The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1868.

HENRY BRETT and Co.'s "0. D. V."'
PURL BRANDY, len per Gaon, recommended by the
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adopted by the Upper House, that psi very
LORD CHANCELLOR was compelled t 4 retire
office in consequence of events in which
eldest son, and the heir of his title, played a some-
what conspicuous part. But for some years neithir
the law lord in whose person the principle of lift
peerages was rejected nor the law-lord who illus-
trated the merits of the hereditary principle has done
much to assist the legal business of the House of
Lords. Lord WRNSLlTDALE'eadvasoedisge laid him
amide; iLord WESTBURY has not ounditoonvenient.
to attend ; Lord Bsorransi has at last succumbed
to years ; Lords Casawassa, Cum./wow).
bosoms are allt restaa—ce •

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reappointment.
However, the Herald is able, on the best authority,
to say that the terms of Mr. Diaraeles letter were
courteous and even Battering ; stating, in effect,
"that although Mr. Disraeli could not, from various
circumstances, offer the noble lord the position he
held in the late administration, yet that it would
afford him the greatest pleasured the noble lord
would point out any other mode in which he might
murk her Majesty to aiffnify her appreciation of
his wished services.
Mr. Disraeli will, it is thought, remain at
Osborne until after the council, which will be held
by the Queen to-morrow afternoon.
Mr. Hunt's successor at the Treasury is under-
stood to be Mr. Sclater-Booth.

ADVKIITISEMNNTS mug be forwarded to Messrs. J. M. JOHN•
SON and Sons, 3. Cuttestreet, Holborn, aid 56. Hatton.
garden, the specially appointed Agents.

span of human life.l, Younger was
therefore indispensable, and Lord Cilium will
perhaps be of more service to the oountry in his
judicial than even in his political character in the
house in which he will now ait regularly. Happily,
in his cane, that illustrious assembly gains not
merely ability in every department, but the credit
which in an hereditary body is not unimportant--
that contributed by a blameless private life.

HAYMARKET.
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OAEHICK. Mssurs. Sahara, Buckstons, Rogers, AG ; and M 1
MYn.—BO AIM COX. Mr. Backstops and Mr. Compton.
—And AMILY JAW& Mr. Compton.

rantomirs.
Tins minima, ARRAN NA POOllB. Mr. and Mrs. D. How-
eicault, Mr. Vining, Wawa Dominick Murray. Neville. & Shen ;
Wm Barnett & sirs. idea—Attar which Tag OCTOROON. Mr.
and Mr. naacicantt. Mr. J. 8. Clarke, Mr. Vining. £ MM. Slams.

STRAND.
THIS EVYNINO, OLD SALT. Rears. Emery, Belford, & JIBING :
MU Nally Moore.—PARIS; ON, MN LEM PRIES& Yeas.
James, Thorne, Robson, and Fenton ; Readapts Swanhorough,
Berland, Johnstone, tlolt, &c.—Arvi COAL AND COKE.

Tar juste milieu is the desire of every philosopher.
" Give me neither poverty nor riches," said a
sacred writer. The golden mean has been
sung by poets of every race, and human
safety and happiness placed by universal con-
sent in the middle way. In this spirit the
Times applies itself to the case of Mr.
EYRE and the Jamaica outrages. The time has
probably come, it says, " when men of a judicial
" temper may arrive at some agreement on the
" facts of the Jamaica outbreak and the judgment
" which should be pronounced on those concerned
" in it." And this agreement it proceeds to de-
scribe. The Jamaica Legislature, without intending
to do injustice, " sanctioned' taxes/ exceedingly
" unjust in their application." Mr. GORDON cer-
tainly never provoked or sanctioned the outrages
perpetrated by the insurgents, but he cannot be
acquitted of all share in them, because he had on
many occasions excited the people " by a
" description of the wrongs they had snf-
" fered "—those very wrongs just referred to
—which were so " exceedingly unjust." To take Mr.
GORDON from Kingston to a district where martial
law had been proclaimed " was an act absolutely
" without legal excuse." The balance thus bending
from aide to side at length is fixed, and the final
conclusion given. The death of Mr. GORDON
was not " justifiable homicide," but "excusable
" homicide." Mr. EYRE partook of the contagion
of local terrors and of the vehemence of local feel-
ing, but he had no personal animosity against Mr.
Goanow and none against the coloured population
of Jamaica. Everybody was right to a certain
extent, and everybody to the same degree
was wrong. This mode of disposing
of national scandals is sufficient for the
careless, and restores to those who are
gently agitated the peace they desire above all
things beside ; but upon others who look a little
deeper and who see the issues involved, it
has a contrary effect. Without figuring to
themselves the results which such a dogma
applied to political speakers as that " every

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LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 28.

