The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-17 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the stain sidings for cattle traffic, incr
of the present year the National Lifeboat Inalitnilea bee
contributed to the saving of I,or lives from MIMS dipwroges for engines, and shops to be
aaa a vessels from distructios. The teammate are esesease last of all, it was thought th
429.665 in the tame period oa Ms Ufebeelb heastAllinlinens la •
Wilton to granting. 42.644 for rewards. Thst—ciiiiiiiime -al 1214 not be complete without an immenseltoteL It is way
~..bimiiktutk°th.er.,,,,,NuyibsaPP"l,,,,finirusdat x ru.d.for smastaace.ithd, Ise to heel bow the expenditure has grown apm the 0011-
Lifeboat Eatabil.hmenta templation of the directors. Their plans will now
costremstese andhe Aswan, received by tire Leaser sea
country by the Secretary, Illeher'd Lewis, Tea , undergo a sober reviaiun, which can hardly fail to
the Institution, 14, John street, Adelphl, London, i lead to retrenchment. At the same time
P- iit would not be surprising if the main
features of the London Extension were justified
by the Committee. There can be no doubt
t that the time had arrived when the inte-
rests of the Company required that the line
- should be continued to London, and have its own
P independent station here, and, this being admitted,
M it will not be denied that, as a general rule, it
Lc must be good economy to obtain at once the space
tt which is certain to be required. The Committee
5
ir of Consultation are hardly likely to sanction the
St
SI erection of a costly and unnecessary hotel as an
appendage to their station ; but, as men of bug-
FC
nese, they may be trusted to see the importance
t g of making the arrangements for the conduct of
'it the proper business of the line—the conveyance of
passengers and goods—ascomplete and effective as
Igif possible. These and all questions of policy will
•
wa come before the shareholders at their next meeting,
if and for their discussion the report of the Committee
:B. of Consultation will have prepared the way. It
Sc
at will be found, we have little doubt, that if the
rs
,e, policy of the Board for the last three years has
a been marked by much imprudence, the alarm has
01 been sounded in time ; that no serious and irrepa-
„„ rabic injury has been done to this fine property ;
Id and that Midland shares, protected by the pro-
_
T dente of their proprietors, will continue to deserve
s the character they have long maintained as a
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favourite holding of the prudent investor.
LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17.

BREAKFAST.--EPPB'B COCOA.
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TO 001.1.1SPONDISTS.
reolsernente Intended for " The Zones," Loudon Valdes
=mast be et the hem 10, lates10011•14. 14 TWO
au the day of pablkatioe.

HAYMARKET.
EVENIXO, THE BROKEN-OEAETED CLTB.—A WIFE
WELL WON. .liessre. Bothers, Buckstaue, Howe, Kendal.
lage. Brea Weatheraby, tc.. ; and 'the Robertson.—Attar
wbkh AN UTTER PER-TEI[3ION OF THE BRIGAND.

PRINCESS'S.
THIS Conran, THE COLLIE BAW/I. We and Mr& Dion
BoncicaulL—After which THE SIMMS OF LONDON. Mr.
Thing. Memo Murray. Mote, Neville. Forrester, Mellon. &e.
Wages Elsworthy, E. Barnett. Rachel %anger, and Hrs. Addle.

STRAND.
THIS ErZIONO, OLD SALT. Mr. From and Mir Nally Moore.
f ter which THE CALIPH OF BAGDAD. Meson Thorne
alt,,ames : Mesdames Ada yieranboroogh, Johnstone, Harland,
&e.—And OVA D4111k41305.

HOLBORN.
TBI! IMMO, TAR PLYING SCUD. Mom Atkins, 'MOB,
Garden, Arthur, WeAland, and Wthentt Mesdames Henrade,
OoodslL Lennox, mid nsundem—Concinde with VALENTINZ
AND ORSON. Mdlle. Montero, Little Rowella, dm.

