The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-09 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS,

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LONDON, THURSD.II; SEPT. 9.

AGAIN we have bad new. from the Cape. The

eastern frontier continues, according to these last
&deices, to be the theatre of a destructive, desultory,
predatory warfare, of which the duration and the
cost alike defy conjecture. The Kaffir chief, \A-
costa, was still able to send from his forces in the
Amatola mountains ard the Watcrkloof, active par-
ties of his men to attack the herds of the colonists
and sweep off cattle, even within sight of Graham's
Town. The Kaffir, are the agi,ressors. This South
African war in no resembles any war that could
in our day possibly mix. in Europe. It scarcely even
admits of being purallekd with those in which our
Indian dominions from time to time ineolve as. It
more resembles the marauding border wan which
for centuries wasted and kept M • rude and barbarous
state the line where the Ilighlauds and Lowlands of
Scotland meet.
To the south of " The Highland line "as it was
called, was a Saxon and civilised population, locuse
tinned for centuries to submit to rational laws, and
pursue avocations of settled industry. To the north
of it were numerous tribes, almost independent;
knowing only their hereditary customs; mere herds-
men, hunters, and warriors. The discipline of the
Saxon had broken and subdued the frontier tribes.
But their country was broken, uncrossed by roads,
easily defensible; while the adjoining Lowlands were
easily accessible from it. The vacancies occasioned
by the expulsion of its original occupants were filled
up by bands of "broken men" from all parts
of the Highlands, who from this defensible
country sallied forth incessantly to plunder their
Lowland neighbours. With their local edema-
tages these bands were able at times to protract
their defetee against the organised discipline of the
Lowlander,; and ever as one nest of them was ex-
tirpated, a new swarm from the interior took its
Sue-
In like manner, we find in South Africa, to the
west of the Keiskamma, an industrious, civilised
population. On the east of that river we are already'
among the aboriginal tribes of Africa—herdsmen
and warriors living in clans. The country these
rude tribes occupy is extremely strong, and the fron-
tier of the colony is almost everywhere easily passed.
The consequence has been that fur long years the
frontier colonists have been incessantly subjected to I
depredations of their cattle. Various modes of pro-
tection have been resorted to, and on several ocoa-
sions attempts have been made to expel the intract-
able tribes from their strongholds.
The state of affairs has been complicated by the'
contests of two parties among the European settlers.
One, embracing a great majority of the settlers, have
held that war, plunder, and aggression, could only
be put down by force. The other, numbering but
few colonists in its ranks, but strong in its influence
in flowning•street, recruited mainly by missionaries
and the local officers of government, have maintained
the Roesseee theory of the virtue and wisdom of '
savages, represented the colonists in all instanoes as
the aggressors, and shielded the predatory Kaffirs.
The Home Government, with the imbecility which
has characterised all its colonial measures, has lis-
tened sometimes to the one party and sometimes to
the other; but has on no occasion, for any length of
time, acted energetically and perseveringly on the
principles of either. The consequence is that it has
incurred tho distrust and illwifl both of Kaffirs and
colonists, and only succeeded in preventing either
from decidedly beating the other. The policy of
Downing-street it is that has so entangled and em-
bittered affairs on the eastern frontier of the Cape
Colnoy, that it seems namely pomible to restore
peace.
It is but just to the melodramatic and recalled
governor who gave the immediate provocation to
the present Kaffir war, and to his successor, that
martinet and man of routine, to say that Downing-
street misgovernment—persisted in for a long track
of yearw—has so embittered Kaffir against Euro-
pean, Hottentot against Fiago, and colonist (at least
the frontier colonist) against all three, that a gover-
nor of the highest genius would be required to lay
the foundations of anything like a lasting peace
among them.
Even such a one would find the task impossible as
long as the colonists are kept uneasy and irritable
by the practical denial of self-government. This it
is that renders the colonists apathetic, and prevents
the burgher levies from mustering in force. The
colonist,—the European element of South African
society,—is with all his faults the most civilised, the
Post intelligentand is inspired withthe highest moral
principle. It is only by placing this element in the
ascendant that civilisation can be promoted in South
Africa, and the teak of gradnallyiputting an end to
these predatory ware began. The Highlands of
Scotland remained nurseries of predatory warriors
till the clans were broken, the act against wearing
arms and the Highland dress peened, andportiamen.
tory government established dwasghoat Scotland.
Thy sass coarse nest be parsead is South Africa.

