The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-14 00:00:00

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LONDON, UTURDAT, DEC. 14.

MR. FILM:RI/A Part. is the only member of
the Government who has yet spoken on the sub-
ject of our difference with America. Others may
be induced or obliged by circumstances to do so
ere long ; and in this country every man in public
life is allowed to state his opinions in his own way.
We have no desire to see this liberty abridged. A
man does not cease to become a representative
when he becomes an official ; on the contrary, his
former character is frequently his chief title to the
latter. There is need, of course, in difficult times
of more than ordinary discretion. But if a man
has a constituency as well as a portfolio, he must
be prepared to satisfy the one without showing
himself unlit to be entrusted with the other. We
have not always praised the Sik, R ETA RY of the
TREASURY for manifestation of tact; but we are
bound to say that in his recent address to his con-
stituents at Bury he has displayed not merely
good taste and sound judgment in dealing with
the most painful question of the day, but, what is
in our opinion much butter, he has evinced a tho-
roughly right feeling on the subject, which we
sincerely hope his colleagues may be found to
share.

The SEd•RICT %RV of the TREAMCZY judiciously
abstains from reiterating, in minute detail, argu-
ments of a legal kind. On technical grounds, as
he well puts it, we believe that we have sustained
• wrong for which we are entitled to redress. The
American Government may not adopt the act of
their naval subordinate. If they do, and con-
eider it was right, " let us hear their reasons ;
" but if they cannot deny the wrong, and
" yet refuse us redress, then it will be for
" us to consider whether we should surrender or
" whether wo should maintain our right, which
" is the common right of all civilized nations."
It is in this wise and temperate tone that every
step in the controversy ought to be discussed.
We think we hear the calm and dignified spirit of
the father speaking by the lips of the son. No
petulance or irritation on the part of a people dn.
tracted by internal convulsion could justify arbi-
trary or violent demeanour on our part. Great
allowance may be made, and we think with Mr.
Peet ought to be made, for the fever and deli-
rium of a civil war, whose proportions menace the
very existence of society itself. We should be
inexcusable if, at the zenith of our national great-
ness, at peace with all the rest of the world, with
irresistible armaments at our disposal, and the
public opinion of all Europe ratifying the justice
of our demand, we descended to the language of
summary menace or to the use of precipitate force.
Morally and physically we can afford to be calm,
and even forbearing, for morally and physically
our power in the present case is irresistible.
The right hon. gentleman wisely notices with
no more than a passing regret the foolish talk of
public meetings at Boston and elsewhere, on
the subject of dispute between the two coun-
tries. Far more exciting assemblages than those
convened by the admirers of Captain Wiutee
appear to have been held about the same time in
other cities of the Union ; and far more exciting
speeches, by infinitely more important persons,
seem to have been addressed to these assemblages,
in which little allusion is insde to possible dif-
ferences with England, and that only in a tone of
deprecation. Why do we advert to these things
here? Because they furnish the most conclusive
evidence, if any such were wanting, that the mind
of America is at the present moment fascinated and
spell-bound by one absorbing thought—that of her
own dornesti..! divisions. It is indeed mere igno-
rance or malice to impute to her nationally the
frenzied purpose of insulting England, or the
lunatic levity that would render her indifferent to
a senseless quarrel with her beet friend in such
an hour of peril and perplexity. A few
bad men and a few mad men can
readily get a crowd together in any large town, to
see • man who has done something that nobody
ever did before, and to hear him tell how he did it.
Curiosity and the want of something better to do
at the moment bring people together, and in-
duce them to listen to proceedings for which they I
do not feel individually responsible. The half
dozen bad men and mad men perform their
melodramatic parts, and go their way ; but we
happen to possess the best means of knowing that
iu this much-talked-of meeting at Boston, there
was in reality little evidence of excitement.
ultation at the fact that two principal authors of
the Southern rihellien had been made prisoners,
when on their way to seek help for their treason
in a foreign land, was natural enough. Let us
nuke the case our own, and ask how should we
have felt or spoken had we learned three years
ago that Ns vs Same and his chief adviser had
been captur d in a Ghoorka village by some
unauthorised cavalry officer, and that the
causes of so much mischief and misery
to ns were safely lodged in • fort far
within the confines of British territory I Which
would predominate in the first instance, emotions
of satisfaction at the capture made, or of contri-
tion at the illegality by which it was effected I Let
us stand by our rights, and insist on their vindica-
tion by all means ; but let us not be ungenerous,
unchriatian, or unjust. American exultation
over the capture of two dangerous rebels like
Messrs. Stti,eu. and Masox is not synonymous
with defiance or English complaint, or denial of
English repara•ion. To give everyone his due,
Captain \VILA 1.1 lies done his best to clear his

