The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-18 00:00:00

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The mails for Britt 41 North America, Bermuda, and the Celled
States, will he mode up on the evening of the 18th May.
Tbo °welting mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Grew*, the [Wan Wends,
tweet, Aden, Ceylon, India, Ilona-Kong. and China, efts Smatnampten,
Wu be mule up on the morning of the 20th May.
The oreriand closed motto, tie Marseilles, to the Mediterranean,
Egypt. Aden, Ceylon. India, Meng Kong, Ac., will he made up on the
Mang of the Sith May.
be itudls Me 1 igo, uporto, LLYbon. Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
• ill be mode an en the morning of the nth May.
The 1111.1 a. for New South Wales, Van Dlemen's lend, and New
Eettlend will be made up on the evening of the Slat May.
The West India ovals, excluding those for Mexico, Molders; and
be tiaranuah, will he tootle up en the morningathe and June.
The mails for the Brarila, the Kiser Plata, Monte Volee, t enemy
bum, ttshla, Ma tetra, and Buenos Ayres, will be made op on the
miming of the 4th June.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 18.

M. Gtimor has narrowly escaped overthrow from
the resentful feelings which his cavalier treatment of
his colleagues, a' d especially of M. LACAVE-LAPLAGNE,
excited in the Chamber, and especially in the ranks of
the conservatives. Lour.-Pimaree, however, inter-
fered to soften the resentments of M. Lsesvk and
the conservatives, and, their fury being mollified, the
expected crisis ended in smoke.
There is nothing more strange than the change
which has been wrought in M. GUIZOT'S nature by
his long tenure of office, and by recent events.
Always austere in demeanour and unpopular in man-
ner, his conduct, at least, was marked by motion, and
his policy was that of conciliation. To overcome
by firmness, suavity, and unruffled temper the manta-
slly excited passions of French and English ; to corn-
bat conservative desires at home, and check democratic
ones—in short, to act the policeman in foreign and
domestic affairs, was the apparently humble, but, in
such a country as France, the highly great and useful
duty of M. GUIZOT.
fortunate for him and for his memory would it
have been, had he closed his career a year since with
the full attainment of all that ho proposed. But un-
happily, the King, in pursuit of family ambition,
impelled M. 0 two r to the perpetration of the Spanish
marriages, to the crime of forcing the Queen to
espouse a person, whose physical and moral nullity was
notorious, and of thus condemning that princess, by
the paternal right which Louts PHILIPPE claimed over
her to a life of domestic misery or of open scandaL
This, too, was achieved and accompanied by. such a
mass of falsehood and treachery, the having gone
' through which, has altogether altered M. GUIZOT'S
character and even his demcanour.•
Instead of beiwg cautious in conduct, and measured
in language, M. GUIZOT his become precipitate, pas-
sionate, and rude. He seems pursued by the ghost of
that Anglo-French alliance, which he spent so many
years in cherishing, yet consented to murder at last;
the memory of the dead frights him from all self-
ion ; so that, in word and act, it seems no 1
1I Fons9geereBM.Onizerr that speaks, but the" Young France"
whom he had put down. Although France. beyond
question, was the provoking party in the Spanish dif-
ferences, M. GUIZOT takes the just and natural resent-
ment of England to be wanton defiance ; and, instead l'
of endeavoiwing to allay it, helmets it with unreason- 1
ing and inconsiderate fury. His language with respect
to Spain and Greece was intemperate and menacing.
This habit of thinking and acting in matters of
foreign policy, unfortunately for M. GUIZOT, be-
came communicated to his thoughts end actions in
domestic policy, and he began to treat his
colleagues and his brother deputies, as he
was treating Lord PALMERSTON and Queen PtABELLA.
Finally, he has kicked one of the oldest ministers, M.
LacevE-Lastedss, out of the cabinet, with as little
1 ceremony, as he forced I.+ABELLA by mena'es to mairy j
a nincompoop. This has brought upon M. GUIZOT a
I severe lissom), and will teach him the neoessity of
greater circumspection in domestic management.
His foreign policy is at the same time likely to lead
to as serious embarrassments, and to be attended with
more impressive than agreeable lessons. Our readers
are, perhaps, not aware what is the result of the
grand act of M. Guizofa; policy—the saw-
nage of the Queen of Sr'. Six month have
f elapsed sine the precipit, at marriage by
ied
Count Bitt.S,ON. The reset mand nickel/aid
to the Court of Rome by tint Queen for the
l
' nullificatioo of the marriage l '
The demand may not mei have been official.
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But the POPE 6111 been applied to, and we regret to
say that his Holiness, instead of being able to con-
tent for the right of an outraged and injured female,
and to follow dictates of justice, teals it Impolitic and
impossible in his position to thwart tee edited the
wishes of the court of France. It has been a part of
M. °vizor's, or rather of Louis Pniuree's, craftily
concerted policy to get possession of the Roman osert,
at the same time that they confiscated the Spanish
throne. And IStEELLA has no more hope of au nn-
partial judgment from a pontiff in the interests of
France, than HE•RY VIII. bad from a pontiff who
was at the mercy of the House of Austria.
Monarchs, howev. i, may dispense with papal sanc-
tion in the nineteenth as well as in the sixteenth cen-
tury. And difficult as it may be for the Spanish
court to resist the dictation of the French King, who
will persist in rendering permanent the iufamous
match which he ace omplished, Queen ISABELLA will
no doubt try it. This is the secret of Louts PHILIPPE'S
anxiety, this the object of M. Guizor's menace from
the French tribune,—that if anything happened in
Spain inimical to French interests, ho wculd not
shrink from interkring and dictating. This is the
cause of the irritation against England so manifest in
French ministerial speeches and in French policy, as
if it was England's couesi I or interference that ren-
dered ISABELLA di.c4ntented with her husband, or
anxious to break those odious links. Far from being
meddling or urgent in such matter, the English cabi-
net would gladly leave things as they are, rather
than create new s noses of centention. !tut it is Fr each
policy and the French court which has itself sown the
seeds of allthe scandal, and all these internal dissen-
sions; the profanation of holy rites and hole purposes
perpetuated by Loris PHILIPPE, is, of its. bearing
these fruits. The sacrifice of the domestic happiness.
and probably of the domestic virtues of a royal
orphan, by her relative acd seltealled protector, has
already produced, and is exposing to the eyes of
Europe the tenuity of Bourbon, with circumstances of
such disgrace, as, however enticing to an Athenian
audience, till an European public of the present day
with disgust. And we need not record, that the
tragedy of Madrid has already raised through the
world an universal cry of execration against the King
of the FRENCH and his ministers.

