The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-05 00:00:00

THE METROPOLITAN CONSTITCE\"CJI.

There is teeny need for the liberals to take care,
or they will lose many seats by their unfortunate rivalries
amongst themselves. In Hackney, we conclude that Mr.
Butler. formerly member for the Tower Hamlets before
Ilackiiey was ereated • scparste borough, a quiet menit,
who is shady in his support of Mr. Liladstone. and has,
therefore, a claim for past services, will be returned; but
there are two liberal competitors, and naturally enough a
einservative has appeared, in hopes of prodtiug by their
division. As far as we can judge, Mr. lteed seems the
man most likely to aid the liberal IAtI,C. At all event,.
the fascinations of a public-house proprietor are
of a kind we should not care to see the borough succumb to.
In the Tower again. there a great Stape:duity of
andidates- fora liberals for only wo seat s el c. • trse
conservative invasion, by a certain Mr. Costs% in con-
segrani e. Mr. Ayrton is too able. efficieut. and indus-
Uious a nnuils.r of parliament for the e.iistauciwy bi
spare. Few msn's services have been greater. though
many men's service* have been more agreeably rendered.
Mr. Newton, Mr. Beale*, and Mr. Sationla cia t Only
ought to hit on scnie plan for determining their re lative
cleaners of success. We should be glad to see Mr.
wteu accepted. if only because he will be trusted by
the artisans as belonging to them. and an exceedingly
able cal oneut of their own favourite ideas; but of
course this is no reaten for his, perseverance, if ho
can be convinced that either of the ether libgrals has
obtained a larger promise of support. In Chelsea,
again, Mr. C. W. Millie. :sir li. Hoare, and Mr.
kiger, are endangering the seat by their rivalry; and at
Northampton Mr. Bradlaugh to endangering Lord Hen-
ley's seat without apparently any chance of succeeding
himself. And there are plenty of other ins:ances of this
unfortunate excess of liberal candidates. Almost all pro-
fess their desire to be governed by any sate-factory proof
of the wishes of the eonstitueney. but then unfortunately
few of them admit that auv satisfactory evidence that
they themselves are not the -favourites is producible. A
comparison of promises is ridiculed mall hand's' a com-
parison of pure fictions. Can this dishonourable seal.
which deliberately multiplies the number of each com-
mittee's promises, be as common as it is asserted
to be If so, what good can possibly come
of zeal so foul in its sourer Mr. Hughes
is to leave Lambeth to the two aldermen, the
Lord Mayor elect, Mr. James Lawrence, and Mr. ex-
Sheriff M•Arthiii, who have hitherto been conte4itig with
each other the post of colleague to Mr. Hughes. Mr.
Ilughes proposes to offer himself instead for Prouty for
the seat of Sir itawlinson, who retires. Mr. Ilu.ghes
may gain something by being relieved from the onerous
duties of representing the local interests of a large metro-
litan constituency. but he will be a grave loss to TAlll-
beth-- and to Loudon. The London borough, need men
of his high metal and moral courage. He has never
shrunk from denouncing a local sin. however powerful. or
from resisting even popular cries when they were incon-
sistent with his own deepest convictions. Men of tho-
roughly popular feelings with courage to resist the p.yeiple
me but rare amongst us, and as precious as they are rare.
- Spileter.

Colonel Wilson-Patten, the new Chief go; Totem
for Ireland, has appointed the lion. Chart.'. Bourke his
private i-ecretary, in conjunction with Mr. John Thynue.
who tilled that position towards Colonel Wilson-i'atten
when Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Mr It iurk,
was also private secretary to hi, brother, the Earl of
Mayo, in the Irish secretaryship.
bEI'ARTU E r HAS rEUN FIZOM
Llvffia•Oot.—'l he Uteat Eastern left the Mersey on
day forenoon. for Sheerness. under the command oi Sir
James Anderson. She has been chartered by a Freud.
company to lay a cable between France and America, and
has proveededto Sheerness for the purpose of havii6t her
fittings removed and to take in the cable. She 6 in
to leave Sheerness early next spring.
FOI-R Moutin ERoM LIVERPOOL TO LONDON.—
For a number of months pant the London and North
Western Company has been constructing an immense
embed bridge ItetOlt• the Mersey near -Runcorn. On
Satinday last the government ins tor went over the
line at Runcorn, and was perfectly pitistied with the
wok. and the material employ-ed. mina will short m the
distance between Liverpool and London by 15 miles. Tins
new arrangement will embrace the chief points of the
American system. The lint-class carriages c MA with
Live' pool and London will be all saloon ; and the engines
will be fitted w ith nun liluery by which water can b. taken
up fiou the troughs on the rermanent way.
ItF:FEEslltlExls ON RAILWAYS. --The Railway
mys the Midland Company have Made arnolge•
wants for the supply of baskets on the French systems at
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