The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-24 00:00:00

TURKEY.

It has been stated that the Turkish Grand Vizir,
Kiprinli Pacha, visited, some time ago, the
Turkish provinces of the empire, to investigate the
grievances of the Christian populations. It appears
that his inquiry was not satisfactory to the latter,
as a communication has just been addressed to the
European Consuls at Belgrade, in the name of the
Christians of 165 villages of Service and Roumania,
setting forth in detail what they complain of.
Among other things, they allege that some years
back an illegal sale was made to certain natives of
Turkey, by a Pacha then in authority, of some
free villages in Old Semis, not belonging to any
noble, and that, though the Sultan has issued
several firmans annulling the transaction, no Pacha
has ever thought fit to act on them. "The fact
here referred to," says the lalepeafda•e, "is a new
proof that what is wanting to the central govern-
ment at Constantinople is not so much good will
and the sentiment of justice as the energy neces-
sary fur triumphing over the reaistazoe which its
own agents in the provinces offer to its orders."

LORD BROUGHAM AS A FRENCH REVIEWER.

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The last number of the review La Critiqw.
raise, contains a literary curiosity--an article in the French
language, written and signed by Lord Brougham. The
subject ta Count d'Haussonville's recent letter to the Senate,
which his lordship speaks of in terms of enthusiastic praise.
lie observes, however, that there is one essential point of
view in the political history of the two neighbouring
countries, which the able and spirited French writer
appears to have overlooked, and that point accounts for all
the difference between their political conditions at the
present day. In England the history of parties and politi-
cal changes is a history of compromises and reciprocal ,on-
cessions, whereas in France the "grand secret of compro-
mises has either never been discovered cc has exercised no
influence." After developing very shortly this leading
idea, the article concludes in the following terms :
The progress of our institutions in England has at.
times been rather slow ; their amelioration hag been gra.
dual ; but reciprocal 0011Olgal011% while frustrating the
hopes of the most entliwriaatic spirits on either side, have
produced a result the more advantagents to the public iu-
tereet, and with this inestimable benefit, that the motion
of the machine has been gentle, without any overturning or
breaking, without even any serious shock—at the utmost
nothing more than just a jolt now and then--no revolu-
tionary crisis ; no alternations of anarchy and absolutism.
More than two centuries have elapsed since our last revolu-
tion ; for the event which was so called forty years later
was but a change and a very small change of dynasty said
persons. The nearest approach to a revolutionary• crisis
was the affair of I+t 2, in which I took part, as being at
the head of the government with my dear and illustrious
friend Lord Grey, one of the most enlightened and most
virtuous of statesmen. I then thought 1 saw the revolution,
though still far off, and its features were such as to gave
me no desire to see it closer. lf, like several of my friends,
Lord Cuchrsne, M. Guisot, and others, I were to set about
writing the history of my time, I could give details which
would bo at once the proof and the glorification of what I
have just said. Meanwhile I think I have explained myself
sufficiently. It is not the first time that I have expressed
my sentiments oat the grand subject of our progress ; I
have more than once touched upon it both in parliament
and at the meetings of our national institution of 'neje!
science. But I here take advantage of the privilege, if not
the right, of people of my age, to repeat oneself. There is
another subject on which Count dlimunonville might have
gives good advice to the Senate, his country, and Europe.
I mean the general armaments—the preparations for war
in the midst of peace. This is the groat curse of our time.
We trade ; we attend to agriculture ; we cultivate the arts
and sciences, but we are armed; we support all the charges
of war in a time of peace. We go to work armed just as
they do in the northern province-4 of Turkey, where there
is no police ; there the pe.esint tills his land with a
loaded gun in one baud to defend himself. Europe
in in just such an uufortunate position on account of too
great military display, on Recount of armies very much
larger than are necessary being kept on foot. Let us hope,
let us pray that this state of things nay not last too long.

" BILOCuHAM.;

The editor, in a complimentary note, apologises to the
"eminent and splipathetic foreigner" for not having
placed his article at the head of the review—it did not
arrive until the tint sheets were in type.

THE CHIN E.NE AMBASSADOR TO EN(It.aND. —The
Palm rays.—" The laid
.accounts from Shanghai mention
a report as being current in that place to the effect that the
Emperor of China would in the spring send hi. brother.,
Prince )(tins, as ambassador extraordinary to Paris and
London.-
TiIt:UNITED STATICH Meant.—lntelligenco d reache
Southampton yesterday that the United seat., mail packet
New York was detained in the Weser, and that she would
not he able to take out the mails at the stipulated time. le
consequence of this Intelligence, the United States mail,
which arrived at Southampton by the day mail train rester.
&v. we. immediately returned to Loudon, in orderihat it
might be taut to the United States by way of Queenstown.

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