The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-27 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27.

Tax fats of Cuba bag bees adjourned. But the
aotoriety of the expedition, and the interest excited
cannot fail to attract fresh spirits and ingenuity
to it. An annexation is like a murder. One begets
another, by the number of people it sets thinking and
planning on the subject, and meditating each admit
they wouIdNUJ have doze, or might have done, had t
undertaken it. As one great crime in private WI
educates and incites some ruffian to imitate it, se doss
critiqued or conspiracy. Louis XIY. was
politicalthe parent of FREDERIC the Greet,
sad FRIDEILIC the Great of NAPOLEON —LO
grasp, conquer, and partition, was the great
game, the one ides of sit. This mania
somewhat dead in Europe survives in America, where
schemes of rapacity need not wait for prisms or
commanders to arry them out: a few adventurous
spirits will there undertake to swallow up a continent.
Speaking of the American design upon Cubs, we
said the other day that 1,500 or 2,000 men from New
York or New Orleans could not possibly succeed in
the invasion of an island garrisoned* by from 20,000
to 30,000 Spanish soldiers. We forgot, however, the
discontent which prevails amongst Spanish troops,
raised by conscription, and amongst Spanish officers,
whose occupation for some time has been more gambling
than war. It is said that the American adventurers
reek Iced on the d-fection of the military, u well as
oar a largely organised revolt of the Creoles. Certain
it is that a quantity of money was forthcoming for the
expedition, and was lavished on it. And we know that
whatever party in old Spain is willing to spend some
thousands of dollars, it can always command a pro-
ainstionstmeo. And accordingly, it is by length of
puree that the relative strength of contending factions
is measured. The law holds good in the Spanish
colooy. And therefore when we see such large sums
subscribed for ejecting the Spanish gov. roan nt from
Cuba, the probability gains ground that the project
will be resumed and re-aVempted till it does mooed.
The Spanish authorities have nothing to oppose to
it bat brute force. The present Captain-Genenl is
known for his sanguinary execution of all the
military captives whom he took at Corthague.
Martial law and 'honing form his only political ex-
perience and code. And although our tones will not
fail to argue how fully in the right he is, because
he does no more than the Irish Orangemen
did in 1798, or than Governor WARD does in
1849, this would not protect the island from
American sympathizers. The greater the cruelty to
the Cubans, the more will the Americans be incited
to liberate them—the more iron and arbitrary the
military rule at the Havannab, the deeper will be the
aspirations after the dominion of the stars and

stripe*thin.
Nog would be more easy than for the Spani
aLthorities to conciliate either the planters or the
black population. A METtriniCil would set the one
to massacre the other, as the Austrian cabinet treated
Gallicia. ASp wish minister may have the cruelty,
but not altege:her the blames' for this part. But on
Ow other hand he has not the least idea of ooncilia-
don.
As to the Americans and their republic, it is net so
much by armies and expeditions, that they menace
states around them, as by their example. Little
commonwealths, of which the planters are the noc.na-
trolled masters, are too tempting to planters of other
countries net to be envied. And this is felt in Jamaica
as in Cuba. Then the American conquests have not
been followed by a direct American domination.
Mexico, for example, has been left to itself, its popu-
lation merely freed from official, sacerdotal, and
military rale, the sources of prodigality and oppres-
sion cut off. How can the Cubans behold such a
revolution effected within so.ahort a distance of them,
and in countries peopled by the same race, without
aspiring themselves to that charac'erittic of America,
self government and development?
But, however natural and irresistible this must
be to the Cuban planters, it is not wittiLut regret and
shame that one sees their Jamaica brethren resort to
the same topics and threats, for the sake of mere
faction. The threat, too, is idle. The majority
of the House of Assembly has an exeellent
cause, a parliamentary and a constitutional line
of opposition. They demand retrenchment; they
have every right, ground, and power to demand
it. And it their object be merely retrenchment, no
government can long refuse it to them. Bat with
every freedom for the statement of their wrongs, for
the ventilation of abuses, for the wielding and exten-
sion of eiltgovernment, to talk of annexation to the
United States, and thereby hint at a restoration of
slavery, at eta turns the pat and liberal resistance
of the House of Assembly into a factious and illiberal
intrigue. It spoils the best of arguments, dese-
crates the most tamed of owes, and destroys
that national English sympathy for Jamaica,
just as the Irish physical force repealer destroyed
English sympathy for Ireland. The American and
the Cuban moles may unite in condemning to eternal
slavery the black population of the Spanish island.
English planters will never be allowed by the Eng-
lish people to play a part so inhuman and so retro-
grade. And annexation, from the mouth of a Jamai-
can, and from such a pen as that which Iccubrated in
the Morning Herald of yesterday, means nothing
else.

EwsnT, we think, at no distant day, will have
reason to coogratnlate himself on the results of the
eemmittee en Public Libraries, which he last session
preesced to be appointed. It is impossible that the
meet et the committee—of which we reprinted the
rportion on Tuesday. together with the value-
eillr vidsnee appended to it—should not make a deep
brag n on the public, and lead forthwith to prac-
deal results. Sluggish as the government is in such
matters, it will be compelled to do something, if
oily for appearance sake ; while on private mdi-
vidsals, and on the stirring and influential provincial
communities of the manufacturing districts, who
have so moth more real vitality than onr tempo-
=purnment, or our overgrown, unwieldy, me-
ths effect of the report will be still more
decisive, and still more pregnant with beneficial con-
sequences. There is no =smoke:ewer, let him be ever
so selfish and indifferent to the inter, it. of those in
his employ, who cannot appreciate the superiority of
educated labour and trrned intelligence over igno-
rance and the apathy which is its too constant attend-
ant ; or who has not acuteness enough to perceive
bow the general cultivation of the mind stimulates
the dexterity and inventiveness of the mechanic
in his special occupation. We wish we could say
as such for the large agricultural employers.
But we fear there are too many of them
who still labour ender the mad fallacy, that the
more ignorant the labourer, the more docile and sub-
missive is he, and the more productive the fruits of
his toil—as it the transformation of certain ingredients
contained in the earth, into corn sad cattlemere celes-
tially different from any other manufacture : or u if
stupidity wee really of as much use to the farmer, as
science and skill is to the miner and the cotton-spinner.
The abolition of the corn laws has brought many bless-
ings with it; but none so great, u that it will knock
this aossense on the head, and drive the farmer, in
self defence, to educate himself first, and then
his labourers, and last of all, and greatest
blessing of all, by indirect inflames, his
landlord! In half a century, the wrong-
headedness, incapacity, and general ignorance
of practical subjects, which are too generally cherse-
teeiMie of the country gentleman, and of which such
premises specimens exhibit themselves in the Hoses
et Commons, immensely to the detriment of useful
legislation, will be thine as obsolete as the habits
and humours of Squire Western, drawn from the life
by FIILDING just one hundred years ago.