The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-02 00:00:00

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LONDON. SATURDAY. SEPT. 2.
Tun armistice between Denmark and Prussia has
been concluded. But at the moment that peace
appears about to revisit the north of Europe the
aspect of the 'stab becomes more threatening. Still
we are far from disposed to relinquish tee firm hope
we have entertained throughout that the general
pesos of Europe may and will be preserved.
We annonsced yesterday, in a late edition, that it
bad been stated In the political circles of Paris that
di.: Council of Ministers had decided to send 4,000
troops of the line to Venice, and that in consequence
of orders given some time before three ships of war
had been sent from 'Toulon to the same destination.
Two divisions of the army were also, it was asserted,
to be formed at Meta and Strasbourg.
The tone of the articles on Italian affair'', which
appeared simultaneously in the National and the
Journal des Debate, and which we re-produce in our
impression of this day, adds credibility to the state-
ment. It is further rendered p. obable by the equivo-
cating and procrastinating tone which our intelligence
from Germany, published yesterday, leads us to
believe the Austrian minister Wessesnioto has used
with regard to the offered mcd•ation of France and
England. Austria is so obviously bent on playing a
double game with regard to Italy—seeking to gain
time, in the hope of ultimately extending her demands
—that it is highly probable the French government
may have conceived the idea of trying whether such a
di monatration as was on a former occasion made at
Ancona may not now be repeated with like satisfac-
tory results.
We do not overlook the possibility th►t there may
be a party in France eager to subserve its own
domestic policy by absorbing the attention of the
nation in an external war. The conduct of the leaders
of the moderate party in France, upon which we have
commented in the article which immediately, follows,
ears strong marks of that timid and vindictive spirit
which flatters itself with the hope of imparting success
to reactionary measures by terrorism. Should such a
party succeed in laying hold of the helm of state, it
is quite capable of seeking to drown the sound of its
retrograde steps amid the din of foreign war.
On the other hand, reposing confidence, as we do,
in the pacific declarations of General CAVAIONAC, we
believe that if he retain power any military de-
monstrations made by France will be simply and sin-
cerely directed to the end of bringing the Austrian
government to its senses. And the actual position of
that government is such as ter warrant the expecta-
tion that the demonstration said to be preparing by
France will be sufficient for that end. A majority in
the German parliament are friendly to the cause of
Italian nationality. The liberal journals of Prussia
seek earnestly to uphold and disseminate the same
sentiment. And the liberal members of the Austrian
Diet have repeatedly protested against any attempt
on the part of their government to suppress the young
liberties of Italy. There are in Austria itself, and still
more in that Germany with which the dominant
race in the Austrian empire is so intimately asso-
ciated strong checks upon the domineering spirit etas
court faction in Vienna. The Austrian government's
tenure of its other provinces, and the condition of the
Austrian finances, are moroever far from being of a
nature to induce it to rash headlong into a war with
France on the plains of Italy. Here are therefore ample
reasons for indulging in the hope that the attitude
which France seems about to assume will teach
Au.tria the necessity of being more explicit, and lead
to a speedy and pacific solution of the Italian
difficulties.

On these grounds, while we admit that 'the pre-
sent upset of continental affairs is anything bat such
as to warrant absolute confidence th►t peace may yet
be preserved, we still cling to the hope that a
general war is far from inevitable.

Wa can have no wish to screen such a man as
M. CAUSSIDIERE from
the
; and every ene must
desire to see that even member of a revolutionary
government shall not be sale in plotting not only
against the government of which he is a member,
but against the form and foundation of the society in
which he lives. But the punishment of the worst
criminals may be purchased too dearly, especially
when that punishment is wreaked in time of efferves-
ence and strong party spirit by political tribunals.
And we mach dcubt if any punishment that can be
inflicted on Louie BLANC or CAUSSIDIERE is worth
the turning up of the mess of evidence and the ex-
posing of it to the world as has been done by this
enquetc.
If the design of the moderates was to represent
to the world what despicable beings pablio
men were in times of revolution—if they wanted
to show how utterly regardless, and, in-
deed, ancognisant of truth were so many
members of the Assembly, and how utterly impossible
it was to depend on the testimony even of men in
the rank of legislators,—then indeed they have fully
obtained their aim. Bat they have at the same time
established a terrible precedent, for if public men are
to be stigmatised and got rid of on the testimony of
M. LACROSSII, then nothing can be more easy
than for • party in possession of a majority of an
assembly to ostracise or decapitate its foes at auy
time.

