The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-08 00:00:00

What an insidious and
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breath of

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of fuhion

whither be

forth forbidden.

a certain -_-
nonnecmcnt serves to advertise and to- serve .
hotel. But if the hotel is unmentioned, does it net
also neve the person? Are there not people who
Iles ea aid by the high attention paid them, to
lib= as announcement of their coming to town is
er important a part of their ways and mesas se at
Ow of Mr. NIIVART ? Why not charge drum ad-
nfielbetnent duty? The Times of the ether
Ilenning gave us a list of young bibs.
soiinat at an American watering place, whose
s~nllsies were duly published in the local organ.
Time were advertisements, but is there nothing of
thokiad here ? Is the arrival of Mrs. So-and-So
end her fair daughter at Brighton or Cheltenhasa
risegg kilted intho public press? Most the paper uot
for every mention of a belle? Or
Pralisamg of Inland Revenue not dun the
illodeleos MINIM ial the amount, as in the above
noun it dwe.tens to do with regard to the hotel ?
The aim end end of the journal is the open-
modal nein. News fill its every column. It
pays tax, SW, en the paper employed; then it
pays a stamp Ibty for the liberty to sell. Thirdly,
it pays a tax en every announcement, avowedly and
evidently or Wetly for fiscal benefit 'fhb Inland
Revenue, ]Meter, steps in, and shows that it an
construe pine of news to be profitable, inci-
dentally or eOpllip, to osso person or another t end
it accordingly pewees to seise its triple duty on
every portion el thejellnell. What have the jour-
nals done to the load of Island Revenue to be
thus the subject of its indemilabbiezesation ?
Its last attempt has boss to the monthly
press to all the expense of y press es the
ground that its monthly eltreniole of events in news.
If to this it should add seccon in compelling all
news even in the daily press to pay the advertise.
ment tribute, on the score of each Dim at news
being profitable to some one, the British Island
Revenue-office will certainly have rivalled and est.
done its brother of of Austria, Plumb, and
France in their crusade of 18.51 against the preen.
There is no knowing, in fact, where these gentle-
men will stop. So vane is the act of parliament,
and so legally indefinite is the word news, that
although it is quite manifest that the legislature in
its acts never contemplated any such stretch of
finality and persecution as that perpetrated by the
Inland Revenue, still there is room for every kind of
interpretation and every degree of injustice. In sash
a state of things resistance becomes a duty, and we.
for oar part, have determined to try the qatelley
and shall therefore publish to-day, and any or every
day the arrivals of eminent persons at the Cis.
rendon, NIIVART% or at other places of
town residence. We do this and have done it
purely for the information of our readers. Medal
for such of our readers who may want to find at
and wait upt.n these eminent visitors. We
never imagined that it was for the advantage of Mr.
MIVART, or if it was, that it was other than a
secondary consideration. But we have no idea of
being restricted in our sphere of usefulness and pro-
hibited from publishing news, because it pleases the
terrier of the Inland Revenue to smell a five shilling
job in each simple paragraph.

of these, but one has demanded in Wow die Pa=
den el the powers of Luis Napeleoalm=mai
his asked for the re-establishment of
sod hereditary monarchy ; four have voted aphid
zilonevision ; and two have declined to express any
upon political subjects. Accounts remain to
be received from four councils only, namely, those of
the Gard, Isere. Morbihan, and Mum.
A terrible fire broke out on Thursday night,
about 10 o'clock, at Elbeaf, in the cloth factory, of
hL Grandin. The impartial de Bowen of this
aiming states that the extensive factory has been
bused to the ground, and seven hundred persons
hive bz this calamity been thrown out of employ.
The budding wu insured for 1,495,000 francs ; but
the loss is said to exceed three millions. The fire
had reached some other factories and houses, but by
the exertions of the firemen it was extinguished before
very great ohmage had been done. bevel=
who audited the firemen received severe
hem the lidliag materials; among them ere N Pads
the mayor ar Elites!; M. Lesoonve, the deputy
mayor; and M. Laurent, the ex-mayor.
&MOLT EVININO.

