The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-11 00:00:00

RECOND-HAND PIANOFORTES.
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greatly Mum. yilem-011. nuperLiszwes.

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LONDON, PRIDAT. JAV 11.

Is the political calender January is the month
of mystification.. Rumour at this season touches
the confines of fable, and surrounding realities
fade into a fog-bank of coming events. Tele-
graphic agencies engage in a fierce rivalry of in-
vention, rhapudirc as often as they have nothing
to recount, and quit the narrow boundaries of fact
for the airy realms of what our neighbours call
"eventualities." The period of Pantomimes and
Christmas Trees, and Twelfth-night characters,
and Ghost stories round the fire, is celebrated in
this fashion by the Continental tribe of !Jobe-
wiewiv.., which has its :affiliated members in our
own island. This annual fit of furious credulity,
with its extravagant supply of ready-made delu-
sions, is not without excuse. It is the childhood
of the year, and must be fed with children's fond.
The opening of the Parliamentary session is the
hot youth, with its exuberance of wild oats.
But a month or so before the meeting of the prin.
cit al European legislatures the universal love of
the marvellous rises to a paroxylon of apprehenaiosi,
and not only every club, but almost every house,
in the country insists on a shock or a surprise at
lead once or twice a week.

It must Le confessed, however, that in the be-
fIUTM of 11461 the political sky is dark enough
for the boldest imagination ; never had the augurs
&richer opportunity for a tearing trade. There is
not a speck of blue sky in the world's horizon ; we
are wrapt in cloud.' from cast to west, and from
num to south, and from every point of
the compose bad weather is brewing. All
ilte great " " are developing and
expanding to ominous din:tuitions on either sloe
of the Atlantic. In Europe, the "settlement
1815 is a chaos out of which what nrw order shall
arise Everyb,kly declares that the present year
is to do a gnat stroke of history ; but at what or
at whose cacti Th.:, too. :dc the Ineation. Italy

