The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-28 00:00:00

TRIUMPH OF THE LIBERAL PARTY IN

BELGIUM.

intention to facilitate his advent to power, bat by
setting him up last month in opposition to M. Ver.
haegen, and this day to M. Mitotic, they hoped to
raise insurmountable obstables to the return of
liberals to office. Their calculation was this : In
the present critical state of the relations of this
country with France, his Belgian Majesty must be
extremely desirous of having a ministry with's*
delay. It may be taken for granted that
under existing circumstances he will invite
the President of the Chamber of Repr►
soitatives, as the personification of the pat-Ur
mentary majority, to undertake the task of com-
posing a cabinet. If M. Delehaye be elected presi-
dent, he cannot succeed in forming a ministry
after the failure of ?4. de }kweekere, and in the
case the clerical or react. i party will arrive,
naturally as it were, to dim Mel lisilarten
their calculation ; but they wn bus
H. Deltosse, a sound and soodisd
the majority of votes for dim pose d nt, the
numbers being Si for him, and 60 . Delehays.
The former will, no doubt, be nimmoned to the
royal presence to-night, or in the Norse of to-mor-
row, and the impression is that he will not decline
the task of composing a cabinet, milers, as on s
former occasion, he be able to find a competent
substitute.

How high the spirit of party runs will be seen by
the following extract from the Emancipation of this
evening—one of the organs of the clerical, and,
according to all appearances, of even the French
party, in this kingdom:
" The triumph of the Left in the election of the
President and Vice-Presidents will be tantamount to
a rupture with France, to the sacrifice of the linen
trade, and to a crisis in our mineral and coal dis-
tricts. Such a triumph will render the construction
of a cabinet impossible, will lead to parliamentary
anarchy, and bring on commercial perturbation."
The final majority for M. Delbase was 54, the num-
ber of votes for M. Delehaye being 49. Two vetea
were given to M. Veydt, and one member put a
blank in the ballot-box. Count Vilain XIV. has
been elected first Vice-President of the Chamber.
The victory of the Liberals has carried the greatest
joy throughout this city, and the intelligence was
telegraphed off immediately to Paris, where it will
excite no slight dissatisfaction in a certain quarter.
The above-quoted paper of yesterday mays:—" The
ministry, with the construction of which M. de
!Smuckere is charged, will appear to-morrow, or on
the next day, in the Moniker."

simpli the dem, of authority en the one ltaistuTsii
a great national danger as the other. Since
founded the Anna samisray end the
French empire by emsquet. all Hie have
all have Una national. They have
all been chosen and sleeted by the free will of the
nation, not imposed upon it by any foreign power.
To this circumstance the historical essayist of the
CONSiaIaiMUSIII attributes the "immutability of the
national character." Ho argue that while limo hes
wrought changes for good or for evil in all other na.
tiona, the Frenchman of the 19th century has the
same distinctive merits and faults as the Gaul of the
time of Caesar. An Englishman of the t days
ho contends, has nothing in commis with the Baum
of the time of Harold, the 11_111141111a.4.411111111 111

