The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-17 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 17.

Stn. FITZROY KELLY is trying again ;—but not at
llarwich this time. No man can doubt his abilities,
his legal attainments, and supersubtlety. Ilia large
success in his profession is patent to every one—self-
won, too, in spite or an almost unknown origin, of
disagreeable incidents from the period he first attracted
attention, and a notorious and almost unprofeuional
greed for large fees. Vet. some how or other, few
respect this eminent lawyer—few regard him as a
sincere, earnest man ; and so little has he been
esteemed throughout his career, that, facile as
legal success generally makes parliamentary honour,
Sir F. KELLY has never been creditably connected
with any single const it uency, and has been kept out of
the House of Commons fur session after session and
parliament aPer parliament. when his inferiors at
the bar, because Ins superiors is mural qualities, have
been honourable and regularly seated there ; winning
their way to juilicial honours.
And bow could it be otherwise; seeing that the
man is utterly devoid of all sense of propriety; and
that he treats constituencies as bodies to be bought
and used, just as briefs are so many sheets of paper
to be read and studied in accordance with the quid-
dam Al.i4 /I`ll/;111/1 marked outside. Just look at
the gross indecency of his present conduct.
First or all. he proclaimed himself a tory
candidate fur Exeter at the general elec-
tion. 'Then, when a new writ was issued for
dirty Ilorwich. he deserted Exeter without a word
of explanation or apology, thew all the enthusiasm
he had managed to rouse there aside as carelessly
and indifferent as her ladyship does soiled gloves,
and started—in a great speech inconvenient to none
more than to Lord Denny—for Harwich. There
was, at all events, a moral, or rather an immoral,
Shwa is this new love; for if Harwich is to continue
to defile the constitution, who so appropriate a mem-
ber as he who corrupted Ipswich, and could not buy
Lyme liciris ' The like to the like. But when
congenialey occupied at Harwich, poor I.ord
RENOLL,II.43I died, and a vacancy occurred for East
Suffolk ; and, kicking aside the Harwich blues, off
star a the perambulating Sir FITERUT to Woodbridge,
and becomes a candidate for that division of a county.
Why. a traveling pedlar dies not act thus; whilst
ordinary men, to say nothing or gentlemen, would
shrink (ruin such brazen audacity as issuing in one
month three addresses to three different constitu-
encies, and professing to each that to represent them
in parliament is the highest ambition of his life.
'Mere is perhaps hardly a second man in England who
could do so. Yet so capriciously constituted are Sir
Fetzitoe moral feelings, that, oar word ler
it, he does not know he is doing anything wrong or
indecent. East Suffolk is in the nature of the largest
fee ; that's all. It is the scandal of " Huron e. lien-
man" over again.
And listen to the offensive purse-proud nonsense
this man of great fees talked to the Suffolk farmers ;

I have been able to understand the principle upon
which it is, that we who lire in town., however large may
be the incomes we peeress, occupying houses exceeding the
rents of firms of 100 arms, fit! not the burthen of poor-
rate and tithe., thst our contributions to those exigencies
of the state are so small, so inconsiderable, that we are
almost inwnsible of their exi.t,nce, while the landowner
and occupier, who ha. to grow his corn, and to grow it in
competition with those untaxed and unburdened growers of
corn in foreign eountric., labours under the necessity by
law of coutributing. perhaps, 19,20ths of the entire sum
rai.ed throughout tireat Britain, both fer poor-rates and