THE LAW CHANGES.

An announcement will probably be made to-night
in the House of Commons that the Cabinet has been '
constituted, but it is understood that a further
adjournment until Thursday next is more than pro-
bable. The new Premier will then indicate the
policy of his government.
I A meeting of the party will be held at the official
residence of the First Lord of the Treasury on
Thursday.
The successor to the vice-chancellorship will be
either Mr. E. K. Karelake, Q.C., member for
Colchester, Mr. J. Wickens, or Mr. R. P.
Amphlett, Q.C.
Mr. Spencer Perceval, who was principal secre-
tary to Lord Chelmaford, has been appointed prin-
cipal secretary to the new Lord Chancellor, and
the Hon. Frederick Theaiger retains his office of
gentleman of the chamber.
It appeared that as Mr. Hunt was returned to
parliament before the acceptance by him of any
office named in the schedule in the act of last
session, he must be re-elected for North North-
amptonshire in case of his appointment as Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer.

Tut secrets of the Cabinet have been so far
revealed that we know already that Lord CHELMS-
FORD has not retired voluntarily, but has been
dismissed. The step is an ungracious one, what-
ever its motive. No man ever served his party
better, more faithfully, or with less reward than
Sir FREDERICK MESMER. He law all the
prizes of his profession pass to others, and
often to younger men, sometimes to men who
had turned their coats iu order to win the
robes. When late in life his party at last came
into power he naturally became Lord Crum:main,
but it was a brief dignity, for which be sacrificed
all hope of more substantial and permanent
reward. And now he is turned out by Mr. Dia-
ILAELI, according to the statement of his friends,
without even being allowed the opportunity of ten-
dering a resignation. So hard a measure dealt by
his own party to one who has deserved so well of
them, and who has always stood so high in public
esteem, betokens either extreme exigency fn the
situation, or the interposition of somewhat of per-
sonal feeling. Both reasons are already assigned.
Mr. Mansard's apologists allege that it was im-
perative to obtain the support of Lord CAIRNS in
the Cabinet. Lord CHELMSFORD'S supporters tell
us that the now head of the Government resented
the choice made by Lord CH ELNINFORD a few days
ago of Mr. Hamm( to fill the vacant judgeship.
If this be the cane the last severity of punishment
has speedily followed the commission of the first act
of virtue. Lordelismseroaii. previous appointments
had been strictly and discreditably of • party cha-
meter. It is but a few weeks since that the ele-
ration of Sir C. J. Smwrri over the heads of far
bettor men to the highest rank on the Chancery
Bench was a scandal everywhere talked of and
nowhere defended. Still later a batch of barristers
wore promoted to the rank of Queen's Counsel,
among whom were some names that astonished the
profession. All the previous vacancies, and they
were many, occurring during the late Chancellor-
ship had been made the occasion of Tory appoint-
ments. At last, having exhausted all the decent
ability of his own side, Lord CHELMSFORD reverted
to the example that long ago was honourably set
by his early chief, Sir ROBERT PEEL, and promoted
a Liberal barrister of eminent capacity and judicial
qualification. Does Mr. DISRAELI'S enduring hos-
tility to the memory of the great Conservative
Premier extend so far as to lead him to cashier
whatever officer of the Crown dares to follow an
example which he had set
it is not necessarily a refutation of such a theory
that the advance of Lord CAIRNS has been made
the occasion of bringing Sir W. P•tie WooD to sit
beside Mr. SaLwvie, who but the other day was
pleading before the courts. A repetition of the
scandal was simply impossible. No English Govern-
ment could have so far defied opinion as to fill the
Court of Appeal from the best of our Chancery judges
with men who had been nothing more than third-
rate barristers. There was but the choice of select-
ing ono of the two Conservative Vice-Chancellors,
Sir J. STUART and Sir It. MALINa, or one
