The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-08 00:00:00

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

The Titit to Osborne of his Imperial Majesty the

Emperor of the French is announced to be strictly private,
"but it is quite possible," observes the Prat, "that quer
Consul grave importance will be discussed at Osborne during
the next few days. Ministerial journals aware us that the
French alliance is ask, and that, though the governments of
the two mutinies differ in opinion upon minor matters, upon
all great questions of foreign piliry their views are iden-
tical. The crisis at Constantinople indicotca in the
moat unequivocal manner that, though the action of
the governments may In general be harmonious, yet
upon 101110 essential points, such as the Danubian Princi-
palities, the opinions of France and England are diametri-
cally opposed. The Anglo-French alliance may be in no
danger from this difference of opinion, but it must be clear
to any man of common understanding that the rootless
enemies of that alliance must derive considerable consolation
and advantage from the antagonism revealed in the step
recently taken by M. do Thouvenel at Constantinople. Lord
Palmerston may rest assured that the people of this country
have adopted the principle of the French alliance from
deliberate conviction, not from temporary distress, and they
will not permit the responsibilities of that alliance to be
lightly cast aside. One object of the present visit to this
country of the Emperor of the French may be to place that
alliance upon a closer and more solid foundation than would
c appear at present to exist."

The Saturday Renew thinks that "there is nothing
more remarkable, as we are at present informed, in the
Watery of the Indian mutiny than the utter absence of any-
thing like proof of the intervention of any leading mind. No
movement of so formidable a character has ever made pro-
gram so long uld so suocessfally without evoking the
energies of some individual seem, and raising them above
their fellows. The enterprise seems to be wholly without
headship, Brahminieal or Mogul. There is no symptom of
orginasation. We suspect that a very largo proportion of
the mutineers are not only astoniabed at their own

position, but mightily alarmed e'en at the sound them-
selves have made.' If the wires have been moved
by an unseen hand, it is by the hand of a remote agent.
If the movement be attributable to Mahomedan influence,
so much the better. The Mahomedans constitute but a com-
paratively smell portion of the population of British India. It
is not difficult to persuade the Hindoos that the litusulman

manor is more hitolennt than the Christian. We shall ow

stablish oar sacendamy in this rams than if the Brahmins
eat the root of the matter. We believe, indeed, that our

old safeguard, the conflict of faith., the mutual mistrust of
Ilindoo and Mahomedan, will soup be working again mightily
in our favour. The seeds of internal dissolution will be sown
in the rebel cause, which will fall in time ae much from the
effects of its own Inward weakens as from our outward
efforts to suppress IL"

