The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-08 00:00:00

THE TILIMES EMBANKMENT.

TEAT the Thames Embankment will oust five
milli ms instead of two millions and a half, vett
burprim- no one acquainted with estimates for
public works or familiar with what has been done
on our river-side. There is not a finer bit of
masonry in the kingdom we had almost written
in the world—than the stone wall and balustrade
*bleb keeps out the water from the land reclaimed.
It is far handsomer than any of the quays of the
Seine. The extreme finish of the massive blocks
is carried below the water-line, and a few
professional critics object that needless expense,
has been incurred, and that some more rough and
ready work might have been introduced into the
embankment. A few years' washing from the
river, and contact with London smoke will terribly
mar its present beauty. The lion's head rings will
chain Roman galleys to the whore ; the fine and
delicate stone work will enjoy no immunity from
the least considerate climate in tlie world. But
the public are well pleased that the work has
been so far well done, and are only anxious
for its completion. Souse weeks ago, we
pointed out that the sanguine views of a
contemporary as to the immediate opening of
the embankment were certainly premature, and
it closed roadway remains practically in the
same condition as when we wrote. The Board of
Works want money, and the Ciptlecrzunt of the
EXCHEQUER proposed on Friday night, that a
Treasury guarantee should be given to enable that
body to raise 1,830,000/. Unfortunately the Rouse
of CGiunions was seized with a languid it at the
time of the proposal, and a count out ensued. But
the security offered by the Board is ample; the
work is urgent and useful, and we trust no eon-
siderations of exceeded estimates will cause the
loan to be delayed.

IT was not to be expected that the Report of tho
Committee on the Boundary Bill would give uni-
versal satisfaction. It has been rumoured to-day
that the Conservatives intend reeistanoti; but we
doubt if they will succeed in getting a full muster
on the question, as there are several cases in
which they aro benefltted individually. The in-
stance which chiefly moves their ire is the reversal
of the recommendations of the Boundary Com-
missioners reelecting Bhminghau►. They dis-
like the prospect of two great urban districts ad-
joining the borough being left for the oounty, and
will probably take a division upon the matter.
The Government certainly implied that they would
stand by the decision of the Committee to which
these cases were last referred. The original instruc-
tions to the Boundary Commission have not yet been
produced, but the idea abroad—a deduction pro-
bably from the course pursued—is that the in-
structions in effect required that the town popu-
lations should as much as possible be abstracted
from the counties.

Tux conditions under which the Daily News ap-
peared this morning bear testimony to the in-
creaain,g demand for newspaper literature. What
it has been at threepence, the Daily News will be at
a penny, save in certain added features of
a popular kind. It possesses a character and
traditions which it would not readily forego,
and its aim, so far as we understand it, is
to increase the number of newspaper readers rather
than to divide those already existing with its con-
temporaries. With a population of three millions
and a half in London alone ; with thousands upon
thousands of enfranchised citizens standing upon
the threshold of political life ; with Liberal princi-
ple.; entering upon fresh era and a new develop-
ment ; with a call which is almost without parallel
for thoughtful comment upon contemporary his-
tory ; with all these witnesses crying Mond in
tho streets—it is but natural that the Daily News
should seek to meet the demand it has largely
assisted to create.

WHEN the railroad across the continent of
America is completed, there will be constant con-
veyances by means of railways and mail packets
for passengers desiring to travel round the world.
This grand tour will be 22,000 miles in length, will
cost about 3001., and will be accomplished in about
80 days. The English tourist will be able to visit Am-
erica, Japan, China, Ceylon, and Egypt. He walla:roes
the Atlantic, North Pacific, and Indian Oceans, tho
RedandMediterranean Seat the continent of Ame-
rica, and theDeltaof Egypt. Ho will be abletoleave
England, say the beginning of May, and to arrive
home again about the middle of July. Steam-
packets leave England for New York almost daily.
Daily trains will start from New York for San
Francisco. Mail steamers leave San Francisco for
Hong-Kong monthly ; and Hong-Kong for South-
ampton fortnightly.

This morning another report (the eighth) of the
Trades Union Commissioners was Maned. It consists of
the evidence given at the meetings on the 6th and 12th of
last month. The witnesses were Mr. Richard, the agent
for the Wigan District Association of Lancashire miners,
Mr. ltionnaniiel, Secretary to the South Yorkshire Miners'
Association ; Mr. A. Macdonald, Mr. William Brown,
miners agent ; Mr. A. Hewlett, Mr. W. Eley, and Mr.
A. Higginscm, the latter being Honorary Secretary of the
Coal Owners' Association of Leicestershire aad South
Derbyshire.

INCRBABZ OF PArPERISX. According to a
return publiabed this morning, it appears that the average
number of paupers receiving relief in England and Wales
during 1867 was 931,646, of which number 24,379
were lunatics confined in asylums or licensed houses.
The total average shows an increase on that of the year
1868, but a decrease on the previous three years, the
numbers in 1863-64 being considerably over a million.
The total sum expended for the relief of the poor only was
6,969,8401., which wus in excess of the expenditure
of the ten years over which these returns extend. la the
metropolis alone there was last year a very marked in-
crease of pauperism, having risen from 104,4901. in 1886 to
122,454/. in 1867, and the expenditure shows a propor-
tionate increase, baying risen from 978,2621. to 1,176,3631.

