The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-23 00:00:00

L9NDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23.

TO-Ntour the House of Commons will be called on
to declare whether in its opinion the unconditional
repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 was "just and
wipe," or whether it entertains the contrary opinion.
When the motion of Mr. VILLIERS is put from the
chair, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER will pro-
pose, by way of amendment, to leave out the wads
"wise and just," and all those making specific men-
tion of the great and unqualified measure which
secured to our people free trade in corn—in order to
substitute sumo evasive and illusory phrases about
the advantages of "recent legislation," which would
bind and pledge the house to nothing definite or in-
telligible in future. As many as are of opinion that
the policy of PEEL was " just and wise, will say
" aye " to Mr. VILLIEIt'S as many as
think otherwise will say "no."
Mr. lizutacu's calculation manifestly is, that he
will be able to make use of his mutinous followers
for the last time to resist the resolution of Mr. VIL-
LIERS, and—should he succeed in negativing that
proposition—he then may laugh in the tare of
his dupes, as he and his colleagues, joined by the
Liberal party, would carry the ministerial amend.
ment by an overwhelming majority. In other
words, he coolly speculates on using the sincere
Protectionists to bailie the sincere Free Traders,
and the earnest Free Traders to crush those who
have consistently kept their Protectionist pledges. Will he succeed ? Will honest men on either side of
the house lend themselves to this doublefaeed trick?
The terms of the resolution proposed by the
hen. member for Wolverhampton are objected to
by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, while he
affects to concur in its substantial purpose and
practical signification. This. is his tone in remon-
strating with the Opposition. With them he would
fain pass for a sincere convert to those opinions on
, ooninieree and finance which he bee spent as last
six years in ridiculing and thwarting. But if he
be sincere, let him prove it by supporting a proposi-
tion which may be condensed into three brief and
plain phrases, namely,—the abolition of the Oars
Law in 1846 wasjust,—the result hes shown that it
was ewe,—sod we are determined to do in future
as we have done Moe thee, because we have
had it highly beneficiaL Not one word of this
dose Mr. Dumaxas amendment enetain. He re-
hire to admit that the act at 1846 was just—he re-
hail le RIPS hit it was wise ; he asanot deny any
loops list it hes been. in a certain ernes, beneficial
afar ewe this he Wisrely paraphrases by the sub-
elMeas of the teem, «recent legislation, to which
weal see is at full liberty to attach whatever mean-
ies he wilL In ham, the Cliancyzos of the
lizesmaz will rashly explain this to be the
volley noresteieted easpetition"—a wide and
ape generation wide is, by no means, sy
uneymes with the assaciation of class Its.
gieletios or protean of the landed in-
terest through the hetrumestaliq of unjust
taxation. " Unrestricted =spades "is melior
is ate
at Free Trade; but it set the cab, ens meat
Lead= hes established the pa d& of free a-
ped% ant Ands se the' almost tam
mot{ he se as to etapeneste to the
Sr all the amines of whisk
mat heaths hes deprived them. Lei the hoses
adept the Oseeremeat ameadment. end thin. is no
mem why dm shoal sot pee* sea week to
ma the easesatien of the lauded inteeent to the
mesa et aliens of taxes, sad the impales of a
like mount, is sem Paw tom on the inistrises
classes. We eh ablonits this new state of
have " 131111sirisisi mompstidos :"but would this
a benefit's imiMesemte et Free Trade
Suppose tar • INISMOMIII that the proposed affirma-
tion of Peale pett 1846 were to be negatived,
sad thelaslases of its univalent adopted
kg the
ribeetharhet recognised principle of
deed sr meld the faithful repre-
ented' et hirer( sad popular right
whoa wee pawed se it 'madly would
:gertli "GOMM the -bathos of the
is order to aggravate these lattwaillitowse
sliV= they appeal to the reactindea of the Ma
November, 1832 ? It would in me seapeet b 4
these. It woeld be found to be Whim ha
hallow-sounding shell. " Uneeetristed map &
Lion • with the foreign producer would as
be in question : that would on all hash to
taken hr posited. Bat the claim et dimentlei
monopoly to be rebuilt after a aew and improved
dodge far the of unjust mesas, would be
actually a to have received hem the present
pa: limes' an implied asknowledgment, inmanalt as
when it was pospesed to negative *et skim die-
da=ept the ememlidenel_ pay at
ins alma Initial of
ask. the maid of
an *an Saar war wsdl have beets, begun.
Tb• Whitey end enterprise et the sentry would
seat that all it led gained in 1846 mad m-
over mina was ia jeepormiesd having
paha its hasettraypeasess it would hardly
arbors to be wheel est et the of its victory
In ad, Fen pave us cheap food. not in mere
logical omp with our monemie theorise, but
beam he hit Oat lead on the mess
et the essassily for the bad' and gain of
the mammy • was a L_..., es has*, Which, if
paided weetheM atm the While demos of the '
ere by to verge of reveledes. Be sacrificed
pasty and power to the paltriness* of the duty
*Melt he felt he owed in that behalf to the people, to
the Crowe, and to his own kisteris has. He did
net pretend to give an equivalent, err anything ap-
Lrsubbietdetrupsiszetirtfesz
tterembelhabwed gains
pat Mlempted
woh a ;gide of Unties as that sew
petered's. the same meld have hese= ill
by
the whole aides as set ingshmt impostms.
The kw Emu be mode Is heel berthas
were amid without pearden med realved with
indillinmes helm* they rose, in peat of het, in-
dpillsont. They fiebasted in reti ken the
S md unesellia daseter etso the peat
of sedialies et titer joie right to the The
pespie seespbd it snob. and es for a
father over the graas ve of Psa.. The hush. whom
Hr. DISRAELI leads nested it as web, end
the illestans Mama with may of
obloquy and neentaiset during the of his
days. This seseonatinel reamden at hoe had is
that whisk Mr. Illuasse seweelle men Pediment
to deeime dually to has hem "wise and fret."
Tids whet Ministate end their followers refiess

