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

WURTENIBERG.

The second chamber of Wurtemberg adopted in
its sittings of the26th ult. the report of its committee
tending to declare the fundamental rights pro-
claimed by the Frankfurt National Assembly of legal
force in the kingdom, and imprescriptiblu except by
constitutional means.

FRINCH RAILWAY TIAITIC.—The following are the last
rotorna of the receipts of tbe panel* Meth railways :
Normans.— From Feb. 12 io Feb. 18: Peseesigers, 132,5401.;
gods, 260,009 f.; Waal, 132.5191.
Roves.—Prom Feb. 12 to Yob. 21 : Pommies; 68,838 E ; goods,
91,0471.; t0ta1,158,5101.
slamin-11rose 11,b. 15 to Feb. 21 : Ploelosiers, 24,220 f. ; goods,
42,8691.; total, 66.9/13).
OSLIMPL —From Fen 16 to Feb. 22: Pommies; 68,0482 ; goods,
f;
eo. i 0 to Feb. 16. Pamengem, 40,1371.; goods,
72‘72•1.9.t5;0,r-aliricini4Fnetra.. 16 to Feb. 22: Preempt; 27,2321.; good.,
7 total, 04 8001.
1454rer.,
c.. .—Prom meow Feb. 12 to Feb. 13 : 's, 25,2596 ; golds,
30,630). 36,0891.
arammine.—Eront Feb. 12 to Feb. 16 Posmogere, 89,192 f.;
good% 1 of.; total, 1119,401).
&mi.—From Yeb. 9 to Feb. 15 : 19,503 f. ; goods,
10 347 E ; total, 39110 f.
Morritaray.—From Feb. 12 to Feb. 18: Passengers, 7,911 f.;
goods, 13,611); beal. 13.2701.
Mammuss.—Fros Feb. 5 to Feb. le: Passenger., 32,822 f.;
goats, 30.175 f.; total, 92,0971.
LYON)—From Feb. 8 to Feb. 14: Passengers, 117,3851.; goods,
101.3151.: total. 24,8101.
Canna.—Fr m Feb. 16 to Feb. 22: Pagan:gets, 22,213 f.; good;
1,4421.; tots I, 470434

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AN ALGERIAN INCIDENT.—The Ak/dime, of Algiers,
relates the following distressing scene, which took place on
the 31st ultimo, at fiouba —" In the afternoon of that
day, the wife of an houfst and industrious Spanish
colonist, was at week in • field • short distance from
Koons, and which was skirted by a thicket of brush-
wood. She had with her her daughter, a child four
years of age, whom she had placed in the shade of some
palm trees. Suddenly she heard a shriek from the child,
and, on looking up, was horrified at seeing it in the mouth
of • large panther. The mother remained for a moment
u if petrified, and the monster, profiting by this moment
of indecision, made a bound into the thicket, and dis-
appeAred. The poor woman, on recovering from her sur-
prise, itnine..f.tely rushed after her child, without think-
ing of the danger which she herself incurred. She
was guided in her estate by the movement of the bushes,
and by the plaintive cries of her child, which every moment
became more and more faint. For several minutes she con-
tinued her dep.-rate chem.. Mad with despair, she rushed
into the thickest of the bushes. lier clothes were soon torn
i• rags, and her face. her arms, and legs horribly wounded
by the thorns. At length the cries of her child ceased, and
there was nothing further to direct her steps. In her route
she found one of the 111101 worn by her daughter, next a
piece of its dress hanging to a branch of an aloe, then an-
other shoe, next a handaerehicf which had been round its
head, suit which was wet with blood. At the sight of this
last obji et, the mother fainted, and was not discovered until
an hour after by her husband, who, on hearing her crion
had rushed to the spot. The poor woman was soon brought
to life, but it is feared that she will never recoverlier reason."

OUlt NEW PREMIER.

(from the Daily Nero.)

