The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-22 00:00:00

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

While admittingthat it is the duty of the Southent
Railway Companies, as of all other companies, to make
the best dividends they can, the Saturday lece,e+c doubts
whether the interests of shareholders are promoted by an
ostentatious disregard for the convenience of the public.
More ?Indent administrators would have made the change.;
more gradually, and with some attempt at discrimination.
The deliberate avoidance M all previous notice of the pro-
posed increase almost renders credible the report that the
chairman of one of the companies had threatened, in cha-
racteristically elegant language, "toserve the public out."
But the Saherdeg Ittvirm thinks that the aggrieved tra-
vellers who complain that they are made to pay for th:i
unproductive expenditure of the Brighton Company
ought to blame parliament for granting an increased
tariff, and not the board of directors for exercising their
powers. The Brighton and South-Eastern Companies
will soon find by experience whether their increased
charges ara remunerative ; and they are, in the present
stagnation of railway enterprise, free from the dread of
rival projects ; but the discovery that high rates are com-
paratively unprofitable is a conclusion to which the
Directors of the Brighton Company arrived in 1833.
Considering Mr. Disraeli as an electioneering agent, the
Spectator says that if there ia meaning in speeches and
addresses and appointments, Mr. Disraeli is educating his
followers to endure another victory by flight, is telling
them for the second time that as the thing must be done,
tones had better do it, so that it may be done with mo-
deration, and respect for vested interests, and reverence
for clerical feelings, and all that kind of thing, to be
followed doubtless, as before, by a measure stronger than
Mr. Gladstone's.

Referring to the internal eendition of Prance, the Loa-
dos Berioto observes that it is impossible to deny that a
very uneasy feeling exists in Europe as to the preserva-
tion of peace, and that the repealed assurances of the
French Emperor that ho does not meditate any warlike
designs are received in many quarters with incredulity.
The speech recently delivered at Troyes has had no re-
assuring effect. On the contrary, the guarded expression,
"nothing to-day threatens the peace of Europe," has been
understood as hinting that probably to-morrow something
stay threaten it. Against a self-torturing ingenuity such
as this no defence is possible. Nevertheless, our contempo-
rary Goes not regard the present aspect of attain in the
alarming light in which it is systematically represented by
"writers with a purpose." Paris is no longer Prance,
and journalists are no longer the State. The masses rule.
It is they who made the empire, and (unless their interests
are forgotten) it is they who will maintain it.
Commenting upon the Tipperary outrage, the Eraeader
says Mr. William Scully has made plain to every tenant
farmer in Ireland that he can never again lis down in
peace or safety, until a fundamental change is made in
the laws regarding land. He has chucked the linch-pin
out of the wheel of public order ; and, for the present, the
hope of agrarian tranquillity, with all that is precious
dependent thereon, has broken down.

DEFAWITIIE OF PRINCE ARTHUR FOR TilE COK-
TINENT.—His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by
Colonel Elphinstone, C. 8., and suite, arrived at Dover at
9.30 a.m. yesterday, having travelled from Charing-cross
by the South-Eastern Company's continental mail train,
which left London at 7.2.3 a.m. His royal highness was
received upon alighting from the train by Colonel Cox
(acting for General Russell, commandant of the garrison),
a guard of honour, With the band of the 4th Regiment,
being drawn up on the pier. A salute from the Nicholiff
Fort was fired as his royal highness embarked. Captain
Brace, Admiralty superintendent, and Sir Luke Smithett
also were in attendance to conduct his royal highness to
the mail packet Wave, which was specially ordered to
convey the Prince and suite to Calais. Mr. 7. P. Knight,
superintendent of the South Eastern Railway, travelled in
charge of the train from Charing-croea to Dover, the
Prince being in one of the company's royal saloon car-
riages. The weather was very line. and the Wave made
n food postage to Calais, arriving there at 11.30 a.m.
The ova hi*huess, it is undersstood proceeds from Paris
to Lucerne. in time to spend Sunday with her Majesty at
her pleasant Swiss retreat. His royal highness will pro-
bably retuin to England about the ond of September.

FOREIGN NEWS.

(THIS DAY.)

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analogous cast in ollic,er., have 1...1.:
and oven arrested near French fortressns and in th.• I
territory. Since the :irre,t of a French oair .1- lit l't
greater preett,itionsl.3.Vl. heon tri ken here. T he
orders have been issued from the miniatry of w
admit any person into than offices who is not olli• t!.,
netted with the department. I from li.vm a a.,1!,..1
even a French colonel, who endoavourcd to obtaii,
admisiion has Leen arrested and roporte,l upon.
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OUR PARTS LETTER.

(allow our: own oommaronniar
PAIIII4, 1 EIJ A F •
The while thinking that the .• „
raneoua assertion, of the Pey, P. •
that the general electioni will 1, .1 t
till next year, cannot be an iv, i ,•
cilence, and tint these jourria:. ❑ .•
been authoritatively Ohl 1.. ',As
(1(1, (14,,,ireq to
the nu:inert:ley ot ion of 0- ,•
occa:sic.ncil prohal :y hy it., ilei. II
se.mity ft,z,li,sl.,a;urprly. Al,
rc, large vi,•w.i, 1 ut
litiLle to be (.:'!illgt .1 Ly the •:.
i, incompatible kith a reiiaLl, .
quite possible, the BMcl, coMMO •s, !•,
shock felt in official circle, aft, r
is a little g‘ -t over, 11:0 paw, v
the Lest thing would t •
eh.etions, and have d' n.• !'.
again I.e in the :is, I.
fore advises its friends to 1:-
readiness and to bear in mind t!. ,• .
ufforts they make on the hypoth•-i.. ,
diate election will not be thrown .:w r, •
the contrary, will bear rich fr,L,. i.; -
great battle shall be postrmed.
Count de Faletans, dating his .;• : .
Avenue Josephine, Paris, write. ti,
Etrang,rs, that the story publish, d 1,,
of himself arid wile and flair friend Al
1.14..yer, of 'Vienna, basing been u
hotkl at Ostend, after thinking chimp.,
glasses at the bottom of which i•rtis.i,
found, was a pure fiction, invent..,l I.y . .
mist short of news.

M. Henri Itoehefort annottnr.c., in :I it.
papers that the thirteenth uunil,cr O th.• /
will positively be published in Pari:

The Ect',,tmcat has a caricature of M. : •
Cassagnac climbing up a gr.a,:y ::! •
model seen on the Trocadero on August. I
triumphantly snatching from the top th.• •
the Legion of Honour.
The Bourse was decidedly weak, 110' -1 I! I.
ing a renewal of large purehases to suppor
market, which arc said to be made for the
of the Bank of Franc,:,. Bente fell 15e. for
17;c. for account, closing at 70fr..itk. in each
It is to be observed that the money price, whi.•ii
yesterday was higher than the quotation fur
is now on the saute level. Italian continue, to 4..
down rapidly; it fell to day 40c., closing
31fr. 20c. Credit Foncier fell Mr. ; roso
Ifr. 25c.

In the list of bankrupts published in the four!
column of this morning's •llwkib•ar, appeurN .t
name of no ordinary calibre—that of M. L. Annie
deputy of the Corps Legislatif, the great H0rd...1,1.:
shipowner, who Vilt.K one of the principal def••n l-
ents in the lawsuit lately decided in a French e e.: •
against Ple:•ideut Johnson.