The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-22 00:00:00

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Is the dials on the Costinental Bourses count
only the serene hoer% they mast hare had an idle
time of it of Lam. TM clouds that overhang those
modern Temples of the Wise have parted mos or
testa in the het lbw weeks, to give the world a
glimpse of pease Varongli the dying rack of rumours
of war that the nest mement they have cloud erns
In a darker sad more menacing eclipse. Did any-
body supplest that Italy—with its French and Am.
Dian otespation, its Papal darkness, its Neapolitan
iseferwe, its 8 archaises Loaa—wu saficient to keep

the tosgess of Plesipasatieries as the wag, and to
wear eat the pew *lCUs.'larks' Why, here is
that Ilse aid rival of the asweerpeat—the nativity
a the Otleama emphs—asing ap again is Med
emetissahle shape, with • bigger head and a longer
lek them IPNW. The ether dmy it lamed ea the bashed
the Save. where the Bonin premed had
pesemad t• get rid of as Amain sad iluhii
proefpi, sad le mil bee to the this* hem whisk
be had boos drives essesteen years lee* ea aid
gentleman of daagereme amasses* whew lima
est is to declare his asthma; " liereditery! in spite
et the Beserain. Isibpsodsaos, it mama b seek.
gime sad catching, espeoleily whoa it is well imbed
sad well timed. The leisure d the Pare haw
asereely had time to melees, is the restorative d
old Mo.o.cs whets the 'poetesses' Weed* d
yeas' Colonel COCZA, ragmen, d age at peeped(
enaliticetinte, to the limpodaratedhe the Dam.
bian Principalities, without &ems" Is the
the organic Coeventice, orb all Pen k esmmilin•
and mires the homier old awry d 1 MIN
marching to the frontier, a Raisiaa seepwilmessie
being held ready, and an Austrian heimplijiaig in
move in that dinettes, with theemisse tellinesof
a French Emperor willing and ready Ss asst be
But we owe it to the memory of the lesi
of Paris to remark, that, thanks to lb idyllists(
agency, it is probable that a series of Conferences, If
act 'Coignes, will precede ea well as terminate say
Baton war. This is very consoling to our porterity.
And It is consoling to oar imosdiate mine to be
able to discern in the forthcoming deliberation'
nothing less than the euthanasia of what has been
invidiously called " Beast Diplomacy." For it is
abundantly evident that theosly possible result of the
wisdom of the tint or mead Plenipotentiaries
who are to meet monad M. Di WALiWlliell green
table sent month—the say puska remelt, we my,
coosistent with the peace of Europe, tibial ',premed
to be the aim and end of all dipleasacy—must be
acquiescence, in Mill feria Sr other, asks lantern
disguise may be mart esavesiemt, be the meemplied
fact of the double election d Autsanmen Con*,
and in the roomed will et the popeletiese in the
Principalities. Hitherto we hays bass meastemed
to regard diplomacy ea the mesa and hatiesse
a people's destinies ; beeeehrth let as hope it will
he comma with setting the dicial seal of pubis law
apse the destinies which a nation ham provided hr
Heal. If the objections which may be presented at
the sittings of the Coevals* by the represen-
tatives of Matra and the Porte, to the an-
authorised, infernal, and irregular proceedings
at Bucharest, should be permitted to pass into acts,
all Europe woad be in llama Wore the summer.
The section of the prompt Turkish Ambassador to
the Court of St. James's as the representative of
the protesting Suzerain Power, is not, we con-
k* entirely satisfactory. The intimate know-
ledge of English policy aad public opinion which
M. M t:suat." Itsa derived ham his loog residence in
London, and the eiremmetenes of his being clime at
head, are doubtless is kvser of the appointment.
Unluckily, M. Musraws is known to be not
very diestly comaseted with personages parti.
calmly obnoxious to the earl ruler of the Princi-
palities; and his private advise from Command-
mople and him isehereet may be at variance with
his inetrostiess Is Imam On the other hand, we
may esegestare that lad COWLEY has not been mat
kir hem Paris le receive sae roes any bet the mast
pride hatreedmen sad that the influence of Eng-
had will be wholly is &vase of sustaining the
spontaames mad deliberate acts of the Moldo-
Wallachia& peep* whilst reserving in principle and
in name the saseraisty of Ms Porte, and be resolutely
Cued ageism any intervention in the 'thin
of the Primipalities, from whatever quarter
it may be threatened, Sr on whatever pro-
test it may be alleral. It i. in ono sense
ihrtanata enough that Amble shied be committed
be • policy of discretion ea the Moab, by bey ewe
isstinetiee demand he slime in the Ceskresess ea
this *abject of Italy. I. me resit pee etre discstle
h net the leagues at s greed Power with a good
eines ; and Italy is ad the only topic which the
Oalieet et View is anziens to avoid in the mover.
Seem at Paris. The free navigation of the Insole
b era of the &coda spin which Count Bum. may
mesteably Wet. This is sot the moment he
Asetrist to declaim spinet the establish-
ment of a " Sardinia en the Danube r
for Kumla may retort that she will sot permit
the independence of the Romans to to at-
tasked, and Imperial lamer, in the *me
of " the principles d It" which look so well
at • disarm, may be glad to strike for a
Sardinia wherever she sees make or find one.
Atquieeessee,', thee, in accomplished facts mast be
the order of the day. To this sober, bat seerfal,
function. Plenipotentiaries nest elteerfolly easessts.
Mealitina, date what • chess of distrust
sod doubt this poor old ead-wp Favor at oars
is falling hem day to day' Beery trumpery Ten-
took Prinelpiele is op in acme sad eager to &spat&
his corporal's/sand to the frontier of Fatherland, le

