The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-20 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER ELECTION.

A meting of the subscribes' to the Westminster
Lama Fund was held last evening at the
aielehle , Adelaide-merest, Strand. The chair Was
tam by Hr.WRIGHT. Sir De Lacy Evan* and Sir John
Shaw were present, and were loudly cheered on entering

As, DS LACY Evans, in addressing the meeting, laid he
had hem bikes the electors of Westminster for nearly a
gnarls* of a century. The country was now on the eve of •
critical saraggla, arising from • recent conflict of par-
ties in the- Moses of Commons. For his part, he did
not thbk be was sob into the house to support any
posh Mimed ; tot he must my that he believed, under
premed eiretundmose, there was only one possible ministry.
An early dimehaden had hem expected, but if it had been
CriM end of the mem it would have been better
the
stagers, end the ministry would bare been equally
wee el their it Hs
_Ns wee confident they would have
=ty, het he hoped it weld not boa tory majority. A
of gastionen were sew °ming forward who declared
themselves tory Pabowetemians. (Laughter.) Whitt he
mated to see, larnswor, was liberal Palmerstonians.
(Haar hem.) He myreseed his desire for parlia-
=entity rehres, ineleMeg an extension of the suf-
frage and shertmleg the duration of parliament. The
Reh Ad wee not very comprehensive; still it
atm . highly redid. That measure, however, did not
meet the reesimments of the country at the present day ;
and sem the noble lord the member for the city of London,
sabberatie M hb connexions and synspathies, who had
the ROSIFIS Dill in 1832, had himself admitted,
dltrfogisg Ibresed • new measure of reform in NM, that
e old system was new !seek inadequate. There was one
tangible madden of mhos Mealy before the house, which he
(Sir De Ley Rags) lad warmly supported—Mr. Locke
Ring's melba hr the ezemaion of the 101. franchise to
countim It had hem sowed by Lord Palmerston, but
Earl Otomile, he lebier-of the Home of Lrads, bed mina
retiof hat vole le • "most unhttimate saedbmmey
ed my of Lad Palmerston that hie mag one
were his daMbillty and hie mpeenhW, cheers and
laugher)—and them wen se slight under
pelmet eimmielmine, when he wee dr only poesible
mbileter.
Mr J. domain' then spoke. He expressod his opinion
that we had se meek if not more, chance of getting reform
tom Lad Pahmeska than from Lord John Russell. unless,
Mbsedl, Lied John Remeall believed that by a cry of reform
he esnM get into calm There were several matters for which
Lad Ihimentoo droned well of the country.
A menhso of geishas were thus put to the bon. member
and replied to ; sear which Mr. Pent moved, and Mr. R.
Robinson seconded, • resolution in favour of Sir Do Lacy
Home end Sir Jolla Money ea candidates.
ahllitb.LisTONS 014•0101 t• the resolution being put in each
•du • form, and Mr, hip eraggested that the meeting
not come to any heist= until they knew what other
capable, were to more Mhos the.
After seem dime sad • great deal of confusion and
=,ea. embsatmeniz
matitchs. willia.wp as carril