Government from all previous responsibility for
his act, and to make his countrymen understand
that it was dictated solely by the desire to do an
essential service, as he deemed it, to his Govern-
ment, even at the risk of being told that he had
exceeded his duty. He was the fellow States-man
of Mr. Mawr ; he had seen him at Havannah ;
ho had there learned his errand to Europe ; he
probably felt afraid of being reproached with
having let such emissaries pass him unmolested ;
he made up his mind to do evil that good might
come, and by his shortsighted zeal for his country
he has dragged her to the verge of the most terrible
danger that could befal her. All this, no doubt, is
plain enough to the mind of a cautious and candid
politician like Mr. Futurities Pssz, and excellent
service ho does the State by speaking in public at
the present moment as he has done.

SERIOUS ILLNESS OF THE
PRINCE CONSORT.

(Freon tlis Court Cires/ar.)
WDIDSOR CASTLE, Dm 13.
A bulletin of the health of the Prince Consort
was lamed this day :
" His Royal Highness the Prince Consort paw.'
a restless night, and the symptoms have assumed
an unfavourable character during the day.
"JAMBS CLARK, Y.D.
" HENRY HOLLAND, Y.D.
"THOMAS WATEON, M.D.
"WILLIAM JENNER, M.D.
" Wiadaor Castle, Dee. 13.

Between 1 and 2 o'clock this morning his Royal
Hightitvv. the Prince of Wales left the South-
Western Railway terminus by special train, a
mtvirage having been received by the Prince that
his presence was required at Windsor Castle.
(THIS DAY.)

We are happy to announce that an improvement
has taken place in the state of his Royal Highness
the Prins Consort.

The immediate cause of alarm has passed away,
and hopes may be entertained fur a favourable

(From the T. mu.)

We feel certain that when the bulletin of to-day reacl.es
them, the public will join us in expressing the deepest sym-
pathy with the Prince Consort and with the Queen. For
some days his royal highness has beau suffering severely
from an attack of gutrk fever, and is at, prompt much
weakened by the disorder. It need not be mid that the
best medical skill has been called to his aid, and we ►ope it
will be in our power shortly to announce as improvement is
the state of the royal patient. In the meantime, we are
sum that both he and her Majesty will receive the heart-
felt sympathy of all her subjects. The natural satiety
which she feels they can, of course, do nothing to alleviate,
bat every feeling of esteem and affe:tion which her long
and benignant reign his implanted in her people will be
celled forth no this occasioe.
Far more than twenty years the Prince Consort has been
the guide and protector of the Queen, to a degree that is
, rarely feund even in ordinary life, where the husband is
both in law and reality the guardian of the wife. During
all this period the Prince his devoted the powers of a sin-
gularly acute and well-stored mind to diminishing the came
of his consort, by giving her the advice which no one else
could have eo effectually tendered her. When we consider
that almost all her Majesty'a public life lam been passed
under hi. guidance, and that by his influence her steps
have been directed in that path of constitutional
conduct which his strengthened her throes and
banished political discontent from every part of
this great empire, we may well join iu her Majesty's
distress and anxieties. It is at each a time that we feel bow
high a position the Prince his taken in this country, sad
how much he his become one of ourselves. To the great
body of the public he bee always been present is the
aadoue and able leader in every useful work, while those
who have boas concerned in the administration of affairs
know what judgment, acuteness, and scientific knowledge
the Priam brought to bear on every subject on which he
wee consulted. At the printout crisis even the temporary
loss of his services is • midortune for the country.
It is only within the last twenty-four hours that the
disease of his royal highness has taken its present severe
form. We trust that the unfavourable syruptoins will
pose away, awl that the disease will yield to the skill of the
eminent physicians by whom the Prince is surrounded.
the fever which Las attacked him is a wearying and weaken-
ing malady, but it is well understood, and the treatment is
in most oases effectual. The Prince haa on his side youth
and strength, and unimpaired constitution, and the ablest
advice that science can give, and we hope shortly to be able
to publish a more cheerful bulletin than that of to-day.
(From the !Lorain!, Post.)

