The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-09 00:00:00

BRITANNIA.

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LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 9.

AfE. !)I'? lELPS PAPIFIc.ITIIoN OF
IRELAND.

Tin: hundred tongues of Rumour are busy with
the new PIiIME MININTEIes grand scheme for the
pacification of Ireland, which is to be announced
in the House of Commons to-niorrow evening.
Bo rare, so unique an opportunity of displaying
the highest qualities of large and liberal states.
manship selibrot comes within the grasp of •
minister in an old country which might
almost seem to have survived its history,
and to have entered into that happy state
of being in which a nation, like a family,
has no history to write, and its dial counts
only serene and sunny hours. There is, it cannot
be denied, a constantly besetting temptation to the
critics of a Statesman who once upon a time
was a political novelist. We discern this
danger all ar mud us. and are anxious
to avoid it. No doubt Mr. DISRAELI'S literary
performances hate not been so entirely disadvate
tageous to his public career as they might he to an
aspirant to the Woolsack. A rising lawyer may be
safely recommended to keep his literary passions
under strict restraint, and not to stray beyond
the °ono ilation of a Hymnal, or at all events beyond
Sunday writing for Sunday readers. Even to the
rising statesman, literary distinction, except of the
severest kind, may be a scandal and rock of
(denim in future years when he has learnt
that better part of political valour, discretion,
and discovered the virtue and the value of silence.
Just now the PREMIER must Le sensible of
the inconveeionce of having in his irresponsible
days given the rein to a fatal power of mimicry,
to a satirical invention, and to a litter and biting
humour and percept' of the hilierous and the
seamy aide of sole pretenders and lofty quacks.
Be has betrayed the secrets of the side
scenes to the pit, and like the burlesque
writers destroyed the illusions .4 the stage
and vulgarised the heroes of the political drama.
Be has not, indeed, created, but presented in all
the squalid reality of a rehearsal, the TsnroLca and
T %PERS of the parliamentary b..ards. He has, with
that half nrconseions irony of renins which has
something it of the nature of a dem...niecel posses-
sion, compelling its very mockery to Le sincere,
clothed with the Eastern mantle of SIDONIA,
transcendent disdain of the parochial ideas
of British parliaments and rah Mets. and now he
pays the penalty, if penalty it be. .4 presenting to
an unimaginative public, in his own positive and
prosaic personality as the chief of a party progres-
sive lilo',/,; I.:, the conceptions if policy which a
Blooms would scorn, and the combinations of a
statecraft which a TADDOI.I: or a T urea would
admire.

let. The postponement of the Irish Church question
until such time as the present Commission shall have
reported.
2nd. The issue of a Royal Commission to inquire into
the relations of landlord and tenant in Ireland.
3rd. The pant of a charter for the establishment of a
Catholic University.
4th. To subsidise the Irish railways.

Without disrespect to our contemporary we'
shall be honestly rejoiced to find that his infor-
mation was not so correct as it looked. There
is, we are bound to confess, a disastrous
sir of apparent probability about this magnificent
combination of sip and sop. Mr. DIEZAILI has
assured the House and the country that his
administration is iu principle nothing but
the continuation of Lord DERBY'S Cabinet,
and Lord Dirlav's Cabinet, we all
know, showed a wonderful alacrity last year in
putting all but the merest parochial functions of aII
government in commission. Almost as many
Royal Commissioners as party questions ! Enough
to distract a political Floss°. The End of the
World announced by Dr. CUMMING was
formally postponed by the Police. A Royal
Commission to inquire into the coming
deluge would exactly hit the taste and
the temper of a manceuvring administration
and a fumbling parliament. A Royal Com- '
mission looks like doing something ; it flatters
and occupies some important and impatient
personages on both sides. And it en-
ables Mr. DISRAELI to wait and throw the Irish
question upon the new House as he threw the
Reform question on the old one, and thus to
educate his party by the discipline of events.
This may be described by harsh judges
as a simple abandonment of all the functions os
the Executive, an utter renunciation of all the
initiative of power. It is government by promis-
sory notes and by ledgers in which the names
of creditors are registered in a good
round hand and with an almost ostentatious
honesty of intention, and Letter A may see that
his turn comes first. The grant of a charter

to the Irish University will hardly con-
tent the party to whom it is offered, unless it
means more and worse than it professes. The

subsidy to the Irish railways, however
desirable and advantageous on the spot, will

scarcely suffice to meet the exigencies of the

moment in the House of Commons.

