The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-23 00:00:00

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LONDON,WEDNESDAY MA Y 23
We have the happiness and honour of being ruled
by two legislative chambers differingifrom each other,
to all appearance. in temper, tone, and tendency, se
sub as Is eerily conceivable. Between a body
selected ostensibly fur their proven carte ity and
knuw!t die, and a body selected by the blind chance
of bitch irrespective of all fitness or nefitness
derivable from individual qualities or attain-
meats, there would appear to be little in com-
mon. Between the interfusion of varied exponents
of commercial, manufacturing, and protessimal
industry, end the exclusive monotosy of had-
owning idleness, there would seem to be nothing
is noirain. Between active and laborious habits, such
*. all the ihasekcia 1110111 of tho en... Ana
and the listless and fastidious inaptitude for business
which characterises the greet majority of the bat&
tory lords, the intelleetuld discrepancy is not wider
thee the social and the motel.
Yet is there an influence whose potential sway is
able, wheeever it is brought efficiently to bear, to
assimilate the working o. these two most strangely
its machines, and net merely to avert their
daimon, but to guide them in one and the
same tr ek. Left to themselves it is hard to conjessf
tare whether either of them would run. Checked
sad controlled by the irresistible power of pnblis
op sin.• neither of them darts to swerve very lot g or
very far from the right way. It is tine that the re-
po sentative body better and more pliantly obeys the
wand •ti sof that sovereign authority in whose name
it pr feces to act and move, and have its organic
bet g. To a certain ex'ent it ie direct y and really
reap •tibible to popular scrutineers, yolept large condi-
tuercies, who axe apt to take to task particular mem-
bers when they ere caught s• raying from the tight pith
of their duty. Bat looking to the members who in
the lower chamher of legielaion are to all practical
bite: is aid purposes irrespousible in a direct err se to
the mo, k constituencies by whom they aro nominally
electee, it is manifest that something besides moat in-
fluence tteir inclinations and their votes. And when
we raise our eyes to the fretted a: d gilded portals of
the Oh. r chamber—generally so empty—and recol-
lect that upwards of four hundred hereditary oligarchs
have a right by law to congregate therein whenever
they 1,1 ate with closed doors to decree what they
please, or at all events to veto whatsoever does not
find favour in their eyes—when we know what
=sneer of men these four hundred are, and what
sort cf role the great majority of them would like to
see e hid:abed in the land—and when we find never-
theirs that not one in ten of them formidably privi-
leged p, is cages ever 'Were the ball where he has
this presumptive power, except on some rare cession,
and that then t.e does not even pretend to free agency
or to the • xercise of deliberative functiuns,--we may
well tn-rvel et the might and magnitude of that all-
?eremites, all-subduing 'power which [caverns alike
tree poradsle lords and commons, partly by the hope
of its leve"oatirg smile, partly by the terror of its
withering frown.
The events which are passing before us at the pre-
sent hour amply attest this truth. Twice curing the
last fortnight has the rushress and folly cf Lord
STANLEY di monstrated to the marvelling world how
helpleeti ',treeless, and soul-less is that vain and
Timm d power on whose reactionsty tendency and
resolution he and his followers had heti' high and
embithins i opts. Twice have the House cf Lords,
when interrogated rashly as to their opinion ou free
trade in s eppiog, declared that they had no other
opines to Kivu save that which the House cf
Common- bat already given. On the first (merino,
Lord STANLEY knew that the votes of " his order"
would be. iolkcted and remrded irrespective of the
fact that m ny of the voters would be *bunt, and
consequently could not hear a syllable of the reasons
urgt•ri on either side. It was a curious and r otahle
fart the. up in that occasion a majority of those who
did attend, end had the oppalunity of being correctly
hemmed on the merits of the question, voted wrong,
while a more than caun-ervailiog majority of those
who o' ey. d merely the voice of public opinion out of
doors, and did not (son at[ et to hear or judge for
theneelv, s, voted right. On the second occasion,
that of last Monday night, the headlong
seal cf Lord STANLEY appealed from PHILIP
deaf to PHILIP listening from a di cision
won by help of proxies, to one in which none but
those who were actually plesent could take part.
Arad the result has morn betrayed the over-ruling
mere e f t, ar which, like an instinct to the week and
mitten r members of creation, seems to have been
giv.n them lor the purpose of self-pr. servation. A
larger majority, though in a far smaller home, re-
ar,. o d 'et the latter occie ion the resolution of the
former night. The House of Lords mid nrt be
brought to face public opinion on the subject of the
navigation laws; and without provoking one angry
or ir dig oast expression of that growing and e heady
irresistible power, they who most devoutly detest its
yoke, and who, if they safely could, would rid the
world of its sway, meekly and quietly reconcile them-
gejt,i, In the duty of solemnly recording its decrees
le a quit. erexceptionable manner.
Truly this is regrets. Let the people take pride
is it as the evideoes of great way made. Let their
leaders take heart from it as a convincing proof of
• what m.y set be wen if they have but the wisdom and
the will. To faith all things are possible. When-
ever the pe ple of these kingdoms believe in their own
righ• ne to be ma d only and solely as they please,
and beli ve thoroughly in the certain truth that there
is no power whatever apish'', of withholding the
benefit sad enjoyment of such rule firm them for a
eingl- ear, the shams of usurped authority will vanish
away. end the shadows of privilege will disappear as
Its substance has already done.

rr is imp:visible to contemplate a right more noble
than Illy g try at the present moment, teed by the
Imhof t its of its sons tom invading armies—of
Aust., i .11 . on one side, of Russians on another, of I
Croats a+ .d Selavonians on a third—its glorious suc-
cesses put having wrun?, admiration or con ession
from is hereditary sovereigns; bat, on the
con•rart , having awakened fre-h inveteracy in
tbeir h atts, and made them prefer humblirg the
'mot. a• tt e root of the Tartar, to imparting their
jut arc) pre-cririve share of independence and free-
dom to i s rational races.
The Hungarian leaders, KosseTu himself, the
noblis and the general., who take part in
the wur of resistance, would gladly have left'
the que.ticn of sovereignty . in abeyance, and
ruling de
.fsetn, have carried on the war
without eiscu-sirg the rights or wrongs of the Home
of ivshurg. The Hungarian peasant, however,
maid n, t wield his arm with zeal unless the cause
for V•ich he fought was more clearly dellneil. Ao-
custorre,l to take and revere an oath of allegiance. to
his Inrereiot and to his colours, the Ranh=
Homed &Aimed thus invoking the name
of a King, who was making war upon
his ri;hts end his liberties, and who had
called I,i Russians to waste and slaughter the Thus-
frvir and t.,chtvomiau rscFe. The objections to a
continu, d recognition of the Emperor thus came
from tar r roles and the recruits of the army, not from
the c .uncil chamber or the general's tent. Roan=
was c-m, ell, dto obviate objections emanating from
such a source and such scruples ; and the result has
been a decree of forfeiture passed against the
Howe of Hapsburg, more by the general
aeclam +tins of the Hungarian peop'e, than by any
caprice ot choler of politicians. On a former coca-
won, in a similar war of independence, Jolly HUM-
y.thrs e-i-umed the rule of Hungary for a =march,
incapable of reigning by himself, and his title was
that f U ,INrcor-President by the choice of the Hun-
pavan rayon. Such is the title now assumed by
Kosuuzn, and deferred to him by the Hungarian