The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-30 00:00:00

LONDON. THURSDAY, DECI3MBER 30.

We have now bad several of these five-minute-
meetings of the Hesse of Commone—meetings in
which the SFr-mut has scarcely well taken the chair
before the House is again adjourned. This time the
postponement is till triday, hy which time surely
the minor details of the new Ministry may be so far
settled as to permit the members who still remain in
town to be off in earnest for the short Christmas va-
cation. These lingerings in St. Stephen's, of course,
arise from some little hitches about what new writs
are to be moved for—it may be also, what
new seats can be arranged for. Yeeterday's list of
members sent to their constituents gives a few more
names of men whose formal adhesion to the new
Administration tends to strengthen it in the good
opinion of the Liberals. Mr. ittturen goes at list
to the faithful electors at Wolverhampton with
stamp of office on his name. His services in the
cause of Free Trade long ago entitled him to such re-
ward—and to much higher reward—than be now
receives. It would have been much more agreeable to
see him presiding over the Board of Trade than
working in the harness of Judge Advocate. After
a semce of eighteen yearn in the House of Commons
be should hate had • position in 0M11107.i011 with the
commerce of the country he has helped to set free;
but since that was not within reach, it was right he
should not refuse to enter when the ministerial door
was opened to a post connected with his own prob
in e-
sion, and which his influence may strengthen
Liberal•views. Mr. Vu_unia's acceptance of place
looks like a ntee that the Earl of ABLILDERN is
ready to take a just view of the present circum-
stances at the country, and is willing to admit the
necessity of a totally different spirit in administering
its affairs to that which former :y existed. Mr. VIL-
LIERS of course goes into office without abandoning
his old opinions; and so far as he has power to
to maintain in place the principles he supported out
of the people may surely rely upon him.
It is known that Lord Joan Muss= only
holds the seals of the Foreign-edits until the hard
work of the session 03MISMOSS, when they will be
seemed by Lord CLARENDON. To lead the Cow
moos sad to perform the administrative dads MOD
Foreige-odloe would be more than the Whig Wee
could safely undertake in the withal limn ening
and the advent of Mr. Valais% briar to Nth*
service will be a further guarantee ollilmodity in the
Ministry. The presence in the Oablost of Sir WIL-
LIAM MOLESWORTII—pIedged to thm Ballet, to
Triennial Parliaments, and to Ilsoombeil Sodkag•—
mast be reseeded tie smother brgatal
can
foe Set mow_ Right Ileasuablo Ilmseast ean
arm prowl se he OmiMas to ttipmmt Is to ignore
la Drindagstrost the pdadgles wihit base glean
Mai distinsdno. }embalms, isi4 Sok, power. Mr.
Ossoasta pomace at the miloslty IS likewise
good, sad be mad Sir taxis say tessibie
do the greatest poodlis wink Me wir Osalssulig
the navy, sad giving en sot saly ea asked lost kr
foreign merviee but a Chumnol Soot available awe
home which shall put is Sight all needless alarm, by
seetnin the best of al potable giarantess floe
security. Designed
mesa? new
beware, and
et loot
foe the early ekes et their We may
that as ass Irmserwooo Pnyttws
be seat to de is eM ago work whisk ally Lemj
and vigorous roma see It he. We nay bop
testi= to assmasmame midden fro moa-
ning oar midp he weir% mid he irsegioLgtool
ships and psi emus. whoa we have ems%
ot paying thecae, sad westeadly dimatittstio
other. Kr. DEMI= spoke
vast advantages aid saving, torriallide.lll4
aietrative reform. Nowhere is thee ahro /NM ter
such reform than in the establidsomate new oh
to the control of that t over Ad&
Serf JAMES GRAHAM now severed by WE.
OSBORNE. Of course then mm • and at
000/9* half the old redeems le the 'who mod all
the old gentlemen at Ms shag dubs la ha widens
departments will ag ant di imolai but Ws
Isms Oa samats kart erbaseybo be Me Imam& et
the public sorties ghe is the knowledge that beau
and streagthen the lege hat is see take the Map
asedtal kr winning_ gabilaselgyiiking good ,1
public genies in Ibe hr. Domarai
mould talk at adatioihodhe Illassw.
Omuta is quite qui to belese—to
wry thus
est—ifeggssaikyaMme. As bah resat
ad maid moll/rl emprimMks forea amaloriesi
la Se Heave—ikellit Im mo u= will
coves dmelitettlisess rgeetthe agertmatilailibidniaMw-
a Sold he sometime it the Lead
mamba the ig
e Middlemen am de sitissel
eurviee. It looks very Mho pealed to as the
mon ot Mr. Batumi, whoa ibe Osamu t
the MEWS, did *air but le psi of hismet
toe Nashatoe._ sow fa ague of adults wises he
Nosy be eee7 Neineelewed akeddniallonskjekbety
to future. Whale tatizsgimeet Me. Oesaaato
feel the airmstisa of Sir
son woomir-weega eggia rho rilisatios
that Raid Is hit wbma • anow.....a_._..._sessres a
goodgssto-4milastheisgest _
aad plemes • iiiiimModisaid be tat
House at imos. Ns may tbs bank
hut is a leas toreglifiewiaL

