The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY
.EV_VNING, SEPTEMBER -16, 1857.

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member of the great and powerfal House of
Onosysnot, wAlsh belongs to the highest Arietts-
many. His Lotdahip is an amiable and excelleet,
but not a distinguished man, amply endowed with
fortune, and, under ordinary circumstances, wen
fitted for the Peerage. But by his elevation to the
Hones ot Lords, the Onosatnnt Emily bse ob-
tained its third Peerage. That in, we submit, too
large a share in hereditary legislation and of the
political advantages attaching' to Parliamentary in-
fluence for a single house, however magnificently
endowed.

Had this case stood alone, considering that do
Peerage in question was solicited, the elevation et'
Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR would have involved 00
principle. But when themlltinieterial journals an-
nouuce that peerages have also been offered to
junior

members of the noble Homes of CANENDISII
and VANE, the heads of which are in the House of
Lords, and in the former of which there are also

already two peerages, then we do come to something
like a principle of selection, and a very objectionable
principle too. As yet the peerages which we are told
on this authority have been offered to Lord HARRY
Vasa and Mr. CAVIhDISIi, have not, it is understood,
been accepted. Whether they have been positively and
definitively refused wo wait to be informed. If so,
it can neither be pleasant for the Crown to find its
proffered marks of honour and dignity declined, nor

can contretemps of this sort encourage the SOVEREIGN
to accept the advice of her Ministers when they pro-
pees to recruit the House of Lords.
Bat, whether accepted or refused, it behoves the
Liberal party and its representatives to express
their objections to this principle of accumulating
peerages in noble families. It is for the public good
that the House of Lords should be recruited. But it is
not for the public good that it should be recruited
after such a fashion, out of the ranks of the Aris-
tocracy. The more the House of Lords is popularised
the better, and the more liberally will it fulfil its
allotted functions. Every human institution requires
fresh blood, new minds, additional vigour, to keep it
up to the extent of its creation. But to go on
augmenting peerages in families already ennobled
is to exclude fresh blood, new minds, and additional
vigour—is to give to other great• houses similarly
situated claims and pretensions to be similarly treated
and favoured—is to set a bad liberal example which
we cannot successfully object to when illiberal are
in power—is to make the House of Lords a caste,
and practically to deny to the New Wealth of
England those opportunities of tbo highest useful-
ness which it has hitherto enjoyed in being elevated
to hereditary legislation.

A report reached Bombay, just as the mail was
being closed, that an affair had taken place at
Anah—a town between I)insporo and Guipure
—between 400 men of the Queen's 10th
Foot end another regiment, the mutineers.

The detachment is said to have been overpowered
by the superior number of the rebels, and forced to
retreat with a loss of nine officers and 147 men.
Rumour added that 47 Europeans had been pre-
`, iously murdered by the native troops, but whether
at 4 zrst or Dinapore does not appear.

etc Court.

BALMORAL, Bart. 14.

The Queen, the Prince Consort, and the Princess
Royal attended divine sercios at Crabla March yesterday.
In attendance upon hoc Ilidraty were Lady Churchill, the
Ron. Flom Macdonald, Earl Grenville, Major-General the
Hun. C. Grey, and Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps.
The Genies was performed by the 1t... A. Anderson.

A Cabinet Council was held yeeterda/retthys
official residence of the First Lord of the' ar
in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Ilarrowby, Sir
George Grey, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Pan-
more, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right
Hon. It. Vernon Smith, and the Right Hon. M. T.
Baines.