The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-23 00:00:00

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OCTGOING MAIIAI
ow. M.I Maronl!eo, to Me 11411insusen. Egypt,
1" ',di,. Hoop-Kong, tile., will be made up miaow.
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tor British North Amities asd this trailed
mule or on the 'mots" of July 20.
ornit:r Lithos. Spiro, arid Gibraltar will bo made
mn, tog 27.
Vi. nen ln,hs >1•111., including Bermuda, Plavamtab,
Oreaus, and Metier, and eathadiap
4`tt.„, !mute rs. St. Jusa-Oe-Ntrararua, Now Gramida,
Ow. ‘r; be made upon the moron g of Mimi 2.
NI *dens. thr (Wattle and Besot* Ayres, will
...I on the or•rong or Au.toot
4.
Malts, Unfelt, the lonian Island!,
!mita, and Chia& rid itiouthasaptott, will
PV • •os the moraine of Aspen 20.
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J. 03 nox TrESDAY. JULY 23.

naghtened neiehbnurs, the French and the
rre ses wen' to tck loftily of their superior
• r Iwisdom, se displayed in their respective
f choming their chief magistrates. Old Eng-
:. 1. an. is full a ancient prejudices; and,
ice may have gradually been emanci-
„akingcrat c3nfesssdly remains a badge
re
,;.-;„0 a our sttrong addiction to the name and
f',,
,p;ftga that were, even though they have long
.ya 10.: nlktistsMini; stringth and power. The
e„;rl".'sv an ieeitation, and apart from the deep
rroon.l respect that is freely paid to the
;.•;spaet of the throne, confessedly pommies
fii-irrt,..ctid. to no inherent. capability c f de fencewere
the sane u m of national opinion.
rerogativns were once ample,
were nuestra.ted in the civil

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war.
a•
nd 'Crested holly and for ever
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It he llerelonoe. Since then parliament has been
ad the mace hes been substituted for the
it i },.,;e and war—church patronage—crew
e•‘•
t._ peers—choice of ministers—each in turn has
• spiv3prived by that irresistible power ; until
,• a. length has come to be a splendid recollce-
ti;•, its arov. mi nu a solemn ritual emblematic
• eititird, but awes.
1.-r friends beyotd the Channel and the ocean
• ouvX v..ystic rites.
.They prefer the actual
• rm a the popular well the ever recent and
• t nt.; emstation of the popular choice—the direct
of universal suffrage in the nomination of an
ea,c 3... et chief. 11• are content, having
pale che:ce of a particular family, and having
F.,,t it two or three sharp warnings that
to r.-. 4 of succession must b 3 relied on
a.,,:.:,ran:ee 'rutin di:inheritance in c.se of mime
• -:;r, we are content to teke our chance in the
i vi hereditary succivion for a harmless heir to
the mr3c.e: arid Omagh we have sometimes had to
i: rove than enough fur the wild oats of our Prince
we thick, upon the whole, that the otitis of such
ce.no -al expense are lees than the lose of time,
and troper we should incur by being obliged
pr3:3:l:tioir to name a new head of the nation. All
• l'ais aced Washington may seem exceeditgly
inconsistent with first principles, and

o.:•fi-1.140e . -
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lie. we must own that the performances of cur
t‘.:::.unrs on either side do not tend to in-
fitA cur toeom with feelings of envy or
w. i'4ire of imitatioz. By dint of universal
France and America tare arrived
a k Litian that for the text two years and a
NAPOLEON is of all living men the person
Irv! w..rhy to govern the one, and MILLAID
FILL-
!::.tI.e placed at the head of the administration
t: !. • .••.rr. We should be exceedingly curious to
many indiv:do ils could be found in their
Ttctr.tt countries who entertain the faintest telief

