The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TH URSDAYINJORN IN G, JII NE

yea, that this experiment had al been
made of old, and had prshindad its
and that if it was now proposed to +peat that'
purl:Dent, France would not epponsetsat
time it would not approve, er by so ap Tigiake
•pun itself the responsibility ef • system dille it
knew must fail, and lead to great disasters. If
France and Russia persisted in holding this language,
it walla, we seed not may, amoant to a complete
abrogation of the Treaty of Paris, two of the chief
Pewees withdrawing from its principal stipulation.
Had Lord PAt.ns:•erox remained in power, such
probably would has* been the issue of the Conn
ferenoes—a total breach—England and Austria
guaranteeing the integrity of Turkey, and France
and S•ssie altogether withdrawing from that
esgeget•ent. The present Administration is, how-
ever, not so unreservedly Austrian us the last,
and evidently aims at bringing the Court. of
the Tuileries and Vienna to something of en
accord. This is a difficult, and, we believe, an
impossible task. And, indeed, it is apparently under
the idea that she is losing the unqualified adhesion
of England that Austria has gone upon her own
hook to conclude these unfortunate hole-and-corner

treaties with Turkey for the military occupation of
Bosnia.

Into inch an inextricable labyrinth has our policy
been led by want of a straightforward, resolute
purpose. The future fate and condition of the Danu-
bian provinces should have been decided by England
and France, counselling their ally, Turkey, &her
the fall of Sebastopol. Lord PALIMLNTON should
bane stack out, not for the beggarly village of Bol-
grad, bat for that half of Bessarabia which Russia
soosented to esde at Vienna. That would have
removed Jassy from the line of the Russi►n frontier,
and would have formed a Principality ander the
Scuras's suzerainty that Russia and Austria must
have been made to respect in their own interests as
well as in the interests of Europe.

Instead of such straightforwar d and =lily policy,
we first went to war, and after having conquered,
we invited those whom we had defeated, and those
who would not help us, to participate in the settle-
ment. Of comae they have made use of the liberty
given them to render all settlement impossible, and
to leave things in a still more unsatisfactory state
than they were in before the war.

We are glad to see that, however complicated these
Levantine questions may be by the events of Bosnia,
the insurrection of Candies is likely to terminate. The
Turks, however, are likely to give trouble, as we see
from the outrage upon the British Consul at Belgrade.
In the whole of Servia there is bat this handful of
Turks who garrison the citadel of Belgrade. Their
isolation amongst the Christians only increases their
fanaticism, and ae their ignorance is such that they
do not know Mend from foe, and could not dis-
tinguish between Englishmen and Russians, we see
the result. No good can come of litussalman gar-
risons in Christian countries except to breed mutual
exasperation and provoke mutual 'laughter.

Tar overwhelming majority by which the lions.
of Commons, on Tuesday night, affirmed Lord
Hcrraam's motion, sufficiently indicated a prevailing
sense, on the part of that Assembly, that something
was wrong, and a firm determination that that some-
thing ought as promptly and effectually as possible
to be set right• The value of the result consists
principally in this. The mere terms of the Resolu-
tion are less important than the fact that a fteeoletims
of each a kind should have been passed with so near
q approach to unanimity. Lord Hcrrasst deserves
the thanks of the public and the House for having
tarnished the opportunity for so salutary and decisive
an expression of opinion. It is a mistake to suppose
that such a proceeding will be without result; it
will signally tend to discountenance and die.
mange practices which everybody currently
talks of, and nobody can categorically prove.
Doss any one really doubt the existence of the par-
Hadar practice against which Lord Harasses
motion is more especially directed ? Can any one
moderately conversant with the world sad its ways
hesitate to believe that Barristers is Parliament
have been repeatedly retained as advocates, on the
tacit uaderstanding that they should support in the
Home as representatives the cause in which they
harebell feed WA Counsel? Was Mr. 'ASOIIOIEI6
right or wrong when he affirmed the existence of
" a growing belief that the legal Members might
" with propriety, after having been more or less
" professionally concerned in eases, bring them for-
" ward in that Home ?" Was be right or wrong
when he declared that " to such a practice as that e
complete atop ought to be put ?" The answer was
given with sufficient clearness by the general cheers
that followed this declaration, and with still more
emphasis by the majority that recorded their votes
ea the division.

If people still like to be incredulous on the point
—if they choose to insist on proofs and names—they
are, of nurse, at liberty to indulge in all the ex-
cesses of a whimsical optimism. You cannot deal
with than whose mental obliquity, or whose mc-
lute obtuseness, prevents them from recognising the
distinction between that moral or mathematical cer-
tainty, which may fairly be demanded by a geometer
at a judge, and that reasonable probability on which
legislators are required to reason and to act.
The House of Commons has not been diverted
from its duty by any fallacy of this kind.
It has protected its reputation by solemnly
desouncing a practice the very suspicion of
whose existence was dishonouring to the integ-
rity of a numerous and indeential portion of its
Members. It is difficult to see why the legal Mem-
bers should be scandalised at nch a result. Nobody
supposes that, as a body, they approve of the practice
which the Rosebetion cesdemens. Mr. Warnsios
was perfectly right. The Resolution is no impeach- '
spent against the legal profession. It simply eon-
donne an irregular practice, of which certain mem-
ber* of that profession have been notoriously guilty,
and which very hw, if any, amongst then would ven-
ture publicly to defend.Th e Resolution merely declares
that no Malabar shall promote a measure sea legislator
which he Mrs teen previously hired to support as an
advocate. It merely prohibits a -Member of the
Renee from doing indirectly what nobody for a
assent pretends he could do directly. If the legal
Members feel aggrieved because the Resolution
11.111111111011 the existence of a practice dishonouring to
the yrefonon, they have only themselves to blame
flar the malt. Why did they not in their legal
imeneity do more to discourage and put down, by the
boasted etiquette of the Bar, a practice which the
Hone la its legislative capacity has felt it necessary
to chmosnee ?

This grievance of the lawyers may in truth be re-
garded GO purely imaginary. " The tears lie in an
" onion that should water that sorrow." Higher
consideretlens and wider interests are et stake. lied
the practice. now formally °optician/xi, been connived
at, it would have been impossible to maintain latent
the character of the House tsr legislative integrity.
Indian Prima amicted with grievances end flowing
whit Impale has. already found, or fancied, that tirlt
is not absolutely a drug in that Imperial Senate
which is, in the last resort, the arbiter of their deed-
nice. If this be so now, what will be the case if
India is to be governed directly by Parliament ? Who
is to regulate the amount of the fee by which the

Amer or the Rajah indirectly parakeet' the Par.
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Obriq y the ' lest • thkwisest phi was to
begin th the Ding, to,dalliounoe the'prac• ice
, airdbf declare it coetriry to tho usage
and derogatory to the dignity dile Rouse that any
Member should promote, as a Representative of the
people, any cause in respect of which he had taken
mosey as a profemional advocate retained by a
client. The Resolution, thus adopted, must be re-
garded as a measure of self-protection ; and there
can be no question that the House bra done itself
great credit with the country by the vigilance it has
I displayed in guarding itself even from the suspicion
of corruption.

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from Slibi Artaxarass of Metastasto.
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introdueelon.pplatisiasisiss Toil; a Recitative and Samna
from the of Saxe Cobourg's opera, Sento Chia%
bang afibuthsty by Reichardt; recitative and song, "leas.
tifol Kay," from Macifenea's .Ma Day, and the flask
to Mendelssobes Lardy, sung by Mlle. Titian. Ths
bell mei* est& we trot-site concert has been profitable to'
the scadismay.