The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-04 00:00:00

WEATHER REPORT.

THIIRSDAY,

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Nano ..... 210.791

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BATT...DAY.
8.;W., meanie to gOaTIAND. g. to W., moderate,
sh. some rain.
As above, with some 1111AWD. 8.11. W. to W.N.W., mo-
nth. dente. 'bowery.
8.8.5 to W.S.W., fresh, W. Cxxxitss. As next above.
moderate. rainy.
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s.w.ssaLsws. s.s.w. to W., mode-
rate, showery.
S.E. to S.W., ►resh to ILL INGLiND. S. to W.. moderate,
moderate. with showers.
As next above, with E. mut S.S.E. to W.S.W., ribo-
some rain. derate, some rain.

The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
have just issued the first of a series of tracts, having for
their object to enlighten the public on the sole cause of the

slave.hohling rebellion in the United States.
The A inumoxh de Gotha for 1863, which has just
appeared, maintains King Francis IL as sovereign of the
Two Sicilia, and the Pope as the powwow:lr of the three
provinces which have been taken from him.
A Berne letter says :—" The young Prince of
Conde, son of the Duke d'Aumale, is about to pursue his
studies at the College of Lausanne. Re is confided to the
care of the Swiss Colonel Albert, who transferred his resi-
dence recently from Geneva to Lausanne."
The Comrade, an Austrian military journal,

says :—" The number of muskets which the state manu-
factories have, as yet, sold to the United States, amounts
to 80,000. The price was fixed at 23 florins each, which,
according to the rate of exchange, makes • total of two
millions of francs. At that price there is • profit of 15
per cent. on the cost of the manufactr.e. A special agent
sent by the Washington government to Vienna concluded

the bargain."
The Paris Muniteur says :—"The imperial
library has been authorised by imperial decree to accept the
donation made to it by the Duke de Lurie', of his magni-
ficent collections, composed of 6,893 coins, 373 cameos,
engraved stones, aoi cylinders ; 188 pieces of jewellery in
gold ; 39 bronze statuettes, 43 snits of armour and ancient
arms, 85 Etruscan and Grecian vases, a great number of
monuments of different kinds, a superb head of a Roman
statue in bronze, and an admirable tone of Venus in Gre-
cian marble. The learned world will appreciate the great
importance of this patriotic donation."
The Arab chiefs v.lio are now guests at Com-
&gee have, it appears, obtained, to use a theatrical phrase,
a great enccess." They spend an hour at prayer in the
morning, and at 9 they are served with a cup of milk and
coffee. They partake of a frugal breakfast in their apart-
ments at 12. The six chiefs are of lofty stature, which is
set off to advantage by their dream. On Saturday a stag
hunt was given in the forest of Compiegne in their honour.
The stag was totted at the Puits du Rai, io the forest., and
was killed in a ditch at Roysllieu. The Emperor and Em-
press, dressed in the quaint costume of the time of Louis
XV., took an active share in the sport. The Arabs appeared
greatly pleased. They were mounted on thoroughbred
horses, selected from those of the Chalmers de Is Garde ;
they dashed forward as if they were coursing over their
own desert, and they surprised the most practised horse-
men by their speed.
" It is said," says the Union, "that Cardinal
Antonelli, who had until now been simply • deacon, is
about to be ordained • priest."
The Havre journals state that owing to some
misunderstanding, the French mail-bags for the West
Indies were not sent off in time to meet the English mail-
steamer which left Southampton on the 2nd inst. The
Courrier du Harre says that the bags were closed at the
Post-office precisely at 8 o'clock, to go by the Alliance,
which was to start at that hour, and it was expected that
the captain, knowing the mail was not on board, would
have waited • few minutes for it. However, when the
Post-offiee clerk arrived on the quay, precisely at four
minutes past 8, the Alliance was under weigh and already
in the outer port.
The New York Herald of Nov. 21 observes that
" Admitting that the French succeed in fighting their way
to the city of Mexico, which is quite probable, owing to
their superior discipline and experience in the field, how
many, is it supposed, out of these 30,000 men will get
there' The force which General Scott. took with Dim to
Mexico did not,with the reinforcements sent to him, amount
to a leas number. Of these he bad only 9,000 when be
entered the capital, his losses by sickness largely exceeding
the casualties in the field. Is it to be expected
that disease will make leas havoc in the ranks of the
French than amongst our hardy volunteers, or that the
Mexicans will fight less well than they did in the war with
us' On the contrary, they have gained largely since then
in military experience, sad 801110 of their generals are re-
puted to be as capable as any in the European or American
armies. It is certain, then, that if the city of Mexico is
ever taken by the French it will be at • sacrifice of men and
maney that will render it a most costly acquisition, and one
that it will be impossible to retain. All the superfluous
blood end treasure of France could not permanently secure
such • conquest, still less so when the close of the rebellion
leaves us free to act. The further this foolish enterprise
progresses, the more we are satisfied that, unless Louis Na-
poleon takes some cosily pretext to back out of it, he will
find his Moscow in Mexico as surely as did his uncle in

