The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-05 00:00:00

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Tar House of Commons has done its duty. By a
deliberate verdict, after a week of the most ample
and varied discussion, upon the matured investiga-
tion into the law of the case, with the completed
knowledge of the facts, the Grand Jury of England
has solemnly recorded its decision that the premed-
ings of the English officials in the Canton warms
cannot be justified by the sanction of the Email
people. We rejoice in that decision. For the MU
of English honour and English morality, feria
true and deep regard to the national charterer
of the country in the present and in the More,
we thank the House of Commons for its vote. The
House of Commons, as representing this People whose
prerogative it is to teach the nations how to live—
whieh in all its dealings with mankind professes to
be actuated by a lofty morality and a special
Christianity—was asked to give its sanction to pro-
ceedings by which morality was utterly defied and
Christianity put to open shame. The House of
Commons has refused compliance with this dis-
honouring request. It was asked to declare that in
oar intercourse with the empires and kingdoms of
the Ear, this country, the model and the type of
Western civilisation and pure Christianity, is en-
titled to substitute a rule of might for a rule of right.
The Howe of Commons has said nay to this pro-
position. It was asked to register its judgment in
favour of the principle that hostilities commenced
without any valid ground of right, were jus-
tifiably carried on for the purposes of ven-
geance even after full reparation bad been made.
It was asked to affirm that an ambitious and
meddlesome official, in pursuit of a project which
he had been repeatedly reproved for entertaining,
was justified, contrary to orders and without instruc-
tions, in plunging us into hostilities with an empire
of 300,000,000 of people. It was asked to affirm that,
in order to enforce a claim of doubtful expediency,
this men was justified, on twenty-four hours' notice,
in bombarding a densely peopled and defencelem
city, and thus stirring up in the vast population of
Chins a spirit of wild and cruel vengeance—" the
terrible and abominable retaliation of the weak
ageing the strong "—of whose appalling results we
have as yet seen only the commencement. The
Howe of Commons refined to register such a judg-
ment as this—and again we say, we rejoice at the
decision.

We concur with Mr. Roasucu in his bold and
manly deenratioa of the breed wentiments of English
Liberalism. We slimly seem with him in thinking
that if the Home 4 Commses bed set the seal of its
approval to proneness like thses—proosediags
which if sdopted by Ramis berme Turkey would
have provoked a storm et menden, if they had
not, indeed, led to a repnitios of war—the prangs
of liberal Englamd, the glory 4 bee Beg-
lisp institutions, would label have Ms
lowered among the nations. We mast acted,
to forget this great treat of oars I we esanet, if we
would, escape from the remesethillties that k the
pens. "We an the only gnat gespth is the
Western world who enjoy • essedistiesel rmt
ass, and every set et ours that is essiessed by
mankind is brought heisted r es srposest spinet
nand isetitstiese." From this isseedity, sys
this disinter, the vote et the Hoes el Gams hes
mod Engiesd mad has laved Europe. Aisle, we
agree with Mr. Romm is the illotiesties be
pointed oat Mims the Me of as .bride wed at a
popular go remelt. "U we were miler a
despotism, it might le said that the people ore set
to telmase—the biome mete es their gwessumst.
The literal isslitstiees at Enemad enable es to net
the Maas es or governors. Therefore, if web set
them the lime os oar ruins, we take the Mom&
es ammima sad the diehmeeer, if there be 4116
bouner, ousts ea the people" Fee saying as bum
the diameter sad repel& et paring a mad et
apparel on meta whit* the sober moral sem et this
great emastry emphatically madmalta we thisk eta
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