The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-15 00:00:00

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LONDON. MONDAY. AVOW! 11.

Tai Empire over the water is a profane& wing
of the Empire of the tiIIAIL4. It is the them re-
'emend of a great nation which has outgrow• the
pterilitime of freedom, and has taken refuge from the
perils of public life to the splendid eclf•renunciatioa
of • ereweed Democracy. Yesterday was ass et
those grand occasional festivals in which CCOMAIII
puts on holiday attire, and its idolaters elaak
their 'neater; fetterawith a Gems exhilaration, and
asi exulting sew of seentade. How poor do oar Par-
liamentary solemaitime—with their sober, quiet, a•d
besimmilike air, with so adventitious aid of calmer,
weak or dash of arse—appear in comparison with
the megaidenit military @pretend which drew teney
prime from the pockets of English emereiesiehe
peenday, for the sake of maim the winner in the
handicap el Yillafranca welcome beck to a grate-
ful 011eltvy the survivors of Magenta and Solferino!
A geverameat condoned on theatrical principles is
loud to look to the completenses of the final
tableau; sad if the spectacle be regardless of ex-
pense, the applause of the public is tolerably certain
eves though the curtain cease down on an anti-
climax I. the dramatic interest of the piece. There
is settling like • neutralised adminietratioe, mita-
'sided by petty constitutional checks and supe-
rior to vulgar responsibilities, for getting op
• festival in whim the power and glory d
• •ation are symbolised by streamers end bannees
sad particoloered arches, its dignity by drum.
the solidity of its institutions by extemperieed
seneery and woodwork, its victories by mien&
Armee of plaster. peace and civic liberties by tones%
ef
Tames and %Guava*. Let as suppose that the
eammereial interests which have learned to rejoice
in the aberece of • popular Amenably are twgis-
•ieg to langnmh under the burdens of • liberating
war and the hazards of • disturbing pees*. Hew
the met of • few thousands of pounds which the
manicapality of a metropolis is always glad to bear,
as eatertaiswerot is offered to the euriceity of travel-
hag Europe, which fills to overflowing the hotels,
the restaurants, the cafes, the pleasure-gardens, and

men the theatres, at a time of year when Paris, like
Leedom, is nasally deserted. Surely we ought to
think twice, as M. GEANIEE DE CASNAGNAC would
say, before we speak ►ightly of a government which
comet to the ream of hotels and shops by • tat
upon the sight-seeing propensities of the foreigner—
s tax most eagerly and gratefully paid.
But the Fourteenth of August, 18d9, will be
known in the annals of the Second Empire as saw
thing' more than • Filte-day. It will be known to
history as the celebration of a more than
Rama triumph by a more than Homan
conqueror the triumph of a man and an
Emperor over himself and his programme. We
have only to compare the enthusiasm of the pa-
potation of the Faubourg', at the departure of LOUD.
NAPOLEON for Italy, with their self-catained and
almost undemonstrative satisfaction at his re-appear-
ance yesterday, to understand what such • triumph
must have cost. Fifty thousand Frenchmen have
been offered op as a sacrifice to ST. NAFOLEON, and
fifty millions of money have gone to decorate his
&dries; bet in the side-chapel, which will hereafter
be erected to his successor in the great temple of
the Christian Juggernaut, the altar-piece will repre-
sent the purely moral triumphs of the deliverer
of Austria. the Federator of Italy, and the protector
of the POVE. It must be confessed that brilliant as
was the pomp and circumstance of that triumphal
welcome yesterday, it treated ea eseessory or two
which would have irameseely heightened the general
effect. We are not pedantic enough to desire a
Roman revival so literal as to include the slave
on the vietoe'scar,and the procession of captives from
each conquered race. Perhaps, indeed, there was a
secret and invisible monitor, pest Nuilens, who was
whispering to the hero of the day the proclamation of
SI ilan,and no jester on a C.Etta'S chariot could devise
• more chastening epigram for the Liberator el Italy.
But the accessories which were wanting to oomplete
the triumph were a deputation of citizens from the
towns of Venetia, of patriots from Hungary, of
Cardinals from Rome. Besides, the real victors et
Villafranea, the black army of confessors whose
prayers were so auspicious to the child-killers of
Per•ges, were unrepresented in the procession.
Rome protected from the Romans by Imperial Wove
—the Hactues enabled to consult universal seine
ender the protection of Imperial advisers—and the
servitude of Venice confirmed to Austria by I/s-
-pinal diplomatists, are • eneesseien of seeps which
deserved some pictorial commemeratioa is the rate
of the Fourteenth of August.

Tns Report recently issesd by the Impactor of the
Certified Reformatory Scheib of Greet Britain may
be fairly welcomed by the triode of those institutions
as an ample justification of the zeal and energy
which isd to their estabileLmi nt. Thaw 'Marts were

ndwisied sad desossied at first, as not only foolish
bat suicidal. Tbo Repott shows, by s careful sad
masts analysis( malts, that they hare operated
is the meet direct sad powerful mangier towards the
dimiaatise of jureade crime. This is the care both
geserally throsphout the country and locally is
the distrusts ellen Reformatories an established.

Litchis; in the general result, the diminution
la the somber of commitments far jaseuile ellesms
Lot year se sempared with the year before meshed
the bleb average of searly 40 per emit. These hie&
tattiest balm thus alresdy lomened the anima esonst
.f jeresile trims army ane hal This sallsiently
eetahliebse their claims to pablic support, on the
✓ound of {..oral usefalasem Ad their mane is
eertaialy set isinosed by the bet that whiled's,
deter hem seine, they are is • esc7 high dere.
eseeteettl is reforming the erimisaL
The Inebriatesl istimmos of these iostitelone, both
on the Forests of the childnra committed to them sad
as the ',bac goaffslly, is aloof a miry hese tleial
Lied. Vu eltas parents are moused to • noes of
their mermeibillity by the elkaspopar of • Maputo/wry
c,ictribaties towards their child:lWe rapport. In •
large proportion cf mess the crime of the child is the
inittett result of the writs' :cent, sad it is par-