BRITANNIA.
Tins Emma, DON QUIXOTE ; OR, SANCHO PANZA AND
HIS WIFE TERKZA. Mrs. Lane, &Muss Edwin& Booth ; Pan.
towdmists Mews. IMMO, Lon* Newham, and Yletorelll ; Male.
C. Stephan and Ulm Rum Nathan.—And WHO DID IT

HIGH WATER AT LONDON ELIDE&
SW DAI —Wants& M. 3015..--itternom 7b. Ws.
CO-Ho—Moralag, Ob. 2:Sra— --Idisruoon, Oh. 4.m

THE powers given to the Government under
Mr. HiRDY'S measure of last year have been just
exercised at the Poplar Union. The five guardians
appointed by the Poor-law Board to act with those
elected by the ratepayers of Poplar, Bromley, and
Bow seem, moreover, to have been selected on
principles which are well calculated to make these
nominations useful. Those gentlemen are among
the largest ratepayers in their several parishes,
are familiarly acquainted with the wants of the
district, and have already taken a leading part in
the alleviation of its distress. They are Mr. H.
GREEN, senior, the eminent shipbuilder, who was
chairman of this very board of guardians three
years ago, but who became parochially unpopular
and lost his seat because he advocated the build-
ing a new workhouse, in place of the wretchedly
inadequate one still in use ; Mr. E. IL CuaRIE,
Mr. C. WIORVi, Mr. Ravaimim., and Mr. Bout-
vawr—names exercising a legitimate influence at
Poplar ; and it is understood that the appointment
of sub-relief committees and the erection of a
suitable workhouse will be the first reforms
attempted by the Government nominees.
It is to the credit of the elected guardians that
they avow themselves prepared to cooperate cor-
cl;ally with their nominated colleagues, and there
is good reason for hoping that the new system will'
work harmoniously and well. The largest em-
ployers of labour and the largest contributors to
the rates were the people contemplated by the new
Poor-law as amongst its fittest administrators.
From a variety of causes this class has in the me-
tropolis become virtually excluded from participa-
tlon in parochial affairs, and such appointments as
we are recording will really make the guardian
boards more thoroughly representative than
they have hitherto been. An intimate
knowledge of the habits of the people,
well-founded reputation for philanthropy, and a
stake in the parish and an interest in parochial
expenditure, which are beyond all question, are
no mean qualifications for guardianship. Should
the precedent afforded by the Public Works Act
and the Lancashire distress be followed, the
officials and the public may count on sound co-
operation and advice from men appointed under
these conditions, and the Poor-law Board is to be
congratulated on its selection. It may be remem-
bered, however, that the gentleman who acted
as Special Commissioner for the Crown in Lan-
cashire was Metropolitan Poor-law Inspector until
a few months ago, and that his experience is still
at the service of the department.

