The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-05 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6.

Wrraor overestimating the value of the Fir
recently celebrated is Belgium, they nevertheless
have a ',Aire sigaillesnee worthy of some little
attention—perhaps of more than they have received.
In their origin and Goodin esseetially popular,
they were the feliettatioes of a people who govern
themselves to an elected Sovereign who has allowed
them the widest mope for melt government, os the
twenty-fifthanoiTereary of hie acceptant of armor
to the Crown they offered him. They may therefor* be
regarded at once sea manifestation of a dries to pee
INTIM the independence guaranteed to Belgium, and
at a capacity to work out saconsfully the great prob-
lem of a constitutional government and a parliamen-
tary system in a country where party parrs ran as
high as anywhere in Europe.
The ti em, 'acetonic, display a greater unity of ,
opinion in favour of the mooareh aid the dynasty of
their selection, than could have been anticipated from
a people who carry political differences and ecclesise-
tie& polemics to so violent • height se the Belgians.
We are perhaps too apt to draw larger inferences to
the prejudice of a country where party Merrier
rage than the theta of the saes and a deeper view of
the ammo warrant. Yeah derma me the rat
wherever exaggeration an nape; and in the
opportunity which public opinion, however
formed, has •et being succemefelly carried into
action. Everywhees a collision et views, seed-
mews, objects, sad purposes is prebrable to com-
pulsory silence and to political compression approach.
log to and resembling national death; and where
that telltales is at ors a orseqwees and arra of
carrying no • eonetitutinal cysts., it is • natural
and legitimate sad wholesome state of things.
The enor of Belgium is not, then, that it brans,
political parties, that it has political purse, that it
ham polities' struggles. These are the inevitable sod
the awful results °. a parliamentary system : and long
may Belgium possess them. The fault of Belgium Use
in the resseratiess of all these vestal ageucies of
aelf-government and of program; in tarrying them
into the lastly, into society, into rinks, in short
oat of their natural sphere Hesse polities is Bel-
gium involve an mown of personal rancour sad
animosity, peered repreeoh, mussel like and die-
like, all of which teed to degrade retied disgrace
sod &finer late perusal tisane& sad squabbles
Wiles, however, we take this espradosa of ernes
into oriderstion, especially whet we roller that it
is the great queers of priestly dramatise its
whisk it is ford sad where it sprier', the
marity with whisk all assess have joined
is their fits, to Liss LEOPOLD and to his family
is very remarkable sad enesereging. No dealt
they rewind the support of the priests very mesh,
because a Roman Cathode Adreistration is in
power; bat, trash &Towable to them is teeing.
the Cabinet of Count VILAIN XIV. lee le the maim
bra temperate and modern, seldom the 'memorable
occasion after the Pere of Per, it displayed a
@effort eras of aroma dignity. Bat la truth,
Log LeOPOLD in the main dorm the apple's'
and approbation of his cabinet. Psalms he hes,
both jarred sad public. Though a sage
rue and experleseed Priam, he is act a very
loveable or estimable MO. Nor do the Belgians
pram to have any deep persosal attachment either
to him or to his family. The founder of the great-
ness of the H 0246 of Bext-Contreo, King Litorom
lies optto the inputatiose of being too asserspeleuely
devoted to tbeedvarement of its fortune& Limited
in the sphere of his sera at home, be is accused of
seeking infirm sad power is a world raids Bel-
gium, which world is very apt to resent seek later-
ferret. Nevertheless, to Belgium King LIOPOLD
hes dose his duty, both ably and honestly; and this,
we take it, is what the Beigiase desired to acknow-
ledge publicly in the fits, just esseledr.

Artsr the streaks of a quarter of a amatory, tho
great a:pliant of Belgian indepsndoess sad or
tionatity tem►ins entirely and priestly emessefeL
So rseoessial that it bas mime Wes sesretly sailor-
mined or apply attacked by aa ambidess neigh-
bour; so seeseseful that there is not at punt in
Belgium any large party favourable to simezation to
Frame. no is degas dines of a State is, of eollfek ilv
first object sad duty. Bat tho spasm of %Islam
lies rot ..rely in having, under sireamstames of the
greatest (blindly, maintained its isdepsedmies for
25 years. Belgium has also carried out with equal
mimeo constitutional sad parliamentary govern-

moat. Tho parliamestary system of Frame% d
Spain, of Orono, aro now all "poor, poor du
asseis."

