The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-03 00:00:00

secure a two-thirds vote in the Senate. The ma- executive. There is one good thing, and only one,
jority was more than large enough, whether he was that I can think of, in which it might have done
in his seat or out of it ; so that it is impossible rod, and that is in enforcing greater freedom of
not to believe either that Mr. Lowe has spoken 1 bate in Congress, by constantly reminding the
Monty of the real strength of their opponents in
without due examination, or that he has been the nation at Imp. Usually, the majority is held
grossly imposed upon. 1 in check by the thought of the coming elections,
As regards the working of the present system of but during the last two years the excitement has
representation here, I think most people, even the been so great, and the strength of the majority so
minority, are quite content with it, and do not overwhelming,etithoua: theytthsonvesho:casional occasionally theirw
desire anere
y other, although lam told the plan I forgetting the limits their power. wn
But this nu
of personal representation, on the principle' American legislature can forget for more than a
propounded by Mr. Hare, finds a good deal Year. - . •SA

Of favour in the New York Constitutional

THE WAR IN CRETE.

Convention, now sitting ; but this is solely I
owing, I think, to the difficulty of provid- '
lug a plan of government for New York city.
Here the majority is hopelessly and irreclaimably
ignorant and corrupt, and in cudgellingthcir brains
for some remedy which will not too violently in-
fringe
on the democratic principle, the members of
the convention are inclined to try the experiment
of minority representation both in the city and the I
state. The plan of governing the city by 0011111d5'
*ions is felt to have failed, inasmuch as it has ended
in transferring to the legislature at Albany, the
corruption which it was designed to remedy in the
city. But I do not think the minority in any other

The Indipendance Hellewigme, an Athens journals
says in its impression of the 25th ult., At the
moment of going to press we receive the following
news :—The consuls at Canes of France, England,
Russia, and Italy have just forwarded to their
governments the following despatch" :
Maelames of women and children have taken place in
the interior of the island. The authorities can neither
'epicene the insurrection nor check the coarse of these
atrocities. Humanity imperatively calls for the baser
distil suspension of hostilities, er the transport into °ream
of the emus and children. My eolleaguss (al England,
Le.) are sending as identiad telegram to their respective
governments.

psrtof the Union feels the/ it is in any wies- se,
desolate or oppressed that the means of defence at
its command are not sufficient. The minority is

" This despatch," adds the hidipenciaitce Iletz
Unique: " was sent to Athens by the .1 teliekita-
boat Anthion, in order to be transmitted by tele-
graph to its destination."
The sane paper also says, " Mr. Stielman, the
consul of America, writes on the 22nd, • Neither
myself nor any of my colleagues consider that the
revolution is approaching its end, in consequence
of the entrance of timer Pacha into Sphakia. The
Turkish government may seize villages, but it
cannot subdue public spirit. The Cret.iuss will
not recede before the misfortunes which oppress
them. '"

not totally unrepresented either in congress or in
the state legislatures ; all that can be said is that it
is not represented in proportion to its numbers.
But all that it would gain by more representation is

greater power of talking ; a minority, lot it be ever
so large, cannot affect the divisions ; and this
power of talking the majority feels that it already
possesses in abundance through the press and the
platform. In fact, as far as discussion is con-

The provisional government of Crete has ad-
dressed a note to the consuls of the various
powers, denying that Sphakis has been taken, or
that the revolution is at an end ; and the bulletin
of the Central Cretan Committee say. that ever
since October, 184 iii, the Constantinople telegrams
have every week announced Turkish v..ttories and
the termination of the conflict, though the Porte
has continued every week to staid fresh troops to
Crete and fresh vessels to reinforce its squadron.

cerned, it is well known that the 'decision of ques-

tions is rarely affected in this country by legisla-
tive debates. Party lines are ed Closely drawn,
and representatives are held in such strict subjec-
tion to their constituents, that a change of vote in

consequence of a speech from the other side is

almost unknown, and, as I tried to show you in my

last letter, nearly all speeches in the legislatures in
this country are made to be printed, and not to

THE WEST.COAST OF AFRICA.

