The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-31 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WZDNIMAT E,•NINo.
It is said to-day that the Dotation Bill will be pre-
sented by the ministry of transition. It seems
probable that some day next week will be fixed for
bringing forward this question.
Not the least event of the day is a vigorous sketch
by Lamartine of the late crisis, destined later for his
own paper, the anseiller the People, but communi-
cated in the meantime to the more widely circulated
columns of the Constitutionnel. He begins by pitying
the " buffoonery " of parties calling themselves re-
publican going to accept their ballot ball from the
hand of avowed friends of the house of Orleans. He
then traces the history of the coalitions of 1829,1838,
and 1818, which destroyed the governments of
Charles X. and Louis Philippe. Auguring the same
destructive results from the present coalition, which
counts among its leaders the very same names of
Thir rs, Berryer, Durant,, he says: Two or three days
ago, all was calm, credit, work, trade, hope. But this
did not suit the game of the enemies of the republic.
They wanted • storm: but for a storm you must
have a cloud. Their cloud was the Committee of

Permanence. Here he traces a famous picture of the
blindness and deafness of that sentinel of the consti-
tution to the glaring and loud intrigues of the Or-
leanists and legitimists' to the comings and goings to
and from Claremont and Wiesbaden, to the celebra-
tion of a high mass in the chapel of the very Tuile-
ries by order of the commander-in chief, while the
vigilance they displayed in watching the least move-
ments of the Bonapartist/ was really wonderful.
And how (he says) did it watch the Empire? ! you
hays only to open the minutes—they are a chef d'aigurre of
inanity and solicitude; from each page there arises an
odour of police from the hands of such or such subalterns;
there are gossippings put into reports, half confidences,
night patrols; the phantoms of an autumn evening seen
by the fireside. One had beard say, another had fan-
cied he bad seen, this one imagined that be had sus.
pedal, that one was surprised not to have remarked ;
such a one felt the necessity of calling on the con-
spirator, the Minister of War, to ask him frankly if he were
not conspiring—Another to make hint promise to give
nothing more then the simple ration to soldiers thirsty from
the march ; another to wait patiently for the coming review
to ascertain it really, yea or no, the republic will that day be
coati-noted—determined, co doubt, to denounce the coneyi:

racy ear it should be iciromplish•d; In short, things that
are really prodigious in keenness, tact, logic, and sagacity.
And all sods by the famous assassinstioe. But the general
commanding the troops, according to these minutes, was
present as some of the sittings. Re necessarily tresquillined
the ammittise, for he had only to speak, and there would
have been no reviews ; or he would only have to
and his retirement would have revealed the supreme
peril. At the instant the Assembly would have been convoked,
and the conspiracy would have been crushed by the weight of a
radon which will :rave none of such this. But no, the parlia-
ment is not convened, and nothing is said, bat there are whis-
perings which ate the denunciations of silence. Well, let us
reason closely, and say the truth to the Permanent Committee.
Thin truth is one of two things : either the Permanent Com.
mittee saw crime, in the acts of the Executive Government
during the absence of the Amiably, and in that case it is
inexcusable for not having at the seam moment sounded the
constitutional tocsin of alarm, and recalled the Assembly to
revert, beard, and pulverise the coup digit ; or the Persia
sent Committee say only phantoms, sad in that case why
be, it j ined in a chorus with the retrospective coalition
which has jut denounced the soi distant conspiracies of the
Recently* Government to the Assembly, has agitated the
people, eatad a panic in the Republic, suspended affairs,
divided the two powers, whose harmony is the necessary midi.
tion of all good, and whose conflict the condition of all evil ?
Either the committee was very blind two months ago, or is
very mute at present. Let it reply if it can.
Here, then, was the cloud all charged. Now fur
the storm. Well, at a moment when the country was
in the enjoyment of supreme tranquillity, eight or ten
active, able, eloquent leaders of the Orleanist party
blase out in sadden rage against the executive go-
vernment for its " audacity" to exercise its constitu-
tional prerogative. They dart to the tribune like
Mirk Antony at the death of Cesar, and raise the
cry of the country in danger. OE they go into
their bureaux to appoint a committee of pub-
lic safety. And the poor dull republicans
of the tiers-partl filth into the snare like
oxen to the slaughter-house. The committee pro-
posed a resolution, which was a rupture between
the two constituted powers that made up the re-
Vablic. He opposed the resolution in common with
2E5 others, and he was hooted right and left for his
pains. A general (supposed to be Bedeau), to whom
be was alm in the habit of listening with atten-
tion, walkup and down in the corridors of the
chamber while be (M. Lamartine) was speaking.
Another of those genUsmen who shake their fists at
ideas and shrug their shoulders at convictions and
independence assailed him with sue of those apos-
trophes which cut short all speaking. He
descended deafened from the tribnne,bnt not convinced.
Meanwhile a consummate orator, the spoiled child
of coalitions, made ono, more with the highoot
sad most charming variations his deentneil {molt of

