The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-08 00:00:00

LINLITHGOW.

The election of e7rl3l7resentative for the county of
Linlithgow, in room of Hr. Cle.rge Dundee, who has re-
ceived a colonial sppointoome, took place en Saturday. The
formalities having teen gone through, Mr. Blair, of Avon-
tos=esed the Hon. Ctaries Bailie, Lord Advocate of
. Mr. Walker, of luneravon, reconded the nomi-
nation. No other candidate hiving been pr.rposed, the el .3-
fora and declared the Lord Advt...
oats elected as member of parliament for Lintitbgowshire.
The Lord Advocate, whom appearance was greased with
loud cheers, then addrata d the eloneas at some
length. After referring to the circuantances which
Id to the prevnt government taking Ufa e, and the
rommues which they curled through durina thsl.s! smut on,
he earns to the question,. now occupying the pubhc mmd.
On that of peace or we• he expneeed his I char that nothing
would to loft undoes by tho government to promorve the
puce of Hump°, and for Shia prepare they proposed to put
the navy in a mare efficient state then itwas at present. On the
(pawl= of reform, the hoe. and learned gentleman Ira his
lips toe certain extent MCTO se 4.d. He coed cot with pro-
priety tell them the Detre of the measure 'Web the govern-
ment intended to hamar*. As to his own feeling on the
subject, he would any frankly that he never tr.posed to be
anything the than what is knows as a cothervative. In con-
clusion he expre,,sed boo determination to perform the duties
• devolving upon him to the best of his ability.

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Pear don't attempt Mien year 'Ameba," wee
Swim's advise to • rationsa of strew imagination
and weak memory who was laboriously explaining
tumult. The Imperial Allegation delivered yester-
day in the Salle des Etats say be commended as a
considerable feat in the "darning" line. M. Di
OCIZSONNIaIIE, the sonoroas and satisfied psa-
lms of the Empire, spins the cobwebs, sad who
bet the Eamon himself can darn them We on
this rid-Fashioned side of the water are so woe-
tamed to the grave and quiet screw pedesfris of
Royal Speeches, composed by responsible Ministers
sad tamed to real Lords sad Commons, that we
mm Welly be persuaded to take ',Timely a self-
denying EMPEROR mounted en • high-principled
Hipper', cad emading a flourish of shames
and trumpets to his own honour and glory,'
and foe the satisfaction of Posterity. The
whole scene in that splendid hall of the Loam
area which the ingenious profanity of the
artist was commissioned to depict CIiattLIMAGXI
and NAPOLSOIS in • sprawling apotheosis, leeks
Mee like a slrogne,:in the Circus than the opening of
a legislative erasion for the despatch of business.
Perhaps there was something infectious in the de-
beached art with which the Salle is daubed ; the Art
ed the Decadence, glaring in colour, colossal is
the, impotent from excess. Peace, and Plenty, sad
Commerce, and Agriculture, are there personified;
bat War, mounted and caparisoned, fills a more °on-
spinouts space, whilst the two great Emperors of
the West salute one another. We cannot be
