The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1

ijoliattotimoiosolld to ba oithefoce or this &her.
F hhtd of thi risloglons, and driven not a
to the oil sanctuary. And fear works
*query Leith the politician, sad would tell tremen-
donsly, were any political question opened that had
any referent* to abstract or fandamental principles.
Were we in times when appeals to divine right and
invocations of passive obedience had still some no-
velty left in them, we would not want for ST. JOHNS
more than for SACHEVERELS. Fortunately the chill
that has come over liberalism, and the reaction in
favour of conservatism, do not assume shape in actual
legislation ; they are contented to remain passive, and
be contented with pooh-poohing and strangling
liberal efforts of advanoe, without embarking, like the
French, on any measure of absolute reaction.
It is from a clear discernment of these phenomena
of the times, this close and necessary study of the
wind and tide of public opinion, that we see the great
organs of the press steering all their courses diffe-
rent from what they pursued in 1847. We see
journals of decided liberalism in that year now
tacking as close to the wit.dward of ultra-
toryiam as well can be. And although there are
organs, like ourselves, zealous for the extension of
the franchise, and every national popular right, they
still see the utter inutility of preaching in the desert,
or of haranguing a popular audience with either its
eyes shut, or its tongue in its cheek. There are some
good and wise folk, who call this treason on our part,
but who, if they would bat put on their spectacles,
would find it plain common sense.
There is to be sure a natural jealousy in all candi-
dates for the national ear. The champion of free
trade does not like to be bored with chartist's. The
universal suffrage partizan thinks economical reforms
so many sops to make the people slumber. At the
Manchester meeting of Friday we heard little of the
franchise, except from Mr. DYER, but a great deal
'brut the demerits of the press, in denouncing the
supremacy of the POPS. It is difficult to please all
parties, especially those who fondle pet opinions and
who take sectarian views. But that public man, be he
who he may, who really gets into the current of pub-
lic opinion, and who either directs or represents it, he
may depend upon it that he will never be reduced
either to make long excuses and explanations to his
constituents, or to complain that there is not an
I organ of the press upon whose support he can
I reckon.

FRANCE.

PAWS. SATrRDLT EVENING.

There is a general disposition to regard the new
Nlessage of the President u a defiance, instead of
what it claims to be—a profession of conciliation
towards the Assembly. On all hands one hears
nothing but declarations that war is now declared
between the two powers. The funds experienced,
notwithstanding the artificial a'tempts made to keep
up the quotations of yesterday, a sensible fall.

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A supplement to the Monileur appeared last night,
which confirmed officially the list which I sent you of
the new ministers. Much attention has been excited
by the language used by the official journal in usher-
ing the new cabinet to the knowledge of the public.
It says " Variou, parliamentary combinations has ing
been tried in vain, the President of the Republic has
appointed a ministry of transition, compored as fol-
lows." This statement is, in fact, the presidential
message expressed in two words, and upon it issue
will be joined between the two powers. The Assembly
will, in the first place, insist upon the most distinct
explanations being furnished, in order to decide
whether tie efforts made by the President to form a
parliamentary ministry were serious, and such as
could by any possibility have been attended with any
result but failure. In the next place the government
will be called upon to explain what is meant by
a ministry of transition. Transition to what ? And
during how long ? Until answers of a satisfactory
kind can be given on these two heads the situation
will evidently be one of aggravated conflict.
The tore of the press generally is very hostile to
the government, and the message is generally accused
of professing more conciliation than appears in the
acts of the President.

I add what 1 have been able to gather of the ante-
cedents of them obscure ministers.

M. Wayne, Minister of the Interior, son of a mer-
chant at Marseilles, was an attorney in that city when
the Revolution of July 1830 broke out. lie was
shortly after appointed counseiller de prefecture and
secretary-general of the department of the liouches-
du-Rhone. He attached himself to the family of
General I/anvil:omit, killed so unfortunately at the
Siege of Constantine. He became subsequently sob-
peeled, and then prefect of the Pyrenixa-Orientales,
and finally director of civil affairs in Algeria, under
the government of the Duke of Aumale. Since the
Revolution of February he has been appointed prefect
of the Nord, from which post he has just been with-
drawn to assume the direction of the Ministry of the
Interior. M. Wayese poses for an able adminis-
trator. His advancement, however, is mainly due to
the interest of the Danremout family, which is nearly
connected with that of General Baragruiv d'Hilliers.

M. Brinier, Minister of Foreign gff.iire, was long
second secretary of embassy at London, consul at
Warsaw, and consul genersi at Leghorn. In 1847
he succeeded his father in the direction of the
department of accounts in the Ministry of Foreign

M. de Germiny, Minister of Finance, is the son-
in-law of M.liumann, former Minister of Finance.
Ile has been prefect of the S. ine-et-Maroe, and
stood for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies at the
elections of 1842 in opposition to M. Drouyn de
Lhasa, to replace the Duke of Prulin, who bad
just been appointed peer of France. M. de Ger-
mioy failed, and was sent to Rouen as reoeiver-
general, which poet he still occupied • few days
ago. He rebuilt the Quartier .Martainville at Rouen.
M. de Royer, Minister of Justice, was made Pro-
cureur-Geniaal of the Court of Appeal of Paris on the
advancement of M. Baroche to the poet of Minister of
the Interior. M. de Royer owed hie promotion on
that occasion to his exertions as advocate-general
under Baroche at the trials of the High Court at
Versailles.

M. Mayne, Minister of Public Works, was
wader secretary of state for the financial depart-
ment weer the ministry of M. Achille Fould. He
accepted in the cabinet which was broken up by the
vote of the 18;h inst. the poet which he still holds in
the present government, and is the only minister who
has kept his place.
M. Valliant, Minister of Marine, is an admiral who
commanded a division of the French fleet on the coast
of Italy during the Roman expedition.
General Hendon, Minister of War, commanded four
months ago the military division whose headquarters
are at Metz. At the time when General Ditumayer
was dismissed, and when the project was conceived of
splitting the command of the army of Paris into three
divisions, and was in fact submitted by General
D'Hautpoul to the council of ministers, General Ran-
don was summoned by telegraph from Metz, and
General Carrelet from Marseilles. The latter suc-
ceeded General Nenmayer; and it was thought that
General Hendon would, have taken the post vacated
by d'Hautpoul. His name, for the rest, has figured
throughout the late crisis as a likely candidate for the
place to which he has at length been appointed.
M. Giraud, Minister of Public Instruction, formerly
professor of law, is member of the Institute, and of
the Superior Council of Public Instruction.
M. Schneider, Minister of Agriculture and Com-
merce, was appointed deputy in the place of his bro-
ther, who was killed by • full from horseback, and
sat several years in the Chamber without giving, by
his speeches or votes, any distinct idea of his political
opinions. Since the revolution of February M.
Schneider has lived retired from political life, super-
intending the direction of the Iron Works of Creme.
The sitting of the Assembly today was calm. All
the new ministers were present, with the exception
of Admiral Valliant. It was singular to see occupy-
ing the ministerial bench eight functionaries, nearly
all of whom were personally entirely unknown to the
Assembly, and not one of whom belonged to it.
Although the Presidency of the Council is in abey-
ance, it is evident that the tongue of the new mint
is NL Royer, whose !agate pleadings formerly heard
in the High Court of Versailles, as Advocate-General
seder M. &troche, won him the shoes of that legal
fanctionary when he was called from the post of Pro-
menr-General of Paris to be Minister of the Interior.
M. Deemousseaux de Gine attempted to raise an
incident with reference to the report of the sitting of
yesterday. He maintained that according to the terms
of the ennatitation, the message ought to have been
countcrsignad by a minister; that it contained things
which could not have been written by the President.

