The Express.
London, England, 1857-01-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1857.

Ministers may plead in palliation that the Governor-
General of India being twooseerily invested with the
power of coercing protested States in India when
necessary, hie authority bad in this instance
been unwittingly extended to interference with
a view to defend a protected State out of
India. But in the case of China it is dif-
haat. The quarrel with the Chinese originated
in a claim on the part of the English which most
people believe to be utterly untenable, and which all
admit to be trifling. There was no danger of aggres-
sion from the Chinese. The English authorities in
the Chinese waters might with perfect safety have
written for instructions from home, and waited foe
the answer before they acted. Instead of doing this,
however, the English Admiral and the Governor
of Hong Kong have of their own authority com-
menced hoed ities with China. They have precipi-
tated the country into a war without being autho-
rised by the Crown, without condescending to give
the Crown timely warning of what they intended
to do. There is but too much reason to fear that the
English Government, out of tenderness to its repre-
sentatives in China, will sanction their conduct, and
prosecute the hostilities commenced by them. If
this is done, the power of declaring war in the maw
of Great Britain will have been delegated to inkdat
functionaries of the Crown. Waiving for the gent
all consideration of the " untoward " results to width
a war with China may give rise, let us weigh sew
fully the pernicious consequences of establish/tag a
precedent which may confer upon Govern= of
Colonies and Admirals on Foreign Stations the
power at any time to involve the country in
We have reason to believe that this view of the
Chinese difficulties has already suggested itself to
e than one Liberal of mark and influence. We

are most anxious, whenever it is possible, to abstain
from miming questions that may divide the Liberal
party. We haven desire to press hard upon Minis-
ters at the commencement of a session, when

they are threatened with urgent and delicate
questions of finance, and with the assaults of an
Opposition whose unscrupulous leader has just
returned from a neighbouring capital, crammed by
one high in office there with captious objections
to the foreign policy of the English Cabinet. But
the exclusive authority of the English Crown
to declare war in the name of the
English nation is a cardinal article of
our constitution, which we are anxious to see
affirmed by the Legislature, at least u a safeguard
for the future, if not as a remedy for the past. And
we are not without hope that memo Liberal, of
approved judgment and moderation, may be found to
move a resolution in the House of Commons, affirm-
ing the principle that no war shall be declared against
any state out of India by any other authority than the
Crown; and th►t whenever war is declared Parlia-
ment, if not sitting at the time, shall be immediately
summoned.

We (Plymouth Awed) hest that Sir Massey
lapis is gain le try far Westbury. Ile bee bees making
lime( se pe es be is. them awl my robs* be se-
emed. Ha maid Dave so dense of ebeiteug a east for
Ikea Dena, ekes he le better beOW. •• a Lesdlesd than
be wadi be busied es • politicks.
_ _

The Plystaseth lieu;Nal says " The reformers of
Dooggort len idmissi to LW forward as a candidate
Ise the suessmslodog of int borough in parliament Jame
11111., Nog, ths puma mombor ix Weetbaryt sad the
peordstor and sabre of dr Bestressier, to supersede that do-
adhlog Derhyits Gam! &r George Besteekry. Mr. Wilms

am to have sitlealei a maim at the libehauiee' Institate
hotereek, bat vas promisi by a fell *s hi. hone."

Till *NT ideld adcortox.—A meeting of the
BOW Mai ad seipeuteee et air Walter Riddell, the
emenative enable Or Ile wt divides et Yea, was
boil yeeterdey wriedis Ili es Seen MAN libilands, Dr.
Kiag la the alit. WWI* alma bee a keg *pod-
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olont dee smilloolloo of the adeosivo pork for ono
dore as lour liamrltwr ride& The party, bow-
over, ologeelobeol elmooshoo Ore Soy limd set km drives
larerikag bee tho opoollose Talmud, ~men kis
gam mitylolool his lemelisy sod trelemers, owl iloe pro-
proodess Iwo owl" adsokoivo with than yid* were
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TiDai or PliedrPT DOWWL—We Twit to
blase te amo. the death of lard Dowse, tahhi took
=.lll:=,.ea the Mk hat., la lie 416 hpair.
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vialtbe areitied wee simile& Is AIDA_ ISA
M Noy had, hoe tewoldwa ditties. Lleak Miler
et Pi ea Milkmaid hes WI weed &Sim, allalrea
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tem& dms dr Hod. W. W. Dawisay, cealudeil the meaty
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11113113501 t, JAZ. 111.
The Queen and Prince walked in the grounds
adjoining the Culls this monism
The Thoth Ambassador (Coast Pososi), the Anodes
XlSdater Sig Counter Chreptowitek end the But and
1 Countess of Clarendon have Oft the Cull.

The Hon. Caroline Cavendish sad the Hon. Plots Macdo-
nald have escasedsd the Hon Lucy Herr end the Hon. Miry
Basel es Maids of Honour En Welting.

