The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-17 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

A SPECIAL EDITION et the " EXPRESS,"
containing the results of the day's Races, is pub-
lished every evening during the Sporting Season, et
six o'eloek.

TUE Prince NAPOLEON JEROME has just given'
utterance to some very important truths, indicative
of the independent view which he is known to take
of political and social questions. It was at the open-
ing of the Central of France Exhibition, got up
chiefly by the citizens of Limoges, whom the PRINCE
congratulated upon conceiving and accomplishing a
scheme of the kind by their own activity and re-
sources, without being indebted to Government for
either suggestions or aid. " What we ought to
" fear," observed the PRINCE, " is the absorption of
" individual energies by collective power, the sub-
" stitution of the Government for the citizen in every
" act of social life, the enfeebling of all personal
" initiative under the tutelage of an exaggerated
" administrative centralisation."

This is the language, not of Imperialism, but of
sound sense; it is in direct and pointed variance
with the cuckoo-cry of French Government journal-
ism. The most notable fact of the epoch is, that
what the French call the haute eonaneree—that is,
large commercial speculations which look through
years for a return—have never revived since 1818 ;
and that no capitalist now thinks of investing money
except on such enterprises as the State suggests and
upholds. Thus the French have become manufac-
turers of money rather than creators of wealth.
Agriculture pines, foreign trade progresses in no
marked degree. There is but one source of impulse
in the country, that of the Government, which,
however equal to the great works of tedileship, can
direct individual energy in the creation of
wealth.

No person can be in a better position of being
made sensible of this thin the man who has
undertaken the administration of the French
Colonies. The colonial failures of our neighbours
have been avowedly owing to the total dependence
on the Home Government, and corresponding mis-
trust and discontinuance of all exertion not
prompted by it. The result of such a gyrate= is,
that Government itself must shrink from adding to
its burdens and desiring new colonies. To render
Algeria, for example, self-subsistent, must be the
first achievement and the principal aim of a prudent
French Government. Ntrotaos Jenome has un-
dertaken this enterprise. It will, no doubt, task his
utmost energies. But his speoch at Limoges cer-
tainly indicates a knowledge of where the defect
lief, and whence the remedy should come.
Much conjecture has been expended to account
for the high functions and position recently bestowed
upon the PRINCE. Since he threw up the Madrid
Embassy, rather than carry out certain instructions
which he deemed unworthy and illiberal, Prince
Nsroteos mores has merely held military com-
mand, and that of a subordinate kind, in the Crimea.
Since his return, he has given himself to dissipation
one day, and scientific research the next, avoiding
politics as a sort of forbidden ground. Several effort'
to marry him to the daughter of some reigning family
have failed. Latterly he became embarrassed, audit
is probable that on applying for the means of rid-
ding himself of these embarrassments, the EMPEROR
offered to him an occupation and a position some-
what aloof from active politics, but still with suffi-
cient scope to satisfy an ambitious and original
mind.

The motives of the POINCIR for accepting such a
Position are obvious enough. The views of the
Enraaoft have been differently interpreted. Some
recall a famous speech made once in the Chamber of
Deputies by M. TllllOll. That statesman, when
questioned u to the use of Algiers to France, replied
that its chief use was the 'great facility which it
afforded of transporting 60,000 French soldiers to
any point within the Mediterranean before the rest
of Europe could be aware even of their embarkation.
This notable revelation of M. Timms, accompanied
by the circumstance of the new Governor of
Algeria being responsible to the EMPIMOR stone,
an 4 holding communication solely with him, have
led certain parties to imagine that a great coup or
expedition is meditated 110112 C day or other, however
distant.

On the other hand, however, the PRINCE in ques-
tion has not shown any military genius, nor is
he a great favourite with the soldiery. He is, more-
over, strongly opposed to Russia and the politic' of
the Itnierian party, in concert with whom alone such
an expedition might be planned. M. THIERS' tastes
are civic and his tendencies liberal, and he does not
swim at all in the same water with M. DE HORNY.
On these grounds we reject altogether the notion that
the appointment of the Governor of Algeria has had
any connexion with any of those schemes which
timidly ingenuous people are fond of attributing to
the French EMPEROR.

