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

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paratiThinnlytMorwreestni"sat erittiareiglig doss laft. germud""ume..ll".
all reigned. and so did Antaltnout of mein lie*
and caprice, dismissed ewe eat of and brought in
another. George I. who came ever here •
usable to 'peak the langveme, was the first constitutional
Irazthl. indeed' andtriedG"rigeto IL trod
tub' hiswellh""eas re need
ant";
some extent he did, so that strictly speaking oonsktutional
monarchy only dated from his time. Two parties were
anxious he spa, the mown mere plower the mg.
Oho looked back With Isla regrets to the days of Refii.
broke, and who admired Geary 111., and the admirers of
democratic imperialism. I.ooktwg, however, to the when
Minas of rope wove scald she* ant the oonvistion that
Tinge at monarchy were dead. (Cheese.)
of the right of • particular family or nation is
reign and the poetical but irrational primitive feeling le
its favour were gone, and could not be revived. The onf
ides of monarchy had passed away, sad the fei:l of age
tics towards her Majesty wan • purely perz
cos. It
was plain that in this country monarchy, apart from•tg
gestate/4mM, rested en • vary weak foundation. Thu
question was them, ought there to be an elective
mce_areby ; and be isonfeesed that upon that pout
the example of the United Stales bad not been favourable.
Hs believed that the tendency of the modern world wag
becoming more and more pronounced in favor of prem.
moot by stational fennel He then to eland,*
the house of pours, reeserking,en =tid e the
element inf into it by life peenges. It was 2;d!zu,
the reign of Henry VIII., after the confiscation of the
monasteries, that it assumed its present position as sa
assemblage of great landed nobles, sad the consequence
tiss that it had 0003 c to treat the possession of land as the
great qualification for a seat, absolutely refuting life
peerages except where the recipient was childless.childless.The
consequence was that with the exception of a few mein,
full lawyers it had ceased to represent the people is my
way, or to take any position of interest in the eyes of the
public. It stood condemned in every way, and unless it
est &boat speedily to remedy its constitution by a large
infamies et new blood in the shape of life lea.
gee it would go on accumulating evils uoail
eery were dispersed by a very violent remedy. As to the
House of Coatisoos it had degenerated from its position
of • were legislative assembly and bad easumed—and its
tendeney was more and more to annume—the powers and
tunctiow of an executive government. That course was en.
cauraged by the present ministry, who threw the Reform
Bill on the table and plainly told the house to do what they
liked with it, and in all measures they were prepared to
pump the House of Commons, end bring in their bills ta
such form only as would secure their passing. That els
an abandonment of the duties of government. The house
was never intended to be the supreme government of the
country; its functions in the first instance being merely to
grant taxes, aid the only way it obtained power se.4 be.
cause it refused to grant the money until its peti.
time in the words of the request were granted.
He complained that there was really no deli.
benrtion in the proceedings of the house, and
that the speeches of members read like so many earn.
phlete of more or less ability. It was in fact governed by
party, and subject to all the immoralities and corruptions
of party. The Cabinet wee the incarnation of party, and
all the rewards were 'wen for party services ; the elf eet
was to foster penomal ambition. The liberal party was
the better of the two, because the very fact of its want of
unity showed greater freedom of thought end indepee.
• deuce of action. The result was that the supreme power
rested in the Cabinet which was most objectionable, be.
cause it might at any time plunge the country into war
without the cognisance or consent of parliament. The
Luxemburg guarantee might hereafter plunge us into a
war in the mole way as the Scheldt guarantee involved us
in the great French revolutionary war. It seemed
to hint that one of the great reforms wanted was
that the government should be stripped of the power of
plunging the country into war without first obtaining the
enaction of parliament. He also complained of the
manifest desire to maintain the unconstitutional powerof the
Hone Guards as • power under the control of the exectn
five, instead of under that of the House of Commits.
After touching upon other points in the constitution, such
as the present mode of appointing the magistracy, the
subject of education, and the church, the position assumed
by which woe no longer tenable, pointing out that the
recent pan• Anglican conference wee a plain confession on
the part of the Primate that the end of the Establishment
was drawing near—he proceeded to &Scum the question of
Ireland, upon which his views are well known, and
have been frequently reported by us. Turning
to the colonial establishment and our Indian
possessions he expressed an opinion that in the course of
time our colonies and India would alike have to be given
up, and that their pessesaion even now were no advantage
whatever to this country. Indeed one of the arguments
urged in defence of the Abyssinian war was that it would
injure the prestige of England in India if some pilgrim.
from Mecca were in • position to whisper to sons*
fakir of Hawes that King Theodore had been
able to set this country at defiance, and would not
surrender the prisoners, beside which it was well
known that we entered the Crimean war for the
peewee of curbing the advances of Kuria upon Indio.
He ooneluded an eloquent address, which lasted ready
two hours, by reminding his hearers that the revision of
old institutions meant the adoption of new, that the old
phases of the world were panting away, and we nem
entering a new era ; finally, that although much of what
he said might snow revolutionary, and opposed to their
traditional feelings of loyalty, yet if they rested future
government upon the principles alone of reason aid
justice, they would obtain an allegiance more fervent and
constant than the most primitive people had paid to the
most adored of monarchs. On resuming his seat he was
I again loudly cheered.
Mr. WHITE, in moving a vote of thanks, expressed his
opinion that the most practicable way of revising our
institutions was by repealing and altering objectionable
I enactments ; and that se long as the House of Commons
were so usefully employed, so long would they coutinue
to confer benefies upon the nation.
The motion was seconded by Mr. Fawcrrr, who con
dial ly concurred with the sentiments of the lecturer, whew.
words, he said, would afford them matter for thought and
study for a long time to come.
Mr. GOLUWIN SHITH, having briefly acknowledged the
compliment, proposed • vote of thanks to the chairman.
which was acknowledgedby Mr. WiLtrrr, and the pro-
ceedinp terminated.

