The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1867.

lie down quietly to die. The humorous member
for Bristol doubtless Alia that if he could only
once persuade Toryism to walk into the auction for
popularity and make a bidding, there is no saying
how far the feeling of cospetition with Whimsey
might carry it. A painful recollection must
haunt Conservative drams of the blunder
made in 1830, when under the guidance of
the late Duke of Watosototi and the late
Sir ROBERT Put, the party went open-
s/rads/I against all reform. Years of exclusion
fres power have been the penalty paid for that
moan blander. Will it be repeated now ? There
am daily indiratime to the contrary. Even that
dullest of dear old dukes, his GUM of CLISTELAXD,
has recently given birth to what he believes to be an
idea favourable to Parliamentary Reform. The
ducal scams is hardly worth repeating ; but it is
well meant, and may lead to scathing better in
other queers. On the whole, there is an evident
stirring beneath the straw. What will come of it ?

TIM Savings Bask Bill, as now amended, is a
very decided improvement on the original measure,
and we should sincerely regret that the very im-
portant advantages it menet to the general body
of depositors should be lad or deferred through en-
remonskin azigeasiss on the part of the Govern-
ment. or al lhato laterwird in die existing Banks.
The doh* reeks for the whole d tbe deposits I
is a bra Ihn Oils will tally appreciate, and the
pLe loriatesil flana the Frank instantiate, of cor-
m*, iaai kebe stook on the demand of the dots
poillewbbfteedr exaellent. We would also cell
alleadia le it warrision kr on being holden of
dad ao onweadail to grant power ot attorney to
Ilia Ontwhiewaa authorising them to rosin *-
lAN* ibiassa, sod pay them to the await of the
delarlise at the Ravings Bank whisk naives he
semi irele The will Malibu soma-
rage many person In*
_525
__a distance
from London to bosom IstioNers, a form
st investment calsablail mw than any other
to oneetzsgo and away pwiadal habits. Ws
diem ohm the introits:Oa of a clause whidt ws
peelpalp plated oat as ramtial to say mow
at Ms reding del an annual soon* it
theinraimsdemoialselop Banks shall be re.
mei to Paelheeek id* • staloree et So
ire* due to IkendliMa ly the OmMaidensnta
d tilts awe Nibs to wait thee doing 'Lk
leareab wan oily to the taw bud* *a
=...
Brarity Savings Inds s be &whir
Ins at as Bill sans* tha all waldlag
Pads will moo taw that title, otherwise we
sled& be girl io me a *sitar remit cinch
regards this** nil liabilities connected with iho
naiades at the pram* time, sad Idle
ara decline tits GevaewmaesaritUaas
Bat we le sot la the test milstrie ihe
swam la • pront hem will la annoy.'
adspled, or we eanaot andiarstil
Ihn Threes and Managers of novinp Beebe
&mit be called spa to me* raillowi
swain which they an left pas* la
ler dark. We repeat tbst *thud twat smile
whisk
libiably wail difted ina
to tem he dat the ernikee
• Goveriusd parsee reero
met et es bed* we sled& be direst lo lash
are is geeressiat et the advantage alio*
by the orems as a lee eel thee the annese
white raliteinedy ariesebeali dee s
idea greiginik rove weessrele ie moo.
nig a beim imisseassers. It me be sinew
best abet those grit sees set else at a worabler-
able seedise ot deb own coaesines tea bees-
whet settee, wink at the least elide thse be
oxen warikrad" while their dual knowledge of
the brills of bra*" and their *Whim on
M the difekaap of the regulations sow is Wee
k Bak eve* Iseb, is lately to be at the
Last ai vend* amid useful as that cot
the antral arberity from whom thaw regulations
I are to issue "from time to timer If the Cr es-
t:m.oa of the ESCIMII7/2 1990 sods up his mind
as to the details of these malodors, why are they
not lidded to the Bill in a stimuli! If, on the coa-
trary, be proposes to ascertain hereafter what rules
may be necesery, it places the existing Banks in an
unfair portion, for they are clearly delivering them-
erns up, boded band and foot,to the Oonnaorsar-
01011WAL and Commissioars. It is true that the
liephdam are not to be binding without the mac-
flea Commimionen of the Treasury; but we
debt very en* the value of that proviso, *law
who rsgrothms are previously submitted to the
'gym eel larger* of Savings Banks, and their
dissibm buil. We have net the slightest doubt
slat Bir O. C. lawn lir but one end in view,
aeraly, giving the Government 90 effectual a con-
ing over the Banks that the responsibility
▪ saw women shall not be abased. But
=head that this new responsibility is im-
amornaged by the public in general. Its
rise/ is simply the amount of money paid in
by Widnes to the Savings Berlin, and not yet
neat over by the Trustees to the Commissioners.
Than an altogether some 500 Banks, and if we
take $OOl. even as the average Boring balance (the
legal amount being W.), we get at 150,0001. as the
sod mount the Clovernmeat is called upon to pa-
swiss ; and we believe we have put it at a figure
laid' win be laughed at by those familiar with
Beige Dade Ile CeascaLcoa of the Elan,
em„ bessowe dies .at idle so narrow a vow of
Os setter ; he la we idiom dee* desires of
gibing Savings Basks ea sash a beteg that thin
utility and imortenos may be km* loorsard
mei with that legertaoce the at the
Oeseimal as err& the gaweare will inseam
Oar Ida is that b. dell not &hat bis
beevanat mei patriotic object by a want d
*aka as to the scans by which be proposal to
sabot it.
The Bill already provides for the creation dilations
WI elm with salaries stroked to them ; and it
adbadm the Goverment to establish, when it
gnome elli where it pie* new Banks, and to
era op sad return the deposits if they do not
arm, all of which is *errata' at the general
Ilaslogo Bank toad. Now, it seen bat a little more
to gorier the Osounment giereatee a roster
to the astir don the adoption from time
d the lallawdome whisk might now,
egg have osmosis maw the preset system
1111 *at we enema sari a gram of adoption,
di% weed be a feet seenragement to fraud;
lei ea ail few say greater risk than answary
• sew the gplareetos barbarous, at the
general body of ingsettors. If the Brill be insister
upon as it ars saw* with power an the port of
the Commksionses to mar and change regulations
as they phew, applying them generally in a sort
Procreates& torsion if they are to mega* or re-
move oaken without retinae to the Trustees and
Managers, we have net dr slightest doubt that to
peering of the Bill wither dear explanations as tio
the mode in width dire power ante be trarrad
mill be the sigual hr a rend tedreilia moos
reilessea now Oleg three dim In vie el
rerhie et the Bill, whisk seer truly seem*
leer hie bra sastalled by asportato
Resists Bete wo miliaria that as a
• lay bars been eretra rd. m far as their

