The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESq, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1868

Minueree. who meekly boasts, " having en-
" joyed the entire and unbroken oonadence of the
" Earl of Dailey for twenty years, during which
" we worked together in a harmony. never
" tempted. I Watt thoroughly acquainted with
" his policy, and I have pursued that policy
" without deviation." If the contemporaries of
" Scorpion STANLEY" had been told of a coining
time when "pursuing the policy" of that hero
was to be the plea for wielding the destinies of
Englund; when, as a shadow behind the throno,
he was to is exalted above the constituoncias, the
parliament, end the constitution, they would
have been indignantly incredulous. But this is
doubtless Mr. • DISRAELI'S fun. His humour
has always been of the sardonic kind, and obse-
quiously to put Lord DERBY forward, and, while
ostentatiously assuming to do him honour to pull
party strings in his name, is in strict acoord with
the traditions of a supple life. But if the bawls
are those of ESAU the voice is assuredly that of
JACOB. Hero is a thorough Disraelian touch :
" The question of parliamentary reform had then
" for a long series of years disquieted the country,
" and embarrassed and enfeebled successive ad-
" ministrations, which had failed to load it to
" any happy conclusion. We were of opinion
" that this state of affairs should terminate."
" Disquieted the country," and " enfeebled
" successive administrations" are phrases which
apply with amusing strictness to the factious and,
as it has turned out, ignorant opposition of Mr.
DIFRAELI'S squires. it was the men who wore
not " educated" who worked the mischief. The
ptinter and spelling-book had not then been put
into their hands, and their teacher had not
acquainted them with even the rudiments of the
studies they have since mastered so completely.
After showing bow he has quieted the
country and given its constitution strength
and tone, the PREMIER (Mutts over the
Abyssinian success, and shows, not merely
that the Ood of Battles is on the Conservative
side, but that the war had boon inado necessary
by the flagrant conduct of tho wicked Whigs.
" The legacy of insult and difficulty which hal
" been left us "—(as if Earl litessere. and Mr.
0 tAterroes had put the war in a codicil) —'• in
" Abyssinia," is Mr. Dmitetate's gracefully gene-
rous mode of setting forth the conduct of
THEODORE. " Such great results have of course
" not been obtained without an increase of our
" expenditure" is a descent to sober fact which
Rents prosaic after the imaginative power of the
former flight. That " economy dote not consist
•• in the reckless reduction of estimates," but that
" on the contrary such a eourso almost necessarily
" tends to increased expenditure " is a strikingly
convenient doctrine for a wasteful adminis-
tration. There is scarcely any expense wh; .h
might not be covered by it : and those wile
remember the passage in 111:11NE which Mr.
DisItSFLI has calmly appropriated as his
own will be amused at the ingenuity with
which the unacknowledged quotation is male to
serve an opposite purpose to its own. But when
Mr. DISRAELI reaches inland he excels himieli.
Justice Las "never" he declares, "in that
" country been administered with more ituper-
" Guilty, and whether with respect to the
" tenure of land, or the facilities for education,
" we will coutinue to give our earnest considers-
" tion to every suggestion which is consistent
" with the rights of property, and with the
maintenance of our Protestant institutions."
To put forward the impartiality of our judges
as one of the advantages of a Tory adminis-
tration is, as it strikes us, to insult the
judicial bench. Does Mr. DISRAELI mean that
the Insh judges were corrupt until he came Tutu
power to purify them by his example l• To " give
‘• an 1:111nest consideration to every suggestion"
is but a poor programme for a Cabinet. Mr.
Dtseeses has exchanged the duty of tuition fur the
rhyming of the nursery, "Open your mouths awl
" shut your eyes and see what the Fates will send
" you" is what ho says here. That the " rights of
'• property" and our " Protestant institutions,"
di Fend upon Mr. DISRAELI'S sticking to office is an
assertion worthy of a proved master of fiction.
Mr. De•RAELI continues:—" The connection of reli-
" gion with the exercise of political authority is one
" of the main safeguards of the civilisation of
" men. It instils some sense of responsibility
" even into the depositories of absolute power."
To tell people that religion instils " some sense of
" responsibility," as if the fact had been disputed
by Mr. GLADSTONE, is in Mr. DISRAELI'S best
vein, and prepares the mind for what is to come.
To vote for Mr. GLADSTONE'S proposals would be
to " diminish the security of property in a land
" where its tenure and enjoyment are not as un-
" questioned as they hitherto have been in other
":parts of her MAJESTY'S dominions." And " even
" in Great Britain the spoliation of the Church in
" Ireland would not be without its effect. Om-
" fiscation is contagious ; and when once a cons-
" 'intuity has been seduced into plunder its prude-
" tory acts have seldom been single."
The cry of insecurity to property is less dis-
creditable than the shanieleesuess which speaks
of the country being "reduced into plunder,"
than which we can noel no more painful instance
of misrepresentation. Mr.OmtlieTOSE'SllrOpOiltiUll
is to disestablish the Irish Church, and his rival
accuse% him of trying to steal her funds. The
full blast of the trumpet is, however, reserved till
the conclusion of the address, and Mr. DiSRAELI is
not I.lSilanitd to sound a fable " No Popery " note.
I'Thai' Lest answer to this rhoilemontade is coin-
!aired in the expressive monosyllable used by Mr.
line HELL in the " Vicar of Wakefield."

