The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-05 00:00:00

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

On the subject of Lord Xayo's appointment. the

Saturday Amino observes that, as Hoverter-General of
Canada, or as governor of a great Australian colony,
Lord Mayo would have been qualified, by good sense and
courtoey of demeanour, to perform constitutional tune-'
lions which require tact rather than originality or genius.
In India ho may at any time be required to determine, at
short notice, some question involving the fate of the
empire, and it is no affront to him to say that, at a
momentous crisis, he is not the statesman on whom the
country would confidently rely.
To the Satter-day Amino Mr. Horatian is an imprac-
ticable and a speculative statesman. Mr. Horsmen early
won eliatiuetiou as a bishop-baiter, as a bishop-huitxr ho
ends. As in Sir Harry Vane's case, we are disposed to
echo Cromwell's pious impiety and irreverence. The Lord
deliver us from Mr. Hemmen !
In mac of all the education bestowed on it, Toryism,
ter the Ereminer, in administration, is untaught mid un-
teachable. Lord Mayo is made I iovernor-General of India
end Canon is made Dean of Ripon. But there is
no mistaking what these promotions are meant to Siguify.
Ta defiance of everything worthy of the name of public
opinb.n, they proclaim that in Church and State birth is
held to outweigh merit, and violence is to be officially pre-
ferred to mere learning and virtue. Both the EXODII tier
and the Saturday Review hint at the probability of had
Mayo's appointment being cancelled by a liberal govern-
ment.
Mr. Disraeli, observes the Spectlfor, has knighted Mr.
E. W. Watt* member for Stockport, chairman of tho
fkwath Eastern Railway Company, se general advocate
for the railway interest whenever it wants to opprase the
public, or drive a bargain with government, or get rid of
a law which wets money and protects life. He Sits for

Stockport nominally as a liberal, but really as a chairman ;
puts Adullamhe aseeimams paper, but gives them up when
julertungdtnewirspowthaiswywn.-di. Iseidesdamy agekiaat
the public in Use matter el Um fares, and defends it on
the ground that the companies, even if they hare wasted
their money in "legal expenses," reckless contracts, and
mad fends with each other, have a natural right to 3 per
cent. He has never done the nation a service of any mark,
and can only have been decorated in the hope that be may
one day be of use to the party he nominally opposes. The
LSl:we/aloe trusts the Stockport electors will consider them)
fuels, and mid the house of at least ono director.

THE PIUS( E AN!) PRIN( F:“4 of WALER.—We
understand that it ia new arranged that the ['novo and
Prim. tem of Wales will leave Abergelihe on the Isth or
1:;th iiod. on their vi-it to the Duke and Duche. of
Sutherland at Dunrobin. During hie may. hie royal hizti-
will review the Sutherland-Lire voluults:r.; of wli:ch
he it .S,daman.

It haS lw•en Ptatt4l that lii•neral Sir .k.
who is heir presumptive to the baronetry of his nephew
(r‘ir k. J. Clifton), hap entered his hundredth year. All
the liar..netagee awl hooks of re•icreme represent the
gallant .slicer to have been born in 1772, so that h., is four
v, ars bh,rt of a hundred.
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We (Tia,rx‘. are requested to state that I,ord
Atekland, Ili-hop of 'lath and Welk from continued ill-
hcalth. hut. iltAtitreil the work of his (hove.. upon the
Right Rev. Bishop Chapman. Lite Bi.,hop of Colombo.
and not upon Ilhhop Ando-ton, %iear of Clifton.

Itau:den and the Itight Iton. E.
Iforsrnan, M.P., have had hitherto hut indifferent
at Clenfe.hie, near Kingussie. N.D. Ou Thur,..lag. Mr.
Horwrinin .taiktd two tine deer, one weighing 17 atone.
and the other nearly 16 stone.
DTATH OF PRnry.sson 111.wt.uttE.—The (tenth
of Hobert Machu*, LL.D.. Professor of Humanity in the
University of Aberdeen. took place suddenly at his revi-
dem* on Thun.day morning. He was dressing in his
holzoom, when he ,uddeuly fell down and expired. lie
was in his 60th yoar.

