The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-27 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 27.

We are not surprised at the ill-harionr shown on
both sides of the Channel, by those who are in
opposition, at the prospect of renewed intimacy and
confidence between the two Governtnents. No better
proof can be afforded of the increased moral weight
which each of them separately, as well as both of
them together, are certain to acquire, than the mani-
festation of such • temper. The new commercial
treaty, as the most salient point of the re-ineigo- I
rated alliance, is oat orally made the object of
a converging fire in France as well as
in England. Not only do the organs of the pro-
tected interests among our neighbours bewail the
approaching ruin of French industry, but the Gibs-
montane press eagerly offers its sympathy and aid
in resisting the first ostensible step towards a more
intimate accord between the Tuileries and Downing-
street ; while the Orleanist doctrinaires and the
party of the Faubourg fit. Germain are prompted
by a common desperation to matter mouse in
common against the threatened consolidation of an
enlightened and progressive policy. The exigencies
of political discontent among oareelves equally tend
to strange hed-fellowship. Incorrigible Protection-
ists and inexorable Fret-traders, unmitigated Tories
and unlimited Radicals, show signs of a willingness
to bivouac together preparatory to a general assault
upon the strengthened position ministers have
taken up. What the provisions of the forth-
coming Treaty may be they do not exactly
know, and they do not particularly oare•
Whatever they may be, the thing bee obviously
• political aspect ands political tendency ; it signifies
to the rest of the wurld • mutual desire on the part
of the rehire of Francs and England for closer
intimacy and more complete accord, and it inevit-
ably tends to the establishment of new ties of inns-
rest sad amity between the two nation.. To what-
ever extent it shall prove successful, or be supposed
likely to prove sae eable!. in thew respects, it mast
oestribute to the credit and influence of those in
power ; sad fur that reason it is and will be
vehemently opposed.

On both 'idea of the water there is • batter cry of
fraud ; but the mecontents are not agreed as to who's
the dope. In France, of course, it is loudly sees-
vented that the simple-minded NAPOLEON 111. has
been outwitted ; or if not individually deceived, that
he has culpably permitted the national industry of
France to be circumvented by the insidious sophistry
of Mr. Comas. Here we have the opposite story I
Lard PALMERSTON has thrown away great ad-
vantages wherewith he might have purchased
vast coneemions from Germany and Spain,
as well as France ; and after all he has suffered his
country to be cheated egregiously in the matter of
time, inasmuch as he has agreed that French wines
should be admitted at a greatly diminished duty
from and after an early day to be named, whereas
Scotch and Irish yarn. and English cotton prints
are not to be 'ducted into tLe French markets
freely until the au•uniu of 1661. Politiesl precipi-
tancy u irrii.uted as a corrupt motive alike to
the English and the French E.
Prima. Our sly old Pittman—it is ingsaimely
'mutated—wanted to set a bell rolling oa the floor
of Parliament at the aseamemement of the Seeds.
which would distract the attention of our Consens-
us's crishatess from Parliamentary Reform, until it
should be too late io the Session to think of passing
• bill: sod the arch-enemy of Bourboulam and
bigotry is Fran—se the story goes—wee equally
eager is find soy topic calcalated to divert atten-
tion amens his subjects from the direction of his
quarrel with the Palmy. The. the net result of

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all is that he has been outwitted by us, and we
have been outwitted by him ; the whole affair Is
a swindle and a cheat, at once at mience with all
that iv sacred in F.ench prohibition, and all that
iv dear in Fuglith free-trade. We beg that no
reader will ask us to explain how these mutually
destructive theories can be simultaneously believed
in the two most enlightened capital■ in the
wend. We have not said a word about their being
believed; we have only noted the fact that they
are umd. To others we must leave the task of
4:counting for the extraordinary pheeomens.
Incidentally we may, however, be permitted to
illustrate the moderate and unexcited view of the
ems we have ourselves taken from the onteet of the
gain and of the lose upon various items of the ac-
count, and, indeed, upon the "total of the whole.°
According to some soi-disant authorities the in.
mowed consumption of w 'no cannot possibly re-
plenish the sacrifice that in the first instance most
be made by the novenae, because the vino-
yards of Bordeaux, which produce go3i claret. are
limited in extant, as the steadily increasing value of
their produce in all the markets of the world plainly
shows. But putting wholly aside the important
fact, that there is quite as mach French wine grown
on the buts of the Rhone as on those of the Loire,
it is certain that in Southern Spain and in North-
eastern Germany a vast field exists for the produc-
tion of winos more suitable perhaps to our national
taste and climate than those which are ex-
ported hither from Bordeaux. In Andalusia
land is comparatively cheap, and the culture
of the vine comparatively easy. The production of
sherry is much more • matter of care and of capital,
than of the caprice of a season or the aspect of a
vineyard. Take two facts which anybody can verify
for kin'wlf. No epicure of sherry is ever asked to
give a shilling mere far wine grown on • particular
hill sear Yoram de la Frontiers, or a shilling more far
the fruit of a particular vintage. In point of
fast. it is not even pretended by um manu-
facturers there or the merchants here that
any such distinctions of time or topography
are noticeable. 'the consequence is that a greater
extent of land can, it may be presumed, be brought
under film cultivation in the neighbiurhood of Cadiz,
when sulkiest inducement shall be presented by
an increased demand in this country for the ordinary
elms of wines exported therefrom. The maw ob-
servation applies to. tha produce of the plains of
Sicily, sod, if we mistake not (though perhaps it
may not be at first acknowledged), to the
fruit of many a hill-side in Nassau and
the country of the Monk. But we must
repeat what we have often said before, that
we believe the &Lege will be slower and 'sore
gradual than has been supposed; and if in the mean-•
time we are required to makes sacrifice of meows,
we are quite prepared, under all the circumstances
of the case, to pay it cheerfully as a premium of in-
surance on a great policy of peace with France. We
do not believe that even in this view it will ulti-
mately be regarded as an imprudence, or that we
shall find ourselves eventually losers by the Mane-
action.