But the PREMIER'S manifesto is useful in
bringing to a distinct issue the battle to be
fought. A simple measure of justice to the
Irish people is to be denounced from Tory plat-
forms as robbery and confiscation. The disestablish-
=lnt of what Mr. DISRAELI happily termed an
" alien" church, is to be confused with the
undisputed rights and acknowledged privileges
of the Church of England. History repeats itself,
and the best efforts of TAnyoi.E and TAPER are re-
vived.

of the Dey of AimiEiss and CIIA3LB3 X. The
Xing of Itomssii lost half his States. now the
kingdom of Belgium, and the Duke of BanNewinic
was driven from his principality by his irritated
subjects. Three years later Don liftouttL,
King of Portugal, was compelled to yield
the crown to Donna Mauls, daughter of
Don PEDRO, who was loft with the Brazils. In
1618 Europe was covered with the wrecks of
monarchies or dynasties. Louis PIIILIPPR was a
refugee, the Emperor of Anemia abdicated to
i•ave his throne, Pins IX. fled from Rome, and
for a moment, Hungary was lost to Austria. In
1836, the Czar NICIIOLAS, °hooked on the road to
Constantinople, died of chagrin and wounded solf-
love. In 1839, the Duke of MODRNA, the Duchess
of Psuise, and the Grand Dube of TUSCANY wore
strui k out of the list of reigning princes ; and a
few months afterwards, FRANCIS 11. loft
Naples at ono side as GARIBALDI entered
it at the other. In 1862 Ring OTuo was
expelled from Greece by is bloodless insurrection.
In 1866, Austria passed through a terrible trial,
and the empire was only saved by the abandon-
ment of Venice. The same year witnessed the up-
setting by Prussia of the thrones of Hanover,
Nassau, Brunswick, and Electoral Hesse, none of
which wore rooted in the affections of the people ;
while in the distant country of Mexico the unfor-
tunate MAXIMILIAN camp to a mournful end.
During all this period, the Siècle reminds us, con-
stitutional monarchies were safe, and England,
Sweden, Belgium, and Portugal were untouched
by the waves of revolution. The popular Oovorn-
melds have certainly the best of the review.

TnE new Government of Spain has a noble
opportunity of attaching more strongly to itself
the already awakened sympathies of the civilised
world. Let it follow the example of the Provisional
Government of Franco in 1848, and before the
opportunity p►sses away decree, in pr:neiplo at
least, the emancipation of tho slaves in the Spanish
colonies. A now and butter life is, wo trust, be-
ginning in the Peninsula, and this would be an
earnest of it. The cry, " Viva la Libortad !" should
resound from Madrid to Cuba.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

in. the debates upon the aovcral questions uffsett
interests is essential to five them anything like their due
weight into the country, the b' peeler dine not basket, te
icy that in the great debates which must take place on
the relations of capital and labour, the 'participation
of the most respected members of the 01,04 ohiefly
intcreated is infinitely more desirable There are
no di uht difficult:se to be overcome arising out of the
timptations to working men to desert their °lave if they
are successful ; but these may be overcome at lad in a
kw nu-tames, and every case of that kind will add to the
real tffeet of the Reform Act by drawing close the bonds
between pailiarunnt and the working class.

the Court.

