The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1847.

Frenchman, the Englishman en Englishman. But
we feel that the French and English nations are as
essentially parts of a great system of civilised states
as the counties of Scotland and England are of Great
Britain ; and their recognition of the international
rights and duties arising from this relation is as
essential to their true greatness and prosperity as
the recognition of the national rights and duties of
the counties is to theirs. The laws and institutions of
all Europe, and European settlements in other
quarters of the globe, are merely a further develop-
ment of those which they inherited from Reme—their
religion of that which they inherited from Jerusalem.
However various the organic elements of their lan-
guages, the ideas which inform and regulate their
construction are the same. European civilisa-
tion among the intelligent classes of St. Peters-
burgh and of lowa is the same in the main;
and though the states of the European civilisation
have become, and will continue independent nations
instead of provinces of one great empire, their need of
mutual assistance and support endures, and will
endure. To the operation of this natural law
do we owe that mutual toleration of sects now
universally established out of which alone truth can
be looked for ; to it do we owe the successive intro-
duetion of popular governments into the majority of
I European states. And the future will owe still more
to this principle of European citizenship; not the
least important being free commercial intercourse
between the citizens of all nations, towards the
speedy realisation of which so interesting a step is on
the eve of being taken in that country which was the
cradle of European commerce.

A r.eroar, probably the penultimate one, of the
Irish Board of Works, shows how completely the
transition from the labour-rate and public works
system, to throwing the country on its own resources
for labour, has been successful. The more than
700,000 poor, paid for public labour in March were
reduced to .150,000 in April, and to 112,000 at the
end of May. The expense is reduced from 200,000/.
a week to 46,000/.

" We are happy to state," says the report, " Cud
this great reduction has been effected without any
material suffering on the part of the destitute poor."
However, until we have some return of the expense
under the Poor-relief Act, it is impossible to estimate
the present or probable cost of Irish fidnine.

The public and the press in Paris continued, on
Thursday, to be engrossed with the mass of minis-
terial corruption brought to light by MM. Cubieres
and Girardin. No attempt has been made to refute
the charges brought against the actual cabinet by M.
de Girardin, who courts an inquiry. Although it
seems as if the ministers desired to let this affair
drop with the decision of the Chamber of Peers, the
opposition will not allow it to do so, if it can be
helped. A considerable portion of the ministerial
majonty in the deputies is shaken by the disclosures,
and by the attitude given to things by the vote of the
other chamber. Indeed, it is scarcely possible to
imagine that the thing can be allowed to rest as it is.
The Duke' do Broglie has positively refused to
come as ambassador to London as long as Count
Jarnac remained secretary. Count Bresson has
accepted the embassy to Naples, lately vacated by the
Doke of Montebello, and is to proceed to that city
immediately.
The Chamber of Deputies continues the discussion
of the budget without any incident worth noticing.
M. Emile de Girardin, in an article directed against
the ministry, marked with his characteristic bitter-
ness, gives the following comparison of the expenses
of the governments under the Empire, the Restora-
tion, and the existing government:
Daily expenses under the Empire
Ditto under the itelltol atlon
Ditto under the government of Louth Philippe 4,200,000f.
The figures are more potent than a volume of in-
vective.

Our correspondence from Madrid of the 19th has
reached us. The only fact worthy of notice is that, if
rumour is to be believed, General Serrano has not only
consented to take office, but is about to be charged
with the formation of a new cabinet. But, after
all, these are only rumours, and may be as devoid of
any real foundation as the surmise in the Clamor,
that Narvaez was to be recalled from Paris, for the
purpose of constructing a ministry upon totally
opposite principles.