the event of Fatherland not being atiookod,
latices against exportation of horseflesh as rap
tamely carried, wherever a Diet of two Wilts*
patriotic Germans can be got together. Only
Prussia, that has a name, a nation, and •
cease at stake, is cautions and expectant. Paris
is convulsed by the rumour of M. DE llr•.rta,
who always " jobbed" hia e.upt, haling sold an ima-
ginary stable-fall of saddle and carriage horses; and
when Lord CowLEY comes to London for a week, the
&aloud. will have it that he has taken French leave
of the Tuileries. Then the MINISTER of ALGERIA
and the COLONIES has been exchanging unusual
vivaeities in Council with M. DzWA.Lawszi; and the
Emezzoi has assured a deputation of merchants and
manufacturers, according to one version, that topaz
**fern ; according to another, that vows awes fa pair;
both eagerly swallowed, as children swallow the
jam that mmosals a powder.
In short, at this advanced epoch in which we
have the gratification to live, we find that the hap.
pines., the wealth, the prosperity, the safety of
satiates, as. committed to a lottery, to an adventure,
to • game of hazard, to a fit of passion, to a caprice of
tamper, to a wags, of audacity—to the dream of a con-
spir►tor, the vision of • fatalist, to we know not
what. The prone adorers of irresponsible power are
beginning to find that they have paid dear for order
and stability, when the order im nothing better than
armed violence, and the stability is the weight of
Misses that precedes the earthquake. The advan-
tages of personal government, the sperm of its
eseusels, the • seadreuee• of its resolves, the vapidity
of its operations, are being weighed in the
minds of many mute and suffering spectators
against the tardier but safer promisee of •
Parliamentary and representative regime., with
all its harassing jealousies, all its impertinent
aariosities, and all its rash exposures; and the
' balance, we believe, is not at all to the prejudice of
England and the English. Indeed, we may eonfi-
' dently hope that the world is gaining wisdom from
' expertise's, and that in the coarse of another gess-
' ration or two neither Esher nor Imperator will be
permitted to deride its fate with • re-amaring
wink or a foreboding shrug.

