The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17.

Fos some days past rumours of what in con-
stitutional language is called a ministerial crisis,
have filled the air in Paris. Some contradictory
intimations in the semi-official journals were
sufficient to agitate the Bourse, and • statement
in the Patrie to the effect that the only question
before the Cabinet was the elections, upon which
the EMPEROR had made up his mind, only served
to confirm by affecting to deny the common re-
port that the elections had nothing whatever to do
with the division in the Cabinet, and that the
Roman question was at the bottom of it all. In
fact, nothing but the EMPEROR'S determined ab-
stinence from public business, and devotion to
seaside recreations, could have prevented the
crisis from occurring a month ago. At
one of the last Cabinet Councils held
before the departure of the Court for Biarritz
it was understood that M. Tsouvrarm, had sub-
mitted for the EMPEROR'S approval the draft of a
Note to the Ambassador at Rome, assigning a
precise term to the occupation of the Papal territory
by French troops, and inviting the Court of Rome
to set its house in order, and " conciliate " its sub-
jects. Such a Note as this had the double demerit in
Imperial eyes of frankness and firmness ; it an
pounced a policy, and the EMPEROR had none ; a
clear and daylight policy; and that false and fickle
heart and brain revelled in darkness and
deceit. Besides, the EMPEROR wanted rest and
quiet; and the Roman question, which had kept
for thirteen years, would keep another month. So
M. THOI7,IE-NM put the Note in his pocket again,
and the august trifler went off to play on the sands
at Biarritz with that interesting young Corporal, the
"Child of France," to entertain small tea parties,
to diversify his leisure with an occasional be-
speak of a bull-fight, and the periodical advent
with a box of papers of an auditor of the Council
of State. Meanwhile the august Eosni& of the
Papacy was less idle than her lord; inspiring
La France, reassuring the HOLY FATHER, and
" converting," some say, the ancient Carbonaro
into an active and zealous servant and soldier of
the Church. General DVRANDOWAS preparing a spi-
rited Note to read to M. THOUVENEL, and the Ca-
binet of Turin were preparing a still more spirited
article in their official journal in reply to La Prance.
Alas ! for the spirited Note that was destined to fall
between a Minister of Foreign Affairs going out
and a Minister of Foreign Affairs coining in.
Such is "Personal Government ;" it is no fault
of ours if its acts can only be explained by
personalities. Such is a system of government
in which the penitent frivolity of • declining
coquette decides the destinies of two nations,
the honour of an empire, and the happi-
ness of a kingdom ; prolongs the agony of Italy,
and buries an army in Mexico. When France
recovers her senses and her spirit, she will gladly
forget that in the latter half of the nineteenth cen-
tury her blood, her treasures, her reputation, her
rank and power in the Old world and the New,were
used like the cierges which weak women offer up
in expiation of undiscovered frailties, or like the
jewels which are presented to waxen dolls in the
churches, and negotiated at the money-changers by
mocking priests !
The resignation of M. THot-vvist will probably
be assigned by the Moniteur to domestic anxieties.
There is reason to believe that M. THOU VENEL is
only the first to set an example of independence
and self-respect. M. DE Prs•loiy, as the friend
and adviser of his master in days when fidelity was
suffering, and as the representative of the better
Napoleonic tradition, is particularly obnoxious to
the secret influences which at present surround the
throne. M. FOULD is not only a friend to liberal
ideas, but a foe to prodigal expenditure. M.
RoUHER, the author of the Commercial Treaty, is
necessarily the advocate of an enlightened and
generous policy, and M. ROULAND, the Minister of
Worship and Public Instruction, is too well
acquainted with the insolent and encroaching spirit
of the priestly party, and too conscious of the
direction of the best minds in France, to lend his
name to an impossible reaction. These Ministers
will deserve well of France, of public opinion, and
of Europe by doing justice to themselves, and
refusing to lend their names to an organized con-
spiracy against the peace and liberties of mankind.
Their retirement may even serve the true interests
of their Imperial master better than connivance
could do, if it warn him of the dangers of the dark
path on which he has entered.
M. DEOUYN DE L'HUYS brings to the Cabinet
of the EMPEROR a name deserving of all respect, a
high unblemished character, long experience in
public business, excellent tact, and no mean capa-
city for the conduct of difficult affairs. His private
character is a rare acquisition to the Imperial
circle, where private character is a luxury. But
as • statesman it would not be so difficult to ex-
aggerate the claims of M. Daouvw DE L'Huve to
high consideration. In Louis PHILIPPE'S time he
was only conspicuous as • bitter opponent of Eng-
land, and as having been dismissed for insubordi-
nation by M. Gussor. From the extreme Left,
when the Revolution of February broke out,