The Express. — London, England, 1852-03-02 00:00:00

glie erortoo. • mama seem ;i;• 8••• maim.* " Oesele" patikelied every Taseisy end retry ia hoe ler pd. atheethemeestehiendeil tat The Egress," Urals ZisN.s paw, art he et the Mu. 10. eseverie.eireet. Tye tide& ea the der a pehiltedes. 1111011 WATNR AT LONDON BILTDON. Too Wt—VOning. 14....--Alliseurs, HI. 4m. Toamoonr—lisiabo, Ilk. u. ...........u....4 131. LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCIE 2. Tits journals of the Elyse* profess to be in the realest exultation because the new Minister of "nation AFFAIR* in England had visited the psi saner of Ham. We marvel very much that the Haitian of LONDONDERRY has not got a place. If he had, how it would have stirred the hopes of the labylimi of Algeria. the Marquis having visited AIID-11.-K ADES at Ambuise, and chivalrously inter- Ilind with the French government on the Arab elders behalL We marvel much at men who, like 11011 t rulers of France, have shown sagacity at if nimseempanied with higher qualities , relying. Mr to rely, upon the personal character ba c , ce Isininga of this or that English minister. Lot: is 314Fenatat may depend upon it, that whoever hap pin libe installed in Downing street, there is one sad the IMO policy imposed upon all, with reference to a milled so well known and cared for as British rebid's, with France. No minister in this country could form a close and cordial alliance with a prince who has sacrificed his country's liberties, and built his power on the unstable foundation of military no quimeence. And no minister in this country would be tolerated on vnintonly quarrelling with a prince on this account, especially whilst his own country submitted to his assumption and his rule. A cold neutrality is all that can be had from England, and that neutra lity accompanied in every sensible man's mind by an utter mistrust of any such government's enduring. In fact, Loris NAPOLEON s rule and Lord MALYLS MAT'S ministry are very much in the same predicament. Lab have got where they are by walking on the shoulders of liberal" parties who disagreed and fought. The only . security for Lot is N.trotrox is the uncertainty and dread of what might come after him. Lord Matamisnunce chief is minister by the some tenure, uncertainty and ignorance of what might follow his dism:wal. The great majority of English politicians and English men see with disgust and alarm a peaty in power, which indeed cannot legislate much to the detriment of the good cause, bat which may advance Pnatrorrs to the mitre, and Eunons to the bench; may give up education exclu sively to the National Society, buck reform, and in fact suspend the onward progress of the country how ever unable to turn the movement backwards. Louts NAPOLEON has more power, for he can not only fill the offices of state with reactionista, but he can remodel government and state to receive and to suit them. He can appoint a senate which shall have nought to decide or discuss, a consultative council which no one deigns to consult, a coned d'iditt to which no state affairs are referred ; but every one feels that there are too many card houses, peopled by puppets, which are set up to amuse, but which will not stand seriously in the way of what ever power to whose lot may faU the task of restora tion and redress. So tar is tie resemblance carried out between the two parties, which to their own astonishment, as well as to that of their respective countries, have been borne by a chance wave to office in England and in France. Neither can do any great harm in domestic policy, nor indeed in foreign, notwithstanding the natural alarm caused by their very advent. And neither can last a day longer than the discovery of a respectable government ready and able to take their pisee. Meantime the farce of a general election, by uni versal seltimie too, goes on in France. With regard to this sisetisa the government shows itself full of tears, and the public full of indifference and con teenpt--twe sentiments and attitudes which princes and peephr cannot long preserve towards each other. These depths, when they come together. are not to debate my question that Prince Louts NAPOLEON [stay not dome to eat berme them ' • and what they de Mee or utter ore never be published nor even emensated upon. To stand in anticipatory awe aim s& an assembly betrays the shaky founds tips en which the government feels itself and its ephemeral institutions built. The dread seems to be net 111 awn opposition, for that is impossible, but of thel ,qoN af ire body lending itself to any coup (Mat tint eight be momentarily successful, and aiding to arthreme the PAESIDENT. No doubt the thing is to be Mad. NAroLtoN's own senate declared his dkidows. What guarantee has Loris NArottoN that any of his mow bless at assemblies, administrative or legis lative. would iist do the same by him in a month P He has bat alga! to compose them as mock d half rieseellai esesses, as of old and not very vie. speslialls pederms. And now the legislative b. OMNI together, part . / nominated by the pie famb. partly accepted by them, the latest, =7a really popnlar nucleus in the mew . the former consisting of that well keno is of time-serving, aspiring alkiale, far would sell any one or any . thing, in ardor to advames a step in the administrative hierarchy. Thome is eis hapsetent thing in a constitutional f=ewhisk sash • system as that of Louis sa b utterly deprived of, viz. a knowledge of the worth and real influence of men. A representative gam brings always before the sovereign or his ma sinister, &knowledge of themes who are 'Wag sr thinidsble by taint or by influence. The sea siltation& minions; therefore, always knows wines to pin, wheat to employ. But there is no orate market spa the tbs despotic minister. The country is a alma tie Ma. He neither sees nor reads it. All he mit as is to select fitting instruments to do ma- Meld week. Men to aid him in governing, and managing, he knows not where t ais he l l i teor bow to have. Loris-Pantren W bin his eyes ail the ass, sad amiss of ins% the bruin a gamemamt tV in Zt a ti rs em add Aden and meld met make nu o;Vatimb d pmennisat is Ms heads. Loom Rooms bee net tie de. meats. Had les siohlideed • &es ammenhelivo asnstitatim, he might bare sasessid r eitablig Iba mederity his own. Bet he has thrum ans up the possibility of ending out what or whose is the majority. He has cut away and abet away with his gun and with his sabre, all the .s of carry leg on s goverment in a eitdiissd, and wealthy, and intelligent reentry. And r bee gene back to the old machinery. Novessmierbisgoverimmet gropes in the dark. No wends. be MAID at his own shadow. No wonder be knows not before whet