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

THE POLITICAL DISABILITIES OF REVENUE OFFICERS.

Assuming that the government are resolved to over-
throw, if they can, in the House of Lords, the decision of
the Commons as to Mr. Monk's bill, the Daily News ad-
dresses itself to the arguments employed in the lower
house in favour of the exclusion from political rights of
the officers of Customs of Excise, and of the Post-
office. As to the fear that an indirect system
of corruption would be encouraged, this evil,
if it bail, or can have, any existence, must
prevail under the present system quite as moth as under
the proposed reform; for though the political -rapport of
an official cannot now be purchased in the way refined to
by a member of parliament, the votes of his friends and
his family can so be obtained, and it is futile to strain at
the gnat while we are obliged to swallow the camel. To
exclude the raveling *Maass en this ground while we
admit the rest of the civil ser►ice is ridiealons ; it is
merely stopping the leak at the wrong side. If we want
honestly to ensure Falsity of election in this respect, we
should strike at once and boldly at the nomination
system itself.

In the opinion of the /list there is no sort of argument
to be used against the measure which will at all hold
water, and our contemporary exhorts all those peers who
wish to extend impartial justice to all to attend in their
places to-night.

The positive arguments in favour of the bill appear to
the relegrepA irresistible.

ME CO/MULLS 00IIRT6 IN TVIUY AIM 198Yrt.

To the Time. the moment seems to have arrived for a
revision of the " capitulations " between Cheat &M an
and Turkey, and for some inquiry into the consular courts
both in that empire and in its former dependency, Egypt.
A consul in the Levant is invested with an authority of
which the subjects of the mod absolute states can con-
ceive no adequate idea. "He has not the power of
awarding capital punishment, but he has aged
every other ; he may banish, dishonour, imprison,
and fine at pleasure ; he has such weight and authority
among the Turks that he can cause any amount of mis-
chief unchecked." Such was the state of things in the
Levant, as described by an impartial and quickwitted ob-
server more than fifteen years ago. The "Roving Eng-
lishman " granted that " a British Consul might always
be • higluninded and conscientious man ;" but for tie
sake of the Consuls themselves, as well as of the Europeans
placed under their protection, it would seem desirable to
bring their irresponsible power within limits more in har-
mony with the institutions of the countries they reprel
sent.

The established fact, says the Daily Yews, that in the
name of British justice every scoundrel who can claim our
nationality is shielded from the penalties of Egyptian law,
is enough to secure the sanction of the British people to
any efiot to to remove so scandalous an abuse. Lordiitsalay
has shown himself fully aware of the diflloalty•ef the
question, and by the great powers acting together with
the Egyptian government and the Port; a satisfactory
settlement may be arrived at.

The Star supporta the proposal to establish as *tea-
natio:kid court. Lord Stanky approaches the sukteek,
right spirit, admitting what is evil, discerning what its •
desirable, and ready to oonsult Ijf Parties as to what'lls*,
be practicable. Mose we cannotlek at this stags, and**
ultimate issues of the question, though it might at ski
moment plunge as into serious difficulties, are sot at
present capable of serious treatment.

The Doily Nara remarks that investors are tired of
being constantly asked to subscribe to the same descrip-
tion of etock. They prefer to vary their holding, and
hence the marked favour lately shown for the nur•eroas
issues of Australian bonds. The same remark applies to
Canada and the other British colonies. But even in these
instances the field seems to be nearly ex-
hausted. The Intemolouial Railway Loan, goe-
rantced by the imperial government, bids fair to
be the last of these efforts. Both from the large &want
required and the exceptional value of the security granted,
there is little chance that for some time to come, at lout,
any colonial operation would be as well received as before.
It is well understood that investors, as • clam, are not
lass free from prejudioss than other individnahe On the
whole, perhaps, they are more exposed to these Winegar,
and it cannot be denied that their opiestioso '•*e Often
more regulated by caprice than by sound reason.

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