The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 11.

Ms. Rossucx, it is currently stated, will, as soon
as Parliament meets, call upon Ministers for a
categorical explanation of the unpleasant rumours, so
widely diffused and so generally credited, respecting
the undue interference of the PRINCE CONSORT in
the administrative government of this country.
Should Mr. Hoist:tea health admit cit his carrying
any enebneolotion into effect,he will tbiby de brave
and loyal service to the Crown. A math or two
ago there wee not in the country a owe popsies
chareber than Priem ALUM{ all MIS were loud in
their spontaneous pain hiss. Mow steads
the matter sow, doh amphisas bass pas abroad
that the prudent shlstba bun is with
politieswhich chessebeisell (Siff Mawr has
r* seed to be the rule of his reside the more
vehement declaim against him; On me onations
shake their heads, regret that sea usphoist
rumours have gone abroad, hint at
as
sequences that may ensue &mil the MINIMS 10
well-founded; but no man combehdoes
his tlisee.
Zealous Ministerialista courtly-aisle thaws he
whose estimation to speak evil of disabilities he VMS
than any of the seven deadly star-who tullemeille
profess to regret that his Royal RON. (he West
of due reflection they hope) may bah holm MOM
dently in the habit of attending to matters not
properly within his province. More blunt
speakers beyond the Ministerial circles are broader in
their imputation,. The friends of Lord PALMERSTON.
during his brief secession from office, availed them-
selves of these things to hint that both he nosh
and former resignations bad been forged ups Maly
the meddling of the PRINCE Consoler. Whet •
position for the husband of the Quoit to
place himself in ! Exposing himself to be Mei
the obnoxious personage any reeking highs
might seek popularity by systematically ensiling ! As
yet the distrustful, and irritable, and unpleasant feel-
ing excited by this discussion has not spread further,
has not absorbed into its vertex seed higher pan
and he dearer to the natiswAint yes est ham
the wayward and halm bomb el .ps•
puler excitement will tabs spa Ma in by
bow long this may be the Oft aim poet
measures are taken to still the rinbrisit P Mho
Sheffield meeting on the Turco-Rumbla quads, me
small tact and dexterity were require* to prevent an
allusion to this painful topic being embodied in the
address to her MAJESTY. It is an ugly story, and to
attempt now to hush it up or give it the slip in the
approved fashion of Ministers (of all parties) and
Parliaments will only make matters worse. Judging
by all the precedents before us, it is extremely pro-
bable that when Mr. ROEBUCK has made his motion
or pot his question, the leader of the Hons. of Com-
mons will rise, in dulcet tones express his unspeakable
regret that such a delicate subject should have been
touched upon, expatiate on the importance of a cordial
confidence between the Sovereign ander people,Pledp
his word of honour that the conduct tithe illustrious
person alluded to has always been masked with pro-
found respect for the Constitution, sad coaelede by
hoping that the Rouse will see the propriety ef
allowing the discussion to drop. Then all the cla-
ques:re behind and in the immediate vicinity et the
Treasury bench will applaud with their whob
strength of hands, feet, and lungs ; the modem**
Tories, always unwilling to rink a breach with the
Court, will nod acquiescence ; the more ferocious of
that party will preserve a grim silence. The flew
sturdy malcontents may, as usual, feel cowed by the
concurrence of the great majority of the House, and
may shriek from supporting Mr. Roscoe. In this
way the House of Commons indeed may be quieted,
but will it be convinced ? And will this stop the
toupee or remove the doubts and fears of the
people out of doors? " Alas ! Leviathan is nut se
tamed."
It s right that Ministers and the Court ilea lb
made to understand aright the necessities el thein
position. The national jealousy has bees round
—it cannot be extinguished by courtly or dipb-
'natio evasions. The imputations that have gone
abroad must be satisfactorily disproved, or good
security given that the conduct which has given such
just umbrage shall be discontinued for the future.
Minister' hold their offices by the tenure of Parlia-
mentary lama*, and the nation will not tole-
rate, under any circumstances, the interim&
tion of any irresponsible influence—native sr
foreign—between those responsible Parliamentary
Ministers and their Sovereign. Any Cabinet
• that should degrade itself by enduring such
unwarrantable interposition, would thereby, though
it bad given no other cause of offence, justly lose the
confidence of Parliament and the people. This, we
Day, would in any circumstances be the consequence
of an attempt to establish behind, or beside, the
throne a power greater than the throne. But in the
present state of public affairs, and regard being had
to the party held in suspicion, the tenacity with
which Englishmen insist upon a strict adherence
to the letter of the Constitution is more essen-
tial than on ordinary occasions. We are,
to all human appearance, on the eve of an im-
portant struggle. It is indispensable that at such
a time the national councils should not only be
united, resolute, but thoroughly and exclusively
English. Now the party at whom the finger of
public suspicion points so ushesitatingly and unani-
mously is not only not English by birth, but was
sedulously trained, at that period of his lib in width
the mind is most accessible to lasting impair. h
the traditional maxims of those most inveterate
continental legitimists, the minor Courts of 4lsee-1
many, and in the plausible theories by witichit/ Witt
fain school of German Professors have laboured to
render those maxims less revolting to common sense
and unsophisticated morality. We have ever
been among the foremost to acknowledge
the many estimable and amiable qualities All
Prince ALBERT ; but we never expected that
he has been, connected as he is by fancily
. could be brought to feel and ant as an
Liberal. This is no fault of his; but it is an
cable reason for insisting that, so nurtured
entangled with family connexions, he should
all interference with English politics.
. ought to have impressed upon himself
conviction—and for a time it was believed to
so—that the loyal and chivalrous spirit,
the most distinguishing grace of high
very life-breath of everything good and
him, must be abused if he availed
relation to the Sovereign to intrude hies-
inegularssanner into the national council.
rib truth, but one which it is right both
1 Ministers should be given to bow: that
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