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London, England, 1856-04-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1856.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 19.

A coinxzetion has been concluded at Parte by the
Powers engaged is the late war, in virtue of whisk
eery foreign soldier will have quitted the Turkish
territory in six months But, long before that term
supine, the armies of England, France, and Sardinia
is Turkey will be greatly diminished. The process
of eemoving the troops will be began forthwith, sad
carded on with all possible despatch. As for the
Austrians, they are to evacuate the Principalities
without delay.
As for the government of those provinces in the
future, assiseares are to be concerted for its being
pissed epos a more satisfactory footing than it hss
hitherto been. On two points, we are gives to
unionised, the English Government peremptorily
inlets. The first of these is that the ettaeraiwett
ever the Principalities shall coating, to be vested in
the Porte; and that their internal administrative
shall be organised in accordance with the wishes of
the Moido-Walischian people, and exercised by them
exclusively. To the latter arrangement no true
Liberal can have any objectless. With regard to
the former, it appears to Shed a better guarantee for
the preservation of the civil liberties of the Molds
Wellsehiane than any other that can be suggested.
The age of small States has passed, and in the present
state of European polities the materials for • great
homogeneous sat ion, of which the Moldo-Wallachiana
might form a part, do lot exist. Aa a people admi-
nistering their own interval affairs, sod linked in so
far as foreign affairs are concerned with • greater
power, the connexion with Turkey affords them a
better prospect of maintaining their peculiar local
institutions unimpaired than would •connexion with
either Austria or Russia. We know it is true that
some few natives of the Principalities, of whose pa-
triotism and integrity we entertain a high opinion,
indulge in visions of an independent Moldo-Walla-
chitin kingdom, with a Prince of someWeetern Family
for Sovereign; but the condition of the Kingdom of
Greece is a beacon to warn us from shipwreck on
that shoal. As for the talked-of union of the Prin-
cipalities, it is a measure in favour of which mach
may be said; and the English Government at least
has no objections to it. With respect to the Hoe-
podars, the arrangement most in favour appears to
be that, on every vacancy, two or three names shall
be submitted by the inhabitants or the Legislature of
the Principalities to the Porte, of whom the Porte
shall nominate one. With ameliorated institutions
and an extended frontier, there is every appearance
that the Moldo-Wallachians at least will ultimately
find that they have gained by the var. Such corn-
peneatioe is due to them, for they have suffered more '
by it than any other subjects of the SULTAN.
Bo far, we have been confining oar regards to
Turkey. And, indeed, it is only the affairs of
Turkey that can be said to have been in any degree
settled by the Peace. The Peat:sleeves every other
great Europeen question unsettled. The belief,
which we expressed on • pnvions occasion, that
Count Caeooa had not presented • formal memorial
on the affairs of Italy to the assembled members of
the Conferences, proves to have been well founded.
The Count merely placed in the hands of the Bog-
Rah and French Plenipotentiaries a innate, which
was read at one of the meetings. Conference has
taken no action upon that minute; in fact, Con-
bream can and will do notbioit in the matter.
Austria has drawn &neer its alliance with Rome, in
order to prop up its own tot:ering supremacy in the I
Lonabardo-Venetian territories, and to prevent the I
regeneration of the States of the Church, which
is the key-etone of Italian Reform. We frankly
onfess that we see without regret the Italian