TES_ MA dwell party in the National Society
halo Iliad thee dry will teeth an sae the 'inhi-
=bits mho efil ad boo die MOP& eats-
eel the knew ef thle party at dm last
• =11714=1 Possient.Vilallithrctiti :
illehles. The the pled* keeled k die geneses
=hie party
pet iMe mete milk
gl alkokles
eshes inue, 6 mini from
ne admitted feet ad M. Wows Maw into
the beasts Dino, bleali—ame
ad the 'imet Mr. p who and hie ly, ere bowies seskor lour
assimilles elit:istFasiosf their gellike, slisatly let
the seals fall into whim asomorp Many
of these kind- mea,--erelllkg to deprive a
eked of all opportunity of eduction hears his
imats " t?usslitr--have selesed the rigidity of
die sebselmester is not forced
- b leash the ibises deelikes which their parents
Med. It is well known bow earnestly Mr. Demos
and his followers have opposed this relaxation
4 the letter of the kw. What may be
the weal of their ultimate seams we know
ant. is the ameatime, it is an unpleasant fast i
beetbsiks that is tar recruits they have enlisted a
Weber. n• cd BATH and WELLS has, we
base, eireukted of the following letter in his
dieesse, by whieb evidently means to convict all
than who,—in their well-intentioned seal to sow some
smile of Insowleitge in the minds of poor ehildres,—
Madly waive a levr formalities that would, if insisted
ea, essoissan the Andrea to unschooled ignorance.
The letter is es Mows :

Pawn, Welts, Ifey 25, 1862.
K, dies Sir,—lnl rya kindly, as Dinars Impostor,
send eat the wrieer4 glosaloos frau no to ell the rimy
within wy dleast,_ who lave charge el wheals la unlit
with the Malawi laveloty.
Faidallaziaweak A.
Aso. J. D. It. BiTll mad W2LLe.

tatiestheeill. Da— soaks It a rah to Wadi all the
ehildimt is your the whole of the ealeMW_i 2. la
so &dor, do foe Seer wig the method sod aisle of
t 1. E :phis lea 0111•9 sad mossat of owe oadoeion,
if it neat is say isairees—o. a. is tin ease elf lopillneed
ddldwis, If say; or d show wile woos berehol wet of ma
oiloosiod or 'ribose wile lerowwww loptiood were
mow prosiebd is the dorsi hp ; or Of
Cason Ilbni there is s doe* say of the
ohms dolowoliam Nautili' say ether sow, al Wm be
say slew. owl suss bow pa deal with It.
At eldomeneatirewil set dwell epos the fact that
Haw miemetien et tbe rule log the above
tea be @Weft clergymen be
Weird to ratan to all children comprised
within say er all of time diviises,—the National
Society will fad its elesedeas simply diminished.
This is a mike el modienition for the Society
Itself. The peal het to which documents of
the above kind Irriddlidy point, is the increasing
mosesity of essahr education. A clarification
of the present members in the House of Commons
socceilag to their rellikm, shows that me-reventh
at least are wit in cum sinion with the Church. This
elm perm at any gessral gene of education
Apswilsi open e
pm*" artoin or religious o
wall owes booms law. The representative:r:

