The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-14 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, HAY 14.

TO OUR

circumstance that on the other tide of the Channel
the breed of HODSOIGI and WADDINGTON!) and
Gowns has not yet reached the perfec-
tion which it has attained in our own fa- 1
youred country. The memorialists, moreover,
submit that the estimates for the construction
of railways have nearly in all cases been greatly
exceeded, and the ealealations of profit have rarely
been realised. The petitioners might have left out
the qualifiestiee ; setintatee have been always ex-
ceeded; profits have never realised the anticipations
of the shareholders. We have a high respect for
the combined talents of the Board of Trade, of
course, and for those of Mr. Lows in particular ; but
we doubt much whether they will be able to devise
any bill which shall remedy those two grievances
Nor do we quite see the bearing of the truism, that
" past legislation has ceased mach capital to be sunk
, in extensions which are enremanerative," inasmuch

as it is to big geemmel thei Ads st Parlimment were
obtained he Ike enranstims et Acts samssions.
The natural Ts* le eat pave d tits mismedmi in—
What in the agam elbows did penes =to Parlia-
ment for, nod aghliage Irmahlg your
hundreds It 40111111 ads, and ell to obtain per
to weir those Harm the oast of
which your manta mailersdkiatna. and the
profits of which Goy overadsseal. The Railway
interest, as it is called, has always been adequately
represented, to say the lout, in Parliensent ; at present
the railway members in the two Baas number 120,
irrespective of those indirectly =aerated with railway
affairs. Lots events bamothrown every ugly light on
the gaystedes of raffles, management ; bat we do not
remorse that the digesters wir wrote M.P. after
their user wars porlisaierly swim in supporting
As adios Insollso gamma tar checking the
saws to vildit vs Tart en es contrary, popular
opinion tends mar to sesame them of being the
Aid inciters to Asir arras. But every one of
ems legislators lad • air band in the msnufac-
' tans at the anrenamesathe breaches and extensions,
under which the Railway interest now suffers,
and in the dispensing of the millions expended on
Acts of Parliament.

A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will
be peltliehed u eeual ON SATURDAYS.

WE right of petition is one of those privileges to
which Englishmen, with considerable reason, attach
great value, and which, be it said, they occasionally
assert in rather an undignified fashion. The use is
apt to degenerate into abuse, as the odd memorials
which figure in the list pablialied at the end of every
/Mite of Parliament abendsatly prove. Never-
thelem, we would rather see petitions verging
strongly on the ludicrous appearing in that list, than
any curtailment of a right which affix* at times the
only mode of effectually bringing a crying grievance
before the great council of the nation. A curiosity of
this class has come under oar notice, which is to be
_ _ — _ _

Fronded to the PRENDI247 of the iosian of TIULIDE,
by the proprietors of shares in the Railways of the
United Kingdom, praying for a relines of certain
grievances under which they laboar.Whothe ingenious
eon :ones of this document any be we cannot say ;

but he deserve* well of a partievaar clamed his coun-
trymen, =luckily a tolerably large one--natoely,
those wbo in popular parlance have " Nene to grief '
and who do not No their way oat of the serape.
. . .

Upon the principles laid down in this petition, the
shareholders in Mr. Baortat.'s " Great Eastern"

may take heart of grace, and ask Parliament to
prohibit any other steamers from plying to India and
Australia on ate ground that they have spent an
saormoes rain in a magnidoent experiment, and
ought to have a remunerating profit secured. And
Messrs. 81110 DDT and Towszn, the pest shawl and
outfitting MD, having knocked a whole street into
one house, sad their espital into that limbo known ea

the rassidleof next Wiwi, may with great propriety ap-
peal to Parliament to prohibit the establishment of
any rival shop within the same parish. This is in
reality the git of the Railway shareholders' memo-
rial. The prayer of the petition is :
That year moserioliebt isepsoddly mile* thee s Nobel
esermatusg to spwerie elase4bir4 el the Nether' Debt, m-
isses* radareed by privies ledivibris fa ealoyeleee Ber
dries to the method pa y, r eatithd to mere otiose
sad levesoble oesidosties ben the loglitste them it
. .