How lov'd, key hosast'd .s nails Own sot.

Bat hers in this littlo, isdastriam, hard-working,
vulgar, contentious, fractious state of Belgium, for
S,e•sad•tweniy years a parliamentary system has
been in fall operation, sad luta nom become the
normal condition of the ennstry.

Whence the cause of this different* ia favour of
Belgium? *khan undervaluing at all the charac-
ter and the theses in any particulars of the people,
sod without demob**, the admirable preparation
they bad fora modern parliamentary system in their
old free municipal institutions, it is imposailele
to deny that one chief 0n... lies Is the
fair play, which the King hie given to the easetite-
tion and to the parties of the posed,. The great
characteristic of Laoroix's reign in Belgium bee
been the absence of may personal system of govern-
ment, of soy devotion to a particular political party,
or of any impa,ienes of parliamentary eastroL
Hence, seder Laorotx parliamestary gonna**
is Belgium bail had its tall awing, frequently to the
alarm of the timid, often to the prejudice of good
government, occamiosally to the annoyance of the
Sovereige. Bat the violence of the impetus
has always exhausted itself, and the sae
chtne has pot safely bark into ordinary
working stet workable condition. No party, no set
of polio 4CilliM no public man being under proscription
in Belgion, ambition, ability, craft, and intrigue
have all hs.i an open geld. The Sovereign ham been
000tt.ot to wigs; be he left legislation and admi-
nietratioa to their proper spots; is one particular
only has LIOP gLD 1111111 hied OS his personal views.
In that pertioular, 'Won him Nialeters, be has bnn
Arm and persiatentr let we add, goontenful deo. It
is in providing for tb.v dames of the sonlinty against
a foreign 'evasion. Of swarm Belgian eon never long
bold out steglwhandisd against a Anna army e
bat, owing to the wise previsioa of the Lag, re-
sists's** can be made - formidable palate
disposed, come
his whole reign,
' a will* the

[Kis. bee insisted epee the: redoubling, el kb pen
load views.

°institutional goverment is Belgian' has besot
serried on nadir considerable dissinateges. One
of them is its essentially doss itheracter. It is
altogether howywnsis. Not that Belgium wants •
rich and ascent noWsser, bat they are merely
a nobility. They do sot rise to the dignity and
utility of • political aristocracy. They are m-
elon,* to a ridiculous degree la their social habits;
they lead an indolent, listless, •imims, and not
very highly cultivated life; separated by obcdos and
habits from the State, they take no interest in the
government of their country; rarely worthless, Goan
tines repeatable, generslly Arnim, the Belgian
nobility as a body is politically assign This throws
the government into the heads of the middle classes,
all of who's ins:loots are right, but who are hind&
ciently cultivated. Bagsged, too, in tho pursuit of
wealth, the beet of them have neither time nor
iodination to devote theologies' to public duties,
and they in Belgium too Mtn fall per force to be
dirchargedby trading politicians, by more adventurers,
or by lawyers. Helms the want of a high and purify.
Log ton in the Chambers of Bremen; hence the
violins@ of parties, hens the personal character of
their disputes. The hest mon in the annoy do no.
try to govern it; and the King is thus prevented
from employing such men.
Though power is tempting in Belgium, it is ear
tainly not because of the Nachman of case. The
Ministers, however haarisossoly lodged at Bra ns.
are miserably underpaid; and as they are not
generally ran men, the insollignsy of their solarise
sista still move restricts the ens of their sanctions.
Nevertheless, compare Belgium and its Sovereign.
to Holland and its King. The comparison will be to
the advantage of the new State and to the elected
Monarch. While the cos country sinks, the other
rises in political importance; while the one lives on
its sorminulsted bat diminishing wealth, ths other is
actively pushing sad findiog its fortes*, is pressing
on to the future; and needs only another quarts, of
a notary like the past to consolidate the interest
which Europe has in the preservation of its indepsed-
nos, Ito eatiocality, and its freedom.

showing eta be made es ee.lain ter
until the other Powers weld, ifs* d
to its aid and saiistasee. Derive hi
that, we believe, is the tautly subject