surprised that in the midst of such a
daring Pantheon the Em Pawl's utterance
should be somewhat windy and grandiose. The
Napoleonic Idea is at all times a big instrument to
play ; it is one of those instraimeru de percussion
which sound so terribly in the European concert,
and drown the modest constitutional fiddle, with
their savage die. Yet, when we read the Speech a
little closely, we begin to fancy that the itersaoa
has read with advantage the report of M. HALM,
and that in compliance with the recommendation of
the commission appointed last year to regulate
the pitch of French voices and French horns,
be has ventured to sot an example of "dropping a
" quarter of a tone." Loots Nseofeoe comes out
as the great " injured party" of Europe, the victim
of calumny, distrust, and atimendentanding. This
is the reverse of the medal; on the other aide is the
majestic front of the Arbiter apses* and war. Have
the debates of the free Parliament of England
cooled the generous ardour of the liberator of Italy
Hee the Hoarse, the only forum of free discussion in
Imperial France—not, we would hope, "that is-
" famous region where vulgar interests are debated"
above which the Imperial Rag le (mo longer tame)man
into the empyrean of " Posterity ;" has the Boone,
we sorrowfully ask, damped the enthusiasm of a ma-
ligned and misrepresented lover of liberty—beyond
the Alpe Is absolute power condemned to pay
the penalty of isolation and abandonment when
purchased friends fall off, and the worshippers of
sumer stand coldly aloof Is there a Nemesis, not
a fatality, in this conspiracy of indifference and re-
pulsion ; in this silence and suppression of public
speech ; in this mute and sullen apathy around •
throne, when noble names and lofty principles are
Invoked bye man to whom liberty MY once the
ladder of ambition, and honour the footstool of
usurpation ? When the commander of the gen-
darmerie reported to his master that the feeling of
the population in the departmeota was all for peace,
and that even in Alsace the fear of an invasion wee
stronger than the appetite for glory, the Ex P ROR
is reported to have exclaimed bitterly, "French-
" men are no longer what they w ere." Sews years of
Imperialism were summed up in these few words. The
crowned conspirator upon whose fiat all Europe. and
England herself, had been content to wait, deplores
the periodical fits of discouragement that seise •
nation diecnchanted and disabused by rrroladens,
exhausted rather thau subdued. The man who bolds
the peace of Estop, in the hollow of hie head,
sad who is popularly supposed to be more sentimental
than scrupulous by nature and by habit, is surprised at
so much distrait and somuch alarm, when an Empire
of the Might and of the Sword is at once vociferating
" Puke," and amassing the deadliest implements of
war. Ile recalls the " moderation" of which he has
" grit en so mazy proofs," and reminds mot " the power
"of France." Is it not because the power of Franco
is committed to heeds which may be moderate to-
day mod notelet to- morrow, ea occasion or ea prioe may
dictate, that the " doubt•" of Europe respond to the
dumb " distrust" of France hermit ?