Tax proceedings at the meeting of the Midland
Railway Company on Wednesday were of a nature
to give satisfaction to the shareholders. Miscon-
ceptions were cleared up and fears dispelled, and
if the Chairman's speech, maintaining, as it did,
the too magnificent policy which so startled the
proprietors a month ago, only proved how neces-
sary it had become for the proprietors to take
their affairs seriously in hand, it must also be ad-
mitted that it was a straightforward, clear, busi-
ness-like statement. True, there was a com-
placent impenitence in his language, which ,
abundantly justified the appointment of a Com-
mittee of Consultation ; but it appeared that,
apart from the great question of policy, there
was not so very much to be repented of. It ni
not true, Mr. Herein NSON states, that the directors
have irrevocably committed the Company to a
contract for the construction of the Carlisle and
Settle line, and no proceedings of that nature will
be taken pending the action of the Committee.
Neither do the Directors appear to have brought
the Company under obligation to other parties for
the large sunk, they have expended in the purchase
of rolling stock. The chief business of the meet-
ing, however, was to receive explanations con-
cerning the enormous demand for new capital
made in the Board Circular of December 14—a
demand the bare announcement of which, before a
single remark had been made upon it in the news-
papers, lowered the price of the ordinary stock of
the Company 0 per cent. The meeting showed
that while it appreciated the Chairman's speech as
history and statement, it was not prepared to
accept it as a justification of the policy of the
Board. On the contrary, it declared by express
resolution that "it is essential to revise the
" engagements of the Company for lines and
" works, and the contemplated outlay, with a
" view to the relinquishment or postponement for
" a time of all that can be relinquished or post-
" pond without serious detriment to the interests
"of the Company." The very influential Com-
mittee of Consultation appointed on Wednes-
day will make its report to the ordinary half-
yearly meeting of the Company to be held next
month, and the proprietors will then have the
whole question before them.
It appeared from the Chairman's statement
that the requirements of their policy will
by no means be mot by the addition of
6,000,000/. to capital, announced in the circular
of December 14, and to be authorised by the
Bill that has been deposited. The works to
which the Company stands committed by that
policy demand an addition not of five, but
of eight millions to capital, of which it is pro-
posed to raise 2,000,0001. in the present year,
1,000,0001. in 1869, 1,000,0001. in 1870, THE " TIIIES" ON THE IRISH QUESTION.
and to spread the remainder over as long a period Now that exceptional measures for the mainte-
as Parliament will allow. It is the opinion of nines of public safety can no longer be suggested with any
some of the largest independent shareholders chancoefoefiatc:l;atennale, the Times
measuresof hopes
ladfa w
heareshall
is tion to bring unino-
of the Company, who wore represented on Wed- mara
versal contentment down from the skies. While one set
nestlay by Mr. E. BAINas, Mr. J. Glarrewrr, and
public men has been eager to vindicate the law at any
Mr. HENRY &meter, that half the expenditure pro- cost, another has been apparently overcome by a desire to
of
posed by the directors might be abandoned with I purchase tranquillity at any cost. One great authority has
nothing but advantage to the proprietary. Among told us that we must learn to govern Ireland according
the schemes of the directors are lines which could to Irish ideas ratherthia than
evaccordingous Into ja s t'n
gr.;
only have been projected under the influence of maaenwti,ld but
as even
th mmemndations to hold a periodical
that spirit of aggression from which few great cons- ses.on of parliament in Dublin, and to choose the highest
genies are exempt, but which invariably has the Irish officials exclusively from persons born in Ireland,
effect of blinding proprietors to their true interest. which have come from other quarters. Then puerilities
the consequence of the present disposition of serve to exhibit the estimate their authors form of the
shareholders is that such lines as the Irish character, but they are unsupported by the cape-
Carlisle and Settle will now be re-considered \ Tien** of history. The lords-lieutenant end chief seem-
by the Midland Company with a more simple and
tr:estestwho, as a matter of fact, have given the
in Ireland have been Englishmen,
strict regard for business considerations than has' and the Times does not understand how anyone surrey-
hitherto been paid. Again, the expenditure on 1 ing the put can look upon a home parliament
the London Extension will bear much revision. i -or Ireland as a panacea for its disorder,. It
The Chairman's explanation of the growth of tholie almost cruel to refer to the monstrous proposition that
estimates for these works was very instructive. It ell the Mnanbs"""will In 1"1"4 should be converted into
may or may not be remembered that in February, pftraletZtoin fee' eabieet theirpresent the payment Apart of fee-femtha qr."'
rentals. from
1863, the Chairman assured the proprietors that '!'fl
non of justice, and the shock to all our ideas of legality
the Bedford and London Extension would be involved in each a suggestion, It is manifest that it weld
completed within the estimated coat of 1,750,0001., I never eradicate the discontent it is designed to remove.
the required station land being said to be already There is discontent in Ireland, but we must discriminate
in the Company's possession. By July of last year ' between politic and impolitic requisitions. Luckily, the
more than twice that amount, or 3,556,0001., had I matter, to be
to xe examined ere feu. end there is au boned
been expended on the section. A month ago thel deeue
1 In anoteher . 'el le
las fair'
esly. treats of the return just
shareholders were informed that to complete i issued by the Registrar-General of Ireland. It appears
the works an additional capital of 2,150,0001. I from it that the population of Ireland, which had gran-
would be required. Even this large demand would ally increased from five millions and a quarter at the be-
not have caused much anxiety but for the ' ginning of the century to eight millions and • quarter in
directors' moat unfortunate statement that " the ' 1845, has Mum gradually declined to rather more then
" cost of carrying the works of a railway into ' few millions and a half. But if population has ebbed to
" London is such as to defy all previous calculr 1
I the level of 1806 there is an important difference in
" tion." This was to o a yawning abyss f" nr of the present day. Half a century ago the po
pen tato
sea the only food, there was hardly any emigration to
under the eyes and feet of the shareholders. ; America, and not much to this island. There were not
Interpreted by the speech of the Chairman of the ! then the thriving manufactures, the immense flax oultiva-
Company, these terrible words mean little more Bon, the busy shipbuilding yards, or the great network of
than that no bounds can be set to the possibilities railways that we see to-day. The Times is content to say,
of expenditure which a sanguine and imaginative '4: 16"kdon. httliatll'ilatureii mad then look ondthat—f that—the e case of
Board, captivated by the "grand style,"
can "ev: rn" for the
"et! leaves"beholders to draw
discover when they fancy that they have nn- thy, own ferences,
limited resources at their back. At first the line .
waa intended for two rails ; now land has beenl ERRE TRADE IN LAND.
bought and bridges have been constructed for four. 1 Free trade being understood to include freedom on the
Then for seven miles out of London, over which four seller's side, as well sa thedu buyer's
parage ; the laws of
ree trails h reeked,
lines of rail will at once be laid, steel rails are to the anDadilf Nets". theaft"
theel;rohibition to sell support
n it
be substituted for iron. Then the area of the par ie the fast that the majority of th„„„,,,,,„ of mute, ma.
senger station has been doubled, five acres having not legally sell thee, there le Dot free trade. Among the
been bought instead of two and a half. Next it was coneequences of this 'rent systems arr-that great estates
determined to build the vaatstation, which willstand may he added to but never dielbliebed : that creditors can
fifteen feet above the Euston-road, upon arches onlyd touch the life interest of the debtor; that no
instead of upon an embankment. Then came magi °ref% portions 4
of ltoandmareeet aeesladddeafra' easatseau:74. that
p for constructing a canal basin for coal, and e,,,,,,,quently th„wober of small properties which

