The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 17.

IF we may believe the statements in a private
letter from Paris, of which an extract appears in
another column of this day's issue, the honour of
England is in imminent danger of being gravely
compromised. We are told that in the event of the
Court of Maize pronouncing M. LEDILV ROLLIN
guilty in absence, an application will be made to the
English Government to have him apprehended and
surrendered. Nay more : we are told that Lord
COW LET has already expressed the opinion that if a
conviction against M. 'AMIE ROLLIN is obtained,
that gentleman will be brought within the
provisions of the extradition treaty. We will not
do Lord COWLET the injustice to believe, on the un-
supported assertion of Imperial diplomatists, that he
has been capable of giving utterance to so base a
sentiment. No English Police Magistrate would
have dreamed of committing M. LEDRO Rou.tx, or
suss sonswilng him for further inquiry, upon such
we sad we ekes evidence es has been adduced
seise him. No Englishman, worthy of the name,
win hmour the arbitrary proceedings against M.
LIDRII ROLLIN with the name of "a
There is no intervention of a jury I times
lis we sifting of evidence, no cross-examinees') of
witnesses. Any sentence pronounced upon IL
Limit ROLLIN, after such iniquitous, farcical pro-
ceedings, will be as worthless as the nailing of the
names of Hungarian patriots to Austrian gibbets.
The one no more establishes a claim to the extra-
dition of the victim than the other. There is net
a man of common sense in England who believes that
N. Lwow ROLLIN had anything to do with the late
pint M Illnesinate the Emperor of the FRENCH. And
Am is sat a wen in England who has watched the
wpm of swine in France since 1.832, who is
not awn. that M. LEONE' RoLLlN—for what
seams we know not—is the greatest bugbear
of the Imperialist faction of all the exiles. M.
ORANIER DE CASSAGNAC has denounced him ; Dr.
VERON has libelled not only him but his wife; and
now it is palpable to sense that the late trial has
been got up simply and solely for the purpose of
making out a sham case against M. Lenne ROLLIN.
The attempt has signally failed; and we cannot
imagine that an English Cabinet can be so far lost
to a sense of what is due to English honour as
basely to sacrifice an exile, who has done nothing to
forfeit his right of asylum, to the conscience-
inspired fears of a despotic government. Even
though the title of the Emperor of the
FRENCLI to his crown were as clear and legi-
timate as that of oar own QUEEN to hers—even

though, like her, he were throned in the breast of
his subjects—it would be cowardly and degrading to
, seek to conciliate him by the sacrifice of a man who
has as good a right to feel himself safe in Britain as
any man who breathes the air within its confines.
And be it kept in mind that England observes the
forms of civility to the Estrum's because it Mi-
-1 neatly desires the French Alliance, not tolerates the
French Alliance on account of any extraordinary
love it beers the EMPEROR. Englishmen esteem and
love the gallant and accomplished people of France,
sad for this reason they treat respectfully the man
who is for the time the Chief Magistrate of France.

But were the throne of LOUIS NAPOLEON to be
overturned to-morrow it would no more affect the
alliance of the two nations than would the breaking
up of the PALMERSTON Ministry. The friendship of
France and England would be of brief duration if it
depended on the ephemeral dynasty of the Sovereign
of the Coup d'Elat. It would be as foolish as cri-
minal to purchase the friendship of the Emperor of
the Pantegn by the sacrifice of the hereditary free
policy of England. There is not at this moment a
more popular Sovereign than the Queen of ENG-
LAND; but we would not insure the continuance of that
popularity for a day, if secret conclaves at Osborne
were to be followed by such a degradation of Eng-
land as Parisian diplomatists profess to expect.

IT will prove most gratifying, and at the Name
time most trattqaillising, to the Christians under
Turkish sway, and especially to thaw of the Danu-
bian Provinces, to find the British Parliament so

fully alive to tteir complaints, their rights, and their
welfare. They moat now see that if the leading
non in the British Parliament observed too long
an miaow dines with respect to their affairs,
this did set premed from indifference, but from a
trust of Warman& However perseveringly we
ourselves called attention to the "deride of the
Oreverners appointed by Turkey, and to the impolicy
sad disgrace of England's abetting such a system of
government, some evidence more precise and docu-
mentary was required to warrant a Member of Par-
Hameln la rides to demstoce them. The evidence
collected by a Committee of the most eminent and
noble Moldavian', and presented by them to the
Corareissiosers at Bucharest, having been printed
in a small velem, enabled Mr. 61.1DSTONE to point
out a fewof theme, gram instances of violence. The
French Consul at laseyplaced irrefragable testimony
to the same effect before the Emeettos... If the Eng-
lish Government is without information of the same