What must be done with Lord DERBY ? Such is
the question the liberal party will this day in
London and in Manchester have to discuss, and on
the wisdom of their decision relic many of the
probabilities of the contest now to be waged between
the friends of liberal and enlightened progress and
the official champions of high toryism. A letter on
this subject in another column deserves attentive
perusal.

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Lord DERBY—thanks to Lord PALMERSTON and
! whig obstinacy and exclusiveness—is at the head
of a government, each member of which belongs
to the Tux-Bread-to-Raise-Rent school of politics.
In his explanation in the House of Peers, the
new PREMISS, said, he still adhered to his belief
in protection, but that he would not strive to
carry any resolution in its favour in the present par-
liament. No thanks to him for that,--since he not only
knows, but, in express words admits himself to
be in a minority. In bland oratorical terms, there-
fore, he talks of protection as a thing of so much im-
portance that by the country alone can its fate be
decided. this statement, denuded of the oratory,
means—a dissolution of parliament ; when each party
are to strive who shall have must seats and votes
under the present corrupt system of representation.
For no one knows better than Lord 14:ittiv
that when he talks of appealing to " the
people," he means an appeal to nomination
boroughs, government boroughs, beer boroughs, cor-
rupt boroughs, and rotten boroughs, and to so many
!only of the people as have votes in counties and
'other places. But coupled with this phrase of "ap-
pealing to the country, he uses another about " fac-
tious opposition,"—a thing of which he has a whole-
some horror, and the show of which he intimates
must be followed by an immediate dissolution ;
not however, he trusts, before certain votes for
the service of the country have been granted.
Alternately begging and bullying —declaring for
protection, yet putting off for a while the at-
tempt to impose it—how are we to translate
the explanation of this new Minister of a Minority?
Surely after this fashion, that, if he meets with
troublesome opposition, he must dissolve the
parliament at once; but that if he is treated
in the way he wishes —if the liberals
vote hint all he asks, concede all ho
requires,—ask no awkward questions, press no
troublesome divisions —Lord Denny will use the pre-
sent House of Commons as long as they are useful;
will tolerate them till he has " made his game " for the
elections, and till official prestige (if nothing more) has
strengthened him in this place, has created a party
for him in that, has spoiled the chance of an oppo-
nent for the other, and so on over England, Ireland,
and Scotland—and having used them thus as a
money-voting machine and a scope-goat, he will clear
the house— like another dictator—at the head of
his rampant minority. The difference then, is,
whether Lord DERBY is to be required at once
to make the appeal he proposes, or whether
he shall be allowed to make up his book
for the elections and dissolve afterwards. Shall
we have the election before the harvest or after the
harvest—in the spring or in the autumn? Shall we
try a fall with the enemy whilst he is fresh in the
field, or shall we let him amuse us with a hollow
truce or a makebelieve parley whilst he entrenches
his camp ?

