The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-27 00:00:00

ahem it is earnest to be b.
Illsbrivw of advassing Von
noel elkag het to 7rre I,Movt_
lobo tie yam is
game to sea. At
Lording backwards for %L
pidity and impetuosity. The_ pebbly
lenge of ItHe has been sesossisti by
elk still more excessive. Everywhere te.
alga is trampled upon wail ....__
ail I =14:61 ern of
I frith,bll
that the Begildreensfunena se senduct
itself as to leave all muddle on ebb head impossible.
What is required d Bagliatase in 1863 is
nearly the reverse d whet ems. 'red of thew
in 1848. Now dreg* b ably as moth
le the asoiniant on the Continent sea liberty
en emerehy then seemed to be. It behoves Em
men, in these shembeeness. to show the same well-
balanced elhillill toed jodprent now that they did'
then. As Insildimpa pollselly pointed against
the sway of plicaddinse ma ostonele in 1848, se
dory
.ozaht meth* to mist evil* the=to
2,„ hosA oed kingly and
b 111324. Witham hinted at thole likilet bipeds
et Ise peel osomideos being mob So obi am oiled
" Moral Oseonalkes " is hese pain. In the
testis i d Tadisataataty Itellma. The IHOMemO27
alarm Gat the spoor of Mamililee WM, and
trasanklet to the Neapolitan pee meat ef the
inkunellsie whimit led to tie septum sad judicial
wortior at the Itsentrat, has awakened es to the
dew aLi
... of overaubservienoy to Continental
into the Home Moe.
larbile'ret;fligent and earnest advocates of non-
inierweelea and a pacific policy are keenly alive to
the lopaleoce of sympathising with and favouring
the of liberty and good government in all
nations. if they protest against
the intswention of foreigners in the domestic
affairs of any state, it is because they know that " who
would be free, themselves must strike the blow."
It they sabot to abstinence from aggression, it is be-
fallen 11117 bare learned from history that permanent
Lee baritutions were never established by the sword
—that armies organised to put down oppression
have, with the one exception—that commanded by
WASHINGTON—become oppressors in their turn.
The enlightened and intelligent friends of non-inter-
vention sympathise with the efforts of freemen in all
Linde, and are prepared to aid them in any way in
which they can receive real effective sissistanos.
That they are so prepared, partly at the instiga-
tion of sentiment, there is no reason for their being
ashamed to confess. Sentiment is as neoessary a
part of our nature as meson : it is to be regulated,
Mt extinguished. When, In mealtimes of M-
ime reasoning, any man or nation has contrived to
dodge himself or itself to the acceases of generous
semitheent, they have become incapable of virtuous
MIN. Thu love of liberty for itself is a newt/nary
i sedition of a healthy political morality. But upon
ambulation as well as mere sentiment it is ad-
*Ws for a nation and its rulers so to
mien themselves a to prove that they
with the rights and liberties of their
Governments are ephemeral, peoples
ere ; Louis NAPOLEON and the bogs
and hie soutemporaries, with the systems
of wfish sash hems a part, will pens away, but the
nations of Rugs will endure. It is our interest to
attach to us thew who have the surest prospect of
survivorship.
As in private life there are duties we owe to our
families, and duties we owe to our neighbours, so in
political life there are duties we owe to our country.
men, and duties we owe to the foreigner.
It is our duty to assist and uphold our
countrymen against the aggreenions of strangers.
But as at home there are abettors of op- '
preesion and friends of freedom, so also in foreign
states. The friends of freedom have everywhere a
common came against the abettors of despotism, '
their efforts in behalf of which are only to be limited '
by the duties their nationality impose. upon them.
In the great struggle commenced by Louts& had '
not the Protestants of Germany, the Low Countries,
and England, end the Huguenots of France,
_ to a '
certain extent, made common cause, Popery 4
would have crushed them all. And in like man- 1
Der if the members of the popular Pa
throughout Europe in our day do not stand by Pesch '
other as far as their obligations to their respective
countries as citizens permit, despotism will in its •
own good time trample them all down. Even apart
from this consideration, every fres country has an
interest is encouraging its citizens to cultivate a
prattled sympathy for the friends of liberty all '
over the world. It keeps alive the glow of inde-
pending@ and freedom for home use.
Far theme romans the people of England ought
to boom et all those men who have betrayed • !
solosevion et towards foreign despots in any
AN glove flay can indulge it. It is not the mis-
dem of this esentry to be propagandist, or the '
(lift of lib eelimn in Europe ; but national dig-
shy soil the ON Mosso of the nation alike require
that eat nine amid Is empolled by the pressure
,of pipit mike so to set that foreign rulers shall '
see asil hi that they entertain a constant sense of
their resgensibility as the administrators of a people :
jealous of their liberties.

