The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1857.

M the woollod chief of the Liberal party ;
t read advantage to Lord D'ART ?In
, there any ese result of the present eleetMas,
t se they have gone, more palpable than
that Lord DISUIT IS nowhere in the sacs ?
there any Derbyitee any longer to be
in the world of practical politics—in
ame sense, we mean, as there are Peelites still,
as there were Derbyites Jive years ago P Has
rd DERBY so a leader any real personal following ?
his name • power ? Is his political wisdom
respected ? Are his political principles treated ? Is
it not clear that the standard of revolt raised by the
Tranu and the Burins@ in the Let Parlia-
ment will draw after it a mach greater crowd of
defaulters in the next ? The :moored alliance of
Mr. Gunnel's has worked same mischief already
to his new friends, and will work more yet. His
opponent has craftily contrived to get a hold on the
ultra-Protestant feeling of the country-party. Of the
two political chiefs, Lord PALMERSTON is at this
moment the secret favourite of the squirearchy. It
would by no imam astonish no if ere the new Par-
liament is many menthe aid be become their avowed
champion. He hes damn everything in his favour.
All that modem him the natural object of
Liberal didrast renders him equally the natural
object of Tory confidence. Thom reminiscences of
his early official days, in the good old time. when
the fourth Giotto! was Regent, and Casniedittit
sad MIDMOUTM ruled the State, and wheat sresat,
famine price, and Reform meetings were pot daMa
by PeterMo mamacree,--and the fiery yonnefiranhe
wee a stripling at Oxford, preparing for a dashing
career ea the tint of Whig debaters r—all *IN
tender memories of the past endear to Toe, eye. the
man whom the deeply mistreated DOMANI.; making
some sacrifice, as usual, of trath to point, bee de-
scribed as " the Tory thief of • Radical Cabinet f
and the heavy-handed Sir hams, with all the sia.
doer of a former colleague, has just admitted MI6
hearers at Carlisle " to be an old Tory of the deqmi
dye."
There is an obvious ground on which we regret
this manifestation of latent Toryism by the rondo-
Liberal leader. It obtains followers on both sides
ander false pretences. Thus the Tory lawyer, Mr.
Bovtu, at Gaildked, avows himself • Pal-
mastoid= an the strength of the Tiverton ;adzes' ;

CHINA AND PERSIA.

We have received from the Admiralty, and pub-
lish with peat reserve, the following despatch,
which the admiral at Malta has telegraphed to
the Secretary of the Admiralty, under date 24th
Much, 1867 :

0 From the agent at Suez, 20th March, 1867.
"The Bombay brings no news of the Hindostan ;
the passengers reported that the night before they
left Bombay a telegraphic message was received
from Calcutta, stating that the Emperor of China
disapproves of the proceedings of the Governor of
Canton, and had given him orders to conciliate the
English. Also that a battle wu fought on the Bth
of February, about 40 miles from Bashi», between
the Bombay end Persian cavalry, which ended in
the total mut of the latter, with aloes of 800 killed;
the loss m our side ma 10 killed and 62 wounded."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

01011 0011 OWN

PARIS, FIUDALT
_ .

The Pairie announces that the Neufchatel Con-
ference will not meet spin till next week. It
moreover denim that M. Fatima., the president of
the Helvetic Federal Confederation, who bad an
audience of the Emperor the other day, has any
special mission to the French government; and
}Arms that the only motive for his visit to Paris
was to attend to important business wholly =eon-
meted with politics.
The French government papers are instructed to
speak in the meet gingerly manner about the diplo-
matic rupture between Austria and Piedmont. The
Pays says it " would seem " that there is no danger
at a conflict which the two governments are more
than over resolved to avoid, and that at the worst a
mediation rather than a war is likely to be the
result of tho difference.

