The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-04 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1848.

tree fee fee the supply of aessamptima. Of ear market to.day
it may be observed that, withemt mods diagram to hot,
than is lea assist, to Owe onkel this mark swain to
for Wheat SI. per
every article. We Moors fa
bushel ;Flour, la. per seek sl=trL told. pee bushel:
Oatmeal, flid. re lead, sad biles Osma, b. par qr.;
wile* i Wan de set appear &pea Oat
give way. 1171:1,
pee basal a 7011 m., Bar,. white, 71. 04. te 3m. Od. ;
red, 7a. to 7s. id.; white, 71. 04. to 7a. ed.;
tads,s. gd.
era yo, il. Leareiraliateee, rod, 7o Od. to a. 4d.
Oass per lest of 411110., , Satoh, sad ass Irish,
Ss. te i• Sd.., bias kia.shied nuse, b. 9d. to 2s. 11d.
Wasik pH qr. et EN Ile., liagliallare. te 870 fal. ;
tik Ift to 44a. Peas, per Bin bush** white,
1 40a te 438 Paw, par of 29011 m., Yep
lia
lasi boo Nis. le 87a ; esperiee, 38a. to 89s. ;
_alr:l
Ma. to Oa. Oatmeal, per load el 240198.. Solliso
flia. le 275.
linillatoris caTvms, Dee. 2.-The walker this week
has bema way salable, but upon the whole favourable for
I es••••• week, with tails oar farmers are busily engaged
• poi did of lead has hem sown with Wheat within the
lemisram days, but sums has bees put into the ground
vireo the soil wet searcely outitaieutly dry, so that flan wea-
ther Is much to he &sired, in °eche that the plant may sot
suffer injury. The trade daring tbe present week has been
eff es inanimate Ghana," and althoual lower rates would
lave bees geserelly Ilelied with, it has failed to bring for-
ward Iniym ; the of eoneequenee b. ing of a cargo
ef 1,303 qrs. of Wheat, in lard, weighing 631b8.
per bushel. at 465. par qr. At our market this morning we
had a moderate show of Wheat from the country, and
a though the arrivals coastwise we by no means upon a lila
gal sale, the deficiency Wee fully compensated by the
receipts from abroad, which continue considerable. Our
millers having acted vary much upon the reserve. sales could
"el, be promoted by 'absinths, to •reduetior of 2.
. per qr..
when our formers' supply was eland off, • rcla
hoeing at the same time to be made upon eoast
ing and foreign eampin. For the beat description of South
Country red 625. was takes, general runs being saleable
at .50$ , and fair paltry of Wiabesch white 63a. ; all weighed
63ibe. per bushel. Fee Flour we experies. eyed a slow eale,
at • declension of 21 remelt the millers having Mao reduced
their price 30., to m• et the rates caveat for Norfolk Rushdie.
Rye unalts red. Malting Barley mast be again vendee Is.
tor q . cheaper, snit only the choicest descriptions meet at-
tention, other sorts being without inquiry. Malt 2.. lower,
and in moderate request. Beans and b Ming Peas each is.
cheap r, and not much inquired for. With Ors we were
moderately supplied by our growers, but the arrivals cosset-
wise as wen as from abroad continuing liberal. males could
ooly be effictiol by making • further ormonoloa of Is. per
qt. We have ais cLaap to seta in tae duties this week.
NEWPORT, lel., or WIGHT, Dec. 2 -Whiled to day sold
at a decline of 2a. per qr. below last week's prices. Barley
sod Oats each Is. per qr. cheaper. Beene and Pass without
alteration. Flour, 3s. per sack cheaper.
