The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY ETENING, APRIL 14, 1851.

FRANCE.

PARIS. Rhicansr.
The Conalitutionnel explains the majority which
rejected M. St. lleure's motion for extinguishing the
ministry. About thirty Legitimists rallied to the
old -party which supported the President list January
in his sparred with Changarnier, and this gave the
new ministry a majority of .52. About 60 members,
however, stayed away; amongst these were Thiers,
Changarnier, Ilufaure, Itemusat, lierryer, uud La-
martin° ; thus showing that the President has by no
means fully satisfied the majority by the choice that
he has made. On the other hand, by
Moli, De
Broglie, and Odillon Barrot are to be founeamong
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those who gave their votes in favour of the ministry.
It is not yet distinctly known how long Thiers and
Dufaure will regard passively the operations of the
new cabinet. Probably they will suspend active
opposition until June, when a motion fur the revision
may be brought forward. The touchstone of the
cabinet is legality. The first symptom of an attempt
to attack the constitution will.be the commencement
of their difficulties. .

The advanced members of the tirrs-parti, as Victor
Lefr.ine and Barthelemy St. Hilaire, the moderate
left, represented by Lanioriciere and Cavaignac,
and the whole Mountain en ,nuue, and many of the
pointu legitimists. as Leo de Laborde, juintd in the
cote of censure. _ _ .

There are only two of the ministers who are new
to office, M. de.Chasseloup-Lanbat and M. de Cron-
neiltes. The former was councillor of state under
Louis Philippe, and the latter secretary at the minis-
try of justice under the restoration.
The ministry of instruction seems to have become
the inheritance of the leOtimists, and M. de Cron-
seiltcs will no doubt continue to administer that de-
partment in the same pious spirit as his prulecessors,
MM. de Fallow: and de Darren.

One hears continually alleged against M. Leon
Faucher that lw is untipathic and unconciliating ; as
if these were serious defects in a minister, whose
opinions were just, whose principles were wise, and
whose intentions were honest. In how M. Faucher
possetiscs the latter resplisites for office will be very
shortly seen. In the meantime it is general% be-
lieved that he is fur revision at all hazards and the
strict maintenance of the electoral law of May.
But the socialist papers are rerfectly furious, and all
but menace insurrection. This violent opposition
front the organs of the Mountain is that feature
in the reception of the. new ministry, which augurs
best for their duration in office; for as long as there
are threatening storms in the democratic quarter the
I majority will be glad to support any ctibiuet tluit
will face them with energy.
M. Vuisst, ex-. Minister of the Interior, M. de Ger-
ming, ex Minister of Finance, and M. Schencider,
ex-Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, have been
promoted from the rank of officers to that of com-
manders of the order of the Legion of Honour. M.
de Rover, ex-Minister of JuAice, has been appointed
1 a member. of the order. . .

M. thrund, ex Minister of Public Instruction. is to
resume his place us member of the Permanent Sec-
tion of the Superior Council of that department.
The 'sedimentary meeting of the Item des Pyra-
nudes yesterday renewed its monthly bureau. M.
de Itroglie was unanimously eketed president, in the
room of M. Lion Faucher, since become minister.

