The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1852.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 21.

LORD JOtttt Russtu., when pronouncing at Ster-
ling an elaborate eulogiunt on the Duke of WEL-
uairreN. said :
" Perhaps I am the more justified in saying what
I have done because there were few, perhaps there
were no, persons, except the late Lord Metiovivi•
and mj self, who can bear this testimony—that
however he (the I)rKr) might differ in political sen-
timents with the person who held the chief office in
the political service of the State, he was as wilting,
as rrfulT, as forward in giving every assistance that
he thought for the benefit of his country, to one who
differed in political opinions, as he would have been
to the dearest of his political friends."
This is, indeed, high praise—praise. the value
of which is infinitely increased, when coming
from the mouth of a political opponent. But few
persons know so well as the Wing leader the value
of the influence which the DIAE exercised. The
House of Peers is notoriously behind the age in
its knowledge of the signs of the times. Neverthe-
less it may be affirmed of members of this order that
however they may be below the level of general
public intellipnce. they are often practically wil-
ling to recognise the realities of their position.
Conscious that they were themselves unable to
collect sufficient materials to form lucid ,judgments
upon great questions, many of them—for instance—
threw themselves unreservedly upon the great prao-
tical common sense of the Dtt&E. Often and often
has his Grace had in his pocket enough votes to give
a majority in the House of Peers. He has had—it is
known—as many as sixty proxies confided to him.
The Duke of WELLINGTON by his death has thus
surrendered the keeping of some sixty consciences,
which depended upon his Grace for ground to stand
upon. These will now be wandering about, as sheep
without a shepherd. They will be the prey
marauders. They will listen to the exciting tabs d
political TRI rES and NIONT 1G1.7E.4, and show themselves
beggared before the bar of public opinion, calling
frantically for vengeance upon their deceivers. Lord
Jolts Itussit.t. can well understand the loss that
many " hereditary legislators" hare sustained.
It is truly a matter of serious consideration to
know what the Upper House will do without the
Dt kr. Ho had the same power over a large
number of volatile subjects as VIRGIL'S 'EGLI'S had
over the winds committed to his care. He wits
placed, like the classical god, high above his
roving subjects. He held his sceptre firmly.
He alone could soothe their minds and
temper their wrath. He, like klott's, knew his
subjects well, and felt certain that but for him they
would sweep over the political heaven and milk
over the court and the nation, and create a twit*
which they would bare no power to put dew
s).Where is theNEI`TVNE in the House of lasi wins
as in Viiinit.'s fable, will lift his placid head above
the troubled waters, and bring the jarry elements to
tepose?
Let us remember, when we endeavour to speculate
upon what will be the future conduct of the House of
Lords, with regard to the great questions that will
come before it in the next maim, that a sixty-vote
Moderator is gone. One broad feeling of sym-
pathy, which was sufficient to produce a certain
unity of action amongst very discordant elements, has
vanished. The House will be split up into parties,
without having any definite principle to guide them.
They will have all the mechanism of an integral
portion of the constitution, but they will want •
motive power they long relied on. -Hem tells a
story of an automatic man, constructed by an inge-
nious Englishman, which, by the means of a com-
plex arrangement of springs, performed all the ordi-
nary functions of humanity. It would have pealed
muster as a genuine specimen of the human race
amongst any assembly. Nevertheless, the automaton
had just sense enough to know its own defect. It
found out, alas! that it had no soul, and it set to
work forthwith to tease its creator to give it the
grand desideratum. It followed the unfortunate
artist all through the world with the reiterated re-
quest, " Give me • souL" The House of Lords will
be in the predicament of He ms's automaton. The
only difference will be that it has lost what the auto-
maton never had. The Tory members have lost the
soul of their body; and we know not, however
loudly they may cry, where they will get another.
It would be difficult to point out any other clam
which is characterised by such features of hopeless
mediocrity as the Tory party in the present House of
Peers.
