The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-02 00:00:00

end customary course is not all
the present Plenums is apt to
should really have resolved
cuplamistio language of
is occasionally described as
" movement," such a cigcision

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of Mr. DuoAur may be
a divided Cabinet, an mope from the mei-
sity of propounding a policy of his owe, or the
embamumment to the leader of the majority of
forming an administration before be has brought
his parliamentary forces into the geld; in
other words, before the new Hove) of Ominous
has pronounced sentence upon his predeoloor.
All these motives, and perhaps some others whisk
are not so easily dated, which wewosdd rather not
suggest, bat which will probably mar to oar
readers, might appear to explain the rumoured
premature resignation of the Tory Government.
It is always safe to conjecture that Mr.
DISRAELI is not at the end of hie resources ea a
tactician. On the other hand, it would be
only fair to appreciate the difficulty of reconciling
the views of Mr. Ogrnoires HARDY and of Lord
STAIITILY on the Lids Church question ; the
danger of alienating a considerable number of his
supporters by any proposal to eat in the
direction of the Irish Church Comaiesion Report ;
and the still more imminent and delicate task
of composing a speech ,from the throne. It
would be auperfluous to blame a Minister for
making the beet of a bad business and cut-
ting a knot which he cannot untie. Perhaps lifter
all it is in the capacity of a " Constitutionelist "
that Mr. DISRAELI may be anxious to escape from
complications which he has so ingeniously °m-
ated during the recess.

•
WINTER EVENING EMPLOYMENTS.

Tuna are few persons whose enjoyments sad
occupations are not to a large extent influenced by
the seasons. The glorious sunshine sad bins skies
of last simmer were enough to make the most in-
dustrious man idle, the most ascetic man luxurious.
Life in each a season grows strangely easy; we are
content to exist sad to enjoy, we grow good-tem-
pered and indolent, or if roused to exertion it is
only that we may invent fresh pleasures. No
doubt there are men—Dr. JOIINSON affected to be
one, but was not—who can plod on methodically
uninfluenced by the frosts and fogs of winter
or by the delights of summer time, men
who can solve mathematical problem' under
the shadow of Mont Blanc, or study Kant and
Hegel in the Valley of Grasmere. Such concen-
tration of purposes may be commendable, but it
is certainly uncommon, and those of us whose
freedom of action is not entirely restrained by the
pressure of business will be ready to allow that
both for work and play wo are greatly de-
pendent upon the season► of the year.
Take the winter evening for example and lot us
ask how we shall spend it. In London and in other
large cities the answer is not difficult. There is
choice enough to suit every taste, and the
Englishman who complains of ennui may
lay it to the account of an unsociable and
surly disposition. Frenchmen and Germans know
better how to enjoy city life in the summer time,
but the home-loving Englishman has by far the
best of it at this season. He is resolved to be
ceinfortuble and generally succeeds in his resolve.

Andessevolly a peaslty -
ilieted sot only apes themselves but epos their
families.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(TUB DAY.)

W IMOSIZMIL

The Daily New observes that the old sad latent-
lihielangusge et ROO& emelitatlmelimn habeas ale*
domed by the petty which. to tide Ms apestaey eaea font
itself, ammo the same of " comelitatiosaL" The pentad
dialect now tuitional, in tory spathes sad asap is
borrowed in about meal proportions has the *mg die-
dowry of American dewclaw sad hose the vembelary
of From imperialism. The pluses of whist lately Se
most has besa heard is " the popular vote." It is used la
disparagement of the oonitalational majority pined by
Yr. Gladstone in the Rouse of Goma= by the
votes of the constibeensiee. Some of the tory
newspapers say that the popular vote has been
gives for the camenatives, who have • 'majority
iis the oonetituseams, though not of the ormslitsseada
The argument involves the Tama and Anosricsa system
of equal electoral districts, readjusted from time to time
to the growth of populatioa. The principle of repressat+
nog varieties of interest and permit sad degrees ef Intel-
ligence Taber than men sambas, dames and not equal
groups of individual', which in 1806 and in the beginning
of 1817 was the emanative principle, now diem:dad.
The Dail, News is quite ante* that it should be so; and
welcomes this latest elswelopmeat of tory radicalim. But
though not disposed Y inane& with the theory, oar an.
temporary dodos the statement epos which it seems to be
bead. ca. that the ameba. vole d liegbad i. wind
Gladelone.

