The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 17.

EVERT one must be anxious to read what so erni-
at nt a as M. donor thinks as to the present
state ofF=Doe, and would recommends, to its future
policy. Few, therefore, will have seen his nets at
the head of his address to his friends and ales ors
without perusing that document. Yet few can Nail
it without being greatly disappointed. M. GUIEOT
says, what almost every Frenchman has been saying
for the last six month,, that it is necessary for men et
all parties to rally to the cause of order, and to put down
the anarchists. It appears tons, however, that this his
been done satisfactorily. After the trial and condem-
nations of Boners, after the severe sentence and es;
patristion of M. PROUDHOB, after the law prohibiting
clubs, after the taming down of the National As-
sembly, sufficiently exemplified in its lest vote, giving
all their old pensions to all the ex-peers,—after this,
i what more sto be done for order we do nor see,
except to enjoy it, and, if possible, to mingle some
consideration for liberty and its principles with the
all-pervading and all-absorbing duties of the pace.
M. Omar, however, once astride of public order,
cannot bring himself to dismount from his old
Anal de batailk, teen after tte cembet is over and
the victory won. M. Ouizor declares that order is
more fiercely attacked and more weakly defended
than ever; that its friends have still to league, and
much to do ; that they have yet many more victories
and of another kind to achieve. If M. °vizor has
any meaning in his words, he must mean that the
duty still remains of overturning. the republic and re-
storing monarchy. M. GUIZoT, in fact, scouts the re-
public; stigmatises it as a form of government that is
not serious ; and what he demands is neither more nor
leis than a general conspiracy of all the monarchic
parties to put it down.
And M. Ovuor preaches this doctrine in the name
of order. Tters is not a child is France who is not
pert ctly aware that the rival parties who dispute
the French throne could not fur a moment come to a
truce or reconciliation, except on the basis of a repair-
lit. The republic existing, legitimist, Orleanist,
Bonapartist, join hands. Take the republic from
under and from amongst them, and civil war is in-
stantly proclaimed. And it is for this civil war that
M. GUIZOT with his restless nature straggles. What
he rally looks to is a modern French war of the
roses, whilst he pretends merely to unfold the banner
of pablio order.
In France, as in other countries, public order would
reign of itself if ministers and monarchs would bat
allow it to do so. M. Omar laments the overthrow
of two constitutional monarchic'. But what over-
threw them? Their restless, and meddling, and
oppressive governments. Order was fully established
b-th by elder and by younger BOURBONS; sad
CHARLES THE TENTH and LOUIS PHILIPPE bad bat
to let well alone in order to have died on their
thrones and bequeathed them to their chil-
dren. Bat POLIGNAC would make a crusade
in person in favour of what he considered order ;
and bi. Omar, in his worship of order,
would not let M. BARROT make an after-dinner
speech without employing his police to stop him.
In both cases it was the extravagant pursuit of too
rigid order, and the pedagoguish determination to
rule modern society like a school-room. This it was
that produced the two revolutions of 1830 and 1848.
And this it is that will produce another in 1850, if
M. Gomm be returned for Calvados (of which there
is every probability), and thence becomes powerful
enough to get up another of those luckless conserva-
tive crusades in favour cf " order."
If French statesmen would but allow society to
take care of itself, society. would soon put down
pertarbators, scout communists, keep the peace, de-
fend order and property. The form of government is
of little consequence, provided it be in unison with
the character and organisation of the people. A
monarchy is indispensable in England. A monarchy,
for any length of time, will never be respected in
France. If any one firm conclusion could be drawn
from the events of the last half century or
century in France, it is, that the French
must bays and will use the right to change the person
and the family holding the chief executive office in
the state. In France a man, to be the monarch, mist
show the same qualities as are required of a man to
be a general or a minister—he mast show fitness,
talent—most win popularity and success. No here-
ditary claim will alone suffice. None are more wiil-
log than the French to allow something to hereditary
claims, and to give the son of a prince or of • great
men his chance. But if he be not up to the mark—it
he do not prove that he inherits something more than
a name, his hereditary title will not even ran a trien-
nial lease of power.
The present constitution, ander which the French
live, seems folly to provide for their habits, their
freedom, or their weakness, in this respect, and gives
regal means and vent for diseatisfaction aid for
changes, which otherwise require the extreme of
revolut'on. By observing the constitution, we have
no doubt that LOUIS NAPOLEON may reign over the
destinies of his country to the latest day of his life ;
r ay, bequeath them to a BONAPARTE, if there be one
of ability and good reputation. Bat if LOUIS
NAPOLEON listens to M. GUIZOT, and rides
that statesman's war horse of Public Order
to tramvle down the public liberties of the country—if,
nA contented with power underthe title of President,
he ihoald exchange his present position and chair,
for the throne of the Tuileries, and at the same time
for the councils and support of the GUIZOTS and the
POLIGNACS—then, the power and influence of the
man would become the weakness of the prince, and
Loots Mammal! would add his name to the list
of his predecessors, who in seeking to rebuild an
impossible past, flung themselves and the country
into an ungovernable present and a most unee-*-
if future.
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GERMANY.
PRUSSIA.—Our correspondent writes:—
RERUN, Ariut 13.
Prokeech-Osten, the Austrian ambassador, has, I
hear, to-day received despatches from his government
with instructions as to tee view which Austria takes
of the Prussian circular note of April 3.
Tee opinion of the left side of the second
chamber hex been presented to-dray, in the shape of a
motion by Rodbertus, which proposes, first, that the
tows condemn the principle of consulting the govern-
ments of the separate states; next, that it
declare the narrower confederation to be
a deception ; and thirdly, that it should
accept at once the oonstitaum of the national sr