The Doily News was seised to-day. The Inde-
pendence Belye was also seised.
The Univers has received a warning which it will
be compelled to publish to-morrow, foe an article in
favour of the Bishop of Moulins, whom it appears,
by the note in the Moniteur to-day, that the French
government has decided to make a seeps-goat of.
On the other hand, and by way, I suppose, of com-
pensation to the catholic church, wounded in the
person of one of its favourite prelates, the Presse
has also received a warning fora feuilleton of
Madame George Sand, in the number of March 26
(part of her romance called " Danielle"), which
contains violent attacks against the Pope and his
government. It is remarkable that this warning to
the Press* is the first that has not been expressed
to be either a " first" or a " second" warning. The
feet Is that the Press* has two warnings seared up
against it already. It was, till lately, supposed that
the regulation against the press permitted two
warnings, after which a journal was supposed to be
incorrigible, and could only be suspended or sup-
pressed. The government, however, caused an
official intimation to be given that the true
construction of the law enabled it to give as
many warnings as it might please. Pursuant
to the new doctrine the Prune now receives " a '
warning, and it will of course have no objection to
receive as many more as may be convenient, pro-
vided no more serious eonaequenees follow than an
expression of government displeasure.
At the Bourse there was a good deal of hesita-
tion. The Rents was dull throughout the day, and
closed with a rise of bc. for cash and a fall of de.
for account, at 70fr. 30c. and 70fr. 53e. Mobilier fell
bfr. for cash and rose 2fr. 50c. for account. Railways
were by no means uniform. Orleans rose 12fr. 50e.;
Northern, 22fr. 50c. ; Lyons fell 10fr. for cash ;

an advanced Liberal like Mr. GILPIN at Northamp-
ton professes, on different grounds, of coons,
the same faith. There is another ground on
which we regret it less. In spite of all the sham
liberalism of Palmerstonian Tories ; in spite of the
substitution of such a vague generality as " Progres-
sive Improvement" for more definite and intelligible
tests of opinion—we entertain a confident belief that
the new Parliament will contain a far greater pro-
portion of sincere and earnest Liberals than
the lest. If this be so, one of two things
meet speedily follow. Lord PALMERSTON mast
adopt and forward Liberal measures, or cease to be
the chief of the Liberal party. In either case
the gain to the friends of progress would be
clear: on the lint hypothesis, their measures
would be carried; on the second hypothesis, they
would secure not only the ultimate meow of the
reforms they have most at heart, bat the leadership
of a political chief more qualified than Lord Pete'
MGESTON to be the First Minister, in an era of rocs
and progress, of a country whose first desire is that
" Progressive Improvement" should be, not a sham,
bat a reality--not an election war-cry, but a great
political fact.

Mediterranean sfr., but for amount they rose
respectively 2fr. 50e. and Mr. ; Grand Central rose
31r. 75c. The other lines were not animated, and
varied but little.

Cardinal bonnet has left Paris to be present at
the opening of the railway from Toulouse to Cette,
and to pronounce a benediction on the engine which
will draw the first train.
Baron Dudon, formerly Minister of State, died
yesterday, at his house in the Rue do Helder, at
the age of 78.
The Patrie is very much shocked at Lord Charles
Russell having told the electors of London, speaking
of his brother Lord John, that " there is life in the
old dog yet," and thinks such language very un-
dignified in the mouth of a lord defending another
lord. • When will French publicists attain to a
smattering of English manners before they write
about them?

NOMINATIONS.-THIS DAY.

This ihretioat the nontinatlon of candidates for this
borough took place on the radar erred at Kennington-
park. Three was a large attendance, a crowd of emend
thousand persons being present. Mr. Osaka was the
priding akar. There were three candidatee—namely,
Mr. W. William, Mr. W. A. Warren (the late inentben),

and Kr. Rowell, • gudgeon of o& inflames. Ti.
usual fors•lLka having Doan gone through,

Mr. R. Ellington proposed, and d Mr. 13trveston seconded
Mr. Williams.

