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

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LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 4.

AT the present moment, when almost all the
written and ipoken manifestations of English opinion
are more illiberal than they have been for the lest
century and a half—when the prates of unmitigated
tyranny is the theme of our public press—when
essay English politicians show themselves so prudish
as to shrink in horror and aversion from those perdu
files and efforts to obtain constitutional p-
versant, which, achieved by Englishmen years
sines, have proved the foundation of their peit-
dal freedom and commercial prosperity— when
the right divine of even idiot menarche to
and oppress has become the object of English admira-
tion, and when the rule of the military, and the pre-
doninanee of standing armies, consisting avowedly of
the moat brute and servile part of continental popula-
tion farm the very paradise of our political writers—
when courts-martial are considered the ideal of juris-
prudence—and when the cold and calculated though
indiscriminate shooting of civilians, guilty, like the
Englishmen Dr. BECHEa and his sub-editor, of
having merely written in favour of liberal institutions,
are either lauded as wholesome, or passed over as unim-
portant, even by the class of Englishmen to which these
victims belonged—when a notorious denizen of our
fashionable world dares to announce with exultation
that his master has, without judge, without trial, or
without law, but Of his absolute will and pleasure,
condemned a patriot to the penalties of high treason—
amidst all those signs and characteristics, which
have changed the moral atmosphere of England from
that which our free and noble ancestors made and
breathed into the close air of that fetid stove which
Russian serfs and courtiers are condemned to swallow :
—at such a time it is a pleasure and a relief to peruse
a new English book, written in an English spirit,
uttering those old whig accents of the glorious school of
Fox, which too many whigs have forgotten or un-
learned: and which treats, although it be a history of
the past, these very questions of popular resistance,
of regal dupli ity of ministerial and military
tyranny, which, whilst it was the good fortune of
England to behold and to deal with two centuries
ago, form at this moment the elements and events of
that drama which we witness in the most interesting
and noble countries of Europe.
Although Mr. MACAULAY professes to commence
his history with the accession of JAMES, in 1085, he
devotes what would constitute a respectable volume
to the anterior history of England, of which he traces
the liberal progress from the earliest times in a vivid,
bold, and magnificent sketch, which thus supplies,
perhaps, the greatest desideratum of English historical
science. However rapid Cho sketch, it is sufficiently
circumstantial and emphatic on the great epochs of
the revolution and counter-revolution. And we are glad
to say that on all the great questions Arising out of
both Mr. MACAULAY is frankly liberal. He sides with
the popular party throughout, and sanctifies their