If timeliest's= sompaled by the last bateketeakase
Waisted.' aginhonsail be to a great asbast sods-
twisty , that sighlheike b last altelitlor todeolid
by Omit True ; we have kr dialog Om two awa
ht thy West who is pledged' to raft :dome—

one man who has voted for Mr. Emu's motion—
but he is only one. We have two other
Ministers relied on by the people. Lord Jon x RUBEELL
has ever shown decided Liberal tendencies, and Lord
ABERDEEN now formally promises • Cabinet mea-1
sore to purify our electoral systole. Yet this'
makes bat three, and it becomes prolifically the
duty* of Liberals, therefore, whilst esseeding time
for preparation to strengthen the hands of them
who promise the proposed measures, on con-
dition that the measures themselves are to be
realities. Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH can give his
views on Reform when the topic oomee under
discussion ; and Lord JOHN RUSSELL may bring his
experience of the struggles of 1830-3 l and the
legislation of 1632 to inform the deliberations,
to fashion the coons of those who are to
take part in the electoral purifications of
18.13. But however stanch the opinions and clear
the views of those in power may be, they will be
none the lees stanch or less clear for a little help
out of doors. Parliamentary Reform and the correc-
tion of the abominations disclosed on the Derby
committee, is essentially a people's question, and the
people must not permit any Cabinet to settle it how
they please without popular consultation. In the',
homes made happy by the activity of trade, the
abundance of employment, and the cheapness
of food, the active population of this realm
should—not hotly, or hastily, or with any other
feeling than that of thoughtful earnestness—should,
we soy, take this question of electoral purification
into their own careful consideration. They should
remember the infamies of the bribers and the inti-

midators, and the electoral abominations of the
BLHESFORDS and the Fa►tis, and determine that
there shall be an end of them all. No time like a
time of prosperity for the change—no time like a
time when there is leisure for the needful inquiry
and discussion, and for the manifestation in due sea-
son of &steadfast resolve to have that alone which can
do the good work well—ones for all. A good
Reform Bill will being in its train innumerable
other advantages. It ia the one great lever by
which subsequent work can be done. On every
canvue—at every hustings, then, let the more liberal
portion of the Cabinet be strengthened by a demand
that all candidates shall endorse the pledge of the
ABEEDEEY•RLsiELL Ministry—to fire us a good
measure of Electoral Reform.

As if in mockery of man's vein attempts to set
apart a day for happiness or pleasure, a storm broke
out on Christmas which hem strewed the masts
of our islands with corpses. We have no right to
say that this destructive tempest has taken us b
surprise. Daly as winter comes round the Britis'i
ohms experience the same appalling visitation. It
may come on to blow • few weeks earlier or a few
weeks later, but every revolving year witnesses the
havoc it makes • and yet year after Tear is offered to
we away without any strenuous, intelligent effort
being made to improve our arrangements for affording
succour to the manners driven upon our shores. We are
accustomed to speak with a proud and pitying compla-
cency of the improvidence of savages, of their want
of foresight. The culpable and disgraceful inertness
of Englishmen, in not seeking to organise a proper
life-boat service all along their °oasts, is in so • hly
civilised a race more pitiably weak than the.neg neglect
of some barbarous tribe to store up food against the
recurrence of seasons of scarcity.
During the last few years we have again and
again called attention to the scanty supply of life
boats on the British shores; to the wide and irregular
intervals which exist between these stations ; to the
insufficient mode in which the stations are supplied
with rockets and other apparatus for assistirg the
crews of stranded vessels; to the neglect of training
the mikes and boatmen living along shore to co-
operate effectively, and with the lout possible bawd
to themselves, in extending assistance to the victims
of the storm.

