The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-04 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EIreTING, MAY 4, 1854.1!

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seem irreproisibly—on more thence. occasion of tats,
but thin thasinsting Howe has fallen into utter aid
hopeless &ion from cause whiceour contemporary's
memory will not allow ldm to explain P
In our Opinion, Lord DERBY would be a far greater
fool than we take him for if he cherished any idea
like that entertained by Lord PALMERSTON'S ill-
advisers in the spring of last year. Should a dis-
solution prove unavoidable at the end of the
present session, the Tory Administration may
look fairly to the improvement of their posi-
tion, if on their appeal to the country they
put forward that which the late Othinet
refused to do—a plain and intelligible pro-
gramme of future policy. Again and again while
dissolution was pending in March, 1867, Lord PAL-
MERSTON and his colleagues were called upon to say
what they meant by Reform, and when they meant
to redeem their oft-forfeited pledge. They spurned
the appeal ; they would have nought but a personal
following; they got it, and what has it done for
them P Had they bat *erred their country's cause
with half the real they served their party king, the
country would not now stand by indifferent or in-
dignant while they are baffled by their enemies.
What is wanting to give cohesion to the Liberal
party in Parliament, what is wanting to give cohe-
rency to the existing Parliament itself, is precisely
that element of fixed and definite principles which
those who called this Parliament into existence
wilfully and boastfully excluded from its composi-
Um. Whether Lord DERBY is prepared to bid high
enough for popular favour when the approaching
crisis shall have actually come we know not. One
thing we do know, that exactly in proportion as he
avoids the bad example of his predecessor, and raises a
national gag with liberal measures inscribed on it, "so
" plainly writ" that foreigners from afar and fellow-
cltisens at home shall alike understand and respect
it--eo will he gain by an appeal to the suffrages of
the people. For the rest, it may reasonably be
supposed that the warning he has had from the fate
of those now driven from power hi a House sap-
posed to be abjectly obedient to its author's beck,
may point out to him the folly in these days of all
mimeses of mere sectional preponderance, and
the worthlessness of a large nominal ma-
jority. Under favour of our able contem-
porary, be it spoken, the constitutional doo-
trine of dissolutions is not that the Minister
has only a right to ask for a new Parliament when
the whim of the hour or some accidental circum-
stance at home or abroad gives him a chance of
snatching a preponderance at the elections. The

constitutional doctrines, that when a Minister has
been overthrown in a Parliament he had packed for
his own purposes, his successor, being called on to
carry on the Government with a minority, is bound
only to try that experiment so long as he is not
factiously thwarted and hustled by his disbanded
oppooents. But as every day renders the superan-
nuated distinctions of Whiggery and' Toryism less
and less real, it is every day more and more clearly
the right and the duty of those who advise the
Sovereign to tell her reverently but frankly that she
is not the QUFAN of a party but the QuEms of a
great people.

EXPRESS FROM PAM&

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(mos ova OWN COARNSPONDINT.)

PARIS, MONDAY iiibrugo.

The Municipal Council met to-day at the Hotel de
Ville to take into consideration an amendment pro-
posed by the committee of the Corps Legisletif, ap-
/*tad to report up the bill for approving the
convention made between the State and the city of
Paris, touching the expenditure of 180 millions in
improvements. The amendment, as I stated yester-
day, proposed to reduce by 10 millions the amount to
be furnished by the State, which would thus stand
at 60 millions instead of 80. I am informed that the
Municipal Council has consented to this amendment,
but upon the condition that the 50 millions shall be
paid by the State at a shorter date than was pro-
posed in the bill. According to the original plan
the final instalment to be made by the Treasury was
not due till 1872. Ido not know by how much the
Municipal Council desires to shorten the delay.
The 10 millions struck off from the State subven-
tion are to be found by the city, which will thus
be bound to expend 130 millions instead of 120.
The Patris expresses a belief that the Cagliari
question will not lead to a war between Piedmont
and Naples. It adheres to the opinion of the
majority of the English crown lawyers, that the
capture of the vessel by the Neapolitan cruiser was
legal, but that its subsequent detention after the
explanations given was illegal. The solution of the
difficulty should therefore be an acknowledgment on
the part of Piedmont, that Naples, in capturing the
Cagliari, acted within the limits of her rights, and
Naples should at the same time satisfy the just de-
mands of Piedmont, by giving up the vassal. The
powers who have interposed their good offices, will
not, the Patriot prem..' to think, meet with any
serious difficulties in bringing about an amicable
arrangement on this footing. The Suisse of Berne
says that the Sardinian government having trans-
mitted to the Federal Council a memorial relative to
this affair, the latter, while deeply sensible of the
honour of being consulted, declines to pronounce
any opinion on the point in dispute, on the ground
that the question is one which exclusively concerns
maritime nations.

