The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-20 00:00:00

HAYMARK

Tins Kirienso, A COOPKBATIVE MOVEMENT.—A HLBO
OF ROMANCE. Mews Bothers, Rackstone, Comptoo, Chtppes•
date, end Cthrk Madams Roberkos, Burke,
deth BSfewWLn4 Lave, to. —And INTRIGCE. Mr. Yea to

fortunate combination would survive
conditions. The Irish are a quick ,
nation ; but they are not a nation
children. They are eager to meet conciliation
way, and ready to hope much even from ladle.
Lions in themselves slight. But they can no longer
be amused by promises which bring no performance,
or 'satisfied by the graceful courtesies of Royalty
except as typifying the substantial realities of Par-
liamentary action. The occurrences of the pest
week abound in happy omens. They establish
beyond dispute the fact that Irish disaffection is
not past treatment. Prom this point of view the
Dublin demonstrations have a genuine value, but
it is a value which will sink to zero if their signifi-
cance is mistaken or over-estimated. It is for
Englishmen to see that they are not perverted, in
the interest of party, to sustain an argument that
there is no disaffection to cure. Those who
rely on them for such a purpose will soon,
if they are allowed to act on their reliance, find out
the error they have committed. A people easily
aroused to loyalty is likely under different circum-
stances to be excited quite as easily by a directly
contrary feeling ; and the very enthusiasm which
cheers the Prince of WALES, just after the House of
Commons has voted the disestablishment of the Irish

Church, might be fatally reversed if that vote should
prove but one more example of those abstract
resolutions so dear to legislators whose goodness
ends with their intentions. If the visit of the
Prince of WALES to Ireland does not bear its
proper fruit it will not be the fault of
the Royal visitor or of the Irish nation.
He has done his part admirably, and the
nature of his reception is sufficient evidence that
the popular attitude towards the Sovereign is
marked neither by sullenness nor rancour. The
failure—if failure there should be—will rest solely
with ourselves ; and to guard against the risk of
such a disaster, we have only to pursue without
halt or misgiving the course which is demanded
alike by the honour of Parliament and the welfare
of the empire.

THE PROJECTED STATUE TO LORD

DEBBY.

Soma of our contemporaries are very busily
mooting the project of a memorial to Lord Dann.
The suggestion implies that a brilliant and active
career has come to its close ; for we rarely com-
memorate men who are still with us. Lord DERBY,
in ability as well as in rank, has been one of the
notables of his time ; and a record of his public
life is becoming. He is the only surviving
specimen of a political order which pro-
mises to have no renewal, and which will
certainly not be continued by the destined in-
heritors of his title and position. The
claim of high-spirited nobles to whom
politics were a pastime, like the turf, the cock-pit,
or in worse days the gaming-table, and debating a
graceful art, like the mastery of Greek and Latin
verses, and public business a taste, like the appre-
ciation of Homes and Honacs, have their last
representative in him. The memorial which is
proposed will mark not simply the termination of
his public career, but the close of a political era.
An admiring contemporary thinks that a statue to
be erected in one of the most public site, of London
would be a suitable tribute. We are happy in being
able to support the suggestion. The figure of Lord
DERBY would read to passers-by the progress
which the generation has made on all the great
questions which affect the liberty and progress of
England. On the base of the statue should be
inscribed not the noble earl's victories, but his
defeats actual or imminent; for these mark the
gains of England. The list would be a long one.
Some of the lines might run as follows :
" Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland," " Protec-
" tion to British Industry : Maintenance of the
" Corn Laws, Navigation Laws, Sugar Duties,
" Timber Duties ; " " The Treaty of Com-
" meroe with France Opposed," " Exclu-
" ikon of the Jews from Parliament," "Com-
" pulsory Church-rates," " University and Col-
" lege Testa," " Roman Catholic Oaths," " the
" Disunion of Italy," " the Temporal Power of
" the Posy," " Confederate Independence in
" America," " Resistance to the encroachments of
" Democracy," thc. On the reverse of the pedestal
we should find a meagre list of more honourable
causes " National Education in Ireland," and
"Abolition of West Indian Slavery." On a third
side words which note at once a victory and a
defeat, a surrender of principle and a triumph of
party, might be inscribed—" Household Suffrage,
" pure and simple ; the Whip dished, and a
" Leap taken in the Dark." In these lines Lord
Denay's political career would be described with
tolerable fulness. They would narrate, with two
exceptions, not his services to England, but Eng-
land's conquests over him. This statue in a con-
spicuous site in London would symbolise not the
victor triumphing, but the captive led in chains.

infected persons
ances seems tow ridicules& If the right
of such persona does not hinder them from tem*
ling they will not be deterred by a penalty, since
in almost all cases they can without difficulty con-
osal their condition.

