The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-11 00:00:00

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Isiah indudessalnion, turbot, cod,essNandtanfiles,
is strictly in accordance with shebishopeperatiesim
It will also be observed that there is game in the list ;
but it is of that sort which the Church is pleased
consider as Afeigre. A teal is orthodo*,, a
wild duck would not be. Such are the distinctions.
" Any poor wretch," remarks our Paris corre-
spondent, " standing outside the Hotel du Com-
" mere° et des Colonies, at Nantes, who this
" evening buys • halfpenny worth of suet to
" make his dry crust slip down his throat more
" easily, would be held to commit a mortal sin."

Ma. GOLDWIN filszea's Speech at Manetesta, on
Thursday is especially valuable, as showing his
determination to retain that independence of
thought which some Liberals are too much inclined
to treat as a weakness of political faith. A
great party must, it is true, have certain
tests from which it will allow no deflection. The
disestablishment of the Irish Church is such a
test at the present moment, and so, we think,
ought to be the readiness to look at Irish ques-
tions from an Irish stand point, and to govern
Ireland for Ireland. But needlessly to multiply
such teats is to narrow the basis of the party,
and to risk excluding from it men who, while
they are true lovers of liberal principles, insist
on thinking for themselves as to particular applica-
tions of them. Mr. Goi.nwri Serra told his
hearers, very frankly, that he differed from many
of his friends on the Irish land question, and from
many of his Manchester friends in particular on the
question of compulsory education. His testimony to
Mr. Oxeserowe is worth quoting, because it
comes from one who " has differed from
",him on not a few questions, and opposed
" him on some ;"—and those toe, questions, such as
Academical Reform, in which Mr. GOLDWIN SMITH
is especially interested. " I have the greatest
" possible confidence," he says, " in Mr. GLAD-
" wrows's integrity. I have supported him for
" many years as a member of the constituency at
" Oxford, in the full confidence that the principles
" of political justice were in him, and that in amend
" they would come out. lam perfectly convinced that
" his conduct uow is not what his enemies say it is
" —merely an attempt to take up a question for the
" purpose of getting into power—but that it is the
" honest development of his own mind." It is
worthy of notice, by the way, in con-
nexion with this charge of eagerness for place,
that whereas, even if it were true, it only amounts
to this—that as the leader of the Liberal Party,
Mr. GLADSTONE wishes to gain power in order to
carry out Liberal principles, it is brought age..ist
him by Conservatives who, in order to keep in
power, have not scrupled to sacrifice Conservative
principles.

RUSKIN has somewhere spoken of the
inestimable advantage the inhabitants of the
Scottish capital have over Londoners in the
picturesque situation of their city. The precipi-
tous slopes of Arthur's Seat, and the lonely glens
which they inclose, are actually within the par-
liamentary boundaries of Edinburgh. Its people
can enjoy, just out of earshot of their own streets,
the physical and moral tonic which only mountain
scenery can give, and which the townsmen
of southern England are forced to purchase at
the coat of a toilsome journey. Even
the gradual extension which is inseparable from a
prosperous city will not deprive them of this benefit,
for Arthur's Seat affords no level surface to tempt
the building speculator. It is natural that, ins city
so placed, the average of population to area should
be unusually small. Edinburgh contains only
40 persona per acre, against 93 per acre in Liver-
pool, and 83 in Glasgow. But if we turn from
generals to particulars, envy must give place to
thankfulness that London, bad as it may
be, is not as Edinburgh is. In some dis-
tricts of the city the density of population
is described as unequalled in any town in
Great Britain. In the Grass-market there
are 237 persons to the acre, in the Tron there are
314. The prevalence of the flat system increases
the evil, for the " common stain" are in fact
" little streets, carried perpendicularly upwards."
In one of these houses there are 59 rooms, inha-
bited by 56 families and 248 persons ; in another,
built quite recently as a model dwelling for the
poor, there are 35 rooms, 33 families, and 125 per-
sons. In neither of these buildings is there any
water, any closet, or any sink. If the inhabitants
living on the highest floors want water for
washing or drinking they must carry it
through the close and up endless flights of
stairs, so that we cease to wonder that they should
so often leave washing alone, and prefer their
drink in the more portable form of spirits. In
1861—since which time there has been no material
improvement-13,209 families, comprising 66,000
persons, lived in single rooms, and of these rooms
upwards of 900 were cellars, and 121 had abso-
lutely no windows at all. We take these detaßs
from a very valuable report on the condition of the
poor of Edinburgh, prepared by order of a public
meeting of the inhabitants held just a year ago,
and published a clay or two back. It is not often
that a great city shows itself so frank in con-
fessing its shortcomings, and so honestly anxious
to amend them.

