The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-12 00:00:00

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

Tho Saturday Review expects the whole country
for the next ten:, weeks or more to be ablaze with the
dames of oratory. Large towns and small, great manu-
facturing centres and country villages, will be roused and
shaken by the mild or fervid eloquence of eager candi-
date*. The clergy, sore and contrite under the abuse
which the recent controversy as to pulpit shortcomings has
heaped upon them, will no doubt flock to political meetings
to study the oratorical style which giveslaymen the right to
lecture and revile them for then bad elocution, their
wordy rhetoric, and the vapidity and damnable iteration
of their matter. The whole country, borough and county,
will go wild with oratorical excitement, and the Agree
democracy which the conservative party has called to
power will be wielded at will by a thousand masters of
the tongue. Many thousands of speeches, long and short,
will be made every week, and if we attempt to sum up
the total made during the whole election we may be
landed among the unfathomable mysteries of hundreds
of thousands, millions, and the rest. The future house,
our contemporary thinks, will, nevertheless, not contain
more than a small revolutionary element.
According to the lesterday Bovine, there is hardly a
power on the Continent which would not rather negotiate
directly with its wont enemy than have the Emperor of
the French as a common friend. To be the object of ani-
venal distrust is about the least convenient position a
government can occupy when it is entering upon the diet-
cult negotiations which succeed to a great war.
The Bimesitire asks if the most willing believer in the
foreign policy of Napoleonima can persuade himself that
as outbreak in some direction is not contemplated, if,
after the demonstration at Chalons, of the superabundance
of French military strength, no step is taken to prove an
indisposition to use it I' Bemoan gain ground eery day
that designs are maturing for the gradual and eventual
annexation of Belgium. Not by resort to arms, indeed, it
it be possible to avoid it ; bat by the ass of diplomacy,
whose versatility and eloquence will be reinforced by the
glittering display, not afar off, of an irresistible army.
The Bponstor says Mr. Roebuck's real object was to
compliment and extol the actual administrators of Ameri-
can affairs, at the expense of the dominant party in the
constituencies, who ought by all the rules of political pro-
bability to have put other and far worse men—men like
Mr. Lincoln, and General Grant, and Mr. Bummer, and
such politicians as those—lnto power. Yet behold instead
of them an administration almost nearer to Mr.
Jefferson Davies than to Mr. Lincoln's—en ad-
ministration which, though defending the Union,
and professing hostility to slavery, has done all
that it can do to support the political a'eoedancy
of the white into, and to keep the negrooe In the position
of an inferior caste without political rights. Who can
wonder, looking to Mr. Roebuck's antecedeuto—to his
fierce advocacy of the confederate cause—to his savage
denunciation of the Northerners as " base, cowardly,
corrupt, oniel."—to Ida valiant propeeal to sweep the

omen hco olesefi Aniorisan ship by our debt—to the
flalitious and yet o edulons ontha.ny which he brought,
or tboaght Lo ..Monde', direct from the Emperor
of the Firm& to. Of amen Hones of Pommes
cn the subject of Asociamin affairs—that be wishes now
its a ml liment the American eamitive created by the we-
skit et of Mr. Audit w Johnson's anoomaion to the presi-
de or y. at the met of the peop!e P He expected. no doubt,
an is:tenth's "base, cowardly, corrupt, eruel,"—that is,
headily ant:Alavet y, and steadily in favour o! an indivi-
sible union. Ile find' one only temporising, more than
disposed to play into the lianas of the old Are-eaten if it
tan, and caring far bra for either hooks or union they
for the athendancy of the white new Oat ha help being
gratJkd at this instance of Americas elasticity ?