The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-13 00:00:00

rotation which the Times y.
Paznute's good words in this now
Government is ready to meet the'

formers more than half way, ty
principle of a camprdocap-reer miss
schools are wanting or inelloient, and
aid of the local rate propoilionate
Uwe/sure wouldiriniiiiiMiineffioner....
of all parties in the Hones except that ancient
Tory party, if any such there .be still
extant, which regards as an anarchical heresy the
doctrine that the general education of the people
is one of the 'primary obligations of the na-
tional government. The bill which will be
introduced by Mr. Buttes and Mr. Foams
next week, will anticipate rather than con-
flict with the measure of the Government,
if the only serious difference between the two
should be as to the priority of national or of local
obligation, and the quantity or quality of the aid
and guidance contributed by the State to kook
efforts. There can scarcely be a controversy between'
the central and the local principle of government,
since the express object of Reformers is to invoke the
aid and supervision of the central government in
behalf of insufficient local authority. From the
common basis of the Government Bill, and that
of the Manchester Society, some considerable
movement in advance will be secured if the
Government is in earnest, and the House is
as anxious as the Government to have some results
to show far the session. But there ar
other educational questions to come before
Parliament, and to test the principles of Mr.
Disasazi's administration. For example, the Uni-
versity Tests Bill. flow will Mr. HARDT, who
deliberately prefers sectarian to mixed schools,
agree upon what is somewhat invidiously called
the " secularization" of the Universities—by
"secularization " is meant the admission of
others than members of the Established Church
to the benefits of institutions which
were founded by and for Roman catholic,—
with Mr. Dm:Amu, who was not generally deemed
to be denominational in his instincts until the
Bishop of OXFORD adopted him upon a platform.
is Lord CRANRORNZ the unofficial organ of the
Government on the University question?

LAST 1-mars DEBATE.—MESSRS. HOBS-

MAN, LOWE, AND MILL.

THE hon. member for Stroud is just the
speaker to attract a pre-prandial audience. A
speech from him, at what may be called the
" day performance," has the effect of " bitters " on
jaded appetites—it stimulates and gives zest.
The " dyspeptic politicians "—the expression
is perfectly parliamentary--are not only sar-
castic themselves but the cause of sarcasm in
others. Formerly a member of a government and
of a party, long exile from office has given Mr.
HOUMA!! an independence of position from which
he has levelled his biting invectives as frequently
and more effectually against his quondam col-
leagues than against his conservative opponenta.
Hence he is regarded as one of the free-lances of
debate, and hence also in great part the
desire to hear him address the house. Last even-
ing, however, he afforded his listeners no piquant
personalities or partisan pleasantries of any kind,
and so far his speech was a disappointment to
those who came for the amusement of hearing a
man abuse his friends. Whether he thought the
occasion too solemn and too serious for mere party
or personal warfare he gave little scope last night to

his peculiar vein of sarcasm—and it is a rich one.
He dwelt chiefly on the government proposal for
the endowment of a Roman Catholic University,
and pointed with something like contempt to
the fact that the successor to Lord DISHY'S
policy proposed as one of the remedial
measures for Ireland the destruction—for

such would be the result—of the very best
measure which Lord DERBY had passed for Ireland
—the establishment of the national school system!
Nothing could be clearer than his demonstration
of the success of that system, and of the absurdity
of proposing its overthrow as a measure of conci-
liation. Judging frost a smile on Lord )14.yo's
face, the good humoured Irish Secretary admitted
the truth of Mr. Hossmam's allegation that
he was to be commiserated on being
made the official exponent of such a miserable
policy as the government proposed for Ireland.
The noble lord, said Mr. Holmium, looked into
his despatch-box and did not find his policy there;
ho fumbled with his papers and did not find it
there ; he looked into the face of the Palms
Mitusrme, it was not there. The eyes and
laughter of the whole house were directed towards
Mr. DISRAELI, but the Memphisn Sphynx was
WE more impassive than the Pants MENVITIR.
You might have expected to read upon him the
inscription, " A priest of Amenophis, supposedto be
" 4,500 years old." As London's " distant din"
only " soothed the sleep " of the Twickenham
philosopher, who refused to write "more Essays
" on Man," all the Argus eyes of the House of
Commons only found the Papa Mumma, more
impenetrable than before. He looked the perfec-
tion of LOYOLA'S training—periskie ac cadatvr.
Mr. HORSMAN also remarked with happy effect
that at the very time Lord Mayo was proving to
the House, by three hours' statistics, the prospe-
rity of Ireland, and that there was nothing to do,
the Constitution was suspended. Mr. Iloassux
was not strong in voice on this occasion ; be
was frequently obliged to pause and to re-
fresh himself with a mouthful of water.
The burly member for Brighton, who equalised
the supply of liquid to Mr. Hoseiurs's demand,
incontinently suggested the performance of a
similar function at a oelebeated sitting of the
OLYMPIANS, by the most awkward of the gods, to
the intense amusement of the assembly. Mr.
Comics interposed a brief Speech between Mr.
Holmium and Mr. Lows, the effect of which was
to clear the House of by far the largest portion of
its members.
The

