The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-10 00:00:00

TH4E EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVAN:WO, SEPTEMBER

their night's journey without foamier entrap by the
tokoiniatration of half-a-crown to the guard
give them sticks to stretch from oat to seat, suA
to keep other passongera from eatoring the earl
tinge I+ Again as to ventilation, it surely ought to
be the °airiest thing in the world to allow useh
paseenger to have some MAIM of getting fresh air
for Limeelf without tho nocessity of opening a
window and catching cold from. the furious wind
if he is next it, or of beseeching the window pa.-
sensor to open it if ho happen to bo antod in tho
middle.

But while we claim those ordinary and obvious
comforts for the first-olass passenger. we do not
in the Inlet mean to say that they are not almost
itpially due to the second and third class.
One of the most shameful points in railway
management is their effort to clrive passengers
into the higher priced compertments by the
denial of ordinary decencies to tho lower. It
is only a few years since many lines
forced third-olass passengers to travel in open
trne.ks, unsheltered either from wind or rain.
Even now, though they can hardly make the
carriages different in substantial points, they
make the humbler ones uncomfortable by draughty
doors, rattling windows, the denial of pegs or
shelves for ooata or hats, the absence of any
warmth in winter, and the refusal of any separate
compartments where women, travelling alone,
might be free from insult. An infinitely small
outlay would remedy all those defects, and the
public is entitled to expert it. If railway com-
panies say that they cannot afford to make the
lower-priced carriages comfortable for fear of
diminishing the number in the first claw, we
reply by the question, Do third-class passengers
pay, or aro they carried at a loss ? If the fact
is that it pays well to carry them, it would pay
bettor to carry more of them. And cer-
tainly more of them and of every other
class would be carried if the companies
would more consider the comfort which is so essen-
tial an element in the inducements to travel. Just
now nobody enters a railway carriage who is not
forced to it by business or by the necessity of
getting by such means to the place where ho seeks
other enjoyment. The mere travelling is a die-
comfort which everyone avoids if ho possibly can.
This is a sentiment which has the worst possible
influence on the companies' exchequers, but which
it is in their power to remove. Let them make
travelling more agreeable in every class, and tons
of thousands more will travel in every class.
Tteir officials no doubt will solemnly assure them
of the eontrary. More traffic means more trouble
to everyone on the staff, from porter to manager
and secretary. Trouble to the staff has been the
cause of stifling many a ettggeeted improve-
ment, and many a contemplated reduction
of fares. Well, the companies must make their
own choice. They may either go on pleasantly
and indifferently, paying little or no dividend,
and exasperating the public into hostility by rais-
ing fares and diminishing oonvenionce, or thoy
must recognise the fact that, like every other
commercial concern, they can only obtain success
by deserving it. And if they once turn their
minds fairly to the latter alternative, heedless of
the alarm and remonstrances of thew who are
interested only in earning their salaries with the
least possible trouble, they will find a hundred
ways in which they can attract and augment
traffic, and by which. consequently, they can pay
fair dividends while yearly adding to tho public
accommodation.

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..21ilk !END Of/ /XS CUM /AIWA.

rigars thinks the enbmeer are still morn to ,
be corieratulated than the public on having withdrawn
firm an untenable position, for the exertion to which they
might have &Roused the public, would poisibly have endod
in wme froth security against a similar event. Dy the
mittake they have made the cabmen have rendered it evident
that the indium ale independent of them, and have at
the tune time given the companies the bust reasons for
not putting theinaelves into the hands of a body ei
who are capable pt such fr999o4iage as the recent strike.
Nevertheless owiain hardships in the po•tion of cabmea
bare been generously recognised, and it shoUld be their
object to keep these steadily before the public mind, be-
Freaking good will by doing good service.
The Doily Irmo thinks that the drivers will And it im-
possible to enforce their resolution to keep away from the
Railways. It is not yielding with gram; and an attempt
to cry it out will again involve them in conflicts with•
the public. Nor is there any use in it. The full strike
could not be kept up, and a strike against special please—
and those places the great railway stations—Re even more
pure to fail.
From the And, lays the Thisfraph, the drivers Might
have teen that the strike must fail, end that to parliament
they must look for the redrew of their grievances.

arrzwesow.

Commenting moon the university expenses, and point-
ing rot that the economy of a college or hall must be
extravagance compared with the thrift of a lonely student.
the Deity News asks why the authorities of Oxford cannot
take a leaf out of the book of the 800tob universities. At
Edinburgh a lad of sixteen studies under the profemore,
end hem unquestioned and untutored. in any tradesman's
home that is selected for him by his parents, subject to no
other controller of MOl5l. than the municipal government.
The meet virtuous and even the most refined poople in
Scotland fraileeply retrust thoir studious and ambitious
SOIL to unlicensed lodging-houses and to the parochial
spten2; and no evil come. of it.

