The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26.

THERE was a doubt at first whether the great par-
liamentary debate should be on the wide field of
whig foreign policy, or on the narrow circle of the
Greek question. It was decided late on Monday
night that it should b 3 neither one nor the other, but
that it should be • single combat between one mates-
man holding office, and another who hoped to step
into his shoes, after slaying him not fairly in front,
but by stabbing him from behind. Sir JANIES GILA-
HAm approached his antagonist with the most smiling
lace, and the warmest profession of friendship, which
was no sooner uttered, than he proceeded to stab with
an empoiaoned dagger, seeking to show that the mi-
nister was not merely a rash politician, bat a menda-
cious and tricky one.
Mr. OSBORNE, in the commencement of yester-
day's debate, did full jusrice to the malignant nature
of this attack, and with originality of point and wit,
cbaracteii.ed the twisting., and the slaverings, and
the fascination, by which the serpent preluded to
devouring his victim. It was reserved for Lord
PALMERSTON himself to give a full and noble answer
to this his personal slanderer, as at the same time to
his more open, and more natural, and more generous
antagonists.
No one could have heard the necessarily long,
I minute, and detailed statement made last night by
11 the Foreign minister without acknowledging that the
refutation of every particle of Lord STANLEY'S special
pleading was so complete as to leave not one single
accusation unrefuted. The reply of the minister to
Sir JAMES GRAHAM was as complete, and far more
animated. The unblushing audacity or forget-
fulness with which Sir JAMES GRAHAM im-
pugned the minister's pol:cy in Pertugal
which he himself bad approved of, were
humorously exposed. The complacency with which
the honourable baronet took credit for the negotiations
respecting Belgium, and distinguished them from
more recent negotiations, because, as he said, they
were conducted with the consent of the great powers,
was singularly disturbed by the showing that the
chief measures of the Belgian negotiations were
resolved upon and executed, not only with the dis-
sent, but in face of the menacing armies, of the said
great powers. The miserable chicanery about Sir
HENRY BULWER and Master PEEL was as felici-
tously exposed.
No portion of Lord PALMERSTON'S speech was SO
happy, or called down such universal applause, as
that in which he turned an argument of Sir JAMES
GRAHAM against his opponents. That speaker, in
utter and in reckless ignorance of the subject on
which he spoke, had accused Lord PALMERSTON of
having plotted the downfall of M. Guizor and
of Louts PHILIPPE, and having actually com-
passed it by the effect of his hostility. Such absur-
dity was not worth refutation. Were it the case,
however, said the right honourable secretary, that a
knot of foreign conspirators should have joined in an
attempt to pull down any minister of france, we
may be sure that the French people are sufficiently
proud, just, and noble, but to attach themselves the
more to any minister who was thus made the victim
of foreign hatred and intrigue. An enthusiastic
cheer from more than one aide of the house answered
this appeal.
It is, however, not to be concealed, that the chances
of ministers obtaining the majority that is requisite
for their honourable nold of ?ower has been lessened
by the malignant attack of Sir James GRAHAM, and
will be diminished by the expected onslaught
of Sir ROBERT PEEL. After deliberation with the
l)uke of WELLINGTON yesterday, that wary poten-
' tate has, at length, resolved to take the field, with the
idea that, when he has triumphed, the weaker part of
the liberals will rather obey him than give a chance
to the protectionists. A r. storation of PEEL will,
certainly, be a singular result of a protectionist and
lord. Entente. _ _ _

It is said, however, that so disgusted and indig-
nant is Lord JOHN RUSSELL with the manifest in-
trigue, and with the development of the long-con-
oocted plot, that he rat &tate' him-elt appealing to the
country upon the merits of his foreign policy, and of
dissolving forthwith, if he has but a scant majority.

We do not believe that any amount of human wis-
dom will ensure to the career of either private or
public life the exemption from trouble and embarrass-
ment, which is more or lees the lot of all things and
of all men. Nor do we believe it passible to manage
the foreign relations of Englund, so as to escape for a
series of years all cause of alarm, of quarrel, and even
rumours of war. Lord PstmettsroN has had a par-
ticular line of policy, which has been to advise
each government to make concessions to its sub-
jects, and to be as liberal and con-titutional as circum-
stances would admit. Ilia lordship is now arraigned
for having been so bold as to offi r any such advice.
Tne whole gist of Sir Jsmys Glum IXt'll speech went
to prove the crime and the imprudence of offering
such advice, which, he said, indisposed the govern-
ments of Portugal, Spain, and Greece, as well as the
greater powers. When in office, Sir JAsirs, indeed,
auctioned not only advice, but most active inter-
fcreuce, not with the assent. of the greet Powers, but
in their despite, as the siege of Antwerp attests.
But now times are changed. And the great principle
of Sir JAM P.B Onxtr.tst's foreign policy will be the
not-toes-verdure liberatudrice system.
The whole history and the whole secret of Lord Pm,
buns-rotes recent policy towards Spain, and towards
Greece, and towards the Italian powers, was simply

