The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-21 00:00:00

?Rt. LIDY.RAL I.IIOOIUMILE.

Commenting upon the recent speeches of Lord Amberley
and Mr. Ayrton, the Pod points out the questions which
will most prominently force themselves upon the attention
of the new parliament. Besides the Irish church and
popular education, the electoral questions to be con-
sidered are numerous and important. The personal
payment of rates fiction must be abolished; the dis-
tribution of members must be regulated in a more
equitable and a mere elastic manner. The ballot is a
point upon which some wry facer ere being made, bat
there is an increasing accession of numbers to the view
that compulsory publicity of voting should not be mail.
tailed; and this also may have to be adopted into the
general libenl programme.

The commission appointed in 186.5 to inquir. e
into the marriage laws of the United Kingdom has made
a report, the leading recommendation of whioh is that
uniformity in regard to the marriage contract should be
established in the three countries. The commissioners do
not c< under it impossible to accomplish this design.
There are many difficulties intbe way, but these they seem
to think would yield to a serious endeavour to frame a
measure which would apply equally to England, Scotland,
and Ireland. They con&.= the Scotch marriage laws.

A very influential assemblage met at ;realest
in the Ulster Minor Hall an Wednesday morning, under
the presidency of Lord Dufferia, for the purpose of pre.
testing to the Rev. Janes M'Coeh, D.D., LL .D., ex-Pro-
teaser of Logic and Metaphysics in the Queen's College,
Belfast, a farewell testimonial on the 000asion of hie de-
parture to America, to assume the Presidency of the old-
establiehed College of Princeton.
THE NEW METHODIST COLLEGE, BELFAST.—
Thin college, which has been built at an expense of
24,0001., was formally opened on Wednesday by a public
meeting in Elmwood Church, at which addressee were
delivered by the Bev. Mr. Hall, President of the British
Conference; Bev. Mr. Arthur, Principal of the Collage;
Rev. Dr. Henry, President Queen's Cedlege; Sheriff
M'Artlicir, of London • and Dr. M'Coah. The meeting
as large and influential, and the proceedings interest,
ing. Another meeting was held in the evening in Done-
gan-square church, when several large subscriptions to-
wards the college funds were announced.
Ms IRISH Caußcs C,ommismotr.—The state-
mast copied f11)01 the Emend by the morning journals, to
the effect that the report of the Church Commission will
not be published till after the elections and the meeting ot A
wino:nat. is entirely unfounded. On the contrary, we
have reason to believe that it will be issued almost imams-
11.i .One of the oonimiasioners has remained in the
ood of Dublin, and attends with the secretary
Fully ;The °Moe with a view to expedite the publication.
—ffiskin Zeroing Moil.

PROPOS= BALL OF THII LANOHAIi HOTEL.—
Stamm E. H. Galeworthy and F. Graham, the liquida-
tors of the Langluun Hon) Company, have issued • cir-
cular explanatory of a oontractthey have mitered into for
the sale of the hotel to a new company, and which is ap-
proved by the Hester of the Rolls. The sod of the hotel,
its contents, and the adjoining properties was about
300,0001., and the price now to be obtained for it is
132,0001., or whatever farther sum may be n to
fraajall liabilities—these having bean at
:e The business of the hotel was very inactive
at the beginning of the year, but has, it is said, since
greatly improved.
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AGRICULTURAL LEASEB.—Mr. J. D. Morton has
addressed to the Tio,es some remarks relating to what he
terms the ridiculous length of lessee and their conse-
quent wet." " A few months back," he says, "it was
my business to inspect the lease of a farm (between 400
to 600 acres) in one of the midland countiest belonging to
a wealthy corporation, lame owners of landed property.
This lease had just bean given to the tenant, and wee bat
a repetition of others granted by the same al
non ; it was a fair sample of what suchTZ
ments usually are. The greater portion of the clauses
comprised conditions perfectly obsolete. sad of no practical
value as a protection to the land against bad hatralai. Per
this, however, the tenant was compelled to pay the solici-
tors 291. cdd. In the majority of cases there would be no
difficulty in preparing a more effective sad business-like
egrennent, one-tenth the lewth, at a cost not exceeding
if., Insides Amps. A other land-agent was relating
the *their day a are he had in reference to • gram farm ;
the tease was drawn, paid for by the tenant, with all the
meal clauses inserted applicable to arable land, though
there was not an acre. Who but the solicitors derived
any benefit?' They are not a body of gentlemen whom
anyone cares to attack, much less tenant farmers."
UTAH.—The delegate in Congress from Utah,
Mr. Hooper, has recently in • letter given an interesting
aooount of that territory. The mormons, he observes, have
in 20 years built up Utah from a desert wade, w was
1,100 aides from either settlements or navigable riven. It
is now a flourishing young state, oontaining 100,000 tuba.
bitanta, with a territorial extension of 70,000 square miles.
There are 06 flourishing towns in the territory, with near
100 post-offices, while the grist and saw mills, woollen manu-
factories, and many other branches of the mechanic ants
are quite equal to those of the other states. There are 100
&umbra, 120 school-houses, and three theanea, whiohequal
in appearance those of the older states. The Mormon
emigration from Europe, from 1860 to ltin inclusive, in
estimated at an annual average of 2,000 souls,
or an aggregate of 36,000; while the emigration
from the old states during tbd sense period bee been
about 24,000. The estimated poet of teking these
to Utah W1,300,00(1 dole. The emigruticafrom Europe
Pet
year is put down at 4,000 souls. About one-third of the
isnig tante have paid their own 'spews • the remaining
two-thirds have been aided by the "Pe Emigrating
Fund." which her boon in organised existence about. 20
yeah, and is eompecod of tostribehoon tithes, legacies,
and funds drawn from various sources, both in Europe and
America. This fund is kept up by the beneficiaries repay-
ing when convenient the expense incurred in Chen
rmigration, so that others mar receive like easinanes.
DuKiw the present rear 150,0150 dollars war contributed
in Salt Like City alone to enable others to reach Ame-
rica.—Tara.

In the year 1268 the following prediction men
in:de 1 y the citron tuer ma 4 Moult :—" In. 180 the .
spring will be mud and beautiful ; the summer dry ar
wean; the autumn will be temperate and profitable r
411 clop, which will yield well. Wheat will be plentiful
and cheap in all cor.nbie. Auguat the Tinkles
will b• good and plentiful generally. causing wine to
t tra for wWrli all the Mutton world mud thank God.
Thus fir the prediction pientete well to be verified."