The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-06 00:00:00

IS ii domestic policy. It is no new
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it. Thirty years ago their greatest chiefs were the
confederates of Cwaittas X. and Pouceric ; twenty
years ago they furnished money and recruits to
Don CARLOS and CARRERA i ten years ago
they sheeted foe joy whim FRANCIS JOSEPH and
HATNAU trampled down the liberties of Hangery I
and one shirt year ago they were busily engaged is
reviling eel denouncing Vicroa EMMANUEL and
CAM& Ia cam Austrian*, they are Bourbonists
sew that they are in opposition. The Commercial
Treaty with France, by establishing a better under-
standing between the two countries, will, they fear,
tend to establish the Imperial throne. That throne,
in their creed, bawls to a dessesdant of ST. Lotto.
Per the sake of French legitimacy they encouraged
Osoeos 111. and Mr. PITT to engage in that fearful
war that has saddled as and our children with
hundreds of millions of additional debt ; and for
the sake of French legitimacy they would now, if
they could, repudiate the first treaty embodying the
principle of reciprocal benefit to the two nations
that has been concluded since 1785. A Sovereign
elected by universal suffrage, even when his policy
was least liberal, was an object of secret
distrust and aversion ; but since he has become the
liberator of Italy, and the liberator of trade
at home, Tory resentment and dislike has become
irrepressible. It was by him the military power of
their adored Austria was last year broken ; it is by
him that a further stride towards the peaceful bind-
ing together of nations in the ties of mutually bone-
IScent brotherhood will this year be made. Every
bad motive, therefore, combines to stir the passions
of Conservatism, and to urge them to hostility to the
financial measures which Mr. GLADSTONE is expected
to disclose.

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WINDSOR CASTLE, FRB. 4.
Ita royal dialer party penis, iaoluded tL
Prisms Ahoe, the Dubs of Bedford, the Data rad Duchess
of Marlborough, the Marquis sad timelier's,' ar Abaroaa,
and Lady asergiasa Hamutae, the Barr. Lard and Lady
Wriotkirelay Bor.ll, Major ilyhiaalcua, ILI., sad Lissa,-
awn-Ccional Nerwaa. C.B. (Indira way), who arrived ea
a visit In the aftesciaa.

Ms bead d eke Orenadier Guards TN in attendant
daring diaper.

TIM Qum, seeompanied by the Prison, Helena, walked
sad drove in the Hom► perk this morning, and visited the
Nohow el lust, at Frogmen.
The Priam Cowart tat to the Wellington Dollop,
etteaded by Lleatment-Colonel the Hon. D. de Hos.
Primus Alke and Priam's Louisa rode in the Rid M-
ahatma.

The visitors who left the Castle to-day were—the Duke of
Bedford, the Duke sad Duchies of Marlborough, ties Mar-
quis sad Marchioness of Aberooro, with Lady Oserglitaa
lierollroa; sod lieutenant-Colonel Norma', C. 8., of the
Indian &ray.

The PriWere All.. awl the Printer of Leiningen dined
with her lialway in the evening. Major-Oenoral the Eton.
C. Grey, the Thwit of Windex, end Si, haw Clerk had the
honour of beteg =laded.

The bead of the let Life Guards wee In earadance during
dinner.

Her Majesty's privets bead afterwards performed in the
drawing-rouin,

SUNDAY.

The Queen and Prince Consort, Princess Alice, Priaosss
Helena, Princess Louisa, Prince Arthur, and PrinCen
Leiningen, the l►dies and gentlemen of the oolart, and the
domestic household attended Divine &nice this morning, in
the private chspeL

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
FRANCE.

Tee Hon. sod Very Rev. the Dye of Windsor performed
the service, sad edmistietered the Holy Semement.

PARIS, MONDAY.

The Moviiteur contains numerous nominations of
Sardinian officers to the Legion of Honour, and an-
nounces that 2,000 military medals have been
granted by the French government to Piedmonts..
non-oommiesioned aims and private eoldiers.

