The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-28 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1851.

account of the number of paper manufactoeies during elusively of mesons not belonging to the legislative !a..!
the last 30 peas, showing • progressive and con- body. He demanded whether this proceeding on ; '
tinsel decline, the part of the executive power was incidental 01
Year. In Entente Is Great Britain.
for part of a system. If the ministry were in
1821
.• 1811
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tone is not always to at ewer with sufficient distinct- m'• 473
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Here ism* account ot the soap trade:— ness. He would now ask the government to what it :
was leading them, and to whom, He then entered into ,i;
In 1833 there were 262 Ikensed makers in England. From au examination of the origin t f the ministry, and Z:
18183 bi 11143,304 new woken took oat liesmu. Total 566. A
call.. upon the ministers to explain the nature of the !s,
01 then only about 173 ate tow at work; whilst 333 have
fail.d, or withdrawn with various amounts of less! policy which they intended to follow ; for it was not tee
that '
enough to reassure alarmed and uncertain minds re
Both these trades, therefore, have been suffering
taxation, and
intensely from the pressure of excise they were persona unknown to the Chamber or the in
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which must have contributed to the ruin ot hundreds.. country. He askedit the genealogyof the cabinet was to e
That these duties give rise to fraud there is no ex-
besought in the message of 0ct.31 cr of Nov. 12. He w
tine officer who will venture to deny. A return was
called in question the seriousness of the attempts made it
to form a ministry p
as o members of the Assem- N
published by the House of Commons last session
My, and assigned as proofs of the insincerity tt
giving a long list e fraudulent paper manuracturers,
tome of whom had been heavily fined, some impri- of the tegotistion entered into wi'h this ob- w
soned ; whilst in other cases compromises had been ject the fact of M. Ways.' having been summoned u
from Lille by the telegraph on the fame day that M. I,
made, or the offenders had absconded. It so nume-
Lean F.-ocher was charged with the mission of form- I
roue were the discovered cases of fraud, how much
ing a cabit et ; so that even the English papers were 0
• larger may we not suppooe to have been the case.
able to predict that a cabinet would be formed in dt
which escaped detection. But let us hear what a
large paper maker, Mr. T. B. CHOU'roe, says oa this the way in which it had turned out. With respect to a
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' head: the policy which the ministry intended to follow, he P
e " Such," says he, "are the facilities for frau 1 arising out wanted to know if the government intended to apply
• of this tax, sad the mode in which it is levi.d, that Ike the electoral law of 31st May to all elections, or to (
- temptation to art dishonettly becomes absolutely irresistibla exempt the election ot the President from this ap- t
- The Excise duty on the lower descriptions of paper emotes plication. c
ein some sues to as mock as 120 per cent. on the cost of pre- Such was the substance of M. Tranchere's speech, s
ductioa, and, as is well known to every practised mantarse
which was written. He was listened to with marked '
e ta, the evaelon of this euty is so easy, that. provided
I, the tfficer of Excise is is collusion with the Wats• favour by the majority, and in religion silence. M.
it (adorer, it sisounta almost to imposs:bility of dr Royer, Minister of Justice, rose, on the part of 1
... teetion. Nor is the improbability of this collusisc the government, to reply. His answer was
t so great as may be imagined. Look at the pmitim short, and couched in a conciliatory tone. He
of one of these men with • net salary ot certainly not more
raid that the government understood by the ,
a the. 30s. • week, who has to be the guardian of rescues
pendenee of the two towers mentioned •
a which, in tome individual casts, amounts to 20,0001. • sem. inde
ra Why, when a present of 501. may scsire the object and aid in the message, and commented on with so mach '
• so much to the resources of each par,y it is not difficult to distrust, nothing at variance with what had been
;.see that such a temptation to a fraud, herb on t- 9 revenge
, and the honest trader, may break down the probity boil as of laid down by the c distitu!.ior, their separation in fact.
He w exceedingly explicit in his declaration that
the poor trader and the excise officer.
1. It •only little while that d t
is a agoa correspon en the ministry was essentially transitory, and meant '
to be nothing else. It was a cabinet of administra-
iP sent us the following statement:
,i,lion, not a political cabinet—a cabinet of transition,
A papa maker here lately had en • visit to him
e• I"' conducting in the shortest delay to a definitive
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--: mansfecturer who informed him that he bow of an
1,1 instates where a paper maker took a contract to make paper cabinet.
tee in Ireland that weighed 18 lbs. per ream, and upon some- M. Mathieu de la Dr6me having spoken, the whole
to irquiry that was eel on foot, it was dimmest' that it only Right voted the close of the eebate.
