The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-25 00:00:00

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MAILS

The malls for British North • Bermada. and the BMW
gates. will be made up on the entrain, of the 25th February.
The mails foe Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Fuer, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the morning of the 27th Pehrtriry.
The Mille for New South Wale", t'an oiemen*. laud, sad New
Zealand will be made up un the evening of the 21th February.
The mail% for the West llnat of Africa end Ito•:riro will be made
lap on the evening of the 29th February.
The Went India Mail., including IternauJa, Narwan, Ile an~eg,
Honduras, New Orli:sum, Vera Cruz, Tampico, awl Porto Rico. and
secluding thine for Madeira, Jaemel, Carthagera, manta htartha,
Filagree, Panama, West Coast of South America, and St. Juan-de.
Nicaragua, will 'oe mode up on the morning of the 2nd hlarch,
The overland mils for Gibraltar, Malta, flreete, the lonian Islands,
Pant, Aden, Ceylon, In4la, I long-Kong, end rhino, via Southampton
will be mode up on morning of the 3rd 51 treh.
The mails for the Brazile, the River Flaw, stouto IWeo, Pernam-
buco, Bahia Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will Oa made up on the
evening of the 4th Match.
The overland closed mallet era Marseilles, to the Mediterranean,
Crypt. Aden. Crykie, India, How Kong, She., will be made up on the
evening of the 7th March.

HIUII WAT3II AT LO6lllOl
13/11 Ott —136,61611. iY nna. paw I; LitnemAA. N 6.116. Am 6.
16.113.36.16-313rolas. 13 AAA. AS I; Alters 364 31 Eu 6.3666 6.

LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 25.
THE popular cause has triumphed once more in
Paris, and against an army of 100,00)) men. It has
triumphed this time, fortunately not alter three days
of carnage and of struggle, but by the moral attitude
of the population. The national guard, the middle
class of the 'citizens, joined with the lower orders in
offering resistance, and this sufficed. Fl cneh soldiers
are citizens too, and however reac'y to sweep
away a few idle rioters, they were not pre-
pared to treat as foes, and to decimate with
grape shot, the united and thronging popu-
lation of the metropolis. The example is a pregnant
one, and the lesson such as every monarch and every
minister must ponder. Neither must provoke, for
neither can overcome, the hostility of a million voices,
not to speak of a million arms. Voices alone, have,
in the present case, sufficed to overthrow one of the
oldest and strongest govenimentreheaded by the shrewd-
est king, and having at its command a most powerful
army, led by an experienced and determined general,
and possessing every means of influencing and insur-
ing that army's fidelity, which character, talents, long
success, and unbounded resources could bestow. After
all the fortifications, and the forts, all the cunning
manipulation and management of soldier and of civi-
lian, and of every class in which a shadow of influ-
ence might be supposed to remain, with an undoubted
majority in parliament—that majority, to be sure,
composed of functionaries, but still a majority—all
this cunning edifice, with its cornplic ited scaffolding,
has been swept away ; and Louis fustier: appears,
at the decline of life, in the humiliating position of
submitting to the liberal!, whom he insulted, and of
actually capitulating with the mob.
M. Gulzor, too, has disappeared in this whirlwind
of his own raising; and he departs with the poignant
reflection, that he has lived to deny or undo every
principle and every aim, to strengthen and attain
which was the object of his political caner. To
found the new monarchy, and surround it with conser-
vative buttresses, such as might defy the popular cry,
was as anxiously and assiduously his study, as it was
that of his royal master to erect forts aed circuttival-
lations for the same purpose. M. GDIZOT has lived
to see his scheme broken through, showing it to be as
fragile as a spider's web. The prohibition of a
dinner has been the mighty event, on which minis- I
terial conservatism has been shipwrecked. And the
result utterly disproves M. thazar's favourite
maxim, that unpopularity was the true element of I
greatness, and the necessary concomitant of ministe-
rial power.
To establish the throne on conservatism, and on re-
sistance to popular demands, was one of M. Guizo'r's
avow& aims in taking the reins of empire. His
other aim was to found and consolidate the union
between the two great constitutional states of the west.
This, too —this great alliance between France and
lEngland, it was, also, his fate to destroy, and to spend
the last year of his ministry in rendering almost im-
possible. M. GUIZOT'S rancour to England was
fiendish. There was not a court in Europe in which
his agents did not labour to do us harm, nor in Madrid
did he shrink from the most unscrupulous and in-
famous means. In addition to this, he flattered and
abetted that rivalry with England in naval expenses,
which has so sorely embarrassed the finances of both
countries, without producing ono iota of positive good
Ito either.
Still we must remark, how fortunate it is that this
revolution, or at least this change of government in
France, effected by a popular outbreak, did not take
Iplace at a period when the French were labouring
'under thou quick resentments and jealousy towards
England, which certainly infected them three
years back. One of the results of successful
insurrection then would have been a war
ministry, and a policy imposed neon it provoca-
tive to this country, and menacing to peace.
Now, fortunately, there is no room for any such
fear. The interest and attention of the French are at
present directed to Italy and to the struggles of the
people of that country for freedom. And their war-
bles precautions must more naturally be directed
against Austria and the absolutist powers who
menace Italy, than against England, :10 protects
it. There are, to be sure, names, mentioned as
likely to be in the new ministry, of men who
have distinguished themselves by Anglophobia,
especially BILLAUD and DUPAURE. But Count
MOLE, though tracassier and peevish, is still a states-
man eminently pacific, and, moreover, endowed with
that experience and address which avoids extremities.
Count Moee is, perhaps, of all French statesmen,
the man in whom Austria will have most confidence.
It was Count MOLE who evacuated Ancona, and the
management of the difficult affairs of Italy could not
be placed in more skilful hands.
It remains to be seen whether the p,nple will be
contented with this new ministry ; for the fourth
estate has been called up from its repose to take part
and have a voice in political affairs. The
King bad no other choice; for, were he to
call M. TIIIERS to power, and allow him to select his
ministry from the promoters of the banquet, a disso-
lution of the chamber must ensue, and all the excite-
ment of a general election, with consequences not
very easy to take in at one view.
Such must be the result, should popular discontents
be continued or revived. And it is possible that
the National Guards of Paris may not be
content with less than seeing ODILLON BARROT
in a cabinet. We do not see how they can be con-
tented with a less solid guarantee of reform than
this. But it is also possible that they may be in-
duced to accept Count Moue. In that case the new
ministry . will have the support of the conserva-
tive majority, though the cabinet contains so
many members of the left centre. And the
compromise thus hastily patched up may last
for a time. Permanent it cannot be. And
unless the court can manage to retrieve its defeat in
the streets of Paris, a THIERS and BARROT cabinet
- will be thrust upon it. And, for our part, we think
it would be not only the beat and most liberal adrni-
r nistmtion, but the most truly pacific and most inclined
7 on fair terms to accept the English alliance.
re

DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME.—A nume-
rously attended meeting was hold yesterday at Willis's
Rooms. King-street, for the purpose of petitioning parlia-
ment against the measure for establishing diplomatic re-
lations with R nue. The business of the meeting was opened
with a prayer from the Rev. Mr. Thelwall. Mr. Plumptre,
Y.Pwho occupied the chair in the absence of the Earl of
incchilsea, read letters of apology from the Bishop of Lien-
duff and several members of the House of Commons, who
had been invited to attend.—Mr. G. It. Clerk proposed the
first resolution, to the effect that the measure introduce d
LORD DUNCAN carries into a parliamentary cam- ionftoßlghfitsHouuT of Lords
the was oppose)
Act of Nettlemen Whe
Settlement, anclwoßuilltt
peign no small portion of the spirit which conquered be • violation of the constitution. After stating
at Camperdovrn. He bluntly rejects all suggested
this view
of the law, he declared he looked upon
excuses for evading a battle, and he brings great the measure introduced into the House of Lords as one
weight of metal to bear upon the object of his attack coming from a popish) influenced ministry. This country
in a well-directed, rapid, and continuous fire. was always at war with Rome, and he hoped it ever would
continue at that war till Rome was extingui•hed.--The Rev.
The ante-PITT history of the window tax is Hugh Stowell commenced by thanking the ministry for the
curious, and Was related by Lord Huscas with appOintment they made to the primacy. A more meek,
point and spirit. 'fhe first act for imposing house devoted, and rotestant archbishop was never selected to
duties was passed in 1695, un,ler Witusar III.; preside over the protestant church of England. That op-
oented. poiatmentwas honourable to the ministry, and it Was equally
in the reign of Queen ANNE the tax was au
honourable to him on whom it was conferred.
The contrivers of this new tax seem to haw,been Untutored he to fawn or reel for power
sadly at a loss for a criterion whereby to snout. the By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour.
real value and exact rent of bows. For want di a But if the ministry thought by this appointment to
better, they took the number of windows. It proved, ra gag the protestant feeling of this country, or to
might have been expected, a criterion not to be reconcile it to the measure they brought forward,
retied upon : in 1847 PELHAM was obliged to distin- Lo
ue could
titell them they were greatly mistaken.te
guish between the house and the window tax. The the tirvoiefewnasemwTectionticie metlntryanitte3LPeqctobyrasp titre
preamble of the act declares that the duty "has of late founiations of their protestant constitution would per.
years greatly decreased, and the same seems still pi aehei, But he did not despair. Let them send
litiely to diminish." In 1766 the preamble of toss fro. the metropolis with 200,000 signatures]
and let
eherineit.detitine tot have no popery anudtno peace weidth Anti-
DOWDESWELL'S Act complained that " the said win-
Front 1695 mously.—The ley" tnR.I. whMkeenmpovedana resolution, to the
duties have been greatly evaded."
to 1784 (when PITT began to try his hand upon effect that the Ape claimed spiritual power over the protest-
windows) the experience of every successive year ant church as we as over the church of Rome, and to ex-
added the (alien ; and that such claims were incon-
added fresh facts to show the unreliable character of c°
&latent with their fessy to the throne.—The Rev. C. Press
this tax in respect of returns. seconded the resoluties which was agreed to unanimously.
In 1784 began PITT'( anti-light and anti-ventila- Other gentlemen addri•ed the meeting and • petition to
tion crusades. The first in the series of attacks upon parliament was agreed uisn, after which it separated.
windows was the Commutation Act to levy lore ad Despatches were eeo off
yesterday evening from
valorem duties on tea, and substitute an increase thy Colonial-office Ove for the 1
raCtre of Hong Kong and
of the window tax, Fox professed to be un- Ceylon.