The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-10 00:00:00

twice to get off,
the course was
were a quarter
less, and there
delay. So testifies
graduate of Exeter
Oxford University
made one effort
did not respond t '
steamboats had
was rough. Tired
Su mas rowed to
KBLLIY taking
declined the race,
reported that Sant
to row over the
oeived the stakes.
undisputed, now
on an ex parte at
jury, and the charge
self-condemnation,
terraqueous beings in court. The . appears
to have excited a good deal of feeling, and what •
witness, with a peculiar sense of humour, describes
as " some funny words" were used. But nautical
men have always been an excitable class, Sill°s
the time when the great GYAS pitched his coxswain,
the swift Mc !awls, into the water for bad
steering. Certain legal points relating to the
duties of referees are reserved. A contest which
might have inspired a Viaom, a Tikri.os the
water-poet, or a Ditonv, is perverted when it
comes simply an occasion for a decision of
COCIEBIIIM, C. J., in the case of SADLE& OtIIPIAS
Smrra.

of provisions, &c., to other departments of the
Government, and is a new item in the estimates.
The most important items of decrease are to be
found in the votes for dockyards and naval yards
at home and abroad, and for new works, buildings,
machinery, and repairs, the deduction in the
former being 151,806/., and in the latter 74,3511.

IT is freshening to see the new intellectual life
which is stirring amongst our agricultural class.
Chambers of Agriculture and Farmers Clubs are
frequently privileged with speeches replete with
common sense and valuable practical suggestions.
The weak place is the poetic quotation. We know
not why, but almost every British farmer who can
make • speech at all, thinks it essential he should
sit down with a line or two on his lips.
" As tho poet says," or " In the words
"of the poet," introduce the treasure. When
a homely ballad or a good English song is
in the case, there may be aptness as well as poetry.
But when those limits are crossed, danger
begins. in .the Mark Lane Express of yesterday, we
find a long account of an important discussion at
the Central Farmers' Club in Salisbury-square,
Mr. C. S. Rasp, M.P., presiding. Mr. Ow.
JACKSON read a paper, entitled " Would not the
" make of English cheese be generally improved by
" the introduction of cheese factories ?" a matter
having a natural affinity to the great bread supply
question. Dwelling on the excellent relish of a
good bit of cheese, its digestibility and virtues
of nutrition, he very fairly proceeded to show
that cheese factories like those of America, by ex-
emption from menial labour, would afford the
dairyman facilities for the mental, moral, and social
elevation of himself and his household. "To the
" prejudiced, the timid, and the unbelieving,"
added the lecturer, " I would adapt the words of
" Cowrsa :

Ye fearful souls, fresh eourage take ;
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy, and shall break
With bloasiogs oo your head.

Even with the substitution of " fearful souls"
for the " trembling saints'. of the original line,
we are a little dashed by this. Taken with the
subject it is certainly a surprise. We are not led
to it by a natural slope, and would recommend at
all events a little less abruptness to the worthy
essayist.

Ltienxit the heading, " The Supply of Wives,"
the editor of Public Opinion says a correspondent
assures him " that the demand among the upper
" classes for good wives is far greater than the
" supply, and as there are plenty to be found
" in a lower grade of life, suggests that they
" might be easily educated at the expense
" of their suitors." Now, as THOMAS DAY,
the author of " Sandford and Merton," dis-
covered, the experiment of educating girl,'
for wives is a very doubtful one in
other ways ; but what a shocking thing
it would be if a gentleman, having pledged his
faith to an uncultivated young woman, and sent
her to be educated, were to find out at the end of
the process that she was as different from
the creature he once admired, as a boiled from
an unboded lobster ! Education might remove a
physical defect, but he might discover, too late,
that that defect was essential to his happiness !
Besides, if it be true, as Mr. Corea-ray PATKOBE
enures us, that—
. • Never was a mans heart caught,
By grams he himself bad taught,
we nay presume that graces he had paid to have
taught might not attract him either. By the by,
the Baronet, in the Mr. Excavated little drama of
Mega Diversion, tried the precise plan in question,
and it broke down.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1868.

LORD DITYNIMIN AND Na. /*ILL.

The Tenet thinks Lord Defferin, in his elaborate exami-
nation of Kr. Mill's scheme for Ireland, has broken • By on
• wheel ; be has directed • bit of moonshine, and pinked •
cobweb to bit, knot by knot. It is not labour lost, but the
material really had not the least practical value. Mx.
dill has seen • vision, and dreamt • dream. But it is
necessarily in dreamland, and exempt from all the laws
which control oar every-day working life. He has de-
scribed • new Atlantis, • Utopia, • model
agricultural oommoawealth, not unpleasant or un-
wholesome to rest the oyes lapse for • moment or so.
It is • sweet dream of parent proprietors such as they
ought to be. Their landlords, with every other power at
ill, have been sent below. They are assisted by angel
hands, and want no human labourers. If they marry and
are given in marriage, they have at loset no children to
sub-divide or fight over the inheritress. Placed where
they are by an infallOale areal seloatice, they are guarded
from all future error. This is Ireland as it ought to be.
Even if we choose to be emptied and sit down in • cold-
blooded way, like Lord Defier* to And out how it will
work, we may yet thank Mr. Mill for giving us that to do,
and for painting • picture that may help to make us stall
us satisfied with things as they are.

the Reim' Pindee Train, which have been in s
state of efficiency from the moment of their arrival,
are now to the front without that encumbrance of

Egyptian and Arab muleteers which until very re-
cently hampered the movements of the army. The
Punjaub and North-West officers who are serving
in these trains understand their inspectors and
drivers, and are understood by them ; and thus it
happens that, while mules of the Bombay Train are
being starved by their Egyptian and Arab drivers,
those of the two trains we have mentioned receive
their allotted food at the proper time and without
waste.

