The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY. EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1851.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WILDNISDAY BYIVMIO.
As the moment approaches foe Louis Napoleon to
east aside that ambiguity with regard toe
sst restora-
tions d universal suffrage, which is no 1 oticrable
in the diametrically-opposed opinions of the two lead-
ing ministerial organs than in the conflicting lan-
attributed to the President and to his ministers,
gel:dour of polemical discussion upon this favourite
theme redoubles, and parties exhibit that fierce and
eager intensity which marks the features of gamblers
contending for a high stake when the game draws
nigh the close. The law of May is the universal
theme of discussion in all leading organs ; but an
article of more than usual importance appears from
the pen of M. Granier de Cassagnac, and speaks with
a prophetic decision which seems inspired by autho-
rity. " Suppose," says the writer of the Canaan-
tionnet (and we believe that we arc not making an
entirely inadmissible hypothesis) that in this state of
things (which he paints as desperate) "the Presi-
dent of the Republic, who is, after all, responsible,
taking into due account the dangers and the wishes
of the country, should charge a ministry (and
he would find a hundred for the purpose),'to
propose categorically to the Assembly the revision of
the constitution and the repeal of the law of May,
does any one think that the Assembly, caught be-
tween the executive power and the country, would
make a very long resistance? " Girardin is quite
as positive about the inevitable necessity of repealing
the law as Cassagnac. Lamartine, too, chimes in
with his rival Cavaignac on the same side. Nette-
meat indicates from the midst of the pointus legi-
timists the changes which he wants in the law.
Larochejaquelin and the Gazette de France are clear
against it. But on the other hand, it is more strenu-
ously than ever maintained by the organs of the con-
servative majority.
The abolition of the law of May would certainly
take from the socialists a most dangerous subject of
agitation, which now saves them the trouble of
putting forward their visionary theories, and gives a
colour of justice and right to their cause.
There is no denying any longer that the position
of M. Leon Faucher does not look so firm during
these last days. The removal of the President to
St. Cloud has been marked by a relapse towards the
ideas of unmixed Bonapartism; and the personal
intimates of the Elvsee seem in the ascendant. The
confidence of the Prrise in the inevitable repeal of
the law of May derives greater importance hum the
circumstance of Girardin having recently dined with
the President at St. Cloud. On the whole, the mo-
ment seems ripe for abandoning the increasing diffi-
culties of systematic compression. At every step the
track becomes more tangled and perplexed, and, the
axe of M. Leon Faucher is well nigh weary of clear-
ing the way. Already the prefeets, us if in expecta-
tion of a less rigid re line, send in milder reports of
their sway, as fearing the criticism of ministerial suc-
cessors, whose eyes will be less indulgent for theta and
more for the public. Then, again, the hopes and pro-
spects of commerce are not answered by this tightly-
strained rule and system of gendarming people at every
turn. So fur has confidence disappeared that two
first-rate banks of l'aris have refused this week to
advance the dividends upon the Rentes due in next
March. if ever there was a moment when breakers
ahead justified putting about the ship of state, that
moment is the present; for the continuance of such
senseless oppression in all departments of govern-
ment cannot fail to exasperate not only the demo-
crats, but a large proportion of moderately-disposed
citizens. If exasperation be the aim, no terms of
condemnation arc too strong for such a 3lachiavelic
policy.
Changarnier is still disputed between the Union
and ilessayer, whose polemics are beginning to ac-
quire somewhat of the shrillness of Billingsgate in
contending fur this amphibious fish.
The merits of Kossuth are debated with much,
warmth. In general the tone of parties on this sub-
ject is more influenced by the supposed relation of
the ex-governor of Hungary to their present struggle
than by an appreciation of his past history. Thus
the conservative press could not bestow fouler lan-1
gunge upon Ledrußollin or .Ilazzini ; while the en-
thusiasm of the socialists is unquestionably derived,
in great part from the notion that Kossuth is em-
barked heart and hand in the same cause with them.
Some one has neatly remarked of the insulting strain
of the Coisseitatiimile/ that this journal plays in the
ovation to Kossuth the part of those who fol-
lowed, according to ancient usage, the car
of triumph with invective and ribaldry. Lamartine
justly observes in the reception prepared fur Kossuth
in England, a proof that England could never, even
were the tones to return to power, be brought to
join a holy alliance with Austna and Itussia against
France.
The DAate, adverting to the electric telegraph
between Paris and London as a fait accompli, ex-
presses great anxiety that the line of wire should be
at once completed to Marseilles, without wait-
ing for the railway, which may not be
finished till 1856 or 1857. It contends that
the objections which have been made against
an electric telegraphic unconnected with a railway
arc unfounded. In case of an insurrection the rail-
way affords no security against a mob that might be
disposed to interrupt the communication from poli-
tical motives. With regard to the danger from
wanton mischief, although an electric telegraph
along the ordinary high road would be somewhat
less secure than on a railway, it would not bo wholly
unwatched ; if the posts were made a little higher
than those now commonly in use the wire could not
be injured without a degree of trouble and circum-
spection, which would seldom be employed at the
risk of detection and punishment. Assuming that
the wire might be cut occasionally, the injury might
be repaired at small cost. Tho best practical
argument is that there are thousands of miles
of electric telegraph, apart from railways, in
America; and Austria has also tried the same
system without inconvenience. it is calcu-
lated that the cost of such a telegraph between
Chalons-Bur-Saone and Avignon (which would at
once complete the communication between London,
Paris, and Marseilles) would be but 2,700/. The
bibats thinks it absurd that so stupendous a result
should be delayed for four or five years for the sake
of so trifling a sum.
M. Charles 3lurchal, formerly the editor of the
Anil du Peuple, was to-day tried for a political libel,
contained in a pamphlet called "Fin de la Repub-
lique." He was found guilty and sentenced to five
years' imprisonment, to pay a fine of 240/., and to be
imprisoned in default of payment for a further period
of three Tears.
The Bishop of Lucon has issued synodal instruc-
tions interdicting the whole clergy of his diocese not
only from subscribing to the Presse, either indi-
vidually or as a memlx r of any society, but even
from reading that journal upon any occasion what-
soever.

