The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, TUNE 20, 1868.

have answered his parliamentary opponents, or
criticised their opinions in print, much would have
been said in praise of his powers. As it is, there
are many members of inferior intellectual capacity
who can do far more than he to influence a debate
and impress the country.
When be entered the House in 1837, his renown
as an author rested on " Bothell," a fresh and
spirited narrative of eastern travel. Published
thirteen years previously, it had caused its author
to be courted by the great and complimented
by critics, and it is still read with interest
chiefly on account of the masterly finish of its
style. An old and hackneyed story was there re-
told with a vividness and a charm which rendered
it fascinating beyond pleasure. Its author was
egotistic to a degree which would have proved
nauseous had this not been counteracted by the
strength of character and freedom from prejudice
he displayed. Such a man, it was thought, would
distinguish himself among his follows. It is cer-
tain that Mr. RINOLAKE fully believed in
the sufficiency of his resources, and looked forward
to a brilliant career. Ho remarked in the preface that
he was no common traveller, seeking amidst
Eastern scenery the amusement which he had
failed to discover at home. He proclaimed that
in journeying thither he was not " flying from
" his country because of ennui, but was strength-
" ening his will, and tempering the metal of his
" nature for that life of toil and conflict in which
" he is now engaged." This is rather too strong
language for a gentlemen to have employed whose
avocations consisted in practising at the Chancery
Bar. It indicated, we think, that Mr. KINOLAK s
aims were higher than his profession, that he was
bent on the performance of some task alike
arduous and important. As a rule chancery bar-
risters can brace themselves for the " toil and con-
" flirt" they have to undergo without traversing
Syria. To a man longing for a grander field on
which to display his skill than is to be found in
Lincoln's-inn, such an event as the expedition to
the Crimea must have been most welcome. Mr.
BINOLAXE availed himself of the opportunity
which put it in his power to witness war on a
huge scale, and to 'seek for an outlet for his
energies by which he might profit. He was pre-
sent at the battle of the Alma ; he marched with the
allies first against and then round Sebastopol, was
a spectator of the siege and of the desperate at-
tempts made by the Russians to turn the beseigers
from their purpose, and did not leave the scene of
suffering and slaughter till illness had enfeebled
him, and prudence dictated his return to England.
Others were there who, at great personal hazard,
saw what he did, and framed faithful narratives
for publication in the newspapers. With these
" news-dealers" Mr. Krerowace had little in com-
mon. Their duties were distasteful if not obnox-
ious to him. He had formed a design which should
throw into the shade the puny efforts of newspaper
correspondents, and associate his name with the
great enterprise of which ho knew the hidden
springs, and on which he probably considered
himself qualified to pass an authoritative and a
decisive judgment. It was after Sebastopol had
been occupied by the Allies, and Russia humili-
ated by defeat, and when Mr. KINOLAWE was
understood to be engaged in writing the history
of the Crimean campaign, that the electors of
Bridgewater chose him as their representative,
and the House of Commons welcomed him as an
acquisition.
He took his seat as one professing Liberal
principles, yet resolved to acknowledge no leader,
being an addition to that party which boasts of
its independence, and acts, in turn, as the friend
and foe of both sides. On the whole, Mr. Euro-
LAME has proved a genuine Liberal in politics.
His crotchets have done little injury, and his
votes have been powerful for good. If his maiden
speech disappointed the House, it did not dis-
please the Liberal party. It was levelled at the
Tory policy, happily now abandoned, of inflicting a
stigma on the Jews, by hindering them from con-
scientiously occupying seats in Parliament. His
Crimean experience enabled him to speak with
authority on another subject to which he next
directed his attention, which was the due execu-
tion of the treaty by which Russia bound herself
to treat with kindness all the natives of the dis-
tricts which the Allies had occupied for a season.
Either intentionally or not, he excited mirth by
observing that many natives had been pressed
into our service, because their assistance was
required to drive the bullocks that did not un-
derstand either " English or French imprecations."
He was foremost in resisting the mistaken and un-
patriotic Conspiracy Bill, by which the late Lord
Per...essaroe endeavoured to assuage the wrath of
the French colonels and gratify the Emperor
Berm-tow. He urged upon the government of
Lord DERBY the duty of seeing that justice was
done to:Peen and Wen, the two English engineers
whom the Neapolitan authorities had treated with
unjustifiable severity. He denounced the cession
of Savoy and Nice by Sardinia, or rather to
speak more accurately, the seizure by France in
the desecrated name of a popular vote of Nice and
Savoy. On the other hand, he opposed and ridi-
culed the attempts of Sardinia to complete the
unity of Italy, evincing, in common with other
sentimental Liberals, a strange leaning towards
Austria. His greatest Parliamentary blunder con-
sisted in striving to create an impression that not
only were his views sound as well as original, but
that his information on foreign affairs was exclu-
sive. More than once ho announced to tho House
that ho was acquainted with schemes which foreign
powers had in contemplation for the subversion
of the European equilibrium. Very frequently
these announcements turned out to be alike base-
lees and foolish. Sometimes his imposing state-
ments were too vague to be met by a direct nega-
tive ; at others, however, the refutation was easy
and immediate. Thus, having gravely alleged he
knew that at the second meeting of the Emperor
of the FRENCH with the Emperor of Artemis at
Villafranca, the former offered to restore Lombardy
provided the latter would countenance his designs
on the Rhine, and that Fatima JOSEPH de-
clined because ho was a German Prince,
Lord Joins Russ= dispelled the illusion
which such a statement was calculated
to produce, by simply observing that no
one was present at this interview be-
tween the two Emperors. By acting as the
alarmist who chained credence on the ground that
his knowledge was superior to that of his fellows,
he laid himself open to the stinging retort from
Mr. Baioirr—" It is a delightful thing when
" all the powers of Europe slumber at their posts,
" that the hon. and learned member for Bridge-
water should be wide awake." Mr. Hurcieees
has shown that he is not unversed in the art of
couching bitter sayings, in pointed, yet perfectly
courteous language. The effect of the following
was not lessened by the fact that, while truth-
fully characterising Mr. ROEDUCE, for whose
'benefit it was uttered, it was also applicable to
the sptaker himself- " He is a gentleman who has
'• 80 serene a confidence in the accuracy of his
" own judgment, that he does very frequently in
" this House state • very foolish proposition
" with a degree of solemnity that really gives it

