The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-27 00:00:00

LOuls PHILIPPE and his ministers.

It is impossible to characterise the reign of the
monarch without bringing forward these its
great facts, and witbcut e :priming upon them •
strong opinion. It is dictated by_ a sense of justice,
not resentment. For the House of Orleans
and its head have long ceased to excite
any feeling of the kind. On the contrary, the de-
meanour of the fallen dynasty, and of all its mem-
bers, has been irreproachable. It has been dignified,
resigned, betraying no captions humour, indulging in
no recrimination, no vain boasts, no restless attempts
or idle intrigues. The King just deceased was even
supposed to recommend a postponement of the claims
of tte Oni.nates to that of the legitimist heir. The
Duch.n of ORLEANS would, however, never consent
to ruch a compromise; and the decease of Louts
PIIILIPPII is lilts to have the effect of communicating
more life mad activity to the OaLaArge party.

RIOARDINO the determination of the HORN of
Comma to terminate the absurd policy that has so
long eacrißoed the earnings of the white slaves of toil
in this country, only to aggravate the sufferings of
black slaves, as suSciently certified by the nature of
the appeal Made by the ministry last maim to the
forbearance of the liberal party, an opinion ad-
verse tench determination expressed by a committee
of the House of Lords, is, we *Mk, utterly without
Importance. It comes too late to be of any authority,
and there is ousequeatly little "need to test its merits
by examining the oompasitioa of the committee, the
native and character of the "Adam it took, the mods
la which it was recorded, and the sumesion of blun-
ders in the report it has awed.
All that can be deduced en either side of the ques-
tion had so loog slue bees exhausted, that not even
a Lords' sommittee, jadicionaly composed of the sur-
vivors of the WuJisaroacx party, of naval peers,
and of lords much gives to the tabernacle, presided
over by a bishop who bee the wisdom of the serpent
without the simplicity of the dove, and examining
witnesses, nine.ten•lis of whom were pecuniari:y C3O•
awned in maintaining the system the committee was
intended to justify, can be supposed by the most
zealous of its frauds to have elicited say new view of
old and familiar facto. All that such an investige-
tioa really shows is that, like the BOITRBONR, the old
WILBERFORCE party have forgotten nothing and have
learnt nothing; there they were, with the old model
of a slave-ship that did its duty sixty years ago.
Still, u the evidence taken protases to bring down
the subject to the latest date, cue question will orbs
—what are the present state and prospects of Os
slave trade, as therein depicted P
The report recommends no new meanies of N.
pression, and but little change in those now to vie;
they are merely to be extended and perfected, " at
or a very slight additional expense." To suppose
such a recommendation, some efficiency of the mar

sures now practised mei^ eirsume. Di manastsd ; sad
the Lords' picked Irritants' tried bard to support laser-
tams to that effect.

Most of this evidence related, however, to
facts or occurrences two, three, and even four
years old; just when revolutions, railway
panics, potato rots, and bad grown harvests had
thrown all trade, even the Olive trade, into unexam-
pled confusion, d order, and depression; there was,
c3nsequently, no great strain on the consciences of
post-captain■ and commanders in answering to the
crumittee's satisfaction the leading questions put.
Bishop WILBIRPOICS, to do him justice, was not
very exacting ; whilst he was very suggestive : he
almost answered his own enquiries. The reply of an

s&sr, that, if he wen supplied without limit
animas, and without stint with means, he mad k
down the slave trade on the part of
known to him, was obtained with
Tegularity and unanimity ; and contributea
the ensfortable oonadesom of theio lee debit An '
ememefel remit of the cruising 'yowls; 41 it
eal4gild= trielL"
this "fair trial," like the " &ir trial'
11. Commoznares socialist saciatisk is . no/..tka,
premier pas that will alwap ooet so moth that it
never be taken, is a question the lords spiritual ►
temporal in the esamitbee sever asked 11111•11111ffc
though it is, we submit, just the inquiry *it tint
appointed to solve.
- What, however, the reel evidence taken does nod
give, the appendix of documents does furnish—via.,
the latest information on the slays trade : and tbik
too, in the unexeeptioriable shape of official resets
from Cubs, Sierra Leone, and Brasil, the Cape d
Good Hope and other places for the first sasial
this year. Now, these reports are ludi=
variance with the solemn @mutates of the
that " the &wink enigma have greatly &edited ma
crippled the slave trade r and with the general team
of the naval evidence that the trade was in proms@ of
redaction.

From the Havannah the Commissary Judge writes
on the first day of the present year that " the trade
is certainly more vigetonely prosecuted than it has
bees for some time past." More than 8,000 slaves
were imported is 1840 against only 1.600 in 1848;
and " not only have the numbers brought in the peat
year been es great, bed I regret to have to state that
they are expected in great numbers this year also."
Is the end of March the same gentleman " fears that
the slave trade will contisse to be attempted on the
strength of expected prate," frail " a demand
arising for slaves for the crate plantations, which are
now attended to on account of the higher price for
that article." _ _

The Commis/R.7 Judge, at Sierra Leone, hopes,
fewer slavers having bee. captured, that there must
have been fewer en the cosst—a hope which the letter
the Cummiessry Judge at Havana was then writing at
the same data sufficiently destroys. The officer at
Sierra Leone hes, however, fears as well as hopes;
for he "fears that the only speedy and effectual mode
of terminating the export likes trade in Africa is to
root it up in Brasil"—by new treaties, of course.
The commissioners at the Cape of Good Hope report
that " to the best of their belief the slave trade hes
been on the increase on the east coast of Africa during
the year 1819;" and that " the traffic has beea very
bris" . _

