The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-08 00:00:00

It is remarkable that Sir EDMUND had approved of
Mr. PARKER'S proceedings up to that time ; and that
almost immediately afterwards, his confidence in Mr.
PARKER began to falter. This interview took place
on the Bth of August. Two letters from Sir J. GRA-
nem to Sir EDMUND HEAD were read to the committee
by the latter ; one dated 16th September, the other
Ist October. In the first letter Sir JAMES states, "I
have always contended that one of the duties of your
high office is to protect the poor from injury and
oppression, when wrong is done to them by local
authorities, armed with briefepower, and actuated
by petty resentments or corrupt preposses-
sions ; and no wish to shelter Mr. Parker or
palliate past errors, should ;be allowed to
interfere with this paramount duty." In the second
letter, Sir JAMES again adverts to Mr. PARKER in
severe terms. Sir EDMUND admits that Sir JAMES
wrote on both occasions in reply to letters from him,
but adds that he has not been able to recover his
own. This is unlucky. Sir JAMES'S lettere appear
to be intended to over-rule wishes expressed by Sir
EDMUND to shield Mr. PARKER ; yet Sir EDMUND,
at the time his letters were written, was lecturing the
inattentive Mr. NICHOLLS on Mr. PARKER'S miscon-
duct, and instructing the principal clerk to search the
records of the Commissioner for matter criminatory of
Mr. PARKER. Mr. LEWIS and Sir EDMUND had been
alone in the habit of communicating directly with the
Home Secretary; they did not always think it neces-
sary to let Mr. NrcHotts know the object or results
of their colloquies with him ; Mr. PARKER is
caught having a personal interview with Sir JAMES
GRAn.trit, and from that moment, instructions
are given to rake up old charges against Mr. PAR-
KER, and letters are written to Sir JAMES GRAHAM
to elicit replies which may have the appearance:of
having left the Commissioners no choice but to get
rid of Mr. PARKER; Mr. PARKER having been, until
he was unlucky enough to enjoy a ate-a-tile with the
Home Secretary, so peculiarly trusted by the active
Commissioners, that he was employed to get up evi-
dence against the Gilbert unions, and " cram" Mr.
LEWIS preparatory to that gentleman's examination
respecting them by the committee of 1844.
In a former note upon the minutes of evidence be-
fore the Andover Union Committee, attention was
drawn to the irregularity of one commissioner acting
in cases when it was only competent to a board to
act, and to the want of regular probative minutes of the
board's proceedings. By such conduct the surveillance
of public opinion was evaded. By keeping the:llome
Secretary from personal communication with any but
the two active commissioners, by keeping secret what
passed between him and them, and by punishing any
one who had the temerity to communicate direct
information to him, the minister might be kept as
much in the dark as the public. In short, uncon-
trouled and irresponsible power over the paupers of
England was vested in the " grave and severe " com-
misioner, and in the commissioner who, paper in hand,
laboured, but in vain, to impress the memory of the
inattentive and irretentive Mr. nclletts with the
misdeeds of Mr. PARKER.

We have received with our private correspondence
the Paris journals of Sunday.
The newspapers are occupied with the marriage of
the Queen of Spain and her sister. They seem to
watch with anxiety the articles published on the sub-
ject in the Englishjournals, to ascertain the tendency
of the feelings of our Government upon that all-
engrossing topic for France and Spain.
The Constitutionnel contains an address signed in
the names of the two General Opposition Committees
sitting in Paris, by Messrs. Odilon Barrot, Duvergier
de Hauranne, Gustave de Beaumont, and Leon de
Maleville, to the electors in the country, urging upon
them the organisatiok of local committees to watch
over the registrations, and to collect all information
and documents concerning the elections of deputies.
The Heraldo states, that attempts had been made
by certain revolutionists to disturb the tranquility of
the capital, but that their efforts had completely
failed.

The same paper states, that the army is henceforth
to be composed of 96 battalions of infantry, and 90
battalions of reserve, making a total force of 186
battalions.