THi PRINCE OF WALTZ AT BA LIWINToN —A
weekly contemporary having made some caustic obterra•
tinge on the assumption that the grand hunt, at which
the Prince of Wales was present, took place at Badminton
on Ash Wednesday, and the paragraph embodying the
observations having been extensively copied, we feel it
right to state that there is no truth in the statement
originally made, as the great meet took place on Thursday
last, and not ea Wedneeday.—Post.
The Prince and Princess of Wales honoured the
Duke and Duchies of Sutherland with their presence at
dinner last evening, at Stafford House, Sc. James's.
Among the company who bad the honour to meet their
royal highnesses *ere the Marquis of Lorn, the Earl mid
Nantes' Vane, the Earl and Countess Spencer, the Earl

of Clanwilliam, the Countess of Westmoreland. Dr. gait',
ke. After dinner her grim had a concert.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady
'Ugly Villiers are at present staying at Florewe, and are
mrpsossel ia town cm or about the 15th inst.
Lord Lena was yesterday elected M. P. for Argyle-
shire. There was a considerable gathering of electors•
The proosedinp only occupied half an hour.
Lord Derby, the Owl states, has recommended
to her Majesty the names of several gentlemen to be raised
to the Home of Peers. Mr. Gerard Start, the member for
Donetabire, and Lord Barrington, member for Eye, are
among the number. The same paper has reason to believe
AM the government are prepared to assent to the
mond reading of Mr. hClivoy's bill for the repeal of the
lbeieslastleal Titles Act of Bari Russell, on the under-
standing that amendments are to be introduced in com-
mittee the effect of which will be to place the prelates of
lee Roman ontholic chalet' in the United Kingdom on the
mom footing as to the recognition by the state of their lit
mks and titles es sbe eatholie hissershy of Canada and of
Misr BRUM weenies, This compromise will be violently
opposed by the Meter members, who will take the sense of

the hear en the OSOCed reading.
Atenording to the Otoi, "It has been arranged
et tb somestioe of Kr. Gladstone, moss the leading
mobs of the Oppedden, that, is the rent of Mirth,
&sham their desire to modem dealing with the Irith
°Mush glottal early is the remerebled parliament, a
merins of the entire tided party shall be orerened at
Gadaminramterreos, sad their support be asked to • re.
Amanda beamed with a dew to immediate disestablish'
meal The dinar to Kr. Brand at Willis's Room is to
be the ormides of a remittals of the discordant elemeata
of the bird parr. It will asubliese be se gratifying ••
the light yes. pentleman ea the desseseratioa And, that
it dead be used for the re.eetabliebaseet of the party be
as imes worked fur."
• parliamentary return has been imued, at the
istreare of Kr. Aidersen Lusk, cf de umber of Judd
nuiressed mg sworn ia the yeas INS and 181/1 is
Begiund sad Walden In the whole year ad the samba
of Arise SWIM Ia Leaden wee Mk whist' would
ievelm the aneeedenee of ray 1,220 moms, and, as the
number of Are on the lime deg& ter the dub *via
ender the peered reetrieted system b Men 4,000 b 4,500,
the roe preen might not to be liable to be eummeed
mere than ewe is twe mem la the meaty of Middle/ ex
16 um" If Modal lords weir liiindorkith would
Mama 1,512 pawns, mg se the-mmiew etiylble ie =P-
itman to be at haat 8,000 at Mr& 141, ditty reab• ass