The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-16 00:00:00

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The House of Cosimosa, as it now stands, 6, the Deily
Now thinks, fairly representative of the country. The
beginning of a gradual change is visible in its composi-
lion. The direct representation of the aristooreey within
its walls is appreciably, if slightly, reduced; other alarm
have gained • corresponding proportion of power. If
pure thought and high culture, and the direct interest of
the working classes, are too sparsely represented, it 6 Im-
mure pure thought and high culture have act yet entered
into alliance, es close as might be desired, with mason
sense, and because the working clams have not had time
to sift men truly representative from the herd al pre-
tenders who on their own prompting have robed to the
boat. The parliament of INS mewl avoid judgment ;
bat it may fairly protest against being prejudged.

TIM x• 01 VlOlll TO MOWN.

77e Einsid has so doubt that lbw Illajestrs mideleee
ocaselted the best 'Mb:cities epos the law of p•rliaarsat
bake* MAIM( bar ltalesty to deliver the masegeaddremed
to perlisoa•t yesterday, but it is certainly carious that
the reformed partisment should have base Mewed is •
high prerogative toss, to which so parliament tor many
pen bas been Gelled epos to Wes, sad that for the
emporia besets at this new sad dementia amiably the
practice of a reoomsend•tioa, or, maw ocommad, boa
the Crown to adjourn, which bad fallen into s well•
deserved desuetude, should have been revived.

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The Trkgroyut admits that the resolution parsed by the
Boum of Ilepremntatires against " all forms of repudia-
tion," is an sot of homage to European no lea than
American opinion, and may help to rumor* thous holders
of United States Bonds who feared the logical issue of the
utterances which were made last autumn, in opposito
camps, by Mr. Pendleton and the valorous Butler. At
the moo time the Tekyreph remarks that, whatever its
moral inflame as a protest, the wording of the 'violation
by no means excludes the possibility of greenback redemp-
tion, should Ociagrem see fit to proposo that mode of paying
off the Fire-Twentice.

CIIIATUAIL.

Without entering into the mints of the Cretan insur-
rection, it is apparent, the Post says, that if the power-
ful states of Christendom saw no just cause for inter-
ference, it certainly was not the duty of a state like
Greece—which, so to speak, only exists on sufferance—to
undertake the championship of the disaffected
Candiotes. If Greece had been compelled to
rely upon herself, and on such alliances as
her respect for international obligations might justify
her in the expectation that she could readily form, Europe
would have heard nothing of this difference between the
Turkish and Hellenic governments, and the Sultan would
have been enabled long since to re-establish satisfactory
relations with his subject. in Crete. This being so the
policy of maintaining such a protectorate as at present
exists becomes a very open question. If Greece would
continue to retain her autonomy she must manifest that
respect for the rights of her neighbour which is dictated
by the fundamental principles of international law.
The liter insists that it is the duty of Great Britain to
treat both Turkey and Greece precisely as she would the
most powerful empires, and to guard herself from dicta-
ting to either as much as she would from interfering
with the domestic concerns of France or the interior ad-
ministration of Russia. The Star calls for the papers
which will show what the attitude of this country has
been and is likely to be for the future.