The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-15 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Oar foreign express arrived this morning.
There were various rumours afloat on Saturday in
Paris respecting the dissension which prevails be-
tween the British embassy and the Hotel of Foreign
Affairs. The most generally credited of these were
that the two ambassadors, Count St. Au sire in Lon-
don, and Lord Normanby in Paris, had reciprocally
entreated their recall, by their respective governments,
with permission to leave a charge d'afilsires, assigning
u a moon the unsatisfactory spirit which marked
their diplomatic relations; that Lord Normanby had re-
ceived on Thursday a despatch from London approving
d his conduct, authorising him to suspend diplomatic
relations with M. Guixot, and inf him that the
Cabinet should be consulted with re ce to his
recall ; that King Leopold had written to the Tuileries
a letter, declaring that the speech of M. Guisot in the
Chamber had rendered all reconciliation with Eng-
land impassible so long as he continued in the
Cabinet; that a ministerial crisis was impending;
that M. Duch;itel was manoeuvring to replace M.
Onizot in the foreign affairs, and even Opiring to the
presidency, and that Marshal Souk had definitively
resigned.
The Chamber of Deputies passed the ensemble of
the address on Friday by an unanimous vote, and the
grand deputation of the Chamber of Deputies went
yesterday evening to the Tuileries, and presented it
to the King, who returned the following answer :
Maoism, leo Deputes,—lt is with a very lively saddle-
tion that I receive this address. I thank the chamber for
the loyal co-operation which it gives to my government in
the penal interest, sad, thanks to this ce-operatron, thanks
to our train; and the strength it insures to us, we have
rely upon the maintenance of that policy
:at right
Prin thtees internal order and the peace of the world.
Thanks also to this co-operation, we are enabled to lessen
the suferinp which weigh upon a part of our population,
maintaining at the same time public order, and the seen-
rity of commercial dealings. I am much affected by the
cordiality of the congratulations which you offer me on the
marriage et my eon, the Due de liontpenner. lam no less
so by the confides°e you ezpeess in the feelings with which
we are animated, which are mine as well se yours, and
which are also those of my sons—they will prove, as I bare
done, that on every tocanon their lives are devoted to
France"
These words were greeted with reiterated cries of
" Vice le Roi l" A great number of other deputies
joined the deputation.
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The Madrid mails of the 9th inst. have come to
hand.
The emigress bad appointed MM. Arteta and
Sartornis vice-presidents. In the sitting of the
senate of the 6th, the correspondence between M.
Isturits and M. Bulwer was laid before the chamber.
The government has given orders to prevent Gene-
ral Flores, the leader of the Equator expedition, from
entering Spain. According to the Clamor Publico,
orders have been given to establish an army of obser-
vation on the Portuguese frontier. The Eco del Co-
mercio says that the betrothal of Don Enrique with
the sister of the Marquis of Castella were celebrated
on the evening of the sth inst.
A decline was manifest at the Madrid Bonnie,
which was attributed to various causes; among
others, to the reported instability of the ministry.
The 7th being Sunday, the Baum was

DEATH OF Ma. SHARON TURNER. The :Cele-
brated author of the History of the Anglo-Saxons,
died early on the morning of the 13th inst., in hs 79th year.
Mr. Turner was in the receipt of a pension of 2001. a year,
and the first volume of his History of the Anglo-Saxons was
published in 1799. It is full of Gibbonisms, but
withal agreeably written and likely to maintain its place
in our historical literature, though to a great degree sup-
planted by the researches of Thorpe and Sir Francis Palgrave.
COLONIAL APPOINTMENT.—We understand that
Mr. Christopher Rawlinson, of the Western Circuit, and
Recorder of Portsmouth, and who was one of the intended
judges under the Small Debts Act, has just been appointed,
by Sir George Grey, to the reoordeaship of Penang. The
emoluments are about 4,0001. per manim.
NEw QUEEN S COUNSEL.—A number of new
Queen's counsel will be made either previous to the circuits
or in Easter Term. Amongst the applicants for silk gowns
the following are mentioned :—Mr. Bliss and Mr. Granger,
of the Northern Circuit; Mr. Townshemd, of the North
Wales Circuit; Mr. Miller, of the Midland; and Mr. Pren-
dergast and Mr. O'Malley, of the Norfolk Circuit.
