The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-16 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Messrs. rattenden and Smith report that them continuos
a good demand for all descriptions of Hops, and the late ad-
vance is fully supported. Currency: Mid. and East Kent,
71. to 121. 12s. Weald Keats, 61. to 71. 7s. Sussex, 51. 12s.
to 61. 10s. Yearlings, 41. 16s. to 61. 10s.

MARKET.-TRIS DAY.

Wo have a large supply of Beasts and a small demand,
consequently it is difficult to realise Monday's quotations
except for choicest kinds. Several remain unsold. The num-
ber of Sheep is not very large ; however, trade is so depressed
that they can scarcely bo disposedof. The small amount of
business actually transacted is at rather lower rates. We have
a large supply of Calves, but chiefly foreign. The few good
English Calves on sale make as much as of late ; inferior
kinds are still very low. Our foreign supply consists of MO
Beasts, 1,690 Sheep, and 242 Calves. The number of Mitch
Cows is 116.
Pair goo, of SIN. ad. e. t. Per tame of Mt a ad. d.
Rua Poeta. Herefords S 6 310 Boa Una It 111-bde. ela 0 0 0 0
Best bbert bongs
beesud 'waits beasts.. 1.0 3 0 do. aborts
Oars . 2 8 4 0l Ewe. aadescoad quality rlO 3 4
Pi to
Item Das It Half-breds 4 0 4 4 beats
laws. at wart*, 1,0121 ; Sheep and Loral" 7.000; es, tb
Ylas 310.

COAL MAItKET.—THIS DAY.
Walls End Hetton, 171. 34.; Eden Hain, 16s. 64.;
Russell's Hatton, 17a. 3d. ; Mang, 16. Rd.—Shlps at
market, 34.

REPP.F.SENTATION OF EMIT KFITT. -Mr. Plump-
tre, who has represented this division of the county for the
last 20 years, has just issued en address to the electere, re-
signing his trust, and informing them that es soon as par-
liament meets he intends applying for the stewardship of
the Chiltern Hundreds. lie entered the House of Com-
mons in 1532 an .• an unflinching reformer," but soon after-
wards became, and hes since been known as, a " moderate
reformer " of the practical school, a staunch supporter of
the institution; of the country, and devotedly attached to
his sovereign and the protestant chunk of England. lie
states that he now retiree from parliament through " cir-
cumstances and considerations as well of a public as a des-
mestic nature." Sir Edward C. Dering and Sir Brook
Bridges are in the field to content the honour lirglgiegli ' ‘ !lilt
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Liberal men admitted that there was some show of
reason in these !notices. And when NAPOLEON came
forward with the code and the concordat and with
his system of mixed education, they understood
that he had not grasped power for purely
selfish purposes. and that he made use of that power
to place France superior to the other European abso-
lutisms, and free from the worst abuse of the old
French absolutism.

But is there one of these pleas,—one of these ex-
euses,—that holds good, or can be seriously brought
forward for the present barefaced and inglorious and
tricky usurpation ? Not one. There is all the
=isiy, all the assumption, all the impertinent
tiam of setting up as a legislator for a great
nation, at a time when that nation has grown to
manhood, instead of being, as in 1800, in a political
swage. There is really nothing to do, nothing to
ehe, nothing to enact. France is not me-
naced by the foreigner; and France is menaced
by no priestly or aristocratic reaction, which
the present tyranny does not rather flatter
and yield to than set at nought. There is no
disorder in the provinces, no defects in the ad-
ministration, which absolute power must not aggra-
vate instead of reform. There was a want of
honesty and of a high tone of morality in public men.
Will Lou's Narois:os mend that? The orovinccs
have been reduced to nullities, local intelligence and
influence crushed: what can Lou's NAPOLEON do
bat aggravate the evil ? The army weighed on the
country :it will weigh henceforth tenfold. Direct
taxes took away half the revenue of the landed pro-
prietors, the majority of whom are poor. To in-
crease direct taxation will be impossible--yet how
avoid it, if the salt and drink duties be abolished
There is no reform possible, no alleviation feasible in
French taxation, except by means of economy. Can
Louts NAPOLEON, or can any military chief, econo-
mise? There is, therefore, not one pretence for set-
ting up a dictatorship—one reason, save that this
mode of government alone suits the nephew of
NAPOLEON.
As to the constitution just promulgated, it is the
most audacious of humbugs, not deigning to take the
trouble to cover with even a decent veil the naked-
ness of despotism. All that it attempts is not to
temper arbitrary power, hut to associate and impli-
cate with it all those notable or capable men, who
consent to barter independence for office, and who
submit to wear the despot's livery in return for
liberty, to share with the dictator the spoils of tho
state. No honest or uptight man will take office
under such a mock constitution ; and if a sufficient
number of Frenchmen of education and capacity be
found to do so, all we can say is, that this will stamp
indelible disgrace upon France, without adding to
the durability or consistency of a government which
is an anachronism to the age, and a disgrace to the
country, in whose history it must survive as an
indelible humiliation.

PRINCE ALBERT has signified-mss we before stated
—his intention of founding two exhibitions of thirty
pounds a year each, to the government School of
Mines. The funds are to be levied on the estates
which the Prince of W.ites holds as Duke of CORN-
WALL. These endowments will be called tho Duke
of CooNWSl.l.'s Exhibitions.
This fact has some significance, inasmuch as it
shows, particularly when coupled with similar facts,
that in the very highest quarters, there is a determi-
nation to lift education out of the confined sphere in
which it has been up to the present time imprisoned.
It is right that the heir to the greatest throne in the
world should have his name connected with instruc-
tion in those arts which have raised that
throne to the position which it occupies
amongst the powers of the world. We look
upon this and similar facts as testimonies
to the truth of a principle that we have always as-
serted; that the old limits of education cannot be
preserved. The hornbooks which sufficed for our
ancestors will not suffice for us. We want our youth
to lie prepared for studies of a somewhat different
name than those which were required thrte hundred
years l ;.; ll . when all the knowledge of the world was
two thousmid years old. In these three hundred years
whole branches of science have sprung into being. to
the times preeeding these three hundred years there
was no wit nee of chemistry, no irrology, no ettetri-
city, no magnetism, no steam. Natural philosophy,
in fact, if it existed at all, was in the shall!: of an in-
ant, whose tricks might amuse, but, who could
perform no service to the lookers-on. Now,
natural philosophy is a g hich
iant w. whim
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