The following official précis of the latest news
from Magdala, and from the King's camp at Bet
Hor, had been placed at the disposal of the corre-
spondents :
Information has been received of the prisoners at Mag.
dela up to January 17, and of those in the King's camp up
to January 9. All the prisoners were well ♦ detachment
of troops left Magdala on January 1, joined the King in
his camp, and were to return to Mandela with about 400
prisoners. The imprisoned Europeans were among the
number. Their leg-fetters bad been removed, and band-1
cuffs substituted, so that they might march. It is under-
stood
Mrs. Rosenthal would accompany them. There
is nothing in the information received from which
we are enabled to judge, either how far the
King apprehends the present posture of affairs,
or what coon he intends to follow. The King was mini
every endeavour to got the road towards Magdala made
working with his own hands, and making the free Euro.
peens help. He had made some slight progress, and had
arrived at the bottom of the valley of the Disci& river.
It is calculated he would resell Magdala by the end of
February with his camp ; though by abandoning the latter
be could any day arrive there. The people of Dalants
continue submissive to hint ; but those of Daoont had
again refused to submit `hiss. His soldiers were suf-
fering from scarcity of proviglias and transport. It was
reported in Magdala that ltealakk, the King of Shoa,had
again set out for Magdala, hatter pregared to act against
Theodorus than on his former visit. A detailed commu-
nisation from one of the eaptives, sent to friends in
England, and there published, has by 600111 means reached
the King's camp, and is in the hands of M. Barad. Ap-
prehensions are entertained that he will use it to ths in-
jury of the prisoners.
We make a few extracts :

mossmans, the amen which ars ginn
honour at the ambassadorial houses, end
s runts who are invited to meet bin. Tin
finishes by telling us that the agues
, not oedy to visit the collsetleas of art, hi;
military establishments and the barracks.
Thy
information was at all events stiperthiact nts •
berneks are, in all countries, the tocerament;
most care by travellers of exalted mak
has the following observation :
(vole= coal isms to observe the strictest ix.
%loner pays a visit to the Krug,
amend himself le a State carriage ; it IL
gives • levee in honour of the Preset, th ,
ambassador takes the precaution to inen,
minister', governors of towns, or geneeel..
safe persons. If H.I.R. accepts invitations
Prince-Boyel, who, as everyone ia than.
casein' himself with political affairs. The
sap r
oierying hie prudence to the extreme, hta on:7
's arrival in Berlin, two or three interview& wit',
unmek, and the subject of conversation [Lei!.
turned exclusively on the frivolities of :he
As world in the Pruesian capital. All those fun
imply the mast rigorous privacy, and are so dont* iho
sharenteristios of an unofficial journey, u is proved by on
fact of the Moniker, which must be an authority on
points, not making any mention of Prince Napoleon., re,
seam is Berlin.

It is stated in other quarters that the Prince vi',!
extend his visit to Vienna, Peath, and era t.,
Constantinople.

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a perfectly clear, steam .• 1,002,5001) ; but all that is wanted on Yin* ... Thamag7 wes eallombed with the NEWS. ue--
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stew College, asid . ••- t of t-• ,170 i., : oi • • ' • , ei• '• • - i
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inactivity, without bolsi wattled, under the t date quarters were, ,arliont7Cth
to his cutter to put on hiampley.r. and crews of the imperial troop-ships, and of two
• this movements. a sign that SADLER of the Indian troop-ships employed on the Euro- of Ms law, se seeking peeeises, wed age anekee se be
re employs. tut wiewurreskamto "81 g:7l"6"dmits sad.soodfaw fistal.r.sold Antalo, nptall"oe, clinetiand thAatalibliga'they ate likely maillt-to remain crer"silly 'Wilt
lace, rowed to the referee's boat, peen side of the Isthmus of flues, theme charges,
lianas refused to start, was ordered last year, being placed to another account. The discreet sod se
to course, and having done so re- sum asked for in this vote provides for the main- loft their aawatismosandforpretemaicea are sott forgotten, bat
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ler admits that he was hasty in acting 48,100 boys, 7,700 comitguardmen, and 1,270 validate colonial governments, and that in due time their
statement ; and the verdict of the °Moen, seamen, and boys employed in the Indian ressonable hopes may be peas& Meanwhile, however, bad been occupied by an advance of 1,4" men. "'Law" his
charge of the judge confirmed this troop service. The charge for victuals and clothing th•Y ala condemned to ese sow me %law at case Cato The transport service, upon which, more than upon Count de Bias
ion,amid signs of sympathy from the shows an increase of 94,2294 ; but of this sum the greater rewards of the Colonial-aloe, their past onYthing nrlne,hhe prospected theexpeditiondspend, of aaars*, have
serviced disregarded, sad a slight thereby mat oa their has immensely improved. The Lahore Train and ha, 11m,iona sak.. le wc4
ings in court. The matter appears : 84,977 L h. is set down as the estimated value of issues
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