The Pnal review* the election proissedings in Scotland
for the purpose of showing the decided gain which is in
store for the liberal party. It assumes that from the
ding() in the 'Scotch seats there is reason to expect an
addition of nine votes to the liberals. In 29 Scotch 'anti
there is no sign of any contest for ; in 1.)
liberals are contending among themselves ; in font there
is at present no Nips:Con to the conservatives ;
fur 12 liberals and conssrvatives are fighting. The con-
servatives make no attempt for more than 16 of the
fib Scotch seats, seven of the 16 they have no chance
of ; the liberals will havo a share of the remaining
nine.

The Star says the result of the Irish elections will al io
be satisfactory to the liberals. A majority pledged to
suipurt Mr. Glaah.Lone, at all evonta on the iaeto of dis-
catabliahment, I. absolutely certain to be ratuurnegl. Th,
Star, however, regrets that the alliance between I.:ogled'
liberalism and the Irish popular party should be impe-
rilled by such exhibitioni of clerical jealousy as that
which has ended in the ejection of Mr. Mason Jones from
the Queen's County on the ground that he is a Garshal-

PARIS. SPrrEmnE it 9, EVININO.—Br
TlSLY-
caula.—The Duke of Cambridge bas arrived here from
Germany, and doves this evening with the British
Ambassador.

His Royal Highneas the Duke of Rilinbnral was
prevent at the marriage of Commander Hugh Campbell (of
the Galatea) and 144 r Archer, daughter of Colonel Archer,
at Hampton on Timidity. Mal royal higlinows o 1 l .eted a;
"tart man" to the gallant commander of hie ship.

Yeaterday afternoon their Royal Tfighneiao,
Prince and Princese Christian of Schleswig-II 'Weil, at-
tended by their suite, arrived at Dover from Wa:torebirff.
Prim Dever they linirse•tled to Windwo, and arrived them
ehortly before 8 lag night. Mimeo they drove to Frog-
more Hougs, Windsor-park, where they await the arrival
of her hlajeidy to-morrow.
_ _ _

Duke and Dachau of Buckingham an 1
Lair* Grenville loft Stowe, Bunke, **Ay in tho wook, on
a visit to Mr. Gore Langton, M.P., and Lady Anna (Ivo
Langton, at Newton Park, Sonwriotshire, in 0r,1,,r to b=
proent at the festivities consequent on the coming of ago
of Mr. Langton 's oldest son.

Re have pleasure in stating that Sir Robert
Philliznore bas returned to this country from aimed in hci
usual excellent health.

A letter from Meiringen,in Switzerland, Rays :
Quota Victoria on Friday sent a letter to the 11ev. Dr.
May, Fng!Leh chaplain et this place, presenting Ors sum
of I,2Mr. am a donation towards tho fund now being
raised for finishing the beautiful new English cherub
there, which Dr. May has built on a site getieniway given
by Y. Baud, proprietor of the Sauvage Hotel, and adjoin.
ing its garden."
Thu new reason at tho " Italiens " at Perim will
begin on the ht of October, as usuaL Adelina Patti LI
fuel on the list of ringers, and three prism dome will ap-
pear for the tint time iu Paris. Moe Minnie Haack. of
New York, for whom Prince Poniatowski is computing at/
opera, a pupil of Signor SDI/knack, Millie. do Murika,
who snug for two MOO= at her Majoitf ■ ; and Signorine
Mari, daughter and niece of the brothers BOA the authors
of Croverie e la Gbeurre. Y. Bagior promisee two new
works.

The revival of a old opera by Roasini, canal
the Piano dd hrragoiss (the TosicAstaaw has Just taken
piece at the l'agliano Theatre in Fkutoce, but without
much swam

The Pollee Dramatiquee bee re-opened its Rste
with the Dissq Name area Beerpeie; sad the Th4etre
Dtjeaet with Leo Chweeitere da rmai-Ndid

kadanin Malay was to reappear last night, after
has long illness. at theTbeetreJninsais in Le MisailtArepe
and 4 doss di per,

The revival at the Opera-Comiqua of the OAP
dr Bo{ mums b M. Dre.ls, Ma proved a anneals.

ltd Dkizot, after • serioe of representations
at Lyons, is about to play fats few nights at Dieppe.

Tie Theatre du Pan at Enamels has ro-Openrd
with the Adis. of Charles Dickens

Tile Publio Library at Brunswick has just been
enrkted with a curious collodion of 40,000 playbills of .0
cenntries, including • considerable number of the last
century. It also comprises a series of programmes of
dine/nut theatres, which arc not the toast interesting.
Major Haeupler was occupiod twenty years in getting
together this curious series.

