The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-14 00:00:00

(BTAIIPZD Id. ADDMONALI

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

Reviewing the political situation from the ground
of a mistime anal priacti; las rad traditions, the Timm repro.
seats Ur. Disraeli as boiling Mike by the threat of diem-
lution, and his opponents am not knowing how to desl with
him. The ounsoutuun of the future may be claming to the
select class of mind, which can feed upon yeaceiess,
bat not even faith and I ope can disguise the fact that It
is a reel disaster to continue 17 consent, or roarer by sub-
mission, in an irregular and anoosstitational condition of
*Rain.—The Timu defends the Boundary Commission
and the bill founds! on ti sir report ; and refuses to ti ink
that the house will psalm implied Gel/mem it ti it er en-
ing.—The question of local taxatt as and the obttaees in
Park-lane are the other top's, dlseu•sed.

_ r
The lheilp New has artiolea upon the ceremony yester-
day at St. Thomas's H• spinal ; the dimitisaims on Mr.
Coleridge's Universities Tests Bill ; the Betuadary
sure ; this burthens on land ; an I the criticisms in the
House of Lords on the lon-law Board.—The Daily Newa
denies that the elahortt r report of the Boundary Oonseals-
'ion will be deprived of its whole value by the adoption of
Mr. Hibbert's amendment. It will remain as a riniiicm
*ion of what ma be nroommended in the way of s stamlos;
and when supplemested by a farther report In the need
which exists in many places for a change in t e opposite
direction, it will hereafter supply the materials for a re-
arrangement of boundaries which shall be based cos some
rational principle. In its present form the Barth Mause
will simply minister to party exigencies by excluiiing from
many of the county constituencies almost the only liberal
element which they contain. As such it ought to be
strenuously opposed ty every man who calls himself a
Sher il.

Believing is a compromise, the Tilefiresph has a runes.
tion that a select committee might be appointed In all
cases in which local feeling or 1 rue ical inoactvenlence
appears to militate against the recommendations of the
commissioners. Meanwhile, the ether work of legisl►tion
would go on unchecked, and the dissolution so eagerly an.
ticipated by all would meet with no unseemly impedi-
ments.

The attempt of the opp Won to get rid of the Boun•
dary Bill by striking out its most important clause is chi-
rsotesised by the Standard as a clear breach of good faith.
Surely, it says, there are many gentlemen sitting on
the opposition benches who will refuse to be dragged
through this ditch, and will say, as men of honour, as well
as of common sense, " We referred this question of the
rearrangement of boundaries to a tribunal, chosen by the
whole house, and, whose ability and honesty are both un-
impeachable; the bill of the government proposes only
to give effect to those recommendatiuns, and we shall,
therefore, in vindication of our own good faith and the
good faith of parliament, give to the government our
steady and hearty support."
The Pest supports the opposition in obje :flag to this
measure, and exhorts them to disregard the fear of a disso-
lution.

The Star thinks it probable that the people may order
Mr. Disraeli from office in such scut ts, and with so reso-
lute a purpose, that not evea the wish to please Lord
Derby may be able to overecm 3 the Premier's sense of the
propriety of not braving too far the popular anger.