The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-05 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 5.

A 11111 TORT of French Te Dennis would be a most
curious and startling record of human inconstancy
sad religious prostitution. Amongst all the ques-
tionable instances of solemn thanksgivings offered in
the Cathedral of Notre Dame, that which has just
taken place is the most flagrant parody of a religious
rite, the most degrading mimicry of adoration per-
formed by the representative of a defrauded nation.
The chief fact, for which the l'ae.sitwer of the
Republic went to bow to las Maker, was,
Lis having obtained the votes of between seven and
eight millions of French to sanction his demand of
the imperial dictatorship. Of the :11 millions of
French, however, one-half are female; whilst of tho
male portion, one-half the number are under 21) years
of age, as all censuses show. Take away the in-
vall and the aged besides, and you must suppose
that every male Frenchman above 20 actually de-
posited his vote, which is impossible to believe. Tho
victory of universal suffrage is thus,—like the battle
of the boulevards,—a humbug.
A Te Dews in the middle of the nineteenth cen-
tury, and in the metropolis of France, for the triumph
of a hair-brained adventurer over all the liberties
which Frenchmen had acquired by their many revo-
lutions, is a piece of impudence and sacrilege, and an
snachronisni withal, of which no governing body of
men could, it might be thought, be guilty. We have
never heard of conquerors in civil war returning
thanks to Heaven for having spilt the blood and
fettered the limbs of their countrymen for their own
individual profit. That church pays dearly indeed
for its marriage with the state, when obliged to cele-
brate and sanctify each act of political turpitude as
it triumphs, without a feeling of moral justice or in-
dependent right.
It is unfortunately true, however, that France is
broken up into castes, which have ceased to feel for
the common weal. And this, indeed, is one of the
solutions of the fearful enigma. The clergy form a
caste and an interest apart; and BONAPARTE or
HoestioN, republic or despotism, is all one to it,
provided it do but thrive and be in the ascendant.
• Mostat•starat has plainly said so. As it is
with the church, so with the army. It forms a
caste apart, and evidently ards the present state
of things as • profassmal triumph. There, pro-
perty has made itself a class apart; so have intellect
sad education. t.O have the earners and the work-
men. None look to the ship, but to the rank and
advantige of position that each holds in it. And all
are capable of :team at • common shipwreck,
which would semirigid* ea overweening nval, no
nutter what the anew et deutesettes to all.
Sixty years p this war of classes began in
Prance, sad has esatinued with more er his acti-
vity ever Anse. Seek clam has
la turn. It is no peat wonder Clidrbated
the Jess
=ant nththe es the French clergy,
sesehaten, the Premise/key, eleseli, witlist
Soy peleadeated, hare setts re of se ober nesse
prenmenst than force. The commenhb daring
One ematle of 1848, the clergy nadir Cilium the
Inn% the esitliery sow, employed intimidation and
; =beauest:s we are sorry to my, did all the
doss Loris Nwrocatner list elee-

Ohm. The mph, is. that when the caletitritiottal
rad the ithellestual portion of the nation pined
tipper heed. eel win @dewed to bap it tren 1830
ghlen se pent am, did sot st. nseof this
=ameed inevasable emote throu all
a love esti weihnstandbg of the pnaciple and
"irides of emmdeadenel 3prernmeat There ia no
system of nis that bee ~pi ampparted itself with-
out es sepia ides randomly fitted to it. Who
annum ism insert us ashen= whnh each of us
receives of loyalty, shape& he oar national liberty,
end kbeer of them A feriae. shove all,
✓equires an education edepleinsis. Ike whet painsthey
take in the United Stales Dal in Panes se dendeant
Glen ere gemnnuesee rear leek the pins he educate
at interest thelesple. What thee the weed
mesa to the lhassia puma It nem
amens is Peek Corm= se bis sempare in the
provinces. Whet is his idea et the leghtinielt ne•
way f Loots XVIIL winded in hie genq whir
at the ran of the allied arMs.. Whet hillsides at
censtitutioaal seeneelty ? Louts-Psnares gain
a Spanish prisms ruling hems by dwell
ming 101. of annual contrihniene. melting
woe 130,000 votes and imposing Unes that wen es
ewes" to the peasant es the ranks mai the Osaka
ei the last century. What is hie Wesel the empire P
U is made up of Aunedits and Warsego, where
thee were most prism bathe Freashesan sad where
he payed leen far then.
That which is at the root of all the evil now de-
• is not per venue= he the Pith character,
igesesae I it is net s law et sisney, Ist a want
Inewledp et wild libnly nil he mod phenols@
ad rashes emit se based et nehlettazieit
be i
male and unload seek indigensalis s
the eeithihne et Loots-Puns aimed themselves
in flemerieg the animal hie kr the Bottarame.
The ibeshiess Onsantwo hag ism marked thin
Lager. He lamented that NAPOLI!" . .

