The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY l3- 11368.

follows the example of all his famous Indian pre-
deeemon.

The amount and extent of the pension, 2,0001. •
year for his own life and the life of his next heir,
have, we are inclined to believe, somewhat
disappointed the generous expectation of
the public. England it is felt can afford
to pay better for her glory than so poor a
pittance as this, when she pays so extrava-
gantly a number of pon.sionariesA.who have
brought her neither honour or profit,
and who perhaps have done their country no other
service than to be born the more or loss remote
and useless descendants of great men, and to suc-
ceed to an inheritance they would never have
earned. It has usually been thought proper to
confer a pension formilitary services for threo lives.
Nor is 2,0001. a year, according to tho
present rate of living, • very handsome
sustenance for the dignity of • peer whose
title has no territory attached. At any rate the
just and popular elevation of Sir ROBERT NAPIIIR
to the peerage has very seasonably revived the
question of Life Peerages, oven in some influential
quarters where the theory of Life Peonage., was
treated as almost revolutionary and subversive
some years ago. It is beginning to be under-
stood that with a House of Commons elected
by almost universal suffrage, the House of
Lords may require to be refreshed and in-
vigorated with now blood, and that this
new blood must be found in the veins of mon
whose achievements are not heraldic, whose pub-
lic services are their patents of nobility, and whose
genius and worth have neither ancestors nor
descendants. It would be a churlish and in-
vidious task to take the list of the House of
Peers, and to point the visible moral of that
factitious hereditary transmission of territorial
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titles, and sometimes of splendid names, whioh
the irony of Nature presents to the contem-
plative mockery of a critical and democratic age.

VAGRANCE

Tits sad problem how boat to deal with the
destitute cannot be met by a summary denial of
their claims. The well-meaning disciplinarians
who quote Archbishop WUATELY, and insist upon
buttoning the breeches pocket as the first duty of
man, would lead ns into infinitely worse evils than
those they propose to abrogate. Let what
will happen, death from starvation as a
penalty for helplessness, or ignorance, or
weakness, can never be a recognised
principle in Christian legislation. Mr. FROMM
tells us that in Queen ELizaarrli's time vagrant
mendicancy was punished by a whipping at the
cart's tail for the first offence, by branding for the
second, and by death for the third ; and it is not
many months since some of our metropolitan guar-
dians publicly bewailed the good old Elizabethan
laws for dealing with scamps and tramps. But
the present spirit of the country is happily more
merciful ; and it is satisfactory to find that
the stern letter from a Mr. D. FOSTER, which ap-
peared in the Times a few days since, is met by a
rejoinder this morning, in which an active magis-
trate of seven years' standing altogether disputes
the assumption that no able-bodied man who is
willing to work need apply for relief as a
pauper. There is the painful fringe hanging on to
the skirts of labour of the chums " who cannot do a
" full day's work or do their work thoroughly
" well. These men," says Mr. %Prim, who is a
justice of the peace for Bedford, " find ready em-
" ployrnent in busy times, but they are the first
" to be discharged when work is slack, and they
" are the last to get employment when once out.
" These men have largely increased the number
"of vagrants, and many of them have
" sunk into regular tramps who form about one-
" third of the inmates of our tramp wards. Mr.
" FOSTER says they are a bad lot. So they are,
" but more miserable even than bad. The
" beggar who earned his 3a. a day, and spent his
" night as a jolly beggar, does not trouble our
" wards, and has, I think, nearly ceased to
" exist." The jolly (tramp) beggar is a
figment of the poor law guardian's mind, and as
opposed to real life as the gracefully fanciful
creation of CILARLES LAMB. Mr. SMYTH'S conclu-
sion, after enumerating the inmates of the Dun-
stable casual ward on a particular night, is, that
vagrancy should be accepted as a necessity, and
that such provision should be made for it as shall
not encourage idle men to go on tramp, but shall
prevent those who are on it from being starved or
goaded by starvation into crime. Further, that
provision should be made uniform, so that one Union
should not suffer for its humanity by being
unduly burdened by those who have been refused
food and shelter by its neighbours. If permanent
officials of the Poor-law Board, with Mr. FLEMING
at their head, had the courage and capacity to do
their duty, the claims of 4' urgent necessity," as
laid down in the consolidated orders, would be re-
cognised throughout the country. But the recent
action in the case of the Guildford guardians gives
but small promise of this, and when the charge of
refusing food to casuals waa publicly brought
against a Staffordshire workhouse, all we heard
of the matter was that a Poor-law inspector, in a
lecture on vagrancy, " hoped for the credit of the
" Poor-law that so sensational a statement was
" not true."

