The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-04 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY E*ENIIto,,',SEPTEMBER 4, 1868.

by manual and mechanical labour, his announcement
will very muoh surprise thorn. Not even numeri-
cally, and still less in any other sense, can it be
pretended that the last Reform Bill has placed
the government of this country in the bands of
the artisans. They have their share in it, but a
glance at the " Election Intelligence" in every
day's nowepaper will show, that the bah►noe
of political power is not likely to be disturbed
just yet, and if Mr. Roeseex'a really sound ad-
vice to the landlords and employers of labour, to
e•xeut the legitimate influence of mind over mind,
instead of seceding through a false fastidious-
ness from public affairs, is rightly understood,
we shall become a more homogeneous bad united
people without tearing each other and our
common national inheritance to pieces.

THE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE FOR

PLYMOUTH.

Mi. eruarr LANE, the Conservative candidate
for Plymouth, addressing the electors of that
borough, has made a very smart defenco of his
directorship of the Crkdit Ponder of England. He
points triumphantly to the moeting of share-
holders, at which only five out of five thousand
voted against the policy of the old directors.
" If," says Mr. STUART Latta, " the five share-
" holders were right and the 4,993 were wrong,
" I should be prepared to make good to the ut-
" most farthing anything which they might have
" the chance of reclaiming against me." This
good-humoured and generous offer was received,
it seems, with laughter by the doctors of Ply-
mouth. As to the " much-abused system" of
commission profits, Mr. STUART LANE throws
upon the shareholders the responsibility of

sanctioning it, whether right or wrong.
Although this sort of apology simply amounts to
writing down the shareholders as willing dupes—
fa tea voile Geo►ges Dandin—it is impossible to
deny that Mr. STUART Larra's happy audacity is
capable of justification. But Mr. STUART LANE
goesfurther, and he has the courage to predict "that
" thaw who from one-sided statements have
" judged that the Credit Foncier Company
" is in a state of ruin, are likely to be themselves
" deluded, and their judgment to be entirely in
" error." This comfortable prediction will at
least hold good till after the general election. At
the worst, it is a promissory note that may be in-
definitely renewed. There is one point, however.
on which we are anxious to put ourselves right
with the Conservative party. Mr. STUART LANS
objects very fairly to " Liberal morality " being
" different in Plymouth from what it is in Norwich
" or Brighton."

There are, as far as I know, three directors of the
Credit Fonder of England who are standing as I am
to-day before the constituency of Plymouth. Allow me
to name them. One is Mr. Edward Warner, than
whom a finer fellow cannot be found on the face of the
earth—(bear, hear)--and he is a liberal candidate, and at
the I resent moment member for the large borough of Nor-
wich. The other is Mr. James White, the liberal candidata
and elected, as far as a preliminary meeting will do, by
that large constituency, Brighton, which has at this
moment no lees than 10,000 electors. Is it right, is it fair,
that these men should have received with me commissions
based on exactly the dime calculations, that you, on the
one hand, state theme commissions are not correct, and
yet that the liberals of Norwich and Brighton should put
them up as the champions of their creed i (" Rear, hear;"
cries of "No.") Is liberal morality different in Plymouth
from what it is in Norwich or Brighton i Is it right,
honourable, or fair that I, standing here as the candidate
for the conservative party, should be abused for that
which those standing fur larger boroughs as the liberal
candidates have been praised for having done 7 I have
now, under the circumstanced, to ask you to dismiss this
question from your minds. Either Norwich and Brighton
arc unjust in having chosen those men, friends of my own,
and I believe most worthy man, though I differ from them
in politics, or you are wrong in haying declared that I—l
am talking now to the liberals—am not even worthy of
being your opponent. (Great cheering.)

