The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-17 00:00:00

Itat EURESS, P.T.ESDAY

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.) '/‘

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earefiesely reeecusel, eloquent, old most effestive. ' •
The Tetegraph is at pains to show that the true abject of
the reduction of the franchise is not to give to one class of
the people a certain number of votes in the House of Com-
mons, but to render the whole of that assembly better in-
formed respecting interests which are at present neglected,
more through ignorance and apathy than wilful injustice.
Half the objections to the ministerial course of procedure
consist in calling the bill fragmentary and incomplete ;
by which is meant, not merely that it leaves something
more to be done, but that without the something
more, the present macaw* is useless. Is that
so' We can easily bring the question to a simple test.
Suppose, for the sake of argument, that the ministry or
parliament were suddenly to resolve that the suffrage
measure should stand alone, not merely for a short time
but finally ; can it be pretended that, even as a solitary
measure, it would be absolutely inoperative and useless I
Would it be of no advantage to the artisans that members
of parliament should be compelled to consult them as
their constituents, and to acquaint themselves with sub-
jects peculiarly affecting them'
Turn this question which way you will, says the Star, it
all comes to trusting the people in the end. Mr. Adderiey,
like the rest of the tories, boasts of being the working
man's friend ; but he only respects the working man who
has won a county vote by industry and self-denial. What
is wanted is such a sense of their good and safe qualities
as was exhibited last night by Sir Francis Crossley and
Mr. Forster. It may be called sentimental, but the thrice
themselves know that if it were not based in truth society
could not be carried on. The case of reform is simply
this :—lt is proposed to give the suffrage to fit persons
whose numbers will not affect the equilibrium of govern-
ment. Can there be any valid excuse for rejecting a pro-
posal so absolutely righteous ?

the Court.

OSBORNE, Antic 16.

The Rev. G. Prothero performed Divine Berrien
yesterday morning at Osborne, before her Msjesty, the
Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold,
The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting were also present.
The Princess Beatrice attended the service at Whip-
pingham Church.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho-
nourable Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council
Chamber, Whitehall, on the subject of the Cattle Plague.
Present—The Lord President, the Right Hon. W. Mansell,
and the Bight Hon. H. A. Bruce.
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Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of Canada, Vancouver's Island, and
British Columbia. Despatches were sent to the Governors
of the West India Islands, Bermuda, Vancouver's Island,
and British Columbia.

His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and
Countess Apponyi entertained on Sunday evening a small
circle to dinner. Among the guests entertained were
The Earl and Countess Granville, Prince Gortchacow,

the Portuguese Minister, Count Pahlen, Baron de Baude,
Marquis de la Force, Mr. Edward Erskine, and Mr. Henry

The Earl and Countess Craven received the
mournful intelligence yesterday of the demise of their
youngest son, the Hon. Robert Craven, in his sixteenth
year, which took place on the sth instant, at Mexico, on
board her Majesty's ship Spiteful, after five days' suffering
from diarrhoe. His remains were interred the following
day in the English cemetery at Mexico. The Hon. Osbert
Craven, who has been suffering from serious indisposition
for some time past, is somewhat better, but still in a weak
state.
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Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton received at
dinner last evening, at their residence in St. James's-
square.
his Excellency the French Ambassador, his Excel-
lency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bern-
stortf and Countess Theresa Bernstorff, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marquis and Marchioness
Townshend, Viscount St. Asaph, Lord and Lady Lyvedeu,
Baron and Baroness Ferdinand de Rothschild, Sir Coutts
and Lady Lindsay, Sir Ralph and Lady Howard, Colonel
North, M.P., Mr. Courteney, Mr. G. Howard, Mr..
Ford, kc.
The Earl and Countess of Dudley have left their
residence, Dudley House, Park-lane, for the Continent.
The earl and countess are expected ti return to town
about the middle of May.
The Right Hon. Sir William Hayter and Lady
Hayter have left London for Vienna.
General Sir Hugh Rose, accompanied by Major
Bourne, his aide-de-camp, left town yesterday on his return
to Dublin. _ .

