The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-24 00:00:00

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:41;:ga :Air and' lderision, that fa polal
wade aim 91 Vie City members id hip
to "Mae over the prize, •
,that Ms. ikaggsr;"direetly he saw that t Corpora-
tion would no-longer bear his arrogance, gave im
and swallowed the look in the very spirit of
Przroz,—all this was to be expeoted. But another
raison for Mr. Aim's withdrawal from the
discharge of one of the duties of his position was
net mentioned in the court. It Mans that Mr.
Assam, the Heed Master in question, appears
prominently in the clergy petition to the House
of Lords in favour of Kr. Clunerotra's Suspensory
Bill. Hence the spring of religious fervour hub-
ibling up in Mr. ALLax's breast.

Metropolitan Foreign Cattle Market Bill
is the first of the orders at this evening's sitting
ci the House of Commons, and the friends of the
measure, strong in a numerical majority, have by.
no means abandoned their hope of manes. Its
chances have varied from day to day. If it has
gone swimmingly on ono evening, a " snag" has
stopped it the next. A serious danger still awaits
it. The City refuses to take the responsibility of
'the measure, if the wharfingers are to have corn-
, prametion ; while if the clause giving oomperma-
tion wore struck out, the wharfi.ngers would
'insist upon being heard by counsel at the bar of
tbo House of Lords. The delay which this would
entail is the greatest difficulty loft.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
THIS DAY.)

:Aorta.

The Time* classes together the oourse pursued
by Mr. Disraeli with respect to Mr. Fawcett's (dame and
that pursued by Mr. Ayrtoe in the evening, in countingent
the house with a view of getting rid of the Metropolitan Cattle
Market Bill. Much of doubtful propriety has been done
within the last eighteen mouths, but the Times remembers
nothing so little creditable in the conduct of public
binariess as the way in which the government yestdrelay
contrived to persuade the House of Commons to reverse
a decision adopted after mature deliberation by a twice
repeated verdict of the house. There is, indeed, a cer-
tain fitness in the events of these last days of the present
House of Commons. The arts of management by which
it has been guided have had their influence on the
morality of the assembly ; and the events of yesterday
may be a fitting end to a reign of audacity and chicane.
The defeat of Mr. Fawoett'm amendment is only one
more, says the Doily Ness, in that series of petty victories
with which the government is bringing the session to a close.
It is, however, more than doubtful whether it is a victory

on which the more astute occupants of the treasury bench
will see reason to congratulate one another. Not only does it
reverse a decision which was received with universal satis-
faction in the country, but it reverses it by one of those
suspicious and untimely changes of policy which suggest
to unsophisticated minds the idea of government by
intrigue.

The Tskgrsph 'ecarcely regrets the rejection of Mr.
Fawcett's amendment. No doubt the clause asserted a
greatiprinciple, but it could have produced little immediate
effect. Were it passed into law, poor men would find the
task of getting a wet in the house almost as difficult as
ever. Mr. Fawcett struck only at that measure of the ex-
penses which is entailed by the action of the returning
doer, and, is earaparison with the total expense of
a general election, the amount is a mere drop in the

The Herald allows that there is a good deal to be said
in favour of Mr. Fawcett's proposal, were it brought for-
ward at the proper time. The total burden thrown upon
the constituency would be small, whilst the relief to Nally
honest candidates would not be inoonsiderabbs, and the
burden, such as it ie, would fall upon the shoulders which
ought to bear it. But it is obvious that an alteration of
the existing law of so important a character and the esta-
blishment of a totally new principle with regard to the
manner of election has nothing to do with a bill for
the prevention and punishment of corruption at elec-
tions.

The Star thinks no one could listen to the debate
yesterday without perceiving that very few members on
the Tory side, and not so many as one could desire on the
Liberal side, recognised the true position of a member of
parliament. Who can wonder that men who, either by
money or cringing, have gained a high position, to which
they attach no idea of responsibility, should resent any
attempt to introduce competition in political merit as the
test for parliamentary honours P