Richard Comm de Lion, or thiTcontemporary of
Shakespeare. He invites a comparison between
the Black Prince and the Duke of Welling-
ton, two types of the English nation at two
different epochs, two men equally dear to their
nation, because equally fatal to France, for the pur-
pose f showing what changes time, protestantism,
and trade have made in the national characteristics
of Englishmen. I will not stop my analysis to in-
quire tho meaning of this curious jumble of three
heterogeneous elements of the change alluded to, nor
to criticise the taste of the illustration. The writer
proceeds to say that the continuity of the French
national character accounts for the severe logic of the
events of French history, and that an examination of
the certain evident causes of changes of dynasty in
France will show them to have all been almost ex-
actly identical. Each crisis has arisen from similar
circumstances, and has been solved in nearly the
same manner. The descendants of Clovis fell be-
cause the " long-haired race of kings," the
" faintans" were not equal to the task of saving
French society from Saxon invasion in the north,
and Christianity from Muasulman invasion in the
south. Here was weakness on one hand and danger
on the other. God then raised up Pepin d'Henstal
and Charles Martel, the precursors of the Carlovin-
gian dynasty, speedily called to the empire by the
voice of the church and the prayers of the people.
Two centuries later this dynasty, that fulfilled its
mission so gloriously in the person of Charlemagne,
was undermined by the development of the feudal
system. Unable to protect the people from the de-
vastations of Norman inroads, its authority became
despised. The exploits of Robert the Strong and
Hugh the Great against the Normans won public
admiration, and led to the foundation of the third
dynasty, which was established when Hugh Capet,
Count of Paris, Abbot of St. Denis, a feudal king,
the friend of the priests, a wise and prudent man,
and the founder of modern monarchy, mounted the
throne. The head of the article being "The fourth
Dynasty," we jump at once from Hugh Capet to
Napoleon. The necessities of the argument oblige us
to assume that in the interval there were no weak
monarchs and no pressing dangers. The Revolution
of 1789 created a new society, new interests, and
new wants; and at the same time let loom hordes of
barbarians—the Huns and Vandals of the nineteenth
century—who have menaced Europe with total ruin
for the last fifty years. Out of the fall of the Bam-
boos and the perils of Jacobinism grew the mis-
sion of Napoleon, which was and is to
organise new society, to conquer anarchy,
to enable France to enjoy the benefits of
the revolution, and at the same time to bring the
revolutionary period to an end. That extraordinary
man understood and was equal to his mission : he
was at once the Pepin d'Heristal, the Robert the
Strong, the Charlemagne, and the Hugh the Great
of his race. Ho was overthrown by the efforts of
coalesced Europe, but his name retesined in the
hearts of the people. His aon never ceased to be
endeared to them by the bitterness of his exile and
his melancholy destiny, and finally his nephew and
heir had only to pronounce his name at a moment of
political perplexity to bring to him the mass of
the people, who invested him with the supreme
magistracy. By these marvellous signs, the ar-
gument concludes the establishment of a dynasty
may be recognised. It will be observed that the 34
years of peace and frequent prosperity enjoyed un-
der the Bourbons after the overthrow of Napoleon, is
unceremoniously passed over, and thrown into the
period of 50 years peril. But, such as it is, this his-
torical sketch is the best attempt that I have lately
seen to place Napolconi-m ins rational light, and not
upon the basis of blind hero worship and degrading
superstition. Bina it is clear that the fourth dynasty
will be installed, if not established, an inquiry into
the causes of its existence is at least a fair subject for
speculation.
The commander of the French post at Babel, on
the Senegal, about 180 leagues from the mouth of
the river, has reported to the Minister of Marine,
that last year he visited a portion of the river above
the Cataract of Felon, where the ricer falls from a
height of between 15 and 20 yards. This fall is
about 30 leagues distant from Babel. The prin-
edpal object of the journey was to ascertain whether
the obstacle presented to navigation by the cataract
siktt not be avoided, and it was ascertained that it
eould be by the iraprovemest of a natural road
known to the natives. Tba tommander proceeded
20 days' journey beyond the Pam He was every
where received by the chiefs of the different tribes in
a very cordial manner, and they memilksted autrong
desire to enter into relations dememeree and Mead-
ship with France. The populations et the dilhemt
soontrim, who had long been M mar, were then at
peace ; and they appeared indedelons. Their oc-
eepation is agricultural, and they pram* millet
and rice in abundance. Frees what the commander
learned, it would be easy to cultivate °Wilsons
grain in those countries, and to tern the natural pro-
ductions, amongst which appears to be gotta perch*,
to account. The Minister of the Marine has ceased
the report of the commander to be published in the
Rivals Cbloniak, and has directed the attention of the
Chambers of Commerce shall be called to it.

A Illeniateh from the Governor of—Senegal an-
num' the wreck of the brig Apollon, of Marseilles,
on the 11th July, on the coast of Cayor, in the mouth
of the Senegal. It was proceeding to Gambia in
ballast. The natives made no attempt at pillage,
and all that could be removed from the vessel was
saved.
From the return just published of the movement
in the beet root sugar manufactory, from the lit of
September to the end of that month, it appears that
34 manufactories only had resumed work, which is,
however, one more than last year at the same date.
The quantity produced was 188,490 kilogrammes, or
103,832 kilos. more than last year. The quantity
delivered to consumption from manufactories and
from entrepots shows a total of 3,249,139 kilos., being
a decrease of 163,771 kilos. from the former, and an
increase of 677,324 kilos. from the latter. There re-
mained in the manufactories 7,874,479 kilos., and in
entrepot 947,349 kilos., being an increase of 2,804,018
kilos. for manufactories, and of 194,418 kilos. for the
entrepots on the mutts of the oorrespoodiug periods
of the preceding season.

At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents fell
35c., closing at 108.60. The Three per Cents, closed
without change at 81.10. The Dieppe Railway rose
20L; Havre, 15; Northern, 13.75; Orleans, 10;
Marseilles, 6.25; Bordeaux and Test*, Bt. Germain,
and Straeburg, 5 each.
PARIS, WIDNIIIDAT EYSKIKO.
The iecree of October 23, prohibiting the amalga.
mation of mines without the authorisation of govern-
ment, has made a great sensation among the mining
companies, to many of whom it is an unexpected
blow of a most serious description. One great reason
for the comparative unproduetiveness of the French
coal mines is their subdivision among a number of
small companies, unable to command sufficient capi-
tal to work them properly. There are at least 270
different coal mines in France which do not together
produce more than 6 millions of tons, a quantity
barely equal to the product of 10 of the great Eng-
lish mines. Although the number of concessions
originally made to mining oompaniss is so large,
there sic not, perhaps, at this moment more

• I PARIS, TORISDAT ETINIKO.
BRUSSELS, TisanlsEvan' v The caolutioiohi ha an nnionaliat
artist
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inimical :o its liberal constitution, and blevoted to psalm* which, foe the most , are mere odes
Louis Napoleon, has been defeated otitheithet. prose, nting Louis Na as all wise, all
werfalall its ignoble intrigues, and ItsOM! more e Nkirteons, all po . article begins by
he that the hundatios et a attempts to divide the libersemaientr•- Not Krim
to put forward a candidate of its own for the poet' dybasty one or:rig:most curious plissomena that
President of the Chamber of Representatives, that Inatory can offer to the meditations bf the thinker
party again toted this day fur M. Delehaye, one of and the observation of the statesman. The law
the members for Ghent, and hitherto a stanch liberal, which governs these phenomena in Prance, it how-
Div reactionary supporters had not, of course, any ever professes to have discovered. That law is
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