The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-11 00:00:00

LOEB BROUGHAM.

The Daily News, reviewing the career and analyiaing
the character of Lord Brougham, observes that self-re-
straint and discipline ware the qualities which he
most needed, and they were the very last things of which
the epoch of his childhood, youth, and mature age fa-
voured the growth. He lived in the Stormmind-Drang
period of European politic, and his energy, passion, and
versatility fitted him to achieve nooses in the eonfliot of
those wild elements. He was trained in and fitted by
nature for the time of tempest which began with the
French revolution and which ended in England with the
paving of the Reform Act of 1832. He was wholly un-
fitted, morally and intellectually, for the period
of calm and peaceful progress in which the last five-
and-thirty years of his life were passed, and the
retrospect of his life suggests the consideration how mach
happier it would have been for his fame had he died when
the Reform Bill of 1832 became law.

The Post rye it is no exaggeration to say that for the
last 60 years Lord Brougham's name has been connected
with every useful reform that has been advocated in
theory or carried out in practice. Lord Brougham
in the prosaic character of the ecboolmairier
abroad, promoting popular education, founding me-
•es' i •
themnstitutes, circulating a cheap and wholesome
literature, and fighting for • free and untaxed press, is,
though a more homely and matter-effect imiscr,--wee- ler

intrinsically estimable than that in which he appearilwilh
the associations of romance—as the saviour of a negksted
race, and striking off the chains and fetters of the
slays.

The Telegraph says Lord Brougham's life is not a bio-
. graphy but an encyclopedia. His intellect grasped and
digested everything. Politically and civilly he was dead
long ago; and be has been his own monument for
a score of years. It is true that he wanted
i many gifts and some graces ; and that certain of his beet
political and personal traits died before him. Moreover,
a picturesque uncouthness militated against the just
admeasurement of his nature ; but now that be is dead, the
Telegraph is oonstrained to speak of him with affection,
honour, and fervent gratitude.

The Star thinks that, with all his splendid eloquenoe
and his vigorous, versatile intellect, Lord Brougham will
not rank in history with oar own foremost great men. He
was, indeed, an extrsordunry rather than a groat man ;
and with all his energy there wu wanting something of
earnestness in most things that he did. Even despite his
genuine, earnest, overwhelming denunciations of the slave
trade, he took little or no interest in the fall of the
American slave system ; and so far as he paid any atten-
tion to the subject, or had any sympathy to spare either
way, he gave his sympathy rather to the wrong side.

VIC LIABILITY OF NIOCK JOBBZUB.

The Daily News says that an appeal will probably be
made to the highest authority in the realm against the
decision of the Courts of Common Pleas sad Equity, in
the WWI of " Oriental v. Bristow." sad " Coles v. /Iris-
towe." In both instances the plaintiffs were holders of
shares in Overend, Gurney, and Co., which their brokers
sold to Messrs. Bristow., who, on the settling day, sup.
plied the names of the persons who had agreed to take the
shares. The transfers were regularly executed by the
sellers, but the buyers neglected to perform their part of
the contract, and the result was that the plaintiffs became
liable for heavy calls on the shares that they had pawed
out of their names. Messrs. Bristowe's nominees having
failed to complete their bargain, the plaintiffs sought a
remedy, with the result already stated. The Deify News
says that if the present decision be maintained, it will
effect a material change in the mode of dealing on the
Stock Exchange. The stockjobbers or middlemen unex.
pectedly find themselves saddled with a liability they had
contemplated, and will be obliged to take measures
for their own protection. But, as between the plaintiffs
and the dealers, it is difficult to see on which tide the
greater hardship lies.

EAST WORCEETZESHIRE ELECTION.—WORCEETER,
HanaDsv.—Judging from the placards on the walls of
this city, the Hon. fei. C. Lyttelton, the liberal candidate
for the seat masted by the death of Lord Calthorpe, is not
to have a "walk over," as had been anticipated ; but that
he is to be opposed by Mr. Lesion, of Abbertos-hall, in this
county, who • few years ago represented the city of Wor-
cester for • short time on liberal principles. He is now a
conservative, and at a meeting held this week at Upton
strides
f'modsbury, in this count'', be deeleimeAegaleet thereZid
of desnocrasy, and opposed the Irish church %%-
time proposed by Mr. Gladatone, maintaining that if the
Irish church were disendowed, the English church would
not be safe fora day. It is expected that the writ will be
moved for in the approaching weak.
LORD MAYOR ALLEN AND THE St. JAWLS'S
MALL kfairrixo.—Lancing, Sussex May Bth 1868.—My
Lord—At the meeting held at Se: James's-hall on the
Irish church question,ti are reported to have said, " that
is &Mending that in you believed that you were act-
ing in accordance with • • feelings of, at least, the majo-
rity of she citizens of London ; and you armed them pre-
sent that no elms of persons looked with greater suspicion
upon anything that might tend to a severanos of the union
between ' Church and State' than the citizens of Lon-
don." I, for one, protest against your amerced
representation of my opinions. When you did tat the
honour to ask me to propose yoe to my fellow electors of
the ward of Gimp, as a candidate for the aldennasic
gown, I einmeted le do so as the understanding that
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