The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-02 00:00:00

be and the one of Llid Isintary in ran
ago, still Woond the that men. Bid suds
the days of i3a Acid novitiate Om, peat changes
have occurred, and the great of jsrity at those who
then took part in political life have paid away and
generation has arieen,who, for thejliost part,
be said to have any recognition of Lora I •
character as a statesman, save through the
medium of hiatory. If he had contain larta=
a new and conciliatory part towardsizt
mar was a fairer opportunity. Ilia pedesuesso
had hisined an almost unpresidentod amount at
; and the mere foes at contrast smeed
to impart at the outing degree of hied to
thi &MINTON regiMe. COMBS prudence in the
anise of subordimatim,maidisaisreance of mamma
damisey in the free sprememe se impartial van am
between mesas and pod., mold probably twin
am, foe alb at leastpro, to allay any than
=ind to vost way glili early
oympbstamile. Lord Duff had ewe s
elms itsliWastiog the minions at disbud aid
sessiss edit e& his early min had4eallimi
Ms hi la swan by- soma, sad et a in
himitnien of lab sapdeity and ove
*an to the Mein of a mansatlble and implant
Plebe his throws the fiance away, mad, as he
se yet appose, without any other motive then the
gratification st a rash alpha or the still more de-
plorable plianect of a arcs who his long than
in big to thaw the undimlahlied strength of a long-
theridisa palp. Ilia English appointments are
andbmidli MI6 because they are feeble and unin-
Onatislebia pip e. laugh at them and say," What
bathe bs ds with the materials be had r la
Weed hey ask. N What worse can be imagined RE
Rellediegr The country feels that it has bees
bandsd over to en executive Orange lodge.
The names of Ems, HAMILTON. NAPIER,
.wr, and BATaSOX. are all associated in the popuhr
mismory with the system of sectarian and social
msendancy, and concentrate round the already en-
feebled functions of government all the fears and
animosities that in days gone by engendered feelings
of national disaffection. Lord DZILET'S aim in the
selection of instruments to carry oat his policy to-
wards Ireland wane to have been to blend the
greatest amount of fenaticiem with the highest de-
gree of landlordism. There is not a man in the
whole list that has not made hinieclf conspicuously
obnoxious by his votes in parliament against electoral
reform, land reform, and church reform. There has
not been a measure proposing to give security to te-
nants for the improvements they may make on their
farms--or for pruning the luxunant abuse of
the establishment—or for conferring friashlar

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upon counties or towns that would enable
them to share in the benefits of the constitution—

against which Lords C. HAuteros and NAAs, with
Messrs. NAPIER, BATESON, and Wurrestrix, have not
shewn their readiness to vote. When Sir HOBERT
PtEL came into office in 1811, at the head of the
tory party, he had the grace to select the most
liberal men who could be found in its ranks, to con-
stitute the vice-regal council in Ireland. He knew
the value of disarming suspicion at the outset and
of giving official hostages to public opinion for the
fairness of his administration, especially in a coon-
try torn by hereditary dissensions, and rent by
the jarring passions of creed and class. In this
spirit he persevered unto the end, and the
consequence is, that his memory is regarded
with respect, if not with affection, by the
messes as well as by the more cultivated portions of
the community. But Lord DERBY has learned and
unlearned nothing as regards Ireland since the luck-
' less day when first ho trod its shore. His answer to
O'Coeet.u.'s denunciation of his reckless conduct in
1831 was a message calling on him to fight a duel ;
and this first intimation of his purpose in 1832, as
expressed in the appointments already named, may
be fairly termed a challenge to the Irish people tore-
mist his will if they dare.
Thus put upon their mettle, it is not surprising
that our kinsmen have accepted the defiance thus
thrown down. At first it was emphatically an-
nounced that Lord NAAS would he returned
without opposition for Kildare. But the tone
of the government organs has suddenly changed.
Within twenty-four hours after the appoint.
ment of the new Chief Secretary was positively
known, the electors were addressed by Mr. CODA e, a
gentleman of whom report speaks well both as
regards talents and attainments, and whose political
sentiments arc as much in accordance with those of
the constituency as the opinions of Lord NAAS differ
from them. In truth, the noble lord must be endued
with some of the rash presumption of his chief to
present himself before a constituency whom, as far as
in him lay, he did his utmost to prevent being called
into political existence. It may be recollected that
when, in the course of 1830, the Irish county con-
stituencies were found to have been reduced by the
refusal of leases and wholesale evictions on the
part of landlords to a state close verging on
extinction, a bill was introduced by the late go-
vernment creating a new electoral body and a new
electoral system. Scandalous as was the abuse, the
protectionist party in the Hoax of Commons were
not ashamed to resist the only remedy proposed ;
and on the 25th February, 1850, they actually
divided the house flee times against the-motion for
going into committee on the bill!
In each of these divisions the name of Lord NAAs
is to be found, along with those of his colleagues in
office, Messrs. DISRAELI and WALPOLE, HAMILTON
and BATESON. With much difficulty the bill was
got through the lower house. It was subsequently
sent down in a mutilated state by the Lords—the ori-
ginal lg. franchise having been changed for a 151.
franchise by an amendment of Lord DIERRT's in the
privileged chamber. Ultimately the measure passed
with a 121. franchise, in spite ..f the unrelaxed oppo-
sition of Lord NAAs and his friends ; and the result
of the first registration under its provisions has been
to give to the county of Kildare a constituency of
2,774. To these the tory Chief Secretary now ap-
pals; and we freely own that his election by them
noisy such circumstances would furnish the only
iminceivable palliation for the factions attempt mods
by him and his associates two
No
ago to pipe-
teats their disfranchisement. No such, event, how-
ever, is to be apprehended. The contest will be an
animated one ; but of the issue we have little
doubt.

