The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1868•

Reform Bill will be felt in the tighter hold of the
constituencies upon their deputies. It may bo
on; for the present one diseenis nothing
more formidable than a few riots iu
Le:roughs hero and Vlore, where rioting is one
of the recognised local sports iinl pastimes at eleo-
tion time. What may be called the higher order
of " roughe," the patrons of prise fights, the
varieties of betting men, the shoddy aristocracies,
the vulgar juvenile dandyism of counting-houses
and public oftioos, aro for the moat part, from
fashion or " Corinthian" sympathies, or sheer
w ant of ideas, or a mingled vacuity and servility of
mind, on the Conservative side, and they by no
means constitute a " party of order." Some-
times their antics provoke retaliation ; for
there are limits to the indulgence, or tho tolerance
of majorities of electors who aro in earnest; and
Britons of all dames and parties are only less pug-
nacious than Irishmen in their festive moments of
public We.
Yesterday's elections were, on the whole, deci-
dedly satisfactory. The solitary Tory victories of
the day before in the City and in Westminster had,
perhaps, operated as an admonition to the Liberals
of Chelsea, who would not be seduced even by the
charms of a powerful local builder, or of a
brilliant and justly popular and respectable gen-
tle man of the tress (the author of " Our dear
old Church of lingland ") from their alle-
giance to the cause. In spite of many
obvious disudvautages on this occasion,
this new borough has justified its enfranchisement
byrepudiating the vows and promises of Toryspuu-
core, and refusing to stand alone) and apart as the
Tory suburb. The defeat of Mr. IC ARSLAKE at
Colchester is perhaps to bo attributed to the deli-
cate feeling of the °looters of that borough. who
would not divide the destinies of two brothers; The
late Parliament could have spared one of them ;
the new Hours will endeavour to spare both.
In the general discomfiture and dispersion of the
Allullamitcs Mr. UORSMAN has left his seat at
Stroud to a Liberal of lees exalted preten-
tious, but of truer allegiance. Cookerenouth
leis found a Liberal successor to Lserd MAYO.
C hristchurch has shaken otf Tory influent's.
Ilridgoorth, we regret to see, has missed the
honour of preferring Sir JOHN Aerus'a high-
minded independence of character and flue
intelligence to the handsome exterior dis-
played in the photograph of Mr. Wu:unmet:.
The House of WHITMORE, however, is an berNii-
tary dynasty in those parts, and to disloilge even
a tolerably plain candidate of that name seems
filmed a desperate attempt for a stranger. Upon
the return of Colonel CRICHTON STUART for Cardiff,
instead of the barrister who took Lord Brill's name
in vain, and was announced by unauthorized agents
as the only candidate of the Castle, we may be
permitted to congratulate Lord BUTE ; since it
shows that the strict neutrality which was pro-
milted by Lord Br-re, and which his agents in his
al st rice attempted to eouiprovaise, has been faith-
fully observed. Such an example, if he will be-
lieve us, is better for any cause than a stolen or
extorted triumph. The public) spirit which the
present general election has called forth on both
sides is in our judgment infinitely inoere important
and beneficial to our common country thee:l.th°
victory of either party. There is no denying, how-
ever, that the voice of the boroughs of .England
arid Wake has pronounced for Mr. GLADSTONE.
Sentence of death has been recorded against the
Cabinet of Mr. DISRAELI. Ho must make the
best be can of that indisputable fret when lie aid-
&oases Lis constituents to-day.

hich he has bestows originality. thought, and
care. To read his speech with its allasioasto "my
" most arch foe," Mrs. WItIORT, the wife of the
COesst rrativo number; its playful sours
tiens against Laity Ct•uTON its monk
bluntness, " I don't like his ptineiplos
" but there is ono thing about him I
do like—and that's his wife," is to see Mr.
RESNAL OSI ORNE on the hustings gay, •aimated,
and alert. Age cannot wither nor mutton stale
the variety of a jester of his dramatic and mimetic'
powers, and it is difficult to avoid pitying the now
Parliament for their loss of the freshest and moat
genuinely funny talker of the day. It is all over
now ; but how Nottingham bad the heart to dis-
card this superb fiercely for an amiable but
obscure Tory colonel of "Robin Hoods"
parses comprehension. Perhaps the severity
with which he consented upon the corruption of
the oonstitucsoy at the municipal elections, and
the latter part of his speech, may explain the
mournful fact that Mr. Baa.NAL OSBOINI is onoo
more out in the cold. The House of Commons
could have spared many • silent politician and
many a new member better than this represen-
tative of the broadly comic element: and those
who read of his last appearance at Nottingham
will heartily wish to soon hear of him a,-sin.

