The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-29 00:00:00

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in the grounds- this morning, accompanied y Princess
Louise.
Primula Christian also walked out, attended by lady
Susan Melville.
Prima Arthur end Prinoe Christi= wont oat shooting,
attended by Lord Alfred Paget and Lieutenant Picard.
Lieutenant-Colonel lionerieff had the honour of 'Doom-
panying their royal highnesses.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present
were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marl-
borough, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon.
Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of
Buckingham and Chandos, Sir John Pakington,
Sir S. Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of
Richmond, Lord John Manners, the Earl of Mayo,
and the Right Hon. Spencer H Walpole.

His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, Lord President of
the Council, gave a grand dinner lost evening at his resi-
dence, St. James's-square, at which the list of sheriffs for
the current year was settled in the usual manner. The
guests present included the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
Richmond, the Duke of Buckingham and Chanties, the
Earl of Bradford, the Earl of Malmesktry, the Earl of
Mayo, Lord Stanley, Lord John Manners, the Right Hon.
Gothorne Hardy, Sir John Pakington, Sir Stafford North-
cote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H.
T. L. Corry, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Mr. Arthur
Helps, and Mr. Edmund Harrison.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Prince Edward Wand.

Her Majesty has, it is said, sent to Dr. Jenncr
box filled with copies of her " Journal in the Highlands,"
to be distributed by him among the several hospitals, so
that the library of each of these institutions may possess
• COPY.
THE HEALTH OF THE PREMlER.—Although the
Earl of Derby was prevented from attending the Cabinet
Council yesterday, the improvement in his lordship's health
continues, and there is every expectation that be will take
his seat on the opening of parliament.
The Duke of Marlborough, Lord President of
the Council, gave a grand dinner let evening at his resi-
dence, St. James's-square, at which the list of sheriffs for
the current year was settled in the usual manner. The
guests present included the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
Richmond, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, the
Earl of Bradford, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl of
Mayo, Lord Stanley, Lord John Manners, the Right Hon.
Gathorne Hardy, Sir John Pakington, Sir Stafford North-
cote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon.
Spencer Walpole, Mr. Arthur Helps, and Mr. Edmund
Harrison. The Earl of Derby was prevented attending by
indisposition. The Duke of Beaufort and the Earl of
Tankerville were prevented by other engagements.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland leave
town today for a tour in Italy.
The Marquis of Lansdowne has during the past
week entertained a select party at Bowood Park, Wilts.
A letter from Rome of the 22nd says :—" Rome
is not filling yet, although numbers of families are ex-
pected from Nice and Florence. Among the most recent
British arrivals are to be mentioned those of Colonel and
Mrs. Fremsntle, Hon. Robert and Mrs. Liddell and
family, Hon. C. Waldegrave, Lady Radstock, Countess of
Clan, Lady Louisa Dillon, and Dr. Seymour. Lord and
Isdy Bloomfield, and Lord and Lady Clarendon and
family, are also at Rome."
Count Apponyi, the Austrian ambassador at the
court of St. James, is expected this week in Paris, on his
return from Italy, and will arrive in London in a few days
in order to resume his diplomatic functions, which, during
his absence, have been conducted by Count Kalnoky, first
secretary of Legation.
The King of the Belgians, who spent his youth
in travelling in all parts of the world, has just been nomi-
nated a member of the Geographical Society of Paris.
The Post is informed that " the letters of some
of the English statesmen who arc at present staying in
Italy express a certain want of faith in the political pru-
dence of the Italian people. This is said to go so far even
that the position of the cabinet is undergoing a change
with reference to the Roman-Italian question which pro-
bably may open new prospects of success to the French
project of a conference."
A further statement has been furnished by Mr.
Grinsted in relation to the railway capital of the United
Kingdom in 1866. It appears that on the total paid-up
capital of 481,872,1 q/., the net return was fractionally
over 4 per cent. ; but this return is of course ruinous to
the ordinary shareholder overweighted by 5 and 6 per cent.
preferences. There is also reason to assume that even
the amount of 4 per cent, he been in no slight degree
I made up by improper charges to capital. On the other
hand, allowance must be made far the fact that a portion
1 of the capital paid up represented new or unfinished lines
not brought into fall development.
