The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-31 00:00:00

'G, JULY 31. 1852. 7

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gas will be arra=dio se be reduce the finest offset. At
the Tuileries, of the Pont Tournaat, elee-
tre bride will be ginri is illuminate the surrounding
part of the pedesh he diteurdne will be illaminated
with Mewed bra" sad miler all the solemn of the
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will be dl tbeeleies ereamesteil with statues and
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*le be brilliantly elMO•d._ A ball will be given to
the Dames de la Ha/le in the Marche des Lorelei', when
a Salle will be stars esaW of mat:Whig presee,
and which will be riehlyisevorted eta iimmariL
The following is tie Misr at M. Miles Barrot
referred to by our eteraspondent yesterday:
Beegival, July 23.
Gentlemen and haesoreble hiesda,—l am sensibly
touched at the steps yes how ram with reference to my-
self, but it adds still mega al my pals. I had contracted
the pleasing habit of ILL, with, you end our other friends
of Crecy in a perfect 1111•1111usity of sentiments, ideas, and
opinions. Revelation lei la vain convulsed the State,
but they Sleds IMP doses is mu reciprocity of good feel-
ing. I was es es geed terms with our honest operatives
the day after the revolution of the 24th of February, at
that meeting, so numerous, so solemn, which took place
is the church of CTiri in presence and under the sanc-
tion of religion, as I bad been previously with the elec-
tor, of 200 f. in our electoral councils. 'I he reseal is that
ia our department, unlike what takes place in others,
we are not party politicians ; we do not aim at satisfying
individual or load selialmees, and the aim of our efforts
is the moral and material welfare of all, without distinction
of rich or poor. Thus the revolution found us very nearly
united by the same sentiment, and we but slightly felt
those class hatreds which in other parts of Frazee have left
such profound tramp. There is no doubt that the revolu-
tion of 1848, by giving to the country institutions for which
it had not been salßeiently prepared, exposed it to snatchy,
and wee destined to produce the reaction which we now
behold. But in hue that revolution had remained pure from
all violence against property or persons ; it was nothing
more than the imprudent exaggeration of our old liberal
principle. I have not then considered I ought to refuse the
mission you then entrusted to me to regulate, if possible,
the course of that revolution, to conjure the dangles it
brought with it, and to extract the good whose germ
is always in sincere and free institutions, however defective
they may otherwise be. I employed, as deputy or u mi-
nister, all iny faculties and energies for that object. You
were pleased to acknowledge my effort., and to applaud
them. It is not my fault, you know, if the vices of the
constitution have not been amended by legal means, and if
once more an opportune reform did not prevent a violent
revolution.

But now that on the ruins of the constitutional and par-
liamentary government of my country ia founded, not in
the form of temporary and incidental dictatorship, but as a
permanent government, the most absolute power that per-
haps exists in the world ; now that France, traversing the
fatal circles monad which she has been turning for 60 years
past, has 'Rain passed from the most excessive liberty
to authority the most concentrated and the most devoid
of all serious control ; when the deceitful forme of univer-
sal suffrage and of popular sections, with the absence of
all free discussion, of all possible assembling, of all pre-
vious concert between the electors, leave to the candidates
indicated by the authorities the secure chance of success,
and do not seem to have been maintained but only to mark
the Wee semblance of liberty, the sad and humiliating
realities of despotism—what cooperation can you require of
no for such a government ? What good could Ido ?
The implicit adhesion which I should give by my oath
to the destruction of oar dear and old liberties, would it not
effect ten times more evil than any good resulting from my
presence in the Council-General ? I appeal torn, my dear
fellow-citisens. Habituated, as we are, to think very nearly
in the same way, to consult each other, as it were, say if, by
the determination I adopt, and which pains my heart so much,
I do not render to our liberal cause the last and only service
I can render it. The good that we have commenced in the
canton of Cricy has made sufficient advent* to maks it
almost a matter of indifference, so far as regards our mate-
rial interests, whether I remain or do not remain your re-
presentative in the Council General. And as to the public
and moral interests, believe me, it is much better for us all
that I should maintain our faith in liberty, and fidelity to
our liberal banner. It is much better when ills everywhere
proclaimed that France is not worthy of that liberty she has
followed amidst so many vicissitudes, earned by so many
sacrifices, that there should still be men who persist in be-
lieving her worthy of it. I ought and I desire, to be one
of those men, should I die before I see my hopes realised.
Pardon me for this long letter ; the situation is difficult,
and with the remembrance of the duties of gratitude which
attach me to you I felt the want of opening, as it were, be-
ftwe you my whole soul, and of laying before you the real
motives which induce me to answer to your pressing invita-
tion by a refusal which causes me much pain, but which, I
hope, will not deprive me of your esteem nor of your friend-
ship. Receive the assurance of my profound eassideration,
and of my inviolable attachment.
(Signed) " ()DIJON Baxter."
At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. rose
10, and closed at 103.95; the Three per Cents. rose
55, and closed at 74.6. St. Germain railway rose
10f. ; Orleans, 7.50 ; Dieppe, 3.75; Rouen fell 6.26
and Strasbourg, 3.75.

