The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-05 00:00:00

APPARENTLY DROIVNED.

As winter advances risk of drowning in-
creases ; no time, therefore, could be more appro-
piste than the present for drawing attention to
recent modifications of tho late Dr. MARSHALL
HALL'S well-known directions for restoring the
apparently drowned. In 1863-4, the Royal Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution instituted extensive in-
qui] ies among medical men, medical bodies, and
coroners throughout the United Kingdom, result-
ing in the adoption of certain directions in cases
of drowning, founded on the principles of the
MARSHALL HALL and SYLVRWIIIR methods. These
directions were plainly given but very long, and
hence not likely to be remembered by any but
professional persons. Some correspondence in
the two or three late numbers of the Lancet
has, however, resulted in the production
of a short set of simple rules, purposely
expressed in the language of the imperfectly
educated, and hence calculated to be of universal
service. They are as follows : I. Lay the
drowned man at once flat on his stomach with his
face to the ground, and a folded soot or bundle
under his chest. 2. Place your hands fiat be-
tween his shoulder-blades and make fires pressure,
eco as to squeeze the the air out of his chest ; then
turn the body slowly on to one side and a tittle
beyond. Replace him quickly on his face. Count
four, to mark four seconds of time, and then re-
peat the process, commencing by squeezing the
air out of the chest again. 3. Wet clothes should
be removed and dry ones substituted, each by-
stander contributing. The body to be rubbed
dry briskly, and the face kept from contact with
the ground by an assistant. 4. Do not squeeze
the air out of the patient's chest if he is breath-
ing, but wait and watch, merely drying the body
and changing the clothing.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

The Times reviews the ministerial leadership of
Dr. Disraeli. and maintains that he has not only done good
service to his party, but that he has also desirved well of
the state. Arguing that parliamentary government is im-
possible without party government, and potty government
without circulation of political power, our contemporary
concludes that that statesman has not done ill who secured
a turn of power for his party and exercised it with an
ability and success in administration which his bitterest
enemies have not impeached.
The Daily Viers seeks to dispel idle rumours which
have been current respecting the fancied objection of the
Queen to certain statesmen, and observes that the high
impartiality, and the controlling sense of public duty,
which, amid the changes of party government, have for a
gi aeration kept the private feelings of the sovereign in
abeyance. deserve record and honour.
Referring to the execution by the papal government of
Monti and Tognetti, the P. .t says that the interests solely
regarded in this matter were those of the temporal
tovereignty ; and not even those whose general and per-
manent interests which every ruler may invoke, but the
temporary, transittry. hand-to-mouth necessities of a
given diplomatic situation. The guillotine has at Rime
been made to do the work of an ultimatum.
The Star observes that the new ministers will find
themselves opposed by more than the ris inerbu of the
officials, and may probably find it necessary to exert their
authority firmly and sharply at the outset. The first
qualification of the men selected for office ought to be
their power to impress their own views on their several
departments, and known to entertain views in har-
mony with the guiding liberal watchwords of peace, re-
trenchment, and reform.

The Standard thinks the remedy for mob intimidations
at elections u to be found in the multiplication of polling-
booths and the free use of voting papers.

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

The Saturday Review contends that there is no
reason to suppose that if theeleetionweretocomeoveragain
the liberal majority would be lessened. The English nation
must be taken as a whole, and the decision of the English
nation is beyond all doubt against the maintenance of the
Irish church. But still it remains a fact well worth noting
and considering, that the English counties have pronounced
with each vehemence and ardour in favour of the conser-
vatives. Their wishes will not prevail against those of the
rest of the nation, of which, after all, they are but
a fraction. But in reading the signs of the
times it is necessary to ponder over this mani-
festation of English county opinion. What is the
upshot of it all ? It is that when an earnest appeal ii
mode to them, the county electors have shown themselves
true to protestanti,m and grateful to the clergy. Both
of these feelings are good in themselves, and of incontest-
able value to the nation, although in this particular in-
stance protestantitm, as our contemporary thinks, hap-
yens to be mistaken, and the clergy are anxious to get
what it would do them the greatest harm to obtain. The
Satwrduy Reriett•, however, adds that the feelings which
have prompted the votes of the majority of county elec-
tors are feelings which it would be a great national cala-
mity to find wanting in England.

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The Spetator credits Mr. Disraeli with having acted .s
a wise strategist. By retiring before parliament meets he
has avoided that clear revelation of inferiority which so
often disheartens a party, and always discourages the
waveiers without conviction, and that clear committal of
every new member which it is the interest of a ministry
with a large majority to secure from the first. Re has
also avoided that confession of • split in his own ranks
which ie inevitable whenever he makes—if he ever makes
—a serious proposal on the subject of the Irish church—a
split which would have cost both him and his party half
their clerical allies and all their little remaining popu-
larity in Ulster. Above all, he has left himself free to
take up any position he may please, to hoist the Orange
banner of no surrender, or put out the old Whig flag of
compromise, or even, should the chance ever recur, to
plead, as in 1867, that he, and he alone, can secure com-
pletely the end his enemy is seeking to achieve.
Mr. Disraeli has, says tho London Rsoino, an awkward
way of rising at awkward moments, and there is not
the least reason to suppose that he has now for ever
fallen. lHis resignation, and the circular in which he has
justified it, acknowledge most absolutely the severity and
completeness of his defeat. That Mr. Disraeli never ought
to Lave had the confidence of the Rouse of Commons is
certain ; but that he did in a sense enjoy it is established
by the fact that it would not have been safe during last
session to propose a vote of want of confidence.

. .
The Examiner is of opinion that Mr. Disraeli has done
the right thing in the right way. Nobody thinks the
Ices of him for showing the moral courage to own himself
fairly and completely beaten. He has not waited for the
ignominious oeremony of extinction, but walked up calmly
to official death and embraced it. In doing so he has
taught another great lesson to his party, neither to flinch
nor winos when tortase is against them, but, furling
their colours, to retire is good order from the Asa