The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-09 00:00:00

nem] extreme dirt wl
of London. Bo far

this is not perceptible.

through Shoreditcb,'
the adjacent streets,
out in advance a pretty oorrect map of where the
-sink= will And a hoses, if that epidemic should
leach London before thg winter. ,To shoes curious
la bad *Melia dame are imirb Of 'this great capital
of civilized England that would form a subject for
*any days' study. Let them not penetrate, too far
isle regions when the eery air seems already ion-
giragnated with all thet man's negligence can make
1448164, bat merely keep to the larger streets.
In coming out of the Great Eastern Railway
Sestina, turn sharp round to the left, walk down
Calimendal-street to the bottom, along White-
ohipel, sad so on to the east end of Leadenhall-
shield:, The excursion will not take more than
halt an hoar, even if traversed slowly, and
the explorer will be *ibis to boast that be has
passed through thg, dirtiest streets, the filthiest
smiffNeadika most, faver-engendering atmosphere
..Enrope, even , taking into consideration
osicitdo streets of cologne, mad the Jewish
dltitto at Rome. Ake region is indeed a curiosity
in its way. The inheNtants are by no means poor,
the hones and shomere mostly respectable, and
yet there is Oroughont the neighbourhood a corn-
pottpi of !mil odours,, s general feeling that the
TOT eirjitiu 'breathe Mpg be poisencms from its
fetid nanseousness, which makes' any delay in,
those *jets far from astral:de. And yet uth"is
in he very heart OI London, not ten pinatas'
walk hiSiCi the Bank of /Instead. Nor hi this part
of the town alone in !Id bad pre-emioenoe of dirt,
bad drains, and vegetable matter left to decompose
in the streets. There are msaydistricts equally bad,
although none could well be much worse. In fact,
there is hardly any one of the more crowded parts
of Loudon where a reform in sanitary measures fs
not greatly wanted, but it is in the far east that
the evils complained of are most glaringly ap-
parent. Like other evils, if taken in time, moat
of their bad effects can be obviated, but if left
until an epidemic visits us it will be too late to
do any good. It is singular that with so much
science, wealth, and public spirit, London should
still be by far tke least cared-for, and, in many
parts, the dirtillid town in Europe. Is it that
because every man is so busy about his own affairs
public matters are left to the sole care of Bum-
bledom ? If so, we shall sooner or later have to
pay a heavy bill for our neglect. It never answers
to manage municipal matters on the maxim that
what's every man's business is no man's work.

Tin faults and errors of the Spanish Moderadoes
are very lucidly described in the last number of
the Rerun des Deux Moudes. In recounting the
attempts of sucoaasive Prune Ministers to accom-
plish anything satisfactory either to the Cortes or
the nation, the Revue very justly remarks that
they all pursued the same career, and committed
the same faults. Beginning with a profusion of
liberal promises, and even liberal intentions, they
all relapsed into the old principles of repres-
sion, and of government by gendarmerie and the
ossmorship. Yet the Moderado chiefs are not
wanting in ability.
It was notthe menthat were to blame, but the aye-
tem ; that system which the French Odes:lists intro-
duced into Spain, and which their high authority
imposed upon Qu,en IIiASSLLA. This system was
not only to repress hoe to eltkVilh Abele tiler
the only foci of liberalism that existed in Spain.
Constitutional ideas and aspirations, we need not
say, flourished in the Spanish towns, the Spanish
peasant being, like hie French neighbour, quite in-
effable of comprehending what is meant or aimed
at by the people participating in the government
or controlling the administration. The policy
and influence of the French Monarchy of July
utterly destroyed the old municipal organization of
the Spanish towns, reducing their freedom to the
French standard. Municipal liberty was destroyed,
and with it, in Spain, all possibility of the citizen
exercising independently his electoral rights.
Such a system as this produced a Cortes of its
own, and an administration to suit the Cortes.
It was a system under which constitutional go-
vernment was impossible, because the truly liberal
element had been effaced. The several Moderado
Governments which succeeded each other, had two
antagonists to combat--the secret and religions
influences at Court, and the personal solicitations
of members in the Cortes. We say personal, for
there was no such thing as difference of principle.
All had been elected by government permission,
and by the favour of the military commandant of
their district. Ministers could not satisfy this
crowd of hungry politicians ; neither could they
resist the policy imposed by Father Crau. and the
Abbess PATROCII,4IO.

What Ministers sought and prayed for was a
power or a word to enable them to resist this
pressure. Both O'Dozuviiii and NARVARZ
sought it in the resuscitation of the old liberal
Progressist party, which had withdrawn from the
political stage altogether, raising a voice of protest
only through the press. This political secession
was preferred by the Progremist leaders to a mock
parliamentary opposition enabling the Modera-
does to keep up the show of constitutional govern-
ment.

One great mistake of all Bourbon Governments
has beau that they could not bear even the pre-
sence of a constitutional opposition. They were
for annihilating it by means of one-sided and
narrow electoral laws. The consequence was
that Louis PHILIPPE'S Minister, having driven
opposition out of parliament, found it destruc-
tive in the streets. Queen Isiemar's Govern-
ment has tried prociaely the same experiment. It
has stifled that old liberal party which set her
on the throne, and only the other day she was
obliged to dismiss her Ministers suddenly in order
to avoid an outbreak in the streets of the capital.
The remedy, therefore, for this stagnant and
perilous condition of the Spanish monarchy and
constitution the French Recur does not point
out—the resuscitation of the Liberal party, or
rather its re-admission to municipal and electoral
power. Let Queea IsaarLx.s cease to govern
through the army. Let a fair electoral law be
passed by the Cortes. Let municipal self-
government be restored. For one result of
the long Moderado rule has been not only to
extinguish the Progreaaists, but to revive the Car-
lists under the specious name of Neo-Catholicr.
This party, if allowed to gather strength, would
recover its sway over the rural population, and
enlist the clergy for a civil war.
For the sake of preserving the Spanish throne
to herself and her posterity, as well as to render
the constitution workable and any administration
effective, the Quasar should, therefore, restore po-
litical existence to the Liberals. We are
apt to peas censure upon all parties who abstaio
and withdraw from active efforts. But we
cannot estimate the disgust of the Spanish
Liberals, and the impossibility of their maintaining
even a decorous position under the oppreenow
which the Moderadoes under French adrift or-
ganised. Maraltal Olkontat.i. has, indeed, roads

:SS, SATURDAY E.

/, w • h:
fearl2is • • • offi
wev • nitio
ki of I nun• 17: r lig' -
lenge to ecclesiastical influences a 'out. The
OW of the hatters embassy was even made
to Senor OLOIAOA, mad perhaps somewhat reluc-
tantly refused by th 6 old friend of Count
Cavorts. But nothing less than a restora-
tion -el their oonstitational and eleetoral rights
will satisfy the Progressists. Will Marshal
O'Doarrair. succeed in 'this f Will the Quay+
permit—the army sanction, it? What advice will
the QUEEN receive in her interview with the
French Eurr.aoa at San Sebastian t There
are some who think that the French,
Eigrznosi is prepared to recommend for
Spain his peculiar prescription of " universal
"suffrage." It may be doubted whether the Em-
peror NAPOLION would Moline to any such advice
in this Instance. Wistever universal Engine may
produoe in Francis, in Spain it would probably,
lead to the triumph of the clerical and reactionary
party—of the old Ca/lists, the natural allies of
French Legitimists. The liberal portion of the
Spanish nation would trot bow before it or submit
to its yoke. Of that we are convinced. Bat to
stiake it off would require, as we have said, a re-
newal of civil war.

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