be listened to. So that the work of forming or I The Royal Mail steamship Lagos, Commander
changing opinion is done entirely' cut of doors, and George Corbett, arrived in the literacy yesterday,
after a very rapid passage, from the West Coast of
would not be any better done if the minority were
Africa,
Lagos are as f Teneriffe, and Madeira. The dati s brimett
more fairly represented. Wendell Phillips, for by the Lagos July 3; Flr_
instance, is a more useful man to the abolitionists nando Po, June 09 ; Cameroon, 28 Calabar,'
out of congress than he would be in it ; and so is 27 ; Brass River, New Melee-, and Bonny, July
Henry C. Carey to the protectionists. Out of 2 ; Lagos 5 ; Sellah Coffee, 6 ; Accra, 7 ; (Jape
congress they make speeches and write articles ; Cue" Castle, 8 ; Cape Palmaii 10 ; Monrovia, 12:
Sierra Leone, 15 ; Bathurst, 18 ; Teileritle 24 •
while and Madeira, 26. The L. os brings 11
in congress they could do no more,
and 21 ilist.rtsed st.ean.lu cargo,
they would be confined to Waahingtou for ;35 passengers,
half the year. Henry C. Carey is hardly Both health and trade, on the whoie range of
a good illustration, as he is not much of a talker, !the West Coast of Africa, were tolerably good.
and he belongs to the majority rather than the At Bonny, however, there was a dulness in trade
consequence of dissensions amongst the natives.
minority ; but I will take Mr. James Brooks, of
this city, the editor of the Earning Exprosa, who Her Majesty's Consul at Fernando Po
had arrived at Bonny, for the puris,sii ui enilea-
may now be said to lead the democratic party in ; vouring to settle the dispute, and conciliate the two
the House of Representatives, if anybody can be native chiefs, whose differences, if pro:et:p.(l, might
said to lead it. lam satisfied that the democrats materially injure the commerce of the ricer.
have made a mistake in electing hint, as he is cer- I The barque Fleetwt"gi of Glasgow, was tete''y
ivrrecaed on Tom Shot* Point, on entering Old
!Calabar river, previous to the 2;th Juuu. The
thinly not half as useful to them in Washington as
he would be in editing his paper here. To be sure, ; crew were saved.' u
•
what ho says in Washington in his place has a' The barque Irene, of Liverpool, laden with a
wider circulation than what he would say in New full cargo of palm oil, was totally lost on Bonny
Bar at the latter end of June. She was leaving
York would have, but it dues not produce nearly
0 to Liter .1 when
0
as much effect, and cannot be said with nearly as Bonny on the homeward voyagethe disaster occurred. The veasel, when !the Lagos
much fetes.
left, had completely broken up, and large quail-
' All the great lines of policy on which the legis-'titles of her cargo were washed on shore.
latures act are, in fact, shaped in the periodicals of I At Lagos the steamer Thomas Bayley, which
should
up th
oouldhaveesitilewd on the
the (ernei
e6thJily• uponui anca
the day and at public meetings. The legislatureof
tdr.
merely puts the popular will, esi expressed through Thomas Lewis, broke down on the iith, while tow-
the press and the platform, into legal form • ing a schooner out of the river.
therefore, those who are engaged in shaping! Large numbers of emancipated slaves were ar-
-1
at Monrovia from the United States, and
opinion out of doors are the real legislators, and in riving
this work, the minority has, of course, as many re-'rapidly settling down to work. Previous to the
departure of the Lagos the ship Goloinda ar-
presentatives as it pleases. It ought never to he for- rive,d at Mourovia with a second batch of e -
ciliated slaves from the United States. :She brought
gotten, too, that in this country, in the Northern
States at least, the minority has always relied, and 400 men, women, and children this time, and 750
dues now rely, for its safety and protection on a few months previous. There was :moth( r vessel
the good senile, sense of justice, and amenability to on her way from America to Monrovia, with about
reason of the majority, and it has never found 1 500 negroes. Before leaving the States the 'emi-
grants were well supplied with agricultural Wi-
thin' reliance fail it.
Plements, seeds, ike., so that on their arrival in
It has been foundas a matter of factthat in a corn- , Liberia they could nt once commence werking fur
rannity like this, in which there are no classes and; their own and their families' suPPort.

