The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-05 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5.

IN the dullest of times the Opening of Parlia-
ment never fails to excite a vague curiosity and
expectation, not only among the representatives of
the miscellaneous public, who stand about the
entrance of Westminster Hall, but even among
the actors in the Parliamentary drams, who ought
to know better. For, as regularly as the first
week of February comes round, this vague curio-
sity succeeds to the fate of many other respectable
delusions. Every year the Speech from the
Throne becomes more neutral in tint, and the
Address, which is a mere amateur copy of the
Speech, becomes less amenable to criticism.
Perhaps tbe pocu cerantc personal regime
under which we have at present the happiness to
live, but not to move, has done more to establish
the principle of absolute Parliamentary non-inter-
vention on the first night of the Session than ary
former administration, by simply leaving out of the
Royal Speech any point of difference or subject of
debate, and by confining that "document,"as Mr.
DISRAELI would say, to general statements ea in-
capable of controversy as remarks on the weather.
40 that by common consent the first night of the
Beasion le tegarneu on both sides of the House as
a prologue in which the leaders of the Opposi-
tion divide with the mover and seconder of
the Address the functions of Chorus. Whether
this abandonment of old Parliamentary traditions
is the result of mutual conciliation or of mutual
indifference, may be, like many other questions
on which a Ministry was once expected to have
an opinion of its own, an open question; but foreign
nations will remark, we know not whether with
envy, or astonishment, or scow, that just wh, n
they are expecting the British Parliament to be
most demonstrative, that great Assembly is most
impressively and imperturbably quieacent. Last
evening, however, it was observed that the House
was more than usually crowded, when, after an
extraordinary number of Notices, the Mover of
the Address rose to fulfil with modest brevity an
self-possession his appointed task. Faithful no
doubt to the injunctions and example of
his chief, Lord R. GROBVILVOR folio red
the sagacious precept, Clime:, Iyez
pas. He glided over the spots marked " den-
" gerous "—Japan, New Zealand, the lonian
Islands—with quiet and easy assurance, and touch-
ing the question of the day hedistributed regret and
blame pretty impartially between all the parties to
the dispute. O one point, however, he indulged
in a retrospective criticism which will excite some
surprise in Denmark. " If," he said, the present
King of Dramatis, "instead of yield.ing.to his
" Ministers when he came to the throne, had
" been guided by his own common sense, he
" would have revoked that Constitution which he
" has now called together the Rigsraad to do."
This is easily said ; and might have been easily
done, had the present King of DsasiLlt/i
not happened to be, like his predecessor, a
constitutional Sovereign, and the Danish nation a
nation with a will of its own. The present King
of DENMARK did in fact, on his accession, provide
himself with a Ministry of his own selection ; but
be could not change the nature of his oath or the
condition of his authority, nor could any Danish
Ministry revoke a constitution without consuletig
the representatives of the people. It ill beco.net
a member of the Parliament of England to speak
lightly of the responsibilities of a constitational
KING, but the unconscious levity of Lord R.
GROSVENOR'S suggestion is only too characteristic of
the fundamental error of the felbionable states-
manship of our day : the error of leaving nations
and national impulses out of the account in treating
international questions as the exclusive affairs of
Sovereigns and Cabinets.

The remarks of the Mover of the Address,
however, were—with this one exception—very
creditable to his discretion and good sense ;
and he had the good fortune to be seconded
by the youngest and ablest of the Members
for the City, in a speech of signal ability
and force. The House of Commons has seldorr,
if ever, witnessed so fine a performance
of a task that seems to defy originality and
to forbid distinction, and a Government that can
command such services deserves the congratulation
of all true liberals. One of the representatives
of the commercial capital of the world
is sure of a respectful bearing in the House
of Commons, more especially on questions
of finance and trade ; but Mr. GOSCHLN, at the
outset of a career which promises to be brilliant'