The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-22 00:00:00

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• LONDON. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 22.

TO' OUR

A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will
;le published ON SATURDAYS. as maxi, dor*
the Parliamentary recess.

SwrruaLiNn has made ri atirtake. She believed.
not perhaps in the honesty,. hot in the retreat for
appearances of the Fr emelt and Prussian Govern-
ments. She disarmed. too mem,

The French Gover iMut pledged its faith to Switzer-
had, that if the S ensa war levies were disbanded, it
would secure to: her an hottoorable arrangement of
the difference with ',mei& The Prussian Govern-
ment, with s n awkward affectation of dignified
reserve, ea",Wassed itself in mach a manner that all
the world satioved it would come to terms, after
trYin to make those terms as good for itself as
pomade- What is the resultP Eight meetings of
the Nei &betel Conference have been held, and it is
obvious dust Prnesia is determined to make no real
Calla atioms--thst France his neither the power nor
the will to indw a Prussian) make any real concessions.
With such an opponent as the ambitious and
faithless Gove raiment of Prussia, and with such an
arbiter as the Monarch of the Coup d 'Etat, there is
not the shim' raw of a chance of justice for Switier-
land. To / gannet the Neufchatel Contemners will,
an her part ; be to persist in a manifest game of
political tlt4 Sable-fig. When all Switzerland rose in
arms, Pram in trembled at her own audacity, and
every oth sr demotic State on the Continent has-
tiest" to • lamb er its mediation. And they "knew
the real OE It was not Switzerland alone
they dm idol, hat the discontented liberals in every
country , whe were likely to take advantage of a war
in the very centre of Europe to assert their own
claws is Justice. Since Switzerland credulously
allow. 4 heneelf to be cajoled into so unarmed diplo-
matit s mqpniation, the tricksters have taken heart of
roe s. And they will continue to delude her, or to
cow sive et her being deluded, until she breaks off
the dretiptice Conference, and again grasps the
sw. rd. Let Switzerland decline at once farther
ne iodate,' n, re-assemble her army, conciliate the
It &Lams by declaring the enlistment of Swiss citi-
w mess the service of foreign despots illegal, and
abide the blow." Not one of her absolute neigh-
'boars will venture to nasal her in her mountain
erne.

Ia the meantime, what is England doing? We
bear much of Lord PALNLIOrrON'S foreign policy.
What has his foreign policy done for our brother-
freemen in Switzerland? Lord PALMERsTON told
the defunct House of Commons that his Government
waned the Swiss to place no reliance en the protegees
of France to obtain for them fair terms from
Prussia, Bat did his Government offer to the Swiss
say other alternative than war or acceptance of the
prellered mediation of Frame? Or did it not
rather coldly sad sapereilioudy give the Swiss to
understand that from it they had to expect neither
aid nor sympathy ? In plain English, was the
English Cabinet mesmerised by the prospect of a
nuptial onion between the royal Novice of Prussia
and England ? and were the honour and interests
of England sacrificed to family considerations?
We are convinced that the English people feel, what-
ever their Government may do, that their true place
is that of the most powerful and infisential member of
a longue of the free constitutional States of Europe.
And Switzerland can tinily ascertain whether or
not inch is the feeling of the English people. Diplo-
matic etiquette forbids a direct appeal from one
European people to another. The mast liberal
European Governments would be scandalised by
web a Jacobinical proceeding. A private, con-
fidential appeal from the Swiss Government
to the Cabinet of St. James's would lead
to nothing. But the Swim Government can
address such an appeal to the English Cabinet,
sad allow the document to find its way accidentally
into the newspapers. Such things are done daily by
tie Government. of France, Austria, Russia, and
Prussia, and cannot therefore be improper on the
part of the Government of Switzerland. The publi
cation of such a document would stir up the English
people; the English people would bring their infra-
ease to bear ea their representatives in Parliament;
and„onarriage or no marriage, my Lords l'At.nsatsron
and CLARENIXIN would be compelled to insist upon
Premiers doing justice to Switzerland.

TRI Coequality of taxation is 0011110 of the London
miens, os compared with others, is singularly strik-
ing. In the parish of St. George, Hanover-wpm%
the oat maw, is; 1847, was 661,6321., and the
emend expended in relief of the poor was 111,2051..
or only 6+ll. in the pound, upon the net natal,
might the Holborn and East and West Lades
Unions, with the wiles of St. Matthew, Bathed
green, end St George, Southwark, expend in
relit, of the poor 77,333 L, out of a net rental of
640121. And this vast rental, though actually ins
than that of the single parish of St. George, Haw-
verweaare, contritietes, towards relieving the poor, a
sum maze than fair time as great as that contri-
buted by the wealthy and aristocratic parish. Again,
the parish ofChelsea has a rental of 147,9321. aleart
Its paupers during the year cost 18,2061,, or is. 7d.
in the pound on the rental; and this parish, adjoin-
ing those of St. George and of Kensingtes, support
a paaperism from (oar to eve time en great as le
supported by either of he wealthier sad were he-
tenate mighboars. Ones MN* nearly 700,0001.
reotel is eheripd the City of Lawiea with the
relief of buidtiels• swag a ispoillisa al little