Saint to prostrate blosalL For he mast feel, that even withoutdlism or obstaals, his continuance in pow. is • 11 1 111nnint an WHO' dible achievement, more envy day, no the big French public opens its eyes apse his measures and motives, and u the numerous military open their eyes too, and ask the esti awe of the present sy.tein. Not the least comical thing to come will be the 1 assembly of the legislative body, now in coma of election,. its opening by a speech that no ems A be allowed to hear, and its answer that "Mlle sew Toyed through secret tubes to the ear of the PINE& Deny, and not be allowed to transpire. We ellembi like to we how the Pneit DENT'S mutes will be menimil in Parisian society, these men who have aussesi to enact the part of legislators, without the title, the independence. the knowledge, or the respect. We will be bound to say, that but one feeling pervades, or will pervade, the entire batch of senators, council lors Of state, legislators, and others of the kind. This will be to try to redeem their character with the public by joining in the first act of frowardness and independ, me—that is, in fact, of opposition— that circutustunece render possible. WHILE the re-elution of the new ministers and their adherents seems likely to be permitted to take place in F.ligland without opposition ' a somewhat different spirit manifests itself on the other side of the Channel. For lonic days the popular party in Ireland op pear to have reirirded with incredulity the rumoured appointments. both executive and legal, which were maid to have been made by the Tory PREMIER. Re collections of Lord DERBT'M superciliouv and nrhi trat7 tow of kidministratiuu when, as M.. STANLEY, THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EYENUP, MARCH 2, 1852. be and the one of Llid Isintary in ran ago, still Woond the that men. Bid suds the days of i3a Acid novitiate Om, peat changes have occurred, and the great of jsrity at those who then took part in political life have paid away and generation has arieen,who, for thejliost part, be said to have any recognition of Lora I • character as a statesman, save through the medium of hiatory. If he ha d contain larta= a new and conciliatory part towardsizt mar was a fairer opportunity. Ilia pedesuesso had hisined an almost unpresidentod amount at ; and the mere foes at contrast smeed to impart at the outing degree of hied to thi &MINTON regiMe. COMBS prudence in the anise of subordimatim,maidisaisreance of mamma damisey in the free sprememe se impartial van am between mesas and pod., mold probably twin am, foe a l b at leastpro, to allay any than = ind to vost way glili early oympbsta mile. Lord Duff had ewe s elms itsliWastiog the minions at disbud aid sessiss edit e& his early min had4eallimi Ms hi la swan by- soma, sad et a in himitnien of lab sap deity and ove *an to the Mein of a mansatlble and implant Pl ebe his throws the fiance away, mad, as he se yet appose, without any other motive then the gratification st a rash alpha or the still more de plorable plianect of a arcs who his long than in big to thaw the undimlahlied strength of a long theridisa palp. Ilia English appointments are andbmidli MI6 because they are feeble and unin- Onatislebia pip e . laugh at them and say," What bathe bs ds with the materials be had r la Weed hey ask. N What worse can be imagined RE Rellediegr The country feels that it has bees bandsd over to en executive Orange lodge. The names of Ems, HAMILTON. NAPIER, .wr, and BATaSOX. are all associated in the popuhr mismory with the system of sectarian and social msendancy, and concentrate round the already en feebled functions of government all the fears and animosities that in days gone by engendered feelings of national disaffection. Lord DZILET'S aim in the selection of instruments to carry oat his policy to wards Ireland wane to have been to blend the greatest amount of fenaticiem with the highest de gree of landlordism. There is not a man in the whole list that has not made hinieclf conspicuously obnoxious by his votes in parliament against electoral reform, land reform, and church reform. There has not been a measure proposing to give security to te nants for the improvements they may make on th eir farms--or for pruning the luxunant abuse of the establishment—or for conferring friashlar . upon counties or towns that would enable them to share in the benefits of the constitution— against which Lords C. HAuteros and NAAs, with Messrs. NAPIER, BATESON, and Wurrestrix, have not shewn their readiness to vote. When Sir HOBERT PtEL came into office in 1811, at the head of the tory party, he had the grace to select the most liberal men who could be found in its ranks, to con stitute the vice-regal council in Ireland. He knew the value of disarming suspicion at the outset and of giving official hostages to public opinion for the fairness of his administration, especially in a coon try torn by hereditary dissensions, and rent by the jarring passions of creed and class. In this spirit he persevered unto the end, and the consequence is, that his memory is regarded with respect, if not with affection, by the messes as well as by the more cultivated portions of the community. But Lord DERBY has learned and unlearned nothing as regards Ireland since the luck ' less day when first ho trod its shore. His answer to O'Coeet.u.'s denunciation of his reckless conduct in 1831 was a message calling on him to fight a duel ; and this first intimation of his purpose in 1832, as expressed in the appointments already named, may be fairly termed a challenge to the Irish people tore mist his will if they dare. Thus put upon their mettle, it is not surprising that our kinsmen have accepted the defiance thus thrown down. At first it was emphatically an nounced that Lord NAAS would he returned without opposition for Kildare. But the tone of the government organs has suddenly changed. Within twenty-four hours after the appoint. ment of the new Chief Secretary was positively known, the electors were addressed by Mr. CODA e, a gentleman of whom report speaks well both as regards talents and attainments, and whose political sentiments arc as much in accordance with those of the constituency as the opinions of Lord NAAS differ from them. In truth, the noble lord must be endued with some of the rash presumption of his chief to present himself before a constituency whom, as far as in him lay, he did his utmost to prevent being called into political existence. It may be recollected that when, in the course of 1830, the Irish county con stituencies were found to have been reduced by the refusal of leases and wholesale evictions on the part of landlords to a state close verging on extinction, a bill