THIS AsyminNuar ZIPIMMON.—This morning a
return was published of the amount of condensing power,
in detail, for the supply of fresh water in each vessel in.
tended to he employed in the Abyssinian expedition,
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including that of iliscoondausnig veuel to he stationed at
Annaley Bay. The return was moved for by Lord .Teha
Hey.
Ths Inns of •Court volunteers intend to have a
Mid-day with tbs IJoiveraity cove on Wimhleslowoottunce
as Bawba. W. (Law news/ Pre happy to say that the
Devil's Own is rapidly retaining so its original forte sad
tißialeasy. The insinbera Dave established • rtmitiudant;
which has proved so additional inducement to mambas
of the ians to join the corps.

Earl Russell has consented to preside at a public
westing whisk is to be held is Thursday evening nut at
St. James's Hall, to support of llt. Gladetonses sebum,
for she disestablishment of the Irish church. A groat
Protestant demeastration is to he held on the folio ring

day under the presider* of Mr. J. C. Oolquhoun. -
Miss Edith Wynne will appear, on her return
frets Italy, at the aert Philharmonic Concert.
This fifty-third anniversary dinner of tho Artists'
Gees& Benevolent Institution ern take phee in Fres-
lassone-hari on Saturday; May 16. Kr. John Duke Oak-
ridge, )LP., will preside.
The third and final Exhibition of National Per-
traits it South Ersington will be open to the pubhe on
The President of the. Idiaros°9o4;4lBo:4lfdr has
bused seeds far an ocesies merit" elo. Wildirida9.
Aril 92. , 7
The authorities of the British lbriewmairairpot-
tag for the pincher of the large Japans' Slaws 4111116*
I late Mr. Von diebold. The latterlVL

Admit in Japan, gad pasimmed th; privilege el
books in that eraser,. Dula' hit litstiwes
aosioa et s amber id holm to the Data
His reinstating library eiseatsts of mwevillimudiwa
esalnaively in Japanese, as literary, scientific, sad hhr
terteal subjects, of which a French and English catalogue
in being compiled.

APR:

(THIS DIY.)

The skit of the Prince and Princess of Wales
Ireland, the approaching Vanities.' Rowley, and the
Lisst news from Alsyssisda, are emesg the esbjerts
cued is the rasa. T Irish are told that they will
suss in the Primo of Weiss hits wheys se ambition, no
ability, no cleverness of his own has made their future
realer, lint • Power to wheat we must all bow, and whose
behests we should ail do our utmost to perform. Shots
of many titles sad prerogatives, our Sovereigns live far
ns, and no longer for themselves, were they even disposed
to do so, and even though they are, and most remain to be,
the Di:likely-appointed symbol of the great abiding unity
between divers noes, religions, slasees, and degrees.—With
regard to the Portsmouth review it is remarked that if
eusiesedully managed it will be more to the credit of the
volunteer force this any former exhibition of its effi-
ciency. It will not only be on a grander scale, bat it
will involve more points of real soldiership and give many
more opportunities of Jeanine display to those engaged-
-As to Abyssinia the Times thinks it will not be
surprising if at the last moment Theodore should in-
vite our commando-in-chief to an interview, and ardor
the oboists to be atm* off the captives in his presence. In
the oastrary event, islogdala will doubtless be taken, and
oar treatment of Theodore, if be falls alive into our bands,
most be governed by circumstances on which it would be
vain to speculate at present.
The changes which would take place in eocleriastiesl
affairs in Ireland and England so soon as the statutalde
protection which now surrounds the establishments of the
two countries were withdrawn, sea considered by the
Daily Newt, apropos of some arguments on the 'object
put forward by the Pall Mall Gazette. The change from
the status of an establishment to the status of • volun-
May associatios is too re it not to be accompanied with
some confusion and misunderstanding. But if there is
any real organic life in a religions body it will certainly
not be destroyed by being thrown upon its own resources.
Xi,/ Carpenter's suggestions respecting India reform ;
the state of trade guilds in Germany, and the quality and
ohmmeter of the income-tax are also dealt with in the
leading article columns of the Daily New.
The Pod returns to the Irish Church ; says • few words
for the Jews in the Principalities ; and urges that ade-
quate proviaion should be made for the defence of an ac-
eased person, if he is unable to secure such service for
himself. We believe, says our oonteniporary, there is no
greater travesty of justice than that which so frequently
takes place in our criminal courts when a prisoner charged
with a capital offence being placed in the dock, and the
jury empanelled to try him, the presiding judge requests
use member of the bar to conduct the defence.

The Star again argues that there is between the case of
Ire/and and the case of Ragland, in the matter of church
est•blishments, no parity or community of interests what-
ever. The other subject handled by the Star is the meet-
ing of the Manchester Reform Club.