Ly paid duty on 8 lbs. • ream. This accounts for Irish paper The 286 held a meeting on Saturday night in the
Id being so cheap in the London market, rooms of the Cozad d' Etat. H. Lacrosse took the
a- In the soap trade the frauds are so glaring that chair. M. de Mostalembere in a speech which marks
they absolutely are boldly perpetrated under the eyes him as a decided supporter of the policy of Louis
r of the Excise. Whilst the manufactured soap is taxed, Napoleon, called upon M. Leon Faucher to explain
t's the combination of grease and alkali, which is soap, the part which Le took in the uegociatious for the
d is not taxed. The cons' queue has been that in all mane- formation of a new ministry. 31. Leon Faucher,
0: factures in which washing and scouring preemies are answering with much reserve, said that his task
se required, it was found necessary some yeats ago to had been rendered difficult by the vote of the
)y
repeal the soap duty, so far as related to soap used in 18th of January, which made much delibe-
I. those manufactures. The other day we visited a ration necessary before the definitive compoei-
[r large
passed
manufactory in London. Returning from it, lion of a new government. There was nothing,
Ire we a shop established for the sale of " WASH- therefore, surprising in the formation of a provisional
INC Lioele," for which a prospectus said that "there ministry, and it lay in the hands of the Assembly to
it was a great and daily increasing popular demand." bring this state of transition to an end by reconatitut-
he This Watling Liquid contained nothing but the con- ing the majority on common principles. Being quer
,d stituent parts of soap in imperfect combination. It is tined as to his intention of explaining himself io the
On " strongly recommended for its effects upon linen, to Assembly, he professed him• elf ready if the debate
he which it gives a moot brilliant whiteness, and is also should oblige him to do so. He deprecated all aggra-
tis said "to be used by ladies at their toilette; a table• vation of the schism in the majority, and said it was
.0• spoonful being ufficient to soften a hard boson of their duty instead of throwing away the scabbard to
,0_ water." " Sold in half-pint, pint, and quart bottles sheathe the sword. MM. Baroche, Fould, Darn,
~, at the depot." Buffet, and Banchart were present
Bat this is an indirect fraud. Let us glance at the i A meeting of the Burgraves took place also yester-
-00 direct frauds in the soap trade. It is a well known . day at M. Mole's. H. liovyn-Trancielre was invited.
ii. fact that the illicit manufacture of soap, and especially M. Odillon ;Barret was not present. The nature
en of soft soap, is enormous. One circumstance will :of the vault, as to parliamentary form, proposed by
„. prove it. Whilst from 1831 to 1841 the consumption , the interpellations weich comes on to-day, is not dia-
ls:- of flax increased 45 per cent., of cotton 62 per cent., ' tinctly known. The 'object will be to prove that it
of of iron, 40 per cent., of timber 36 per cent ; whilst is easy to form a parliamentary cabinet out of the
KY the population increased 14 per cent., and the number majority, and to force Louis Napoleon to terminate
• of hailer's (which shows the wealth of the people) 18
di- the provisional state of things.
,00 per cent—the use of soap which paid duty only It is said that General Aupick has been recalled
re increased at the rate of 26 per cent. It will be from Constantinople to take the portfolio of war in
ail admitted that the English are not less cleanly the cabinet which is to succeed M. Wayes and his
,e 0 People out of doors than they are in their colleagues. General Magnan is spoken of as likely to
workhouses: it will be thought, perhaps, that they succeed General Aupick at Constantinople.
ta,, are as clean as their own convicts :it may bethought , I may cite to you a proclamation of the pre-
v.i_ possibly that we are, upon the whole, not so dirty as feet of the Isere, announcing the reduction of the land
the the French fishermen in Jersey, or the :Horsemen iiii - tax, as an instance of the efforts used by the prefects
Lto the Isle of Man. Yet what are the facts? lof departments to increase the popularity of the nes-
ted The allowance of soap per bead in workhouses averages' sident of the Republic. The proclamation is in these
71b. per annum. terms : " The President of the It% public, on distribut-
e° The soap used in the Isle of Man averages to each of the •
nig to the national industry the encouragement it was
ill- population bib. per =ram.
