The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

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North Wadies b• ad reboil of the reastitation
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naiads& were bully brought forward than this
bee '-enoed on a basis man radically an-
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mend; and 'men
by the very principle, plan, and essential owe
&time of the arrangement. The result we foretold
last week is already consummated; the'rope of mod
has dissolved. The hopelessness of en attempt
to unite these adjacent bodies on the principle
of keeping them virtually separate as he as any
useful purpose of junction is concerned, the radical
vice of this design, has broken up the intended
league at the first step taken to settle positive
terms of mien. The absurdity of calling the
public to arms against an abortive proposal like this,
the ridicule of raising such a bray of rage and alarm
as it provoked from the nmes, in ignorance of the
nature of the plan or its chances of success, without
even an inquiry how far it might be feasible, before
denouncing it as formidable—this diverting exhibition
has rarely been excelled by any public blunderer or
blusterer whatever.
The readers of the ltrpress have already been
somewhat better informed ; and, for the facts now et-
ficially made known, they have accordingly bees
duly prepared. The scheme, as we told these
lately, could never hare been in any way
alarming to the public, for this conclusive
reason—if for no other—that it could never be eon-
summated is the way and for the object sought by its
ant cos; nor could it be so altered as to assume any
mire practical or probable character on ground to
which they would sweat. It is scarcely necessary to
add, with respect to a design doomed from its very
birth to impote ce, that it was one which neither the
reepr sentatlves of the national system of railways, nor
the nation itself 'mild properly sanction. It arose, as
we have said, in the desire of the exceptional party
to make good, at the expense of its neighbours and
with a positive denial of the only conditions that could
recommend any union, that false and injurious posi-
tion to which it has condemned itself—to the manifold
Wary of its own prospect., of the railway body at
large, and of the national interests concerned in tree
veiling and traffic, by adopting the crotchet of an
engineer unluckily ambitious of singularity with( at
regard to its consequences.
Some of these consequences are now beginning to
press heavily on his followers in this imprudence;
and we may trace in the amal,smation project not
only the wish to escape from its effects, but also the
obstinate determination, in spite of them, to give up
no single iota of the cause. It will have struck any
sensible reader of the resolutions that, to re-
tain the difference of gauge as a prime condi-
tion of the treaty, is precisely to deprive it
of the only feature that could renter a com-
bination worth seeking by the other parties to
this negotiation. It was, in ether words, to say
that the several railway bodies shall be made one is
✓espect of expenditure, debts, obligations, Isms, is.,
consequent upon the battle of the gauges, bat should
remain as utterly disunited as ever in these practical
conditions of gauge that favour interchange of traffic ,
and the profitable working of a joint business : is
Mort, that all which could render an amalgamaden
of interests reasonable or valuable Meal& be left set
of the question, and that the only object at the treaty
should be to obtain an indemnity to the author of the
past confusion, for which this main point of uniformity
would be the only sufficient compensation. It would
have been, indeed no common triumph of dexterity
to have accomplished an adjustment of the maim be
this lop-sided fashion.
The Morning Herald, which, we observe, is always
i very promptly nformed of what is said and wished,*
Paddington, unconsciously gave some curious revela-
tions on this had in a leading article of yesterday.
It let out the fact that on the matter which called
forth the objections from the London and North
Western, sad which has broken up the whole arrauge.
meat, the Great Western deputies had insisted, with
the v'ew of preventing any future limitations even
of the evils of discordant gauges, that the North
Western members of the joint board should be
excluded from such discussions. The future consti-
tution of a joint board and of its quorum
was accordingly to be ordered on a quite peculiar
principle of representation, on the ground " of the
wisdom of an arrangement which, in some special
ass (LOIN invoking the gauge) made the rotes of the
groat Western section If the board equal to that of the
two other sections." One dime not know what most
to admire in this revelation—the modesty or the hope-

fulness of such a purpose as a means to future him-
may, or the ingenuous confeseion of a deign to
place one exceptional party on a footing of fall equa-
lity with the other two; toequalise, in short, in &joint
deliberaticg body the minority with the majority ; to
give the millions as many votes as thirty-two.
The view thus innocently revealed by the Morning
Herald shows at once how truly we stated
the real origin and character of the scheme,
and the improbability of carrying to any practical ex-
tent whatever the adjustment of conflicting details by
• diresiou founded in accordance with it.

