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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 7.

Is it true Vat Gore House and grounds are pur-
chased, or to be purchased, as a site for a projected
building to be Aapted to such purposes as the Com-
missioners of the Great Exhibition shall think fit ?
la it efae that the pardiaas money is to be taken out
cubs megime Ong to Have the eimmins mum who
wend get Om a krtideg towards Ile ma seemest7
fee dm geeseenellea of the cheapest and and awl
bail dmt bee been erected in linglemil he many
pars !mets bees timmerd by the limbs ef employ-
ing the smells, In the erection of ear brick and
smear abortion P Are the conmeitiee the bon&
slaves of thole members of their body vibe ms am&
ter:s and bitable?
Now, it is lemma a her number ci persons, who
declare that they Yee Miami granule for their
belief, answer all tbeee *wise/ be tie eillemative,
that we have twee.' tbs jontiens before the
public. There is a Abet et Moe between the
commissioners of the sergine end the subscribers
to the Great Exhibition. No eme an say that the
subscribers have hurried the esetandedenens to a de-
cision. We ourselves were willing to give the lOW
Mintollen credit for good and able intentions, whwa
they proposed to apply the fund to the parpeesa of
industrial education. We applauded the
and gave some suggestions as to the application ef
the fund► list we have lifted up, and ever will M
up, our voices against the investment of the fund in
brick and mortar. We have no hesitation in saying
that the result of such a step will inevitably be a job.
In the present case there is no reason nor even a
decent excuse for sacrificing our money to please
the builders. The surplus fund, in itself, is insuffi-
cient to build and endow any building of sufficient
magnitude for the carrying out any comprehensive
plan of industrial education from which the whole
country is to benefit. Now, it is essential, upon every
principle of fairness, that the provinces which contn-
bated so largely to the general fund should
share in whatever benefits are to bo obtained
by the application of the surplus. It will
be ittipossible, however, to convince the pro-
vinces that London is not running away with the
giant's share of the spoil and leaving only an insig-
nificant share to be split up into still more insignifi-
cant fractions in their behalf, if the surplus is in-
vested in some unwieldy building in the metropolis.
Already the delay. which has taken place in the mani-
festation of their intentions by the committee, has ex-
cited suspicion in the minds of several of the provincial
committees who have in consequence applied for the ,
restitution of their subscriptions. The commission-
en
of the Exhibition may rest assured that the an-
nouncement of the erection of a metropolitan building
out of the surplus fund would increase the number
ot these applications in such a manner as to inter-
fere materially with the quiet prosecution of their
plan. It is very generally supposed that had the
commissioners shown any very great eagerness to
preserve the Crystal Palace it might have been re
twined. The inference therefore will he, that they
willingly connived at the destruction of a magnifi-
cent building in order to have liberty to erect a very
common-place one just opposite to it.
The Great Exhibition has been the one undertak-
ing in this country which has met with unqualified
success. The building was a marvel, the contents were
unrivalled from their vastness and splendour, the
arrangements were perfect. The exertions of the com-
mittee were unwearied and guided by consummate
skill. The money result —a great feature in the eyes
of an Englishman—beyond all expectation. If any-
thing more used be said to indicate the immense
slicCein which it achieved, it may be remarked that
there was only one dirsentient in the universal storm
of gestifie.tina. and that was Colonel Stetnoar.
The commissioners aoginred, therefore, and deserved
a great popularity. Prince ALBERT in particular
added largely to those claims on the public favour
which have rendered him the most popular prince-
consort that has ever appeared in England.
We feel that the public opinion in this
case is founded upon such just grounds, that
we should grieve to see any portion of it
forfeited by a mistake. A building, it must be
reiterated, will be a great mistake. We must not
have the fund in hand spoilt to make profits for
greedy contractors and incompetent architects. There
are buildings enough and to spare in London, in
which any plan for industrial education may be
matured and set in action. If it succeeds, the intim
will be but too willing to supply_ what buildings ea-
psrienee tells are requisite. Whereas if the sem-
mittee begin to build first, the certain end of the
while must be that the surplus will be frittered away
by jobbers, and parliament will be applied to to
finish, or perhaps put • roof to, some wilderness of
walls, which posterity will be right in designating
as the SURPLUS YOLLT.

