The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-21 00:00:00

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We deny,. thin far, the peasibility of our in any
wiry following the -negro to Brazil, and acting as
tribune fur him there. Much less could we undertake
to carry out Capt. ALLEN'S rotative lepton' by which
the African black was to 'Tend one hilt of his man-
Amid in Brazilian slavery, the other half in West
Indian apprenticeage, to be restored in his old and
seam age to the coast from whence be was stolen.
if we cannot prevent these enormities, we cannot
sanction them.
. In our opinion we must acquire with respect to
Africa the same feeliogs, which we have been forced
to adopt and to act upon with regard to Europe.
Bow many English hearts sympathmed with Mia-
mian freedom ! flow deeply were we interested in
the draggle of the gallant Romans against priestly
misrule! How deep and jest was our commt-
tendon for the Sicilians, standing out for the old
constitution, which England itseff had restored
and: guaranteed! And yet we saw the
walls of ROOM battered down, and a
troimvirate of Cardinals restored by the pais-
mance of French bayonet,. The Menintee we
saw given up to sack and massacre by the mercenary
Swiss. The Palermitaro implored our support in
vain. The Hungarian patriots, as they sank, held
forth their hands to us for safety. Yet England has
looked on with mute agony and made no sign.
The days of Quixotism are, in fact, over. We can
no longer feed armies or spend millions for the sake
of either European liberty or independence. It is
consoling and honourable to think that England
has done something for these great causes
when in their feeble infancy. But the periled=
of the Continent are no longer minors. They know
their own affairs and interest,. They have heads
arms, rights, and the consciousness of them ; they
have weapons, and have of late learned to use them.
So that we may safely leave; European liberty to take
cars of itself. Nor is there one of us, not even the
most impatient liberal, who would not go to sleep for
a hundred years, confident that, at his waking,
he would find Europe advanced, if not perfected,
freedom and self-government.
What we must learn to do, is to extend to the otter
parts of the world that same forbearance, and that
same trust, which Europe has forced upon us. We
have struggled much and long to civilise central
Afric,. We have spent blood and treasure, and
mental energies incalculable, to suppress the slave
trade, and to raise the negro race to a level with our
own. We have no more succeeded in this than we
have succeeded in rendering Spain liberal, Italy Inds- '
pendent, or in securing the nationality of Poland.
We have failed, and we must put up with our disap-
pointment, content with the consolation of knowing
that time will effect gradually what we could not
precipitate, and perhaps of thinking that if each in-
surmountable obstructions have been raised to our
philanthropy, Providence had its own reasons for not
allowing us to better the world after our ideas, and
to change its infernos into paradises.
It is a glorious English characteristic to be impa-
tient of iIL But we cannot rem, dy all ill. We can-
not prevent the Austrians from bastinadoing Italian
women on the stomach till they die. Yet did the
Brazilian slave-trader, the African slave-stealer, or
the American slave-breeder, ever commit an act more
barbarous, more disgusting, or more inhuman ? Is
not RADILTSKI, who orders these things, a far more
infamous brute than any chief upon the slave coast?
Yet there are people here who worship the Aus-
trians, whilst affecting to condemn the far more
humane and more excusable African,.
Our minds are pretty well made up with respect
to European politics, that we cannot go to war from
motives of either sentiment or humanity. And most
infallibly we must extend the rule to Africa and
America, and apply it to our blockade of the slave'
coast, which is nothing bat a war, and a booth es and
expensive one. We must let Brazilians and Africans
setae their future relations. If the former wish
to be saturated with the latter, and finally outnum-
bered and overpowered, we are sorry for it, but can-
not help it. The evil will soon mend itself, sod mend
itself, as gent and wilful evils do, with a vengeance.
Our sole care should be how to put our free labour
islands on a par with slave-glutted land., and enable
the former to " hold on" until the not distant day
when slavery shall work its own cure.

