The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-10 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 10.

Tats proceedings in the Belgian Chamber of
Representatives will go far to apposes the un-
easy excitement which has pervaded the whole
Belgian nation ever since the speech of Count
Wraxwext wee published. And sesuredly each
a sedative was urgently reqaired. It is well
known that the pelmet Ministry of Belgium doss
not enjoy the public eased/nee. The remark-
able report of an agent of the Preach Minister of
Police on the Brussels press, which we published
yesterday, indicates as much. Of eighteen journals
published in the capital of Belgium, advocating
every shade of political and ecclesiastioal opinion,
with an aggregate tin:sled= of about 40,000 copies,
only two are Ministerial (one of them being the
official Afonirestr) and their circulation is only
8,600. The remainder—Catholic, and anti-Catholic,
Conservative, Moderate, Democratic, and Republican
—are for the most part in decided opposition. The
Belgian people, whose prevailing sentiments are thus
represented, have been less alarmed by the
menacing language of the Frew& Minister
for Foreign Affairs than by their doubts of the
Armless and good faith of their own Gloviernsient.
They will be reaseured by what pissed in the
Chamber of Representatives on Wednesday, and will
rally round it to a man in defence, of their constitu-
tional tights.

The document to which we have referred above
minvicts Count Wailes= of groin animation in
his affected apprehensions from the Belgian prem.
The Joe:sale published in Brawn& may be divided
into four clemee—the ministerial, the temperate oppo-
sition, the exaggerated oppoeition, and these which
belong to the same category es the London Parsed or
Parisian Chartioori. The ministate' journals have
an aggregate circulation of 4,600, and are neutral as
regards the Imperial Government ; and the anti-
catholic organ, with 14,000 entworibers, adopts the

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seem policy. The journals of the moderate-liberal
opposition have an aggregate oirealation of 4,700,
and sympathise with "the more moderate French
refugees." The conservative female have an
aggregate eirealatios of 3,800; they are portieres of
the Imperial Government; two of them have the
reputation of being in the pay of that °marmoset
(one of them we believe justly), and the third is de-
scribed by the French police agent as "the exosilent
Mend of the French Government." The aggregate
circulation of the ultra. liberal journals, which firmly
wadi the French Government, is ander 8,000. The
portion of the -Brawls press whisk le either neutral
as regards the affairs of Freese, or friendly to the
reigning dynasty, or which criticises its sets in a
temperate manner, has a circulation of 28,000, while
the journals which are the organs of the nitre-liberal
exiles have only a circulation of about 8,000 ; or,
if the semis journals ars to be elsased along
with them, of 9,400. Let as regard these
statistics of the Belgian press from another point of
view. The ministerisi journals. the journals of
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the moderate oppositioa, sad the esti emboli, organ,
with their eirealation of 26,200, address themselves
to the Baleen pOlie, eland upon it for support,
sad say therefore be taken to apron the ma&
meats of the nation. In addition to these, there sre
several journals which are mainly supported by
hreigners. La Word, with its eironlation of 1,200,
In supported entirely by the Randall Government ;
the coaservative journals, with their chealation of
3,600, are patronised, or paid by the French Govern-
ment; and the altra•liberal and wade journals,
with their eiroulatioa of 9,400, are allied with, or sup-
ported by, the ultra-liberal exiles. It was rather
bold in Count Witswur to represent that portioa
of the Belgian newspapew which is matey de-
pledged on foreign support as a fair sample of
the Belgisa pram It would be a sad eonfessiou
of the weakness of his Government, if we weld be-
lieve that he was skews when he profound to be
alarmed by the attacks of heitedoeso joernals, with
an aggregate circulation of 9,400 copies. It was
most *est to impute to the Belgian Government
or people any excesses indulged in onosioatally by
Jarman which an the oases of French exiles,
while his Governmeat, like the mike. then-

ogres of the liberty of the press ia Belgium to sup-
port their own partisan ionneale in that country.
Besides, Count WALIVISILI knows that if the
journals hostile to the NAPOLION dynasty, pub
limbed in Belgium, are guilty of any criminal attack
upon his Government, it can orally obtain redress at
the hands of the Belgian Tribunals of hides.

