The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-13 00:00:00

/9 PC CLISHED

EVERY EVENING.

LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 13.

THE EASTER HOLIDAYS.

THE English people, according to an impression
prevalent among foreign nations, have too few holi-
days, and do not know how to enjoy those that
they possess. Certainly the spectacle of a crowd
setting about the task of self-amusement in this
country is a curious and even painful one. There
is an inaptitude about their behaviour as if they
were engaged in an uncongenial and difficult work.
The first instinct of holiday-makers appears to be
to put as great a distance between themselves
and their homes as possible. Tho second is to
make appointments for potations long and deep,
for lights of men and of dogs, for rolling down
Creenwich-hill, and for trespassing in woods and
preserves. The faculty of innocent associated en-
joyment appears to be as much • lost art among
the lower clauses of this country as the art of conver-
sation is among the higher. Perhaps the con
nexion between a holiday and a holy day is real as
well as etymological. The revelry natural to
southern and Catholic nations may be in part due
to the reaction from the constraint of enforced
fast and service which their church imposes. The
license of the carnival—eorei rate, good bye to
moat—is the preparation for the abstinence and
humiliations of the forty-days of Lent ; and the
penitential solemnities of Passion-week give a
keener relish to the cheerful enjoyments of Easter.
The sense of a burthen flung away, and of a
past cancelled, which is natural to the
Catholic after canfession and absolution,
and the careless and lighter tone of mind which
belong to a man who feels that he has the priest to
fall back upon, as compared with the grave con-
sciousness of an irremoveable personal respon-
sibility natural to protestantisra, explains why
Roman Catholic nations are great adepts in the
art of enjoying themselves and casting their cares
behind them than adherents of the reformed
faith.

However, we are conscious of our defects in this
matter, and are doing our best to remedy them.
Good Friday, rejected by the Puritan spirit as a
day of fast and humiliation, is seized hold of by the
secular spirit as a day of rest and relaxation. The
awful shadow of Passion week is felt by the mass
of Englishmen no longer, and the well-meant at•
tempts of men of sincere faith to revive its reli-
gions significance shows only how completely and
how hopelessly that sense has been lost. Puritanism,
which endeavoured to make every day equally
gloomy, hasplayed into the hands of the in are genial
temper which endeavours to make every day
equally cheerful. As for Emter, the " Queen of
" festivals," the sacred associat ions tint w Med m it hit
are those of light and joy. But the majority of
its celebrants think as little of the event which it
commemorates as they do of the Quartoderiman
controversy, or of theAnglo-Saxon Goddess %vas,
whose rites are said to be mingled with the
Christian celebration. The coloured paschal
eggs with which the children play are
no longer symbols of life breaking from
from the tomb. The usage which prevails in the
northern shires and in the counties bordering on
Wale*, according to which on Easter Monday the
mon parade the streets and claim the right of
" lifting" the women they meet three tuna,

while on the fallowing day the
men as often—has cored in the
celebrant& to be • half profane
overwhelming event, and has be
horseplay, • piece of loutish
iMk gallantry and coquetry,

one to strangers who ars
the custom, but fraught with

world. Whether the Ritualist mo'

it gathers strength, apply itself to
gpsib3liA practices where they have fallen into
disuse, and in explaining their meaning to
HODGE and DOLLY when that meaning has been
lost, may depend upon Sir Rosner Patuntorus
and the Bishops. One thing is matter of congra-
tulation. The Easter holidays in ceasing among
the many to be sacred, have ceased to be intolerant.
The children no longer sing in our streets the
couplet which embodies the spirit and the false
logic of persecution—.

(,`heist is rises, Christ is risen,
All the Jews must go to prison ;

nor is the custom of stoning that unhappy people in
honour of the season, or of eating bacon in contempt
of them, practised any longer. Outside the churches,
the festival has, for the majority of the English
people, become a secular holiday. Whether the
change is for the better or the worse, there is no
help for it, and wisdom will make the best of it.
There can be very little doubt that our labouring
classes do need more holidays. They have
scarcely any other idea of them than
that of rest from work, and of indul-
gence in stimulants to beguile the mono-
tony of inaction. Among the branches of technical
education in which they need instruction, and
Miif.4ll Telt titted to Impart
to them, is that of amusing themselves inno-
cently. English workmen were sent to the
Paris Exhibition to report on the several
industries of nations. We would recommend that
deputations of artisans and labourers be sent to
France to examine and report on the enjoyments
of the people, and to see whether they cannot in-
troduce something of the Continental skill in self-
amusement which is lacking here.