—..uncement that Mr. Lows was " up "
caused the House to fill again. The right hon.
gentleman, without any preface, plunged into the
thickest of the battle. Mr. Lows may have been
the author of the phrase " Tipperary tactics." On
the floor of the House of Commons, he certainly
practices them. He does not, like a leader, mar-
shal an array, but he fights like a soldier from the
ranks. The larger portion of his speech last night
consisted of an attack on the land scheme of
" his hon. friend " Mr. Mud. ; and it must con-
fessed he showed no mercy. With his audience
it was easy to obtain sympathetic cheers when he
rinsed the finely-worn texture of the greet political
economist into a ravelled rag, and hung it out as an
object to frighten the ravens of revolution from
the pastures of property. All the cheering which
this part of his speech evoked came from the Con-
servative side of the homes, and the measure of its
effect cannot be better described than by saying
that it produced the dawn of a smile on Mr. Dm-
a assa's countenance. It area sisehnswies when he

denounced the exielenee of tke Metal)listed
Chunk in Ireland. During
,Al%is part of his
oration the Ministerial benches wen mute, Odle

LOWS.% VifiliOlS Meld= (for reeed replyit Ina
not) on hiepaimpldet, was expected to risewhan Mr. .
Lows had concluded, hut Mr.Huonse, Mr.Vattcs,
Mr. Jsoos Nunn (who delivered an excellent
and well-received maiden speech) and Mr. Awn-
/Luse interposed. When Mr. Min at length was
called on by the flea•naa his rising was accom-
panied by a sympathetic cheer from several ad-
miring members below the gangway. All the
prejudices which favoured Mr. Lows were op-
posed to Mr. MILL. He had to work his way up lull
against an unwilling, if not a hostile audience, and
he had to do this without any of the weapons of
the experienced sad adroit orator who knews how
to play on the feelings of his audience. Mr. Mtn
has but one art—the art of reasoning. His
thoughts are nothing if they are not
clear, and how clear they are can only be
truly known through the pure and pellucid lan-
pugs of his works. A philosopher in the House
of Commons is an anomaly. The precision of Mr.
Mrsx's mind would be a fetter on his oratory, even
if nature endowed him more abundantly with the
physical qualities which go a good way to
maks the popular speaker. Al compared with
his antagonist, Mr. Low; it may be said of
him what the greet AZNAULD said of a ashy
competitor in his day, "He has the advan-
" tags of me in the drawing-room but
"he makes way for me on the stair-
" case." Mr. Lows rolls over opposing
obstacles and the rush of his narrow
stream is beard at a great distance. Mr. MILL
glides so noiselessly by, that you are scarcely
aware of the wealth of waters till you
actually overlook them. By the simple
observation that Mr. Lows's conception of
' political economy was that of a bundle of stiff,
unyielding rules and maxims applicable to all
times and circumstances, he demolished nine-
' tenths of the criticism of the member for
Caine. He did not, like Mr. Lows, discard
Fenianism as unworthyof oonsideration, for though
• it may not be dangerous as a rebellion it
was extremely dangerous as a symptom. The
Irish in the colonies were not discontented. Why f
Because in the colonies Irishmen had every ad-
. vantage that was denied them at home. They
had the land, they had no sectarian church,
i they bad even a separate legislature. Thus
even under the English crown and under the
• English flag, Irishmen could be tranquil and loyal.
The analogy was obvious, and the argument was
• complete. Mr. MILL explained and defended the
plan proposed in his pamphlet, and concluded
a long speech at 11 o'clock. The Home
SIBCRITART closed the debate in II speech of the true
' official pattern, fluent, plausible, and cautious. He
would not at present commit himself to any propo-
sition for dealing with the Irish Church.

Mr. Csicarayssiyoaysscua, the third Iriah Secre-
tary in the house,resnmea the debate this evening.

COURT MOURNING.