Tut news from the Cape of Good Hope shows
clearly enough that the war in that ocloey is tar
from finished Sir HAIIIT SMITH spoke of the
struggle as virtually settled, and talked of his
having left the South African Treasury without a
debt. If that treasury had had to pay the cost of
lighting the Heflin, it would long ago have ban
bankrupt, and if now the millions that go Sin
England to carry on this intonate war were
stopped, where would the Caps colony be ?
We fear there is little real pound for
the boasts of the ex-Governor, and that
his summer in office has, indeed, work esseran•
hand. Hitherto the cattle captured from the
have been driven off over the frontier—often tali to
be re-captured by their original owners. One of
/rat orders given by General CATHCART MOM tohave
been to destroy all captured stock. This may be an
effectual plan, but it carries another feature of waste
and desolation into this dreary and protracted con-
test. It is to be hoped our commander there has
other plane in store, and those more effectual than
Sir HARRY thetrn's banking of sticks, and
savage chiefs bun his boot, a In neater. Divide
nagger should surely be the policy. All the natives
of the Cape colony are not hostile Kafiri. The Boers
never wished for war, it was their ruin. There are
tribes of Liars hostile the one to the other. The
Hottentots lona a distinct clue; and lastly, there
are the well-Mums!, and the Fingoes—the mortal
foes of the rs. Amongst all these by making
them our real allies we should find the bulk of our
real strength—the regular army—forming • central
force.

Sir HARRY fismt had all the elements of MOONS
at his disposal ; the British troops might have formed
the nucleus of operations, and with Balks against
Kaffir., and Hottentot and Fingo against them, and
Dutch Boers and English colonists against them,
their early defeat was certain. If Boors and col.).
mists did ant rally round him, it was because he
knew not how to inspire them with confidence in his
ITICIMUM or attachment to his person. H this Hot-
tentots desert him, it is not "became (Piths Word of
Dot," but because of their belief that sash a general
must be defeated. Bats, we know, desert the falling
house or sinking ship. But Sir HAIIIIIT is back again,
and having been himself rather ill-treated, the less
said about his failures the better, if his 1111COONOCII
will take warning by his mistakes.
It is now clear that the war is not finished, par
have affairs been left "in a fair position," as Sir
HAKIM SKITII says, for his successor. We moot hops
fo the best.

ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDEN~, REGENT'S-PARK.—
The emend exhibition of American flowers took placer at
these gardens on Seturdsy. Is consequence of the un-
favourable state of the weather on the previous der of
rxhibi•ion, the gardens on this occasion were better attended
then is usually the c“e upon the American days. The
gnat attraction of the day, in respect of Rowers, wan the
roll. etion of rhododendron. and azalea., which. though not
yet fully blown, wete exeeerlingly beautiful. The fragrance
of the different flowers in bloom was delieious. Amongst
the inompany present were the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke
of &name, the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, Lieut.-
Deneral Sir John Doveton, Lady March, Sir It. I. Murchi-
eon, Major-General Bourcheir, the Bithop of Chester, Lord
Blaney, Lady Desert, lAA, Adele Norton, Lord Shel-
burne, Sir Charles Slingsby, Lieut..flen. Sir E. liowater,
800. Lady Mak", Su. James Luhingtoo, to.