NORA% taw, Dee. 2.-Our market was fairly
siltsanal Ilh
day with Wiseat fro n the rowers; purchasers rdeed
extreme castles, sad sellers were obliged to submit tea re.
dation of fully 2s. per qr. on all durations ,• very little
briars dose. Some lupe ern!. of foreign offering, at 2a
per qr., reduction, 83111 a. imp.. could have been purchased at
425. od. per qr., to be shipped directly hour sold say
slowly. a: Is. tid. per sack tees money. -barley, Bemis. Per,
and Oats, nada precisely the same as regents price. What,
white. old, 62a. to Ms. per qv .. red. Cr. to 32a ; whir,
stew, 48e. to 325. ; rod, 14.. to itse. Berle'. Toshio., 31s. to
33c ; grioding, ltla. to 30s. Beene. 381 to Mb. real, ella
to Me. Oats. Vs to 23.. Fine hotionolds, to.b., 33,. Bd.
to 3fe. 6d. per seek of ltanste. partisans finding sacks cad
claiming one month's credit . retail, Is. lid, per stone.
Nowt Ton tn. Dec. 2.-A fair supply of Wheat, which
sold at * decline of 2s. Barley at Is. lower, and in aim
articles no alteration.
PETEEPOROCOII , Dec 2.-We have today • large apply
of Wheat and Oats, with a fair quantity of Barley and Ikea
offering. Wheat is a ready ale, at a decline of 2s. per qr.
.c he fine quality fully maintains its price ; other eons
Is. cheaper. Daft Bd. chesper. No charge a the value of
Baas.
PETWORTH, Dee. 1.-Oar market today wu extremely
dull, although there was perhaps rather more dispoaitioa to
do business on the part of buyers. Some fine dry weather,
by improving the condition of the corn, wood, is all probe
btli;y, canto samples to be taken more freely.
PRESTON, Dee. 2.-The supplies into this port during the
week are unimportant. The Corn trade his remained in the
same inactive state, as we have had octasion to maw tar or
viral weeks, with a gradual declension in prioes. We hod •
large show of Wheat at our Exchange today, which met a
dragging sale, at a decline of Is. to le. 6d. per wiring.
We »dues the value of Irish, to correspond with the decline
ou English ; but our quotations are merely nominal, as it is
impossible to effect sales. Flour Is. per ark lower. Barley
24. per bushel, Beams ls. per winds, Peas 1.. per bri.. ad
Indian Corn Meal Is. per load cheaper. Very little business
doing Oats at an abatement of Id. pa bushel. Oatmeal
continues to,
be reseed upon the market, sod, beyond the
immediate requiem. ate of the trade, it is most difficult to
quit, although offered at a farther reduction of Is. 3d. per
load. Bran neglected.
READING, Dee. 2.-To effect sales of Wheat a Palatka el
2s. to 3.. per qr. was submitted to, although the septillion
rather small. Spring Corn wu dull, with prime
down.
SArraoN WALDEN, Dee. 2.-Wheat was to day a very
1 dull sale. Barley advanced a trifle, and an g
oodinquir
samples. Peas, some. Beans, rather brisker sale.y for O
11 cheaper.
1 SHREWSIUET, Dec. 2.-Our market this day was well sup-
plied with Wheat and Oats. and a large supply of Burley.
Wheat Is., Barr. 25., and Oats le, per qr. lower than last
week, with a v. ry slow sale.
BtleuitatitoD, Dec. 2.-The weather during the week has
been very seasonable, though cold, and field work, which is in
a very backward Mate, is engaging the busy attention of the
farmers, and will amount for short supplies of grain at
market The arrivals comegiso have been 260 qn. of Oats,
300 qrs. of Barley, and 760 sacks of• Flour, Farmers' Wheat
today was at • lower ligune and • reduction of fully 2s. per
qr. took plies The bast 'Wheats ars worth .58s. to 68s. ;
sled avenge samples 625. to 645. ; and inferior sorts 48.. to
50s. per qr. At these rata good south country Wheats are
in demand ; but foreign samples, of good quality, are some-
what lower ; and inferior samples only saleable at much
lower prate._ The tendency of grain for all kinds of gran
Is on the decline. Malting Bahl is hilly Is. per cowry
lower. Oata are 2a. to 3s. lower. There have bun
SOWN tranaaCtions in ship Barley, at top prices. Beans are
in better demand. Goad Flour is in steady request, at
Ire prices, and the supply is pretty Rood. Ave rages for
the pat week : Wheat, 292 qrs., at 635. 4d. ; and Barley,
340 cos., at 365. il. per qr.
