The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3. 1851.

to the greater or less degree of independence assumed, concerned in the riots at Lunel. Seven were con-1
by the chiefs of the mountain tribes, they esneot but damned to different periods of imprisonment, vary-
regard
with suspicion the advance of the British flag in. front AM months to ten days, and three others
into the heart of their comfy,. Those who argue .sa.lttcd.
h
that we could not take the Indio as our frontier, is no bourse to-day, owing to the fate of
but must necessarily push our outposts to the foot All Saints.
or to the summit of the mountain range, SENDAT EVENING.
David,ought at least to halftime& Itrer positive condition M.
-general of the court of Rouen,
*appointed . ister of Justice and keeper of the
that we should stop short at the mountain rante.
It appears, however, that we have as little respect seals, in the place of M. Corbin, who declines office.
for kill m for river frontier, and that our troops, and In consequence of the great fete jesterday, the
guns, and engineers, arc once more on the high road only newspapers which have appeared to-day are the
to Caubul. I Noniteur and the Republique, and the Arenement
The reader of Maier EDWARDEB' entertaining and and Revolution. The Amateur has published an ex-
instructive volumes is already acquainted with our I traordinary supplement,, to make known the above
annexation of Bunnoo, and reduction to obedience appointment.
of such portions of the Wuzerec tribes as had To-morrow night will take place a meeting of the
involves use habits. Even this possession , legitimists in the Rue de Rivoli, to agree upon the
involves us in yearly quarrels with the hill ' course to be adopted by this party in the elections
tribes, which at all times descended to of the board of the Assembly. The democratic
rob in the plain, and which now do this meeting, which was to have taken place to-day, is
with peculiar gusto over a territory under British put off until after the message. Ikleanwhile the
rule. Beyond Bunnoo, up the hill country, and on h democrats are justly offended at hearing that the
the road into the heart of Affghanistan, extends the state of siege is to be extended to two more de-
valley of Dour. It is inhabited by a race, rigidly and partments.
bigotedly Mahomedan, and governed by their mol- The order of the day of General St. Arnaud is cri-
lahs. Major EDWARDES was continually threatened ticised with severity in the Salle des Conferences,
by an invasion from Dour, whose people were edger for maintaining the doctrine of passive obedience
in getting up a crusade, or rather a crescen- without any allusion to the law, as the source which
tack, against the British. The rumours, how- ought to sanction all orders. Interpellations are
ever, always died sway and ended in smoke, talked of on this subjec• but will probably be laid
Now, however, it appears that the resolve aside if the message should be conciliatory. The
has been taken to reduce these people of Dour, Rerolution asks whether the new Minister of War
and to push forward our military posts from be the same Colonel St. Arnaud charged on the 24th
the mountain-passes or summits to the river Khoo- February, 1848, with the guard of the Prefecture of
rum. A British post on this river, westward of Jel- Police, who retired before 200 unarmed citizens.
lalabad and the Khyber range, and within no consi- M. Hippolyte Fortoul has not yet ventured to the
derable distance of Ghuznee and Caubul itself, can- Hotel of the 'alinistry of Marine in the Place de la
not but awaken the jealousy of the Affhans, and Concorde, which gives occasion to the wags to say
perhaps renew hostilities on their part. one should that the new minister has not yet found his sea-legs.
think, that if we respected neither of the two great He is said to be deterred by the counsels of his fa-
barriers of nature, the mountain and the river, Cher-in-law, M. Paseaks, from embarking in his new
we might at least respect the equally marked vocation, for which the singular unfitness of his an-
one of religion, and by keeping ourselves within tecedents has provoked a good dent of ridicule.
the limits of the really Sikh and !Endo°, at least of No answer has been yet received from M. Mendel,
the mixed Ilindoo and Nlahomedan population, avoid,
the newly appointed minister of finance, who is still
at least the unanimous and combined fanatical hate in Corsica.
of the populations subdued. But the religious fron- B way of gossip it may be told that Louis Net
tie!. is, it appears, no more to us than the gcogra- pulsar shook hands 'th V ron the other night
c
phicul. at the Opera Comique, notwithstanding the reported
Major EDWAIIDES' account of our title is as
follows : breach ofcordiality between the doctor and the E lysee.
I must not omit to mention that M. Didier, whose
