The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-19 00:00:00

MR. GL4DSTONEB GOVERNMENT.

Speaking at Truro on Wednesday evening, the
Hon. Captain Vivian, the newly-appointed War Lord
of the Tramiry, thus glanced at the personnel of
the new government, and the duties with which
lie bad been entrusted. Mr. Gladstone has gathered
round him a cabinet which, I say, must comm mud the
confidence of liberal England. He has assembled around
him men like Robert Lowe, unsurpassed in debate, as in
earnestness of purpose like Mr. Cardwell, who has ac-
cepted the position of Minister of War; be has gathered to.
him Mr. Childers, certainly one of the most rising states-
men of the day ; and he has called to his councils John
Bright. These are the men who now represent the
liberals of England on the front bench of the House of
Commons. And in the other house, where strength is
wanted, we have men as earnest and as powerfuL We have
the Duke of Argyll, with his matchless eloquence; Lord
Clarendon, who commands the whole sympathies of
Europe with regard to our foreign policy, and who justly
deserves it by his high powersandirreproachable character;
we have Lord Granville, whose tact is so well known
and has been so often tried ; and we have Lord Kimberley,
whose administration in Ireland has shown us that he is
among the most rising statesmen of the day. (Cheers.)
The bet evidence Mr. Gladstone has given us of his
purpose to do what he thinks right in everything has been
his determination to gather around him -men who
shall work, and no idlers. You know that in
the constitution of government there have been hitherto
certain °Seers who have been officer by name, but to
whom have been attached no duties whatever. Among
these hitherto there were two who have been known as
Lords of the Treasury, whose duties of late year,
although they were important when the oleos was origi-
nally instituted, have sunk into a easefrailsinecure,
and Lave been confined to signing certain Parser+,
voting always with the ministry, and receiving • very
large salary. (Laughter.) Well, Mr. Gladstone, who
won't have any drones in his hive, isdetermined to abolish
these sinecure officers, and in their place to establish two
of great importance, with very important departmental
data One of these allows is to be at the Treasury, and
is to have financial control over the civil service estimates
and general tunes. Thatoffice is to be filled by no less •
person then Mr. Stansfeld, whose sum is ftmilhir to you
all, and whose political career even at the preesat
moment has been by no means insignifiesnt To the
other of these important offices Mr. Gladstone has
sMl4lto her Majesty to recommend me.
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The duties of that office are to super.
vise the whole finance of the army. I am to
watch the estimates, to watch the accounts, and to
diminish both one and the other if I powbl can. (Chews.)
In short with moffice and my at the War-office I
am to be called War Lord of the Treasury ; and lam to
exercise • general control over the financial admistration
of military afiairs, subject of course to my chief, who is
the Secretary of State for War. Well now, gentlemen,
the duties of that office were so important that I can-
didly confess I hesitated some time before I accepted it.
I knew perfectly well that to deal with an establishment
which, to say the least of it, is at the pre.-ent moment
by no means well organised, and to break down a
system which has grown up in years of red tapeism—
and I must tell you there is nothing so difficult to cut
through as red tape—to break down, I won't my the
bigotry, but the confirmed opinions of • large body
of men who have grown up In them, and who
are so wedded to them that it is impossible to con-
vince them they are wrthg—is • teak which of itself is no
light matter. And when in addition to that I know I am
to be more or less responsible for the administration of so
large • sum as fifteen millions • year, it is no wonder that
for tome time I hesitated to accept it. But I will at once
tell you that as Rome was not befit in a da ,I shall hope
feria my countrymen reene little • la the task
which I have undertaken, knowing that if Mr. Cardwell
is very earnest in the natter he will find in me one who is
'quay earnest. I believe that in time we without
reducing at all the efileissicy odour military
very much reduce the heavy burdens which at the
moment press upon the taxpayers. (Memo)

arrsTAL PALLCL—At this Ammon's soused
(the last at the frig swiss), dellivasee Ends ia the T.e,.
st,apalitibert's "flaw el Miriam," emil all overtures to
and Mieraor will I_,
_podium& Kiss
Nies Amylase, end Signor Fegenethe vocalists ;
Bea the raise ; and the clams will be swag
by lbs Asir. The Cheat Rosy Pak, ist•
tending am the mire length of Doti naves. wOl be erne&
to day, wad the Cleidnria bee and the holiday dielerAiene
will be easepistsd. The palace will be lighted up till seven

