The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1847.

Another of the assumptions of the Premier's speech I
is, that Spain wee determined on intervening with an
armed force, that Spain had some right so to deter-
mine, and that we had no means of preventing her,
bat by the extreme menace of war. In all this argu-
ment and assertion, there is the greatest exaggeration.
The representative of England had but to say at
Madrid that his government would not permit
Spanish intervention in *ilium in order to meetwith
instant acquiescence. The only pretext that Spain
could have had for intervening was, the fear of Don
MIGUEL'S succeeding, and against this Great Britain
could have given her own assurance, which Spain
could not but have accepted.
The phantasmagoria of war, therefore, with which
Lord JOHN RUSSELL frighted the house and twitted
Mr. HUME, is a vulgar and visionary ghost, too often
evoked to frighten parliament. Instead of Spanish
ministers bring deterred from meditating interven-
tion, which might easily have been done, they were
rather encouraged in it by English offers to approve
of it, and joi❑ in it. And we have no' doubt that this
language was held towards the cabinet of Madrid, for
the sake of keeping it and the British government on
good terms, for the sake of making friends
with the Spanish modemdo-puritans, and of in-
creasing English influence at Madrid. This was
very good policy, as far as Spain was concerned ; it
was very adroit, and very wise, on the part of a Bri-
tish envoy in Spain. But its result with regard to
Portugal was and will be the reverse. Instead of
Spain menacing and forcing us to accept and join in
her intervention with Portugal, we seem rather to
have enticed PACHECO into it.

Lord JOHN Russell. depicted the alternative of
our refusing to intervene and allowing Spain to do so,
Spain by so doing being thus enabled to establish not
only her own influence but that of France, over the
house of Brag inza, and over the kingdom of Portugal.
This very dreadful result, nowise imminent—because
Spanish intervention, if we forbade, was impossible—
is to our mind the very result which
is likely to be arrived at. The total destruction of the
junta and its armies will throw all power in Portugal
into the hands of the Court and the CABRALP, who,
however they may dissemble for a season, cannot fail
openly to dominate at last. And throne the Vans s
will be established that joint rule of Prance and
Spain over the house of Braganza, which already
existed, and of which the Portuguese complained.
Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN can tell, that during the
entire reign of the CABRALS he, as English
envoy, enjoyed not the least influence, but was
treated with the greatest contumely. The court
of Lisbon may now, perhaps, and for a short
time, out of gratit'ide, treat Sir H %MILTON SEY-
MOUR differently. But as soon as he begins to
interfere, as he must, for free elections to the Cortes,
for respect to the liberty of the subject„ and the
charter, his presence and his counsels will soon be as
unwelcome as Mr. SOUTHERN'S.
Our disapproval of the policy that has been fol-
lowed is not so mach based on the pre-
sent consequences, disagreeable as these may be,
as upon the future. What is most odious to us is the
precedent, the important admission, that Spain has
right to intervene with an armed force to put down
any popular movement in Portugal on the rumour,
that some Miguelites may have joined it. Why,
whenever a resistance to the court arises in Portugal,
what more easy than to suborn pretended Miguelites
to join it, to publish proclamations, and utter menaces
against the throne ?
By this slight and facile subterfuge any and every
resistance to thci Queen of PORTUGAL'S authority be-
comes impossible. Even parliamentary opposition is
discredited. The moment it becomes warm or lively,
Spain declares that it threatens the throne, and that
she will send tropes to set all right. And this is the
international law we sanction—this is the position in
which we place the peninsula.

TUIERE is to be a second university contest. Cam-
bridge has never adopted the practice which prevails
at Oxford, of giving every representative, except in
extraordinary cases, a life tenure of his seat. The
constituency, however, is in general indisposed to
change, and has not for sixteen years indulged in
the excitement of a contested election. In 1830 Mr.
CAVENDISH, now Earl of BURLINGTON, was elected as
colleague to Lord PALMERSTON, who had long sat as
tory member for the university, and had not then
finally identified himself with the whig party. In
the following year both the whig members were
ejected on the question of the Reform Bill, by Mr.
MANNERS SCTTON, afterwards Lord CANTERBURY,
and Mr. Wsi. PEEL, the brother of Sir ROBERT. Mr.
