The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-22 00:00:00

MR. MILL AND MR. BOUVERIE.

MR. BM:I-TRIP, we apprehend, will not take
much by the premature publication of his
recent correspondence with Mr. MILL. It ap-
pears, from Mr. MILL'S litter in this morn-
ing's papers, that Mr. Does-miles last com-
munication to him was published before he re-
ceived it. It therefore assumes the character of a
'• card•" for the benefit of Mr. &weak's, and
for the instruction of the electors at Kilmarnock.
Mr. MILL disclaims having presumed to give Mr.
BousEttLE any advice or having invited him to
retire in Mr. CHADWICK'S favour, " because," he
says, " I lad no idea that you were the least likely
•• to do so." " I merely," he adds, "in reply to a
" communication from yourself showed how very
•• 1 üblic-spirited a proceeding I should consider it
" if you did. I shonli not, however, Lave troubled
•‘ you with this opinion if you had not been the
•• first to write to me." To expect any man
ulie has out for the same constituency for five
and twenty years to give it up at the drat sound
of a rival's trumpet is, we must confess, to
spect a great deal too much of human nature,
and to call for a display of more than Roman
virtue. lint whether the present member for
Kilmarnock is entitled to claim the support of
Literals on the ground of fidelity to the Liberal
arty, is quite another matter; and we
cannot ihelp thinking Mr. BOUVERM was
not Well advised in thrusting it before the
public and his constituency by so precipitately
,-ending to the papers a private letter from Mr.
MILL. Since Mr. Boy VERIE is, we believe, a member
of the Committee for promoting Mr. MILL'S clew
tis n for Westminster, he cannot, of course, have
suede this correspondence public beeause he thought
it calculated to offend a section of the Westminster
electors. He must have done so with a view to
the sympathies of his own Kihuarnock constituents.
Ile will perhaps see cause to regret on that
account that he should have provoked the puldica-
tion a the following sentences in Mr. Mint's
letter of the 19th inst. :

But. to the public or the constituency. I have no halite.
lion in saying that no untried man can be looked upon as
lt a a number of the Liberal Party than the man who at
the Levinning of this present year called the Liberal Party
a iabble, and declared that their leader was incapable
of loading. Ido not know that anyone is likely to
Co more than this, " to sow dissension among the Liberal
Party." nor do I see what possible claim this gentle-
roan can have upon party fidelity, or what pledge he
cen give his constituents that he will nut, at a crit,tal
n.cment, turn routed again upon this same " leader who
cannot lead," and show himself once more a conspiceous
e arezple of a " follower who will not forow." What,ocver
claims he may have upon his constituency can only be
11.bre of bin own individual personal merits: ho is the
Let n.an who has a right to the sympathy of Ins whilom
party, or solo can appeal against me on the ground of
his high tense of the claims of party organisation.
lloweAtr, if Mr. Bot:ViattE is the worse for
the: e reflections of Mr. MILL, the whole Liberal
party will be tLe gainer by the following conclu-
sions, mad will do well to remember Clem at the
liwtings and the poll:

lays, weeks, and months may be lost if Mr.
Istone's majority is composed of men who will
1: p their word in voting for the • disestablish-
)-.aid of the Irish church, Dut will thwart arid em-
tarrass their leader in every previous step by which
a-et disitable eontimustation may have to be led up to.
It was not the 'fork..., but the Adullamites, who weakened
the Literal Party in the last parliament ; and if a similar
re sett • bould tefan it in the next, there will be cause for
Litter repret that the Liberal Party did not fight out its
tittles at the polling-booths, rather than in the lobby
of the Mouse of COMMODS. There does not appear to be
any danger that Mr. Gladstone's nominal majority will
rot be greater than in the hut parliament. What the
totaitry has to look to is, that his majority shall be more
trAftvt to genuine ].'trap principles. We do not want
en who cat reluctant looks bask to the old
order of things, nor men whose liberalism consists
chiefly in a warm adherence to all the liber.tl
measures already parsed; but men whose heart arid soul
are in the cause of progress, and who are aline:dell by
that ardour which, in politics as in war, kindles the uorn-
mender to his highest achievements, and makes the army
at bin command worth twice its numbers—men who ar
zeal will encourage their leader to attempt what their
fidelity will give him strength to do. It would be poor
statesmanship to gain a seeming victory at the poll by
ri turning a majority numerically larger, but composed of
the same incompatible elements as the last, even if we put
political principle aside, and look at nothing but the exi-
gencies of the fight we are going to sustain against a poli-
tician renowned for his skill in availing himself of the
disunion of Lis opponents.

THE FUTURE DOISICILE OF THE EX-QUEEN
or SPAIN.—The LAerti contains the following :—"
Lelia the Second is, we are aasurred, very un-
decided as to the c,(urse which she should pursue
ender the present circumebuices. She luei consulted
her Mends on the subject; and certain liberals be-
longing to the Progressista party have, it appears, been
athoitted to the confidence of the dethroned sovereign.
ILe (Wale° which has been given to her is unanimously
against her residing eith( r at Paris or Rome. She is re-
commended to take up her alio le either in Switzerland or
in one of the central towns of France. Moreover, efforts
Luxe been made to persuade her that she ought for the
future to devote herself to the training of her children in
the manner which is customary among the reigning fa-
milies of Europe."

new church of Rt. Mary Magdalono, Pad-
dington, was opened by bemire yeatonlay morning, only
portion of the derign by Mr. Strout being complet.4. 'rhe
(lurch is of the early decorated styli of aniiiheturo andwhen completed will be one of the most beautiful
in Loudon.