question left untouched by Conference; for Used
Turkish Plenipotentiaries could not be ex-
• petted to understand it, and, of the other Powers
represented at Paris, Sardinia and England alone
can for a moment be imagined to be favourable to sue:
a solution of Italian could satisfy
the
t.. 12240 di of initial or the desires of the people of Italy.
It is better that the affairs of Italy should be left un-
touched by Conference, threatening though their
aspect be. In fact, Italy--and Germany too--are as
open to revolution as ever; bat that is the sone-
queues of the short-sighted selfleheem of the lay and
eselesbistioal despotisms of the Continent and lit
them reap the fruits of their own crisis and folly.
▪ Ephraim is joined to idols ; let him alone'
In the politics of the great and advancing Western
World, England, of all Europese States, has iodaitely
the greatest concern. And there we are happy to
mark the last threatening clouds of hostility dial.
paling es the far horizon. The English Government
is prepared to make a very reasonable aoseeselion ;
end the Cabinet at Washington has been
Wight that its bellicose declamation lade
no
response among the American people.
President Picacz and his Minister, will ma-
kes, to eireametaness. Some silly or mischief-
making people have bees sadeavoterieg to create
perlitiesl eapital out of the escussest of troops and
the transedesion of gunpowder to Quieds. As wee:-
planed a few days ago, these movemints have simply
is view the replacing of what has been withdrawn
ken Canada to meet the exigencies of the war, Thn
Nisbet of British troops isteaded to he quartered is
Osaade, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prises Ed-
ward's Island, and Newfoundland—a region almost
ea extensive as the United States will be
about 8,000. Of these, two regiments ere
already in Ganda ; so, the whole number
shoot to be sent to British North America will hardly
exceed 3,000. Experience has taught us that the
great detest of the English army has been its alasosV
exclusively regimental organisation, and it is de-
sirable that in so extensive a province of the empire as
British North America there should be a possibility of
developing and maintaining a divisional orgualeatien.
The views of the Brit bib Government on this point are
perhotly understood by the Government at Wm&
ingtoe, and do not inspire it with either distrust or
alarm

Two real old Tory party are jest now trembled I
with sad sad painful mingiviogs. They hardly
venture to utter aloud all that they feel and fear.
But their appreheutioos are ealy the harder to
bear with Christian fortitude oa that account. If say
woe elm would but blow a horn or raise • my of alarm
and warning on their behalf. the danger might still,
they think. be avertsd t but without actual proof of
felonious political inteut, how sea a set of dull
and inexpert country gentlemen venture to feria,
a sharp of meditated desertion agaiast their Pie-
gsmsatsey shiers, whom to charge *wetly would
Lo to &Beasts and offend. and without whom they are
asoarafally otworlous they would be aothiag but

a mare belphos mass of Newdegatism P What
Tory county numbers and buyers of Talton
boroughs cannot bring themselves to ask in
clear and audible voles, we shall ask far them. We
make so merit of doing so it is but the dictate of
cosmos humanity that inspires se. Prejudice and
party aside, it would not be Nekibbourly to refuse
the performance of a service so easy, and by nosiness
devoid of amusement. The question wit los to put
' to Messrs. Dia RAM Ind his associates is simply this :
Can it be possible, gentlemen, that you are thiekiag
of running away from your poor old partisans and
principles, and of taking up with (boss who did the
like about ten years ago P

Parliamentary Toryism is a garden whose beat fruit
is always stolen as soon am it reaches maturity.
The defection of Canxixo and his friends, who com-
prised nearly all the men of rigs( talent in the party,
load their junction with a certain mellow of the
Whigs, inflicted a blow on the policy and power of
Cloossrvatime, heat which it did not recover for many
a lees year. Gradually, indeed, it did recover. New
credos§ arose, new men made themselves known.
In the bracing air of opposition new energise and
abilities were developed, and their superiority in
Parliament to their rivals was formally declared
in 1841. We all remember how transitory was the
period of exultation sad ascendancy. Sir Roam
Pm had surrounded himself with nearly all the ripe
talents of hie party ; and at the head of the dumb ma-
jority which bad been collected by the hustings cry of
" No Popery" aad " Protection," they were irreeistible.
(Soddenly the bonds of sympathy between the leaders
and the led were severed. The former had become
convinced of the folly and wickedness of attempting
to govern epos principles of intolerance; while the
latter, incapable of intellectual conviction, clang with
a morbid morality to the pledges they had given.
The permanent endowment et Maynooth was oar-
Had by the Tory chiefs in spite of the Tory party.
This woe in 1846. A solitary voice of warning and
reproach was raised by one who, by some strange
mistake, had been treated as one of the despised rank
and Ale when he ought to have been secured by a
s. aff appointment. With sagacious intrepidity be
forewarned the doubting and distrustful party that
" Protection would speedily be in the position
that Protestantism was then." Before six months
DISRAELI'S words came true. Sir ROBERT and
nearly all the men of talent abjured the flag of
Protection, and were thereupon drummed out of the
Tory regiment. Office b:eatne the prise of their
political antagonists, and has so continued with little
interruption ever since.