COULIIIIRN and Mr. LAW have both held their seats
for several years; and for some time after the last
election it seemed probable that neither of them would
be disturbed on any future occasion. The majority of
the electors always have belonged essentially to the
conservative party, and it was only by a division
within the party, or by disputes independent of ordi-
nary political questions, that an opening was likely
to be afforded for any opposing candidate.
The Dissenters Chapel Bill, and to a much greater
extent the Maynooth grant, first disturbed the rela-
tions of the university members to their constituents,
and set them in opposition to each other. Mr. LAW
zealously supported the ultra-protestant religious
clamour which assailed the ministry ; while Mrt
GOULBURN raised extreme bitterness of feeling again.
himself, by his support of the measures most repug-
nant to the low church or evangelical section, with
which ho had always been intimately connected.
The more learned and eminent members of the univer-
sity generally supported the government policy; but
a large body of the country clergy, and a minority
of the lay electors, have ever shire regarded Mr.
CIOULBURN with feelings of dislike and anger, which
may, possibly, endanger his seat at the ensuing
election. The marked favour with which the present
government has regarded the church, will no doubt
Lave produced an effect ; and we have ne doubt that
although the Whig party was an accomplice in the
Maynooth encouragement of idolatry, and the " god-
less colleges" repudiation of religion, many of its
habitual opponents would split their votes between
Mr. LAW and a ministerial candidate, in the event of
a three-handed contort.
The repeal of the corn-laws, to a certain extent,
widened the breach between Mr. LAW'S supporters
and Mr. CIOI7LBURN ; but it is greatly to the credit of
the clergy, that, although more directly interested
' than any other class in the high price of corn, they
took little part in the agitation against the measure.
Protestantism has mach more than protection to do
with the opposition by which Mr. GOULBURN is likely
to be met in the senate-house. On the other hand,
the more intelligent portion of the university regard
with strong disapprobation Mr. LAW'S bigoted oppo
sition to every attempt at improvement in religious or
commercial legislation ; and many of his former sup-
porters, as well as those who have always differed from
him in opinion, are anxious for an opportunity to pro-
test, by their votes, against the course of policy, or
rather the system of prejudices, which he has thought
fit to advocate in parliament.
In this state of things, it is not unnatural that the
whig party in the university, which, although not very
numerous, is united and active, and has always com-
prised a considerable portion of the more distinguished
members of the ornate, should attempt to secure a share
in the representation. As there is nothing in the present
policy of the government inconsistent with the prin-
ciples of the large body who, with a general wish for
an enlarged and improving policy, either keep aloof
from political party, or follow Sir R. PEEL, there
seemed to be no reason for their refusing to support
an eligible candidate, whether he belonged to the
ministerial partr or to the nominal opposition. The
most important point with a view to success, as well
as for the interests of the university, was, that the
candidate, while he held the opinions in which all the
more enlightened sections of the university are
agreed, should possess strong personal qualifica-
tions for the poet of university. representative.
In this respect, it was impossible to make a
better choice than that which has fallen on
Mr. Jon:* SHAW LEFEVRE. His early distinc-
tions as senior wrangler and fellow of Trinity
not only prove his scholastic attainments, and show
that he is possessed of talents which have been since
sufficiently displayed in his official career, bat they
afford a guarantee of hie practical acquaintance and
sympathy with the great object and function of the
university, the promotion of education and of learn-
ing. This is a requisite which has hitherto been most
unduly neglected by those who have selected the
members for Carnbridte. Sines the days of Sir
NICOLAS TINDAL and LLord LYNDHURST, with the
interval of Mr. CAVENDISH'S short and silent career,
the university has never possessed a representative
who was capable of explaining any acade-
mical question which might arise in par-

Vainest. Mr. °KILBURN and Mr. Law, hay-
ing both passed through the university with-
out paying any particular attention to the studies
of the place, appear to be quite ignorant of its real
character, and utterly nnimbned with an academic
spirit. When any attack, well or ill-founded, has
been made on the universities in parliament, the WAS
of dohnts which their representatives have riegisi,
has generally been more repugnant to the Miley of
those who understood their ervoler, Um the
understandings or misrepresentations of it
Twaddle about discipline and orthodoxy hras=
brought forward time after time, when the real rill-
lion concerned the interests of intellectual education ;
and the public, as far as it has been influenced by the
statements of Mr. DOULBURN and Mr. Law, has been
led to believe, that the iiiscouragement of popery
and dissent, combined with sedulous attendance on
religious celebrations, forms the principal object of
the noble foundations, which have, in fact, however
imperfectly, kept alive the little love of sound learn-
ing which still glimmers in England. If it is painful
to scholars to be mistaken by their enemies, it is far
more offensive to them to be held up by their friends
as empty bigots and formalists.