We should rather consider his policy to proceed
from a desire to place his relative in that prominent
and powerful position which would best enable him
to hold a protecting arm over the young eon of the
EMPEROR, should any catastrophe or untoward event
call that son prematurely to the throne. Nothing
ought to be more unsatisfaetory to the Imperial
mind than a survey of the men who now hold high
dignities, offices, and commands in the Imperial
regime. More than half of them have been professed
and zealous Orleaniats or Legitimists. And their
antecedents are not each as to lead any one to sup-
pose that they would make any great saerifioe to
their more recent loyalty. Much comment was made

in Frans, on the feet of the Duieof MALAKors so-
bracing the Duke IYAossLe aid dining with lass.
Such conduct was honest and gessarons on the part-of
the old soldier, and by so means assassarily evinced
any want of fidelity to the Emnsos, nyder whose
banner he conquered. Still, such circumstances give
rise to doubt and to thought. People ask, what would
be the conduct of the B AROCH as and the CASTELLO; es
on certain occasions and in certain arises. And no
one is surprised to find that the EMPEROR thinks fit
to put high trust in his own relative as the most
efficient protector and natural guardian of the
PRINCE, should it be his fate to succeed whilst yet
in his minority.

The wisdom and liberality of the sentiments
delivered by the Pantos at Limoges; the apparent
singularity of Inch an enlightened eulogium on the
vitality and value of local institutions, under a sys-
tem which is generally regarded as the very climax
of centralisation—are not, perhaps, nnsusceptible of
explanation. The expressions are the genuine ex-
pressions of him by whom they were uttered, but
they would hardly have been uttered thus pub-
licly, without some previous understanding with
the Eterzacia. It will not be the first time that
LOUIS NAPOLEON has sought by indirect means to
hold up before his people two separate aspects of his
government, and it may easily be that after the
recent epoch of terror and repression he is more than
ever desirous of showing that the Imperial regime
is not absolutely intolerant of philosophic views and
liberal sentiments. ,

IN the exercise of a sound discretion, Mr. WAL-
POLE has withdrawn the Bale of Poisons Bill, which
had just been brought down from the House of
Lords. A more objectionable measure has seldom
been submitted to Parliament. It was full of arbi-
trary distinctions, and useless and petty enactments,
and would have imposed a number of annoying re-
strictions on the educated chemist, while it left free
scope to the ignorant temerity of the huckster. The
framers of the Bill appear to have relied mainly on
the expedient of making the purchase of poisons
as troublesome as possible, and in this limited
aim they were in a fair way to succeed. But
there is nothing which the public sooner find out than
the way to save trouble, and when it was discovered
that not even a pennyworth of oxalic acid to clean
a bonnet could be purchased without a personal visit
to the chemist's shop, a certificate from the minister
of the parish, and a signature in a book, people
in the habit of using poisonous materials would have
bought in large quantities. The chemist's shelf,
the safest place for poisons, would have ceased to be
their depdt, and they would henceforth be stored
in the cupboard or the warehouse, a snare to the
ignorant and careless, a temptation to the disordered,
and an opportunity to the villain. The beet security
which the public can have against the improper sale
of poisons is to be found in the qualifications
of the persons permitted to deal in dangerous drugs.
It is in this direction that any further legislation
that may be thought necessary should proceed; and
should Mr. WALPOLE be anxious next session to try
his hand upon this subject, he will do well not alto-
gether to disregard, as Lord DEBBY has lately done,
the experience of that useful body, the Phar-
maceutical Society, which, in providing for and
encouraging the education of chemists and druggists,
was contributing to the safety of the public in respect
of poisons before penal legislation for that purpose
was thought of.

'Ube Court.

OSBORNE, JULY 16.

The Queen and the Prince Consort, with Prince's
Alice and Princess Helena, embarked on board the royal
yacht Fairy yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty wu accompanied by the Duke and Duchess
of Manchester, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, and
Vice-Admiral Lord Lyons, who arrived at Osborne yesterday
on a visit.

The Hon. Lucy Kerr has succeeded the Hon. Emily Cath-
cart u Maid of Honour in Wilting.

