The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-13 00:00:00

public dinner at Nottingham, on Tuesday, is one of the
most perfect things of the kind on record. The
crowd gathered strong around the tables, with great
anxiety to know what kind of a member they had
got ; for their votes had teen evidently more a
than • choice. The constituency of Nottingham
determined, as the chairman of the dinner confessed,'
to have nothing more to do with their old members,'
one of whom refund to go on purchasing votes, whilst
the other had no money to pay for them. Annoyed
at this clomp-drawing of wing purse-strings, the in-
dependent electors of Nottingham resolved, in re-
venge, to elect such members as would most annoy
their too parsimonious friends. They selected Mr.
JOHN WALTER and Mr. FEAROBS CYCONNOR, as
whig-eaters. Having triumphed, the victory was
celebrated on Tunday and the chairman, Mr.
Bowtev, opened the festivities with a most whir
devouring speech, and then challenged Mr. WALTER
to respond.
To his credit, the latter declined altogether to
adopt the carnivorous style of his chairman and
proposer, and, with much dexterity, the new
member refused to enter into the merits or demerits
of that whiggism on which his chairman had des-
canted, but merely picked out that smallest speck in
whigpolicy, viz., their resisting aclauee which would re-
lease from the penalty of sleeping in separate rooms the
fifty pauper couple which are at present to be found in
English workhouses, past the age of sixty. It would
certainly require a microscope to fix the view on this
infinitesimally small point of the policy of a party
actually in possession of the government of the
country. But on this point alone did Mr. WALTER
deign to touch, leaving the gaping crowd of Not-
tisghamites, and their Whig-eating chairman,
astounded to find that Mr. WALTER had no other
sin than this infinitesimal one to impute to the
horrid whigs.
Having thus very eloquently explained his opinions
on a pin-point of whig policy, Mr. WALTER passed
to unburden his heart of its opinions on a pin-point of
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S policy. The member for Notting-
ham had nothing to say against the honourable
baronet's actual policy. He agreed with it fully, both
when it opposed protection, and when it ceded protec-
tion. The only fault lay in the manner of doing it,
in the taking office of trust on one set of principles
and then acting upon another set. Mr. WALTER can
never be accused of sash an act of self-sacrifice; for
on what set of principles he has taken the trust of
Trepresentative of Nottingham he takes goad care that
il:Zs himself shall not find out.
Havingi=emed of whigs and Peelites, Mr.
s WALTER of the liberals, and vows he
is none o their body, because be is deter-
mined to support the old institutions of the
country, and merely to modify them, so as to suit the
altered circumstances of the times. Why, every man
of the six hundred and odd members of parliament
elected would just say the same thing. Talking to
the conservatives, they harangue for the institutions
of the country, and " all that sort of thing," as poor
Mathews used to say ; whilst the readiness to cobble
them, or alter them to meet the times, is announced
to satisfy such enlightened and moderate liberals as
those of Nottingham.
The only party for which Mr. WALTER expresses
anything like aversion and contempt are the protec-
tionists. And why? Because "what they aim at is as
impracticable as the restoration of Queen ANNE." Mr.
WALTER says that his father was a protectionist, and
so was he. That finding absolute protection impos-
sible, he was for a compromise, or fixed duty. And
that this having been found impossible, he went the
whole hog ; and he scouts the protectionists for not
having been equally, nimble. He will have nothing
to do with a worsted and defeated party ; connexion
with such is not possible. He treats or bears with
whig, Peelite, and liberal, for what they aim at may
become imperative, and then Mr. WALTER will adopt
it. But he cannot bear the idea of being in a
minority—he will have no Quixotism—no policy
of resentment—no breaking up of a party for a
dead principle. Mr. WALTER is wise in his genera-
tion, a very shrewd and practical man. And he has
got through the difficulty of an election speech at
Nottingham with very great address.