Mr. LEFEVRIC will be far above the danger of falling
into errors of this class. He not only knows, but he
understands, the university which he seeks to repre-
sent; nor can it be doubted that he has the still
higher recommendation of possessing a genuine
and intelligent attachment to liberal educa-I
to learning, and to science. His career
in maturer life has added practical experience, to the
severer knowledge which he acquired in his youth.
It is scarcely possible to have received a better educa-
tion for a political career than that which Mr.
LEFEVRE has enjoyed. In Lord GREY'S ministry he
held for some time the post of Under Secretary of
State ; he was then for some years one of the princi-
pal poor-law commissioners—en office which he re-
signed for that which he at present holds in the Beard
of Trade. In all the official situations which he has
held, there has, we believe, been but one opinion
of the remarkable ability which he has displayed.
In the higher official situations to which he
will probably aspire, if successful in the present
contest, we have no doubt that his long experience
and trained powers of mind will make hlm a useful
and distinguished administrator. Personally, we'
believe he is highly popular, and on the whole we
believe there is no one member of the senate who
combines in himself so many qualifications for the
rank of representative of Cambridge. Even if we
were opposed to Mr. LEFEVRE in political opinions,
we should hesitate before we rejected his pretensions;
for it seems even more peculiarly incumbent on an
educated constituency than on any other to maks in-
dividual fitness a principal consideration in the selec-
tion of a member of parliament.
It is evident, however, that at Cambridge, as else-
where, the chances of success to any candidate will
depend more on the combinations of parties and on
the inclination of political opinion, than on any per-
sonal grounds. We have already indicated some of
the principal differences which at present divide the
constituency : but we have not left outhelves space
for entering more fully into the prospects of the candi-
dates. We shall take an early opportunity of dis-
cussing the subject further. We believe there is no:
yet a fourth candidate openly in the field; but
we understand that the anti-Maynooth party have
proposed to put forward as their champion, Vie-
count FEILDING, son to the Earl of DENBIGH. We
are not aware whether the proposal has been encou-
raged by any other section of Mr. Goutnuare•
opponents. It may be supposed that we have no
sympathy with Lord FEILDING'S politics; but oar
objections to him are so strong as to require no poli-
tical weight to make them graver. We willingly
assume, as is doubtless the case, that the young
nobleman in question is possessed of all proper
private virtues, but he possesses no possible claim
to the rank of university member. He is a young
man, we find, of four or five and twenty, who has
recently passed through his Cambridge career with-
out any particular distinction, and who must know
much less of the character of the university than
most of his youthful contemporaries, from his position
as a nobleman, a rank which, under the baneful and
discreditable system which is still suffered to exist,
deprives its holder of many of the beet advantages of
academic life. The spirit of sycophancy is widely
spread ; but we hope it has not yet brought such a
constituency as that of Cambridge to condescend to
such a candidate as Lord FEILDING.

An animated debate, on the subject of Algeria,
took place in the Chamber of Deputies on Wednes-
day, in which General Lamoriciere, who was dis-
tinguished in that colony, under Marshal Bugeaud,
mado his maiden speech. M. Guizot delivered an
oration, which resembled an academic eloge on Mar-
shal Bugeaud. The Journal dt-a Debate mentions
this as above all praise, and one of the great minister's
greatest efforts. The Conalitutionnel says that it set
the chamber asleep, except the ministerial bench,
several of whom found excuses for retiring, to avoid
its soporific influence. The debate, however, left
most of the points agitated respecting the African
colony exactly where they were.
The committee of the chamber has decided in
favour of authorizing the City of Paris to contract a
loan of a million sterling.
An order has been received at Toulon for two of the
ships of the squadron commanded by the Prince de
Joinville to proceed to Lisbon.
