The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-27 00:00:00

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

The ambition of princes having probably ceased
to be the great cause of war in Europe, there is now, the
Times thinks, another element of disturbance in the dis-
content of races. The principle of nationality has
triumphed in the west, but in the far east the prospect is
gloomy. It will require all the skill of Viennese adminis-
tration to maintain the Empire against such forces as will
now be at work to dissolve it. No great discernment is
required to perceive that even the German provinces of
the empire are not safe from the attraction which is carry-
ing Bavaria and Wurtemberg into the Prussian Confeder-
ation ; and if at the same time a Sciavic and orthodox
propaganda be set to work by Russia, the process of disin-
tegration may by rapid.
In another article the Times suggests that it is a very
proper matter for inquiry whether some additional omn-
pensation cannot be given in those districts which have
suffered most severely by the cattle plague.
The unmitigated despotism which is now crushing the
people of Spain is denounced by our contemporary in in-
dignant terms. A Madrid degree ostracises any foreign
newspaper which may contain an article hostile to the
present Spanish rule, and this decree must be fatal to the
entry of the Times into the kingdom, inasmuch as it says
that the Queen seems determined to win Herren by mak-
ing of the country submitted to her sway as much of a
hell upon earth as the most senseless tyranny can contrive.
Of the death of Mr. Snider, the Times observes that at
the moment when the arsenals of the kingdom are ringing
with labour concentrated upon his invention, the inventor
has expired in penury and affliction, without ever having
touched a single sixpence of remuneration or profit. As
he lay dying a lump sum of 1,0301. was thrown to his
creditors, and the debts which he bad contracted in the
pursuit of this secret are lessened to that amount, but
there, as far as he himself was concerned, ends all that
was done by a grateful country.
The Daily News treats of the remarkable statistics pre.
'rented totbe Social Science Association by the Manchester
Education Aid Society, considering them as important not
only to the people of Manchester but to the country at
larg
In the matter of the attack on the Archbishop of Can-
terbury for laying the foundation atone of an episcopal
church in Scotland, the Da it p Nees takes up the cudgels for
the archbishop, and twits the Times with representing the
bond of state churches to be not community of doctrine,
discipline, and worship, but equality of position as to en_
dowments, pre-eminence, and other mundane advantages,
The archbishop repudiated the idea that the prelates of
the church of England pretended to exercise authority in
Scotland, and the attacks upon him do not proceed from
the Scotch newspapers or the representatives of the
Scottish church, who well know that if the mode-
rator of the general assembly of their national church
were to appear in London next week, and lay the founda-
tion of a presbyterian place of worship, no English clergy-
man would be found so wanting in sense and propriety as
to charge him with casting a slur on the church of Eng.

land.
The Pose discusses Italian and Spanish affairs, and com-
ments upon the Lite lamentable death by drowning at Ox-
ford, contending that in the latter case there wu great