The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-07 00:00:00

THE WEEKLY PRIM.

There is ono great fact which the Saturday '
Retina would be glad to think was arresting public
anent/am, but which. at any rata, is a good deal talked
about. This fact is the growing impunity which attends
lawlessness and crimes in our great cities, and 114pecially
in Loudon. Here we are all juid in the old way, reading
the police reports at breakfast, wringing our hands,
groaning after the fashion of the Britons, weeping that
our houses are not safe, our watches in daily danger, and
only congratulating ourselves that we escape the profes-
sional burglar, garotter, or highway robber in the streets
cf London at noonday because at present the trade of
robbery does not employ so many skilled bands as its un-
doubted profits mightreaeonably attract. The Saturday Re-
rine inside upon a compulsory increase of the police force,
which is absolutely necessary fur its efficiency. Nobody
ever wi.bed an actual bishop or peer to be slaughtered in
• railway accident, and our contemporary does not want
to see any given tradesman's shop in Oxford-street looted,
or its owner shot down behind his counter, by any one of
the Glass " long known to the police:. But some
casualty or catastrophe on a more impo,ing scale is
wanted thoroughly to frighten the London ratepayer.
He has had hints which might pierce any tem pachyder-
matous intelligence. But ea, in the present helpless in-
capacity of the police, by reason of the paucity of the
force, to deal with the evils of London life, it is hopeless
to expect any improvement, " the devil speed the
wrong," if safety in the end is only to be plucked out of
danger and suffering in the meantime.
The Epeeist*, suggests a scheme for the spropriation
of the revenues of the Irish establishment after the life
interests have been provided for. Briefly stated, it is to
give the tithe es it drops in to the guardians of the
poor, to be employed by them either in miti-
gation of the poor-rate, or in maintaining new
institutions fur the public benefit, as for example, the
establishment of free hospitals for the aged and the sick.
This seems to our contemporary the most likely scheme
to be adopted, although it would hers greatly preferred
to use the property of the church in order to compensate
landlords for the surrender of the right of eviction, to
establish by its aid an immediate " perpetual settle-
ment."

It is a certain sign that the country is deeply stirred,
says the Erernirwe, when the foam overflows in the pulpit.
The waters of strife do not usually rise beyond the step
of the church door. But there has been a scandalous
abuse of the privileges of the pulpit during the last fort-
night by a few of the established clergy. How is it that
they cannot discern the signs of the times: Why is it
that they will needlessly bring into peril the English
establishment, by the fanaticism and folly of their efforts,
when too late, to save the Irish establishment from ex-
tinction % 1/o they really wish to make us believe that
they do not comprehend the difference between the two,
or the right and reason of the thing Every day the evi-
dences multiply en all sides that the sectarian ascendancy
of a small fraction of the people of Ireland is approaching
the end. To what purpose then is this clerical waste of
words Or how can the influence of the church, fur any
purpose, be enhanced by its ministers wantonly identify-
ing fig miol yes with disaster and defeat

Wu eau rt.

WINDSOR CASTLPI Nov. n.

The Quern walked in the grounds yesterday
afternoon, and drove. attended by the Marchioness of Ely.
Her Majesty and the Crown Princess of Prus.ia
(Princees Royal) drove out Uds morning.
Princess Louie' and Prince Leopold ..ho wont out.

The Queen of Holland visited the Prince and Mums*
of Wale* at Marlborough-house yesterday morning, and
their royal higbneaves afterwards visited the Quo:ion of
Holland, at Claridge's hotel.
The Prince of Wale* presided yesterday at a meeting of
the council of his royal highness, held at the office of the
Duchy of Cornwall, Buckingham-gate, St. James's-park.
There were present tha Lord Portman (Lord 'Warden of
the Btannarice), Sir William John Alexander (Attorney-
General), Major-General Sir Thomas Hyddelton
(Receiver-General), General Sir William Thomas Knollys
(Comptroller of the Household of his Royal Highness),
Mr. Herbert William Fisher (Keeper of the Privy Seal),
and the Earl of Leicester. Mr. Bateman, the secretary,
attended as Clerk of the Council.

The Bev. L. F. Ewelen. of the Cape Colony. and the
Bey. Hr. Schmetlau, Foreign Secretary of the Evangelical
Alliance, had an interview yesterday with Lord Stanley,
at the Foreign-office, to present a memorial from the
Bhenieh Idistionary Society on behalf of its missionaries
and other European residents in the Great Namaqua and
Damaralend, on the West Coast of Africa, asking for
British protection against the depredations of some of the
aids, who have destroyed and broken up some of the
most flourishing stations of that society.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-
office to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Mauritius,
allow, Hong Kong, Labuaa, the Straits Settlement*,
and the Australian Colonies.

The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at a
westing of the council of hhi royal highness, held at the
office of the Duchy of Cornwall, Buckingham-gate. St.
Jaycee's-park. There were present the Lord l'ortman
(Lord Warden of the Stminarice), Sir William John
Alexander (Attorney-fleneral). Major-General Sir Thom'

hip:Welton Did( (Iteeeivar-Oeneral), liana. a' Sir
William Thom,' tinnily. (Comptroller of the Household
of hie royal highneve), Mr. Iluthort William Fisher
(Keeper of the Privy /teal), cod the Earl of toie at r
Mr. ltatourne. the ►ucr, lary, attuudal am olork of tho