The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-21 00:00:00

" STUMP ORATORY."

" Hemeaf patience," as it is represented by the
Pall Mall Gazette, is freely exercised just now by
the " reports of elaborate orations delivered by
" Mr. GLADSTONE at various places in Lancashire
" upon the tlisestablisbment of the Irish Church,
" economy, and other topics appropriate to the
" approaching election." Our contemporary, of
course, knows perfectly well beforehand all that
Mr. GLADSTONE has to say on all these topics, and,
with a candour quite ingenuous, does nut pretend
" to have given more than the most cursory glance
" to the four columns of illustration and argu-
" ment as to the relations between the Estah-
" fished Church and the population of Ireland,
" which Mr. Gexesruse extracted the other
" day from the Report of the Irish Church
" Commissioners for the benefit of the people of
" Newton." So the writer in the Pell Mall
Gazette, in common, we dare say, with a conside-
rable portion of his fellow-countrymen, who are
newspaper readers only, very judiciously and
fairy exercises the privilege of skipping which,
even in the literature of the circulating library, is
occasionally indispensable to the " human pa-
" tienee "of the novel-reading public. Our con-
temporary's patience is, perhaps, of a some svhat
fastidious order. Electoral speeches by " a
" great statesman—the Prime Minister that
"is to be within a few months," cannot really
be described without a gross abuse of language
as " btunap oratory•." We are not so Americanized
in the old country as all that. Our contemporary
re marks that " this is the way in which we pre-
" pure for legislation in this country," and ap-
pears to be rather disgusted ut this result of a par-
liamentary system. On this point we will simply
take the liberty to a lc our contemporary what he
would have ? Would he wish to see Mr. GLAD-
SIONLat Oxford again, or our future Prime Mi-
nister asking for u seat in Parliument,
on the strength of his reputation and his public
services only, without meeting his constituents
face to face, and challenging their confidence by
an open profession of his political faith ? No
doubt it is a great mercy to a free country that
men of Dir. Geeerroxx's calibre can be found
who are willing to go through all this rough and
ready work of a representative of the people, in-
stead of philosophizing in retirement on
a system of government which should
be purely administrative, and yet, in some
degree, parliamentary, and should embrace the
advantages of a popular constitution without
the " engagements" to which statesmen and legis-
lators in Great Britain are subject. But wo must
take either one thing or the other—either a free
and popular representative system, with all its worry
and tumult and vulgar bustle, or rulers and ad-
ministrators without the sense of responsibility,
and only in contact with the people through the
aria of the Executive. Parliamentary government
certainly tries the patience of a few learned
pundits; it has the humbler merit of encouraging
and satisfying the " human patience of the multi-
tude.

TIIE BALLYCOIIEY PROPERTY.—The property of
Ballycohey ban at last passed into the hand 4 of a Moore,
Esq., M.l'. the difference between Mr. Scully and Mr.
Moore being settled by the latter payuig the November's
rent, aa wall aa the purchase money. The eight men of
the Royal Irish Com6abulary from Dublin, there slues Div
outrage occurred, have beast eaLled away again.