The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-11 00:00:00

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

Asking the question, What will ministers dot the
Examiner anticipates on the 27th April, testi& the farther
proceedings on Mr. Gladstone' resolutions stand post-
poned, renewal of debate, and inevitably more delay. The
budget will in the interval be launched ; and fundholders
and taxpayers will be set to work computing cost and
charge and deficit occasioned by the Abyssinian expedi-
tion, and how it may most tbriftly be met. Then there
are the estimates to be got through, and the Irish and
Scotch Reform Bills, which it will be impolitic to give
government an excuse for delaying, lest thereby a pre-
text should be found for deferring the appeal to the
new constituencies for another year. Mr. Gladstone
n contemplated the introduction of a specific propose]
this session, and nobody, therefore, can feel disappointed
if, upon ea:Tying his first resolution, as he is certain to do,
he should declare that the responsibility of giving effect to
it in i carefully.framed enactment must lie upon the ex-
ecutive, and that parliament will require that responsi-
bility to be next session discharged. Other questions may
arise in the interim, leading to more hand-to-hand en-
counter, and to more summary determination of the mere
party struggle. The fate of parties has indeed generally
been determined by the unforeseen, rather than by the
result of contentions long anticipated.
The Saturday Review contends that it is not fair to say
that the ministry is • ministry on sufferance. It is •
ministry established with the general salient of all parties.
And certainly no one gains so much from its existence as
its opponants gain. If the present ministry really wished
to save or help the Irish church, the beet thing they
could do would be to resign. The liberal", if in
office, would have the utmost difficulty in agree-
ing what to do with the Irish church. There
was • time, it mast be remembered, when, under the
reign of Palmerston, liberals stayed on in official life, and
devoted themselves to carrying ont a very conservative
policy. And in some measure the indifference or satisfac-
tion with which the country watches the continuance of
the present ministry in office is due to the conviction that
it can do no harm. The liberal victory seems so great,
and the appeal it hu made to the nation so successful,
that • conservative government cannot, it is thought,
interfere with this success, or make things go less quietly
or less readily in the direction in which it is desired they
should go by the liberal portions of the English and Scotch

The Spectator draws attention to a "gross job," which,
it says, has recently been perpetrated at Winchester Col-
lege. It appears that, at the close of last year, a vacancy
occurred in the second mastership of the college, and
advertisements were published offering the place to
the competition of Ant-rate men. Among the ens-
didatee there were three who appeared to he
the most suitable, and among whom the eem
test msctically lay. They were all young men, lie
dirt decidedly under 35 years of age ; they were all in
bap orders ; they were all actually at the time assistant-
armlets in the school ; they had all been surocasfal in the
teaching and management of their forms ; and they were
all well qualified in respect of attainments. With respect
to the first of these, it would be very difficult to find any
man in England under the age of 35 whose claims Mould
have been as strong. The claims of the other two were
much less oonspicumm, although it is not disputed that
either of these might have been considered sta.
Mouldy qualified for the vomit office, had not the
firrt-namod been in the field. On all grounds the lint
candidate was eminently the fittest foe the peit:W jet e
least eligible of the three was elected ; and lie Swagger
contends that it is due to the public that some explana-
tion should be given of what certainly appears to be a
cola abuse of patronage.

IL Guisot is about to publish a work, entitled
"Mange' "'gibbons et Litaisaires," in whisk tba lister
man aye in his any on Philippe n. and his klatorieme—
" Whiners catboat/am has held absolute drealaws, 'awe
social life has 'Miasma ; it has struck widens with sesei-:
lity, end has Aided liberty without being able firmly to
establish order; it has not bole able to prayed the rears•
ream 4periods of bitter triab, and when those times ar-
rived £tlMw not how to avoid excesaes, and was inooinpe-
Oat abbe either to reform or to maintain itself."
The meetings of scientific societies for the en-
rang wash an :—Turoday : Photographic, at 8; Anthro-
pological, at 8, " Europeans ha America," " ffienr of
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Animal Type." Kr. Denis ; Wednesday : Soot Arts.
at 8, " Liquid Fuel," Yr. Paul ; lAteratura, at
du: Idintean, at 8, " Thylkotaxis in deniable= '
" Beaus *Maoris, for Interereenlng," Rev. G. ,i
Don Giovanni is announced for to-night at . -.
lane with a brilliant oast, including ILilke. Tithing ois.

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/11. P., were amongst the gentlemen present. At the re-
quest of the audience, Mr. Goldwin Smith delivered an
address ea the prominent political affairs of the day.