The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-10 00:00:00

trades or commercial pursuits. The inwi;--'ltire
higher seminaries for the education of
who devote themselves to the tihog
profs salons, encourages men of ability th
cultivate the studies taught therein. Thi
sciences necessary for the practical labours of
lawyer, physician, ergineer, end divine, ere th
themselves attractive, and impart a higher *4
more graceful character to all who are versant in thee.
Hence we see that in every country where iocitutim
for education in the liberal pro'essienes have
founded, many are in the habit of retorting to
in search of mere abstract learning and geteralathoz
plishments. The tone of regulated and disciplieed4;
veatigation and reflection thus diffused through ;th
general public imparts to the me:local literates,
power and wealth it could never otherwise hive pus
teased. Institutions for the higher brooches of tie;
tion—colleges in short—are an inctspeneable seep e
meat to elementary schools, if we are to hoe,
national system of education worthy of theme*.
In these seminaries of higher education me,
independence of ecclesiastical control is even more 4o
ceasary to their success and utility Oar, in elenimo,
schools. They are not the antagonist's of the ch
but they are its equals. We entertain the deepii
Fenno and conviction of the importance of the Med.
In keepirg alive the religious sentiment, and,ie
discipline exercised over Its own members, •
the identity of faith and practice a habit, it is Me
luable. We say this not
.of one, but of all chweht
But if the extension of secular kneels*
and its professors' independence of minimal
authority, have at any time appeared therms
to the church, the cause will, upon ite6,
be found to have been an unwise jealousy on toe'
of church authorities, leading them to cheek rs-ii
repress the advance of knowledge. There is o
compatibility between col.egee of secular lamed*
and the church, though the spheres of each ars die,
tract and independent. This is trte, even ie scan
tries where religious opinion is in the ethth !ma
ore, as in Scotland ; but in a country tellers mum
so widely sundered as in Ireland, the entire seyee
i tion of colleges from any church is ndispensdie.
Prince ALBERT'S education affords a goatanteed
his being deeply impressed with the importune el
these considerations. Ti e new Irish colleges wept
of the same plan of general education is the emu
model schools. And, beyond a doubt, had the,
seminaries been already in active operation, the use
marked countenance of royalty would have knee
tended to them as to the elementary inetitutioss.
These remarks apply merely to the broad outlined
the scheme of Irish national Education. Its details
may be—must be—susceptible of improvement. h.
dividual appointments, or particular measure*, nigh,
(we do not say they are) open to exceptions. Beta
the plate of general secular Educat'.on for Wend le
mainly rested our hopes fur the future of that putaf the
empire. We do not look to reap its fruits in aye
or even in a generation. We do not believe the
apart from other reforms it will be found efficacioac
cr even possible. But national secular educatice
the sheet anchor of Ireland. And therefore dove
hail the marked unostentatious expression of intertst
in its progress which emanated from the QuEnt.e
Dublin; and hope that in the sobered tone of Ind
sentiment, the result of recent calamity, cod in the
diversion given to the ordinary train of Irish thought
by the royal visit, the expression of that interest ell
find active sympathy among the beet minds and
hearts of Deistic'.

WE havelong sincewarned our contemporafer,wto
so warmly abetted the prevalence of Auetrias mid of
French generals over the several Italm data
struggling for their freedom and indPpenience, that
the first use which the conqueror would Indoor their
victory would be to prohibit freedom of commerce Ili
set up exclusive trading privileges fur themselves.
We have seen what Austria has compelled Pid•
mont to stipulate, a commencement that must intil•
libly drive the Sardiuiaas into the Austrian Z.l

