The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-28 00:00:00

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LONDON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28.

THE news from Belgium will be read with plea-
sure by all Liberals. The reactionary party Lave
Iraqi beaten just in time to set a good example to our
friends nearer home. The fate of Belgium is still,
however, in the balance. The crisis there is be-
coming a matter of European importance. Since its
mliamtion from Holland and in its independent
existence, Belgium liar been a constitutional country;
—it is as such that its distinct nationality was
guaranteed;—it is as a constitutional sovereign only
LEorot.n has any title to reign;—it is because
of its increasing improvement under a parlia-
mentary system, that England takes a deep inte-
rest in Belgium; and it is as a constitutional state
wkly that it can preserve that neutrality which is so
nerevsary to the Continent. Let constitutional go-
vcrument break down in Belgium, and there will be
a struggle fur foreign predominance in its councils
and affairs; it will lose its place in the European
system ; and its degradation will promote and con-
firm the government of force, which is becoming the
rukk of the rest of Europe, England and some minor'
states excepted.
The man in Belgium who chiefly gives evidence of
king really and deeply imbued with constitutional
prieciples, and a capacity to carry out parliamentary
govt. rnment, seems to be the K INC himself. Through-
out his reign he has invariably yielded to the force
of parliamentary majorities, and been content to
choose his ministers from the party to which the
electors have given a majority; and this, too, freely
frankly, and unreservedly, wi bout intrigue, and
without any orricre pems'e, like his father-in-law
Lotto ritturer.. Ile has never exhibited any per-
lional partialities, but lcsl:• given his confidence to'
the advisers selected in accordance with parliamentary
practice. King Leorotri is now again about to
form en

NOW AM no doubt, very closely balanced in the
Chambers. But that is no good reason fur public
man nfter public man having shrunk, in the manner
they have hitherto done, from meeting the Chambers
as Ministers of the Crown. For no govern-
ment an, when parties are so even in num-
bers, tell whether it is in a minority in the
legislature before it assumes the responsibi-
lital of office, and puts the legislature to the test;
and herein has been the primary weakness of the
various persons commissioned to form a Belgian
Ministry of late. They at refused to test the Cham-
bers by accepting office. The Chamber of Deputies
they thought might be disposed to reject the presi-
dent they wished • but amid such difiliulties as sur-
rounded not merely government, but nationality and
independence, in Belgium, it was quite possible that
the Chamber would hesitate in proceeding so far
against a new political combination ; at all events
that was a problem which could be decided by being
put to the Chamber. The Chamber has now elected
a Ihesident, and the future brightens.
The practical question which Belgium is now decid-
ing before Europe is, whether the country possesses
sufficient patriotism to work out conatitutimmi
government. If it do not, then, however long k
may stagger on under the present system, its dt4
mate fate cannot be doubtful. It is proper, then.
fore, that the Belgian people should perfectly OW
prebend their own position and the contingency
invoiced in it. It is ter them to assist their
Kim: in this crisis by such an expression of public
opinion as will abate the prejudices and passions of
their representatives, and release the country from
an emergency full of danger and discredit. Their
recent progress in wealth and material prosperity is
entirely the result of constitutional government and
temperate freedom; and those stimulants to further
improvement they have been risking by tolerating
what has literally been an interregnum.
A parliamentary ministry of some sort is the first
want of Belgium; the second an immediate arrange-
ment of its commercial relations with France.
Situated as those two countries arc, there is almost
as much hazard to Belgium in the absence of a com-
mercial treaty with Franc?, as there is in the ab-
same of En administration; and the ministry now

being formed in Belgiumought not to • day
• kw
in .coming to some understanding with their
powerful neighbours u to the terms their re-
*pectin commerce is to be conducted on.
M. 11Rot IN DE L'HVTa repudiates the notion
that he, in such negotiations, seeks to coerce Bel-
gium; on the contrary, he .asserts, that Belgian
requirements are hurtful to the interests of France;
and if it be correct, u is stated, that Belgium, is the
late negotiations, aimed at procuring from France
such permanent advantmai for her coal as would
for ever have excluded English coal from the French
markets, Belgium deserves very little sympathy
from this country, to whom, in the crime of kir
history, she owed nearly everything.
If this assertion be correct—it requires cienimeer
tiro—it is then the duty of Lord MALMENBURR bah
on the alert at present, and see whether Franca will
not relax its heavy duties on English fuel. If the
Empire means peace, an increase of commons be-
tween England and France would be one of the
greatest victories Imperial pence could achieve. How
to gain it is obvious enough, and was well shown the
other day in a memorial from the Manchester Cham-
ber of Commerce to the CHANCELLOR Oi the EXCIIIIF
EIFEL To protect car tailors and eeniattensy we
still keep up
of dress,
differential duty en =nal
other articles dress, wholly or in putt.
which, though yielding little or nothing to eif,
venue, hinders our importing a larr_sine Ut
goods. We also maintain similar &Meal insui
silk manufactures, from which 1111.10 S. nit
our greatest offence is the heavy impill>ie wines.
has by a reduction on wine. a Pat we nest
hope to operate on Franco; and that wit mold a• SIP
in that way seems very probable. Ames the wit.
nemessnatained before the Wine Duties Committee
last suasion was the Baron DE CLAZIAN DE CLEW?,
a large grower of Bourdeaux wines. When in
Paris, on his was to London, the Baron told the
committee he had an audience of the PIRELDENT,
who encouraged him in his mission ; but expressed
apprehension that the English government might
make high demands for recaprocity; the PIIRSIDENT
hoped; however, he said, to satisfy them on that
point ; and referred the Baron to the Count Tremor,
then Foreign Minister. The Baron waited on the
Count; and he called in to his aid M. Gurrr.atm,
Director-General do Douano ; and remarkably
enough their coexemation at once fell on &Wien
coals as a luaus of reciprocity for a relaxation
of our wine duties. We do not demand recipro-
city—we should lower the wine duties forthwith;
but if lower duties on coals followed trade would
increase and peace be rendered more likely. Cheap
iron, cheep cottons, cheap hardware, wend doubt-
less follow the first real steps towarthreluallo with
France. What is wanted is to get the Ape of the
free trade wedge inserted.
An object so great is worth the rink se come
English revenue, even if loss would follow, ma=
think, a reduction of our duties on wine. Dedies.
to increase the consumption of the lighter wines of
France in England would, to use the words of the
late Mr. POWER, "be a great moral blessing;" it
weeld improve our habits and elevate our tastes; it
would raise the character of an important trade, no-v
gradually deteriorating in reputation ; and it.wpuld
save both us and our colonies from the most detest.
lade potable adulterations that the world ever knew.

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