The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

tion in them. The troubles of the 15th of May,sr—h;
the populace broke into the Assembly, he attribeem
to chance, to BLANQUI, or to the audacity of a few
encouraged and intoxicated by success. The me,:
ment of the 23rd of June M. LAMARTINE characierim
as spontaneous, and as supported by several Bauchi,
parties, all separated from each other. M. NlAtitan
is of the same opinion.
In opposition to this, the opinion of the modern*
and of the military party is, that the recent ketone.
tions, from first to last, weretherestlt of long preps".
tion, a compact conspiracy and combined plus.
LAMARTINE says the insurrection had no general;
his opponents say it had many, and not only gene*
but directing politicians, such as CAusslnisits, I,onin
BLANC, if not LEDRU-ROLLIN. M. I,Ammt.
TINE says that the most eminent and do.
gerous parties of the " advanced republic" did
not intend or promote the insurrectionary move.
ments ; that of the 23rd of June springing from the
national workshops, and the money allotted there.
By attacking the barric ides and the Esurrectionoll
the first night, M. LAMARTINE thinks they would
have been put down without the terrible struggle
and efforts necessitated by the military force not bay.
i ing acted at first. On this point Gen. CAVAIGNAC Lad
• M. LAMARTINE are at variance. And it is one of the
I points that must be explained at the tribune of the

It will form a melancholy spectacle and a bad pse,
cedent, this dragging forth of the members of two
governments to attack and criminate each other—the
turning up of all the crime and horror of the list
months. Some of the revelations, for example,
relate to the efforts of members of the provisions)
government to excite insurrection in Belgium end
elsewhere. What government could bear such an in-
quest it.to its acts? M. GuIZOT himself, ant, Iwo
had a considerable hand in getting up an insure:.
tion in Spain. Would it have been right tor his EU}
censor to reveal the circumstances to the world?
Again we find NI. Go t:DCIIAT: X giving evidence again*
his colleague, I,nnitc-ItoLLIN, "that he was always
in communication with conspirators, and was still so,
although they ceased to conspire." What a vague
and uncircumstantial evidence is here, casting a slur
without proving a fact, and using the word conspire.
tors in so vague a sense that no one can tell what it
means!
It must be admitted, indeed, that certain proofs of
complicity have been brought against CAusNIDIERK,
PROCMION, LOUIS' BLANC, and others, who are evi-
dently dangerous and culpable men. But is it worth
while getting up this monster inquiry to expel them
from a chamber where they aro despi-ed and power-
less, when our loyal House of Commons Raw nothing
in the events of Kennington Common to warrant any
notice being taken of the chief, who called that meet-
ing, and who sits undisturbed upon its foremost
bench?
We cannot but think that the time of the assembly
would have been better spent in discussing and voting
the articles of a constitution, as a task which must be
performed previous to the election of a president. We
see no other way than this of procuring a strong
and settled government, instead of the provisional irate
in which the assembly takes delight to linger—with
what views and hopes, they best know themselves.
General CAVAIGNAC seems to have taken a ler
luster view of circumstances, when he advisee the
cancelling and suppression of this masa of inflaming.
tory evidence. The head of the French est:cativo
sees the pasition in which France is placed with re-
gard to foreign antagonists in Italy, the regards end
minds of the French people being at the same time
turned to the same quarter, and anxiously observing
whether the chief of the French republic is support.
ing, as becomes him, the interests and the hollow
of the country. General CAVAIGNAC must feel
that, not merely to make war, but to conclude u
honourable peace, it is above all things is.
quisite that the French assembly, and capital, sad
country should assume a tranquil and firm aspect,
should smother dissension, and not tempt an enemy
to be obstinate by the sight of division and weaknew
prevailing at the French neat of government. Gene-
ral CAvAIGNAC considers the present inquiry, the
disquietude and panic it has given rise to, most
untoward ; and France may feel it to have hes
so in the unsatisfactory rei!ult of the attempted nog
tiations.

