The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-25 00:00:00

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LONDON. MONDAY. DEC. 25.
Enot.tancas have every reason to be thankful for
a happy Christmas. Compared with the circumstances
ander which the natives of almost all the other coun-
tries in Europe celebrate that festival, Eoglish com-
fort, freedom. and security constitute a paradise. We
have reason to be thankful to providence for this; but,
under providecoe, we have also to thank the wisdom
oe our soesetors, who did not leave to complicated
social times like the present the assertion or
establishment of those great civil and religions rights,
generated by a representative government which
other nations at this late day are doomed to grope, and
revolutioaise, and suffer for. The blame is not to be
laid, as our twice would lay it, to Germans a^cl
Italians, for making their revolutionary attempts :
the fault and the mishap lie in their making them so
late. 'two c nturies ago revolutions in these benighted
and oppressed countries would have been harmless and
wholesome. Now the remedy is painful and =oval-
sive, but unavoidable, if life and health are to be re-
stored to the half-extinct bodies politic of despotic
=Retries.
If these revolutions have left us unscathed, if the
eyldecay found no virus or predisposition here,
white would allow it to take, we owe this decidedly
is oar liberal institutions, and to the conservative
spirit which they generate, and not to that tory con-
servatism which would deny to foreign countries the
liberties whiel. we possess, and which, in the same
spirit would, of coarse, diminish for us the portion
that we have.
It is, however, not merely comparisons with the
state of foreign countries, which should make us more
contented, but comparisons with s miler anniversaries
amongst ourselves. Last year trade was stagnant,
credit prostrate, the commercial world not recovered
from the hurricane which had swept it. If food wu
plentiful, it was food purchased, not on fair calculation,
but with precipitate haste. The Irish were recover-
ing from the exhaustion of famine, merely to judo's*
in the excitement of rebellion. And as if matters
were not bad enough, it pleased our idle classes to
fall into a sadder' and un-ccountable panic, a dread
of the most absurd and unlikely contingency
that could have been found in the chapter of chance.
Rad they foreseen foreign revolutions. there might
have bees some prescience in them: had they been ems-
dered anxious by the fearful consequence and aoom pant.
menta of a financial deficit, followed by an open and
avowed resistance of the community to pay increased
taxes. this would have been foresight. But no—the
wizards foresaw nothing that was really coming, and
merely became alarmed at what could never come. their
fears this time twelvemonth were of French invasion.
And, on Christmas day, 1447, there appeared
in the Ilmrs a fearful vaticinatory letter
from no lees a person than Lord ELLESMERE
warning the nation of the expediency of
instantly "effecting an insurance" on all that it pos—
sessed, "the stake being neither more nor less than
oar capital, our arsenals, our lives, oar property, oar
wires, our children, which he (Lord ELLasouts) he I
lieved a few hours might place at the mercy of aa
unscrupulous and relentless enemy."
Such was the Christmas-box, and a stroke of der
pair it certainly was, with which Lord ELLiassas
and the Tines regaled their public friends at the
close of 1847. We will be bound to say
that his lordship entertains, this Christmas, more,
genial and cheering thoughts. At least his friend and
organ, the Tinter, does. Though not going the length
of Lord Rums ales fright last year, it still talked I
of fortifying dockyards,an4 organising half • millet
of militia, and it insisted on mussing army, navy,
and ordnance, besides adding to the colonial corps.
The lord and the journal :ben mocked Mr. COBDEN
for doubting the necessity of these precautions or the
existence of the danger, on which they were founded.
At Christmas, 1848, the tory journals (Times in-
cluded) have very nearly come round to Mr. CM
DEN'S opinion.
It so happens that the member for the West
Riding, L imitation, perhaps, of the bag-a-boo budget
which Lord &Lust ERZ and the Time got up
and presented as a popular Christmas-box last year,l
has got up a budget of very different materials,
which be has just presented to the English pub-
lic. Though want,ng all the apiece and all
the sweet frosting of financial confectionery in
general, Mr. Cosocit's cake seems to please very
generally. All welcome it, every one is eager
to partake of it. And so simple and pa-1
=table is it, and so economical withal, that
not even the tory bons violins durst turn up their nose
thereat. The Peel folk laud, whilst the organ of
the reigning oligarchy avoids not merely its will 11
t .ne of abase, but shrinks even from disapprobation.
It merely questions the digestibility of the Christmas
cake. It hint', indeed, that some treachery say lie
in the bringing together so many simples. But its
timid censure and cautious irony betray the emit-
manse that retrenchment is not a thing to be esented
or openly attacked in these times.
Have we not, therefore, reason to congratulate the
puhlic,the ever liberal public,on •he advance of political
opinion, and the retrocession of financial exigencies be-
tween Christmas,lB47,andChristmas,lB4BP The tided
common sense and of commercial prosperity are simul- '
tanuesly ui on the turn, and everything portends
a successful campaign for the party and the prin-
ciples ot retrenchment and reform. We have heard
this party scorned as but fifty, some time last year.
The mockers have sines been rendered serious by dis-
covering that its numbers are legion.

THE archdeacons were anciently called the "eyes
of the diocese." If this term is wire applicable to the
archdeacons of the diocese of Chichester, it must be
allowed that the two clergymen who are invested with
the dignity in question, have been chosen with lino-
larly appropriate reference to the position of tie
church not o.ly in that but in every other dieser of
England. If the bishop wishes to take a high-elmrsh
view of his see, he can make use of his Puseyits eye,
Archdeacon Massimo—if his lordship desires to view
the portion of the church committed to his care, se
a protestant establishment, be may make use at
the evangelical eye, Archdeacon HEEL The'
two pictures of the church thus permeated to
his mental eyesight would be as different as the
successive representations in the dissolving views.
The Pao pits eye looks upon the churches of the
thirteenth and eighteenth eel tury as idet tically the
same, and the unsuspicious prelate who should trust
implicitly to this one organ of vision rni.eht fanny
episc,pil thunder to be as granule an article now-a-
dsys as in the days of BECKET ; while, on the other
hand, the protestant eye, Archdeacon HAILS, would
.how his lordship that the two churches rested on
totally difibrent foundations, and quoting his own
charge, observe that all such representations Se those
made by his reverend brother are fallacious, and are
only mannfactuted by " those in oar days who belong
to the tibe of the S•. yen Ste p is, and who fancy that
the world is standing still at the point where their
minds fall asleep."
K.. tame these facts in ',leer, it must surely be
granted thrt there is a prima facie case against the