The sitting of the Assembly presented no feature
of interest. M. Leon Faucher announced that he
wished tar the adjournment of the motions of Pascal,
Dupnit, and Baze, relative to the street sale of news-
papers, in order to study the question, which the
freshly-installed ministry had not yet had time to do.
The Strasbourg and Sarrebourg railway isexpected
to be opened on the Ist of June.
The committee on the budget was yesterdav called
on to give its opinion on the fortifications of the road-
stead and port of Cherbourg. It
.expressed its ad-
viets as to the urgency of continentals:: the works of
defence of the roadstead and the fortification of the
breakwater, hot stated that, from tie, present state of
the finanees, the notification of the Insole should be
for the present postpned. The report of the com-
mittee on the hill demanding a credit to continue
these works has 6111 presented.
The minister of war, with the approbation of the
President of the Republic, has nominated a commis-
sion of eight members, under lthe presidency of Gen.
Oudinot de Reggio, nir exam ring in all their de-
tails the questions relative to the conveyance by
railway of troops, horses, and all descriptions of war
maVrerf. In his report on tie, subject to
the President, the minister dwells on the vast change
which railways will effect in war, both for attack
and defence, and he points out the necessity of the
country being fully prepared to make the best use
of them in the event of an emergeney. The mem•
bers of the commission are military officers, and gen-
tlemen connected with railways, aud with the
rail—
way department of public works.
the Ntottottuin, with the exception of 20 members,
is about to emigrate into the provinces during the
Easter recess. The 20 members who will remain
will constitute themselves into a committee of proro-
gation during the above period.

SUNDAY EVENIVG,

The .11mitear contains decrirrs---iiiiixTiaiingM.
Buffet, Minister of Public IVorks, ml interim, during
the 116441161: of M. Mamie, and restoring M. Royer
to his post of Procureur-General of the l'aris Court
of Appeal. The appointment of Admiral Vaillant
to replace Admiral Itruat, as Commander on the
West India station, is as° officially announced.
M. Lacrosse is the government candidate for the
post of vice-president of the Assembly, vacated by
Leon Faucher.

The conoadttce fur the better observance of the
Sablrath nodpe days has presented to the Assembly
a project of law, of which the following is the sub-
shame :

The public works of the state, and all works contracted
for with the state' skill be suspended on Sundays andfl'fc
days. They may, however, be continued, in case of urgency,
by order of the prefects or mayors. All works on the public
highways or roads executed by private persons arc also to be
swqwnibid, except in ease of urgency. All contracts for hiring
and all regulations interlering with the liberty of the work-
men to suspend work WI Sundays and/ e 'days are void,
This erudition is applicable to workmen belonging to all the
sects recognised by the state, for the day of religions rest of
each sect. This provision does not, 'however, extend to
works of urgency or nee, ssity, nor to callings which re-
quire, from their nature, a daily and continuous labour,
and which will be indicated by a regulation of the public
administration. On Sundays and Pc days a autfiricnt
time will be afforded to soldiers and sailors, except in eases
of UTIVaICy on service, for the performance of their religious
duties.

tinned statement had appeared, we find the following
article inserted on his behalf in the Gozwita di Boma
of the 19th Feb., 1846 :