the ,
that

supervision gesOw alikly creatable manner ;
and we see Moll en Cave the weet4l direction
that
Nei
a* Wks ease a year,
or lose do* flailmsd) Oat will maw that
superable awe allbataal against buds by clever
knaves. To able, lierefore, to the Treeless and
Managers that the Combelesers in London are
Pin. by intuitive ii.mbrip, to instruct them in
dm but maids fti oseielft tbalianka, and refusing
lima. at Oa faile dim ova a sample of that know-
• will be igt br OM area booth. We believe,
ialleaver, that as prod MN will be so efficacious
la extending the utility d Savings Banks—the ob-
jeet the introducer of the Bill has chiefly at heart—as
the local knowledge of the habits of the people pos-
sessed by the Trustees and Managers, who live
unenget them u it were, and are brought into direct
cutlet with them in this very matter of patting
midi their savings.
X Sir G. C. Lewis has not prepared the code of
=a very simple course wasopen to him
"'
eald have disarmed opposition. The regula-
tions of every Savings Bank in the kingdom are regis-
tered, and socessible to the Cow rraoLLER-0 maw-
What would have been more easy than to point out
in those regulations the parts which were incom-
patible with the Government ideas of security, and
to add those which might be considered essential ?
Every locality then would have been enabled to show
the reruns why those alterations ought or ought not
to be adopted, and it would have been no difficult
matter to confirm the regulations as amended. We
have no doubt that any reasonable ingestion would
have been universally adopted; betto ask the'fresteirt
to bind themselves by ruble the tenor of wirch they
are utterly ignorant of, or else to find their Banks
shut out of the pale of the general parents., is
neither fair ace reasoaable.