ONE of the minor "inconveniences" of a regal
position is suggested by the death of the ex-King
of BAVARIA. Europe had almost forgotten this
retired potentate, or if it remembered him at all,
it was only in connexion with a notorious dancing
woman, who fooled him to the top of his bent
before the whole world. Nevertheless, just as we
are emerging from the long seclusion of a sacred
grief in England we must needs, as custom drives,
go into mourning for this nineteenth cousin. Here
we see one of the inconveniences referred to. The
crowned heads of Europe are nearly all related to
each other. They have sons and daughters, and
uncles and aunts, and nephews and nieces, and
cousins first, second, and third, cousins German
and cousins Dutch, cousins Prussian and cousins
Russian, by the father's side and the mother's,
and every aide. In a family so numerous and so
widely ramified deaths are constantly occurring.
An actuary could calculate to a nicety how
many ought to die every year. Only give
him the number of the family, their
ages, habits, and state of health, and he
will tell us to a week, when we (courtiers) will be
required to bring out our black kid gloves and our
mourning swords. We were informed the other
day that the Queen, out of regard for the interests
of trade, would limit the period of mourning for
the deceased ex-King of Bavaara. Many of us
heard for the first time that the ex-King was our
relative. Some of us thought possibly that we
might dispense with mourning altogether. None
of ua, or very few of us, are insensible to the pro-
priety of the custom which prescribes the wearing
of some outward sign of our grief when a relative
or dear friend dies ; but as a rule we do not
allow the decease of a very distant relative, for
whom we have no regard whatever, to interfere
with the social duties which we owe to the living ;
still less should the obligation be imposed upon
personages who give life and activity to society at
large. We are not of those that think that
sovereigns are only useful to set the fashions and
promote the trade of the mercers' and milliners'
shops, but we do think that the custom of going
into formal mourning for every remote relation
and connection would be more honoured in the
breach than the observance.

The Lord-Lieu tenant and his family purpose
leaving tows at the close of next week for Beta ncourt,
his exoellesey's Rest in the steak of behind. Props/Wow
will the. be vigorously made is Dahlia Castle for the re-
ception of the Prime of Wale*, who is expected to arrive
on Tuesday, the 14th, or Wedsmday, the 13th of April.
The Marquis of Donegal him a:premed hie
approval of the roles draws up for the guidsace of the
" Irish team" of twenty, which is to compete in the ride
control at Wimbledon. The noble marquis meatlons that
he intends to present the champion of the twenty with a
badge, as " Champion of Inland."

The death, in New York, under most melancholy
cimumstaness, is anneamed et the brother of Father
Lavelle, the widely-known parish prism of Partry. The
deceased, who wee esedeater et the Seventh-avenue
street railway, was stabbed in the heart by • maw whom
he had expelled from am of the eardiews far miseceduct.

It is announced that a map' rity- of tha
slashes' court in New York who en trying the lien.
Trig, of the Episcopal Church, far violating its meow by
coadnoting manna in a methodist church, have found him
guilty. The punishment for the dram, as it is lir.
Tyng's first one, is an admonition gum by the bishop pub-
licly in a church of the diocese, and in the pressitoe of at
least time other clergymen.

Yesterday Justice 01Logan was engaged in the
County Court at Cork trying Padang for (Amin; fire-
arms and attacking dwelling-houses. Barre Deasy aharpd
the city grand jury, and =peeled regret at the amount
of crime (independent of political offences), there being
wren mate of IMMO' lesehides.

AOCIDIMIT TO 2111 HON. K G. LID_DILL, IL P.
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be essekned and ease effest with refiners to all
ether pups= (save as abireseld) for which the ISMS may
hi thereby even, in the stem maw as Nee worth ex-
tending issek powers to all oe say of the purposes aforesaid
were ocatelned In wee let ; and when, sad say auk
Ash, any crimson or mixed fend, derived partly from any
rampukory rates to be hereafter levied aid portly from
ether sources, shall be directed to"b 11.
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some of which chant lawfully be fee by •7" Z
of s compulsory raft under this the perk ri rash fend
not derived from snob rates shall alone be applied, and
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lathmestiseed
Clause tit) to Wosewis.Clause 8 :
No rampart& or thalseketieel diskiet formed or is be
hereafter formed out of any other parkh, than be dossed
to be part of enth kthmentioned fetish, for the purpose
of enabling any armpits of land within the same to vote,
in respect of wish land, at any mirky as a parishioner of
the parish oat of which such sew perish or ecelestastiesl
district stall have been formed apse any quirk& ruler
tins to the making or the affiliation of any voluntary
rate, or to the election et a treasurer under this arl.

al Mon only,

Clause (Cl to follow Clause (B) :
Any owner of land within any pariah or district who
shall agree with the occupier thereof for the time being to
pity, on behalf of each occupier, all such voluntary rates
(if any) as may be made in reaper of such land under this
set, during any time to be fixed by such agreement, shall
be entitled to attend and to rote, in parson or by proxy,
instead sad in the place of such at any vestry to
be held for the occupier, of this sot, but nut for any other
purpose ; and l trustees, when in the t and
receipt of the rents and profits of any lan sad all
guardians, husbands, or committees (as the use may be),
if owners wider dieshility, shall be deemed to be owners
for the purposes of this act, and shall be oaths:rimed
to enter into snob agreements, and to vote in mamma.
aforesaid ; and any we et several joint owners may, with
the consent of the others of them, ezereive such right of
voting on his and their joint behalf.
Page 2, Clause 4, line 19, leave out " owners or."
Line 20, after " parish," insert " or district."

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