The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-24 00:00:00

to be attacked, the bus of operations met be Troll
scud aed Sztersea.

We have no spas. at present to point oat the
IPsalibis plan at each act • admire movement, bat
the operations of Nankai PAIMIEWITCH in 1828-9
throw considerable light epos the subject. It
is clear, however, that the first neoessity—the
foundation - stone of the whole superstructure—

is a good road between Trebisoud and Erzeroure.
For the oomplatios of this design every nerve
should be drained. Daring the winter, indeed
it may be difficult, or even impomeible, to begin, but
ample arraagmesste should be at miss made to do so
at the my earliest momsat. The English Govern-
ment, however, should take the ',illative. Nor is
there the least raison to doubt that they might,
from swag the sambees of an well skilled in
Bagiish read-making, essay select a staff which
would be perfectly espable of earrying this moat
important design into szscatim.

Br the retirement of Mr. MACAULAY the How of
00•1110 MS loses one of the greatest of its literary, and
not the least of its oratorical, asisisides. Exactly
coeval with the eatery, Mr. MACAULAY resides from
public life at the rips age of My-six—aa sir at
which the faculties of the statesman may gesseally
M supposed to be in the highest state of elleissey
and rigour. At that age the dreams of youth have
ong beset dissipated, the hard scorn with which earlier
manhood sometimes takes a pride in showing itself
superior to such dreams is toning down into the mel-
lowed Inatome of a superior wisdom, and the mind
which has thought, and the heart which he. salved,
through many phases of a variously active life, may
fairly be supposed to have arrived at that stage of
experience when the active energise of both may best
costribute to the welfare of mankind. At seek
period it is that Idaccrur quits the arena of the
Senate for the calm seclusion of the study.
Ws do net say that he is wrong. The ant as-
nesseemeat, indeed, of such a change almost as.
avoidably carries the mind back to the days of hie
earlier triumphs—to the days when the crack article
os films "flamed in the forehead" of the
Edinburgh Itanno for October, 1826—and when
some six years later the crack speech of the young
member for Cala*, in the phrase of basset Lord
Amos's, "fairly electrified the hoses." In those
days of inneeent esthusissm, when " Astro' Max"
was supposed to have returned to this planet, for the
express purposed inaugurating 'millennium of Whigs

—young MACAU/AY was everywhere spoken of u
" the masa of the *pooh." Brilliant indeed for many
a year was "the dust and light scattered about his
chariot as he went." Season after mama the intent*.
teal treat of the day was llacautrts last article in
the EdislntrgA, Macautry's last speech is the Rouse.
At length the inevitable Nemesis prevailed. Doll
writes", believed to be profound bantam they were felt
to be obeyers, hinted in "the circles" that the essays
owed their sparkle to their shallowness: lead's
stutterers, the torment of the Home when on their
leis, the oracles of the slabs when in their arm-
Eire, accused the speeches of being mere spoken
asks% the felicitous product of laborious art and a
softesdre memory. A. is always the case, these
sidstures had a sallicient basis of truth to rendes
then piensible. Profundity as a thinker, and spom
ameausesse as a speaker, were sot the most prong.
neat cheresteristice of Mr. MACAULAY. sad the
" ciseles " never thought of Wields, whether Ilk*
wait of prominence might not in sairedevesbasaks
to the marked superiority of this distingaliml men
in almost every other gift that censtitates m lee
writer, and an accomplished speaker.
' Still, in a practical assembly like one lbws d
Commons, intolerant of rhetoric and not rome.tehmeat
of intellectual supesessey, it 'moot be denied imt
the brilliant emayist and orator wee somewhat ant d
his element. Latterly, too, mimed Lan alsollog
task, asseparatively failing is health, sad Wes k
may be, the increasing growth atisteidumallad►
less I. which men of literary tempammeed, mist
not stimulated by the spur of eassalicattle=
fop of the highest genius, are eveepooftele
hir. blacarnAr bad losg show" a merle, alimellem.
Non to take an active part in public dim For
these and other reasons his retirement, though it mei
have taken the punt public by surprise, has beim
for some time anticipated by those more familiar with
the sanest rowers of the day. Let him attire. The
hest whim of England go with him into Hs meat,
Oa pdllissl maids it has ohm bees ear ht Oa
illaribus No, bat we have never failed to magi.
Iftebeeemais sad gib lithe blade whose brigh►
nose we law alb albwai Is dude as, sad sided
abase glitetaki map we Meeemestimes irk saM
ups la mew the basely @MY of seescasses
sgassat Cu literary grounds we have found lee
asap for allisima or dissent ; sad, eves when =sat
freely Wedeln is both, have always felt that the
haw work es which be is now engaged is lades*
sonmeted with the literary renown of ear meanly.
Feeling this, we can scarcely regret the Immieu►
anent That henceforth, having lees mashes with the
punt interests of the existing genelllll4 be meg
bare sore leisure to devote to the diedeessest
liselead's story io the past and lie own fame is
the future.