The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-02 00:00:00

PATRIOTIC FUND.

The royal commissioners had a fall meeting at the
Palace of Westminster, on the 18th December, at which
his Royal Highneu Prince Albert was present, and may
resolutions were agreed to. In pursuance of the power
given by the royal commission, the following executive and
finance committee wu appointed by his royal highness and
her Majesty's government:—The Right Hon. Lord St-
Leonard., Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P., Sir Alexander
Spearman, Bart., Colonel the Hon. Jas. Lindsay, M.P.,
Vice Admiral Henry Hope, C. 8., Geo. C. Glyn, Esq., hl.P.►
Lient..Colonel Shafto Adair, M.P., W. G. Anderson, Esq.
(Treasury), R. C. Kirby, Esq. (chief accountant, War
office), Major R. J. Little. R.M., the hon. secretaries to the
Royal Commission of the Patrotic Fund, with power to
elect their chairman. The committee have had several
meetings, at the first of which they elected Lord St. Leo-
nard. their ehairman. The scales of allowances have bees
agreed upon, and the general mode of administering the
fond, and only await the approbation of the royal commis-
sioners, who will meet in a few days, when the plan will
.be finally settled and be put into immediate operation.
The larger portion of the fund has been invested, and the
balance in hand is about to be invested. In the mean-
time objects as they presented themselves have been re-
lieved. There are grounds for supposing that large as the
fund promises to be it will not exceed the probable demands
upon it. The committee have reason to believe that this,
for sours time, has keen the only fund for widows and
orphans.

NEW GOVERNMENT MUSKET FACTORY. The
government having resolved to be the manufacturers of
their own small arms, an extensive factory is now in pro-
gress of erection at Enfield Look, Middlesex. It will con-
tain the following arrangement of departments: Smithery,
brass foundry, picking room, annealing room, desiccating
room, metal store, engine and boiler house, packing room,
and peeking case department, storekeeper's offices, brown-

leg room, grinding and polishing room,cauhudening room,
and tool making department. The contract for the use is
taken by James Haywood, of Derby, who has recently
completed the New Manchester Market. The contractor
is bound to the completion in six month,. rho proceu of
setting out the ground hu commenced.
THE MIIBEITM OF ORNAMENTAL ART AT MARL•
nonouriti Housx.—The numbers attending, ito., during
the month et January, were as follows :-8,706 persons on
the pull@ days, and admitted free; 261 persons on the
efteieste. days, and admitted as students on the vitqatent 01
seeit, besides the registered student, tie the clines ea
sehslis• The =min is WV open, free, on Saturdays, for
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LONDON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 2.

LATEST
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BERLIN, FRIDAY.
Count Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador at this
court, has gone to Vienna.
M. Medan, who was charged with • mission to
the British court, and who left London a day or two
ohm, has been ordered to confer at Brussels with
the Prussian General de Wedell, who is entrusted with
a 'skim to the French government. IM. d'Ussdom
is expected to return to London.]

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FRANKFORT. Tx VISDAT.

The United Committees of the Germanic Diet
loudly proposed that, instead of a general mobilisa-
tion of the Federal army, the principal contingents
ehould be made ready for war. This was the Bava-
rian proposition ; it was supported by Prussia, acceded
to by Austria, and carried.

M. Bismarch Schunhausen, the Prussian Minister
at the Federal Diet, has banded in a declaration
which unveils to a considerable extent the tactics
of his Court. The Prussian Court not only incident-
ally declares that the conference. between the repre-
sentatives of Austria, France, England, Turkey, and
Russia will have no European character unless
Prussia be represented there, but give* a pledge " to
obtain for the Confederation the same participation

which it has reserved for itself."
The declaration closes with this remarkable lan-
Page
Ilia Pruuiau Majesty believes that be shall be able to
obtain f..r the confederation, and for each of its
members, a guarantee against all pretensions con•
buy to the dignity and interests of Germanys
even if the hope of an accommodation should not be
'Wiped Majesty will endeavour, with a view to such
ea accommodation, to obtain from the belligerent courts, by
confidential negotiations. guarantees t►at Germany shall
not be drawn into a war except for the defence of its own
interests. But apart from, and independent of, his efforta,
kis Majesty sees in his own power and that of Germany
sufileieot guarantees for the maintenance of the dignity,
the honour, and the rights of the common country.