•I
FRANCE. .•
PARIS, SATOILDAT ?IMMO. j
An immense sensation has be to-day
at the Bourse and in political( ' a fresh
article of 111. Granier de Caunagnae on the subject of
Belgium. The grave feature in this composition is
the declaration of the writer that the aggressive arti-
I des of the Constihationnti against the Belgian go-
vernment have been undertaken with the express
sanction of Louis Napoleon, and composed under his
auspices. This is so important that I shall give you
M. Omelet. de eassagnse's own words :
The Belgian journals, hostile to the Pripet President,
preload to believe that the war of tariffs, announced in our
preeediag article, was • mere menace, bigot of our fancy,
invented by our caprice, and altogether bridge to the
views of the French government; sad they add, that the
catholic party in Belgium begged of the Blysto, end of
()oriels's, this comeniustory manifesto, with the view of
influencing the elections in their favour. Resigned so we
are to our modes and position in journalism and politics,
we twat allow to ho imputed to us ancient levity to
treat with • native, at from equal to equal, is our own
name. What serious man can believe, that having
the hewer and being bound by the duty of slo-
ths bead of the state we should
=re! so far wanting. to the respect due to his person
✓ed te his power, as to implicate his ;silky in matters so
smiasatly grave and delicate, without having previously
his intentiee gad convenience. It is not, there-
to.% is ear owe name, believe UP, that we have spoken of
the ease Ia whiels the essantercial relations of Belgium with
Faso might be beam For the rem the Belgian govern-
MIMI hr as sesbesesdise to inform it of the truth, If oar
weeds de sot represent this with endieient credit.
Here then we have M. Grainier proclaiming him-
self as the distinct penman' organ of the President's
piney; and unless the editor of the Constitution's*,
resew° some striking disavowal, we must receive
the communications of this writer, as a far surer
glide of what the government intends to do, than
die notes of the Moniteur itself. In fact by this
revelation of his authority, M. Grimier confounds the
latest note of that official organ, which solemnly
disavowed any interference with the domestic
, alike of another nation. In the present article the
right to interfere in the concerns of the Belgian
state is asserted in the broadest and least disguised
way, se you will perceive from the following
Poor l
The espreme aim of the French government ought,
thireehre, to be to make to prevail abroad as well as at
hew* the solemn wish of France, that is to say, a strong
metheeity, a discreet liberty, pesos sad severity for all
wider the mei, of the laws. Although Frame has no desire
to uselle with the internal affairs of Belgians, she is not
=Ft*gam der attacks upon her dignity and security
the Ms, our with the coanivanto of, the Belgian
goverment The Meet that she can do in such acmes uto
wata this IWO= modes of the path in which their ministers
• kodits. he woad by their wisdoms a rapture of
relations mid&leMYlYes against France would reader as-
onsary mei iamaiseet.
Now, what the hostilities comp'ained of as being
exercised by the Belgian government against France
may be is left in the dark ; for, bating the vague ac-
cusation that some of the radical Belgian papers
have spoken their mind more freely about Louis
Napoleon than is tolerated in the press of
France, no other offence is mentioned. Is it
hostility to permit French gendarmes to carry
their jurisdiction through Belgium, as they did
when accompanying the prisoners released from
Ham ? Is it hostility to disperse those prisoners in
submission to ,the jealous dictation of the French
government, in different Belgian towns, so as to
keep them apart, and maintain a strict surveillance
over their acts and movements? Here the lamb is
accused of muddling the stream that flows down to
it from the wolf. Belgium has carried her submis
sion to the dictates of Louis Napoleon to a stretch
that has drawn severe complaints from those who
expected from the King and ministers of a country
whose independence was guaranteed by Europe, an
independent and fearless attitude. The Bulletin
litimsois was put down, and its editors, although
absolved by the courts, were expelled by the govern-
' sent. As to the personal attacks against
Niypottoo _in the press, every reader
of As Isailptadasce must have observed the
Ibis= INN In which the ministerial organ has
eildnined lit em qualifying the worst acts of Louis
Neosho% ash as, for instance, the confiscation of
the Orissa property, which heavily amerced the
Belgian Kin. Notwithstanding this excessive mo-
deration the Iwilpeowlaswe is continually seized at
the Paris Post-office, end prohibited from circulation
in France. Although only one prosecution of a Bel-
vim journal has been known to occur during 20
yours for traducing the King, since the coup Vial
'et Dec. 2 several Brussels newspapers have been
brought to trial for disrespectful language con-
cerning the President of the Republic. The hos-
tilities exercised by the Belgian government against
France are, therefore, to all appearance, a lying ex-
cuse for picking a bulley's (laurel with a weak
neighbour. What else can be implied by the follow-
ing language?
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What! dl a. jaunts& who are the avowed organs of the
Belgian cabinet attack the Fres& pvernmeat ; all the
=tussle the bold and ilinetriees chief whom Frame
es herself; Belgium is bum. publicly the pleas of
refuge of all who think end webs spinet the Primo Pre-
sident, and yet it is anskiened strange that, in prisms, of
as hostility so epee, se gratellema, sad se completely de-
void of mess or psamt, Prose, °Minted in her weeny/ci-
ty. her digaity, end is her moderation, should lay to
▪ " Tee bank as, be it so ; het then let there be no
mom relations hetwesa us." Siam what period has a
coulilB, boa GAN* to receive its deelamd enemies ?
Article 7 of des raft of
limits 19 1839, taped by Bel-
Frans% !mai% , Prussia, Ruse* and
the pointed out
will diem.7l.o.= seutral mate. Bhe will be
bowl to shone that tuft sattrality towards the other
state." swots ask, Ease 'skis* assetieatiously oh-
m* the swedost se • woad pressmen ? Can it be
(ailed wentratity to keep op walk relation with, journals
and with peesem who attack the Flea* pawn-
meat ? Is it tostrality to astbsoke bosonat la-
ssies wise • plow whoa nests has twist freely
awl siismoly rested as he. dist t Bed net Yews
• *hi to save herself fleet so *yet by saving
Metope ? and eta we net, without the gaol pleasure
of the Belgian liberals, head • presosoust if two shale.,
sod no Iles vow st eight
smalls et sat ? Thy /Owe
Goeumessat, whisk had • t MLA a
011 i to ihe belt et A4O IM has net asesP r;nt
teemed the lalsiaa pap* at the tosdsst of *Or govers-
mat it Nib karma to *ln that a system st tooesrited
Valid sosassadly hod to the mhos aseamer-
eil haters* the two sautlise ; it ono the
=lll:peep* a• opprotooizypitt otiose sad &Islas ; it
• appial to ask =di mood faith—sad pot
We is Nwsd el. W bireelsoa bettor to hays
said *cubits to Use shwa se winds. bwe it have %TAM
OS 1.11 ateeestodows be ••treaty et assmares, e 1 *us by
taking the two swim usiawstas to how them their
ia-
tareets mills ma ems think so."