of the two Whig Chancery judges, Lord RomizLy
or Sir W. P. WooD. It would, however, have been
too strong to have converted into an appeal judge
any of the men whose judgments have hitherto,
with a curious uniformity, been subjected to re-
versal on appeal. So that practically there was no
alternative but to select Sir W. P WOOD. We
must all rejoice that the exhaustive process has
resulted in giving us a Lord Justice who will
carry with him the beat wishes of the
profession and the fullest confidence to
the public. A career of solid success at the bar,
of honest liberality as a politician, of distinguished
fairness and learning on the bench, added to •
character which, by its simplicity and goodness,
has won universal esteem and regard, is fitly
crowned by advancement to the highest post, save
one, which the administration of equity has to
offer. Indeed, we ought not in this special depart-
ment to subordinate the importance of the Lords
Justices' Court even to that of the Lord Chancellor,
for while their jurisdiction is co-equal, the wider
avocations of the Cabinet Minister and the
Chairman of the House of Lords every year more
and more withdraw the latter functionary from
his connexion with the Court of Chancery, and FOOTBALL.—Tat WANDERERS V. WESTMINSTER,' COBS, FRIDAT MORNINO.
leave the Lords Justices' Court to be practically the acm°l3l^—nis intestine match was played reittatiaLin 1 The house of the Rev. Leslie Wilmount was
supreme tribunal of Lincoln's- inn. thejetrt;slaareth tams. et-grionudati Westminster.tos wit
° y fremattacked last night by an armed party of twenty-five
It is a curious coincidence that at the moment the Ledge Goal. Spiritedteas endeavours wan made by men. Mr. Leslie refused them admittance, raw
when the Peers are thus obtaining the accession of the Wesub. powerfuldeloppo' buttnttheyhow:r oviTi4aee 2gebytothfr, the alarm bell, and fired on the assailants, who
awn
political and judicial strength which Lord CAIRNS'S The first was got by Marton, the the second by krcerner, andm fired in return. The police hearing the alarm came
liberation from other duties is intended to afford the third by Biker. The following were theryen
out, and the remit= decamped.
them, there is announced the death of one Twial,lyd.are"'. Dixon. A. BaCliirl,L;r.ew 6tereaPN' .7;1Aieesk7. _
who was intended to be the means of in- Martin.
.0. Kennedy, J. M. Yates, sad Quinlan Hon ; Another outrage, believed to be Itsaisa, samead
augurating a system under which they might have Nrain., Curt. tciciaiglinlik.Z. Giles, 0. Lee, T. WOO: in Dublin. A number of young sea were 1110161 i
ArdenC.
obtained a more permanent support. Lord W. U. Lsfroy, R. Vidal, and C. NBlriehrls'oo. W'
in•Plbli°4l"B°' No. Chigg"" A "Pinal
and cee et the party shot • resa named Michael Wass*
WENSLEYDALE, a moderately able and very con- I Ureirroesit Seemaaseres.—Easrae,lB6B.—An %h.hewer pm the Adam, Theass who geed"
soientious judge, will bo best remembered as examinatios will be heldforinit.sfiloccl-room at Ustag.
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having been the body over which was fought the aimham: seek, seneb Buster athe Kama for eve sch value olarships, Plr
err. aerobes revolver, wide woe fees& by • asa prima 01111
question of life peerages. The Conservative party &deists A.& who shall have reached the ase bawd was discharged • the Mims IF4S,
64mas
was
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lam—ALßMevesingppl,ClllcortaninisttO theLotgion knowledge et the party who EMI MIL no trooll",
triumphed, and the consequence is that we can isr 1""b• . _ MOMMdecT lima wee semo;red to the laspalal, ead
now have no eminent lawyer sitting in the House
Orgy of
of Lords except at the price of having that eminent As baalsrs' returns made to the Inland Remo exPleasib°l"ve abash The Pililishav"lndsaggill
who la lb. pubMinvis a.tip Yam "

" man must be held liable for the consequences
" naturally following from his own acts" might be
held to justify in irresponsible hands—men troubled
with convictions and clear intelligence shrink
from this delusive optimism however smiling
the face it wears.

