The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-14 00:00:00

'G, MAY 14, 1858.

wilTto meets ns to the benefits and the honours of
constitutional polity. Our feelings and =honour
were deeply wounded when, during the late war,
the Palace COMMIT showed his still imperfect
appreciation of oar political progress by saying, in a
public address, that Constitutional Government was
on its trial in this country ; and the people of Eng-
land have chosen not to let that saying drop out of
remembrance, because it was significant and porten-
tous, good for discipline and for warning, in virtue
of its inapplicability to the difficulties of that day.
The words are more suitable to our present position,
whether from the home point of view or from that
of the foreign world. We have strong faith in a
good issue from the trial ; but our salvation depends
wholly now on the spirit of the nation—on the up-
rightness, readiness, and loyalty of that spirit by
which our institutions were called into life, and by
which that life has been sustained in many
a dark and dangerous hour before the present. All
we want, to justify and satisfy our faith, is to be
&seared that the people at large are aware of the
darkness and danger of the hour.
We have not a mutiny in the fleet, nor a discon-
tented soldiery ; nor a cordon and an array of beacons
round our coasts, on the watch for the hovering in-
vader ; nor a coalition of all the European Powers
against us to contend with abroad ; nor famine, nor
pestilence, nor a deluge of pauperism or disaffection
to deal with at home. When such things were
happening, separately or all together, our institutions
were on their trial, and came out well. The more
they were trusted the more triumphantly they
brought us through. Oar present peril is more amen-
tially formidable than any of these, and precisely
because its aspect is len alarming. If every Briton
knew that our institutions are falling out of gear as
certainly and emphatically as he would be aware
that an invader was off our ooasta, or the =ambit,-
tilling districts in insurrection, the danger would be
over at once. If we, and those who see matters as

we do, oan bring the danger and those who have to
deal with it face to face, all will be well yet. Till
it is proved that it cannot be done, we shall trust
that it will be done.

From the hour which witnessed the disintegration
of parties in the Legislature it was inevitable that a
crisis like the present must come ; but no man's
sagacity could apprehend that it would occur on
such an occasion as our Indian empire being in
jeopardy, and all the world looking on to observe
how our institutions enable us to meet such a trial.
People abroad or at home who know no more of
party government than to suppose it means two
sets of men contradicting and abusing each other
—each, in the struggle for supremacy, requir-
ing its own members to say that black is white
when party policy requires it— may well wonder
how we have got through our political life thus
far, and suppose us in a better condition, though a
more perplexing one, at present, in our destitution
of parties than when matters proceeded in a more
organic worse. People who understand our case no
better than that must simply be left to grow wiser.
Those who are aware of the full significance of party
organisation in a free Parliament must see what oar
peril really is at this moment. Parties represent the
differing views of events, and the respective strengths
of the principles which lie at the root of them. It is
essential to wise government that all sides should be
represented. The Put must speak in the voice of
one party, and the Future in that of another, in order
to make the Present harmonise with both. Whatever

names are given to parties in various ages, these are
the real parties which exist and work wherever
Order and Liberty are established. How, after long
deterioration, the two parties of Conservatives and
Reformers were broken up in our Parliament twelve
years ago, every Englishman knows or ought to
know. The hope of our best citizens has always been
that some one of the great questions which wait to be
dealt with world produce its own statesman; and that
that statesman would call out his own antagonist.
Till this could happen, the thing to be done was to
strive (as far as it is ever possible) to attend to mea-
sures rather than men. This is more easily said than
done; and it must be a mere transitional effort
while awaiting the leading of a genuine leader. The
alternative was worse—as we are now finding—it
being nothing else than mere faction. To attempt
to make parties out of men who have no policy, no
principle, no provision of either the matter or the
spirit of statesmanship, is simply to breed faction :
and we see the consequences now in our dereliction
of duty in regard to India, and our disgrace in the
eyes of all Europe and America.
We will not dwell on the past To scold
or to scoff about our recent exposures of what a
British Parliament may sink to, may be left to the
organs of disappointed or trembling factions. We,
who belong to no faction, but steadily hold to our
broad old ground of progressive reform, as the only
one on which a good party organisation can again be
formed, now call on the people of England to do their
duty in taking legislation out of the hands of the
selfish, ignorant, flippant, and unfeeling factions
which are sacrificing India, with all the interests of
its hundreds of millions, and all our interests in them
and their country, to their own petty chances of
office. We see it is no noble ambition which stimu-
lates them to seek office; for no man of them all has
a policy to propose for India or any other depart-
ment of rale. We see that no one of them can show
any pretence for superseding the existing Govern-
ment of India in virtue of something better. We
see them playing fast and loose with British
authority in India; kindling war with one
hand while extinguishing it with the other;
using the most agitated and suffering part of the
human race as the bank of their gambling hell, and
our best men in all the services as mere cards or dice
far their throwing, with a view to their own ends.
If this is allowed to go on India is lost, and our in-
stitutions will be declared, by all the opinions of the
enter world, to have failed. Bat we know that
such failure will be wilful and wanton, while it

is in the power of Englishmen to stop the
profligate game at any moment. Let them
petition Parliament, as Manchester and Liver-
pool, and now London, have set the example
of doing; and this will extinguish all the mischievous
devices now proposed for the misgovernment
of India. Let them embody themselves into a Re-
form party all over the kingdom, in order to create
one within the Legislature. Let them instantly pre-
pare for the approaching elections, resolving to
brand with their rebuke all leaders and abettors of
the factions which make us now blush for our
country, and to return men more worthy of the time
and its work. Oar institutions will serve our needs
as well as ever, if we put them to this use.

