The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-09 00:00:00

REPRESENTATION OF SOUTIc FELTS.

The following is the address of the new Secretary
of State, the Right Hon. S. lierbert :
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he hu said, to me to bosom a lumbar of his government.
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determined to use every alert Yee thd &Ulu prosecution of
the war in which we are And for the &Hallman;
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FRANCE.

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PARIS, Tstonsoax Bvannto.
After the various attacks upon constitutional
government for whisk the long duration of the minis-
terial crisis in England has furnished a pretext, I am
happy to notice in the Mats an article drawing a
rimy different moral from the events that are passing.
No doubt, says this journal (under the signature of
one of its most distinguished writers, M. de Buy), in a
loountry when the political faith of the people was
dormant or feeble, such a crisis might be dangerous.
The sudden revelations of the condition of the army
made at a moment of excitement might demoralise
the timid and encourage the factious. But in a country
where public opinion is sound and vigorous, such trials
serve but to stimulate national energy, to revivify
every source of patriotism, and to afford to a people.
free and worthy to be free, a new occasion of glory,
a new evidence of stability. This is what we now
see in England. After noticing the confession of Mr.
Sidney Herbert, that forty years of peace had left
England without an army, and with merely a "col-
lection of regiments," the Debate continues :
The eireumstenote were grave, but the play of the
national institutions sincerely respected and loyally acted up
to by the ma., of the people was equal to the emergency.
At the very height of the universal agitation, and even under
the pressure of the lad news from the Crimea, no man in
Zeglaad thought for a moment of suggesting whatl is called
(very mad-propos) an heroic remedy—so vivid was the
faith of the mangey is its institutions. Daring a whole
week the nation was without a government, and yet no
where was there the slightest &larder, it, where any shadow
of a breach of the public pesos, although there is scarcely
any armed force in the country. We have Kea the spec-
tacle of Ruttish sitisens waiting with anxiety, but without
alarm, until the moderating power of the throne should
have secluded in re-establishing the regular order
of the political system. The nalooked• for eircant
stances of the moment render the task more laborious than
meal, bat the people are patient, and no angry menaces
are spade against the men or the parties who cannot come
to an agreement. All men cannot be of the same party,
bat all Englishmen believe in the bottom of their hearts in
the patriotism of all parties. On the other hand, the royal
power, scrupulously observant of parliamentary traditions,
fellows with an imperturbable calm the series of formalities
peperibed in the ease of a ministerial crisis.
The Moats concludes its article in the following
encouraging terms:
For France, engaged with Ragland in this gigantic strug-
gle, the deplorable state of the English army in the Crimea
must be a subject of most painful reflection, but not of
discouragement. Instead of allowing themselves to be east
down by a temporary calamity, our stets= show us that they
are determined to push on the war with greater viper
than ever; and it is not with them the determination of a
moment, the blind or frivolous result of extreme popular
excitement. There is, on the contrary, a remarkable proof
of virility and energy is this determination of a great
nation to have the truth spoken out, and who *peeks the
truth of herself more roughly and vigorously than any one
else dare to do ; who, animated with a lively faith in the
excellence of their institutions, enters without fear or confu-
sion into discussions like those which have resounded so
recently in Parliament and the press, and in the midst of
the most exciting circumstances, awaits with patience the
mesas of safety which its constitutional independence can
give.
A private despatch, dated Constantinople, Jan.
1290 received in Paris to-day, states that in the affair
'of the 23rd before Sebastopol, the French loss had
been very considerable; that a mutiny had in con-
sequence taken place, and that in the result no less
than 400 Zouaves had been sent in irons to Toulon.
Of course, such a despatch as this cannot be pub-
lished by the French journals. I know nothing of
the puree from which the news comes beyond this,
that some person in the habit of transmitting intel-
ligence thought it worth while to send this by
telegraphic despatch. From all we know of the dis-
position of the French army, a mutiny seems highly
improbable.
A telegraphic despatch from Bayonne, dated this
day (February 8), states that yesterday morning the
French custom house officers arrested fourteen
Carlists whose names are not yet known. These
individuals were concealed near the frontier, and
according to what is stated were preparing to attempt
an invasion of Navarre.
The Bourse opened with some hesitation in conse-
quence of a fall of in Console, bat it soon mani-
fested an upward tendency. The Rents ultimately
rose 20c., closing at 67fr. 900. There were some
curious rumours; it was said that Lord Panmure was
in precarious health and had not yet accepted the
post of Minister at War. It was mho reported that
Lord Palmerston intends to submit to the House of
Commons a motion to quash Mr. Roebuck's inquiry.
Railways were generally lfr. or 2fr. better.