Another morning contemporary announcesanother
momentary solution of the Irish question, and

although this is not an act of statesmanship, we
should be glad to consider it an inspiration
of Mr. DistaaLt's imaginative sympathies.

It is said that the Prince of WALLS is

to spend the Easter holidays in Dublin, and that
the Duke of CsissaiDos (who is not unkindly re-

membered aa " Prince °warm " by the popula-

tiou of the Irish capital) is to accompany his Royal
HIOHNIAR, and to be the guest of the CHIEF Si.
esvraay during his stay. Reformers of a hard and

dry texture will smile at this " personal " policy for
Ireland. Doubtless it is little ; and so is a drop

of water in a thirsty land. But those who know
how much popular imagination has to do with the
science of government will not make light

of a R..yal visit to a people whose
imaginations are as warm as their hearts,

and who have always been peculiarly sus-
ceptible of personal impressions. To inch a
people as the Irish a Royal face giveth grace, when
it is a face of manly generosity and goodwill ;
whilst the most beneficent legislation would be

accepted as a tardy and inadequate atonement
for a long tradition of misrule. We only hope

that the Prince of W.sies' Easter visit to Dublin, if
indeed it is to tale place, may be the precursor

of a royal settlement in the sister kingdom.

Witerues the meeting on Saturday for "the
" temporary relief of the unemployed " was
originated by deliberate mischief-makers, or merely
by busy-bodies who sow mischief by want of
thought, it signally failed in achieving any useful
purpose. The classes really appealed to declined
the invitation which has stared them in the face
from hoardings and walls for a week past, and the
1.10 people present were not so much people out
of work as people to whom work was strange.
Anouymous persons of distinction were alluded
to as having promised to attend, but
a merchant "not at present in business"
whose name we never had the pleasure of
hearing before finally took the chair, and,
with a speaker whose cratory savoured some-
what of the Corr.' Hall, proceeded to denounce
the evils of free trade, and to trace the sufferings
of the poor to the "over-production of the world"
and the competition England " had to contend
" against w ith foreign countries." Another speaker
inveighed against the rich as robbers of the poor,
denounced the English " thirst of gain," and wound
up a wandering speech with an incomprehensible ,
criticism of the griping qualities of sour wine.
It is not wonderful that a meeting conducted
after this puerile fashion *should have terminated
in a vote of censure upon those convening it ; or'
that bothelvairman and orators should have suffered
such interruptions as "Throw a water-jug at his
" head," and, " We don't want such men
" as him." The grave, sad, problem
how to relieve the abundant distress of the
metropolis, and how to provide employment
for those able and willing to work, is not to be
solved by a revival of exploded fallacies ; or by
the frothy verbiage of the tap-room. To ask
starving men to listen to such harangues as were
mouthed from the platform of St. James's-hall on
Saturday is to add an additional drop of bitterness
to their already overflowing cup. The work-
man who moved that " the wealthy classes
" be taxed for the benefit of the poorer classes,"
was at least intelligible, which is more than we can
say for the pretentious speakers who preceded
him. But the folly or worse of such a gathering
as this does not relieve us of the heavy quas-
.
tem its promoters traded on and injured.
The " temporary relief of the unemployed"
has . been successfully accomplished at Beth-
nal-green by She association inaugurated
this winter by Miss BVILDIII7 Courrs. A pro-