an. Guns:oink LID as VOLLOWiaIi

The Hersid is weackring what will become of Mr.
Gladstone and the liberal party when the right hen.
gentleman's propositioni with respect to the revenues of
the Irish dumb me laid before pertlameat. If ha snowed
in satisfyisg kis nomoomformakt smarten what will his
church followers my to the arrangement? The most
skilful party =wee in the world would find his hands
full in the attempt to keep in Imelda( order an untrust-
worthy 'majority in each a policy as Mr. Gisdsloarf a.
Let him do what he may be cannot fail to give deep and
serious offense to has own fellowera. And no one has ever
pretended that Yr. Gladstone is remarkably skilful in
conducting a difkult and irritating question through the
House of Commons.

IN RAW.

Discussing the differences of opinion which inter-
pose to prevent a settlement of the question as to
the character of the future government of Spain, the
Z om says that, whether the Spaniards are divided among
themselves, or are simply at a loss for any poetical con-
clusion, the great fact remains that Spain is passing
through the transition period not only without injury,
but probably with benefit, and that the ultimate settle-
ment is likely to be all the more stable from the very
aspect of necessity which it will seem to carry. What-
ever comes must come, to all appearance, because it can-
not be helped, and a nation which has demeaned dealt
with such dignity through a stage of suspense may confi-
dently be expected to do itself no lase justice under
the definite institutions which it may ultimately ap-
prove.

The Post thinks that if the members of the Pa:origami
Goecrnment honestly desire to establish a lasting system
of rule for their country, they will he wise to bring the
Constituent Cortes together u soon as parable. The
longer they delay the greater will the dallculties become,
and the lees will be the chance of Spain resuming her
place u a free and powerful state among the nations of
Europ►.

PZITATZ 1161100 L IDUCATION.

bah of the Greenverdiiii 10eneesbnig sad tree-
etadt Habra" and also a bill relative to the con-
dition of the oaks of Tranryivanie sad 'Ussery.
Bernal Noumea= membereproteeted against the
union. Herr Loam. the Minister of Finanos,
made a report on the favourable reunite of the
Hansariaa Railway Loam and stated that the
remainder of these bonds will be realised at par by
some beakers of Penh and Vienna. The Chamber
of Deputies in order to expedite the remaining
labours, will sit both morning and evening.

NEW YORK, Duo. I.

Mr. Oskey Halt democrat. has been sleeted
Mayor of Now York by a large uusjority. The
vote wee light and the election passed off
quietly.
(Per natty of Leedom a 44 Quosnotoors.)
THE

WITH TEE INDIANS.
NNW TORN. Nov. 21.

Poll returns from the late elections show General
Grant's majority in Alabama to have been 000.
The Democrats and Republicans of that state
elected each three members of Oaagrem.
General Sherman, in his report on the progress
of the Indies. war, exculpates the white settlers
_ _ _ _ _

from the blame of having been instnanentel in the
renewal of hostilities. The general reesessends
the transfer henceforth of the management of
Indian fain to the War Moe, urging, at the
same time a rigorous prosecution of the war
against the hostile tribes, whose forcible removal
to reservations distant from the settlement/ and
lines of travel he confiders an unavoidable ne-
cessity.

At Boston. the women's-right oonvaatien is
in fall esation. The aikshanes is large. They
strongly advocate the granting of female suffrage.

TION IN CUBA.
NNW YORK. Nov. 21.