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LONDON, TUESDAY. NO V. 28 .
YESTERDAY morning the 7Trnes was positive that
the directors of the three great railway companies
were meeting, day. after day, to complete their amal-
gamation with sincerity of purpose and probability
of emcees.' It sneered complacently at our "rather
bold minutia* to the contrary, hazarded a few days
ince." This the Times did on the strength of doca-
manta which we published yesterday, containing an
interchange of " protests" and " objections" between
the South Western and the Great Western
magnates, showing that these companies had
assumed positions entirely incompatible. And,
while the gobemouelso who pin their faith
to the Times were (swallowing and digesting
this egregious specimen of the logic of Printing-
house-square, a circular from the directors of the
North Western Railway to their shareholders (which
we publish to-day) was actually passing through the
press, declaring that as "the directors are not pre-
pared to recommend to their shareholders to proceed
with the proposed bill, it homes my duty to inform
you that there is no longer any necessity to request
your attendance eitber_personally or by proxy on the
13th of December." The bubble has burst while the
Times was in the act of proclaiming it a solid globe :
so much for the sagacity and prescience of the "lead-
ing journal."
It will be seen from the documents we published
yesterday how exactly the official statement corm-
speeds in every essential particular with what we
said last week ; whether as regards the evident
origin of the treaty; the loose and merely prelimi-
nary nature of the agreement produced by it; the
exclusion of the sole point en assimilation,
namely, of the discrepant systems that could
alone make any special combination advan-
tageous to the parties, or useful to the pub-
lic; or as to the confusion likely to appear the
instant any practical attempt should be made to unite
these virtually discordant elements, on the principle
of retaining their essential
.points of difference. It
will be men that, even at this early stage, the proems
bad given signs of a felling out on bath sides with
the first moven hi the business; and it mast be
allowed that a combination, which would hereafter be
called up 'n to adjust many difficult matters of detail,
looks an' rill ni-ing enough, when it cannot even reach
the first general protocol without " protests " on the

Ofea of the two presidential contests, to the issues of
which the world has, for some time back, been look-
ing with no little anxiety, has terminated, and has, in
its result, justified the expectations of the friends of
social order and international peace. General TAYLOR
is president-elect of the American Republic. The
official declaration of his election will not be made
until February next, when it will be pronounced in
the Senate In presence of the Hones of Represen-
tatives. It is not technically cornet, therefore, to lay
that he is yet elected—the only step as yet taken
being the choice of the electoral colleges in the dif-
ferent states, an which devolves the election of resi-
dent. The election of Oen. TAYLOR is, therefore, so far,
but an inference from the fact, that, being the Whig
candidate, a majority of the aggregate number con-
stituting all the electoral colleges are whige, and re
turned as his adherents. It is quite competent, how-
ever, for the electoral colleges in the States, which
have goes for him, to cast their votes, when they
meet, in favour of another party, but this, unless they
were impelled to it by same extraordinary change in
opinion in the ranks of the party itself, they are by
no means likely to attempt. Although General TAY-
Loa, therefore, is not yet actually president elect, his
election is now so certain that we may regard the
event as already alai accompli.
It is not so much upon the encores of the indivi-
vidual as upon that of the party that we have at this
moment to congratulate ourselves. These are days
when violent men on either side are to be avoided,
and when the rulers wanted are men of moderate
views, as firm in pursuing a conciliatory policy at
home as in maintaining tranquillity abroad. It is
the moderate party that has triumphed in America,
and the election of General TAYLOR is bat the evi-
dence of its success. The pacific aspirations of the
party are fully typified in the views of its candidate.
Although his profession is that of war, General
TAYLOR is a man of peace. The duty which
devolved upon him in Mexico he performed reluc-
tantly but gallantly. His moderation in victory was
equal to his skill and courage in battle. The rapidity
with which he rose in the estimation of his country-
men excited uneasiness in the micd of Mr. Pock, not
only as to his own chances of re-election, but also as
to the continuance of the ascendancy of his party. He
accordingly checked the caner of his victorious gene-
ral at Monterey, and thought that he had sipped in
the bud the civic honows which seemed to be
blossoming for him, by sending General Bcorr
to reap the chief glories of the campaign in
the heart of the Mexican republic. But,
like many other politicians, more astute than
ingsauous, he overshot his mark. The game was pal-
pable, and this unmanly persecution of one who had
only done his duty too well, endeared him all the
more to his him& By the month of May last, the
events of year had sufficiently developed them-
selves to teach the moderate party in America the ce-
croaky of having a moderate man at the helm during
text presidential term. In nominating " Old
and Ready„ as their candidate, their judg-
meat accorded with their inclinations, and it seems
like a retribution on Mr. Pout that the first instru-
ment which he employed in his aggressive war against
Mexico should now return to dispossess him of his
exalted poet.

