The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-20 00:00:00

LONDON, NORDAZ MAY 20.

IT is intolerable to think that two such countries as
Frame and Ragland, each containing millions of an
indaserfons population, having, in reality and troth,
no
rival interests of any kind, but on the contrary
&multitude of interests in common; having the same
wants, the seise sympathies, the suns advanced
ideas of civilisation ; both brave, and so
high both of them in reputation, and so
rich in the harvest of glory, that nothing
in the way of renown oe victory can possibly be
wanting to them—it is intolerable, we repeat, that
two nations, so situated, should have been placed
within the most distant risk of collision or war by the
Witless", the sullenness, or tha 'elfishness of those
@tweeter!), or of those coteries., that usurp the named
political party.
%%Ist is most vexatious in them quarrels, or in
these approaches to quarrels, is that whilst the origi-
nal and fundamental and still during source of differ-
ence between the French and the English people is
that the latter live under an aristocratic rOgirne, the
immediate came of quarrel between French and
English statesmen has invariably been that English
policy and English tendencies have been too liberal
for French politicians.
What NApoLioN hated us most for was, we verily
believe, our free press and our repreeentative govern- ,
meat. Toe elder Bourbons were scarcely seated on
the throne than they found our very Writs far too
liberal for them. One of the grand accusations
against our foreign policy at present is that it hes
arrayed almost every power in Europa in
hostility to it. Bat the tory government of England,
with Lord Lrvinitooa at its head, was in precisely
the same predicament. And the Duke of WILLING.
SoN, at Verona, was in precisely the same isolated
minority, opposed to Russia, to Austria, and to
France, as his Grace would be now were he to join
a congress met to consider the affairs of Europe.
That the legitimists and tlAtir statesmen of the right
divine should hate England, was, however, not so
astonishing. But the am,zament is, how the politi-
cians of a government which, though mono-chic
and constitutional, was founded on popular choice and
popular compact, should also come to detest us. Th a
case of the ORLEANIST dynasty and politicians being
arrayed against us, was not perhaps, at first, so much
owing to tittle illiberalism, as to the fact of thediscoecry
that their enemies made use of the old national
grudge to aristocratic and powerful England, as
political capital, which they worked upon, in order
to injure the court party of Louts PHILIPPE. That
he was sold to England, and truckled to it, was the
great, the unfounded, awl unfortunately the sucoesttfal
cry. Begun by the BARROTS and the MAUGUINS—
tho IVat;onal and the Conatitationnel—it was taken up
by those very men, those liberals, who ought to have
sympathised with &Tian! and her institutions. All
the statesmen, intend, who at first sought to resist
this anti-English clamour, as GUIZOT and Tutees
both did, were carried away and almost wrecked by its
force. Sa that even they were compelled to throw their
sails to the breeze,and pretend that strong anti-English
feeling, which, although they did but affect and trade
upon it at first, they have since embraced and adopted
as a genuine feeling, and even as an inordinate passion.
Although OCIZO2 and Louts PHILIPPE threw them-
selves latterly into the Austrian alliance for the purely
selfish purpose of placirg en Oxaxans on the Spanish
throne, they had been previously driven into the same
reactionary policy by the taunts and the eloquence of
opposition working on the popular jealousy which
exists of England.
The ministers of Louts NAPOLEON now find them-
selves in the same predicament, and are driven,
In order to save and stiengthen themselver, into the
same claptrap hostility to us. Singular to say,
that majority of the as embly which rules the coun-
cils of the PREAIDENT and the destinies of the French
nation, Is at present composed of the remnant of all
the court parties that hare enjoyed power for the Met
half century. This party comprises the chiefs of the
old Napoleon's! regime, those of the eider Bouseons,
and those of the younger BOURBONS. Messrs. Not.a,
THIERs, and GtIZOT, put their heads together.
Imperialism shakes hands with divine right, and
the dynasty of July with the general of the Jesuits.
All that is intolerant, all that is bigoted, all
that is antiquated and retrograde have met to
club together their old hates and grudges, their ex-
ploded systems of government, their worn-out mantles
of state, their odds and ends of opinion. All that is
anile in monkish intolerance, all that is odious in
juridical prosecution, all that is brutal in mere soldier
discipline, all that is puerile and cruel in the regimen
of the police, have united to form a political body-
guard to poor Loots NAPOLIWN.
That such a party as this, composed of tho sweep-
ings of the bureaux of every old government,
should have attained supremacy in France, as the
result of the February revolution, is certainly
so monstrous and mortifying a juggle, that one is not
surprised to see men of spirit turn even Socialists in
the dep h of their disgust. That such a party should,
alter having abandoned North Italy to Austria, and
conquered Homo to re-establish there the rule
of the Jesuits—that such • party should lick the
feet of the CZAR, and pander to the impo-
tent despotism of Austria, is not to be wondered at.
And that it shouldseim the first opportuity of pushing
Louie NAPOLEON'S government into hostility with
England, is not to be wondered at either. They
thereby conciliate the favour of the Austro-Ruseiaa
mart or courts, awaken the old anti-English feeling
In France, which in reality was that which first
shook and then overthrew the ORLEANS dynasty.
They entail fear, and disorder, and expenditure upon
se, and upon themselves perhaps. Bat they thereby
pave the way for the restoration of the Duke of Boa-
Dear: and his priesthood; and they hope to drag
back the curtain of the 16th century, to cover the
ten and blackened scenery of the present time.
We trust, however, they will prove impotent to
accomplish these designs. We trust that there is
sense in the French nation, a cool and impartial
spirit in the English, to nee through the follies, the
selfishness, the manteuvres, and the blunders, that
would set them at variance. Englishmen do not wish
to meddle or intsrlere in tie struggle of French
parties, and England ought n t to be made the. victim
or the dupe of any one of the parties in its attempts
to overreach or over-embarrass the other.
England can hem no wish to offend the dignity,
thwart the just views, or injure the just rights of the
French people. Let nail= speak to nation, let the
people understand and strive to understand each other,
setting aside the interested misrepresentations and
recriminations of the party organs, and which
thunder merely to pull down this minister or put
up that. There is not one of them that would not
sacrifice the dearest interests of either England, or of
liberty, in order merely to spite a Lord P., or to give
a Lord A. the chance of power. They have no pr:n• iple
save those derived from s.;filli views or personal spite.
We most begin by setting these jabberings aside. A
difference between nations is a thing too serious to be
contemplated with the narrow views and eager cu-
riosity excited by a ministerial crisis.

IT would be difficult to determine whether the
debate or the division of Friday night, on the bill to
abolish the viceroyalty of Ireland, possemed less
meaning or significancy. The debate of seven hours'
duration deserves no better name than a hoterogc •
neous mar of le%ity on a *trim; subject, and irrele-
vancy on a matter eminently worthy of the best
attention of the assembly that evaded its discus-
Mon. We don't affect to understand why Lard
Joust Russm.i. should have declined, as he delibe-
rately did, to enter upon the real merits and subetan-
sive details of his plan. Possibly he deemed it expe-
dient to reserve himself on this important point for