Monsignor Nicholas Wiseman, Bishop. of Melipotamus
lit partibus, one of the eight apostolic mars of England,
desires it to be known that, whilst he is occupied with the
duties of his sacred ministry, he takes no part whatever in
the direction or compilation of the weekly journal the
Tab/et, compiled by a catholic, and to which some persona
have supposed him to be a contributor. The above-named
monsignor, moreover, certifies that he is very far from fol-
lowing the exaggeratsd maxims of such a journalist.
Whether Cardinal Wiseman would consider the
arguments of the Tablet "exaggerated maxims" at
the present moment it is useless to inquire. Perhaps
his Eminence would reply, with the poet Monti,
"Cambiano i saggi a seconds de' casi r for pensieri."
An arrival of some importance is expected hers
just now, it being currently reported that the Grand
IDukc of Tuscany intends to pay a visit to Pio Nouo
one of these days, in order to bee whether he cannot
induce his Holiness to be more pliant in the affair of
the railway from Siena to Rome than Cardinal An-
tonelli has shown himself to the Tuscan minister,
Baldasseroni. It is so clearly demonstrated, how-
ever, that the papal states would suffer greatly in a
commercial point of view from the realization
, of that line to the exclusion of all other lines in the
I state, that it is to be hoped that not even the paternal
and filial embraces of the two sovereigns will lead to
such a result, especially as it is shrewdly supposed
that the Tuscan government is only being made al
cat's paw of in the negotiation, and that Austrian in-
terest
and advantage are behind the scenes, ready to
develop themselves the moment the plant is put into
execution. I have, by-the-bye, a word or two more
to say touching the conduct of the Austrians in An-
cona. In the first place, the affair of the collision is
in Oahe qua: the British consul finding himself in
the disagreeable predicament of having paid the
damage money to the Austrians, with only a very
slippery credit in return from the impel authorities.
That the pilot was in some measure to blame, and,
therefore, ought to be held responsible for the
damage done to the Plarnix, appears from the fact,
that the master of the Albert, Captain Care. lodged a'
complaint with Mr. Moore, charging the pilot with
carelessness and negligence; but the pilot replies
with a counter-charge of negligence against
the Austrian connnander, I'latthy, for not having dis-
played a light un board pus vessel, and accuses him
also of having omitted a legal survey of the mischief'
done after the collision, which step was repudiated
by the Austrian consul as insulting, and without pre-
cUlent in the case of a ship of war. Monsignor
Amici is expected to return from Home shortly, and
the dispute will then probably be arranged. Another
occurrence in Ancona will serve to demonstrate the
tender mercies of Austrian rule, and will be hardly
credited in England, where judicial proceedings are
public and equitable. Exactly a week ago, that is,
on the 28th of last month, the stick was remitted to,
that favourite instrument of Austrian eloquence, in
the prisons of Santa Palagia, as o mode of extracting
evidence, thus reviving, in fact, the atrocious middle
age system of judicial torture. The bastinadoing
operation took place. at five ocloek in the afternoon,
on the persons of two countrymen, against whom,
for three months previously, the papal police had'
been compiling a series of accusations, with-
out ever being able to bring forward ally
satisfactory proof of their guilt. The judges
not being able to come to any conclusion,
for 'want of evidenee, the papal coinmissury
ordered the accused individuals to lie handed over to
the military tribunal, and, aceurtling to its direc-
tions, the prisoners, instead of being set at liberty
for want of evidence, were subjected to the judicial
torture of the hastinado, in the presence of a judge
and notary, who were ready to take down any depo-
sitions which tlTe said bastinado might produce. 0110
prisoner underwent eighteen blows, and the other
five (fifteen none being. reserved for the following
day), protesting their innocence all the time. A
second sitting of this singular kind of court was to
take place on the 29th, at the saute hour, when
several other prisoners, amongst whom a young
woman of twenty years old, accused of being the
lover of one of the amused parties, were to be well
beaten, in order to make them famish the required
evidence, whether true or false. This brutal
affair had created such a feeling of horror in Ancona
that the British consul had been entreated to inter-
pose his pest offices with the Austrian general and
the President of the 'tribunal, to induce them to con-
duet their proceedings in a rather more legal form,
but up to an hour before the time fixed for the basti-
nadoing (to which period my account reaches) he
hail limn unable to etteet anything in favour of the
prisoners.
Some audacious scoundrels richly deserve the stick
here tiir infesting the neighlwurhood of the ruins and
attacking ally solitary kreigner whom they may find
sketching or untiquarianising in sequesteird spots.
Three of these ruffians assaulted the Hey. Mr. Currie
in a latie behind the Colosseum, between the churches
of St. Nero Achille() and St. Stefano Rotondo, two
mornings ago, robbing him of u valuable gold watch
and chain, and as many of the Pope's lace-
rated notes us he happened to have about
him. This took place at 11 o'clock in the
morning, and is the second time that an Englishman
has been assaulted in daylight near the Colosseum
within the last few weeks, the first case being that
of Colonel Smith. the proprietor of a beautiful villa
on the Palatine Hill, who was first begged of by a
man, and then attacked for having offered him only
two baioechi (one penny). The scoundrel diseharged
a great stone at the colonel's head, which might have
killed him had it struck him flail in the forehead in-
stead of grazing his temple us it did.