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A annosuseensinst that the Rev. Yr. Lynn
war his selltemened primal title of Father
dam a Lieber. es the
sa Jed of “I:Mi and the IseP:relliCllZl
Party," aftested a author than amorous andissise
Abbe
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kat mobil Al Iht Rissi&ltall. The adinte•
ales we say hint, apprises ringing had Is. 61. for the
BAs
reranted semis to Ampules for :pea body of
etliiill.l. As might be sepested, Sire wasbitt •
ranee of debar sea ; *weevil:es w
billiwilla ow sitmenstation of the 'YAW ein•
amt. Whetlineleasted by sympathy with thelsetraeseis -
views, a depeAlien le didend toefeburch_peledplesTermirt
his anticiyatelat%
rut slain =whitely be- Ille
the consedinser public faind to pat s landiiiiT
rev. was almost alone on the
r=resimiipmpseloi by Ana or fire genial. two
edam. Then were ems slight indications of implikeen
at a pesibealty sleet deb, hi Ginning th• Cre=
but whoa Mr. Lyme amde.lits appearance at a •
after de has appointed, Banned le a long black nionkbit
Liveswith cowl and —girdle, noes and rosary, he was
Awed by** majority present. He eossiesesed -
by—iiTjthe... g the asAluses to join his in singing the likk
Hymn of the fit Alban's Hymn-book, and in -
leafing the hymn he prored that he possesses
a torte of some musical pretensions; and having
offered up a prayer for church unity, he gave as
the test for kir _ . " The they all any be ona''
He observed that the title of his discoursemiOt occasion -
soma sot=
, elneßi Theolsjost• ,WA
' tifbfr A/'
thettlikehtidilbbras the same. There was no attack in... '
no no pp/let* at ilrettdcaenfikietdPlidb:isitt' . 9
Indeed, all snepersoce w i take!
carried out by the low church party. ( ih uo," _
sane yentleseen in lins amine at the'room.). - Ha& any at. i
the high church party created mobs and riots in the -a-
streets ? But, ai he had - said, the - itnistiodty- .-
of . boll was the same ; ' the .. only ~dideneen
being that the party to which he belonged had carried out • /
to a higher development the principles whielithe low
chuich party, in common with high church' mthVbaill 4, .
most precious. High church, low church, dissentaa, and
Roman catholic; all held the same general princlOsii--
they all acknowledged Christ as the means of salvation, ,
but there were 900 millions of people on the earth who
did not acknowledge the gospel; and knowing that,
should they continue to quarrel between themselves about •
unimFortant details, or put their shoulden to the wheel—
Christians of all denominations and all churches.—
and endeavour to gather re( r lin to Christ's banner. t
Let them forget the points upon which they differed, and
try to discover the point upon which they all agreed, and
these were all the great fundumentAl punts of the - '
Christian faith. He then proceeded to show that the low
church patty acknowledged all the mein principles of t
Christianity, as he did himself. He could not understand
why the low church party had tried to break his bead in -
Lombard-street (which, by the way, they Would not do
..
again, as be had been turned out of the church there).
except that he wore a strangely cut coat, and was •
with being a monk, though those who ac- •
cured him knew not what was meant by the term
—what he believed they meant by it he was
as much opposed to as they were. Then it
was said he was opposed to marriage. He never
opposed marriage, but had helped people to many in
very many can. As to the points of difference, why
low church worshiped the Virgin as much as he did ; he did
not, nor did the Romanist; worship Mary as God, but be
and they honoured bei as the mother of Christ, and as
the vessel who bmnebt our salvation into the world. He
did not pray to the Virgin became be did not know
whether she could hear him ; but the Roman catholic'
did so believe, and prayed to her accordingly ; but that
was nothing more than we did every day in teaching our
children to pray for dear father and mother. The adore-
lion of the host, which was only an extension of the
doctrine of the Atonement—that wasJestui Christ, the one
sacrifice—was also common to both, the high church
people believing that in the sacrament they an the very
body and blood of Christ, and those of the low church
believing that it was taken only in a figurative sense.
Attempting to show, by reference to the Cheek
text, that the high church doctrine was the
correct one, he was interrupted by a gentleman in the
room, and a brief discussion myriad on with gre•t. good
temper, the best of the argument being, in the opinion of
the majority—judging by their cheers—with Yr. Lyne.
The interposition of saints and other similar matters of
difference were dealt with in much the same way, and
the lecturer concluded by again urging unity, there being
no differseee as to the great points—the Master, the
divinity of Christ, and the inspiration of the Scriptures—
and intimating that be would resume his discourse on the
Friday after Christmas. Mr. 3f Varthay, a low church
clergyman, who said he differed widely from the general
views of the lecturer, gave him credit for hie large charity
and courtesy, and repudiated on the part of the low
church party the rowdyism to which Yr. Lyne had been
subjected in Lombard-street.