:u :::..s sprable *nation of popular opinion is,
ir. c! Litz, true. Can ansb)el7 seriously doubt
l‘y the same universal suffrage, a vote could
1. uea to-morrow—neither the hero of Boulogne,
tor!. of New York would be suffered to

their present positions ? Will anybody
r,-:! assert that were it to be done again
would again be 'elected ? What man
of ;..:ical experience or foresight would
tar. acted so improbable a conjecture two years
sz). t: at either of these persansp-s would to-day be
the chef of a great commonwealth ? What French-
man at s,her judgment and national pride will say
that i.e proud of the tenant of the Elyeea ? What
Amer: as, that be believes his watery does not con-
tra rc r many men better entitled to play the official
citr.ing the residue of the Presidential term at the
Wii:e House
We say not this reproachfully—far from it. We
kzow too weal the exempting came" of these strange
political phenomena. To speculate how such emits
of contlictieg pessions and ;airy necessities
night have been guarded spinet were idle.
The people of krateo chose a President because
no other candidate had so illustrious a name; the
people of America chose a man Vice-President with
ti.e reversionary right to the l'residency, because no
vler candidate bad so little of a name. To solve a
La:local puzzle there seemed at the moment no such
effectual way. Possibly there was none. If el, who
ie entitled to blame the selection that was made ?
NA we assuredly ; we respect far too profoundly the
*wed right of every nation to do what it will with
its oat; and so long as Nlr. FILLMORE and M. BONA.
an abstain from intermeddliog with the *flair* of
other thantriee, we are ready to salute them as the
iztarz,tions of Gallic and Anglo-Saxon democracy,
Ltd di,lineatically to pray that their shadow may
t,rer be Itse.

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0:4 we beg that we may henceforth hear no more
e the superior intelligence, freedom, and dignity of
dirt magistracies thus eleetel, over cur own less
luso:optically pretentious regime. What, after all
wsold the French notion not give to mike sure that
the taiunate candidate of the 10th cf December,
-ariid commit as few errors in tie discharge of
let c !unctions, in the course of the next twelve
shatia so the hereditary queen of these realms has
tea.m,tted in the last twelve years? Or what true
iossiot to the Federal Union can feel secure that the
tear elilet magistrate of the states will abstain as
tartf..y as ter Nlajesty has personally done from
nu i , word, or look, that would tend in any way to
ham s.stiust or dissension between the jealous king-
Ikea st which she is the sovereign ?
'nth we are on all bands too much given to
elii7-4,tleiate the importance of the forms of rule,
to undervalue in comparison the importance of
Ito spirit. It is not so much by any changes in the
mode by which an administrative system is created,
hi in the legal limitation of its authority and the
habitual determination to assert the bovertigoty of
nubile opinion over it, ss'well as to resist from the
outert ec,rc attempt t, encroach thereon,—that the
star litany art corAttoionally governed countries
bust he petsereed. Had this indomitable spirit
shown itself among the middle classes in
Preece during the tarsier days of LOUIS PIIILIPPIS
tetregn strive nigh, the cullmle generale of
never had bleu necessary. And were this
!"111411 manifeated new in the National Assembly,
itstrid el a readin as to acquiesce in all the old ,
liintlaten experimerts of reaction—the coming
swan's that already stem to cast the it dark
deadeye en the future pa,h of France, might even
ILI he averted.
fur America, her dangers are of a wholly dif-
int" kind, and we can well understand how in-
ered..,W ace should be as to their existence. The
wealth:al cup of prosperity is in her hand ; and
"weri deeply drained, it ever fills again. The
all history, however, re-echoes the accents of
tit
.j., irtd admonition—" Its not high-minded, but
ey lhe ocly evil America need apprehend is the
IhwrilAt to methanol interests of that internal unity
isidei. hitherto has been the chiefest of her many
Uhtr.taßtn.

Acel ;Len it is rim•mbered, that the newly els-
vim I naident is a pledgid protectioni-t, and that
wiil.os in flit Crittd States signifies rather a war
"4.11. berth and smith, than between em-
-1 • and employed,—the utloilred for accident
th.t Lae th-pe:rea the coof.dursey of the writ" of a noe.i rut and c-enc.liil.ry president like General
11.'4, may well L.. troided ai no ordinary cala-
laity. la breh eiretnntuiscee how much dependsalltr on the good muse, 'discernment, and self-
"m. of ttr :tdiridual who has been placed in a
Pes.loo tf iudi soubent responsibility.

int Nlse ►toss Rectory Rill is at length safe: in
akw clks it 'A ill Lb Ow law of the let d. When
defeated u the Commons' Committee ea to their lir