The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

BROGLIE and M. GUIZOT in the Chamber of Pecrs,
and the tone of the entire debate, arc calculated to
aggravate the soreness of England and the difference
between the countries. The Duke of BROGLIE began
and based his whole argument on the assumption
that Spain could not be independent, and that France
must dominate. " Spain," he said, " was nothing,
and ought to be nothing, but through France !"
There is no need after thi. of reading another
word of the Duke's speech, much less of attempting a
refutation. _ _ _

M. Honor in his speech represented the horrible
fear that he entertained of a COBURG marriage. Lord
PALMERSTON's resumption of office frightened him,
he alleged. And his lordship's abstinence from treat-
ing of foreign politics, when re-elected at Tiverton,
appeared to him ominous and menacing 'lhe next
pretext was, Lard PALMERSTON in his letter to Mr.
Betwen, shown to the French government, men-
tioned the name of SAXE-COBURG. But that letter
sets forth with the declaration that the British
government would lend no support, and make no
ob-
jeetioo, to any of the candidates named. Surely this
was enough to allay French fears, and Lord PALMERS-
TON must have written and shown it in order to allay
them. Whilst the bare mention of the Duke of
I SAXE-COBURG was necessary to show, that Lord
PALMERSTON adhered to Lord ABERDEEN', abstract
principle, of the Crown of Spain not being for ever
neces-arlly entailed in the family of BOURBON.
The French minister, therefore—though he accounts
for his own hostile conduct by the appointment of Lord
PALMERSTON, by his Lordship's remaining silent
during the first ten days' tenure of office, and by his
having, when he did break silence, written his
cautious and amicable letter of July 19—has, we
think, utterly failed in making out even the shadow
of a case against our Foreign Secretary. We say
this with the most perfect impartiality; for we have
neither the desire nor the intention to support Lord
PALMERSTON through all the ramifications of his
policy.
Nor is the tone of the concluding part of H.
GUIZOT'S speech, nor yet the manner in which it was
received by the French Peers, satisfactory. The
French minister said, that France had to remain firm
and make no concession, and tt e present differences
would pass away. The present differences are, for-
tunately, a matter of feeling more than of anything
else. The marriage of the Duke of MONTPENSIER,
and the necessity of the King of the FRENCH having
a son or a grandson on the throne of Spain, are
facts accomplished. We cannot prevent them.
But surely M. GUIZOT ought to indulge us in a little
natural ill humour at such a result of our fifty years
of efforts, of blood and treasure expended to secure the
independence of Spain. M. GUIZOT, one might expect,
would gild the pill and sweeten the hitter draught for
us. But no; he tells us rather roughly that we must
swallow it. He addresses England on the Spanish
marriages much as the Spanish revolutionists did
FERDINAND on the subject of the constitution :
Trogala perro ; swallow it, dog."
So H. GUIZOT winds up his speech, by saying that
the English are a good and rational people ; that they
will not bear malice to France; and, at any rate,
that they meat submit to necessity; the addition to
which in the report of the French debate is (on rit).
In other words, when M. Guam declared that Eng-
land must swallow her ire and her affront, nut of
necessity, the courteous and kindly peers of France
set up a loud laugh. This is what Lord BROUGHAM
would call in his Cumberland French accent an
entente cordiale.

