The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1847.

dependence of our own superior judges is essentially
connected with their customary exclusion from paM-
cal office. The highest of all—the Chancellor—a not
irremovable, because he is a member of the cabinet.
There are many other improvements which might
be introduced into the colonial system of providing for
the administration of justice. The maintenance in
some of the older colonies of three courts of op-ordi-
nate jurisdiction, in imitation of the tribunals of
Westminster Hall—the rejection of many of the
improvements in imperial legislation which have
been effected since the colony branched from the
parent stem—the admission in other dependen-
cies of lay assessors to interfere with the discre-
tion of judges, or to serve as their screens, are
among the unikaments to justice which require to
no considered and removed. In all parts of the em-
pire, however, the first requisite is to secure in and
able men, independent of the local government, and
relieved from all temptation to thwart and embarrass
it. In the meantime, we hope that judges may not
be deterred from doing their duty by the injustice in-
fl isted on Mr. LANostow, and that governors may
learn caution in dealing with them from the rebuff in-
curred by Colonel REID.

[The following appeared in part of our impression
last evening.)
We hare Paris letters and journals of Sunday.
The circumstances of the late offer of pecuniary aid
made to the Greek government by M. Eynard were
stated in the Daily News of the 30th ult., on the
occasion of the publication of certain reclamations by
that gentleman in the Journal des Dibate. On a
later day, the 31st ult., an article on the same sub-
ject, in which the matter was otherwise repre-
sented, appeared in the Times. In this latter article
M. Eynard is represented as having accepted the draft
for 20,0001., and being, therefore, under a legal obliga-
tion to pay. M. Eynard, in a letter published in the
Journal des Debats on Sunday, exposes the error of
the Times, giving the actual circumstances as we gave
them on the 30th ult. In fact the bill drawn by the
Greek government was not accepted, and still lies in
the hands of the Paris house to which it was remitted.
M. Eynard refused to accept it until he obtained those
explanations end assurances from the English govern-
ment which we mentioned in our former notice of this

subject.
A treaty between the court of Russia and the
Pope has been signed, by which the recurrence of the
persecution of members of the Romish church in
Rumba will be prevented.
The gyrations of the journals of the cabinet of the
Tuileries are explained in the opposition journals of
Sunday, and, indeed, by the facts which have be-
come generally known. Prince Metternich has in
fact become alarmed, not only at the new combina-
tions which his aggressions in the papal territory are
producing in Italy, where something like an alliance,
offensive and defensive, between Sardinia, Tuscany,
Rome, and Naples, against Austria, seems imminent,
but also at certain energetic intimations which he
has received of the manner in which England
views the matter, and of the probable appearance
of an English squadron in the waters that wash
Venice, Trieste, and Ancona. It is also affirmed that
an indirect assurance has been given to the Pope of
the sympathy of the English government. Under all
these circumstances the old diplomats of Vienna boa
wisely resolved, as it appears, to disavow the acts of
his subaltern, General Redeteki, on whom the respon-
sibility of the occupation of Ferrara is now thrown.
It is eretended that that measure was the result of his
" arbitrary and altogether personal interpretation of
the 103rd article of the Treaty of Vienna," and to show
how entirely friendly the cabinet of Vienna is towards
the holy father, it is proposed to refer the question
of the interpretation of that article to " any arbitrator
that the holy father himself may name." So says a
Roman correspondent of the catholic organ L' Univers.
The disturbances in the rue St. Honore were still
continued when our correspondent's letter left. The
police, the municipal troops, horse and foot, were out;
arrests were made, and the populace frequently
charged. The extent to which the crowds collected
was increased, and the street was completely ob-
structed from the corner of the rue de Richelieu to
the rue St. Denis. The conduct of the police and the
troops is severely tonsured.
Respecting the affair of the Prince of Eckmahl, the
National has the following
The family of Prince Eckmiihl have been much afflicted
at the recital given in the journals ; and, as crime appears
to have become endemic in certain, regions of society, we
can but too well conceive this emotion. According to the
letters and verbal communications we have received, it was
in a violent paroxysm of a disorder, which is still in an
alarming state, that this domestic scene took place be-
tween the prince and • female with whom he had
before been en a mast intimate footing. This scene,
however, though it may have excited a very na-
tural feeling of alarm in the woman, created no thought of
hurting her, still less of committing murder. An act of
violence has been committed on the person of a man-servant.
It can be easily understood that a man who has not the con-
solemness of his deeds, very readily gives way to the excess
of passion ; the free exercise of his will being absent, be is no
longer subject to any moral responsibility. Wo will dwell
no longer on the painful affair; we cannot discuss with in-
sanity ; and in presence of the grief which this disorder has
canned a numerous and honourable family, we merely consign
the reclamation they have made, and abstain from further
reflections.

