The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-09 00:00:00

surplus would be very considerable. According to
the last report of the ecclesiastical commissioners, the
yearly grants to small benefices made by that board
exceed 77.000/.a year, equivalent to two millions
and a half of money. This sum has been provided by
the suppression of about three hundred sinecures,
and these generally of the least value in the church.
It woukl seem 110 Extr.tvagaut Estimate to assume
that the reduction of the flee chief episcopal incomes
from (4,0001. to 34,0001., combined with the reduc-
tion of the canons to two in each cathedral, and with
the other amendments under this bill, would produce
at least as much more ; and this large sum would be
provided, nut by the confiscation, nor by the injury,
but merely by the ro-arrangement of ecclesiastical
revenues.

LORD DERBY says he " has some apprehensions as to I
the probable con sequences of coma i t ut ion al governmen t
at the Cape of Good Hope." It has been remarked
that prophets of evil often have it in their iowcr to
bring about the fulfilment of their ill boding
constitutional
government produces bad consequences at the Cape,
it most bo because the colonists arc perverse and un-
reasonable. And Lord DERBY is doing his utmost
to goad and spur them into a temper in which they
are likely to be unreasonable.
The temper of the Cape colonists has indeed been
sorely tried for many a long year. They have been
misgoverned by officials, the nominees and props
of the Colonial-office. Their earlier petitions for
constitutional government were treated with super-
cilious scorn. Even after the homo government had
pledged its faith to grant them a constitutional
government, unworthy subterfuges were resorted to,
to obtain delay, or the means of making the consti-
tution illusory. Then came the mad attempt to take
the colonists by surprise and smuggle convicts into
the colony against their will; with the ticklish agi-
tation to which it gave nse. At last a constitution,
framed in Downing-street, is sent out cut and dry,
with orders to the Legislative Council to pass it
into • law. The colonists accepted the consti-
tution. The Legislative Council consists of ez officio
members, norainees, and representative members.
The orders from head-quarters admit of no delay;
but Mr. MONTAGUE, the Colonial Secretary, with his
nominees, in despite of the disapprobation of his offi-
cial colleagues and the opposition of the representa-
tive members, substitutes a 501. for a 251. franchise,
thereby neutralising the whole measure; denying to
the mass of the educated and industrious colonists
any voice in the election of the future legislature.
" It is the last drop that makes the cup run over;
but for the good sense of the colonists and their po-
pular leaders, such a juggle might pardonably have
stirred them up to mutiny.
In such a case the duty of any, minister deserving
the name of a statesman was plain. The conduct of
Mr. MONTAGUE was not only unjust to the colonists
and impolitic in the last degree ; it was flat rebellion
against his masters in Downing-street. If these
masters had had the spirit of men they would im-
mediately have transmitted orders to their insolently
disobedient servant to obey his original instructions
instantly, and to the letter—if indeed they had not
straightway cashiered him. But instead of acting
thus, Lord DERBY—the proud and peremptory Lord
I) —protests that he must wait to hear what
rearm Mr. MONTAGUE assigns for his extra-
ordinary insubordination. Upon this conduct
on Lord DERBI.3 part the Cape colonists
can and will put only one interpretation. 'They'
know Lord DERBY of old; they have had experience
of him as a Colonial Minister; they know how pc-
remptory he is, bow impatient of contradiction. 11
They will understand his hesitation to imply appro-
bation
of what Mr. MONTAGUE has done—a desire
on the part of Lord Dranv to gain time, to see
whether the colonists are likely to submit tamely to
be juggled out of their promised constitution.
Every moment lost by government before they
disclaim the scandalous juggle of Mr. MON-
JAGUE, and compel him to make the amends
honorable by restoring the original not very low
electoral qualification, is pregnant with dan-
ger. Ile and his unscrupulous tools are busy
sowing dissensions among the colonists with
a view to get up an ostensible cause for perpetuating
the high electoral qualification. They have one set
of emissaries whispering in the ears of the coloured
classes that the representative legislature will be
exclusively a representation of the whites, who will
legislate against the blacks; and another set
whispering in the ears of the whites that the
coloured races are disaffected and will prove incapable
of being controlled under a local parliamentary
government. They are seeking to stir up the races
to acts of outrage and violence against each other,
in order that they may be able to persuade ministers
and parliament that constitutional government at
the Cape is impossible. And they have a third set
of emissaries writing home alarmist letters, to all
and sundry, describing the mutual inveteracy
of the white and coloured races, and piteously im-
ploring their correspondents to use their influence with
members of parliament, with ministers, with the
press, to avert frtim the colony the curse of constitu-
tional government. Mr. MONTAGUE has, it must be
confessed, as pretty a set of unscrupulous agents at
his beck and bidding as any petty wielder of a dele-
gated provincial despotism could wish for. Not a
fraudulent bankrupt who has left his creditors here
in the lurch and betaken himself to South Africa, not
a beggarly official provided for by being saddled on
the colonial exchequer, but is doing his work with a
will. We have seen some of these alarmist letters;
and know the writers and their antecedents.