was introduced by the late go vernment creating a new electoral body and a new electoral system. Scandalous as was the abuse, the protectionist party in the Hoax of Commons were not ashamed to resist the only remedy proposed ; and on the 25th February, 1850, they actually divided the house flee times against the - motion for going into committee on the bill! In each of these divisions the name of Lord NAAs is to be found, along with those of his colleagues in office, Messrs. DISRAELI and WALPOLE, HAMILTON and BATESON. With much difficulty the bill was got through the lower house. It was subsequently sent down in a mutilated state by the Lords—the ori ginal lg. franchise having been changed for a 151. franchise by an amendment of Lord DIERRT's in the privileged chamber. Ultimately the measure passed with a 121. franchise, in spite ..f the unrelaxed oppo sition of Lord NAAs and his friends ; and the result of the first registration under its provisions has been to give to the county of Kildare a constituency of 2,774. To these the tory Chief Secretary now ap pals; and we freely own that his election by them noisy such circumstances would furnish the only iminceivable palliation for the factions attempt mods by him and his associates two No ago to pipe teats their disfranchisement. No such, event, how ever, is to be apprehended. The contest will be an animated one ; but of the issue we have little doubt. Of the other Irish elections there is u yet little positive information. Orangeiam may possibly secure the return of Lord CLAUDE HAMILTON and Mr. BATE SON in Londonderry and Tyrone, while the University reiterates its clerical fondness for Mr. NAPIER, and the close borough of Poetarlington, with its 71 *lectors, renews its delegation of Colonel DuNNE. But at Enniskillen Mr. WHITESIDE is menaced with a sharp contest ; and in the county of Cork (vacant by a late appointment of Lord Own's) a tory candidate has ventured to appear. PABLLUIENTADY COMMITTEES.—The committee of selection have appointed the following committee. :—A committee, consisting of Mr. Alderman Coneland, chairman, Mr. W. Falai, Sir E. Gooch, Mr. Collins, and Mr. J. Bell, an the Liverpool Corporation Waterworks, the Southampton Corporation Waterworks, Sunderland Waterworks, and Merthyr Tydvil Waterworks, to meet on the 16th of March ; a committee, consisting of Mr. Legit, chairman, Mr. Oren fell, Sir G. Pechell, Mr. Duneuft, and Mr. Dawes, on the Wolverhempton Gas, Ncwpurt Improvement, Cheltenham Inprovernent, and Barnstaple Markets, to meet on the 16th of March ; • committee of Captain Harris, chairman, Sir J. Norieys, Mr. S. Davies, Mr. Milner, and Mr. W. Geoid, on the Macclesfield Improvement, Runcorn Improvement, Stockton las provement, and Liverpool Museum sod Library, to meet on the 18th of March ; a committee of Col. Lindsay, chairman; Mr. W. Lockhart, Lord E. Howard, Mr. Hey wood, and Mr. Hildyard, on the Droitwich Junction Canal, Medina River Navigation, South Ewes Estuary, and Lough Foyle and Swilly Drainage, to meet on the 18th of March. Tho eommittees on thu East London Waterworks, Acci dental Death Insurance, and Mandlcd Gas light Bills, arc I appointed to meet on the 15th of March, and those on the Patent Solid Sewage Manor', Aberdeen Boys' and Girls , Hospital, and Scarborough Markets and Approaches Bill, M meet on the 16th March. DIVIDENDS or TRIAD RemwAYs.—The dividend of thu Belfast awl County Down is to be 10s. Bd., and of the Dublin and Belfast 15e. FATAL AND MICLANCIIOLT ACCIDENT.—An acci dent accompanied with a serious loss of life, occurred in Olandore harbour, Cork, on Tuesday, the 17th. A coast go ,rd who was about to change his residence from one side of the herhinur to the other, Waded a common yawl with a quantity of turuiture, and took with him in the boat five children, his mother-ise law, and .is men to row. The illy we. very a dtl and squally, and in a sudden gust of wind the boat was upset, and three of tne luso, the old woman, awl the live children, were drowned. The coast guard (a man named Fitsgeraid) made every ettertioa to says hi. children, but unavailingly. lie swam a considerable di.- tone,, ti)init to support one of the children, whose clothe. be hart taught in his teeth, but the child was washed orr iy from him by a wise and perished with the rest.— ' Cork Esanitrier. FRANCE. THE ELECTIONS. BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH. PION OUR OWN PONDINT. PARIS, TVUDAT. Am elected deputies for the Seine : Delalain. Deviack, Cavaignae, Lepellatier,Konigewater, Veron. In the two other circumscriptions Cernot and Parfet obtained the majority. PASTS, MONDAY EVIINIIIO. The polls closed this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Per I shall be able to give you some approximate results of the examination of the ballots before tho post goes. Meanwhile the government has neg lected no means to drive people to the poll This morning the mayors, finding that great num bers of electors had neglected to apply for cards, have spared them the trouble by sending to their lodgings the necessary authorisation to vote. They have also distributed to the electors a circular, urging them to the poll. lest their abstention should be calumniously interpreted by certain parties. Hitherto the government appears to have been most successful in the districts in which MM. Veron, Lan quetin, Moreau (do la Seine), and Devinck, are its candidates. In the lit, 3rd, tith, and Bth circum scriptions, the elections are hotly contested by the independent candidates Tracy, Cavignac, Bixio, and Ferdinand de Lastyrio. Cavaignuc, however, seems the only name on which the fractions of the opposi tion have decidedly coalesced. I hear that circulars have been addressed from the several ministries to all their employe% menacing them with dismissal in case of abstention. The " says that the report of a com mittee, appointed by the Bank of France to consider the question of reducing the rate of interest, is in favour of the reduction, and that the Bank will come to a decision on Thursday. The Dittats says : A few days since we copied a letter is the Journal de CAMAY, in which mention is made of a note sent by the French government of that of Bwitserland relative to the return., and otassuranees given on the scilicet by the Prince President to the Swiss Cliargi d'Affaires in Paris. From information which we have since received, we think that we any aim that the details given in that correspon dente, the authority of which the author himself did not guarantee, are completely erroneous. . - The Univers contains an article upon the state of Switzerland, to which I invite sour attention. This ardent champion of the Sonderbund chides the tardy nephew of