The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-07 00:00:00

TUE CUTLERS' YEAH! AT erIIMIFIELD.

After commenting on the admirable beginning of Mr.
Iteverdy Johnson's diplomatic mission to this country, the
hility New. remarks that Mr. Roebuck's speech has been
described as outrageously indecent. insensate. narrow,
spiteful, and violent. It is all true, but what then'
asks the Daily Yew,. A man must be him-
self, and if Mr. Roebuck is nut these he
is nothing. It is idle to blame Mr. Roebuck: it
would be as reasonable to blame an earthquake or the
plague. If any explanation is due, it is from the Master
Cutler to Mr. Johnson. That the American minister
should at some time become acquainted with the qualities
of Mr. Roebuck was inevitable, but that the introduction
should take place on Mr. Johnson's very first appearance
in England and on a festive oeca&on was by no means
necessary.

THE RELATIONS OF LANDLORDS AND TENANT,
rx INKLAND.—TIio L..terpool .44iod publishes a corre-
spondence between the Duke of Manchester and a gentle-
man who wrote to his grace on the subpxt of the relation
of landlords and tenants in Ireland. The correspondence
appears to have had special reference to the question of
leases, and the recent quarrel between Mr. W. &ally and
his tenants. In one letter the duke says all good kind-
lords universally condemn the conduct of Mr. W. Scully.
In another his grace remarks :--•• I donot advocate the ex-
tension of the Ulster tenant right, for it is very disadvan-
tageous to the tenant. It necessitates his sinking a large
portion of his capital (never lees than 51. per acre, and
generally more) in the farm, in • way that can never
bring any profit. The only person it can benefit is the
landlord, for it secures him from any danger of loss in ar-
rears of rent. It often prevents a tenant from increasing
the extent of his holding, which a landlord is always
anxious to enable a good tenant to do, and makes It im-
poesible in most cases for farmers to stock their farms suf-
ficiently with cattle and horses, in consequence of which
the land is likely not to be sufficiently mauured, and the
crops cannot be carried at the most favourable opportu-
nity."
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CoNoratats.—on Friday
afternoon a public meeting, convened by the Mayor of
Birmingham, was held in the Council Chamber, to make
concluding arrangements for the reception of thu National
Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at its
approaching Congress, to be held in that town. The
report of the local committee stated that the various
arrangements were being actively carried out. The local
cost of receiving the association was estimated at 1,0001.,
but it was intended to raise a further guarantee fund of
1,000/., and up to the present time the sum of 1,7(01. ea
had been subscribed. On the motion of the mayor,
seconded by Archdeacon Sandford, the report was unani-
mously adopted. The mayor subsequently read a letter
that had been seceived from the Rev. Canon Melville, on
behalf of the Earl of Dudley, inviting the arsoniation to
an excursion to his lordship's ands at Dudley. The
Congress commences at on Wednesday, the
30th inst., when the opening sermon will be preached in
St. Philip's Church by- the Bishop of Worcester, and the
inaugural address will be delivered in the Town-hall in
the evening by the Earl of Carnarvon.
MuxiFics.vr Ciirr.—An additional donation of
5001. has been presented to St. Mary's Hospital, Pudding.
ton, by Mr. Samuel Scott, in answer to the special appeal
which has been recently issued by the governors of that
institution. . . .

Tlial.—OM the 13th of August
a singular tidal phenomenon occurred off San Pedro,
Southern California. A series of waves commenced flow-
ing upon the coast, causing the tide to rim 63 or 64 feet
above the ordinary high-water mark, which was followed
by the falling of the tide an aqua/ distance below the tutusl
low-water mark. The rise and tall occurred regularly
every half hour for several hours, causing town
alarm among the inhabitants along the mast in that vici-
nity. The phenomenon is attributed to some suburtrinu
disturbance.
THE SEIZURE of A BEITIaII 8111 P TN SPAIN.—
The Spanish papers, as might have boon expected, attempt
to explain away the account of the ill-treatment of the
master and crew of the schooner Fanny, at Carthamim
OA reported by us on the 7th inst. They call our state-
ment esawrerated end overstrained. We must beg to
deny the imputation. tlur format ion was Abu's] from
the best sources, 111.1 is corroborated be the depositions
tilude hereby the mastersni unite of the Plumy before the
Captain of Ow Port. Mot eorri., we have rea,on to know
that the MP, ass ApeelA HS reported etnnt by the Consul at
artliagenti, end at pie..ent remain, in the hands of her
Ma jeMy'si Miuislcr at Madrid. i Geed lo,• le,
August 24.
The Greet Eastern (soya the Liverpool Albimi), it
is expected, will shortly kayo Liverpool for Sheerness.