The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-30 00:00:00

IG, APRIL 30, 18514, ,

to carry out this Exhibition on the plan with which
it waistarted, and make it self-paying. If this may
on foreigners hardly and niggardly in some res-
pects, it is for the public in its individual capacity,
and professional bodies to make amends, and show
that we can be a generous and hospitable, as wel-
as a calculating and prosperous people.

ME good folks of Kensington are running to the
rescue of their gardens ; and it was high time. The
portion of Kensington.gardens covet ted by our exclu-
sive equestrian exhibitors has been definitely pointed
out. They wish to take possession of the avenue which
bisects the gardens, extending from the gate near the
west-end of the Crystal Palace to Bayswater. This is
not a substitute for Rotten-row,but an extension of it,
for the Belgravians can only reach it by passing along
Rotten-row. unless, indeed, they prefer the high-
road to Kensington, which can scarcely be called
sore secluded.
It in clear as daylight, therefore, that the occupa-
tion of this avenue as a" ride" is not intended to be
temporary. The Tyburnians want to have an entry
to Rotten-row from the end of Westlxiurne-termee,
as the Belgravians have from the end of Grosvenor-
place. The crowd and the steam-engines of the
Crystal Palace during the Exhibition are a mere
pretext to obtain permission to get their horses into
Kensington-gardens. They say they only mean to
remain there for a short time, but it is easier to keep
them out than it will be to turn them out.
The practical effect of turning this avenue into a
" ride' will be, to throw all that part of the gardens
which is to the east of it into Ilyde-park, and to
bring that part which is to the west into immediate
contact with the hubbub of the gallopers. It will re-
duce the gardens to one-half of their present size,
and deprive what is left of them of their present se-
questered character.
In - to accomplish this txs”-'

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.shionables arc animated by the same amiable spirit
which instigated Allan to covet and appropriate the
vineyard of NABOTU, and drove a better king to com-
mit the sin rebuked by the parable of the rich man
who took away his poor neighbour's ewe lamb. They
seek to impart additional zest to their revels by
scampering across the little garden plot in which the
obscurely industrious take pleasure, and trampling
down its flowers. If the sole object of the intruders
were to obtain a ride during the few months Hyde-
park may be crowded, is not Itegcnt's-ixirk open to
them ?

FRANCE.
PARIS, Tt7CSDAT EVENING.
A proclamation, inciting the people to revolt and
massacre, has been disseminated from some unknown
source through the departments. This document,
equally influnous whether forged to entrap mal-
contents, or expressing the designs of the directing
committee of an organised conspiracy, is designated
"The loth Bulletin," and signed by." The Cextral
Committee of Resistance." The opening paragraph
is sufficient as a sample of its style and explanation
of its objects:
Citizens !—The moment is come to resume the musket and
to exterminate from one end of France to the other the in-
famous ari.tocrats whom the 24th of February had gene-
rously spared, and who have not ceased to crush, rob, and
ruin you. On the first sound of the tocsin rely on the
energetic co-operation of your brothers of Paris, as they
will rely on yours if circumstances should induce them to
ini
tiative.
The the
The day of rising is mentioned as being at hand.
The proclamation has been clatlestinely printed ; it
has been distributed through the ateliers of Pane,
and sent by the post into the country, under envelope,
stamped from the Batignolles.
I call your attention to-day to an article of Emile
de Girardin in the Presse, denouncing in terms
I which do equal credit to his talents, feelings, and
judgment, the infatuated attempts of the ultra-de-
mocrats to stimulate an insurrection. There seems
much reason to believe that the incendiary bulletin
which has drawn forth this eloquent commentary is
the invention of some zealous agent of power, rather
than a serious emanation from a club of con-
spirators, its vein is so atrocious. Cruelty,
revenge, plunder, bloodshed, flames, mingle
their furious elements in this polluted composition,
which leaves pale and colourless by companson the
insanest appeals of raving Jacobinee. Since it is
evidently the policy of the Bonapartists to inspire
terror, if the presumptive evidence of " cur bone"
is to be any guide, we should be led to the conclusion
that some zealous Decembriat had adopted this ques-
tionable stratagem of ml lying adherents to the standard
of the Flys& through fear. If the document be not
a forgery, the signing. source, " Central Committee of
Resistance," is self-stigmatised in a way which ren-
ders all further condemuation superfluous, except to
warn the departments. In all cases the article of
Oirardin sums up all that can be said against the
deplorable design of an appeal to arms, now,
w the people, if they only wait patiently
until 1852, will have a legal opening for se-
curing the fruits of all previous revolutions. It
will be time enough to take the gun in hand
when they are attacked either by an attempt
to upset the republican form of government, or any
other pillar of the constitution. The democratic
party must be guided by the dictates of its parlia-
mentary representatives; and, whatever the sugges-
tions of exiled chiefs or of their agents may be, no
regard is to be paid to them. Girardin calls on
Ledru Rollin and consorts to disavow the proclama-
tion in the Voi.c du Proscrit. It will speedily be
known from what quarter it comes.
A new plan was proposed yesterday, in the cabinet
of one of the ministers, which consists in appointing
the committee of revision, in voting the budget of
1852, and in proroguing the Assembly until Sep.'
tember. This scheme has no chance of success, for,
the question once opened, the Assembly would not
adjourn.
M. Leon Faucher is to be heard on Thursday be-
fore the committee on the National Guard Bill. The
committee has fixed at one year the duration of
domicile for inscription on the registers of the
national guard. M. Faucher wishes three years of
domicile, as in the law of May, to be the qualifica-
tion. The government has announced to M. pussy
that the demand for the arrears of pay of Jerome
Bonaparte will be withdrawn.
M. Falloux has arrived at Angers.
The petition movement is still pushing in the de-
partments with all possible vigour by the Bona-
partists and legitimists. Committees arc organising,
and subscriptions opened for propagating rival
interests. In Paris the notabilities of trade and ma-
nufactures have already met several times to discuss
the means of exciting a striking manifestation of
public opinion in favour of revision. Still the greatest
apathy is visible in the great majority even of the
Orgeoise.
To-day a fresh ballot took place in the Legislative
Assembly for the election of a councillor of state.
MM. Come, Darcy, and 31andarous-Vertarny were
still the leading candidates, but as none of them ob-
tained the absolute majority the election was once
more adjourned.
The committee on the Municipal Bill decided yes-
terday that the council of prefecture should be pre-
sided; in the absence of the prefect, by the eldest of
the councillors, instead of by a delegate of the pre-
fect. It was settled after an animated discussion
that the debates before the council should be public,
except in certain cases mentioned in the bill.
Dr. Veron expresses the wish that tho malencon-
trease dentande of Jerome Bonaparte may be with-
drawn by the government.
The Sugar Bill was again adjourned, without a step
having been made. nothing else of interest took