The War Committee met at two o'clock yesterday 'Ser-
mon, et the dice of the Secretary of Stas for War, In Pell-
Oa. Present The Doke of Csmbridge, Viarotmt Palmer-
ston, Lad Namur, Sir Clone Orey, and Sir Charles
Wood' _

Despatches trots the Gannon at Hose Honer, Cayks, and
the Mauritius wen neened yesterday at the Colosiel-edlce.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland base arrived
at Stafford Hoar, from Trentham.

The Duke of Wellington has left town for Strath li
-
Beldwayn The dachas is slant to resume her duties e•
lady in waiting en her Mujeny.
The Marquis of Salisbury has left Hatfield, on a
♦:sit to the Marquis sad Marchioness (Alliance, at Burleigb.
The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland and Lady
Rees Fans have returned to town, horn visiting the Marquis
of Exeter, at Burleigh.
The Earl of Strathmore has left town for Mantis
Beetle, Forfarshire.

The Dowager Lady Cowley has returned to llert-
foed-►treet, Lem visiting the Marquis end Marchioness of
fleliabory, at ltatfield.
The Earl and Counter of Errol have arrived at
Blair Carle, where they intend to remain fore few month,.
The youthful Gorily had rerevaly been in the northt
The Earl and Counter of Wilton have during the

pest few days bees entisiguing st Egerton Lodge, gelton
liembrey, the foilowiug distinguished visitors :—Hr Royal
Highness the Duchess at Cambridge and the Prisons Mary,
the Hari of Westmoreland, Lord sad Ludy Grammer, Lady
Geraldine Somerset, Hon. R. Grosvenor, Count Jaoourt,
Major Puri* Count Chotck, he. A grand ball wee con-
, templated, but the decease of the Dyke of Rutland vet it
aside.

The Earl of &afield, the lion. George Grant, the
Hon. A. Feuer, Henry Gordon. Cutoro;ng, Esq., end Wil-
kens Brown, Esq., Linkwoud, have during the pest week en-
joyed, so tar alibi weather permitted, excellent sport in the
covers around Callen House.
THE EARL OF EAREWOOD.—The following IDCdi_
.

eel bulletin was issued yesterday morning Thegorl of
Ilarewood has passed another good night, and his lordship is
going on satiatisctorily.—liarewood llore,.Thursday morn-
ing, January 29."
FAINENAL OF TIM LATE Delis os RUTLAND, K.G.
—The metal remains of the decreed duke were interred in
the mausoleum of Belvoir Carle, at half-past 10 on Thurs-
day morning. The funeral we etrktly private (in accordance
with the rah of the deceased nobleman), and remarkably
plain mud unostentatious. The procession was headed by the
present duke r chief mourner, followed by Lout John
Manama, Lord Omer Manners, Bad Jermyn, and Lord
Forester. A large number of the tenantry were present.
The funeral of the late Rev. A. Thacker, tutor of
Trinity College, Cambridge, took place yesterday morning.
The body was carried in procession round the Oreat Court,
the college choir chanting the service. It was deposited
under the pavement of the ante-chapel.
The Bank of England have ordered a bonus of
ten per cent. on the sabres of the clerks in that establish-
ment for the past year.
A memorial, very numerously signed by the lead-
ing bounce in the wino trade, was presented to the Tres-
arry yesterday, requesting that the privilege may be granted
of bottling foreign vines in bon/.
The Royal Commissioners for determining the site
tithe National Gallery met yesterday in Downing street, at
the bean of the Find Lord of the Treasury. The rnmmis-
stoners present were Lord Broughton, the Dean of St. Pours,
Protestor Faraday, Mr. Cockerell, R.A., and Mr. Richmond.
The Queen's commission was read, Lord Broughton placed
in the chair, and Mr. Montague Butler chosen secretary to
the commireioncre.

Mr. John Edward Walshe and Mr. A. Lawson
was to be called to the Innur bar, at Dublin, yesteethy.
Ethiserbes ever takes pat to say raided movement, bat it
M believed that both bases to the " moderate emasereative."
elms of paticiona.
The Neterestform#l mays :—" Mr. Spurgeon, on
Sunday last, look a collection at the Muslc-hall fora ftmil,
which it seems eight of the London Baptist Churches unite
in raising fir the benefit of their needy evangelists in the
worry. His Mat was the lam clause of Luke vii. 22, and
ter yocumiary enrol was founded on Wiclitra translation of
the words, Poor we have taken to the preaching of the
Gespet.' Addressing, in the ovum of his remarks, any
kinds of tke Palma Aid Society who might be promoted
to be proms amengpit kis 6,000 bearers he told them he
knew it ea isdailible seethed for multiplying curates in the
dwelt. a Split a Irishop left Ifty said be—a Rally which
faith Serlia the imerest approach to a clap that has, perhaps,
ever bow board is a modern wershiypieg amembly. Mr.
Spurgeon's mod realimi, we believe, eons M."
The Emperor Napoleon is said to have sent to tho
rang Counties de Monty a magolikeat diamond necklace
sad aces es • wedding potent.
The Grand Council of Lucerne in its last sitting
rejected by 63 votes to 23, as it had dons before, a proposi-
tka for an amnesty to M. Nygren Muller, formerly chief of
the Sonikrbund.
Nice was illuminated for the second time on the
UM with as much splendour as on the preceding night. The
Xing of Sardinia, in plain clothe, went along the principal
streets in • carriage, in company with Count Carew end M.
Itatemi, sad wits loudly cheered.
A Paris correspondent of the Nord of Brawls
sap.—" I hath vemind a letter from Lyons, which wen-
. Sams that a simpthr meow M eorent is that cbg—eamek,
' Ore M. &math sayeadaat el the Maher et Depths.
Emig the reign of Leath Mgr, is ea des the et twig
mob. Sim lath M. themptine entheigesl these Maim
i theme matioahrly s a keg day wadi be made et
Reim The meat Me ct WVA is meg le bas WOW
him with the idea depalbeg the ressektim elide Ibis •
mmestery."
. . .