four 'coalitions. Changing the name of the King
into that of the President, he caught up the republi-
eats, hushed, dandled, caressed, fascinated them, and
led them off to the snare to the sonde of that flute
which gave the tons to the popular orators of the time
of the Oracetd. " L'empire est fait," he aim out;
and when the charmed republicans have got their feet
into the coalition, he drew the cord. I. mays M. La-
mortise, tell you "Le tour mat fait." Now they had
to choose between the dictatorship of the President or a
royalist convention. Such was the pass to which these
precious pretended republicans of the tiers-parti had
brought the republic. Finally, M. Lamartine as-
cribes all the evils from which France has suffered
for flve-and-twenty years to two parties. One, he
says, is the party which kicks away the ladder by
which it gets into power, and leads the press and par-
liament to the assault of the government when they
are no longer at the head of it.. The other is that
small fraction of the republican party which takes its
name from a newspaper (the National).
The Assembly met at noon in its bureaux, to ap
point a committee for examining the petition of M
Limon for authorization to execute a warrant of
arrest on M. Mauguin. The majority of the bureaux
were in favour of granting the authorization, only it
was thought that the committee should examine care-
fully all documents connected with the debt, and endea-
vour to make out as distinctly as possible the real origin
sf the prosecution.
To day the President's last message appeared pla-
carded about Paris.
PARIS, THURSDAY MORNING.
The uppermost question of the moment is the
dotation, a bill for granting which, it is said, will be
presented in the course of next week by M. de Ger-
miry, the new Minister of Finance.
It is still opposed with obstinacy by the legiti-
mists, but a change may be operated in the tactics of
M. Berryer when the bill comes on.
There was a meeting yesterday evening of Legiti-
mist representatives in the Rue de Rivoli. Two
questions were diecussed, the dotation and the repeal
of the electoral law of the 31st of May. The dots-
tion met with almost unanimous opposition. As to
the law of the 31st of May, the proposition for repeal
was rejected by a majority of six votes.
It was reported last night that M. Mauguin, the
representative whom M. Cheron wants to arrest, had
fled to the frontier.
Yesterday, M. Weise& received the personnel of
hie ministerial department. M. Mammy, the chef de
cabinet of M. Bombe, retains his place. M. Lomas
also remains as general secretary.
PARIS FUNDS, JAN. 30.
' Three per Cents.
Five per Cents
Bank Shares

67f. 80c.
96E 35c.
..2.242f. 300.

Our Paris despatches of last evening have col
mved.

UNITED STATES.