We are heartily glad to see that the "memorialists
recognise fully the necessity of enforcing the most
stringent regulations for ensuring the safety of tra-
vellers," but they strongly object to being called
upon, under Lord CAMPH6LL'a Act, to pay damages
for accidents arising from their neglect or that of
their servants. Doubtless all shopkeepers are fully
alive to tie propriety of being compelled to keep
their elks Imps in a safe condition, and we think
this a floe emertunsty for them to remonstrate
=Sr kaiaks of being ordered to compensate
dm my oak has their neglect in leaving
Mr apse sod segewled. It is a hard Cale, doubt-
Ism, that BUS SUM'S dog cannot be allowed to
select at his hinge re fleshiest part of the leg of
• railway direetor, o Noy idler gentleman, without
the said Buz. beteg smoothie for having a dan-
gle's, heart at large—bat such is the law. For oar
On pats, belonging to that small section of un-
seamed& imitsidaaLi who have straw objections to
Wog weedisi ay to railway carriefee. and rolled
dews we think that we see omitted to
welt sews to sewyeendon if the amp does
as mien ken the megleet of railway Aside We
quite sympathies with the unfortunate ehmeholders
who have to listen to the tale of how thole everted
dividend is swallowed up by essyweethos to acci-
dents ; but we beg, with great Moms to the see-
moralise!, to submit that it is, to ep do bad,
excessively unpleasant fore man who bee Shea a
return ticket for Eastbourne to discover, ibmt too
late, that his ticket is for that "bowie whose so
traveller returns," and all became Ilha ogles b
aid, or the pointsman overworked, et the telegraph
sat of order. That the Railway Mod has its
we are by so mesas aped to dray,
Lintrintesare plenty effampsmalaet s gibrestes
Is the Bowe of Camara ad II meth es omelet
driel to tot thew leellt bet dm desammet b
wee& peeerring tor dm Nile Ili es remarkable
seders orldt which it ache Poliment to prevent
soy ses beet sorbs the OW% emi embarking at
the awe Ilse Is pollift umidelibso home
the podiums boo bee dlly so* to threw
away ail= k wake we Imo dally bens-
god the lawyers sad the mimes.

has MANI. rerird; rod dry warlddar as fiver

- .
Imam, eztokee, et empodei Noss should le ewer
nod b parllearal, eaappi k ems at pereakeest pule '
asemity, mill die Weft( empase ilea le at Lei la Vb.
*el of &Almelo exerelei le dr hit Amami et (Ake
eserewelei vadmiffiklege.

The upshot of all whisk is, that since peasengera
ptyalin, let as my, trews Loudon to Dover are taken
away law oat of their way for no reason that can
possibly be imagined by those anharesd in the nye-
tog allaying down railway lines, no dunes is to be
Wired demonising carried by a more direct road anal
the &oath Eastern shareholders are in receipt at that
very indefinite rate of dividend indicated by " the
!sir standard of other commercial undertakings."
Asa: Mr. Brtl. an ..4"" hiPolero of
his entendre family who are bent upon rusticating
in the village* in the neighbourhood of Dover, are
to pay so mach per mile on an unneceseary number
of miles, and ere to be bumped on the particularly
hard timber doing duty as cushion, in the second-
elese South Eastern carriages, because that pear
. . . .

THE brief discussion which took place yesterday
is the HMSO of Commons en Lord ROBERT
011011TINOlell motion for leave to bring in a Bill to
render travelling repeals of voters illegal, and to
relieve candidates from hating, expense, and other
charges to which they are now liable, indicate, bat
inp,rltvete the real dispositions of honouree mem-
bers on the questions involved. The large majority
in favour of the first reading of the Bill we take to
signify little more than this, that but a compara-
tively few amongst those who were present on the
°cession felt disposed to begin their legislative
career by giving what might tarn out to be an un-
popular vote. But, in point of fact, we doubt ex-
ceedingly whether the subject has ever been suffi-
ciently debated hitherto to render the vote of the
minority one of any great peril. Many Conserva-
tives voted yesterday for the Bill, and
several Liberals against it. It is very much
to be regretted that upon such a quer
Lion no member of the Government took any
part, nor any leading member of the Opposition.
The new House was ►eft to drift rudderless before
the wind ; and the wind being light it glided lazily
into the most open creek at hand.
Bat in truth the topics raised by the noble mem-
ber for Middlesex deserve more attention than they
have yet received from the thinking public, and more
earnest treatment than they have met with hereto-
fore from the representatives of the people. They are
indeed but fragments of the more general question,
How shall each constituency be secured the freest
and fullest range of choice? and, how can we most
effectually get rid of the notorious abuses whereby
the selection of candidates of many of our largest

prow undertaking has perhaps diminished its divi-
dends in perpetuity by thrusting out branches through
district' whore passengers are almost u rue as
winter swallows.