Two crops of leaders are • great deal to tab off,
one unlucky ground in so short a period: bet what if
the process is to be endowed for the third time P
Untaught and unteachable, the bulk of those who sit
upon the benches of Opposition are as eager as in
1827 when they refused to follow Mr. CANNING, or
in 1846 when they spurned the counsel of Sir
ROBERT Pair., to attempt to govern Ireland by
and for • small minority of the people ; and
to maintain an overlaid Church establishment
in that country, while they refuse a miserable
dole to the students fora priesthood of all others the
most dangerous to society and the State, if treated
with insult and with wrong. And once more the
common eases of responsibility and prodmice has
caused the newly-grown leaders of the Tories to
shrink frost that which the two hundred and fifty
Stamens who sit behind them would have them
vainly essay to do. On the late occasion, when an
unavailing, but not, therefore, innocuous triumph
was won by " Suerrnisuifs brisk boys " of 1868,

Mr. DISRAELI and Lord STANLEY, Sir JOHN
PA KINOTON and Mr. WALPOLE, deliberately
absented themeless ; while Mr. HENLEY and
Lord JOHN MANNERS voted in the minority
with Mieistere. Not one of the Derbytte
Cabinet was found voting with the Dahill*
party. Well may that twice deserted party ask, in
the memorable words uttered on the eve of the
Pulite eseession in 1848, "Are we again betrayed P"
Truly it is a very unhappy cue when men of
sincerity suffer themselves to be fooled by impossible
principles. A still more deplorable plight is that
wherein a knot of dexterous men mooed in playing
and paltering with the unsuspecting fanaticism and
undisosrniog credulity of large portions of the com-
munity. We may commiserate, bat we shall never
laugh at the former. The latter deserve a different
treatmze A more manifest duty is not imposed on
journalism than that 0te...71i°11 those who seek to
traffic under false pretences ; and we "1117 nay plainly
here, once and far all, that we do not meal: to allow l
the trick to be played off at the next general elect:Yr
which bas on mare than one previous ooeseion been
permitted to peas without exposure. Formerly, when
the watchword of Maynooth was given by the ma-
nagers of the Carlton, men made up their minds that
it was meant in earnest, and they dealt with it accord-
ingly. Matters stand otherwise now. If the Derbytte
leaders continue to be recognised in the capacity they
have heretofore filled, then "Maynooth" is not a
gaieties of ecossienee, bat simply end merely a swia-
dle got ap for eleatiossering, and for no odor, purposes
I—a thing to be 'pursed by all lamest mu, whatever
may be their opinioes on the education of the Irish
priesthood. It Exeter-hall is going to fight next geme-
nt elation, it meet wash its handed Derbyiem ; and
it must get rid of the taint of hypocrisy and friend whisk
will indelibly attach to all who, while they shut "No
Popery," pledge themselves to follow Mr. DISRAELI
and Mr. Weird's. The two thiegs sre proved to be
incompatible. These gentlemen love publicly and
as one man repudiated Ezeter.hall politics. In this
rr.Teet they have at last turned Peelitee; and how
mach further In that direction they are prepared to
go we may sot perhaps have to wait long to WC On
our readers each an event will not have some by sees
prise. We have more than once megoestisated its
approach; mad now that it has arrived, the only regret
we have to express is that it did sot happen before.

Ix 'Midas to a French Naval Expedition which
is fitting sat to dossed satisfaction from the Qossa
of MADAGASCAR for injuries done to Prostheses,
there is a meow el a smaller French flotilla being
in preps:mien fur opening sonamanications with and
seeking reams from the President or PARAGUAY, for
eel of opprenion iodieted is French immigrants.
Of the seserosy or inaccuracy of this latter rumour
we prig* to know nothing ; but it receives some en-
couragement Sr.. the notice, recently isserted is the
Nessiener, of the somplaints that have been received
from the handful of Fritsch settlers who were silly
enough to be deluded to Parapay. Moreover, the tra-
ditionary policy of a country will generally be found
to predominate over its dynastic changes, and Franco
as we know, has always taken an especial interest in
one, at least, of the States of the River Plate, whom,
seder the patronage of M. Tama, Count WaLuvrsui
pawed part of his diplomatic weer. As Lord
Cuteminox hes, however, mace than area pointed to
the affairs of the Plate as a subject os which the
English and Freak Cabisets set in mime, we can
hardly suppose there le any proses' intention or wish
ea dm part of the French Oovernment to attempt to
dominate is these troubled waters.