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVZNING, NOVEMBER 28, 1848.

rogral, stmosPbsP sw.r/1-11"
maran•bitga with expiate roam== 41:: it wield
have beim highly dangerous to bun bed a fleebened
se for the lent lbw years the resideatial
ehteir arf/addarees. His en di moue that we
have recess to eerie, at the Meg of General Cass.
This man ism essedrated, that even in times of pro.
Amami ftsairillity, be would have been dangerous and
diffienitte deal with. His hatred to England se es
1n we and quite is inexplicable as is that of a
ball to 'maks( markt; and he is quite as rut',
reckless of erussquarres, to dash at the object which
modes Ids in. In a time like the present
II his mem maid have greatly added to the
political perplesilim in which the world is drawly
involved. To sem was this more apparent titan to
his own conatryesee t and many, whose political ora-
-1 pathies sea Idestied with his own, but who preferred
peace to.a rely *lime" either voted agate* him,
or abstaiaed hem iet on that account. With so
tempting a rine ss Cabs before his eyes, nothing is
men likely than that he would have been ambitious
of eirselising its administration by some libelous
ear nisi. And, indeed, it is as well that the
rumoured nerdistion concerning that Island, at
Madrid, had set bass circulated earlier in the presi-
dential ounpaige, se awkward pledges might have
been exacted in respect to it. By TAYLOR'S Inc.
MIN CASS has net only been defeated, but
also virtually laid apes the shelf. Site the death of
General HARBISON, a math after his inauguration,
and the experience eibieh the Union had, consequent
upon that event, of Mr. TYLER, both parties are
of nominating men very tar advanced in life to
the presidency. By the time the nominations take
place in NU General CASs will be superannuated.
We may, therefore, congratulate ourselves, if not
upon his entire withdrawal from public life, at least
upon an end being put to his power for mischief.
W. shall hear no more of him, unless he returns to
his innocuous bluster in the Senate.

it isse sot 00111 e as get to this sibioseineal In the
case of Mr. DISRAELI. lierwlitsry dulness has not
gaits done with him yet; end lordly incepasity still
hates the owner of Taraworth more than It scorns the
tenant-at-will of Backinghemshire. Collectively the
tones fear returning to the hard yoke of Pm., more
than they resent the obligations of vengeanoe they are
forced to confess to Dzewst.r. They are not wholly
unoonacions, too, of their helpless condition In peril&
limes whir., eines Lord (#EOIOI BENTINCK:II loss,
they are literally reduced to • state bordering on
,1 mental destitution. Plenty, there is nothing for it next
session bat an incessant display of rhetorical fireworks,
and there is consequently no choice but to keep their
only sparkler in good humour. Possibly he himself
moreover seeks, by • refinement of pliability and
outer mhos of self-denial, to outwit his distrusted and
distrusting patrons. True I he has made them as a
party what they are. True ; he found them dumb
and lent them articulate speech. True; he found
them blinded by imbecile rage, and he showed them
a way of present revenge, if not distinct means of
recovering what they had eei, defrauded of True ; be
has been for then diving the last three years and more,
the scheming brain, and versatile pen, the ready
hand, and unscrupulous tongue—without which the
inorganic mass of protectionism must ever have con-
tinued without form and void. And such being his
incomparable fitness for command, and unrivalled
claim to fill the vacant post of lmder, it is possible
that he is willing to save himself from the humilia-
tion of being openly rejected on the oondition that he
is furnMhed with a suitable donkey, whom he may
ride or drive at will. A thorough-bred donkey it
must be—ducal blood would be preferred—docility of
temper is indispensable—and, saga bent, he must be
able to work for any length of time on fasting fare,
such as nettles, bitter herbs, or the like. But—