is preparing to take the last—the most difficult, the
decisive step towards the fulfilment of her immortal
dream of independence and unity. Fighting, arming,
agitating at once ; with the enemy in her midst and
at her gates, she is about to pass through the fire of
such a domestic struggle as it seems to the British
mind an abuse of language to describe simply as
a "contested election." In this steady old land of
ours a contested election, even in the most revolu-
tionary borough, is an affair of so much beer, so
many broken heads, and so many bank-
notes on one side or the other. In
the new land of Italy a contested election is
an ordeal the issues of which are life and death.
Every sound heart and head in Italy knows
well that this election must be a supreme trial of
patriotic constancy, prudence, and perseverance.
GARIBALDI has, with characteristic simplicity and
straightforwardness, disappointed the factious
intrigues of rash and unscrupulous revolu-
tionists who were conspiring under the cloak of
his name, by the declaration that he is not a can-
didate for • seat in the new Parliament, and that
his watchword is—union the pledge of unity. It
is difficult for disinterested friends of Italy at a
distance to conceive the folly of men who
call themselves patriots pretending in such
a crisis to make the elections to the National
Parliament tarn on a point of personal liking or
antipathy. These men talk of a Cavourian or
anti-Cavourian policy, but they forbear to name •
substitute for CAVOI'R, or to specify the policy
that is not to be CAV,.(-K's. We who stand afar
off can see plainly enough that it is to the cool
head of the great statesman at Turin (whose life
is itself a destiny for his country), not less
than to the fiery heart of the great soldier at
Caprera, that Italy must owe her final and com-
plete emancipation. We know no " anti-Cavourian"
policy which could have even driven Austria
out of Lombardy ; or rather which would not have
made the last state of the Peninsula worse than
the first. The task of the statesman is often
an invidious and ungrateful one even in
times of peaceful progress and prosperity,
and in countries where independence and
freedom are immemorially secure. How
much nmre thankless and invidious in a country
like the Italy of to-day, in which nothing is cer-
tain but the uncertainty of to-morrow. It is no
easy matter for the highest stateamauship, even in
old and settled governments, to be at once
popular and prudent. For Count eAVOllit, at
this moment, it is an absolute impossibility.
Nothing but the rarest combination of timely
audacity and constant caution, patient sup-
pleness and watchful firmness, could have guided
the vexed fortunes of the Peninsula thus far. It
will tax all the " icebrook temper" of an inflexi-
ble will, inspired by all the fiery passion of a
secret faith, to accomplish what remains of an
enterprise at which the boldest expectation holds
its breadth. Brilliant daring in the field is crowned
with glory, though it he by death. Silent and
persistent daring in the Cabinet brings no reward
but misrepresentation to the living, and tardy
acknowledgment to the dead. The states-
man's daring must often consist, not so
much in renouncing public applause, as
in actually courting public injustice, and
this because its claims upon the justice of
history were a politic submission to exigencies and
sometimes a strategy of retreats. It is remark-
ably easy to be generous at another's expense ; it
is scarcely less easy to condemn expedients and
compromises of which neither the necessity nor
the object is our own. The sacrifices which
Count CAVOUR has been obliged to suffer for the
sake of the one great passion of his public life,
are not, we may be sure, counted by him among
the felicities or the triumphs of his career. But
ea acts of policy they are to be judged by their
results. The planter of the tree is forgotten ; but
the spreading branches and the ripening fruit are
the delight of generations.
The siege of Gaeta has thrown • light on much
that was obscure in the difficulties that surround
the immediate future of Italy. We do not say
that it has lightened that darkness, but that it has
made the darkness visible. The position of Count
Cavotia's government can only be estimated by
those who take into account the imperious bene-
factors as well as the declared enemies with whom
it has to desk Professional revolutionists, of
course, are neither daunted nor arrested in their
ideal march of triumph by the armies or the
diplomacy of Great Powers. But the professional
revolutionists have never yet succeeded in blowing
dowu walls by the sound of • trumpet. If it
could be definitively asoestained that the most
active and powerful of the benefactors of Italy was
as anxious to complete the independence of the
Peninsula as he was • week ago to protract the
civil war in the Neapolitan States ; if it
could be proved that he desired to see
Italy released from his overpowering beneficence,
the place of Count Cavoua might be filled by any
loud voiced improvisator° or mystical charlatan
as long as • GARIBALDI remained to do the sterner
work. But ideal benefactors do not hail from the
Tuderiee, and we recommend the electors through-
out Italy to remember Gaeta and Rome when
they rush to the ballot-boxes in the name of
Venetia as the enemies of Csvooa.

ME COADEN, 47D HIS WSST RIDINO
FRIENDS.

Yesterday morning a meeting of the banquet
committee woe held at the of of the Secretory of the
Bradford Chamber of Commerce, in Bradford ; H7W.
Rirt.rv, EN.. in the chair. In addition to the gentlem4o
from Bradford and the neighbourhood. were present depu•
Leta., from Huddersfield sad Batley, and a letter was
read from the President of the Leah Chamber of Com•
rumor, expressive of the come , and co-operation of
Leeds. A COMMUOICSUCIII from Mr. Cobden. M.P., dated
Algiers, Jan. 1, and addressed to Mr. Ripley, WY read. It
stated that Mr. Cobileci felt highly honoured by the very
flattering revisition which had been forwarded to him
to attend a banquet or peirir at Bradford; sad that at
any ordinary moment an iavitatiou so numerously and
ineuentially signed. could have only received from him a
prompt and grateful acceptance. He was obliged. however,
under present circumstances, to ask the forbearunce of ha
(needs, owing to his having a slight bronchial affection.
He would be glad, therefore, if his Yorkshire friends would
permit bins most gratefully to appropriate to himself the
ur of their proffered hospitality to bins without at the
present moment fixing the time when he could hope
hr the pleasure of meeting them in permit ; and the
committee resolved that, imam& as Mr. Cchtlea will not
be in England before the ressdas of parliament, and that
lb, propoed banquet or situ* to him and to the Right Hoe.
W. Z. Gladstone, and the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, can-
not, therefore, be given at that time, Mr. Ripley he re-
quested to writo to 31r. Gladstone 111)4i Mr. Gibson, asking
them to allow the deputation to wait upon them in London
a. soon as possible after the meeting of gerhainent.