laving opswitsi is this wadi with sapressisslsil
firmer during his Ids, ada blisessed it b b obarase.
The bad of &dainties wide fiat &wad ra
tapin'
ha hes asestriss shah eau The peeled obis=
masts, thst st spikedibb sod babe ft with
&bobs bib ea neve is darns= bleb b ire g
=11: radly sfelFaz is be wirier • keel ef
bliay. beediest ea Se iiist iamb
of banes same. ss to istellaseall, meal, and
rasing yeagrow. WO desk se an lobe ben
tbamains Ir *dr bednity to it wilt as bilisdpsib seisa at
at
▪ seas end seerowfah idea se sign essaardal war
meadailmhsilao at the eased. ass blase te seggrosa:
It CbUINZINI rlt the assossity of cacizatilies
lesliswessa d Ismagartimo is A
samodtodosollas might have kw:Zia awls is
rams more wholesome way than that of the
Walls at Versailles with his explaith Tres
edsoation, that best fitted to instrut a people whisk
has a right to be tree, omits in the working ot legal
administration. But the usessakg awl ot LOW&
PlialPPl and his statute= waste kW the mynas&
destroy the zoonicipelities aollity the jury, give as
Whence to any local body of. proprietors. They
laboured to concentrate power the heeds el the
protects and the other cars'. ea it their adios sad
their aim was no other than to prepare for a return
et the empire.
The Medias that. has& that madonna ad the re-
mat NW poolowailligelisesigewesmats el Fraraz
that Loma Nammam
ariletadal pews by aseq stasraillui:td=lt met
Mari to shales a wheel et the old MM.
sistrathm I,llsylkiat ready made to his brad,
power, dam Isom its. No atter mashdamy aaa
is armd err may than that which Loafs-
!mu _ _
ms whilepretending to intrados'
a seasdhidemal system 'Ms France. We ham jest
a Isom in the itoMieur, ejectiag the too
larterairlanoallsn et the ail mmicipahty, anA Man
their plasm with loser atlas. And Loom Nero-
Laois doss this by as sew kw of his own, bet by
the law whole the ahamber of Louts-Parrarrs aril
the National Awash* • the ropablis itself laid
down. Ostragesms mod kadimillear fa Louis NA-
tomes tyranny, M ma at hut plead that he has
load all the imams mad hatrimisats of it ready
ashismed, and ha M his Mai

Tee three moat ellen
_of Paymen of the
Force% Vise-Peouleine of the ftlet dTens, en
Uner-liewetery of Ihreign Albin de set is thew
seine give Lord Join Ronan, the sem
eirewathwang hie gmerweent. Forlll thew es he
they en at
_best wily ewberdlwate poets, and
rbell% Milektnew weste—sed the Gentry ex-
pels—is the onsedew et esperiar mew to high oaks,
sad wet law* the nig up, however creditably, of
three idea/ enemies.
His oohing is new wow owneally large ; and to
add nether member to it in the person of the new
Payneeter tithe Fame, is, to as a military phrue,
tutthrowing sway powder end shot. But it
(sly imp, it is unwieldy. Of its liens