Such are the of the highest human
destinies. To the contemplative philosopher
nothing can be more instinctively diverting.
People who, forgetful or ignorant of the conditions
of romantic art, insist on sect ibing t.. Mr. DISJULELI
all the sentimentsof allthe charactersin all hisnovela,
and who forget that as Pr' • Minister he has to drag
after him a load of Dukes and squires and all sort,
of impracticable material, are sorely puzzled to
prefigure his scheme of volley for Ireland. Were
be, like his old Imperial c.,mi ado i.% er the water,
• " personal government,' he w.•::1..1 probably in-
dulge in a 'piebald .;. ; say, a plebis-
cite conducted under the ansi.i.cs of an army sent
expressly to enliven the elector.: an all but una-
nimous popular vote for the E.,;lish connection,
followed by decrees or.lorin four palaces
to he built for the r.cr;.:;.ni:ut rtwidenos
of a Prince of the ; rat Imperial
progrees through the kingdom. ace n.panied by a
frenzy of acclamations ; the Irish Church Esta-
blishment abolished, and all the religions acknow-
ledged by the law inscribed acconding to their
cumbers on the budget of public worship ; the
land expropriated by the State f. r y.nblic uses with
a handsome indetnuily to himllorcis, or divided
mesa the "peasantry" at a ased annual rent to

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY

the State ; something between the Ittiilien system ly conducted public discussion might result .
and the Napoleonic colonisation of WWII sod Illm illisciple oitii •n • a
extended
the Landes. An English Pawns of the extended by parts the i let
very largest views and of boundless lemilnation dna meetings the t noel lected
will be pardoned by the boldest clisoovereas " friends of mem" • where 'the should
of sudden panaceas for ancient and in- help.
inveterate national ills, if his Chief Sem- fl '
tau for Ireland announces to-morrow Os Friday next a State trial which proiffises to
evening • series of measures somewhat rank in history as one of the most celebrated in the
less sweeping, less expeditious, and less compre- annals of Constitutional Government, is expected
pensive than an Emperor's decrees. Still, without to commence. Oa that day President Jonsson is
demanding the reckless remedies of Imp.- summoned to answer st Washington, before the
Aaiun, the House of Commons may not unrea- American Senate, presided over by the well-known
sonably expect something more and better than • Republican and Abolitionist Chief Justice Cuss!,
series of postponements and inquiries, of commis- the several articles of impeachment lodged
Mons for putting off, and commissions for put- against him by the House of Representatives. On
ting out of the way all the difficulties which it is Friday, according to the description of the form
the duty of a responsible Executive to solve, or of procedure in the New York press, the House
to make way for those who can and will. of Representatives, resolving itself into •
One of our morning contemporaries ventures to " committee of the whole," will be admitted
anticipate Lord Mayo's revelations, and sums up to the Senate Chamber, and the return to
the propositions of the Government as follows : the summons will be read by the secretary to the

Senate. Arrangements will then be made for the
summoning of witnesses. The trial being com-
pleted, each article will be read by the secre-
tary, and the roll called, when each senator
will answer " Guilty " or " Not guilty," two-thirds
being required to declare the accused guilty.
The decision will be given, and commuuicated to

the accused. If found guilty, the PRRNIDRNT will
from that moment be deprived of his office, the
functions of which will devolve upon the President
of the Senate, the Bon. BIZ/JAMEY F. Wane, of
Ohio. The journals most opposed to the trial
11 allow that the Senate is not likely to be governed by
party passion and personal feeling in the degree
in which they have been displayed in the House of
Representatives, but will weigh carefully and can-
didly the legal aspects of the case, and the reasons
and motives of the Paistosarr's action. The New
York Tribune ridicules the idea of any serious trouble
arising out of the trial. "As for revolutions, and
"armed legions, and blood-shedding, and Dicta-
tors, and business panics, and financial ruin,
"and social chaos, not one in ten thousand,"
it says, "anticipates even a shadow of any •
" thing of the sort ; the assertion of the people's
" right to rule will bring no panic ; peace follows
"the footsteps of law." This seems to be the general
opinion, although expressed by the Republican
journal with characteristic confidence. The absence
of any attempt to suspend the PRESIDRNT during
the trial: is regarded as a token that there is no
desire to resort to unconstitutional methods,
and it is believed that however the trial may
end, a prompt concurrence of the executive
and legislative departments will render
abortive any revolutionary designs. An
order which General GRANT had issued, for-
bidding any movement of troops except under his
direct instructions, had contributed not a little
to remove apprehensions of violence, and the
steadiness of the premium on gold at New York is
but one of many signs of the general belief that
the public tranquillity will not be disturbed.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