The title of the Punjab sovereign to the valley of Dour
good
men-
was
as as to that of Balinese. Both had been appointment to the prefecture of the Ariege I
ceded to the Sikhs by Shah liciojah in the Tripartite tinned yesterday is client of Veron, who was said to
Treaty. But as far as we, the British, were concerned be put out of humour by M. Didier's previous sp-
in the matter, the eases were not parallel. The pointment to the African prefecture of Oran.
Sikhs had, year after year, asserted their claim to Benno° by
force; but they had never ventured into Dour. We were The Arsnement says that the message will be read
bound, therefore, totake the stratus in pio,and secure Bonne°, 3'President y
b the to-do in the council of ministers,
if we could ; but there was no obligation to interfere with revised and corrected on the spot, and minted during
Dour. It was, consequently, a mere question of expediency, the night at the National printing-office, and mad
and not of national right or honour ; and thus regarding it, again in proofs on Monday at a second council.
it seemed to me unwise to profit by the opportunities fur
annexation which either the invasion or the sub- The Assembly holds its first sitting after the re-
mission of' the Dourees might afford; for there would EEEN on Tuesday. The names will be celled over at
seem to be no stopping afterwards. The same ditti. two o'clock. The list of the absent will be pub-
telly would present itself after passing Dour that lishcd in the Monieenr, and communicated to all the
now followed our occupation of Buono° ; that is, papers. The Assembly will proceed to divide by lot
the people of Bungush, lihosh, and the Viseree Hills would the into bureaux, and .
house
feel the same alarm for their own c•intries, and make the
same hostile demonstration that the Dourees had now felt the monthly committees. The ballot will then be
and made for theirs. On the other hand, if the line already opened for the renewal of the board of the Assembly
drawn by Sikh pretensions was adhered to, it was reason- —that is, for the election of the president, Tice-
able to hope that this example of moderation to Dour presidents, and secretaries. M. Lacrosse, late vice-
would calm the excitement and fear which pervaded all the •
other neighbourin2 %Aleys, resident, having accepted a seat in the cabinet,
i:pi, and es idently at the bottom P
of the recent mon einent. Even if the Dourees and their will be necessarily replaced. The other three vice-
allies actually insaded Bunnoo, my advice would be, after presidents will most probably be re-elected. As the
repelling them, merely to follow them into Dour, and levy a retirement of I)upin, to make way for Changarnier,
Pee of 10,000 rupees, or some such sum, in a lump, and could only be contemplated in case of extreme cen-
tavo retire. flict between the powers, it is needless to say that
The opinion of the then Resident at Lahore, Mr. this rumour is entirely devoid of foundation. Still,
JOBS LAWRENLI:, given in the blue book, is equally, it is questionable whether the Bonapartist secretaries,
if not more, conclusive: Berard and Peupin, will be re-elected. M. Howyn-
-1 look (writes he) with considerable suspicion on any Tmnchere is the parliamentary candidate, and M.
overtures from so bigoted and ignorant a race as the Veraigny, the candidate of the Left, most likely to
Mullicks of Dour. The occupation of Dour would but in-
succeed. It is possible the ballot will be adjourned
crease the difficulties and dangers of the Sikh position on
that frontier. It is easy to overrun, or even to occupy for until after the message.
a time, those valleys on the borders of the Sooleymany range, As we may expect the real message of the I'resi-
but the entrances to them arc all more or less difficult, and, dent in three days, I think it hardly worth while to
in times of general insurrection, a body of troops, unless in
considerable force, would be in danger of being cut up. gather from the mouths of rumour predictions as to
These recorded opinions of high authorities re- its tcnour, which must be clearly rather conjectural
than authorised. Yet you may observe one symptom
specting the policy of occupying the Dour valley or
from which a favourable augury may be drawn for
similar territories, are sufficient to warrant a con-
the peaceable progress of the powers at least for sonic
fidenee, that it is not merely for the defence or trate
time longer. This is the singularly mitigated tone
(pinky of Bunnoo that Dour is to he annexed. Such
of those organs whirls express the opinions of the
a step, or an advance to the Khoorum, must be the
bulk of the majority, the Assembh,e and Debuts. If
result of some new suspicion entertained of Dosr
MOIEAM MY.D, and of a determination to thwart, alarm, you remember, the same significant change appeared