Napoleon for pausing in the energetic career inaugurated on December 2, and stooping to bandy notes with the unrighteous federal council, after the lukewarm fashion of those political Laodi ceans, MM. Thies and Guizot, instead of repeating the cannonades of the boulevards in the valleys of the Helvetic republic. Good hard knocks are the only arguments that can be underl stood by the Swiss radicals. Catholic Fribourg, which the Emperor placed at the head of the confederation, groans, trampled by the rabble rout of heretics. The curate of the great pariah of Vippens, for treading in the pious steps of Mon signor Franzoni, and refusing the sacraments to a dying catholic, unless he recanted his oath to the schismatic constitution imposed by the radicals, has been turned out of his parish by the govern ment for this courageous perform'uico of his duty. Such martyrdom calls for vengeance. Let that zea lous son of the church, Louis Napoleon, leave the dilatory ambages of diplomacy, and strike. Let him cut with his sword the knot of the federal constitution, and restore the cantonal inde pendence which was recognised by his uncle as the most solid base for the existence of the Swiss confederation. Such is the substance and spirit of this article, conceived in the true vein of the church militant. I must not forget to add that in the course of it the fact leaks out that the French government has addressed notes to the Federal Council, insisting upon the necessity of a change in the constitution. The Moniteur contains an article intended to illus trate the operation of the new institutions of credit fonder. The average inscrest of loans on mortgage in France, including all expenses, is 8 per cent. The mass of real property is charged with a debt of 320 millions sterling, of which the interest is therefore ra ther more than 25 millions sterling. The capital of this enormous debt is found to increase yearly on an average by 24 millions sterling, that is, by a sum nearly equivalent to the interest. The continuance of such a state of things must have ultimately ruined the proprietors. By means of the new institutions it is hoped to avert this catas trophe. The societies of credit fonder can only issue knees de page or bunk - notes, to the amount of the loans which they grant. The visa of the notary with whom the deed of loan is deposited, is the pltdge for the strict execution of this condi tion. The clearance of previous mortgages, the value of the real property mortgaged, which is double that of the loan, the right of immediate sequestration, and rapid sale at little cost in case of non-payment of the annual instalments, shield the societies against all risk. Hence it may be supposed that these will find no difficulty in procuring capital at 41 per cent. Thus the borrower, having to pay 4} per cent. in terest, # per cent. expenses, and 1 per cent. to wards liquidation of the loan, will have to pay in all 6 per cent., that is 2 per cent. less than the interest alone which he now pays on sums, of which he is bound to reimburse the capital in full after six or eight years, under menaces of foreclosure, which is always ruin. Thus the government computes that in forty years. by means of these institutions of credit fonder, the immense debt which now bur dens real property may be entirely paid off. Meanwhile the reduction of the interest paid upon that debt amounts to more than half of the tax on real property which is rather more than eleven millions sterling. Such is the outline of the picture traced by the official journal of the benefits which may accrue from the new institution. The Marquis de Nicolay has been dismissed from his post as mayor of Montfirt, for proposing himself as an independent candidate for the Cores Legiglatif. The independent papers of the provinces, which have been struck with ruin by the clause of the law on the press which deprives them of judicial adver tisements, are fast dying out. The °langur, of Amiens, and the Impartial and Messagsr, of Rouen, are announced to-day as extinct. The last week of February has passed away without causing any sensible amelioration in the situation of commerce. Retail traders have sold little, and have refrained from making new pur chases in manufacturers. The amusements of the Carnival and the balls have, it is true, afforded some occupation to certain special branches of commerce, such as upholsterers, dressmakers, and makers of artificial flowers. But that activity was excep tionaL Thus far very few orders have been given for exportation. The last arrivals from the United States, on which great expectations were founded, have only brought some rare orders, and the New York letters agree in saying that French commerce must not count much on the purchases of North America for this spring. Still, in the midst of this prolonged stagnation, a certain disposition is remarked amongst traders to make sales on credit, and if that tendency were encouraged by the dis count bankers it would probably cause a prompt resumption of business. Bet these bankers .ow themselves more rigorous than ever, and rarely de cide to discount bills at more than 30 days' date. Many important home* however, are strongly of opinion that there will be a decided increase of activity in the courseof this month. They have received a great many promises from commitsion agents, who are waiting the result of the elections before they begin their purchases. The prices of corn continue high, quite as high as is desirable, but few sales have been effected Speculation is more active in wino and brandy than in anything else. In Languedoc and the Bordeaux district, an ex traordinary rise has taken place in the quality known as 36. The price hors risen from 70 to 80. There has been • curious dispropor tion between the markets of Bordet.ux and Paris in the price of this article. The rise in the course of the week in Para§ was 2fr. only, and late on Satur day there wan a sudden fall of 51r. The p, ices of 341 at this time last year were at Bordeaux 55, Resler!! 32, and Paris 04.50. The closing quotation on Sa turday last in Paris was 77, or 3f. hiss than at Bor deaux, instead of being 10f. more, which, allowing for the freight, is about the natural proportion. These figures prove the speculative nature of the buginesa now doing. Indigo is again lower at Bor deaux, and there is no improvement in any kind of latill"da Thesews from Lyons and St. L rather good. Melia manufacturers have orders estoogh to keep Rost of the hands employed. 