The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-04 00:00:00

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that a prier was their wr bin wall nave lie
wont*, to draw Lis own behrenee us to Ms =ken When Mr. Cat
had erimeadell Multi& and wee withdrawing train the hed-ream,
hie mew told one of her greadentibtre to request that he
wadi act owe egefs, sod own this renew being delivered to
Ws, he replied that tre should ale ea die snows( day. Having
beet informed of this he (Captain Win) grecestird on the following
useeninplo the hone at whirs lie mother lodged, with the intention.
he Innad sionfees, of preventiegr Mr. Calf from disturbing his aged
pared in ler last moinests, Eno having been informed t`mt that gen-
tleman was down stairs, be went down and requested to speak him.
Ile then mildly told him that there ins no naceselty tor his repeating his
visit to the dying lady, she wee a&oman Catholic and had been
regularly atten&d by a
eTPIIII her own creed. Mr. Cuff ob-
served that he understood atiethene priest had been with her, and he
repikd in the affirmative, and said Dr. Doyle had been with her. Hr.
CA with some vehesnesios, *attained, " Dr. Doyle is a villain."
1".1 wanewhat irritated at his conduct, Mr. Wills told him that
hit must be a scoundrel to call any clergyman villain, and further,
that if he attempted to go up the stairs he should send for an oHeer
and give him into custody.
Now the person who can thus violate the sanctities
of a death-bed, is very likely an amiable, exemplary
man. He probably conceived, that in this act of strange
indecency, he was fulfilling a sacred duty. The voices
of common sense and common feeling were drowned
in him. He was acting from " a lunatic zeal
and conscience." It was the same feeling which led
the young Quaker girl to travel to Constantinople,
and there to admonish the SULTAN at the heed of his
army. It is the same feeling which animates Pro-
testunt associations to deal damnation among their
Roman Catholic brethren in Ireland, and dazzles the
reason of Sir DIGBY MACKWORTH, tilt he sees a
Jesuit in every newspaper reporter, and a Popish
bull in every tourist's letter from Rome. If the cases
were rare and isolated, it would not be worth while
to waste time in commenting on them. But such
ill-regulated zeal literally damages the cause which
it seeks to serve.

TAIT and BLACKWOOD, the Whig and Tory organs
of the monthly refleetions and feelings of the ,
Scotch, unite in denouncing these most preposterous
and most cockney acts, which exclude the way-
farer and the wanderer from the solitudes of Ben-
Mac-Dhui and from the road through Glen Tilt.
Since the days of RUFUS such a thing has not been
heard of. With that great father of game-laws such
doings had at least the dignity of tragedy. He de-
populated, and slew, and by retributive justice
was slain. No ridicule can be provoked by
the deeds of that iron age. But this is an age
of paper, and the ludicrous of the thing now
overbears the tyranny. Only imagine an English
Duke renting an Alp, and hoping to put the key
in his pocket, shutting out the pedlar and the poet,
and the whole tribe of Wordsworthian heroes; but
proclaiming an edict against the peasant and the
poacher, which both must laugh at.
In all times the feudal lords, whether of realms or
lands, have been endowed with prerogatives andprivi-
leges which, if exercised to the limit of law, written or
traditional, would have rendered their rule as insuffer-
able as that of a beast of prey. The consequence was,
that, in the worst of times, those chiefs never
exercised such rights, or pushed them beyond
the endurance or submissive spirit of the
population. The lives, the goods, the daughters, of
vassals, were once at the lord's disposal; but lords had
then more common sense and fairness than to enforce
such rights. The forest laws of feudalism have, how-
ever, outlived the personal ones. And the wise for-
bearance of the lords of old time is succeeded by the .
foolish persistence of their descendants in setting at
nought the humble rights of what, is now styled the
public.
The law, we have no doubt, can force the Duke of
ATIIOL to open Glen Tilt: a shout of ridicule and
disgust ought to drive the Duke of LEEDS from his
monstrous monopoly of the mountain's side. What
visitor would object to be guided by the civil coun-
cils or warnings of a keeper, to avoid such paths as
would startle the deer, or spoil my lord's sport. But
that in order to this, there should be a general edict of
exclusion, and the act of the establishment of the New
Forest playul over again in the Scottish hills 800
years later, is monstrous: it is as disgraceful for the
Scotch to bear it, as for a lord, English or Scotch, to
enforce it. If in all countries, and in all stages of
civilisation, the rude and the advanced, the game and
its preservation, be found the greatest cause of division
between higher and lower classes, it is quite time to
abolish a pastime fraught with such serious political
and social consequences.