in the same papers at the close of the recess of last and provoke him. Of the motives to this, whether
proceeding from the operations against Herat or to year, and after a vacation, which had been one series
of storms, a sudden hush preceded the words of peace
any other cause, it is of course 0/1 yet impassible to
and conciliation which characterised the message of
speak. But it is evident that there is something
November 12, and won applause from all moderate
very like war brewing on the north-western frontier
of India, if not in the breasts of Affghan princes, at parties, both at home and abroad. A great
least in those of our Anglo-Indian officials. parliamentary club, that of the Rue des I'yi'a-
asides, was formed to support the government,
and shield it against the fury of an un-
principled coalition. The factious spirt of the
regentists and of the pointers legitimists was re-
pudiated by the sound portion of the Right, and both
the statesmen and editors who had signalised them-
selves in the Permanent Committee and the press by
their clamours against the Eiysee. no longer enjoyed
the same credit with the public after the fall of their
hero, General Changarnier. They kept themselves'
in reserve for a fresh breach between the President
and parliament, and meanwhile blew the coal of dis-
cord covertly with all diligence. The 14th October
gave these men the opportunity they desired of again
forming a powerful league of parties for carrying on
the war against Louis Napoleon. A fortnight has
scarcely elapsed, when their league exhibits all the
symptoms of weakness, which it wore at the corres-
ponding season last year. Fur a moment nothing
was talked of but bringing forward the Prince de
Joinville as the champion of the law, of which the
President was bent on proposing the repeal. But it
was soon discovered that the young ex-ad-
adral had no intention of identifying his
candidature with so unpopular a measure. lie re-
fused to become the cats paw of the party of order,
to withdraw their damaged chestnuts from the fire.
His name made a great noise on the Bourse one day,
and was snatched on the next from the arena of
contention under cover of a Homeric cloud furnished
by the /filmes. The Count de Chambord gave the
" men of order " no more hope than his cousin of the
younger branch. Foreign courts were equally un-
propitious to their muse. Vienna, Berlin, Peters-
burgh,deplored beyond everything a conflict be-
tweenwould wtheoeh
ein'rebtdthentan
socialists. A convention appeared to the northern
powers a most hazardous bridge over which to bring
in the restored monarchy. The men of the parlia-
ment were recommended not to be frightened at the
new demonstration of Louis Napoleon. At bottom,
perhaps, there was less peril than appeared on
the surface. No man had given stronger
pledges of resistance to the revolution. As
for abrogating the law of May 31, it was not
to be thought of. The President would clearly accept
a modification, an issue the less objectionable as civil
war might thereby be averted. Finding no support
from the Bourbon princes, nor from the military
powers, will having no sufficiently firm footing at
home in the nation, the " men of order" have been
once more obliged to put on a more conciliatory aspect
towards the Executive. Louis Napoleon, on the
other hand, whose liberal plans have been disdained
by the bulk of a democratic party as an electioneering
manoeuvre, doubtless somewhat cooled by the apathy
of those classes to whom the boon was extended, has
every motive for not breaking abruptly with the
conservatives. The bulk of the people desire repose.
In this humour they find that party in the wrong
which assails the other first. If I am rightly informed,
the chiefs of the army mould their attitude acsording
to this state of 'minion. A meeting of generals took
place the other day, at which it wail agreed to cheek
:he first aggression on either side. This being the
situation of affairs it can hardly be doubted that the
President's message will be, like that of last Novem-
ber, one of conciliation and peace, and as free as
pos-
sible from all expressions calculated to irritate the
majority of the Assembly, or to alarm the public
mind. • It will propose the abrogation of the law of
May, but with a respectful reserve of the sovereign
legislative right. Some have gone so far as to report
that the President would offer his resignation if the
Assembly refuse to restore universal suffrage.. With-
out supposing that he would deem it necessary to
give so sash a pledge of his sincerity, it his highly
probable that the message will contain some wor&
calculated to reassure the public mind, by the dis- j
avowal of all illegal and violent courses. he jute-
rest of all parties is the revision of the constitution
will be appealed to in order to carry that great nava- '

