The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-04 00:00:00

TOBBIGN LF7•I88.

Treating of the speech delivered by Prince Count
in opening the Legidative Assembly at Bucharest,
the Daily News taken occasion to mention some air.
cumstances which, in its opinion, if they do not
justify, at least tend to mitigate, the political offence
of the events that preoeded the new constitution of
which the Roman Chamber is the offspring, and which
events have created en unfavourable impression. The
speech just given proves the Prince's desire to raise the
n►tional feeling and to direct the government in the path
of material progress. Considering the things that
have been done in the short space of twelve
months, we are forced to own that the Priam has not made
an improper use of the power of which he irregularly pos-
sessed himself. For the present the aim of the ruler of
Moldo•Wallachia is to persevere in the p►th of material
and morel progress, and thereby prepare his subjects to
hold their own in any change which may happen in the
East tending to throw the various nationalities now subject
to the Turkish rule, so to speak, on their own reports-ass.
Any attempt to accelerate the advent of such a change
must check the development of this interesting nation.
The Post says that no apprehensions need be entertained
of blood being spilt at Chili in order to avenge the fancied
slight on Csatilian honour. The remonstrances addressed
to the Spanish government by the cabinets of St. James's
and the Tuileries have not been altogether ineffectual, and
the results of the sets of hostility committed by both
parties to the quarrel will resolve themselves into a ques-
tion of pounds, shillings and pence. There seems no res.
eon why, in all those instances in which the eases trite was
comparatively insignificant, and especially in those cease
where the aggrieved state admitted its willingness to re-
ceive a pecuniary indemnity or verbal apology, an arrange.
ment ahead not be come to between civilised powers to
refer the point at issue to arbitration.
The Telegraph commends the report by General Carl
Schurz, who has lately visited the South at the request of
the President, to the study of all who wish to know the
considerations which have induced the Republicans to with-
hold their support from the Presidential policy of roma-
structioo. According to General Schurs's observations, the
intention of the Southern States, NI soon as they have re-
covered the right of administering their own affairs, is
to peas such laws as will render the freedmen,
not indeed slaves, but a subject race. Without re-
garding the equity or expediency of such a course in
itself, he argues that the existence of a helot community,
and of an aristocracy of colour, in the South, would per-
petuate that discrepancy of policy and feeling between
North and South which so nearly led to the overthrow of
the Union. The Southerners—so he asserts—►re perfectly
conscious of their defeat, and h►ve no idea of appealing
again to the issue of insurrection, but they simply accept
the Union as a bitter necessity. No reliance, he deems,
is to be placed upon their manifestations of loyalty ; sad
therefore the instinct of self-preservation urges on the
North the imperative obligation of endowing with political
rights a class whose whole interests will thus be bound
up with the maintenance of Federal supremacy.