WARtaIIIsTEZ, Dee. 2.-A vary large supply of Wheat,
and the prices of old samples wen more in favour of the
buyers. There was a great quantity of Barley_ on offer,
and good malting qualities realised former rates. Trade was
slow, and very dull. The Oat erode was in • very deplored
state, at late currencies. Beans met with but very little at-
tention, but sold fully as deu lot week. The demand for
Malt was slow and a little cheaper. Wheat, from 425. to
60c: new, 40s.' to 501. Barley, 27.. to 36.. 6d. Oats, 211.
to 245. Beans, 40s. to 60e. Malt, Oa. to 66.. per qr.
WINCHESTER, Dec. 2.-Oar market was fully supplied
with grain. Bodnar for Wheat very dull, at from Is. to 2a.
per qr. lower. ORA malting Barley was somewhat scare,
and sold at late rates ; other samples were offering Is. per
qr. lower, sad mil making but little progress in sales. Oat,
met with rensely the same demean. Beans and Peas
met with but little Marion, but rates of Sae old the same
as last week. Beat white Wheat from 101. to 141. per load ;
red, 94 9e. to 131.65. Barley, 25e. to 325. Oats, 18s. to 23e.
Naas, 37.. to 42e. per qr.
Wiseace, Dee. 2 -We continue to receive fair, bat not
large, supplied of Wheat, and but little of any other article.
The tirade in Wheat, owing to the dull amounts from al the
leading markets, ontieses depressed ; but at • atlas of Is.
per qr. then is a fair business dons today. sad rather a
UMW feting sober,. Oats and Baas each to be bought
gather lower. Prises to the growers: Wheat, new, red,
*lbs. to 621 be., 41a. to 47.. per qr. ; extra, 435. ; hite,
Us. to 495.; extra, 61e. ; old, red, °Vbs. to 113105., 48s. to
ale. ; extra, 62a.: white, 60.. to 655. ; extra, 68s. Oats, old,
110.10. to 40ibs., 11 id. to 124 L per stoma; new, 10d. to Iflid.
Beans, old, 119 s. to 41e- per qr.
Woaclavaa, Dee. 2.-We had a good supply of Wheat
at market today, and little pogrom could he made in Wheat
without submitting to a redaction of 2s. per or. Barley le.
per qr. cheaper, and • slow sale. Oar, of all kinds, Is. per
qr. lower. Beam asa Pees nearly maintained thin aloe.
Toss, Dee. 2.-We soutisme to have • Emig
of Wheat, which has met • slow sale, at la. par v.=
last week's prism. Barley and Data are also Is. per gp.
lower. la Beans and other articles no altarstica
Dwane, Dec. 1.-With very alerimelo swim oar siale.
SI
tie is esteem; ly heavy, and we matt nem • seimer
ties ia pekes. Wheat is la., eat Otis mai amt
to Bd. per barrel lower. From le wen heavy,
6s. to 10.. par qr. lam. Isaias Op i sae a flew salrest le.
per qr. abatement es the rates ad Tosellay. The following
was the general esminey : Wird. whiter 21a. to 27..; led
235. to 25e.64. per 280Ibs. Oats, toto la. per 1901 k. Bar-
ley, 10s. to lb. per 2241 be. Tadao Caw, SU. to 1181. pea
4/10rus. Oatmeal, Ile. to 12s. per ewt. Fleur, seaside,
Its. to lea. per ewe.
Baran, Nov. 30.-Potatoes, es ea ertica of al
as.
sumpriso, most vary shortly he out of the assii of the lasge
rime of assassin; there will, however, still be a eallarat
supply for the better classes of society, and in so far they
i will tend to keep dews the prim of the anal eubstitutes.