parliament
matteiswas never thought of till alter 1830, when
an enervating system of government was inaugu
rated; that legislative forms hare bees found to
create delay, and that now, especially that the par-
liamentary session is limited to three months, the
delays would be greater than ever. This part of the
subject is wound up with the trenchant argument,
repeated many times, in varied p , that the'
Emperor must know best. In shor;tifithe some-
what vague power given to his Majesty to modify at
any time his own relations with the great powers of
the state, a reason is given which mg pore ember.'
reeling to hie successors; it is imps' this, that
he having. made the Constibthhn, must natu-1
rally be la a better positle, than any one
else to perceive Ant anseirmats may be-
come necessary. Tb•
treated at great length of tie roam ins kw-
rial family, and the provision tie be nab he thew,
but these matters having ben logehmed by the
Senates Cbasultson in the Civil LlRd some
days since, a paragraph on this has been
struck out. In recommending that de senators
should be paid, the commissaries °bosom that it is
incompatible with the dignity of a great body that
they should individually be dependent for their dote-
dons upon the good pleasure of the executive. This
remark occurred to many private individuals eleven
months ago, when it would have been next to high
treason to have said so, but that was before tho sena-
tors had voted the empire, and the salary of the
Emperor, and thus made it comparatively unneces-
sary for him to keep any hold upon them. It is re-
ported to be fitting that the Corps Legistatif should be
paid for their loss of time in the performance of their
public duties. lam unable to discover in the report
any reason for this measure which would not have
been equally applicable less than a dear ago, when it
wasthought fit to, lay down the precisely reverse prin-
ciple. A reason, indeed, occurs to me which could not
well be stated to the senate. When the Legislative As-
sembly was violently dissolved last year, the saving
of their salaries-OW, 23 francs a day—was promi-
nently put forward as a great gain to the country.
These 23 francs had beoomo singularly unpopular
with the tax payers, who were encouraged to believe
that the recipients made long speeches to protract
the session for the sake of their pay. In this state
of public feeling the institution of a Corps Legis taff
willing to work gratis, was complacently pointed at
se a striking instance of the advantages of the new
order of things. AU this is, however, now out of
date, and it is obvious that a paid parlia-
ment, with a dissolution constantly hanging
over their heads, should they dare to throw
out a government bill, will be more malleable
than an unpaid one. To return to the report—the
system of voting each minister's budget in a lump is
held to be necessary, because when ministers are
hampered by the necessity of submitting each chapter
to parliament separately, they are apt to put the es-
' timates too high, by way of precaution, and then
having got too much they are naturally prone to
spend it. Thus the voting by ministries, which every-
bedtknows will practically deprive parliament esti
over the public expenditure, is cleverly
sepasated as an indispensable measure on
the Wan of economy. Members are no I.nger to
have the privilege of seeing that their own speeches
are correctly reported. The president and a commit-
tee will settle privately the reports to be made pub-
lic. After all this the arps Lstisslaisf is emphatically
told that they are perfectly independent, and that
their mandate is a noble one.

The Petrie states that the Emperor will not return
to Paris from Compiegne till to-morrow.
The Ministers of War, State, Flowers, and Ma-
rine, and Marshal Msgnan, returned to Paris yester-
day from Compiegne.
It is announced in the Monieetre that Mgr. Gari-
baldi has received letters accrediting him in the
quality of Pope's nuncio at the court of the Emperor
of the French; and also that Prins. de Casighano.
Minister of Foreign Affairs in Tuscany, has officially
announced to the charge d'affairea of France at
Florence the satisfaction with which, the (Irani Duke
Leopold, Archduke of Austria, had learned the acces-
sion of his Imperial Majesty to the throne. Fresh
credentials are about to be sent to Prises Peak-
towaki,
M. Lanileussens, Frisch masa at Santo Domingo,
fell a victim on the 9th of November to as week of
yellow fever. M. Baez, the president of the Domi-
nican republic, scarcely quitted hit bedside dosing
his illness, and afterwards &teams shied mourner at
the funeral, which was etodesioLimitli great pomp,
the troops, clergy, and prineigal.fasMissariss being
present. The funeral service was. pedaresed is the
cathedral, and during its mainmasts discharges of
musketry and a salute of nine amass &Os was
heard. -Finally, • decree di the pookileat sidered
that masses fee the repose of the meld the diseased
should be said is all the oirmairra tluvrightek the re-
public. _