With respect to ourselves, we have nothing to
fear from that body. Its power for mischief has
been long since neutralised, and its power for good
has been diminished by the death of the DUNA.
With Lord Dmv the case is different. He may
find to his cost that a House of Peers without a
ruling spirit may—although powerless in its offset
upon the nation—be a terrible thorn in the sides of
a Minister. He may anticipate with tolerable cer-
tainty an satieDeafir party, as his colleague in the
other Howse may look for an anti-DisLtxtl party,
as the result of the sins of each with regard to Pro-
tection. The PRIME MINISTER will look in vain
for that shield which has protected so many Minis-
ters and aided so many ministries. He will have to
stand or fall by the naked merit of his actions.
No friendly power will come to his aid be-
cause " Her Ildwesn's government must be
carried on." He will have to fight the
battle of Protection against Free-trade, and d
Bigotry against Liberality, without the hope of aid
in case of failure, or a refage in twee of defeat. If
those grieve most deeply on account of the occur-
rence of any event, who lose the most by it. few
men will have better cause to lament the absence of
" the Dues" than the Earl of DERBY.

Titeae is nothing so unsuccessful as Imitati
The as. that aped the lion—the daw that feathered
itself to be mistaken feta pescosh—the hog pant
out like a ball—instead of deceiving the world, de-
ceived no one but themselves. They were laughed
at, failed, and made miserable ends. Tim', in sow
mon with all Imitators, only copy externals ; they eta
copy nothing which is not aka de*, for they an
see no deeper than the eartese, end they can do
nothing which they have not semi done Wan.
If the future career of the arch-imitator al the
age, LOUIS NAPOLEON, be prophesied by this eels,
that prince will not be exempt foes the usual fate
of his else. Unless he strike oat something new;
something original; something not copied foes the
historical programme of his uncle's life, ho will theft
with • series of crosses for which he will not lad
compensation, even in the gigantic plagiaries of as
imperial crown. Second-hand files, and seesall•
hand decrees may for a time please and dazzle as
easily satisfied and not very penetrating nation;
but secondhand commercial policy will end in
national discontent and princely dieaster. Even the
protective system pursued by NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Wt' a century ago, although wrong always and
everywhere, may have partially succeeded in France,
because the rest of Europe at that time believed in,
and acted on, protection principles; but it cannot
succeed now, when Free-trade is the rule generally
acknowledged, and is, where practicable, acted upon.
The last bit of political reproduction on the part of
the Great French Nephew, was announced in oar
second edition yesterday. The threat remind
flung at Belgium, of a war of cossseeial
tariffs, has been opened. A decree, dated ;awe then
a week since, but only just promulgated, impose se
additional 10 per cent. duty upon. all the seal end
iron to be imported from Belgium into Frame. Tbe
same sort of excuses for this aggression are tatin as
those growled forth by the wolf to the lam ; they
prove nothing, but simply a wish to quarrel.
The Brussels Inthlpentitince states doubtless
ou authority—that " nothing has been dons
on the p6t of Belgium which en give
any motive for, or even justify in any degree what-
some this act of the French government." The
only shadow of excuse was adumbrated some little

live since in an alternative presented to the Belgian
gerarnent either to adopt a modificatien of the
Franco-Belgian tariff proposed by France in 1843
(a plagiarism this time from Louts-Pint-trim) or to
consent to an addition of 10 per cent. duty upon all
Belgian produce taken into France.
The merest accidence of political economy—the
faintest lessons of commercial experience—are vio-
lated by this measure. In selecting coal and iron,
with which to strike the first blow of Protection
mischief, the would-be Emperor has taken the most
powerful weapons wherewith to strike it ; but
it is a blow which will hit him harder
than it will hit his opponent ;—we say " him,"
because he is yearning to commit one more plagiar-
ism,' and to be able to tar, like Loris XN .—Le
Prance, ("est reel ! The nation will suffer in the end.
