The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-16 00:00:00

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(TWOPENCE

" ALIQULS."

A murrsaions correspondent of the Times, one
" ALIQUIB," of whom all that we are permitted to
know is that be " may claim to be somebody,"
and is "of pure English blood on both sides,"
and knows Ireland well, came out yesterday with
" the whole truth " about the proper treatment of
Ireland. The troth is this—we must revert to
the old plantation days, and gradually replace •
people who hate us by one which likes us, or if
this is not immediately possible, we should spread
such little sane colonies as we can over an impracti-
cable and almost lunatic community. But where
are the materials for such settlements to be found f
" Axioms " has foreseen this difficulty, and pro-
vided for it. " London and all our large towns
" are swarming with men, women, and children—
"honest or dishonest,industriouslyor idly inclined
" —who do not know what they can do "—" the
" scum of the United Kingdom." These should
be taken and duly mixed with discharged soldiers
and sailors, policemen, Irish constabulary—men
for whom at present the British public has to
provide extraneously—and a few "ladies and gen-
" tlemen of heart and culture." These should
be set down _ here and Stens_ in the wilds
of Ireland, for the better part to rege-
nerate
the bad, and for the whole to regenerate the
country. Such is, in brief, the scheme of "Axiom."
We hope that no false delicacy will stand in
the way of its full discussion. " Axiom" says
that his family have held positions of prominence
in Ireland, and we can quite believe it : plans
like his were at one time thought statesmanlike,
though it is a good while ago. He is to
return to the subject, when we trust he will
give us his idea as to the cost of the under-
taking, and who is to bear it. The proposal is
a very remarkable one, almost as striking as Dr
Fos's " Shortest Way with the Dissenters," or
Swirr's " Modest Proposal for Pro outing the
" Children of Poor People in Ireland from being
" a Burden to their Parents." Dr For, however,
got no thanks from those whom he really meant
to serve, while those whose cause he nominally
advocated put him in the pillory. " ALIQUILs" is
perfectly safe, but wo fear his humour will not be
appreciated.—Doily Nrtrs.

Home-EATING Is LONDOII.—The experimental
hersollega dinner, of which • full account was given in
Aso columns, is to be followed by • public banquet on a
more extensive scale. On Thursday, the 411 of February,
la dinner for 150 persons will be served at the Laugh=
1 Motel, and horses are now being fed up for the occasion. It
'is noteworthy that the 22 gentlemen present at the first
hone-dinner have sigoified their intention of assisting at
the second, which is to be more elaborate than its fore-
runner. A committee of naturalists and scientific gastro-
nomists has been formed, all of whom take a lively interest
in the introduction of horse meat as an article of food,
sad who are sanguine as to the result of their experiments.
A special commissioner has been despatched to Paris, to
confer with the leading authorities there on the introduc-
tion of the various preparatious and condiments fur which
horse is considered especially lit, and to procure a suf-
ficient stock of hone-oil—an article unattainable in Eng-
land. Dir. Forsyth, Q.C., will preside at this second
hone-dinner ; and Mr. A. S. Bicknell, of Onslow-gardens,
the gentleman who presented the pony eaten the other
day, acts ea honorary secretary to the committee.
Tar IN3TITrTION or CIVIL ENOINISERA. —At the
ordinary Braced meeting on
Tuesday, the lith inst., Mr.
Charles Hutton Gregory, president, in the chair, the fol-
lowing candidates were balloted for and duly elected—
as member, David Phillips, superintending engineer,
Peninerdar and Oriental Steam Navigation Company,
Bombay ; and as associates, Thomas Philip Sherard Crce-
thwait, assistant resident engineer, l'artry Water Works,
Dublin ; William Cooke Faber, Chicklade ; George
1 Farrell, engineer and general manager to the
Lundy Granite Company • Major James George
Roche Forlong, R.N., superintending engineer, Pub-
lie Works Department, Bengal • Thomas Ellis Owen,
executive engineer, PublioWorits eiepartment, Allaliabad ;
Middleton Rayne, Kingston-on•Tharnee ; Henry Yarker
Richardson, Sunderland; Jagannath Sailseewjee, Bom-
bay; James Stewart, Auckland, New Zealand; Captain
Hector Tulloch, It.E. ; and Charles W awn Bowden,
Yorkshire. It was also announced that die council,
acting ander the provisions of section 4 of the bye laws,
had admitted as students of the institution, Henry Adams,
Charles Augustus Alberga, Robert William Peregrine
Birch, John Mootriou Canipion, Lindsay Heath, Arthur
Willoughby HeIISSDII, Osbert Henry Howarth, William
Henry King, Frank Howard Landon, Arthur Hemery
Le Breton, Frederick Herbert Mellott, George Pullin
Pocock, George Henry Holbert', Edward Lee Robertson,
Dampier Seabrook Shaw, James Henry Waller, and
Francis Wilton.
Tin CLZSICENWILLL GUAZDIAIM—On Tuesday
it was officially communicated to the Poor-law Guardians
of Clerkenwell that the central authority had at length
decided to deal with them under the new Mr. Gathome
Hardy's Act. The guardians who have hitherto bad con-
fided to them the duty of watching over the poor were life-
elected by the vestry under a local act, riot as the vestry
generally elected some of its own members to the vacancies,
the board was looked upon by the parishioners aa being
'self-elected, and they were wholly beyond the power of
any authority. The new act abolishes all these life
appointments, and in plans of the self-elected guardians, a
returning officer has been nominated, who has called upon
the parishioners to elec., from among the five wards of the
pariah, 18 guardians, and the minimum rateable qualifica-
tion for odiab is 401., whereas the qualification for the 'de-
selected guardian was 2111. Besides the 18 guardians to be
Ideated, the Poor-law Board has the power to nominate

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THE C ZZZZZ NWILL FENIAN OUTRAGE.—A com-
mittee ie. it is said, in course of formatios. in London,
having for its object the prosecutiou of Sir Richard Mayne,
er rather the ommissioners of polies, for connivance at,
er negligence to not preventing the explosion at the House
of Debentioa, Clerkenwell, which has been attended with
wath maticiscbcaly results. It is stated that the extracts.-
= dieelsration of the prisoner Allen made Mime-
dime his arrest, to the effect that 'he was in the
of the police, his subsequent " statement," of
sentresmtenthestie version bee bees given to the peblic.
end the credited rumour that fee some time anterior to
the explodes be bad bees is the pay of the polio. for de-
luding mimes is the sellgieboorbood of Drurplane, have
Wheal may weds timeessogrocos the formation of a oda-
aides, widely try against the ommiesioners of
, would more to the public a full and unfettered
Ml lee
into the part which they played in the lamentable
leoseeedon of the 13th December. A manifesto from
the committee is expected to be addressed to the public in
the coons of the DOXS fortnight.
THE EXPLOSION or Giutim nag IN Cons.—On
Essday Patrick Walsh, compositor, who bad been arrested
• Iffeeeday,on suspicion of being oomerned in the explosion
of deeds ire in Patricketreet, Cork, on Friday night, was
bessught Were the mordants% shamed with the offence.
The wawa adduced-oonsisted of two docutuenta, °odd
which was a travelling end (out of slate) issued by the
Leaden Soddy of Compositors " Patrick Welsh," and
the ether a letter dated dated Oct. 1841, purporting to base
bees written by • Justice of the Peace in Kerry, stating
that es " Yr. Walsh was about visiting his friends in
Easessre, the writer hoped that be would be allowed to
.m through without erred or molestation." It was
p es eh by the secretary of the society that
=74..alsh bad net wtddsthe patt fourteen yeast left
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