M. Prather, the llgarde& esalpter. Mid yester-
day at Beregival, el sesplezr. He was walking on
the bash of the lobi witii a party of friends and
papilsorbea he suddenly fell down is a flt. He was
carried Into a asighbrarias hoes% sod medical aid
was speedi.y premed, but he sever recovered his
senses, and expired in the decree of the night.
I have to-day to call your attention to a very re-
markable peerage in the speech delivered by General
de Castellani, at Lyons, at the banquet of the Fete
dee Aifles. The general in contrasting the pacific
attitede of the army of Lyons during the days of
December, with the deeds of the army of Paris on
the Boulevards, mays :
I regard it r the greatest Implorer in lay career to have
beta able to organ without fighting. I right have
given battle, end have obtained tht reby advantages fin the
wry of Lyres, whoa sender rendered hen do not count
r eargeras ; but It has the conseieses of having Nullified
its duty, sad the right to MUM' for its device " Abases-
ties sad Hower."

Thus, not the least severe reflection on the mail.
mere of the Boulevards has been dealt by the com-
mander-in-chief of the army of Lyons.
Tho Curse steamer brought into Havre on Thurs-
day morning four English boats, taken in the act of
dredging for oysters within the French lines.
At the Bourse, the Four and • Half per Cents.
roes 0, closing at 1110.13 ; the Three per Cents. fell
10, and closed at 71.43. The Four and a Half ocr
Cents. recovered towards the close of the market,
I after having been es low u 99.90, owing to some
heavy sales attributed to the article in the Conalitu-
lioasel. Bank of France shares fell 10 ; the Mar-
seilles Railway fell 11.25 ; Rouen, 6.23 ; Orleans,
Central, and Strasburg, S each ; Lyons, 3.75 ; Havre
and Northern, 2.50 each ; Bordeaux, and Tours and
INantes, 1.25 each.

SUNDAY EVINI?4O.

Never was that characteristic feature in the isdicy
or the which consists in alternate aggression
in is nii official organs, and disavowal in OffiCilli,
dia-
played iu a more remarkable way than at the present
moment. 1 called your attention yesterday to the
new stamp of official interpreter of the views and in-
tentions of Louis Napoleon openly assumed by M.
Granter de Gaasagnac in his second assault upon the
Belgian government. The Moniteur has lost no
time in repairing the damage thus inflicted upon its

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY

*Amid FAlitst,the inkx.islty iturea/:s9
inttunty !nth the
!(WoloyediNll4; editokof the Condi*
Wtelsitel. Thublill*, sign ,I,Coenspentivel:' 6ss
follows : 1, •
It is lotto lewd to attribute to the movenemost the
ideas pet forth by the journals which usually iffffolpoit it ;
but when such journals give those ideas as the Omit* ex-
prudes of dto matheents of the had of the state they
expose themselves to the reproseh of antth Uth (tidefi*/)
or of exaggeration. They thus assume, in fact, aii official
language, which lends to their articles an Importance
which them ought to have.
When the government watts' to make known its real
intention, it confides that intention in the Moniteur, its
sole organ. No publication in any other newspaper can
eager the government's responsibility. The thesotith-
limners article of this day obliges us to We this decla-
nada.