Having carefully perused the memorial, we think
it right to enter our protest mainst the thing should
it prove to be, after all, a ISM Can it be
imagined that any body of En% pepietors of
a property the value, or rather the east (fa,
there is a little difference), of vide is taws
one-third of the national debt, an seriously pet
ward as a plea for protection that their prepafpb
nnremunerative, when they state in the asseniipme
graph that 160 Railway Companies Wes arid b
Acts of Parliament 12,648,715 L, or 76,4291. sea,
Much of this sum represents squabbles with disk
neighbours and battles It tho pmenmion of blow
mediate lines, worthissooneeptsaummetilomeng
their rivals. Now, if we tabs pr
fait standard" they hint at, eh mei !epsomite es
income of 732,922 i. per annuls, a very lap paths
of which might unquestionably have been Mei be
the shareholders had they exercised a little genlimsa
and judgment, and restrained their divisions gm
plunging them into unnecessary litigation, NA
equally unnecessary new projects.
In France, Germany, Amerioa,snd other canntaim6
any the memorialists, railway heetelmeile par lb=
6 to 20 per cent.; but the onnedellnladonelboirre
that those results are attranillin Isegm, usperior
management, but to the immangin polsolho and
privileges accorded to than b,tV ingandee go-
vernment& Now Marna glum vs beg In mind
the memorialists than amens &ma privilsom b Sat
of carrying a mails ininninehilitary mattrial Per
a little more to make p otelb. and the sails on
an equally rOmmesthe stale. And soft the
reasonable protections in France, wham railway
poperty is bighly ramsesthe, the Oerssmmt. in
Me dodos sostawts di fiehmehd *pd.
mob del a toludt, mow mud d pound
Iniimmt, and tabs vpailultibbodiedik
smipments it m4tliimmmmagtbdmpoesm.
tha of totem ang, without uthoiss Imdo
mots tit was et the pails d rs
lid Ida di Abe tis indite imam „ „we
tion Os ad git "Mt b ondi *her then in
baba. OM tills lower data lift with an, a
that di* my be perhaps Wasted to the

eounties and boroughs is determined by what may
be called nem of metal, It has long enough
been scandalously obvious to all who having political
eyes choose to see, and to all who having political
ears choose to hear, that no man has any
business to stand far a large and contested constitu-
ency unless he is prepared to place at the disposal of
his committee a sum varying from one to five thou-
s's& pounds. That pre-eminent piece of Legislative
[ Iwo" the Corrupt Practices Act, was designed,
'swine told, to put au end to these exactions t but
•s lib et expenses pissed by the various auditors
ander the Act have sufficiently exposed its utter
nullity for the purpose of keeping down expenditure,
and shown up the utter hypocrisy of the pretences
bly tibia► it was carried. The present state of the
hies annsta, la abort, to this, that the greatest pa-
Ala mid. align impediments are thrown in the
way at soy tad risk or reckless men obtaining seats
in Parliament. We arc not now speaking of
the power which money gives to its pontoons,
by means of direct and open corruption—we are
speaking only with reference to what are technically
known alder the same of " legal expenses." Coin-
cident* of opinices, length of public service, posses-
sion of walks ability—not any of these, nor all of
than pet together, con solve the question when a

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY LiII;ENING, MAY 14,et

contest is to be apprehended and the candidate is to
be chosen. Bow are the legal expenses to be de-
' frayed P Who is to paj for the hustings and the
booths? Who is to pay the fees exacted by the
subordinates of the returning officer? Who is to
pay the printer's bill? And finally, who will
undertake to carry the voters to the poll ? Quiet,
independent, self-engrossed electors, who walk up to
the poll at whatever hour suits them best, or ride
with a neighbour to the market town on the morn-
ing of election, know very little about the matter.
The thoughtless and stupid cant in such men's months
too frequently is that if gentlemen choose to go into
Parliament they ought to be left to pay for it, and
as fee electors, that no man is fit to vote who swot
find time and money to go to the poll wheneur awl
wherever he may happen to be en the otealies.
would be all very well if the Hume of Carona bad
only the power to impose Wm IS dilb My-going
and well-to-do portion of the pegmlnifew. But as
that assembly professes to represent the Wire com-
munity, and as it makes free with the bsed-earned
monies of poor and industrious men, as wall as with
three of the rich, the snug, and the indolent, it is
nothing but sheer impudence of established class
usurpation to affect indifference on the polite to
which we have referred.
Reform Bills which propose to enfranchise im?ortant
sections of the laborious community, but which make
no provision for enabling the humble man to vote w :thin
a reesonable distance from his dwelling without
being carried to the hustings at the personal ex-
pense of the candidate, are no Reform Bills it all.
The same may be said of measures which pruc:ically
place a mere test of expenditure in the way $f can-
didates, and proclaim without disguise that Parlia-
mentary candidature is a legalised form of lottery
in which nobody can buy a ticket, generall! speak-
ing, under two or three thousand pounds.
Now what is the proper remedy for then abuses?
To render travelling expenses illegal, and a compel
the borough or bailiwick to pay the necessary
charges of holding every election, are good steps u
far as they go; and we trust that Lord B. Gaon-
TtNoit's Bill may be persevered with. Bst let no
one suppose for a moment that the matter can net
there. To speak plainly, these provision when
carried will, if unaccompanied by other :henget,
render our electoral condition notoely more intolerable
than ever, but they will render its continuance abso-
lutely impossible. The overgrown constituencies
must be broken up. They are u completely become
a monopoly in the hands of a few as the nomination
boroughs. No moderate squire now dares to look a
large county in the face; and even "My lord" or
Sir John " admits that he cannot curtest it without
the risk of dipping his estate. The same is true et
our large cities and metropolitan boughs. We
need not cite examples; the facts are disgustingly
notorious. There most be an end of all this. A
maximum of territory and population, as well as a
minimum, must find a place in the coming Reform
Bill ; and there must likewise be found menus
far enabling the working man to vote without losing
half his day, and without being compelled to tell his
(employer or his landlord beforehand in support of
which side he is going to the poll.