Our answer to this manly appeal shall be very
,iniple and direct. We have no doubt Mr. EDWARD
W.thNER, the Liberal member for Norwich, is all that
Mr. St I'ART Ls.vm has painted him ; and we know
that Mr. JsmEs WrtrrE, the member for Brighton,
has proved himself a loyal and a zealous re-
presentative of his party in Parliament. Sup-
posing a Liberal and a Conservative di-
rector of the Credit Fonder of England
to present themselves together to a constituency,
their connexion with that company need not affect
the political choice of the Liberal or the Conserva-
tive electors. Suppose a Liberal ex-director of the
Credit Fonder to stand against a Conservative
candidate who is free from all such " financing"
associations, the Liberal electors may well ab-
stain from voting even for " the finest fellow in
" the world," and the Conservative electors even
for " a pure and noble gentleman," whose high
character has been made to serve as a prospectus,
in order to secure a " solidarity of interests"
among co-directors of very different antece-
dents.

stump orator! All the usual mob-cries that
assail the stumper reach Aim, too, in the shape of
letters and articles—Out it short ! Question,
question ! and other impolite appeals. This is
not only a great falling off since the days when
the holy man could and did, sure of the aoqui-
cecenco of his flock, capsize the hour-glass, and
saying, " Now my beloved hearers, let
•' us take another turn," go on for an hour
more ; it is also pretty clear proof that the
old-fashioned high-supernatural ides of the
preacher's function does not now-a-days readily
come to the surface in public disoussion
Judge not the preacher, for he is thy judge ;

If thou mislike him thou oonoeiv'st him not.
Whore is that kind of teaching sure of a hearing
just now ? It is all very well to say that if there
were more GEORGE HEBREWS there would bo
more people to follow his rule ; but GEORGE
HERBERT'S 11210 Wall expressed without
qualification. While now, the man who, by
the very hypothesis of his gown, is the
supernaturally qualified messenger of GOD
himself to the endangered souls of the
hearers is the football of the silly season, and
chaffed as freely se an enormous gooseberry. Per-
haps it may not be quite idle to signalise the fact
that the idea of which we have spoken is so quietly
buried out of sight when prosohers and sermons
are the topic. When we hear of it at all, it falls
upon us like something in s language half-
forgotten, so much has the clergyman superseded
the apostle in the current symbols of social
criticism.

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OUR CONTEMPORAR!Ira.

(TRIO DAY.)

0./YRCH AND &TATE.
Commenting on the sermon delivered by De.
Vaughan in the parish church of Doncaster, the Times,
after admitting the docitor's peculiar fitness to esti-
mate the popular position of the church of England,
sake whether that &arab has the people with her. It, as
it believes, church people are in a great majority, it will
either remain in possession of its churches, parsonages,
and glebe*, or it will find no dilliculty in replacing
them. Dr. Vaughan is the last man to confound an este-
bliihment with a church, and deolares an unwaverin
faith in the promises ; but he fears that a cold scepticism
and a Christless education may breed a moo without faith,
without knowledge, and without hope. He thinks the
church will clear itaclf from the wreck and pursue its course
as a branch of the church catholic. The Times believes
more than this. The church of England is not national
because it is establiehed, but established because it is
uational ; and should it be disestablished by the most
violent measures a doubly or trebly reformed parliament
is capable of—aye, if the House of Lords be reformed also
—it will still continue the church of England, not Dei
yratirt, but hogrintias telex:ate. The benefit of a splendid
and high-titled establishment is very much confined to
places, to dem" to cliques, and to families, to the owners
of patronage and the possessors of influence. Of course
they will lose something. But the many,wiff not lose so
much as either the friends or the foes of the church of
England seem to anticipate. We have in Rome the church
identified with the state ; we have in France, in Italy, in
Anetria, the church in more or less violent antagonism to
the State. It is only in this country that that separation
from the State which Archbishop Manning professes to
wish for his own church has been completely effected.
Few madam, whether churchmen or nonconformists,
were prepared, in the opinion of the Deily Nisi% for the
clear and positive language of Dr. Vaughan. Ile distinctly
foresees disestablish/Dent and disendowment of the church,
and he is far from regarding the prospect with alarm or
dismay, although he fears something for the state when it
ceases to have a religion. He believes in the advantages
of an established church, but he also believes that in the
order of Providence those advantages are about to be
withdrawn.