OUR CONTEPdPORARIRS.
(THIS DAY.)

3111 1 PEWIT 0/ 71111
•
Ri milting upon the MIA

which must

bare been given to timid people by the fact that the repro-
sentatien nominee with precisely the same clam as formed
the last Howe a Commons, the rinses proceeds to obsorve
that it is in the hoz oughs that the great political experi-
ment has been tried, and it has been made under eireim-
et ewes which test its tendencies to the utmost.
In the firt place, there is before the country
a quemion which has raised political sober +elm to the
utmost. In the second place the period that has inter-
vened between the determination to call a now parlia-
ment and the actual elections has been unprecedent )(fly
ug, and the new constituencies have h ut tun, t e feel
their power, to form associations, and to tare the tera-
regiment of individual numbers. The verdict of the
country has teen taken after a delay and • preparati ye
which truike it more than ordinarily conclusive, awl Vie
moult is that the constituencies hay., declared against the
present government by a majority more numerous, cam-
tact, and tee elute than any which has followed • liberal
testier since the early days which succeeded the Reform
Dill. That the new constituencies desire a number of
lefoinis which only a liberal government is likely to take
in bend, is indisputable; but looking at the members who
have been relieved, it is obvious that the temper of the
eke:ten is essentially moderato in every part of
England.
TLe Deily News also maintains that the borough elec-
tions trove how vein was the hope with which Mr.
Disraeli beguiled the oonservat.vee int v accepting house-
hold suffrage; and hew unfounded were the alarm
under the inflame° of which Mr. Lowe eloquently
bLrieked and raved against any reduction of the fran-
chise. The elect one have dirpelled Mr. Lowe's fears.
They have not the leas demolished the baseless fabric
of that vision in which Mr. Di/quell is said to have in-
dulged, of a term of office as long as Lord Liverpool's.
The conservative leaden thought that they hail found in
hems( hold suffrage • solution of the greet ministerial
peoblem, stated by Lord Derby with 'amide simplicity,
" tow not to be ousted." By • just retaibutien, house-
hold etffrage promisee to bi the instrument of their
distinction. The remelt of the borough elections' shows
in a very satisfactory way the coid.al alaehment of the
great majority of the English prop's to sound and sober
principles of liberal government, and t v the party whose
Political history I. identified with the advocacy and
triumjh of those principles.
Thu Test Pays the increase of liberal members is due
quite as much to the liberalisation of old constituencies as
to say sudden change that has been maderin their elements
sines the lad election, if not more so. The new eleetars
—that ouch-dreaded residuum that was to become • tory
democracy, and inaugurate a deluge that would sweep
away the cold laudmarka—must be contemed to have
peeved very modeled° and diverard. This is just what
wus to be expected.

TIES OLD JaD :Ml' P 4

The Te:tge aph is coustraked to utter some
wr,rds of regret over the "old familiar facer
that will be seen no more. While there has
been • low of character from among the old members,
there Lea been no counterbalanciag importation
from among the new candidates. Even the *marmite that
took place promised us more than the actual return'. AU
the unsuccemodul adventurers were not exactly jokers, but
a goodly number would have contributed distinct indi-
viduality to the debates. Unless there are several
" striking novelties in preparation,'• the Telegraph ap-
prehends that the new parliament may be very aloha
and very dal

FOREIGN NEWS.