He has sent out the first flag of truce asking for
terms, and his pleas arc the necessities of the country
and the impropriety of captious opposition. On this
let us at once join issue. Who so keenly alive to
the necessities of the nation as the people—who so
negligent of them as the party Lord DERBY leads?
The chief necessity of the nation is food, cheap food,—
and this Lord DERBY wishes to tax. But the Paine
MINISTER does not mean necessities of thiskind : what
he wants is the money vote, in their power over which
resides the sole power of the people—a power gained
alter many a generation of buffet-mg, and atter many
a heavy payment both of money and of blood. But
if he gets all the money he demands, and if he gets
the Mutiny Act passed, he has nearly all he wants,
and may then snap his fingers at the "captious oppo-
sition " he is desirous just now to propitiate. The real
needs of the country the people would never dream
of refusing—for they never have refused. Ihe people
have by far too deep a stake in the welfare of this
nation, ever to do aught that might imperil it. They
feel for its true dignity, as they have ever been its
true strength ; they desire its security, for in peace
and quiet industry is their only dependence and
hope. The Mutiny Bill will therefore of course bo
passed—for a term; and certain money also be given
—on account. But for how long that term should
be, or how far the supplies should be granted,—is
the question for discussion and settlement.
The tory evening paper, the beam/ors/of yesterday,
exhibits a high state of vexation, because Mr.
C. VILLIERS threatens the protectionists with a mo-
tion for which there is no precedent. The Standard,
with the soul of a special pleader, insists on a prece-
dent. And no wonder, for the Standard has nothing
else to call for. All the reason, and justice, and com-
mon sense are on the opposite side, whilst precedents
are with the party whom the Standard seeks to
support. Looking into precedents, we find tho
people doing all the work and getting all the hard
blows, whilst the oligarchy have enjoyed the
profits and the security. The people from whose ranks
men of genius have risen to form our literature
—the people, whose ingenuity and whose persever-
ance have realised our wealth—whose blood has been
shed to win our victories—on whose labour we rely
for our commercial pre-eminence, and in whose
bravery alone we can trust for national safety,—
the people have, as precedent shows, hitherto been
mere fatted calves to be slain for the benefit and at
the will of the territorial aristocracy. But the time
seems come for changing much of that •, and the pre-
cedents are hereafter likely to show the adoption of
a different line of policy. The struggles of two cen-
turies ago established the right of the House of Com-
mons to compel the summoning of parliament. The
mode adopted for securing that power was to
put the continuance of the army and the
voting of the public money at the disposal of the re-
presentatives of the people. The Commons vote
the Mutiny Act for one year only, because tho
executive are thereby compelled to summon parlia-
ment again to meet within that year. In the same
manner the monies required by the state are voted
for a limited term, and it is perfectly constitutional
for the House of Commons to sanction the supplies
for any limited period that may seem desirable. Mr.
CHARLES VILLIERS'S motion on the subject or free
trade is a motion—says the ministerial Standard—
without precedent. It may or may not be judicious.
This point there will be opportunities hereafter for
discussing, but another step might with perfect
constitutional propriety he taken—and .it is this.
To defeat a government like that of lord DEnev—a
government, be it remembered, avowedly in power
on the unconstitutional basis of a minority—should it
be needful so to do, the liberal party might, if so in-
clined and so advised, vote the Mutiny Act and the
supplies for six months instead of twelve. The
liberals would not think of adopting the extreme
measure of stopping the supplies, but they might
give them for such a period as would compel the
present Plume MINISTER to submit himself at an
early period to that parliamentary control which is
the sole basis of liberty in all constitutional countries.

MAILS FOR THE Wart CHART OF SOUTH AMERICA
—The following notice has been issued by command of the
Postmaster-General :—" Her Majesty's government, haring
renewed their contract with the Pacific Steam Navigation
Company, for the conveyance of the mails twice a month,
instead of ONCC a month, na formerly, between Panama,
Callao, and Valparaiso, the new arrangement will com-
mence in connexion with the outward West India mail of
the 2nd March next, and mails fir the Western Coast of
South America, will be (urinal...lA, thenceforward, by the
West India packets leaving Southampton fir Chagrec, on
the mornings of the 2nd and Mb of each month. When, .
however, the 2nd or lith of the mouth falls on a Sunday,
the mails for the Pacific, u sera 1411 those for the West
Indies will be despatched on the following morning.
Permission hag been given for the packets of the
Pacific Company to call at the undermentioned ports:
New thanada Buenaventura. Peru : Pnyta, Callao,
Picric, Way, Arica, Yguigue. Bolivia: CohiJa. Chili:
Caldera, Hoare'', Coquimbo, Volporabo. The rate of
wo:stage chargeable upon letters fur New Granada will he
Is. the halnownee, lie., and ulna letters addressed to any
other part of the western coast of South Am. rice, the post-
! ago will he 2s. when not exceeding half an ounce in weight:
45., when above half an ounce, and not exceeding one ounce,
and so on, according to the scale for charging inland letters.
Newspapers addressed to the Biafra of New Granada, Ecua-
dor, Bolivia, and Peru, will be forwarded free from post-
age, as at present. Newspapers addressed to Chili will he
liable to a rate of 4d. each.

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