members one-half at least are—either from age or in-
firmity, or from want of natural ability, or public
confidence,—incumbrances on their colleagues. Such
people as Lords Mt Nro and BaouonTort are useless—
and worse than useless. Lord Corr au ue s SOEOCII-
sor as a reformer of the law has failed, and as an
equity judge does not carry any great weight with
the profession. Session after session the CHANCELLOR
of the Exclitutm• has more and more exposed
his financial incapacity, and to that defect
he has lately added commercial unpopularity.
Lord (lime, despite his great ability for office, has
had has success to the Colonial Department than
even those predecessors whom he used to criticise so
mercilessly; Sir GEORGE GREY hes all the hereditary
defects of his family, and his administrative powers
are now seriously impaired by, it is feared, an in-
curable complaint; the Whig cabinet has never been
much sided by the bun/tune:nee of Mr. Fox 111stri.e;
whilst great age has diminished the activity of Lord
LANSDOWNE, whose consistent and generous libe-
rality throughout a long and most useful career are
an honour to his order, and one of the credits of
whiggery. His age, in the House of l'eers, may be
needed to support Lord GRANVILLE'S youth; but
very little persuasion would induce him to retire to
honourable repusc—if by his retirement the ministry
could be mended.
It is vacancies in some of these offices that are
needful to repair the weaknesses of the RUSSELL
cabinet ; and if its head cannot realise that fact, it is
in danger of tumbling to pieces of its own weak-
news. The liberal party are, of course, deeply in-
terested in keeping it on its legs until the contents
of the new Reform Bill are opened, and, if satisfac-
tory, until that measure shall have become law. But
scarcely could a large measure of reform preserve
for a lengthened penud such a cabinet. A not incon-
siderable portion of those who now support Lord JOHN
would almost prefer a return to the opposition benches
in the House of Commons rather than go on as at pre-
sent voting with a government in which they take
so little real interest. It is indeed the opinion of
not a few that a course of opposition is almost neces-
sary to reconsolidate the liberal party itself; to in-
fuse into it definite and precise objects and ends; to
develop the ability which it possesses, and to eman-
cipate it from influences which in office have
injured,—it not wholly suspended,—its powers of
usefulness.

The ministerial journals tell us that by a late re-
tirement Lord Jolts ltussxm. asserted his own pre-
dominance over the cabinet. Now that he has done
so once, he can easily find motives for repeating the
act; he has just now ample and sufficient oppor-
tunity of doing so; and wo will do several of his
colleagues the justice of supposing that they do not
requite any exercise of the PREMIER'S authority to
enable him to choose their successors. Lords Misr°
and BROVOUTON must know and feel their own in-