DALMORAL CASTLE, Ocr. 1.

The Queen, accompanied by Prinoess Louise
and attended by Lady Churchill, honoured the Counter
of Fifo with a •isit et New Mar Lodge, yentorday.

The Right Honourable Clathorne Hardy arrived at the
Castle yesterday, as the minister in attendance on her
Majesty, anti had the honour of dining with the Queen
and Royal Family.
Mr. Mitchell had the honour of submitting for her
Majesty's inspection the first volume of the " Highlanders
of ficotbuid," by Kenneth Maeleay,

Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-
office to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong
Kong, Labuan, thu Straits Settlements, and the Austra-
lian Colonies.

RETURN OF THE QUEEN TO WINDROU. —Her
l'ilajer.ty the Queen, with their Moyal Ilighnowe Princesses
Louise and Beatrice, Prince Leopold and Prinoe and
Prircces Christian of Selilemirig-llohltein, will, according
to preterit arrangements, leave Balmoral and return to
Windsor about the 2nd of next month.

Their Royal Highnesses tho Crown Prin'o and
Princes' (Princess !loyal of flreat Britain and Ire'awl) of
Pni.sia are expected to arrive in England abort the 2Jth
of this month, and pay n visit to hoc Majesty the t.l.ieeo.
Thu Duke and Duchess d'Aumalo will visit
rranroa rounlesx WeLletrmve and the Right II
thithister Forteeine, M.P., at the Priory, Chowt.,:a
Mi adip, about tho middle of the month.
Ilia Excellency the SweAlish and Norwegian
Df inirter end the Baroness Iforhhcbild have arrival at
the legation in flrcat Cumberland-place, from Sweden.

Ilia Excellency the lion. Anson Burlingame
and men.bers of the Chinese F.mbesay were received on
Thursday by Lord Stanley at the Foreign-office.
The Earl and Countoes of Derby will receive a
nuoccwrion of visitor; at Knowsley, during the third week
in this month. The announcement thit the Prinea of
Wales will be of the party is premature. His Excel-
lency the Hon. Reverdy John on, the United Stites Minis-
ter, will be among the guests of the noble earl and
countess.

Mr. (Nlo ItILSROII his passed through Paris on
DU way to England.

Major-Gtne. /al Nelson Guy is gazottol Lieu-
t. mead-Govern./ of Jen...y, Lie,itetiant nankin, C denial
1-et rtrary for Siena Leone, and Sir Frederick Ifallehty a
!ember of the bid ian

Lind Overstoti.•, writing to the Timm says:—
" It my tenants have on any former OCC:01011 voted a nsinst
Mr. Vernon, it has been their own free act. An I wain,
011 the irment orenskin, whiLhever way they may voto,
for or against Mr. V,inon, it will be their freu a,:t, so fir
lam vinctri.eil. Ido 'allow my tenant aon this and
on all similar nem- ions to vote as they please."'

At o no (ling of the church cotign•As in rhi'din
lest night the bhhop of Oxford, Archdeacon Iteni.on. and
the Right Hon. Mr. Walpole bit.,ke. The next eon4reei ti
to be held in Liverpool. The procee.lin.re in nablin were
pronounced in try' ry port mo-t emcee- f ul.
His Glace the Duke of Illanchorter and the
Itadd. Hun. the Earl of Rosalyn have cot:ie.:WA t,t tweom •
vice-pres.idents of the London Free and Open Church

Yesterday's proeesdings at the Kienee
Congress commenced with an address by Mr. W. N. Ma.-
Rey. late Finance Minister for India, formerly M.P. for
Salford, and now a candidate for !Averred, on jurispru-
dence. In the section devoted to the discussion of inter-
national law, which is presided over by Mr. Vernon Har-
court, there was a discussion on the question, whether
private property at sea ought to be exempt from capture
during war. The expediency of carrying out compulsory
education wan del ated at some length in the section which
takes charge of public instruction. At night a public
meeting was held in the Town-hall, at which about 2.000
working men were present. The chair was ocelpiel by
the Earl of Carnarvon. The speakers ineholed Mr. V.
Harcourt, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Houghton, Professor Faw-
cett. Mr. Ernest Noel, and the Hey. It. W. Dale.