It does not, notwithstanding, remain thp Ism true
that the views set forth with MMeV= is
the articles of M. (busier de oftenegmes as them
entertained and expressed by Louis Napoleon, and, in
spite of the ounununtques of the Ataniteur, people
will look to the communications of that Wawa
editor to learn the " real intention " of the Preliset.
Was it not M. Grimier who first protein& the his.
pensable solution of prolonging the Posdatethgewee
for ten years? Did not the INIMMIPMI fret reveal the
" real intention " of abolishieg the law ofiftral.,
and restoring universal suffragmorkne the
aided by the declarations of tieetiolate s Ineehee
and Baroche, announced that no such intention stee
harboured, and that the law of May wee the
flag of the government ? Was it not M.
Oranier who, on the eve of the 2nd December,
warned the leaders of the Noting Asessably that the
'stern hand of justice Mewed them stfl within an
inch of their collars. The valleadese which foi-
-1 lowed these repeated predictions had already won for
i the communications of M. Grasier de Convene the
credit of the highest source, which he claims so em-
phatically in his Is. article that credit is in so-
wing impaired by the proems easasmairst of the
Jthenteur and pearls wit modem W leek be the
eireatie and
et the Panident in the Clusehts-
tieneel. mod Pepsi the Ihmwenals of the Ihniteur
=a mane of eaglet dust in the eyes of
elniplicity. Meanwhile the Pays pub-
lishes an article ou the subject of the manneraial
Ibbeicade of Belgium, ignoring completely the state-
ment of hi. Grainer that this messes eaquressed the
intention of the heed of the state. The Pays, whisk
passes for the organ of M. do Pe y, regards the
execution of such a threat as no less further removed
from probability than downright war, and considen
the threat itself as the protectionist system pro-
claimed in its most absurd extremes by the great
protectionist organ, whereas " the government is
now entering into a wise and progressive application
of the theories of free-trade." One cannot but
admire the consummate mastery in dissimu-
lation which the taciturn Prince-President
must have attained to show himself a free-trader
to one party and a protectionist to another, so
that the most opposite ideas are claimed upon equal
authority as the veritable pensie of the government,
which meanwhile marches with a stealthy pace to
its own fixed ends. If these cannot be comprised
without war, the latter eventuality must not be lost
sight of ; and indeed the ministerial organs here take
pretty good an to keep the subject in sight. Even
the Pays terminates its pacific article in a way to
make one believe it was written not so much tomes
the improbability of a war of tariffs against Belgium,
as to suggest the preference of an avowed invasion.
" The war of tariffs" says this paper " would be as
perilous as a war of armies. When France shall
see her honour or that of her government en
in a grave question, she will proclaim it a , and,
sword in hand, cause her dignity to be respected.
Then the responsibility of events will fall upon
those who shall have provoked or justified them.
A meeting has lately been held at the house of M.
de Montalembert to consider the merits of the public
instruction bill. From twenty-five to thirty mem-
bers of the Corps Legislatif, several cardinals, and
many influential leaders of the church party were
present. After a long discussion, two points were
resolved unanimously. First, that the law of M. de
Falloux (the existing law), notwithstanding the faults
Inherent in all legislation, le an infinitely better law
than that now proposed by M. Fortoul ; and secondly,
that the catholic interest requires the maintenance
of thepnom'pie of freedom of instruction. M. de
Mom Ms taus up the subject with great
"orgy 1 under be leadership a vast amount of church
influence will be brought to bear upon the President
with a view to obtain the withdrawal of the govern-
meat assure. The success of M. de Falloux's
in the view of the church party has surpassed all ex-
pa, It was not without misivings that the
Jesuits hoisted the flag of liberty, as applied toi
etheoation, liberty, which in all thaw must aver in
VIIIMV be Oboist to tbsia. Bat N. de Falloss is
as sable as energetic. . At:oh:4l6d whim the I*.
CigtayrtCP:tiPaete, be knew that It wbeeddliallighetell.
been hopeless to have Weed for exclusive
for the church. Bat he saw that the chrhovitE
her powerful organleadsa,- vast property, aid aid
basal inthesasse would beg hold her gm=
heat all prLeate ammetidem The systematic
of knowledge by Mani mei/tacos on a Urge seals
would have boss diesgerous ; but with nothing bat
widespread ignorance to work upon the victory of
the church wee lure. He, therefore, boldly raised
the cry of " liberty" against "monopoly," and car-
ded the day. Since the promulgation of the law the
bishop have established no less than 150 new mi-
kes, MM. de Montalembert, de Vatemesnil, and
de Palloux are delighted at the results of the mea-
sure. They turn a deaf car le the blandishments of
the government, who new see certain gthillsges to
the church se a bribe ter their smash ab.
serve that what the government semi it
may whitlow tomionnw, aml the
amist by M. Forbid wail noes&.
b lain stilt le be the waishweed of the
thee* rely. They Nair is bin that the
a. PIANO% AM all• meet be blind
set Ie me that liberty abways gime the fret place to
the meet sedges, the as. met" and the most in-
telligent, and that the abmok has everything to
gain by liberty and everything to lose by favour.

'• JUNE 7, 1852.