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

KR. DICKENS'S UIZBICLN VISIT.

What is said by Mr. Dickens as to the desire of our
American cousins to get on peaceably with us receives
immense corroboration, says the Times, from every other
recent visitor. The Americans assure them they will get
on well with us if we will get on well with them,
and there seems no reason to doubt it. It is not
doubted, except by those who put themselves in a
position to doubt everything, by seeing and knowing
as little as they can about the Americans. Strange indeed
is it to hear confident and disagreeable criticisms on the
American character and national spirit by persons who
have never crossed the Atlantic, and have made up their
minds never to do so on any account. Nothing is esaier
or pleasanter in these days, except to certain physical con-
stitutions, than a trip to the States. It would cute a
thousand prejudices and give warmth and movement to
many a sluggish mind. Indeed, nobody has a right to say
a word against our kinsmen there till he has seen them
and allowed them to speak for themselves. It is now •
necessary part of a political education, even if it suggest •
few warning which we, as certainly they also, msy find in
the mutual comparison.
The l'elegnspA his some remarks in a similar Knee.
As a nation we are on the mostfriendly terms with France,
and it will not be our fault if no do not long remain so ;
yet Frenchmen can never be to us what Americans are
by virtue of their race. The one simple circumstance
that in talking to en American, alone amongst
foreigners, we can use our own tongue and
quote oar own books constitutes • bond of fellowship
which no attack cordiale as ever create. Our quarrels,
while they last, may be for the moment more bitter, just
as family fends are the most violent. But when the
pension has passed over, the kinship remains, and common
thoughts, common memories, common ties of blood bind
us together more powerfully than any oonsiderations of
interest or of policy.

IMPENDING " MABSACZE OF THE

The proceedings of the House of Commove last night,
and still more the extraordinary state of relations
between the Howe of Commons and the administration

which they roved, must (says the Daily News) be held to
decide peremptorily the fate of a number of measures
which have hitherto been retained among the agenda of the
session. We shall hear no more of the Government Educatien
Bill, the Bankruptcy Bill, the Irish Laud Tenure Bill, nor
probably of the Bribery Bill. What may become of the
ministry in consequence of the unprecedented position
they have taken up, the prerogatives they have as-
serted, sad the opposition which they have made a duty,
no oui Gan predict. Bus diequalified aa they are for eon.
ducting the business of the Donee, without even the
power to prescribe subjects for its consideration, they can.
not hope to bring any legislative measure to a satisfactory
issue, and must for the rest of the session confine them-
selves to those bille which are absolutely =emery in order
to an ulterior appeal to the toontry.

ONMAL PALACII. ONI BIiIILLING DAY.—
MONDAY, ISAY S.—Admissions by season tickets, 2,241 ;
ditto cm payment, 1,451; total Ashen, 3,692,

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