Loan BectonAn has signalised his return to the
active dative el political life bye panne of vigorous
and mreastio eloquence worthy of the old days when
Ithe maw of HIRST BROUGHAM was a power and a
hoer. 'rho excarion was worthy of his powers.
The inkier* of his desessistion was that so-cella
SHOMbeallt is the Dive= Bill by which the
Maw boo malt to est film the woman who
les ems leas • tin ti afiellay, all chance of
doing NM nere—ell hp of retrieving her position
by fining a loggia union with the man who has
hi effieg. The level species of divorce thus
nosed von elmetelheired bfr Lord Basootum with I
the mg islisitsseemilinatiens °f arrow and ridi-
oda, It via ss ingualka et their Lesiiips. hof
gibbons weillbelopelent whisk se one woad
infeinge.*lteresmilhiremparatica amened attar,
nor &divorce a eireseth,bei platy sae smi pertly the
other, taking the Adds smi leigedisdsme of both.
It was partial and innerhet, Me divorce ei weaved et
dove, and irrevocable, like divine i viittrio." It
Was " an ialletill• which left Os laillend free, bat
with the oseel Impellegen of sl nsmetneal produc-
ible left the wth not altogether fres nor altogether
Ithered. Part of her chains were strait off, but some
Wm wen hit clanking round the rags to which they
awe pang to rodeos her. She was not to worry
=sea wee doomed to the alternative of pre-
en want--of sinning or starving—of the
*eels er the workhorse." With trenchant terve
of mingled logic and irony the noble and
Lang orator verged upon their lordships the ab-
ate; of .a restriction which, imposed from an
AMA Mr of tasking adultery attractive, tended
Mobs it irrevocable and continuous. " Supposing,
eta lards, we pat all violation of justice out of view
eens little matter is an swiegably which is the highest
One of Judos is the nabs ; sapping we pat all
wog fer mardity cost of view—no little semi.
Age even for argument's sake in a place
misened by the Heads of the Church ; supposing
*lee and morality out of the negstion, and taking
k Oleo lower ground of expediency,want to
km, what yyongain ? Your object is Ito prevent
alkllkri. Has this aviation such a tenancy ?
what if it bee so each tendency ? What if, on the
iseleary, it has • tendency to encourage the °Boos ?"
rave in nine eases oat of ten is proved by ex-
palm le be the seducer : is it no encouragement
tielfte illthinen give such a man " an Act of Futile
vein ' against having to take to his home
On dam of hie seduction, or, if you will, the
tiftenilles etlis pit=
Al On We "nib answer to these arguments,
IW Oithithafin wee moved to oppose the rigid in-
=iof the well-known text which is the
llargeoeme in this matter of the orthodox da-
intiest". Os all true principles of exegesis it is
abundantly dear that the strict construction put on
this text is =warrantable, and this on the plain
~wedthledishme= two of the Evangelists it occurs
vrl~la a third it is found with the
imp:rag quellinitha "except for fornication."
No biblical aide lea ewer ventured to suggest that
these words an ea Interpolation ; eves thaw
therehre who insist ea aterding the text as a pro-
hibiths WWII divorce and re-marriage, siege
for Onimilele: are bound to admit that, far the
rend gamin, both divorce and remarriage are
poollisi Lod Illooosom, however, speaking es
as sari arse el • theologian, very wisely pat
Ihe mile* Or Ofistioa en a far more cogent end
eirinierthe greemiL This pmeage of Scripture is re-
-11•1 wen se beteg absolutely prohibitory : the simple
moo ia. "Ila diction comes 150 years too late;
aft • °sawn mg a half the House of • Lords has
ins en peeing Divorce bill, and allowing
do guilty parties to merry again." On
that reply we are gaits ochtent to leave
Om ultimate few el the emetic & to the
good mines of our hereditary legislators.
We ascot suppose that they will be guilty of so
prose as est of esitetaltification es to robes to con-
es& by a general law what they have zypeandly
sonceded by nail laws, on the mere wend that
sae a eonotaloa is caster to an Interpretation pat
by a curtain party in the Minh on • dogthil
peerage of the New Testament. It is indeed new dew
trine to ne—it is en fanatics hardly len Newel thee
that so vigerenely edgmatind by Log BSOUSLUF
to intend that the breath of a scriptural In-
hibition by a snag act of the Legislature
is regal, but that the bank of the ease pro-
hibition by a general act ot the Legislature is
Even Log RZDISD•II will hardly be pre-
pared to ape that the element of cost makes any
the slightest dilkonee is the siemeat el aphis= ;
that a divine and re-nouriage taking plass seder
an improved gessral law of the lend, at • egg of 101.
at 10131.0refeld be *breech of Mawr's law, but that
a dames and reaaniege taking place by *tam of
a spesial ast of Parliament, at • SMOORWIR mat et
1,9001., is no break of ensures law. Bat mho
they are prepared to contend this, they mast be
forced to admit that the sommon fogings of
mankind and the •••••10t gagman of
tiny, when beaked by wealth sad faleince, have
has too any for that hennedeable law of
*Moor Wilk boo only operated as a law of
witfirtisioa, the parent ef infinite crime,
soft shit *limy on those who have had neither
rower ier geld to purchase an exemption from its
sway.
We would on all grounds guard against being
nisimmimstood in this matter. We an no *down