til, The allowance for convicts is 111 b per onrush entitled to, said 'We must take elf the burden from
iug The soap used in Jersey averages 131 b. per annum. lend.' This admirable sentiment is realised. From the
Whilst in England, according to the excise returns, we Ist January, 1851, the land tax of the department of
our
le use only 7 onshith lb. per annum! farm which amounted to 2,840,5571. 590., is reduced
If we believe the Excise we are a dirty population to 2,430,183 f.—a reduction of 410,374 f. 59c." This
sinted truly. In Ireland the consumption of soap avenges news was received in the country with the liveliest
4 lb. per annum for all the population, and in Ja- satisfaction. On the 22nd, the day of the fair at
yes males the blacks use nearly 5 lb. per annum, whilst Grenoble, the farmers from the mountains were col-
,
in England we use only 716.! Likely—very ! lected in large groups round the procrelamation, manit-
i, It is perfectly obvious that this is only to be testing their joy iu a most lively manner.
~,,d accounted for by illicit manufacture. Now, these are 31. Jules de Salm attached to the political direction
oeii the facts. In 1845 it was ascertained, on very re- of foreign affairs, is appointed second secretary of the
sWI liable data, that— embassy at London, in substitution of M. de Breuil.
ord The quantity of soap used in England was 183,481,946 lb. A recent decree of the President of the Republic
But the quantity on which duty was
Me- „,. axes at 55 years the age of retirement for the army.
charged that year was only 134344451'" '
Previously to this it was 58 years.
Pet
Leaving to account for, either by illicit Tne Funds have regained their firmness.
trade er substitutes 27,117,134 lb.
woe BOURSE.
ions Or one-fifth of the entire quantity which paid duty
ato excise! It is obvious that this is ruinous to the nturoai. v. pee
and fair trader and at once accounts why so many indivi- money.) °pestles !babe's. Lowest. Cimino
hat duals have withdrawn from the trade. -- —.— --
Spiw Oast& ....... .... 57 0 57 10 57 10 57 11 0710
the To demonstrate the other iniquities of these two 6 p., 41.1...
sir duties would be still easier. But we must pause for i %pert:eats. Krouse es 15 I 95 15 VS 20 95 II 9.3 W)
two the present : promising, however, to take another 154: te,ett Do' '"' 57 e: li w I s. .4
k , e
pees opportunity of recurring to the subject. Because, t.zubsove ea L011,10n: Si slytit: 24 93 ;"aii days: 24 771.
der. certainly, if these duties could be got off, together esesein, 3, 1040
Korean Lose —1550 751 ~
reef with the window tax and advertisement duty, the' Der t °,.0,2. .—7 7. . Ditto, 0n... WO 761 .
so nation would have cane to congratulate hull. I De. st ' iiei : Treasury Beees
Netrarat 5 earteuta. 122 25 - Bank sham 2227 50

yarOosto. NowLsoo
kros Coal&
I per Onto ....
P.zubarze cm L e eet I es
,21 93; drys, 21 774.
ilskrLut, 5, 1140 11.p.t0 Roots, .. 47 30 gory.
Do. 3, 1811 ....„ Homan Lcao 7.54
De. 44 ....... Ditto, do—. 1020 764 •
Do. i 1930 Tremor? Hoods —
PiedmontX pert outo. 62 „13 „ Book blazes 2227 SO
Germain, 410; Versailles (right bank)
166 25; ditto (telt bank), 163 76; Paris and Orleans; 850;
Paris and Roue°, 680; Boucot sod Ham, 270; Marseilles
and Avignon, 186 25; Strasbourg sad Bala, 142 60;
!Centre, 395; Orleans and Bordeaux, 400; North, 470;
Paris and dtrasbounr, 345; Tours and Nutted, 248 75;
Montereau sad Troyes, 90; Dieppe and Nousop, 197 60;
Bordesuz and Testa, 35.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The ministry baring answered by the organ of M.
de Royer to the interpellations of M. Hovyx-Tran-
chere that the cabinet was essentially of a transitory
character, and M. Matthieu de la Drome having
ascended the tribune before M. Odilon Barret, who
was about to speak, the members of the conservative op-
position declined, after the speech of this member of
the Mountain, to continue the debate, and agreed
among themselves to wait for the acts of the
ministry. This opinion having been partaken
by the 286, the whole Right rose, when M. Michel
de Bourges demanded to speak, to vote for the
close of the debate. Thus the incident of NL Hovyn- '
Tranchere's interpellations fell to the ground without
any result whatever. The Arsembly will be no
doubt taunted with this effete conclusion in the
papers of to-morrow. But the fact is, that the
government owes its escape for the moment to
the speech of Mathieu de la Drome, who taxed the
legitimists and Orleanists home with the want of
confidence expressed by their leaders in the perma-
nence of the republic, and showed that they
had set the example to the government of Louis
Napoleon to prepare • solution in his own favour.
