The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15.

LAST night Mr. Dfintatm prepared for the event
that now " looms" in his future by indulging the
House of Commies with a short specimen of the art
of trimming. A few days ago he told us that he
and the Budget were positively "to stand or fall" by
the vote now pending on tho double House Tax. Last
night he sang a different song in these words:—" All
" the Government wanted the house to do was
to come to some decision upon the prin.
• ciple of the Budget, end to allow them to
" tike one vote before Christmas. Thsy had no de-
" sire to pledge any honourable member, by the vote
" he should give on the present issue, with regard to
" the details of the financial scheme; all that they
" wanted the house to do was to pronounce an
" opinion as to the advisability of extending the area
" of direct taxation ; and, then, if that question was
" decided in the affirmative, leave it for a future oc-
" easion to discuss the details of the mesanres which
" were to be agreed to, in consequence of the odor-
" tion of that extended system of direct taxation."
A few dais ago the matter was put broadly and
valiantly
.that one vote was to decide the contest—
one decision to rule both Budget and Government,
by which they declared their positive intention to
abide. Now, they humbly ask for " one vote before
" Christmas," by which "they have no desire to pledge
0 honourable gentlemen "—nor themsekes. Tho'
one vote, when that vote seemed likely to go in their
favour, was the source of their valour; now it be-
comes the basis of their supplication. Whilst the
impending verdict seemed likely to be theirs, be it
they declared they would be bound ; now their
Budget has been exposed, and the balance inclines
against tLem, they prepare to say the verdict is a
thing of uo consequence—" which they have no de-
" sire" to regard as a "pledge." Are the Ministers
of litre of a great nation to be permitted to follow
such tactics?

Whilst the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
was giving this indication of the white leather
in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister,
Earl Decay, was playing an equal) cha-
ruteristio part in the Lords. The Lower Chamber
was to be bambooeled, the Upper Chamber to be
bullied. Mr. Dialuitul raid, Clive us one vote, and
we will not pledge you ; Lord DERBY said, in
effect, venture to vote against me and I resign.
The Upper House of Landlords, it is well known,
wishes to keep a Tory government in Ogee, and their
present Leader knows full well, therefore, how to
get them into action upon the Lower Home of
Landlords. " The decision of the House of Com-
" mons, whatever it may be, cannot be without
important and immediate consequences upon the
" position of the Government itself.' So said Lord
DERBY last night, and he went on to add something
still more plain
I think it is of great Importance that the country should
not long be kept in mucosa as to the course of proceeding
which parliament will ado 4, nor with regard to the haw&
by wham the systmg of I,,sistion is Mehl to be carried out.
I hope a few cloys, or It may be a few hours, will decide
that qaestion is far Si the other house of parliament t.
concerned. I regret, my lords, that in consequence of the
discoidal which has taken place, of which, however, I do
sot wish to wimple n, It is ounsary that your lordships
shou:d meet day after day, with little or no businem to trans-
act, for the purpose of sitting here a few minutes sod than
adjourning. lam unions, as soon as the decision of the
House of Comma., is proaeiansed--es seen es * resole.
nose ate atoned, if affirmed they are to be, that your lord-
eßVlsisuld he released from that which I swam bet con-
ga* es a gnat extent, year unsesseere stosisdancs; bet
was the Mein te whisk I have rshered, end he us-
er" Weft mow It, vomit la Muslim end
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sum / I reenninended se eirennimele of this how for
egigg iseeeileges jpereepsl4.4...zziff. should dunes
Ms crown yds of this and tes
mew hew if peritonea.. t e acme Was d may b. wareaory
for the amen to hose reeeeree M Mar thomestiate advice am
sastessies. (Heer, bear.)
Attar these hints from the Premier the Peers will
torureolumt the screw at once upon their county and
seminees whilst Mr. DISRAELI striven to
beg a few Issielative loose Rah by humbly solicit-
leg " only see vete," which is, to pledge nobody,
nal which is 04 needful to tide the ricketty
Mleisterial barque over the Christmas holidays.
The shattered Budget was still further damaged
lid night. Sir Lutes GRAHAM, Mr. Locus, Sir J.
V.Bneu.rr, Mr. Waxticsox, Mr. HPOLST Peturr,
and various other members, contributed to the long list
of petitions already presented from constituencies
against the financial scheme ; and all the telling
speeches of the evening leant the same way. One
long, loud, argumentative cry rings through the
country,—finding representation in the press and
voice in the Commone—against any change in our
Mention meant to increase its present inequality of
pressure. Sir I.Oascum ably exposed Mr. Disaszta's
attempted trick for narrowing the issw on which
the debate was to continue and the division to take
plum The veteran Nellie showed the impossibility
a:permitting the Tories to carry out any such shuffle.
The debate has been upon the whole Budget
Hew Tax, Malt Tax, and all. Upon that the dis-
miss meet still be had, and apes that the vote be
Woe. N. ebeau can be permitted to replace the
reality. The Home mist asset reject the Budget
as at first propelled by the Onexcsuks of the Ex-
amen, he anther. Wd most know, yea
or nay, whether the present House of Commons
are prepared to impose 21 per cent. tax on
houses, whilst land is to rest as before at 3
per cent. ; whether increased direct taxes are to
be levied chiefly upon that class who now contribute,
the bulk of the thirty-two and a half millions paid
by indirect taxation; whether the willing horse, in
short, is to be ruined by overloading, whilst its coni-
nions escape comparatively soot free? Sir
JOHN PaximoTon rashly attempted to reply
to Sir JAMES GRAHAM, but he failed com-
pletely in his arguments, though, in attempting
to repeat the Daum shuffle, ho succeeded in get-
Meg into the Ministerial quagmire which the
Cuscuton of the EXCHEQUER had prepared in,
the early part of the evening. Altogether the signs
and symptoms of yesterday foreshadow an impend-
ing Ministerial defeat.