In our Paris correspondence of last week, we
noticed a remarkable article which appeared in the
Constitutionnel, on the Cracow affair, and the position
in which its consequences have placed the French
government. We then remarked that the article bore
unequivocal traces of the sentiments, if not the dicta-
tion, of M. Thiers. In fact there was uo mistaking it,
and accordingly the authorship has been since
assumed by the Paris press generally. A sequel to
this, from the same hand, appeared in the Constitu-
tionnel of Wednesday. In this manifesto of the leader
of the opposition, the relative position of the two
governments is examined,and the spirit of the English
press canvassed. The writer affirms, that, notwithstand-
ing the asperity t f many of the diatribes directed
against the Cabinet of the Tuileries by the English
journalists, there prevails among that people a sin-
cere sympathy with the French nation. He main-
tains that there are at present two great and engross-
ing questions in the policy of continental Europe, on
which the French and English nations must entertain
identical opinions and accordant feelings. These are,
the progress of constitutional liberty and the main-
F tenance of the Ottoman empire. In the struggle of
States which will ultimately prevail, Liberal govern-
ments, or absolutism, on the dissolution of the Turkish
empire, should such occur, to whom would the spoil
I fall? All the interests of Europe are involved in
these questions. There are other collateral points
in which France and England must be in harmony,
such as the maintenance of the neutrality and inde-
pendence of Switzerland, the enfranchisement of
Italy, the growth of constitutional principles in
Prussia, the command of the mouths of the Danube,
and the freedom of the Dardanelles. In all measures
affecting such questions, the two nations must, as a
matter of political necessity, co-operate.
The journalist maintains that the present dissen-
sion between France and England arises much less
from the imputed violation of the treaty of Utrecht
than from the alleged bad faith and diplomatic trick-
ery practised in the Spanish affair. The marriages had
less to do with the quarrel than the way in which
they were brought about. He proves then from the
facts, as well as from the announcement in the Ger-
man journals, that the Polish spoliation was the im-
mediate consequence of the quarrel between France
and England, and that the French Government
sought to strengthen itself by an alliance with those
very powers which have now committed an outrage
upon the common law of nations. The organ of M.
Thiers thus concludes this manifesto :
Behold, then, the situation to which we have been
brought by the unconditional advocates of peace, the doctors
of the entente cordiale, and the flatterers of absolutist cabi-
nets ! They desired peace on any terms they announced
the approaching realisation of the dream of the Abbe St.
Pierre;—all Governments were going to fraternise. Yet
to-day treaties are torn; the ambition most formidable
to Europe is unchained. Poland destroyed, the neutrality
of Switzerland in peril, and the independence of the Italian
states menaced! The first difference which arises cau have
no other solution but force. Right is everywhere con-
temned, and France isolated. Doubt!ess our isolation is not
a misfortune from which we might not take advantage. We
had ourselves counselled isolation after 1840, not as a perma-
nent police, but as an attitude which would allow us to await
with dignity the certai t re.estahlishment of the good under-
standing between the two countries. We can compre-
hend absolute isolation, at a moment when a revo-
lution, an ambition, or a principle, puts a country
in complete opposition with the rest of the
world. Fritnec proved herself equal to such a position in
1703, and under the Empire. At these epochs she had in
her favour two formidable engines. At the former she had
the heroic passions of the revolution, and at the latter the
sword of the Emperor. If the revolution triumphed in the
name of justice, the sword of the Conqueror was broken ;
but France long resisted the combined forces of Europe. If
called on again to defsnd her dignity, in extreme circum-
stances, she might bear is lation sustained by a good cause,
national enthusiasm and the skill of a good administration ;
hut permanent and systematic isolation is not a policy, i t is the
negative of all policy. We cannot, therefore, help deploring
the repeated faults, and the imprudent conduct which have

