The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1852.

vios without their weapons, which follow them some
ears, months afterwards.
Oise us an active intelligent general a► the Cape,
who can make proper arrangemoate, who wiU wisely
use his artillery, and who will be allowed to equip
hie troops tbr baps warfare. Then, but only then,
may we hope for the end of the Kaffir war.

to bo regarded as precedents, M. Gaieties organ urges
upon the sovereign legislator of 1852 not to pin him-
self to the traditions of the first year of the century
without taking into account the long succeeding
period, and the changes of habits, manners, and
ideas that have supervened. Since the President
professes to recognise the principle of representative
government let him permit it bo fairly and reason-
ably practised. Thu articles concludes as follows :

We think that to triumph not only over material but
mural anarchy, the wise and moderate practise of reprisen-
totise govenimunt may n oder precious assistance, and that
it is nut fur the interest of anyliody to be di prised of it. In
represcntathe government the principle of authority finds
solid support fur it may then with dignity, join penuasim
to force. It then not only decides and acts, but it ran, when
it finds it convenient, give the reason for its decisions and
Its acts to the representatives of the country. In the 19th
century wise representative institutions art Indispensable to
the principle of authority.
It is evident that by the wise institutions" so
positively asserted to be necessary in the concluding
seems?, something very different is meant from
what Louis Napoleon has hitherto led people to ex-
pect. It is notorious that the constitution was
ready cut and dried, and about to be published se-
veral days ago, when a sudden change of purpose in
the highest quarter, caused it to be withdrawn front
the printer's hands. It has been generally believed,
as I have already mentioned, that the motive for this
withdrawal was a desire to simplify and shorten the
constitution, for which purpose it would be necessary
to accompany it with certain adjuncts, to be called
organic laws. But, from the free criticism of the
article in the AssentWe having been suffered to pass
the censure, it may be kneied that the mind of the
President is wavering and yet open to advice with
regard to fundamental principles.
Ilia own especial organs, however, continue to
preach pure Bonapartism with as much fervour and
more arrogance than ever. The Monitetsr Parisivn
says that the eagle that till at Waterloo has now
risen like a phoenix. It then gives the following
account of what may be expected from the forth-
coming constitution:

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte has come to inaugurate the
eagle of universal peace. This universal peace, the aurora
of all the progress of the future, which is 111 conduct civili-
sation towards unknown shores; this peace, which will for
ever close the abyss of civil us well as international wars,
will le promulg tted in the face of the world by the cotivtis
tution, the preparation of which the plebiscite of Deccan 1
ber 2iiil has confided to its elect. The necessity of Europe
and the whel:e world is a strong poser, protecting
all interests, and assuring universal right—that tight
of which our revolutions have scarcely ever been any.
thing hat the usurpation. Louis Napoleon has not male
any coup d't*lnt. Louis Nateileun has not attempted any,
victory by force. He has delivered the people from a con-'
ventional dittature the remembrance of which, snare
1848, will he embodied in the negation of ameliorations
which the situation of the labouring classes impe
riously reclaim. The laborious climes, grateful to the'
saviour of their country, have confided to him their future
fate. Louis Napoleon has understood it. There is his
force, because there is to be found the realisation of the
enlarged ideas of the Emperor at the epoch of the peace of
the world. Europe, shuddering at the prospect of 18d2,
has rallied to the act of Dee.:, which has preserved the
civilisation of the 19th century from a new invasion of
barbarians. France, the eternal advanced guard of great-
ness of thought, will soon offer to Europe the type of per•
manent constitutions—permanent because they are liberal 11
and protective of all rights. Liberty now resides only in
tutelary' authority. This authority is well founded. Nu
our will raise a hand gigaton it, for it is protected by God.
Liberty at the base of society, used up to this time as a mar
chine of disorganisation, has disappeared. Liberty at the
apes, u light kit by universal suffrage, will recreate har-
mony in general polities.

It would not be worth while to notice such mystic
oracular balderdash as the above, had we not been
taught my experience that it is part of the system of
Louts Napoleon to make his ideas manifest through
these channels. A glance at the tiles of the i'atrie
and Jleniteur Pao-hurts for some months pest, will
show that numerous propositions put forth by obscure
writers, devoid alike of ability or reputation—propo-
sitions thought so absurd at the time that nobody
noticed them, have all since been realised. I have
no doubt that this article of the Muniteur Parisian
represents one phase at least of the presidential
mind, and I will venture to add, that
the constitution ultimately chosen will be bused
—so far us anything intelligible can be based—
rather upon these wild ideas than upon any real
system of representative government. There is an
air of comfortable assurance in the inference to be
drawn from the passage about the resuscitated eagle,
that he has not revived his claws. Ile is henceilir-
ward to be the herald of peace. Hut, then, word, as
used by Louis Napoleon have not the same significa-
tion that they have in the mouths of vulgar men.
Ile used to call the law of the 31st of May a law
regulating universal suffrage, though he afterwards,
when it *tilted him, admitted that it was a law de-
stroying universal suffrage. lie says now that he
has.made no coup ((Nut. Ile calls the state of siege,
order and tranquillity, and ho calls an election
a fair one when people are arrested for can-
vassing, except on one side. What ho calls
the inauguration of peace may. then, very
possibly, greatly resemble war. It is curious that
the same number of the Moniteur contains an article
resenting criticisms that have been made by an
English journal upon the restoration of the eagle.
" Happily," it ems, "there are two shades of opinion
in England. that of the government and that of the
people." Wkat the opinion of the former may be it
does not care to inquire, but the Moniteur professes
to know that the English people arc full of sympathy
for the President. This really looks aa if, in possible
events, an appeal to the English people—another
plebiscite, was ono of the means contemplated by
Louis Napoleon for inaugurating the reign of peace
in Europe. At any rate we are now entitled to look
with interest for the appearance of the model consti-
tution, because we aro fairly told that it is to regene-
rate not France only, but the world.
The &tut Public of Lyons says :
The production of silk, which fifteen years ago scarcely
reached 11.10,000,000fr.' exceeded M 0,000,0009.. in 1860. Of
this latter sum about 150,000,000 k. were taken by the rib-
bon and sill; manufactures of France, and the rest was ex-
Ported to England, Muria, Germany, and Switserland,
notwithstanding there is an export duty on silk of from
2fr. to 3fr. the kilogramme. Of the enormous sum of
190,00d,000fr., which is divided exclusively between eight
or ten departments, fanners have a good share; indeed,
about 120,000,9001 n are paid them for cocoons. About
411,000,900 ft% terin the profit of the workmen and of the
manufacturers. Notwithstanding the rapid progress of our
milk production, we import more than 60,000,0009.1'cm
dilfereut countries, and priucipally from Piedmont, Lom-
bardy, Spain, Greece, Syria, Turkey, India, and China.
According to a comparative statement of the re-
ceipts of the custom-house at Ilavre during the years
ItiliO mid 1851, the increase for last year was 6M,0001r.,
principally bearing on navigation dues. The total
amount of the receipts fur 1851 was 25,984,172 fr.,
against 23,916,163 fr. ice 18.10. In 1849 the amount
was 29,243,950 fr.

On Jan. 3, the dead body of a man, who had blown
his brains nut with a pistol, was found on the ram-
parts of Lille. It has been identified as that of a
barrister of the department of Sarthe, whose name
and description have been posted among those whom
to shelter or feed is a crime.

At the Bourne, the Five per Cents. rose :15e., closing
closing at 106.50; the Threes rose 60c., closing at
72.25. The Bank of France shares full lOC from
the high prices of yesterday. Railways generally
ruse, Rouen as much as dofr.