ITALY.
ROMAN STATES.

ROME, JULY 24. I
It bodes no good to the cause of Edward Murray
to me the press of this country, which may be con-
sidered es the voice of the government during the
strict censorship now exercised, not only renew its
attacks upon the character of the prisoner, but also
endeavour to disprove his nationality aa a British
subject.
Mr. Petro had a long interview with Cardinal
Antonelli two days ago, and is to have an audience
of his Holiness to-day, but the subject under discus-
sion more probably refers to the state of feel-
ing now prevalent amongst Roman Catholics in Ire-
land and England, than to the adjustment of the
Murray cue, as might have been inferred.
Mrs. Murray dispatched a petition to the High
Court of Parliament on the 2nd inst.

The Russian minister, M. de Battened, has left
for Naples.
Exchange on London, 437. Roman Five per
Cents., 84.30.

NAPLES, JOLT 24.
I am enabled to give you a new programme of the
Jesuits for the persecution of protestant* in Italy. It
is intended to press for the removal of alltestant
places of worship beyond the gates of Italian cities.
They are not to be allowed, as at present, to be at-
tached to British missions,—to prevent Italians
from associating with foreigners, especialgesEng-
lish (this move has begun in Na )—to
enrol no more Swiss protestant' in the
legions which support Italian pnasse. To allow no
education to protestant youth threnghout the penin-
sular ; to prohibit all books whisiima indirectly re-
fer to the Reformation. MI mats sow taking
place convince me that my idmiestion is correct, and
nothing but the most arm Minnie of her Majesty's
ministers abroad, as well as decision at home, will
prevent such intolerant proceedings.
It is here generally lieved that General Filsari-
eri, the lord lieutenant of Sicily, has offered his resig-
nation, because the King would not allow him to
introduce a French company for the purpose of build-
ing the proposed roads in that island, and other dif-
ficulties.

of the con-
It conditions for the pro-
poi n nod far the further participation or the
.14. • •
=lee lo the said negotiations. The
are, , the delivery of the declarations touching
'the Pruesien'meepositirms as regards the junction of the
ikesiereerehs edsh the Zollverein. Several of the govern-
ments repainted at the conferences here have deemed it
necessary to Misr their declaration on the single points of
this proposition till it should have been discussed in its full
extent, and thus to enable themselves, in deciding on each
point, to weigh its connection with all other points; nor
has the Prussian government objected to such View of the
matter. binee, however, this proposition, the fun ocintente
of which has been publicly known for ten months, has now
been completely discussed in all directions, there can
be no further obstacle to a definite resolution, while, on the
other hand, no party can be insensible to the urgency of
such a resolution with regard to the decisive influence of
this subject on the result of the pending negotiations. The
second point, which the Prussian government regards as
decisive, la the consent that the negotiations with Austria,
confined to a treaty of customs and commerce, shall be
opened only after the conclusion of the y for renewing
and extending the Zollverein. The Pi milieu government
has designated this to he its guiding point of view in its
invitation to the present conference., and has explained its
motives at full length in its dcelarations of May 1, June 7,
and July I. Iteferriag to the reasons explained it can only
bold fast to this point of view as a bases for further in gobs.
Lion ; but it can no lees reiterate the assurance that when
that period shall have arrived it will be ready forthwith to
open with Austria the negotiations which are as desirable
to Prussia as to its allies in the Zollverein ' • and that it does
not intend, in such negotiations, to restrict those foundations,
which it has designated as acceptable, more especially In its
minutes, dated Wiesbaden, June 7, 18.51. While the
Prussian government, in the convictions here set forth,
is conscious of being guided only by the upright wish to
preserve and fortify a union the blessings of which it re.
cognises in their full extent, and while it presumes, that it
meets with a similar desire on the port of all its allies in
the Zollverein, it cherishes the confidential hope that all
members of the existing Zollverein will accede to its con•
victions, and, by their assent to the same, afford it tne pos-
sibility of resuming the negotiations with all of them to-
gether.
Several passages in these documents prove that
the contending parties are as far from an understand-
ing as at the commencement of proceedings, and
that no progress whatever towards removing the
fundamental difficulties has been made. Thus
far the views which, in opposition to those
of the German press, I have ventured to
set forth in your paper, have been hitheTto fully cor-
roborated. That Baden, not having joined the Darm-
stadt treaty, did not sign the foregoing declaration,
is natural. That Wurtemberg's holding back its
signature is of little importance, I have already ex-
plained, and I see no reason for altering my
opinion. Wurtemberg is tied to the coali-
tion, which cannot be broken up, even if the
members if it desired to do so. They have irre-
trievably bound themselves to measures in Austria's
interest, and for the realisation of which Austria
will provide; unless, what I do not expect, Austria
should see that by drawing over only the coalition
states and letting Prussia with the north of Ger-
many escape its nets, it looses the best of the booty,
and should, consequently, pursue the far deeper
policy of letting Prussia renew the Zollverein
with a protective tariff, which would establish a pre-
dominent Austrian influence.

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