We have co coos@ to ciosplain of the emphasis
with wit:eh the alliance with England is asserted
by the ESTERO*. Wem it an alliance beard capon a
common freedom and a mutual political sympathy,
as well as upon materiel lettersets, he would sot find
it fail him when an honest blow wee to be struck foe
an honourable cease. But it is sot es, and it is Ik.
carte of unequal and uneongeniel friendships that
on questions of principle they can no more agree
than light with darkness. Russia is the beloved
object at the Western Powers jest now; Lewis
NAPOLEON vie/ with Lord 11ERFIT in tender
coquetries to the Crimean enemy; bat in the maid
of the French ES PRIOR UMW (slitters's* an
addressed indirectly to Austria, with whose bad faith.
obstructive jealousy, and irritating oniony, the
goodwill of Prussia, the eirdiality of Russia, the
fidelity ■rd devotion of Piedmont, and the wrongs
of bey, arc forcibly cootraated.

The Speech, we are told, was designed to be
pink ; it was discounted in this sense at Paris on
Saturday ; and if the expression of a hope that peace
will not be disturbed, and the declaration of the
IbtrulCia that he will remain firm in the path of
right and justice and of the national Dear, may be
deemed sufficiently specific and mem to counteract
all the outward and visible algae of hostile prepa-
rations at Algiers, Toulon, Marseilles, Lyons, and
Turin, we an only say that the " unjust suspicions,"
" sad " the interested apprehensions" which the
intennou denounces, will have been easily allayed.
It has been said that a skilful exercise of power is
better shown in making use of incidents as they
arise, than in forming schemes with remote views.
The orator of the Salle des Etata is generally re-
puted no mean adept in either school of policy. No
man, as an orator who barn the first and last word is
• debate, knows better how to wield what PAM.
Louis Oman called la mitrailk do ramyesmono—
repostrophs. Tree, N.trotsoN the TEM'.
des sea miner; bet we candidly confess that be suns to
es
to fire his hollow shot very wildly when he apostro-
phises " GOD, 0011111Cill0011, and Posterity," as the lest
jukes of his lib sod reign. We are irresistibly re-
edoelsolot Otheatisbesset Mend dropping on his knees.
Nay, are we net reminded of General BONLPAITZ,
who closed his despatch to the Directory announcing
the negotiations for the Treaty of Campo Formic
with the following noble and touching expostula-
tion t—" I have merited by my services the approbs-
" don of the Government and of the nation ; I have
" received repeated marks of its esteem. I have now
4. 60 more to do but to mingle again with the crowd,
"to grasp once mare the plough of CIXCINNATCS,
"and to set an example of respect 63r mager
" testae, and aversion for military rely whir& has
destroyed so many republic* and raised several
▪ stales." In a preceding paragraph of the sane
deepateh, the modern ClectseArtls had suggested
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that " war with England would open a Geld et
activity more extensive, more essential, more
• itarions," than war for Italy. " The people of
0 Singiaad are of more worth than the Venetian
" posy* and their Liberation will for ever aims&
" date the liberty and happiness of Franco.'
Barely, it is a sonsfort to be assured that the Nephew
is prepared te consolidate the liberty and happir
nese of Nears at a cheaper rate than the " fibers-
" tics" d Bagimmi.

Mi. JoMt SMUT MILL has given us, in the form
of a succinct and striking pamphlet, the result of his
mature refiectious on Parliamentary Reform. Though
be makes no reference to earlier opinions, the most
superficial glance will make the reader who is at all
conversant with his writings in past years think
Mr. MILL has seen cause to modify nuke of the
view be formerly held. He still cline to the thee-
radial idea of BRITIIAM that in a wiled system
every man not mentally or monelly disqualified
eaglet to poem some share in the repremataties of
the commenity. Bat he urges that as all man are
sot equally component by actual study and prenamed
redaction to judge what is good fee the mike
at large, some attempt ought to be made
to give increased voting power to the
better taught and more intelligent member, of
of society. He would graduate this eakaaosd else-
torsi power aceording to certain tailings and tests
of intellectual acquisition. To the foreman of the
factory, ea one who, it may be presumed, has been
mimed above his fellows by pro-eminent worth and
skill, he would give two votes, if the hands around
him were given car. To farmers and other inane-
trial clams he would give three votes, if the waged
labourers were permitted to have each a single voice
at elections. To professional men and graduates of
universities he would be still more liberal. Mr. MILL
is likewise an advocate, and somewhat of a warm
one, for the representation of minorities, which he
declares to be indispensable to the realisation of a
truly democratic system. We observe with regret
that sue has lost his confidence in the ballot; but we
are consoled by finding in him a resolute opponent
of that worst of all conceivable expedients for col-
lecting the suffrages of the people—that of "voting
" Paperi."
It is not to these points, however, that we would
especially desire to direct the attention of the reader
in the brochure of this eminent and eloquent
publicist. By far the most valuable portion of
it is that in which he deals with the difficult
subject of re-dietributioa. Re does se net in the