M. Lightennelt, the Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of
the Netherlands, had the honour of being received
yesterday at a private audience by the Emperor,
and of placing in his hands a joint letter from his
Majesty the King of the Netherlands and his High-
ness the Doke of Nassau, addressed to his Imperial
Majesty, together with the insignia of the Order of
the Golden Lion of the Neiman house, which his Ma-
jesty the King of the Netherlands and his Highness
the Duke of Nassau have just founded.
The Bourse has been much firmer. The Bente
rose 23c. for cull, and 16c. for account, closing at
69fr. 45c., and 69fr. 60c. A large business was done
in Mobilier, which rose 52fr. 30c. The " bears" in
this security have greatly oversold themselves. The
total number of shares issued by the company is only
120,000, and it is said that 150,000 were sold for
this settlement. Railways were quiet. Eastern
and Lyons fell 2fr. 60c. each ; the other lines were
about 2fr. 60c. higher.
We reproduce from the Debate certain remarks
on the annual report of the Credit Mobilier Com-
PAY

What remains at the bottom of the crucible—ln which Do
may magnitioant combinations ham bean prepared and so
seek capital turned to account, after the evaporation of
poetess dividends and interest ? There remain shares to
the valise of seventy-one millions. It Is on the value of
them shares that depends the ketone of the company.
It remains subjected, like all securities quoted at the
Beene, to the general variations of the nerket.
As hr se the means of rendering its operations
prosperous are concerned, all confidence may be plated
in the ingenious and persevering activity of the dinettes.
The abasshoblers of the company, on reflection, should be
mikes to increase constantly their reserve Azad, and be
whiled for • long time with a simple interest; they would
thee correct the weak point of their institution, which is a
want deep, dace It is deprived each year of the resourse
which should increase its force la the following twelvemonth.
We may add that the report of the Credit Mohler h admir-
ably calculated to explain the crisis through which we have
pasted, and to peeve the merit of those who have resisted the
commercial catastrophe of the old and new world, and who
have maintained themselves on • level with aU the hopes
contained in the future. This is better than a dividend of
26fr.

A committee appointed by the Emperor to consi-
der what changes will be necessary in the adminis-
Iteration of Algeria consequent upon the nomination
' of Prince Napoleon to the government of that colony
has this day presented its report to his Majesty.
The Poles in Paris assembled to-day at the Polish
Library, to commemorate the anniversary of the
revolution of May 3, 1791. Prince Adam Czar-
toryski, who presided, made an interesting speech,
in which he explained the history of the emancipa-
tion of the serfs in Poland.

The French government is seriously thinking of
importing 100,000 negroes into Algeria, to give en
impetus to production there.
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When the police went to the publishers' (MM.
Gamier) to seise M. Proudhon's last work, they
found only 400 copies unsold. It is said that as
many as !,000 had been sent to England, and an
equal number to Belgium.

MOSCOW, APRIL 24.

The retirement of the Assistant-Minister of Public
Instruction, Prince Wiazemski, and that of Coun-
cillor Kislowaki, chief of division in the same minis-
try, are considered, in the literary world of Mosoow
and st. Petersburg, as the preludes to the abolition
of the censorship in Russia. There is a talk of the
resignation of MM. Panin sad Anenkow, two
ministers who, it is said, refuse to adopt the new
policy inaugurated by the Emperor Alexander.

