years of 147.

Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P., has accepted the
invitation of the committee to attend the West Riding
demonstration in Leeds, on Monday next, and speak at
the evening meeting in the Victoria-hall.
The committee charged with the preparations
for the Bright banquet in Drblin have determined upon a
255. dinner ticket, and have engaged the largest available
apartment in the city for the purpose of the " demon-
stration." The list of the committee printed in the Dublin
papers comprises 18 members of parliament.

A meeting of the liberals of the county Tip-
perary, convened by requisition, was held yesterday at
Titurles. It was most numerously attended. Resolution■
were unanimously agreed to, inviting the Hon. Captain
Charles White, late candidate foe the county Dublin, to
contest the representation of Tipperary with the Derbyite
catholic candidate, Mr. Waldron. The requisition to Cap-
tain White is now being signed.

A letter in the iticlipendauce attributes to Prince
Napoleon the Intention of being present aa an eye-witness
during hie coming stay in England at some of the reform
meetings which are to be held.

The Empress Eugdnie has, it is said, addressed
an autograph letter to the Holy Father, requesting his
permission to defray in the coming year the expenses of
the new foreign legion from her private purse. The offer
has been graciously accepted.

" Prince and the Princess Frederick of Holland,"
a Stockholm letter says, "hare arrived here on a visit.
The King and the Queen went out to meet them. The
royal family and the newly arrived guests repaired to
ilriksdaL"

A Florence letter says :—" General Garibaldi two
days before leaving proceeded to the Villa Mario di Candle
at Pino, on the old Bologna road, where Madame Gialis
Grid now resides. The general visited the celebrated
amtatriee, and expressed a wish to hear her sing. She
acceded willingly to this fancy of the general, and tang
to him one of the mat brilliant cavatinas of her
repniory."
One of President Johnson's former slaves called
on him at Cincinnati, daring the recent tear.