According to the Triry►aph, the real danger to the
ohurch arises from the want of earnest and able te►chere
in the church itself.

FOREIGN NEWS.

(THIS DAY.)

TIIE SMOKING EMPEROR AND THE
EMPIRE.

The L.berti of last evening has one of the moot
singular articles that ever proceeded from the
singular pen of M. E. do Girardin. It is too long
to giro it entire, but its tenor will be sufficiently
it! pri I in'ed by the following extract :
The Fmperor possesses in the highest degree two
sow reign qualities—goodness and sweetness. If he were
not ei dewed by nature with these qualities we should
have had after December 2, 1851, despotism and a despot,
wtcreas we had only tyranny without a tyrant. If we
lived in times when names wore attached to sovereigns,
he would have berm called Napoleon, "the well meaning."
How are we to explain the fact that Napoleon
deserves all praise and the Empire all criticism
It is because the Emperor's qualities are neutralised, not
by a defect, but an error. Led astray by the example of
his uncle Napoleon the First, who vaingloriously dated a
decree about the TbMtre Fll/Ic&ii from Moscow, he
imagines that it is requisite for his present
prestige and his future glory that be should
conceive and execute everything by himself. But
would it not have been better to leave the 7'66kt:A Fran-
cais alone, and to bring back the army sate and sound
from Moscow The Emperor does not banish liberty be-
cause be is afraid of it, he banishes liberty because he
believes that if he were to allow it to expand its wings and
take flight it would prevent him from accomplishing
the great things he dreams of. Ido not say what
he conceives bat what he dreams of. To
smoke is to dream awake. The Emperor emotes an
immense number of cigarettes, and when ho smokes France
appears to him as grand as it appeared to him little under
Louis-Philippe. And because Franco seems to him to be
great he persuades himself that she is great.
Sincerely believing that the greatness he is dreaming
about he bas realised, he cannot understand how
there can exist minds sour enough to prefer the shadow
to the booty, in other words, individual liberty to national
greatness. This is not ill meant on the part of the Em-
peror, it is a simple delusion. The moment this illusion,
which is kept up by the drunkenness of tobooco, is dissi-
pated France will become free, not partially but wholly
free.

elftliOtTolll ILSOTEVII A 011114774
SPAIN.

MADRID, SEPr. 3.

The mail steamer from the Canary Island_s ar-
rived to-day at Cadiz, bringing intelligence that
General Dulce was improving in health.

The Minister of Public Works has returned to the
°maid.

AMERICA.
NEW YORK. SErr. 3.

Closing prices :—Gold, 1431; Sterling exchange
on London, 1091; 5-20 United States Bonds,
1882, 1131 ; ditto, 1885, 111 f ; 10-40 ditto, 105 ;
Illinois, 144 ; Erie, 47 ; Cotton, Middling Up-
land, 30}. Petroleum, standard white, 32. Flour,
extra State, 8 dols. 10c. to 8 dols. 70c. ; corn,
old mixed, 1 dol. 24c.
(Arrival of the China ri.l Queen town.)

The royal mail steamship Chins, from New
York on the 27th ult., arrived at Queenstown at
8 a.m. to-day (September 4), with 44 cabin pas-
sengers. She landed 123 sacks of mails and 14
passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 8.20
a.m. All well.

KEW YORK, Arorsr 25.

A number of citizens of Charlestown have peti-
tioned President Johnson to provide protection
for the city against the threatened lawlessness.
as the civil authorities are unable to preserve
order.

It is reported that secret armed democratic or-
ganisations are being formed in Missouri, Ken-
tucky, and Tennessee. President Johnson has
ordered the forcible expulsion of hostile Indians
from Kansas.

Th.' eflitio. ilis.nr.e it Pltrealling tilrollfrit. nit the
country.

Adviees from Hayti state that Sablare i 9 acting
solely on the defensive.