THE talk by which the vote of nearly 10,0001.t0
defray the expenses of the government of Lib=
was preceded, is a very pretty specimen of the kind
of scrutiny to which such votes are subjected in the
House of Commons. Mr. GiAnerroms mated that he
thought the vote a large one, and that he felt some
difficulty in 'acceding to it. Lord JOHN RUSSELL
scarcely defended the vote. He represented the whole
affair as an experiment, and declared his readiness, if
the House of Commons did not wish the experiment
to be made, to give up the vote. And thereupon, the
Committee of Supply, without asking any explana-
tion as to the nature of the experiment, voted the
money by a majority of 36 to 12.
Lord JOHN has discovered a new way of frightening
our representatives into voting money ; at least, the
house appears to have voted the Labnan grant in In
agony of apprehension, that if they did not do so im-
mediately, the first lord of the treasury might desist
from insisting upon it. The fact is, that the govern-
ment of Labuan is a government without a colony.
Up to the date of the latest intelligence, the only re-
sidents, in Labuan, over whom the governor and de.
puty-governor will have to exercise their authority,
are a surveyor-general and a meeter attendant with
their respective establishments, and a speculativehotel-
keeper from Singapore, who has gone there to
set up a mess-house. At present it is little less than
death
o to
accomplished.sleeipca Allshore
theat Laethbet:en, wefhthateevAereictkhdasy
I be when the island is cleared and drained, if ever that
sesamer who slept on shore when she was there, wee
attacked by the Labuan fever, and the surgeon fell a
victim to it. Native trade there is little or none. the
blend might be useful as a coaling depot for out
stousers, could a healthy spot be discovered on 2;
bat for this purpose a much less expensive rotablide
meet than a colonial government might suffice. TM
old English system of colonising used to be to giro
interim make-shift governments at first to experimental
plantations, and more complete ones when they
appeared to have struck root ; but now, govern.
I menu complicated and numerous enough to rent
the needs of some independent European states, we
sent out to try if they can attract subjects to lie
;under them. The last experiment of this kind sods
by the present ministers was to seed out a melee
government staff to found a new colony, to be ellidat
North Australia. The government squatted at P
(fortis, but was recalled before any colonists had gee
te mettle under it.
We mast not, however, delude ourselves by the ea-
potation that the Labnsn experiment, if unsuesesai
t nut of necessity be equally brief. Among the vote
I ihrpmedtheestablishmataightntthenetsreawtaspoartnunEwiopnposedgton.r
Tehoefegts" 2b1imb.,721/
ntents at Port Essington are a deg staff, half-a-dose
" shanties," and an officer in command of a wood'
guard. The soil is barren, the climate sickly. "A fes
Bugle visit the neighbouring coast occasionallyil
search of trepang, but no trade has been made wits
them, and their visits have been less frequent WO
the establishment'
was founded. Port Essingto hee
been spoken of as a harbour of refuge for parties skip
wrecked on the voyage from the Indian Archlpelefe
to Australia T Straits. But it is so Ow
pletely out of the course of there voyagers that
n!
tko.
one or two crews cast away in Torres Strait' ,
have reached it in their boats have taken d.
weeks to oe
so. Port Essington is an admitted failure, end
eceZ
2,7251. is voted annually under a very unn
apprehension that, if the British flag were
, ,
down there, some other European state might be or
ish enough to have its flag hauled up mete
ropes,
The sum of 20,0001. forl Ne
to w Zealane
that *it!
d wei,
batat it would be a gross deusMn believ
all that will be extracted from the national pot'
New Zealand this year. Sir E. N. BuvroW en:
What the naval and military_ establishments ef f.'
colony for the year were likely to oast ?ofe
Asa could not reply to thewestion ' *MI;
mail( owns inquiry." The st was a Pllii
illit pent one. In voting so large 11. lai
teeltelkei, ef the expenditure on one oolmy it
EflXthe Howie of Commons should te, 4
-el the whole amount likely to be mutt
okay. Mr. HAWSE deemed it • sufficient oat
for giving no information, to, say that he c0n0110r...,
so " without making some inquiry." A d the .15
mittee, unwilling to call upon Mr. Hswies for
exertion, voted the 200001. is 7.01
For the government of Western Austral ,
was asked and granted. Western Matraluiltal IS
founded about twice as long as South Ansuslisi r

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