His poems imply st least as many deli-
cate beauties as they reveal ; and grsoeful
thoughts lay hidden from the careless or
indifferent student as completely as violets
overshadowed by larger and gayer flowers do to the
unobservant passer by. To comprehend many of
Mr. TE1011'8024.8 exquisitely-refined subtleties a
man must have thought as well es felt ; while to
find pleasure in Mr. Lorrorguow's verse needs
but generous sympathies, and an honest straight-
forward belief in humanity's duties and its aims.
Both are elevating teachers, but Mr. Ln—morzia.ow
is emphatically the poet of the people.

Soma time ago a therapeutical society was
established in France ; a similar organisation,
under the name of the Clinical Society, has sprung
up in England ; and, more important, perhaps,
than either, the Medioal Council, the chief govern-
ing body in the medical profession, having already
raised the standard of medical education, within
the last few days has appointed an influential
committee to report within twelve months on the
mode in which the various subjects of medical
education may be taught with most advantage.
With extended knowledge on the part of medical
practitioners, especially in tho direction of those
chemical principles on which the action of food
and medicine would seem to depend, extended the-
rapeutical investigations and researches may be
expected, with corresponding triumphs over dis-
ease, and with fresh discoveries concerning the
laws of health.

IT is rumoured that a fresh batch of peers is to
be created before the dissolution of parliament
takes place. Swallowing household suffrage is
to be rewarded with the honour which was
conferred upon the captor of Marble,. Several
measures will be withdrawn this week, and the
24th is still spoken of as the day for prorogation.

Nomura succeeds like success, and the Suez
Canal Company have less trouble in getting four
millions sterling now than they would have had
three years since, in this country, at all
events, in getting a million. Sir ROBERT
NAP= has congratulated the President
of the company upon the satisfactory progress of
the canal operations, and expressos his " earnest
" hope for their early and successful completion."
Sir ROBERT adds that he hopes to have the plea-
sure of inspecting the canal himself on the occa-
sion of his next visit to Egypt.

Cbt Court.

OSBORNE, JOLT 11.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon,
accompanied by Princess Christian, and her Majesty and
the Royal Family walked in the grounds this morning.
Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Louise,
and the Princess of Leiningen, accompanied by the Duke
of Edinburgh, visited her Majesty's ship Galatea, in
Osborne bay, yesterday afternoon.
The Duke of Edinburgh dined with the Queen in the
evening.
Joys 12.
The Queen and the royal family drove and walked in
the grounds yesterday afternoon.
The Duke and Duchess of Coburg, attended by Major
Von Henke, arrived at Osborne in the evening, having
been met at Southampton by the Duke of Edinburgh and
Lord Alfred Paget, in the Trinity yacht Galatea, and were
received at the entrance hall by her Majesty and the
Royal Family and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting.
Major-General Francis Seymour, C. 8., received their
royal highnesses on landing at Dover yesterday morning,
and attended them to Osborne.

Prince Albert Victor, Prince George, and Princess
Louise of Wale*, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington,
arrived at Osborne at the same time, and proceeded to
Kent House, where they are going to make a stay.
The Duke of Edinburgh dined with the Queen last
evening.
The Queen, the Duchess of Coburg, Prince and
Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and
Princess Beatrice, attended divine service at Whipping-
ham church this morning.
The Rev. George Prothero officiated.

Marlborough HOUbO, July 12, 11 a.m.
The condition of the Princess of Wales and of tho infant
Princess continues most satisfactory.
Manua Dams, M.D.
E. H. SUMMIT% M.D.

The Prince of Wales, attended by General Sir W. linollys
and Captain Ellis, was present on Saturday evening at the
dinner given by the United Service Club to Lieutenant-
General Sir Robert Napier.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury
in Downing-street. The Ministers present were
the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmes-
bury, the Right Hon. Gathorno Hardy, Lord
Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos,
Sir J. Pakington, Sir Stafford Northcote, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Rich-
mond, and Lord John Manners.

Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor-General of Canada and the
Governor of Heligoland.
Despatches were sent to the Governor-General of Canada
and the Governor of Britiah Columbia.