Bear this, inhabitants of London and great towns!
We are all so rich mid well off that we " feel not"
the burden of local rates and taxes ; they are rather
pleasant and agreeable to us than otherwise. Time
wo., we dare say, when poor FITZROY KELLY
thought otherwise, for they do say even this now
successful lawyer once kept a humble shop in Mary
lebone ; and small shopkeeikis there do not speak in
this way of their rates. At all events, shopkeeper or
not, he his had to struggle and cut out hie own road
to fortune ; and for him now, when he has just taken
the biggest hotel in Piccadilly, and " occupies a house
exceeding the rents of farms of 400 acres," to tell the
farmers of Suffolk that " we who live in towns" do
not feel the weight of local taxes, "so small, so
inconsiderable, and so insensible" are they, is a piece
of impertinence for which the only excuse is " Set a
bezgar on horseback and he rides to the devil."
Hut tithes, according to Sir FITZROY KELLY, are
burdens on the farmer that must be reduced " if
it be found impracticable to restore the corn-law."
Silty Sir Ftnaor ; don't von know that as the corn
averages go down, the blirthen of the tithe root-
charge, which does not, however, fall on farmers, is
proportionably reduced: and that, though for a
winle the clergy have had the benefit of high sep-
tennial averages, they are now about to experience
the effect of low prices?
Hut the man of law, addressing fanners, places
tithes and pooh' rates on a level; he would not do
so in Westminster-hall ; there he would describe
tithes as hereditament', not us taxes. And so they
are. Once, to be sure, they operated in the nature
of a tax on agricultural improvement. But that,
thanks to the legislation of the liberal party, they no
longer do. Anything, however, to delude the yokel..
Maynooth or tithes; protection or abolition of special
burthens, it is all the same to Sir Frrzßoy KELLY
—the great propounder of political baldeedash; the
man who "occupies a honee exceeding the rents of
farms of 400 acres," and does not know what the
rates and taxes on it are.

And then what a picture he drew of the weight of
local imposts on farmers ; setting again facts and
figures and such like stubborn things at defiance.
Why, in the course of the last half-oentury these
burthens on Foray 'cultural land have been more
and more to real property, not agricul-
tural. In 1806 the value of agricultural land was
three-fourths ei the value of all the realty in Great
Britain ; whims in 11160 it waa but one-half. The
comparative pines, et local rates upon agricultural
land, must theredne have diminished IMO 1806 ; and
it is we, the hwassbabiers, who feel its pressure now
laboro than the limn do.

sir FITZROY KELLY has a huge respect, he says,
for the late ek ROBERT PEEL ; a respect which the
deceased status= did not, if rumour be correct, at
all reciprocate. Mr ItooPERT was a great mac, a good
man, a profound minister; hut, according to Sir
FIT/110Y. utterly wrong in the chain g act of his
useful life. Sir Vir/sor did not then think St); for
he was Solicitor-General under Pref. when the Corn

Bill of 1845 became law, and he did not resign office.
New lights have, however, opened on him now. Sir
ROBERT was only right in 11441 ; then his principles
arc thus stated by Sir FITZROY.
That there should he in the fine place • swell proper-
Wined equality In the effect of their reelections upon the
art.cles theseelese upon which the duties were iepealed ;
And secondly, and mole importantly, • well proportioned
;Me* et
21:tstrictly upon 'wtre Mew" reference
al oto
duties cmentsd.

Heaven help as' Here is a roundabout way of
telling us that Sir Itoar.st Part., in the earlier years
id* his government, tried to keep wheat steady to
.118. a rafter by act of parliament. But ho could
nit ; ha statute failed ; in spite of its intention
wheat in Irll.l went up to famine prices ; and Sir
RT Parr. renounced a fallacy which all Sir
FITLIIIOT Krt.ves special pleading will not induce the
legislature to try their hand at again.
And so to the special burthens part of the mutter
RP must some. Hut where arc they? A committee
of the House of Lords tried hard to.tliseover in lsl6,
hut could not. Mr. 111.1RACLI is a great conjuror i
perhaps be will tell us when be opens his first
ht.dget. With consols at par, there is no saving
what so great a master of the magic art may do.

I,r v Vet Ptastas.—A Trieste newspaper complain.
Ora prate. continue their ikpredations in the Levant with
audaeritL A fortn.ght sgo a piratical vessel en-
tered a port near Tram, and carried off a considerable
piontity of booty, thoierh an Austrian schooner in the
le.rt vt the time. It s chiefly Auvirian ships which are
ati.,eked, the pirates faring to meddle with those of Eng
law!, France, or Huang. The Austrian government me
cordingli intends to send a frigate, two corvettes, and two
steamm against them. .The Neapolitan government also
intends to fit out some tqveels.