'tile atedre of SOldeswig-Holateie, like those of
many other foreign lands which lately interested the
public, have for some time failed in interest. There,
as in Hungary, Russian policy has completely tri-
umphed. So the Times itself informs us. And the
Times is right, at lout in one point, that CuL Howes
with hie Prussian and Danish co-commasaries, are
doing Russian behests in a truly Russian spirit.
Smell as Schleswig and Holstein may be, it has
best seen how fatal any disturbance there is to the
regular trade of England with Germany. If it was,
therefore, the interest of England to see the blockade
of the Elbe raised : it was also England's liniment to
see the Schleswig question settled in such a manner
as to preclude future troubles, and to reconcile, as far
as possible, the population to the award of the inter-
vening powers.
How far the commissioners who have undertaken
to rule Schleswig, practise temper and justice, may be
seen from their proclamation, crying down the paper
money—some 80,0001. in amount—issued by the
Schleswig-Holstein government, and declaring that it
should not be received at the government offices. Col.
HODGES, the British umpire, affixed his name to this
precious decree, so contrary to common sense and com-
mon justice, that on the Hamburg exchange the mer•
chants of that city, in which Col. HODGES is British
Consul, receive this forbidden paper money without
the least discount or hesitation, thus setting at nought
the decrees of the triumvirs.
To show still more strongly the nullity of such a
decree, and at the same time the spirit of the country,
it may be mentioned that no person in the duchy pays
his taxes to the officials of the commissioners. They
pay taxes to their own Stadholderate, which of course
accep's the national paper as paymeot.
The commiasionera ruling Schleswig at present, in-
cluding Colonel Homes, are in that country pretty
much what an English governor would be at the
Cape of Good Hope, whilst enforcing Lord Gait's
order for the immigration of liberated convicts. Not
a single person consents to fill an office, or to hold
communication with one that does. Passive
resistance is carried just as far in Schleswig,
as it would be at the Cape. In vain
does Colonel HODOES exert himself to appoint and
instal Danes to poets of authority. A Danish sheriff
having been sent to linysam, he could not gain
entrance to one hall-door. Not a house would re-
ceive hint. And he was obliged to decamp and
bring a squadron of hussars to compel the inhabi-
tints to receive him.
The general feeling throughout the duchy is, that
the Prussian Commissary feels inclined to do justice
and to check Danish pretensions and encroachments.
But this aim is paralysed by the partiality of Colonel
HODGES, who sides with the Danes in every thing,
and treats the Schleswigers luau Orange commissary
would rule the Irish rabble.
The consequence is that the Scbleswigers, despair-
ing of justice or fair treatment, are making the most
active preparations for renewing the civil war.
As a proof of the unanimity and determination
of the Schleswigers, we may state that all the clergy'
of the duchy (with the exception of seventeen),
to the number of two hundred and eleven, have
agreed to refuse publicly to obey any decree of the com-
missioners. And as the clergy are the usual legal
channels for promulgating laws and ordonnanoes, this
is tantamount to a nullification of all government
authority. We need not say that the name of Eng-
land, and its commissary, Howie, are held in the
most bitter execration, as being the means and instru-
ment for oppressing a people who once believed in
English justice and liberality.

RUTUIN PEalr't BANK.—A penny bank for using.
was established at Euthin oaths 3rd inst. The object of the i
institution is to promote habits of regularity sad essarmy,
sad to afford an opportunity for the dolly and weekly deposit I
of small sums of money, repayable at the end of every year.
Originated for the benefit of the poorer classes, it is also ia-
teaded for the advantage of penes of all ages and every
clams. The trustees assist of gentlemen well known and
esteemed in the locality for their attention to the interests, of
the poor. The management is left to a committee of ten of
the principal tradesmen, one or more of whom Is to audit
the cosh books every week, and the total sum received foe
that period is to be deposited by the netsurfr in the B,uthin
savingspod bsnk
tor is to. Al the expirationreseirespreroium of
rf twelve
regulamoritynothsn thedo.
e sum
then due, thus-2a. for 40s. deposited in not less than 48
weekly perinea, le. al. for 30s. do. do., and so on down to
threepence for ss. It is hoped that those for whoa the esta-
blishment has been formed will profit by it, aid thus fulfil
' the only end the promoters an have in view, that of en-
deavouring to teach the poor how to benefit themselree.—
North Mass Cbronick.