TESTIMOSIAL.—The students of St. Bartholomew's
Hospital invited Mr. Holden, one of the teachers attached to
that Institution, to a dinner yesterday evening, at Anderton's
Metal ; Mr. Callender, F.R.C.S., in the chair; on which
occasion a handsome silver dinner service was presented, with
the following memorid :—" Ta Luther Holden, F.R.C.S.—
ffir,—We, the undersigned students of St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, appreciating the able and willing assailant you
have rendered us as a teacher, and the kindness and chandel-
ling with which you hare aided our nuttier as a friend, beg
your acceptance of this memorial, together with the accom-
ponying testimonial. We desire, also, to einem our deep
sense of the obligation we see under; or tbe many valuable
anatomical preparations end diatcramyou ban contributed
to the Museum and dissectiag-rooms, and the able literary
productions, by means of which you have so simplified our
nofearional studies." The servioe of plate has engraved on
it the crest of Mr. Holden, and the modest inscription, "To
Luther Holden, from the students of St. Bartholomew's
Bonita!, 1857. At the dinner were noticed several of the
physicisna sad surgeons, Dr. Baby, Dr. Riches, Mr. Paget,
About fifty gentlemen sat down.
On Friday last Mr. Thos. Fairbairn, the chairman,
and Mr. Heron, • member of the executive committee of the
Art Tranvia Exhibition, had the honour of a lengthened
interview with his Royal Highness Prince Albert (who
was attended by General Grey and Colonel Phipps), at Buck-
; ingham-palace. The programme prepared for the inaugural
cerenamed to be observed at the opening of the exhibition, on
Tuesday, the 6th May, wits submitted end explamed," and
fully approved of by his Royal Highness. An is to be
prossated on the occasion bore the executive committee, and
an address from Um corporation of the dty of Manchester.
Diming the interview lb. Heron dated ing he had been
&wired by his worship the mayor to pies every accommoda-
don which his house might 'lard stfie dieposal of bin Royal
Highest*, and we are authorised to slate them is every reams
to barn the di of the mayor will he eciespted by Prince
Alba&

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Holman plain and explanatory may be the Inns-
Hal Speech of lir. BCCILIMAN, it cannot be under-
stood without a prior causeptlon, clear and full, of the
PLISIDINT'S position, is regard to parties at home
and Onsets abroad. The hoar is transitional ;
the men himself is a compromise (be it said with
all sespeet) s end the inn(' relations of the
United States are cenduseed under a new view,
and kir pompoms yet undisclosed to the world. We
nod set dwell on the bailie: bets of the antagon-
ism of the North and Booth, new on the mom of
that satagenima—the institution of Slavery : bat
MS of the inehleats and consequences of the see-
thing strife are less familiar to the public than the

pregnant fret.
Mr. liticamian 111116111.1111, in convereation and in
pablie, that the great draggle for the fundamental
priaelples of the republic is deferred till 1060. He
menace that he is to have a clear reign of bur years,
in which be is to be the master, and not the servant
of events. A good many of the men about him
mks the ems saceroptica t sad a multitude more
mmaisees in it. Bat every mageelions observer frame
that meets have become too strong far any
ma (ankles Nom inealadable force of latesen
paths should take position of the me) ; and
all that any ordinary man in Mr. BUCHAJIAN'S
plan can septet to do, is is keep things
exteesally quiet at knee daring his term,
sad to foster seek Seaga Wham as my, in
the day of need, sestain the one despotic institution
of the repablis, and help to sabordinate to it oath
laws and rights as are incompatible with it.
■ The great meet, known to all in the United
States, is the program of the Dismiss doctrine. The I
aempapees either limo the facts unnoticed, or beret
est, as the popular crakes do, is protestations of the
immortality of the Union I but, all the while, there
are Wilk meetings hell--ignored or ridiculed by
the prom in general, bat spreading from elm to
slam and from State to State, till Mr. BCCHANAN
cannot bat be apprehensive that the petitions of
chime to their respective legislatures for with-
drawal hem the Unica, MP let on foot sin Ohio,
will multiply to a point at ineenvenience. There
moor woo anything like it before in the country,
well worn as the threat of nullification has beam
To the great Republican party, now prodi.
trimly strengthened by the accession of almost
the math. body at Gelman residents the alternative
Is simply the watenission of the slavebolding
oligarchy, or their exclusion from the Union. That
oligarchy, at the same time, resolves to make one
awe aNimpt te govern through Mr. BOCI/JIAX I
111111aWill MOM of takers to withdraw from the
Units. Thu greet new, or eamegnised, .ke.t in
the question—the nce-elaveliekling Wldtes—are
inspected to be ceaspiring to Nikko the South to
fres-labour conditionc, and to break up the Seethe=
eneareks with the North if their relief free ea La-
biate& social condition can be beet ebtalasil is
the way. There is more behind. Till lately the
/loathers Mired milidiatly summed that they
were Mengtheaed enough for all their political par-
poem by the acquisition of Texas and the project of
a railway to the Pacific. Experience shows
that this wan a mistake, and that they
bare, ia fact, laid open their flank, to
be turned by the meat' at any time
Slavery is hand to be impracticable in Womb's
Tema end everywhere *keg the Mexican frontier.
The fealties for escape, and the sympathy between
the segues and the Mexi.ass, nadir the lark Mot
of coontry in the whole Union ineligible for slave
Lbw; and the Germans and pear Whites are pour-
ing in to occupy the soil, and show the world the
aaperierity of five Islam. This might be wig a
temporary pause in the extension of slavery, but far
the circumstance that the table land beyond is an
hopmeticable dank arm* whisk no railway em
pew. For 1,000 mike there I. and can be amp*
of water, to say nothing of feel and other memo-
ries. If is to be a Pattie rads' oad, ft least
take some other course. In this direction, slavery
has clearly hod its limit. The mere eager, is am-
siumes, is the Soothers democracy to obtain
Cabs, and establish MU In Central Antrim ;
and it esalliently reckons m a eoadjator is
tbk Mem in Mr. BUCKAIIIIN, remembering
the Orland manifesto. Mr. Bnemaxtic well
knows that the real ground of dismiss is the incom-
patibility of character Worm antic alpinists and

