The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-03 00:00:00

NOVEMB:

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lierenjoyeneat of titel4 in fact, ey wonidnola
Nava on onditiossAlating the rent sharp
while the lanateilehrtraid have no grievance, no
tion to complain of. And as no purchase money would
need to be paid by the tenant, only a slight addition to
his rent, against the enormous advantage of absolute secu-
rity, there would be no hied at debt with which to burden
the new experiment.
The Saturday Ravin, on the other band, regards Mr.
Bright as the O'Connell of England, on the vent-piece of
proletarian discontent and more than its vent-piece—often
its creator. In his denunciation of the protestant esta-
blishment he overlooks the difficult question as to what
shall become of its revenues if it is abolished and the
freedom of speech and thought which is probably
due to the influence of protestantism. The abolition of
the establishment might pacify Munster and Meath, but
would drive Ulster to the borders of rebellion, sad flzity of
tenure would introduce an amount of strife and discord
which would only end in war. The grievances which the
Irish nature most keenly feels are sentimental. It is our
fate to be united with a people the majority of whom are
wholly different in sentiment and sympathywith ourselves.
If Mr. Bright, or anyone else, will soberly teach us low to
govern the two portions of Ireland so that the northern
protestant& shall not be angered nor the southern Homanists
aggrieved, he will deserve to be remembered with a reve-
rential and enduring gratitude which mere oratory never
yet earned, and which would be more valuable than any
power, influence, or fame. But he and his may rest as-
mired that something quite different from statntable alte-
ration of land tenure and the abolition of a church is re-
quired to unite an imaginative, sensitive, and ardent na-
tion to a sober, practical, and calculating one.
The Economist has at length come to see that some
notice must be taken of the Alabama claims Is it not,
it says, of the first moment to England that if she should
be obliged to go to war in the future, she should not find
• fresh depot for the enemy, a new point of naval depar-
ture in every neutral port where a ship of war could be
built and fitted out, all over the globe ? What would be our
safety if enterprising Binaries, at war with England,
might get the Dutch to build them a gun-
boat in Java, and prey upon the English otinmeree, or
France and Russia amid find effective allies in the neutral
ports of China, whence to worry our Indian commerce, or
is the Danish island of St. Thomas's as a point of depar-
ture for raids on the British West Indies ? If • ship of
war can be ordered, built, equipped, manned, and com-
missioned in a neutral port, al was the Alabama,
and the neutral nation be not responsible for its escape,
all this might happen at any time to Great Britain,
and we should have no reasonable ground of complaint.
For effectual remedy only one coarse is open—that pro-
posed by the United State* to the Paris Congress and un-
fortunately rejected—the rule respecting private property
at sea. If this great concession to the neutral Powers be
made, we can well afford to pay with a good grace for de-
predations for which most probably we were not legally
responsible, but which by the exercise of a little more
care sad providence we could certainly have prevented.

rite wart.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 2.

The Queen, with the Prince and Princess Chris-
tian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess
Beatrice, left Balmoral yesterday at five minutes before
one o'clock, and arrived at Windsor Castle this morning at
• quarter before nine.
The suite consisted of the Duchess of Roxburghe, the
lion. Emily Cathcart (who left her Majesty at Perth), the
lion. Mrs. Ponsonby, Lieutenant-General the Hon. C.
Grey, Colonel H. Ponsonby, Dr. Jenner, ,Mr. Bahl, and
Mr. Legg.
The Duke of Buckingham was also in attendance on her
Majesty.
The Hon. Lucy Kerr has succeeded the lion. Emily
Cathcart as Maid of Honour.
Viscount Strathallan and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell
have arrived at the Castle, as Lord and Groom in Wait-
ing.
Lord Alfred Paget has succeeded Colonel 11. Ponsonby
as Equerry in Waiting.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's most
honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Council-
chamber, Whitehall, on matters relating to the cattle
plague. The lords present were the Lard President, the
Right Hon. Spenser H. Walpole. the Right Hon. Sir
Stafford Northoote, Lord Naas, the Right Hon. H. Cony,
and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave. Mr. Harrison and
Colonel Harness attended the committee.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday. The lords present were Lord Westbury, Sir E•
V. Williams, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Lawrence Peel.