Hsi Mcasirrr, being desirous of marking the re-
tura of Peace by an set of pace, has gives order*
that a fall and tree pantos should be granted to all
the persons now ender matinee for political offences,
these only szespt.d who broke their parole by asap
beg from Australis. That this set of royal elemeney
b jedicious and well-timed, ao one will deny. It
doss not of mores detract from the gracioathear,
though it materially dimiaishes the kowtows, of
her MAJMITT'S &shim that the number of those
affected by it is exceedingly small. This is a point
which, for the sake of oar Coatiosntal readers asps-
eially, it is desirable clearly to explain. The
phrase Political amnesty," which has been some-
what magniloqasstly applied to the free pardon
just granted, is liable to mimeastreedos smog these
who dwell under the iron rale of European Ono-
'seism. It suggests the notion of opened dungeoos
and returoiog exiles—of the tardy restoration to
thousands of civil rights, unjustly reit from them by
the perfidy of power, and colarstandyessesdsd by the
policy of fear. In this sates, it is almost needless to
explain, there has beat no amnesty in Borland.
The amber of " politieal Ganders" affected
by the royal pardon consists, at the outside, of
some half-dosen individuals. The Chartist sobs
of 1839, which seesumbed to a proviasisi mayor
and a file of infantry ; the Irish rising of 1848,
which was bred by ballads and pat down by the
police, are the only mats which have supplied this
country with political offenders within the last twenty
ran of oar history. Mr. Pam and Mr. SMITH
O'llauur may safely be liberated from their exile.
Even upon the vary improbable ,apposition that
they have leant so cried= by their esfibrinp
(a supposition crantradisted by the admitted fact that
their esedast is exile hes bass uniformly exemplary),
they return to a state of satiety which readers a
repetition of the criminal folly which they have sow
expiated an utter impassibility. A leap course of
wise sad ealighteasd government has produced its
matted results. A people abounding in material
prosperity, gabs is the enjoyment of politkaijostice,
sad deservedly animated by a spirit of universal

loyalty, aro proof against the minister sethity althea*
who would lead them into Askew made' 'visa
property Nadeau..

IT Is very rarely that tie announemeet of a new
Government Loan is se quietly received in the City
as was the ewe with that made known yesterday
morning. Daring the last fortnight, despite re-
peated awareness that the financial portico of
Government continues eadateetwy, exaggerated
reports relative to the amount of the forthcoming
loan were freely indulged in. The apprehensions
thus mrescessarily excited were partially alleviated
daring the last two or three days, bat cm the whole
the City has evidently bees subjected to an agreeable
dimppointrosat. Of enures parties who hope to
have the healing, or "a elks," of the new
loan, are sot very well plowed at the modesty of
the Citarcsurs of the Exczaciumes application.
" Only five millions,"they piteously cry: " why, that
leaves nothing for anybody." Loan coarser= and
their immediate influential seenerioas naturally
prefer extensive finanskel operatioss, is which their
unequalled command of swans plains them at a great
advantage over other patties. The Stock Exchange
also, it is whispered, is rather taken aback by the
einaUness of the amount. A good heavy loan, ac-
companied by violent fluctuations in the priori of
securities, would imply a considerable acoemion of
basin= to the =abets, same of whom, it is
even stated, have committed the mistake of
making preparations for a much larger snot than
five millions. Apart, however, from the temporary
disappointment which may thus be inflicted upon a
minority, whose wishes naturally harmonise with
their interests, the general pub= have cease for
congratulation in the fast that the operatics contem-
plated is spa ea very moderate a scale. Contrasted
with the enormous financial transactions into which
the Free= Government was compelled to enter,
and for the successful completion of which
it found itself obliged to solicit a national
=trim, the reluctance and caution displayed
by England in adding to her debt must impress
foreigners with a wholesome sense of the magnitude
of her rmourose. In commercial and monetary chan-
nels a feeling of relief will be experienced, es a
result or the wane now adopted by the Treasury,
since it is improbable that any material pressure an
be occasioned in the mosey market by the moment
of about a million and a quarter per month for the
sect four months, especially as the bulk of these
fends, instead of being expended abroad, will be re-
leased from the Bank almost as quickly as they
are paid in. The Marti:mon of the Ex-
OMIT= will probably state on Tuesday next
whether there is any chance of another
loan being =a daring the present year ; but,
prima facie, his making for es small a sum sa five
millions implies that the state of the public balances
and of the revenue is good, and that in future espial
will no longer be largely diverted from trade for the
service of the State. It will probably be found that
this loan will finally clear off the remaining expenses
of the war.