This week we have had variable weather, and moderate
supplies of grain:at usenet. The supply, ex ship, resists
if awe cargo of core, Flour, !a., from New York •, two of
Wiest from tbe Continent; and five eseetwies, with Barley
sod Flour. Wheat is • slow sale, at • reduction of 3d. to
Si ea the week. We have some inquiry for parcels, bat no
results. Flour is 81. to is. lower, and pressed a the market ;
this applies she to barrels, which are a slow sale at 30s. to
31s. Barley is it lower, end a dull sale. Oats are 3d. to
4d. lower, and the demand barely equal to take off a light
supply. Oatmeal is fully 3d. to 4d. lower, and a dragging
tar. Indian Con comes into rather better demand, and
yet prior ere unobaneed ; they range from 81. to SI. 7s. 6d.
per ton, for either white oilyellow.
Coma, Dee. 2.-The depression in the leading English
markets has had a corresponding influence on ours, and the
trade in every department rules excessively dull, at declining
prices. Wheat with a heavy sale was fully Is. 63, per barrel
cheaper on the week. Barley, melting, fully supports price,
but erindiog difficiet:of disposal, and the turn lower. Oats,
prime mealiest, fully as dear; but abippine, both white and
black, declined 3d. per barrel. The Flom market remains
i 1 the most languid Pate, and though factors .Rein reduced
their qnotations 6d. to Is. per cwt. to induce sales, the bud.
nen done has been quite of a retail character. For Indian

Owe we ism bed a geed eseesattnive demeed, bet, owiag
salsosies min* priers gem way folly I pOlia
aztkfe ton;
Moss Ms day Wafted. At ear Owe
momis we bed an mem. sellemiemes of
tie toole. with a fair Am of samo barrels
Meek IS WM. Mifilsylisetitile ehmats
a
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at cede et ewaemies rates. Foe Oatmeal,
111bbilleisal. edam MereaoleMb Iktis or se inquiry. In
~lbMil lOW Gal lie boeissat trameoted Yes Wee oa
amis. Pre. to Imes mks less mum would be
tabs err all bask awl to Wads eMellether tellesles la the
T Maleate Mee ere bed le ripen Me a arestisrabla time.
TM Awake swivels *is weak sosseeasi le 20 Miele al
Liles Cora. sad 9of Whot flaillops, l moms stladisa
p.., and 3 of Wises Prices of pospared Cora fri e*a
beard: Whom, Ws. to 285.; Barley- 1 3s. to Ils.; Oats,
erldee, lls. to lls. dd. ; buck, 10s 3J. to 10s. ed. Indian
Con. 71. 15s. to 91. 10a. balsa Meal. 81. lbs. to 94. Oat-
meal, IV. per tea.
Laguna, Doe. 2.-A soatinuances of cold. wet weather
Yes pat a storsto seed sowing, and very little Wheat has been
pat dews. We bad a violent storm last Rink*, followed this
somegao by cold sleety Mowers. The supplies of grain from
ibms Solon teatime large, and, notwithetand og the severity
of the sig.% the quantity offered this tnoeniarojeuwas eaten.
sive. Pat kept drub but Oats, bom dull over the
wailer, is droorinr, and we note a less vales swirly ld. per
stem Barley in fair demand for grinding. The ar-
finis of lodise Corn for this week are small, chiefly
to millers, sad, being in few hands, the price, with an
ioaromod masemptioe, is adv.noine. Indian Meal in better
dosessad sod vale'. Am-titan !quer scores and worded.
la all blade at food a very active trade. Whist, red, ltd. to
lied. pee stem; white, 16d. to 19d. Oats, Bd. to Bid. Bar-
ley, 9d. to 91d. Claims Indian Corn, 91.105. per toe. Thrall
and Spanish, 91. to 91. b.. • American, yellow, 91. to 91 3e. ;
Welts, 91. to 94. 2s. ed.'American Flour, 32a. per barrel.
Oatmeal, 131. per tat.
WATEITOID, Dec. 2.-Our home supplies of Fain are still
light; but with liberal imports from abroad this week. and
tie continued want of rannuser.tioa is the trade, large sup-
sales are at must almost impracticable in any srsele,
either afloat or in granary, while in retail transactions pur-
chasers are enabled to exact large concessions in their favour.
