The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-12 00:00:00

THE DUKE'S STATUE.

THE question of the Tnxseit-WvArr statue was
settled, even before its erection, in the conviction of
every man of experience and taste. Its erection
corroborated their sentence. The public jury did not
need the delay of consultation to return the verdict
of non eonstat. And the SOVEREIGN summed up, and
sentenced, in accordance with the evidence and with
the verdict. The Time; however, wanting the
sagacity of its earlier day, chose to cry acquitted,
on the very morning that the judge condemned ; and
the blind people who follow it have been running
their heads against the post ever since.

A stray correspondent in the Times talks of the
Royal Academicians being appointed sheriffs ad liar,
to sign the execution of the statue. We have no ob-
jection. The Globe, who borrows our intelligence one
day to repudiate it the next, standing all the time in too
great fear or too great love of the " grand high-priced
newspaper combination" to mention the name of the
Daily News, flounders around the statue. It knows
nothing about it,—cannot contradict the rumour, but,
alas ! cannot believe it. And then it invents another
rumour of her MAJESTY being unwilling ,to make
exit and entrance from and to the Park under the
hoof of a subject's horse ! The lacquey that uttered
such a sentiment deserves to be immortalised in the
Globe, and elsewhere. But, without being a court
journal, we can contradict, from authority, that any
such sentiment ever germed in the carriage of the
QUEEN. What may have germed behind it, the
authors of the rumour best know.

The public will find, in the upshot, that we were
right, that the limes was wrong, and that the
Globe was in the dark. The Combination-Press
scorn to quote us, but they must follow us. They
must repeat and record as news, many days after us,
what we said about the Wellington Statue, a full
day after us what we published of the disaster at
the MN-mirth, and may copy this morning from
our Express of last night, the King of Belgium's
speech.—Daily News.

The suspension of the friendly relations with Eng-
land continues to be the prevaihng topic in the salons
of Paris, and the interest with which it is regarded
has received a fresh stimulus from the absence of the
British ambassador from the diplomatic reception at
the Tuileries on Saturday. This circumstance, how-
, ever, ought not to raise any further grounds of widen-
ing the breach already produced between the
governments. Lord Normanby, it is now known,
excused himself for his absence on this occasion in a
letter to the master of the ceremonies, and also
addressed a note to M. Goizot, explaining the im-
possibility, after what had occurred, of his attending
any official congratulatory ceremony in honour of the
marriage, and at the same time requesting a private
audience of those members of the royal family,
who were absent from Paris ou the occasion of his
presentation at Paris in August last. By this step,
says the editor of Galignanis Messenger, who seems
to speak from authority, his Excellency has marked
distinctly his perfect adhesion to the views of his
own government, while, as might be expected from a
man of his known polished habits, he has thus ably
conciliated with existing circumstances his personal
desire not to omit any occasion, consistent with his
duty, of showing his respects to the Royal family of
France. Lord Normanby was received yesterday by
the Prince de Joinville and their Royal Highnesses
the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier, in their pri-
vate apartment at the Tuileries.
Some of the ministerial journals pretend to discover
a counterpoise for the absence of the British minister
' in the attendance of the representatives of all other
powers, great and small; but this fallacy is too trans-
parent. The presence of the members of the diplo-
matic corps at such a ceremony, was a formal obser-
vance of etiquette which signified nothing ; but in
proportion as it was a mere ceremonial the marked
omission of it by the British minister became the
more striking and significant. Lord Normanby did
not adopt the course of Mr. Bulwer, by presenting