Mr. Rhodes proposed, and Mr. R. A. Grey seconded Mr.
Wilkinson.
Mr. F. Doniton proper% sad Hr. J. Grove seconded Mr.
itonpsil.
Mr. W. WILLIAM/ 1/11 the dint esndid►te who addressed
the electore. He wee received with mingled claws sad

Muth the =MI dee dieless etleatheth were iseembleel to per-
igees thee, the moth homertent hike that devolved upon
thethisiehmthat theeimethet efesolleg to the House of
Oitheethe men who midi make NA kers sad stand by
Os Womb el the Mph, moulless et the Mies of any
palliate gremment. (Cheers.) He bail bad the benour
egiumenting thee to them ef Cammithe ion nearly
wen rim end tholes hew • NNW horst member—
(eh see)-he hit emithil amp would place his in the
diellerpisheillesthen of reprientative in the next par-
("Yea. eau" end " no, no.") Thee was net a
MS In the last parlienient who took se moth ore of their
be did. (Laughter sad "bear, beer.")
rib se
thd epee more time than needy all the ether
et the House of Comma put together
Irkillsepeethe the extravagance and profligacy et the
peemmeientthethr which we lived. (Hear, hear.) Why
they mouth belay believe thet this gemeament rewired
6,000,0111111. sr 7,000,01 th mess be threy ea pith alike
—(a vats: Pshmeeten fee ewe ")—then was re.
gutted in the last year of pease by Lard Derby
and Lord Aberdeen. (Derisive )amither.) This was
unprecedented liberality, and be appealed to the electors
I whether it was not necessary for them to mad
men to the House of Commons who world oppose this et-
trevapace, and not men who would beck it up. (Hear,
beer.) Since he had bad the honour of being their rem-
sentstive there was not a min in the Hoses of Cerium
who bad devoted more time than himself to the indentrions
discharge of his premonitory duties. (Laughter.)
He had no other oompation ; he lad devoted
days and sights in the disabarge of his duties
ad the protections ot their interest and them al the ementry
at largo. (Hem, bear.) During the seam period be bed
accomplished two of the most impoethat ingincial refuse
that ever were (dieted within the menferm of moral
man. (Hear, hear.) The government bed been In
the habit of pocketing or heirepting between
6,000,0001. and 7,000,000!. irking treat the Wes on its
way from the tax-payer to the Treasury without raideriag
any account of he applicatioo. For seven years he append
that iniquity; dinned the matter In the ears of the govern-
ment, and charged them with a gross end disgraceful ne-
glect of their public duty. Well, about a twelve-
mouth *go be succeeded in sbolishing that evil;
an the money was now paid into the Exchequer,
and not one teething wee taken out without a vote of th;
Hones of Commons. (Cheers.) Again, for ten or twelve
years he exposed in the House of Commons the iniquitous
injustice of emenpting the lend from the imposition of
the legacy duty, end at the sems time levying
that duty upon all other desaiptions of property.
Their ',gigaton being landowning, shays took tea
of their own pockets, and for silty yam they committed
the gross injustice upon ovary class of the community but
themselves. (Hear, hear.) He got it imposed upon than
only • short time ego; now it took 2,000,0001. of wary from
their pockets—(Cheers)—aced thole whom he shimmed might
depend upon it bat for this &end= the country weld have
had to pay the dithrence in intim at the asceenuese of life.
(Hear, beer.) Fortier, be bed denounce' for several years
past the iniquity of Imposing the home tax on tradesmen
and professional men to the suns extent that it was imposed
on landed proprietors and landholders. (Cries of " Bravo.")
The latter bad nothing to do but to get their agents to collect
their rents and look to their banking savants, while the
former were toiling enximuly from the lit of January to the
31st December, and yet the income tax was imposed equally
on both. If the electors sent him to the next
House of Commons, he would endeavour to ob-
tain justice for the tradesman and the professional man, by
proposing that they should only pay half as much as was
levied upon landowners and fundowners. (Chem.) In
the course of the last melon be endeavoured to wipe away
from the statute book that hard, unjust, and oppres-
sive law by which the income tax was imposed
on incomes under 1501. a year. It had been
said that his proposal on that subject was clap-trap, and
that hie object was to obtain votes. Twice did he denounce
the iniquity in question in the last seadon. This year, im-
mediately after the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced
his intention to propose the continuance of the
tax, he gave notice that he would introduce a
motion to abolish it. That was a considerable time