For oar own put. we regard the pansy of both
Inked and France la the Elver Plate se mistaken
and misdirected. If pest szperienes ma sunset any
ia sentries whisk bale all resessable Neje.-

tore, it surely is the prudence of letting them alone
to solve and settle their own difllenlies, of not at-
tempting to direct their tendencies or to control their
affairs, of not pledging ourselves to the independence
of. this would-be Repablies or insisting an the sub.
esdisation of that pa:dealer state to a Coalederadon
that be always existed more in imaginatisa than
reality. What is wanted in the Plats is a strong
native power, Ispable of preserving seder and
tranquillity, of keeping open the navigation of the
internal waters, and aromas; the quarrels and
disorders of the restless military chiefs who, for the
last thirty years, have been far greater curses then
the savage lodides whose incursions they are now
unable to repeL But the growth or appearance of
such a power is clearly retarded by European diplo-
macy heisting on the nub:tames of some fictitious
Republic, or the adherence of some province to a
eembinadon it despises, and still more by the sending
of naval expeditions up the Plate and its affluents, to
the alarm and jealousy of every state on their banks.
What, for example, did Lord PONSONDY'S meek-
bashed mediation is 1628 result in P Nominally it I
established the indepeadenes of the Banda Oriental, I
bet in reality it produced the sostinsed devastation,
the prolapsed anarchy, and the utter =head= of
that flee country. The attempt to make a country
independent which has no elements of independence
failed themes it will fail everywhere. It plunged the
Republic it called into existence into war and into
debt. At one time, Bassos Ayres overrun its terri-
tory and besieged its espied; at another, the Buenos
Aryan forces having been expelled, Brazilian troops
were invited by the Government itself to occupy its
territories and protect the population against intestine
quarrels; and cow that Brazil has withdrawn from the
struggle, and the country is again left to itself, who
ma say bow long tranquillity can be preserved in the
Banda Oriental P Aide, what did Lord Apanrizies's
naval and diplomatic intervention in 1846 achieve P
Literally the very reverse of its intentions; a treaty
which abandoned the objects for which we had
blockaded Buenos Ayres, which recognised preten-
sions that the intervention was meant to check, and
which—by encouraging his ambition—led to the
downfall of the chief whom it began by oppce.
beg and ended by supporting. And what but
harm and mischief have followed the late Sir
CHARLES Hcrrettet's mission P By exaggerating
the importance of UIQUITA and becoming hie prop,
that chief was precipitated into the fatal mistake of
offending the pride and rousing the hostility of
Buenos Ayres. The consequence was hie expel-
sion from that State; the withdrawal of the most
important province from the Argentine Confederation;
the non-recognition by Great Britain of the present
Government of Buenos Ayres; and its adherence to
the authority which UAW= has established over
the Upper States. Thus the quarrel between Buenos
Ayres and the other States is kept open, fomented,
and exaggerated; the Government of that Province,
distracted from its proper duties, is unable to protect
its subjects from the ravages of the Indians, now
almost within sight of its capital, and URQUIZ• pre-
pares to take advantage of its weakness to revenge
his expulsion, and compel Buenos Ayres to join the
federal system he has formed at Parana.
So far, then, from European intervention in the
Plate having ever done the least permanent good,

we are fully warranted in saying it ilia produced the
greatest passible mischief. It is consequently not
without apprehensions that we have seen at this juno-
tare the departure of a British Chargé d'Affaires for
Parana, and hear the report of a French expedition
to Amami:lion. The arrival of a British Agent at the
former city will, in all probability, encourage
URQUIZA in his present designs ; pledge the
British Foreign-office mote and more to rapport a
form of government in which this country has not
the lest interest; reedits unfounded suspicions of the
ambitions designs attributed to Brasil; and excite
the fears and apprehensions of Buenos Ayres. The
tendency of such a movement is to augment the trou-
bles and difficulties of the Plate, and to lead to another
naval intervention.