`lt is to oar
Government, oar merchants, and the
rest of the politically powerful class that this apathy
is alone ascribable. The gallant inhabitants of the
west are ever ready to to the assistance of their
brother seamen. Too ready, we may my; for
without habits of discipline, and without
boats, they are constantly venturing out, Cu;
certain only to hazard their own lives, in " forlorn
hopes" to reach stranded vowels. Of the casualties
aid kw of human life by wind and wave which
every winter brings with it, no inoonsiderable pro-
portion consists of the men drowned in fruitless at-
tempts to rescue the crews of wrecked vessels. The
brave and humane men who, in the beat of
• revenue cutter, attempted to carry aid in the late
storm to the. He vine off Lyme Rego all perished
but one. This is but a repetition of the fatality
which a year or two ago spread gloom and mourn-
ing through Worthing. Nor is there a village,
hamlet, or town on our shores which has not its
—more or lees remote—of similar deplorable acci-
dents, in which the helpers have themselves incurred
the doom of the shipwrecked.
There have been talking and scheming =with on
the matter. A large some in the Crystal Palace
was occupied with lits-boati• A kw years
ago a pease was awed by the Dyke of Nostrums-
BERLAND to the Meier ef the hist Whoa; and
the meet of the eassesittee egpsisted to
weed Ilia prise esiitsined Invaholle emotions
he •ridig litth mg of Illipluweven all
=Ly
bee shares, with NO, applies of stens sad
to give diet Is their heeds snorts.
Bach theme arrest the shades of the L
eeds
he a
few days miter the Most esseelty there is an
earnest haastd hue of talk sad preparation. And
then some newer novelty seines upon the public
immerimafisn,
sad as is dens. We have an Ada
t=iiiya,tiZ we sadty Hamm on Tower-hill
and at Newoutl a Board of Northers Light-
in Scotland, and a Ballast Board in Dublin : but
each and all of them go through the formal
antis§ of their °MOO with *gear gravity and
deetwasi, and equal barrenness of all good
make. Even the Duke Of NOILTUVILBEILMID

appears to have forgotten in olio the seal for per-
m life-boat system and isrvioe which ioapind
him wla. is a private statioo. At least, in the
estemladmee selekgw of boons to the shipping in-
tend rammed by Mr. Disuse.; this was coutted.
The Dek wile at the Admiralty, has been eu busy
proviikm pines for hie pitied retainers, that he
soommie isve hei lick time eft terwerhe of humanity
sad new.
Wide est Mew well to whose( ear new Ministers
we mold isommel the pale to by digs with their
etanceme importunity ea tide sun. The Heed of
the Aim/no* te an admhable weeniest sad ems-
easter @hefts esgenftime,liet bewail bemeapt
to meet tie met et s geed Mina myelezplihrzedwurp
an adequate provis for reeedag
markers. Mr. BIDNZT Hamm Jaime a deep
interest in emigration, and awe' the imilimme by
the late seem are not a kw enigma *lips bet tie
sate, dose not appertain to Mr. ilmaamrts depart-
sot. Yet it is @sly keit Goversomet that we can
look fir the erigkeftes of a eatiakedy estesaive
sad dielgiketi seeks et life-premmems kr the mos
of ear ewe lierreireee. he. mime we that
samortated pirate eelmemehe es tem legal led partial
in its reach, too imisesilleet is its seal NM aitivity
meets that ,
to be relied ups. It is 'pen the kh
pormakeent ts of oar
we menetler the emits ;
but it is the duty of Cieslimmemi to tale
ears tiestaittzire insiusied k the beet
modes et mem to the iiipwroked.
awl applied with assimmeryiestramets. With
the mei wile& mimeo war boatmen tai merle=
at the meek, kale ekes Aim Ibis will le am mey,
and need met be a nib imelimeideg. The 4oe-
liiimmat of Wiest delleme at meekest@ and avail-
able ktervalr-the monlyiqm et tkie with boats et
the kit muM sod adequate apples et MAIM'S
amiable, woe, &c., with a atereemmiter for every
Are er Si mistimes, to ass that intik, was mew
set fiat the dens was always supplied
in rod condition, le aimed all that weld
be required. If to the *Mee al the ear
mauler only such MVO agepaioted as
_possemeed
a fair knowledge d imamemihip in addition to
the other requite qualiimaikes, to enable them to
brigade and teak vehmieme in the we at
the lib-boats and ether apparatus, Government
would have amply dome he part. The reel might
safely be left to the intimmity, enterprise, and
courage of mime popoladoe
These eeesilmaticee an quite am *meant, Int
indeed mememelly inVtary to tie lewd= of
liehte eel beaseme and boom as re-
viled le men merinos imp skit time brew
bat ear key to I. kalir-iikr, to the gallant area

who serve their emmtry—pursuing the industrious
avocations of ”ft or braving the dangers of
war—is not limited to the charge of pander oat
dangers to as arnidsd. When inevitable istaßties
haws drives dims op. these dangers, we owe this.
seastanes lb osteitooo thiamine. This is the oh-
}e n&
fr sl if seelk rip se= system for the presernaties
eau the of the sea.
There are ersey whom purely selfish esesidera-
does murht to stimulate to promote the opelsetios
of sash a system. All mariners, their Meads aid
relations—all shipowners, merchants, and sods-
writers—would dud their direct and Immo-
diet. account in its establishment. The be-
reavement of widows and orphans would be
rendered lees frequent; the loss of valuable property
would be much diminished. lint in this age there
exists a universal, though too often intermittent and
passive philanthropy, that enlists the 'peptides of
a wider public in such good works. And the i
nation, as well es the heart of England, is so w
to its sea service, as to be most easily roused to benevo-
lent action where it is conceracd. To each and slid
these motives to action an earnest appeal ought new
to bo made, to rally all who are accessible to this.,
I to besiege Government with petitions to provide s
good system of life-boats with their mews end
auxiliary apparatus.