The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-06 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, SATIMDAT nvennto.
The refusal of the French government to accord a
passage through France to Kossuth, his wife, and
children, is a fresh proof that the cause of liberality
civilisation, and humanity has pined nothing in
France by the policy of Louis Napoleon. A more
servile flattery of the vindictive spite of Austria
could not have been offered by Charles X. or Louis
Philippe than the nephew of the French Emperor
and the president of the French republic has
shown by driving from the doors of France back
oat into the tossing sea this noble family of exiles.
The sympathies so widely stirred in this country for
the leader of the bravest stand which has been made
for freedom in modern times deserved a more inde-
pendent organ and a more generous interpreter.
Safely may it be predicted that ouch is not the way
to gain a majority of suffrages among a frank,
kindly, hospitable, and fearless people. The French,
take them as a nation, spurn a fainthearted timorous
submission to the frown of foreign despots.
The exen.so that the interests of order required
that the ex-governor of Hungary should be sent
round to England by Gibraltar is as inadmissible as
pusillanimous. No greater fault can be imputed to
a government than that it knows not how to keep
the peace without trampling upon the feelings of a
country. Even Prussia, in a time when her society
was far more agitated by demagogy than France
now is, allowed the officers of the surrendered garri-
son of Comorn, with Klapka at their head, to pass
through the whole length of her dominions
from Oderberg to Hamburg, and to receive
on their way the congratulations of thou-
sands of sympathetic hearts and hands. But not
only was the family of Kossuth obliged once more to
embark, after having suffered intensely on their long
voyage from the Dardanelles, but the newspaper of
Marseilles, Le Temple, which ventured to regret this
inhospitable decision of the ministry, was seized. No
sooner did the illustrious exile learn the refusal of his
request by Leon Faucher than he shook the French
dust from his shoes, and withdrew immediately under
the hospitable shelter of the American flag. Hun-
dreds of boats swarmed about the ship, and
tens of hundreds of voices repudiated with
their cordial cheers all participation in the
unmanly determination of their government. If
the Restoration had been guilty of on act of this
kind, nobody would have been surprised, because
that government depended essentially on the foreign
arms which had imposed it on France. Nor would
such behaviour have been extraordinary in Louis
Philippe, who sought to ingratiate himself with
foreign courts. But for republican France to lick
the ground before Austria, to cringe to the despotic
powers by visiting illustrious unfortunates with a
churlish and ungracious repulse, this is what all true
Frenchmen will blush to hear, and indignantly dia.
avow, at least when the hour comes that a man may
speak out his mind honestly without being fined or
imprisoned. It was natural that the head magi-
strate of a free people should extend a friendly hand
to one who, like himself, had been raised by the
voice of an emancipated nation to the first place.
But Louis Napoleon has preferred to behave like •
little-minded king, instead of a great-minded
president ; and to receive the thanks of
the oppressors of Europe instead of the applause
of his liberal countrymen. How fur has he degas,.
rated on this occasion from the founder of his name,
who said to the Austrian negotiators at Campo
Formio, "The French republic is like the sun ; it
begs no one to recoguise it."
The quasi official announcement of General
Changarnier's candidature to which I alluded yester-
day, has made a sensation. The Messayer, which
has often been called the General's paper, seems to
stand aghast at the news that he now intends to
vote against Cretan's motion. It suggests that M.
Albert de Circourt, the author of the article in the
Opinion Publique, must have too lightly adopted a
false rumour, or that perhaps the statement may be the
result of a typographical error. It is evident, how-
ever, that the ilissayer writes without authority to
contradict the report, although it affects to treat it
as incredible. The Op:nion Pall'ique this morning,
far from acknowledging any error or misprint,speaks
in a verT confident tone of the General as the candidate of
the legitimist party, who will rally the voices of all
good Frenchmen, from the recollection of his brilliant
past services, and the anticipation of the still more
important ones which he may be destined to render.
Is Changarnier, after all, to play the part of
Monk?

The Orleans Railway Company has come to an
important decision. The absurd and dangerous sys-
tem of carrying the lumbering diligences on the
railway is to be put an end to, and travellers arriving
at the termini by diligence will in future come on by
the ordinary railway carriages, as in England. In
consequence of this change M. Revenaz, the director
of the " Nlessageries Nationales," and one of the
founders of the Orleans Company has retired from
his seat in the direction.