HONOURS IN THE FRENCH ARMY.

The Mosiieur of yesterday contains in its official
part the names of those who have been confirmed in
the grades in the Legion of Honour (officers
and chevaliers) to which they had been pro.
visionally nominated by General Canrobert, and
the names of the non-commissioned officers

and soldier' upon whom a military medal had
been conferred in the same way. As the names
amount in all to nearly 900, and u the Chris-
tian name, the fact of a wound if wounded, and
the exact grade, previous honours, &c., are even—
ts list more than covers the first page of the Mewl-
teur. The list of chevaliers includes some physi-
cians, more than one Zonave, several sergeants, cor-
porals, grenadiers, sappers, &c.

BRUSSELS, TarRIIDAY.

Advice' from Berlin and Vienna report that great
anxiety is felt to ascertain the manner in which the
Austrian government will receive its recent check in
the Ditt. It is feared that after the position taken
up by Prussia, Austria cannot act up to its rights
as a European power without breaking up the con.
federation. It is believed that no determination will
be come to before the new English Ministry has been
constituted.—Doily News.

PARIS BOURSE.
PARIS, Tar:mkt

Closing prices:—Three per Cent. Rent's, for massy,
67.50; for account, 67.70; ditto Four•and-a-Half,
per Cents., for money, 93.25. Bank Shares, 2,990.
The Three per Cents. are fairly supported, but the
Four-and•a-Half per Ceuta. hare closed I per ant.
lowa than yesterday.—Daily News.

no • Gam& et Vienna states that, bailee
the Todd& d Ober Polo, two Nom
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weber the mama d Osumi rifisiee. fe emote
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loboirebewlew d Pe aka the tiff of tbe Odom.
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b bad soar the Sim of the lest of the Meek
ees in the OW el and to hiM the wain
to the Mime of The Pisimintem detach-
ment will be mistimed by British sal Fees& troops.
It is probable that Omni Gnosis, who, mem weeks
ago, recamoitred the Gulf of Kaffa, will jam the
Piedmoateee "moral Lord Raglan and General
Baguet ere to operate on the right bank of the
Tchernays, and Ghana Caarobert, with the staff
end the mane, is to remain before Sebastopol, in
ceder to support and cover the operations.

Zootoolca. Soclnt or Lon•os.—At the
nestbly psoral used's:, bald yesterday, at tbo Sodety's
Resat is Hesorer•gearo, Robert Rodeos, Esq., P.R.8.,
Who disk, Masers. B. B. Cold, mad G. W. Dell, wry
dead Felbws of the Society ; sod Masers. B. W. Guy,
IL,P., T. Walker, Hardier Giant, sail Latimer Clark
INN proposed as 'waists@ for die rallowskip.

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that /b. Cardea's beekb lee been eerkesly kayaked by
ItesigiVemest whisk be Me @beady eskers' kir the
abiesties et Mbe Asbuthsot, red smuts that,
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11/41114 /se hie mime hes amber esehtemeest.

THE SLANDER UPON THE QUEEN.

TEE instinctive love and veneration with which
Englishmen cling to their Sovereign was much
weakened during the reigns of the Third and Fourth
Gunton, by the knowledge that the personal
likings and disliking, of these monarchs influenoed

