The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-26 00:00:00

ruler and the people ruled. The two extremes of utility ex-
iced, bet the toternsediato Mite was westing. no one wee
too far apart from the other. The steeps of seek a body
weeders despotism of one girt or another, inevitable, who
they the tyrasay of one or of any. Th's is ne gutter of
opiates, beta setter of h story. No dugout errereips
emoted t li tk y had dig...eyed the power of their !nobles. It
was by thee:artless of the nobles in this mussy that the
fotandati, as of English freedom were laid. It is he class of
nobles or gentry, that h e cry dances rates to be the sigh'
of repriseastive government. It wee a greet power in the
state, isdependaat of, end frequently quests' to, the "Ve-
reign. It ass sted the people spinet the di epic sway of
lb, prince, or the prince helred the people asses' the des-
seism of the 'ebbs. Ia ei her case, the people had soma
one who looked after their intermits—not bit that herrible
(muskies were owas,esel, but they were poetically for 1, as
budges se then the systematic ieterferenee et the present
eantiaeseal gayness's. The greet lord kid • direst kite-
rof tie people he estates; adthil in
theghhe l
siegillibebig es
eivasewhat hard en Wm himself, he
certainly would not let any one else 'dame th, a with is-
pushy. He wee, le fact, their natural hereditary leader,
'ado.' such, their natural defender against every ens but
himself. If the acts of the muesli's were hooker then
was 'sae, he, and many ether such, led out them people,
sad either deposed the prizes, or gave his much trouble to
pesify them.
This was a rough but reeled check on his whims. It is
the begieniag of representative mixed government; it is
the oily element from which it his been towed; and whe-
ther it ma be formed from any other eluseat, Is still a pm-
bias. It ia provably owing to the alums of • permanent
gad powerful las rmsdiate body indepeadent of the sue.
Mrs, that inlets fell and republics were mobs to stand
is the mementos, convulsions of 1848. The want of such a
clue appears to have been seen by the eostlnental sever.igne
after toe European settlement on the fall of Napoleon.
They felt the want of their support, and made the attempt
to supply their piece by substituting for it whole squadrons
of civil servants. Kingly power retained tame Intermediate
body. The ardent aristecrary bad lost its inflames mad
wealth ; they substituted hiectimaryient is the piece of it.
Is every coaceleable deputruset—in every interest, social,
real, or imaginary—in law, police, religion, and education.-
is every branch of public or private business—in matters of
theatrical smuseesents—in art, end seltzers; Ia the right of
perusal liberty to move Mom one pariah te asethar—in
trade end indust Gouldn Atom, in every verailebe matter in
ehi, h seddieg be introduced, th.y introduced it.
Nothing could be done without then—everyehing wee made
to contribute to the support of fueetioeseies oh • were MM.
teased in bureaux, supersteaded, licereed, Inspected, re-
ported upon, end meddled with by a hut of paid govers-
sent span's, whose pep came hen the i able, whom they
were employed to plague, without the sulks emictivable
see, in soy one of their multifarious operations They are
under a sort of half-military disciples. In some states
they on, bytheir superior, be placed seder arrest for breech
of SHOO functions?, diet; plias ev neglect of dui; in °the rs,
h-y asset marry without the stunt of their superior.
Ihe German government; have realised the sexism of mak-
ing terc-sh,rds of a people pay the melt they es pt trebly
pay for the benefit of the remateder. The funcionerie s
ere not for the benefit of the people, bat the people for the
benefit of fonctiousrios.
Ihe whole of this body, together with all the stiff-clerks,
expectents, end apputtecances whatsoever thereto Wong-
ins at d .pp rtainieg, was created for the popes of f w-
ing a clan on whom the sovereign could rely. In the Ger-
man kiegd one, it has been the pulley of the state to destroy
the Ilefluence of my individual who may have great estates
or interest, by reergieg him In the civil or military func-
tion, ry clue. It was felt test a kingdom fused of Sou-
grams elements was a kingdom en paper only, gad wanted
drilling and disciplining tux some sort of unity. What
have such a people to be loyal for I—for everything having
been taken from them to ...bids they were attached ; their
private liberties interfered with ; their religion changed by
despotic gat; justice administered incised courts; and not
even hereditary tradition to attach them to their rulers t
It wee thought that a clue paid by the crown, and having
perpetual intercourse with the people, would exercise an in•
deems over them in political mitten; but the expectation
has bees wefally disappointed. Fasseleneries minium ors
muter quite as valise ly u =ether; sad are a very conve-
nient mode for whoever gets bold of the central power, op-
pressing the people by an organieatiea ready made to his
hand. The neoveausts of the people, as far as the people
, themselves were ersearned, were produced by a desire to
get quit of this intolerable incubi., without the leave of
whoa they could do nothing. Their paupers, their edu-
cation, their trade, their militia service, were all so zesty
plagues uperiidnesd by functionary Sterilizes's : neither
nad the functionary clue the political inBaanee that wee
expected ; for, in times of excitement, the people naturally
regarded toes as us peed mess or MO crown. Thus ihvy
appear to have been a failure in both the objects fur which
they were created. They have betrayed their sovereigns,
and see not trusted by the people. The people knew well
laugh that, whatever government wee in pussies of the
centred power—whether mock parliamentary, antscratis, or
republics—as long sa this boat of functionaries existed,
they could hare no real freedom.
Oa the whole, these volumes of Mr. Cayley's,
though they have no claim to the character of a his-
tory in the high and true sense of that word, may
fairly be recommended to attention as • graphic, oore-
pendious, and popular narrative of by tar the most
deeply interesting series of events that have occurred
in our time—eventa of which the memory is still
recent, but of which no collective resenesi can any-
where elm be teundwhich is at once so condensed and
so readable as that here supplied by Mr.Cayley. Our
only caution to the reader would be—Resort to Mr.
Cayley for your fecte, but, u a general rubs, rely on
yourself for your opinions.