The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-11 00:00:00

FRANCK.

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FhF.NCH POLICY DI !TALI kN AFFAIRS.

The Monifeor elf yesterday publiahes the following
Witte :
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The French government, as much AS any Ow,
coasprebmidit and respects national suseptibilities. If
in its intentions or conduct it had given cause of
alarm to Gettovey for her indipendener, far from
disdaining the excitement and alarms of German
patriotism. r would deem them noble and legitimate.
But we cannot easily believe that a position
tainted with injustice sell be taken against us by
those to whom we have given no grounds for mis-
trust. Oar iniatidesco in the jutico of other states
is but the elf, et of the loyalty of our policy. When
seanite.tationa have broken out on certain points of
the Germanic confederation we have heard of them

with etuott. . because we felt sure that the sane and
enlightened portion of Germany would soon perceive
that those eioleucas had no real cause.

'• This confidence has not been mistaken. The
agitation provoked in the press and the chambers of
several German stern, far from being increased, is
calming dor. n. We are happy to condrm the fact.
•• In ord.r to throw suspicion on the French
ilovernmen-, they had assigned to it indirect respon-
sibilities by attributing to it a share in opinions hos-
tile to the independence of the Germanic am-
federation, mad freely published under the aegis of
laws that authorise no preventive control. These
opinions, that bind only their authors, have sounded
lake a threat in Germany ; propagated by malevo-
lence, they nave spread alarm and given credit per-
haps to regrettable errors respecting the intentions
of the cabinet of the 'Toilet in.

When justice only ia desired there is no cause to
fear the light. The much government baa nothing,
because it is sure of having nothing, to disavow. The
attitude it ban taken on the Italian question, fez
from we/muting the distrust of the German sued,
ought, on the contrary, to inspire it with the greatest
security. France cannot attack in Germany what
she would preserve in Italy. Her policy aims merely
at obtaining ,that satisfaction and those guarantees
that are demanded by the right of nations (k droil
des pens), the happiness of people and the in-
terest of Europe. In Germany as in Italy
she wishes that nationalities recognised by treaties i
may be able to maintain and even strengthen them-
selves, &vitae she considers them as one of the or
sent bee. of European order.
-To represent France as hostile to German
nationality is therefore not merely an error; it is
nonsense. The government of the Emperor has
always, for the space of ten years, employed the
influence it had in common with others to smooth
down ries' difficulties, and resolve them in an
equitable and just point of view. In Spain it has
constantly upheld the constitutional throne of the
Queen by exercising a disinterested vigilance over
the refugees whom successive revolutions had cast
on our frontier.. In Switzerland its kindly me-
diation coattibuted to arrange the Neufcha-
tel affair, which might have led to com-
plications with Prussia. In Italy even, its
solicitude overcame all difficulties; and, having IF
established the Pops In his authority, it has inspired
everywhere ideas of moderation alone. At Napless
in concert with its ally, the Queen of England, it
has induced the government of the Two shelties to
inaugurate reforms that would have rendered it
stable. In Germany, on the delicate question raised
between the Diet and Denmark relative to the
duchies, it has recognised, notwithstanding its sym-
pathies with. Denmark, the just susceptibility of
German patriotism for provinces that are bound to
the tierminic body by so many tie', and it has ut-
tered at Copenhagen the advice of conciliation alone.
In the Danubian Principalities it has striven to gain
a triumph far the legitimate wishes of those pro-
vince., in order to et Cure also in that wt of Me-
tope tie order that is based on satiaflad national
interests.

" 1 he policy of France cannot have two weights
sad two measures ; she treats with equity the in-
terests of all people,. What she donna to have
respected in Italy she will know how to respect her-
self in Germany. It is not we who should be
tkreatemed by the example of a national Germany
that would bring its federal organisation into hat-
away with these tendencies towards unity the prin-
mple of which has been already laid down in the
great commercial union of the Zollverein. What-
ever develops in neighbaariog countries relations
created by commerce, by industry, by progress, is
profitable to civilisation ; and whatever 'Masao
civilisation raises France."

(Fud ors owx

CARIB. sATCADAT Erunro.

Among the symptoms of war I hear a pierce of
sews which I confider very important, •:z., that the
lm.,ropt Diplomatique has been @oppressed with-
out warnieg or previous formality of any kind. As
et...tentative to the above intelligence I may sass-
tion that the Italian weekly literary junta tie
c,mrrw Fr etwo- Italie*, of which Colossi 0. CO-
MM to Ow redactor, rig chef, bar this day reorived
permission, by the expreee orders of the Empecor,ls
appear as a daily political paper.

Contract. (vsys the R;csie ♦ is Menu) have
been entered into by the Minietry of War with some
timber merchants at St. Slensheald (Marne) for this
supply of 800,000 tent pegs.
The rt.t event of tc-day ie the culmination of a
rand battle between the regular and irregular
stockbrokers (vele, de charge and corneae) resulting
in the signal dsscomfiture of the former. The jest,
busies between these two orders of ministers to the
rmbl is g propensi t lee of t he publ le are not of yesterday.
But ate cornier, although intermittently subjected to
peelecu.ion, has long been generally recognised as a
necessary evil, unless the entire system of Bourse
business were to he revolutionised to an extent
which has nears yet been seriously contemplated.
It is certain that the number of authorised brokers
is far toq small to do the public business. The Paris
corlisee snug not be confounded with what are called

ti tursiders" on the London Stock Exchange. The
body comprises many men quite as respectable, and
even as wealthy, as 1101110 of the authorised brokers,
and the brokers themselves have, down to
within the hut few dayr, carried ou vast transactions
with them openly and publicly—meeting them at
tables sapphed by themselves toe the purpose of set.
their date/acme. Whatever rosy have been the
motive for the recent crusade against the
coulisse—as4 the whole history of it is, I appre-
hend, not likely to come out just yet—this much is
ordain, that any idea of discountenancing Stock-ex-
change gambling on the score of morality was, if put
forward at all, nothing but a ludicrously hollow
pretext. The brokerage charged by the parquet, or
authorised corporation, is double that taken by the
curliest, and it is beyond a doubt that the measures
which the former body fancied the time was propitious
to take, were only molted to by them with the sordid,
though very natural, object of strengthening their
monopoly, and increasing their gains. -Yester-
day evening the police made • descent upon
the offices of twenty-four of the principal
eoulimers, and seised their books and papers.
Amongst the houses subected to this indignity were
those of MM. Morel Latin, Cremicnx, Chevillon,
GIN( and Guutalia. A prosecution was cum-
menced against them all for having "acted as
brokers and received profits which regular brokers
alone were entitled to touch." The effect of this
measure was to psalm transactions at the opining
of the Boarse, where the tremendous fall in Consols
acd the putridly warlike character of the most it-
tent news had produced a feeling of great dere,-
sem. MM. Rothschild and Pereire, and several
leading bookers who were in the habit of dealing
often with the roulisse, protested loudly against the
prosecution of their agents. The Bente, amidst
greet agitation, dropped to the very low figure of
66.115,_ end Crfdit Mobilier was at one moment
quoted at 610. Bat when things were at the worst,
In and behold, the commissary of the Bourse ap-
peared within the chimed ring called the
poirquef and announced that by order of the
EMI IR rm. the prosecution against the roulisaisre
was diacastinaed, their books and were were to he
returned to them, and they were to be allowed to de
trousers as heretofore. Treseeedous cheats of
"Five l'Empereur i" followed the announcement,