The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-31 00:00:00

TO OUR RILDERS.

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SPORTING INTELLIOLNCE.

A late edition et the Express is published every
(mauls; during the racing season, containing the
molts of the day's noes.

" fivertansis, I beg to drink all your very
" good healths." This fine old-fashioned formula,
so pleaaant in the mouth of a country " party"

unaccustomed to public speaking, and whose
feelings are apt to get the better of his grammar as
often as he is called upon to return thanks—we
take the liberty to recommend, by way of a
" Rejected Address," to the "honest old Tory," who
in a rash moment was persuaded to desert the snug
little nest of " dear friends" at Andover. Indeed
this comprehensive formula is very much in sem%
if not in substance, what the LORD MAYOR'S
written and spoken addresses to the City electors
have amounted to since his name was announced
as • candidate ; and it is the happy privilege
of such a man in the hour of political
defeat to be able to appeal from the City
sober to the City—in its more convivial mood.
There has been some talk of inflicting a second year
at the Mansion House on a jolly Alderman who has
entertained a DERBY and a CORDER with equal fell.
city, so that the LORD MAYOR may yet have ample
opportunities of turning the tables on his victorious
Liberal opponents. The electors of the City have
endorsed the "heartfelt gratitude" which the late',
member for Andover was not ashamed to feel in
parting from the " dear friends " who "had placed
him "in Parliament and "kept him" there. This
" gratitude " was, as sometimes happens in private
life, • sense of favours to come. In the present in-
stance it took the form of a reluctant assent to an
" extraordinary manifestation of general opinion"
in "a great and important constituency." It was
Andover that had, however unwittingly and
unwillingly, manifested the " fitness " of its
cherished member to aspire to the honour of
representing the commercial capital of the
world. The City of London, however, on the
whole, declines to justify the confidence of An-
dover. And as for the mirsPolom, clranaht of for-
um, the Tory net has broken under the weight.
Between Andover and the CITY • great deal of
" heartfelt gratitude," in reversion and expec-
tancy, has been thrown away. City gratitude does
not always grow by what it feeds on, and in
the last days of July the recollection
of the heaviest dinners is hardly a sufficient pro-
vocation to personal attachment ; still less to poli-
tical confidence. We are far from assuming that
the Loan MAYOR was not justified in testifying his
gratitude to those " dear friends " of fourteen
years by deserting them. " Heartfelt gratitude "
to his party required the sacrifice. And the
glorious ambition of the Carlton to make
an example of the constituency which sent
Lord JOHN RENOSELL to Parliament for twenty
yeses would make even ingratitude to Andover
heroic. A Tory Lord Mayor, popular and pre-
sentable, is not to be found every day, nor is an
Zan Russia taking his seat in the House of Lords
ma ordinary occasion for • Tory triumph. For the
Liberal party, divided and dissatisfied, the sue-
oses of • candidate whose opinions are still held in
solution seems rather a disgrace averted than •
triumph to be celebrated with enthusiasm. The
importance of this Liberal victory is rather to be
measured by the depth of the disappointment of
the Tories. With what flaming transports of
exultation were they not actually preparing to
proclaim the rescue of the City from the supre-
macy of the Liberals, and the crowning glory of
the Conservative reaction ! If they have not
polled their last man at this election it is certainly
not for want of making it worth the last man's
while to vote. They have made the moat of the
LORD MAYOR'S eloquent and exhaustive silence,
and of Mr. WRISTRRN WOOD'S scrupulous speeches.
They have irritated with diligence the Church
Rate sore. They had almost counted on the
secession or abstention of a powerful section of the
Liberals. Happily the Liberals, true not so much
to the interests of a party as to the vital conditions
of the cause, have not committed the gross blunder
of backing their enemies to punish the
shortcomings of their friends. It was
felt that an election for the C'ty of London
was • typical and, so to speak, a crucial test of
public opinion, and that—without respect of per-
some—the honour of the flag was at stake. Abroad
the triumph of • Tory candidate would have been
hailed by all reactionists as a proof that England
was sick of liberty. On the Continent, indeed, a
Loan MAYOR is UDiVerealyltliglirded RS &Sovereign
Power, and the triumph of a LORD MAYOR would
have been welcomed as a triumph of legitimate
monarchy and right divine over revolutionary and
destructive principles. Even at home, where the
generous hospitality of Mr. Clown is appreciated
by all parties, and no one is afraid of his politics,
the election of a Tory in the City of London would
have convinced waverer' and renegades all over
the kingdom of the predestined return of Toryism
to place and power. The Liberal majority, there-
fore, if not very large, is by no means to be de-
spised, and Mr. Warrens Wuon, if his evident
sincerity were DO claim to confidence, deserves
credit for having fought with the meet gallart and
devoted perseverance a national rather than • sec-
tional contest of opinions and principles. It is in
this regard, certainly not in any mere ministerial
sense, that we congratulate the Liberals on the
defeat of the Tory Loan MAYOR.

Dam OF SiR A. J. LASPENT.—We have to
meaoaace the ileath of fiir Albert John de Hochepisd Lar-
cleßeit., which ...mitred on his purge from tftkutta to
. The devetes&was the moo of the AM barowl‘wbo
oeekvassay years • merchant sa&et Howeagen sad for
a short period • represeetatare is the of Commons
for the borough of Nottingham. Sir Albert ie succeeded is
the baronetcy by his son George Albert, a youth 15 years of
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