(biToN MILL AT ASHTON ON FIEL—OIR Mon-
day afternoon the Won thinning mill of Mews. Thomas
Neils! end Sou, Asktonnader-Lyae, took the, whilst the
hangs were at work. and was with difficulty saved after the
-doetruetion of the two sipper stories. A boy was waking
through the blowing ream. is the upper obey, with a !as-
ter, and some of the Seel lying about ht said to have
' Ignited and set Ire to a leper roam of eottem. The asigh-
bowleg meaufsentiee sent their fire-engiam, and alto- I
gather not telethon Neve. of these machines were brought
together. Thebes is reported at 6,0001., partly covered by '
insurances in tho )lanchester, West of England, sad other
atom.
MIDLAND COUNTIES CATTLE AND POULTRY-I
Snow —litnutnostam, Dec. 14.—Thu being the private
view " day, the show was visited by a large number of the 1
leading agriculturists in various parts of the eountry. By
them a very gneral opinion was expressed that there was
not a bid animal intim yard. la the anise of the day
the visitors numbered 8,000, sad 'mended a very imasider-
able number of the aristocracy. The dinner look place at
the Royal Hotel lest *treeing, rider the presidency of Lord
Caltborpe, and wee very numerously attended. Is the
worse of the day poultry was sold to the amount of Goa

• • •
b BAL 'MASQUE AT Ruat-LANL—M. Jullicn's tt-
tirement for his Intimated* expedition was , receded, ou
Mondey envies, by be. of those strange, grotesque, and, '
to suniben, still attreetin entertainments, known ruder
the name of bet nevem The splendid glees curtain, .Lich
was tint introduced tore or three year, ego, added to the
brilliancy of the decoestions, and the fronts of the boxes I
were adorned with drapery iu lull harm 'ny with the sur-
rounding festivity. There was the usual display of chant,
ten, from oriental peeks' down toms old woman (punnet_
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by a malt) drowsed ep Se an orange geUtri IdeacitY, Poetical
joking, and what the French terns abandon. Pecalhof
throughout the sight. M Jellies's bead was in felt
strength.

FItANCE.
PARIS, Tunsnav Evssixo.
The Emperor's visit to Compiegne is postponed.
The Benallay Cosiemewm settling the Emperor's
civil list is officially lipromulgated. I have already
made you acquainted with the substance of it. It
differs in no respect from my anticipatory accounts.
The Emperor is to have one million sterling per
annum, besides all the royal palaces, parks, forests,
&e. 1,600,000 fr. per annum is allotted for the im-
perial princes, and the amount of dowry for the
future Empress is left for after consideration. The
allusion in M. Cesabianat's report to repairs necessary
for "comfort" at Versedlin, seems to point to the
probability of the Emperor residing in that palace.
By a decree of the Emperor, the administration of
the civil list and of the dotation of the crown, is con-
fided to M. Achille Fould, who takes the titlu of
Minister of State and of the Household of the Em-
peror. He is charged to establish, on the proposi-
tion of the high functionaries of the household,
the general budget, and submit it to the approbation
of the Emperor, and all the expenses of the house-
hold will he paid by the treasurer on the order of the
I minister. He will have the general management of
the revenues of the crown, and of the civil lilt of
whatever kind they may be.
The Moniker contains despatches from General
Random, the governor of Algeria, and General
Peliasier, with accounts, set incomplete, of the taking.
of Laghouat. It appears to have been a bloody
affair so far as the natives were concerned, General
Bousearen was severely wounded by a musket-ball
while marching to the attack ; two commandants
were also wounded, but the returns of casualties had
not been received when General Peliasier wrote.

On Sunday the Emperor gave a grand military
dinner at the 'Tuileries to the marshals of France and
the general and other officers commanding corps in
the army of Paris. All the ministers were present.
Yesterday evening his Majesty went to the Theatre
Francais.
A decree of the Emperor extends the benefit of :he
amnesty granted to deserters from the eavy to de-
serters from merchant ships.
I have not repeated the various rumours cur-
rent during tho last few days with respect to the
Emperor, matrimonial projects, because I have not
been able to find that any of them test upon
any good foundation. It does, however, seem to be
certain that the match with the Princess Wass is
broken off. I have been assured privately that this
is owing to the influence of foreign courts with the
lady', family. Yon are aware that some time since
rumour had found another husband for her in the
person of Prince Albert of Saxony. This statement
was positively contradicted the other day by a Ger-
man newspaper, which asserted that Prince Albert
was engaged to a lady of the d'Este family. I now
however observe the following paragraph in the
Assemblie Nationale, a journal in a position to Le
well informed upon such a subject :
We leant that the mininge of the Princess Was* with
Prince Albert of Saxony is definitively settled, and on the
point of being concluded. The prince has gone to Prague,
where the marriage will take place.