no class feeling, and in which the general equality
i'
ideotall:::j.buin—
RIC AND iNTERNATITNAL TELECILA PR
i
-
post
st ilea that
of conditions, or at least of possibilities, has; Etrser
developed sympathy to a very highindtegrh.sitele,,ianshiy. Ilesse rerrituriniitheb.e
abuse of its power by the majority
ture is sure to produce a reaction amongst the means
recovered from the stagPluatiou ifi?i.o'nwrhhicalsi is wasao
.bytutlietteatuiceof.humt yc...g...,,they ate happy to bet abe
nvoters,. and at the next election to convert the n'• t° °°°-°1
oirhity into a majority. I might fill a columnn-
baist
of .41:
yaftlientelatlyntehtyilidedr:l;l7tihtnonifwi tilh:yucP.iirir7fin-stinpohensidtc'll":""looef ilithill:
illCnr:Stv
beOtafUrli.tr yl:1111 hal
knownw illustrations of this. I will cite a wellnot
1r
theand recent one. Between 1850 and the neelanttined. This
ofo f
all business trann.""nienie'rofLu
in sof anti-Irish feeling, or in fact feel- qoczgurZti.ncchuatricactettvit- in
of all races— fof telegraphic reveii„; ral'untiminilliyicitil:"iirei"'id ""4""‘"'"I"
hostility to foreigners
approach to class feeling that one meets ' loifi,t-ihteithag;.ir nmennt
'°
1iq'1741..4..t I.ll';':".;r!pts
thge nearest
withof
ihere—rose very high, and led to the fo ati isco;.
Th.,
wois:L.iiiitthex; lialf.yeur ell 44 itt it the itili, , l'..'i::?,
tin
.co. me,..tax, amount to tel,l4l'?;.''''l.ii..".6",l.l"lei nit"'
'''
mid
in.t
andth " Know-Nothing "or native Anier.
in most of the iiiirth-eastern States it party,
-ed skistij,ii.lle:l7.i!ilill"'„!,t,' bAl.“'"'.."l°" ':''' ".1'.1...t4:2j15.W.2th
everythingbd before it fora year or two, and the Irish itree iirecnirs rtniiiiiiiitiix.,2nis..fiol.ri-vld'iiile ilfhjollr.4".';:arl''''4:74ll"Tti;.*:
fair to be disfranchised and excluded from all the 31th @lock ending
bid company, cad auTtevllllo;eltd4';a7; the ,wine rite,tbe
vi.., 2s. lid.
office, and subjected to divers disabilities. But per share upon the new if hares of the cominuiy over a
the rapid success of the movement killed it. As P,rioti of five mouths, f .
st which the first cull rfT the lac of Fehruorv, the date
soon as it was revealed fairly to the public how dividend there will hen .sUrypiritaiii.o"fic.l4:itilhi.f..r 1.1;'.:Y•i!:' this
powerful it was, and what injustice it might work, which the directors sr. a
oismril a ritinio7it.:ll.lll):,:;olA.l/7-I..it:ol:T:i'ite.
passions might stir up, it began to carried to the truet
and what bad it •
I,),criKsh, and by 1856 there was not a trace of the
..14eii.„4241.gLinontebserec:irritec:.1 f.ontxv:a.r..l.t...nvoill,,ijoat;i:i..'l.-"": of .1."2.ij.
Know-Nothing " party left. Whenever the time
residing with "Anu7o-Ablce iroutaTTigctirtntoLusiitadb:-.lliti;il.'.
ju:t:iicY, Trete. Irgirtot ', ' ii'
he
comes in which the majority will Coate to be amen-
able to reason, and in which it will not be possible lion, CIL nonnna.,:atiintil,iesit have
ai,rree been
between the compisuiie2Mtkrire"sttil'44l-
- turn it away from its oppression by fair discus°.
doubtless have had thePirreattetni;llol.n The
Prilill'i."' will
"on out of doors, representation of the mino- dialropaahlets which have been published, and itinndlig Z.l:reir.