The central committee of the constitutional opposi-
tion has issued a manifesto addressed to all the con-
stituencies of France, on the state of public affairs,
and the position of the cabinet.
The affair of the charges of M. Emile de Girardin
against the ministry continues to occupy public atten-
tion. A reconciliation between the honourable
deputy and the cabinet has, it was said on Wednes-
day, been attempted by mutual friends, the result of
which, if successful, would necessarily be the refusal
of the representative chamber to authorise his appear-
ance before the peers, and the consequent termination
of the affair. These steps are said to have given evi-
dent satisfaction to the cabinet, which, however, de-
mand, as one indispensable condition, that M. de
Girardin shall withdraw certain expressions wound-
ing to the ministry, which are contained in the
written explanations which he has laid before the
committee. This; condition M. de Girardin declines
to accept, and there the matter stands at present.
The committee had another meeting on Thursday, the
result of which had not reached our correspondent at
poet hour.
The report of the fall of a viaduct on the Avignon
and Marseilles Railway, quoted by us yesterday on
the authority of La Prone, turns out to be a Stock
Exchange hoax practised on that journal.
The funeral of Marshal Grouchy took place with
great military pomp on Thursday. All the troops of
the garrison were displ►yed on the occasion. The
service took place in the Chapel of the Invalides,
from which the cortege proceeded to the family vault
in the cemetery of Pere is Chaise.
P.S. The committee of the Chamber of Deputies
have given, on Thursday, the necessary authorisation to
the Chamber of Peers to call M. de Girardin before it.
The report of the committee is made by M. Lavielle.
It will be brought up before the end of the
week, and the debate on it will probably take place
at the commencement of the next week. It is now
fully expected that the chamber will confirm the
report.
The preliminary inquiry on the subject of the
Cubieres affair is concluded, and the report is in the
press.

The journals and correspondence of Madrid, to the
sth instant, have been received. It was said that the
Pope's legate, M. Brugnelli, intended to go to the
Pardo, to pay his respects to the prince consort, and
use his influence to induce him to rejoin the Queen,
but nothing was apparent which gave probability to
this rumour. The reported entry of the Spanish
army into the Portuguese territory was contradicted.
It was not expected to cross the frontier before
the 10th.
El Faro, an organ of the late moderado cabinet,
comments on an article which appeared in the Daily
News of the 27th ult., to the following effect:
" The Doily, New says " (ebeerves the Faro)," that the
wretched ministers of Spain, with so little of Csmilian
honour, or of the sentiments of a caballero in them, Sr.
hesitating which side they shall adopt ; whether they ehall
support the rights of their injured and menaced Queen, or
whether it may not be more prudent for them to stick clogs
by France, and espouse the peetensions of Don Francisco.
We do not include all the members of the Spanish
ministry in this category, but the majority displays this dis-
graceful indifference."
To this the Faro replies :
" For our part, we should, on such as Maim felicitate

these who would display such indifference ;• but we fear
thane such division exists in the &sleet, and that there
is neither a majority nor minority animated by the feelings
described by the English journalist. Mr. Bulwer is one of
two or tree presidents of the council of the actual ministers
and he is, moreover, the most influential of them, and his
presence In the cabinet is a guarantee that English interests
are not compromised. All this does not prevent Mr. Bulwer,
prompted by the inspirations of Castilian honour, from
urging the appointment of an Olosaga ministry, of which
he would, in fact, be himself the president, which would
avenge and deliver the Queea, and preserve us from the
guardianship of Louis Philippe All this is so much the
more within the scope of poseWility, inasmuch so EPpankTO,
as the Daily News observes, would, in that cose, re-appeal
in Spain."

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The Queenve a state ball (the second this season)
last evening, at-Buckingham Palace. The company present
at the reception exceeded in number those attending any for-
mer ball given by her Majesty, the invitations having been
extended to the unprecedented number of nearly two thou-
sand. The guests comprised the royal family, the foreign
princes in this country, the whole of the diplomatic corps,
foreigners of distinction on a visit to England, the ladies and
gentlemen of the household of the Queen and Prince Albert,
of the Queen Dowager, and of the different members of the
royal family; the ministers of state, sad the principal mem-
bers of the administration and their ladies, and a very n ume.