IN the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday
a learned counsel applied for a rule for a new
trial in a certain case, on the ground that the jury
had misconducted themselves. He put in an
affidavit by one of the jurymen declaring that in
the course of the trial the defendant had obtained
access to the jury, and had personally solicited
them to give the verdict in his favour, which they
afterwards in fact returned. The judges held
that as all communications within the jury-
box are sacred they could not be put in evidence
or used to overturn a verdict. In the course
of the argument an amusing story was cited.
In a certain circuit town some years
ago a learned aerjeant appeared for the plaintiff
in a case tried at nisi prius. As is customary,
the presiding judge addressed his fellow member
of Serjeants'-inn as " brother ;" whereat some of
the jurymen pricked up their ears and opened
their eyes. The judge summed up directly in
favour of the plaintiff, but the jury returned
verdict for the defendant. Inquiry showed that
there had been much honest indignation in the
jurymen's room, and that the verdict had been
designed to counteract the evident partiality of
the judge in favour of his ow,t brother !

Ws have received letters this morning from mem-
bers of the Abyssinian expedition. The one of latest
date was written on the 19th ult. from the camp
at Mahlon, about thirty miles south of Antelo.
The manner of progress for the last three marches
is best described, says one correspondent, by the
nursery line, " Here we go up, up, up, and here
we go down, down, down." Supplies, excepting
oorn for the cattle, were so abundant, and so essay
procured, that the commander-in-chief intended to
form no depot between Antalo and Magdaia,
or at any rate not to slacken his move-
ments to await the collection of provisions at any
one point. The writers thought that between Let
and Magdala the tents would be abandoned, and
were under the impression that before their letters
were delivered here, the telegraph would
have informed us of the presence of the troops
before Tmsonoaz's stronghold. The highest point
on which our men bad marched was 10,200 feet
above the sea, but they had passed close to a peak
estimated at 13,000 feet. The increased eleva-
tion did not sensibly affect the temperature
in the daytime, but at night every addi-
tional thousand feet added perceptibly to the
necessity for warm clothing. The thievish ten-
dencies of the people were frequently displayed ;
nevertheless the native transport was honestly
conducted, and was simply invaluable. It
was suspected that the princes through
whose territories our forces were passing at-
tempted to delay the expedition for much
the same reasons as a country innkeeper
exerts himself to get anything for his guests
except post horses. The cash which the chiefs
obtain from us they invest in munitions
of war in order to be well prepared for their enemies.
One of our correspondents estimates Tusorioss's
reliable soldiers at 3,000. If the KING chooses to
retire he can do so, reaching Kuara, his native
province, through Godjam. He might thus baffle
us for the present, and force us, at the expense of
another half dozen millions, to protract the war into
next winter ; but, to outmarch us, he must sacrifice
his heavier cannon, and it was thought the pang
would be too acute.

At the ball at the Dublin Mansion Howe on Sa-
turday night her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
wore a dress of pink satin, with bouillons of tulle sad •
Bounce of rich Irish lace, presented to her royal highness
by the ladies of Ireland ; skirt festooned with pink Sowers.
Headdress, a tiara of diamond. ; ornaments, sapphires
and diamonds. Orders, Victoria and Albert, and the
Danish Order of Catherine of Russia. Prince Teak wore
the blue uniform of an Austrian Hussar.

The Charieari publishes a woodcut representing
an auctioneer, hammer in hand, offering for sale a statuette
dimmed like the god Kars, and bearindthe word " War"
on his shield. Below the high official seat stand a number
of persons in uniform—Austrian, French, Prussian, lag-
lish, &a. " Come gentlemen," says the salesman, " who
will bid for this fine lot ? ' War r Who desires wart No
one will have it! Yon have all well considered and de-
cided ? No ? Withdrawn for want of bidding."
The new opera by Prince Poniatowski is to be
given for the first time at Paris on the 25th. /*nor
Schigoelli, the well-known violinist, has given a suemedid
concert, and was much applauded. Balfe's Bohemian Girl
is to be given at the Opera Comique. Verdi is in Italy se-
dating at the production of Don Carlos, at more than one
theatre. Patti's benefit is announced.

The Nord, in speaking of the corning marriage of
the Prinoms Mingrelia with Prism Achille Murat, mays:—
" The country to which the bride belongs is neither mom
nor lees than the ancient Colobis. It is situ►ted on the
borders of the Black Sea, and has a population of 90,000.
In 1808 the native family which governed it abdksited its
sovereign rights in favour of Russia, but retained the title.
The name of the Prince is Dadian. From a polities/ point
of view, Mingrelia at present forms a province of the
Caneasns. Those who have explored the country date
that the women are extremely beautiful and the men war-
like."