'taw silk continues to be mane. Business in cotton has bees active at Havre, with a further rise of about 2fr. ; 15,000 bales have arrived during the week, and 7,600 have been meld. The stock in hand is 52,000 bales, being 30,000 less than at this time last year calicoes at Mulhouse and Rouen are very dull, with a falling market. The iron musters have still great expectations of benefit from the numerous concessions of railways. But the rise La the prise el irsa Ms had the effee't in many places of shutting up rectories, owing to the impossibility el working at a profit. We find the following in the Gault* du Midi et Montpellier: "Accounts have just been rewind from Avignon as serious as unexpected. A nuw bet of persons, some say sixty, and others n the majority forming part of a societ y rca l the friends of order, have been arrested. It is however stated that they were soon after set et liberty. The municipal council at Avignon is die. solved, and M. Poncet appointed , provisional mayor. The events had produced a great sensation in the department of the Vancinee, and even in the arrow disseincnt of Arles, which is on such neighbourly terms with the old Comtat Venaisin." At the Bourse the Five per Cent; fell 40e., closing at 103.30 ; the Threes fell 20c. Bank of France shares arc without change. Railways were not af fected by the fall in the funds. Many of the lines rose a little. Bordeaux, Bfr. 73c.; Rotten, 7fr. 50c.; Boulogne, 2fr. Mk. 7, P.Y. P. S.—There is a report this evening that an in surrectional movement has broken out at Brussels. Louis Napoleon, there cannot be a doubt, is bent upon war, but not open war with England or with Europe, but rather with the family and dynasty of Orleans. He has taken Louis Philippe's progeny and followers en rime, and has determined to per secute and punish them in every way. How the Orleans family have managed to provoke and to accumulate the President's ire against them is not very dear. No doubt they have conspired against him, and were • party to those plots of the conservative clubs and chiefs which proposed to get rid of the President in some forcible and summary manner. Whether Louis Napoleon could prove an actual and immediate plot against him, almost ready for execution in the month of December last, may be doubted. But that there were plots, and very unscrupulous meaus were then meditated, there are few who do not believe. No publicity, however, has been given to them. Throughout the course of his hostility to the Or leans, Louis Napoleon has warred in his own personal interests, and without either invoking public opinion, or using the authority of the tribunals and national institutions of the country. He has issued a decree of confiscation and forced sale, universally stigmatised illegal. The opportunity was afforded of trying this the other day, when the agent of the Orleans family sold a small property by public auction. But the govern ment took no notice of the sale, and allowed it to be accomplished, although it was of the property con fiscated, and not ordered to be sold. The senate has not been summoned, nor the council of state con voked, nor was the consultative commission apprised. The war against the Orleans, their property, and their friends, although it might very easily be car ried on by means of the laws of the country, is waged by the police, in the sole name and interests of the Elysee. It is impossible to conceive anything so impolitic or so undignified. And now the chief affair before the French public is a plot which, even by the avowal of the police authorities, is a mere distribution of pamphlets and pleadings to prove and show the illegality and in justice of the confiscation of the Orleans property. For the distribution or possession of these pamph lets the most respectable men are thrown into prison, or obliged to fly. The simplest traveller who may happen to have one in his trunk is seized and mal treated as an agent of treason ; and all this for a private question of property, still undecided in courts of justice. What a picture is this of the progress or declen sion of the age. Two dynasties, or the representatives of two dynasties, who, in any past century, would have suet in the field and moved courts and armies to aid in the decision of their quarrel, lowering their party feuds down, in the middle of the nineteenth century, to a mere question of property, to a Chanxry suit, in which, to be sure, the police act as lawyers and a military President acts as judge, but of which, after all, the great decision is, who shall en joy so many hundreds or so many thousands a year. If this is not leaping from the sublime to the ridicu lous in matters of government and civil war, we know not what is. This great interest of the enjoyment and use of private property is a thing that not only influences the pile' , of the President, and sets his deem-makers and his myrmidons in motion, but it is the interest which dominates French society, and absorbs it. People here have learnt to consider or d ;scum forms and systems of government with reference to their political results. All they look to is the consequence to private pro perty. The Republic deteriorated private property. It left capital idle, and made the land unproductive. The great and universal hatred to republicanism Fervading so large a portion of the well-to-do renchmen is founded on this, and on no thing else. Immediately after the coup (Mat of Louis Napoleon things looked better. People talked of speculating and investing. Have they persevered in doing so? Certainly not. Louis Napoleon has done what he could in the great matter of railway works. He has conceded all he could, has taken what English money he could get; and he has certainly entered into a very useful con tract with the powerful house of Rothschild to cover the north of Franco with railroads and connect them altogether. So that one may henceforth not only go through the north of Franco, but actually visit it throughout its breadth. This is much, but state im pulse is not enough. And state impulse often mili tates against private exertion. It offers a surer and a higher return of interest than legitimate specula tions, and therefore throws them intothe shade. The real and the true struggle of Louis Napoleon to secure power consists in his efforts to restore con fidence, and to re-assure to property its security, and to capital its power of reproduction. The merest suspicion, the smallest breath of war, would mar all this. And whatever may be his future views, or his continent policy, it seems plain that war is by no means in his calculation at present. It is with reference to the President's policy and desire to be considered the great champion of the rights and profits and property, that the question of the confiscation of the Orleans property becomes important. The Orleanista represent it as striking at the security of all property and