The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1857.

having eared England fICIM alleampacitrwith these
miserable and wicked preamilagu at Canton I we
congratulate the House for hawing shown, in the me-
morable language of Mr. GLaSsetosr, "That as it is
the first, the most ancient, sad the noblest temple of
freedom in the world, so it is also the temple of that
eterlasting justice, without which freedom itself
would be ally a name or only a curse to mankind."
BIM die height of consideratiane like these—
hem the satisfaction we as Englishmen feel on behalf
lagisad, in knowing that our national honour is
ads hem the stain of approving injustice and ratify-
ing wrong—it requires some effort to descend into
the turbid and troubled atmosphere of passion and
suspicion which is now darkening over the clubs and
the coteries. In the petty strife of crimination and
recrimination--in the angry wrangle of the mere
retainers of party wa do not feel that we arc cad
upon to mingle. Imputations of all kinds Ma at
course flying about on all sides in noisome abundant.
It is easy to make disparaging charges. It is 111
Inkiness of ours to disprove them. We regtni the
late vote as substantially the victory of truth sad
right, and we are too well content with the result to ,
analyse over curiously the motives of all those by
whom it was brought about. One remark it is only I
fair to make. The imputation of factious motive
tells on both sides, unless, indeed, all is faction which
votes with an Opposition, and all pure patriotism
which votes with a Ministry. With regard to one
portion, indeed, of the Ministerial minority there can
be no doubt. Halrettetts emtfttentes rest. The
KENDALL-BENTINCK deserters have plainly avowed
that they voted is favour of the bombardment
of Canton because Lord PALMERSTON has lately
raised to the bench none but Low Church Bishops.
The connexion between the premises and the
conclusion seems somewhat of the loosest. We have
pure Christianity at Carlisle, therefore let us he,.
no Christianity at Canton. CLOSE is a Dam sad
BICKERSTETH a Biehop--therefore, in the name et
all that is swegriseL let the bombardment end
bloodshed dale peaseftd BOWRINO go an mew
lasted. We de Belay that these pollutant wage se-
tasted by MOMmeow, for we bas me wish to
excite blaming, sea drib sa isearion hire this;
but we do seri it Mee etlerle bunts such motives
to them thaw M tier 1111 swim re the Liberal
party who, bun or ribs dirserwabb reason than
mere force of essredadims voted aiiiinst the Mi-
nistry.
There is only am point of view in which we can
regard this decision with regret. As sincere friends
of the Liberal party, we regret that, in order to
stnle home at a great wrong, it was necessary to
risk dissension in the Liberal ranks. The fault
is not ours. As an independent portion of the
free press of England, our first allegiance was
to the cause which in our conscientious con-
viction the honour and the interests of this
country made it our imperative duty to support.
The fault was that of the Ministry, who, in the first
instance, omitted to reprove, and afterwards obsti-
nately refused to repudiate, the unjustifiable conduct
of their subordinates in the F.ut. It still remains
for the Ministry to take their own course in the cir-
cumstances in which they arc now placed. For our
own parts we consider the vote which has just been
given not necessarily so much a vote of cen-
sure as a vote of monition. It is a declaration on
the part of an important section of the Liberals that
they cannot even connive eta policy which is disap-
proved of by many of those who voted with Lord
PALMERSTON, and by not a few Liberals who kept
away from the division. An English minister may,
without shame or blame, give way to such a
remonstrance from his supporters, for he is their
colleague, not their dictator. An English party are
the reasoning followers, not the blind and servile
devotees, of their leaders. Party leaders in England
are bound to respect, not to do violence to, the honest
convictions of their supporters. The policy of
domineering violence in China must be abandoned;
and the best service that can be rendered to Lard
PALMERSTON by those Liberals who, disapproving
of such a policy, have placed themselves in a false
position in order to break his fall, is to impress
upon him the necessity of his yielding—and the
possibility of his yielding with honour—upon this
point.

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