The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-01 00:00:00

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LONDutio TUENDAY, OCT. 1.

TO OUR READER&
- •
SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

A !ate edition of the Eepreas is published every
eveumg (luring the racing season, containing the
results of the ram*.

THIS lit of October will be a memorable day
in the history of French industry. It is the day
fixed in the Commercial Treaty for the admission
into France, on the new terms, of "all other
articles" than those few classes for which other
dates have b.•en fixed. This is a day which some
of the EMI,EgoK'S subjects expect to stand in his-
tory as a warning to all other nations and genera-
tions against a rash neglect of Number One,
while others regard it as the opening of a period
of revival and expansion of industry and fortune,
of which future patriots will be proud. We have
gone through the same uncertainties and main-
tained the same opposite expectations ourselves ;
and therefore we are qualified to sympathise with
our neighbours.

We 'lust remember, however, that we have not,
within brim; memory, practically known anything
like the prohibitory system in which the present
generation of Frtuchmen has grown up. Again, the
principle of Five-trade was far more widely
admitted in England before our legislation was

accommodated to it than it is at this moment in
France. N. ibilellitL CIILY•LICS is quite right in
telling M. Duris that the present advance towards
Free-trade is the work of Frenchmen themeless
but it is the work of a very small number*,
well-informed and thoroughly convinced FrINSOII-
- headed by the Eurasos, and opposed by the
life-long prejudices of nearly the whole of society.
Thus it is that this Ist of October is so serious a
day for industrial France ; and thus it is that we
can hardly regard with too much tenderness the
alarms of those who apprehend that Free-trade
SWIMS MM.

We can remember the very tones and glances of
British legislators and local politicians who bade
us prepare to see our farm-houses inhabited by
bats and owls, and our lands overgrown with
jungle and sunk into swamp ; or who implored
that, whatever else was doomed to perish, green
glass bottles might be spared. In the same
way, boys now at play in French towns
and country places may tell hereafter of the
gloom which overhung their homes when news
spread of English manufacturers having appeared,
to buy or sell in the neighbourhood, or when it
could no longer be doubted that French and English
wheat-growers were at liberty to sell in one
auother's markets. British children, now grey-
haired men and women, remember being despe-
rately tired of hearing of the Corn Laws, as a curse
or as a "palladium," before they knew what they
meant; whereas French children have probably
overheard nothing on the subject till the tidings
came of the trade in corn being actually free ; but
both will have heard enough of the panic of their
Protectionist neighbours to have impressed their
minds fur life. The difference between the two ge•
nerations is that the English have seen that the
real evil of the change lies in the time of transition
being protracted, while French desires are still
bent on deferring to the last moment the admis-
sion of foreign commodities to their own markets.

In England, the interval which had been stipu-
lated fur as the last alleviation of the manufac-
turers' case was found, always, and in all direc-
tions, to be such an evil that the cry arose for
hastening the day. It is bad for any manufacture
or trade to be kept in suspense about its pro-
spects ; and thus, the silk manufacturers were as
eager to lsunch themselves boldly into the new
policy as the West India planters became to put
an end to the apprenticeship system, and make
their negroes free, when they had ceased to be
chattel-slaves. From this experience, which is
universal, the French manufacturers whose spiral'
may be low to-day may draw the comfortable
hope that they have seen the worst. While suf-
fering under the late suspense, no small number
of them have become convinced that they can
stand their ground against any foreigner', after
all ; and for these there really seems to
be " a good time cooling." If for
them, there must be for others too.
If they can stand their ground, they have the
prospect of doing much more. They will have the
advantage of the marked improvement in the
commodity itself, and in the economy of pro-
ducing it,which invariably follows on the throwing
open of any branch of industry to competition.
They will have the advantage of the stir in manu-
facture and commerce which the new traffic will
create. More custom, more demand, quicker
returns, more capital, more employment, more
income, markets inure various, an extension of
the purchsaing classes—all this follows of course
on the removal of harriers to trade, unless the in-
dustry hitherto protected is too artificial to de-
an.% eto live. We do not understand this to be
the case with the French manufactures admitted
to-day into the field of competition. It is to
America that we may look for branches of
industry set up at the cost of Ameri-
cana ienerally for the benefit of a ham!.
fill of people who live in an infertile
district, or who desire to make high profits out of
• low quality of iron. It is in America that we
see self-governing men plunging into the grossest
mistakes of darl.er ages, led by a few self-into•
rested Protectionists, and too ill-informed to resist