If Bee had a donkey that would but go,
Do you think that he'd Wray him 2 —No, Do, no.
He'd coax. and encourage, and puff him so,
That you'd hardly the creature know.
Where to fled one, however, is the difficulty. The
aged Haulms is too feeble, and the youthful NEWDE-
%Tit too obstinate; STAFFoRD has too much of the
skittish piebald look, much prized by lovers of *fancy
team and the traces of early drudgery en other avo-
cations are too palpable in HENLEY and in Law.
Were the last-named even like his brother of Som.
nanth-gates renown, an effort might be made to
do with him for • stage or two, until better could
be found; but VIVL%N GREY is far too
shrewd to trust himself anew upon the slippery pens
ssinerem of protection with so armoire a stepper. No
choice seems, therefore, to remain, save that between
the very reverend baronet who sits for Oxford Uni-
ver.ity and RUTLAND's stammering heir.
Nor is it clear that either of these would appre-
ciate the distinction of being made prime puppet
in the dizzy show; or agree to talk and walk
as his flattering but exacting master-in-private
would require. Cramming occasionally, cramming
even occasionally is hard work enough, to those who
have not been used to it ; but to be compelled to
cram upon all subjects of either political, or domestic
importance that may arise, not for a week, or two, or
three, but for month after month during half the
year, with no higher hope than that of being puffed
in the Murning Herald, and cheered " amidst much
laughter," by the most diligent and deliberate of
backers, such a prospect may well appal the self-devo-
tion of a stouter heart and harder face than that of
poor Lord GRANItY.
No wonder that in such a state of things, wistful
looks should recently have been directed towards the
email bat efficient band who held fast by PEEL so
long as he would suffer them, and who now, with the
instinct of self-preservation, seem disposed to hold fast
by one another. As destitute of troops as the country
party is for want of officers, the mutual necessities of
the two sections would indicate the wisdom of their
reunion. But then who is to command, and under
what flag are the combined forces to be arrayed ?
Atter being tricked into defeat on the corn law
in Pith, to assent, without any deception, to an
abrogation of the navigation laws, is too much
for protectionism to gulp; and to take rank subordi-
nate under shallow LINCOLN or slippery Gi.snirrons,
is more than one so vastly their superior in fame and
intellect as Dlsettett can be expected to brook. Hence
the summary withdrawal of the flag of trooe lately
waved by Lord STANLEY; and hence the renewed
bitterness of recrimination and reproach to which
the organs of the rival houses of toryism have aban-
doned themselves.