1
Prince Paul of Wm ;11.11P. .r 411=n-
ing
King of Wurtemikg,e 4-44 tome
Bonaparte, and eons4jent the Tiesrient,
expired this mornir ; at . in the Place
Vendome. It iq Q..id that the prince was converted
before his death from the protestrnt faith to Roman
calho". :MU. It is added that the Tuileries ball
fixed tor the 19th will be postponed in consequence
of this decease.

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I hear at this moment that in the dying moments
of Prince Paul the papal nuncio of IL urtemberg, to
the surprise and scandal of everybody, entered the
chamber of the hotel where the nearest friends and
relations of the deceased, whose family is protestant,
were gathered. Madame do Monthysury, the
prince's natural daughter, then announced to the
company that the prince had abjured protestantism
and embraced the Roman catholic religion. Great
scandal and a painful impression was caused among
the relatives of the deceased by this sudden dis-
closure. The members of the family of Nassau
protested energetically against the clandestine abjura-
tion snatched from the prince in a moment when ho
was in the gimp of death, and immediately retired.
The nuncio administered the sacraments, the recep-
tion of. which disqualified the prince for succession
in case of survival to the throne of Wurtemberg.
Marshal Gerard has received to day the lust sacra-
ments of the church. Ills recovery is regarded as
hopeless.
'lle First Chamber of the Civil Tribunal of the
Seine was crowded to-day with persons curious to
hear the case of the seizure of the domains of Neuilly
and Monceaux debated between the advocates of the
house of Orleans and the legal functionaries of the
government. I informed you in my letter of Satur-
day last that on that day the officers of the domain
proceeded to take possession of the confiscated
estates La question, and I mentioned the re.
sistanee of the bailiffs and servants of the
house of Orleans to this commencement of the
execution of the decree of Jan. 22. To-day was
heard, before the above mentioned court, presided by
M. IM-Bellevme, the commencement of an action
brought by the heirs of the late King Louis Philippe
against die administration of the domains of the
State on account of the seizure of the estates of
Neuilly and Moaccaux. MM. lkrrycr and Paillet
presented themselves on behalf of the Orleans family,
and were assisted by M. Dupla, senior, and M. Odi-
lon Barrot. They argued the invalidity of the
seizure, and demanded that judgement shOuld go by
default against the administration of the state do-
mains, on whose behalf no one appeared. M. Des-
matures, substitute of the procureur of the republic,
denied the competence of the tribunal. The advo-
cates of the Orleans family complained that this ob-
jection had not been communicated to them. The
tribunal then adjourned to next Friday, that the ob-
jection of incompetence might bo communicated in
the meantime. The pleadings will be then continued.
I hear that several distinguished professional men
have refused the oath of fidelity to the President as
well as M. Martin de Strasbourg. Among these
are M. Villemain, secretary of the Academy ; Jules
Simon, professor at the Sorbonne, and formerly mem-
ber of the constituent assembly ; Boissonnarele, pro-
fessor at the Sorbonne, and a celebrated Greek
scholar; Boussingault, member of the Academy of
Sciences, and professor at the" Cotner vatoiro des Arts ,
et Metiers ;" and several professors of rhetoric in the
colleges of Paris.
The following passage of the 21foniteter de TArtnie
the official military journal, has been much noticej
to-day :
The grand ceremony of the 10th of May will be an ad-
mirable military fete, in which the entire army will be re-
presented. and will give to the head of the state a fresh as-
surance of its devoted concurrence towards all the great
measures which are about to lift society upon a solid and
durable base.