Place:
The rumours of dissensions in the ministry con-
tinue. 'I o-day it was reported in the Assembly that
M. Baroche would be replaced by M. de Mortemart.
The Messager reports that the council of ministers
was occupied esteay it the pctition-inovement
is the departments ardnd that it was decided, on the
eof M. Faucher, that the government
jo no initiative on this subject, but let the
Assembly and the country act.
General d'Hantpoul is expected at Marseilles by
the Titan. General Pelissier, Commander of Oran,
and appointed to take the post of governor-general
ad interim, had arrived at Algiers. -General d'Haut-
poul is said to have been detinitively recalled. The
new governor-general, it is thought, will be either
General Anpick er Lahitte.
M. de Lamartine, who has been long advocating
the revision of the constitution with a view to the
prolongation of the powers of Louis Napoleon, ap-
pears now so convinced of the impracticability of

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that course, that he fills the first page of the Pays
with an earnest exhortation to Louis Napoleon to
prefer the part of abnegation to that of perseverance,
and giving up all thought of aspiring the fresh lease
of power, to retire risignedlv into rank of a
private citizen. lie shows the President how, having
missed the prize of ambition, he may still gain
an elevated rank as a private citizen, be chosen Pre-
sident of the National Aasembly, and exercise great
influence upon the election of his successor. The
concessions made to the parliamentary majority have,
in the opinion of M. de Lainartine, gone too great a
length for Louis Napoleon ever to recover the confi-
dence of France.
To-day the court of Assizes of the Seine was
crowded with people eager to witness the trial of
Vion for the murder of M. I)esfontaines, the muti-
lated remains of whose body were discovered in a
chest at Chateauroux. I may observe, on this occa-
sion that the columns of the 1 newspapers devoted I
to miscellaneous intelligence, teem ordinarily with
stories of crime and violence, such as would, if they
occurred in England, rivet public attention and occa-
sion a fresh edition of the morning papers, to add
the latest intelligence. But here comparatively little
sensation is occasioned by recitals of the most atrocious
purport ; and part of this insensibility is doubtless
traceable to the fact of many such horrible incidents
being pure inventions, while others are moulded with
a mixture of romance upon the slenderest thread of
truth. Still the per ceutage of actual crime which
remains is quite enough to exhibit a fearful disorga-
nisation in the domestic relations of society through-
out this country, which is doubtless traceable in a
great degree to the wild ferment of political passions,
which renders the lower orders callous to the per-
formance of all social duties, and leaves education to
be scrambled for between the Jesuit and the Jacobin.
Yesterday the sale of Louis Philippe's modern
gallery at the I'alais Royal commenced. The sabre-
cuts, tears, and bullet-holes in many of the works
were still visible, and although they had been re-
mounted on canvass, they had not been re-touched.
Leopold Roberts' "Burial at Rome" tached 15,:3nnfr.
The funds, after undergoing brisk fluctuations,
closed with a slight improvement on yesterday.