Brigadier General Creny, of the army of Africa,
now in Paris, on leave of absence, has been placed
on the non-effective list, for having attended the
commemoration of Louis Philippe's death in Eng-
land, contrary to the rules of the service, which pro-
hibit an ?Meer from going to a foreign country with
out ion from the executive power.
Ordre, which yesterday gave a general con-
tradiction to the statements of the letter in the
Times, asserts this morning, that in spite of the in-
nions attempt to convey a contrary impression, the
letter states nothing in substance but what they
themselves have been saying for several weeks past.
Foe M. Guizot's personal inferences, transparent in
the letter, the Ordre professes to have very little

M. Carri has written a letter of explanation in
the Erenewient. He positively denies that the state-
ment that his brother-m-law, M. Anthoine, lived at
his house, was made by him. But ho admits that
M. Anthoine gave that address in his pre-
sence, and that he did not contradict him
from motives that may easily be conceived.
He saw the commissioner of police take a note
of M. klarchais's letter to M. Ledru
but he knows nothing further about it. No-
thing was said in his presence of any paper being
miming, and he saw no one searched. Had he done so,
and had the commissioner exhibited any scruples
with regard to himself, he should have told him as a
magistrate to dismiss his scruple, and to do his
duty. M. Carte adds that he has been 16 years at
the Paris bar, and 20 years a magistrate, and that
he is quite ready, mite has always been, to account
far his words and actions.
The Councils-General of the Morbihan and of the
Rhone have voted for the revision.

I have not heard of any more arrests to-day. The
name of the plot has been changed from the " Paris
Plot" to that of the " Franco-German Conspiracy."
This is more appropriate, for out of 176, which is, I
believe, the exact number of persons arrested on the
3rd and 4th instant, more than 150 are Germans.
Up to the present hour there arc no grounds for
forming even a conjecture u to the real nature of the
iconspiracy of which the prisoners are to be accused.
It has been alleged as an excuse for the mystery
which envelopes the affair that most of the papers
that have been seized are in the German language,
and that several days will be required to translate
them. The belief is general that many of the men
in custody have been arrested in compliance with the
request of foreign powers. A species of panic terror
naturally prevails among German sojourners here,
and the etiffs which they habitually frequent are
deserted. The following rather remarkable passage
from the Ga:ette de Cologne, of the 4th, is quoted by
the Patrie :

The fiebwartzenberg cabinet, convinced of the neceraity
of maintaining the existing state of things, has resolved
energetically to support the candidature of Prince Louis
Napoleon. It is desirable to avoid any convulsion, and it
ill precisely for that reason that the prolongation of lia Pre-
sident's powers would be preferred to anything else.
. .

It his been pertinently asked, what is the kind of
support that, consistently with the dignity and indc-
pendence of France, an Austrian cabinet could give
to any candidate for the suffrages of the whole nation ?
And it has also not unnaturally been inquired,
whether there is any connection between some of the
recent arrests and the services which Prince Sehwart-
zenbe.rg may be prepared to render hereafter.
It is evident that a disposition exists in certain
quarters to make the most of the plot, if plot there
be. Rumours of large seizures of arms and ammuni-
tion are circulated, for which there seems to be no
good foundation. The Bulletin de Paris alludes to
the arms that were found in the waggon entering
the Barriire de Remy as a seizure of arms in the Rue
Pommel omitting the statement which accompanied
the original intelligence, that judicial inquiries nega-
tived the supposition that this affair had a political
character.
The papers justly complain of the wholesale lite-
rary piracy which is carried on in Brussels. Incre-
dible as it may appear, fac-similes of many of the
Parisian journals, particularly of the Debate and
Charivars, are fsbncated there on the day of their
publication, and are forwarded to many parts of the
Continent, where they often arrive several hours
before the originals. This is explained by the
execrable postal arrangements in Germany. A
traveller mei new go by railway from Paris to Ber-
lin at Demos in 38 hours. Letters and news-
pal= =pest take four days.
he the dime of the national guard
in the Aspartame et the this will probably take
pine in Octal.. It is and that previously an en-
deely new minimise be of the battalions and
legions will be made. The apparent object of the
et:will be to .'the number of men in
region and batftl bat the east will be. to
break up the treeion, In the flibrent companies,
mad so to distribute as. numb= that they will have
very little kassetedge of sob ail&
toesereil that after the closing of the no-
ises of the esimcils-general, some sweeping dis-
Wombs at mimes and sub-prefect will be ma&.
M. !biers is about to pay a visit to Claremont,
with a view to efface from the minds of certain mesa-
burs of the Orleans family the impressions made by
M. Guest's counsels.
- Mrs ethic/ Rase Tamiider, the miracle-worker of
Satalabs, for sacrilege, baa suddenly come to an
ad, by the tribunal of Carpentras declaring itself
tesempstent. The Jesuitical papers speak of the
publiaty given to the disclosures made at the trial
es a thing to be bitterly regretted.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING; SEPTEMBER 8, 1851.:
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\ r ITALY.
• 110ME,41,vosisr 30.
The Minbitor of Finance, with a vievito reconcile
the etrigencies' of tho treasury with the interests of
comnierco, has ordered that the custom-house of San
Secondo, which was situated two miles within the
frontier, shall be removed to the Cross of Castiglione,
about a mile further.
A correspondent of the Riargimento of Turin, of
the 4th, says.: " I can announce to you that the
whole line of railway from Ancona to Bologna hos
been conceded to two English companies, whose
names Ido not know. I learn only that the princi-
pal conditions are that the line from Ancona to Rome
shall be terminated in 10 years, and that the govern-
ment guarantees 31 per cent. It guarantees no inte-
rest in respect of the line from Bologna to Ancona,
which is not tabs begun until after 20 miles of railway
from Ancona towat Rome shall have been com-
pleted, and the same distance from Rome towards
Ancona."