nation arc only a portion of them representatives of I
the Church. Now, if that body, which symbolises
the nation, is only partially a representative of the
church, it is quite clear that the Chorea' is incompetsit
for the sole and exclusive performance of functisas
which are of importance to t hossliele nation. That edu-
cation is of importance to the whole nation Gannet be
doubted. Education, Hurtful', UM national matter,
and it must be conducted upon principles upon which
the assembly of the nation can agree.
How often have we insisted upon this? How
often will it bo necessary to insist upon it again be-
fore it will be acted on ? The sects, as long u they
insist upon the exclusive right to the education of
their own adherents, make national education im-
pose' 'ble. Heed the reports of her MaJurv's in-
spectors, the mast valuable contributions to the
science of education that have been made, and all
must be struck with the fact that until a truly na-
tional system is adopted little can ever be accom-
plished. ]low is this passible under the divided
system ? Look even at the training schools most
patronised by the National Society itself.
They, the Church institutions par excellence,
an lay hold of no broad principle sufficiently com-
prehensive to combine unity of action within itself.
St. Murk's cannot make way in spite of the charms
of its choral services and the conventual character of
its discipline. Westminster, which represents the
high and dry section of the clergy, and sticks stoutly
by the old-fashioned system of education which the
Church thankfully received from Dr. BELL, after it
had slept profoundly for two centuries, isin a state of
suspended animation. Battersea has been bankrupt,
but has lately recommenced business again. The
spirit of religious discord divides and subdivides
until the parts are too small for any useful purpose.
Now, what are the only objections which can be
urged with any appearance of justice against a sys-
tem which would educate the masses, without refe-
rence to those divisions in religion which tend to
separate them, with respect to sacred matters, into
religions classes ? Two only. The first says, that a
school without distinctive religions doctrines would
tend to introduce &carelessness with respect to reli-
gion itself in the minds of the pupils; the second,
that the separate religious opinions would act so
strongly uto impede the progress of education. It ,
would appear that if either of these propositions
were true, it would infallibly swallow up the other;
with that, however, we will not meddle. It is
sufficient for our purpose, that facts trium-
phantly contradict both. The example of
the Irish national system may be brought
forward to prove that children belonging to two
churches which stand to each other in the relation of,
deadly opposition may be brnight up together with
the greatest advantage, in point of cultivation of
the intellect, to both ; and that the education of their
religious faculties may be all the better for their in-
tellectual instruction,—supposing that the natural re- ,
ligious instructors of the children do their duty. The
second ohjcction,—that the religious opinions of the
pupils themselves would occasion discussion, and be
an obstacle in the way of education,—may
be answered by pointing to the regimen-
tal schools in the army. Perhaps few
educational institutions have in so short a
time achieved so great a success as these. The
Church of England man, the Dissenter, the Itoman
Catholic, the Scotch Presbyterian, attend these
schools, and never in any instance that has come to
our knowledge has the difference of religion thrown
any obstacle in the way of the business of the school.
The men feel that they attend school for the cultiva-
tion of those faculties which they have in common
with all mankind, not for the resolutions of those re-
ligious scruples which tend to split them into par-
ties. l'hat events are gradually forcing the most
bigoted to come to a similar conclusion is, we are
glad to say, evident enough.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVEN/NO.