Russia."
The following is the speech deliverea by General
M'Clellan on being nerenteled at New York, a fortnight
since :—" My friends— I thank you kindly for this spon-
taneous tribute of regard. I accept it not for myself but for
the Army of the Potomac, which I once commanded, and
in which you are so deeply interested. Every battle from
Yorktown to Antietam has added new proofs of the
courage and devotion of the citizen soldiers of New
York—(loud applause)—and has inereased the great
debt of gratitude due to them by their country.
(Applause.) No portion of this broad ropublic has
more liberally poured out its millions of treason and I
thousands of brave men in the wan of the country than this
great metropolis. (Applause.) At the commencement of
the struggle no community was more prompt in responding
to the appeal of the government for aid. No community
had a greater stake in the stoma of the canoe than this,
and ewe is more closely bound by the ties of kindred to
the army with which I have been so long associated. I,
therefore, and my former comrades, will feel deeply honoured
by the occurrences of this evening ; and it is with a heart
fell to overflowing with gratitude that I agill
thank
till a
you
for your presence to-night. You know that am s
soldier, awl, therefore, you will expect no speech from me.
You will, therefore, now permit me to say—good night."

PRUSSIA.

MOM A

BONN, Dac. L
Although but a rumour, I am unable ab-
solutely to discredit the announoemeat that
the King of Paussis and his Minister, after
calling the Chambers together in January, and
making to them a vain remonstrance, begging the
Lower House to retrace its steps and undo its votes,
will then dissolve Parliament, and, altering the
electoral law by ordinance, proceed to the holding
of elections for a new Chamber on the principle of
direct and universal suffrage. This, we know, is
the grand political panacea recommended by the
Emperor NAPOLEON to all, like himself, in posses-
lion of unrighteously established power. No
doubt it is the advice that he proffered to M. DE
BISMARK, as it is that which he has always pressed
upon Vrcros. Eutswirst.
Universal suffrage in a country accustomed to
that great political operation, and educated to it
—in a country, moreover, which enjoys self-govern-
ment and freedom of speaking and of writing—is a
very different thing from universal suffrage in a
land in which either a feudal aristocracy reigns
supreme, or where the authorities appointed by
Government, and completely under its dictation
and control, not only wield paramount influence
over those under their jurisdiction, but have com-
plete power over the electoral lists and the ballot
box. Every one must see the particular cir-
cumstances which have enabled the French
EMPEROR not only to base his throne upon uni-
versal suffrage, but to draw from it a Chamber
that acquiesces in his rule. It may be doubted
whether there is any country in Europe where
the same system, however adroitly managed, would
produce the same effects.
The Emperor NAPOLEON'S system is simply the
setting aside of all that is independent of the
middle clan, in order to base the Government un
the forced or ignorant adhesion of the multitude.
The late King of PRUSSIA, aided by all the intelli-
gence of his friends and courtiers, laboured to
frame a Constitution of the very opposite kind—
wrongfully and absurdly in the opposite extreme.
He first of all established two degrees of election, and
then gave to the more wealthy, or the highest tax-
paying voters, a predominance that seemed to secure
the whole political weight in the Commons to
the more enlightened and wealthy of the
middle and educated classes. Nothing could have
been more easy than for the Crown to have agreed
with such a Chamber. But both the late and the
present King, instead of trusting to that body,
sympathising with it, and pursuing the path
marked out by its moderately liberal tendencies,
successively thought it prudent to give a large share
of their political confidence and friendship to an
old, narrow, aristocratic, and feudal party, opposed
to constitutional government altogether. The con-
sequence of that policy was not only to
irritate, but to increase year after year the
suspicions of the Chamber, and to extend the
feeling of mistrust in the Government amongst
the middle-class representatives in Parliament,
and the body of the people out of doors.
The KING sought to remedy this by disso-
lution after dissolution ; and the result of these
violent remedies was gradually to wear away the
Conservative provisions inserted by the late King
in the electoral law. The last elections literally
took place under the influence of popular acclama-
tion ; and instead of • moderate and middle-clan
Chamber, there came to be one with a large
minority—by a third, at least—of thorough
radical and ultra-popular politicians.
With these the Monarch found it, of course,
more difficult to agree ; but he brought the diffi-
culty on himself. And now, like a desperate
gambler, if the report be true, he is about to
play a larger stake. The result of direct
election by universal suffrage in Prussia
during its present excitement can be no other
than to get together a Chamber that will
keep no terms with the Crown. Such an essay
must end in revolution or in counter-revolution.
Perhaps the Monarch's advisers count upon the
latter, and deem that they are about to seize the
only mode of extricating the Crown from the folly
of having given representative institutions at all.
The worst thing that the King of PursalA can
do is to meddle with the electoral system at all.
That system may be a bad one. But he has sworn
to maintain it—that is, not to alter it, without
the consent of the other Estates of the realm. If
to his claim of a right to raise taxes without the
consent of Parliament he adds the other, of changing
the electoral law of the country by ordinance, he
merely strides a step further beyond the law, and
I assumes the character of an absolute monarch.
No one can wish, indeed, to see the "cate-
gories," as they are called, preserved. Every class
ought to have its fair i•fluence, without privi-
leged or preferential votes. And the sooner the
late King's electoral fantasies are cancelled the
better. But it is not for a King of PRUSSIA to
do this. He should leave that to the BONAPARTE%
who have shuffled and gambled with the pack of
electoral cards ever since they have had a political
existence.
Neither is any respect due to the two degrees of
election. M. Dr Too:lves-ma, indeed, declares it
to be the best and wisest way of procuring the
final election of men of political eminence and
ability. If this be the character and aim of double
election, all an impartial observer can say is that it
has totally failed in Prussia, whore the great de-
fect is that eminent and able politicians have not
been brought to the surface. With all due respect
to the chiefs of the constitutional party in Prussia,
not one of them has shown that commanding cha-
racter, or that political skill, so remarkable in the
statesmen whom Italy has produced within the last
fourteen years.
No doubt the Monarch personally is much,
perhaps most, to blame. He has a dislike of con-
trol, and shows as much repugnance to admit • man
of political superiority into his Cabinet as NAPOLEON
111. But still, in Prussia at least, if not in
France, a VINCKE or an AVERSWALD, or any of
their party, might have built up for himself a cha-
racter and a power in Parliament and in the
country, of which the Monarch, however jealous or
obstinate, must have been too glad to avail him-
self. Unfortunately, no one has taken such a lead.
Prussia, instead of giving birth to a CAVOI3R,
has nothing better to show the world than a
EISMAKK.