We used to import about 3,000,0001 b. of tea,
but that figure has of late Manned to upwards of
8,000,0001 b., and bids fair to reach a much higher one.
The correspondent of the Irish Times at Queens-
town states, in a letter to that journal, that the feeling in
regard to the recent execution at Manchester seems to be
lessening little in intensity. At each of the masses cele-
brated in the Roman catholic churches on Sunday col-
lections were made by three women belonging to Queens-
town in aid of the families of the three Irishmen executed
at Manchester. The women carried green baize bags, and
solicited the donations as the people were entering and
leaving the church, and it is estimated that upwards of
GO/. was collected.
The Rev. Mr. Kell has written to the South-
ampton papers to put the public on grind against pur-
chasing spurious antiquities. The latter are represented
to be pilgrims' badges, or signaculre, used by pilgrims
between the 12th and 13th centuries when visiting different
shrines, and are in the form of a short dagger, signet ring,
brooch, spur, amphora, or relic box, to be suspended on a
garment. They are manufactured wholesale in Bir-
mingham.
THE TORY PARTY ANT) LIBERAL MEASURES.—
Nothing of liberal legislation can be or has been effected
foe the oountry but by strength on the liberal side of the
House of Commons. The tories conceded catholic eman-
cipation ; but was catholic emancipation due to the con-
cession of the Duke of Wellington, or to the demaad of
Mr. O'Connell? The tories, with so mach of the cream
skimmed off from their milk—with a secession of fifty
and odd of the staunchest members of their party—car-
ried the first great measure of free trade ; but to whom
do we owe the repeal of the corn laws—to Sir Robert
Peel, or to Mr. Cobden and the league? The tortes have
produced for us household suffrage—with another s
ming, of but little cream, with their fifty and odd staunch
men reduced to three ; but from whence has that boon
truly come to us ; from the enthusiasm in the cause of
Mr. Disraeli, or from the convictions of such men as Mr.
Locke King, Mr. Baines, Mr. Bright, Lord Russell, and
Mr. Gladstone! It is necessary that every liberal who
desires to understand the history of the government of his
country, and to know how things are done, bow public
opinion prevails, how legislatiou proceeds ever in the
same course, doing something, though it be but little, fo
the improvement of the condition of the people—it is
n , we say, that every one interested in the poli-
tics of the day, should ask for himself and should answer
for himself these questions. If this be done, those boasts
which the conservative leaden are prone to make will be
understood and appreciated, and taken at their worth.
We were told lately at Edinburgh, by Mr. Disraeli, that
almost all legislation in the cause of liberalism bad for
years long past come from him or from hie flock. He did
not tell us then bow bitter had been his own opposition
to that great conservative leader of the House from whose
wise concession to public opinion the first step of free
trade in breed was made at the moment when it was
most absolutely needed—an opposition in which then was
a nese to which our political contain, bitter as they
often see, kave for many years pant seen nothing equal.
Though he did not tell us this, he took to himself, and to
the party whom he has educated, the credit for all three
good things which have come to us since we first reformed
oar House of Comm including those meanies of OM
Robert Peel's which produced from him such torrents of
sarcasm. This boast was well answered the other day by
Mr. Gladstone at Ormskirk; but it cannot be too ilftra
pointed ont that whether liberal measures ere passed
under a onsesnaties or under a liberal leader of the
Reuss of Commons, such meaning will sever be pawed, or
seen beard of, but by the operation of that liberal party
in the House, which is the mouthpiece of the public
hk
a icualT on
.of the oonntry.—St. Pawl's Magaziss fee

Debuts, and this is all that prudt
us to say. We are bound by all laws, even those
which seem to us to be useless or to be regretted,
as long as they are not abrogated or have not
become obsolete. The judgments pronounced
on the ton journals on the 25th January
show that this is not the case with regard
to the laws respecting the reports of the
proceedings in the legislative chambers. An
hon. senator (whose name Heaven forbid that
we should give) yesterday expressed hie regret that
the Senate had not a wider rGle. This is a matter
on which we should be very glad to write. We
have examined the subject for ourselves, and we
hold decided, and, as we believe, sound opinions
upon it. Nothing, therefore, would have been
more agreeable to us than to take the opportunity
of what passed yesterday in the Upper Chamber
to declare what we think of the composition and
its scope of such an assembly under a monarchial
government. But unfortunately here also the way is
barred to us, and we should escape the rock of the
reports' only to drive upon the seuatua-cousulte
which prohibits the journals from discussing the
constitution."