A Posen letter in the Poet Gazetta sap:—" All
the roads of the kingdom of Poland are at peasant
covered with troops proceeding towards the south
and south-west. The number of amid Mill in
Poland is now double what it was last year. It
appears osrtain that it is the troubles in Bosnia which
have led to these 'military movements, Ramis having
resolved to prepare herself to oppose any interven-
tion of Austria in these provinces. Another letter
from the same place, in the if upburg Gazette, states
that authentic documents prove that the whole
amount of regular troops at present in the Russian
empire does not exceed 600,000 men.

THE 'UN ITED STATES.

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PROPOSEDAWOATION OF THE
CLAYTON-iniLwER TREATY.
IiP7ERPOOL, TIMIDLY MORNING.

The America arrived at 1 o'clock this morning.
She brings 82 passengers, but no mini.. She left
Boston on the 21st ult., and touched at Halifax on
the morning of the 23rd.
She passed the Canada ten miles outside of Hali-
fax, bound inwards. The steamers Arago and
Saxon* from Southampton, had arrived out at
New York.

The news from Washington is interesting.
The House committee on foreign affairs have
introduced their chairman to report a resolution,
directing the President to take immediate steps for
abrogating the Clayton-Bulwer treaty.
A report prevailed in Washington that Vice-Pre-
sident Breckenridge wee dead : it was generally
discredited. Mr. Breckenridge was at New Orleans
at last accounts.

The Kansas Conference was holding meetings, bat
bad not agreed upon any report.
The United States Senate had adopted a resolu-
tion directing inquiry as to the epidemic on board
the Susquehannah, with the view of suitably ac-
knowledging the courtesies of the British naval
authorities at Port Royal, Jamaica.
Memorials from New Orleans, asking for a line of
mail steamers between New Orleans and Bordeaux,
and for government aid to the Collins' steamers
were presented. The Philadelphians poured in

petitions praying for the establishment of a mail
line between Philadelphia and Southampton. Mr.
Florence gave notice of a bill for providing for
certain mail lines between the United States and
Europe, and to regulate the transportation of the
mails and reduce the expenses thereof. On the
20th, in the Senate, Mr. Hoeston brought up his
resolutions for extending a protectorate over
Mexico, and strongly advocated their adoption.
The subject was laid over. Two Germans
had been arrested at Buffalo, charged with
violating the neutrality laws in enlisting
men for the British army. General Harney had
started from Washington to join the army in Utah.
The legislature of New York had adjourned eine die,
after going through the usual scenes of excitement.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald says—" I have reliable information from
letters hare, that Seats Anna applied to the Captain
General of Cuba for 2,000 men to aid his supporters
in Mexico, and, failing in that, fora Spanish
steamer, which he &Laws& refused."
We have news from Havannah to the 14th inst.
'Eighteen British gunboats were cruising round the
island of Cuba, in order, as asserted, to prevent the
landing of negroes, but the search exercised by them
on American vessels is reported as very insolent.
There was little doing in sugar, and prices had not
advanced. Molasses was firm at last quotations.
Freights were low. Exchanges had slightly ad-
vanced.

The weekly returns of the New York city banks
show increase in specie of 1,160,000 dollars, and in
loans of about half a million dollars. The stock market
had been quiet, but on the 20th was active and
higher at the following quotations, which are tele-
graphed cis Boston :—New York Central, 90 ; Erie,
26t ; Illinois Central, 92 ; ditto Bonds, 88 ; Panama,
117 f ; Michigan, Southern preferred, 49*; Virginia
Sixes, 91. Money plentiful and in good demand at
4 to 6 per cent. on call. Sterling exchange dull,
bankers asking 109. Ashes steady. Cotton active,
and a quarter cent. higher under Arago's news.
Receipts of the week at all ports, 67,000 bales,
against 29,000 the same week last year. Flour
active and higher; Western, 4.20 to 4.86. Wheat
steady. Corn scarce and higher. Provisions buoyant,
and rather dearer. Lard a shade higher. Sugar and
coffee doll, .and declining. Spirits of turpentine
quiet at 62. Tobacco quiet and firm. Freights
drooping: