The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-11 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 11.

Tae Cu OCELLOR of the Francium tells us that
s &solution of parliament " may be alertly ex-
We have been expecting it them two
&▪
wk.: and now it is rally coming. For some
reeks whole Columns in our daily and weekly news-
lune been tilled with election addresses ; dry
La
weary reading, far the most part, to those who
124; cie appeals worthy of the crisis; addresses so
equate to the times, that some of us are asking
so another how many men, in and oat of parka-
goo, pmeive what the crisis is. How many can-
;Weis are there who have stirred up the constituen-
os w ith the thought that the coming election
s nothing less than an inertias and vim-
ilvestion of the representative principle in
the face of the whole world, and en bo-
lsi( of all that is good in all the world? How
sane constituencies are there who have told their
candidates that the liberties of a hamisiphere are
confided to British elmen*oship ; and that every
can who offers If to be a representative
spumes to be a champion in the oases? This clam-
pion-hip does not neasessily mean foreign interns-
son, much less fte war. The beet amertion of
civil liberty is a good use of it. The best vindication
of representative government is sheering that it
works well. But, at such a time as the present, the
gaud use of liberty mast be express; the good
working of oar imeitutioms mom be through
vigilance, coassisatioasosee, and of set purpose.
Is there any 'mg: among as ot soca mixes
and such vigilance . Is there any
_sign of my mu-
ral pup se, of any national 'dykes*? Mere is
vigilance beyond the Alps, where eyes, sa many as
there are stars in the sky—eyes swollen with weep-
ing or dim with hopelessness—are gazing this way
to see whether the sun of our liberties is standing
sill, or coming on to give them at list a dapping
even on high. There is vigilance on the plains of
Hungary, in desolate Warsaw and in humbled
Cracow. There is vigilance amidst the reeking
swamps of Cayenne, and the glaring winds of Algeria,
oil in the crowded prisons ei the French provinces,
and in a hundred streets of Paris, with their
thousand homes, when men cannot sleep for pret-
ence on the heart and tumult in the brain. With
all this vigilance directed full upon us, what is our
own ? How are our representative institutions
working? and how are we resolving that they shall
work ?
- I do feel," said Sir Jaen OSARAX, last week,
0, that in the course which we are now pursuing,
this assembly, which has been the great landmark of
representative government—end the great exam le
of representative assemblies throughout the
wortd—
will be brought into disrepute." That assembly was
the House of Commons, which is the same thing,
at the present day, as the whole government.
Disrepute, indeed! We have just done with
a government of Boodles, ('oodles, and
Doodles, of Bays, Caffys, and Doffys. We are
now entangled with a government of mammas
and ventriloquists, who are making a very Prosporo's
isle of our serious old Britain, with their false shows
and bodiless noises. On the continent oar country-
men are inenhed—first with blows, and then with
money to make it up. In far off seas ace minks are
snubbed or neglected. At home we meet get our
banns dime. We cannot get either our law courts
or our peat &Am domed out. We semest get the
waters of pedaled= teemed either into OW !lawn),
or our legislature, or we Sarah. ee en deem of
ignorance, where elm bleeds like venni. And
whose fault is this lb Wheels bet the people% wits
might govern it Boy weeldr=s h=
majestically, sad elbetually e the
and Buffys woad be nisei. We seed net
have small ma in the pie= of power =km
we will. To -e=of the memposen wed ventrilo-
quists would be They wield net be on the
great tragic stags et dde era, ifs* bedleittbsn in their
own caravan. To test bemuse we onset pt ee
business done, is the more weakness of no issomps-
tent housewife who completes tbet she end ma,
nage bee servants, sad thee It deem will est
obey her. Whet then is to be lour—the omits
bsiag a bead—to aye ger ispeemiletia spites
ban base 6, beaglelens tlimiepelef •
To bawl ea Aimee is the moat anew, though