The freckly Dispatch asks, "Arc our Lambeth
friends satisfied with their exchange of Wilkinson for
Reopen ? Are they quite lure of their ground, or of bin
principles? What we his pretensions to the suffrages of
one of the largest of the metropolitan constituencies? Were
his antecedents No superior to those of Isis predecessor?
Had he any political life to appeal to ? Had he proved by
his abilities that he could do good suit and service?
What ability has he shown since? What wo want to
know Is, what pretence had a led fresh front
college to represent a great constituency, and what
moon can Lambeth render to the country for 'such a
choice? It is this caprice, and this miserable want of public
principle that makes the metropolitan electors contemptible
in the eyes of men of sense, and furnishes but too cogent an
argument to the enemies of democracy against the extension
of the franchise. The fact is, notwithstanding all the glom
put upon it, the election wan carried by sheer dint of money ;
sad, we add, that Mr. Roupoll is no more a Radical in prin-
ciple and by sympathy than Mr. Newdegate or Mr. Spooner.
Look at his vote on the Divorce Bill; that will show better
than general professions. what the gentleman really is—Mr.
Roupell voted against the Divorce Bill."
The Economist, commenting upon the state of the
money market in Franco and England, remarks that while
in England there has not for some years been a time when
speculative enterprises premed leis upon the trading means
of the country, ouch is our intimate connexion now with
France, and eepecially in monetary transactions., that the
caunes which produce pressure in the former, necessarily ex-
tend to the latter. Again, the enormous increase of our
legitimate trade in this country, wholly apart from epees-
lative undertakings, hen led to a great absorption of capital.
This increase of trade is telling in two distinct ways. "In
the filet place, the capital required by the home producer Is
much larger than usual, for not only is hie trade in quantity
much larger, but the money value of everything he buys is
much higher, and thus a much greater value in the whole is
locked up during the process of manufacture, and again in
the lengthened credits which in many cases he gives, and espe-
cially in the foreign trade. 2. The larger quantities and
increased prier of our imports, which must be provided a
long time in anticipation of the exports which proceed from
them, increase enormously our foreign payments in advanoe.
No doubt, finally, the exports mast balance the imports.
But as in our case the latter precede in general the Swingle, a
large capital is always embarked in the intermediate period.
It is in this latter way that our imports from India and
Chin► have recently led to such extensive shipments of silver
in order to liquidate not only the direct claims upon this
country on the part of India, but also the indirect claims
which India and China have upon us in respect to credits
establishod in London by Australia and the United Stiles
for imports from India and China, and created by Mk ex-
ports to England. The continued small stocks of almost ell
the chief articlea of foreign produce, and the consequent
high prices, induce to the fair assumption that these come
of scarcity of capital and its high value will Mine
Austria, England, and Turkey are opposed to the
political union of the Principalities under one government ;
France, Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia are in favour of it.
The three Powers object that the union would be injurious
to the Ottoman empire ; the four Powers deny this. " But
of what vales," nays the Imuter," is the Austrian objection?
Has not Austris, under the signature of the Treaty of Paris,
secretly proposed to Ramis a joint occupation of Moldavia
and Wellschia, a challenge in the fain of all Europe, a rup-
ture of the Paris Convention? And did not Russia betray
this proposal to the participating cabinets ? We may sus-
pect the policy of Ittlitia, but it does not follow that we
should confide in Austrian integrity. We believe that the
union of the province, is desired by the inhabitants them-
selves, chiefly upon the ground that it would erect them into
a free and independent state, with a capacity for self-defence,
but connecting itself with the public law of Europe, by ac-
knowledging the modified sovereignty of the Porte. No doubt
the anaemblien elected lot month are hostile to this project ;
but they are the mere mouthpieces of Prince Vogoridee, an
agent of the Porte, who is known to have expressed his con-
tempt for popular suffrages, and to hese said that sa the Em-
peror of the French nominated him candidate. to seats is the
Assembly, and manipulated the elections, he, as Ceimacan,
was justified by precedent and by example. Public opinion,
In tenth, has not been allowed to act, and the returns took
pins amid the protests of the majority ."
"In one point, we mast own," says the John
that the declaration of the 9,000 clergymen sgainat
the Divorce Bill is laid open to the sneers which have been
es plentifully levelled at it by the ministerial journals. It
abstains, and to all appearance advisedly, from boldly avow-
ing the doctrine on which alone the remonstrant@ can rely,
asinsty, that of the absolute indissolubility of marriage.
Unto= goarrisge be indissoluble they can have no pretence
!or saying that the new bill imposes any hardship on their
eminences. Of all the absurdities which have been uttered
an this unhappy subject, the most monstrous is in the mouth
cd those who, granting that the marriage-tie may be dis-
solved, consenting that it shall be dissolved on the grounds
specified by the bill, nevertheless wish to forbid the re-
marriage of ono or both of these parties to an annulled con-
tra•t—to restrain a person thus rendered single from ever
entering into matrimony. We cannot help thinking that
had it not been for the uncertain sound thus given by the
clergy on so important a pint—a point, too, on which the
formularies of the church appear to be so unequivocal in
their exprennion—mtnli of the mischief of this obnoxious
meaouro might hare been cleared away from it

Ilia Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, on
reesi•ing the report that Captain Emery, of the Anglo-
French steamer Napoleon, had saved from drowning the
master and eight seamen of the Finnish vessel Fides,
wrecked near Harwich, and provided them with food, and
brought them to Grimsby, has been graciously please' to
confer on him a gold medal, with the inscription "For
Zeal," to be worn in the button hole, on a Waldimirsld
ribbon. The medal was delivered to Capt. Jobe Emery by
Mr. Frederick liehneing last Friday.—Sall Packet.