spirit of a political map-maker, but is the exalted
and truly noble temper of a man who looks beyond
the aims sad objects of the day, and mks only to
fad what may be permanently useful, wise, and
worthy of national respect. He avows ire liming his
dislike to all schemes of mere disfranchisement, and
his strong preference for the opposite system of com-
prehension and inclusion. He prefers grouping of
small towns together to the transfer of seats
to either counties or great cities ; but he remon-
strates justly against making the old shrunken or
withered tree the stock upon which the newer
towns are to be grafted. In many cases the places
condemned, for their size or obscurity, to be placed
in schedule A or B, lie close to one another, while
the materials (or adequately reinforcing them lie at a
distance too remote for anything like a hone*.
geseity of feeling or identity of sentiment. Mr. Mat
gives several striking illustrations, and then
asks why we should cling superstitiously to
the wrong metres in making new, or rather re-
modelled boroughs. His suggestion is that all
country towns with a given population should be
taken as the materials of the amended list; that
they should be divided into groups, according to
11 contiguity and aggregate population, withoatrerard
to whether two or more of the old boroughs Right
be joined together to constitate aced the new; but
securing to each of them a contributive place in
some one group. We own we think the adoption of
some principle like that which is pleaded for by
Mr. Miu would go far to obviate the most
plausible objections t►at are raised soloist the
system of grasping. We would not go the length
GI saying that the claims of groat towns should be
disregarded or three of great counties either. But
we have been always of opinion that the country
town element was one that ought not to be discarded
or contemned in the re-construction of our repre-
sentative system : and any plan that helps legiti-
mately to preserve and purify what is good in it is
entitled to the best consideration.

haw Pass.—ln addition to tie new peers who
toot OW Nato is the Mess of Lorde os Ttursefay leer, the
totiowies piers rat Iret is earn onset (Aar the &Atha of
their Warn :—The Lord Deshevaliea the Lord Lyon'. the
Led ribbons, the Lord ettermeredalia and the Earl of
Aytirt
EAST WOICISTKIBUIRR.—It is believed the oleo-

till Sill aot take play at wet be the neat tea days or
It.rtaight, ns lator• the eat ens bs forestal, dee-lazed vacant
ter ma forms ant have to be pas through to entitle the pre-
seat Lad Notthlrick to task s seat in the novae of Lords;
sad Maws these forms are east lots the ark for a eta
thlekta Wi I sot be batted. Mr. Pant/ton, wheat Maras
we hew elbeel is i. said t. be rtrovaisir. lead
sad Mr. Lygus, sat Mr. Dascleseell, forasely 1117.11 fro:
Tevhsehary, Weasel sa weal ly ..f Crown from • wa-
ling elf to tbe Vara lbetsaace. Waretke. a. 8010117
akesss a. la Ur e awes of Get lm.sta's ote realteals
sal that the Hes of Waging Swami Mr. Ca thaw as a ra
yam ale he tee O.IIIIOTR dinette ass hashed by teed
Mal. at kM sent at. T•bleley. t.sa e eanandewed to
Lied WatJ, she dare a seedy segai•setaus be the some.
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WINDSOR CASTLE. Fn. 7.

The Qom, with Prince Arthur, Inlaid sad drove
In the Roefecperk thla teceniag, end viand the Dashes of
lent at Fregetore.
Primo Alice sad Memo Haim reds ea tionsbalit.
Priam' Lentos end Prises Leepeld drove out in an open
carriage and four.
The Hari of llabuitabery arrived at the Castle yesterday
ea a visit, and retuntad to Leaden again So-day.

Tim Judicial Cotarailter ciao Privy Comma rat yveloday
W loud an appeal from Now Iloaik Wake. "Lord v. TM
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Camliwiwooresii Sydow." TM lark mewl wero—Loved
Desedows. lard Judea Light Dreg*, Dr. lewhiagica,
&r I. Rye; sad Mr J. Ordwilp.
♦ cliguisike, esseiotim d the is,. Dr. Conks, reo6w of
St. Mesgent, Mama. Trollop mid Heirbee, dierehwardeew
and Mr. As w. dirk, wit► Mr. /mak had se in-
terview with Lord Jam Meows ywierday ei the oillee et
Public Works, Whilehall-piste.

A Berlin letter, of the dth, stair that ler Majesty
Queen Victor* the Emperor of Buda, the Chasm of
Prussia, the (head Duke of Weimar, sad the Priam.
Charles of Prude will be the godfathers end godmothers of
the ihroat prtme.

