The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-21 00:00:00

ST. mArrair 8 DAY.

This base St. Matthew's DaLiarsuant to
amigo erem, Ilts Lard Meyer, the lteyoreal. Ilse
AM.,..., Sherilb, awl Usher-Sheri& of city of Lan-
ham, eel the gammen of the rent Ineyitale 'Hire the
City, erradet Dries Amide it Chiles Church, Newest*.
street At tit :ennimeits of the sake • sermon was
the lee. Ci. R. Pentodes, KA,
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stead
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ear eleie leastioswir. maim' So the Greet Hell Is
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beadaset the relhades. The hilawfas woe dr erre is
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Ostoolase alms an pruisdho. its advenisks.

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ti-marrow' • onaleding fhe Ia NI of the hods of the lady
Mob( Assuadva, hmelair • display el .11 the Groat
taus, Irak ono roes athletic paw sad prams, la
whisk the hays of rho Duke of York's flobsol. sad • Isms
body of the marry, will taks part. Mr. Harrison is Moo
eesegei t. aside those prodigious,' feats of muscular power
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the Lath pleb, whia sigma or mock astonish those
who trams item To Mb Is to be added the band of the
Royal lllNftry Arplianow that the latortaioraent provided
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itheratq whom proprietors might be tempted to devote ano-
ther Es, to • Wait to the Poison before dreary winter sate Is.
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wised so °pp:treaty to that pordoa of the pal& to waiter
thou., to whose kis Mahar not convonlest, or who object to
looks holidays me the days that those anandisse watorwarks
are owliaorily dlayloyal—asturdsy and Moeda,. With one
or two ethopplieei only, the various pastiness opecisLy pro-
Mimi kr this day, in awe the weather should prove inane-
pilaus, will tabs plain la dr hairier of the building. The
loves et the yahoo wis • Mats of grow Insurionce at the
presont alma

THE COMING Ean.—We begin to lee an end of
the siteggis. On . and Mamba Glom remain to the
rebds. The Central India imargents ere
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sew then at premst.—Nient of hoolia.
ACT7OII acumen TIM DIRECTO!' OP THE WHET-
S= Parr!.—As rim is about to be Mord ageless the
denten of We eeketensie beak, at the Instance of a num-
bir of the ebtrebeldro nits were Wand to percher Mom
ober the nine yea ant of dividend WY declared, whoa, la
troth, thine nee se dividend is pay, K ratters had been ro-
wdy sten Inle, ems laverldird by these di rectorsos it was
their duty te de.—elespers Owns.
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depsember, toil visitors have Mat se damn :
Osntganday, Tuesday, and Saturday, bee days. 3,751; og
Iltaday sad Tartar, tree emeings, 6,479. On the Wes
stades& days (address to the pablis ; sat * stu-
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EXPRESS FROM PARIs.

(MOM 01711 OWN 0011111PONDINT.)
PARIS, lionnAy Ilerstiro.
I yesterday sent you the reply of Prince Nap)leon
to the request of the Council-General of the Remit
that he should visit Cette. sraursnos, that
" the question of comm.-cis: freedom is one of
those which excites the peculiar sympathy" of the
prince charged with administration of the affairs of
Algeria and the other colonies of France, stands out
in strange and startling contrrit with the announce-
..

meat which headed the non-official columns of
yesterday's Moniteur, " that it has never entered
into the thoughts of the government to alter the
Custom-hoose regulations which ex;st in Algeria,
and which regulate its connex:on with France."
This announcement is certainly not calculated to
satisfy public opinion is to the new colonial
administration. That the prince has strongly urged
a modification of the Algerian tariff there is no
doubt; and it is highly probable that the Emperor,
whoa, views on the free-trade question are no secret,
encouraged the idea; but that sober-minded, prac-
tical men ever indulged a belief that modifications
worth naming would be introduced, I cannot
imagine. The plain truth is, that the great body of
the manufacturers are violently opposed to the
slightest change ; and the free-trade question re-
mains in France just what it did half a dozen years
ago. In saying th;‘, I am speaking the opinion of
ardent well-wisher to the cause, who, at the same
time, view facts as they are, not as they ought to be.
People in England may talk as they will about the
strong will of the Emperor, and the absence of pub-
lic opinion in this country. The truth is, the
system adopted here is calculated leas to coerce
public feeling than to anticipate and adroitly
prevent its expression. The wine-growers of Len-
ges& and the shipowners of Provence may pass
free-trade resolutions till they have exhausted the
resources of the French language in the attempt to
cloths their principles in Mime at once forcible and
inoffensive. They are prosperous, and wish to
become more prosperous still—an object they believe
they will attain under free trade. But the iron
masters and the owners of rickety antiquities called
spinning-machines in the north, oppose the
southern free-trade notions with the solid argu-
ment that their ruin—which they believe to be
synonymous with the withdrawal of protec-
tion—will necessitate the turning loose upon the
country of numerous thousands of starving work-
men. This is the silent threat perpetually
held out to the government; and we have only to
look back to the difficulties through which we our-
selves fought, inch by inch, the battle of commercial
freedom, to admit that, however strong the con-
victions of the head of the state, a serener political
atmosphere than we now find here is essential to the
venturing upon so great an experiment.
And now, having been led, in the conaideration of
this question, from the Algerian colony to Francs
in general, I wish to draw the attention of your
readers to a remarkable article which appeared in
the Gazette de France of Saturday lest.
There are journals here in whose columns no pro-
position is too absurd, no paradox too monstrous, no
insinuation too malevolent to find a place, when
England is the object against which they are di-
rected. The Gazette d& France of Saturday, then, pub-
lished a letter purporting to be from one Elm*
Bonard, and headed " Amiens and Manchester." It
was suggested by the article which appeared
a short time ago in the Tines on the sub-
ject of the comparative success of English
and French manufacturers—an article described
by the writer as " d'one ontrecuidanoe rc-