Bat the incident was suffered to drop, and the pads-
verbal adopted.
Interpellations demanded by M. Hovyn-Tran-
shire upon the formation of the cabinet, and accepted
immediately by the government, were fixed for Mon-
y.
da
Other interpellat ions, addressed by M. d'Adelsvraard
to the Minister of War, relative to the execution
of the law of 1848, and the 32nd article of the con-
stitution, in what concerns the troops destined to
secure the safety of the Assembly, are adjourned for
six months. General Ghatgarnier was the first to
rise for the adjournment, and was imitated by all the
majority. The Mountain only voted against. The
rest of the sitting was occupied with the hearing of
the report on petitions.
It was uuderstood that the main object of the in-
terpellations of M. Hovyn-Tranchere would be to
bring the minisery to declare that it would not consent
to hold office, even as a ministry of transition, with-
out the concurrence of the Assembly.
The sitting broke up without any further incident.
The announcement of the interpellatiocs, fixed for
Monday, seemed to have c insiderable effect at the
Bourse, and a fall set in which ended by carrying
down the Fives 35 centimes below the closing price
of yesterday.
SUNDAT EVENING.
The appearance of the new ministers in the As-
tenably has disappointed the expectations of many
who applauded the design attributed to the Pre-
sident to govern in the American fashion,
and keep the members of the cabinet work-
ing like clerks in their closets, inaccessible to
the interpellstione and badgering of the legis-
lative body. fhe President, say these, had it in his
power to effect a useful reform by annulling
the political character of the ministers, and
giving them a purely administrative function. As
it is, he has only exchanged second-rate men for third-
rate men, and planted himself in a position exposed to
the fire of the Assembly, with the weakest possible
means of defence. From orators the President has
stooped to advocates, and now from advocates
to clerks. If we ere to judge of the issue of the
combat which is to be deliverel to-morrow by the
eager animation of the assailants, and the warlike
tone of their conversation in the couloira, the execu-
tive power will have little reason to be satis-
fied with the first results of the new ex.
pedient to gain time. Nevertheless, there was
no faint-heartedness visible yesterday in the eight
new occupants of the ministerial bench. MM. Mon-
talembert, Dariste, Everiste Bevoux, were observed
applying to them, assiduously throughout the sitting,
words of encouragement and cmigra,ulation. The
partisans of MM. Thiers and Berryer recent bitterly
what they term an ironical, disdainful, tone of pro-
vocation in the message, clothed in plausible forms of
conciliation.

The object of M. Ilovyn-Tranchi2re'eintsrpellations
being to prove that the President never made any
serious attempt to form a parliamentary ministry,
MM. 'isnot and Leon Faucher will have to explain
from the tribune the nature of the overtures made to
them. The former is unwell, and the latter not dis-
posed to disable himself for office by attacking the
President.
M. Hovyn-Tranctere is a representative of the
Gironde, belonging to the majority, but of
no marked political importance. M. Thiele
moves bun forward on this occasion as a
pawn. He has an extremely feeble voice,' and will
probably confine his part to opt ning an arena for
speakers of greater power to grapple with the new
government. As the object of the interpellation is to
guard the Assembly in the face of France against
what its champions term the insidious misrepresenta-
tions of the President, the opposition will be
more explanatory than aggressive, and it is pretty
certain that all violent measures, such as motived
orders of the day condemning the message, addresses
to the President, and the like, will be rejected.
The majority were yesterday somewhat &soon-
ceded by the readiness with which the gauntlet
thrown down by M. HovynsTranthere was
picked up by MM. Magna, de Royer, and General
Itandon. The government wanted the fray to come
off at once. But the absence of MM. Thiers, Dofaure,
and Odilon Barrot would have rendered such a mo-
ment highly unseasonable for the opposition. There-
fore, by • tresh coalition of the Right and Left, they
succeeded in adjourning the interpellation till Kin-

day.
'file National attempts to incense the democratic
party against the new ministers, by citing instances
of the rigorous administration of M.Waysse, and fierce
threats of Gen. ltandon against the soeialists. Some
trait is served up out of the biography of each to
stamp their as men of reaction.
The report is once more in circulation about the
'President resorting to a national subscription instead
of a dotation-bill, fur the funds necessary to hie po-
sition.