The Date publishes a letter from leaves in
which it is edited that a ruing female, aged 18, the
daughter els member of the protestant church of
&Weil, died a few days. mime. The nasal permis-
sion for the interment oaths body
.was given at the I
Mairie„biat when the cavil was informed that the
cork of the perish would, net be called on to attune
he veithtirew the pernakidem, and said that be @Wahl
perfi xis the ceremony civilly, and wrote a lilts* to
the protestant pastors informing them of his &a ka.
aniL added that if thq wished to attend they east
do row private indreiiaat, witheat their rob% and
Irabidding any discourse to be mile sR thin pave.
"td. &cordon, the protestant egoista, sonsiiered it
his duty not to pay any attends, to the probibi.
ties of the mayor, as he had bun duly maid by the
State pastor for Troyes and the departamat. He andl
his callow 's, therefore, placed themselves at the head'
of the funeral prooauon, but when it arrived at the
entrance of the cemetery, and was about to pass
through the gate, the mayor, escorted by two gen-
darmes, obliged the body to be carried throagli a
narrow passage on his own property, which attoine
the burial ground; and the passage wee so narrow,
that the eight young girls who bore the coffin were
obliged to glee up their places to two men. The
numerous persons present attempted to pass through
the usual gate, when the mayor in an angry tone
ordered it to be closed by the gendarmes. When
the coffin had been lowered into the grave, M. Re-
cordon read the usual service, but while he was ad-
dressiig the persons assembled, and who were all
listening with the deepest attention, he was three
times interrupted by a gendarme by order of the
mayor, who desired him to finish and leave the
place.
At the Bourse, to-day, business was done in the
Three per Cents. at 82t. 10c., and closed for the sr
count at 82f. 40e.; Four per Cents., 98f. 50e.; Peee-
and -a- Half per Cents., 106 L ; for anonst,
106 f. 25e. Bank shares, 2.930 f. In railway shares,
Orleans, 1,630 f.; ditto, new, 1,030; Versatile* (left
bank), 352 f.; Paris and Bonen, 980 f.; Senisburff
and Bale, 365 f. nOo. ; Northern, 897 f. 50e.; Paris)
and Straaburg, 830 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 930 f. ; Lyon
and Mediterranean, 770 f. ; Western, 780 f. ; Casnamil
Cherbourg, 025 f.; Bordeaux and Cette, 612 f. SOL ;
Bordeaux and Tette, 260 f. ; )(entente and Trips,
3261.; St. Vizier and Oray, 550 f.; Rotten and
Havre, 63.5 f. ; Central of Italy, 1,002 f. Sc.

PARIS, CIIRISTVAS Day.
The Monileur publishes M. Troplonts report to
she gnats u In the name of the committee=
to examine the project of the Sennius C
relative to the interpretation' and modifloaties of
the Constitution of January 14, 1832." I ant snow
Carl to send you the text of this heading, because
there is in it a single word which is the only notable
result of the long digiberations of the Senate, award
devoid of any peasticial import, but introduced tor
the pitiable purpose of enabling the hireling mem-
bers of a packed Assembly to declare at some Mere
period the responsibility of an act, which they have
now neither the courage to refuse to sanction, nor
to approve. They were not cal'ed upon by the
goverrment to ' interpret" the constitution. The
proposition laid before them by the government
commissaries, MM. Baroche, Ranker, and belong'',
[ purported to be a project for the " modifica-
tion" of the constitution. The Senate was asked
' to make certain changes, represented to be

long ago
1816 that the powerexireised by the executive in the
first instance was necesswily subject to the ratifica-
tion of the legislative bony as the guardians of the
public puree. This principle has never since been
qmstioned, and it occurred to those astute law-
yers, MM. Earache, Rouher, and Delangle, to doubt
that the principle was applicable to the constitution
d harry, 1852. Admitting that the ratification
lay the Curps Logislatil was necessary as things
Mood, they alleged that such a check upon the action
of the executive was "incompatible with the dignity
of the Empire," and therefore they called upon the
Senate to do away with it. At least three-fourths of
K. 'fisplong's ponderous report is devoted to this
millisst. It is evident that the obsequious Senate
itionliss at the probable consequences of conferring
salhalted irresponsible power in commercial matters
Ipso • single man, whose principles of political
seasony, if he have any, are wholly unknown, and
Irbil may perchance sport with the material interests
et millions for personal objects. The feelings of the
senators may be judged of by the following passage
from the report:

While seeking to do good, the government may be hur-
ried on to fatal measures; there is a certain commercial
treaty whist, would alone snare to cause the utmost dis-
turbance of every interest, to reds agricultural industry, to
annihilate oar manufactures, and to upset the entire system
of our polities) economy. By a busty treaty of commerce,
nothing would be easier than to eempromiee the internal
rictus of the country as surely as a treaty of peace entailing
the pt nt of a mshiddy, oe a mains of territory, would
w the national honour.