SWITZERLAND.—ZURICH, JUNE 21. The
French ambassador, M. Bois le Comte, returned a few days
back to Zurich, from • journey in the Tesin and in the
Orisons. The canton papers state that the ambassador did
not speak of polities during his residence. On another hand
it is stated that he, yesterday, received from his government
despatches which contained a full and entire approval of the
diesouree he addressed to U. Ochsembein.—Gamete
June 21.
ITALY.—Rowe, JUNE 15.—Pope Pins IX., on
the 15th, gave audience to the sun of the Liberator of Ire-
land, and made a eulogy of Daniel O'Connell in terms which
must have excited the gratitude and admiration of the young
member for Dundalk. According to what has been stated,
at the moment at which the visitor rose, situ having kissed
the feet of the holy father, the Pope said to him :—" Since
I am deprived of the happiness so long desired of embracing
the hero of christianity, let me, at least, have the consola-
tion of embracing his son And, at the same time,
the holy father pressed him twice to his heart. It
is known that the Marquis Dragonetti, a Neapolitan,
received orders to leave Rome on the 21st. In an
audience with his Holiness, M. Dragonetti requested
the revocation of this measure. Pius IX. replied that
he desired that the orders of his ministers should be
executed. When this reply reached the knowledge of the
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were suspended. M. Grassellini, governor of Rome, seeing
these dispositions, caused M. Dragcnetti to be sent for, and
promised to obtain for him from his Holiness, a new prolon-
gation of two months for his sojourn. It haajnot been ascer-
tained that the words of the Pope were wrongly interpreted ;
and confidence has re-entered the hearts of the inhabitants of
Rome, and preparations for the fete have been resumed.
On the 12th, the government of Florence issued a
proclamation interdicting all popular meetings for the pur-
pose of manifesting approbation or disapprobation, or for
making petitions or demands, whatever may be the object
or whoever may be the persons addressed, whether public or
private, and declaring that those who call the meetings shall
be imprisoned for terms not less than teo days nor more than
two months; and that those who attend the meetings shall
undergo one-half of that punishment. By a decree, dated
the 11th, the Grand Duke grants a general pardon to all
persons accused of being implicated in the political offences
lately committed at Pisa and its environs. All prose-
cutions already instituted are stopped, and the prisoners set
at liberty.
GERMANY.—Pnussts.—BERLIN, JUNE 19.—The
Chamber of the Three Representative Estates rejected this day,
by• majority of 130, Herrvon Beekerath's oofloa for placing
the Jews upon terms ofper fact equality with the ehrisaans. On
the other hand, it negatived the government proposition to
subject the jews of the duchy of Posen to special laws of •
lea liberal nature than the laws proposed for the members
of the Hebrew persuasion in other parts of the monarchy.
The Chamber of Peers rather retraced to-day its vote re-
specting the permanent deputations of the Diet, and modified
its previous resolution, declaring that those deputations
should not be appointed. The vote, however, regarding the
periodical convocation of the Diet, remains unaltered.
A few days ago, the poor-box of the catholic church
of Berlin was broken open and the sum of 32 dialers ab-
stracted from it, Upon hearing of this lose, Prince Lyel-
nowski, a leading member of the House of Lords, laid • rib-
scriptiou book on the table of the chamber, with =invita-
tion to the Roman catholic member to soaks up the lose.
The protestant members immediately requested the prince
not to make any difference with respect to the religious opi-
nions of the assembly, and to remove the word " catholic."
The prince readily complied with the request, and the
members present subscribed, in a few minutes, the sum of
128 Frederic-I:Pon.
The reigning Duke of Brunswick was married at
Potsdam, on the 15th inst., to the Princess Louisa of Meek-
lenbourg Schwerin, sister to the reigning Duke. The Princess
Louisa was born on the 17th of May, 1824 ; she is niece to
the King's sister, the Grand Duchess Alexandrina.—Gazette
cl Augsburg, June 20.
BREMEN, JUNE 19.—The Washington anchored in
the roads of Bremen yesterday morning at a quarter past six.
She was decorated with the American flag, and the state's
flag of Bremen. The letter bags and passengers reached the
town at a quarter before 11, by the Gutenberg steamer. The
steamer was received with a salute, and on her arrival at the
quay, where the ships bad their colours flying, and where a
landing-bridge decor fed with oak boughs had been erected,
the burgomaster was ready to welcome the passengers. The
quay end the whole town were crowded with spectators in
• joyful state of excitement.