The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS,, MONDAY EYEifiNG, JULY 14, 1851.

wham votes are never missing when the Treie
whistle is heard, and whose voice is mew l
when the pledges of ministers auto
ilossien after caseate, in with the
"residue of the whig life i, the new
official has been found voting on all sate of
questions and at every hoar of the day and nit,
undoubting, diligent, and dumb.
not complained; nobody has thought it
asking the ressonhow4; and these, if any there have
been, who ever t t at all of the was, have con-
tented themselves with the explaaskey meollection,
that the undemonstrative earl was the eon of our
ambassador at Paris, and that of course he could not
do otherwise than he did.

We don't mean to enter here upon any examina-
tion of the question what he has mutely contri-
buted to do or to hinder being done by
others in his representative character. We do not
at this moment call to mind anything very singular
or remarkable one way or other in that respect.
Probably a retrospective analysis would show that
Lord MULGRATE has done neither more nor less than
scores of other young gentlemen of quality on both
sides of the green table have been doing, and will
continue to do, so long as the constituencies of towns
and counties are fools enough to elect them as their
representatives. That is another affair. What we
have more immediately to deal with, is the particular
fact that Lord JOHN Russell. should insist upon
keeping up at the public charge a sinecure office
called the Comptrollership of the Royal Household,
in order to have it to give to such a political non-
entity as the individual we have named. If it were
not a sinecure, it could not and would not be so
bestowed. Among the " hereditary birds of prey,"
as Sir JAMES GIttIIAM used formerly to designate
the bureaucrats of birth, there are but few gifted by
Providence with brains sufficient to discharge the
duties of any really responsible station. But then
the offices that imply intellectual capacity are com-
paratively few in number, and the few clever
or adroit personages of the privileged caste take care to
clutch these for themselves. The science of clique con-
sists in maintaining and monopolising for the dull and
dependent swarm of relatives who surround them, a
vast secular hierarchy. with a still vaster subordina-
tion of benefices abroad and at home—the stipends
attached to which all come out of JOIIN BULL'S

breeches pocket.
Lord NORMANDY has been paid during the last five
some 70,000/. or 80,0001. for doing us the
roarnosur to live luxuriously at Paris, in the name and
as the representative of the people of this country.
At the instance of the select committee on salaries it
has been decided that a couple of thousands
a year less may very well suffice for his ex-
cellency's diplomatic needs in future. The govern-
ment have, doubtless, been convinced that in sulkily
yielding to the recommendation alluded to, they
were guilty of • grievous wrong to their expensive
friend the marquis. Accordingly they seize upon
the first opportunity to compensate the injured
PIIIPPSES by making Lord MELGRAVE Comptroller
of the Household. It could not be as a reward for
public services rendered by himself, for literally he
has rendered none. It could not be with a view to
any services required to be performed, for the office
is almost a nominal one, and, without meaning to
say anything personally harsh of its new occupant,
nobody ascribes to him any peculiar brilliancy of in-
tellect or habits of thought that would fit him to dis-
charge onerous duties were there any such to discharge.
It cannot be as a mark of public gratitude to bin
father ; for no man, even among the whigs, has
been more amply and lavishly paid for whatever
good he may have performed than the Marquis of
SORMANBT. Three years governor of Jamaica, five
years viceroy of Ireland. two years secretary of state,
and five years ambassador at Paris—there is not,
perhaps, in the whole list of public servants an
indi-
vidual who has during the last twenty years received
anything like the amount of public money which
has fallen to the share of Lord NORM tNDY.
Nor have other favours been wanting. In 1838
he was created a marquis, and in 1849 he
received the garter. One of his brothers has for
several years held an office in the household, and
another has been provided for abroad. It cannot,
therefore, wo presume, be regarded as in any degree
the result of a sense of gratitude that this new per-
quisite has been conferred by our discriminating
Prime Minister on the heir of the fortunate family.
We have no doubt that it is referrible to some more
general principle.
In default of explanation, our surmise is that—
strange as the coincidence may have been, and diffi-
cult as it may be to account for it—there was not,
at the moment when the vacancy occurred, any
RussELL, ELtior, HOWARD, or GREY, who could
be appointed to fill it. In the best regulated
cliques accidents of this kind wit sometimes occur;
and, when they do, there is obviously nothing fur it
but to step forth into the ante-room of oligarchy and
select some of the outer cliques that are always in
waiting for such a contingency. This is the least
violation of the sacred rule of monopoly, and natu-
rally, therefore, suggests itself.
Why should those who drive so lucrative a trade
in public expenditure wish it lessened, or popular
control over it increased ?

