The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-01 00:00:00

BEITANMA.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY L

TIM motion in favour of an early recognition
of the Southern Confederacy by the British Govern-
ment, threatened more than once last session, and
as often postponed, has at length been submitted
to the House of Commons under circumstances
which even its most ardent supporters must feel
to be a little unfortunate. Of all men in the
country, Mr. Itomit:CK is the very one least qua-
lified to bring forward such • resolution, and, as
Mr. GLADSTONE forcibly pointed out, there has
hardly been a period since the outbreak of the war
more exquisitely inopportune for its introduction
than the present moment. A motion of this sort,
resting on the most delicate considerations of in-
ternational law, and naturally tending to rouse the
keenest susceptibilities of agreat and friendly Power,
if brought forward at all, ought, of course, to be
introduced not only on the calmest and most
judicial survey of the facts, but on grounds free
from all suspicion of interest, and in the most im-
partial spirit. But Mr. ROEBUCK is not simply •
partisan, but a partisan of a most unscrupulous and
virulent kind. During the last twelvemonth he
has distinguished himself in and out of Parliament
by a license of abusive speech against the North
such as no other public man has approached. He
has repeatedly indulged not only in the coarsest,
most vulgar and reckless vituperation of the
Northern Government and the Northern people,
but in panegyrics equally wild and intemperate of
the Southern movement and the Southern men.
In the heat of his passionate partisanship the
Northern people have been described as aliens, as
insolent upstarts, as the scum and dregs of every
nation ; while the slaveholders of the South have
been held up to popular admiration as genuine
Englishmen of aristocratic habits and superior
manners. Now, whatever may be the wisdom or
folly of such • proceeding, speech being free in
this country, Mr. ROEBUCK is no doubt at perfect
liberty, to express in the strongest form he chooses,
these intensely partisan opinions. But it is per-
fectly clear they absolutely disqualify him from
assuming the office of mediator between the con-
tending powers on the other side of the Atlantic.
If there is one man in the House of Commons
more completely excluded by his conduct and posi-
tion from all active participation in a disinterested
motion for promoting peace between the belli-
gerents, Mr. ROEBUCK is that very man. But,
as though this bitter and violent partisanship were
not in itself a sufficient disqualification, Mr. Roe-
scree, to prepare himself for last night's debate,
added to it another even more damaging in the
eyes of every high-minded and patriotic Eng-
lishman. He appeared as the self-appointed
representative of • foreign potentate, and dared
to recommend his reckless proposal to the
English House of Commons, on the ground that
it would be acceptable to the new Imperial
Master with whose commands he had been honoured.
His credentials were, it is true, seriously ques-
tioned, if not formally discredited, at the very outset
of the debate. But the Member for Sheffield
clung to the skirts of the Imperial purple with cha-
racteristic tenacity, protesting with almost frantic
gesticulation that he was the authentic and autho-
rised representative of "his Margery's" views and
feelings on the subject. It is surely • striking
Nemesis that Mr. ROEBUCK should, in the interests
of the Slave Power whose cause he has espoused,
be reduced to such a position as this. A spec-
tacle more humiliating or more contemptible could
hardly be imagined than that of the noisy British
bull-dog " Tear'em" suddenly converted into :he
catspaw, the facile dupe and instrument of the
very man whom, according to his own account, it
was his special mission to warn the country
against, and verbally at least to worry. The
spectacle has, however, at the present moment a
certain use and value. A proposition in itself
most inopportune will hardly recommend itself
to Englishmen at large on the ground that its
adoption will be acceptable to a foreign despot,
and help to forward his aggressive policy on the
American continent.

COREZSPONDILNCE ON POLAND.—Yesterday they
"Correspondence reLatiog to the negotiations of the yews
1814 and 1815 rerouting Poland," prseeoted to the Haus
of Commons in pursuauce of the eldrses of May 15, was
published u a yerliamentsuy paper.