be Court.

OSBORNE, MAY 13.

Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included
the Dachas of Kent, the Prisms Royal, Lady Augoats
Bruin, Sir George Cooper, and the Udine and Gentlemen in
Waiting.
Lieatemant-Gmeral Bozos de Brandi., of the Hanovarian
'orrice, on • =imam to linglend bora the Sing of Hanover,
hod en audience of her MOJOSII on his return home.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the
official residence of the First Lord if the Treasury, in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were :
Viscount Palmenton, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl
of Harrowby, Sir Osorge Grey, the Earl of Cla-
rendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Penman,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood,
the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of
Alderley, the Duke of Argyll, and the Right Hon.
M. T. Raines.

The Mt meeting of the Judges appointed to ocasider the
Deans for the Public Mom, now exhibiting in West-
minster Hell, wee held yesterday. There were pressat : The
Duke of Ittmeleuch, Berl Maa. Viscount Evereley, Mr.
Sterling, M.P., Kr. David Bobarte, Mr. Burn, and Kr.
Brunel.
Mr. Terse Folks°, President of the London Cemniittes of
Deputies of the British Jews, accompanied by MOM% Henry
Harris, Samuel Moses, and B. PliVips, and by
_Mr.
Sampson Samuel, solicitor end secretary of Um board, hid sn
interview with Viscount Pslaimeton, on the subject of the
removal of the Jewish disabilities.

WINDSOR, Wamnwnst.
The state apartments of Windsor Castle, which
were elord reeme at the death at law Royal
awe the RIO Deane el Mesewew, are apia era to the paldio
ow the mad dye, via, Monday, Two*, itanday, sad
Tilley.
The Coast wth Mew r inter Ow& ea eir alai the
ea *Mae, to meth has three yeas. Mr =3;11.2
therm bw beeellellth te a wesereal drab at
gvada who lOU lathed le the Death the wee with.
Th. Cat= as hie Royal lthithathPeima Meth Awl
wrath of thejuihrminiwas aft royal I•o7,acempethel
b their royal awl Melba abhors, will hewer the worm
with theb lewere 1111 Tarnish the 11th (the out, dal her
Itheity will alit the meth, lama the royal WWI lath
pained treat the deft to the royal Wand ia the wad state.
The Ankles Chathwithe. Wb exoecled, ell he la-
dad la the *de of Mildews and di lied poets
=b imam
Ammar b =pod is mks in the come at a
few daye et Othemth ea a eilt le ler
(M.,
The *hie el the elliffl Ith Its IL 's Chapel for
the hired el the MIMEO= el , will Le re-
amed la es them d the wee, awl Madre
melee will be
petheated hoe ea hanky and.
The shathathe tithe boat primer will rte place is
Bt. Georgie Merl.

Her Majesty will not leave Osborne until the 4th
of June. It le rumoured that a squadron will be eneembkd
at Spitheed to aline the Grand Dub Constantine of Kuria,
whose own squadron of several mil Is also everted at Spit-

hood from thu liodkorromm.
The Duchess of Montrose has jutted cards for
soiree, doused*, on Moodaty, the 18th lostont, and on

Monday, the 26th Instant.
The Ducker of Inverness will leave town in a
few days, for Erlghke.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwiekc entertained
at dinner, bet euming, at the fenny mansion in Portman-
equate, the Duke of Buckingham, the Eel of Malenesbery,
the Earl of Loneelale, Lord and Imdy Colchester, Lord
Pedesdate, Right Hon. Spencer Walpole and Hrs. Walpole,
Sir Frederick and Lady 'Meager, Sir Edward Lytton, and
General Hall. Ahoy dinner her ladyship moelred • select
dads of Meade.