.sir leading orgaixsiotiluspress, making it at the
prominently conapscuous that they are ready to weep: us all
its relations that policy which would bnog the countries
again into harmony. If, therefore, Lord Palmerston stands
out, and the Whig ministry retain office, it is yes, difficult
otopeustlichoowf
the
echactibenent
Chambers.
M. Guiscit can long survive the
Besides the powerful assault aimed by M. Thiers at
the Cabinet in the columns of the Ontstitutonnel,
other leaders of the Opposition direct their artillery
to the same point.
The King came on Wednesday to the Tuileries,
and held a council of ministers. Marshal Souk was
waiting for his Majesty, and had an audience. After
inspecting the works going on at the palace, the King
returned to St. Cloud, which, it is said, he will leave
for the winter on the 19th.
On Saturday next the Court will go into mourning
for a week for the Grand Duchess Mary of Russia.
The Afoniteur publishes three royal ordonnanees, in
virtue of the law of 1836, which permits the importa-
tion of foreign products formanufacture and re-expor-
tation ; allowing cols seed to be imported duty free
in French bottoms, for conversion into oil, and expor-
tation in that state within a delay of six months ;
madder root to be received duty free, for grinding
and exportation, on the same conditions ; and tartar
in its rough state, to be received in a similar way, and
under the same conditions, for conversion into cream
of tartar or tartaric acid.
A heavy fall of snow took place in Paris on Wed-
nesday.
The cause of free-trade is steadily progressing in
France ; it may now be considered as an open, if not
a cabinet question. The leading ministerial organs
continue to give, from time to time, articles in its
favour, written with great force and ability, the rea-
sonings of which are, however, so familiar to the Eng-
lish public, that it is needless to quote them. The
Jimmuil des Debate, of Wednesday, devotes to this
subject all its leading columns. It affirms that free-
trade is a question of the same order attd origin in
France as those of relii,sious and civil liberty, the free-
dom of the press, equality of all citizens in the eye of
the law, the unity of jurisprudence and jurisdiction,
the privilege of tax-payers to vote the taxes,
the publicity of accounts, and, in a word, of every-
thing which distinguishes the present representative
government from the aneien reyime.
A second meeting of the association for commercial
reform took place at Havre on Saturday evening, at
which the principal merchants of that town were
present. The societies of Paris, Bordeaux, and Mar-
seilles were voted to be placed in direct communica-
tion with it, but it declined adopting principles so
unqualified as those advocated by the three sister
associations. It was d .cided that the society should
be definitively constituted under the title of the
Havre Association for Commercial Reform, by the
reduction of customs duties and taxes on consumption.
Advices in a private letter from Odessa, of the 12th
ult., state that notwithstanding the enormous exports
of corn made during August, September, and October,
immense supplies still continue in the warehouses;
and such is the extent and fertility of the countries
which supply this produce, that they arc apparently
inexhaustible. The present amount of grain ware-
housed at Odessa varied from 21 to 31 millions
of hectolitres. The price varies according to
quality at that port, from twelve to sixteen
francs per hectolitre. Two-thirds of the grain
in store are in the hands of foreign merchants, and
their destination is already settled, but fresh supplies
continue to arrive daily : the late harvest having been
magnificent both in quality and quantity in the three
Polish provinces. Half a million of hectolitres of
wheat were expected to arrive by the Dniester. The
north east wind had hitherto prevailed, but the navi-
gation was open and the cold moderate; few vessels
had, however, arrived, although a great number at
Constantinople were bound for the Black Sea. The
same absence of freight was felt at the mouths of the
Danube. At Galatz nearly a million of hectolitres of
wheat, and as much at Braila, were waiting for
vessels. On the three days ending Nov. 27, sixteen
vessels freighted with grain had arrived at Mar-
seilles, and one bringing 2,500 barrels of American
flour, being the first importation of that kind re-
ceived at Marseilles from the United States. Of the
16 vessels laden with grain, the total cargoes
amounted to 53,400 hectolitres. This quantity, and
former importations reported, gives a total amount
of a million and a half hectolitres in 31 days.
The circumstance of the Bey of Tunis being re-
ceived as a sovereign Prince in France, is thus ex-
plained by a French journal :
" Ahmed Pacha, ho had long appreciated the full value
of our friendship, wished to visit France, but before he would
undertake the voyage, he was desirous of knowing on what
footing he would be received. lie wished to be sure that he
would not be presented to the king by the ambassador of the
Porte, as Ibrahim Pacha had been. The French
government had only to base its answer and its conduct upon
the relations which we have kept up with Tunis for the
last two centuries. Within that period we have concluded
conventions and treaties of commerce with the Beys of Tunis.
If the Bey is an ancient vassal of the Porte, if the Sultan
still regards himself as his suzerain, he is not de facto his sove-
reign, particularly for ns who have long since acknowledged
the independence of Tunic. It was quite natural that the
Bey should be received with the honours due to sovereign
princes, and, in giving him this reception, the French
government reflected, with reason, thatAbmed Pacha was not
in the some situation as Ibrahim. The Sultan is still the
true sover,ign of Egypt ; he bas delegated his sovereignty ;
but he has retained the principle and the regal rights. Over
Tunic, ho sever, he has only the shadow of suzerainty,
which leaves intact the independence of the Bey. When
Ahmed Pacha landed in France his intention was to proceed
to Paris and London, and, by this politeness, to prevent
England from taking umbrage at his presence amongst us.
With this design he wished to ascertain from the English
embassy the sort of reception which he might expect in Lon-
don. Lord Normanhy had tha candour to cause him to be
informed that he was not to expect in London a reception
similar to that which he has experienced here; that Englard
could not receive him as a sovereign prince ; but as a gover-
nor of a Turkish province. We are assured that this intima-
tion has determined Ahmed Pacha to renounce his intended
visit to England."

