The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-17 00:00:00

bonestv and economy as democratic virtues. And
she is, in truth, risking her throne and kingdom by
binding herself with what is corrupt and imbecile in
the administration.
Yet whether the present insurrection has eve.li tart
its aim to effect any salutary reform maybe doublitk
General SALDANIIA, who idayed the peiscipidra,
in putting down the Scptembristlo is 1847, artaitso`
maintained himself for a eciitain titueisi power:ail the
result of his victory, found Ernsclf at last set aside
for the Count 1)e Ttioniat. We mist own that
Tnostart as much upset him by the Cortcs as the
court ; and SALDANTIVS now basing recourse to
military insurrection, places him in the light of by
no means a constitutional liberal. Still, as he has
accepted the aid and alliance of the Septembristas,
he may have consented to liberal condition., as the
basis of his future government. But again, the al-
liance in 1847 of the Septembristas with the Mi-
guelitcs naturally creates in the Qt:EEN's mind a
repugnance towards them, which must extend to
SALDANIIA, and make her inclined only to extremities.
Little as England has to dowith contending parties
in Portugal, England, indeed, could not but profit by
the full of Tuom m, who has been commercially and
politically hostile to our interests. Still treaties
oblige the British admiral to offer protection
to the person of the QUEEN and unfortunately
,pro-
tecting a roval person can always be adroitly twisted
into protection for her politics. Such was the case
in 1447, in which the English cabinet, supposing it
liberally inclined, was most egregiously: duped,
being made to contribute to the re-installation of all
that was hostile to it in person and in principle.
The House of Commons indeed would not stand
the repetition of such protection as this. Nor is
there the same danger to be guarded against as
there was in P 447, when S tI,I)%NIIA struggled to
invite, and insisted so fiercely upon a Spanish in-
tervention in his favour. The absence of Narivai2
from power and from Madrid precludes this, and was
probably one of the chief causes and opportunities of
the Portuguese prourinciomeitto. But. at the same
time, the name of S.ll.ntNllAut the head of the move-
ment sufficiently guarantees it from being either
Miguelite or ultra-democratic.
Let it he hoped that the movement may end with-
out bloodshed, and that the result may).* a liberal
government, with n national Curtis freely elected, and
expressitm of the popular will. Already even the present
Cortes powerful voices, especially that of one of the
members far Madeira, were raised in behalf of free
trade and of a reduction of those absurd export duties,
such as that upon port wine for example, which has
injured Portugal and restricted its relations with this
country. If that kingdom is ever to recover, it must
he by honesty in its administration and liberality in
its trade. A mere court, with a court financier for
minister, the Cortes packed, the citizens intimidated
and fleecd. and the army acting police—this is a
system that could only cud by making Portugal a
province of Spain.

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDSFADAY 'Err:vivo.
Since the installation of the new cabinet, although
the moderate men of all parties maintain an cx-
pietant attitude, one symptom has disclosed itself in
si manner not to he mistaken, and that is the retreat
of the moderate legitimists from the almost friendly
position which they had assumed towards the Elysk,.
In this alienation from the Bonapartists the partv of
M. Iterryer has no doubt been much influenced by
the desertion of many of its members to the fraction
of ultras whose opinions are expressed with
great clearness and vigour by Alfred Nette-
intent, in the Opinion Podelleper. The fear of
a rupture in the party, from the decided opposition
which the prorowition of Louis Napoleon s powers
meets with front the men of the Oinsion Poidire,
has forced the moderate legitimists. whose opinions
are exproised by the Unin, to repudiate abruptly
the newly-cemented alliance with the Elysie, fos-
tered unaer the auspices of Messrs. (init.lt, licrrver,
and Persi;rny. This rupture has also another
cause in the sudden breaking off of the negotiations
for putting smile decided representatives of the legi-
timists into the new eabinet, while a statesman par-
ticularly obnoxious to the friends of the elder branch,
M. Faucher, was ticketed to take the lead. In
Wit' to all this a letter of the Count of
Chambord is spoken of, enjoining great reserve on
his supporters fur the present as regards the further-
ance of a fresh lease of power to Louis Napoleon.
For these MIIIOIIS the difficulties of the present cabinet
must be looked upon as considerably aggravated by
the decided opposition which they must look fur
shortly at the hands of the whole legitimist party.
All the world is gone out this fine day to disport
in the chequered sunshine of the Itois'ile llulognc.
where the annual promenade of the Avenue de Long-
champs, has reassembled the gay flutterers of the
fashionable world in their brilliant equipages. The
weather is worthy of the genial prime, and (hives
sweet buds like floeks to feed on air."
The Petrie and the Jlneeth.ler the .Weir of yesterday
evening publish the following note, communicated
by the prefect of police :