Princess Mary Adelaide of Teel and his Serene
Highness the Prince of Teck honoured the Prime
Minister and Mrs. Disraeli with their presence at dinner
at Grosvenor-gate on Saturday. The circle included the
Earl and Countess of Bradford, the Countess of Wilton,
the Earl and Countess Beauchamp, Earl ()adopt; the
Earl of Camperdown, lady Marian Alford, Lord John
Manners, Lady Caroline Oust, in waiting on her royal
highness, Mr. and Mrs. de RothwmlA,Viscount Coartenay,
and Colonel Napier Sturt. In the evening Mrs. Disraeli
had a reception to meet General Sir Robert Napier and
Lady Napier.

His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and
the Countess Apponyi entertained the following select
party at dinner on Saturday evening, at the Austrian Em-
bassy, Belgrave-square :—The Duke and Duchess of Cleve-
land, the Duke de Richelieu, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
the Earl and Countess Granville, the Earl and Countess
Cowley, the Earl and Countess of Kimberley, Viscount
Castlerosse, M.P., and Viscountess Cestlerosse, Lady
Molerrworth, Lord and Lady Foley, the Right Hon. Sir
Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., and Lady Emily Peel, Ron.
Frederick Leveson Gower, M.P., Mrs. Augustus Craven,
M. Van de Weyer, and the members of the embassy.
Later in the evening the Countess Apponyi had an 11.48 CM.
bly which7was numerously attended.

Sir John Ogilvy received at dinner on Friday
last the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon, the Earl and
Countess of Airlie, the Countess of Ducie and Lady
Evelyn Moreton, the Earl of St. Maur, the Earl of lichee.
ter, the Earl of Camperdown, the Dean of Westminster
and Lady Augusta Stanley, the Right Hon. W. E. Glad-
stone and Mrs. Gladstone, tie Right Hon Robert Lowe,
Mr. and Mrs. Weldon, &c.

The Count and Counteaa de Flandre, with a
small suite, have just left Brussels for a tour in Germany,
Switzerland, and Italy.

. Mr. Darby Griffith, M.P., says in his address
to the electors of Devises soliciting re-election The
subject of foreign affairs is one which has at all times at-
tracted my warmest sympathy and attention. After gra-
duating at the university it was my lot to visit and care-
fully examine the condition of many of the countries of
the world with whom we maintain diplomatic relations,
and I have been enabled to utilise that personal acquaint-
ance with those countries in the discussions which arose in
the house.

Through tickets are now issued by the Isle of
Wight Steam-packet Company at Southampton, erery
Saturday, to last until Monday, by which persons can
enjoy Sunday at the most beautiful parts at the back of
SO We °Might, such as &Wing, Sandown, Shanklin,
sad Veatoor.

FOREIGN NEWS.
(THIS DAY.)'

HPA!N.

The KApotia gives the following oxplanatiog of
the expulsion of the Duke of Montponsior and his
wife:
Ws are informed that, in order to avoid the abuse which
the revolutionists make of the name of the " Infant" of
Spain, the government advised her Majesty to order, and
her Majesty has been pleased to order, that the
Duke and Duchess of Montpensier should reside
out of Spain until the hopes of those agitators
who, in their blindness, do not hesitate to compromise the
moot illustrious names, are baffled, and, until the motives
which have prompted this painful but necessary resolution
have ceased to exist, as we have a right to expect that
they will. We thus stand before the most serious ques-
tion which can arise in the life of governments and
nations—the question of legitimate power, of authority,
of order, as opposed to the revolutionary spirit which
foolishly adopts all means to accomplish its ends, which
are anarchy and ruin.

The arrested generals are being sent off to dif-
ferent points. Marshal Serrano has arrived in
Cadiz, from which ho is to be sent to the
Canaries. The Duke do la Torre, and his cousin,
Lopez Dominique, are to bo sent to „Ortova ;
General Dulco to Tenerife ; General Serrano
Bedoya to Palmas; General Zabals to Lugo ;
General Cordova to Loris ; Brigadier Letona to
"lira; and Generals Behague and Caballeros do
Bolas to the Balearic Isles. Several other
generals have been removed.
The Commerrio of Lisbon says it is reported that
the Spanish minister requested the Portuguese
government to send 4,000 troops to the frontier,
to prevent Spanish insurgents from entering Por-
tugal.

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(Aim ova OWN OORMAPONDKNT.)
PA HIS, SUNDAY SVNN!NO.

