The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-29 00:00:00

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LONDON. FRIDAY. SEPT. 29.
Time taking of his seat in the French National As-
sembly by LOUIS BUONAPANTE, the ohief and repre-
sentative of his family, is an ovent of no trifling im-
portance. He accompanied his first appearance,
indeed, with a fitting declaration of attachment to the
iblio and of adhesion to the popular principles on
which it has been founded; but no one can hilly trust
the veil of modesty with which an avowed pretender,
so notoriously daring and ambitious, may think
for the moment to envelops his deigns.ll"Ae: post of supremacy, indeed, to which the heir of
tY BUONAPAITE name may not unnaturally! pretend, i
le first to be attained u was attained by ArOLEON,
by obedience to the republic and by following oat the
Celwill. If Louts NAPOLEON can sit in the
Anbly,hs may also become president of the execu-
tive. His rights, not merely of citizenship, but of
sandidature to the popular sovereignty, are admit-
ted. And these once admitted, the great, perhaps
the only, obstacles to his elevation we reused.
If the nation be consulted, and noising Nair em-
ployed, in the election of a chief of the meths, there
east be little doubt that Louts Bunarran will have
Ohs majority of votes.
The danger to the republic from such a choice is so
t, that we think O. CAVAIGNAC to have been
txraW a
arranted in demanding that the BUONAPAZIE
pretender should be put upon a par with the °demist
and the Legitimist ones, and excluded from the
country.
The moderates of the Assembly who have their
club at the Rue de Poitiers, decided otherwise. In
fact, that club and the party which it keeps together,
compprimss in its numbers many legitimists, °demists,
and Bnonapartist& And the feeling is, that the three
mast hold together in order to their keeping in check
and outnumbering the red-hot republicans. Such a
bond, in order to be fair and complete, ought to have
been bend on the principle of excluding from the
country all the pretenders. Bat the Buonapartists,
being the most popular in Paris, and being the least
imminently dangerous, got into the Assembly
unperceived. They have remained there harmless ;
and man_ y may sincerely think that the admission of
LOUIS NAPOLEON amongst them will bat bring him
down to their level, and that his prestige may
evaporate at the tribune. It may or it may not. But
it is not so certain, that an act of folly committed in
youth precludes the acquirement of prudence in
mature: years. The National Assembly contains
many men who were mere saute-ruisseaus, foolish
boys, ten years ago, and who have acquired position,
conduct, and consistency. Some one called Louts
NAPOLEON a feu, pa avail de &sprit, a madman,
who did not want wit. The maa may have
evaporated by this time : nor does he want wit to
play his part. And those who reckon upon his making
a fool of himself may be diaappointe&
The most cruel and difficult position is that of
General CAVAIGNAC. He it is who certainly saved
French society in the days of June, and who most
fairly zrepresents the moderate, sincere, and orderly
repudio. Bat he is almost alone in the sincerity and
justice of his opinions. The General stands as a per-
sou'l juste milieu between two conflicting and anta-
gonistic opinions, each of which would drag him to
it, and yet if he go over to either he is in-
stantly lost with both. CAVAIGNAC cannot throw
himself into the arms of the moderates, for they are
not republicans, but a heterogeneous party, worship-
ping a score of ideas and pretenders. Nor can he
adopt the flag of the red republicans, who avow their
Windom of declaring was against property it home
sal anarchies abroad.
CiVarcaczc in his position wants the force, which is
the very element of
.government. He cannot find it
is the army, which is no principle, and has no prin-
He cannot find it in the moderate aide
the Assembly, which is but a knot of the
asst astandietory and insincere opinions. And he
it setwitheanding his disgust, to turn to
the Lai ail I. the republicans, as the only party that
has nom lenity, power, and perms /amnia
hit hinealt in the use neemoity I and it was con-
dition his unpardonable miss lie fell in 0011/0.
=Claystossc Is evidently at this moment in
e Milearna.
priVne was difficult enough. It is now ren-
dered tea dam nee no by the adension and presence
et Louts NAPOLOON, whom the sederstes refuse to
made, an whoa they thus push &ward as a rival
to the pain ghat Tbs plain lasing' et the misde-
eds' to CONIONAC is," Lean to the eltrinpatarne,
sad we slept LOUIS NAPOLEON." COSIGNS° nes
only, " as hank sunset. is order that I may at
ease be indesnalent of the ultracepablioans without
hetrayieg the smalls. and I will so fail in maintain-
ing orer. !knits, and the At= of society,
bah against asensidete and
We fear that then is little linearity in any party,
sad meek intrigue is all. The shone of pretender',
Mg even the popular feeling itself, are changing
hem day to del. idea are towns which were to a
OMhe the Demo et Donut= a month ago, and
es a mist unload vote against him now. The
man sesesseshihe tux and reflux of opinion are ob-
erenbie swot to COAIONAO and the &JONA-
MOM ler fie min the Orleanists are the loweet,
whisk by se am! WOW their remaining No. For
the emessa d U. ilifrnia FOUL° for Paris, shows
that bad Ewen in impeccable rept&
lien Fenn ma theumands of von. In
such a harfulty and unfathomable gulf of
powers and of opinions,it is =elms to sound, and hope-
Ism to anchor; --an one can do is to mark from day to
day the objects that float upon the surfs" and that
so quickly disappear. To define or predict anything
as certain were imposeible.

Timm all the dingiers of the commercial de-
which his now continued without respite for
Citam preoedented period of two years may not, per-
haps, MU yet be known, it is not unreasonable to infer
that there are no new phenomena of rein to be die-
clamed. The fabric of commerce and credit has, in-
deed, nallargase every from of shook that could be in-
flicted. We see what we haw to replace as utterly
destroyed. Remark on the cues of Flute coin
that have occurred is needlem ; they present only
the ancient line of ever-kading, over.oonfidenoe, and
wilful blindness—vices which dwhiless of old brought
down may a Phoenician speculator in Tyriaa dye-
Alai. It is for solvent sermon to derive from them
that practical last:notion called experience, which it is
trite to say each succeeding generation meat thus se-
quin for itself, in no way, perhaps, advanced to it by
the dinette* whence their foreErthers learnt wisdom.
But there are commercial insane= that never
diet neither, therefore, ought their =primes to vary
in valve ; and they have received in then later times
an slion of knowledge which ought forthwith to