The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-14 00:00:00

the imprudence of youth, merely what too many of
his weft seniors have been doing more cautiously
and covertly around him.

TuE first to urge the electors of North Northumber-
land to resist the monstrous attempt to force two
insignificant lords—Noodle and Doodle- on their fine
division, we must not be the last to congratulate them
on their victory over Percy-don). In the return of
Secretary Sir GEORGE GREY they have done the
country good service, and themselves mach credit;
and in the rejection of Lord LOVAINE they have
taught the TENANT for LIFE and the HEIR PRE-
sumrwrz of the Percy title and estates a lesson that
ought to be very profitable. Whether the former
noble personage was originally misled by the toady. 1
ism of neighbouring squires, or was instigated
by disappointment at not inheriting the lord.
I lieutenancy of the county, now matters little;
the introduction of the previously unknown
Lord LOVAINE to the division, to receive its,
suffrages.at the noble duke's dictation, was a piece ri
political imprudence that could not fail to be resented I
by the bluff yeomanry and independent tenantry d
North Northumberland. As soon as we heard of the
indiscretion we had no fear of the result of a contest.
A popular country squire, of moderately conservative
opinions, such as the late duke patronised in Mr.
BAKER CELESSWELL, might have gone down ; but a
stranger to the county--elord, too, of the sourest Gear
vese religions opinions, and the very narrowest pea.
tical views, was sure to prove too much for Northum-
brian frankness and good sense.
If dukes will insist on counties wearing their live-
riee, their graces ought to have the prudence to allow
electors to put the plush and fit the shoulder-knots on
themselves. The thing ought to be attempted quietly,
graciously, inoffensively—nay, popularly and heartily;
some show of decency, some appearance of re-
spect, some outward visible sign of inde-
pendence ought to be exhibited. Against arrogant
dictation and intolerant pretensions the strongest
stomachs will turn. Even the Duke of BUCKING-
HAM does not thrust his son and heir on the county
Joux HAMPDEN once represented. He allows his
predominating influence to be disguised in the sar-
castic eloquence of Mr. DISRAELI'S " popular opi-
nions." Sir CRARLF.B KNIGIITLEY dictates in his
own way to South Northamptonshire; but there he
lives in the midst of his estates, shakes hands with his
tenantry, hunts with his neighbours, entertains his
equals, and—last, not least—feeds the fattest of oxen
and the finest of sheep ; he is to be seen at hid parish
church, and attends markets. His Grace of Bucks
and Sir CHARLES cultivate, foster, cherish, feed the
influence that they dictate to: the sense of degrada-
tion in yielding votes thereto is little or none : elec-
tions under their guidance involve rather the
misuse than the perversion of the suffrage; theirs is
ignorant landlordism, not deliberate tyranny or sheer
downright dictation. They, too, have strong political
opinions of their own ; they don't mince matters with
their opponents; they wag their tongues loudly
enough in parliament, and abuse PEEL to their
hearts content on the hustings and at agricultural
festivals. In short there is a hearty, frank, English
swagger about them and their interference.
But in the attempt to dictate to North Northum-
berland there was none of this. It was a cold, life-
less, aristocratic effort to show the importance of a
great family' whose head is understood to be much
more liberal than his candidates ; who has aever dis-
tinguished himself by the ardour of his politics ; who
is thought to be in reality perfectly indifferent who
is minister or who is not. And to indulge this
poor vanity a county had to be coerced by a noble-
man who does not even proposeto live in it, who with
the gross income of a principality is flying to Italy or
Germany on the plea of poverty; who does not hunt
the county, yet who does preserve his game.
Such dictation could not, of course, be endured; the
very parsons resented it ; the farmers despised it ; and
by virtue of the attempt Sir GEORGE GREY is, we un-
dertake to predict, member for North Northumberland
for the remainder of his life.