" A very characteristic document," says tho
64ele, "bu been communicated to us. It is the follow-
ing programme of subjects treated publicly by the
students in rhetoric on the occasion of the distribution of
prizes at the school for priests of Montauban : Pius IX.,
the elected of the Lord; the Immaculate Virgin; Now
Mars in the Heavens; Pius IX. and Modern Errors; the
Ficberman's Barque (a chant); the World at the Feet of
Pius IX. ; Peter's Pence; the Defenders of the Pontifical
Throne; Chant of Triumph (cantata).' What a fine
specimen of clerical education! It is short, but conclu-
sive."

Ten new miles of an iron way have been opened
in the canton of Valais. The filte4 to celebrate the event
commenced on Friday night, and will not terminate for
some days to come. They are a portion of a line which is
to give a direct railway communication between Paris and
Milan rid the Simplon Railway, and which, its projectars
state, will form part of the highway between England and
our Indian empire. The scheme has the approval of M.
Learepe, the projector of the Sues Canal, who regards it as
a supplement to his own plan for ahortenbig the overland
route to India.

FBATIVITIER AT NEWTON PARIL—Tho goat of
Mr. W. H. P. Gore-Langton, M.P. for West Somerset,
situated at Newton, near Bath, was the scene of festivities
on Tuesday and yesterday, the occasion being the coming
of age of lir. W. 8. ()ore-Langton, the eldest son of Mr.
Gore-Langton. N.P., and Lady Aunailore Langton, sister
of the Duke of Buckingham. Congratulatory addresses
from the tenantry were presented to father and eon, and
were suitably acknowledged by both gentlemen. There
was a sumptuous dinner afterwards in • tent pitched in
front of the UM at which the Duke and Bechar' of Buck-
ingham. Lady Nary Orenvilki, Lady Ann Grenville, Lady
Caroline Orenvillo, and a large number of distinguished
relatives and friends wore yrerunt. In the eveninq there
was a ball, to which the wives and families of the tenants
were invited, in the marquee. The labourers on the estates
were entertain( d yesterday.
NATIONAL EXHIBITION OP WORER Ole ART, AT
Isms.—Retium of admissiceis :—Wednaiday, September
9, by lemon tickets, 1,70 e ; by payment Of 24.
itotal,Bl94l.

Oh G N NEIV S,
(Tills DAY.)
71111 PORSIBILITIFI4 OP WAR.

Tlic Patin torreepondent writes., in the Nord:
Nothing las °opened in ounflunetion of the ropert
which attributed to the I'mperor the intention of Justin.:
a war aedrers ; yet people feel no tonfidenee, for they will
not be satisfied with negetive sum/althea of ileum. Right
or en-one there is a conviction amongst certain is•remi.
who form puble opinion to some extent, that something
is in tie stud. The slightest despatches are
' ihtertteted in a disquieting sense, sad man
sill not believe whet at other time( would be
ii.fhelett to allay their teem. One of the eimptruns M
morbid finding it the disposition to make mete. We
have had first the ri-ligions end then the warlike mei of
the Priam Imperial, the one doubtless OA apocryphal as
the other f The following te new attributed to the Em-
peror. Ono of his familiar friends laying before him the
expectant state of public opinion, said "Something must be
'done." The Emprrernmlied, "Very well ; we shall have
war." It in needless to add," says the correspondent,
" that this is as improbable as the former."

In reply to La Prance, which attributes the fall
on the Bourse to articles in the newspapers which
express merely tho personal opinions of the writers,
the opposition journals with ono voice refer to the
article in the Constiltitionnel as the source of the
panic.
The Journal de, Dishals of to-day disetevese in a
long article, signed by its well-known Secretaire de
la I(cdart‘n, the question of peace and war. It
admits the existence of a strong war party in
Franco, and it combats their opinion as to
the neee.sity of war. It quotes the " al-
most official" declaration of M. Rouland,
the governor of the Bank of Promo, that
trade and commerce are suffering "from tho
nightmare of uncertainty," and that confidence
can only be restored " by accomplished facts and
definitive settlements." It Women the language
of Mondial Niel, who &dared that Franco is armed
and ready for war or TWIRCA, by the language of
M. Magee, who said that " peace will he durable
for Europe needs it, for the Emperor desires it,
for France is powerful enough to endure it (peace)
without fi ur of being accused of weakness." And
it concludes without any conclusion, simply affirm-
ing that the words of M. Mane complete the
language of Marshal Niel.