The delivery of Wheat this morning was smaller then
that of any Saturday for the erasos, still no progress
amid be made to sales, of either milling or shipping umpire,
except at a reduction of Is. to ls. 13d. per barrel on the prices
of this day week. Barley : The law parcels of melting and
ved grinding qualities on offer sold steadily at late rates,
bet inferior sort. were quite neglected. o.u, though in very
I short supply, and offered at a decline of 3d. per barrel met
with little attention. Superfine Flour was only saleable at
a reduction of 641. per sack, bat ao alteration can be noted
in the value of the inferior deseriptioos. For Indian Corn
we bare still a moderate retail demand. at 6d. to 9d. per
barrel below the comae? of this day se'snight.
GALATZ, Nov. 12.-Business is calm. Bolt Wheat Is
10.50. to 130 p. Indian Gan, 10ip. to 110 p. Tallow, 3p. 6p.
Freight to England, 12s. Gd. to 13s. Exchange on England,
90p. to 91p. the t.
Inneis n, Nov. 12.-Little doing. The prohibitiis on of ex-
porting extended to the 20th. Wheat 100 p. to 130 p.
per qr. Indian Corn, 100 p. to 110 p. Freight to England,
Ws. to 13s. per qr.

METALS.—OtAanow.—Tne operations of the
week have Ikon few, and at reduced poses. The feeling of
the market is decidedly gloomy, and towards lower prices
Buyers every day show lees inclination to do business. Pig
Iron has been sold in some instances se low as 405., cash
down; the more current price has been 41e. all Nos., f.o.b ,
and the market has been amply supplied. closing dull a'
40s. 61. to 41s. mixed Nos. Bars may be called 61 10s. to
U. 165., usual terms. Shipments, tcreign and coastwise, very
light last month.

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HOPS —llionoron MAKI IT. KOMI. Pattenden and
Smith report that the demand onettauea steady, fix all good hope, at
We price..
Nos NW i 21. Koala IL 10 to 61.101 T wits, litostop.oot ILIA to 2L12
Weld of Kanto 2 2t03 16 Iflarttatt demi . 114 to 2 12
*arm • •... 1 11l to 3 10 Old now . 1 to to 111
Farnham 4 oto 6 0

POTATOES.—BOUTIIWARE, WATERSIDE, Dee. 4.
—We have a are short supply of English Potatme; but
the amiss& from Franco are so abundant, and of such good
quality, that our market is rather lower than last
week. The following me this day's quotatioes: York-
shire Regent', 1201. to 1801. ; Scotch Degents, 110 e. to
1.10 s.; Boot& Ceps, 704. tog°. • Scotch Rods. 80s. to 905.;
Scotch Whites, 701. to 80s. ; Asia& Whites, 80s. to 951. ;
Dutch Whites, 70s. to 801.

CATTLE, dre. Smyrunato, Two o' Cloek.
We have not gaits so many Beasts as en Monday last ; the
supply u, however, tolerably good, bath ma empress numbers
end quelity. Trade is brisk for the choicest descriptions,
and oar top quotations more freely realised then of
late; but we cannot, on the average, quote any ad.
vanes. There are a few more Sheep, but the
number is still small ; the demand, however, is so very li-
mited, end the dead trade so doll, that we cannot make
higher prices. The number of Calves is very small, and
Friday's prices are readily obtained. From Holland and
Otreany we bare 468 Beasts, 2,130 Sheep, and 48 Calves;
from Le4aster and Northampton, 2,100 Beasts ; and Lin-
ailashire, 600.
twe a•••M Mts. a 0.6. L Par Mom Malta ace. od.
Sea 00046. HmetaMa. . 4 0 4 4 WM Da5.411(.4010. SL 0 0 0 0
IMMSbortiorm ...... I 2 4 0 MM Lese-w001........ 4 2 4 6
Bead padre, Saule.. 210 3 6 be. de. Mors ...... 00 0 0
Wm. ...... .......... 3 6 4 6 I Sem sad m 0 ooed goats 3 4 4 0
to
0
rye .. ........ ........ 46 6 4 Da 00 Mims .. . . 0
VIM Um. a 00314,0010 4 6 6 0 Imaho ... . .... 0 0 0 0
BerM M marts. 4,035 ; lams aml Lambs. 03340; Cava. 110
MM. 246.
