The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-08 00:00:00

" A WORD OF WARNING."

b has been pointed out to us by a friendly
and experienced critic that some sentences of the
remarks which were published on Wednesday last
under the above head, and having reference to the
Globe, exceeded the limits of fair controversy, and
were such as should not be nuiintained. To an
appeal of this kind we can never bo indifferent.
Our remarks, it may be remembered, were directed
against some recent articles which our contempo-
rary has published in support of the present Go-

vernment of France, and in the hest and hurry of
writing wewerebetrayed,intoexpressionswhioh not
only exceeded our meaning and purposo,but exposed
our contemporary and ourselves toe very grass and
grievous miainkrpretation. We ne►er supposed—
and we dot ply and heartily regret having used words
which stowed to permit the supposition—that the
articles which have lately appeared in the oolumn+
of our contemporary in 'rapport of the preaora
Mims li Government bud not boon the fruit of bon 1
fick, independent, and bonnet conviction, and
written conscientiously, according to the writer's
convictiona, in tl:o interests of European po:►co.
'11:e allusion to the Miquing t•hronicle in connection
with our contemporary was a slip of the pen which
demands apology, and wo wholly withdraw it.
In suggesting that the French Government had
" aocund the services" of an English journal, wo
meant nothing more or worse than suoh honest
and independent services as no journal need be
ashamed to render to the cause it defends. But the
word " services" was, we confess, ambiguous, and
susceptible of equivocal interpretation.
On the eve of a great party struggle, it is espe-
cially desirable that we should each and all strive
to set en example of chivalrous courtesy in the
combat of opinions. Without, therefore, pausing
to ask our contemporary whether in this instance
the offence, or the provocation, was all our own,
we beg the Mat to accept, in the spirit in which
we dim them, our unfeigned excuses and regrets.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

Whilst (observe* the Times) polioemen's staves
and a relegation to gaol are the only arguments of any
force with the actors in the disgraceful scenes of Saturday
and Sunday at Manohester, there are persona, whose sub-
ordinate Mr. Murphy it, who ought to be not altogether
beyond the reach of persuasion, and it sake these persons
seriously whether they believe that good is done to Protes-
tantism or harm to Romanian by displays of this doscrip.
hoe? It suggests to Mr. Murphy's patrons the duty of
weighing the responsibility his demeanour imposes on them.
But its trust is rather in the vigour of the magistrates.
These functionaries may rest satisfied that in the present
case the country will be with them in any exertion they
make of their very ample jurisdiction to put down this
particularly obnoxious form of outrage.
The holly News discovers in Mr. Murphy and his mis-
chievous doings the strongest 'seeable argument against
the continued existence of the Irish establishment. He is
just the typical Orangeman, the religieua firebrand and
political fanatic which that church of privilege and oppres-
sion has always produced. Ho embodies and dis-
plays wherever he appears the blind intolerance, per-
secuting zeal, and what may be pretty well de-
scribed as the ingrained malignity of the guanine
Orangeman iu every quarter of the globe. It
earnestly commends the entire proceedings at Man-
chester to the notice and criticism of those who identify
the cause of proteetaniam with the defence of the Irish
establishment. The truth is, that by the intolerable spirit
it has nourished, and the breed of malignant fanatics it
bas engendered, the Irish church has done more to dis-
credit proteetantism and disgrace the very name of
Christianity than their avowed enemies could have
effected.

The Tekgraph remarks that Mr. Murphy's conduct and
its consequences have been already so thoroughly and
soundly judged by the country, that the magistrates may
safely put the law effectually in force, without fear that
they will be accused of more than a just seal for that main-
tenance of order.

Already, according to the Herald, there are scarcely un-
certain intimations that if radicals and liberationists will
not be propitiated by the downfall of the establishment in
Ireland the establishment in England will be abandoned
by those liberal politicians, who would strive to make us
and themselves hope that it is not at present attacked.
For the sake of political honesty the Herald should like to
see such flimsy distinctions cast aside. for even Urtiplaton.=
could not be fooled by them.