A DIPPER/MC-E.—An evening organ of the late
government, prcioidag to give "entreats into ear provincial
eontereporerio, to show with what omenioitp die canary
expresso its indigestion et the 'animal d Misktais," sad
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authority of that thoroughly liberal jawed taw Dahlia Nor.
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the eappreserd oonclueloa of the Pertmate a asible: NWe sdtl
think that derpetch wee oreatteltie to the sidearm* tai*
bantweity of Lord Elleabertergh ; and though be bag NW
a dada, Xiamen see mot likely to abide a mere popeier
tans, now or bwealler, to go en the country."

INDIA.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

The following telegram from Mr. Acting-Consul
Green, was received at the Foreign-office, May 14,
4.30 a.m.

" ALEXANDRIA, X.: 9.

"The steamer Omawa arrived at Suez, from
Bombay, this morning. The following intelli-
gence has been telegraphed from Suez, forwarded
to Malta by her Majesty's ship Wanderer. Sir
C. Campbell had an interview with the Governor-
General of Allahabad on the 12th April, and wu
about to proceed on the 12th of April from Luck-
now to Rohilcnnd, which is said to be entirely in
the hands of the enemy. The bulk of the Oude
army continues at Lucknow. Lngard's column,
which left on the 28th March, expected to relieve
Asimghar about the 20th April. The Nepauleee
troops had returned within their own frontier to
protect it. Bareilly and Calpee are still in the
hands of the rebels, who are also in force along the
river near Fnttehpore and near Benares. The Knee
rebels are moving about the country, but have lost
their guns.
" General Roberts's army [force ?] has orders not
to break at Kotah immediately, as wu first pro-
posed. _ _

- " Sir H. Rose has been unable to advance on
Calpee, where he was expected by the 10th. Up to
the 19th he continued at Jhansi, where large bodies
of the enemy were understood to be marching from
the eastward, with the view of getting into his rear.
A flying force under Major Evans was scouring the
Cor rebels and refugees in 'Undress.
" General Whitelock's force remains guarding
Bangor.

" The Pnnjanb and Seind continue quiet, and
order was being restored in the northern Mahratta
country.

" Lord Canning was about to leave Allahahad for
Calcutta. The hot weather was setting in every-
where, accompanied by the usual squalls and storms.
" G. GREEN.

" This telegram arrived at Malta from Alexandria
by her Majesty's ship Wanderer, on May 13th, at
4.45 p.m.

"LYONS, Admiral."

THE LOSS OF THE CANDACE.

The following intelligence from Cadiz has been
received respecting the loss of the steamship
Candace:

" Mails and specie lost.
" Names of passengers eared :—Lieutenant Smith,
R.N., Captain A. Grant, Mr. McDermott, Mr.
Forsham, W. Donnelly, Captain Idurwickhusen,
Lieutenant Andrews, Mr. Ferguson, Rev. Mr.
Pocock and lady, Ensign Allman, Mr. Milward,
Mr. Chardine, Dr. Harding, lady, and infant, Mr.
Mailer, Miles Mills, Miss Wilson."

UNITED STATES.

(11011 0171 OWN

)113IT.)

SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 13.

The United States Mail paddle-wheel steamer
Arago arrived at Cowed to-clay, on her way to
Havre. _ .

The screw steamer Baxonia arrived also at Cowes
to-day, on her way to Hamburg.
Both these steamers left New York on the Ist
instant. . _

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The Arabia, from Liverpool, arrived at New
York on the morning of the 29th nit.
The Kansas Compromise proposed by Mr. English
has passed both houses, and only awaits the sigus,.
tore of the President to become law. The final vote
of the House was 111 to 102 ; that of the Senate,
30 to 22.