rity in Congress will not save it. There ' have appeared from time to
time in the "putts nmenwichapa the
is nothing the representatives could say • alleged to have been Peprepur"c"iiil7."l,..eic::,f'%, Ulan
the Capitol which they could not say just as say in
Filtatnhe
f:reraltleuet-othueek: and provoxed to the oll,iciala.
tually in their own homes, and in addressing the i I"ent• *
the stute,it:l:7;,,,Zee,i bt;i‘tr;;Psba ill .17.
countryi front their own homes they would be ad- •-ii‘grrihli:YGeidridcarstat in,',..:atilftitacei The directors r'euit'n'"'t' that
7 the deciding governing power ; while in they toncaptroezetworry or tit. p.a..
1 ticuluns of this atheism bey
beaddressing the majority in Congress they would .in print. Various applications itila"‘"ch"lie,"..ndl'hadlY
government, both Nr,bally and 'inn
l. addressing an audience pledged to a certain appearedtlthe ch
po. icy, and certain not to swerve from it. k jriting, for IZ:rt.:mitt:it litehi,ut,e,lio‘us of time gi”t in.
meet upon this niatterratniut
minority representation scorns tome to be desirable I aimilmarffito.,thort ctihveenwtyir the Mioixtilt,' ifii...,t;1:M:,;:,f...1.1,i,;thi0!
iii,esuttiitini,
,tlill
calh y. in a country in which politics are still in the.
low,
of leaders whose guidance the voters fol- i liiren arrived at. The uncirt.iii.ty which': 7.','"...i,'''u".." 1".1
1, consideration of the cabinet?
by 1
diiireirt.nttoa reilibt:on. renders it extremely di ~:e.il t for the
w, and who can be reached in rho legislature
appeals to which if uttered out of
isdoisiersrsathllieytterru.iryi.zi:saiiii..l,n.tcair:„ltowiirda a
woduld pay no attention. One thing 'further
a development 1,7 fn
o_,,e tt,ll, 1, t.";;?:ti!ell
.7.7ittlryna7,:::,ito:::;l,tlbir:c,tuiione for tire I Ii i
tanhe
minoritythis is a fact which everybody recognises—had beaeys..irsrytiLiiirot,..e.sity..aink iiiisinrss.
f'f.ili.eiriiii.i..n.ixctltiirss.dtiiouiti,.?it,haeito
the
1.,,,,tpri:,t..t.,),
,i;„..,‘1,1.,:ti1:
been represented in Congress durii;• I
the last
weight
six
l years,
not
in
proportion to its real I HaosuilioAiiikn. thli. rILSI,..t t.
itisand influence in the community .0,, :oti
iii ~.
ir tii !;iNT AND
a.,
rota. IA eerlistloeut.l--
~en•ful.m• end eons...
hennow, l but in proportion to its num- r:.liill •.:1:1:'.
y, as Mr. Hare reposes the mad riOii „ro'ir„'-;;Tifr `t°°''' out ti".l",l"' ".""%,‘"*.i:'...".61"
i mi iiitoinvot.h...iii hi: 'will
i - roulLbv.ki.l.itarirti:iiilay";:irstriii till'ie'l:inlin. :x sear a. low.inie ... the part
government would have been
the minority would have Contributed shipwrecked,
..nothing to
I,ii:w.r is removing all tainti toms t. l: 1•1.....1, sand ross,..lueeny
the stock,of national wisdom which it has not just
as effectually contributed through
the
peen,
and
it
a1...a
..,.....140.1...
In ia11r0u..,,........?.7.5.71.,.i.de1et II ••• cm... 1 to aw
would have been armed with
such powers of or_ wsy:s purifying Pill! sh,eold he Lake!, el;Ile iti.s.:Nn;;:enfl Is tba.tne"..
&traction that it would. have totally paralyzed the • s,orlietree:nii, rvitza,isie:.....iiii,liielitidlye..isiring about a Lute oiscrolullan
.
I.i'eti.ea::.y.„o.l,,,,tiuldtte:::::
..•:re01it,,e,,,,t nihist:so,ti,oiliew. , ;t,y.a.n.,l,d.im
.