Upon another point satisfied= will also be felt.
When the Ism lose was announced, well-founded
complaints were provoked that commercial transac-
tions were nesdleesly deranged dories the period
which elapsed between its first notification
and the official statement of the amount and
leading particulars. Deferring csadidly to mercan-
tile oriel" Sir 0. C. Lewis promised that on any
fetus amiss these essential particulars should be
promulgated simultaneously with the preliminary
ammenosemot. This promise, we are glad to see,
he has faithfully redeemed. Mom than this : the
secret a to the intestine of Government, and the
amount required, appears to have been more closely
kept than on some fames °session. It weak be
manifestly most unfair that State secrets of this kind
should be permitted to leak out prematurely, to
the advantage of favoured parties, but to the aldose
kneeled= individuals. In these respects, therefore,
Sir G. C. Luwis has =titled himself to the thanks of
the public. We may =Fees a hope that the pru-
des sow shred will be definitively established as
a Foggiest in the Treasury department.
That the new five million loss will be subscribed
with sue does not admit of a doubt. The aspect of
the roomy whet, it is tree, is not very favourable,
bat there is still a prevalent belief that the late slangs
in plaiting affain will en long react, in a beneficial
mese, upon the =Woof discount. The asterisked= of
Government to raise the entire ►oan in Consols will
be viewed with some regret by reflecting prisons,
who cannot part with the conviction that to raise
mossy at a comparatively low rate, whilst precluded
from discharging the debt =km at a higher Agars,
is as injudicious a course for nations as for indivi-
duals. We cannot help thinking that an WOO of
Comas at par, with a tendon of terminable annui-
ties, would be a sounder policy. Apart Iran this
objekien, however, the mane adopted by Govern-
ment in the matter appears praiseworthy, and little
doubt ma be entertained that City eapitalists will be
eager to supply it with the sum required.

Tag rooopifion of the @snipes of General Wu..
mama, by promoting him to the rank of a bercastey
ander the title of Sir Warsaw Wu caws 01 HAM,
is one of those rueful and appropriate eels of the
Ezesative which is certain to be at epee hailed by uni-
versal acclamation as a fitting exponent of the general
MAO of the omernonity. The agreeable task of voting
to this gallant man for his life. pension of I,OOOL has
ben performed, as might be expected, by both
Houses without a dissentient voles. The national
gratitude could hardly have done Ism far the soldier
who emceed what wu intended, and in inferior
heads weld have rsesaised, a mere commission of
inquiry into a means of creating an army out of a
rabbis, organising, with resources the most Wade.
quite, a defines the most heroic, and adding the
most honourable name achieved in the course of this
war to the military celebrities of England.

After we bad perused the outpourings of the
Bishop of Bangor, which appear in another column,
we took up Swift's " Tale of a Tub." The harangues
of Lord Peter are tame and vapid in comparison.

THI MINIIITZT.—Wo hare good as for
dot*, that than le •ray probabdity of • nee•straatiea of
the salabtsy. Now that the war is over Oars is itootataals to
the weeniest° oafs of the Riwbt Hesesrelbi• W. B. Glad-
Mao. the s:•Obaasllse of the lisebevor, •ad mud *their
sseetbete of the Aberieea peamateat. We are lositaed
to believe that web a asap wield bo seseptable is the
estate paorallr. It wseli stye streastb sad sta►ility to
the Palusrto• •drlahiraties, diesppolat the hors of the
traskliog sad tine ewe* pubiaa, and load to the slop-
*. of • bold sad preresive poi* as the part of the
•dtbss of the orewa.—Loosrpoid Ifwewer.
Ma. Joint Baum, aro happy is
beteg osabted to stow that our sash-seeselsod stosabso,
Ifs. I/eight, sentiatee rrogroratag towards a better Nato of
Melt!. He bas Jae loft tkle aslghlbserheed for dertlital,
alters it is his latestios to misers Its ear tlisc—Yaw.
dews °winks..

Amy( Wanda. far a maw tbsatn dimmed as
postbag, Lehoster4vuirs bee boss wand. Mesawklis the
projest et a City Fial, tar p►tfa meetlags sad sesserls,
"Murtha staeiew of St Non." snow is In maw 1k•
awoke. u aim la wpm of nacaasa.