Coal and iron are to manufacturing
.operations (those
sources of solid national prosperity) what water
is to fish; and to restrict the flow of them articles
into a manufacturing country is about as wise as to
attempt to improve fisheries by draining lakes. To ono
Belgian coal-owner or iron-master who would be
injured by this impost in the degree of ten to the
hundred, dozens of French manufacturers of every
article fabricated by means of steam machinery—of
which iron and coal are the materials—will be losers
in the degree of some 20 per cent. A tax upon
bread or beer or any non-productive article—any
article which is at once consumed, and does not help
in the production of other articles—only injures buyer
and seller in an arithmetical ratio, or at simple in-
terest ; but a tax upon machinery, or its matenals, by
whose agency all sorts of manufactured merchandise
are produced, punishes the buyer in a geometrical
ratio, or at compound interest; for it is an indirect
tax upon —in this instance every object
of commerce and comfort to the manufacture of
which coal and iron are applied. The Belgian
seller, to whom coal and iron mean nothing more
than coal and iron, will suffer little by the new
impost, compared with the loss the tax will occa-
sion to the French buyer, to whom coal and iron
mean hundred-fold-producing machinery.
But French manufacturer'', it may be answered,
are not dependent upon Belgium for all their coal
and all their iron. This is true ' • but the fact does
not touch the principle ; it only reduces the injury
self-inflictedin degree. If the principle be, as
threatened, fully carried out, and aB Belgian imports
into France be taxed at the rate lean additional 10
per cent., the war of tariffs male mess disastrous
than a war of gunpow and lead, for,
although Belgium may suffer, Frame is certain to be
beaten in tho end. If the pais prints of that
country can, under a rigid censonW Wool.
LOUIS NAPOLEON'S popularity rests 'MeV Wm lb,
ss=of the humbler orders of the nabob A Ne-
proportion of them are engaged in staawitt-
tnre, and if once a check be given to manufactrakag
raity by a" war of tariffs," discontent will Weal
Section, and there is no knowing what atq
happen. Although to anticipate anything soy
disastrous to the present government of France kes
a 10 per cent. duty on Belgian coal and koaa's,'
appear hyperbolic, yet "great effects from alb
causes spring ;" and empires have been jeopardised
before now from smaller beginnings than a bleeder
in customs duties, and a weak plagiarism from the
'defunct and wretchedly unsound Continental
system."
A kw plagiarisms from Alan Bitrrn and frent
alto Send commercial policy of this country! wadi
be amore solid service to Loris NAPOLEON in CINIM
solidating his position than all the tariff wars—all
the fetes, and all the elaborately prepared triumphal,
itineraries that he can possibly copy from the bril-
liant
original, from whose recorded acts he seems to
derive his every rule of conduct and diplomacy. If
he would copy a leaf from the political economist,
he would prove an exception to the general rule ap-
plicable to imitations and imitators.

mad it may earoguently be withdrawn Its. understanding
daub' be sear to between tla two goismainta. There
Y so dada bat ibutleiginamollil be led
&Owe ea aka seriously
ea tbe bid danaliaa ia *WI *sod bilassif, a tbs
OZitel dammed Imparteat tawas ag ber mused
allestal kg IL Thes= a=na ad laa
yam ated to IT.tepth ; Asa at
art Ma vete 011:1: gulabda but It mast sot be
appall that we wish sere in 1847, and that
lbw la
to
lemma lry the ass e
ta
glom to vat we.., ealiaprinan paw isms asa eta
i dent M show wait interest Solglan boo In obtaiglag Use
I withdrawal ot a aurae ilia ea sorisady Masa ler

alma industry.
The Dant, nye cat the sem eel** t
Thus Use Peary man& Wag the lailoparable ele-
ment of tutorial as well as miles),, whisk asastitute the
stealth of northern Plane, the inereased duty with which
they ire struck would essunse an eseressetew character of
Callif it wan es be unartem, and NM ewe so if it
used's Deigirite eater liar s wow et With. In
sash ea neat levied. ea eithsr sib might le to an Wait
the limit of which it Is dldaalt to foram. Let u hope
that it will not be so, and that Belgium will uadentand
that the exceptional favours extended to her by our tariff
are well worth in return some concessions for our wines,
Mika. ie., which would do no harm to her own industry.
