The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-24 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 24.

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A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will
be published on SATURDAYS as usual, during the
Parliamentary mem

SINCE theepochof the Reform Bill, although many
important victories have been won for the Liberal
cause, it cannot be denied that the Whip, and even
the greet Liberal party of which they were the
centre, have been gradually losing ground
in the country. Internal dissensions have
led to desertions ; public confidence has been shaken ;
adroit concessions by the more liberal Conservatives
have conciliated supporters. Between us and Sir
AMU GRAHAM any feeling of cordiality is im-
possible. Even though we could forget and forgive
the secession of "the Derby dilly," the nn-English
practice of tampering with letters confided to the
Post-office, and the deaths of the BANDIERE, have
opened an impassable gulf between us. Still we arc
not blind to Sir JAMEA'S energy and abilities, and
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acknowledge his sagacity and political experi-
e. We believe that he gave utterance to an
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important truth when he declared at Carlisle
that the Whig or Liberal party was broken
up, sad most retreat behind the hill and
re-form, like the soldiers at Inkermann. The
present is the day and the hour of PALMERSTON and
the time-eervers. But the old Whig party and the
old party of the advanced Liberals have each a
nucleus left. Even together they will probably eon-
titute only a minority in the new Parliament, but
they will constitute a minority which will be able
to hold the inhume among the innumerable cliques
and coteries into which the majority will be broken
up. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Sir FRANCIS BARING,
and Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR, with their friends,
may become the rallying point of the resuscitated
Whigs. The representatives of Leeds, Manchester,
and Birmingham, with Colonel THOMPSON, Mr. COB-
DEN, Mr. Fox, Mr. MIALL, and others, may become
the rallying point of the advanced Liberals. By mu-
tual concessions, by frank and cordial interchange of
opinions, and cordial co-operation whenever it is
possible, these two sections of the great Liberal party
can wally make themselves an important element
even in a PALMERSTON House of Commons. If they
feellieteasly lay hold of the ameliorations upon the
dlaimstent of which the public is most earnetly
beg, and advocate them energetically, consistently,
insismatly, they will gain the public support, end
Mier vacillating, opinionlem members of Paella-
feet will swim with the current, and follow in the
tithe elf the public.
This b the way in which the Liberal party
in Parliament is to re-form behind the hill. It
L scarcely necessary to waste time in showing how
essential to the ensuring of the success of such a
movement is the presence of Lord JOHN RUSSELL in
'arliament. Even those who arc most prone to dilate

on the realer imagiaary weaknesses of the noble lord,
la can and Lana by rote his alleged irritability and
jeans swortisa of his right to take the lead, are
obliged to miles that he is a man of accomplished
intellect, mad who acts upon principle. He has also,
by his life-long services, attained to a position in the
public eye. lie is the very man needed for the re-
construction of a party which can only be cemented
by the zealous advocacy of enlightened principles.
With his combined advantages of cultivated intel-
lect and social position he may be at once to the
third Avatar of the Whig party what BURKE was to
the first and Lord HOLLAND to the second. He
may become the Nzrroa under whose guidance oar
000E11008, BTAIILETS. and ELTOKS may train
themselves foe administrative service. Our place is
in the ranks of the advanced Liberals, but neverthe-
less we see that in the present social condition of
England a Whig party, such as we have attempted
to indicate, is indispensable.

Is the inaugural address of President BUCHANAN
the recent agitation arising oat of slavery is passed
over lightly by means of an assumption that in obe-
dience to the principle of the constitution, the ma-
jority of the people bare declared their will by
electing him, and in consequence " the tempest at
once subsided, and all was calm." When the people
look round for this" calm," theysee strange igsseseles.
In the South the practice is extending of kmaishing
clergymen who make prayers and sermons other-
wise than by the Southern pattern ; of bertishlng
booksellers who sell the commonest English daisies
prior to expurgation ; of banishing educators who
come from the North—and now the pallirs, who me

as necessary in the plantation districts as moss
the mountain regions of our own and other mum-

tries. " Why," asks the London Times, " fear the
distribution of printed matter when the slams am
not read ?" The answer is, that the precaution is
taken against the ,poor whites, who are in a restless
Coalition, sad would bresk up the system at onee if
informed of other states of society, and incited to
.uas their right of suffrage. Thus watchful over

their poore; neighbours, suspicious of inwurreetion
!among their slaves, cut off from literature, from
Dwane of education, and in perpetual fear of the