of all law. Such is the gist of the pamphlets, against which the police aro performing their crusade. M. de Morny warned the President of this danger, which, however, ho braved for the sake of vengeance, hatred of the Orleans being, in fact, his domi nant passion. And some say, that if he ever marches into Belgium, it will not be to annex that country, but to compel it to elect another king, unconnected with the Orleans family. So far Leopold is in danger. But the great fact of a Rusoan envoy having at last been accredited to the court of Brussels, tends to show the Coburg dynasty to bo under the protection of the Russian Eagle, which renders the idea of war on the part of France more unlikely, or at least more remote, than ever. Whether the French President can be made to desist from the war which he carries on against both representative institution's and against the press, is a more doubtful matter. French representation and the French press he has found universally either Or leanist or socialist—that is, of the two principles de cidedly hostile to him. lie has accordingly slain representative institutions and the press. hether he can by this means instil Bonapartism in their plate, or whether by the gaggin? of all freedom he is nurturing up power for the socialists, and hopes for the Orlearnsts, is what may well be doubted. Quite enough, however, has been said to show that Louis Napoleon has other things and oth e r cares to occupy hint besides war: and that war would be a doubtful remedy fur the ills under which his govern ' meet labours. SIMIARINE THLEURAPIL—It itl stated that tho reeriots of this undertaking were, for the Rr•t month of it. working, MAI., for the second month, 5171, and for the third month, AIR ; the animal expenses being estimated not to exceed 2,0001. SWIISEAVAND. lUD „ Suss confirm our statement of the Islbdsval government of Switzerland 1111/411, note on die subject of the refugees. = WllizsikkialpessisiiMl Si din character of an ulti- France isolate anew upon designating for expulsion, and in strong language calls upon the federal government to reflect on the con sequences which resistance may entail. ITALY. TUSCANY. The Monitor* TOICTIMO quotes a letter from Rome, Mating that, on the 10th ult., the police discovered fifteen explosive shells, capable of containing a pound of gunpo"der each, and three daggers, in the house of a person named Luigi Jacopini. The daggers had evidently been buried somewhere, for they were rusty, and had particles of fresh earth sticking to them. The shells were intended to be thrown that very evening, in the Corso at several persons, said to be obnoxious to the republican party, among whom was Colonel Nardooi. Two persons, of the name of Bizzarri and Taxi, have been arrested as accomplices. This Jam eini was implicated in the affair of the cannon which, was discovered some time ago by the police in the quarter ofTrastevere. GERMANY. The Duke of Clotho has declared his intention of uniting that Duchy with Coburg by a common administration; only the finances of the two States will be separately administered. The plan has been more than once proposed, and rejected by the Chamber. The Duke expresses his determination to carry the consolidation into effect, and hopes that the details of that proposal will not now be mis understood or misrepresented. In Weimar, the government having carried its new election law, 12 of the opposition deputies have thrown up their seats, with a protest against the right of the government to alter the franchise. The distress in several parts of the Thuringian States continues to increase, and with it the number of emigrants. In the Oberland of Wiemar a whole village has emigrated, together with the clergyman and schoolmaster. The government has bought the parcels of land and houses; the latter are to be pulled down, and built up again in other vill a ges. The Frankfort Diet has rejected the Prussian pro position for publishing the reports of the discussion on the German fleet. The Augsburg Gazette pub lishes a circular note, in which the maintenance or disposal of the fleet is discussed. It is dated Feb. 1, and has been rendered obsolete by the subsequent re sult of negotiations. PRUSSIA. Tho Seaats-Anzeiger contains a circular issued by the Board of Trade for the regulation of telegraphs in Prussia. The state telegraphs are declared to ex tend on and after March 1, upon the following lines : —First from Berlin to Potsdam, Magdeburg, Os chersleben, Brunswick, Hanover, Minden, Henan, Dusseldorf, Deutz, Koln, and Aix la Chapelle to Verviers. This line is connected with the Belgian lines leading from Verniers to Antwerp, Ostend, and Brussels, and through these with the French lines from Paris to Poictiers, Chalon aur Marne, Anjou, Havre, and Calais, and hence by the submarine tele graph to Gnat Britain. The second great line extends from Berlin by Interbogk, Des sau, Cothen, Halle, Weimar, Erfurt, Gotha, Eisenach, Kassel, Marburg, and Giessen, to Frankfort-on-the Maine. This line is connected with the branch line from Halle to Leipsic, joining the Saxon lines from Leipsic, by Dresden, to - Bode', bach, and in the opposite direction to Hof. By the first it is connected with the Austrian, and by the second with the Bavarian lines, connecting Hof, Hanau, Munich, ltatisbon, and Augsburg. Being further joined with the branch line from Cothen to Magdeburg, it is placed in connexion with the first main Prussian line. The other principal lines ex tend from Berlin, by Wittenberg and Hagenaar, to Hamburg, with a branch from Buchen to Lubeck; from Berlin, by Stettin, to Swinemunde ; from Ber lin, by Stettin and Kreuz, to Posen, with a branch to Bromberg ; and, lastly, from Berlin, by Frankfort on-the-Oder, Lignitz, Breslau, Oppeln, Kassel, and Ratisbon, to Oder& rg, joining tho Austrian lines, and being connected, through Vienna, with Milan, Bregenz, Cracow, Pesth, Trieste, and Venice. 