But however sincere our approbation of the charac-
ter of the new American President, and of the princi-
ple of his party in their foreign policy, we cannot forget
their inveterate attachment to commercial protectieo.
Prominent amongst the articlesof their political creed
Is their advocacy of a high tariff. It is certainly not
to support the tariff bill of 1816 that Ocn. TAYLott
has been elected by the whigs; at least it was not et
the understanding that he would do so, that he received
the suffixges of Pennsylvania. His success indicates
to a certain extent reaction out of doors ; but it is not
conclusive as to there being any immediate danger
of reactionary measures in the legislature. General
TAYLOR, without the two Houses of Congress,
is impotent, in this respect. For the time being he
has got the lower house with bins, but there is yet a
decided democratic majority in the senate, the mem-
bers of which are not to be managed like a flock of
sheep, or to be cajoled, like some other upper houses
that we know of, into obedience to the behests of the
government existing for the time being. Any bill,
therefore, which might pass the House of Repre-
sentatives of a decidedly reactionary character would
be disposed of without a hearing in the senate. But
it remains to be proved that the House of Represen-
tatives is disposed to approve of such a measure, al-
though the whigs are in the majority. What indictment
can they prefer against the bill of 1846? they must ad-
mit that it has disappointed their hopes and falsified
their predictions. They foretold, and earnestly hoped
for, as its result, a largely deficient revenue—instead
of which the exchequer has overflowed. They pre-
dicted the ruin of the home manufacturer, instead of
which he has flourished as before, at the same time
that there have been increased consumption and com-
fort amongst the muses. They prophesied that the
American could not compete with the European
farmer in the English markets, instead of which, he
has poured his accumulated products unceasingly
upon our shores. In what then has the bill of 1846
failed? If in no one object, for which it
was framed, why seek to disturb it ? It
has failed in one thing which, however, was
not amongst the objects for which it was framed—
it has failed in giving the manufacturers the protec-
tion which they desire. It is on this plea, then, alone
that they can seek to overthrow it ; and even, if the
bulk of the party has the hardihood to admit that
their policy is grounded on such selfish considerations,
we much question whether the whigs from the south
and west, which are meet benefited by free trade,
will be found ready to stand by them. These two
great sections of the country cannot now consent to
return to the tariff bill of 1842, or to anything ap-
proximating to it; and if the whigs attempt it, it will
no longer be open the plea of providing for the re-
emus, but for the selfish and unmistakable
object of making money invested in a par-
ticular manner more profitable than that in-
vested in any other; an object which they can only
fulfil through the instrumentality of a body, whose
constitutional power is limited to the imposition of
taxes for the sole purpose of raising a revenue, and
net for the protection of any one interest at the ex-
pense of another or of all others. If any such attempt
is made, the eouth and west will indignantly crush it.
There was at one time reason to fear that the deans-
crate would recede a little to conciliate Pennsylvania,
whose mining interests suffered most by the reduc-
tions of duties effected two years ago, and which has,
as anticipated, revenged itself by going over to the
whigs. But this it has done by so trifling
a majority as scarcel, to constitute the whig triumph
in it into a very decided demonstration against de-
mocratic policy ; and the state elections next year will
in all probability restore her once more to the demo-
cratic fold.
Oar congratulations on the MOM of Gen. TAYLOR
need therefore be alloyed with no serious apprehen-
sions. With Case we should have had free trade, but
in ominous juxtaposition to the mcbability of inter-
national difficulty. A high tariff with peace is prefer-
able to free trade and war. Indeed, the two latter
are incompatible, war being in effect the highest of
all tariffs. But with Gen. TAYLOR we have the pros-
pect or continued peace, with only a very remote
possibility of commercial reaction.
Republics are accused of being prone to war. In
this instance, the American republic has given a prac-
tical contradiction to the assertion. We trust that
the other great republic, which has, as yet, but oom-
pleted its birth, will hasten to imitate the example.
With Cacaos= and TAYLOR at the helm of affairs
in their respective countries, the world might breathe
freely for a while, which is more than it could do,
with CABB and Louis BONAPARTE. Whatever may
be the fate of popular governments in Europe, a
greater testimony could not have been afforded of
the stability of democratic institutions in America than
that just offered by the calmness with which twenty
millions of people, nattered over so vast a surface,
anlreresenting so many conflicting interests, have
proceeded,
in a time of almost universal political ex-
citement, to that which is the greatest trial of their
system—the election of a chief magistrate. And it is
not =instructive to obsematat, whilst so many eye-
tems have been tottering around us, and whilst it has
been so fashionable to malign the people as in every
instance the sole cause of the wrecks which have
taken place, and the confusion and anarchy which
have prevailed, the only political fabric which has not
only stood firm amid the storm, but has not even been
assailed by a menace, is that which rests upon a purely
democratic basis, which, in fact, begins and ends in
the people.

All which, indeed, is very natural and not unamas-
ing ; but we still recur to our first interrogatory—
what is Mr. DISRAELI to do for a sham chief to head
the party whom, in the Commons, he in reality leads?

FRANCE.

PARIS, llonn►T, 11 A.Y.
An evening journal having stated that Count
Mole had declared in favour of the candidateship of
Oen. Caviugnac, on the occasion of an animated dis-
cussion with M. Thiers at the Rue de Poitier, the
Conatilulionnel of this morning says that there is not
one word of truth in the statement.

The Moniteur publishes a report of the returns of
the indirect taxes, which exhibits a deplorable picture
of the state of French commerce throughout the pre-
sent year. Last October, as compared with the cor-
responding month in 1847, shows a decline in the
customs from 1,237,000 f. to 990,000 f. The decline
for the fret ten months of 1848, u compared with
those of 1847, is from 112 millions to 72 millions'
The importations of every kind (raw cotton alone
excepted) exhibit enormous diminutions. The like is
exhibited in the exportations, with the exception of
those aiticics on which a bounty has been paid. The
falling off in the commercial shipping amounts to one
million of tons.

A great manifestation' called a family banquet of
the 12th arrondissement took place yesterday at the
Parc aux Moutons, at Mont Rftge. 2,000 guests
including men, women, and children were assembled
at is. 3fL a had for the men, 10d. for the women, and
21d. for children under fiften. Among the gnesta
were remarked MM. Pierre Leroux, Lagrange,
Deville, Doutre, and Oreppo, members of Assem-
bly. The females present were numerous, many of
them being attired with much elegance. A letter
from Madame Georges Sand was read, and received
with great applause.
The effect of Saturday's debate was apparent yes-
today in the transactions at the Passage de I'Opera,
when the Fives rose to 65 50 and closed at 66 26.
The following letter appears in one of the journals
of this morning with reference to the personal colli-
sion which took place between MM. Felix Pyat and
Proudhon. .