IQ Brasil we have now, of come, no 'lave trade

eouniesiesen to make reports. Our nasals, how-
ever, send lists of vessels engaged in the slave trade,
but, with the exception of Bahia, make no reports;
be, however, of Bahia, says everything in remarking
that " little fluctuation in their price has taken pine
during the last four yew, which may be scanned
for by the market. having been kept remark
supplied."
Ware such statements as these the cunning little'
inn the Lords' committee have patched up in their
report tumble at once to pieces. The latest official in-
halation, from there most interested in attributing
sawn to our operations, is as decidedly against their
anows, and therefore against the attempts to
asotiaus them, an any ever furnished. Caplan
Drxxxx and his colltagues may face the fads
as fearlessly as they would a Frenchman's
bullets, and manoeuvre their statements with se musk
skill and daring as was ever shown in getting to
windward of an enemy'. line : and our whig proido.
&idea, whose consciences are contented with finding
any one who will say, that " the system" may do geed.
may see in their sophistry grounds for decently ed. I
hering to courses which have only to be looked at to
be renounced ; bat no one will care for the Lords'
report or conclusions. So we leave the G 4.& the
melancholy satisfaction it can derive from finding
that it is not quite alone in its opinions; but is in
company, worse far than solitude, of the Standards
and has evert
_the countenance of the Bishop of

OXFORD. compelled u he is to tack his reputation to
the Blue Book, of which he is the parent.

Tim great strength and the inherent weakness of the
English Church are shown in a remarkable manner
by the circumstances attending the foundation of the
Canterbury Settlement Os New Zealand. This is
emphatically a Church of England colony, and it is
the only one. Virginia indeed laid claim to this title,
but a little examination of the facts will show that
the claim had no very firm foundation. The Can-
terbury Settlement, however, has a right to be
entitled a Church of England colony, similar
to that by which Pennsylvania is called a Quaker
colony, or Otago a Free Church settlement.
Its first batch of settlers conai.ts of a bishop and other
clergymen, together with a number of emigrants of
various ranks, all professing to belong to the com-
munion of the church of the mother country. Their
motto is, that they colonise on Caurch of England
principles. They voluntarily consent to pay a price
for their land, three times as great u that putt in the
government colonies. One-third of this pries is to be
laid aside as an inalienable fund for the support of the
church.

We propose," says Lord Littleton, " to attain our ob•
jeer by placing on the land the heavy charge of 11 per acre,
to be denoted entirely to the religious end educational seta
bliamente of the Chunk of England. We are satisfied that
we alma prevent even enentits to the Church of England
from bessomag purebasen of land, but we have thought it
was the most practical and simple a f obtaining our
°hint to requira boa every one of the purchasers of land
ea samara of good will to t►e Church of England by sub-
siding to so cosesderable a sharp."

This "coosiderable charge" has not, however, in-
terfered hitherto with the success of the project.
Funds for an episcopal income (0001. per annum) have
been found, emgrants have come forward, large
numbers of the artstoe.rac7 and gentry have been busy
in carryiog out the views of the founders, brilliant
breakfasts have been given, and the scheme hes been
Launched under triumphant auspices.
Another point must be remarked. Some of the best
and most prominent men of both parties in the church
have united to farther this scheme. The Archbishop
of Dustin and the Bishop of EXURB., Lord Lrrna.-
TON and Loed ASHLEY, Archdeacon HAZE aid Dr.
HOOK, men who, although they are united under one
common bond of church union, are still divergent in
matter of doctrine to a degree which would seem, at
first sight, to preclude any possibility of joint agency,
are found working side by side in this undertaking.
Fund., Retrousse, good will, a desire to sink party
feeling in the endeavour to promote the common
good, are all visible. These "surely are symptoms of
the strength of the Ensile& church to which we
alluded in the commencement of our article.

Why did we qualify our waertion by mentioning at
the same time the inherent watknese of the 'stab-
liahmest

The weakness of the church, then, is borne wittiest
to, not enly in the stringent measures whisk this
Church of England Association feels it n to
take, to exclude large closes of Englishmen Lras
partaking in the benefits which it offers, but by two
remarkable facts, which the discussions on questioss
relating to the colonies have brought out in clearer
relief.

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The first is, that the English church of the present
day does not correspond historically to the antecedent
institution which occupies its place in the put annals
of our history. We should be unwilling to say much
on a subject of this ungracious nature ourselves, we
will therefor* quote from a morning contemporary,
who, writing on the same subject, expresses himself
thus :

We could seemly look round us at what the church is at
home without asking ourselves, with doubt sad atiegiving,
how a spline from sushi a stook would he likely to thrive [es
the church of Ragland] whim trsasplaated to the !leek Mr
of a &slaty, unsheltered by the fears of aseimot memo,
and attachment, sad cut off from the golds. rills which
nada the growth of the penal tree ? We are ant sow
about to ramp on defects is her cosetitaties whisk are
begiaaiag to make themeelves sensibly felt. If the Amok
of Baglaad, In Eastland, is robbed of her powers of Weir
dart and self government—if the pat/masa of hoe highest
dignities is systematically jobbed—if every attempt he es-
teem her diecipliste is purebred by a perpetual sesiliet
between the spiritual sad the sesaielpal
the Pnebyterian Mama& is her cosstitution is altogether
eliminated, and the bishops readered at the same time
nominally absolute sad virtually impotent, sad, last but sot
lest, if the laity are alienated and estraapd by heist en-
filaded from their legitimate 'hue is the aosasels of their
own commuates—lf all this may with truck be said of the I
share& as it 'Mete amongst us at home, we mast remember
that the circumstances of her position are seek as la some
degree to screen these blemishes from the publis gess
The high-church writer who thus expresses him_,
self is afraid that these alleviating circumstances will
not be found in a colony, and we agree with him.
The other fact bearing witness to the weakness of
the English church is, that she has no system of cycle-