The following appeared last evening in a second
edition.
We have received our Paris letters and the journals
of Thursday.
In venting its ire against the formidable system of
agitation which is being organised to promote a
reform in the electoral and representative system,
the Mats, as an organ of the cabinet, committed
capital mistake, of which the opposition has not
been slow to avail itself, to the great annoyance of the
cabinet and the cabinet's master. It will be recol-
lected that by way. of fixing an indelible stigma on
the reform association, the Mats apostrophised it as
a revival of the " Club of the Jacobins," intimating,
at the same time, that such a connexion must expose
it to the execration of the whole constitutional party.
This maladroit allusion has unearthed a certain journal
kept by the then Duke do Chartres, now King of
the French, from the month of November 1790 to
March 1791, in which the active and zealous part
taken by Egalite file (as his Majesty was then called),
as a member and OFFICIAL of the Jacobin Club, under
Collot d'Herbois and Cerra, are duly registered and
recorded with the most unequivocal self-satisfaction
in the first person. It appears from this that his
Majesty was an assiduous attendant at its meetings;
that he eagerly seized every favourable occasion of
taking a part in its debates; that he was elected one
of its censure (an official inspector); that he proposed
or seconded many of its lrading members, of whose
patriotism he was, as he said, assured, &c., &c. An
entreat is pitilessly given, in leaded type, by the
National, in which these and other equally cu-
rious things are recorded by Egalite fits in
the first person, extending from 2nd Nov., 1790, to
10th March, 1791. The National has also ill-
nataredly found out that a certain M. Sevier, scanda-
lised at younemelealith accepting an office of the
Jacobins, ex his sense of the matter in a chaos-
sonnette, pu fished in a weekly journal, called Les
Softiies de la &mains, which had some vogue
at the time among the Royalists. By the most strange
caprice of the current of human events, the same re-
, 7olution whieli has placed Egaliti file on the throne
of France has placed M. fierier, the author of the
, eltanionnette, in the presidential dials of the Chamber
of Peen! "Perhaps," says the merciless National,
" Monsieur le President &gums has preserved a copy
, of this, and will favour ns with the music and the
, words!" . . -

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Strange Mainitade ! continues the National. fifty years
have scarcely rolled away ere we and the cement. of
the Jacobin Club seated on the throne of France, and the
author of the charimerwaft in the Soaises de la Seaming,
clad in the ermine of Beet president, • f; twice a year to
his feet the Madame end most reepectini homage. Away,
thou, with all calculations on the &tare—sway with all at-
tempts at prediction! Attempt to stop the tide of time, and
say, "we are old, and we will establish." Establish what ?
All, all is in rains! The general soil of Europe is broken
up by the ploughalmre of revolution. Men and things are
changed, end when in oar thoughts we attempt to put what
wee in *Ma-position with what is, we behold the most ludi-
crous masquerade. They want to arrest the flight of that
, whore flight is everlasting. They believe themselves sages,
and try to stop the course of the omen by a dam. They talk
of the stability efimtitutions,--they who have witnessed such
lofty fortunes and lamentable reverses ; oak' re sans none, as
Pascal sam, de se eroire assure dans renceints de co racoourci
d'aaane.
A reform banquet has been celebrated by 230
electors of the liberal party at Colmar, in Alsace,
where the usual toasts end speeches were delivered.
The report says that the president, Ramie, proposed
the health of the King, which was drunk by the as-
sembly in profound silence. Immediately afterwards
the Mareellaise hymn was called for, which was exe-
cuted, and followed by three rounds of the most
enthusiastic applause.
Advice' from Algiers say that Abd-el-Kader has
lately moved his forces nearer to the French frontier
of the colony. This measure was, however, ascribed
to a design to retire from the troops of the Emperor
of Morocco, rather than to any intention hostile to
the French colonists.

M. Testa has paid to the Hospital Fund of Paris the
sum of 94,000 francs, the amount of the bribe which
he received in the affair of the mines. He petitioned
the King to remit the same amount which the law
retydres him to pay to the treasury. The prayer of
this petition has been refused. It is said that an in-
dividual on whom M. Teste had conferred benefits in
the days of hisprosperity has come forward and paid
the amount of e fine.

La Petrie says that at the last cabinet council, held
before the departure of the King for Eu, the Duc
D'Aumalo has been named Governor-General of
Algeria. A royal ordonnance, in accordance with
this decision, will be immediately promulgated. It is
further said that a palace is to be constructed for the
prince governor OA a magnificent scale.