MADRID, JAW. 21.—Three per Cents., 34 15-16; after
Boles, 34; to 15.16 cuh, 35 paper. Four per Cents.,
13. Fare per CAUL, 131; after BoU, 131 pap. r, 131
cub. Coupons 71 ; after Bolas, 73 cash. Paulus, 41:
atter Bolos, 4 1 16 cult. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 96 paper.
Exchange on London, 50.65.

ITALY.

PIEDMONT.

TURIN, JAN. 21.—The Chamber of Deputies, after
a debate which has lasted from the 17th inst., has
adopted by a majority of 98 votes against 31 the bill
imposing a tax upon property held by the tenure of
mortmain. An exception in favour of asylums for
children was upon the motion of M. Michelini ad-
ntitted by the ministry and adopted by the chamber.

ROME, JAN. 20.
The Tuscan government has authorised a company
of speculators to commence the necessary surveying
operations fur a new line of railway from Siena to the
Papal frontier, between Citta della Pieve and the
Lake of Thrasymene. The plans are to be presented
and the line granted within the year. When this
branch is completed, in connexion with that from
Pistoja, through I'orretta, to Lombardy, a great por-
tion of Italy will be bound in one great chain of iron
communication, and, unless the Papal government
makes haste to establish the line from Bologna
through Ancona to Rome,ite rivals will have the com-
mercial game entirely in their own hands. In this
country, however, the re-establishment of old roads
appears to have more interest than the formation of
new ones, and, whilst Tuscany is publishing plane
of new railway contracts, the Roman official journal
solemnly puts forth a list of the ancient inscrip-
tions and sepulchral fragments discovered along
the Appian Way, during the excavations made there
by order of the Minister of Public Works. No doubt
the treasures of R)me consist greatly in her antiqoi.
ties, but it is not necessary to renounce the improve-
ments of modern science because Rome was once the
mistress of the world. His Holiness has enriched the
Vatican library with a valuable collection of Papal
coins, gold, silver, and copper. This series, which
commences with Pope Gregory HI. in the year 731,
and concludes with the re4ro of Gregory XVI., for-
merly belonged to the Rasponian collection, but was
purchased io 1835 by Doctor Bali, who considerably
increased it, and from whom the Pope recently
bought it, to place amongst the treasures of the
Vatican.

The marriage of the Marquis Campans with Miss
Rowles was celebrated this morning by Cardinal Mai,
who pronounced the nuptial blessing and exhortation
with due unction. A party of the elite of Roman
and English society were invited for the occasion, and
Colonel Caldwell and the Hon. Mr. Nicol acted as
bridesmen, or witnesses, according to the catholic rite.
The happy pair start for Frascati forthwith, to pass
the honeymoon in the marquis's villa. On their re-
turn to Rome they will take up their residence in the
aptly-named Sposino Palace, in the Via del Babbuino,
which will be henceforth denominated the Campana
Palace, and will receive the whole of the marquis's
invaluable collection of Etruscan antiquities.
The uncertain state of affairs in Paris has increased
the price of silver here, and raised the exchange upon
London from 465 to 470. Other foreign exchangesin
a like ratio.

BRITISH NORTH MIRRICA.—A few days ago we
asked in what manner had the Colonial-office enter-
tained the measures submitted to them by the agent
from Nova Scotia? We are glad to have it to an-

nounce, on good authority, that the whole case of
that colony has only been brought under Lord Grey's
notice by the Hon. Joseph Howe within the last
fortnight; that it embraces several questions of great
ituportsnoe; and that it is now under consideration
with every prospect of a !evolvable result.