We have authority to state that it is her Msjesty's
intention to hold Drawing-rooms at Si James's
Palace on Saturday, the 6th of June, and on Tues-
day, the 23rd of June; and a Levee on Thursday,
the 18th of June.

The Countess of Listowel will come to town in a
fsw days, tram Ireland, for the season.
Visosunt and Viscountess Villiers have arrived in
town for the swoon. His lordship has taken a house in
Eaton-place South.
Viscount and -

and Ferrard

have anivad in Norp-sizest, Hanover-num, tram Inr

land, for the seems. -
Lord and Lady Harry Vane entertained at dinner,
teat evening, at their residence in Grosvenor-place, the
Ducker Dowager of Cleve/and, lady Ann Tufnell, Lady
Harriet Dunlop and Mir Dradop, 81r Harry Vane, Sir
Beery Rlll.l/2101111, the Hight lion. Edward Ellice, Mr. and
Kra. Edward PJlice, Sir Augustus Webster, Mr. and Mrs
Danoombe Shane, Mr. Hedworth Larnbton, and Mr. Henry
MiIMAM.
Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner, last
eyeing, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Wan Moser of
Londonderry, the Duke of Nero:male, the Marquis of Clan-
ricarde, the Hon. Mrs. Amon, the Earl and Counter. of
Clerendon, the Sardinian Minister, Viscount sail Vim...tem
Palmate*, the Dowager Countess of Morley, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer end Lady Theresa Lewis, the Biehop
of Oxford, Viscount Torrington, and Lord John Hay, M.P.
Her ladyship had en saissibly in the evening, which war
very fashionably diended.
Lady Augusta Gordon Hallybarton will leave
town shortly for Paris.
Lady Marian Alford is expected in town in a few
days from the Continent.
The Ladies Charteria have arrived at Claridge's
Hetet from Brampton Perk, Huntingdonshire.
Lord and Lady Naas have arrived in town from
Palmerston Hones, Ireland, for the reason.
Lord and Lady Cloobrock have arrived in town from
Ireland, far the rayon. His lordship has taken a house in
Charles-street, lierkelerequue.
We (Post) are enabled to annonnbe that a Inatrl-
, modal ellience is about to take plies between the Earl of
Stredbroke sad the widow of the late Colonel Bonner, of the
10th Hamm
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The vacant seat in the East India Direction will,
we (Hasid) believe, be filled by Mr. Thomas, of the Unfree
Cavil Stevie*, whose intimate acquainting' with revenue goer
dons will to a valuable solgteace to big collegeruse.

Ma. W. H. RV.OEt.L ox Tux Clumit.—The se-
road pun of lb. Russell's narrative will be delivered this
evening at Willis's Rooms, at half-past eight o'clock. The
subjects will backs& lettermen and Belekleva.
On the 23rd of lost month the death took place
at Bernd, Syria, of haps Chsmand, Reg., MO British
Vice-Consul et Tyre, United States Consal-Genwel for
Syria and Palestine, Consul to H. M. of ?mak MIL of
Russia 11.11. of Sweden and Norway, H.R. of Negroa lb
remain. were socompsaled to the prelealast poolly
all the foreign consuls, merchants, MAN% omplogds,
by a body of fifty soldiers, and Go patio }Asa al he
native inhabitants of the town. The .e was stiggsresi by
the Consuls-General of Ragland, Trso, Austris, sod Sar-
dinia.
Mrs. Crookohank, who was severely wounded in
the late wan& mi Borneo, is second daughter of Whit-
more Loam*. 11M., of Fownhope, and was married to
Hr. Croebalsk toorstory to Be dames Brooke, only twelve
months Bp.
The /1140111111 M itto boa announced of Messrs.
Bebe amide. hie sod Mos osollants, of Southwark.
The lidalks are ongpsad to raw between 60,00 W. and
100,0001., and it is lband the liquidation will be rather un-
favourable.
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Mddioll rood awned oat by Os amilsoo during
the 'kw mare dmotto" to musts as NAM sad
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di %Maim at Membintor A Iwo so hs Iloottoroogla
arms Isaiah to say. bat It to far to mosois dot thoo-
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isadass sad el their ..mWriq Is ths north-
slig aim op lAN Os Wooly or towers ot English
wooommilasos."—Bareera Clowatioo
Tam- Cam Or MILITARY 81111ORRY AT EDlN-
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