" for the moment something like judicial im-
" penance."
It is hardly doubtful that Mr. HrsotAxa's name
will be coupled hereafter, not with stirring and
weighty debates in parliament, but with the
record of the campaign in the Crimea. His
laboured volumes will long attract many eager
readers because they teem with that polished sar-
casm which has conferred immortality on the "Pro-
" vincial Letters" of PASCAL, the " Maxims " of
ROCHNFOUCAULD, and the " Letters" of JUNIUS. He
is an accomplished hater, and a thorough master of
the art of detraction. What he wrote about Lady
ilzarint STANHOPI will probably be applied to
him as an historian by a critic of the future—
" With all the force and vehemence of his
" invective, he displayed a sober, patient, and
" minute attention to the details of vituperation,
" which contributed to its success a thousand
" times more than more violence."

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

The lesson the Times draws from the action
against the Teleyreph is, that it is, on the whole, best to
accept the verdict of juries in criminal cases when that
verdict is an acquittal of the accused person. Whatever
may be the right of an author or a speaker to charge a
jury with error, or to brand the guilty man who has un-
justly escaped, it will bo for tbp public benefit to avoid the
practice. Other articles in the Dear treat of the subject
of the rights of the crown to foreshores, the capitula-
tions in Turkey, and the amended rules of racing.
To the Deily Net's, the verdict of yesterday in Risk
Allah Bey's case seems in accordance with the evidence,
and a corollary to the Lord Chief Justice's summing up,
and, whatever may be the moral judgment formed on the
case, few will be disposed to quarrel with the
legal principle it lays down. Discussing the oppo-
sition to the Electric Telegraphs Bill, the Daily
Nitre narrates an instance of a threat being made
to an Irish journal to stop its telegraphic news
on account of its criticisms. Practically, the threat
is one of extinction. A Suspensory Bill may be neces-
sary, placing the companies provisionally under the con-
trol of the Beard of Trade, so as to prevent their using
public concessions for the purposes of private injury.
The Herald hails with special pleasure Lord Ellen-
borough's speech of last night relative to the reception to
be given to the Abyssinian army, because the noble lord
showed himself in the autumn session a severe critic of
the expedition, and one might almost say • prophet
of evil.
The Post treats the fact that Prince Arthur was
yesterday commissioned in the Royal Engineers,
as very significant of the times in which we
live. Formerly it too often happened that those
who were born great assumed offices and functions for
which it was not at all necessary that they should have
been fitted by previous training and education, but of
late there has been a growing fooling of the necessity that
men should receive not only a sound and liberal education,
but also a special training for the particular service or
work for which they are destined, and in no department
of life has the necessity been more fully admitted,
and practically acted upon, than in the profession of
arms.

Observing that the attempt to prove justification in the
late libel case unquestionably failed, the Star hopes no one
will adopt the notion that the liberty of the press has been
infringed. The limits of public discussion have not been
curtailed, the law has not been stretched, and the jury
have hit a fair medium of damages, which are at once sub-
stantial, and not highly penal.

tilt Court
CA,TT.E. Jews 19.
The Queen went out yesterday afternoon.
Princess Louis of Hesse drove in the grounds attended
by the Duchess of Roxburgne.

Princess Beatrice also drove out.
Her Majesty drove in the grounds this morning, accom-
panied by Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice.
Prince and Princess Louis of If ow, attcndod by Lady
Caroline Barrington, Baroness Orunoy, Lieutenant-Co-
lonel Hon. A. Liddell, Baron Von Itallenau, and Major
Von Heise, wont to London this morning.
The Prince's Louise, attended by the Duchess of Rex-
burghe and Colonel H. Ponsonby, went to London this
afternoon.

nor Majesty the Qeeen held a council this afteriu at
a quarter to 3 o'clock, at which were present the Duke of
Marlborough, the Right lion. Benjamin Dior. e the
Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, and the Earl of Tau-
kerrillo.

Previous to the council the Right lion. D. the
Duke of Marlborough, and the Duke of Buckinglueu had
audiences of the Queen.

Mr. Helps was the clerk of the council.
Lord Begot, the Lord in Waiting, was in att,:ndince.

The Prince of Wales presided yesterday nt a I,—ta,
delivered by Colonel Jervoise, ILE., at the R Dude]
Service lnaitution, Whitehall.
The Princess of Wales drove out, accompanied by the
Crown Prince of Denmark.

Prince and Princess Christian, attended by Lady Srivan
Melville and Colonel G. Gordon, wcut to Woolwich to-
day, and were present at the dhltribution of prizew by the
That, of Cionbt idge to the geed( men cadets at the z 1
Military Academy.