At the agricultural meeting of Clameey, the elder
Dupin has delivered a s.eeeecch which occupies the
leading columns of the .Dels. The kernel of this
address is the invocation of a heavy tax on the im-
portation of foreign coal. It appear. singular that
the leading organ of free trade, in which the
luminous essays of Michel Chevalier appear from
time to time to show the evils which France suffers
from commercial restrictions, should preface a pro-
pane' for taxing fuel by praising the author as " the I
man of progress, the type of the representative of
the middle classes." Such praises only show how'
~
wide of the mark is the assertion of the government
papers that parties are dead. It is the Orteanist, and
not the protectionist, whom the Debate praises.
The only expression bearing a political construc-
tion in this speech occurs in the first period, which
is as follows :
From lay earliest yean, and whatever might be my sees-
patinas, I have passed all my vacations in the Nievre, and
always with a feeling of pleasure. This year, on the eon-
Wary, I haw come aamagr you with en impressioa of sad-
ness, sad with a mold pally absorbed by the calamities
which have overwhelmed my actuary.
Those words are worthy of the president of the
national assembly, and testify sufficiently that the
ex-peartmeur• general of theCoartoleasmatton remains
tree to the principles of his resigaatioa, and has no
thoeght of Imitating the dobbin' tt M. PersiL He
preemie to exculpate the pastel popeladea of Ca-
way hem any slime is the bearrectioe at Decem-
ber, alth ugh the theette et mate frightful excesses,
which iahsd the immanent scribes with mate.
rials for terrifying the seentry at large. " Excidat
dies !" says M. Dupla, Wiatting that it is rather
the Only et the goverment to wrap seek atrocities
is tibMse than daily rake them tip sheik to keep
mini in a state of embalm ahem. Carder sew to
the agricultural state of the depertment he diploma
the n mearaitted bthe Mena slimly 17, which
OM benumb if smell ease asses. But
the win sage* whisk he treats is the!embia et
weed seaddhred aa fueL Clammy is altaaied ea the
Tame, arid its poorer bkabitants are abuse wimpy
in loading raltewithwoodfor the
ea But sines eml same late merece=ll
;ltreagret wood hes Min_ gig Wile L amt of
Is aggravated by ken hears "Mad,"
nye M. " weed benne el die minim
were seal hp-Mve weed est et the Pads smite r
He meson= sea a papist se lignistieg, aid
g=lVge Freda as isesisseMe dividem. M.
est pewee to misslist that the fate to
=tl7;lmsdis sea es_ pessOiy the doom of fuel,
el beet
eghtleige at 814 weald be a Impost still
mare sad a libation still Imre latolera-
hie. Ile d upon tie anienes of scat-snioke,
the issalabrises Midden of mane esebewic acid, the
designing ef Aline sell deteghgedn ef furniture,
sad ibelly themais a heavy tar to pretest France
against this post. Woods (he mays) are the orna-
wet of Penes, end so heti. In all this speech
time may be meal to seethe the ears of the raft-
balers of Clumsy; but, eliesend to the public
generally, it is a takes of the prevalence
of protective most intelligent and
Hid French states imm M. makes one reason-
able egnerk, and that le es the and inocasist-
seep et act allowing pesprieliese of woods to do as
the
y Ilk, with their eon bat segsigni them to grow
for the seg gond =snot the state;
"Me the state beteg= the of wood with
limey duties, and anew the ammielpality to levy a
raprime ises ocirOi at the gabs et Perfamme an artisie of
ammeity. The elegise et Wadsw and
Ms 'melees eniiitio sign the deletionorth, el the
aisle. of inure by nib lessnedisk end not pea.
test the egingise ef Widmann, send vamp
gad. Angie_ thejmeleile et M. Dupla against the
iambs et Mudd end Ws Itsessmalst as hope that
feel nay be gentesUy cheap sough in the latter
oseetry to sob the append= of the word
" foyer " to the Mirthless he.. of the poor no I
mockery, and to Abed, in the required abundance,
to industry ate of the met potent elements of
production.
Beare noise is made in the papers about an outrage
on French subjects settled in Jlezieo. Owing to the
heavy fees demanded by the Mexican clergy, •
French pair were married at the French wnsuLte at
Vera Cruz ; and, ups returning to the town where
they were settled, were subjected to violent treat-
ment on the part of the authorities. The Preach
minister had made energetic demands, but without
success.

An article in the rays, headed" A Sign of the
Times," discu-ses the Si:mile-bridge verdict, which
it regards as symptomatic of a general revival of re-
ligtous discord, and of an aggressive movement on
the part of Roman catholic' thonghont Europe. Of
the verdict itself the Pays aye :