. _
before the division on Mr. Cobden's motion, which placed
Lord Pelnienton's government in a minority, sod there was,
at that period, no expectation of an election in the course of
the yeassat year. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Williams then dr
fended his vote on the ChitO question amid incessant cries of
" Time, thin" end "We know all stout that." He con-
cluded by souring the electors that if he were returned
he would be found, in future, as be had been heretofore, a
faithful representative of the borough.
Mr. Warainsow, on cooling forward, wee maned with
a tumultuous concert of groans, hisses, and other resnihr
Otiose of unpopularity. He said that the years ago he oases
forward, at the request of the electors, to ill a gap which
bad been WI in the representation by a gentleman who
had retired. (A voice: "And you sold us.") On that oc-
casion he wee placed at the head of the poll. Since then
he had given about 700 votes in the House of Commons,
and although it was scarcely possible that all three votes
should have been satisfactory to all hie constituents, ha
could men that every one of them had been given according
to the conviction of his ease:Once. (Chem and uproar.)
He was not going to tall them that the government of
this country was a profligate government, or that
there wen no honest men in the late Homo of Commons be-
dike himself. They would not believe him if he did tell
them se. His into colleague (Mr. Williams) had told them
that he believed the government of Lord Derby wee
ouch more economical than the government of

Lord Psbnerston. If that were his (Mr. Williams) opinion,
he could understand why he bad voted against
the government of Lord Palmerston and in favour of Lord
Derby. As to the Chinese war, what was tho result of the
affair? Why the Chinese had come to their senses; the
Emperor of China had disowned the acted his oommiesloaer,
end it appeased, therefore, that the coarse taken by Sir
J Bownog and the Admiral at the station was
right. (Hear, hear.) News to this Meet had
strived to-day, and the result seemed to be most satisfactory
to the honour end credit of the country. (Cheers.) The
electors had been told that be had a share in imposing the
income tax on them. (A voice, "So you bad.") He had
no more to do with it than his colleague had. (Cries of
"Go home.") He asked them to give him once more
their suffrages and send him back to the House
of Commons (No, no), u he believed they would
do, if they took an unprejudiced view of his conduct.
(Criss of "We have had enough of you." " What about
stork-jobbing P") He did not probes te have done more than
other people, but whatever tus late colleague might have
done in the way of assiduity and attention to his duties
he believed he had done) more. (Interruption.) Be had
been longer in the houso—he had given more
votes—ho had been absent fewer times than
that gentlemen, and, therefore if they gave credit to his
Mend, let them alao give credit to him. He would now
leave his cause in their bands, and he trusted they would
rcaos,;im, as they did before, at the heed of the poll.
h.
Mr. OVPILL wee received with tremendous cheers,
which lasted for two or three minute*. Ho said be had been
called upon by numbers in that borough to oome forward
as a candidate, and it wee ea • local and independent
candidate in the fullest sense of these words, that be now
sought the suffrages of the electors Dula( the last few
days he had addressed nearly 30,000 of the Inkabitante who
had evinced their approval of hie Prineip/sa, and he regarded
the enthusiasm which had been snanikated in his behalf,
not merely as • compliment to himself bat also
as a compliment and homage to the great principk•
which he represented. (Cheers) He did not come for-
ward mas • local candidate, but se •an exponent of those
goer principles wwbul must
ere ysoodleureilater be em
through bodied
and breadthtfeal land. (Hear.) A• a local candidate IsITM

awn* local attachments. Ile could not help recollecting that
those whohad gonebefotehira,andtowhombeowed
made their first successful exertions in that borough,e7actrat
made him feel that he himself owed a great debt of gratitude
to the bore h—(cheers)—in fact, that he owed to it all that
be pcasamed. (Reaewed cheers.) Re aspired to no
higher place than that of representing it. He
was no men;*a no tuft-hunter; he bad no
greeter ambition than that of representing his native