The Preen anticipates immediate reprisals on the
part of the Belgian government. Belgium, it says,
must be the greater sufferer of the two, as she has
exported to France annually products to the amount
of 177 millions of francs, whereas France exports to
Belgium only to the amount of 134 millions ; but on
the other hand the exports of French wines and
other products for Belgium were annually increasing
and this branch of French commerce will now be

materially checked.
To-day I observo a notable change in the view
taken by the government papers of the merits of the
Duke of Wellington. The Pays, after having in-
sisted that " the present epoch has furnished a gallery
of European renown. of the sin of Wellington,
seems to have received orders from head- nailer. to
make the aniende honorable to the deceased hero. It
now admits that England has lost a great captain
and a great citizen ; but uses these tardy concesnons
merely to usher in some questionable allegations
concerning the favourable opinion which the Duke
had formed of the government of tho 2nd of Do-
comber. The article is as follows:

England has lost, in the person of the Date of Welling-
ton, a great captain, and a great citizen. It is for her to
render homage to him memory ; and we honour, even in its
exaggeration, that national sentiment which inspires in our
neighbours that unanimity etregret and praises with lamb
it surrounds the yet cps tomb et this ilkestrions Ma. la
leaving to his country 11:701driieneeiriat him
and to history that of *0 smut
which distinguished Ma es • , we shall only cell le
miad a merit dna wee eel long carter, whist' le,
Penal% bee baliewaLeal pit Nat the salutary Wasson
whisk me Dag Of Wellognm swerebed in the wade of
his aseelly with repot le Ile halo:elation.. Thal mh►
ma of battle-dela egg
seoodeled billet Pea any sae IP
only eisellog ilidety pallA
sell we oe
media bias pa!al
te Man
sa
he slowed himiN m every ommka Melt:
pull= of
to ire that ossall maiatabs
=tte the Meeks, betema Immo and
Thesobs* wee eimmolemoil gad in
ititi the most osadems leolowlear, and he mese owed to
age the meeklemble Maim, which he exassied over the
Maim of hh sovemmeat and over pablie opinion, is
eider to roam war games of dieseet which might wise be-
tween the two oseablia. lingered with as seciasenj
Pot and upright .dad, the Debi et Weinman fedlnl
the actsof the 2nd Deeesslii se Wen hilt
these ; and in hie unshakeable pal some, be has never le.
dilated to ad andleired lintkpliedekt, la Lade Napoleon.
the saviour et oldie- as well as of beach society.
Re lately debased lagliaalla firers Lemke In order to
p MOM Fresh Embrey, and Ina In Eli 'ebb:sties of
eat ale of the UP Amu" sad be wee hood to espies
We wet thee It het aft aim_ le bin le propose Ile
bids of the Ihtmo ltiaiese. The Dole of Wellington,
him a eamaisaliess Iselin, rebid blown above hi
ova memoirs. After herbs, wee the appossat of the
lkegem, he knew how to admit in hi Yak MI @Mew
aessoury lam, whom missies it would be so ispeedliste
as ft weellibe MOM to shackle.
to. drew to dad in the legitimist wpm,
L'Union, the following panegyric of England's
" =nice :"
r lively and profound may be our legitimate esith•
gable against England, we have never hesitated to nee&
olio lie groat qualities which make our ancient rival ONO
the Ilse astiOni in the world ; and we are among those who
di& that is the mutual esteem which the two powerful
=naturally enemies' should have for one eke her,
ity and courtesy, which honour bath weft,
shavil be displayed. Now at this moment, we maw is
diflaslop la gavot, that all Great Britain gives as
alieilkuamil eatable spectacle, by the unanimity as seek
lb op by lb, agitate of the embalmed, praises with which
Ile epees the mina of one of Me meet illustrious dead et
Let as plies odds the • flights of
as tailloarro sniffler te doe English solimmilVitep to we-
iting:t excusable la Iliseese. Therossomialbe most ed-
sow mad e. at unanimian iitteet mot sees.