Per fitebeileees mirk& ees gad peg&

resistless I whilst no language maid ONO ugly
sondem the imbecile and treacherous policy of the
court. Ewes at that tattled maned when, alter the
first struggle, an accommodation was attempted, and
when the moderate of any age would have con-
demned the parliament for not yielding to the
king that which was his rightful prerogative,
the power of the sword and the full com-
mand of the army—even here Mr. MACAULAY
sides with the movement party, and declares " that
it would have beam insanity in the liberals to leave the
King in poseresion of that plenitude of military &utile-
, rity which his ancestors had enjoyed."
' All we ask of the whims of the present day is, that
they should regard the efforts after popular freedom
now making throughout Europe with somewhat the
same spirit and fairness that their most eminent writer
here shows to similar efforts in our own country. And
even if y are tied down by what Mr. MACAMAY
remarks to a peculiarity of English Itheraliem, a
preload respect for preoedent, end a reluctance to
straggle even for manly rights, unless there be
groan& for them in ancient prescription, we would
remind them that every rate in Germany had once
its free and representative institutions. Our Teutonic
brethren established for theme Ives the same rights
and el, ments of freedom that we have held and de-
v•loped, and which we have preserved, in no small
degree owing to our insular po ition defying foreign
conquest and interference, whilst Europe unfortunately
formed one connected ocean, over which the waves
rolled from one extremity to the other, and swept
away every popular edifice and landmark.
There is, however, one difference, which deserves
to be marked, between the revolutions and insurrections
of the seventeenth and of the nineteenth centuries,
In the seventeenth century, there were no standing
armies. And, therefore, in order to oppose the arbi-
trary pretensions of kingly authority, it was only
necessary for the middle and upper classes to resist.
Id our days standing armies have growls up. And
whilst the citizens of London had not even a
regiment of guards to overcome in 1641, the citi-
zen, of Berlin and Vienne. have had to encounter
armies of sixty and eighty thousand disciplined
soldiers. To meet and resist these, even in the most
righteous and legal cause, it is indispensable to have
recourse to the number and spirit of a mob, which, as
the great counteracting tome foe standing armies,
has been generated of formidable proportions in meet
great cities and commercial empires. The great
struggles of the French have been between the mob
and the military. At one time the mob seemed im-
pregnable in streets. 011 ate it seems to have been proved
that a well•equipped and determined army is irre-
sistible even there, and the great result of the events
of June and of October goes far to menace all Europe
with the predominance of military rule.
In tact, never were the principles of political freedom
in each danger as at present. Even in the most
liberal portion of Europe the civic and middle class
hea been utterly crushed and trodden under foot by
the great contending parties of the army and the
populace. In France the citizens are in such dread
of the latter that they bow down to the former.
In Germany the military rule has b. en each a burden
that the citizens prefer even the licentiousness of the
mob. The great problem is how to get rid of both.
The Tunes, in treating of this subject, says, keep up
the great standing armies, and disarm both citizens
and mob. With our contemporary's leave, that which
it recommends is naked and brute despotism. We
should say on the contrary—disband the armies, and
let European states abandon their mutual wars, unless
they wish to become serfs of the military.
Then let the solid citizens arm, and defend them-
selves alike against the tyranny of those above, and
the turbulence of those below. These recommenda-
tions do not apply to England. We have far outlived
the troubles and straggles of the continent. In Eng-
land we have no army, arid do not want one. The
army, we so heavily pay for, is more a force for keeping
down Ireland and the colonies. We have in England
none of the dangers, fears, wants and follies which
convulse the continent. We are altogether in another
sphere and category.
