The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-06 00:00:00

WHAT IS Jlll. GIALBIo.SI.6 411011

(From the Kromihr, )

The month of March proverbially- comes in like &
lion and goes out like a lamb. Mr. Gladd•ce, on
the contrary, goes out like a Boa and ~new in
like a lamb. How he raged and roared in the
letter days of the test parliunent, where end
indeed be had a large share in hastening Icy his
violence. How he protested against the extravagance of the
ministry, and vowed to stand between the country and the
ruin with which it was threatened by the profligate capon-
diture of the government. He was to knock etf et hut
two millions. The country woo to be sure of one man to
keep watch and ward for its finances. Mr. Oladetone wan
to be a Jacph Hume on the largest mule, with the addition
of the highest oratorical powers. Sash were the expecte-
dons encouraged; what has been the realisation? The
navy and army estimates hove passed, and Mr. Obeli-ads
voice has never been heard. Ministers have walked over
the ebune. They have had all they asked for without a
show of resistance, or even • murmur of diecontent. Mr.
Gladstone's opposition, which loomed so mighty in the
cloying days of the lest parliament, has proved • mere ling
hank, a thing of vigour. 'What nua be the insaning of this!
Han the member for Ode= undergone • metanierpheeis,
and been changed into a mist ? Or has he, by • hardly lase
miraculous preemie become an altered and • wiser man by
the lessons of the elections? Has he discovered that the
country does not like anything in exec= net even the pre-
trial= of economy Or is there some little personal disap-
pointment in the use ? He had set his heart on having a
follower, profanely called a tail, if but of one joint. now he
spouted away in Wales day after day and night afar night,
wherever a handful of electors could Le gathered together, to
persuade the good folks that hie brother-ie-law was the man
to aid him ia saving the nation threatened with ruin from
Lord Peltnerston's guilty extravagance. The Welsh, however,
were quite unmoved by Mr. Gladstone's oratory, and chess
• representative just as if there was no question about the
salvation of the nation. The consequence is that Mr. Glad-
stone finds himself in the Howe of Commons without a
single follower. The Peelitee are beerier= to the wind& or
the few left have been taught to soher their gnu:miens.
Mr. Gladstone finds himself alone, and his courage is not of
that sort which rises with an esigeney. If the government
hod Ws as weak in this as it was in the dissolved Parlia-
ment, active, vehement and unsparing would Mr. Gladstone
bow keen in ltis attacks upon it. In season and out u
mil= would he hays Maori his indignant voice &Oast the
Moons extravagsnao d the estimates. But sound Lord
Pshearston's simared sonlority Mr. Gladstone's spirit quails.
He le not the sass to hick against the pricks. In Wales
he was told to Zia itiso that he was a political craven. Let
las rMiesr boo, hawser, that he has seen the error of his
waas, ad std his pond silence is not owing to the causes
sagged* bin malts discovery of the factiousness of his
courses on the MAO and the China question. The tarn
of the elections, mild by reflection in the interval pre-
ceding the of parliament, may have revealed
this truth to *e moinbor for Oxford. 'it Lauver may be
the fact, we bombs= moved to touch upon this subject by
the questioas tritkit begin to arise in different quarter,—
what has biome d Mr. Gladetone ? what is he doing?
where is his dirt Nany have inked whether he haw
slipped out elysellms= altogether unobserved—whether he
war turned of if:Oxford, and other such simple questions.
Indeed, we have been expecting to see advertheraents in the
second coin= of the Timed s supplement, imploring infor-
mation to tranquilliee the minds of anxious friends as to
the political whereabouts of Mr. Gladstone, and why he is
not beard of in the present Parliament. It is perhqs,
however, best to let well alone and to be content with Mr.
Glsdatone cui he is. Sydney Smith hearing it observed .of
one of the celebrities of the age that he had appeared to great
=Teatime in convereatimi, said "Yea, there were some
uilondid tubes of silence.' We ought to be satisfied with
Mr. Gladstone's splendid dash of silence in this pariiinont
and to ask no more.

RAILWAY

TENCX.

RAILWAY RECEIPTS.
The traffic returns of railways in the United
Kingdom, published for the week ending May 30, amounted
to 487,6801., sad for Ups corresponding week .
of 1856 to
459,287/

—M., SAM aur
showing an Weiner of 28,2931. The gross
receipts of the eight railways having their termini in
the metropolis amounted, for the week ending as above,
to 209,4601., and for the oonespooding week of last year to
204,4411., showing an increase of 5,0194 The increase on
tie Great Northern Railway anammted to 8491. ; on the
Great Western, to 2,2961. ; on the London and North-
Westorn to 2,854/. ; and on the London and South-Western
to 1,1664• total, 7,1544 But from this must be deducted
7.51., the domain on the Eastern Counties; 394 on the Lon-
donand Blackwell; 1,5681.0nthe London, Brighton, and Sonth
Coast; and 4534 on the South-Eastern; together, 2,1344
leaving the increase, as above, 5,0191. The receipts on the
otherinsee in the United Kingdom amounted to 278,1201.,
and for the oorreeponding period of 1856 to 244,8444,
showing sa imams- of 23,2741. in the lecelpts of those lines,
width, added to the Mamers on the metropolitan line., makes
the total inertia 29,2531. as %M I'S* with the CerresPood-,
as meek of Ittlid.
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