An exchange of decorations has taken place be-
tween the French and Belgian governments. Some
promotions in the Legion of Honour have also been
made in the French army.
On the application of the French Cabinet, the
Emperor Nicholas has suspended the regulations of
an ukase dated July 19, 1843 (which were very dis-
advantageous to the interests of French navigation),
in favour of French ships sailing from the ports of
the Ocean for the ports of the Baltic and the White
Sea.

The Northern Railway is making rapid progress,
and its receipts are fast increasing, although it has
not been able until now to carry much goods; but
since the English mail has been conveyed on this
railway it arrives much later in Paris. This arises
from the delay on the arrival at the point of junction
of the mail from Brussels, and gives rise to many
complaints. The British Government should look to
this.

We learn, in a letter to the Prem., dated lath Aug.,
from Lalla-Maghrina, that Abd-el-Kader is indefati-
gable in his endeavours to rouse the Morocco tribes in
his favour, and that he has a good chance of succeed-
ing, as his name is feared and respected. Such is the
actual position of Abd-el-Kader in Morocco. He is
making preparations for a new war, and has an-
nounced to all the Algerian tribes that he will appear
before Algiers at the head of a powerful army before
the Hhamadan. Many of these letters have fallen
into the hands of French officers. The letter concludes
by saying that the state of the French army in
Algeria is anything but satisfactory.

We have received the Madrid Rapers of the Ist
instant, which are fully engaged in discussing the
question of the marriage of the Infanta Luisa with
the Duke de Montpensier. On this subject the Clamor
Public° has the following :
" The important, the real question for the Progressista
party, and for all parties desirous of repelling the insidious
yoke which the French government would impose on us,
is to be found in all its integrity in the combination of the
double marriage of the Queen and the infants. It is on
this question that the struggle will begin ; a struggle which
will be terrible and violent if the men of the French
party appeal to force to impose upon us the will of Louis
Philippe. The supportof Montpensier is the expression of
foreign influence, and a direct attack on our independence.
His triumph is equivalent to a declaration in the face of the
world that the court of the Tuileries commands in Spain;
that it disposes at its pleasure of the hand of our Queen, and
the destiny of our Infants; that it tunas to its own account
our blood and our treasure ; and that, in its ambitious cal-
culations of family aggrandisement, it reckons upon the
chances which may arrive that the child of predilection of
the King of the French may be one day either tutor, or
regent, or husband of the Queen of Spain. The
French government proposes to itself to obtain
by means of intrigue and the instruments which it has
at its disposition in our country, what the great captain of
the age, the conqueror who erected so many thrones. vainly
endeavoured to accomplish. The imperial eagle darted
openl upon our country, but the ambition of the House
of Orleani prefers setting a cunning, Machiavellian policy at
work in the dark : a course leas exposed, but safer. And let
no one tell us that the influence which France must neces-
sarily acquire by this marriage will be to our advantage.
We are able to show, with history before us, that this power
has a direct interest in keeping us in a state of weakness and
ignorance ; so that there may always be between the French
and Spanish people the difference which separates the master
from the slave. This affair is for us a question of honour,
of dignity, and of independence, which we will maintain
till ahmis placed in our mouths, and the pen taken from

The infant Don Francisco d'Assis having been
indisposed for the few preceding days, had not
yet received the congratulations of the high dig-
nitaries of the palace, and the officers of the
garrison. The new organisation of the infantry is
determined on ; it will be composed of 96 battalions,
with a reserve of 90 more. According to the
Esperan:a, the projected marriage between the
Infanta and the Duke de Montpensier, so far from
being approved of by the British Cabinet, had given
rise to warm discussions between Mr. Bulwer and
M. Isturitz. The Tiempo states that there will shortly
be a ministerial modification, in consequence of which
M. Isturits will be sent as ambassador to London, to
replace the Duke de Soto Mayor. The statement that
this arrangement had been concluded formed the sub-
stance of an announcement in the C7ironiele of yenta-
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day, which added to the previous account that Gene-
ral Narvaec would, it was supposed, succeed