Mgr. Morlot, the new Archbishop of Pavia, pro-
vosts to spew' a few days at Team beton he hakes poopeseion
et his new .es. All the pried* notetelities of Pude have
leg ate erode at the midenary onsbiletonent where he
bee NOM ism Ms mien hem Lam Two days ago,
delegetes Nee emend aspetulism et workmen had me Inter-
view with his. to odic their esnandulatims. His excellence
said that the worideg dimes of Paris night always rely on
lie devetelhasse to their inter/Ma as he would "on their
-h wrote" sad fibb."
A Paris asereapaadaat of the Brussels Ask-
paikwir, eassarallsg via the dead at the Feltner de
Linea, deems :—*. Pereigame et didactics et Perim
made it a paid it Imam to he peeentei to do Yee pork-
ceme, eat they were orris f assomistkallieurgenteest
men 'Elbe day to her miffs. It woo the horlyeartas of
Mplomils am, cash dace every day belsgbg We costin-
g's". It Is sid. that as Dedham pep= to *abet la
bwr mhos the esdekr sow co 11.• eve of emseding ; het I diode
'hear she will waseeeL Her sew einy width Is dewily
laildmist, A !lOW the dlgismehis who boa at de-
in.. de Idereste, he pudica as tondos; • neutral
ground Irma which they was not emegimmithig them-
edema. It is knows that the pitmen bpi up an
SWAIM dal conemorinee with the imagnsirDowsgar
el Damia. Ib hovel Y moneho, be a bed it notes and
mind& dominonte. did was adder le mode public."
A wrier to the Ard rye ma the ease hod that the de-
ceased Owen had Gobbed her assassin, wed ad they am
committed to the MO Or if. Guist. The weber lo the
New/ thinks it Is a awerehal het that " there is Mb hope
d mating as was, elde. Ned widest& a Ira to deli the
aim empire ;we her we shall wow led ladf etsolloisat
test, bialgesee, sad wollewity—lnes to mime Krim de
Lew" list ewes to wand her." The Mei Asir that has
oiled son, Prime Pad de Liens, was with her inlet Mat
neemente.
" I was made witissas to-day," writes a Paris oor-
respondsat s Brussels paper, "'E a curious apertsele. It
memo that they have saga end a met of Ammo telegraph
road the Barr. Certain signs auneunce the riot ter tall
at tie finds. Titus en Individual leading oder the peri-
style raised he UM, end We sign was Inuadiately repeated
apes the /Yes, and communicated to • romp ire adhyr Kee
Ma& This emoted the the Credit Heigh wore ender
particular Ogins. I speak of what I maw."

return for good and available bills of exchange at
two or three months' date, at farthest ; the bank

should always retain in its portfolio an amount, in
such bills of exchange, equal at lesat to the amount
of its notes in circulation, so as to be in a condition
to withdraw all its note* from circulation, within a
period of three months, merely by the produce
of the bills falling due, and without infringing
upon any part of its capital. Thus, the capi-
tal of the bank need not be touched, in the'
liquidation of its notes, if its notes have
been issued only in return for true bond-fide neces-
sary bills, representing real commodities. A bank
which should have attained the reputation of infalli-
bility would, therefore, have no need to use its ca-
pital at all ; and so it was that the Bank of England

was enabled to lend its whole capital to King Wil-
liam 111. The operation of discounting is one so
important and so delicate, that those who direct it
should have no other occupation ; being, as it were,
the judges of trade, they should not themselves be
traders; they should abstain from taking any active
part even in the administration of the capital of the
Bank, or in making a profit of temporary invest-
ments.

Great care should be taken, however, to in-
vest this capital so securely that the holders of notes
of the Bank, who are to regard it as a

supplementary guarantee, in addition to the
bills and other securities in the Bank port-
folio, may never feel their confidence shaken. The
capital ought to be placed where it is, in a certain
degree, immovable, but where it may always be
available to cover any losses which the Bank shall
sustain. Part of the capital should form a reserve of
bullion, and will yield no interest. The best appli-
cation that can be made of the remainder seems to
be its conversion into stock of the national debt,
negotiable on the spot. The Bank must always
keep itself in a condition to liquidate, at any moment,
first, the claims of the holders of its notes, by real-
ising its securities; and secondly, the claims of its
own shareholders, by dividing the capital between
them, in the portions contributed by each. A bank
should always be ready to come to an end, in order
that it never may.