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LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1850.

While the Old World is still convulsed with the
struggles of expiring Feudalism, a voice from the
New World proclaims with calm triumphant accents
the beneficent and pacific nature of Democratic insti-
tutions. The dawning of the nineteenth century saw
the American Republic yet in its infancy, and nowt
at the close of fifty years, it holds a foremost place in
the ranks of nations. The PRESIDENT'S Message,
dated December, 1849, is of a singularly satisfactory
character, and many paragraphs of it will be perused
with delight by the inhabitants of this country.
Not so much because they speak the same language
but because they enjoy the same inherent love o,
liberty as ourselves, the people of England feel a deep
and peculiar sympathy with the men of America
(albeit we occasionally find cause to lament their
treachery to the cause of universal freedom). The
present Message holds out an example worthy of general
imitation on the part of legislators. It proclaims in
unmistakeable accents a spirit of peace, a love of
liberty, and an anxiety to improve and promote by
every possible means the welfare cf the people. In
the part which has reference to foreign nations we
find the following observations, which will be cor-
dially welcomed by the Liberals of Europe :
" During the late conflict between Austria and Hun-
gary, there seemed to be a prospect that the latter might
become an independent nation. However faint that
prospect at the time appeared, I thought it my duty, in
accordance with the general sentiment of the American
people, who deeply sympathised with the Magyar pa-
triots. to stand prepared, upon the contingency of the
rstablishment by her of a permanent Government, to be
the
.firat to welcome independent Hungary into the family
of nations. For this purpose I invested au agent, then
in Europe, with power to declare our willingness
promptly to recognise her independence, in the event of
her ability to sustain it. The powerful intervention of
Russia in the contest extinguished the hopes of the
struggling Magyars. The United States did not at any
time interfere in the contest; but the feelings of the na
Lion were strongly enlisted in the cause, and by the suf
ferings of a brave people who had made a gallant though
unsuccessful effort to be free."

The time is not far distant, we may be assured,
when the noble ambition of the American PRESIDENT
will be realised, and " independent Hungary will be
welcomed into the family of nations."
Among the subjects of more immediate American
interest, reference is made to the projected canal to
join the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific. With
regard to this undertaking the PRESIDENT suggests
that such a course of communication for the benefit
of all nations should not be under the command
of any individual state. No single power
he says should be in a position to interfere with the
commerce of the world, or " obstruct a highway which
ought to be dedicated to the common uses of hu-
manity." It is anticipated by the PRESIDENT that

CAlifornia will seek to be admitted into the ranks of
the Union. The reduced system of postage having
been found successful, a still further reduction is
hinted at—reducing ail single letters to the
uniform rate of five cents. In order to
develope the agricultural resources, and assist
the agriculturists of the country, the PRESI-
DENT suggests the establishment of an Agricultural
Bureau to be connected with the Department of the
Interior. As regards the wisdom of protecting
native industry by increased import duties, we can-
not agree with the PRESIDENT'S Message, for so we
interpret his recommendation to Congress on that

subject.
These are among the more generally important
subjects touched upon in the Message, but the whole
article is, especially at the present moment, full of
interest. At the conclusion theynnsmertr pledges
himself never to employ his constitutional power of
veto save only in such cases as are especially designed
by the Constitution. The following paragraph is
worthy of consideration in other places besides
Amer ca :
" As indispensable to the preservation of our system
of government, th(lndependence of the I.( presentat,v a
of the States, and the people is guaranteed by the Con-
stitution ; and they owe no responsibility to any human
power but their constituents. By holding the represen-
to the
soibthleeroinnlyfluenees, we elevate the character
people, and exempting
tt ah teimv e sf
rroems responsible only to the people, and exempting
them from all
of the constituent and quicken his sense of responsi-
bility to his country. It is under these circumstance s
only that the elector can feel that, in the choice of the
law maker, he is himself, truly, a component part of the
sovereign power of the nation."
A. pure representative Government is the most
theoretically reasonable and the most practically effi-
cacious. To reduce the representative system to its
constitutional purity is a work no less necessary and
desirable in England than in America. The Message
concludes with a grateful encomium upon the
Republic, which has " stood unshaken for more than
ha
century,
during which kingdoms and empires
It has stood because truth and justice
and it will stand so long as those
virtues4:,n
areiet
s.,basis,,
visible in its proceedings.
Commerce and civilization have already realised
the noble thought of the poet. The seas now
serve to join the nations they divide,
the prosperity of one free people is no
longer an object of envy to another. On the
contrary, experience has taught us that the good of
one is the good of all. Hence the Message of
the American PRESIDENT is a subject of immediate
interest here, and happily, in the present instance, its
contents are a subject of satisfaction.

Mr. COBDEN is a bold man. He has dared to
" Beard the lion in his den,
The Douglas in his hall."
chosen
'setrnavrelilira
led.lnnttoatißveu:kbiy many degrees the mostngharashire, and invited its
brilliant and effective champion of Protection, to
meet him in his own county town. That invitation,
however, was not accepted. The " swarry" was un-
visited by Mr. DISRAELI, and consequently the
" Cock of the North " was enabled ----to
crow with impunity, undisturbed by the an-
swering defiance of a rival Chanticleer. He felt,
however, that he was standing on delicate ground in
an enemy's country, and,
consequently, was more
guarded in his language and temperate in his ex-
pression, than when addressing his brother manufac-
turers, in the heart of his own Riding. He did not
indulge in an unseemly triumph, or exhibit that
vaunting arrogance, and overweening self-con-
ceit for which his speech at Leeds was
so painfully conspicuous, and which exas-
perated. his opponents, and saddened his friends,
but entered temperately and calmly into an
examination of the question of "protection," and
showed hoW totally opposed it was to the best inte-
rests of the nation. He no longer appeared to con-
sider himself an autocrat, announcing his sovereign
will and pleasure to hordes of obedient serfs, but a
plain sensible man, addressing his fellow-subjects
on matters of the deepest importance to their
common interests. Neither was he babbling about
a universal disarmament, of the lion lying down side
by side with the lamb, or of the CZAR submitting
the vaong-•, an] gri• va f •
Red Emperor the injuries of afflicted Hungary, to
the arbitration of a peace, congress. He was speak- I

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