Last night Mr. W•trote unfolded the plan by
whisk the Goverwmat proposes to settle the long-
standing Church-gabs olillealty. The right boa.
gentleman appease to have felt that the eashanam-
meat attandbg the present state et the vestige
pram sed rather era the Church of England thom
alma the Neeesskemisk. for the NA* Medi grater
part of Ms speech was takes up with se mat-
'Mks of the Ilasacial parities of the Establishment,
while the lost sad proper skied el a Rauh eats
the whom at lies etykg grievances of Dimetem,
was served till the Is* sad thee 'abseiled
wkle a protest against the gidms ebbe had
mole the Bill assessary. Mr. Wautots was
wenn to mentioa any plea fir relieving
Diesentore from payment of Church Egos before
he had elaborately Maimed that the was se
roes& to lessee or justice for their Moan& A
gut less dim ortathen of this kind is not the best
peoperaties he a samara whisk k is admitted
sweet be paned sal= these who as this subject
have Mike% samara's' sat jerides admires to the
Ogrememeet *MO forwed 6 a spirit et lallokiioll.
Mr. WA:J*7.3lmoms very well that but for the
keg that the onseliga of seompalsory Church Batas
Is per by yew assessing len practicable, he would
es' hew heed himself introducing a meows to
rare them voluntary.
As it hamedLtely affects the Church, Mr. Wet,
totes meagare is aomewhat complex. He maintains
Chunk Pates, but at the same time meets provinces
whisk will, it is to be hoped, have the effect of
raising funds for died:Whin the necomity for them,
and in the sed of abrogating them altogether. Thus
his first prepsoitien is that OWISPI of bad shall
her. the pewee to sheep their lands with the
saiseat which those lands have hitherto paid. At pre-
sent the Imw of lbeteris preveats snob an arrange-
meet I het foe this parolee Use provisions of that
law will be repealed. Besides these rent-charges, it
Is prepreed to rake money by voluntary subscription
and benefaction, and this not only for the sestents-
ties of the Church but foe the exoneration of the
lea/ of the parish. The Impel property moraisg to
the Church from these rent-charges and gifts is to be
vested in the incumbent and charchwerskes, who

kw that purpose are to form a oorporatlea fit the
perinea al the Aet. When the voluntary charger
ea lead sad the subscriptions takes together shall
equal the anseunt et the Church Rate raised in the
perish withia a given number of years before, the
Qurz' is to have power to declare, by Order in
Council, that in that parish Church Rates are
abolished.

In its relations to the Dissenters Mr. WLroLa's
Bill is of simpler character. He propane that when
a rate made in vestry is in prows' ad sellestice, any
person who 'ball prosiest to the collator • written
desieration that he consiontionsly objects to the
payment of the same shall be released from all legal
obligation in respect of the rate. There is another'
proposition for giving the occupier • right to
sharp the Church Rate against the landlord and
&het it from the rent. which we prof*. ourselves
usable to understand, and on which we must
reserve jadgment until the Bill is issued. But
the fact that a householder may, upon a simple de-
claration of objection, put away kis liability to the
rate, marks the character 01 the .wan is a man-
ner which no minor provisions is. materially oast
—amok Rates are bessofeetli to be a voleatary
payment.

speakers last sight on both aides of the Ham
were aware that the real gaieties In debate wee
infinitely more Important than the 300,0001 r a year
—a sum about equal to the united aims/ isms of
these of our voluntary societies fir sending mlr
sinneries to the Pejo= and other savages—which is
at pietist raised by Church Rates. Mr. ine.rott
spoke of recording the principle now generally
acted on, " that we should set impels on
" the pablic at large the berthas of paying
" for any specific religiose observasee." lord
JOHN Russets. was sere explicit. He pasted
out that whoa yea ley down the prim-
ciple that these who do net benefit by the Church of
England shout not bear its burden', yes surrender
the whole principle upon which the Betablisknent
mete. Alta the passing of this Act the Chase of
logised night be a pewerfaloresithy, stable, INN
abseil led it would ems to be Nadine : it would
I be ei•ply dee church of the steasgest meet. Bat es
I Ladle= admitted, and as 31r.Wesrotz's figures
elbowed, these is nothing veer lageleimas in this re-
gret The wealth, and apish, wed and of the Church
me egad to any dam e& that say be made ea it.
to well that Chunkiest see peseiriag whore
Ode sketigth really lies. Am the Bishop of Los-
ses sesarked in his Charge, delivered last Novem-
ber, •The poet lesson which all these inquiries
• Me eases natters foram upon us is, that the
• bp are gone by when the Church of Ispead
"eel leek to be prepped up by the adreatitheas
"aid of cedar adimerity, and yet that kW sat las
"presprese sad Wren. This wet great satiated
" tieselemeat of the Church d Cams le net
" i• Sasser if we, its sinister., ars what we twilit

"to be.-Tlf we as; faithfulSo its refornseits:
" cogs, considerate et our people's feelings,
wick and self-denying, our Cktreh will be,jue to

" grow and flourish rooted in OTV people's harts."
We my it is well that the heads of the Church see
when their strength lite, because the crisis which
has now arrived, and in which the exaction of
Church Rates from Dissenters is about to cease for
ever, is not, as some persuade themselves, the crea-
ture of an agitation or the fruit of intrigue, but a
genuine historical development of principles, which
have for generations been acknowledged among us,
and whose application was inevitable se society
grew in intelligence and in the consciousness of its
rights.