The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-04 00:00:00

PORTION CATTLP NARZZT BILL.

The Daly Newt taxes the agricultural lenders with en-
deavouring to make the atone& moos their howls the
pretext fee arrsageateans which shell mower the purpose
of a tauiff, dissrimiasiting optima the breignor. The
above bill, which must he regarded as a goverment mea-
sure, is opposed to the interest of every man, woman, and
child in England who is not connected with the breeding
and paring of stock. Restricted supply and high prices
would follow it. The necessity of slaughtering foreign
cattle as the binding places, involving a loss of 30a.
a head as exam, would discowngs foreign importation, to
which Lambe owes is 'Whiny times half its meat. Mr.
Clare Read, indeed, so far from bsiag daunted by these
oonsiderstkos, thinks the bill doss sot go far enough, gad
is anxious that the foreign trade is live meat should be
put a stop to throughout ;instead. The Day New.
trusts that the House of Commons will see through this
transparent artifiee, and reject a measure whist which,
in 1886, a select imannittee reported as tending to hamper
trade, diminish importable, races the price to the con-
sumer, sod give ea nab& advantage to OW/lirl of English
stook. The time for owlet* a monopoly in the food of
the nation has long aistoe passed away.

WISCILLAPISOUS TOPICS.
The Timm gives a modified rapport to the scheme of
Mr. Hare, w►ih it describes as neither more nor less
than the cumulative vote ; with the proviso allowing
rotors to declarer that, if their rotas are not wanted for A,
they may be transferred to Bor to 0, the idea is

the same. It is impossible to farekdl when our 'Jesters'
machinery may be vale revised. but h le evident that the
interval of net will be shortened. Mush may, however, be
learnt before the time for reform arrives. The Times Lee
aot suppose the adoption of Hr. Hare's &shame to the wide
extent he himself resommends will ever be seriously eon•
templated ; but its principle offers II 111.411/1 of reconciling
the idea of equality with the maintenance of representative
government, aed it is not impaseible that, with aerials
modifications, it may be tentatively applied within the
area of each 410107 or other considerable electoral
district

The Mandan' is strongly opposed to the plea. The
scheme, it argues, would overthrow every single priadple
of representation Middle is in accordance with lash
ideas, and obliterate all local feeling under the iroa role of
• cold and rigorous arithmetic. All that is really good and
de/treble in the system is °Weaned already in &gland in a
much healthier and more rational way by our ancient and
national principle of unequal electoral districts, which in
practice affords all the protection that is desirable against
the tyranny of numbers.
The Star enures the prophets of midortune in America
that if the eeeseitational laws of the United States and
the voice of Congress are against Mr. Johnson, he will be
as certainly and a• quietly put 'aide in the end as though
he were only an offending clerk in the War-sties. A
groat emastitulional crisis is decidedly at hand, but • easy
driest aeoomplisimed by • chief magistrate is an event for
Paris, and not for Washington.
The TdegrepA takes just the opposite view, and says the.
mere the subject is eomaidered the more desperate mama
the difilmillies. It adheres to the °plaices that Mr. John-
ston will even yet remain President until the next else-
Man.

The gatetiones is dispute between the British tendon
in °ohm end the Ookaisiolles are. lays the DadY Ann,
about to be Innidened to the House of °ominous ; their
prayer for redress laving been treated with contempt.
The chief potion epee which the agitatioa
turns is the power to be attributed to the lo-
'Waive Come over the expenditure of the colony.
Oeyiese is a pentodes ef the crown ; the planters and
merchants who are making all this fees were admitted be
the enjoyment of its imams* manual advantages without
price, and under the prolestion of Britt& power. That
pronetion we moot withdrew, and the chirp it entails
ought to be paid oat of the revenues of the eolooy, and
not out of the taxation of the United Kingdom.