1 Tolls party of the nobility and gentry.
Shortly before ten o'clock her Majesty and her royal con-
sort, and the whole of their august circle, entered the
Grand Saloon, preceded by the Lord Chamberlain and the
Lord Steward, and attended by the Mistress of the Robes,
the Lady in Waiting, the Mails of Honour in Waiting, the
Lord in IVeiling, the Master of the Household, the Groom in
Waiting, the Equerry in Waiting, the Equerry in Waiting
to Prince Albert, and the pages of honour. The Queen
wore a very elegant cesium. The dress was of pink
and white tulle, in two petticoats, over white
silk, trimmed with pink ribbons and pink acacias, and or-
namented with diamond. Her Majesty's head-dress was
formed of a wreath of acacias and diamonds. H.R.H.
Prince Albert wore a fiad-marshal's uniform. The august
party passed through the saloon into the ball-room, and, on
Her Majesty's entrance, Mr. Henry Barnard's quadrille
band commenced playing "God save the Queen." The
Queen passed on to the seats reserved for the Sovereign
and the Royal Family, followed by her illustrious guest..
The general company also entered the apartment.
The Lord Chamberlain, by her Majc.ty's command,
formed a qundrille, and the Queen opened the ball with Ili.
Imperial highness the Grand Duke Constantine of
Russia. Hit H. Prince Albert and the Hereditary Grand
Dacha. of Saxe Weimar were the opposite couple.
H.R.11. the Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar,
H.R.H. Prince George, H.S.H. Prince Edward of Sake
Weimar, the Duchess of Sutherland, and the Viscountess
Jocelyn joined in this quadrille. Other quadrilles, polkas.
and waltzes followed. The " Russulka Galop" •as also
danced. The company were served with refreshments
during the evening in the Green Drawing-room. After
dancing had been continued some time in the Ball-room it
was commenced in the Throne-room,ia which Mr. C. Coote's
band attended,
Supper was 'erred, soon after 12 o'clock, in the State
Dinner-room. A range of tables were placed round three
sides of the apartment, and on them were displayed sue
elusive services of gold plate, interspersed with massive
ornaments of the same costly material, illustrating some
classical or pastoral subject, and relieved occasionally by the
graceful form of elegant vases, adapted for the purpr sea of
the banquet. At the end of the room, opposite the doors by
which the company entered, was erected a gorgeous buffet
of gold plate, filling a deep alcove formed in that side of
the room. The background was of crimson, and it was
studded with the choicest specimens of art in the
precious metals. On the base or lower shelf of the
buffet was placed the " Neptune" epergne, and on either
side of it were the " Hesperides" candelabra. In the centre
of the buffet was the shield of Achilles, over which, and at
the top of the buffet, was the " Armada Urn ;" on each aide
of the urn were two Etruscan vases, known as the " Venus
Icepails," from the figure of the goddess forming the
handle. In the upper compartment were introduced two
very large embossed scent jars, of great antiquity ; smaller
articles of great beauty filled up the interstices between the
larger, and due advantage was taken of the present season in
the display of beautiful Hovers in gold vases. The buffet
was brilliantly illuminated with wax lights, in gold sconces
and candelabra.

Yesterday her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-
at-Arms was inspected by their captain, Lord Foley, in the
Palace-gardens of St. James's Poises. The corps received
his lordship with a general salute, marched past in slow and
quick time, and executed other evolutions, according to her
Majesty's regulations, with precision and celerity.

From last night's Gazette.
DOWNING-STREET, Jr. 11.
The Queen has been pleaard to appoint Sir Henry Edward Pon
Young, Knight, Lieutenant-Gorernoe of the eastern districts of the
colony of the Ca e of Good Hope, to be Lieutenant-Governor of the
province of South Auatralia
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WAR OFFICE, Jima 11.
6th Dregs-Cor. W. Doyle to be licut.„ by put., vice Stine, who ret ;
0. E. L. Boynton to be cornet, by pur.
9th Lt. Drape.-Lkut..l. Dad, from 914 F., to be lieut., Tice Atl-
trobta, who each.