TennO.
We have now a sample of what tte Frenciue
about to do. The Petrie, French ministerial evening
paper, developes their intentions clearly. It ens
mences by regretting the large figure which tie
Roman expedition mast oce, sion in the budgetd
expenses about to be laid before the Assembly, sel
it follows up the regret by saying that hoe
ever redoundeng to the honour and glory of Frans
and however valuable to the cause of order, still it is
very necessary that France should reimburse itself
few the expenses of on expedition undertaken fir suds
philanthropic ends. But unfortunietey (continumtit
ministerial journalist) the Romans have been dam
and to the quick, and to levy direct contribution
indemnities upon them would be as impracticable
impolitic.
" But, however this delicate question may be de
cided," says the Patrie, which thus admits that it kr
been for some time under con‘ideration, "equitab
commercial arrangements are the brat mews of pe
curing for France the desired compensation."
France only sends to the Roman states in the ye
about 120,000 pounds' worth of perfumes al
fashions. How diegrareful and ungrateful! To
priests, whose dominion and whose uncontrrlie
power of taxation we have restored, argues tk \
Frenchman, ought surely to do more for us the
this. There are tnese rascally Eng:ishmen Ids
would have liberated the Romans from tee Carthiale•
heretic doge, who persist that people should be taxi
only through their constituents—these fellows fluid
manu`actures and colonial wares to the Romanist'
cheaper price than we can. This is insufferable. Cs
we not do in Italy as we have done in Spain, al
even more, for Rome is a helpless state. a
not establish special privileges in the ports force
shipping, in the tariff for our goods? Ca
we not indeed compel the free entrance of Freed
goods and vessels at Civita Vecchia, and enfold
those of other nations? Can we sot, in fact, make a
Algeria of the Roman States ? Have we not dethrone!'
the Dey in the one case, and are we not willing to re
throne the Pope in the other?
It is well to bear in mind this article of the French
ministerial journal, which indicates the true sear
sinese policy of the government, whilst reading the
specious cloak and colour of that policy, gives
M. DE TOCQUEVILLE in his speech. And yet XIX
TOCQUETILLE'S arguments, if less vile than timid*
Patrie, were certainly as iniquitous and ab,urd.
It is for the interest, said M. DE Tocuentail
all eatholics, that the Pope should be independa
It is indeed an indispen.able part of the ca.:
fabric. If the Pope is not independent, if his will mu k
biassed by his necessities, catholicism itself is ensiled
But can M. DE TOCQUEVILLE say that the Pope or
ever independent? What have Popes been for
greater part of their reigns but the tools of one vote
or another—of Austria, of Spain, of France
strenuous Pope, like JULIUS THE SECOND, Oil
MEDICI, were independent, what was this indepoi'
ence turned to bat the aggrandisement of a fog!
or the personal rapaciousness of the pontiff ? la
the temporal power of the Pope has been Jill"
the very cause of his dependence even in spirit!'
decisions. When, however, the Pope was
peudeut on princes, this was emsidered just. N!'
when he undergoes the laws of all princes in to
advanced times, ani undergoes. the influence of
people and of public opinion, it is exclaimed, Mini
not despotic, the catholic prieciple is in danger. Rr
can understand the Jesuits uttering such an ado!
tion, but from the mouth of M. DE TOCQUETILLIg
is the negative of every rational and liberal prim'!"
ever uttered by that author.
M. ARNAUD reproduced, and with much elort!".
that doctrine which MONTALENIDEUT expoundedk
so many years and has now abaodoped. This is t !
catholicism can never revive or survive save bill'
alliance and identification with the pone'!"
of democracy. Make catholicism a state disk
and you condemn it to sterility. Separate it an
thee from temporal power, either in the person d
Pope or of its subordinates, and you ive Winfield!
a chance of once more subduing the word..
the opinions of U. ARNAUD.
As for M. DE TOCQUEVILLE, we could not has
thought him so narrow in l'e
philosophy and so '"
grade in policy. This minister thought it HO!
sable for the gird of the catholic church that POO"
priests should have power to tax, imprison, gall
the Romans, - s they ever did. The French 7;
forced to restore theier, because if they
the Austrian, would dolt And if the Austrians dle!
' the French would not exercise over Italy the infidel
due to them. Then came stories of the defended!'
Rome being foreigners and adventurers —we 10u01.
of the same kind as Konen and the other_Mr
i elites whom OUDINOT hee:st banished from oor
„,„.
We must own that we have read M. Derrostiou"
YILEE's speech with extreme pain. Such