The City of Glasgow, screw steamer, commanded by
Captain Mathews, arrived at Liverpool yesterday
morning from Philadelphia, whence she sailed on the
16th inst. She has thus made the passage under
fourteen days.
In the session of the senate on the 15th, Mr. Clay pre-
tented three petitions from Indiana, praying that congress
would adopt some steps to remove all those fret coloured
people in the United States who were willing to go to
Aines, and that provision be made for their support for one I
year after their arrival there. Also • petition from Rhode
Island, praying that more effectual means might be adopted
for the suppression of the African slave trade. The peti-
tioners depicted the horrors of the trade in vivid colours,
and represented that the measures adopted by Great Britain,
France, and the United States, by keeping up squadrons on
the coast of Africa, had proved a failure. That the only
effectual remedy for the suppressith of the African slave
trod* was the encouragement of eblishing colonies all
sloeg the coast of Africa. The colonies now there, within
their limits, had wholly suppressed the trade, and they occu-
pied one-third of the coast. The petitioners asked that a line
of steamers, or of packet vessels, might be established to ply be-
tween so.d America the coast of Arica. Mr. Clay said these
petitions had suggested to him the importance of the subject.
He alluded to the report lately sent to the Senate by the
state department, in which it appeared that the importation
of slaves into Brazil, Cube, and other southern countries, had
increased immensely. That trade was mainly carried on by
American vessels. Ninety three American vessels cleared
within year one from ports in Brazil for the coast of Africa.
Those American vessels were sold in the Brazilian parts on
condition that they be delivered in ports on the coast of
Africa. The vessel, therefore, while actually sold, sailed to
Africa under the American Hag. When arrived there the
captain saw the agent to whom he was to deliver the vessel.
Re then informed his crew that the vessel was sold—
that a new crew was to be shipped, and the American
dog was to come down. Toe poor sailors had the
alternative to remain and perish front want on the
coast of Africa, or to ship and navigate the vessel
with a cargo of slaves to Brazil. It had been tenons.
mended as a means of breaking up ttis proceeding, that the
United States should reins° to grant sea letters, or other
documents, allowing vessels to sail from any of these ports
to the coast of Africa, for there was no trade to carry them
there except the slave trade. All agreed that the squadron
on the coast of Africa had been a failure, so far as stopping
the slave trade ; at all events, it was ascertained that the
good results had not been equivalent to the great cost and
sacrifice of health and life in keeping the squadron up. The
United States keep up the squadron oa the coast of Africa
under the eighth article of the treaty of Washington,
amounting to a force of eighty guns ; and also a squadron
on the coast of Brazil. These squadrons cost half • million
of dollars annually, besides a great sacrifice of life and
health. Re thought that if these squadrons, as they
did not prevent the trade, were withdrawn, there
would not be such • sacrifice of Afiicien lives. He
thought there was ao effectual remedy to suppress the slave
trade but the occupation of the whole coast by colonies,
and thus stop the trade at home and oa its threshold.
By the treaty of Washington, the United States was only
obliged to keep the squadron on the coast of Brazil for five
jean. Those live years had long since expired. It was a
question of financial economy whether that squadron should
be kept up at such an expense, and the lives of gallant sea-
-1 men be jeopardised and sacrificed, when no good fruits follow.
There was no project of the age equal to that of transporting
with their own consent, to the coast of Africa, the people
of colour. What was to become of them in the states ? In
Washington, under the eye of Congress, their numbers had
been doubled in the last ten years. Many of the states of
the union had ',treacly adopted legislation for their exclusion,
and prohibitions against them had been adopted in several
state coastituti no. Whet, in the name of humanity was to
become of them. Nothing could be done for their relief
exempt to transport them to the home of their ancestors.
It would benefit the whites at the north, the slaves at the
south, and greatly improve the condition of the poor crea-
tures themselves—for, if they remained in America, they
must continue to be a degraded race. No one—no section,
or state or country could be injured by their coloaization on
the coast of Africa. If they could only give up the prejudices
and unhappy causes of the agitation which had so long
disturbed them—if the people of the north would only per-
mit the people of the south to conduct and manage their own
domestic aff.irs for themselves—if they would only consider
that it slavery be an evil, it is confined only to the people of
the south—if they would join in this grand scheme, this only
effectual means to benefit the free segues, ow much peace
and harmony would result? He moved, and the memorials
I were referred to the committee on commerce.
At New York on the 16th inst. the walk of sin four-story
buddies, fell in Twenty-first-street, between Fifth and Sixth
avenue. By this accident it is estimated that at least twenty
lives have bean lost. A large number 'Apennine were seriously
injured. Sin dead bodies had been taken from the ruins,
and carried to the station-house. It is supposed that the
accident is the result of bad mortar, used in the erection of
the building.

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The commercial intelligence wu anticipated by the
telegraph brought by the Mat mad.

;tie Court.

WINDSOR,

The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes.
The royal family took walking and pony exercise in the Slopes
and Windsor Perk. Prisms Albert went oat shooting this
morning, attended by the Marquis of Ormond., Col. the
lion. Cantos Grey, Colonel Berkeley Drummond, and Lieut.
Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Marquis and MarchOnese of
Salisbury, the Marquis of Angle**, and Lady Adelaide
Paget, the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, the Earl
and Comical. of Wilton, Viscount and Viscountess Sydnty,
and Sir Jobs are expected to arrive at the Caslts
ts-day on a visit to the Queen and the Prince. The Royal
Dinner party at the Castle this evening will include the
Dashes, of Kent, the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady
C. Lamson (tower, his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, toe
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Salisbury, the Marquis of Anglesey and Lady Adelaide Paget,
the Marquis end Marchioness of Stafford, Lady Fanny
Howard, Buenos. de Speth, the Earl and Countess of
Wilton, Viscount and Viazonntess Sydney, and Sir John
Ronald,.

A deputation, oonsieting of Mr. Meeterman, M.P.,
Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P. Mr. Deputy Peacock, Mr.
Deputy Harrison, Mr. Deputy Lott, Mr. Blake, Mr. Water-
low, the City Iteinembranosr, Mr. Dew (oWf clerk), and
Mr. Haywood (surveyor), had an interview with Lord
Joh& Russell and Sir George Grey yesterday, at the official
mildew* of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing.
street.

Lord Ashley had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday, at Ws official residence in
Downing-street.
The Biahop of Norwich had an interview yesterday
with Sir George Grey. Mr. Tancrad, MP, had also an
interview yesterday with the ricks boo. bermes, at the
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