The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21.

Ws have made several coulectares respecting the
forthcoming speech from the Tbrone, of which a few
days will tell the correct-ere. We have long sines
indicated an enlargement of the etcetera system, and
a declaration to the colonies that any proposal they
may make for the management of their own drain,'
and the providing for their own administrative sail
military requiremeats, will not meet with refusal co
resistance from this country.
Another subject that strikes us as likely to form a
paragraph in the speech is Spain. There can be as
roma for continuing the interruption of diplomatic
intercourse. The coart and government of Spain
have offered every desirable reparation, even before
Sir HURT BULWER took his departure from this
country. And although we hear nothing about it,
we are pretty confident that Lied Holman has sec. I
mud in the Trojan siege, which he has so unremit-
tingly laid to the Madrid embassy, if not for ten
years, at lead for no inconsiderable portion of them.
There are public men who wear out their welcome
and their friendships—who begin with respect, and
end with universal contempt. Such was the ease of
Louts PIIILIPPE. General NARV.tiZ, on the con-
trary, seems to have outlived his enmities, and lite-
rally to have worn them out. We, indeed, cannot
altogether forget his put ; but when we behold him,
almost the only minister of Europe who wages
a constitutional war, and tolerates a constitu-
tional opposition—when we see a man who
has risen by military p
as owe and support,
actually discard that rapport perilous and extra-
vagantly expensive, in order to court favour by
popular measures and a more constitutional policy, one
anaot,in the present subjection of the constitutional to
the military principle of government over all the rest
of Europe, but applaud the civilian and constitutional
tendencies of the Spanish government.
We are aware that the cabinet of General NARTAEZ
is threatened in the Cortes by a coalition of the two
oppositions, the Inoclerado and pro resists. They
have taken their stand upon the budget, a very good
and constitutional stand too, insisting on reduction
and a system of financial reform. Nartverz,
as we lualTrstand, declares himself no enemy to
financial reform, nor even to a large reduction of the
army. But he objects to a provisional vote, and a session
spent in the discussion of the budgets, during
which he atd his colleagues on the ministerial
benches would be like prisoners on their trial, ex-
posed to the attacks of the parties coalesced against
them. He is, therefore, far imitating our Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, who brings forth his
budget, then gets the army and navy estimates voted,
and permits the great financial debate of the year to
take place—after, not before, the sum total is fixed,
and the estimates voted.
Whichever party succeeds, and whether the Spanish
government be triumphant or defeated, it seems to
be decided upon one point, which is the dissolution,
of the Cortes, a necessary step, indeed, to reform, and
to the settlement of the constitutional government.
The present Spanish Cortes were elected' it will be
remembered, during the effervescence cured by the
royal marriages. That infamous combined's,
for which so much money was raised amt
spent, and so much violence had recourse ter
comvetely vitiated the freedom of the national choice,
the object of the French party being to prevent the
elution of a national Cortes. The Spanish marriages
have borne their fruit, lest in the disgrace and suicide
of all concerned in the infamous transaction, secondly
in the nullity of the Cortes got together to effect
them. Had ICIARTAET been chargeable with the mar-
riages he would have fallen long ago, as his rivals
have done, in consequenceof the utter loss of charm-
ter entailed upon them by the act.
These marriages have net only ruined the perpe-
trators, but tended to weaken the crown. Fortunately
for ISABELLA and her sister, other circumstances, un-
expected too, have arisen to strengthen it. The
management of the Carlist party and the conduct of
the Culla princes have been such as to break
up the faction altogether, and deprive it of hops.
Oft-repeated, yet trivial, insurrections, compro-
mising more and more of the Carlist partieaae,
without advancing the cause, bad flung discredit ups
it, when it become known that the son of Don CAZLOS
had himself offered to treat, and that with the eels
view of bettering his present interests without emelt-
ing those of the party, or of the men engaged for him
—some of them in the actual fends of civil war.
This put the finishing stroke to the Carlist party in
the Pesimuls. And the unpopularity of seeking
political reform by the way of revolution having bees
established by the outbreaks and anarchy of B ,
the fortunate soldier who found himself in passesioa
of the Spanish government has been enabled to tarn
his views towards a new species of policy, sad a
mode of government based no longer on
and on the military expenditure inseparable
The greater part, however, of this dame of
General NAILTAEZ, exists but in premises and wards.
Before he can command confidenos, he must realise
them in acts. His giving utterance to each prolate's,
tells very plainly that such reforms are indispensable
tatits, that they are possible, and that the, are de-
aby political opinion. General MARTA/ell
• word admitting this, is as significant as Sir ROBERT
PM's admitting the truth and the necessity of free
trade.
These same principles are professed by them in oppo-
sition to General NARVAEZ. And most able men are to
be found in this oppositioo. But whether it may not
require a soldier as firm and experienced as Nativalz
himself to let down the supremacy of the army with-
out danger and discontent, and without provoking
military re-action, is a consideration worth taking into
account.
The redaction of tbe army; the restoration of civil
authority and municipal freedom ; the liberty of
election and of the preen; the respect of individual
liberty; the gradual development of free trade; the
reform of the finances, which would alleviate the
burdens of the country whilst making just pro-
vision for paying the debts of the state—these
are the objects to be achieved, whether by
the statesmanship of lawyer or lieutenant, is
not of so mach consequence. It would be of the
greatest glory to Spain to boast, that whilst all other
countries, even France, were relapsing to military ride
and financial embarrassment, Span was progreming
to civilian and constitutional policy, reducing bar
army, paying her debts, and developing her caw
mares.
It would be more decorous and satisfactory, if the
reconciliation of England with Spain should take
place at the moment of the installation of this new
system ; and if, whilst we quarrelled with Spain far
opposing the violent and reactionary tendencies of
its government, we should renew diplomatic inter-
course with the same government, when actuated by
better spirit, and meditating a return to the mildness
and sincerity of a constitutional system.

WHAT is to be done with oar convicts? When the
doors of all oar other colonies were shut in their fame,
it was believed that an asylum had been opened to
them at BMA River. But, no! The Western Ass-
trams have been thrown into a fever of indignation
ea learning that their colony is to be made a penal
settlement.
We will not le amused by those who are in the
habit of petunias oar column, of lightly estimating
the evil oy a owlet Immigration, or of lacking sym-
pathy with a non-penal colony which resists any
attempt to convert it into a receptacle for convicts.