The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-15 00:00:00

LONDON. ruzaDAr. ROT. 15.

Ora of the "Friends in Council" deprecates the
trivial endearments with which people who attach
no meaning to their words ere ;n the habit of epi-
loguing the most ordinary and most indifferent
letter. Even where there is affection, he remarks,
it runs the risk of being written away in this idle
fashion, and of wes'ing itself out in words. Why
should then not be the same chance of mutual de-
trition in the csai of " natural enemies," who are
always snapping at each other from ancient habit
rather than from actual malice, and why should not
the old animosities write themselves away, and leave
nothing but neighbourly toleration and that sort of
satisfied indifference which is safer for both than too
much love ! On this principle we are encouraged
to hope for the happiest malts from the affectionate
acerbity with which the two mast civilised nations in
the world have been lately exchanging the most
polite nears and the most endearing snarls. Surely
if we go on writing to each other across the Channel
in this tow and temper, and winding up jour letters
with such tendernesses as " Most untrulz
" yours," " Yours insincerely," " Ever detestingly,
Remaining with all wont wishes," "Yours, hate-
" fully always," or, " Accept the manna's of our
" most distinguished enmity ;"—we shall cad by
burning out the lest sparks of the old grudges, and
becoming the best friends in the world. According to
the Coosseitestrauseel there is a positive danger to the
alliance in anything like mutual civilities, and if an
enlightened Frenchman speaks of England as be
finds her, in a frank and friendly spirit, he is likely to
make bad blood between the two nations, and to
rouse has fellow countrymen to the highest pitch fifer
saperation. A few days since, M. M meat CHITALIii
who had been over to England on • visit, to pre-
side at the meeting of a Decimal Amociation at
Bradford, addressed to his friends of the Aurae( dor
Debate a couple of letters oa the relations of Franco
and England ; a subject always of incalculable inte-
rest, and at this critical moment in all men's
thoughts. hi. MICIERL CNICALIER is not one of
those facile feuilletonishe who come across to Weft-
ter-square for six days sod a Sunday, and thin go
back with their souls full of ennui and their menthe
full of fog, to depict their dreadful experiesees of
our society and institutions; he is simply ow of the
most distinguished economists in Franco and in
Europe; a member of the Institute, a Coaacillor of
State ; a man of ripe and various culture, of travel.
of thought and action, deeply versed in all the great
industrial problems of the century, and full of
honest admiration for the energetic freedom of the
Anglo-Saxon race. Twenty-tire years ago his
report on the United Statee was bosomed with
the most flattering eulogy by no less an
authority than Huusourr, and in the pursuit
of an official inquiry into the causes of our
commercial crisis in 1838, he gained that pro-
found and practical insight into the commercial and
industrial activity of England which, even at the cost
of being stigmatised as an A nolomane, he has ever
since with unfailing firmness and generosity °w-
haled, in the teeth of the manifold social, political,
and commercial prejudices which assailed him as
Professor of political economy at the College of
France. He was the friend and associate, and is
now the legitimate successor of FREDERIC BASTIAT,
as an ardent and intrepid apostle of Free Trade.
As a freetrider he is of course a lover of peace, and •
despiser of that vainglory which makes his country-
men so fond of military servitude. In either chant.-
ter, whether as an open friend to England, or as a
declared lover of peace, he is regarded almost as a
natural enemy by all bigoted Protectionists—by all
traditional Bompartists—hy all who worship the
ldil of the Plow Vendome—by all Socialist', whose
ideal of human exaltation is (quality in degradation
under a single yoke.
M. tea u alt, is his two recent letters,
which like all that SOON from his pen are models of
bnlliant common erase, extols the marvellous pro-
ductive faculties of England, the laborious persever-
ance, intelligence, and enterprise of her people; he
honestly commods the instinct of self-preservation
which commands her to increase her naval forces, and
to strengthen her satirical defences when all the rest
of Europe is in arms; and he has the courage to
admit that the superiority of her fleets le •
(lemma of life and death to the first commercial
power of the world. All this is supremely dietratsfal
and ohne:loos to the Chnehturesartal, wham ready
writer instantly denounce the friend of political
and commercial liberty and of peace as • treasonable
enthusiast, a deserter of his country's Sag, a traitor
to his country's glory, a worshipper at forbidden
altars. Has N. CMITALUIS boss lasi& an English
theatre pertinently rake M. Bonn: if he had he
would have seen Whine bet troselsdies of
French plays. This we mutt sews is a bit, a
palpable hit; but it only deammetasins (in the

monomical point of view) how thoroughly wo
carry oat the principles of free trade, without wee
waiting for reciprocity. We shall neat be told,
M. BU BAT suggesta, that the Elmhob its the Ant of
all nations in taste and art. This is too bad, for not
eves M. cllgval.ll3 has had the temerity to admire