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refusing tit 3My al
feeble nunaly of
semirofflei 1 diplomatic Unfortunately,
lOW of the mot posers ere, Is a mallied way, inelbsed
to follow this example. Direct oswilastitiou hi, of course,
out of the question ; and a better expedient is to be found
in reducing the dividends by imposing a good high Memo
tax. There is no denial al liability to pay the full amount,
but simply the avowal that the Slats is obliged to levy a tax
upon inmates is general, and that inoomee from the
National Debt must oome like others within the category.
It is to be hoped that the movement for denying existing
obligations will not make the Immo progress in the new
world it has in the old ; but it is ominous that two great
conventions of different polities and in different states,
have miaowed in favour of paying the government
bonds in greenbacks.

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WINDSOR CASTLE, Wine 7.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
arrived et the Castle at a quarter before o'clock last
evening, from London. Vionewiten Clifden, Colonel the
Hon. D. do Ros, and Colossi Da Plat, were in atioadance.
Prince and Prince= Christian alio accompanied her Majesty
from Paddington. Their royal highnesses were attended
by LadySinan Melville and Liout.-Colonel G. Gordon.

Prins Leopold drove out yesterday afternoon, attended
r Mr. Duckworth.

Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince= Beatrice, walked
L the grounds this morning.
Princess Louise rod* in the Home-park.
Sir James Clak has left the Casts.

MARCH 8.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince
Leopold, drove out yesterday afternoon.
Prince Arthur, attended by Major Faphinstcoe, arrived
at the Castle from Greenwich-wk.
Prince and Princess Christian dined with the Queen
last evening.
The Earl and Countess of Tenberville arrived at the
Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the
Queen and the Royal Family.
The Queen, the Prince and Primes Christian, Princes.
Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Pnnoess
Beatrice, and the Imam and Gentlemen in Waiting,
attended Divine service this morning in the private
chapel.

The Rev. T. J. Rowsell, honorary chaplain to the
Queen. preached the sermon.
Prince and Princess Christian remained to luncheon.

The Prince of Wales rode out on Saturday, attended by
Captain Ellis.
The Princess of Wales drove out in the afternoon.
In the evening the Prince of Wales went to a oonver.
aazione of the Royal Society at Burlington-house, attended
by Lord Alfred Hervey, Captain Elia, and Mr. Hohmann.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Countess
of Horton and Captain Ellis in waiting, attended Divine
service yesterday morning at the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The Communion Service was read by the Rev. the Sub-
dean and the Rev. A. Sitwell.
Anthem, " 0 that 1 lore w." Bennett
Mr. Cooper presided at the organ.
The sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Kil.
more, from Hebrews, chap. ii., vertu 2, 3.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present
were the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, the Lord
Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl
of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy,
Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and
Chandos, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right
Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond,
Lord J. Manners, and the Earl of Mayo.

Despatches were received on fistorday at the Cokmial.
office from the Governoi• of Gibraltar, Ceylon, Hang
Kong, and Lubusn. Despatches' were nut to the Clover.
nor-General of Canada, and to the Governors of British
Honduras, the Mauritius, and the Falkland Islands.

FEMALE SCHOOL OF ART.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to signify her intention to patronise the
fete to be held shortly in aid of the building fund of the
Female School of Art.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of ♦Wales, on the Decagon of their wieit to the New Queen's
Theatre on Friday, were Owed to request the attendance
of Mr. Toole at the ekes of the new drama, Dean than
Llfc; and the comedian bad the honour of being highly
complimented by the royal party upon his pathetic and
comic acting, as also upon the great success of the drama.
The house was filled with a brilliant audience.