lisneelketh prosecuted with no less rigour than if they
windy istended to propagate the doctrines 00El•
tailed la suck paiiiiations.
per%commit* an the budget has decided on pro-
to the Assembly to reverse its vote on the
elsens introduced by M. Charsmante into the sugar-
bill,which subjects the spirits extracted from beet-
rooaiselasses to the same duty as colonial rums.
The Nositewr yes not spoken yet on the 'abject of
General Baragasy d'Hilliers.
There is to-day a breathing-space before the strug-
gle on revision. The first speech of note to-morrow
is to be that of M. Payer, who brought forward a
motion fee partial revision, and will speak against
the motion of the committee. A meeting of the Left
has been held to determine the order in which their
avatars shall speak. M. Charles Lagrange, who
scrambled so valiantly for an early inscription at the
tribane, has been, notwithstanding his shrill expos-
tulations, in accordance with the suggestion of M.
Cremieux, deposed from his rank and superseded by
M. Michel de Bourges, who will come next to Gravy,
the alter idem of Cavaignac. Pascal Duprat, Victor
Hugo, Favre, Charras, Emanuel Arago succeed. The
peak of the Mountain is not satisfied with this
arrangement, and wish to put forward M. Marc
Dufnusse. The debate will not probably outlast the
week.
The AssemM.se Nationale contains an article of
some importance on the visit of the legitimist trio to
Claremont, dwelling upon the great significance of
this fact, which is to be treated, not as an accident
collateral to a curious inspection of the London Ex-
hibition, but as a serious, deliberate transaction, long
prepared, and pregnant with grave results. The
strictest reserve is kept by the three delegates, who
report not a word of the conversation which occurred
during a long interview, and simply affirm that they
are satisfied with the result of their journey. As
for all the gossip which has been printed about this
trip, it is full of inaccuracies and misrepresentations.
The answer given to-day by the AssembMe Na-
tionale to the Times on the policy of the northern
courts, reads like a page torn from earlier numbers
of the latter journal, before it appeared in the sheep's
clothing of an assumed liberalism, and made the
notable discovery that the pressure of the Russian
and German powers was only paving the way to
fresh disasters in Italy.
The death of the celebrated discoverer of the
daguerreotype took place nearly suddenly at Brie, the
village near Paris. He distinguished himself early
as a scene painter by the happiness of his effects of
light and shade. The Chapel of Glen thorn, at the Am-
bigu,the ltisingof the Sun in Lea Mexicains, weresa-
luted by the audience with enthusiastic applause. His
inventive genius then erected the Diorama. Every-
one rememlaers the series of enormous pictures ofcathe-
drals, of Alpine scenery, producing almost the effect
of illusion upon the spectator, and diversified by
magical changes of light, which M. Daguerre exhi-
bited in the Regent's-park. Later, he succeeded in
immortalising his name by fixing the images of the
camera obscure, and realising in an instant effects
which leave at an immeasurable distance the most
elaborately finished engraving.
Mr. Jerningham, charge d'affaires during the ab-
sence of Lord Normanby, has presented to the Mi-
nister of Foreign Affairs the Queen's answer to the
President's letter of recall of Pd. I)rouyn de l'Huys
from his temporary mission at the court of Great
Britain.

The envoy of Wurtemberg has notified the mar-
riage of the-King of Wurtemberg's daughter Augusta
with the Prince George of Saxe-Wismar.
Four generals of brigade, St. Arnaud, Iklarue,
Renaud, and Lacoste, have been promoted to the
rank of generals of division.
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The (7ouneili of arrondissement arc appointed to
meet on the 4th August nest for the first part of
their session, which is to last not more than ten days.

SPAIN.

Telegraphic despatches received in Paris from
Madrid, dated the 12th inst., at 6, p.m., announce
that articles 1,2, 3,4, and 5, the most important of
the project of law on the settlement of the debt,
have been adopted by the Chamber of Deputies.

MADRID, JrLY B.
The Cortes are not to be prorogued this month.
The Queen wishes the notice of her interesting state
to be deferred for another month, that is until the
10th of August. Madoz has finished his speech
against the bill for the settlement of the debt, and
Martinez do la Rosa is speaking. The democratic
party has published an answer to the manifesto of
M. Cortina.