1 These lines are open for telegraphic communica tion. By conventions concluded with the govern ments of Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, and Wurtemberg, not only the aforementioned but those which join them in any of the six states mentioned, arc at the service of the public without exclusion. The stations arc to close at 9 p.m., after which hour no messages will be received except where notice has been given beforehand. A number of minute con ditions, perhaps necessary, but fruitful in inconve nience and delay, are attached to the transmission of messages in the circular quoted. A power is also gtven to the station masters to refuse messages whose despatch may appear undesirable for public reasons. All the officers of the line arc sworn to secresy. The Prussian Chambers are still discussing the communal law and the budget. In the sitting of the 27th ult. it appeared that the official reports of the parliamentary debates cost the state 7,000 thalers, a su bs cription to that amount being necessary to induce the publisher to venture upon the under taking. The number of subscribers last year was 28, and in the year before 43. It is stated that the Russian Ambassador has ex pressed himself very strongly upon the animadver sions made on his Sunday ball by the editor of the Kreuz Zeitung. Last Saturday the journal published a semi-apologetic explanation on the subject. The Duke of Augustenburg is at present in Frank fort. The Envoy of Denmark, M. Von Bulow, has entered into direct negotiations with him respecting his claims to the succession, and the disposition of his forfeited estates. WURTENIBERG. The second chamber of Wurtemberg adopted in its sittings of the26th ult. the report of its committee tending to declare the fundamental rights pro claimed by the Frankfurt National Assembly of legal force in the kingdom, and imprescriptiblu except by constitutional means. FRINCH RAILWAY TIAITIC.—The following are the last rotorna of the receipts of tbe panel* Meth railways : Normans.— From Feb. 12 io Feb. 18: Peseesigers, 132,5401.; gods, 260,009 f.; Waal, 132.5191. Roves.—Prom Feb. 12 to Yob. 21 : Pommies; 68,838 E ; goods, 91,0471.; t0ta1,158,5101. slamin- 11 rose 1 1 ,b. 15 to Feb. 21 : Ploelosiers, 24,220 f. ; goods, 42,8691.; total, 66 . 9 / 13) . OSLIMPL —From Fen 16 to Feb. 22: Pommies; 68,0482 ; goods, f ; eo. i 0 to Feb. 16. Pamengem, 40,137 1 .; goods, 72 ‘ 72 •1. 9 . t 5 ; 0,r- al ir i c i ni 4 F n et r a . . 16 to Feb. 22: Preempt; 27,2321.; good., 7 total, 04 8001. 14 54 rer ., c.. .— Pr o m meow Feb. 12 to Feb. 13 : 's, 25,2596 ; golds, 30,630). 36,0891. arammine.—Eront Feb. 12 to Feb. 16 Posmogere, 89,192 f.; good% 1 of.; total, 1119,401). &mi.—From Yeb. 9 to Feb. 15 : 19,503 f. ; goods, 10 347 E ; total, 39110 f. Morritaray.—From Feb. 12 to Feb. 18: Passengers, 7,911 f.; goods, 13,611); beal. 13.2701. Mammuss.—Fros Feb. 5 to Feb. le: Passenger., 32,822 f.; goats, 30.175 f.; total, 92,0971. LYON)—From Feb. 8 to Feb. 14: Passengers, 117,3851.; goods, 101.3151.: total. 24,8101. Canna.—Fr m Feb. 16 to Feb. 22: Pagan:gets, 22,213 f.; good; 1,4421.; tots I, 470434 - - AN ALGERIAN INCIDENT.—The Ak/dime, of Algiers, relates the following distressing scene, which took place on the 31st ultimo, at fiouba —" In the afternoon of that day, the wife of an houfst and industrious Spanish colonist, was at week in • field • short distance from Koons, and which was skirted by a thicket of brush wood. She had with her her daughter, a child four years of age, whom she had placed in the shade of some palm trees. Suddenly she heard a shriek from the child, and, on looking up, was horrified at seeing it in the mouth of • large panther. The mother remained for a moment u if petrified, and the monster, profiting by this moment of indecision, made a bound into the thicket, and dis appeAred. The poor woman, on recovering from her sur prise, itnine..f.tely rushed after her child, without think ing of the danger which she herself incurred. She was guided in her estate by the movement of the bushes, and by the plaintive cries of her child, which every moment became more and more faint. For several minutes she con tinued her dep.-rate chem.. Mad with despair, she rushed into the thickest of the bushes. lier clothes were soon torn i• rags, and her face. her arms, and legs horribly wounded by the thorns. At length the cries of her child ceased, and there was nothing further to direct her steps. In her route she found one of the 111101 worn by her daughter, next a piece of its dress hanging to a branch of an aloe, then an other shoe, next a handaerehicf which had been round its head, suit which was wet with blood. At the sight of this last obji et, the mother fainted, and was not discovered until an hour after by her husband, who, on hearing her crion had rushed to the spot. The poor woman was soon brought to life, but it is feared that she will never recoverlier reason." OUlt NEW PREMIER. (from the Daily Nero.) What must be done with Lord DERBY ? Such is the question the liberal party will this day in London and in Manchester have to discuss, and on the wisdom of their decision relic many of the probabilities of the contest now to be waged between the friends of liberal and enlightened progress and the official champions of high toryism. A letter on this subject in another column deserves attentive perusal. - Lord DERBY—thanks to Lord PALMERSTON and ! whig obstinacy and exclusiveness—is at the head of a government, each member of which belongs to the Tux-Bread-to-Raise-Rent school of politics. In his explanation in the House of Peers, the new PREMISS, said, he still adhered to his belief in protection, but that he would not strive to carry any resolution in its favour in the present par liament. No thanks to him for that,--since he not only knows, but, in express words admits himself to be in a minority. In bland oratorical terms, there fore, he talks of protection as a thing of so much im portance that by the country alone can its fate be decided. this statement, denuded of the oratory, means—a dissolution of parliament ; when each party are to strive who shall have must seats and votes under the present corrupt system of representation. For no one knows better than Lord 14:ittiv that when he talks of appealing to " the people," he means an appeal to nomin a ti on boroughs, government boroughs, beer boroughs, cor rupt boroughs, and rotten boroughs, and to so many !only of the people as have votes in counties and 'other places. But coupled with this phrase of "ap pealing to the country, he uses another about " fac tious opposition,"—a thing of which he has a whole some horror, and the show of which he intimates must be followed by an immediate dissolution ; not however, he trusts, before certain votes for the service of the country have been granted. Alternately begging and bullying —declaring for protection, yet putting off for a while the at tempt to impose it—how are we to translate the explanation of this new Minister of a Minority? Surely after this fashion, that, if he meets with troublesome opposition, he must dissolve the parliament at once; but that if he is treated in the way he wishes —if the liberals vote hint all he asks, concede all ho requires,—ask no awkward questions, press no troublesome divisions —Lord Denny will use the pre sent House of Commons as long as they are useful; will tolerate them till he has " made his game " for the elections, and till official prestige (if nothing more) has