The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-23 00:00:00

THE FRENCH PRESS ON THE MINISTERIAL

CRISIS.

The absorbing question of the day, the ministerial
crisis in England, engrosses the attention of the Paris
journals. The Cortttituamine!, in the course of an article on
the subject, refers in the following terms to the publication
in the Moniteur of Count Walewski's despatch, which was
repeatedly alluded to In the course of the late debate :
" The publication by the ifonitasr of the despatch ad-
dressed on the 20th January by Count Walewald to
Count de Porsigny was the object of certain observation
difficult to account for. The Moniteur certainly had the un-
doubted right to reproduce this document on the morrow
of the day that it had been laid before the house
by Lord Pahnorston, without waiting for the re-
ceipt in Paris of the L ndon journals with an English
translation of the text. It was advisable that the French
journals should not incur the risk of altering the highly
important terms of this despatch by • double translation.
This precaution of the Moniteur im juatified by • second fact
which we will now mention. The diplomatic docu-
ments eman►ting from the French government are
distinguished by a rare quality; they are always
drawn up in the clearest and moat precise terms.
Nevertheless, a speaker in the house sought to
discover in a phrase of this despatch an accusation directed
against England, who was represented as raising political
assassination to the dignity of • doctrine. Bad faith is dis-
played in this method of torturing a text which clearly de-
clared that England had unfortunately become the refuge of
the chiefs of a party which, in fact, raises a doctrine out of
political assassination."

The Pays maintains that the Anglo-French alliance is
above the vicissitudes of a minister or a cabinet; it says
"Lord Palmerston, in spite of his advanced age, has die-
played of late years, in the direction of the political affairs of
hie country, the rarest gift, of a statesman. The minister
who entered public life by receiving from Lord Castlereagh
the post of Secretary of War at the hottest period of the
struggle between England and imperial France, had thrown
off all him eld prejudiced; and the recollections of his younger
days ; and his great sagacity, embracing the true interests of
England and of Europe, had led him to become the most
persevering and the most able defender of the
French alliance. Is it for this that Lord Palmer-
awn has fallen P Are we to interpret his fall as
a check to the alliance? We do not believe this.
The alliance lass in the noble lord a superior
mind and a hied devotion ; but this alliance rises superior
to persona or to individual will ; It represents the new inte-
rests of civilisation, and we do not believe that a single
party exists in England that has not inscribed the French
alliance at the head of Its programme."
• The next observation of our contemporary is less meri-
torious :

the late hour not prevented the continuation of the
debit*, we have no doubt that the bill would have been
adopted by a strong rujority."
The Patna contains the following sensible remarlut on tho
exaggerated article of the Morning l'ose which attributed to
the majority that voted in favour of the amendment the
intention of menacing Prance
" The Port goes a great deal too far in its epinicm. We
conceive that this ardent defender of Lord Palmerston
should be severe towards the triumphant coalition, but we
cannot look at the consequences of this vote in each
very gloomy colours. The adversaries of Lord Palmerston
have chosen abed field for their victory ; this is their greatest
fault. They have defeated him on a question, or rather
about a question, which they not only cannot repudiate, but
on which they mart themselves seek to triumph."
The following is from the Prase :
" Those who have followed with attention the current of
the discussion in parliament, u also in the press and out of
doors, will attribute this vote to two different motives. The
spirit of opposition, the desire of giving a check to ministers,
figure largely in the decision; but it would be unjust not to
record a certain sentiment of pride and of national susceptibi-
lity which Is easily aroused in England.'.
The Union says :
" We have always believed, and we still believe, that, in
the present state of Europe, a ministerial crisis in England
is an event of gravity, the sole appearance of which is of a
nature to excite the most serious attention of political men."
The Courrier de Paris exclaims :

" For the honour of BpgLnd, Xre aro happy to dwell on
the regrets expressed by the London press at the iota on the
amendment of Mr. Milner Gibson."
This declaration is followed by two extracts from the Globe
end Morning Chroniek.

PIEDMONT.

(PROW 01:II OWN OORRESPONDINT.)

TURIN, Via. 19.
Yesterday eleven new elections of deputies took
I place. The results of ten of them are already known,
and there is only one in which the gain belongs to
the Clerical party; the Left side has gained two or
three members and the others are for the govern-
ment. These fresh elections, in addition to the ten
which were accomplished on the 3rd, clearly show
that the first success of the Clericals reall 'happened
by a surprise and by their intrigues. them-
selves confess their defeat, and have litt e or no
hopes of the parliamentary contest. At present
their eyes are turned towards France, and they
think that constitutional liberties on the Con-
tinent will not be able to resist the di-
plomatic treasure which will daily. become
heavier ; and this confidence of theirs is largely
shared in by the official journals of Lombardy, which
have for some time past resumed the insolent lan-
guage from which they had seemed inclined to desist.
In the Bilancia, which though not an official journal,
is one most devoted to the Austrian government,
they have gone so far as to accuse the son of the
Deputy Fermi as being mixed up with the late con-
spiracy in Paris. So foul a calumny as this cannot
be endured, and I believe the honourable Deputy
will bring an action for it before the Milan tribunals;
we shall see whether the Austrians will do him
justice.
In Turin itself, the existence of a French note to
our government upon the affair of the 14th of Jana-
ary has been affirmed and denied The pertinacity
both of the assertion and contradiction of this fact
was due to an equivocation. No special note has
been sent to Count Cavour from the Chancery of
Paris, as I have more than once told you ' • but to
him, in the same manner as to the English and the
Belgian ministries, and likewise to the Swiss Con-
federation, was communicated the same note of
which Lord Palmerston has spoken in your House
of Commons. This was yesterday declared in the
Piedmontese Chamber by the President of the
Council, in reply to a somewhat unseasonable inter-
pellation addressed to him by the Deputy Valerie,
one of the leaders of the Left section.

I send you the text of the bill which was the day
before yesterday proposed to the Chamber by one of
the ministers, the Keeper of the Seals. Upon the
whole, the impression it has produced upon people's
minds is not very favourable, and the Liberals are
complaining of it. We are anxiously awaiting the
termination of the debates in your House of Com-
mons upon the bill which is now under discussion,
and which turns upon the same matter. A.

The Mazzinian journal of Genoa, the Italia a
Avoid, was again seized on the 17th, for an article relating to
foreign affairs.