(TMS DAY.)

it so far as Lis real estate he France is conesimA
On that point French law is inflexible, and the
peinoiple of equal divhion issaturg all the &Bah%
must he rigorously applied.
There is yet uncertainty shout the details of
Rossini's funeral. His body now lies in • vault of
the Madeleine, and I rather think it is there (sal
not at St. Roch as was told yesterday) that the
service will be performed. Several evening papers
say that the Trinith Church is fixed upon: They
also mention Saturday as the day ; but I heard
from good authority that it was to be Monday.
The inference drawn from the facto? Berryer
having taken a carriage airing the ether day,
that his health had improved, was unfortunately
unfounded. He bad expressed a desire to be re-
moved to his country house at Angerville, but Drt.
Nekton and Rimed being convinced thit ho was
not strong enough to bear the journey would not
bear of it. He begged so hard to go out for a
drive that his medical advisers at last oon.sented,
but he was brought home i• a few minutes in a
fainted state. He has received extreme nnotinn,
and is not expected to live many hours.
Some of the opposition papers, ignoring the
dominant fact of the hoer, that the wind (of
power) bloweth where it listeth, affect to be asto-
nished that certain journals are prosecuted, while
others, equally guilty, are unmolested. M. Pel-
letan, the deputy for Paris, writes that when the
police came to his office to seize the Tribune, he
inquired what was the offence. The anwor was,
" Publishing the Baudin subscription." " Well,
hut," said M. Pellotan, " the Suede has published a
list of subscriptions several days running. and is
not prosecuted." " That may be," said the ofil”r
of the law, with blunt frankn-ss, " but what
is not a ' mnntruvro' in the Sievls is one in
Tribune." The same doctrine, shocking as it may
be to bigoted Englishmen, who fancy there
should be but one law for everybody, was openly
proclaimed the other day by M. Paul do Catsag-
nee in the Paya. In answer to the observation of
an opposition print, that if a paper, not patronised
by government, had published the alarming
" bulletin," attributed to a Paris revolutionary
committee, it would have been prosecuted, young
Caseagnac says quite complacently—That is very
true and quite right, I publish it with one
motive, and you would have done it with
another. Thus we see, literally and authori-
tatively, practised in Franco of the present
day what the great satirist, the author of "
Hudi-
bras,'' wrote as bmsd caricature, that it is lawful
for saints to do the very same thing that is repre-
hensible in the wicked, and yet the action proves
contrary—
Just as the saint and wicked vary.

Although there is no confirmation of tho Spanish
news which caused a panic at the Bourse yester-
day, Prim being neither declared Einp-ror nor
Dictator, the Dente has not recovered. It clove'
at yesterday's prices, 71 fr. 70c. for (mil/ uod
7lfr. boe. for account.

THE WAR IN PARAGUAY.--MORE SEVERE

FIGHTING.

(awns's uralmi.r
RIO DE JANEIRO, Ocr. 23.

Advices have been received from the seat of war
to the 10th mat. On arriving at Valeta the &Hien found
the Paraguayans fortified in a very strong p
having the natural defences of miles of swamps, thick
woods and • deep river whose waters form a
far more effective barrier than any which the •ki!l
of military engineers could construct. Then difficulties
preclude the poesibility of an attack from the south,
but se the ironclad, have passed beyond the bat-
teries erected on the river vide, it is supposed
that the Marquis of Casias will divide the tomes ander
his command and send an army of 111,000 men over to
the Chaco. whence they will march up the right
hank of the river Paraguay, and rem,' near Assumption
to attack Lopez from that quarter. et the eame time that
a force is to be sent to march round the swamps and thus
hem in the Peraguayans on every side. This course
would immediately bring the war to a clog, but it is
feared that before the.. measures can be taken they will
have retired to occupy some other in..cition for a few days.
perhaps Villa Rica or Serra Leon, in the interior. At
Villeta there was come hard fighting between the advance
guard of the Brazilian army and some Paraguayan troops
who were defending a bridge across a small river and a re-
doubt. Both, however, were taken, and the Paraguayans
forced to retreat, leaving their colours and a quantity of
arms; the Brazilians suffered severely, sr they fell
into an ambuscade and received a tremendous
volley at a very short range, which threw one
of the infantry corps into such oonfwion that
they turned and were fallen ea by cavalry before they
could rally. A court-martial was held upon the lieutenant-
colonel commanding, who was acquitted ; but the corps
has since been dissolved, and the officers sod men die-
tributed amoug the other battalions of infantry.
The gold bonds of the new loan have, as was ezpeeted,
gone up rapidly, and are eagerly height up at 73 mil
reia premium, only 226 milreis having boon as yet paid
up. The conditions were too favourable for spemlators
not to come into the market immediately.