We, the undersigned, declare, that after an atlercation
which took place yesterday in the coiffure of the Assembly,
between MM. Pyat and Proadhon, we, in the name of
M. Pyat, wafted on MK. Jesnglois and Freury, Men& of K.
Proudhon, with the view of requiring from the latter satis-
Mellon by arms. M. Lased' and Freury answered that
M. Proudhon considered himself to be the offended party,
and would neither ask ner give satisfaction. (Signed)
F. BAUER. MARTIN BERNARD, representatives of the people.
The two competitors for the presidency have just
procured written characters and recommeadatunis
from two very eminent and conscientious men. M.
Dufanre gives the highest character of General
Cavaignac ; M. Barrot gives a much more qualified
opinion of Louis Bonaparte, u not the candidate be
should have preferred, bat u the beet to be had, and u
the one most likely to reconcile the citizen clue and
the populace. Louis Bonaparte, says M. Barrot,
would be beet able to reduce the army and taxation,
and avoid a national bankruptcy. These are cer-
tainly - reasons and recommendations. The

WHAT is Mr. DISRAELI to do P After all his
trouble in forming a party, and still more arduous
labour in moulding and training himself to be a
leader, the country party refuses flatly to follow
him, and his very pre-eminence as fugleman and
drill-esrgeant of "the mutineers" constitutes the
principal obstacle in the way of his becoming thtir
recognised chief. ma • hard fate and a strange one
—worthy of note and remembrance by all who,
gifted with talents to serve their own class by
manful and independent effort, are tempted to don in
preference the thankless livery of aristocracy, lured
by the vain hops that by length of faithful and un-
faltering service they may at lad earn equality, or
perchance attain to mastery and chieftainship. The
colours of enlistment are nay enough, and the first days
of the dupe's noviciate dazzling to his plebeian sense.
He is bidden to eat of the bread and drink of the cup of
the highborn. With ordinary accomplishments he
easily becomes thefreedniaft of fashion. Glittering rank
and haughty loveliness smile on him. It suite their
whim, their interest, or resentment, to flatter that they
may retain him, to intoxicate that they may trust
him, in seeming to adopt that effectively they may
use him. Then when his bed days and noblest
powers have been squandered in their (muse, and the
purpose of their enmity or desire has been attained,
superfluous wit and genius ig thrown lightly by, and
its indignant reproaches met with a imondul shrug or
a sneer.

Yly strong_ ream..
following is M. Barrot's letter :
Bir,—You have dons me the honour to consult no apse
the best choice to be made between the two candidates who
are presented to the suffrages of Prams for the Presidency.
Like yourself, I would have preferred a totally different can-
didate; but, compelled to prosoomes one of the two
names which aloes have the Amos of honing atom the MI.
lot.box, I will say, in reply to yaw decreed, dirt ohm
many nesitatioas, I shall probably decide in favour of M.
Louis Bonaparte, for the mum that, not being pledged to
any of the political parties who have brought about
the revolution, he will be the mare easily able
to find capable men in every party wink( to cotopmeto
with him, and to moomplish 111111 the work of has ooaiNa
doe, without moiling cries of Mersa moos his easiest
Mamie. I will add, that tbe advent of Loots hi to
power, gratifying the mast lively of popular will
probably pot an esti to that sntagoalem is so der
gams, between the operative classes and the
sad will at less Mame the ground of party =ftst
alaiweeder seriously the national sovereignty; I em re.
is respect it, and to came others to respect it, whir-
ovir is map In called in remetics, the government, whatever
may be, which skin bane from mimed suffrage
and that this may be the um easy, I desire that the
chosen of the people may ism from the ballot box with •
majority sufeciently great to save the country from excreta-
leg perilous privilege of election ; to discounts violent
attempts; and, in floe, to give to the sovereign power suffi-
cient lora to be able without danger to reduce, with the

may, the budget which laeremes upon us, which mashes us; I
to save us from • bankruptcy only too imminent ; and, in
Bee to nreatablish and manure society. Such are the
prifielpal motives which influence my determination in fa-
vour of Louis Napoleon. I confide them to yes, on account
of the tethootty of esteem which you give me, and not to
snake proselytes to my opinion. It is sufficient to be answer-
able for oses own vote, without undertaking for those of
others."
. . _ .