ereatealage meat" and forbid; the rlii at a yeoman
dame ; and domestically. it fosters thii habit. K .113111111011.
part, sad seehettins the relations of the family. The
eragelerwy &Asko of land nobody here proven bat.
ilia mated dealing with land, allowing every owner at
awn isement to dispose of it or of any part of it as lip
think, it, woad bee gradual and wholly wale change, all
the tendency of which would be to good.

Several of the Paris journals refer to the
tions of a more friendly feeling which in supposed
to have sprung up between the governments of
France, Austria, and Protein; and on this founda-
tion they erect hopes of a continuation of peace, as
they do not anticipate that Russia would go to war
with the entire west of Europe. There are signs,
however, of a different state of things.
It is noted as significant that Prussia is sending
needle guns and offices of instruction to Russia.
The Preen gives currency to a statement which, if
true, must be regarded as of considerable import-
ance. It says that ht. de Bawd has sent a circular
to foreign governments notifying to them the reso-
lution of the Emperor Francis Joseph to reduce
the military establishment of Austria, but in-
forming them at the same time "that Prussia
was effecting considerable and threatening
increase in her armament." It will be
recollected that for several months before the
campaign in Bohemia the Austrian and Prussian
governments through their respective organs con-
tained reiterated complaints of this kind—each m-
ewing the other of making military preparations,
whilst protesting its own innocence and desire for
pesos. The following statement, copied from the
Gazette Naradowa of Lemberg, does not seem to
harmonise with the reported reduction of the Aus-
trian military force :
Austria is considerably augmenting the army is Galicia ;
her stens are fell of pronnoes sad militery prapsratiocui
on a vast soak are being premed on. It is stated that by
next spring there will be a ooncentration of troop, around
Cracow. The hussars of Count Halley's corps have re-
mind notice to have their stores ready and to be prepared
for a campaign. The gunmen of Cracow hes received a
new park of artillery a few days bask, and there lea report
that 20,000 wary and train horses have been purchased
in Hungary for the Emperor of the French. The horses
have been forwarded to Trieste and thence to Marseilles.