CABINKT COL:NUM.—At a late hour on Thursday
right the Cabinet Council appointed for yesterday was
countermanded, and it is now appointed for Tuesday after-
noon at the official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasuii, in Downing-street, at half-past 3 o'clock.
PLYMOUTH, NOV. 2.—Captain his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Edinburgh and suite arrived here this
afternoon. The duke is staying at the Duke of Cornwall
Hotel, where he is this evening receiving a select party at
dinner. To-morrow his royal highness will inspect the
Galatea, preparing here to be commissioned by him.
Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark, accom-
panied by the Princess of Wales and the Princess Thyra
and Prince Waldemar, and attendants, will arrive at Marl-
borough House this afternoon from Sandringham. To-
morrow morning the Queen and young Prince and Princess
leave for Dover on their return to Denmark, and it is
expected that the Prinoess of Wales 11:11 accompany the
Queen to Dover. On Monday the Princess wi" return to
Sandringham, and there stay in comparative retirement
till the return of the Prince of Wales from St. Petersburg.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
attended by Colonel Macdonald, arrived at Gloucester-
house last evening from visiting General Hall, at his shoot-
ing box at Newmarket.
It is the intention of the Prince and Princess of
Wales to honour Sir Edward Ket:ison, Bart., M.P., and
Lady Caroline Kerrison with a :ait for a few days at
Oakley Park early in the ensuing month.
Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Radcliffe
and the Hon. Misses Canning have arrived at their resi-
dence in Grosvenor-square from their country seat, and
are about going on a tour of visits.
Lord and Lady Colchester have arrived in town
from Brighton.
The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P.,
has joined Lady Emily Peel at their romantic villa, at
Geneva.
The Lord Warden and the Countess Granville
(says the Dover Chronicle) are expected to leave Walmer
Castle in the course of next week.
The Herabl understands that the appointments
of Judge Advocate of the Fleet and Counsel to the Ad-
miralty, wlich became vacant by the sudden death of Mr.
Phinn, Q.C., have been conferred on Mr. J. W. Huddles-
ton, Q.C., and member for the city of Canterbury. Mr.
Huddleston is a bencher of Gray's-inn, a member of the
Council of Legal Education, and goes the Oxford Circuit,

of which be is the leader.
It is thought not improbable that Vice-Chancellor
Sir Richard Torin Kindersley will resign his office before
the end of the present term ; in that event be will be
succeeded by Mr. Malin, Q.C., the late M.P. for Walling-
ford.
The funeral of Mr. Jacob Snider, the inventor of
the breech-loader, and who was an American, took place
on Wednesday last, at the Rensal-green Cemetery. It was
at one time intended to have it occur in accordance with
American custom—with a procession on foot, walking from
the house of the deceased to his grave. But, in consequence
of the brevity of the notice, this was abandoned, and the
usual English custom of • few mourning carriages was
observed. A number of American friends attended at the
cemetery, and others came with the funeral cortipe.
The services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Stewart, who
was followed by the Rev. C. W. Denison. The latter said
in the course of his address :—" Only a few hours before
his death Mr. Snider informed • friend at his bedside that
be bad a new secret with regard to • great principle of na-
tional defence, more important than any he had yet die.
covered. ' I will tell you the secret to-morrow,' said he,
' when you all to see me.' That morrow came, and that
friend came with it to that bedside again ; but the man
who laid upon it was dead. His secret was dead with him
and to-day we consign it, as we oomign him, to t►e dark-
ems and silence of the grave."
Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald, late M.P. for Hors-
ham, and Under-Secreinry for Foreign Affairs in the two
previous conservative administrations, has accepted the
governorship of Bombay.