for any laxity of the merrier tie. We are uncom-
promisingly opposed to may dangerous facility of
diverse. With the grannie of divorce specified in
Lord CIANWORTIOS Bill, except on one single point
of omission, we are well potent. The omitted point
is that which would make adultery a ground of
divorce in both sexes alike. The difference between
us and our opponents hers is, that we are more in-
clined than they are to rely on the virtue and pru-
dence of oar countrywomen. We fail to discover any
reason for supposing that the right which is safely
trusted to the women of Scotland and the women of
the United States would be abused by the women of
England. But even supposing that the concession
of this even-handed justice is postponed for a time,
we are well content to take Lord GIANWORTH'S
Divorce Bill as a satisfactory step in advance safaris
it goes, always provided that it ispurged in its passage
through Parliament of this " novel invention "—thin
legislative patent of "my Lord" of DuPont—this
hybrid and anomalous monster hitherto unknown in
• English jurisprudence, which is neither divorce d
• missed nor divorce d outride, but has all the inoon-
. venienoes of both without the advantages of either.

Tunas is only one thing to be said about Lord
PALMZISTON'S announced intention of bringing in
a Church Rates Bill, and that is to exprea a hope
that what he does he will do 'penally and thoroughly.

The time for onnprendme sal beediation is pest: We
mast have abolition, and nothing short of it. Unless
the Minister is prepared " to smite once and smite
no more," he had better never lift his band
aIL This peddling, paltry, vexatious rem-
tt a by-gone era of legislation has had
ambient notice to quit. We have waited
the fall statutable term which is required in this
constitutional country for the abatement of even the
most inveterate and far-descended anomaly. The
moment for putting% force the powers of the Lees.
latere has arrived. The " hour " has comet where
is the " man ?" le it Lord PALMERSTON We
earnestly hope it may be. He is strong, he is far-
sighted, be is not ridden by prejudices or crotchets.
He must see that no one really cares about the main-
tenance of this vexatious impost, no one wants it, no
one would mourn over its loss. There is not a single
' rational person who really believes that the fabric
of any parish charch in this country would really
suffer by its extinction.
Are we really .eked to Nippon that in en age
like this—an age of revived church earnestness—of
most active and universal church decoration—when
scarcely the remotest rustic parish in the land has
not levelled its pews, and pulled down its galleries,
and built up its font, and stained its east windows—
are we really expected to believe that in such an
age as this the wealthiest establishment in the world
is to see its church fabrics perish, because it is no
longer empowered to levy a disputed rate of a few bun-
dredthermandsayear? Does any enlightened friend of
tbeChurchreallyentertainthisdishonouring opinion ?
Are not many amongst the clergy themselves eager,
for the sake of Christian peace and the avoidance of
tusehristian scandal, that this petty and vexatious
tax should forthwith cease and determine? We, who
are friends of the Church of England—who watch
with interest her manifoldly increasing activities,
the earnest comacientionness of her clergy, and the
wise tendency of ease of the ablest of her digni-
taries to ding aside the paralysing fetters of
exclusiveness—cannot resist the conviction that
a great obstacle to her extended usefulness
would be removed if this vexatious question of
Church Rates were owe settled in the only way in
which it can be settled—by their complete end final
abolition. There is a great future before the Church
of England Hass will only rely lems oa establishment
• sod more on exertion--will remember that she has
r other title-deeds than those conferred by Acts of
Parliament—that the people is, after all, more than
OMAR, and the free-will offerings of a congrega-
tion better than the forced contributions of a perish.
If the Church is alive to her spiritual interests in
the future she will not desire to perpetuate this tax ;
if Lord Pm.nansros wishes still further to
strengthen his political interests with the great
[ Liberal party, he will hasten to abolish it.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