TIIE SOCIAL SCIEN(II CoNt/RESS.—Yesterday
afternoon a public meeting, convened by the Mayor of
Birmingham. was held in the Council Chamber. to make
concluding arrangements for the reception of the National
Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at its
appioaching 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 associatiisi was estimated at 1,000/.,
but it was intended to raise a further guarantee fund of
I.l_OOL, and up to the present time the sum of 1.793/. 4s.
had been subscribed. On the motion of the mayor,
seconded by Archdeacon Sandfonl„ the report was unani-
mously adopted. The mayor subsequently read a letter
that had been received from the Rev. Canon Melville, on
behalf of the Earl of Dudley: inviting the anksiation to
an excursion to his lordships grounds at Dudley. The
ngreis commences at Birmingham on Wednesday, the
3Cth inst., when the opening sermon will be preached iu
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 Part of Carnarvon.

WIT.LSAiS BEtIVEsTIL—The will opt the Veit
Hen. Certain& Banner Wetabla4lol bdidrlidUt; Tort-
shire, was proved by the Right Hon. William Ewert
Obststoue, D.C.L, P.C., and George Leeman, Ksj., the
joint acting executers. The personalty was sworn under
100,0001. Her ladyship was the daughter of the second
Lord Brayhrooke, and died May 2 lust, at her mittens°.
29, Berkeley-square. There are numerous specific be-
quests of jewellery and furniture. She leaver to took of
her executors a legacy of 3004 ; to the York County
Hospital 1001., and legacies and annuities to her servant..
Her ladyship bequeaths to her son, Captain the Hon.
Hobart Neville Lawley_(Life Beards) a legacy of 2.5,0001. ;
to her daughter, the Hon. Jane Stuart Wortley, 5.0001.;
to her son-in-law, the Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley.
1,0001.; to her son the Hon. and Rev. Stephen Wil.
loughby Lawley, M.A., sub-dean of York and rural dean
and rector of Fecrick, 6,0001.; to her son, the Hon.
Francis Charles Lawley, 10,0001. The residue of her
property she leaves in three equal parts between her
non, the Hon. Hobert N. Lawny, her daughter,
the Hon. Jane Stuart Wortley, and her eon, the
Hon. and Rev. Stephen W. Lewis*: The real estates.
subject to annuities to the younger children, are
vested in her ladyship's eldest eon, the present peer.
The date Miss Jane Alexander, of Carahndge-terntoe,
Kensington, has bequeathed the folloaw*legacies to
charitable institutions:—To the Roman 'e Church,
the English Martyrs, Preston-street, T , London,
; the Roman Catholic Church. St. tof Paul,
Stratford, Essex. 500/. • the Roman Catholic Chard), St.
Francis of Assisi, Portland-road, Notting-MU, 200/. ; the
asylum for aged poor, called Little Sister4Portobello-
road, Kensington, 200/. ; the Night Re Finsbury-
square, 200/. ; Home for Aged Female., N roth-house,
Hammon:filth, MO/. ; Reformatory School for Boys,
Blyth-hone, Brook-green, Hammersmith, 200/. • St.
Ann's Industrial School, Alpha-road, Marylebone, ;
University College Hospital. :100/.; Wannunster lispiial,
100/. ; King's College Hospital, 11.10/.--liiirstratal Lo,doe
NI its.

BT. MARY'S TIOSITMI..- The committee of St.
Mary's Hospital met hit Wednesday= says the Maiod
Timm end Ileum. to receive the testimonials of ranch•
dates for the vacant office, and teaseled a sueocasor to 1)r.
hfutthisseen, The &vim fell unanimously on Dr.
W. J. Russell, one of the secretaries of the chemical suction
of the British Association.

NATIONAL 11KIIIIIITION OF WORKS OF ART, AT
Tamps.—Return of stlssissions:—Friday, &Timber 4.
by season tickets, 996; by payment of 2.. dd. tech, 870 ;
tt 14 1,046.