But all the horrors have not yet come. The future
throne of the MONTPENSIERS, based on treachery and
infamy and the most disgusting immorality, has yet
to be cemented by the blood of civil strife. • That
throne, like the altar of Juggernaut, can only be
reared amidst a mass of sacrifice and crime, amidst
discord, of which we may not see the end, and of
bloodshed, in which the House of BOVILBON will be
steeped to the lips, if not smothered altogether.
LOUP4 PHILI PPE cannot spare M. GUIZOT from this
task. He commenced, and must go on with it. It is
but fair and just that the heroes who opined the
tragedy should play their parts meetly till the close.

WE cannot too strongly impress on the liberal
party in every constituency the importance of at once
selecting candidates for the forthcoming general
election. Even should it be postponed until after
harvest, or delayed until the pres-nt parliament shall
expire by effiuxion of time, the importance of early
arrangements for the occurrence, come when it may,
is very great; for Thom first in the field have always
an advantage over their tardier competitors; but it
the elections are to take place before harvest, too much
delay has already taken place in making preparations.
We, therefore, urge our friends everywhere to imme-
diate exertions the sooner liberal &tidichates are fixed
on, the better the chances of success; procrastination
only encourages the hopes of oar opponents.
In the city of London, fur instance, Alterman
JOHNSON has been permitted to announce him,elf as
an old tory before any official intim ution of candi-
dates to co-operate with Lord Join ItutisELL and
Mr. PArrisoy.
In Liverpool, too, Mr. CARDWELL is spoken of, but
not a whisper has been heard of two liberals to re-
place Lord SANDuN and Sir HOWAItD DOCOLAS
though there is every reason to believe, that were
Lord PatamasTox and some other good name an-
nounced, Mr. CARDWELt. and Sir 110wARD DoUGLas
would leave the certainty of defeat to Lord SANDON
elan°. . _ _