This passage evidently betrays a sonvuleive horror
of free-trade principles, to which, mordiog to vague
rompers—upon which, by the way, ne reliance what-
ever can be placed—the Emperor inclines to become
a convert. But the Senate, apprehendrag according
to the measure of their own understandings—whether
enlightened or otherwise is not the question—im-
mense danger from the power asked for by the
Emperor, proceeds to great it without restriction or
qualificatios. M. Tropleag, now (alas! that it should
be so) the highest judicial authority in France,
plasters their consciences with the word " interpre-
tation." Putting on his gravest judicial fare he
exclaims, "Take care, gentlemen, you are not legis-
lators here; you are but judges who cannot loch out
of the four corners of the record—it is not competent
for you to consider what may be the consequences of
the powers asked for by the government. Before
exercising your higher attributes as lawyers, yours
is the modest task of declaring the true intent and
meaning of the existing constitution, of which,
allow me to remind you, you are the stand-
ing interpreters. I will prove to you as clear as
day that MM. Baroche, Itouber, and Delangle are
quite mistaken in supposing that any new powers
in this matter need be sought for at your hands, be-
cause I will show you that these powers already
exist." Having thus broken ground, he proceeds with
feasts' prolixity to make out his ease by the process
of rejecting the uniforms mum of practice since 1826
as the result of bad parliamentary habits, by doing
violenee to the plain teat of a Senaluft Conaullum of
1802,.end by citing as a precedent an illegal act of
Napoleoe 1., which he segues it must be assumed
that Napoleon 111., the author of the constitution
under eseeideration, must have intended to follow.
The legal argument thus satisfactorily conducted toe
close, he absolves the senators from all re-
sponsibility, assuring them that their vote by
'no means implies that had they had any
choice in the matter they would not have enter-
tained serious doubts of tb. propriety of amilidisig
the ceremonial interests of the country to the un-
controlled will of the exceed,* power. It seems
that after all the doctrine of interpretation did not
completely resume senatorisleseaples, for this pan
of the report ameludes with. as empty suggestion
that it will be competent to the Senate at some
future time to submit to tbrapprobation of the crows
• general measure for the promotion of agriculture,
commies, and manufactures The remaining part
of the report, at lass length, supplies reasons to jus-
tify the power granted to the Emperor of making
railways and ordering all public works without the
sanctionef the Crepe Legisittf.the voting; the budget
by ministries, and.the othee less importout points of
the &menu thossedlion. The only amendment med.
by the Senate el any impedance is cue directing
that where the public worksordered by the goveta-
ment shall be of a nature to require public money
for their execution, a credits for the purpose must be
voted:by the legislative body before die works are
actually commeaeed. For. this the very good reason
is given that this legieletive vote would not be suffi-
ciently independent, if it. were mil% called for after
the expense of the workn.had been Incurred.

This being Christmas Day, the.Sourse is dosed.
Focethe first time since. 1832 a midnight mess will
be performed in all the churches. The Aided of
Pape has ordered that the malted bells usually
given at this time of the yeas on a Saturday by
various theatres and public establishments shall. on
this °mein, be postponed till Monday is Tuesday
next. Mast of the. shops remain opus` but the
boulevards have been crowded all day with holiday
makers,. p_urchasieg arouses at the temporary
bemoan. The weather is wsederfully mild, and has
been foe throughout the datr, with the exception of
a few soft springlike Amen.
A Corsican journal states, ma the authority of letters
from Pais, written, it sae, by well-informed per-
sons, that the Itinperet intends to visit Corsica in
U course of 1863.