The Rev. Dr. Halley is about to publish a work.
on which he has been engaged for many years. callod
Lancashire; it, Puritanism and Nonconformity."

Dr. ♦Wy vale Thompson and Dr. William Carpen-
ter base made a sueeeir,ful deep dred,ring expedition in the
Gulf Striam of the North Sea, undertaken at the rogue,:
of the Ituyal Society, and have obtained a large number of
most interesting novelties, some at the depth of 400 and
LUO fathoms.

A remarkable article in the Edinburgh Rer;eut
for September, 1831, " On the State of Protestantism iu
Germany." alluded to Dr.lman's History of the
Jews iu these words :--" Woe unto the young divine
who, like the accomplished author of this • History of
the Jews,' dares to reason, however unpretendingly
and sensibly, upon matters of religious concernment! On
him will the Theological Iteviews, monthly and quarte-ly,
pour the vials of their wrath, and on him the golden
gates of preferment will, as sure as ho lives, be
shut!" A few weeks after this article appeared (says
the Atherwritst) Milman, Moore, and Mr. Murray wore
together in the publisher's parlour, where the divine
learned, to his profound amazement, that Moore was the
author of the article in question. He could not reconcile
the author of the "Fudge Family" and " Leila liookh"
with a writer on German theology.
TDE LATE DEAN 311 t LMAN.—Funeral ,'moans
will be preached to-morrow at St. Paul's Cathaleal in
re ferent eto the death of Dean Milman ; iii the morning
by the Rev. J. E. Kempe, M.A., rector of St. Jaiates's,
Piccadilly ; and iu the afterueou by the Rev. Thomas
11.1:e, M.A., vicar of Thertield.
TrIE " RECORD " AND TILE LATE DEAN MIL-
VAN.— Thu l:reosd is not sorry—except in a sense —for
Peen Mihriem. It speaks of him with rilietile as leaving
the stage amidst loud applause, like " a well-griti:
and intimates grimly that the Dean, though gone at last,
is gore to uo good :—" But it is nut with tali life :list
mute's being ends, owl the office of a teacher of Chris:Away
imply,* issue, far too so"oune to permit its to survey with
comfort the history of the late Deemed St. Paul's. Ho lb de-
t•cribed as a poet, dramatist, historian, a scholar, and a man
of letters. We wish, fur his own rake, and for the vale of
the church, that lie had not also attained to a bail emi-
nence as a divine." His career, ends the litrord, •• savours
of those who love the world, who are of the world, and
whom the world hear,. Dot after all, it is but a sorry
portion, and whether men will hear or whether thou will
forbear, it is well that they should be reminded that Chid is
not mocked." We are not exceedingly familiar with the best
technical way of intimating, under decent reserves, that a
man is gone into the everlasting fires; but we suppose
that to quote against a deceased person the text, "God is
not mocked," is the limper and technical mode of alleg-
ing that what any one has sown, and what, therefore, bie
will also reap, is something to the last degree.) horrible.
For our own parts, little as we admire thit ordinary
damnation which savours, as the Record says, "of the
world," we prefer it to this covert way of wra:iping it up
in a teat to make it look decent, and placardiug it over
an opponent's coffin.—Spectator.
STATUE OP WATT AT BIRMINOITAY.—A statue
of Janice Watt was unveiled yesterday at Birmingham, in
the presence of a large concourse of people. This work
is from the studio of Mr. Munro; the size is larger than
life, and it is chiselled from a solid block of Carrara
marble. With the sculptor it has been a labour of love,
and he has achieved an admirable likeness. Some question
may perhaps be raised about the pose of the figure ;
but in that respect it is fidelity itself —Watt
to the life—just as ho moved about at Soho and at
Ilampsteud. Ac emblematic of the grunt achievement
with which this illustrious man's name is indissolubly con.
netted, portions of the ileum-engine are skilfully intro-
duce d without disturbing or detracting from the statue ea
an accurate work of art. The figure rests on an 11111pra•
tending plinth of freestone. The cost of it has been do-
frayed by public subscription, no small share of
was Bulee.rilwd by the working men of Birmingham. Mr,
Alderman Wiggin, chairman of the statue committee, in a
few graceful sentences, presented it to the mayor (Mr.
Thomas Avery), who accepted it on behalf of the town.
Mr. Samuel Timmins afterwards delivered an appropriate
address to a crowded audience in the Town-hall.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—The find of the aeries of
Saturday concert* and afternoon promenade. takos place
this afternoon. Thep includes the Italian Sym-
phony. the overture torol2=Fest overture (Volkinann),
Ate.' The vocalists are Mdlle. Sternberg and Mr. Vernon
Rigby; solo pianist, Herr Feuer.