not the highest replite to our_polithal retrieval P
Has the mks asp object ? Has ley w pasty
an object ? It is line the nation aid its par-
tite to show. Nobody seems to blew of any
stemma. It time be any, let is see it in the
fors of simple repreesetation—eow, when there
is an oppmemily. What ant ? To have a
b in et ±jtmore than wide mo-
sal perms,. That is Mirt;e a ats, this min, whist e • iss ot our
ram may on the et en pupae f He
the Mien a payees I, UM 14 pain, toe seeds le
upset. Have ley slams epuiresee P It ego whet
domes ? It is ensebeible, if tae—wed !tree to
be tes—that see eseneeters ars one men
hb mm (here is no need now to go Z 7111:
asses of this. If it be a teeth, we may learn soma
egg by watching how oar noweiseters operate
in preventing our irista.tive system fres
being " iron& into " A envier and
Let
seggestive spank Bet whet impose ?
Let the ant leaffisenent glow. len
hardly be to est Boone fed Oilene above
and ogy, or the servers. Weems& tells ir4
seemy Mega It can
whip an
te Invent Om repel e=ire
tee wen offsempties Mane the amp., What-
ever sub En I. party um
_nll me
te-forme will
to nothing. Woks Semi as diestithe pet=lldra Ad eat d pedimsat. dell agree to
MOM the rsenethe that our a-
linnirke gnu shall set be non* into dis-
reWhat mat? Coossienes in slanted action.
Higbee eseibleredsa et ell, eel that whin reuires
bast weds, sang that we bare at en fast tbe
vista et St. Albans, sad meld up before our epee
tie Tian of Vass Lotteneezes." Very few
words are magi hen. • wine asse—set many
term sp—throw wee a Webb, beldiessee et Nor-
with,p ee me with ilve irbe isradlL
mi Is tbe lest bear of palm Mint
his ne. When than is an Na Alms, the.,
Ent. la rebellllty, be mme and were
awe ha the sees eon on the name endsdeem& It
seems te es that he the mks et is. Na ma we
o'lo tablnert, and. twain( away from St.
Aiwa and Osesty Dews. *fatly amen the
biliq that sir meremstalles system should eves be
tetnitt jute dbeepele, while we have Na skims
to be repessamka
Bet th !—the host of iimCzes le
Flew i=imarepresentation, and,
a Pei I We want metier easeibt
Imo is the hmmo end, in male to that, we watt
imilinetentsey yam with a meek Ganged TREF
aeutalias I and SOK we want—O! so many things!
Wed, let as pt arm. Bat it is so delimit I—there
diSentty as this side, an es that, and as the
other. So at was en a metals meals* whore there
were terrible aisse—malls isseperable fee terror—
on this side, and on that, and all mend I and so it
km been very often on the pathway!
.of the week%
awe there were lions—very dreadful ittatt—ht the
Ow e
t yet ma he got to the top ot the manta*
"s
nd et the path.
Met this matter is to melees he the met sip
rutin bblieg. We me asse—is lewd to WNW/
is es mine a mile of ear ea-
tionaliVierly, wins it lOW= Weary.
es
"[Mint* bee yet edl. No as an my what
any have happened bin we new peelkinewt
es-
Pres ; but everybody known the prielabOtke that
great mots will occur before Ito eyes. To
make it worthy of its era is as grand a
vacation as that of the barons to Romp
mei!, e—as that of HAWDIII4 to the Exchequer
tourt—aa that of the Seven Bishops to the Tower
—as that of the political anion to their rallying
Punts in 1832. Our Hang JOllll is not on the
throne, nor the Cronusthe JAMS we have to
contend with—nor are our oppressors among the lords,

not our betrayers among the bishop. We are in
danger in a crisis when we should be most inn :--in
danger of oar representative systole being " brought
into disrepute." If oar betrayers and foes are not on
the throne, nor in the House of Peers, nor under the
mitre, where are they P Pray heaves that they be
not working in England's heart ! Up with oar na-
tional spirit ! Now is the boar fora fresh represen-
tation. Let it be one whisk the wide world may re-
gard with hope—with bonding who are worthy—
others, With bar.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

THE BURMESE WAR.

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MARSEILLES, Irma 11, 5 A.m.
The mail has just arrived. The dates are Calcutta,
May 3 ; Bombay, May 12.
The enemy made an eat to retake Pdartaban by
surprise, but was driven back with an immense loss.
Exchange at Calcutta, I.lok to Liel.