and t ohly t is, that he gave liberal advice. He re- I
oommended sovereigns to make (institutional coact,
goo*, popular parties to be contented with moderate
demand., and wherever a people, like the Sicilians,
were threatening to imitate France, sad conaltute a
republic, be recommended them, in lieu of this, to
choose a monarch. The despotic party, who disliked
Lord PALMIRSTON'II advise, took their Mane by
exaggerating its purport, and accusing him of where-
in and conspiring with every revolutionary party.
And it is these miserable falsehoods which the Tories
here so virulently repeat.
Now, we know the result of the libersl-advice-
giviog policy—a result certainly not mtisfectory.
For the liberal advice not having been followed,
illibrrali4n has triumphed ; it prevails in every
cabinet ; sad those cabinets resenting English coun-
sel to follow English example, hare put the English
miniteer into Coventry, and this very state of Coventry
is brought forward rn parliamont as a reason for
sacrificing the minister that dared to give liberal
advice.
But are we sure, ;that when we instal a minister
who is to follow the principle of either giving no
advice, or of giving illiberal advice--are we sun that
the results will be, or would have been, satisfactory?
As to giving no advice, and as to affecting neutrality
in politics, that is quite impossible. A minister in this
country must have the confidante and support of
either of the two great parties of this country. He
must be a tory, or he must be a liberal. If be be a
tory, and be ever so quiescent, he will still be
suspected of conspiring spinet the literties of Europe,
es much as Lord PALMERSTON, a whig, was falsely
suspected of conspiring sgsinst its monarchies. The
tendency of the present reaction spinet the whig
foreign policy is to elevate a Pitt to the seat of
favour ; and that man, Pin or no Pin, will, in de-
spite of himself, be considered as the ally and the
nominee of the great and the despotic powers, through
whose exertions, and to serve whose purposes, his pre-
decessor was overthrown. Suppose another sac-
maul revolution is France, and is what posi-
tion will seep • minister stand towards it ?
If Lard PALMiairroN is now condemned by the voice
of parlameut for having given liberal advice, and
keened liberal alliances in the troublous year of 1848,
ft will become the duty of the minister fee foreign
affair., in the next troublous year, to take largely and
naiverally the side of despotism. Ton is precisely
what is required. Now is this likely to ensure peace ?
Is that likely to remove all sense of antagonism
between us and Europe—between as and Ame-
rica ? On the contrary, it is placing Eng-
land in the same circumstances that she was
placed is 1792, leaped with despotic reaction against
popular progress, and dragged by each alliance into a
quarter of a ceetnrz of war.
The difference, is fact, between Lord PALMLII-
Sto:4's quarrels and tory quarrels on foreign ques-
ta= is, ttialt Lord P•usaasvores quarrels an always
with courts and (*Mast', wt ereas tory quarrels are
with nations, with national movements, sentiments,
and Lard PALMERSTON'S differences
havebees with CABRAL, with NARVAIZ, with FILAN-
01E11, With SCHWATIZENTIRRO, with LAHIITE. These
quarrels with ponces sad with coteries produce fierce
ploniatic strife, thundering notes, cut-throat
leaders in official apes ; but they never beget
war ; because not one of three susceptible ministers
have a people behind them. They have no sym-
pathy with the nation they govern, and consequently
they dare not make any other war but that
of protocols. Bat a quarrel with nations
and national sentiments, such as the twin waged
against France, and which they are ready to-morrow
to wage with Franca if it remain republican, or with
America—this is the kind of quarrel which produces
long, deadly, expensive, sanguinary war. Foreign
ministers may conceive a pique against a PAultit.
SION ; but foreign nations would feel in the masses
and in their popular hearts an abhorrence of a Pin,
a STANLEY, or • Germs,.

But ind;ed we do injustice to the name and me-
mory of Pin, when we compare him or his policy to
that of Lord STANLEY, or of any other statesman who
may head the present reaction. For Pin, if he
defended the despotism of Europe, defended, at the
same time, the independence of its nations. The
great tory war, which commenced under that states-
man, was carried on against a mercenary, encroach-
ing, and conquering power. Whereas, the liberties
which England is now to be forbidden to protect,
and for even smiling upon which an English minister
is to be sacrificed, were liberties the most righteous
and the least of, naive that were ever demanded. If
ever di. urbane* was internal, and political movement
municipal, it was those of 1848. And if they did
communicate one with another, it was through the
electric spark of similarity of oppression, not through
aye organised conspiracy or propagandism.
We understand, however, the mean and selfish cal-
culations of turn-serviog politicians. Tuey say the
despots of Europe are triumphant. Let us join them,
and putting on their livery, joie in their court
fêtes, and let us sacrifice any minister of ours obnoxi-
ous to them, in order that we may enjoy peace, coun-
tenance, and gaol fellowship from the Czar Nicnones,
the Vienna Emperor, and HENRY V. of France.
The unprincipled and pusillanimous waiters upon
such turns of fortune are not aware how hollow and
baseless are their new hopes and plans of despotism.
The soil beneath them is mined,and pregnant with the
popular earthquake. And if the servility and pusil-
lanimity of our upper easses were to succeed to-morrow
in installing a reactionist ministry in England, for the
sake of harmonising through it with the powers
uppermost in Europe, they would soon find many of
those powers now uppermost sink into the dust ; and
then parliament would have to set to work to set up
another popular ministry, in order to propitiate a
liberal Europe, or else it would have to support a
tory government, and join a war and
crusade against the liberties and the popu-
lation of the continent. What is asked now of
the parliament of England is to abjure principle, and
to worship expediency. But expediency in foreign
politics is the needle of the compass, which is for ever
going round to every paint. To follow the gyrations
of such a political guide, were a sacrifice of every
principle of honesty, of prudence, and of manhood.