It is preciselyas the same what was practised in
the days of Misuse' mum, with the great exception that
life is not aimed at now. Bat the not aiming at life,
renders, perhaps, the mode of political vengeance
more certain of being perpetuated and retaliated, and
it is probable that every fall of a party in a ministry
will be followed by an inquiry into its conduct, and a
sedulous gathering of evidence, tot only as to its deeds
bat as to every casual word that fell in confidence
between the members of the same government
and cabinet.

We know, indeed, of nothing so dangerous or me in-
famous, as, for eximple, the testimony of M. ARAGO,
who Mnm up in his memory every stray expression
uttered in the intimacy of cabinet oonsdltation by his
colleague, If. LEDRU ROLLIN. M. ARAGO himself
was all his life a hot-headed liberal and an ill-tem-
pered man. Had Louts PHILIPPE'S government or
CHARLES THZ TENTH'S government collected and
produced in evidence against him M. ARAOO'S ejacu-
lations in the bosom of his family, or the circle of
his friends, could he have escaped the gales ten
times over? Given such a man as M. ARAGO in a
cabinet, a furious republican, who afterwards turns
and betrays republicans, and who remembers, or
pretends to remember, every word that fell from
them, and who brings them up to criminate
them given such a man as this in •
cabinet, and nothing could be more easy
than to hang every member of it, if the mode of
procedure be adopted which has been followed in this
instance. We have a sovereign horror of such men
as CAUSSIDIERE and SORRIER, the usual prodacts of
revolution. But we declare that we have not so great

0: horror of them u of the minister who coultgive
such tcstimony u M. Alum. The latter is the more
dangerous foe of humanity and order.
It is curious that the personage most injured by the
minute and familiar memory of M. APAGO is not
the am evidently aimed at, LIMO Boum, who

escapes comparatively free. It is the very men who
began their prosecution and retaliation who are made
the victims of this hearsay and inquisitorial testimony.
It wu MM. LANDON. and PORTAL'S who first insisted
on bringing certain members of the Provisional Go.
vernment to trial, and who resigned, because M. LA-
MARTINS would not indulge them. Yet M. LANDHIN,
this zealous Attorney-General, is himself @burn to
have furiously recommended the dissolution and
destruction of the National Assembly, as also the sub-
sequent prosecution of the members of the Provisional
Goren meet for being supposed to attempt it. So easy
is it to leap from ultra-zeal in revolution to ultra-zeal
in reaction.
At first nothing less than the immolation of M.
LAMARTINN and his character would satisfy these
zealous accusers. Then M. LISDRU ROLLIN was to be
the Frest victim. In both casesthe spirit of personal
hostility has failed; and the result of three months
spent in this idle warfare will be the pitiable impu-
punity and the deep vindictive feeling of the real
chiefs. It is curious to mark what precisely similar
views and similar fears preoccupied M. I,AIIAitTINE
and General CAVAIONAC. Both deprecated this pro-
eecution ; both saw the necessity of employing con-
ciliation with the chiefs of the ultra-liberal party,
whom both considered as much more anxious to keep
back open revolt and insurrection than to let
it loose. We still think that had the National
Assembly trusted LANAIITINE, believed his
words, and taken a more gradual way towards
the re-seizing of power by the middle classes,
the great insurrection of June might have b..en
avoided, and the nation at present would have been
in a less deplorable state. The present system is one
necessarily of intimidation ; and this monster prose-
cution is part of it. But there is no end of intimi-
dation, no outlet, but in the establishment of a regular
despotism to continue it; and the perplexity of the
republic at this moment is not knowing how to con-
tinue or how to discontinue the fatal system.