A RECENT squabble between the proprietors of
two musical magazines suggests some curious re-
flections as to the soothing properties of music.
Are savage breasts softened by sweet sounds ; does
ORPHEUS still charm the beasts ; or is it the fact that
where the profession is harmony, the daily practice
is as often marred by discord as in more prosaic
walks of life ? Tho cynical aver that the serpents
of jealousy and irritability occasionally enter even
upon that Eden, the musical world, and that its
temptations to taste the apple of discord are
not invariably withstood. Colour is given
to this startling theory when our law re-
porta tell us, as they did the other day, of an
eminent tenor saying of an equally eminent orga-
nist, " He plays like a beast," and of these two
eminent persons belabouring osch other's bodies in
the presence of a lady who is herself a distin-
guished professor of the gentle art. So, in a
case reported in yesterday's Express, when we find
the proprietors of the publication called The Or-
chestra, after reviewing the musical monthly Bond'
Street, at issue with the neighbours owning its
rival, Hallow Square and the LORD CHIEF
JOUTICE, • learned serjeant, and a Queen's
counsel engaged in settling the form of apology
to be given and accepted, we are driven to ask,
" Where are the ameliorating effects of music
"here r The plaintiffs were accused by the defendants
of keeping a musical pie-shop, unpleasant allusions
being atthe same time made which were explained •
few days afterwards as conceived "in the most
" friendly spirit," and further pooh-poohed as
" dubious or inadvertent phrases." The court ruled
this apology to be more complete than was asked
for, and a farthing damages without cods and • good
deal of amusement were the practical results of the
action. If the musical magazines continue to in-
crease—and Exeter Ball, dedicated exclusively
to sacred airs, and replete with " Sunday Evenings
"at the Harmonium," " Rest for the Weary,"
and similar compositions, has already made its ap-
pearance—it is urgently to be hoped they will con-
trive to live on melodiously. Whatever strains are
given to the world of music-buyers, let the
discords of trade be kept out of our courts of law.

Ir must be very satisfactory to the French jour-
nalists who are still at large, to find that the
prison of Sainte-Pelagie has at this moment no
LOOM for them. M. MARTIN GILBERT, who pre-
sented himself on Wednesday last for the purpose of
spending a little time in that peculiar retreat, was
refused admission. The cella, he was told, were
already full.

lawyer's son to succeed him in the place. It was a
practical commentary on the wisdom of the coma

AY.)
1 ,
JAMAICA COME
conclusions at likich
ads of a jadiaial tamper may nelk mitre
Nib** cd the Jamaica outbreak, the Times
* it oannot be maintained that Mr. Gordon
ad ar nunotiomsd the outrages .em-
the ineargrasts ; but he had on many
extdied them by a daseription of their
every man mod be held liable ter the

) TH:I
the

conaequenoes naturally following hie own eels he cannot
be acquitted of all share in the osireve committed. The
transfer of Mr. Gordon by Mr. Eyre from Lepton to the
district where martial law had bees proclaimed was, how-
ever, an act absolutely without legal mouser ; but it has
been decided that there wee no prime facie age apart
General Nelsen and Lieut. Brand, who were opelly rr
sponsible for Mr. Gordon's death ; therefore, this, wee no
prime facie 011111 against Mr. Eyre. Without averring that
the death of Mr. Gordon was in all respects within the
definition of justifiable homicide, it cannot in the *mica
of the Times be denied that it wee exonsable
homicide. Those who would make Mr. gyre a murderer
provoke those who would make him • hero, and both
claims must be condemned by Englishmen who ma in him
may a man who swerved from the ideal height of
eidmpaesioned serenity under circumstances of great
I difileulty. .

Sir Thomas Henry left the prosecutors yesterday free
to prefer a now bill against lfr. Eyre before another grand
jury ; but the Daily News hardly thinks it likely
that the Jamaica Committee will take this coon,
U for no other reason because by so doing they
would delay the civil proceedings which are being taken
mann Mr. Eyre by private individuals whom his sets
have brought to ruin. The Jamaica Committee may
reasonably consider that they have done their duty to
society. The services they have rendered have been many
and great. They evoked • sound public) opinion, and
organised itsexpreesion at • time when we were threatened
with the return and prevalent* of maxima and practices
of government such as our fathers bad successfully striven
to throw off. The opportunity for • complete vindica-
tion of the honour of England was lost through the
weakness of the late government, but the condemnation of

Governor Eyre is as full ass patient inquiry can make it.
The Daily News hopes to have no more to say of Mr.
Eyre, but it must be on condition that no attempt is made
to place him again in a position where the life or liberty
of a single British subject, not even a Boojernan or a con-
vict of Western Australia, shall be at his mercy.
The Morning Herald does not suppose the prosecutors
were serious in making their demand. The object of this
persecution is the moral and worldly ruin of a gallant
English gentleman, who did his duty to the utmost in a
trying and dangerous time.

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PARIS, Fla. 28.
An imperial decree in to-day's Moniteur an-
nounces the abrogation of the 18th article of the
commercial treaty between France and
Mecklenburg. The conannions accorded by
the &therein to France 111'41 a reduction
to 20fr. of the duty on the 100 kilogrammes of
wine in casks and bottles, and to 20 per cent. on
cotton tissues, light transparent, white, or pre-
pared ; and Bfr. 750. on various other articles.
Another decree approves the declaration signed
on the 21st February, 1868, between Vrance and
Italy, concerning the privileges granted to French
subjects in Italy and to Italian subjects in France.
The subjects of either country shall be respeCtivelY
exempt from all service in the army, navy, national
guard, or militia, from all judicial or municipal
functions, forced loans, and military requiaitioile,
&c.

