The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-07 00:00:00

411.11DROXX mown.

The Time. says Mr. Gladstone has hit the right
style when he boldly challenges his opponents to explain
to the electors how the national expenditure has in-
t:relied three millions during the very little more than
two ran of a conservative government. His illus-
tration, too, of the electioneering tactics of conser-
vatin candidates on the Irish question is also •
600001111fili one, though he might take • hint from the
cautions reticence of his opponents in his mode of dealin;
with the future bearings of this question. It is idle to
suppito that a great measure solemnly adopted by a whole
nation will not bo suggestive, and will not have the force
of • living precedent. All great measures hang on one
family tree, and lead to one another. With regard to his
critiarm on the Reform acts, the house can hardly intend
to re-open that matter immediately. One thing at a time
is the true secret of expedition. First on the list of the
future is the Irish Church question.
The Dad, Sews agrees with Hr. Gladstone as to the
samatios which still defses the Reform Act, and with his
remarks on the indiscriminate increase of the estimates.

Tllis is a point on which • liberal ministry will be required
nog • only to advance upon the retrogression tif Mr.
Dints& and his colleagues, but to quicken its owe slow
~Jcb. An efficient sideninistration requires efficient
afeainistraton. Mr. Gladdens, while net breakbas with
* traditions ef hie party, or neglecting to fortify himself
with any of the historic and social strength which belongs
to liberalism, will have the courage, it is to be hoped, to be
one to the younger and more energetic talent which has
gimped Itself about him.
The rose enlarges on the positive character of the leader
of the opposition. Mr. Gladstone proposes to do some-
Gang for Ireland, hie opponents propose to do nothing, or,
what comes to the same thing, they decline to state what
they will do.
The Herald accuses Mr. Gladstone of having but one
sejeet, and nays he attempted to deceive his audience by
the transparent device that the choice of the country only
lies between the disestabliatiment of the Irish or establish-
ment of the other churches—an artifice about as ingenious
aa his effort to show that if any one admits a readiness to
reform and reorganise that church he allows that it is in-
defensible. There is no reason why the Irish church
should not continue to occupy the same place it has done
in Ireland.

TRZ 1102.41. EOLIDAT.

The Them reminds its readers that the Queen goes now
for the first time among the Alps, and imagines how much
she will enjoy the mighty masses with their clothing of
mow and glacier, their waterfalls, and their pine forests.
Such a foreign excursion is likely, more than anything
elm, to give strength to the body and elasticity to the
mind. With the Hrpress, the news hopes that English
tourists will respect the privacy of the royal party. It is
not unnecessary to make these remake, since the fact that
the Queen is at Lucian), and that only well-to-do English
people are likely to be billed there, may be no protection
to her ; for, unhappily, respectabie people are the greatest
of in this respect. The Queen has gone on a tour
which we all hops will be a pleasant one; let all maid in
making it so, by abstaining from importunate loyalty.
The Star also expresses a hope that the Queen may not
be mobbed; however Lucerne. may be ; that she may be
lathered sometinsee the charm of loneliness, or at last of
Miranda; that she: ma not be condemned to keep
within the limits of her own grepupds, to save 'tomtit from
unofficial and amateur Mains-attendant.

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Commenting on some of the recent trials of the above
character, the Daily News makes some remarks on
marries*, in general, llocasitt, it says, is a
great 'teacher of tolerance. People who must live
together soon make the best of it, and the
Moravians, who marry by lot, make just as
happy marriages as other people. If a man and woman
have not got just the poem who last took their fancy,
the fancy soon passes off, and the affection which grows
up between them out of mere custom and that use which
is second nature is stronger and more lasting than the
mere sentiment of youth. Marriages for love are
certainly most desirable, but fancy is very apt to be
mistaken for love, and it is not the man or woman who
marries the last person who has struck his or her
fancy who is likely to be happiest in the end. On the
whole, perhaps our law on the subject is not open to very
much animadversion. It makes an engagement what it
ought to be—a serious affair. It takes the only cognisance
it can take of the infraction of such an engagement, and,
inflicting a pecuniary fine, does so, not by way of solarium
to the woman, but of punishment to the man. Such a
law, equally with the absence of any law, is much open
to abuse. It needs to be administered with discretion,
and it is far best when it is recognised, but not resorted
to—when it enforces caution, but has not to be used for
punishment.