THE "laureate wreath" for aliening the patience of
the country, and wasting the time of the House of
Commons, ought to be adjudged to Mr. GEORGE
THomPsoN. His cas3 is not like the case of Mr.
ANSTEY, Or Mr. URQUHART, a mere case of innocent,
impertinent babble; it is marked by worse features.
When the question that the Consolidated Fund
Bill do pass was put at the beginning of Thursday's
proceedings in the House of Commons, Sir J. C. HOB-
muss requested Mr. THOMPSON to postpone his
motion respecting the late Rajah of &mean till the
real business of the day had terminated, and the hon.
member for the Tower Hamlets politely consented
that his farce should be played after the tragedy,
instead of between the acts. Ministers having thus
obtained leave to finish off their business without in-
terruption, Mr. TitosirsoN was rewarded by being
allowed, free from fear of a counting out, to make his
speech to as many members as could be got to listen
to him. For upwards of two mortal hours did he
harangue—at times to six members only—and after
going through the forme of replying to some com-
ments that had been offered upon his speech ended by
withdrawing his motion.
It is palpable to the dullest understanding that Mr.
THOMPSON neither expected nor wished that any-
thing should come of his motion. All he wanted
was to make a long speech. Now let us take, in'
combination with this fact, the manner in which the
case he stated has been got up out of doors. In 1844
a statement was presented to the Governor-General
of India by the late rajah, having attached to it
the signature of the latter. That statement, it is now
admitted by Mr. THomPsoN, was prepared in this
country by himself, sent out to the rajah, and only
signed by him. It was stated on Thursday by Sir
J. C. HOBTIOUSE, without contradiction, that Mr.
TuottPsoN had threatened, if the claims of the
adopted son of the rajah were not conceded, he
would bring him to England and parade him about
the streets. It is clear that the mainspring of
agitation in the ease of the Rajah of SATTAR.t has
been in England; that the parties in India are mere
puppets in tho hands of English agitators. It is
clear that the claims of the adopted son of the late
Rajah of SATTARA to the vacant throne have been
prop..sed to be agitated now in somewhat the same,
fashion as the claims of JACK CADE to the crown of
England are represented by SHAKESPEARE to have
been agitated in the time of HENRY VI. " Smith, the
weaver." vouehed for the bricklayer's being the son of
EDMUND MORTIMER, because " he made a chimney
in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this
day to testify it." Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON pro-
posed to show the real live adopted son of the Rajah
of SATTARA to the " Smiths, the weavers" of our day,
as proof positive that the rajah has suffered wrong.
No find Mr. THOMPSON urg ng on the late rajah
end his surviving family to assert claims against
the Indian government; we find him putting a plausi-
ble story in their mouths ; we find him threatening
to agitate the question here in a manner that no
person convinced he had a good case in hand would
condescend to. And, to complete the picture, we
learn that Mr. THOMPSON is paid for his advocacy of
the cause; though, to do him justice, he pleads in
extenuation—like the frail lair one who hinted that
the fruit of her faux pea was "a very little one"—
that his remuneration is very inadequate or very
irregularly paid. These are the facts. Every reader
may draw his own inference from them; to us only
one seems feasible—that the sham motion of Thursday
night was made, not with a hope of taking anything
by it for the clients, but to impress them with a sense
of the zeal and importance of their advocate, lest they
should be tempted to dispense with his services in
future.

The merits of the caure thus agitated are obvious
enough. The late Rajah of SATTARA was placed on
the throne by the Anglo-Indian government, to
govern as a vassal ; he was by the same government
deposed for seditious practices. He was penniless
when he ascended the throne, but he accumulated a
considerable sum by savings out of the revenue of the
territory placed under his rule. These savings, as
proceeding from the territorial revenue, were seques-
trated on his depoaition. His family claim them as
private property, and his adopted son claims to suc-
ceed to the throne. There are two adopted sons of
the late Rajah, and the question which, or whether
either, of them has a claim to the succession,
is yet undecided. In the meantime the Anglo-
Indian government has offered ample provi-
sion to his family, of which the Ranee at
lead has refused to accept her share, except
upon terms which would amount to a virtual recogni-
tion of the claims of Mr. THOMPSON'S client. Such

