The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY. SEPT. 11.

Ir was yesterday our task to ehresiele two very
touching and elevating solemnities. One was the
inauguration of one of those PEEL statues which
promise to be as numerous in modern England as
Queen ELEANOR'S croons were in the old; the other
was the banquet commemorative of fifty years' good
and faithful services rendered by Mr. Oau to his
country as member fur Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on the
omission of tho veteran's retirement from public life.
Both celebrations relate) to the past. At Bury the
relatives and admirers of Sir Rosser PEEL cele-
brated the apotheosis of the Minister who made Free-
trade the policy of Fnglinel. At Newcastle the
Whig leaders of the north performed t he political tune ral
rites of a stanch, and sturdy, and worthy cham-
pion of their party. The plaudits lavished on Sir
Bourse PEEL were, alas! wasted, in so far as he
himself was concerned, on dead and senseless ears.
But the defunct Whig politician, though ho had
shuffled off the parliamentary coil, more than realised
the kind wish of Wamba fur Athelatane the Un-
ready; for he not only ate and drank, but made a
speech, too, at his own political tyke-wake. The
oratory on such occasions was naturally historical
rather than practical—more of a retrospective than
a prospective character. The speakers dwelt upon
great and generous efforts, by which much of good
has been achieved for the country; they contrasted
the dark past with the brighter present.
So far good. The numbers present who lis-
tened with sympathy to those speeches—the far
greater numbers who have read them with a sym-
pathy at least as intense—are a proof that the efforts
of Liberal politicians during the List half century
are duly appreciated by. the great majority, of
Englishmen; that the principles they labwred to
establish have irrevocably become part of the popular
creed. Such festivals are a kind of spiritual mile-
stones, marking the progress that has been made by
society. But we confess that at a moment
like the present, we could have wished
that men like Lord GREY and Lord Mott-
Firm, like Mr. FREDERIC& PEEL (who may
now be regarded as associated with them), and Mr.
BAZLET who, represents the great industrial interests
of the north west, had also bestowed a few words
upon the future. There is no standing still in this
world. We leave the graves of our dearest friends
to plunge again in the busy turmoil of life. The
most apt and dignified peroration of a funereal
eulogium is an exhortation to be as active and inde-
fatigable as the deceased ;—arid in the present condi-
tion of the political wor:dsuch a peroration would have
been especially apposite. For though it is true that
liberal and rational political principles have struck
such deep root in the public mind as to be ineradi-
cable, it is equally true that enemies of these princi-
ples have crept into office who will exert all their
puny weight to pull them up, and will at the least
waste time and create eonfusion and irritation by
their misdirected labour,. It is a pity that the
statesmen we have named slid not tell the public by
what means this evil way be put an end to, or whe-
ther they intend to share in the task.
It is very gratifying, no doubt, to be told by Earl
Gear, that " no manure which is now demanded by
the majority of intelligent and educated moo can be
long refused, and no measure which they object to
has a chance of being carried;". or to be assured by
the Earl of CAILISLE that the present ministers are
"more in will than in power a re-actionary adminis-
tration." These are very gratifying, and, we firmly
believe, perfectly true statements, but they are ra-
ther vague and general. The country knows that an
administration " in will reactionary " holds the reins
of government, and would have liked to have heard,
from political leaders on the other side, by what
means they propose to disarm It of die power of doing
mischief.

The truth is, that as the time for the assembling
of Parliament draws on, people begin to grow a little
impatient to see some signs of vitality on the part of
the Liberal leaders. The absence of all demonstra-
tion with which the Derbyites have been taunted is
at least equally remarkable in their opponents.
Miniaters,teereover, are in possession, and their genie
avowedly is to standee the defensive. But an oppo-
sition is, by the necessity of ita nature, a be-leaguer.
log may; its business ia to attack. Really it is
high time that our Liberal leaders were beginning
to muster their forces and take up their positions.

Is Tummy—which may indeed be regarded as an
outlying province of the Austrian empire—the feeble
prince who is still permitted to use the title and
wear the garb of sovereign, seems to have lost in
the panic of 1848 whatever dignity or independence
of spirit be may have previously been supposed to
poem. During his unworthy self-exile from his
'sentry, he is said to have vowed that if be ever
re back to Florence he would surrender the bodies
of his people to an Imperial garrison, and their
aids to the Papal hierarchy. The facts fully
justify the tale. Austrian troops crowd every street
ad occupy every post in Tuscany ; and nearly
emery true has been swept away of that memo.
sable Leopoldine code by which his illustrious
lemisetor, though an absolute ruler and good Catholic,
Mak to emancipate the laity from a clerical yoke
mar which they groaned. The priesthood now
Odin with the garrison nearly all the powers of
=Every tribunal may be clamed under
that of courts martial or courts sceissias-
fedi foe those which formerly were civil and na-
Ikea have sunk into subordinate machinery whereby
then sebitrary will of some intolerant or eovetons
palate may be carried into effect. It was but the
odor day that our correspondents. from Italy detailed
toff, proceedings taken, nominally befog a civil
Whisnal, against a man and his wilb lir having
speeded a sehbeatic place of They
word pessom we are told, in cu-
sumetenese. and of tolerably good eiscatioo.
This sworsisted their crime. They mei halo kaown
sum siiihelsel the sis of essassiag to themeless in
site assater. he above an is eat ot hair seals'
, the right of private jedoesset. They
• met have been promotion guilty of eautroctive
Whim and et:optimism when they persisted in
. ottoman a secret asnuaticle for the reading of the
Seipteres in their mesacular tongue. For is it not
eisee (say the tisupets) that from the rebellion of
ens Imo sprung all social, philosophical, and
revolts/ and does not history plainly declare
rear sees the peat religious revolution of the
deem* seatey hes society settled down again
ises the hied seep of passive obedience to pmts.
ad in which happily it had long
leis previously ? The unfortunate culprits could not
day that they had often read the New Testament,
we beard it reed, is the holism tows Neither
Neel they dispute the envenom that they had never
elitsiesi penalise is de hem their spiritual
=lll7llll fie the stew band, dare not
1:. appal mei to tbser to enforce the dor-
Meet, but neveetbsima law that rep-
ined such relminso Is idisel authority a
high MIEN ad saleisseasse, lioeishabe with line
sad isodessmeat. Seder jaw WWI owe to be
heel es every statute book of assisreheal
Wwe know that it is not seven yews ANS •
mot ewe reluctantly induced to arse the of
them bons our own. But for nearly la ematery they
' have almost everywhere hies into issestede ; and
so deep and universal has booms the belief
. that penal laws affecting emesisese have ceased to
he, that it is positively heed seevinas ourselves'
. that we reed aright the seisnading statosest thst at
Florence, within the last three wale the
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to whom wo !save above referred wen mdiedr=.
esseed by a wort of justice to be inorissmed for the
,Ina of four yea vs!
But Florence does not stand alone in this.
It I. painful to oimerve its bow many countries
at the present time. the serial ambition of the ,
Catholic church cestlese apparently bent upon '
provoking a renewal of the old conflict with the
ssealar power. Dinsmore of climate, race, or Mei.
latices, seem to male so Menne° in the seal with