the common run of men in the North. The rapidly
growing savagery of the Slave States is now a sin-
gular spectacle in the so-called civiiiied world; and
the mutual distaste of the hectoring South and thn.
educated North is already rendering political action
difficult at Washington, and must render it impasi-
ble, when the Northern States rouse themselves, to
send real representatives, instead of truckling
politicians, to the National Concrete. Mr.
BucwzNAN, then, instead of having to steer his
course among parties, or to head a new one, as would
have been his method in former years, has now to
admit that the old landmarks of party are swept
away, and that his business is to postpone as long az
passible the conflict which must decide the fate of
the Union—the conflict between the very small
section of citizens which holds, and has long
held, the political sway of the republic, and the
great majority, which are not yet fully roused to assert
the principles of their fathers and their own liber-
ties. The utmost that any bat a most extraordinary
man can aim at in Mr. BUCHANAN'S place is to keep
the peace at all events, and at every sacrifice, till the
next Presidential election takes the responsibility
out of his hands.

Tait reception which Lord Jon). Bissau. met
with yesterday at the London Tavern was worthy
of his great services ; it was such as any man might
be proud of. The mom was thronged with sub-
stantial electors, eager to vindicate the constitrney
from the aspersion of ungrateful forgetfulness. Old
Whip gathered round the natemnan with whose
principles they more entirely sympathise than with
those of any other of the day. Men who, like Mr.
Moine., devote their energy and intelligence to the
promotion of education and other social reforms,
mustered in great force. The advanced Liberals,
who are independent of cliques and coteries, rallied
round Lord JoHn's standard. They know that
he will not advance so far as they could wish ;
but they know that he is more sincere and resolute
in his determination to " keep moving" than
any other of that class who have any chance of be-
coming Ministers. These men would have despised
Lord boas had he at this moment, to curry favour
with them, affected a saddest inversion to views
from which he has long dissented. And even with
a view to action, they know right well that a man
who, lilre Lord JOHN, frankly tells them he opposes
the ballot (for example) is not so great an ob-
nick in the way of its attainment as men blur
Mr. RAIXES CIABIE, who profess to support it,
but who will not, so long as Lord PALMIISTON is
Minister, run the risk of putting him in a minority
by voting for it, if there is any chance elite being
carried.

Wll----en Lord Joint lb* appealed to the electors of
London against the deeidea els mall :majority of a
selfelectedcanviseig eish, we confess that we had
serious doubts it lis wear. We now feel con-
vinced not clay thee he will be returned far the
City at the win aides. bet that there is •
tolerable proved at Me beading the poll.