JUDGESHIPS UNDER THE SMALL DEBTS ACT.—
It is said that about twenty appointments to the judgeships
under the Small Debts Act have already been made. Of
Queen's counsel, Messrs. Chilton, Starkie, Koe, sad Ander-
don (the two latter gentlemen members of the Chancery
bar), are mentioned as having received appointments. On
the Northern Circuit, Messrs. Walker. Wharton, Wilkinson,
and Ingham; and on the Midland, Messrs. Wildman and
Hildysrel, will, it is said, fill some of the judgeships. Mr.
Gale, of the Midland Circuit, goes to Hampshire ; Mr. Ro-
piness., to East Kent; and Messrs. Tyrrell, Smith, and
Palmer (three provincial counsel, and at present filling
judicial offices under local sets) to Ent Devon, Bath, and
Bristol, respectively. The following are appointed the
judges in Laneuhire and Yorkshire—North Lancashire,
Mr. T. Addison; South West Lancashire, Mr. W. A.
Hutton; Liverpool, Mr. W. Lowndes; Manchester, Mr.
Brandt; Bradford, Mr. G. H. Risley; Sheffield, Mr. W.
Walker; Leeds, Mr. T. H. Marshall; and York, Mr. R.
Wharton. Mr. Leigh Trafford, of Cheshire, and of the
Warrington Court of Requests, has been appointed to the
District Court of Birmingham. The London judges, under
the Small Debts Act, are Mr. Startle, Queen's counsel, and
Mr. Amos. The treasurers, who are expected to be about
twenty in number, have not yet been appointed by the
Lords of the Treasury.—Olobe.

LETTERS ON THE POOR-LAWS.—No.
Sip.,—lt is to be apprehended that any considerable
relaxation of the principles of the new poor-law will be viewed
with great alarm by many of the ablest of our public men,
among whom there lingers not a little of the old economi-
cal creed that all poor-laws are like inoculation, mitigating
the symptoms but propagating the disease. The warmth of
public feeling and the violence of popular clamour on the
ether side, only h make the stabler same critical. Neverthe- '
if".lo,ara Ammer ems mite themselves heard,
WINS eisald not be IA is the dames of parliamentary
velem. Ivry edesarl ases in wend should labour to
mdintand dab Vbsurisemails nothing else. If
mar-laws be • deseptice cal a rem the more liberal
we make Urea the more milehieveles &bayed, be. 14 an
his entr they be a feet and wholesome metimpomiment
dike l en of property, then they arid le be made es
effectual for their purpose as possible, whatever the harden
Nay amount to.
Ls it the ordinance of Ood that civilised society
shall always have a sick did famishing' multitude
clinging about its skirts? The poor, properly so
called, are those who cannot fend for themselves, and live
by the labour of their own hands. What has been their fate
hitherto in the world ? In savage and half-civilised OM.
JSUlthiell they perish according to nature ; and, taking the
whole world into account, such is probably always their
fate—that is to sac, shift the burden as you will, when na-
ture'. table is full, all surplus population of man or bead
must die. But civilised nations are little sections of the
world—oases in the desert—each with its own life to
lead, and entitled to think of that only. What, thee,
CU polity do for the poor ? So far u poverty la
local and partial, polity can relieve by distribution ;
so far as it is temporary and accidental, polity can relieve out
of capital ; so far as it is general and permanent, polity can
relieve by calling in the aid of commerce, which is a mode of
/apply as well as distribution; since trade stimulates in-
dal!:ry both at home and abroad. But there nesse to be a
limit to all these resources in the natural law of population,
Illwhich mouths multiply everywhere faster than Rod ; and
is the fundamental dilemma which polity has to 'struggle
with. It is admitted, however, that the point of distress to
which men will always breed up, is a variable pant, ranging
higher or lower, according to many material and moral eir-
smstenees. in a nation's condition. Now, may set a poor-
-I*.t be one among the favourable Citeo/011611MOI tend* to
elevate the point of distress? Compering Baena with
Ireland, one might shrewdly suspect it eo to be. rases, do-
deed, as well as figures, are often deceptive in complisated
quetiOat ter instance, the old abeam in the son hero
mashes ought not to be conclusive against the polity
c't Rood poor-law. Nevertheless, most of us are driven
atm to admit the state of Ireland to be cosoluive of the
oniony of such a law there, and the experiment will err-
Um'', there be tried, and under circumstances r nafrear-
able a, can be imagined.
Malthus, and the economists of his day, sincerely believed
!col goorlaw to be among the causes of poverty. But they
Aare sumo descended from that absolute ground, and now
slaad upon a distinction between the able and unable. They
NY you may relieve the sick and the aged freely, because
übear a limited proportion to the whole population ; but
ea relieve the able-bodied you bring unlusuted smothers
res and will end by undermining all property anil
deawaly;ag
all industry.