The affectionate attachment of the nation to its beloved
s ivereign, and the silniirside viaduct consistently pursued
by the Prince Consort for nearly a quarter of a century,
combine to produce a feeling of deep anxiety in the public
nailed on the subject of his royal highnees's illness.
There is, perhaps mosesarily, a vagueness in the medial
bulletins which does not teed to satisfy the natural desire
of the people far some definite information ; and
the report issued yesterday, while calculated to
excite alarm, affords so reliable ground on which
to form an opinion. We only learn io general terms that
the attack under which his royal highness labours, which
was stated on Thursday to present "no unfavoun.ble
symptoms," underwent • change in the four•and-twenty
hours, and that on Friday "the symptoms assumed an un-
favourable character." The solicitude of the British people,
to whom ha royal highness is so justly endeared by the
exemplary tenor of his private life and his unceasing pro-
motion of the public interests, will, we fear, lead them,
is the absence of authentic intelligence, to exaggerate the
gravity of the Prince's condition.

-It Is most desirable that this should not be the ems,
thong\ we earnestly trust that the setae may not be
called epos for the exercise of all its fortitude. So far as
we ass leers, the least Waitrons result will be prolonged
sad pastel eimiety le our amiable and exemplary Queen,
and all the members of her family circle, cad the with.
drawal, for a lengthened period, of the Prince Consort from
tie active performance of those works of public toddies,
which so muc► depend for their successful development on
the varied intelligence, the untiring seal, and the fostering
we of his royal highoese.
The Prince happily possesses a sound and vigorous con-
stitution, firmness of *erre, and the advantages inseparable
from s mode of life remarkable for its temperance. These
are ponds on which hopes may well be founded, and, under
the blessing of a gracious Providers*, happily realised.
Still the Muer of his royal hightails is evidently of so
serious a chancier as fully to justify the shuck that the
anntry will entails when the bulletin which we this day
radish shall have become geserally known. It is no en&
gemsties to say that the public feeling will ho more skis
le the grief sailed by the critical position of • beloved
mm►er el a warmly-attaehsd family, than the mere dales•
ems bekreggies to the exalted ask of the Prince, or eves
the prairie leseparable from his lung•tried patriotism.

(MOS LAST mare% GAZEITL)

Be. JAnnn's Prue; Die. 11—The Queen has
bees pawed to violet Tesocie Howidge, E. M.D., to to
?hyalite to her Majesty's Hoesehold Onhouy, he the
rage el Sir Juba Forbes, M.D., dialoged.

WIIIITZHALL, D. IL—The Queen hie been
pionood to motet lite Roy. Kornai kl'losy Ph= to the
temp sod oars of VIM of tie church aod plinth
of &nth Leith, to tie potbytorr et Sdiatiorgh, vonot bl
the rosigistion of Dr. William Iftormrs.

CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. I2—Mona RETURN=
To can IN fill PEMENT PARLIAMENT.—Iob. Laird, of
Birkeeiesd, for the borough of Birkeebead, is the meaty
of Meter, Eq.