DUffi of DNIVIRSITII.—It appears from a return
published this morning that the total number of persons
qualified to form a parliamentary constituency in the Uni-
versity of Dublin, if the franchise he founded on the
degree of KA., or any higher degree, is 3,366, and of
those who have taken the B.A. degree, 7,715.

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ROYAL VISIT TO ASCOT RACRB.—The gathering
on Ascot Heath this week will be honoured with the pre-
sence of their Royal Anew' the Prince and Princess of
Wales, Prince and Christian of Schleswig..
Holstein, and other members of the Royal Family. The
Prince and Princess of Wales have taken Thome-park for the
week, and Prince and Princess; Christian will entertain a
large party at Fore, and will accompany the Prince
and Pruteess of Wales on Tuesday and Thursday, when
their royal highnesses will proceed in "Asoat ii.te" to
the course. The Queen's Stand, the Jockey Club Stand,
and the Grand Stand have been repainted and decorated,
and to the Grand Stand a new lead roof lout been added.
The couve is in capital order, notwithstanding the want of
rain. The go:d cup, made by Mr. °arrant of the Hay-
market, is of the value of DOW., instead of :lOW. ai here-
tofore.

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good won. of that largo section of the Upper Howe whiff
L fres front aoclatiesticel primpossessiess or the trammels

of party. If the hill were rejected, the Lords would ap-
pear before tha t tribunal' to winik an appeals to be so sow
male, out merely as the antagonists of the popular house,
but also u the champions of privilege agaiturt Joanne. It
is sad them should be any danger that the House of Lords
will piedge ibarlf to maintain mash a system dreamed,
as it has bean, by stitillMlS of every generation, and thus
at once put itself at issue with a vast mass of its country-
men hitherto uneatreookiesit.

In other article* the newe points out that the dillicul-
ties of the Sultan's government arise from the MOM of
the new Greek kingdom and of the Serena and Rou-
manian Principalities, and from the belief of the Eastern
Christian. that theirs is the cause of Christsndom, and
that Christendom will work out their triumph. The Chris-
tian no longer quarrel. about the character of Turidatt
rule. Good, bad, or indifferent, where he has any hope of
shaking it of be will have none of it.
Mentioning the immense some which have been col-
lected for the Bishop of Louden'. l'und, the Time pro-
ceeds to examine be distribution, oqrselally- oludienging
the expenditure of large sums on what are rolled new and
permanent churches for the poorer districts. Tracing
the history of a church of this kind, oar contemporary
repreoents that in many came a church is imply provided .
for those who might have found mom elsewhere, and the
poor are not a whit the better of. If some of the money '
now spent on building and sites were invested as a enema
of income for maintaining clergy in " minim district-,"
the committee might look forward to the future without
anxiety.
The Deily News IE4 its opening leader refers e re-
duction of its price, and seta forth the conditions and sig-
nificance of the change. It also enters upon a retro-
spect of the 22 years of its history. The trade
and finance article depicts some of our rail-
way companies ea making use of the same clever,
inventive, ever-ready but most costly gentleman who in
sporting circles is known a. the sporting nobleman's Con-
fidential Adviser. This personage will often pretend to
take the symptoms for the dinner itself ; he will be satis-
fied If lie gets rid of them oven at the expense of the suf-
ferer's constitution; and wide displaying a fumy acti-
vity for the patient's recovery, ha will indulge the
vary weakness which has undermined his health.
The Laming of debenture stock I. an illustration of the
meaner in which, in order to obtain dividends, railway
shareholders consent to permanent additional burdens.
Every act of extravagance, and every rockier expedient
resorted to to palliate its consequences, brings nearer the
time when the State will be forced to wander the pro-
priety of taking the railways of the country into its own
hands—a time which it is the intend of shareholders to
delay as long se posade.
The Pea expresses a hope that the present parliament,
although ' moribund," may have sufficient vitality and
vigour to grapple with the great question of depart.
mental reorganisation, and to take care that true ad-
ministrative and financial principles are embodied in the
regulations for the constitution and guidance of the new
" Control Department " of the War-ollice.

The re/wingut counsels both political parties to carry on
the contest upon the Irish church fairly and honourably,
and without shameful aspersions, and that low rhetoric)
which brings an imperial crisis down from dignity and
privity to the level of a disturbance in the market-
Place-
The Telegraph holds the appointment of Mr. Street as
architect of the new law minis to be sztremely gratifying,
and says it is well that Mr. Street should now have the
opportunity of establishing an enduring celebrity for him-
self, and of endowing the metropolis with an edifice of
witch the nation may be reasonably proud. If the public
were polled to wlect the bold Gothic architect of the day,
their decision must inevitably fall on either Scott or
Street. Mr. Gilbert Scott has enough, and almost too
much, to do.

The Star insist that the committee on the Boundary
was a fair and an authoritati►e one, and that its wise
decisions must be supported. The Star also oosiamatu upon
the Ulster presbyterians and their desire to bolster up the
State churvh in order to maintain their dole from the Con-
solidated Fund.