FOREIGN NEWS.

(TIM DAY.)

THE SPANISH INSURRECTLION.

The Union of Paris predicts that the Spanish
Cortce will proclaim the Count do htuntemolin
King, as Charles VII. Tho Etendard, supposed to
bo the organ of the secret wishes of the Freneh
government, which equally dislikes the Republic,
the Montpenaier dynasty, and the Iberian Union,
pleads the catum of the Prince of the Asturias, with
a regency ttonfidod to Espartoro or to Serrano. All
the letters, however, from Spain represent it as
impossible that any branch of Um Bourbon family
can be adopted. _ .

M. Emile de Girardin, always ready with some
eccentric project, says in the Libert% of to-day
iEat if the true spirit of compromise woro present
in Europe, the following arrangement would have
Dread), suggested itself to the Marquis do Moustior
and Count Bismarck. The crown of Spain to be
given to the King of the Belgians, with the assent
of the Spanish people; the crown of the Rhenish
provinces to the King of Saxony, Prussia annexing
Saxony ; the Rhenish provinces to bo neutralised,
and France annexing Belgium. This, M. de Girsx-
din says, would not be a solution of the-European
problem, but would be u step towards it.

The Madrid Gazette of the 30th ult. appears
with a new device on its first page, in which the
figure of justice, with various allegorical attri-
bute', is presented.

Criniecon aturrinea
eer. 2, EYBYLSG.
Perfect tranquillity provaila here.
Senor do erenso, a chief of the democratic party,
ie er • gto Mudrid.
The Mulalm.ian troops are returning.
The kludrid elections took place yeatcrlay,
though the retur•a from come districts have not
yet been received.

Tho whereabouts of Count de Choslm is not
known.

PARIS, O,r. 3.
The Mon deur of this morning publishes the fol-
lowing:
"The situation at Madrid is unchanged sine°
yisiterday. Public order has been generally main-
tained. The teinp,rary interruption of telegraphic
communication between Madrid and Barcelona
gave rise to some, uncertainty as to the state of
affairs in Catalonia. It is, however, known
that Bareelona joined the movement on the
29th instant, notwithstanding the fine stand
which the Count du Cheste, the Comm:lll,LT-
in-Chi* fin Catalonia, made against it. The admi-
nistrative ctaawitt.e was eAabl,slied at the Town.
ball, and General took the command of
affairs *Li /rapt gpti end bi the nanie of the Pro-
visional Gob. nun ut of Madrid. Ile ut oneo issued
a proclamation exliortini7 the inhabitants p
fully to pursue their usual daily avocation.

"Count ilc Ch( bit Barcelonn un tli,!
il:q• With SI/lilt. ,)f hi., g..n-rtl4 and otli-erA.
" Accorling to ofti64l s, the trannni:ii cn
of privat.• telegt anti hi twt,n Fratio, ail 1 Spain h
resuna 41."