Hitherto the deportment of the Cape colonists has
been u calm and prudent as it has been firm, in the
mat trying circumstances. As yet, except on the
frontier, where the tyranny of degenerate missiona-
ries and petty officials has goaded the Hottentots to
rebellion, there is no jealousy or ill-will between the
white and coloured races within the colony. But
this satisfactory state of affairs is perilled every
day that the incendiary agents of the old, irresponst•
Me official rulers are allowed to prosecute their
intrigues. They are rapidly alienating the white
and coloured races from each other, and pre-
paring them for reciprocal slaughter • they are
rapidly exhausting tho forbearance of the colonists.
Every moment that Lord DERBY temporises and de-
lays ho affords an opportunity to these clandestine
agitators to make good his foreboding that the
Cape will suffer under constitutional government.
The recent history of Downing-street rule at the
Cape of Good Hope has been a repetition of every
political fault and folly that cost Great Britain its
North American colonies. The most irritating of
these faults and follies were perpetrated when Lord
STANLEY was. colonial minister : Lord DERBY ap-
pears anxious to complete the work which Lord
STANLEY left unfinished.

Cum so 2112 1162.—Thto Malty Term call to
the hat of oirkels se the bee. flelisty of the Middle
Tempi* ma sees yeeteriay, Jose 8, and it comprises
the following gentlemen :—W. J. Spokes, H. Lloyd, W. P.
Hale, J. Digby, H. D. Blackmer, H. C. Butler, Hon.
J. M. 0. Byng, J. Smith, T. W. Barnes, D. McLachlan,
and H. 8. Ha* thorne, Emirs.

BURSTING OP A STRAY BOILER.—FATAL .ACCI-
DISNT.—On Monday morning the Public Baths and Wash-
houses;
open built by subeariptiee for thew of the poor of
Oxford, were *Peed, mei Irmo do moo of a eselesseholy
accident in about half an beef ellerwaros. The boiler of
the powerful engine, or MS of the poiesimel. Waves, from
some Cause or other, took eel the NO evessacetal
chimney ma thrown down ea the ease pert. of the build-
ing, when a young nee named , son of a respecta-
ble tailor, wu killed on the spot. mid several other per-
sons were mom or Is injured..

DF.A'flt UNDER MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.-
The body of a man about 45 years of age, unknown, was
found in the river 'melt, at Manchester, on Saturday,
under mysterious cirmamstanom He was found in a part
of the river near the racecourse, by a man named John
Ellis, who slept at one of the booths on the course on Fri-
day night. Ellis roes about half-past four o'clock on Sa-
turday morning, and was walking by the side of the
river, when he saw the body, the lower part resting on
a sand-bank, and the he d and other portions under
water. He returned to the booth and gave information
to his meter, and afterwards went to a police-
officer, who immediately accompanied him to the
spot. The body we conveyed to the Griffin
Inn, Droughton-road. The deceased wu about 6 feet 3
inches in height, with a full face, was rather stout built,
and his hair turned a little grey. He had on a pair of good
black cloth trousers, wooollen stockings, and a twilled calico
shirt. He was without either coat, waistcoat, shoes, or hat.
His neck was uncovered, Neither money nor any other
article wu to be found in his pockets or on any part of his
person. There was no wound or mark on any part of the
body. Information hes been left at all the police offices,
but the body has not been identified. An inquest was held
on Saturday evening, when the jury found a verdict of
" Found drowned."