Leeds has, up to the time we write, been left in a
similar position: Mr. WILLIAM Beceerr, peruonally
popular, is strengthened by every hour's delay iu
Naming another liberal; but Leeds is unfortunately
distracted by the mischievous dissenting prejudices
fomented by Mr. BAINES.
Wiser Manchester has taken time by the forelcck,
and having secured Mr. BRIGHT, liberalism there wilt
in all probability enjoy freedom from any opposition :
a result that demonstrates the advantages of tally
preparations.
But what arrangements have the electors of the
city of Durham made for a successor to Mr. Limey ?
, Are they going to wait until a LONDONDERRY candi-
date takes the field ? In Mr. GRANGER they have
an excellent member ; and as easily as they a few
years ago returned Mr. BRIGIIT, can they now give
Mr. GRANGER another congenial colleague if they
will only look about them in time. A week's successful
canvass for two liberals would nip in the bud the nascent
hopes of Holderness-house. Cannot then the City
electors imitate the excellent example they have before
their eyes in the northern division of the county,
where two liberal candidates—Colonel Rex/mere
and Mr. SHAPTO—are already engaged in a canvass
so successful, that the threatened invasion of Lord
SEATIAM seems likely to be postponed, and Mr. LID-
DELL dismissed to the quiet rep mu of Edington.
Will Sunderland, the creation of the Reform Bill,
nentraliae its voice is the House of Commons by
dividing, without a struggle, its representation be-
tween Mr. BARCLAY and Mr. HuDsoN, when it really
appears not ashkely that the very appearacce of a
resolute opposition would send Mr. HuDsoN to the
suffrages of the more plastic electors of the city of
York; or, perhaps, induce him to appeal in person to
Nlaldon, which it is now attempted to convert into an
Eastern Counties rotten borough ?
The Shields—North and South—at the mouth of
the Tyne, are, we believe, better provided for; so also
is Gateshead (which hitherto has never failed to be
ready for events), we presume ; butfrom the important
town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne—the metropolis of the
northern counties—no sounds of preparation to give
Mr. ORD a colleague worthy of his opinions and ser-
vices hare yet reached n••, though there cannot be a
person whose removal from parliament is more de-
sirable than Mr. Iforiosos HINDS. False to
every party, true only to hims lf, Mr. HINDE's
parliamentary career has been one long display of
selfishness. The getting rid of each a man is a
piece of civic purification that Newcastle owes
to all parties in the state. Mr. IVATSON, the
present member for Kinsale, who is well known and
highly esteemed at Newcastle as a leader of the Nor-
thern Circuit, and who, during the expiring parlia-
ment, has distinguished himself greatly in the c Lures
of religious liberty and of law reform, has been men-
tioned as a fit candidate, and a fitter candidate, in our
opinion, the liberal majority of the constituency of
Newcastle could not have. But to secure so gaud a
candidate there ought to be no delay. Rising pablie
men, like Mr. WATSON, are soon provided for.
The want of preparation that we have noticed in
travelling thus far north, exists elsewhere; and, with
a view to its removal, we shall roam over other
districts.

The Paris journals and correspondence of Sunday
are altogether destitute of intdligence of interest.
The King and royal family had left the Tuileries
for Neuilly for the summer season. Advices bad been
received in Paris of the arrival of the Infante Don
Henrique, with his newly married wife, the sister of
Count Castellan, at Marseilles, travelling under the
title of the Duke and Duchess of Seville. They were
married at Rome on the let.

The Augzbury Gazette and the Frankfort papers
say that the Ruinieui minister at Constantinople has!
been instrected to act energetically, in accordance'
with the English minister, in suctaiuing the cla:ma of
the Porte in the existing diffcrente with the Court of
Athens.

The Madrid journals of the 11th have been received.
The Qaeen and court continued at Araujutz. The
King-consort had left Madrid for the Pardo.
A miuisterial crisis continued to be spoken of. A
cabinet combinin; MM. Oluaaga, Serrano, and Sala-
manca wea mentioned.

ROME. MAT 8.
On Wedoeaday, the sth, being the feast of St. Pius,
whose beet achievement (his bringing shout the battle
of 14panto) mice rescued the south of Europe, great
doings were planned to honour the name in the per-