The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 80, 1852.

was alight in the "em ail et elerapliew. Se Ise!
lbws is no mietabe. Bat Misr NIIMIWOOD eel
his friends, it is_vepeetell, mat le issatead time Mr.
FRAIL and the Derby Tories mistook thelliezurrafm
AT-WAlell meaning; they mieresd Wiener ; they mie-
applied the good and safe man, whom Mr. Fully
trusting, sent, and who was willing to lie; and MB*
BERESYORD is not, it will be contended, responsible
for their conduct. How unlikely, it has further to
be suggested, " that a man in his position would run
such a risk. The thing is impossible. Major BERES-
PORb'S character is a sufficient answer to the impu-
tations." But this defence will be of no avaiL If
Major BanasroaD's character is to be put forward
is this way, issue must be taken upon it; his vast
reputation, his general conduct, and all previous
habits and actions will be found very greatly to
increase and not to get rid of— the pro-
babilities of the charge now brought forward.
The man who denounced the smaller free-
holders of his own constituency as "a rabble," is
not very likely to have sent Mr. FRAIL or his friend
MORGAN to Derby for the promotion of purity at
it, election. No one is surprised to find Major
DERESFORD in correspondence with the notorious Mr.
hum; no one wonders that Mr. Pam, after
meshing a letter from Major lIRRESPORD. seat •
of man to Derby; no one is astonished that the
ails man when there proceeded to corrupt the elec-
tion. In all this, Major BERESFORD being the point
of departure, and Mr. FRAIL his correspondent, there
is, what Candide would all "the eternal fitness of
things." Major BERFAVORD is found in congenial
amapany ;--and must take the consequences.
Evil communications, saith the Apostle, quoting
the Greek tragedian, corrupt good manners. But
it was not Mr. FRAIL or MORGAN, or the Derby
Tories, whose communications corrupted Major
BLRESFORD ; it was Major DERESFORD who cor-
rupted dem. And what. if this charge be esta-
blished, will be his punishment Expulsion from
the House of Commons of course. But even there it
will not end. For bribery and corruption once
brought home to a member of the QUEEN'S Govern-
ment, all the penalties the law can affix must
descend on him. Bir ALEXANDER COCKBURN has a
great task in hand, and he will, no doubt, carry it
through the committee zealously and successfully.

ihow to get OM wt. however, say to SPA
how, cat of the notheide hiders them, it will be
forepossibl for the GeGnmegGens member to Ind mat-
ter xempla, • news *ebb the „ re.
taleritl " el em*dt_ tbe ahead operaitrus;;;• will
be brought emir elk eyes. But if any dirty
should be Grim el lathing a perilous &dandy
by moving so amendment to the resolution that wW
be proposed in the sett public sittiog, upon the
ground that no eellident *widows bad been laid
before the his is math it to form an
opinion with raged to the verdarity or freedom
of the election, Itnew of nothing to prevent his
doing so. Thojeosent seesaw of the Oseps Legis-
latif u altogetheelotra-eciaidthdellth Nene of the
rules which tie them down is &say to a prescribed
course in the canimd of their adinary heetoess are
applicable to the promat reseeding. The house is
called upon to inns a solemn medicate implying a
previous inquiry, and it is open to any individual
member to suggest the mode to which that inquiry
should be carried co. If the *ftbeeee of the
prefects and mayors afford oungu
Glee
of the
accuracy of each separate return, Go Glee stabling
them together is merely ministerial, aid by
whomsoever performed, can add nothing to their
value. But according to the nonage, the
world is. intended to believe that it having
been maliciously insinuated that the vote of
Dec. 21 and 22 is tainted with an unparalleled
amount of corruption, intimidation, and fraud, the
legislative body, after full investigation, find just the
contrary, and certify of their own knowledge that
the election was spontaneous, fair, and free. Any
deputy who may decline WOG in this three will do
himself harm I have die to bin it the
vote will ad he wasoiassoo. thwanalme boo node
a pretty dig domeoloolho sem d the
dignity ot tbo curtmope= ot bum toy
writ the follow* letter to M. Billautt:
Pitsibest.—l desire not to take any part Is
the slow swim. Walk has no other object than*, sits-
film at do lit relative to the proclamatisa at the
I think right to inform you personally d this.
cosine
as CAAVVIONII. Deputy for Maiesonliaire.
A ood deal of surprise has been expressed Si M.
do Kgerdrel's resignation on the first day of the
session being a solitary one. It wasois yen en
aware, generally thought that the Duke d'Unis, the
Marquis de Calvieres, M. Bonhier de rime, do
Owen, and perhaps some others, would main. It
is mere than probable that there will yet IND some
resignations before the actual proclamation of the
empire, but the legitimist party is more divided than
ever with respect to the policy of standing aloof
from public affairs. In the provinces the resignations
of municipal aloes have been somewhat more
numerous within the last two or three days,
but the movement is still so feeble, that
it only serves to make tho present insig-
nificance of the party appear the more plainly.
The Marquis de Ferreux has resigned the Mayoralty
of Pont-sur-Seine (Aube), an office which he has held
for twenty years. He states in his letter to the pre-
fect that so long as ho was ignorant of the ideas of
the President of the Republic on the subject of
legitimacy he felt justified in serving him at some
violence to his own feelings, but that now that a new
dynasty is to be founded, a regard to his own per-
Waal dignity and the history of his family compel
him to retire. The Marquis de Nicolai, in resigning
several offices in the Sarthe, alleges that his con-
science will not allow him to swear to Louis Napo-
poleon " Emperor," the oath which he felt justified
lin giving him as President of the Republic. This
distinction
instances which have come to my knowledge. Most
of the resignations are by men belonging to the flits
of the old noblesse.

ITALY.
PIEDMONT.

The Chamber of liiepuiie;was occupied, on the
24th, in voting the credits on the budget of 1831.
Nearly all the items passed without challenge. The
government abandons the bill for dissolving adminis-
trative councils.

The correspondent of a contemporary writes from
Vienna, upon authority which he deems excellent,
that Sardinia has apphed to Austria for an auxiliary
corps. No grounds for such an application are
mentioned, nor, indeed, are the relations subsisting
between the Cavour cabinet and the Austrian
government very intelligible. We quoted last week
a laudation of Count Cavour, from the official Out
Correspondent ; it is now stated that Count Appony,
Austrian minister at Turin, has received orders to
return to his post, which he left some time since,
pursuant to instructions from Vienna.
The Var has overflowed at Nice, and carried away
part of the bridge, and done other damage. A dill-
gence of the Messageries Nationales, not knowing of
the accident, went on to the bridge as usual a few
nights ago, and narrowly escaped being swallowed
in the flood. A sentinel on the Sardinian side
stopped it by discharging his musket as a warning.