The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-24 00:00:00

therefore to be esseptai as
serious trosbles to &sal with ; while in reputation
and substantial prosperity our country perhaps
waver stood Weise.

have so

It is for ethye purposes than national complacency,
ee seen devout gratitude, that we ought to be sen-
sible of our privileges. We may be complacent in
Thor of the past, and grateful in regard to the Fee-
dlot; but our chief business is with the future, on
which we miter with every new sursion of Parlia-
ment. For the sake of the future, then, we mat
learn what we can from the state of Europe, and of
every other part of the world where there is a conflict
of interests between the few and the many—the
►igh and the low—the proud and the humble. We
me in hill operation the law of society by which
the sada grasp and exercise of power pulls
down ruin on the head of the self-seekers.
IfjAnatria would have allowed it, our good will
wenkilhave remained at her command. It is oar
interest, and it would have been for our satisfaction,
that a strong empire should have at in prosperity
ea the Danube; but we now see how despotism has
spoiled all, sad how necessary it is that that des.
patient should be broken up at all risks, to save the
greater evil of whole subject nations being driven
to madams. Austrian Italy is ceasing to be Aus-
tria ; Hungary, an injured sister kingdom under
the Austrian scowls, is evidently on the point of re-
imse—prebably to be something else than a partner
under the SIM mews. The Austrian empire is
Ming in puss, without a chance of being held
together by wise management. The same is true
of the Papal dominions. The resources of
Turkey are abundant enough to make its battens
powerful and it. inhabitants a great people
in Europe; bat a seldeseldng mode of rule renders
he ease nearly kopelms. In Russia, the Head
of the State me brassie to the true principle of go-
verning nations by adopting a lighter rale than any
demendant of Psraa bas before ventured upon. Nat
ally is the serf population to be freed, but liberty of
travel, and of personal smite generally, is rented to
alarm outwit than ever before. The ensoungement

if industry sad enterprise gees with theme el-wages.
Bat, an the ether band, the Poles are treated with
sew harelinirn and indignity; sad the bog heroic
war is the Neese= hes ended in the defeat of the
patriots sad the extension den absorbing despotism.
gisowlan, the old absolutist families are wandering,
Amman& find &treks& While Piedmont is ad-
Tensing in the task of nations, fall of vigour and of
pesseise, and sought as a parent Etta& by every other
ItalYm tenitsey se each emancipates itself, the Papacy
Isjelllng away fate atter helplessness and contempt,
end Naples b ender a sure and ordain doom.
Promise:mid& in proportion to her advance in free-
dos sad seneideration for the great body of the poop&
sad in striking eontzsat to the sinking fortunes or
her Heal, Austria. Bo striking are these opposite far-
tames of the aid despotisms and the more liberal',
polities of the time, that we find ourselves asking
whether it will sow be necessary for Europe to go
through the convulsion so long foretold as inevitable
whenever the conflict of opinion should arrive. It
is too early yet to feel any confidence that des-
potism may sot try more fights before succumbing ;
but no sensible man doubts with whom the victory
will rest. The fats of the deposed Italian Princes
is a simple particular exponent of the univocal
estro.

Oar comma is plain enough. We have Ireland for
ear enomagement—redeemed by the principle of

. .
' governing Ireland for the Irish. The experiment is
not yet complete, but enough has been done to
guide ns further. Following up the instruction, we
have now to govern India for the Indian inhabitants
first, and not for Britigrb profit. We have to sustain
the rights of labour in the West Indies, and to
rale all our colonies with a considerate
and liberal policy. We have to keep our home
government true to its principle by perpetually
opening up all the benefits of the State to all who
can fulfil the requisite conditions. We have to go
on enlightening the humbler classes by affording
them more and more means of knowledge, and sense
to the eerviee of the State as they become qualified,
We have to open the weer of all kinds of service to
merit men and more thoresghly. We have to alter
ear fiscal system so as to abolish impediments to
knowledge, and to industry and enterprise. We have
to provide for the admission of more and more
qualified citizens to the exercise of political rights.
In short, if we are proud and gratified at our national
position, and sager for more content, more satis-
faction, mere prosperity—for the furthest possible
removal frau the fate of sinking despotisms—we
ant "do the duty that lies nearest "—we must
repeal tams which obstruct civilising intercourse;
we must ergs on the work of popular educa-
tion ; and we must pass an honest and esespre.
Units Reform Bill without paltering or delay,
These are the means by which British Princes
and Pears may keep on good terms with Parliament
sad people, while despots and oligarchies elsewhere
lapse from their high setts and sink below the sur-
face of history.