NAPLES, Aro. 30.

The official journal (August 29th), contains an
article of defiance, directed equally against her Ma-
jesty's government and Mr. Gladstone. First against
the member fir Oxford, who is accused of exagge-
ration and falsehood ; and, secondly, against her
Majesty's ministers as represented by Lord Palmer-
ston. The government organ promised " victo-
riously" to clear his Sicilian Majesty's advisers by a
reply to Mr. Gladstone's letters. The official article
says " Had not the speech from the throne assured
us that her Majesty's government was in friendly
relations with foreign powers, we should have doubted
such to be the case, from the character of Lord
Palmerston's replr to Sir Do Lacy Evans." Mr.
Gladstone's assertions are then designated as " false,
absurd, and iniquitous calumnies." We are then re-
minded that Lord Palmerston has violated diplomatic
etiquette, by distributing Mr. Gladstone's letters
amongst the foreign governments. The public is
told to expect from "authentic documents a full
refutation of Mr. Gladstone's assertions.

Now this declaration officially informs the
world that it is the intention of the Neapo-
litan government to play out the game ;
and endeavour, by adding a series of official
falsehoods to a series of official frauds, to
sustain their position, screened by assertions, while
it endeavours to hide injustice, cruelty, and crime.
Official documents! Why, a government that can
degrade the highest offices of justice, by notoriously
paying judges and witnesses to put innocent men
in chains, can very easily produce any amount of
" official documents. The Jesuits say, " Tell a lie
and repent it: some will believe you, and many
will doubt (who know the truth), if you
constantly repeat the lie." It is really to
be regretted, for the honour of monarchy,
that King Ferdinand's friends will insist on
completing his ruin in the estimation of every civil-
ised country. What a mass of small lies may be
expected—what a mosaic of falsehoods! Does any
one—even a Neapolitan minister—suppose that state-
ments coining from such corrupt fountains can have
any weight? Ono fact is now certain, the King will
keep his tools, and Peccheneda, the Minister of
Police, will ride down all enemies, domestic and
foreign. As I stated in a late communication,
the King of Naples has no round to retreat on.
We may now expect more injustice, more cruelty,
and more unblushing hypocrisy. The government
is by no means satisfied with Mr. Macfarlane's
pamphlet. Let us see what they will do at home.
The King remains at Gaeta, and it is now known
the minority is to continue in office. I shall report
the progress of the pending state trials in my next.

an insidious and deadly blow is this at . The result of the deliberations 0181 councils gene-
fashionable journals. Theriot*. 'Ye an 45 I . wli• telt 0154 76 ruultild ilt
r court circular,, who flourish b • weir /w i /a . otho.sr: re : liaitbied;
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I what his brother orsister . is a ' .. • k in-4;We% y ire favourable ,
he is moving, and whir 441 be . 6.:' II ,„.. ... cd azalkajorit of disida.fourths af 1 ,
innocent chatter or, has Z. JR 7/1 • . i i elite, Sir it; sushi a inuforicy, I ,
rbiddcn. Each paragraph is an silver- or anything approaching to it, is nnivettaally admitted ,
, quoth the Inland pundits, and worth to be out of the question. Five only have asked ,
number of shillings. For why, the sw- especially for 'the revision of the article 46; which
.... ....yr. to advertise and to serve the renders the President ineligible to be re-elected; and ,