Poem the met of the coven 's to lba met mat
Pep la Po sky ' • hew the elevated ewes et
the ariseessery and of toryian, to the elm= pat-
e&
et denseersey, there is only ana
• seatiamst, posespia. This 11=1:imil selio,Z
11 ohm haw wash pails rids._ sod
dimaimes oad wipiribLead ahem al Ist
Lad it dem a* to rem* thet
seep pained. Row many siatessma. hew
we woke% beer ow ma of goatee, there an who
lieetllmemed the memo MIK their fellow-citizens, in our
may waft. who ham only rarely or lately obtained
*Mai Tho end to gratitude which death Welt
OS ed summend doewhem, the Duke of Weil.la sh-
leimismg sebe dories Ps long existence. lie lc=
owe hem ames- lemeemWsea he. All the tithe mg
Pet hoeiga ldeposeld esesed, all the dishes ime, Ilee=
sad Pala that tbs semesohy sad the
MON, have bees gwidipft bestowed =llls b•
lames in the asneW vet even greater thee lie
In the army. He saw statues erected to
is reproducing him em Achilles, England made
h demi a &sake,. Why ? Boormaegabsi to him mepai mr of wracksd
akchlo,
of
bet hem es' let . h moo keie•
laboolem ba
, eat patient spirit, fun of hikat
elsohle
mehteace, posilsoi before an, seeking the awed, bomeo.
lima solely he the endessal grandeur, ping amp Milt
eldest without Waft aside. sesolved to die at do pet sr
Matnever dedelsfeg, heeling down all oblesati
by amine% by peree=yoftes=o
never discouraged. allowing im a,
rlrsda..lll".l.o4lts.47llfwessiiitgliNhis:'=aziksZughendi?ial.
• us the idea of eeebee, g Ste welsh fe rm.Gcyre. and beesibisiwy of
oar dep. And yet awhile imesease the geseamm of a
eillimea or a Milo so musk se the metre* of lis ag•
ieweeke. The Deka of Wellington weed=sa to the
awl aphis of mews times. That an will us&
In belie jog.
_lt is that swaged= Zaglaad oh.
latilaa la kw oelhaelma she est se mash the lim”
hissolle of the ammo of war es the ieetement el the
ehleisee psi,/ whisk, after bevies three times reamed
nee of s Zawpeaa coalition, alter baring resisted the
owipste • f the wield, faded by Weak, owe the
=esiewon, and be Pa/ aft ilia ea the reek
Sam ; Oda julep which, whoa freed hen nso
hglihris wrawohy W Whisk it was for a time
Ppm to aelsteoete meek its laws to the waive=
gene& theethe Dohs of Wawa had she geed bream
Yet to be ea aemegliee in the modal/awry smememes ef
which Lied TaMmelea was the anti that he hid the let
L= loam of ouppeetheg the omeadpodisa et
selbelles, sat that at dr some- thee bo
seholoil tbe demsenne a whom,
Ilmesamdeg character in its no-
BoV itswd onaservative features. We
Ilea dm to soy, Pat is bseseZ =its, that
Weiss me et theirper
r.
Bet what seems te aslarisre woollyof sir
masa In the asters of Pose =Menai psalm. Is the
celner sag be the owesmun what is admire* above ell
Woad the Mown h tbe sea of daty—daty towage his
osealey, whit be smog alibeet ever MEW say.