marquable." It is not with the view of giving an
unmerited importanoe to this letter that I notice it,
but in the belief that your readers will not fail to
derive from it amusement whit& the swaggering
prohibitionist certainly did not intend to afford
them.

He observes that " the article in question attacks
not only Amiens, which is the city of my adoption,
but all Frenchmen, whom it taxes with incapacity,
which is not adroit, just after visiting Cherbourg!"
He affects to attribute remarks based upon dry
statistical facts to the fury with which the comple-
tion of the Cherbourg fortificadons has filled
sa organ of English public opinion ; as
it a strong fellow, who has just been thrown
in wrestling, should seek to vent his ill-humour
upou the first small boy he meets. The question of
the fifty per cent, which protection costs the con-
' seas al Amiens cotton velvets, he meets with a
is rare. Amiens no more pretends to rival
Manchester, than do the London silk menufaettirers

than of Lyon.. But in spite of fifty per cent., he
says, the Spaniards and Italians prefer the Amiens
cotton velvets to those of Manchester.

If Amiens be the city of his adoption, this writer
is a somewhat undutiful son, for he actually
supposes the eventuality of Amiens ceasing
to prods°, cotton velvet. And what then ?
Why, " France would be none the worse " (to which
we may readily assent), and " would continue, as
heretofore, to give lessons in strength and address
to more than one rhodomontader." But, on the
other hand, he tells as that if Manchester be once
ruined the annihilation of England follows as a
matter of course. He then proceeds to send into
our rigging and hull a succession of shots de omni-
bus rebus se quibusdam aliis. " The French, what-
ever their character in other respects, do not die of
hunger like the Irish and Scotch. They are not
forced to live by making war upon every Power in
order to get rid of (placer) their in-
dustrial produce. They do not emigrate by
million' in order to gain a distant livelihood. If
England has coal mines, she makes a profit by
them—so much the better herself ; but France has
a far more fertile territory than England, and pro-
duces a variety of things which England never
can." It is in the following phrases, however, that
Termagant is ont-done and Herod out-Heroded
_ _

Inflarto Fnuloo bee sot theorem At to sive; greeter.
development to the hidasay of halm. Whoa oho imam
is will do it. Hasa the ladliaelias of Jobs Bar,
who derseese the time whoa be wed be egyelhol sad eves
dammed by Fresco to bar mks fabrke. . . . . Whiagyur
the oblef of W. age shah be phased to wake Modem a
revel et ligssalwarar, be 10 de le—as be boo made of Cher-
beam a port wayerier Mar these of oar amiable illy I
. . . . The espied of Picardy will sat riot fortesse
which bays boa wised by labour sad persarenese ; It
Laver bawds= easeprhse M thus whose ..gild bee boa
grad by arms mere or lee heseit. If Fresco bid
chum to Sallow*, ease peliay as a cortala Power, she would
banal( alone pawn alma ell the capital Is the wield : bat
oar dor hind 'Weal ea seer sake se 'whalerd tbat
probity sad tray•ohy are eysoayworue term.

- By a sinidarcoinoidence, on the identical day of
the appearance of this very fanny letter in the
Gazette 4 /Vance, an important provincial journal,
the Courtier 4 Lyotu, publishes a remarkable article
upon the report presented by M. de Roncy to the
Amiens Chamber of Commerce, which, it will be
remembered, formed the subject of your contem-
porary's observations. As coming from the real
Manchester of France, it forms an admirable com-
ineutary upon the foregoing letter. Let your readers
judge for themselves :
We begin by readeriog n well-merited homage to the pro-
!Quad Cbristasa humaaity ishiat raps throughout this