THE BALLOT SOCIETY.—The ordinary weekly
meeting of the eseentire committee was held on Tuesday at
the once, 5, Guildhall-climbers, Mr. Syttenham Nodes in
the chair. Mr. Whitehurst, Mr. Elt, Mr. Mark E. Marsden.
Mr. Bootetne, Be.. W. If. Bonner, Mr. Man, k.c., were
pewit. It mse determined to hold & •of the Moods
of the ballot at the London Coffee House, Ludgate-hill, on
the . ',ening of the fart Wednesday in March. A report
wee read from the secretary at Manchester re.pectin the
woven* a conference of the Lancaoltire member oat the
society in Manchester during the present month. This cub-
ject was adjourned for Anal deci.ins to the nest sitting.
The measures to be taken is reference to the coming elec-
tions for Leissder and South Wilts wen es° sosaidered.
Tic Hnv. H. J. Poonz's Case.—The came of
this gentleman, whom. license as carte St. Pears,
liCnightslwidge. was Is.tbdrawn by the Bishop • London, is
to non e before the Archbisbcp of Costelbtry on appeal
next =oath at lamborth

REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL
ICEPENDITURE.

The following communication to the Premier ix
being circulated for eignatare antoopt liberal members of
the House of Commons :

" TO TILE RD.HT HON. VISCOUNT PALVIRSTON, FIRST LORD

OE THE TRUISM.

"Ily Lord, —Wo feel it our duty, as member. of the
liberal party iu the House of Commons, who have generally
supported your government, respectfully to express to you
the anxious concern with which we view the present state
of the public expenditure, and to request for the subject
the very seriolui oondileration of the government in pre-
paring the estimates for the next session.

" We cannot but hope that the enormous expenditure of
the current financial year was turned upon the government
against their will by on unhappy combination of circum-
stances. Its amount, however, was so far beyond what has
ever been known when the country was nut engaged in a
Europese war, that a great reepon.ibility will rest on the
government and the House of Commons if it should not be
materially reduced at the earliest opportunity.
" The foreign relations of the country at the close of the
year are such as to encourage a reasonable confidence in the
maintenance of peace. The war with China is at an end.
The Italian revolutions appear to be issuing in the establish-
ment of the constitutional rule of Victor Emmanuel over
the Peninsula, whilst the neutrality which has been ob-
served by England is acknowledged both at home sad
abroad to have been the policy of wisdom. Above all,
our relations with France have become decidedly amicable,
having obtained the guarantee of a Commercial Treaty
favourable to the interests of both countries, and being
made still more friendly by the abolition, on the part of the
Emperor, of the purport system in France, especially on
behalf of the subjects of her Majesty.
" I' oder these circumstances the country will naturally
expect a con.iderable reduction of our warlike establish-
ment. from the extraonlinary scale of the present year.
" We would also invite attention to the civil ►nd miscel-
laneous expenditure of the country, which has for many
years been in course of rapid and extraordinary iecrease,
until it has reached au amount which loudly demands
revision and retrenchment.

" We are convinced that retrenchment will prove the
truest policy of the government as the only method of
meeting the financial exigencies of the state, satisfying
the expectations of parliament, conciliating the good
opinion of the commercial and monied interests, allaying
the dissatisfaction of the taxpayers, and preventing the
loud outcry which would inevitably arise in case of another
unfavourable harvest or any check to the public prosperity.
" We are compelled to say that we should view au ex-
penditure for the coming year approaching that of the
current year with great regret and disapprobation ; and we
believe that that would be the feelings of our constituents
and of the country at large.

" We have therefore thought it right to offer these sug-
gestione in a friendly spirit to your lordship, and we trust
they niay not be thought unworthy to receive the serious
consideration of the government.—We are, my lord, your
lordship's most obedient servante."
Amongst the signatures already obtained are those of Sir
Jame, Duke, Mr. R. W. Crawford, Mr. Baines, Mr. Bris-
tow, Mr. Burton, Mr. Crossley, Mr. Ewing, Mr. S. Gurney,
Mr. R. Banbury, Mr. Mellor, Mr. Pilkingtou, Sir J.
Shelley, Colonel Sykes, and Mr. J.. 1. Turner.