But it is important that we observe and judge
with fairness, and with popular sympathies, what is
paving on the continent,in imitation of what once hap-
pened amongst ourselves, with the additional circum-
stances springing oat of the altered state of
the population and of its military force. To do
this, we should first look back to our own history
and our own acts in twice accomplishing a revolution,
and on our persevering determination in the mainte-
nance of its spirit and its principles. No better text-
book cats be found for such a study than the work just
furnished by Mr. MACAULAY. And we wish that for
the sake of rendering such study popular the first
three hundred pages were printed in a separate and
cheap form. We shall take another opportunity, in
the portion of our journal devoted to literary notices,
to enter into a critical examination of Mr. MACAU-
LAY'S work. But its appearance is a political as well
as a literary event, and es such we have made it the
theme of the foregoing remarks.

Entry has been for these eight years fortunately
forgotten ; and the death of IBRAHIM PACHA, which
recalls attention to that country, forces one to some-
what of a painful and unusual effort to explain how
it is that a country that was the key of European
politics and the field of European strife eight years
ago, should have been so little thought of since. The
fact is, that many years of peace, prosperity, and
power had, in 1839, turned the heads of both
French and English politicians, and both, unfettered
as at present by stern realities, felt them-
selves at liberty to launch into the region of
imaginative policy. We thought of nothing
less than bridging over those countries which lie be-
tween us and the East. We were to connect the Eu-
phrates with the Thames as a channel for " Water-
men" steamers. The desert was to be our high road,
and Cairo itself a railway station. The French bad
far more sublime ideas. They wanted an empire to
arise in Egypt which was to extend from the
mountains ofAbyesinia to those of the Taurus, and
which was to be a rest Asiatic and military
rival to Russia, whilst it was a physical obstruction
and a naval rival to England, possessing a fleet, which,
combined with that of France, might at any time
expel us from the Mediterranean.
Mummer ALL and his son limAnnt were the instru-
ments and the victims of this combined folly. Mas-
ter of a powerful fleet and of a disciplined army,
Man EMET, since 1829, lost so opportunity of employing
both. And having lost two sons, his eldest and fa-
ironrite one, Toossoux, and ISMAEL, burnt for
Yl5 mythic' by the Nubians, Initainic became
the Egyptian generalissimo, just at the time when
the country was putting forth its strength. Nor did
Ye prove unequal to the task. In his successive cam-
Wagainst the Wahabees, the Greeks, the Syrians,
I% Turks, IBRAHIM showed himself a s'-ilfel and
szpurienesd leader, whilst the crowning victory over
the 011 AND Vara& at Konieh placed him as a general
simenget the fortunate heroes of the age.
In another epoch, or at a time when the east was
undisturbed by other than eastern influence, such a
victory as that of Konieh must haveha placed the victor
on the Turkish throne, and, perps, by a change of
dynasty, resuscitated the empire. But the hand of
Europe weighed then as now over the destinies of
the east, and every revolution which that
hand does not effect itself it interferes to
arrest. The victory of Konieh proved there-
bre to Lansinx an empty glory, nay, a dan-
gerous one, for by awaking the] jealousy and
drawing forth a kind of prononeement from Russia,
it also excited the fears of England, and even of
Austria. Aid when IBRAHIM again threatened to
sake Syria the basis of new military operations, a
European diplomatic alliance. was already in process
of formation, which French muns.ers and diplomatists
were not wary enough to foresee, or adroit enough
to prevent.
We know the consequences. England :interfered.
The impetuous spirit of PALMERSTON forced the
admiral, even against his will, to victory. St.
Jean d'Acre fell, IBRAHIM was routed by Sir
CHARLES NAPIER, not of &hide, but of Syrian
memory. Ifitsnix and Timm made a simultaneous
tett& from Syria and from the Tuileries; and
MEHEMET, his family and his policy henceforth con-
ked to Egypt, first ceased to excite fears, then failed
to excite interest, and at last scarcely curiosity.
Like tree Mnsanlmans, the rulers of Egypt acceptedwith resignation their diminished hopes.
Their
dynasty was indeed; established in quasi inde-
pendence; and every dignity and enjoyment
were left, save those of ambition and pro-
9res% As to MEHEMET, he cursed his folly
in having built his hopes on the sandy founda-
tion of French sympathy. But his domestic policies
soon absorbed his attention. Nor has England found