BOARD or TILADZ, WEITiHALL, 13.—The
Right fletionrable the Lonla of the Committee of Privy
Conseil for Trade give notice, that the Moniker, of Or
Ine instant, contains • French Imperial Decree, authorie-
hv the imp.rtistion into Franco, free of duty, of the
ing quantities of salt, for curing herrings, the prodnee of
French fisheries —For every 100 kilos of white herrings, 30
kilos of salt , for every 12,210 kilo, of red herrings, 200
kilos of .alt.

Or Court.

WINDSOR CARPLE, Dam 13.

The Queen, attended by the Lady in Waiting
sad lady Augusta Bruce, drove out this morning. Lord
Alfred l'eget Cu in attendance on horseback.
The Him's' Alice and the Princess of Leiniogen rode on
horseback.

Princess Helena and Prioceu Louise rode in the Riding-
house.

A deputation from the managers of the South Metropo•
titan District School, consisting of Mr. Norton (chairman),
Mr. Evans (vice-chairman), Mr. Cowen, and Mr. Carter,
together with Mr. Burgess (clerk), had an interview with
the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, yesterday, at the office of the
boor-law Boanl, Whitehall
Her Majesty's Commissioners for the International Kai-
bition of 1862 held a meeting at their offices in the Strand
yesterday.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the iluvemoes of the North American provinces and
Bermuda.

The Duke of Hamilton left Hamilton House on
Thumlay for B.dsa•Badee.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare arrived
in town yesterday, from the Duchess Dowager of Suther-
land's seat, Cliddeu, near Maidenhead, in ceder to be
present at the marriage of Lady Londesborough and Lord
Otho Fitzgerald, which is appointed to take place to•day.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained
the Duke of Newcastle, the Duke sad Dueler of Somerset,
the Earl sad Countess De Grey and Ripon, the Counter of
Tankerville, Viscount Bury, the Right Hon. William F.
Cowper, the Hun. Spencer Cowper, Sir Alan M'Nab, sad
a select party at dinner last evening, at their residence in
Piccadilly.

Sir Henry S. Keating received the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, and a select circle
of his learned friends, on Thursday evening, at his house
in Prince's-gardens.

Sir Lyd;ton Newman has a shooting party, who
have been enjoying the hon. baronet's hospitality, at his
magnificent seat, Mamboed, and also at Stoke Lay, ea the
romantic coast of South Devon, near the Start Point. The
following are among Sir Lydston's guests:—Lord Henry
Paget, Colonel Daniell, Captain Douglas Lass, Lord Alex-
ander Paget, Lord Garvagh, Lord Berkeley Paget, Captain
Lamb, Captain Janney, Major Brenton, and Colonel
Fulford. The Dawlish Volunteers went to Mamboed on
Tuesday evening, with their band, as a token of respect to
Sir Lydstoo.

The Lord. Chancellor has appointed Mr. T. B.
Abrahall, a registrar of the London Court of Bank-
ruptcy, to the commissionership of the Neweastle.upon-
Tyne district, which bas become vacant by the death of
Mr. Ellison. Mr. Abrshall is a gentleman who has held
the office of registrar—first at Liverpool, and subsequently
at London—for the space of 18 years.

On Thursday night Mr. Charles Buxton addressed
his constituents' on the American question. The hon. gentle-
m►n, with great e•rneetome and force, argued in favour of
submitting the difficulty to arbitration. While he differed
from the American newspapers in the view they had taken
of the affair of the Trent, be yet showed that their appeal,
like our own, had been made to the rules and precedents' of
international law, and that therefore this was a case in
which reason should be employed rather than force. Mr.
Buxton's opinions appear to have met with general accept-
ance, and his ',Desch was succeeded by a hearty vote of
thank•
The cress says :—" Any party may be proud of
Mr. Gladstone. And, despite present appearances, it is still
uncertain whither his erratic course may lead him. Two
yams ago. Mr. Bright and • distinguished conservative
statesman, an old friend of Mr. Gladstone's, after meeting
at dinner at Csrlton.terrace, met next day in the street.
The member for Birmingham, very naturally triumphing in
the conversion to his views of so accomplished • politician
as their Lost of yesterday, exclaimed, ' Ab, Gladstone is
loot to you for ever.' There is no fur ever in politics?'
was the quiet rejoinder. It was • true saying, and especially
applicable in the case of a politician so prone to sudden
&saes as Mr. Gladstone."

