The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-27 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 27.

Tures was a debate on foreign affairs in each
House last night--oniDenmark in the Lords, and
on Poland in the Commons. Why noble lords
and hon. members will raise these discussions it is
not easy to discern, evident as it is that the opinion
of Parliament has no influence on the course of
events. Take Mr. Pore-Hmemisv's motion on
Poland, which has been hanging over the Howl
of Commons we are afraid to say how long. Sup-
pose all that it affirms is true, that the negotiations
of our Government with that of Russia respecting
Poland have not terminated in a satisfactory man-
ner, and so on—what then t The insurrection is
crushed out, the fighting men have been shot, and
their brothers and cousins uprooted from the soil of
Poland to be transplanted to Siberia. Mr. Has-
army's motion has been held over, according to
usage and intention, until it could not exercise the
slightest influence on the policy of the country.
The House understood last night that it was a mere
form : it listened to the hon. member while he
recited the familiar history of Russian oppression ;
it also heard Lord Patairasrme's explanation of
the value of the " diplomatic and political proteo-
" tion " afforded to the Poles by the Treaty of
Vienna ; and then without a division it wisely
went to business and talked about the Civil Ser-
vice Estimates.

The Lords had an advantage in discussing • sub-
ject still of living interest:—Are the Prussians
violating the conditions of the armistice by levying
war contributions in Jutland I Well, perhaps they
are, but what then I Lord ELLENBOROUGH felt
the futility of the inquiry, for he soon left it to
discuss more pregnant topics—the influence of
England abroad, the grounds of the national
policy, sad the political influence of the Crown—
topics which are everywhere in people's mouths.
Lord ELLEN•OROCOH blames the Government for
not remembering that the strength of diplomacy
resides altogether in the force by which it is
supported, and declares that the hope that mere
moral opinion ran produce any effect is an idle
dream. But if the Government has made that
mistake, it has done so in company with the
whole nation. That delusion has led vs
far on in • foolish path, but it is one
we shall not soon fall into again. There
is reason to expect that we shall for some time see
a great deal of high-handed iniquity in Europe,
and what we h►ve all got to learn is that when we
are not permitted to interfere actively it is better
for ourselves and for the world that we should go on
husbanding our resources, improving the condition
of our people, and generally minding our own
business, than rush hither and thither lecturing
this unheeding bully and asking that overbearing
ruffian to do us the favour to sit with us in Confe-
rence. We must learn to overcome our fear of
that old bugbear " isolation," and learn that
our position may not only be more dignified but
politically safer when we bold ourselves aloof
from the fellowship and the transactions of con-
querors.

THE conventional ides of an English manufac-
turing town shapes itself into stifling avenues,
warehouses closely packed together, ugly factories,
tall chimneys, smoke, and general dingyness. No
novelist would be praised for truthfulness who ven-
tured to depict such a town in glowing tints; yet
although the beautiful can hardly be said to reign
in places like Sheffield, nor even in Manchester,
any more than bright skies belong to Bolton or
Wigan, there are seats of manufacture--especially
in Yorkshire—the first view of which very much
modifies the preconceptions of the stranger.
Huddersfield is one of them. The visitor de-
scends from the steps of its handsome railway
station into a square of some architectural bes ity,
composed chiefly of rather floridly ornamented
warehouses, built of white stone. He cannot find
a narrow thoroughfare in the whole town, and,
turn his eyes whither he will, the surrounding hills
are seen to bound the perspective of almost eves]
street, picturesquely receding behind one anotherto
the very horizon. To the sense of the political
economist Huddersfield proclaims its own pro-
sperity very distinctly, while the number of well-
kept open spaces, the broad rows of spacious,
highly-glazed retail shops, the widely detached
suburban villas, suggest to tlie territorial mind a
general easiness in the matter of ground rents, and
a fair inference that landlord and tenants must be
on excellent terms with each other.
Alas I the report of Vice-Chancellor Sir J.
Sruzirr's judgment in the cause of " Thornton
verpts Ramsden," which appeared in our impres-
sion of yesterday, completely reverses the latter in-
ference. The land upon which the flourishing
town stands ia the sole property of Sir Joni WIL-
LIAM R.MBDIrv, and, instead of the peace, har-
mony, and goodwill which the pleadings show to
bare reigned between that wealthy young
baronet, his predecessors, and their tenants from
time immemorial, legal warfare to the very knife
has succeeded, in spite of efforts on both sides to
preserve harmony. The whole case presents a
salient instance of the facilities which the law gives
for setting honest people by the ears.

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The ordinary tenure appears to be of that easy
character known as tenancy at will, varied in some
instances by renewable leases. The original can-
didate came to the agent, had a little conversation
with him, put in a few stakes to indicate the
boundaries of the ground he wished to rent, and
by that means acquired for himself--secure in the
impeached honour of the RAMSDIN family—
a tenancy almost equal to freehold. Upon such a
tenure a great part of the important town of
Huddersfield has been gradually built, at a coat
to the tenant. of something short of one million of