U there be say is Ragland who desire tow the
oligesehy wades theralves anew odious to the cow-
nomio at brie. day areetipray for the detest of the
Fn. Ude gisibiba owl the sooosekof the Tory

Amendment. A majority, however small, in favour
of this disengenuous though desperate attempt to lay
the first stone of a new fortress of class usurpation
sod exaction, would stir the mind of the country to
its inmost depths. All faith in the stahility of con-
stitutional progress would be shaken. All confidence
in just government while the aristocratio influence
remains paramount in the legislature would be scat-
tered to the uiud.. Habits of order might for a
time secure apparent submissior. to the letter of the
law, but an irrevocable deed would have been done.
It would be felt to be the beginning of the end.

Tue Morning Herald—though snubbed by Mr.
FORBES M'Ke..Nris and Mr. I/Naar:Ll—is neverthe-
less patronised by Lord MALMEsBURT and Mr. WAL-
POLE, a..d yesterday, on their behalf, made an an-
nouncement that explains %tut Foreign-office coulters
and Queen's messengers have of late been rushing
to and fro in Europe. That the hubbub was all
about the political arrangements of Greece was well
known previously; but no one could tell whether
Lord MALMEbUCET, in his turn, was going to come.,
Greece into another act of occasional honesty;
whether Louis NAPOLEON had resolved on dis-
sipating in that country, .as in France, the
phantom of constitutional government; whether
ltussia was going to swallow Greece at once,
without form or ceremony • King Orlio to aban-
don his wile as well as his kingdom; or whe-
ther, in despair, European diplomacy was about to
resign 0 entirely. The Morning Herald yesterday
explained that the work in hand was a new treaty
between England, France, Russia, Bavaria, and
Greece, winch, &wording to Lord dLitses-
sexy, is to solve not only all the diffi-
culties and perplexities of Greece, but to
place himself on a level as to reputation with the
authors of the great fundamental pacts of Europe,
such as the treaties ot Westphalia, of Utrecht, and of 1,
Vienna. Alas!—instead ot that—it only shows how I
lie mistakes the forms and outward shows for the
realities and inner lives of nations; how ho imagines
Grecoe can ho made to move, breathe, and have its
being in the husks of diplomacy ; and how, supposing
that the events of that country are turning on his
will and suggestion, he is but the dupe of more crafty
ministers. imagine Lord MALtiesnear —" our inter-
national law" NIA —Mr.MATHER's MA Lynn-
BUILY—Auat riles MALMESBURY —any and everybody's
MA LIISSIIURY sitting down—" in his own house,"
according to the familiar Herald—to re-arrange the
affairs of Greece with that wily, foxy old gentleman
Baron linen:sow, full of the experience of years of
diplomatic craft, and of Count NEUELRODE'n instruc-
tions—Lord MALMESBURY thinking when he had
signed a new treaty that he had had things all hie
own way, and then congratulating himself, and
lauding himself, and pulling himself off next day in
the Hominy Herald.
About what 1 Guaranteeing the Greek faith to
the Greek monarchy ; which the prescient all-seeing
lIALNESRUILY assures Europe will hereafter save
Greece from a terrible rebellion. In 1832, it would
seem the Powers guaranteed the crown of Greece to
the House of BAVARIA, though its princes were the
stoutest of all Roman Catholics, and the Greeks the
most obstinate of Schismatics. The FALIIERBTONS,
the TALLEYRANDS. and the P ouo DI BOROIS, who
then had the concerns of Greece in hand, never then
thought of asking Prince (hut) to change his reli-