It was because the Right were not prepared to go
again into such a delicate question that they de-
clined to proceed, for they saw that it would be im-
possible to succeed in defeating the government upon
a hostile order of the day without the alli-
ance of the Mountain. Nevertheless, they
showed want of tact in not allowing Michel
de Bourges to speak, for the latter, leading the more
violent section of the Mountain, would have completely
effaced the impression produced on the Left by the
speech of M. Mathieu de la Drome.
The members of the conservative opposition have
therefore determined to bide their time. In the
meanwhile, although not quite satisfied with the
explanations of ministers, they will support the go-
vernment in carrying on the ordinary parliamentary
Msinee&

GERMANY.
PRUSSIA.

The question of customs is such a vital one for
Germany that the pre,s of every state is almost solely
occupied by it. That Prussia decidedly objects to the
Austrian union project is now certain enough. The
agent at Dresden has been ordered to reserve that
question, and the utmost that can be expected will be
a treaty equalising transit and general inland traffic.
On this subject the Cologne Gazette says:
The Prussian ministry has insqueted Count Alveneleben
not to go into the Zo 1 Union querion. But the Austrian
cabinet has been ensured that the answer given to the
Austrian memorandum, In which some relief to interna-
tional commerce is promised, will be adhered to by Prussic.
The propositions of the Boron government have been accepted
only within the same limits. A Zull Union, then, such so M.
Von Bruck is strivii g to obtain in Dresden, will not take
place. The intimsto undemanding between the Prussian
and Austrian Miaistrn of Commerce will, therefore, hear
no fruits. Been the attempts which have lately been made
by Prussian officials, as is pretended in Hanover, to allay
the oppoer ion to the Austrian scheme, have tad no success.
One question seems to have come decidedly into the fore-
ground; namely, which is the most advantageous—to
include within the commercial union as additional thirty
millions of population, according to M. Von Bruck, exclu-
sive of all others, or to admit into it virtually all the world?
The Austrian project advocates the tint ; free trade,the second.
There is another (mutton which cannot be answered, vie. :
Where is that Fluters land which the Schwartsenherg mi-
nistry are constantly bolding forth upon, sa an Eldorado
industrial nisrket ? It is net to be found on the maps. la
it within the Austrian frontier? In Austrian Germany
almost every wealthy merchant is a manufacturer, who boa
already by a monopolising prAection ruined ethers. There
are there tine gentlemen, who in ten years have acquired by
weaving and spinning 100 000 florins, end for whom opera-
tives must labour for two or throe greschen (twopence or
threepence) a day. In &Leonia ono the Magyar ceuntry,
all is bought on credit, and who would give credit there ?
Little would at all events be bought there, and that little
would &key consist of small wares, which could not bear
the freight to Elbetfield, and such other raw materials as are
not fabricated in the Tall., of the Wupper. There is not much
attraetion either in the idea of carrying civilisation into the
But under the black yellow banner of Austria. The But
was formerly civilized, but when the Tithe ani Austrians
invaded it, it sank under them at once. The talent for dif-
tu.ing civilization, like mail others, is wanting alike to the
house of liabenbarer and to that of Hapsburg. Under
their rule, even civilised immigration Ii prohibited.
Neither practical nor theoretical advantages are to be obtained
by a Evil union ; and the political profit of it would be none
other than Ibis: to be saddled wi.h the heathen of a foreign
government, to build bridges for Austrian troops, and to
make Austrian officials watchers and overseers on all the
Prussian frontiers. Tnenconaiderations have, for this once,
been effective against the Austrian project. Bit negations
suffice not to give states their befitting position; and what

It deserves particularly to be noticed that, when
interrogated by MM. Hovyn-Tranchere and Mathieu
de la Deo= with regard to the wrplication: of the '
electoral law of May 31 to the election of the Presi-
dent, the ministers preserved silence.
The sitting of the Assembly to-day presented, at
its opening, all the usual symptoms which precede a
debate of high Importance.
The bill of the committee on the expenses of the
London Exhibition having bteo adopted by 603 votes
against 70, the interpellation of Hovyn-Tranchere with
regard to the formation of the new cabinet standing
next on the order of the day, that representative
mounted the tribune to commence his took
amid signs of the deepest attention. For
the ant time in the parliamentary annals of
Prance, a cabinet had been appointed consisting ex-