The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-08 00:00:00

EIIARICS.
Atnumpherleal pressure is very uniform over the British isles
this morning. The winds are principally north-easterly—light
to moderato, and weather cloudy, but the. A little rain has
fallen on the eolith coma

THE CHOLERA IN SICILT.—We regret to learn
from the Sicilian papers resseived by the last mail that
the cholera is spreading in the province of Girgenti, the
last reports showing that on the 14th inst. there were 5.1
►ttacks and 15 deaths, and on the following day l2at
tacks and 21 deaths. At Caltanisetta the cholera is on
the decrease. The sanitary state of Palermo continues en
cellent. Several cases of cholera have occurred in the pro-
vinces of Trapani, Moment, and Marsala. The most ngo-
rous measures are being adopted by the Sicilian authori-
ties in order to prevent the propagation of the dreadful
disease.—Malta 01..rrver, June 27.

MR. SEWARD 8 VIEW OF THE AMERICAN FITTCRE.
Addressing a large &talon:a at Boston during the late
visit of President Johnson, Mr. Seward said—" This
republic can never perish if you have a president that the
people themselves, without the employment of military
force, will sustain for four years at a time, and no longer.
But what have we seen? We have seen this republic
on the very brink of death mid dissolution. And why?
Because ten States of this Union refused to submit to the
president that was chosen by the majorityof the other States
six years ago. And what did you do? You compelled
them to submit ; you compelled them to acquiesce. Now
you have another president for four years, and two of those
years are gone. (Good, good.) When those other two
years have gone, the majority will then elect another pre.
sident. Do you not expect that the minority, who vote
against that new president, will acquiesce in his holding
the executive power for the four years for which he is to
be elected? Why? Because the minority must acquiesce,
or your nation is to be abandoned to ruin or secession.
Then all there is is just this :—We have just got to learn
one simple habit—that of acquiescing in the choice that
we ourselves snake of our president for four years, and
then, at the expiration of that time, improving upon the
last choice by snaking as much better one as we have
the success and wisdom to do. There is the solution
of all our troubles. It is ell in that the South has
been taught that it must submit to the president
when he is chosen by the North, and the North must
now show that it will submit to the president that
they choose or is chosen for them by the majority of the
American people. Give me only thus one assurance that
there shall never be en unlawful resistance by an armed
force to the president bearing the, authority of the United
States, and give me then fifty, forty, or thirty more years
of life, and I will engage to give you the possession of the
American continent and the control of the entire world.
(Cheers.) Deny one that simple thing of the acquiescence
of the people in their own choice, and I will not pledge
you the continuance, the existence of this Union
through half the period which we have carried it, with the
cost and sacrifice of the greatest civil war the world has
ever seen. The moral of my subject is loyalty and patrio-
tism, devotion to your constitution and laws, and whatever
is wrong in the laws or in the customs or the habits of
society, trust to their correction through your schools,
your churches, your political assemblies, hot never suffer
an enemy to raise his hand against the nationality or the
union of the United States. (Loud cheers.)
MR. COBDEN AND THE LAND QUESTION. —Sit-
tiog near to Mr. Cobden when be made his last speech.
these words fell upon my ear with singular force "If I
were twenty.five or thirty years instead of twice that
number, I would take Adam Smith in my band, and I
would have a league for free trade in land just as we had
a league for free trade in corn. There is just the same
authority in Adam Smith for the one as for the other, and
it the wetter were only properltaken up, not as • revo-
lutionary or chartid
notion,but as a step in political
economy, I believe success would attend the effort ; and I
say this, if you can apply free trade to land and labour
too—that is by getting rid of those abominable restric-
tions In your parish settlements and the like—then I my
the man who does that will have done for the English poor
more than we have been able to do by the application of
free trade to commerce." I was listening, in common
with some five thousand persons, to the words of a man
who embodied the swam of a great Idea—a man of on•
questioned veracity, who grasped economic principles at
their widest, who would not thus speak but from a well
settled conviction. Impressive as these words were then,
they now seem the solemn bequest of the great free.
trader to those who would emulate his labours and m nit
such well earned honour as it warn his to enjoy.—Pranr's
Ihigszins for Jay.