FRANCE.

THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ENGLISH
PRESS OFFICIALLY THREATENED BY
TIIE FRENCH GOVERNMENT.

I'ARIB, TUZADAT EvaitzNo.
The correspondents of those English papers which
have shown themselves least favourable to the govern-
ment of Louis Napoleon have received invitations to
present themselves in the cabinet of M. Latour-
Dumoulin, director of the department of the press
in the ministry of police. I need not say that your
correspondent is among the number summoned; but
I can safely assert that no menaces will deter him
from the performance of his duty in your service as
an independent and truthful reporter of events here, 1
so long as he is permitted to occupy his present
situation. Having had an interview with M. Latour-
Dumoulin this afternoon, your correspondent is ena-
bled to give you an exact account of what took place.
The director of the press at the in in let ry of police, lately
a writer iu the Bulletin de Paris, a lithographic
organ of the Elysee, is a young man of about thirty,
of prepoeseasing appearance and address. Ile
received your correspondent with that suavity and
politeness of manner which is a redeeming charac-
terietic in many of the leading persons employed in
the service of the present government. He pro-
ceeded to state the motives of his present commu-
nication, which must be regarded as an official notice
of the French government, and is therefore of the
highest importance as affecting the relations of the
two countries. The French government had ob-
served attentively since the 2nd of December
the attitude of the English pram, and
regretted to perceive that many of tho London news-
papers wore not only hostile to the present govern-
meet, hut outrageous towards the head of the state.
Now the French government did not ask for support
at the hands of any foreign newspaper; it did not
even wish to deprecate opposition; but it was deter-
mined not to allow the person of the head of the
state to be treated with outrage and insult, and his
name to be dragged through the mire (train., dans
la bone). It was not only in the letters of the cor-
respondents that this offensive manner of mentioning
the person of the i'rince Louis Napoleon was prac-
tised, but also in the leading articles. But in
either case, fur the future the person of
the correspondent would be held responsible,
inasmuch as it war only fair to suppose that he fur-
nished the false news on which the insulting appre-
ciations contained in the leading articles were
founded. Your correspondent was then given to
understand that if either the Paris letter of the Ex-
press, or the leading articles of that paper, contained
any expressions outraging the person of the Prince-
President, ho would be considered as the responsible
person, and be forthwith expelled from France. If
it was found that this measure did not suffice to put an
end to the practice of insulting the head of the French
state in the English press, it would then become the
duty of the French government to deliberate upon
what lurther measures would be necessary. This is
the sum and substance of M. Latour-Damoulin's
communication to me this afternoon, and 1 presume
that another correspondent of the English press,
whom he has likewise seen, has received a similar
warning. In answer to this announcement I stated
that if the French government made the Paris cor-
respondent of an English pap, r responsible for what-
ever appeared in that paper relative to France, it
would act neither according to the principles of jus-
tice, law, nor international usage. It was known that
the responsibility could only Ito with the editor of
the newspaper in England. A correspondent formed
no part of what the French call the re,daelion of a
paper. Ile was a private person, who sent confi-
dential letters, the responsibility of whose publication ,
ho had nothing whatever to do with. The remedy of '
theFrenchl'resident lay clearly against the newspaper,
which ho might either prosecute in the English
courts of law, or lay a diplomatic complaint against
with the English government, which would in point
of fact cumo to the same thing ; only in the latter case
the French government would hold the English one
responsible for the prosecution of the paper, as had
been recently the case in Belgium. When the
Prince-President's uncle became caperor he was at-
tacked with violence by the English newspapers;
and he took this means of redress. He caused a cri-
minal information to be tiled against the editor of the
newspaper, who was defended oy Sir James Macin-
tosh. The upshot of the affair was the condemna-
tion of the newspaper to considerable damages. M.
Latour-Dumoulin answered that the French govern-
ment could not accept the t beery of the irrreepo.nsibi ty
of correspondents. For the charge of uttering false
news, although it seemed scarcely necessary to touch
this question, I remarked that such errors were ne-
cessarily incidental to the journalists' vocation, but
that they were, in my case at least, never intention-
ally committed. In all events, I was sure that the
Express would have no objection to insert such ,
rectifications of false news as the government would I'
communicate. He said that the government was
anxious to afford every facility to English correspon-
dents for sending correct news ; it would even have
no objection to communicate at times important do-
cumenta which it could not permit to be published in
France. For instance, the Count de ChamborcTs
letter, although the Independance Belye was seized
for the publication of it, would have been confided
without difficulty to an English newspaper. These
and other civil offers were made politely by M.
Latour-Dumoulin, who acquitted himself of his de-
licate task with no want of civility. But his ulti-
matum was that the government could not accept the
theory of the irresponsibility of correspondents.
Such is a rapid and faithful sketch of this inter-
view, which, together with similar ones betwocn the
director of the press and other correspondents, will,
I doubt not, produce some sensation on the other aide
of the Channel.