The committee appointed to settle the indemnity
due to private individuals for damage done to their
property during the insurrection of June is on the
point of terminating its labours, and the payment of
the sums awarded may be expected to be made very
shortly.
M. 'de Fallout quitted Nice rather suddenly on the
2nd east, and is expected in Paris.
M. Jules Gerard, sub-lieutenant of the 3rd Spahis,
writes an account, dated Constantine, Sept. 22, of his
having shot a large black lion, whose carcase regaled
four companies of infantry.
At the Bourse the Fives fell 5c., closing at 91.7.5;
the Threes fell 15c., and closed at ,543. The railway
market was calm, with but little change.

TELEGRAPH ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.—A Mr. Rey-
nolds, of New York, proposes to construct a telegraph com-
munication across the Atlantic at a cost of 3,000,000 dots.
He thinks the plan practicable and safe, and sets forth that
the distance between Cape Canso, above Halifax, on the
American coast, and the nearest point in Ireland, near Gal-
way, is but about 1,600 miles along the banks of Newfound-
land, which are known to extend within 160 miles of the
coast of Ireland, at an average depth of SOO feet. A line of
this length, consisting of four wires perfectly insulated in a
good gun rc s peha, of the size proposed, would last hundreds
of years, as the insulating substance is indestructible in
water, and has a strength almost equal to iron. Such a line
would weigh about 10,000 tuns, and would require about
1,500 tons of iron anchors. The cost of everything, when
in complete working order, would be less than 3,000,000
dots. Such a line would do more to advance intelligence, '
true liberty, and the interests of the people, than anything
hitherto achieved in the way of " obliterating time and
space."

Tlf
E JEWS IN Rom E.—Letters from Rome in the Rif-
ergitnenlo of Turin, state that the old regulations concerning
this Israelites have been revived: viz., that they cannot
travel within the Roman States without a permission
from the Inquisition, nor stop in any place without a new
permission.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

Two rumours, proceeding severally from the ca-
pitals of France and Prussia, and treating specially
of the state of affairs in Denmark and the Duchies,
have been spread through the letters of correspond-
ents in those capitals.
According to one rumour, spread in Berlin on the
6th, a complete change of ministry had taken place
at Copenhagen, and the democratic party there were
again in the ascendant.
According to another rumour, the source of which
is to be found in the Paris Putrie, the classical birth-
place of what are called by Parisians canards," Count
Bille Brahe, the Danish negotiator,had succeeded in oh-
taiuing from the Prussian government its sanction to
the principle of Danish unity proclaimed by
the London protocol, and in virtue of which
Prince Christian of Glucksburg, an infant,
is to succeed eventually to tho throne. This
sanction is said by the Paine to be contained
in a note addressed on the 30th of September to the
Danish government by, M. Manteuffel, in which that
minister declares that his sovereign gives his consent
both to the principle of the maintenance of the
Danish monarchy in its integrity and to the
arrangements in virtue of which Prince Chris•
tian, conjointly with his wife, the Princess Louise,
and their heirs male, are recognised as pre-
sumptive successors to the throne of Denmark.
It is somewhat fatal for the truth of both those
rumours, that at the opening of the Danish chambers
on the 4th inst. the Danish ministry still remained
at its post, and the King specifically declared in his
speech from the throne that the question of succes-
sion remained as yet undecided. In his speech
the King of Denmark declared himself happy again
to find himself amongst the deputies of the nation,
and ready to co-operate with them in consolidating
the welfare of the nation, and passing in common
accord measures for fortifying its glory and prospe-
rity. The war was at an end, and the benefits of
peace were generally felt all over the kingdom. The
cares of the King and his government had been
chiefly directed to the fixing of the limits and main-
tenance of the frontiers of the kingdom, a question to
which was inseparably joined that of the succes-
sion to the throne. He could not but congratulate
himself upon the marks of sympathy and good-will
which he received from all the foreign powers, and
he had naught but praise to give to the relations of
sincere friendship which had been re-established, and
which he entertained with them. The financial
plan and accounts which would be furnished to the
Chambers would furnish abundant proof that, not-
withstanding the burdens weighing on the nation in
consequence of the war, the 6 tute of its finances was
most prosperous.
Count Mlle Brain) was at Copenhagen on the 4th
inst., and about to leave for Berlin.

COLONIAL.

ST. HELENA.

We have received files of the Si. Helena Adroeate
up to the 2lst of August. The new Governor,
Lieut.-Col. T. G. Browne, had arrived, and been
duly feted by the inhabitants.
Some interest and anxiety had been created by the
arrival of intelligence from England comprising
despatches in which the governor was called upon to
report if it was necessary to keep the military force
at present on the island, and whether a local militia,
properly embodied, would not serve the purpose re-
quired. The removal of troops would inflict injury
on the island undoubtedly, as the expenditure caused
by them is valued at 20,0 00/. a year.