gion, to renounce orthodoxy, as it is in ROWS,
and plunge into the arms of Schism as it is
in Greece, for the sake of a ricketty, doubt-
ful, unenviable throne. In those days men had
religious and political principles, and valued their
oaths and their consciences. Tempers sinisritsir.
The Princess WAaA, in these time, hes renounced
the Reformation, to reign for a MAXI in Paris ; and
our Ktutessuae, after neglecting the Holy Places
is Palestine, and fraternising with the prejudices
of the College of Howling Dervises at Stam-
boul, has actually chang4 by treaty, the faith
of the King of Clitews, and induced him to
become • member of the Russian Church, whose
followers turn morning and evening (without
preying, however) to SL Petersburg as their Mecca.
This royal and diplomatic chopping and changing
of faith and church for the chopper and changer's
benefit, is not eo pleasant and agreeable a religious
performance) that it ought to inspire the pious
Herald with slight. Nevertheless, it does so. Our
oontenifF screams with horror at every addl.
bona' chapel the CARDINAL erects here; but
in the *dm of another crowned head and royal
family to the Rod= Church he can only see and
feel joy.
Conveniently blind to the moral and spiritual cha-
racter of the transaction, that journal would persuade
us it is a great piece of state craft to have persuaded
Oruro to become of the same church as his subjects,
and to have got Protestant England and Roman
(Wm& France to guarantee to Greece the royal
wrof faith in that kingdom. Pos-
would have bees so considered a century
But now-a-days no one believes in the te
ed state craft. So the great majority of
will And nothing in the affair to
Crethe happiness or independence of Greece,
grost dial to foster and encourage the designs
ot Numb ea Orem.

What dieo wants is good goverment—that is,
horsey, integrity, judos, sad mem ia the admirerabated. sad
Watios td llorpuesigrt
-
ties gee= emote& i
had set soder -0180 tin Lam °Shells; the
eases of tkele obsess, was ask bovemem is Ile
Ziag's weigh% log is hi sila hampstive of hit
faith. And how a Am. el !Ilk is to canon
a bad Jab a geed Rims* we really saw
sot see. To diniaterested spoliators the sem
venial seems somewhat catering to relishes
prededisse for the sake of greats liberty of inissla
It wee bat the other day Om rasa away hues
Gress and the hope of his satirmagwas that he
would never Won. Nor won very eager to
receive from Mesh& • meows sew that
Bavarian Prises bell *air religion se Amps and
last lard MALMINNIXimooIoIo the simommo to
Ibis when mmlbsoo or the poi Okorth, the
Sehimatie Arnow mild a fiatesday—m in hie
own loass"—will, of esumq twee the Bavarians os
the Meeks, sad se &ph* dins of the right to
saint their ova eseemeasat and to abase their
Sovereigns—as otherpospies have the sigh Hof doing.
When this Europa& sompalsioa shall, as It
have produced its natural reeds in Greece, add
the
Bavarian. shell have became so unpopular that sot
ems Lord Idauessavat's gm/sates ma keep them
there, Russia will them step in, on the m-
ime that. hei?g. the head and chief of that
Greek faith IMO &rope has reeogniesd as
swum in Omsk_ As Mem ma preserve Orgies
to kiserray. The par will thea be ripe,
and Buis will watillsw it. Lad MAUI'S-
WIT has thus bets mailnaing mad segment.
ing Bavarian bad Immsent of Greets ; foe-
tering the still ham disoriminiion of the
cowry * Ike poems of gumming royal
family ; sad ymperW &woe and Ewer for Rag-
man dmina liy this great treaty which oa Saw-
day last was "in his own house ;"--as if he
was the Ara Soilish Foreign Secretary who
ever had a home le alga treaties is