FRANCE.

PARIS, SATIAIDAT EVENING.
The chief object of conversation to-day is the cir-
cular of the new Minister of War to the generals
commanding territorial divisions. You may remember
that during the last session the question of the sol-
dier's duty of passive obedience was more than once
raised at the tribune of the Assembly, and occasioned
no less agitation through the country than in the
parliament. General St. Arnaud &ells in this
document emphatically on the necessity of passive
obedience in the soldier as the root and fundamental
condition of all discipline, and points to the security
of society as resting on the army. The circular is as
follows :

Oeneral,—ln confiding the war department to my de-
votedness, the President of the Republic knew from whence
1 shook' derive my strength ; it consists in the character of
the nee whose experience and brilliant services have placed
them at the head of our territorial divisions. Happy in
reckoning among you so many chiefs ur.der whom I have
had the honour to serve, I have not to seek from our new
relations the opportunity of retracing to you rules of which
the whole of your life has been both the lesson and the
example; l should, however, not fulfil my duty if I did not
hasten to show myself to you such as I am, imbued with
traditions of which you have been before me the faithful
interpreters. Now, more than ever, true military spirit ma
secure the salvation of society. But this confidence which
the army inspires it owes to its discipline; and we all know,
General, that there would be no discipline in an army where
the dogma of passive obedience should be replaced by
the right of examination. An order being discussed
leads to hesitation, and hesitation to defeat. Under arms,
military rule is the only law. The responsibility which
constitutes military force and authority is not divided ; it
belongs to the chief, from whom the order emanates, and it
corers obedience and execution through all ranks. In this
simple principle, which is the soul of discipline, resides the
source of prodigies of valour and devotion. If, before an
enemy, ipline thus understood has always been one of
the secrets of victory, is intestine struggles it also secures
the triumph of order. One cannot choose one's time; our
fathers, more happy than we, saw public order revive and
strengthen itself under the reflection of military glory. It
is to the defence of civilisation that we now owe our blood
and our watchfulness. Be, therefore, ready for all, and
whether it be to defend abroad the honour of our arms in
the name of the country, or at home when society in peril
should seek for our firm support, let these sentiments which
animate me, and which are also your own, and which are
felt in the ranks of the *rosy, maintain it equal to its double
mission. Receive, General, the assurance of my most dis-
tinguished consideration.—The Minister of WAT,
A. WI SAINT AIINATD.
It is reported that M. Casabianca will take the
portfolio of Justice, which M. Corbin still refuses to
accept; and that M. Fortoul will quit the Marine
department, and take that of Agriculture and
Commerce.

A decree of the President makes certain changes
in two or three prefectures.
The tone of the AssenibMe Natio/ode is today
more conciliatory towards the President, and follows
the moderate tone of the Jintrnothles D'imsts.
I have alluded previously to the bill now under
discussion in the council of state defining the respon-
sibility of the President of the Republic, his minis-
ters, and public functionaries in general. The late
ministers, fur obvious reasons,were not willing to ex-
press anv opinion on the important clauses of the bill,
which designates as a hier misdemeanour this fur-
therance of an unconstitutional candidature for the
presidency. On Wednesday a general meeting of
the Council of State took place, at which M. Casa•
biomes, temporary minister of justice, requested that
the discussion of the bill might be adjourned until
the delivery of the President's message. This request
was acceded to.

It is said that a mass was performed at St. Cloud
by order of the President for the repose of the soul
1 of the Duchess d'Angouleme.
The weekly receion, of functionaries at the
Elysee will open on Monday evening.
he Correctional Tribunal of Montpellier was oc-
cupied three days since with the trial of the persons

sure. Large meanies will be proposed for tho be:
nefit of the poorer classes. After the delivery of the
new programme we shall most probably find the Pre•
sident once more acknowledged as en /sonata hosnme
by the Rue des Pymmides and the Ruo de Rivoli
while their praises of his moderation and good in-
tentions will be re-echoed by the press et foreign
countries.

PORTUGAL.