The °titre, in its number of to-day, in pointing out an
nrtitle of the Bulletin de Paris, antiounees that it is the
organ of the In- which gives the most intimate idea, of
the Elysi,c. 'l he allegation' of the Ord', is erroneous. We
arc authorised to declare that the Elvss,e is-completely a
stranger to the poblicition of the BUlletin de Pieria, and
has no communication with that correspondence.
The official disavowal of the Bulletin de Paris, ns
an organ of the Elysiv, is considered as a matter of
course: but the announcement of the scheme enter-
tained by ministers and revealed by that paper is
generallv credited. It repeats the &tine assertion to-
day in the following terms :
_ .

We have mentioned the exixtence of a project to propose
to the .►w•tuhly to decide that the municipal council., %hall
he called upon to exilic,. their %%idle% on the subject of the
revkion of the emktitution. It k certain that the project
cakt4, and that a gra•at number of meMirrs of the majority
will support it; but we do uut know what are the inten-
tion% ot the govcrunicnt.

M. Poujonlat has presented the report on the mo-
tion of M. Bourzat for the suppression of the funds I
and salaries granted to the new French cardinals.
This motion, as well as another by the same author, i
fur suppressing the chapter of St. Denis, was re-
jected unanimously by the committee.
One hears of nothing on all hands but the eer-
minty of un outbreak, to be looked fur in the month
of June. The Natiweal seems to be doing its utmost
to stimulate the extreme party to take the field,
although such a course will be certain destruction.
The adopts the same pacific tone which con-
tributed so powerfully to repress the insurrectionary
spirit of the socialists immediately after the enact-
ment of the electoral law last year. M. Lamartine
exerts his facile and eloquent pen laudably in the
Pays to prevent the nation from being divided
into men of the guillotine and men of
grape-shot, which, according to M. llomitaia Spectre
Rosyr. is the only answer to and cure for socialism.
The Yoe/iota& has a long manifesto, signed
by its new editor, the protege of NI. Guizot, Charles
Ilaixm, calling upon ail good citizens to rally to the
standard of the Bourbon monarchy; but whether
this standard is to be surmounted by the white flag
or the tricolour, is not explained by the advocates of
fusion.
I have already alluded to the reports of a reconcilia-
tion with Chang-rimier : but. although some steps have
' without doubt been made in that direction, it is not
easy to we how the late general-in-chief can accept a
command which has been shorn of its might
in separating from it the command of the national
guard. If an entente were to become imminent the
great public confidence placed in Changaruier might
create such a pressure of opinion as would make it
Ihazardous to decline his services, even though the
condition should be the reintegration of his old com-
mand.
M. Goury de !Wan, first secretary of embassy, is
appointed minister to New Grenada.
The funds continue to fall. To-dav the Fives closed
at 02.0,i. with a fall of 20e.; the Threes fell Sc., and
closed at t 7.25.
lu the late monarchy, the king :Louis Philippe
had ordered from M. Ciudin, the celebrated marine
painter, ninety pictures representing feats of the
I French navy. Sixty-three of these paintings are at
'Versailles, but the others were not completed until
after the revolution of February, and are about to be
sold as the private property of the estate of the ex-
I king, his will being silent as to his intention of pre-
senting them to the country. Several of the repre-
sentatives of the people, among whom are Admiral
Dapetit-Thouarn, General Lebreton, Geueral Leflo,
Iliad MM. Colas, Schmlcher, and Eugene Sue, intend
to propose to the Assembly that these pictures shall