IRRIGATION Tr INDlA.—Yesterday, a deputation
from the East India Association waited on her Majesty's
Secretary of State for India, the Duke of Argyll, K.T.
on the subject of irngation. The deputation was
intro-
duced by Lord Lyveden, the president of the association,
and consisted, in addition, of Colonel Sykes, M.P., the
Hon. H. G. Liddell, M.P., Mr. Eastwick, M.P., General
Sir George Pollock, G.C.8., General Sir Arthur Cotton,
1C.C.8., Major Evans Bell, Mr. W. S. Fitzwilliam, Mr. M. Tait, Mr. P. Tayler, Captain Nott, Mr. P. Gordon,
Dr. Dutt, Mr. 8. P. Low, and Captain H. Barber (secre-
tary). After some introductory observations by Lord
Lyveden, urging upon the government the importance of
irrigation in India, Mr. P. Tayler read the me-
mons' which had been presented to the Earl
of Mayo, and the subsequent memorial to the
Duke of Argyll, and having spoken in support thereof,
the prayer of the memorial to his grace was also sup-
ported by Mr. Fitzwilliam, Sir Arthur Cotton, Colonel
Sykes, M.P., Mr. Liddell, M.P., Mr. Gordon, and Dr.
Dint. The Duke of Argyll stated that he did not under-
stand the deputation to wish to extract from him any
expression of opionion upon the detaiL of the measure,
but that he could assure them that it was for
any one to have a stronger feeling upon the advantage of
the object than himself. As he had only been in office
for a week he was sere that the deputation would not
wish him to enter into the difficulties of the sub-
ject, but he agreed in the general pried**
which had been laid down by the late Lard
Dalhousie, that it was hopeless to expect that works
of this nature should be defrayed out of the current revs.
noes of the empire. On the other band, the principle
had been laid down, which be thought was a sound ciem,
that as far as possible the revenues of India should be
made to assist the ordinary public works of the country en
long as those works did not increase the public debt of
Intim. Under them circumstances he thought that
schemes of this nature might be met by • loan, in so far
as they could be made of a remunerative character. Lord
Lyveden, on behalf of the deputation, expressed their
satisfaction with the courtesy with which his grace had
received them, and with his desire to promote the inte-
rests of India, and stated that they were quite satisfied
with the expression of opinion which he had given.
ST. THOMAS'S DAY. —But few changes have
taken place in the list of candidates during the last few
days. Of course it is not too late for intending competi-
tors to present themselves, and it is rumoured that some
may spring up in one or two wards at present uncontested,
at the last moment. It appears likely, however, that no
changes will have to be recorded in either of the follow-
ing wards, viz. :—Alderegate, Candlewick, Castle Boy-
DOI d, Cordwainer, Langbourn, Portsoken, Queenhithe, and
Tower. In the following wants the present members seek
re-election, with the exceptions named : —ln Beasisbaw,
Mr. Thomas Beard and Mr. W. H. Osborne have
issued addresses. Billingsgate, Mr. J. Roberts retires,
and Mr. J. Bell has come forward. Bread-street, Mr. F.
Kent end Mr. C. Fletcher are candidates for the seats
vacated by Messrs. F. Maynard and A. J. Cole. Li=
Ward, Kr. T. Johnson keret, and Messrs. W.
J. T. Mose, and N. L. Jackson present themselves for the
vacancy. In Broad-street • vacancy has been created by
the retirement of Mr. W. Cox, and Mr. J. Edasseein is
a candidate. In Cheap, the seat vomited by Mr. Gibbins
is sought by Mr. K. Davies, Mr. J. Wheeler, and Mr. W.
W. Wilson. In CertEd', Mr. Hooppppae retires, and Mr.
T. Day and Mr. J. Pearce are aaedidstesfur hie mat.
Coleman-street has an additional candidate in the perso
of Mr. J. Ogden. In Cripplegate, Mr. B. 8. Stillwell
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