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The Courrier Francais observes :
There was a 'Ming yesterday of the Senate and Corp*
Legivlasil. It would be difficult for us to speak of either
without " setting forth the speeches that were spoken,
the order in which they were made, and the objects which
they treated of," or without letting the public know
" what impression they produced on the assembly." Ar, I
according to the jurisprudence of the Sixth Chamber, we
' can do nothing of the kind without subjecting ourselves to
a fine of 40/. at least, the most ordinary prudence
counsels us to keep ourselves in reserve for more serious
occasions.
The Courrier then refers to a pamphlet, addressed
by Madame Olympe Audouard to M. Haussmann
on the project of running a boulevard through the
cemetery of Montmartre. The following passages
are quoted :
I swear, M. le Prefet de Is Seine, that whilst I am alive
the tomb of my son shall not be violated. Your demolisben
will have to pass over my body before they lay their
• sacriligious hands on the grave where my beloved child
1 reposes. It is of you. Bt. le Prefet, that I complain, for
I one must have lost all moral sense to conceive the project

of such a boulevard.
Referring to the reception of the remains of the
Emperor Napoleon in the reign of Louis Philippe,
she quotes from M. Guizot's memoirs as follows :
klAt intervals, amidst small groups of persons mixed up
sity,the National Guar Dand the people, political cries
were heard, such as "'Down withi.Gnizot ;" " Down with
the Ministry" "Down 'with. the Engliiii;7"r—Dowirt
ll
tbel detached forts." These eriestwere disregarded, and
no one thought it worth while to suppress t
auey
broke forth spontaneously,
and were lost in without
any attempt at suppression, and without infecting any
one.
Madame Audouard adds :
What en admirable example of wisdom, moderation, end
respect for liberty ! How far off from the times of Louis
Philippe, which many persons refer to as a period of deca-
dence in France!! How many persons have innocent cries
led to prison under the Second Empire ! Under the much-
decried dynasty of Orleans who would have es er dreamed
to make it a crime, deserving of arrest and imprisonment,
that persons went in silence and'inbious meditation to lay
iminorfelloi on the tomb of General Cavaignac? I am afraid
M. Haussmann will make it said of the Second Empire
what would be only applioablo to himself—wishing to
found everything it has left ',behind it only ruin and

destruction.
The LiberlC concludes a long article by M. E.
de Girardin in reply to the Conditutionud, which
called the republic of 1848 " a passing piece of
licentiousness," as follows :
But since the Constitettionnd pushes its scruples
so far as to regard the arrest of a writer for eleven
days, and the suppression of newel journals, un-
pardonable sets, let me ask what it thinks
of the arrest, without form of law, of the representatives
of the people ; of the arrest of former presidents of the
Council, of former ministers, of illustrations of the army,
illustrations of the bar—who were thrown into prison ;
and of the suppression of fthe journals which took place
three years later also without form of law ! I hate re-
criminations but I still more halo impudent injustice. If
the Constitotionml be wise it will henceforth refrain from
' awaking history which is asleep.

, but has not yet
J ohnson.
Senate has reported
'ender Act.
has not concurred

instead of suspending
Mr. Macenlloch's authority to contract the cur-
rency. The bill goes back to the Senate.
Judge Wood's Court at Selma, Alabama, has
been suppressed by military authority on account
lof the refusal of the judge to recognise negro
iti
General Meade has removed the comptroller of
Georgia, and has appointed a military successor.
The Georgia Convention has adopted an ordi-
nance prohibiting imprisonment for debt, and has
passed a resolution of thanks to General Meade.
The Maryland Legislature has elected William
T. Hamilton, democrat, to succeed Reverdy John-
son as United States Senator.

Advice' from St. Domingo state that the Baez
revolutionists have captured Puerto Plata.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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