Captain Reason, aide-deeatep to General Polio-
bier, who was sent. to Paris by Omani Raudon with
the trophies of the victory reeorded in "the first
par of the military history of Napoleon III.," has
arrived in Pans, and has had aedienoe of the
Emperor at Compiegne to present the four flags
taken at Laghouat. His Majesty complimented
Captain Benson on his gallant conduct in Algeria;
and, as a recompense, conferred on him the grade of
chef d'eseadron of the staff. Two Spahie who accom-
panied Captain Reason, and whose good conduct was
specially mentioned in the despatches, received the
military medal.
The Emperor has not returned from Compiegne,
and it is now stated that he may perhaps remain
thy, till Monday.
M. Duchesne, formerly responsible editor of the
Pessple, who in eleven different prosecutions had
been condemned altogether to 30 years' imprison-
meat and 80,000 f. fine, has just been released from
the prison at Belle-Lsle, in virtue of the late amnesty
fur offences of the press.
Preparations are making at the Luxembourg for
the grand ball which the Senate is to give to the
Emperor about the middle of next month.
The Marquis de Portes, a member of the Senate,
and formerly a peer of France, died suddenly of
spools: on Wednesday last.
Vision has the following remarks upon the
operations of the Toulon experimental squadron :
The Yediternama entwines Mimed le pates the 19th
heat a maim, whisk Mimi rib he mar ft try a Realm of
esperimente of the speed of the et*kie and Mesa impale.
The kilrwlai w Meth, the mmegiande of whisk Is guo.
maimed to se in a messes deem ellial :—The squadron
was eseeptied of two mew line of has 'kip, the Nspo.
lama, of le basso prowl and
I" llto Chirdew=tof 450, and
sin milks( dm SIM law net themaelvee
ialmier laths Mk; woeupeelwewleo mill% slum They thou
bops in ig with mart le of
vie& The matwle 6 41-1061 a while sgaowing
sae flap, and 4 10tha with two. Tim Napo-
lees me& 4 6.10 th haste with three line-of-bettle ships
in few, the Veiny, Bayard, end Jupiter. With tho
twe ball ask in tow, she made 11 5-10th knot.. The Mon-
tebello, timmedoeker, could sot take part fa the trials; her
naealaq Ile weakest of the mixed ships, had not been sat
Isiellllypeweed. This immense vowel scarcely made four
IMO With half the force of her steam employed, and It was
limiebt that, with the whole of it, she might attain six
Mob. Tale is doubtless very tittles@ tempered with the Na. I
pews, but it must only be attributed to the weakness of
this outshine. In an expedition which requires celerity this
10000•11111i0DCII inlets be obviated by towing, and by this it
may be man what essential lIMII6OBI might be per.
formed by powerful vessels such as the Charlemagne
and the Napoleon. At any time, when it might be required
o transport troops on any point, powerful vessels like
thaw above-mentioned would he able to make bead egainst
the mat ^chalet, r. Whate• r may be the future
ltvlittcai -i.uatui, oft .e country, :be .'.ors military results
may be and to be act; sire.l. It is cry to see the inhume
' winch they mast ever, kw en the iesue of naval wen—for
from the moment wh in ramie, of troops an be transported
with that facility naval victim lose much of their value:
I Willa evolutions L/01 Ll^ leapt the same shams of stop-

Tile Chamber of Representatives has adc,nted the
budget of public works, and the law anthinislos the
annual levy of 10,000 men for the army. A motion
in the Chamber, to the effect that the working of
the railroads of the state should be farmed eat to
companies, having been rejected by the central sec-
tion, another has just been made, calling for an in-
quiry into the results of the management of the state,
which, it is contended, arc very unsatisfactory. This
proposition has received the sanction of the central
section. The chamber stands adjourned to the 18th
of January.

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THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1852. ,
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lad .'ll_nl tire • without rots'essantirms4 the Mir eponomnonlini ups the aimed tom eh pug as seam and the advastap returns to the side of
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*ltalia& That station which can land the a • 71:1 i body t topet road that the goverment, or weeseary or &Ural& for the deity I th• Tr:"
• :''' execdtik er t to *Oman of the la**. Of these changes the moot imporfnt E-- - .it ....... that ascend.ad which it no
ita peft,:eseet whim national quarrels were only settled
Lab - infoy is • judVdlrlrennal *tercet in the eyes "(Frenchmen is the ankle empowering bemt;,.4.o- Auk-. li. bid been predicted that steam would
imaji67ooo.44pialf, milt of xis" must the Emierce to make definitive treatise of commerce
rave ,
prod.,. a mrpi,"=• In dm navy ; that revolution is now
ith fulfil re-' nee tiily be ezelusive, cal tit the 'tenrive- without the unction of the legislative body. .The' • . palpable ;h is me, to be accomplished by the mere force of
bly excessive lion of the people's representative of any Tyke i.Z.rstitation of January, 1852, enabled the President circumstances.
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a tempera/7 in the eathonsetion of railwaya had _other public of the Republic to make these treaties. The sno-- Our usual French eiTteas had not arrived up to
on the Conti- works is justified by the observatioe that rapidity narchy of the restoration as well as the constitutional the hour of publication.
ad despotista and simplicity of action are indispensable in a great government of Louiq Philippe had the same power. •--
1 import that country, that the interference of parliament is such But it was admitted by Charles X. so long ago as BELGIUM.
popular faith, matters wu never thought of till alter 1830. when 1828 that the towerexereiud by the vzyrutive. in the