The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-24 00:00:00

VISITANT QUER/TONS TN TEE HOUSE 01 COMMONS.

The Post wonders what condition the now House of
Commons will be in to deal with the great question of
array reform. It has sustained an irreparable loss in the
withdrawal of General Peel, and has also lost the ser-
Tide of the Marquis of Harlington, who has given un-
deniable proofs of administrative ability. These removals
cause a serious gap in the ranks of qualified debaters on
army questions. To supply their places there are some
twenty-five new members, who are, or have been in the
service, to choose from. But in vain will the list be
scsuaned to discover amongst these a soldier either re-
nowned in his profession or celebrated in any other way.
The navy is rather better off in this respect; but still
it is desirable that the House should be more largely
recruited from the ranks of our foremost sailors than it
is at present.

What, asks the Daily Aias, should we think of the
prospects of our own monarchy if we found men of the
highest character and genius and position, Conservatives
and Liberals alike, aged statesmen, leaders of the bar,
grave historians, famous poets, publicly "conspiring" to
protest against it—u honest men might protest against
the pardon of some great criminal f It is in this aspect
that this Baudin subscription appears to the Daily New*
h aught with an ominous signidcanoe. No doubt the folly
of the prosecutions has lent it a factitious importance.
But that folly is itself a fatality. Nor is this • purely
French affair, a domestic difficulty which has no interest
for strangers. It cannot be too often or too strongly in-
sisted that if the Second Empire cannot live with liberty,
it must fall back on pure force—in other word; it must
be the creature of its own army ; and an army, especially
a French army, predominant in the policy of the state,
is not particularly favourable ►o the preservation of
European peace.

TIM Nffw BISTIOP OY NATAL.—The appoint-
ment of Dr. Tait to Canterbury is likely to put an end to
the delay and uncertainty which has so long attended the
action of Dr. Colease's opponente. Mr. Macrorie, the
bishop designate for Natal, has abandoned the hope of
bang consecrated in England, and will leave early next
month for the Cape, where he will be consecrated by the
Bishop of Cape Town and his suffragans.
QUARRELLINO OVER THE SVOIL.—The Record,
commenting on the John Bull's announcement that her
Majesty has conferred the canonry at Weetininstis on the
Rey. Canon Prather*, and the stall to which he had been
nominated at St. Paul's Cathedral lima been conferred on
the Roy. !lobed Gregory, vicar of St. Mary the Lees,
Lambeth, rays :—" Mr. Gregory is an advanced ritualist,
but his claims to preferment have been often urged on the
ground of his services on Mr. Hardy's Oxford committee
cu lBlii which have been, we presume, confirmed by the
late election. Mr. Gregory was pressed on Lord Derby for
a deanery, but was finally refused on the ground otitis
extreme opinions. It is a curious fact that we are in-
formed that Mr. Gladstone's eon is the ritualistic Mr,
Get gory's curate. and it is still more melancholy to learn
that Mr. Gregory is substituted for Mr. Prettier() at
St. Paul's, in order that he may be qualified for election
to the vast parish of St. Pancras! Surely, Mr.
Oxford committee have now been sufffinently rewarded
for ouiting Mr. Gladstone in 1864."
NEW OATH FOR MILIVIERS OF PARLIANtr4T.—
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The lollowing is the new oath of allegiance provided by
the act of the Mat POSlliell to be taken by members of the
m w parliament:—" I (giving the name) do swear that I
will -be faithful and boar true allegiance to her Majesty,
bur heirs and macomom, according to law. Bo help me
Clod."
THE OAttE LAWS.—In his report relating to
the employment of women and children in agriculture,
published yesterday, the 11ev. J. Fraser, MA., touches
Incidentally cm the effects of the preservation of game. He
rays The °stint to which the grime agorae premising
is earned on In many parts of Eseauadi, and particularly in
the county of Norfolk, is aammMi a serious significance
both in a moral and In an economics point of view. The
fernier cannot cultivate hie land with the proper measure
of profit, and there is a tangible for thereby sustained
in the resources of the country; while the way
in which, and the estent to which preserve.
are stocked to meet the present taste for battue
°hooting, and to satisfy the notion that you have had no
wrt, unless like Samson with hie philistines, you have
slain heaps upon heaps,' act as irresistible incentive.
with the peasant, who loves his bit of spott as truly la the
mntleman, and whose honest earnings are not sufficient
to enable him to overcome the temptation thus thrown
is his way, to both poach and steal. The sport of shoot-
ing certain) y assumes proportions in Norfolk tint, so Ise
as I have observed, are unknown elsewhere." The rev.
gratlemas premeds to observe that it has not only greatly
reilainoed the value of land, but that fabulous rents are
ofieled for the occupation of a mauaiOn and the right of
..hooting over a few thousand acres of stubble and plan-
tation where the hirer possibly dues not intend to reeldo
mule than a fortnight, ur at the outside a mouth, iu the
year.'
PATRIOT-OFFICE Mussum, SOITTIL KIINSINOTON.
e-Number of visitors for the west ending Nov. 21, 3,800
ta number dam the ogrig of the Museum tree dad"
12th May, 1848), 1,4861