FILIDAT Ntoit.

So ekes was the contest throughout the whole of
the by, nil es poet en the inemlehely es to the actual
sate d the pi stlhe den, Ihit eri arattrieb with hie
friends, let hi annel cemillement la the tam a bats
after her dank, with es Inpenion net be bed polled the
lama saber. Kr. Beetedita pony add that If their re-
barn WM cared they bid Ina by be vets. Mr. Millie
Mode won tory =Alb On their ma heeded the poll
by aim veto. Is die elate of usweemioty sad supine
belli plebe sembeil di the poll-boob won Wed up, end
the Manor einattlavelher, node the Adel derlars-
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The Queen and Prince Albert, secompanied by the
Princess Royal and Primers Abesjitskima drive in an open
leaden and bar Mrr-Genaral
Beaver% art Calomel Mager/wens Marled as Inearback.
TM Nimes reds es learibook Y ds Inemsem with the
PeireatWaiss rid Frees £I6A etradad by Oskar F. H.

= Arthur aadl the Prinomeal Helena and Louie' took
• drive in • earrinp sad four.
Her =sir a &nee party in the ~lag. The
Yid
Hed red Oennlnne Lady
=aril Mina Heininnkes, the Der atW iew and
the NM. MEL Walksby.
The Dui= el Sutherland. linov-Geserd the Hon.
C. awl Ms& Choy, end Camel the Hon. C. B. and Mre.
Moe bed In Mu ne et big invited in the evenint.
The mob= et the Oalegn• Moral Union had the
of atineding and perfernien i Hockinghant-palace in the

▪ We astlerstied thet the Prime of Woks will In the coarse
of the emee sake a tear ea the Continent, wwidieg for
.boat Ili mike ea the brie el the Rhin, at Itezip-
wider, at Ihe lid of tile where a eassealowe
hotel Me boa eappi roe mei bigise. It le im-
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whew 11 rept Meow
w...llllzeiewi vp the Rhime le Ihrilewlmil,lbr the
the Alp. HY voyel Mahone wit travel
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the How. C. Om, LteetissatZtieri Po-
Mr.al2iiibe, the Rev. Mr. Terror, sad Dr. Anst-
abeam R.N.

• depedollen le preesat memorials Ben Miesy share-
holders marbearg palsksiio7l•ll6lsiba I.llwstC
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Blight Boa. Robert Lowe pastadw, et Ks Ikea et Trade.
The thpatalkee was beaded* *shielding modies w tho
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Moat, Kowa Paler %are (bar Keisstp's chemist),
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Tso6.
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ai soadstft el r lota Dorsi, KD V.P.,
Mr. ems S. Waft" as CaptelnAlderioillistr, LTA.,
late R.N. (direetero), mad the general manger the rout-
my, had sa interview with Lord &sale, of Aiding tee-
at the Board of Tads.
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botootZte Govaraars et Ron Ramer, Ceylon,
Gibraltar. Deepatehos were seat to the GOMM of the
. North American Provinces sad dm eh. dthe Caps 0:4
Good Hops.