A deputation from the General Shipowners Society, on
the subject of the Chinon Passenger Act, had en interview
with Lord Carnervon, on Thursday, at the Colonial-P(11m.
The deputation assisted of Mr. George Mardian, chairman ;
Mr. Duncan Dunbar, deputy chairman; Mr. William Phil-
lippe, and Mr. William Boner, secretary.fhe same gentlemen Lad also en interview with the Right
Hon. J. W. Henley and the Geri of Donoughmore on the
=bleat of the Chimera Emigrants Bill.
The Judicial Committee of the Pi;vy Council sat yester-
day. The lords present were the Chancellor of the Duchy
of Cornwall, Sir C. Cresawell, and Sir E. Ryan.
Judgment wee given by Sir C. Creswell in the appeal
from the Admiralty Court, " The *mow."
Despatches ware received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.
Wenatchee were emit from the Colonial-ofiloe yesterday to
the Governors of the West India Islands, the North Ame-
rican Provinces, Behind*, Malta, Ceylon, mini Australian
°Wooten.

(rzox LAST XIORT'S GASITTL)

WHITEHALL, JULY 10.—The Queen has bean
pleased to dialog letters patent to be passed tender the great
seal granting the dignity of a baronet of the tilted Kingdom
et Oreat Britain and Ireland unto Alexander Hutchinson
Lawrence, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service (eldest son of the
late Air Henry Montgomery Lawrence, K.O B ), and to the
heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, with remainder, in
default of such inane, to Henry Waldemar Lawrence. EN.
(brother of the said Alexander Hutchinson Lawrence), and
the heirs male of hie body lawfully begotten.
WAR-oynce, JULY 10.—The Queen has been
plumed to appoint James Aspinall Turner, Esq., Colonel
Henry John French, and Henry Selfe Selfe, Keg , to be her
Majesty's oonuoiseicners for the purpose of 'aquiline into
the state of the store end clothing depots at Weedon, Wool-
wich, and the Tower.

His Highness the Prinoe Radziwill has left the
Brunswick Hotel tw Paris.

The Countess d'Apponyi received on Wednesday
last the melancholy fatalism°e of the &rem of her brother-
ia-law, Y. Demidorib at Baden. The countess left Onandoe
House yesterday for Vienna, to mast Madame Demidorff.

The Earl and Countess of Jersey entertained NI.
Gallo' and a select party at dinner last evening, at their
mansion in Berkeley-square.
Field-Marshal Viscount and Viscountess Comber-
mere leave town to-day on a visit to the Marquis of Weit-
mieetsr, at EWA' Han, near Chester.

Lord and Lady Poltimore will give a grand en-
tertainment to Oka Royal Merano the Duchess cf
Ceatbridre, the Hereditary Grand Heehaws of Mecklaa-
borg•Btrrlitz, and the Princes Mary, on Wednesday, the
211* hut.

Lady Virginia Sandars' soiree dansants will take
plops as Tuesday ant, In Baton•sgwn.

Lord and Lady Wensleydale will leave Grimsby
on Thursday next, for St. P.teraburg, on a visit to their
son-in-law, who is attached to the legation in the Raid=
cartel. The noble lord and her ladyship will sail in the
steam-ship Atlantic, which meal leaves Grimsby imme-
diately on the arrival of the down express train from
London.

Lady Peel and Mr. Arthur Peel left on Wednes-
day, for Par* as routs to Vichy. The Right He..
Frederick and Mn. Peel have gone on a visit to Mr. and
Mn. Shelley, at Arington Park.

The Hants Acker-tiger states that Beeriest'?
Court, in Hampshire, the wet of the Ism B. Fitzhugh,
Eng., has been purchased by Sir Edward Hulas, Bert., for
a residence.

Mr. Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate, accompanied
by Mrs. Timnyeon and his youthful soca, has arrived at
Little Holland House, from his seat, Farriagford, Ids of
Wight.

Mr. Frith's " Derby Day,' and all the other
attractions of the Royal Academy, will be withdrawn from
public view by the closing of the exhibition next week.

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A pension of 1001: a year has been granted by
the Part of Derby to Mr. W. Deesborough Cooly, known in
the literary world chiefly for bin contributions to geographi-
cal science.