Of the other Irish elections there is u yet little
positive information. Orangeiam may possibly secure
the return of Lord CLAUDE HAMILTON and Mr.
BATE SON in Londonderry and Tyrone, while the
University reiterates its clerical fondness for Mr.
NAPIER, and the close borough of Poetarlington,
with its 71 *lectors, renews its delegation of Colonel
DuNNE. But at Enniskillen Mr. WHITESIDE is
menaced with a sharp contest ; and in the county of
Cork (vacant by a late appointment of Lord Own's)
a tory candidate has ventured to appear.

PABLLUIENTADY COMMITTEES.—The committee of
selection have appointed the following committee. :—A
committee, consisting of Mr. Alderman Coneland, chairman,
Mr. W. Falai, Sir E. Gooch, Mr. Collins, and Mr. J. Bell,
an the Liverpool Corporation Waterworks, the Southampton
Corporation Waterworks, Sunderland Waterworks, and
Merthyr Tydvil Waterworks, to meet on the 16th of March ;
a committee, consisting of Mr. Legit, chairman, Mr. Oren-
fell, Sir G. Pechell, Mr. Duneuft, and Mr. Dawes, on the
Wolverhempton Gas, Ncwpurt Improvement, Cheltenham
Inprovernent, and Barnstaple Markets, to meet on the 16th
of March ; • committee of Captain Harris, chairman, Sir
J. Norieys, Mr. S. Davies, Mr. Milner, and Mr. W. Geoid,
on the Macclesfield Improvement, Runcorn Improvement,
Stockton las provement, and Liverpool Museum sod Library,
to meet on the 18th of March ; a committee of Col. Lindsay,
chairman; Mr. W. Lockhart, Lord E. Howard, Mr. Hey-
wood, and Mr. Hildyard, on the Droitwich Junction Canal,
Medina River Navigation, South Ewes Estuary, and Lough
Foyle and Swilly Drainage, to meet on the 18th of March.
Tho eommittees on thu East London Waterworks, Acci-
dental Death Insurance, and Mandlcd Gas light Bills, arc
I appointed to meet on the 15th of March, and those on the
Patent Solid Sewage Manor', Aberdeen Boys' and Girls ,
Hospital, and Scarborough Markets and Approaches Bill,
M meet on the 16th March.
DIVIDENDS or TRIAD RemwAYs.—The dividend
of thu Belfast awl County Down is to be 10s. Bd., and of
the Dublin and Belfast 15e.
FATAL AND MICLANCIIOLT ACCIDENT.—An
acci-
dent accompanied with a serious loss of life, occurred in
Olandore harbour, Cork, on Tuesday, the 17th. A coast
go ,rd who was about to change his residence from one side
of the herhinur to the other, Waded a common yawl with a
quantity of turuiture, and took with him in the boat five
children, his mother-ise law, and .is men to row. The illy
we. very a dtl and squally, and in a sudden gust of wind
the boat was upset, and three of tne luso, the old woman,
awl the live children, were drowned. The coast guard (a
man named Fitsgeraid) made every ettertioa to says hi.
children, but unavailingly. lie swam a considerable di.-
tone,, ti)init to support one of the children, whose clothe.
be hart taught in his teeth, but the child was washed
orr iy from him by a wise and perished with the rest.—
' Cork Esanitrier.