The Madrid journals and correspondence of the
26th were received in Paris on Wednesday.
The return of the Infant Don Enrique was ex-
pected. The ministerial and court party manifested
much gratification at the prince having broken with
the Exaltados, whose counsels they said had, for a
moment, led him astray. The elections were pro-
ceeding with much animation, the results promising
to be favourable for the ministry. The return of M.
Mon for one of the colleges of Madrid was considered

certain.
Baron Athalin, aide-dc-camp of the King of the
French, had arrived at Madrid : the object of his
voyage was 'aid to be a modification in the
Ministry. "The Count del Minho, Minister of
War," says the Ern del Conercio, in reference
to this, " was engaged during the day in
regulating his family affairs." The journal Esree-
tador had been seized by the political chief. fhe
ministerial journal Herald() says, that the reported
recall of Count Bresson had reference to a change in
the diplomatic arrangements of France, in virtue of
which that minister was to have gone to Rome, but
that as that arrangement depended on Count Rossi
being appointed to a scat in the Cabinet at Paris, the
change was adjourned for the present. The embar-
rassments of the Bank of St. Ferdinand, from the
want of specie, were reported to have been relieved
by the receipt of 100,000,000 reels.
No further intelligence had been received from
Portugal.

FRANCE.—Fresh corn riots have taken place at
Chinon (Indre et L lire). On Thurwlay, the last market
day, the new memiures were broken, and the corn dealers
were °hilted to sell the wheat et 1 f. 50 c. the decalitre. One
of the ringleaders was arreste.l, but was quickly taken out of
prison by the peasantry, armed with their rustic weapons,
Ninety persons have been arrested, eighty-five men, and live
women.

FURTHER SIIIPNIENT OF CATTLE, FROM Bou-
LOONE FOR ENOL•ND —Extract of a private letter
from Boulogne, dated Tuesday morning: " On Friday six
hundred sheep, and between thirty and forty beast., were
put on board the William Wallace steamer, which had been
dispatched from London for tie express purpose of convey-
ing them to Englund. It having become known in the town
that this shipment was about to take place, the authorities
were fearful that another disturbance would have been caused
by the mob. In order, however, to guard against such an
event, a detachment of the National Guard, a company of
the troops of the line, several gendarmes and municipal
police, who were also accompanied by M. Bailly, the Com-
missary of Police, and M. Cary, the owner of the sheep,
proceeded to the Dernier Sou, an auberge just outside the

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