strengthened him in this place, has created a party for him in that, has spoiled the chance of an oppo nent for the other, and so on over England, Ireland, and Scotland—and having used them thus as a money-voting machine and a scope-goat, he will clear the house— like another dictator—at the head of his rampant minority. The difference then, is, whether Lord DERBY is to be required at once to make the appeal he proposes, or whether he shall be allowed to make up his book for the elections and dissolve afterwards. Shall we have the election before the harvest or after the harvest—in the spring or in the autumn? Shall we try a fall with the enemy whilst he is fresh in the field, or shall we let him amuse us with a hollow truce or a makebelieve parley whilst he entrenches his camp ? He has sent out the first flag of truce asking for terms, and his pleas arc the necessities of the country and the impropriety of captious opposition. On this let us at once join issue. Who so keenly alive to the necessities of the nation as the people—who so negligent of them as the party Lord DERBY leads? The chief necessity of the nation is food, cheap food,— and this Lord DERBY wishes to tax. But the Paine MINISTER does not mean necessities of thiskind : what he wants is the money vote, in their power over which resides the sole power of the people—a power gained alter many a generation of buffet-mg, and atter many a heavy payment both of money and of blood. But if he gets all the money he demands, and if he gets the Mutiny Act passed, he has nearly all he wants, and may then snap his fingers at the "captious oppo sition " he is desirous just now to propitiate. The real needs of the country the people would never dream of refusing—for they never have refused. Ihe people have by far too deep a stake in the welfare of this nation, ever to do aught that might imperil it. They feel for its true dignity, as they have ever been its true strength ; they desire its security, for in peace and quiet industry is their only dependence and hope. The Mutiny Bill will therefore of course bo passed—for a term; and certain money also be given —on account. But for how long that term should be, or how far the supplies should be granted,—is the question for discussion and settlement. The tory evening paper, the beam/ors/of yesterday, exhibits a high state of vexation, because Mr. C. VILLIERS threatens the protectionists with a mo tion for which there is no precedent. The Standard, with the soul of a special pleader, insists on a prece dent. And no wonder, for the Standard has nothing else to call for. All the reason, and justice, and com mon sense are on the opposite side, whilst precedents are with the party whom the Standard seeks to support. Looking into precedents, we find tho people doing all the work and getting all the hard blows, whilst the oligarchy have enjoyed the profits and the security. The people from whose ranks men of genius have risen to form our literature —the people, whose ingenuity and whose persever ance have realised our wealth—whose blood has been shed to win our victories—on whose labour we rely for our commercial pre-eminence, and in whose bravery alone we can trust for national safety,— the people have, as precedent shows, hitherto been mere fatted calves to be slain for the benefit and at the will of the territorial aristocracy. But the time seems come for changing much of that •, and the pre cedents are hereafter likely to show the adoption of a different line of policy. The struggles of two cen turies ago established the right of the House of Com mons to compel the summoning of parliament. The mode adopted for securing that power was to put the continuance of the army and the voting of the public money at the disposal of the re presentatives of the people. The Commons vote the Mutiny Act for one year only, because tho executive are thereby compelled to summon parlia ment again to meet within that year. In the same manner the monies required by the state are voted for a limited term, and it is perfectly constitutional for the House of Commons to sanction the supplies for any limited period that may seem desirable. Mr. CHARLES VILLIERS'S motion on the subject or free trade is a motion—says the ministerial Standard — without precedent. It may or may not be judicious. This point there will be opportunities hereafter for discussing, but another step might with perfect constitutional propriety he taken—and .it is this. To defeat a government like that of lord DEnev—a government, be it remembered, avowedly in power on the unconstitutional basis of a minority—should it be needful so to do, the liberal party might, if so in clined and so advised, vote the Mutiny Act and the supplies for six months instead of twelve. The liberals would not think of adopting the extreme measure of stopping the supplies, but they might give them for such a period as would compel the present Plume MINISTER to submit himself at an early period to that parliamentary control which is the sole basis of liberty in all constitutional countries. MAILS FOR THE Wart CHART OF SOUTH AMERICA —The following notice has been issued by command of the Postmaster-General :—" Her Majesty's government, haring renewed their contract with the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, for the conveyance of the mails twice a month, instead of ONCC a month, na formerly, between Panama, Callao, and Valparaiso, the new arrangement will com mence in connexion with the outward West India mail of the 2nd March next, and mails fir the Western Coast of South America, will be (urinal...lA, thenceforward, by the West India pac kets leaving Southampton fir Chagrec, on the mornings of the 2nd and Mb of each month. When, . however, the 2nd or lith of the mouth falls on a Sunday, the mails for the Pacific, u sera 1411 those for the West Indies will be despatched on the following morning. Permission hag been given for the packets of the Pacific Company to call at the undermentioned ports: New thanada Buenaventura. Peru : Pnyta, Callao, Picric, Way, Arica, Yguigue. Bolivia: CohiJa. Chili: Caldera, Hoare'', Coquimbo, Volporabo. The rate of wo:stage chargeable upon letters fur New Granada will he Is. the halnownee, lie., and ulna letters addressed to any other part of the western coast of South Am. rice, the post ! ago will he 2s. when not exceeding half an ounce in weight: 45., when above half an ounce, and not exceeding one ounce, and so on, according to the scale for charging inland letters. Newspapers addressed to the Biafra of New Granada, Ecua dor, Bolivia, and Peru, will be forwarded free from post age, as at present. Newspapers addressed to Chili will he liable to a rate of 4d. each. I ___ll.2__