FRANCE.
THE ELECTIONS.
BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.
PION OUR OWN

PONDINT.
PARIS, TVUDAT.
Am elected deputies for the Seine : Delalain.
Deviack, Cavaignae, Lepellatier,Konigewater, Veron.
In the two other circumscriptions Cernot and Parfet
obtained the majority.

PASTS, MONDAY EVIINIIIO.
The polls closed this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Per
I shall be able to give you some approximate
results of the examination of the ballots before tho
post goes. Meanwhile the government has neg-
lected no means to drive people to the poll
This morning the mayors, finding that great num-
bers of electors had neglected to apply for cards,
have spared them the trouble by sending to their
lodgings the necessary authorisation to vote. They
have also distributed to the electors a circular, urging
them to the poll. lest their abstention should
be calumniously interpreted by certain parties.
Hitherto the government appears to have been most
successful in the districts in which MM. Veron, Lan-
quetin, Moreau (do la Seine), and Devinck, are its
candidates. In the lit, 3rd, tith, and Bth circum-
scriptions, the elections are hotly contested by the
independent candidates Tracy, Cavignac, Bixio, and
Ferdinand de Lastyrio. Cavaignuc, however, seems
the only name on which the fractions of the opposi-
tion have decidedly coalesced.
I hear that circulars have been addressed from the
several ministries to all their employe% menacing
them with dismissal in case of abstention.
The "

says that the report of a com-
mittee, appointed by the Bank of France to consider
the question of reducing the rate of interest, is in
favour of the reduction, and that the Bank will come
to a decision on Thursday.
The Dittats says :
A few days since we copied a letter is the Journal de
CAMAY, in which mention is made of a note sent by the
French government of that of Bwitserland relative to the
return., and otassuranees given on the scilicet by the
Prince President to the Swiss Cliargi d'Affaires in Paris.
From information which we have since received, we think
that we any aim that the details given in that correspon-
dente, the authority of which the author himself did not
guarantee, are completely erroneous.

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The Univers contains an article upon the state of
Switzerland, to which I invite sour attention. This
ardent champion of the Sonderbund chides the tardy
nephew of Napoleon for pausing in the energetic
career inaugurated on December 2, and stooping
to bandy notes with the unrighteous federal council,
after the lukewarm fashion of those political Laodi-
ceans, MM. Thies and Guizot, instead of repeating
the cannonades of the boulevards in the valleys
of the Helvetic republic. Good hard knocks
are the only arguments that can be underl
stood by the Swiss radicals. Catholic Fribourg,
which the Emperor placed at the head of
the confederation, groans, trampled by the rabble
rout of heretics. The curate of the great pariah
of Vippens, for treading in the pious steps of Mon-
signor Franzoni, and refusing the sacraments to a
dying catholic, unless he recanted his oath to the
schismatic constitution imposed by the radicals,
has been turned out of his parish by the govern-
ment for this courageous perform'uico of his duty.
Such martyrdom calls for vengeance. Let that zea-
lous son of the church, Louis Napoleon, leave the
dilatory ambages of diplomacy, and strike. Let him
cut with his sword the knot of the federal
constitution, and restore the cantonal inde-
pendence which was recognised by his uncle
as the most solid base for the existence of the Swiss