and, for all the special pliestomena et the
eclipse, the least shortcoming in totality is as bed
as no eclipse at all. "We cannot therefore," it
says, "recommend any enthusiastic observer to
" combine science with his holiday by visiting the
" Neilgherries this year. Not one of the sanitaria
" seems to be favoured, and • trip to a coast
" station would scarcely be compensation in the
" event of failure in one's main object. Flys
" minutes of cloud on an August morning and
" the chance of observation is lost, which may
" not recur in a life-time."

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

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The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday afternoon.
and dress, essompested by Primer Chriatisaand Primers
Louise. Her Majesty, wassapenied by their royal bigh-
nesers, sidled Weisser Chapel, when Bane de Tridliteti
had the know of showing her Majesty his marble decors
time of the walla, with cartoons of portions of the works
now in promise.

The Quern, the Prince and Princess Christian, Princess
Lodes, Prices Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess
Beatrice, and the lidies and gentlemen in waiting,
attended Divine service this morning in the private
chapel_

Tits Hon. and Very Bev. the Dean of Windsor officiated,
and administered the sacrament of the Holy Communion,
assisted by the Rev. R. Duckworth.
Prince and Primus Christian remained to luncheon with
her Majesty.

Prins and Princess Christian dined with the Queen
yestanky. Major-General and Ldp Emily Seymour hid
the honour of being twined.

Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial•
office from the Governor General of Canada and from the
Governor of Heligoland. Despatches were sent to the
Governors of the North American Provinces, British
Columbia, Bermuda, and the Bahamas.

Her Majesty, with their Royal Highnesses Prim-
GAMS Louise and Bestride, and Prince Leopold, attended
by Ma Mite sad geatiemea of the mut, will, it ie under-
stood, leave Windsor Castle on Friday next for Oshorse.
After • short stay in the Isle of Wight, her Majesty will
return for • few days to Windsor previous to making
• trip to Balmoral. Her Majesty will, it is ex-
pected, pay • visit to Aldershot% this week. Wednesday
will probably be the day selected for the purpose.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS or WALE'.—The
present brief stay of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wales at Sandringham-house is expected to
be brought to a close to-day, as the current week will be
occupied with their visit to Ireland. It may be remarked
that a new wing at Sandringham-house is approaching com-
pletion, while various minor improvements are being car-
ried out upon the Sandringham estate. The provincial en-
gagements of the Prince of Wales appear to be increasing,
as the Prinoe has undertaken to be present in June at the
inauguration of the Leeds Fine Arta Exhibition. He has
also been invited to attend the inauguration of dock works
at Sunderland, Hull, and Lynn.
THE ROYAL VISIT TO NORTH WALEIL—It has now
been decided that the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales
to one of the principal towns of North Wales shall take
place on the return of their royal highnesses from Ireland,
en route for London. It is the desire of the High Sheriff
of Carnarvonahire, and those acting in concert with him,
that the demonstration on the occasion of the royal visit
shall be a national one, and with this object a committee
has been formed comprising the lords lieutenants, the high
sheriffs, and the magistrates of the counties, and the
mayors and corporations of the towns of North Wales.
This committee will meet at Rhyl to-morrow to arrange
the details of the reception, and to draw up an addle,su
which will be presented to the Prince of Wales in the
name of the Welsh nation. All the towns and communities
being included in this address, the trouble of receiving
and replying to a aeries of corporate addressee will be
spared to their royal highnesses. Bangor was the town
fiat named as the pikes of reception, but the peculiar
claim of Carnarvon, as being the birthplace of the first
Prince of Wales, has been recognised, and 'object to
the approval of the Prince the address of the Welsh
people will be presented to him in Carnarvon Castle.

- It is reported that the Prince and Princess of
Wales will pay a second visit to Ireland in August next,
and will be present at the National Cattle Show of the
Royal Agricultural Society at Londonderry. Their royal
highnesses will then be the guests of the Lord• Lieutenant
and the Slarchioneas of Aberoorn, at Baron Cond.

