The Express. — 1847-09-17 (London, England)

DAL- HOLISM'S allusions to the disappointment of his first aspirations after parliamentary honours, well adapted to smooth any asperities that might have been left by a mere party contest. But the whole tenor of the speech was too much after the fashion of a public man with whom the electioneering success of persons is all in all, and the principles they profess too much mere counters for playing with. There were important principles at issue in the contest Lord DALHOUSIE refers to. The ministers under whom he accepts office were regarded as the especial champions of the principles diametrically opposed to those of his supporters. Yet Lord D ILHOUSIE declares that the opinions maintained as sound and true by Lord RAMSAY, the opponent of a whig administration, are in every respect the principles maintained as sound by Lord DALHOUSIE, the official colleague or ally of the same whig ministers. The declaratien is obviously too sweeping and comprehensive. For example, Lord RAMSAY maintained as sound the principle of the corn-law, which Lord DALHOUSIE has helped to destroy. Were it not for this recollection we might have feared that ministers had entrusted the destinies of India to a statesman who entertained very different views of the respective rights and duties of governors and the governed from those which themselves profess and act upon in England. Bat though in express stipulation they annexed no condition to his acceptance of the Indian viceroyalty, we cannot bat think that before offering it to him they had taken care to ascertain that his constitutional was quite as much modified as his commercial toryism. This may appear, to some, hyper-criticism on an after-dinner speech. But whenever delivered, the oration on which we are commenting, is too much tined with the old conventionality of the mere electioneering politician, not to jar with the earnest and practical temper of the time. It would have been a very good speech in that locality where his political friends first made the experiment of his powers of public speaking —the worshipful Canongate Kilwinning lodge—for there the orator is only expected to warm and elevate the audience by rhetorically embellishing a vague sentiment of universal brotherhood amid all discrepancies of opinion. Bat for a real governor, about to set out on an earnest practical mission, it has rather too much of the tone of a nobleman who expects to have his policy tolerated because he is a good fellow, and not of a statesman, who proposes by his policy to command the respect and approbation even of those to whom he is personally distastetsL  We have received our Paris letters and the journals of Wednesday. The government has put forth another of its trimming manifestoes in the Rerue des Deux Moncks, in which it abuses Lord Palmerston, eulogises the Pope, whom the other day it called a firebrand in another of its organs, and endeavours to sail in a middle course between Austria and Italy in the Ferrara question, taking especial care, however, not to say a word which can affect the most delicate susceptibilities of the cabinet of Vienna. Advice' from Algiers to the 10th have brought some further intelligence respecting Abd-el-Kader. The Meniteur Algerien says : The courier from the went has not brought any news of • more unfavourable character as to the situation of Morocco. It is true that the communications between Tau and Onehda appear interrupted, which proves that there still exists a state of disorder and of crisis in that waketwasee country ; but whatever may be the agitatiVe stew Ili a decisive battle between the Emperor and liaises:NU not have been long in reaching our frontier, had any such event taken place. It may, therefore, be supposed that the pogo absence of news is the indication of a anger . Algeria continues to enjoy the most profound ty. In the east, the Cheikh Boa Anima has die with his own simple resources an assemblage excited y the Cherif Muley. Nothing better indicates the progress of our authority, than these repressions exercised by Muuulmans os members of their own religion. A subscription has been opened in the department of the Gard to pay the fine of M. Teste. " This (says the Nallonaf) is the most insolent outrage on public feeling that we have ever had to notice. Everything is done with the utmost solemnity, in the open face of day, and even a triumphal arch has been erected at Bagnols with this inscription :—A Teste, k dims dos Peupk .'" We find in the Echo du Midi further recounts of this matter : " Lists prepared in Paris (loyal that journal), and divided into cantons and communes, arc hawked about by M. Teste's friends, by mayors, and other functionaries. But that is not all : M. Teste himself, from his prison, writes letters to thank the zealous, to animate the lukewarm, and to scold those who hang back. It is truly a pity that the prevaricating ex. Minister has not placed as motto, at the head of each letter, the phrase by which he thought • • to jastify his attempt at suicide:—' Honour wcs al, ways dearer to me than life: " -----  The Madrid mails of the 10th have arrived, bat Domain little matter of general interest. The vacant