A few weeks ago we asked the following question
—What is the use of impressing upon the labouring
man the prudence of resorting to the Friendly Society,
when it is entirely a local question whether prudence
consists in going in, or keeping out ? Seldom a day
passes without an opportunity of preaching on this
text. We have now before us a Norwich paper in
which are two letters from correspondents: the first,
making mention of a society formed by members of a
certain chapel congregation, in comparison with
another society, the " Independent order of Odd Fel-
lows of the Manchester Unity; the second, in de-
fence of this last society from some previous attack.
The society of Odd Fellows numbers a quarter of a
million of souls, and possesses& million of pounds ster-
ling! Its engagements of course are large : a London
actuary declared there ought to be ten millions to
meet them, but afterwards, on better information,
reduced the figure to three millions and a half. We
are reminded of the old South American bishop.,
who were said to have burned a million of heathens
to convert them : it must be exaggeration, said the
good people, but if it were only half a million that is
something. Even the smaller sum is large enough to
want good. proof. But what we are struck with is the
character of the defence set up. It is, that the London
actuary cannot have investigated the affairs, "for the
best of all reasons, that the materials for an inrestiya-
lion do not at present exist." We forget who the
counsel was who defied the opposite party to destroy
his client's character, for that he had none ; but the
cases are very parallel. The apology cuts dreadfully
both ways : it seems to impeach the actuary's figures
on a ground which may finally show them to have
teen too small rather than too large.
The materials for investigation are being brought
together:—we hope the result may be favourable.
Bat, in the meanwhile, we put these two questions to
the good people of Great Britain. Is it right that
funds, raised out of the property of the poor, should
silently grow to an extent which makes one society
alone number creditors by the hundred thousand, and
pounds sterling by the million, without any effective
statement of the affairs being possible ? Will present
wrongs be righted, and future mischiefs prevented, by
anything short of such a really national system as we
have advocated, and, with such facts before us, shall
not cease to advocate?

VIENNA, he. 10.
There is now no longer a doubt about the official
incorporation of the kingdom of Poland with the
rest of the Russian empire, under the administration
of the department of " I.and and Water" at St.
Petersburgh. AR assimilation in respect to taxation
has not yet been decreed.
But a measure of surpassing magnitude is an-
nounced, the feasibility of which in the pre-
sent state of the money market appears doubt-
ful. The estates of the greater part of the
Polish nobles have been mortgaged deeply to
the bank of Warsaw. This bank stands in
a very dubious relation to the government, for which
it contracts loans and facilitates money transactions,
preserving, at the same time, ostensibly, the character
of a private bank. Some short time back, notice was
even to all the landholders that their mortgages
must be redeemed at short notice, on pain of fore-
closure. This step was looked upon as emanating
from the government, for the purpose of expelling
the present proprietors, and replacing them with
others. An ordinance is now said to be de-
cided on, establishing a large credit fund, to
be endowed by the Emperor for the purpose of
advancing funds to the landholders to clear oft
these incumbsances. It is probable that these landed
securities, which will probably be obtained against an
issue of notes, are intended to be made available else-
' where by the government to meet its own emergen-
cies. Further details respecting these singular finan-
cial operations are looked for with great anxiety.
The suspension of the incorporation of Cracow
within the customs' line of the Austrian states is
said to be again indefinitely postponed, in consequence
of the threat of Prussia to establish free marts at
Berlin and Myslowitz, on the frontiers of Galicia, if
the incorporation took place. The negotiations on the
subject axe now transferred to Berlin. M. de Hum-
melauer, the well-known messenger on diplomatic
subjects from our state chancery, is going to London
to look after the entente cordiale between Austria and
Great Britain.
The purchases made by the new credit fund of
railway shares at or near par, has had a very good
effect on the money market Purchases have been
made in all the lines now in work in Italy, Hungary,
and the central provinces, and have checked the
tendency to sell out. The outlay is stated to have
been three millions and a-half florins, or 330,0001.
sterling.

FRANCE. —BREAD Mins. Accounts from the
Departments continue to tell of disturbances among the
people, on account of the scarcity of pmvisions. The coun-
try• around ChAtesuroux was in a very disturbed state ; and,
at Bellabre, one of the chief inhabitants was murdered on
the 17th. Riots had aLa occurred at Argentan, Saint
Benoit-do Sault, and at Saint Pol de Leon. At Roacoff, the
people are described as subsisting upon cabbages and turnips
stolen from the fields.

ITALY.— GENOA. From a private letter from
Genoa, dated 18th Jan., we extzset the following purge :