The throe gold medals of the Academy have this
yew been earned and given. Mr. A. B. Donaldson took
one for historical painting, Mr. G. Slater one for the beet
historical group in sculptors, Mr. T. IL Watem for the
beet architectural denim. Slim medals 'were gained by
News. N. E. Taylor, T. Gray, and W. B. Richmond fee
drawing from the life, by Messrs. H. Bursill and J. S.
Wyoo, for models from the life, by J. 8. Calcott, for •
painting from the draped model, by Messrs. G. Smith, T.
H. Thomas, and W. Tomlinson, for drawinga from the
antique, by D. Davis, for the beet model from the antique,
sod by Messrs. G. Soapps and A. Ridge, for other
drawings.

It ir maid that M. Meyerbeer'a contribution to
the Exhibiuon music of nest year will not be an anthem,
but a march.

The Marquis del Grillo, the husband of Ilistori,
is dead. The artist was performing in Wiesbaden, when
she received the news of his death, which occurred in Flo-
rence.

It is not generally known, we (A theneu in) be-
lieve, that an expurgated edition of Walter Scott has been
published for the benefit of Roman catholics; but the fact
is recorded in the new edition of Fetter's " Biographic
Universelle," published at Lyons, with a continuation by
the Abb.': Simonin. "Though Walter Scott," we are told,
in the notice of his name, " is not a romancer of the dan-
gerous class, he gives, nevertheless, too lively a picture of
the passions, and makes frequent attacks on catholic Judi.
tattoos; this his led D'Essuvillea to undertake a sew
and 'bridged translation of his works, in which he has
taken care to omit all that is coodemnable. This transla-
tion is published under the auspices of the Society of
St. Nicholas, No. 39, Rue de tVivres, Paris, and is prin-
cipally suited for young persona." It will be long, we
presume, before there is any English " Family Walter
Scott" to take its place by the side of the Family
Shakspesre.

" Deerfoot" meets Mills at Hackney Wick on
Monday lac an eight-mile race, but there is little or no
bolding as the event.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

CHINA.

has been 172,336 ounces, and durum the same period last
year 150,363.
Since the rush to New Zealand sat in, there appears to be
a desire on the part of the people located on the new gold
fields to rush from place to place, where any lucky find
may turn up, and except at the old gold fields—such u
Ballaarat, Bendigo, and emitlemaioe—the population is any.
thing but fixed.

On the subject of immigration the Melbourne
Age says :
We have had • first batch of immigrants this month
ander the new assisted immigration regulations, but it was
• very small one, and if it had even been larger, it could
have had no appreciable effect on our labour market. The
arrival of one or two hundred immigrant' at intervals
of two or three weeks apart could, in fact, have no effect
on a population of between live and six hundred thousand,
and especially when that population is changeable in its
pursuit', and so much given to seek out fresh localities for
itself. A thousand to two thousand per month is what we
should like to see flocking into the colony, and there would
then be some hope of their stimulating trade, and of their
doing more good for themselves than by coming out in mere
driblets. Still that is not to be looked for under our pre-
sent regulations, and we do not hope for any more liberal
provision during the present session of parliament.

Orr rxec-nue

SYDNEY, Ocr. 25.
The financial statement made by the government
last night was not well received.
SYDNEY, Ocr. 24.
The Chinese Immigration Bill has passed its
third reading in the Council.
The Schuh Jehan, from Mauritius, has arrived,
with 6,861 bags of sugar.
Business is very dull.
Flour, 131. to 131. 10s. per ton.