His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the
Counties Bernatoff will give a grand dinner party on
Therday neat at Prussia Moms, to bo followed by the
dimeest, la oalebratios of the birth of the Whet Plzen of
Freels, pe•deoa to ber Majesty the Queue. The Duchess
of Cambridge sad the Prism= Miry and the Duke of
Cambridge will honour the Comities Berse.orff with their
memos

The Duke d'Aragon has left the Brunswick Hotel,
Jermywatrissi, for Paris.

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The Marquis of Waterford has left Claridge's
!kW tor Clungtumors, Ireland.

The Bari of Morn ingtou has arrived at the Cla-
ressica, from Drayeet HOGS% Chlppewham.
The Earl et Stroll:woke has let the Brunswick,
larmys-etriet, Ilst Newmarket.
Barra tad Bareness Lionel de Rothschild have
left Kingston He nee, for Peru.

Lord Zgliatas has oestribated 100!. to the fend
Ise the wars of web of art far tha saw National Gantry
of Wan&

The Earl of Ripon is likely to take his meat in the
Somme of Lords on Thursday or Friday of this week ; and
the writ hr the Weft Riding will probably be Weed on the
ems evednk

The 8p;a1 ow has appointed the following mam-
bas to wine oa the puma conwatteie of eleotioos for the
feeloot weeks :—The Right Hoe. Sir F. T. Barlog, Bart.;
the Right 800. Sir W. Meredyth Boeservale, Bart.; Biz
William Mathews, Bart. ; Robert Pabsor. leg.; WM=
Mee, Beg.; sad John Bonham threw, Pee.
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We (Weeper Daily Mail) aikdiestaild that •
deputation of the lammed Vleteallem le about le proceed Is
Landes for the purpose et urging epos pwliement the some-
city of es lagiskyleno Me shim 'demon of the trade, end
leseggeet the eater sof thereeeedieswikkenghtlebendepts•
• petition, Aped by upwards of IMO reembere of the
spbrit trade, eagles for Inquiry, is about be be Oar warded to
Robert Deeds, Req., M.P., for preestalion to the Noose
of COO 1111012; Similar petitions, we mdeeelned, ere those
to be forwarded from Edinburgh, Stirling, Perth, Dundee,
Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, Pdaley, sad other elf the principal
*erne In Seotland.

Captain Pollen's ulterior surveys have ocomertnad
Ids la the °pintos that the Red Sea dim so elanMee
whatever to the successful submergence of a telegraphis
cable. He has sounded the mid-clutenel from Sees to
Petite and dads the bottom soft mud from Sum to Jebel
Tear, but rock from theme to Perim. To greatest depth
ea this Mae to 1,060 fathoms. He hut also sounded the
whole extent of the on inshore and within the reefs on the
seekers ride, sad the same from Seem to Suakin a the
waters Ade. He le now armless to complete the 'army ea
this Has from Suakin to Perim, ea he judges that to be by
far the preferable route, the bottom throughout being much
mare eras and the soundings considerably less.

A letter frost Hassiorg says:—" There is sal-
ver& grief in this city at pesemit en essoust of the death
of Peotemor C. F. Warm, who foe the leed twenty-five
yens bee been oat of its meet die ingeiehal anatomic
His attainmeste ea • 'oboist end es a Sepia were of the
'aghast ordrr, sad made of camming to his modest.
the knowledge which he poseemsd was both affectionate and
successful, while his perfect sequistanes with .8 the
latticed.' and details of International law had acquired for
him • fame le other countries which could only be surpassed
by the high Minding whit& hs bed aequired In his own.
Professor Warm yea well Mews in England, and the
wallah, tearoom which be list your pre Woes the com-
mittee cities House of Commons on the Stade dam will sot
AO to be appreciated by ell by when it was permed."

The French Legi;latif union waa opened yester-
day In the noble hall in the sew Loewe known by the name
of the " Satle des State." The inaprenk the Prince.. Clo-
Slde, and the Princess Matta* were present In a tribune
ea the right of the throne; ana the esareattl of the assem-
bly, when the who!. of the dipkwastic corps, the esinisters,
morals, admirals, cardinals, the ntwebers of the coo-
stinted bodies, and the principal &milometers—ell In their
rick oficial costnesse—were esesmbled was igniting In the
extreme.