We cannot seriously anticipate, however, that
eaything more than a lamentable exposure of weak-
ness and passion can come of the meditated attack
on the Treaty just concluded, or the concomitant
changes in certain portions of oursystem of taxation
which Ministers are, no doubt, prepared to submit
to the Legislature. Of the detail. of such proposals
we, of couree,;know nothing ; but any one acquainted
with our national system of revenue, and con-
versant with its remit history, most be aware that
it is impossible with safety or advantage to
make partial alterations to any important amount.
Yon cannot pick out of the wall a brick here and a
brick there, and leave the rest standing. A good
workman knows that he must level as he takes down
the antiquated fabric. Now and then he may thus
have to sacrifice a cornice or a mullion that did no
harm, and that if he had hie choice he would perhaps
rather have preserved; but the paramount consider-
ations of safety and utility overpower all others;
and when several parts are to go, others also most go
straightway. We anticipate, therefore, many points
of interest for the present year, besides the reductions
on articles of °assumption of French origin. Indeed
so strongly are we impressed with this belief, andel,
necessary is it in our judgment to &jest appreeistioa
of a general plan of fiscal moderation that all its es-
sential portions should be considered together, that we
should almost prefer to see the Treaty laid upon the
table on the day when the Ctuecal.t.oe of the
EXCHICIUM makes hie complete exposition, than a
day or two previously. Be that however alit may, it is
certain that the intelligent and industrial eommuoity
will view the scheme as a whole and not otherwise.
Where interests are so numerous and so inter-
woven, the practical question for the people and for
all who profess to be really their representatives, is
mainly, if not solely, what is the net gain arising
from the contemplated change ? Any other ques-
tion, any question attempting to limit the national
judgment to a particular part of what is intended to
the exclusion or forgetfulness of that which is meant
to accompany it, would be palpable jugglery and
delusion. We must know the whole event of the
revisions of duty on both sides of the Channel before
we can honestly or rationally form a deliberate
opinion regarding the worth of any item. This
upon reflection will appear self-evident to all
unprejudiced minds, even as regards the balance',
of present profit and loss. Bat this is
far from being the whole question. Every
man who is capable of forming the lent
ultimata of the political gain to the country from
isreued commercial relations between England
amid Franco, and who bestows the least thought
upon the political calamity which the creation of
new feelings of alienation and repulsion would
eases, will probably come to the conviction that no
immediate saving of price in the articles of daily
consumption is to be compared with the great and
social advantage to be derived in future from the
free and constant operation of popular wants and
capabilities. The Carhon Club may care for none
of these things, but the constituencies of the empire
do ; and amongst those who sit on the Opposition
beaches of the House of Commons there are not a
few who would, we doubt not, refuse at the bidding
of their party to commit political suicide.

A Cabinet Council wee held on Saturday, at
the official residence of the Pint Lord of the
Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present
were :—Vieootint Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granril4, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Come-
wall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of
Newcastle, the Right Hoo. Sidney Herbert, Sir
Cnarles Wood, the Duke of Somerset, the Right
Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, the Earl
of Elgin, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the
Right Hon. Edward Cardwell.

Meetings of the Cambridge Uslamely Commissioaere
were Mid at 6, Adelphi-menace, on Kandy, the Aka, sad
Tuesday, the 31st of January, smil on Wedamday, the le,
end Tharsday, the 2nd inst. The coessisdoners pretest
were—the Bishop of Cheater. Lord Smiley, M.P., the Right
Hon. the Lord Janice Turner the Right itoo. Sir Lawsuit
Peel, Vice-Chancellor Sir Wm. Page Wood, the Rev. Dr.
Vaughan, sad H, ratio Waddington, Beg.
The Judicial C...rotaittee of the Privy Council eat on
Saturday. An appeal from Madras, " Mallemed Banked v.
&mammies. Beigum," was concluded. An appeal from
Madras, Fischer v. Kemal& Milker," was commenced.
Despatches were received ea Saturday at the Colonial-
ethos Imo the Governors of Ceylon, Hoag Kong, Gibraltar,
the Australian colonies, and the Mauritius.

THE postponement of a Budget which can hardly
fail to prove the most important that we have seen
for many years will be felt as an ineonvitnieoce by
the public at large, as well as in the centres of those
interests, commercial and manufacturing, more im-
mediately affected by the French Treaty. Politically
It is scarcely lees unfortunate, as it prolongs a period
of comp►rative inaction most favourable to the
intrigues end marauvres which flourish beet when
serious public business is from any cause placed in
abeyance or suspense. The favourite device of the
Tories at the present conjuncture is false rumour. A
weekly contemporary, who had for a long time ere.
ditably abstained from the equivocal trade of secret-
mongering, has just been employed to promulgate
a most circumstantial story of a ministerial crisis,
and has even been prevailed on to publish a "division
• list." If the Press is ambitious to be thought
the sole dispenser of t►e real "Asiatic mystery,"
we may admit its encase. We all recognise
the familiar voioe of the long,ilent orsca—this
"authority which admits of no question"--and
which can endure none. Again and again we have
men his most authentic history proved to be "of
" imagination all compact ;" but we never doubted
th►t new discoveries would be forthcoming precisely
as they were wanted. Such a one is now given to
the world complete in every circumstance and
memory, even to the " unfeigned sorrow" of the
narrator. Agaieet these and all similar attempts
to mislead, whether made by the press at
home or abroad, the publics bee two sure
means of selt-defenoe. There are the responsible
declarations of Ministers made in Parliament, subject
to examination by opponents, and there is also the
risible course of events. The two Houses are sitting. I
If say one wants to know what is the policy of the
Cabinet respecting Frame and Italy, the subject of
this newest action, the means are at hand. Ir Mr.
Disaeau and Iced Dania think that the Cabinet
is a house divided against itself they can ascertain
the fact by experiment. Another rumour judos-
tnocisly circulated for the last two days ki, that the
new Reform Bill ►as been postponed toe three week..
It is entirely unfounded.

The Archbishop of Paris hasorderod public prayers
to be offered until Easter, in order that his Holi-
nem may oweroome the tribulations and persecutions
to which the church is now exposed." These last
words are taken from the moodessent which was
also read yesterday from the pulpit.
On Saturday Lord Cowley visited the ambassador
of Austria, with whom he had a very long con-
ference.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EV EttitG, FEBRUARY 8, 181..

have arrived at Mantua and have been placed in the
fortresses of the quadsilateral. Heavy rifled
bronse cannons have been substituted for the cast.
cannon. Great military preparations are being
made, and arrests continue everywhere.
General Hess has been pensioned.