The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-18 00:00:00

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

The " Maunday Thursday" letter of the Premier
leads the Spedaror to exclaim, " Was ever such a comedy
enacted before!" Liberals can have no objection to see
Mr. Disraeli thus break his own party into fragments, bat
as Englishmen they protest against the first minister of
the crown bringing his office into discredit. Even Titus
Oates did not wink at the judges as he swore away men'.
lives.

The Saturday Review regards the letter as one of a
continuous series et blunders which have ahersetariaed
Mr. Disraeli's Premiership. It Nu often been said that
Mr. Disraeli knows the House of Commons wonderfully
well, but that be knows astonishingly little of the
country ; but no one could have expected that he would
give so signal a proof his ignorance. Probably no Prime
Minister ever understood England so little.
The Exastiver looks upon the new Marquis of Salisbury
as the future leader of the torien With the single map-
Lion of Lord Cairns, government have not a man capable
of defending their measures from criticism or attack. As
one of the whig peen lately expressed it in conversation :
" Fight is impossible, fur it is like beating children." The
ex-Rearetary of State for India, booked as be will be by
Lord Cameroon and others, will inevitably exercise a great
and growing influence as the real leader of the tory peers ;
and nothing can prevent him from speedily taking the
plies so long occupied by Lord Derby.
The Satsedsy Review thinks it unlikely that any future
conservative ministry will be formed which does not in-
clude Lord Cralaborne ; and an far it will make no dif-
ference to him in which home ha its. Those who know
India best will most earnestly hope that be may live to
preside once more over the Indian government; and it
will be a consolation to him, now that he is tom emned to
a life of tame grandeur, to know that by general man*
he is thought capable of serving his country well if
another opportunity of serving her is offered bin..
The Spectator, under the heading "The Ap theme's of
Lord Cranborne," quotes as an illustration of the altered
position of the peers the general companion felt by the
mintry with Lord Cambers, on hie elemtim to the
Upper Howe. To disappear so early, with his career but
just begun, his high qualities scarcely developed, hie grand
capacities for usefulness to the country as yet without per-
manent or visible remits 1 If, indeed, Lord Salisbury
addresses himself to reforming the House of Lords, for
which task he is peculiarly fitted by his altareater sad
position, he may save himself from political guffaw
Ilion. If the two houses could agree that any =same
rejested by tie loads should be vetraged batik to the Com
mons at ease, sad than, if weld by a two-lbarde vote,
be low, half the odium of independents meal direwpsor;
while a emend prestos, that a minsare pinlid to two Par-
liaments by the Commons suet be eesepted by the Lords,
would prevent the essetant pelestisei at awwwlta REP-
ported by a bare majority of the Lower BOWL. NOM,'
of these moistures would cost the poses mos beetles of i
, their real power, the power, that is, they car really ex- I
I erase; while both together would restore their indepen-
ewe by revealing to the nation that its own authority
Is fully reeopised, but No own opinieu not yet nearly
unanimous.

The A thageuen is told that Mille. Theresa medi-
a's@ tie iavalioa a Basks&

sl4olio.
Via Erin.
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'WO CANTLE, Ana It.
Ole ffueen, asocrapanied by Princess Beatrice,
westast be tl • (meads yesterday ettersoca, mid bar
Majesty walked is the was& this mccaing, sod drove,
aceocupenied by P.a. one Lodes, I rhea opal, sad
Princess Beatrice.

The Queen, Pr:nocre Louise, Prime leopold, and
Pruner Beatrice, left the Oastle this afternoon at five
MaDatee before three o'clock for Osborne. Lady Water-
park, the HOD. Lucy Kerr, the Hon. Horstla !Hayford,
Lisutenant•Oenerel Hon. 0. Orey, Major•Oeaeral F. H.
Seymour, Coloud H. Poncnly, Mr. Duckw‘rth, and Mr.
Bahl were in ens:Wanes.

