The Express. — 1850-08-27 (London, England)

LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27.  Toe man, Loris Pszurre, expired yesterday at Claremont. The king,. Louis PaILIPPI, departed this life some time previous. The latter was a great vest ; the shuffling off the mere man's mortal coil is bat a small one. His friend., however, may make a huge funeral pile of his private virtues, which were most exemplary in the narrow circle of his friends and his dep,ndents. Therein, indeed, he kept • kind of preserve of all the virtues. Bat beyond the domain, beyond the paling which immediately surrounded the vicinity of his household, he allowed few of the.. elites, to stray. And he can, perhaps, be best characterised as a politician, by saying that as each he was the direct contrary of what he was as a pare de jemille. There is no greater proof, perhaps, of the profound anintelligence of our age, than the worship which was paid to him as a politician. Never did Oriental Brahmins build op for their idol a greater or • blinder masa of adoration than the priests of European politics who lead and create opinion in all its capitals, reared up for Loom Pinurre. And yet this great idol of the liberal conservatives, as they call themselves, spent the eighteen years of his reign astride tte great country oa which he Weighed and over which be swayed like a nightmare. Throughout that time not one great or generous idea ever seemed to have germed in his mind. Of domestic policy, beyond the cajolery or bribery of • deputy, he had none. Of the ronditioa, the wants, the economy, the fermenting minds of his people, neither he nor the statesmen who served him knew aught. He and they actually lived and governed over a mese of volcanic matter in fusion and in ebullition, bat covered over with certain layers of social earth, fair and verdant to behold. These worthies were delighted and contented with the appearance of the surface, nor ever thought to sound the depth, to try the temperature, or analyse the elements of the lava below. Their sole anxiety was to stop every aperture, and stick their lois de rigueur in every cranny. By this they merely accelerated the explosion. And amidst the many phenomena of that catastrophe, there was none more portentous than the bursting of that huge bobble, the kingcraft of Louts Pilau-Tr. _ _  The fact is, the very essence and end of government, the development, the foresight, insight, and eontentment of • people's wants, were utterly unknown to the Solomon of London drawing-rooms and Parisian saloons. He believed, with several other gnat men by the by, that policy meant diplomacy, and nothing more. As much a legitimist at heart as CHARLES the SECOND was a Roman catholic, Louts PHILIPPE felt convinced that he bad filched a throne, and how to keep his balance there was his sole object. Of the soil beneath him he knew little, es we said, and cared lees. But of the Powers around him is Europe he wss fully cognisant, knew their weaknesses and their strength, their prejudices, their follies, and their magnanimity, where it existed. Amongst these be played, making use of Englai.d in the first years of his reign, as the only government that could aid and favour his parrenu and intent kingdom. As by degrees, however, he gained strength, years of possession and prestige, then he lung off the English crutch on which he leaned, and which had actually served him as an instrument to subjugate Europe north and south of him, Belgium and Spain, to his wilL Thus armed with the very power which we had provided for him, he flung himself into the alliance of the absolutist powers, and was emboldened by his friendship with them to play England and Spain, and his own relative, the young Queen of STAIN, one of the filthiest and basest tricks that ever disgraced man or politician. England's disgust was great, but of course inoperative. But that of France was equally great, if not against the act, at least against him who perpetrated it. And never was the power of retributive justice shown more signally and awfully than in the ruin of all concerned in the Spaniels marriage from the suicide of their negotiator BREssole to the dethronement and expulsion of