SRI BISHOPRIC OF NATAL.
The Tina thinks It is to be regretted that any Englielt
clergyman should have yielded to the solicitations of
the Bishop of Cape Town in the above matter, and
cannot but anticipate additional complications in •
confusion already sufficiently lamentable. There WIN
I to be one little difficulty still remaining, which it has
been proposed to overcome in • characteristic manner.
It requires no lees than three bishops to contrasts • new
one ; and it is feared that if Mr. Manorie went out to
Natal uneonseasted. there might be a difficulty in ern-
, secreting him. At the same time some troublesome
restrictions of English law may prevent his being muse-
crated in England. But on the Tome between England
and South Africa lies the island of St. Helena, where there
exists another bishop, under Dr. Gray's metropolitan juris-
diction. The bishops, it is thought, might touch at the
island, there convert Mr. Macrons into • bishop, and then
carry him on, with full episcopal powers, to the wens of
his future warfare. Like the Confederate privateers, he
will leave our shores in • harmless character, but in
ocean, when partially beyond our jurisdiction, he will hoist
the flag of • belligerent eplaoopecy.
The Telegraphasks if it has never occurred to the Bishop
of Capetown that he is cresting • more serious scandal in
the church than any which could possibly be attributed
to the Bishop of Natal ? The lest twelve years of his
public life have been occupied by Dr. Gray in litigation
and agitation. If any layman were to spend so long a
period in the active prosecution of quarrels, prudent
people would distrust and avoid him as • contentious
fellow ; and even • bishop who is always fighting runs the
risk of being mistaken for • brawler or • bully.

WIST-urn
The Post wants to see theatres at Bayswater, Belgravia,
and Kensington. In its estimation all the present theatres
are frightfully out of the way. Marie Wilton's charming
company performs near Tottenham-court-read, with noisy,
slippery, crowded Oxford-street on the one side and the
City riot upon the other, between it and the inhabited
parte of the town. Pleasant Mies Oliver allures us to
Soho ; but who else could do it The Stand, another
favourite theatre, is beyond the limits of civilisation,
though some of the merriest burlesque in London have been
played there. Even the Haymarket and St. James's are no
longer so very cam:stable as they were twenty years ago.
The true want is • theatre to which people in the neigh-
bourhood might go without fuss or bother, ladies slipping
hoods over their beads and walking to it in • few minuted' ;
whereas now the cruelty of making them go to the
theatre is quite barbarous. If people who have only one
carriage take it out at night in bad weather they must go
on foot next day, not to mention the annoyance of horses
lamed and panels unshed by omnibus poles, as well u
servants exhausted and made sulky by nightwork.

Um Vint.

OSBORNE, JAY. 16.

PESTH, Jar. 16.
Count Andrassy is said to have been appointed
to act as royal commissioner with the Hungarian
delegations.
The conclusion of the Hungarian Railway Loan
has been postponed for a short time.

The Queen and Princess Louise drove out yes-
terday afternoon, attended by the Dachas of Roxburgh..
Prince Arthur accompanied her Majesty upon horseback,
and Colonel Ponsonby rode in attendance.
The Queen went out in the grounds this morning acooni-
rallied by Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold.
Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice also went out.
The Bishop of Lichfield and the Dean of Westminster
left Osborne yesterday.
The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northoote and Sir Thomas
and Lady Biddulph bad the honour of dining with the
Queen and the Royal family yesterday.
Sir Stafford Northoote left this morning.
Mr. Theodore Martin, who recently met with an acci-
dent upon the ice, is progressing favourably.
Mrs. Martin has been invited to Osborne.

(utrres's mczcaufs.)
HUNGARY.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
of oe from the Governor-General of Canad► Despatches
were sent to the Governors of the Wed India Islands,
British Columbia, British Honduras, and to the Governor-
General of Canada.

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