It i+ impossible that language can speak clearer the
intention of the army to propose the empire ; these
words admit of no other interpretation. What is to
be the President's demeanour in the presence of this
demonstration, and how is he to make good his speech
of March 29 at the Tuilerit s. It is said that he will
make a speech, in which he will take a note of the
acclamations, and declare that ho will wait " unless
his hand should be forced." In the meantime, this
great military file absorbs public attention. Yester-
day the ,Nlinister of War, accompanied by General
Magnan and the commanders of the divisions of the
army of Paris, repaired to the Champs de Mars, and
inspected the ground, and ordered the principal
arrangements to be made for the Pte. An altar will
be erected in the midst of the square, mass will be
celebrated in the open air, u in the great civic Ptes
of the first revolution, and then the distribution of 1
the eagles will commence, upon the same spot where
the Emperor in person performed this function after
his coronation.

The Bulletin de Paris has published, and the jour-
nals in the service of the government have received
orders to insert an article, which represents Louis
Napoleon and France as bound by a joint obligation
to demand from foreign newspapers a more respect-
ful language towards the government of the Prince
President, and announces that it is because impossi-
ble any longer to tolerate their insulting attacks.
The following is an extract of this article, which
makes much noise: . .

Let us suppose for a moment that the question were put
in this way. But will our German and English brethren
deny that France has twice acclaimed the policy of the
Peltier, has made it her own, has solemnly adopt. .d it on
the 20th of December, and has not less solemnly confirmed
it by the election of • Corps Legislatif devoted to Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte. There is a manifest, historical, in-
contestable consecration. It is then prifectly evident that
the Prince is the elected of the onnntry, that the country and
the Prince represent the same interests, the same flag, that
to attack the one is to attack the alter, that it is impossible
to insult the chief of • great nation without insulting the
nation itself, and that, if the Prince personally disdains
these attacks,
_France could no longer tolerate them.
The muscle of M. Fortoul against beards and
mustachios is to be followed up by orders from all
the heads of the civil administrations to their eni-
pler,s to apply the razor forthwith to chin and lip,
and make a clean shave of it. The army is to enjoy,
as under the empire, the exclusive privilege of cul-
tivating those hairy ornaments.
The Corps Legislatif met to-clay. at three o'clock.
M. Billault was in the chair. The minutes of the
last sitting were confirmed. M. de Morey, who was
elected in two departments of the Puy de Dome,
declared his option to sit for Clermont-Ferrand. The
president communicated to the house two decrees of
she President of the Republic, referring the definitive
budgets of 1848 and 1819 to their consideration.
Conformably to precedent the two bills will each be
referred to a committee of 14 members (two mem-
bers from each bureau). N. I)evinck then read
hie report upon the Copper Coinage Bill. The
report alludes to the general recognition at va-
rious periods of the necessity of recoining the
copper money. The committee had felt called
upon to examine the question in several points of
view-1. The necessity of the operation. 2. The
choice of the metal to be employed. 3. The weight
of each piece of money. 4. Its form, 5. The finan-
cial results of the operation. Upon the four first
points the committee was unanimously of opinion
that the proposition of the government should be
adooted, and it had rejected an amendment having
for its object to alter the size of the centime so us to
distinguish it in size from silver pieces of 20 centimes.
Upon the last point amendments had been presented
with the view of modifying the amount proposed to
be expended by the government, by allowing private
enterprise to compete with the public mints in the
i new coinage. This amendment the committee bad
' thought fit to reject. The committee had, however,
introduced an amendment which had been adopted
by the council of state, to the effect that an account
of the results of the operation should be presented
every year. With this single modification, the com-
mittee proposed that the bill should pass. 'f he report
was ordered to be printed, and the debate will take
place on Monday. The president then announced
that the results of the inquiry into the subject of the
existing regulations of the butchers' trade will be
very shortly communicated to the house, and that a
bill founded upon that inquiry will be presented.
The order of the day being exhausted, the home
then rose at four O'ehsk. and adjourned till Monday.
The l'afrie publishes a list of the senator's that
have received dotations. differing in two or three
instances from that which I sent you. General St.
Arnaud and Mason nod M. Dumas arc not in the
corrected list, which contains, besides the names I
sent, Jerome Bonaparte, with :10,000fr., and General
Ordener, with 20.000 fr. .

The minister of general police has just sent a cir-
cular to the prefeets of dt part Inuits, containing di-