An answer of some plausibility to M. Provost
Paradol and other Frenchmen, who insist that
France is degenerating, is deduced from the sta-
tistics of the 'Legion of Honour. In 1852, the
number of Chevaliers was 5`2,000; in 184111 it is
63,000. The obvious consequence is that France
of 1868 contains 11,000 individuals more than in
1852 who are especially worthy to be exalted
above their fellow-citizens. There is no other
country in Europe which can make such a proud
boast. Prussia, notwithstanding the numerous
well-earned rewards gained at the battle of
Sadowa, can scarcely show the paltry number
of 600 more decorated subjects than she pos-
sessed twenty years ago. It is a groat
consolation for the decrease of the population,
the subject of late of so much lamentation,
that the quality of the population that remains
is so immensely superior to what it was, as
the constantly increasing number of Knights of
the Legion of Honour indicates. Other corm-
lations are to be derived from the contampla-
tion of these phenomena. Churlish oppositionists
have calculated that if the national debt goes
on increasing in the ratio of the last few years,
the national revenues, a century hence, will be
entirely absorbed by the interest of the
debt. One does not see in that ease how
it will be possible to keep up a large
army, or go on with great public works. But
what a splendid compensation for this inconve-
nience is afforded by the fact that if public virtue
continues to increase in the same proportion as it
has hitherto done, there will by that time be
163,000 Knights of the Legion of Honour wearing
that rod ribbon so coveted that oven some English
civilians who, for unavowed reasons, have obtained
a distinction not recognised (for them) at their
own court, cannot resist the temptation of sporting
the order, not only at private parties, but at
British embassies abroad.

In a debate yesterday on the management of
madhouses in France, the owe was brought for-
ward of a M. Hamon, who is detained at Bicetre
although his friends allege him to be of sound
mind. The answer of M. Fulani, Minister of the
Interior, was that M. Hamon had asked for the
decoration of the Legion of Honour sixty times in
the course of a single year, and thereby alone had
furnished sufficient evidence of his insanity. The
ministerial proposition is, perhaps, a little too
absolute, but it may, I think, be conceded that
such rabid persistency in a hunt for the red ribbon
is a very bad symptom. This M. Hamon was a
humble member of the Strasbourg conspiracy, and
when he saw all his fellow conspirators occupying
high places in the state he could not under-
stand why he should be refused a simple deco-
ration.

M. Tiennet, the academican, died yesterday at
'Val Saint Germain, at the age of 91. M. Viennet
began life as a lieutenant of Marine Artillery in
1796. He was taken prisoner by the English, and
remained in their power eight months. He voted
against the Consulate for life, and against the Em-
pire—facts that were noted against him and im-
peded his promotion. Nevertheless, be fought in
the Emperor's ranks at Leipeic, and was made pri-
soner there. During the 100 days he narrowly es-
caped transportation for voting against the aces
additionnel. When the second restoration came
Marshal Gouvion de Saint Cyr made him an officer
of the staff. He addicted himself to literature
at a very early age. His " Philosophical Pro-
menade in Pere la Chaise Cemetery" was published
as long ago as 1824 ; and a wish which he ex-
pressed at that time to be buried in a particular
spot in that place of sepulture from which a tine
view of Paris is obtained, will now be carried out
by his friends. He was a peer in the time of
Louis Philippe, and made himself remarked by
going to the Chamber as a bourgeois in an omnibus
with an umbrella under his arm. He wrote
several fables and some tragedies, among others
Clovis and Constantin. His academical dis-
courses were models of purity of diction,
and some of those delivered in his extreme
old age were among his beat. He was Grand
Master of the French Freemasons of the Scotch
rite, and took a leading and successful part some
years ago against the project of the government
to amalgamate them with the Grand Orient. There
was not in that focus of opposition the Academie
Francais° any more bitter or persevering opponent
of the second empire than M. Viennet.
A new journal has just been started in Luxem-
burg called the De II -whim. It is in the German
patois of the country, and is addressed principally
to the lower classes, whom it exhorts to struggle
against annexation to France, an event which
would quadruple the taxes and enormously in-
crease the burden of military service.
The Ordre et la LibertE of Caen, prosecuted for
" false news and insults to a public functionary,"
has got off with such a light sentence as to show
the impoliey of the prosecution. The Caen
correctional judges only condemned the principal
defendant to six days' imprisonment; and three
members of the staff of the paper, tried as
" accomplices," were fined 50fr. each.