MASON JONSB AND TBS Nzw You DEVOCRATIL
—Mr. Mason Jones delivered a lecture lest evening, on
Curran and the Wits and Orators of the Irish Bar.
He engaged the attention of the audience till in one
point of his discourse he spoke favourably of the prineb
Am of the Abolitionists, and then • torrent of groans
drowned his voice, while those who favoured his cent .
manta loudly cheered him. A fight between the two par-
ties thus represented appeared imminent. Some of
those who hissed Mr. Mason were singled out, and per-
sonal altercations followed which added to the confusion and
uproar. Mr. Jones declared in the midst of the disturbance
that the anthem, could not hies him down ; and that if
! they wanted to him " he would give them something worth
hieing for." At this point an individual, apparently en-
; raged at the remark, rushed up to Mr. Jones and shook his
• fist in his face, remarking something that could not be
bawd. Portia order was subsequently restored, and the
lecturer proceeded, but it was evident that the oompara-
Mealy small audience who remained were not sufficiently
recovered to appreciate the discouree.—New York Irpreos,
i Nov. 20.

SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION.

NOMINATION.-(THIS DAY.)
(11T ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.)

(►ROY 01:11 OWN CORILLBIVIIDEr7.)

The nomination took place in the Gwldl,all at
10 o'clock this morning. The proceeding' throughout were
of a most noisy character.

Captain Mangles was proposed by Colonel Tryon and
wooded by Mr. J. T. Tucker.
The Lord Mayor (Mr. Alderman row) was propowri
Mr. W. J. Lefenyre, sad seconded by Mr. Joseph Lobb.
Mr. Scrams nominated the Hon. W. F. Cowper, but there
was no seconder, and the proposition was withdrawn.

Oaptain Mangles and the Lord Mayor spoke amidst a amp
of indescribable confusion.
The show of hands was declared to be in favour of the
Lord Mayor, and a poll wan demanded on behalf of Captain
Mangles, which takes place to-marrow.