Print* and Price se eh:l4Jan, atten'e I by Lisutesewt-
Colonel and Mn. G. Gordan, met her Majesty at the r
way station in Windsor, and travelled with the Qaan
Osborne.

Prince Albert Victor, Prince George, and PriLoollllLonise
of Wales and Phnom Christian Victor, attended by the
Hpn. Mrs. William Grey, Sir John Cowell, and Dr. Hoff.
nester, left Windsor this morning for Osborne.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
ofßee from the Governor of the Natuitiaa Despatches
were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon
Hong Kong, Lassa, the Straits Settlements, and the
Australian colonies.

Early in the week information was received at
Frogroore from Watteredo, ff of the serious indisposition of
the father of His Royal Highness Prince Christian of
Schleswig-Holstein. A special train was at once rrepared
at the Windsor station of the South Western Railway,
and preparations made for the immediate departure of his
royal highness for the continent. A telegram, however,
announced that the patient was better, and the journey
was accordingly given up. Recent advice@ received by
their Royal Highnesaes the Prince and Princess Christian
announce the recovery of the royal patient.
The Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar left town
yesterday, accompanied by Lord and Lady Alexander
Gordon Lennox, for Holcombe, Sussex, where the Princess
will remain till after Prince Edward is relieved from his
military duties in Dublin.

The Marquis of Hastings hls left the St.
Georges HoteL

The Earl of Derby is so much improved in
health th►t he wu able yesterday to attend the Exhibition
of National Portraits at the South Kensington Museum.
His lordship was accompanied by the countess.
The Herald contradicts the statement that the
Queen had intimated her intention of honouring the Earl
of Derby with a visit at Knowsley in the course of the
ensuing mouth. There is not the slightest foundation for
the report.

The Duchess of Sutherland (says the Staffuni-
shirr Admliser) arrived at Trentham yesterday, and the
Duke is expected to join her grace os Monday next.
The return of Mr. Paget for South Leicester-
shire ba• been celebrated at Market Harborough by •
public banquet. The proceedings were of a very enthusi-
astic character.

Two friends have each promised a hundred
pounds towards the erection of the proposed new class
rooms, in connexion with the Working Men's College, if
eight other persons will give a similar sum.
A correspondent of the Athenteum wishes to
know when the statue of Cobden is to be erected on the
pedestal which bas long stood unoccupied near Morning-
ton-crescent, Camden-town.
General Sabine's second Conrersazione for the
present season will take place next Saturday (April 25) at
Burlington House.

The Early English Text Society has nearly ready
for issue its second set of texts for this year, namely, for
the Original Series, " Old English Homilies and
Homilectic Treatises of the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries," edited by Mr. Richard Morris ; and
"Sir David Lyndesay's Historie and Test►-
ment of Squire Meldrum," edited by Dr. F. Hall. For the
Extra Series," The Romance of William of Paleme (or Wil-
liam and the Woman with a fragment of an Alliterative
Romance of Alexander," edited by the Rev. W.W. Skeet ;
and " Caxton's Book of Courtesy," with two manuscript
texts of the same treatise from the libraries of Oriel and
Ballot Collette, tithed, edited by Mr. F. J. FurnivalL
On the departure of the Prince of Wales from
Ireland the Channel Squadron will probably proceed from
Dublin to Portland, calling at Plymouth.

THE FATE OF Da. LIVINGSTONE.—We (Field)
extract the following from a private letter, dated the 9th
inst. :—" My sister bas just received a letter from Dr.
Kirk, Consul at Zanzibar, to say that letters from Dr.
Livingstone have reached him ; that the doctor is quite
well, and will shortly arrive at Cairo ; and that be sends
• letter from Dr. Livingstone himself to Mr. —. This
letter has not yet arrived. Livingrtone's sepoys and
niggers all deserted him, and killed him baggage animals ;
but be went on alone, and has got through the part of the
country he wanted to visit by himself."
_ _ _

It is understood in political circles in Paris that
it wu in oonsequence of an expression of opinion of his
Imperial muter, that the Barron de Bodburg sought
and obtained latidaction from the Baron Meyendortf.