NDAT EVENING.
The letter addressed by Kossuth, on his arrival at
Marseilles. to the Prefect of the Roaches-du-Rhone
is us follows :
Monsieur lc Prefet,—Delivered from my banishment to
Kiutahia by the generous mediation of the governments
frkods of humanity, I have just arrived at Mars,illes on
board the Mississippi, sent expressly to my aid by the
government of the 1. nited States. I come to ask from the

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government of the French Republic free passage and pro-
tection to crow France, having the intention to go directly
to England. lam in company of my wife and of m at:
re childn wham I desire to place in education en
berate pining to the United States to thank the people and
the government for the generous succour with w they
have been so good as to honour my misfortune.
My and Iris family, the tutor of my children,
two officers tLl' a domestic, form my suite.
I place my demand, which rests purely upon considers.
tions of humanity, under the protection of French honour
and of your generous sentiments, M. le Prefect, and I have
the honour to assure you of my most distinguished con-
sideration. L. KOMH:TH.
On board the steam-frigate of the United States of America,
Mississippi, in the Roads of Marseilles, Sept. 27, 1851.
The following is the letter of the Prefect of the
Bouches-du-lthone to the consul of the United
States, in answer to the application of Kossuth:
Marseilles, Sept. 27, 1851.
Monsieur le Consul,—l have the honour to inform you
*ashy a telegraphic despatch which I have just received,
the IGnister of the Interior announces that the request
wade by M. Kossuth to pass through France on his way
to England cannot be granted. M. Kossuth, whore
passports have not been riaied for France by
the Minister of the French Republic at Constan-
tinople, having been only allowed to land at Mar.
miles in consequence of the desire expressed by
him in the interest of the health of his wife and
children, I must c insider him as still on board the
American frigate and therefore make known.
Mons. h• Consul, thruagh your mediation, the decision taken
by the Minister of the Interior relative to the demand which
he has begged me to present.
Accept, Monsieur le Consul, the assurance of my high
consideration. SCLRAV.
The prefect of the Douches .du-Rhone.
The following address_ by Kossuth to the people of
Marseilles has been published in the Peup4 news-
paper of that city :
TO THE DEMOCRACY OT WAISEILLES.
Citisens,—The government of the French republic having
refused me the perMsaion to travel through France, the
people of Marseilles. obedient to the outburst of one of those
generous impulses of the French heart, which are an unfa-
thomable source of the greatness of the nation, has honoured
me by a manifestation or its republican sentiments—a mani-
festation honourable in its motives, manly in its resolution,
peauful ia its ardour, and majestic in its calm as nature—
that great image of (Lod—before a storm. I have heard
my name mingled with the soug of the " Marscillaise" and
the cry of " Vice La Republique," the only legal cry in
France, the only cry whose lawfulness has been purchased
in the blood of the martyrs of liberty. It is
so natural to love liberty, so slight an evil
to surer for her ; it is almost less than a simple duty ; but
there is supreme glory in the thought that one is identified
with the principle of liberty in the eyes of the French mo-
plc. Ido not desire glory, but that glory I accept that I
may deserve it. I accept it as a testimony of the fraternity
of the French natiou with the people of every country.
accept it as the word of safety for the dear land
or my birth. To you, Frenchmen and republicans, be the
honour a,signed of saving ; to us, poor Hungarians, that
of deserving to be saved ! We shall deserve it. My nation
will understand the appeal of your brotherhood, will be
proud or it, nod answer it bravely, as should do those who
are honoured by being called brethren by the French people.
These are the enly thanks worthy of the good
people of Marseilles; worthy the manifest etion made, not iu
my honour but in that of my nation; and for my nation, nut
in that of the past, but in that of the future. Permit me
net to s?eak again of the refusal of the government of the
French repu'ohe to grant me a passage through its territory.
I know that the French people do not countenance this act.
I knew that neither M. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
nor M. Leon Faucher was the French nation.
I knew and I know that the executive power is delegated,
but that to Curtis is not delegated the honour of the French
I nation. I shall no !eager remember their refusal; and I
hope that humanity nay do sa I do, if by chance those who