NEW YORK, Arum 26, NOON.
Tt is reported that the itegroes in Northern
Lousiana ane effecting armed organisati.als.
Senator Sherman, in a speech at Ohio,
declared his belief that the bonds should be made
payable in the legal tender.
Adviees trout Cuba state that the Captain-
General has ordered that no passenger should be
allowed to land on the island with zi passport cer-
tified by a Spanish consul.

From Mexico it is stated that the forces of
Juarez under Alatorre have been defeated by the
insurgents in the state of Vera Cruz.

CANADA.
MW YORK, Arersr:j.

The Nova Scotian Delegates who have returned
from London. represent that the Home Govern-
ment regards its recognition of the Union Act as
paramount to the colonial objection, but that that
recognition was based on the apparent consent of
the people of Nova Scotia, to whom, ueverthelcsi,
the right of appeal remains.

OrTwAtin BOMBAY MAIL.-GIIRRALTIR, SEP-
T!.ILBER 3. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steluner Poonah, from Southampton 29th August, reached
Gibraltar at 9 p.m. on the '3lil inst., and loft for
at 8 this morning. All well.

The Italian journals state that King Victor-
Fmmanuel lately had a narrow escape while shooting in
the mountains at Valdieri. When in pursuit of a chamois,
and at the moment he was surmounting a rock, a portion
of the latter gave way, and his Majesty would have fallen
over a precipice if a peasant had not lent him assistance.
A grand competitive meeting of Orpheonists has
just taken place at Havre. Not less thou 1•i0 societies,
vocal or of brass uudrunieub., were present from all lusts
of France, and numbering upwards of 6.000 member..
For the former class, the piece ese•uted was the chorus
Dyquesne, words by M. Gustave Choquet, and music com-
posed by M. Bain: the grand prize was awarded to the
Societe Orphionique of Roubaix. In the second category
the highest honour was obtained by the Grande Iharmouie
of the same town. A large number of other rewards,
consisting of gold or silver medals, were also distributed;
that for rending musk at first sight being obtained by
the Amend Cheve choir of Paris. The proceedings termi-
nated by a banquet, at which Baron Leroy, prefect of the
Seine-Inferieure, presided. His excellency announced
his intension to organise a grand concert at Rouen ou
the anniversary of Boieldieu's birthday (lith December),
and the proceeds of which would be applied to the erec-
tion in that city of a large hall for musical festivals, to be
named after that composer.
THE BELGIAN NIIARTRIOOTER.9.—Prizes were
distributed two days back at Antwerp to the successful
competitors at the great shooting match there, iu honour
of the inauguration of King Leopold's statue. In this
contest about 4,000 marksmen took part, 30,793 shots
were tired, of which 16.6144 bullets struck the targets, and
2,646 went into the bull's eye. If. Guillaume Fortuna,. of
Brussels, carried., the prise of honour given by the ladies
of Antwerp, and amidst enthusiastic shouts, the band
playing the Brabanlonne at the same time, the wife of the
Colonel of the Guard presented to the victor a sash of
white satin having on it the arms of the nine provituva.
Thu distribution of the prizes lasted nearly two hours.

TUE A:NOLO-BELGIAN PRIZE FiTSI). —A com-
mittee has been formed for the purpose of establishing
prizes to be shot for alternately in 'Belgium and England,
in commemoration of the national interchange of visits
between the volunteers of the two countries. The prises
will comprise gold, silver, and bronze " Leopold medals"
and money to the extent of 1.501. annually. The funds are
to be derived from subecriptions to Captain C. Mereier's
picture of the King of the Belgians. It will rest with the
committee to decide whether the competition shall lie re-
stricted to the (lark Civique mat volunteers al Belgium
and to eMcient volunteer% in lln•at Britain. or to be
thrown open to both country*. The prim.% will he shot
for at the approaching Tir National at Brussels. The
King of the ►elgians has given 1:*/. roe annum to the
ormanittoe of the fund, to he uppripriated to prizoe to be
contended for by British volunteers only.