confederation. Such is the substance and spirit of
this article, conceived in the true vein of the church
militant. I must not forget to add that in the course
of it the fact leaks out that the French government
has addressed notes to the Federal Council, insisting
upon the necessity of a change in the constitution.
The Moniteur contains an article intended to illus-
trate the operation of the new institutions of credit
fonder. The average inscrest of loans on mortgage
in France, including all expenses, is 8 per cent. The
mass of real property is charged with a debt of 320
millions sterling, of which the interest is therefore ra-
ther more than 25 millions sterling. The capital of
this enormous debt is found to increase yearly on an
average by 24 millions sterling, that is, by a sum
nearly equivalent to the interest. The continuance
of such a state of things must have ultimately
ruined the proprietors. By means of the new
institutions it is hoped to avert this catas-
trophe. The societies of credit fonder can
only issue knees de page or bunk-notes, to the
amount of the loans which they grant. The visa of
the notary with whom the deed of loan is deposited,
is the pltdge for the strict execution of this condi-
tion. The clearance of previous mortgages, the value
of the real property mortgaged, which is double that
of the loan, the right of immediate sequestration, and
rapid sale at little cost in case of non-payment of the
annual instalments, shield the societies against all
risk. Hence it may be supposed that these will find
no difficulty in procuring capital at 41 per cent.
Thus the borrower, having to pay 4} per cent. in-
terest, # per cent. expenses, and 1 per cent. to-
wards liquidation of the loan, will have to
pay in all 6 per cent., that is 2 per
cent. less than the interest alone which he
now pays on sums, of which he is bound to reimburse
the capital in full after six or eight years, under
menaces of foreclosure, which is always ruin. Thus
the government computes that in forty years.
by means of these institutions of credit
fonder, the immense debt which now bur-
dens real property may be entirely paid off.
Meanwhile the reduction of the interest paid upon
that debt amounts to more than half of the tax on
real property which is rather more than eleven
millions sterling. Such is the outline of the picture
traced by the official journal of the benefits which
may accrue from the new institution.
The Marquis de Nicolay has been dismissed from
his post as mayor of Montfirt, for proposing himself
as an independent candidate for the Cores Legiglatif.
The independent papers of the provinces, which
have been struck with ruin by the clause of the law
on the press which deprives them of judicial adver-
tisements, are fast dying out. The °langur, of
Amiens, and the Impartial and Messagsr, of Rouen,
are announced to-day as extinct.
The last week of February has passed away
without causing any sensible amelioration in the
situation of commerce. Retail traders have sold

little, and have refrained from making new pur-
chases in manufacturers. The amusements of the
Carnival and the balls have, it is true, afforded some
occupation to certain special branches of commerce,
such as upholsterers, dressmakers, and makers of
artificial flowers. But that activity was excep-
tionaL Thus far very few orders have been given
for exportation. The last arrivals from the United
States, on which great expectations were founded,
have only brought some rare orders, and the New
York letters agree in saying that French commerce
must not count much on the purchases of North
America for this spring. Still, in the midst of
this prolonged stagnation, a certain disposition is
remarked amongst traders to make sales on credit,
and if that tendency were encouraged by the dis-
count bankers it would probably cause a prompt
resumption of business. Bet these bankers .ow
themselves more rigorous than ever, and rarely de-
cide to discount bills at more than 30 days' date.
Many important home* however, are strongly of
opinion that there will be a decided increase of
activity in the courseof this month. They have received
a great many promises from commitsion agents, who
are waiting the result of the elections before they
begin their purchases. The prices of corn continue
high, quite as high as is desirable, but few sales
have been effected Speculation is more active in
wino and brandy than in anything else. In
Languedoc and the Bordeaux district, an ex-
traordinary rise has taken place in the
quality known as 36. The price hors risen
from 70 to 80. There has been • curious dispropor-
tion between the markets of Bordet.ux and Paris in
the price of this article. The rise in the course of
the week in Para§ was 2fr. only, and late on Satur-
day there wan a sudden fall of 51r. The p, ices of 341
at this time last year were at Bordeaux 55, Resler!!
32, and Paris 04.50. The closing quotation on Sa-
turday last in Paris was 77, or 3f. hiss than at Bor-
deaux, instead of being 10f. more, which, allowing
for the freight, is about the natural proportion.
These figures prove the speculative nature of the
buginesa now doing. Indigo is again lower at Bor-
deaux, and there is no improvement in any kind of