The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-01 00:00:00

the present state of thelliweilish legislature :

The Swedish Diet, the annual seniors of which will open
about the middle of next month. will have to consider a
most important project of representative 'dorm. The re-
pmeestatioa of that Scandinavian kingdom reposes on bases
essentially feudal : it is lees the organ of the nation than
that of four castes—the nobility, the clergy, the burger
clan, and the peasants. That mode of representatson
boa for • long time past been at variance with the
intellectual situation of the Swedish nation. In
Swedes, am in almost every other part of Europe,
the separation of castes has de facto °eased ; in-
struction, width, and material and moral power are no
longer the exclusive property of • particular clam, but
belong to whoever can acquire them. Modern society does
not recognise particular interests opposed to general ones,
and only admits in the institutions of a state a representa-
tion of the people of all cheese. Almost all the countries in
Europe have by degrees modified their institutions in the
sense of the 'Feat priuciples of the Revolution of 1789. Evers
Norway, whith is united by the closest hoods to the crown
of Sweden, has possessed for nearly half a century • eon.
Mitution the fund mental principle of which is equality.
Sweden is one of the rare countries which have not
hitherto given access to those eminently just ideas • and
what is more strange to say it is sot, as elsewhere,
I the princes who have favoured the maintenance
of the feudal system, bat it is the representatives of the
privileged castes who have constantly impeded the work of
I reform undertaken by enlightened sovereigns. King Omar
bad at different times attempted representative reform, but
his efforts, supported by the burgess class, were but weakly
ascended by the nobility and the peasants, and were openly
opposed by a clergy as intolerant as they are jealous of their
privileges. What the father could not effect the ace is sow
about to undertake. King Charles XV. has resolved to
submit to the eruct Diet • bill which substitutes for the to-
pr•effutio• by castes two Chambers, composed oa the
prindplee which have prevailed in most of the other
European states. Ray those efforts at length obtain the
Buono they merit.

Deerarrerrws Irma lw Socesereze.—A few mi-
nutes before 7 o'clock last evening a Ire, etteaded by great
deigns:lien of_property, broke out ia the warehouse sad
store moats of leasers. Elimpsoa and Co., wholesale oilmen,
63 and beg, Loadoe•roed, Southwark. The warehouse, •
large bandies of two stories in height and about 100 test
long end 50 wide, was filled with a large stock of oil, tur-
pentine, saltpetre, and other inflammable materials inci-
dental to the trade. The flames ooesequently spreadmith
great rapidity, and in twenty minutes after the fire was
discovered the warehouse, with the whole of it. cootects,
was entirely destroyed. The back part of the warehouse
was situated in Prince's•place, consisting of small houses,
ialiehited chiefly by costermoogen, amongst whom, io oon-
sequence of • report that there was • large stock of ggunm.
powder kept is the warehouse, the greatest alarm prevailsi
The brigade engines from Waterloo-road, the steam engine
from Watling.street, and the engine from Hodges's distillery,
were speedily on Unposed, sad • plentiful supply of water
being fortunately at bead, the fire au got ender by eight
°Week, its ravages being confined to the wareboass et
Yesere Simpson, whom for is estimated at several thou-
sand peon& The houses of the poor people I. Prises's-
plaos were however much damaged, mid their contents
saturated with water. The back portion of the retail shop
of Messrs. Simpson was also much bunt, and the canteens
dweroyed.
Tad Seize Poz.—Dr. Kidd thus writes iu the
Mari-lane Esprast :—" lam desirous of n.entiooing a very
extraordinary discovery recently weds in America. A
deems termed ID•1141111 has ?seedlike a plague amoogst the
hundreds of thousands of sick and wounded of the army of
the Potomac—measles exactly as we see it in children, but
in a vast number of mess from a secouciary cause—so to
term it, simple infection, the disease once coninseuced going
oe spootaneously. This disease has been distinctly traced,
and by a set of inductive reasonings (from which its almost
impossible to escape) proved to have amen from clouds of
microscopic dust or sporules analog from large quanti-
ties of rotten fermenting straw, that some wicked coutractor
had supplied to fill the soldier's bed-ticks. When-
ever the mauls. has raged, there the rotten straw has
ben ; where the measles has not been, the beds were of
good deem, inferior cotton, and feathers. Everybody
Imes that many iedividelle are subject te measly skis and
high fever if they go near hay.tossiog in • field in harvest.
Persona have been taken with this disease (' hay fever
'),
and othen with roost distressing bay asthma, in
and they could out make it out till they found they
bees passing a coro-chandler's where new hay bad been at
the door. Ido not believe sheep can take 'small pox 'at
all, and certainly the present diocese, as it is described, is
more of the nature of some of the affections just referred to.
I can quite imagine the poor things bedded or lying at filet
es straw ; the sew diem spreading then by infecties, or
se yeast spreads (boom we these disemes zymoticknntes
hint may be ussfal, at any rate, to some of ear
who do sot tremble theessivea raueb with symoties or
spondee The sheep at present, too, seamed to be idled by
overdosing."
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