Advice' from Cuba continue to be andlicting.
Some accounts state that the reporta of the insur-
rection are grossly exaggerated. Otbere allege
that the Captain-General Lersoncli suppresses the
publication of unfavourable news.
Five hundred insurgents are reported to have
surrendered, and obtained a pardon from Count
Raimesida. Cespedis is said to have assumed
the leadership of the insurrectionary forces, and
had put a system of conscription in practice, en-
rolling adult male inhabitants for the war service.

THE WAR IN HAYTI.
NEW YORK, Nov. 21.

From Hayti it is now reported that Etalnave was
repulsed in his attack upon Jeremie Town, and
that the damage done by the gunboats has not
been considerable. Balnave, it is said, was sub-
sequently also repulsed at Miragoane. His troops
are reported to be disaffected, and the Cacos
rebels to be gaining ground.
The British frigate Niobe has gone to Jacmel in
order to afford protection to the property of
British residents.

AK His
libreiy is said to be worth 20,00 W., as much as the
Duchess de Sesto's jewel.
• young priest, named Martinand, who, I think,
must be a lomat* has been tried in Paris for a
libel upon the catholic religion. " one of the reli-
gions recognised by the state in Prance." The
very day of his ordination he published a
pamphlet addressed to his bishop, in which he de-
clared himself a materialist end an atheist, andlcle-
scribed the Christian religion as a tissue of super-
stition and fantastio inventions. He would have
been quits free to have expressed these opinions,
in moderate language, as many writers in Prance
do svery day; but the court thought that when
on the morrow of his voluntarily taking holy
orders be sought to create scandal by denouncing
violently and theatrically the tenets to which he
had just worn, and publicly to throw them in the
teeth of his bishop, the offence mentioned in an
artide of the Code not often acted upon, was
sufficiently made out, and the defendant was sen-
tenced to mix months' imprisonment. He appeared
at the bar, but declined to answer any questions
or give any explanation of his conduct.
Baron James do Rothschild has left his widow
the handsome dower of 60,0001. sterling a year.
By a family arrangement the eldest son will have
the country house at Ferrielres, where the Baron
entertained the Emperor, and the youngest the
chateau at Basemen.

that as*
pablialted
the exam-
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that he
inaoh as
did not

ebe Court.

WINDOM °AVM Dec. 1.

The Queen and the Crown Princess of Prussia
went ost yesterday afternoon ; and her Majesty, wenn-
pained by Priam Leopold, drove in the grounds this

To-diy is the birthday d the Prisons of Wales.
The Crown Ptinoses et Peoria, attended by Countess
Hobentbal and Count Parsienstein, went to London.

The Crown Priam of Prussia, attended by Colonel the
Ham ♦. Headings and Captain Von Sch Waits, inspected
the 2nd battalion of Coldstream Guards in the Home
Park this morning. His royal highnees afterwards went
to London. attended by Captain Von Sehleinitz.
The Crown Prince of Prussia, attended by the Gentle-
mee in Waiting, honoured Colonel the Hon. D. de RI"
and the rams of the let regiment of Life Guards, with
his preemies at dinner Mat evening at the Barracks in
Windsor.

The Crown Primes of Pravda (Princess Royal) dined
with Prince and Princess Christian *of Schleswig-Holstein
at Frogmen. _ _ _

The Duke and Duchess d'Aunsale have left the Castle.

Sir George Grey, K.C.8., arrived at the Castle ye,ter-
day, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and
the Royal Family.
The Countess of Gainsborough hes succeeded the Coun-
tess of Caledon as Lady in Waiting to the Queen.
Viscount Torrington, Colonel the lion. A. Liddell, and
Lord Alfred Paget have succeeded Viscount Hawarden,
Lord Frederick Hem and Major-General F. H. Seymour
as Lord, Groom, and Equerry in Waiting.

Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, attended by
Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon, left Frogmore on Monday
on a writ to the Duke and Duchess of Wellington at
Strathfleklsaye.

Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the Governors of the West India Islands and the
Austndian colonies.

flusamonace were issued yesterday for a Cabinet
Council to be held this day (Wednesday), at the official
reaidenee of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-
street, at three o'clock.

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