We gave yesterday the tenor of a letter received in
Paris by an extraordinary courier from Madrid,
dated the 30th ult., giving the important intelligence
of the failure of Narvaez, and the withdrawal of the
commission which had been confided to him by the
Queen. The public anxiety on this subject was ex-
treme on Saturday in Paris, when the regular Madrid
mail of the 30th failed to arrive, as usual, by the Bor-
deaux courier. The mails of the 30th and 31st were
received on Sunday, with a great mass of despatches
and journals, including several letters of our own
correspondent. The intelligence we gave yesterday
is fully confirmed. The provisional functions of the
Duke of Valencia have been withdrawn, and if the
accounts which we receive from more than one
respectable quarter can be fully credited, the Queen
has displayed a firmness and resolution which must
fill with despair those who imagine that she can be
made the mere instrument for the aggrandizement of
the family of the King of the French. La
Presse, a journal which on this question supports
the policy of the Tuileries, and which received
the earliest intelligence of the failure of Narvaez,
after giving on Sunday the general facts which we
announced yesterday, says that it can guarantee
the general and almost verbal exactitude of the follow-
ing report of the audience which Narvaez had at the
palace at midnight, on the 29th:
NAILVAEZ.—WiII your majesty deign to inform me of the
resolution to which your majesty has some ?
QUEEN Islexxxx.— What! The resolution I have taken !
when the list you have presented to me contains only the
names of my enemies !
N.—The list is composed exclusively of men known
for their attachment to the throne and their devotion to the
person of your majesty.
Q. 1.-1 tell you that most of them are my enemies.
N.—Mill your majesty then deign to selec• a cabinet, and
inform me of those whose accession to office would be agree-
able to your majesty ?
Q. I.—l reject all that you have proposed, and lain going
to invite the progresistas to office.
N.--Your majesty, doubt!ess, toilets that the progres-
Was are by tradition, by position, and by system, the most
dangerous enemies of your throne, and the adversaries of
your prerogatives.
Q. I.—l forget nothing. My resolution is taken, and in
the worst case I shall, as a pis alter, retain the present mi-
nistry.
N.—Your majesty will permit me to observe that it is not
necessary for me to return to Paris.
Q. I.— It was not I that ordered you to leave it.
N.—Then my mission is finished ?
Q. I.—Perfectly finished, and you may retire.
The moderadoe arc furious at the failure of Nar-
vaez, and the more so as it was unlooked for. Their
organs lay the result to the charge of the English
minister, who, seconded by M. Salamanca and Gen.
Serrano, has exercised a decisive influence in the
palace. It appears certain, from all the reports which
have arrived, that M. Salamanca was charged with
the task of forming a cabinet; that he found some dif-
ficulty in getting an eligible president of the council,
being desirous of retaining the finances himself, and
that the offer of the presidency had been sent
by government messengers to General Alaix, who
was in Andalusia ; and, in case of his refusal,
to the Duke of Friss who was in the Basque
province& Contradictory reports were circulated
respecting General Narvaez. According to some he
was ordered to Burgos, there to wait the orders of
government, and it was even said that he was sent
there under a military escort. According to others.
he remained unmolested in Madrid. On the con-
trary, it was stated that on the 31st, the day of his
fete, he had a brilliant reception at his hotel. For
more detailed particulars of the Madrid news, we
refer to the letters of oar correspondent.