In the arrangements on the platform in the Palace
of the Innen yesterday, where the throne stood, a .light
cheese wee obaersable. On former occesime the only princes
tithe Imperial family who had seals to the right end left of
the Emperor wore Prince Jerome and his son Pilules Napo-
leon; Preen Louis Lociee Bonaparte sad Prince Mont
'Maley. In the present Incesce the Emperor had on his
right Priem Jerome end Perms Louts Lucien &eager%
both seated; sad on his left Priam Napoleon end Priers
Mars; bath also meted.

The tread musical footles', which will assemble
In the lakititice Palace of the Champs Myatt' 7,000
Orpheoldats from all points of Prance, wall take plea on the
llth, 12th, and 13th Much neat. Elsv,n choruses sill
be acing by the united societies, via :—The " Vent Creator"
of Bested ; the " Depart des Chsseews," by Mendelseoho ;
the "Mystdree &Isis," by Mosert; the "Jour du Seig-
neur;" the " *tow of the Hugasnota," by Meyerbeer;
the .Yragniant du 18itne Pauline," by Marcello; the
Chabres et les Teutons," of Louis Lacombe; the Genies
de la Tens," of Samuel David; the "Chant des Monied-
nards," of Kuchen; the " khrolas des Orplseosa," of Mdlle.
Nicolo ; and the "Retraite," of Laurent de Rill& The
" &lot au Chuiteure de Province" will be assented by the
Orphooni,te of Paris.

A pamphlet, by M. Emile de Girard* entitled
Oman," wUI appear at Pala is a few days,

A feints telegnm from Algiers mentions • pro-
eloastke lewd by Orel M'Yeboe, in wbkh he ensoanore
that the Division Lemma het been recalled to Preece, wad
ectealudes vita the Setlossiag words.—" Depart, depart,
soldirrs ; be breve, dheipliard, and steadfast."

A private telegraph from Algeria, dated yeater-
day,easosacia that the 23rd and 90th Regiments of the Line
and MIL Mamma we to cowmen*, em►arkiagon that day
for Iterwillea, mad the dIM end 56th keg matte wen to tan-
bark the Mewing meek.

An incident of some significance took place in the
Itavaristt Chamber of Deputies oa flaturdey lad. One of
the memtero, N. de Lercheefeld, stated that in consecurnoe
of the diminished diatom of ;ewe, he abould demand of the
Rosamund the prohibition of the exportatien of homes.
Fr once sad Sardinia were now main; largo purchases in
Gercestey, end it wee incumbent epri the whole German
people to join in measures of sett de'erace. The President
of the Chamber having asked if this proposition was sop.
ortad, the whole chamber roes la Wed., and the diecumion
en the subject was toed for the next sitting. A do•patch,
since received, says The Chamber line unanimously
mimed to tripte.t the goscruncot to prohibit the export of
beta a to the south end west."

A letter from Bt. Petersburg, of the 29th ult.,
sutra that the En3reror had presided over two giving,' of the
Curetted Coatuittce for the Einaacipiolon of the Serb, in
ceder to =eke hiineelf personally segvalated ai.h the pro-
g eo of this great reform.

The Nord of Bruited' nye :—'4 A letter from Bt.
PetereborK mmiime I rumour 'Midi, if it ben oat •o be
tree, will wows than the goosremeni him realised to ester oa
the path of rto io a telerslion. TOG rumour is *at t►e

eetabliahtment of a sresgague in the amyl's!, wtere hearts.
dere Jews have only bran allowed to reside undkr vary severe
wetriethas, is sh..ut to be anitioai ed."

The Wathiogtoo corteopoodent of the New York
Vora giver utn-acy to a rumour that Presidcat Buchanan
was coWtnn-Itting watrionay with a wilow

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