Oleg ew lie ewe sealitisa IP own mown—
daty ammo the he of whisk ia dot amity
of liberty awl appeals& he wee Ps art ihitisfel
'abject and the meet dielatwooled eseesellse—duty
towards the old leolitudees ef hiseseafty. to whisk he bed
kith, whisk be piled, whisk he delmiod, men at the
pen his papelarity, and mew to the of me
peke Mow* to the snub of the ,
wWilm asesped with the cold awl rchM
Wm widish sousedd has to allow lie lattalleas to Pr=duty
pine and to eliegpow winsome 'meeting to Mime
tom hem Phalle at whisk they to Walt er to dig. This
is what lapsed i=issa the Dohs of WeWagtea, sad
met so the hobo of him who beide.
served IrigoTtle people who pen it es puha*. Wheel
in prossees of thew analmeas possowdes homage.,
of this sessiemay pia eallswisem, we eansh
day the Geodes Vaasa net of meth
sink tb, peed, the olowkameate of ear
erastry, we ese &pod to eon it ems of eminent
elsonworistios of hat rival, mod la hobs that wish we do
lea set drapes. sad puiselms.
Lie labia of ywiaary ~lag or:
awlideteablp assepted by the goverment for the
wan; legislative wohich east te kite plan ea
foenbe
r Paris,
aid M. Mask ermain 4rt, the
mime of the Mayors of Paris- fer Ow Lease. 31. i
wompleadetive • for the Ilksalt, Desmoot,rilleirte.
=end for the Puy-do-Dime, M. de Pemstier. It is
that M. Cabias, Mayor of the Croix-Dewar, is
Mee& eg hr the Rhine.
If. Me mm, the last government candidato against
Cleastal Cstaignas, has addressed a letter to the
electors of the Olt cfjectoral circumscription, declining
be Mead so ear at the approaching election.
The bet tusk lam Bordeaux to Angouldme car-
ded pirmakto as
_the 20th.
liLii.l4" osoft yesterday sent for the editors
dose asyspipsrs ia Faris, and informed them that
fke the future telegraphic despatches received by the

government would be communicated to all the Jour-
without reference to their political opinimas.
At Lyods several banners were displayed by the
counianes bearing the old republican device of
lilksirl/, Equality, and Fraternity," and the Gallic
cock was ems much more frequently than the eagle.
IThis must not, however, be understood as indicative
of any political demonstration, which certainly
would not have been permitted. The communes
brought out their old colours, having probably in
many cases no others.
Tho Prefect of the Haute-Oaronne, M. Chapsys
Montlavelle, to prepare the inhabitants of his de-
partment for tho President's visit, has issued • pro-
clamation, which in its hyperbolic and nauseous adu-
lation transcends anything that can be imagined of
the lower empire. It is the choicest specimen of
Napoleon worship that I have yet seen. lie cells
Louis Napoleon the hero of tho 2nd of December,
raised by Providence, in one of those grand moments
consecrated to mercy, for the salvation of French
society. Warming with his subject, he proceeds to
affirm that the genius of Louis Napoleon is universal
and infinite, and all that is universal and
infinite must come from on high. Alluding to the
restoration of the cross upon the church of Ste. Gene-
vieve at Toulouse, he calk on the people to regard it
as a sign of the ill of heaven, givinx a character to
a new epoch, and pointing to and consecrating the
chief destined to lead France happy and triumphant
through the vast fields of the future. lie finishes
with this rapturous burst :
To the incense which will burn on your altars, to the
chaunting of the hilly priests, and to the prayers of the
faithful, will be joined the expansive joy of the people.
Prepare, then, your holiday clothes, adorn yourselves with
ribands and flowers, take laurel in your hands, and come
to Toulouse, tho queen of cities, to curer with flowers, with
laurels, and with benedictions, best and greatest Prince
of our age.
A letter from Marseilles, of the 20th, states that at
six o'clock in the morning of that day, the fireworks
preparing for the ?fete were destroyed by the acci-
; dental explosion of a bomb. The roof of the work-
; shop was blown off, and the building nearly shattered
to pieces. Several persons were seriously. injured.
The director of the manufactory, M. Camoms, is not
. expected to survive. It is thought that there will
• not be time to prepare fresh fireworks for the fdto
; getting up for the Prince President.

BELGIUM.