The Constitutionnel publishes to-day, at the head
of its columns, the following first warning of the
minister of police:
The Minister of General Police, taking into consideration
Art. 32 of the organic decree on the press of February 17,
1852, and looking to the article published in the Corastitu-
tionnel of June 7, 1852, in which is to be found the follow-
ing wage • We still firmly believe, even alter the article
is the Motailswr, that M. Orsnier d• Cassegnao was fully
authorised, &a.," the said article being mined " Dr. L.
Veron " and whereas in that article the said X. Veron,
notwithstanding the Werth* node is the Mesiteur of
June 8, 1862, of a note emarhieehel by the t,
persists in declaring ea lama eseeetha to be ins, decrees
as follows
_ _

Art. 1. By the terms of Art. 32 of the decree of Feb-
ruary 17, 1862, a first warning is hereby given to the Con-
stautaosnal in the person of M. Benzin, responsible editor,
and M. Veron, whom name is Mixed to the article men-
tioned above.

" Art. 2. The prefect of polies is charged with the ex-
ecution of the present decree.
" Glyn at Paris, this 7th of ,Tune' 1862.
" DE MAUP/S, Minister of Police."
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This document is succeeded by an article from the
pen of Dr. Veron, which contains an important reve-
lation. The doctor has in fact in his possession a note,
written by the President's private secretary to the
geratit of the Constilutionnel, applying for 100 copies
of that paper containing the first article of M. Gra-
nier dc lassagnac about Belgium. Singular to say,l
on the very same day on which the Elyse bought
these hundred copies, Count Turgot, minister of
foreign affairs, in answer to a demand for explana-
tion on the part of the Belgian envoy, formally dis-
approved both the sense and the terms of the article,
and denied the official charaeter of M. Granier do
Cassagnac as an interpreter of the views of the go-
vernment. _ _

The Illonikur Beige publishes, with reference to
the articles of M. Grainer de Cassagnac, the follow-
ing note :
The constitu'iotand of Paris has just published upon the
situation of Belgium, in relation to France, two articles,
which have recited throughout this country a just reproha-
tion. The day after the appearance of the first publi-
cation of the Constilestionnel, the French minister of
foreign affairs, having been interpellated by the Belgian
envoy at Paris, formally disapproved both the sense and
the words of the article. He declared in an official
conference that the author heti only repressed an individual
opinion that he is not the organ of the French govern-
ment, and that the Constitursooncl is moreover independent
of the action of the executive power.
A more striking instance of the difficulty of a cor-
respondent's position could hardly be given than the
one furnished by the above history, with its
attendant circumstances. M. Grimier de Cassagnac
was known to have frequent private audiences with
the President. That he has long been in the confi-
dence of the President, that he has often written
leading articles at his instigation, is notorious. Ilia
has been the pen chosen to shadow forth in prophe-
tic language some of the most important acts of the
President's public life. When, therefore, M. de Ca..
sagnac distinctly affirmed that his articles on Be!-