competence; Sir GEORGE GREY will not persist is
keeping the Home-office when in another position he
could, more agreeably to himself, be far mow
useful to his friend Lord Joax ; Lord GREY might
lend the Lords without continuing to be a Secretary
of State ; office cannot long be indispensable to Mr.
Fox MAULE; Lord CARLISLE could be more service-
able to his friends out, than in, the cabinet; and if a
strong hint should be necessary to Sir CUARLIN
WooD, he hu relations enough in office to save Lad
JOHN the pain of himself giving it.
The difficulty is not, then, the men in office, bat
who to replace them with. The policy of the pre-
sent government has been such as to suppress
and keep under the ability of the really
li-
beral party. That party has, even now, in parlia-
ment, jest as much capacity and power as any other
in the state; but the course pursued by Lad JouN
RUSSELL has left it idle. Men have either preferred
silence to opposition, or—having followed the bent of
their own liberal inclinations, and won public esteem
fur their services,—have been brought into collision
with a government which their principles naturally
led them to support. And Lord Joan RUSSELL and
Sir Omuta GREY by their pausal conduct
on such occasions bars Ismsmild the die.
cords of the party by whisk a they thasmolves
exist as ministers. if the of the liberal
party be an obieet of the its. to sok ma,
--to liberals enjoying the pahlhemallisaeov—he ought
lira to torn for new colleagues • Few of them, or of
their clam kimorally, sw vdmilsat, turbulent, ins-
=.3le pastas; between heat and Lard Joni
at kart dare ought be be no inossaeiloshis
digresses. of opinion i thoplavoimporisass of piddle
Alio sod parik=„hode Or/ are sa-
dewed. too, with 0144-4010 Y"
fig la the, do he pile el--they ban
right f the gehte sif parliamentary gormand
hs worth a "sir) ice.
And who is it doh warm allow Lord /Gull
Rueszu. is Inks to =WM, Le- them P Ws
hams Osamu Indio Pußtes! no
eta whiisSese tied ability, he liberal
is gilded dwa the rail Mho& Is whoa
we anode, hqp wed hag igegendes
the people or fariralar masoasai Irma, suit
Piatic, s pub tiesmot on et whom
would probably be red used abseil be vacate his
seat by the sessplmiso d alba
Lord GoD WOE will list, it is said, have Sir
JAMES GRAHAM for Ripon again; and Dr.M•Nau.s
declares no one shall sit for Liverpool who will sot
take the "No Popery" pledge. So that the chances
myths& ths two Ihrsmost Peelites would, if they joined
the govanomat, he without seats in the House of
Chnssima A patty Rasta& this would be by way
at aoseogthaalari a mhostry.
Parliamentary pverassal seder the Assent. ad-
minim:ado. his set had Mr play. A professedly
liberal goraramont has net had the full confidence of
the MGM piety ; and Load Jona has extorted from
it, by his own post poresaal services,— a support
for sons of his soMagoss which, being insin-
cere, has had a tendsasy to demoralise the party,
and to split it up into sections. And now when an
ty,—and a asaanityttoo,—for improving =rsime*, his organs are instructed to depreciate
the nbility of the liberal party; and,—still requiring
sad imairimg ea its sugppiate--orge
.hint. to send for
miss et ao pawn ship hemgad opinions, and little
=l4to roots to kin roma This, we say, is
parliammitary goversasat.

Tess lest India mail iskrms as that a squadron
mid* et a a slop it war, sad a sassamr,
Las soiled tram iAiWftb- to &mead satislostisa
from the Ermine foe "diadem
is
towards our mends
and mistisses„ is =tat
treaty. The squadron is to take menden et the
town at Reaseim and hold it wadi fall reparation be
made. Ranges& is about 10 mills teem the month
of ow et the neatest rivers et ladle, the Irawadi,
winkle hero kr comas et thalami's' berthas, and
br 400 miles et its mares kr these et small Mae,
especially steemsre. The ph's itseff risme fres the
river vide to a eemidsmsW elemitlea. and the less-
-13161 bet, Wag an kiwi. is Atka
spinet ea Aside emmay, but
the whole navigatisa el the Irawadi up to the
capital, which is the awe things=aying that it
esemmads the Maslen et the

We have me dealt, thee, if their owe be a good
one, that the lodie (grummet has now fallen on
the right way etahoutigieg the Dimes& la 1824
ws sertainly esetrived is moisture a great war
with a little mei. &gist when we were base.
Whittle at every plat. that war we se madly
wasted lam femme thaa tweetyysmi purism of
the gross remase at the soisetry we gnashed would
amount to, while we lilt the be... of some 10,000
of oar or Whew Indian subjects in
the inh to soil. The late Sir TnoitAs
Mimeo—and he was a very competent witness
--mad to say that of all the enemies we
W ever gematered in oar Indian caner of
war sad emomet, the Birmese were the least
warlike. He admitted that they were dexterous
pioneers; that they skilfully wielded a pickaxe and
a shovel, but could make nothing of sword
ugurv. We penetrated 400 miles into the
of their country without once meeting
seek a resistance as we had been used to in India at
a single mad fort. After a three years' contest with
this insolent, yet pusillanimous nation, ws ought to
know that if we must have a war with them, it will
be our own fault if we make it a costly one. Their
country is of commercial advantage to us, and
may be made more so, for it has some five millions
of consumers, and the greatest supply of the best
navy timber in the East; but its conquest would,
without reference to political expediency or morality,
be ridiculous: for, however easily made, it would
assuredly not pay the cost of occupation.