10th lA. Drape.-tor. C. Mocsfahon to be lieut., without par., vice
Waled, dec. ; Coo. B. M. Giveen to be lieut., brnpbeur., vim Orate, prom.
in 3rd W. I. Reg.; T. 11. Duey to be °cruet,. pur.
17th Lt. Drags.--Lieut. A . Crawahay to amt, by pur, vice
Smothered, who ret. ; Cor. P. J. W. Miles to be lieut„by per; W. F.
Webb to be comet, by pur.
Ist or Gres. Guards.-Lieut. and Capt. the Hon. H. H. M.Firey to
be add, vice Wynyard, who resigns the adjutancy any.
Coidetreera Reg. of F. Guard. -Brev.-My. Lieut. and Gmt J. I.
'Er=be capt and lieut...ecL, by „ rhea Brlmeko•s
and Lieut. J. C. M. Cowell to be lieut. and ; the 1;or.
G. C. C. Fllot to be ens. and lieut., by pur.
2nd F.--Capt. W. Dondlle, Rom 44th F., to be rapt, vice Cum-
tell, who etch.
10th F.-Capt. M. MacGregor, from 21st F.,tto be apt, vke Haines,
who st• h.
21st F.-Capt. F. P. Homes, nom 10th F., to be apt, vice Minera-
-1 nor, who etch.
36th F.--Gent.-Cadet J. H. IL Parka, treat Royal MB. Cal., to be
ens., without pur., vice Peek, who mu
4.trd F.-Ens. 0. (*dile to be heat, without per., vice Goby, Epp.
to 74th F.; oent.Cudet H. J. P. Both, Rom Royal Mil. Cal-, to be
without par.
44th E-Capt. A. J. Campbell, from 2nd F., to be capt., vice Dan-
dle, who etch.
47th F.-Ens. O. C. D. :tangle, to be lieut., by pur.,:vice De Conroy,
who rest ;W. H. Longmore to be eau, by pur. l -t
49th F.-Lieut. C. Adams, from Ceylon Rifle Reg.; to be tied., vim
Michell, app. pedmater.
55th F.-LieuL J. A. Oldham, from 86th F., to belieut„ vice Gordon,
at• 86th F.
69th 1,,-o,L.Serg. W. Tracey to be ens., without pur., vice OW-
hope, who res.
74th F. -Lieut. G. L. Proby, from 41rd P., to be lieut., vice LlM-
cmk, prom.
79th F.-Bat. Lieut-CoL Y. awe, from b. p. 14 Gar. Bat., to be
apt. vice Ferguson, dec.; Lieut. W. C. Hodgson to be amt., by put.,
doe Close, who ret. ; Ens. A. Maitland to he lint., by pur.; F. A.
Grant to be ens., by pur.
85th P.-Lieu.-lien. Sir I, W. Oulat Bart and 11..C.8., to be rot,
vice Lieut.-Gen. Bir T. Peados, C. 8., den
86th F.-lieut. J. J. Gordoo, from 53th F, to be liens, vice Old.
ham, app. to to 53th F.
90th P.--Gent.Cadet V. H. Clam, from Royal Mil. Cat, to be em.,
without par., vice Hamilton. prom. in Cape Manted Riflemen.
Slot F.-Lient P. Antrobus, from 9th Lt. Drags, to NI heat, vice
Head, who etch.
94th P.-Amist.fonrg. J. C. Forret M.D., from Staff, to be mkt.-
meg., vice Gmot, climber:el the terrine by meting* of • General
Court-Martial.
Rifle Brigade.-7. F. Scott M. 8., to be atelst.surg., vice Howell,
killed in action.
3rd W. L Reg.-Lint W. K. Orme, from 10th Lt. Deep, to be
eapt by par. vim Bristow, who rd.
taiorta-ftrev. Lieut-CoL M. Close, of 79th F, to be col. in the
army.
Hanova. Bran.-.T. W. B. Bookie( to be assist..aurg. to the forms,
vice Perms, app. to 94th F.
Maouptca.-The Christian names of Ena. Batik, of HIM F., ere
William Alexander. The name of the oilier of theE. L Company's
Service, prom. to take rank by beer., a• • major in her majesty's
rum m in the Zest India only, in the ennimomt to the Gazette, dated
the 13th Nov., 1846, le B. N. nonce, and not B. N. Tanner.