As for France and Paraguay, the French Foreign-
office has probably received grievous complaints from
the emigrants whom Geueral Loess, when in Europe
some two or three years ago, persuaded to settle
there. French settlers are everywhere the most
troublesome and querulous of human beings, and
President LOPEZ (the General's father) has a
good deal of the arbitrary character of Dr.
FRANCIA, without much of that extraordinary
man's ability. Already the President of PARAGUAY
has given offence to the United States, and bee quar-
relled witfi Brazil; and now, it would appear, be
has brought the French upon his beck. But, without
doebting that he has in some degree or other mal-
treated the French settlers in Paraguay, we may be
permitted to think that, if the French Government
do send out to oo distant a pleas a naval expedition,
they will very unneosmarily exaggerate the gravity
of the complaints that have reached Count
WALEWBEI, and eveoursp a belief that their osten-
sible is not their real object. At all events, if they,
on the smallest and slightest provocation, despatch •
naval faros 1,800 miles up the Plate, the Parana, Zed
the Paraguay, they deprive themselves of the right to
ramoostrate, as they have done on former occasions,
wit► other Powers when they are making similar

in those watise.

That the Anglo-French alliance should extend from
the Danube to the Plate is a subject of congratulation.
What we object to * not a oommuoity of interests
in the Argentine States, bat over activity and too mush
intortmenos in their affairs. combined with a determi-
nation to make events bend to the policy of France and
Berl'"d not to,. •tuc • "-", trolley en events. Why, if
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events prove too strong to re-unite the Meteor r0w....
Arta to the Oenhalsration over which UnQuizA pre-
sides at Parana, not cultivate friendly rotations with
Bassos Ayres as a separate and distinct oommunity P
Why try to memo it back again into a Confederation
which it dislikes P Why, if events sad experience
prove the folly of trying to Maintain the Bands
Oriental as an independent Republic, not allow the
frontiers of a stronger Power to be peaceably ex-
tended to the Plate P Why, in short, play the part
of Doctrinaires in so difikalt, perverse, and obsess* a
guitar of the world P That is the radical vim of
English and French policy in the Rio de la Plata.

A moat ham within the last few days been pat
into circulation by a Tory Eventing Journal, to the
offset that Lord Penman sad Mr. Labooehere
was about to red» hum the Cabinet, sad that Mr.
Sidney Hotbed and lb James Graham would than
apes vs water dm Ihseumment. That. is sot, we bi-
lious the MONA hundaden far the statement. Any
ebb &mob wenli, It is obvious, seriomsly diminish
the ihmat element in Lord Palmerston's Cabalist, and
be ambulated ads sealing bat amend the position
▪ Glemismiat in the Hems at Osamu. Hence (it
simy be pessamod) Tory amdaty to intrados, into it
these aim= of political waxes and pommel am-
Poralarity.

The seastal el:potation that it might be possible
to memo the Nettie's of the Berl of &sin for the
Romaine' of Victoria will. we bar, be diesp
pointed. After presiding over the important affairs
da groat eseratry like Uwe& sammesfslly, it wee
perhaps hardly to be hoped that Load Elsie would
easept the labeler petition of seamier of a @soaps-
ratively sssall mislay is Ambalk ; eud Lord Lib,
it is supposed, sow reserves himself to play a diode-
sulked put is beam polities. To doss modally sad

Blamefully, however, cm thing lo indispensably ne•
away in a country like England—vin., to have
earnest and limn convictions and opinions on pub-
lic Weirs, and to let thoes opinions and onivions
be known. Hitherto Lord Elgin has practised a
political reservation which is never very popular
with so outspoken a people se the English. The
position of the Marquis of Denim* Billie arrival,
will he sons respsote zesseable dna of the Berl
of Elgin i bet in his case, the kagairod state of his
health will, we regret to hear, empletely prevent
his taking any part in pablis Aare fora year or
two at least.