Tug MAY hisirrlNOS.—The meetings of the
charity rebook of Loadoci wW, secordiag to loagesteh.
Tula custom, be held at St. Ponl's Ostal urn the 4th
of June, and that of the Society for the Pragmatism el the
43 at the Manion-Dons,, Me Lord Mayor is the chair,
.21:13e1 M. The following are the days end plums
appointed for holding the me•Dp of the priasiial
societkr ;—The Baptist Miadonery Society, Rester-hell,
Awn 90 the WWsyen Mindsets? Society, Ineter-hall,
May 4; Church Missionary B=ioclseater;liall, May b;
British and Foreign Bible , Exeter-hell, May ;
the Irish Societyl Hanover•squire May 7 ; March
Pastoral AM Society, St. James's-hall, May 7 ; Societyfor
Promoting Christienity among the Jews, Patter-
May 8 ; British and Foreign School Society Lorgeromo,
Borough-rood, May
141, huh ChMbeiunk Minikes, St.
Jamees.holl, May ,• London onory Society,
Exeter-holl, May 14 ; Pantie Aid Society, Hemmer.
agnate Booms, May 19.
A TRADES l; arose ColinMENce.—Some London
trades' unions, taking advantage of the great delay
which hes °mowed between the issue of the royeL
maindeelonsre' report.
.and evidence are about to call
a conferee» between !ergs employe. of lobo= sad
»presentative working men coaneeted with Wile
unions, for the purpose of aosmidering whether the
relations between capital and labour cannot be broagitt
into more harnmedous &Mica, whereby the dieinitai
whit& at. now imastontly 'skin between thine ietersirte
may be averted." In this easferesses Mr. Samuel Morley
t the emplip el the heshea undo.; Mr.
JembriSrit, IL P., inn*me of Ilse »Moe trades ; Mr.
B. Seta ers, M.P., employers et ems imilneerieg trades ;
Mr. B. W. Wotkin. M.r, the tenaistli; Yr a', M.P.,
the employers of the brewery
aVt. Maria Seely,
M.P., the book trade.; Kr. B. the wad-
lea trade' ; Mr. Wigton', the tredsol&eveed there
will be brides employees fraa seal, hen.
sad other Medan. Oa the pert re Wow,
Mem Birmingham, Liverpool, ail elegem Wand, es
well.. the pprreeaae.nntais.a of tapas ovasono in various
parts of the bingd.m. The Loin.. Wesidarblea's Mim-
i:Lotion is making the eneageroents for the eaderease.—

-HOTAL Fall HOSPITAL, 01LAT.11-lIIN-ROAD.—Ths
%umber of *Ye* relieved st thk beepelel dee* Ilhe
week 'adios Aril 18 was 3,174, et whisk 1,109 were 744 w
aws.

'RIL 20,

WITH THE

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Lahore newspaper gives some particulars of
"'omit action with the Benoetess. The British
troops engaged were the Srd Punjab Infantry and
a wing of the 6th Punjab Infantry, 80 sabres 3rd
Punjab Cavalry, and they, with two mountain
guns, wont out to where the deputy-commis-

loner was with the local levies inside the
Ortolan Pass, which leads to the Begot., country.
The enemy took possession of the hills, and
repeated attacks were made upon their position, but
apparently without any decided success, and as the
day closed the British retired in good order to
their cantonments. The enemy's lose is unknown,
but their chief leader was the first man
on their aide killed. The hill which our
men climbed to the right was a most
awful place. There were not above thirty of the
enemy against perhaps seven or eight hundred of
our men ; but the natural obstacles were so great,
that the odds in men were, if anything, against us.
From their position the enemy could fire into the
masses, who, from want of space, were huddled up
together. The saddest part of it was that Colonel
Buxton's body had fallen into the enemy's hands,
and they demanded Ra. 3,000 before they would
give it up. It is not distinctly known how he
was killed, but Lieutenant Mackinnon, his
adjutant, who was wounded much at the same
time, says he was bit in the leg, and that one of
the enemy came and cut him down with his sword
afterwards. Major Hosts got a blow on the right
temple from a stone, but is also all well. The
second in command of the 6th had a very narrow
escape ; a bullet entered the front of his helmet,
struck against the chinstrap (which he had put
inside luckily), was turned, and went out at the
top of his helmet.

Colonel Buxton's body has since been recovered.
It is said there is to be no expedition to punish
the tribe.

The total number of orphans in Orissa left des-
titute and dependent upon the Indian government
for support amounts to 1,467, consisting of 540
boys and 927 girls.
A naval court has been held at Amoy, in Chins,
to inquire into the loss of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Niphon. The oourt
exonerated the commander of the ship from all
blame for her lose, which was "an accident inci-
dental to the night navigation" of the coast where
she took the ground at that season of the year.

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