The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-01 00:00:00

Such, however, is the task of an Irish Lord-
Lieutenant.

ONE should think that there war gaits enoftgr
matter for anxiety and complaint in the serious
events of the day, without the necessity of seeking
out ideal griefs, and exercising ingenuity in the dis-
covery of schemes of fanciful iniquity and visionary
danger. The provident and anxious cares of our con-
temporaries are not, however, confined to the conquest
of Mexico or the absorption of Spain—the annexation
of Cracow or of the Romagna. They make light of such
gaping wounds—a scratch causes them much greater
irritation. The appointment of his little Highness
the Duke D'AUMALE to be Governor-General of
Algiers fills the Chronicle with the most tender fearn
and solicitudes for the fate of the French monarchy
and of French liberties, which, it seems, are menaced
thereby ; whilst the Times, determined not to be out-
done in the discovery of mares' nests, announces the
governor-generalship of the little prince to be fraught,
not with danger to the liberte et egalite of lovely
France, but to be seriously menacing to Sicily !
It is a favourite cant of the malignant ignoramuses
of the Mediterranean, to accuse perfidious Albion of
a design to appropriate Sicily. We have lately seen
this stupid absurdity given as portentous intelligence,
both in the French and the Spanish journals. We
never imagined to see it copied verbatim, and applied
to France by one of our sane and serious journals.
The Duke D'ArmatE is a young prince with a very
large fortune, that of the CONDES, which it was
adroitly managed he should inherit. He has been
recommended is spend it in divers ways, in the keep-
ing a racing stud, or in patronising men of science
and letters ; both of which modes of expenditure the
late Duke of ORLEANS successfully tried. But the
Duke D'AUMALE cares not for horse-flesh.
I The Institute bores him. To play at soldiers,
and to keep the best cook, are his two passions. Both
can be advantageously exercised in Algiers. It is of
the greatest importance that a prince of the house of
Orleans should become a favourite of the army. The
Duke of ORLEANS was eminently so; the Prince DE
JOINVILLE has equally succeeded in his line of ser-
vice. The Duke DE NEMOURS does not succeed in
the arts of popularity. But the Doke D'AUMALE,
with a good fortune, and spending it in good dinners,
cannot but succeed, especially at Algiers. Such is
the deep policy of his nomination.

As to Louis PHILIPPE'N private opinion, wo hare
no doubt he wishes Algiers,—where many an English
minister must wish Ireland,—at the bottom of the
sea. Having it, however, be must manage and make
the best of it ; but as to its encouraging him to make
fresh military conquests, e glance at its debit and
credit sheet would quite suffice to cool any ardour of
the kind. M. TIMERS himself, a prime minister
initiated in every political secret, has said that Algiers
was worthless except for the facilities which it affords
of sending 50,000 French troops to any point
of the Mediterranean, before a rival power
could be aware even of their sailing. We admit,
therefore, the great advantages of Algiers for offensive
and predatory war; but that this will ever be exer-
cised at the expense of Sicily or Spain is a vain fear.
It would never do to provoke Europe with the em-
ployment of armies for ends purely dynastic and per-
sonal to the house of Orleans. To extend French in-
fluence by diplomacy and intrigue, and the old /giros
pocits of marrying and unmarrying, may still procted
and even flourish, as the traditional policy of past
centuries. But after all, this is the mere weaving of
cobweb over the lair of the slumbering lion. Let the
people of each country but stir with a sense and will
of independence, and French men and French princes
will prove but so many spiders in the hiai1ia5..44660.,,,p,....r.
down or entangling them.

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Another . grievous source of complaint to our
equality loving neighbours, and to those of our
writers deeply imbued with the local and peculiar
feelings of the French, is the recent nomination of
SOULT to be Marshal-General of France. We cannot
say that we are more shocked at this than at
the making the Duke D'Antste an African
Governor-General. When persons so obscure to
fame as M. DODD DE LA BRCNEEIE are honoured
with the &lion, we do think that it is but fair for a
soldier like SOULT to weer a title which tells, that
although he is a marshal he was a genera/.
There is no cause fartaking alarm at titles, when
titles no longer haply privileges. The power of
the crown to woes sod confer honours much
resembles its power f
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