A ministerial ordinance signed by Marshal Niel,
dated 18th February, 1868, fixes the price of ex-
emption from military service for 1869 at 2,600 fr.

SPAIN.

The Times remarks upon the inconvenience to ens-
tomer, attending the method of doing business at the
co-operative stores. It is undoubtedly a pin to get an
article for one shilling for which you have hitherto paid
three, but presently purchasers will begin to understand,
at what 004 these two shillings are saved. It is certainly I
possible that the instinct of rebellion against ex-
tortion may induce a man to incur any amount of
trouble for a time rather than submit, but if the
profits of the retail trader represent only a reasonable con-
sideration for the pains and thought eoonomised by his
intervention, it may be taken as certain that there will
always be customers enough to find shopkeepers with a
living.

MADRID, FEB. 27, EVIMING.

In to-day's sitting of the Senate the report of
the authorities at Granada respecting the disturb-
ances which had recently occurred in that city in
consequence of the high price of bread, was laid
before the house. The report states that order
had been re-established, one person having been
killed and several wounded.

The Telegraph Wrist/ that Mr. Disraeli, on entering
office, must plainly state the policy and intentions of
the administration on the subject of Ireland. The rival
views of total disendownent and extension of endow-

menu will be advocated with earnestness ; and we shall
probably see the home divide itself into two camps. As a
party the liberal rank and file in the Lower Howie will be

In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the
Minister of the Interior explained the causes which
had led to the retirement of Senor Barzanallana
from the Ministry of Finance.

attracted to the cause of disendowment. Mr. Disraeli
also may be prepared for deserters—men of the
Newdegate school are not likely to sit still and
hoar any suggestion for the endowment, however
it may be managed, of the church of Rome. The
other great Irish question, the fund, is shadowed by
mist; bat the Telegraph would act bo surprised if onset.
manta were brought forward to secure legal reoognition of
the tenant's right in the improvements which he has made.
A sew royal commission, with assistant oommiasioners, to
visit Ireland and take evidence in every county, would
bring us back a mass of most necessary and useful facts.
There is nothing in the situation to preclude Mr. Disraeli
from stating the Irish policy of the cabinet in its leading
principles and in its general scope. The house and the
country look for much a manifesto ; and for the Prime
Minister to refuse it may prove to be " more than his place
is worth."

The Star reminds its readers that Lord Cairns laid it
down last year as his solemn legal opinion that to deprive
the Irish church of any part of its property would be con-
trary to law—would be, in fact, mere confiscation. No f undo-
mental change has taken place in the English laws relating
to property since June, 1867. Must we not, then, infer
'that Lord Cairns la as much opposed now, on constitu-
tional and legal grounds, to any interference with the pro-
party of the Irish church as he was last year? Must we
not also infer that the minister who appoints him Lord
Chancellor is resolved to resist any interference with them
revenues—that Mr. Disraeli, in fact, enters office with
a declaration of war on that ground, against the whole liberal
party of these countries—mania the wholeitoman catholic
population of Ireland?

AMERICA.

The royal mail steamship Java, from New York
on the 19th, arrived at Queenatown at 4.30 a.m.
to-clay with 28 cabin passengers and 902,400 dole.
in specie. She landed 123 sacks of mails and 6
passengers, and proceeded immediately for Liver-
pool. All well.
The Java made the passage in eight days nine
hours.

int THE MINISTRY. Orirraß
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rola foal(
It is stated that .en rueeday. oreatog Lard
his Obehnsford•reseived a marannitillion Isom Kr.
ma- Disraeli, which, referring to th cement
then mode of Lord Derby's • ,mg of the woonanal inn,
life writer being entrusted with formation Attempting to gt
of a new Administration, proceeded to may lb balm. mall •1 a
Iles at
with the view of strengthening the deterat °a th. ".4.4"01 1
1°11! ting power of the Cabinet in the House id Lords, 1 ahlary" tha. It caaa"l
aat which had been much impaired by the retirement lam Yarfahad ea a
him of Lord Derby, he could not include Lord °helms- I Woad bY ad 'wan
lent ford in the listabout tobe submitted to her Majesty 1 osaaloas evened Om
,h„a for reappointment to the office of Lord Chancellor. wznnia. and ma ree7 n