The Duke of Cambridge honoured Lady Moles-
worth with his company at dinner on Saturday evening.
The Marquis d'Aseglio, the Earl and Countess of Cork,
the Earl and Countess De Grey, Viscount and Viacom-
tees Cranborne, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, Lord and
Lady Foley, Lord Courtenay. Sir Anthony de Rothecbild,
and Mies de Rothschild, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe,
M.P., Mr. W. Harcourt, and Mr. Alfred Montgomery
were invited to meet his royal highness. Colonel the
Hon. James Macdonald was in waiting on the Duke of
Cambridge.
The Earl and Countess of Sefton entertained
during last week at Croxteth, for the rase meeting, a
numerous circle, Including the Earl Annesley, Viscount
and Viscountess Chelsea, Lord Barrer!, Lord and Lady
Alexander Lennox, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Frederiek John-
stone, Colonel Hon. Henry Forester, Mr. and Lady Agnes
Joliffe, Colonel and Hon. Mrs. Dudley Carleton, Colonel
Vyse, Mr. C. Leslie, Mr. George Payne, Mr. H. Brownrigg,
Mr. Blackburn., be.

The Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue and
France. Countess Waldegrsve entertained at dinner on
Saturday evening, at their residence in Carlton-gardens—
The nacho's of Argyll, the Earl and-Countess Grey,
the Earl and Countess of Mint*, Viscount and Viscoun-
tess Enfield, Lord ►nd Lady Dufferin, Lord and Lady
&matey of Alderley, Lard and Lady Norreys, the Right
Hon. the Speaker and Linty Chastain, Denison, the Hon.
Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., General and Mrs. Malcolm, Mr.
Bernal Osborne, M.P., Mr. Hayward, to. Later in the
evening her lady had a select evening party.
The Right Hon. Cathorne Hardy, ALP., and
Mrs. Hardy received at dinner on Saturday last, ►t their
reddenos in Grosvenor-crescent—The Duchess (Jane) of
Marlborough, the Earl of Lawton!, Lord Chalmdoed and
Hat. Miss Mealier, Lady and Miss Ravin, the Right Hon.
Sir Stafford Neu/hoots, Bart., M.P., and Lady Northeote,
Coma P. Skaskeld, C. 8., Count Maffei, Sir John
Therold, Earl., ILP., Mr. Skase, he.
Tun Haw Darr.—Aooording to returns pub-
lished this morning it appears that the total quantity of
malt made in England sad Wales dining the year ceding
September 30, 1867, was 47,513,365 I/thole, and
the net amount of duty charged thereon was
8,380,2771. 4a 9d. The quantity of malt made last
year was lam than had been made during the three years
immediately preceding; but exceeded the quantity re-
tensed Millirem the years of 1830 and 1863, inclusive. The
average pries of barley in 1866 WAS 375. fid., which was an
imams of 7s. Bd. upon the average of the previous
year. The average of 1866 has only been exceeded
SM. them sines 1830. In Scotland during the
year ..ding 31st Dismember, 1867, the quantity of
melt dimmed 'with duty was 2,363,449 bushels, and the
duty itself mounted to 319,:1261. 18s. 21d. In Ireland,
daring the lame period, the quantity was 2,369,8251., and
the duty charged, 321,3131.12 x. sfd. The total quantity
of barley imported into the United Kingdom during the
year 1867 wan 1,591,442 quarters.
Foattiene-ormen AOSNCIES.—A return was issued
this morning of the names of persons for whom clerks in
the Foreign-Gatos now act as agents, or have so acted
during the last five years, and of the segregate
emoluments which such clerks bare received dur-
ing that period. From that Saturn it appears
that five of them gent:cmen have acted as agents, and
their emelsmeate from 1863 to 1867 Maladies, wen as
fellow :—Measea. Alston and Bidwell. 13,343/. ; Mr.
Btaveley,3,726L ; Mr. Hertelet, 2,5141. ; Mr. Inegao, 1,124/.
GRIAT MORTHIAZI HOSPITAL, CALZDOXIAN-woo,
N.—The stingier of palliate for the week ending Men* 7
was 1,029, of which 395 were new oases.

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