The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-28 00:00:00

The Nation is still more explicit. It wipe :

Although the Afoniteur may be in certain awe a journal
just like another, and although i► has a non-official part, it
is notorious that not a line is printed in it without great
discriscioatien. It doss not lightly opera even its non-
official columns to an order of news which certainly does
not come under the head of Ante diver.. It il indeed true,
as the France says, that the Moniker published messages
from Jefferson Davis, and the publication was not equiva-
lent to a recognition of the States of the South. That is
true ; but it may still be safely said that the French go.
visroment bad in its heart more sympathy with the South
than with the North. Suppose DLzani or Garibaldi
were one of thew days to issue a revolutionary
manifesto, does not everybody know that their
proclamation would not pass the threshold of the Afoniteurl
We persist, therefore, in our appreciation of the event. The
publication of the Polish manifesto was not such an indif-
ferent matter as the France and Pays now pretend. It was
a serious affair, and the public were right in so understanding
It. We °sly wish that the semi-official journals may now
be right in their interpretations.

The fact seems to be, as I conjectured originally,
that the publication made, after great deliberation,
was in reality intended to be merely a barren
offering to public opinion, and not iu any way as
the Temps and other friends of Poland professed to
hope, au "indication" of any logical course of
action whatever. The public construed the act
as they were intended to construe it, and the
explanation now officially given was also contem-
plated beforehand. There was a rumour at the
Bourse yesterday that the form chosen for counter-
acting the natural effect of the step would be "a
reassuring" paragraph in the Moniker' but it was
thought less flagrantly oontradictory, aad !suppose
more clever, to keep the Moniker silent ; to get
the Pays and France to tell the enormous lies
aforesaid, setting forth, among other things, that
there was no " solidarity" on the part of the French
government on account of a publication in the
Moniker, seeing that the official journal had pub-
lished some of Mouraviers despatches ; and
then to put in the Mossifeur this morning
the Emperor of Russia's speech Ito the Finland
Diet by way of illustrating the proposition that
the Monifeur is a " journal like any other," and
gives all important news alike impartially. The
trick is contemptible, and will deceive no one.
Russia will certainly not feel complimented at'
having the speech of her sovereign' who has an
ambassador at Paris, put on a par with
a manifesto of a secret society at Wanaw in rebel-
lion against him. It is really painful, when one
would be anxious to have something important to
communicate upon the momentous question of the
day, to be forced to dwell upon chicanery like this.
The Bourse is a shade better, but without any
marked change.
In all probability France will, in addition to its I
other wars, have to wage one immediately against
Madagascar. Thelatesduewsis very menacing. Oom-
mender Duprd and the famous M. Lambert found,
when thevarrived at the island, that a price was set
upon their heads and consequently they pendently
resolved to remain ou board she ship of war which
brought them thither. the new Queen, who bad,
it is said, promised to ratify M. Lambert's treaties,
now wants them altered.