The following is M. Dafstun's letter:
You are rlOt when you my that the declaration whisk
you require bun me is contrary to all my. habits. My ofil-
dal pudic* may, usksown to you, diminish the confidence
which you are disposed to piece io me. IrAlms me, how-
ever, to give aa answer. My silence would authorise suspe
dons which would be far from the truth. It would of itself
be • re dy to vottrquestions„ but • very incorrect and faithless
one. Anoordiug to you, the iodic/ of Omura' Cavaignac is
known. He has given pledgee of his love of order, and goa-
mattes of • good and honest government. But some doubt
still exists as to his charester and his intentions. You desire
to know how I appreciate them. I will tell you plainly in
few words, and with perfect sincerity. I had directed my
attention for • long time, in my parliamentary studies, to
those young officers who on the soil of Africa so gloriously
sustained the honour of our flag; prepared by a severe
edu-
cation, tried by the fatigues and varied thence, of mili-
tary life, I saw them, strangers to our co:isthmian' conflicts,
resolutely pursuing the line traced out to them by their duty,
and laboriously gaining at the price of their blood all their
grades on the field of battle. I felt that they formed the
strongest and most serious part of our generation„ and I re-
spected them from the bottom of my heart before I saw them,
without divin;ng that society in France would ore day
owe to them adebt of gratitude for the repression of the most
criminal disorder in the terrible days of Julie. I have bzeu
for two months in intimate and continual relations with
one of these officers of Africa, now become chit( of the Exe-
cutive Power. The opinion which I had conceived is now
mere firm and mere heed. lam not new in the study of
man in the direction of public affairs. I have been
able to see closely, I have observed Unison, for four years
past, all the statesmen of these times ; I have known none
whose language was more sincere, whose heart was more
correct and more disinterested, Whose mind was more just
and more clear, than thee. of General Cavaignsc. I consider
him to be the true republican of our times, a republican of
wisdom, fiernue-s, end cenviction. He has a very decided
opinion that the republic can be founded in France only in
the midst of peace. Ho ft ars that a war would expose us
either to interne) convulsions or the domination of a victori-
ous get-real. Hence his efforts to maintain peace, and he is
assisted in this noble enterprise by the confidence which he
has been attlo already to inspire in all the governments of
Europe. Gen. Cavaienee knows as well as you and I that •
republican government, Ike any other, would be impossible
in France unless it shuttle make it an absolute duty to pro-
tect all liberties and energetically maintain public order. He
has not in any respect or in any degree those despotic or
anarchical ideas which by different modes would alike lead
the country to ruin. He combats both with equal resolution.
1 ant really astonished that his intentions should appear
doubtful to the., who have seen for five months how he has
maintained order under the most diffeeilt circumstances,
amid the warm uno ions which followed the days of June,
and the ardent anxieties which precede the election of the
10th of December. I could not conceive the shadow of •
doubt in thou who can read at the bottom of his heart. As
for me, sir, es you speak of my personal feelings, I am sen-
sible how delicate and difficult would be the position of
a minister under the form of government organised by the
constitution. Nevertheless, lam ready to accept it with
General Cevaignae, convinced that we should have the
same views, and seek to realise them by the note means. I
am quite one that we should neither of us have any other
ambition then that of solidly establishing the first [funds-
tione of the French republic by an honest, regular, and en
lightened administration; and I venture to believe that we
should succeed if the National Assembly should give to us its
s • vereign support. It is said, I know, that the day after his
election General Cavaignee would choose other ministers
than those of the 13th of October last. Yen will compre-
hend that I do not demand from him any engagement lon
this subject. What I can akin to you very positively is,
that the fears propagated on this head appear to me no.
tameable, and that General Cavaignac will certainly accept,
without hesitation, the ministers who man be indicated by
the majority of the Natioral Assembly. Whoever they may
he, they will only have a sere and honourable part to per-
form. Placed between those who find our new constitution
too democratic, and those who reproach it with not being
sufficiently socialist, they will only have to govern in the
spirit and according to the dictates of the constitution.
They will leave to others the d. plorable courage of dreaming
already of overturning it, and of attempting another revo-
lution in an unfortunate country which desires the repose
which would render it so fruitful and prosperous. This,
sir, is my reply. If it leaves still some doubt on your mind,
I am ready to give you all the explanations that you may
dubs. In such grave circumstances, and in a question
on which the future tate of our country is V3strongly engaged,
I am cr• deed to exercise, although • minister, the right
possessed by every citizen to express his opinion freely.