The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-20 00:00:00

TEMPLE BAR.

TIMPLE BAR must go. A laughing-stock and a
sham, it has not even the pretence of usefulness,
and only lingers on in its present position, like
other obstructions and nuisances, for lack of deci-
sive action. This is to be supplied at the next
meeting of the Common Council, when a motion is
to be brought forward roe its remora If the bar
could be carted away quietly in the night, and loco-
motive London were to wake to the knowledge of its
low, its requiem would be outspoken congra-
tulations and honest laughter. We should be
sorry to see it destroyed. It would be well enough
in a museum, but in the middle of a busy thorough-
fare it is simply an unwholesome excrescence
upon our healthy work-a-day life, and as such
should be removed speedily and without fuss. It
tells no story, conveys no moral, is meaningless as
a relic, and obsolete as a symbol. Within the last
few days its poor old sides have cracked, and the

craziness of its worn-out frame been more
palpably manifest. No one cares. It is true the
City architect has been, not repairing the breached'
of time, but filling them with mortar, but Mr.
HORACE JONES is doubtless a satirist anxious
to convince London of the folly of keeping up
a structure long past mending. If there were
a single possibility of usefulness left for it
where it is, we might say give it another short
lease of life ; let us try the experiment of
annoyance a few months or years longer.
But whale heads are likely to be put
on it ? What monarch could receive there the
keys of the City without laughing in the LORD
MATOI.B face 1 Temple Bar belongs, in fact, to
the bad and stupid old times. It is a bore. It is
in the way, and the sooner it is conveyed with
all tenderness to the limbo to which the City
state coach, the City state barge, the men
in armour, the court fool, oil street lamps,
Mohawks, and Charlie, have been consigned, why
the better for every one whose business or /Assure
take, him to the City.

MANLY'S REMAINS AND THE FRENCH
GOVERNMENT.

WHEN DANIEL MENIN, the great and good
Venetian patriot and statesman, died in Paris of
disease of the heart, aggravated bj many public
and many private sorrows, it was in fulfilment of
his own particular request that the beloved com-
panions and consolers of his exile consigned his
mortal part to the tomb of his dear friend Airr
Semsersa, the celebrated painter, in the cemetery
of Montmartre. This was not to be the abiding
place of the Venetian dictator's remains.

Throughout the lingering anguish of the Austrian
siege of that illustrious city, which oould
only be reduced by famine and exhaustion,
throughout the lonely labours and accumulated
sufferings of exile borne with honour, patience,
and humility, in power and in poverty, resisting
all the forces of Austria to the death, or going
about Paris, infirm and poor, to earn his daily
bread by teaching Italian, M•inic had never des-
paired of the final liberation of Venire and her
redemption of Italy from her long bondage.
Scarcely had he set foot on the friendly land of
France when his wife was struck down by cholera.
In Paris it was by the bedside of an afflicted
daughter that he spent the scanty leisure of
several years ; when he was not working for his
bread he was watching—with what anxious ten-
' derness and devotion !—at the pillow of that
daughter whose voice and looks recalled to him
every moment the mother and the wife whom he
had lad. In the tomb of the SCHIMAS he saw
them reverently laid by the pious affection of his
friends ; and by their side he desired that he might
also be permitted to repose fora while, until, by
that happy deliverance which he had foreseen
with dying eyes, and foretold with dying lips
the mother and the child and the father &bona
rest together in their recovered home on
the Adriatic shore. Accordingly, no sooner
was Venice free than even amidst the
tumult of the earliest rejoicings a royal
decree appeared ordering that the remains of
DANIEL MANIN should be brought free from Paris
to Venice, and deposited at the public cost,
and with extraordinary funeral honours and one-
monies, and that • monument worthy of the man
whose life had been an example to his country of
self-sacrifice and stainless purity should be erected
to his memory in his native city. Owing to the
prevalence of the cholera at Venice and in other
parts of Italy last year, the celebration of the
last honours to Mao Ix was postponed till March,
1868, when • commission, consisting of the
Syndic of anion and two of the prin-
cipal citizens proceeded to Paris to reclaim
the bodies of 3Lwrw, his wife, and daughter,
from the French cemetery and to take them back
to Venice. A French commiosion, consisting of
the moat eminent friends of Karns in
the land of his exile, of MM. Lrootryn
Mora Mannar, Anoanfi at LA Poses, and
1 others, were at "tle'lail‘r time requerted