The following appeared in a second edition last
evening
Paris journals of Wednesday, with our usual letters,
have arrived.
The royal family, with the exceptions of the Princess
de Joinville, who awaits the arrival of the prince, and
the Duchess d'Aumale, who awaits her acconchement,
went on Tuesday to Eu. Serious riots have
taken place at Troyes, in consequenceof an alleged
combination of the bakers to give a fictitious price to
bread.
The Prince de Joinville, who is seriously indisposed,
was daily expected at Toulon, from whence he would
immediately proceed to Paris. The maritime authorities
at Toulon were ordered to prepare to receive an ambas-
sador from Persia with the honours paid to a marshal
of France. The ambassador was expected from Con-
stantinople. Rear-Admiral Hernoux, chief of the
staff of the Prince de Joinville, has been appointed to
the command of the Levant station, in place of Ad-
miral Tnrpin, who is coming home. The Mediter-
ranean squadron is disorganised.

MADRID, Au°. 6.
The Queen set out on the 4th for El Paular.—
Pacheco is said to have gone to La Granja with the
intention of persuading the Queen to return to
Madrid; bat she is amusing herself so heartily
there, that most people think he will have very
little chance of succeeding in his mission. In that
case it is said that he will resign. In fact I hear
from a good authority that Pacheco's resignation is
almost certain. If he resign, the Queen will, in all
probability, charge Salamanca with the formation of
a ministry. Some say that vissertions are making
at present to reconcile the ' and Queen ; and
the Correo declares that Benavi will have an inter-
view with the King to-day. But I rather incline to
think that there is not much sincerity at the bottom
of these appearances, and that they are merely thrown
out to make believe that the ministry are doing some-
thing to bring the royal couple together. No one
who knows the real state of affairs has the least hope
that such a reconciliation can be ever effected.

I have to-day to signalise a fresh atrocity of Gen.
'Pavia's. He has had the members of the Ayunta,
I miento and the meet respectable inhabitants of San
Pedro de Rindevilliss, seized and transported to the
island of Cabrera. The ground of their deportation is
that, finding their position between the
orders of the captain-general on the one hand,
Carlists on the other, they determined on abandoning
the place.
You may remember that in and after the aides of
Lluvet de la Torre, or Vidrieraa, near Osraaa,aa the
23rd, 16 of the rebels were taken primers. Pavia
ordered D. Manuel Havens, the caltadfla, and the
two others who were captured with him at Vidrieras,
to be shot. Meanwhile they were put in the con-
demned chapel ( puestos in capillo). These and the
13 prisoners of the same di Tweed band, who were
taken on the days succeeding the fight, would, with-
out any doubt, have been all shot bat for the surprise
of Llacana, which occurred two days after the affair
of Lltivet de la Torre. As soon as he heard of the
capture of the 16 soldiers, Pavia ordered the execu-
tions to be suspended • and with the excuse of the
rebels having been tsien on Santa Christina's day,
gave out that he had applied to the Queen for their
pardon. Now the Queen is known to abhor these
murders which
.go by the name of military executions.
In the meantime a committee, composed of the
curate, the tortes deputy, alcalde, regidor, in fact
all the respectable inhabitants of the place, pre-
sented a petition to General Pavia to spare the
condemned. The pardon was despatched from
Barcelona, and communicated to the five pri-
soners, with the precautions observed on such
occasions. The reprieved men were bled, to'
avoid the frequently fatal effects of the sud-
den expansion of the depressed vital powers.
The whole town was filled with festivity at their re-
lease. On the 31st, the prisoners were taken back
to the condemned chapel, and then shot, " to appease
the manes" (according to Gen. Pavia's expression), of
the victims of Llama. This is the language of a
general-officer in the 19th century, and a governor of
a province. And all the leading organs of the Madrid
press let each things pass in silence.
The Barcelona diligence was robbed on the 31st, a
little on the other side of Frage, on the confines of
Arragon and Catalonia. The robbers, who are sup-
posed not to be Carlists, were six in number, two
armed with blanderbusses, three with daggers, and
the other with a scythe. They relieved the pas-
sengers of 200 dollars.