—The bill adopted by the legislature recites that
on the 7th of November last the people of Kansas,
by a convention of their delegates assembled at
Lecompton, formed for themselves a republican con.
etitation and state government, and at the acme tuna
adopted an ordinance which asserts that Kamm,
when admitted as a state, will have an undoubted
right to tax the lands within her limits belonging to
the United States, and which proposes to rehnquieh
that right if certain conditions set forth in said
ordinance be agreed to by the Congress of the United
States ; that this Lecompton constitution and ordi-
nance have been presented to the Congress of
the United States by order of the Convention,
and admission of the territory into the Union
thereon as a state has been requested. Further the
bill declares that the ordinance is not acceptable
to Congress, and it is desirable to ascertain whe-
ther the people of Kamm concur in the changes in
said ordinance hereinafter stated, and desire admis-
sion into the Union as a state as herein proposed.
For this reason Congress enacts the admission of
the state of Kansas into the Union on an equal foot-
ing with the original states in all respects whatever,
but upon condition that the question of admimioa
with the following proposition in lien of the ordi•
mince framed at Leoompton be submitted to a vote
of the people of Kamm, and assented to by them er
a majority of the voters voting at an election to be
held for that purpose, the propositions referred to
being as follows :
First, that sections number sixteen and thirty-mix in ern
township et public lands in said state, or where either of esid
sections or any part thereof has been sold or otherwise
posed of, other lands, equivalent thereto, and as condemn!
sa may be, shall be granted to said state for the use et
school'. Second, that seventy-two sections of land shill%
set apart and reserved for the support of a state univwft,
to be selected by the governor of said stale. sad
',ject to the approval of the Commimeioner of the Gemara
Land-office, and to be appropriated and applied in such mea-
ner as the legislature of said state may prescribe for the per.
pose aforesaid, but for no other purpose. Third, that Is
satire sections of land, to be selected by the governor of said
state in legal subdivisions, shall be granted to such state for
the purpose of completing the public buildings, or for the
erection of others at the seat of government, under the dim.
Hon of the legislature thereof. Fourth, that all salt spitlo
within said state not exceeding twelve in number, with elz
' sections of land adjoining, or as contiguous u may be to each,
shall be granted to said state for its use; the same tole
selected by the governor thereof within one year after the at.
mission of said state, and when so selected to be used or tbs.
poeM of on such terms, conditions, and regulations sa the
legislature may direct, provided that no salt spring er
lend the right whereof is now vested in any it
dividual or individuals, or which may hereafter be cm.
firmed or adjudged to any individual or individuals, elan
by this article be granted to said state. Fifth, that the
per centum of the net proceeds of sales of all the
public lands lying within mud state which shall be sold by
Congress after the admission of said state into the Uala
after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, Ad
be paid to said state for the purpose of milting public roads
anti internal iraprovemente, as the legislature shall
Provided the foregoing propositions herein offered are on tbe
condition that said state of Ksnsss shall never interfere win
the primary disposal of the lands of the United States, a
with any regulation which Congress may find necessary dsr
securing the title in said soil to boom fa purchasers Omit;
and that no tax shall be imposed on lands belonging to Its
United States, and that in no case shall non-resident per
sisters be taxed higher than residents. Sixth, and chi
said state shall never tax the lands or property of the Valhi
States in that state.

The voting at such election is to be by ballot, sad
the vote to be " proposition accepted" or " prom&
tion rejected)" the result to be proclaimed by the
President. In the event of the rejection of the pre
position it is to be deemed that the people of Kamm
do not desire admission into the Union with the
Lecompton constitution under the conditions *
forth in the proposition, and in that event the people
of the territory are authorised to form for these
selves a constitution and state government, by the
name of the state &Kansas, according to the Wad
constitution, and may elect delegates for that pu-
pae, whenever it is ascertained by a census duly
taken that the population of the territory equals er
exceeds the ratio of representation required for 6
member of the House of Representatives of the
Congress of the United States ; and whenever that
after such delegates shall assemble in convect*
they shall first determine by a vote whether it is
the with of the people of the proposed state to be
admitted into the Union at that time, and, if is,
shall proceed to form a constitution and take ell
necessary steps for the establishment of a state go.
'comment in conformity with the federal comfits
lion subject to such limitations and reatsictiss•
to the mode and manner of its approval or ream
lion by the people of the proposed state as they;euf
have prescribed by law, and shall be entitled to Ad-
mission into the Union as a state under such comfits
tion thus fairly and legally made with or with*
slavery, as said constitution may prescribe.
' • '

It is further enacted, that in the election so se.
tharised, all whits male inhabitants of the tarring
over the age of twenty-one years, who posses II
qualifications which were required by the laws d
the territory for a levoter at the last
election for the members of the territorial
Lure, and none others, shall be allowed to vete ; so
this shall be the only qualification required to a'
title the voter to the right of suffrage in said eln
lions.
A letter from the Panama correspondent of fir
Washington Seatsa alleges that for some tilt
Colonel Kinney has been treating with the lie
mons, with a view to their settlement on the hir
quito Coast, and that his propositions have In
favourably received. He had departed for Gar
town, at which point he expected to be abler
effect all the necessary arrangements for the ens'
summation of the scheme.
A telegraphic despatch from Toronto, dated *
28, announces that two fires occurred there ells 6
night of the 27th, destroying much property. Oral
alarm was felt in consequence of the extraraihni
number of fires that had occurred during *it
fortnight. Scarcely a night passed without WO
inem
more of a destructive character. It was
.. that they were the work of a band of '
The citizens were organising a patrol and
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large rewards for the apprehension and wilin.r
of the miscreants.
Advices from Havannah to the 21th of AO**
that the Spanish government had granted pall%
for the introduction of 60,000 Chinese laboasese
Cuba.
A rumour prevailed that General Concha ha"
signed the governor-generalship, and thst a angslt
had been appointed. Sugars are reported dallOM
lower prima, while molusee is quoted steadY, Tl'"
an advancing tendency.

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