The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-22 00:00:00

for the clamours of the multitude to alter bad laws,
invites and provokes insurreetioa.
With respect to the advantages to be obtained by
the working classes by beneficially investing their
savings in their own business, they are too palpable
to need much remark. There is scarcely any busi-
ness stationary, and new masters continually coming
in or old ones enlarging their trade, are always bor-
rowing. Amongst the persons who save, and have
something to lend, are careful foremen and careful
workmen, and they would be glad to invest their
savings in the business of which they know
the routine, and contribute to the success, while
the undertakers or employers who must in the great
majority of cases borrow, would prefer borrowing
from their workmen, on condition of sharing the
profits with them, instead of paying • fixed interest
to a banker, whether they gain or lose. The law
operates as a prohibition to these classes thus uniting
their interest, and thus contributes to perpetuate the
feuds between masters and workmen. lu the United
States, factories are owned in shares, and so they
would be here, and most of the workmen would
have shares, were it not that our judge-made
law prohibits it. If we could get in England Part-
nership Laws as liberal as those existing in France,
it would tend to satisfy many of the discontents now
arising between masters and men, and tend to lessen,
if it did not altogether remove, the tendency to
Strikes.

LORD CLARENDON'S speech to the Finsbury depu-
tation lets very little new light upon the relations of
the English Government to the Eastern difficulty.
A much more telling illustration of Russian charac-
teristics and aims may be found in a French
pamphlet just published—" Reeneil de Documents
pour la plupart Secrets et Ini:dits, et d'autres
Pikes Historiques, utiles i consulter dans
la Cries Achedle." This brochure forms the
wand portion of a collection of interesting
documents, the first section of which was
noticed in the Express some time back. The
intention of the editor is to show that Russia, since
her appearance in history, has been always the same.
She has ever displayed a tendency to absorb by fair
or foul means all neighbouring states. The weapons
she employs have never varied : they are brute force,
cunning, and treachery. Poland at one time, the
author shows, interposed a barrier between the
comparatively fres nations of Europe and the
agglomeration of barbarous hordes which formed
the Muscovite empire. But Poland fell, a
victim to Russian rapacity, and the CZAR is
now in immediate contact with the nations which
seem paralysed at his movements. The first of the
documents the author produces is a declaration of
war made by STEPIIEN BATUORT, King of Poland, in
the year 15;9, against IVAN TUE TERRIBLE. After enu-
merating the various acts of injustice he had suffered
at the hands of Ito e, the King alludes to the con-
duct of the Grand Duke of NIUBCOVT, which had
provoked the war. The reader will easily trace a
general similarity to events which have formed al-
most the only subject of discussion daring the pre-
sent crisis:

Our ansbessedon were admitted to his presence. The
Museovito bad begun the conference with them by the in-
termediation Meow of his f ites, when all of a sud-
den he gave himself up to the pride and violence of his
character. H. would not listen to any proposal of amour•
gradation on the subject of Livonia, and forbade even the
mention of that province. He birdied, either verbally or
in writing, our person and dignity in terms the violence of
which was ianbefitting a Christian king or prince, or a pri-
vate person. He laid claim to our Kingdom of Poland
and to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, founded on absurd
and valueless titles. These rights be claimed as the four-
teenth descendant of • certain Prunus, of whom no one
has ever heard, and who never existed, who was, said he,
the brother of Oztavios Ciciar, and the founder of his fa-
mily. In the name of this pretended descent he claimed the
Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

The NLSSELRODEII and the
went day are left to do the treachery and the violence
which the predecessors of the CZAR formerly managed
in person. And it is only the more sorely done, in-
asmuch as the prime mover of mischief has always
the resource of throwing the responsibility upon his
°facials.

of the pre-

There are some curious revelations in these pages
of the nature of the diplomatic force which the
Russian court has brought to bear upon European
policy. Russia is not even yet a nation. It is merely
an agglomeration of semi-barbarous hordes which the
traditions of a few centuries have bound together by
one of the simplest of all possible belief, expressed in
the formula " Clod and the Czar." The very sim-
plicity of this belief, permeating as it does a
large number of uncultivating hordes, is fa-
vourable to its powerful operation on the
mind of the believer. But these vast masses
of slaves have been subject to no influences which
will awaken more than a minute fraction of the
forces dormant within them. They are slaves and
nothing more. They do not make a nation. They
have no moral unity. The Czars therefore have to
act on Europe not through the force which they de-
rive from the support of an active intelligent nation
rejoicing in its nationality, but by means of the
exotic forces of diplomacy. The CZAR does sot re-
present, and cannot employ as a force, any public
opinion. He and his government have nothing in
common with the tribes they govern; he must there-
fore when hawses into contact with foreign nations
depend upon a strength which he acquires outside
his empire. Ha business is to attract to his country
the best diplomatists that he can obtain, and
allow them to be his intermediates between
himself and Europe. The plans of Russia
have been worked by the intellectual Swiss
of Europe—skilful diplomatists who have carried
their services to the best paymaster. How this has
told may be inhered from roe pregnant sentence in
a despatch of NEINIALSODI to the ambassador at the
English Court, es the subject of the position of the
Eastern question's 1826.

It resale. • with yes, prism, to mho what yea any ma-
dder the proper me of the observations whisk we have set
forward I. the present deepateit. The prewar lanywayt Qf the
British ministry prone welt asoupt Mal pow vaelermetid
Aser to direct it by byre to the and rAia• Me Beepers has
as view.
What does Lord ABERDEEN Nay to this?

OIPT or 5,0481. To M* BRIGHT.—The eatoerip-
ties fora teetisheeiel to Mr. Bright, M.P., which wee assa-
wand is Bosnian oa the eusesedul tersaisathea of the
Anti-Cora-Law struggle, has bee. brought tea close. The
sebeeriptiese from 3,149 individuals reddest in 172 town
end lanes, aminated to 5,0431. Ss. 14. The *omelets',
after souseltiNg wit► Mr. Bright, decided that a library
wield be an agreeable cad appropriate testimonial of the
regard is which ►e was held. An oak book•sees was de-
signed by Mr. Morris, and enlisted by Mr. Gardener, both
of Chester, at a eon of 401., the carving nosisting of •
templets npreasattioa of the leading features of agricul-
ture and COMMON,. A silver plate 'Mud to this piece of
furniture been the tenoning inscription Presented by
the Freends of Free Trade to John Bright, Ben., as
as eeknowledgment of his great services in the Cause of

Free Trade, it; esonelion with the National Anti-Cor;
Law League." The Library, emaieting of more than 1,200
volume, wee Worsted by Mr. Bright, at an additional cost
of 1,300L,0nd the balsam (after deducting expenses), has
been - to that goatiesta.
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remiss Is he diem blase only 17 tory objsetiou to libe-
rals rosaidn undimmed et at Cardiff sad Caerphilly. while
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