On Saturday, April 11, his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales received at Sandringham House the
Rev. T. White, KA., head muter of the King's Lynn
Grammar School, aocompanied by W. Moyne, Req., Mayor
of Lynn, and Mr. William Hoff, the successful competitor
for the gold medal given &pawkily to this school by his
royal highness. This year the medal was offered for
modern studies, and the presentation was now made by the
Prince.

DEATH OP THE MARQUIS OP SALISBURY.

We regret to announce the unexpected death of
the Marquis of Salisbury, 11.0., which took place shortly
after six o'clock yesterday evening, at Hatfield-house, the
ancient family seat in Hertfordshire. The Marquis of
Salisbury only left town on Saturday for Hatfield, in appa-
rent health. On his valet going into his room yesterday
=rani he found his master evidently labouring under
very severe illness, and in consequence the Marchioness,
who bad gone on Saturday lea to Knole, near Sevenoaks,
to visit the Earl and Countess De La Warr, was sent
for. Her ladyship arrived at Hatfield about •
quarter of an hour before her husband expired.
The late JllOl6ll Brownlow William Oascoigne-Cecil, Mar-
quis and Earl of Salisbury, Viscount Cranborne, county
Dorset, and Baron Cecil of Essendine, county Rutland, in
the peerage of Great Britain, was the only son of James,
first Marquis of Salisbury, by his wife, Lady Mary Emily
Hill, second daughter of Wills, first Marquis of Down-
shire. Ho was born April 17, 1791, consequently had he
lived • few days longer be would have attained his 77th
year. He succeeded to the family honours on the death
of his father, June 13,182'3. The deceased marquis was
twice married—first, February 2, 1821, to Frances Mary,
only daughter and heir of Mr. amber Gascoigne,
which lady died October 15, 1839; and secondly,
he married, April 29, 1847, Lady Mary Cathe-
rine Seekville-West, second daughter of Karl De.
la-Warr. By his Brat marriage he loaves surviving
runs Lady Mildred, married to Mr. Alexander J. Beres-
ford Hope, M.P. ; Lady Blanche, widow of Mr. James
Maitland Balfour, of Whittinghame; Viscount Orseborne,
M.P. for Stamford; and Lord Earth* Cecil, M.P. for
South Essex. By his second marriage his lordship leaves
time three sons, viz., Lord Sackville, Lord Arthur, and
Lord Lionel Cecil, sod Ladies Mary Arabella and Margaret
Elizabeth Cecil. The Marquis of Salisbury was appointed
lord-lieutenaat of the county of Middlesex on the resigna-
tion of the late Duke of Portland; was made D.C.L. at
Oxford in 1834 ; and was sweated a Knight of the Garter
in 1842. KA had been mama a the Harts Militia slam
1861; and was major of the South Harts Yeomanry
Cavalry from 1847 to 1864. He was appointed • deputy.
Determent of Argyllshire ia 1869 ; and on the resignation
of the late Lord Deere wee unanimously elected chairman
of the Harts Quarter Sedans. The late Marquis of Sails-
buy accepted Moo la the Best of Derby's first adminia.
tratlon in 1852 as Lord Privy Seal ; end spin in Lord
Derby's government from February, 1868, to June, 1869,
was Lerd President of the Connell. The deceased noble-
' man, it is almost unnecessary to say, was • staunch and
consistent conservative in patties, and a supporter of the
agricultural interest. Visecouat Cranborne, M.P., by the
lamented death of his father, succeeds to this ancestral
honours and large landed property. The present peer Wee
born February 3, 1830, and married July 11, 1867,
Georgina, Caroline, eldest daughter of Sir E. H. Alderson,
eme of the Barons of the Exchequer. He was educated at
Eton and Christchurch, Oxford, and obtained • fellowship
at All Souls in 1863. His lordship has been member for
Stamford since 1851 The families of the Earl and Counters
Oewl.y, Colonel and Lady Ross Grealle-Nugsat, the
Igeffittlia and Marthicsess of Downshire, the Marquis of
W.atmesth, Lard and lady Dengsa, Mr. and Lady Mil-
dred B. Hope, and others, are In mourning by the death of
his lordship.

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