THE LATE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY.—In private
life Lord Salisbury exhibited the virtues, affections, and
demeanour which grace • noble name. He was courteous
and kind—always • gentleman; eminently social,
delighting to gather troops of friends around him
to share the splendid hospitalities of Hatiltdd
Hesse. Often wu the great ancestral home of the Cecile
—bright always, as it seemed to us, in the sunlight which
fell upon the vast pile of well-proportioned brick, and on
the terraced gardens and the stately trees—made brighter
still by the presence of almost multitudinous guests. Long
years ago the stately halls were decorated in • manner
which showed that the taste of their possessor, now passed
from us, was equal to his munificence • and we have seen
them prepared for the reoeption of aroialgueest in &manner
worthy of the greathowewhrahthedeosasedlordrspee.crated.
His children regarded him with the affection which pride
arid caprice cannot inspire ; and his servants were
devotedly attached to him. Bat Lord Salisbury exacted
deference to his own views. He was not • man who could
tolerate resistance to his will—eartainly not in matters poll-
tioal. The deceased lord had from a very early age shown a
temaiderable capacity for business ; and, when be tams into
possession of the estates, he undertook their management
—examining anomie, signing cheeks, planning and
superintending works, and in some oases making pur-
chases of things which were required. Sometimes his
plats were protested against by the persons he employed,
but he never gave them up until failure showed that his
science was at fault ; and even then he was not cured of
the passion for making experiments. Many characteristic
anecdotes are related of his building projects, and pur-
cheese, and some he used himself to ten enfoyingly. No
doubt he was often oat of pocket, as the result of being his
own architect, but his estates ware, nevertheless, well
managed. Lord Salisbury bad one put sorrow in his life.
Thirty-three years ago, on the 27th of November, 1836,
the west wing of Hatfield-house, in which wen the
apartments of his mother, the Dowager Marchioness of
Salisbury, caught fire, and her ladyship was burnt to
death. When the alarm was given. his lordship rushed
to his mother's room for the purpose of saving her and
though the smoke anti tisanes which come from it for.
bade approach, and showed the danger and neelemseas
of it, he kept on his way, and was oak" tea
forms from on to meet his death. Med at thin
peint,he attempted to reach the room by another stair-
case, and had again to be prevented front risking hie life.
—Hertford Herevry.
DISILLILI AND SIR ROBERT PzeL.—The
new number of the Edialonyrk Review contains the follow-
=statement :—" It was not until the t schism had
plus in the terry party on the of the corn laws
that 31r. Disraeli can be said to have influenced a party
in the Howie el Commons. A distinguished observer of
the events of that time has recorded an anecdote, which
we do not remember to have seen in print, but which
throws a singular light on the origin of Mr. Disraeli's
relations with his future adherents. It was early in the
session of 1846, when a knot of ardent protectionists,
Wiling over with a rancour and resentment they bad net
words to express, addressed themselves to Mr. Disraeli.
They proposed to him that he should undertake to
direct systsmatioilly and at short intervals the whole
battery of his vitapsnitive powers against Sir Robert
Peel. On their pert they engaged to be resist en Nam*
on these osessicess, sad to support thok mouthpirsee by
vociferous cheering. The interview was a curious cue.
We have seen an amount of it by one wbo knew all that
passed cm the easesices. Mr. Diemen requeled to have
twenty minutes to esasider the peopual. At the end of
that time be accepted it. The loorgais was kept by both
parties. Mr. Disraeli spoke ; the belies sheered. They
eanoidered him their Bernet ; bat fa codwets* there
wasthe voices of • master. It hed prebehlp usarred to
Mr. Disraeli in those twenty miastss•- or beer* that the
man who spoke for them, who thought fee them, who was
=tact fort hE send who meanded. to be the be-
ef their sal* pruldas,arialet
cheered se testily blind hawiess.-timitierf would
at last dissever tiler had trailed hies into absolute power
over their party and tisesteekees."