terms could not of course be conceded. In so far as
the Indian parties are concerned there is no doubt
about the case. The only doubts and difficulties that
ever attached to it arose out of personal disputes, im-
putations, and recriminations between English agents
of the Anglo Indian government. The case of the
Itajah of SATTARIL would never have been heard of in
this country had it not afforded to English agents
materials for earning on a struggle for priority of
promotion. Such is really the unworthy cahoot which
Mr. THOMPSON has been constituted the paid agent.
Even were it each a case as he represents it to be, his
part in it would be (a strange one for a professed ltbe•
ral) that of asserting the indefeasible hereditary
rights of an imbecile and intriguing despot in obstruc-
tion of the Anglo-Indian government's efforts to ob-
tain good government for the people.
In so far as the family of thelate Rajah of &mita
are concerned, the case may be dismissed with this
brief exposure. But there remains a question
of infinitely more importance to the English
public—the question as to how the position
assumed by Mr. THOMPSON affects his repu-
intim and usefulness as a member of the British
legislature. It does seem inconsistent with the cha-
racter of a representative of an English constituency
to advocate in parliament the cause of a foreign
prince from whom he receives a salary, even though
that cause should be clear and unexceptionable. How
much more then must it be inconsistent with his du-
ties to advocate in this manner a cause every way so
questionable as that which Mr. Tuomroox has under-
taken. We say nothing of his position as paid agent
of the King of DELHI, which appears to be practi-
cally a mere sinecure. Bat even with respect to this
connexion his duties to the King may come to be in-
compatible with his duties to his constituents. Mr.
THOAPSON'S proper. place as the standing counsel of
the King of Drum and the Rajah of SATTABA, would
be at the bar, not in the body, of the House of Commons.

Tan cue of the Dee pilots, remanded at Liver-
pool on a charge of robbeg and murder, reported. in
our publication of yesterday, is one that requires
prompt and searching am many, and immediate and
wide publication of the result.
Two of the Dee pilots are accused of plundering

some of the unfortunate men who escaped him
the
Ocean Monarch, and apparently of turning te:
adrift afterwards. Broad suspicions are
slap
sinnated of their having made away with ore 014
party who remained on board their boat, if rash
charge, ire ultimately made good the callous beat
leanness of the crime will be aggravated by a.
breach of trust involved in it. The parties
whom such grave accusations ate advanced
e 7,4
be, in their capacity of pilotv, the especial --"01
and cheriahers of shipwrecked seamen, not theirpl%
darer.. Bach crimes as are imptin dto them, in
tion to their being a violation of morel principle lea
common humanity, are a violation of official duty.
Fearful of prejudging so serious a case we eh%
even from balancing i a probabilities, as they ate,
in the stades of the accusers. Wpm we seek uTZ.
force is the necessity that there be no delay in seihk.
ing the matter to the bottom; in giving
Betty to the result; in if an eina
punishment on the accused if bound guilty;
m re-assuring the minds of all connected with
•es, which cannot fail to be disturbea by tee kat
suspicion that victims of the winds and waves...
experience such an inhospitable reception ea ti
coasts of England, from the very men who are seue
to aid them in danger and &stress.
This is the more nece.eary u raw than se*,
cions attach to the inhabitants about the mouth, d
the Dee and NI.-rsey of having many among them
veterately addicted to the inhuman pradtice
" wrecking." How it may be now we know ag;
but not ten years ago we were assured by a respite
able inhabitant of Liverp 01, when on a visit thee
that during the preceding v. inter one of his sena*
had made an urgent applicattm for leave to smith,
parents (who resided near the cues., between the Dui
and the Mersey), at a time when prolonged and arm
gales bad occasioned many wrecks; and the, by dal
cr ueationing, he discovered that her anxiety to
go home at that particular time arose from a dui, to
secure her share in what might be picked apalaki
the shore.