The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-14 00:00:00

SP()RTING TNTELLIOMCE.

A SPECIAL EDITION of the "EXPRESS,"
ventaining the results of the day's Races, is pub-
liahrd every evening during the Sporting Season, at
UK o'clock.

P %RN ia nearly as empty at this time of you as
London. Political people and people of fashion are
either absent or take care to be thought so. Health,
partridge shooting, and twenty other incidental rea-
son& are ever reedy for compliance with the 'stab-
liaised custom. Now and then a solitary notable
may be seen taking the metropolitan air in the Clumps
Stress; and the necessities of public business com-
pel a certain number of the higher officials to tarry
in town. 13ut of those who are not actually so bound,
few are accustomed to spend August or September
In Paris ; and, though the Earnaoa has been lately
staying at the suburban Palace of St. Cloud, few of
his courtiers have been seen to pass his gates. Their
absence has, however, been eanpeneated for by the
frequent visits of two distinguished ex-Slinistere—
kf. DE Passion and Laid P.►uteaarotc.

The Count and the Viscount are singularly
different men. In their antecedents, their tempera-
ment, and their entourage, no two men can be more
dissimilar; yet they are maid to be very good
friends ; they are known to pull very well
together, and they have certainly proved themselves
to be the two most loyal and efficient partisans of
the Fnipire. M. Fi %LIN, the son of a physician in
moderate practice, and the possessor of but a limited
fortune for many years before the revolution of 1858,
unexpectedly opened Louis NAPOLEON', way to the
throne, devoted himself to what was deemed by all
others a desperate came, and adhered to that came
through disaster, ridicule, and lack of resources, not
only with fidelity, but with enthusiasm. The
time has not come for inquiring how far the
steadfastness of the follower's faith contributed
to keep alive the confidence of his chief; but
enough is known to place beyond all doubt
the unfaltering fidelity with which the former
adhered through every vicissitude to the fortunes of
the latter; and few persona ars ignorant that while
M. Fotuii was diligently making money as a loyal
banker under the stock-jobbing recgine of Loris
PIIILIPPE, and M. DE MORNT war basking in the
sunshine of the Orleanist family, M. PSALM was
sharing the exile of Loris NAPOLEON, plotting with
him in poverty in London, or bearing with him the
barthen of captivity at Ham. The 2nd December,
1861, came at last, and realised all his dreams, if not
for himself, at least for his muter. Row deeply
this untiring conspirator in favour of Bonapartism
was engaged in that most memorable of plots none
need to be told. As M. to Comte de PIRSIONT, we
find bim figuring in various capacities in the:restored
Empire, and reesatly we saw him occupying the high
post of Ambassador in London. It is not necessary
tamale in detail to the capital error into which his
Government was led at the commencement of the
present year in demanding formally from this
country a change in its law of asylum. We were
amongst the foremost in denouncing that demand.
and we are proud to recollect that we contributed
not inconsiderably to secure its rejection. • But
throughout the controversy we ever maintained that
the blame of misleading the Cabinet of the Tuileries
lay at Lord PALMERSTON'S door rather than
at that of M. DE Pannionv. It was his special
boast that he knew the feelings of the
country ; and it was his special business to
advise his Imperial Ally truly in the matter.
The error of a foreign Ambanador accredited from
a despotic Court, and bound to earry out its over-
reaching schemes, was trivial in comparison with
that of the First Minister of a free people, when ha
undertook, in compliance with a despot's demand, to
wheedle their representatives into a fundamental
alteration of their laws. Yet this was what Lord
P \LMERBTON'A friendship for Loris NAPOLEON, and
his overweining estimate of the Woe of his good
humour, caused him to do.

Is his own way Lord PALMER-11'0N has proved
himself no half-hearted ally of the present ruler of
Prase*. Twice within the last seven years has he
risked and lost the possession of power by the un-
reserve of his devotion to his Imperial friend.
Hs was Foreign Secretary at the time of the coup
Arita ; and if not beforehand made a confidant in the
details of the design, he certainly did his beet to
earn the depicter of an accomplice after the fact, by
the baste with whisk be proffered his congratulations
cm the oreasioa. More than one of his colleagues
confessedly eatertained very different sentimi•nts re-
garding the resuscitation of hereditary absolutism in
the family of BONAPARTE ; and some of them did
not hesitate to give utterance to strong and un-
courtly language in public on the subject.
It was not pretended either that the
Court preferred the prospect of a Napoleonic
dynasty to that of eemetitutionalism under
the Home of OnLrerig. But Lord PAL-
itartsroN was too much elated with the events
of the 2nd December ro consult either the feelings
of the Cabinet or those of the Court, and u far as in
Lm lay be at once committed the Government of gait,
wintry not merely to acquiescence in all that had
been done for the overthrow of liberty in Francis,
b-t in approval of it. All this was said openly at
ti.o time, and not denied. Sooner than hazard a
raptor, between the two countries, Lad Yeeman-
noses colleagues in the administration left unre-
tracted what Le had written and said; but before the
month was out, the offence he wee bet rayed in to giving,
by the omission of the nasal observances of his station,
proved too much for the exhausted patience of his
associates, and he was summarily superseded in the
office he had so long filled. We all remember bow

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