them too much in their choice of Ministers. The
Monarch of a free state, like England, ought to be
above personal prepossessions. By indnlgisg them
he lows himself to the rank of a subject. He
mewls be King of a people, and becomes merely
thelsoder of a party. For the Sovereign to indulge
personal piques, in a matter of such vital importance
to the State as the selection of his respon-
sible Ministers, is to degrade the Crown in the
eyes of the people, and weaken its legiti-
mate authority. For a subject to endeavour to
represent the Sovereign as sympathising with the
personal animosities of certain party leaders, and
mingling in their cabals, is little short of treason;
inasmuch as it may possibly place the Crown in
antagoaistio relations to the people.
Our readers will perceive at once that these re-
marks have been suggested by the indecent and
unmanly attempt made yesterday by the Times to
represent the QUEEN as mixed up with, and taking
an active part in, the personal squabbles and rad-
minations arising out of the present Ministerial
crisis. "The QUEEN herself," says the Times, "is
known to have expressed to Lord Jolts RUSSELL
her genes of condoot so much at variance with
the common principles of truth and honesty."
We believe this statement to be untrue. The
unscrupulous character of the Times is so uni-
versally known, that we have no doubt the groat
majority of the people of England will concur in this
opinion. They will not believe that their QUEEN
sea have so far forgotten what she owes to herself
sod her country, as to stoop to write a scolding letter
Man ex-Minister, on the strength of ex porte state-
ments made by the colleagues with whom he had
panelled, without stopping to hear his version of
tbs story. The audacity of the falsehood is almost
beyond conception. The people will judge of the
conduct of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his late
colleagues for themselves, upon the evidence
laid before them ; they cannot help doing so
if they would. It is possible—it is almost certain—
that they will decide in favour of Lord JOHN. The
hot haste of the Times to throw the QUEEN'S name
into the scale against him shows how much it fears
that the popular verdict will be in his favour. This
being the case, it is clear that, in order to 'observe
their own party purposes, the managers and inspirers
of the Times have not scrupled to expose their
SOVEREIGN to the risk of incurring popular odium,
without any fault on her pert. Such conduct is
traitorous in subjects towards a QUEEN—is base and
dastardly in men toward. a woman.
There is, however, this advantage to be gained from
the indecent and unmanly outrage offered to the
QUEEN in the columns of the Times. It shows to what
lengths the aristocratic factions who strive to monopolise
the high offices of state—to convert the houses of
Parliament into political "hells," where the tables
at which the clerks sit are rouge et noir tables, and
Ministerial appointments the stakes—and their tools
in the press will go in order to traduce and vilify a
political rival. If they display their malignity and
mendacity thus shamelessly in public, to what extent
will they not indulge them in the obscure shades of
clandestine intrigue? If the public could for a
moment believe that the QUEEN had written soak a
letter as the Times describes, they would ssib it is
because his late colleagues have been so ewer re pre-
occupy the Royal mind with impressions unfavourable
to Lord JOHN Rusar.u., in order to prevent his having

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an unprejudiced hearing front his Royal Mistress. This
would corroborate the suspicions which have gone
abroad that the Conservative section of the late
Coalition have kept themselves aloof fron► their
Liberal colleagues as an organised faction in the
Cabinet, and have laboured assiduously and unscru-
pulously to enlist the Court on their side by every
art of sycophancy and misrepresentation. It would
serve as an additional motive to the independent and
intelligent classes to make their voice heard through
that hedge which usurping and selfish aristocratic
factions have interposed between the Crown and the
people. -- _ _ - .

. .
One thing is certain ; and it is here stated not for
the information of the SOVEREIGN, who, there can be
no doubt, has been grossly belied by the Times, but
for the information of all paltry, courtly intriguers,
who imagine that the people will servilely model
their opinions of any statesman upon those attri-
buted to the throne. The people now judge of public
men by their actions, and will not submit to have cut-
and-dry judgments prescribed to them by authority. If
the people have reason to believe of any statesman that
he is wise, honest, and patriotic, they will insist upon
their representatives suppotting him and his policy,
even though the greatest person in the realm should
unfortunately be prepossessed against him. GEORGE
111. was long allowed to exclude Fox from
power because he hated him; GEORGE IV.
was long allowed to deny CANNING his
deserved position, because he hated him; but, even in
times when the power of the people was lees, these
eminently obstinate monarchs were at last compelled
to receive ea ministers the men they disliked. Now
that the people know their rights better, aed are in a
better condition to assert them, the exclusion of •
sagacious and patriotic statesman from office, in
deference to the personal feelings of the monarch,
would not be tolerated for an instant. This is said
not in behalf of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, or any other
individual, but as a truth of universal application,
which Court butterflies, and intriguers hackneyed in
the ways of Gales, will do well to lay to heart.—
Daily News.