Earl Granville was summoned yesterday before
the magistrates at Edgware to answer a charge of infringe-
ment of the Cattle Plague Acts. It was alleged that cows
had been brought to his lordship's farm at Golder's Green
without a license. It came out in evidence that a Mr.
Roche, a cattle dealer, renting a farm next to that of Earl
Granville, had been commissioned to procure some cows
for his lordship if be could do so without a breach of the
law. He had a license for the removal of cattle within
the metropolitan district within which his farm was. Earl
Granville's farm was beyond the district, and Mr. Roche
believing that if he did not drive the cattle on a highway
he would not break the law, bad driven the cattle from his
farm to his lordship's across the fields. Counsel for Earl
Granville contended that this was the act of Mr. Roche,
and not of Earl Granville's agents, and the magistrates
dismissed the summons on that ground.

We read in the Times' City article :—"Although it
is impossible at a time like the present, when the public are
influenced not by reason, but by fear, to form a conjecture
as to whether prices have reached their lowest point, the
consideration that Consola exhibit a fall as great as any
that has happened within the last eighteen years would
tend to the impression that there cannot be much chance
of any further very serious reduction. The Crimean war,
the Indian revolt, which happened simultaneously with
the commercial panic of 1857, the war between Austria
and France and Italy, and the American struggle and the
revulsion in the cotton trade have all been witnessed in
the interval, and it will be hard even for the greatest
alarmist to picture worse terrors from the German dispute
and the collapse of the finance companies than those
which might legitimately have been entertained on those
occasions."

An interesting ceremony took place on Sunday
at Conlians, close to Paris, in the principal establishment
of the Sacre-Cceur, being that of Mdlle. de Merode, the
youngest sister of the Countess de Montalernbert, taking
the veil. M. de Merode, ex-Minister of Arms to the Pope,
had come from Rome to preside at the solemnity, and, in
the course of the proceedings, be pronounced • touching
allocution. All the members of the Montelembert family
were present, and among those who attended was the
Count de Fallout.
The Brussels journals contain an account of a
grand ball given there at Wauxhall, last week, under the
patronage of Lady Howard de Walden and other ladies, for
the benefit of the necessitous English resident in that
capital.
MIL PIK, M.P., AHD HIS CONSTITUENTS.—The
speech of Mr. Jonathan Pim, the liberal member for Dub-
lin, announcing his intention to vote against the govern-
ment Reform Bill, has caused great annoyance to the
liberal electors of Dublin. The Erenenty Post ob-
serves :—" Mr. Pim knows in his conscience that the
speech of Thursday night, by which he merited the
approval and congratulation of our Tory contempora-
ries, is in direct opposition to every sentiment, every
principle, and every political interest of those who sent
him into parliament. He knows in his inmost con-
science that the liberals of Dublin would as soon have
deputed him to commit • felony on their behalf as, by
any speech of his, to pledge their voices to the exclusion
of the English working classes from the franchise. He
knows, and we are sure will not have the temerity to
deny, that in voting, upon any pretext, against the Re-
form Bill before the house, he acts in fiat contradiction to
the wishes and to the policy of his constituents. He be-
lieves he has • right to do this, because he believes he is
better and wiser than the 4,653 liberals of all ranks
and of every degree of intelligence who placed their trust
in him, and from whom, if he have any commission, it
cannot be to deny their principles, to frustrate their
hopes, and to defeat their policy. Mr. Pim may think
this right and honourable, and we have no doubt that such
is his belief ; but he has yet to he made aware, Pot
that the conduct which to him seems right and vret,haand
which he is confirmed in so regarding by the sanction of •
certain section of the press in Dublin, is regarded by his
constituents as outraging their feelings, belying their sen-
timents, and deceiving their trust—es founded upon a
total misconception of duty, and conforming, not even to
a low standard, but to no standard of poWmi- I morality."