The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-21 00:00:00

111SCELLANEOUM TOPICM.

The Post contends that the Metropolitan Foreign
Cattle-market Bill would impose a tax upon the meat
consumers of London amounting to no less than 600,0001.
annually ; and that it would act as a protective duty of
It. a head against ►ll the foreign cattle imported in
favour of the home producer. The argument that the
object of the measure is to protect the country sgainat the
ravages of the cattle plague is groundless, for no such prn-
tection as the bill offers is necessary, and if it were news-
' sary this measure would not be efficacious.
The Times continues its approval of Sir Colman tl'Logh•
lens Libel Bill. In yesterday's debate it was urged as
an argument against the measure that it would fetter
freedom of speech by requiring the observance of great
caution and self-control. The public will, the TIMC4
thinks, be of opinion that this is the best commendation
j that could have been passed upon it.
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Reidy this day, No. XI., for JUNE,
lIIINSLEYS' MAGAZINE: an Illustrated
Monthly. Prier One Shilling. Conducted by Emeriti, T ATIM.
Cowrstri:-1. The Rock Ahead. By Edmund Yates (with an
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I. A House of Cards; a Novvi. Book 1., Chap. VII., Another
Wory ; VIII., Crowned with Success-7. The River with an
Illustrationl-4. The Hon. Alice Brand's Oorresponnewee, Nn.
VIII.--b. English Phntographs, by an American. No. V.-10
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Mr. Byre, says the Daily News, seem.; to think it a
much more monstrous thing that be should have to stand
a fair trial by the law of England for his acts in Jamaica
than that hundreds of people should have been banged or
Hogged in that island without the prelituiniuy of a judicial
inquiry. Law, which seemed mach too good a thing to be
lavished on the governor's victims, is not good enough for
him. Yesterday, as Mr. Vaughan was committing him to
take his trial, ho lest his self-control in amazement at the
thought that any interests and feelings but his own were
to be taken into account, and that the indiscriminate

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shootings and hangings and burning. which he authorised
were to become the subject of judicial inquiry.

LORD EIZEOAND TEI LONDON TRADES COUNCIL,
—Last night the London Trades Council met at the Bch
Inn, Old Bailey ; Mr. Jeffry, bricklayer, in the chair. A
letter was read from Mr. Swellie, secretary of the (Hugon
Workin • Men's Anociation' calling attention to a pro-
posed banquet in London to Lord Elcho in recognition of
his services repering the " Masters and Workmen Act."
The letter stated that the emaciation were desirous of
knowing upon what authority the banquet committee
were acting, and whether the London Trades Council hat
been consulted in or approved of the proposed banquet.
The letter concluded by expressing a hope that the noun •
cif would show Lord Echo what British workmen really
mean. After • long discussion, • reply to the letter was
drawn up, and, on the motion of Mr. Wood, ironfounder,
seconded by Mr. Warren, bootoloser' adopted. The answer
recapitulaterthe servicesof Lord Elcho and other hon. mem-
bers in obtaining alterations in the law of neuter and ser-
vant. The various efforts of Mr. Cobbett, M.l'., Mr. W.
B. Forster, M.P. Mr. Bright, M P., A. Mr.P.Taylor, M.P. ,
Mr. Hughes, M.P., Sc.,aving been referred to the reply
of council concludes thus :—" Mr. Cobbett having lost his
seat for Oldham, the Glasgow committee, without con-
sulting the London Council, or any other body of working
men, placed the Masters and Workmen's Act in the
hands of Lord Echo, which wag strongly objected to. The
bill of Lord Echo is not so radical • bill as that proposed
by Mr. Cobbett ; but it. is our duty to state that his lord-
ship rendered some service tothe particulareause before us.
Yet. when we consider the amount of mischief which Lord
Elcho, if he had had his own way, would have committed
by his opposition to and vilification of the people on the
tuff question, the dogged manner in which be sup-
ported Mr. Gathorne Hardy in Lie attempt to exclude the
people from meeting in the park, and hie recent votes to
support a mischievous state church in Ireland, we have no
hesitation in saying he is in no way worthy
.of the respect
or oonfidonce of working men." The council had received
no letter as to the banquet, and, if they did, resolved to
return • similar answer.
HIORIOINES PROTECTION SOCIETY.—The thirty-
first annual meeting of this society was held last night at
the London Tavern, Bishopegste-street, under the presi-
dency of Mr. W. T.hUC. Tunens, M.P., who, in the course
of his address, impressed upon the niembers the impact-
are of urging upon government the maxim that empire
has its duties as well as its rights, and that one of those
duties was to afford protection to its aboriginal subjects.
Mr. F. W. Cbesson, the secretary, read the report of the
society's labours for the past year. Considerable promi-
nence was given to the practice of .6.e-dealing and slavery
by the Boers of the Transvaal Republic, and the war
waged by the Orange Free State against the Brutus.
Although the society had taken steps to induce the
government to enforce its treaty with the Transvaal
, and Sir Philip Wodehouse had remonstrated with
the Dutch President, there was good reason to believe
that at the present moment 4,000 Kaffir children were held
in bondage by the Boer farmers, that regular markets
were established for the sale of what is called " black
ivory," and that high officials in the service of the
republic held human beings as slaves. The report then
strongly condemned the Basuto war. The remainder of
the report was occupied with the traffic in South Sea
Islanders, the extermination of the natives of Queensland,
and other subjects, over which the society bad taken
action during the past year. Mr. Eli Jones, of New
York, moved the adoption of the report, and pointed
to the experience of some of the American States to show
that when the aborigines were treated with humanity and
justice they became civilised. rondo], and industrious,
increasing instead of diminishing in number. The Rev.
Sella Martin, who said he was once a slave, in seconding
the motion, observed that it could not be expected that
the aborigines would ever accept the higher princiles of
civilisation, nor civilised nations the weakness of the abo-
rigines. There must be a compromise. The Rev. E. E. W.
Krause, late of !tendon" disputed this view. He had
laboured successfully for thirty years as a missionary in
New Zealand and the South Sea Islands, and had found
the aborigines capable of acquiring and pnactiziag some of
the highest arts of civilisation. Mr. Cyrus Field Mr.
R. N. Fowler, and other gentlemen, took part in the pro.
seeding • and after the adoption of the report resolutions
wewere paUcd in furtherance of the objects and principles of
sosiety.
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY 01 GREAT BRITAIN.
The animal contents:late of this society wee held last
eisning, when the premises in Bloomsbury-square were
well fillet with the members and their friends. A variety
of interesting objects more or less connected with ohs
mica and pharmaceutral pursuits were exhibited, in-
' eluding a collection of medscal and economic plants, fine
specimens of crystals and various rare drugs, microscopic
objects, a dynansico-resgastico machine, aquaria, pee-
-1 served fish and reptiles, stuffed birds, • salmon hatching
apparatus, Day's patent ice cream soda machine, pie-
, turas, busts, drawings, magravings, ko., indading • design
for railway carriages with passenger oommouication, tar-
toms illustrating tie method of gas manufastare, andlother
cheeriest processes, ha. Improved kinds of shop antis
_ i and other matters appertaining to the more
POLITICAL Booirota Ton Tag Paons.—Mr. I department of the pharmaceutist were also exhibited, and
John Stuart Mild, M.P., is expectod to moue at Mr, I some interesting &relying views were shown in the 140-
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