The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, ISSB,

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" sketch out a scheme that should not be liable to
" grave objections ;" but it is at lent equally
trne that even a few days might have sufficed he
avoiding some of the more obvious blunders perpe-
trated in the new scheme. It is also clear that, it's
few days were felt to be insufficient for the task,
more ought to have been taken ; that the matter was
not res Integra ; and that Bill No. 1 might have
served more effectually ea a beacon to warn the
authors of Bill No. 2 to avoid the shoals on which
their predecessors had struck. All this, and more of
the like kind, might easily be urged, but it would
answer no practical purpose to urge it. The object
is, if we must legislate this session—which we
by no means admit—to get by every pee-
sible means the best possible scheme for the
Government of India. To the attaicment
of this end the disposition of the present Govern.
ment, as declared by Lord DENBY at the Mansion-
house, offers every facility. "We do not deprecate,
" we court discussion—we hope for advice both in
" Parliament and in the country—in order to render
" the change as safe and beneficial as we hope it may
" be." We may be reminded that these expressions
fall lamentably beneath the dignity of an Adminis-
tration conscious of its own power; it is more
to our purpose to rest satisfied in the assur-
ance that they augur large concessions to the
wishes of a community which in this matter of the
Indian Government desires what is right, without
regard to party interests or political intrigues. It is
our confident belief, as it is our earnest hope, that the
statesmen on both sides of the House, as distinct from
the traffickers and the place-hunters, will seriously
incline themselves to the great and momentous task
which, lies before them in a wise spirit and with a
lofty purpose. On a question of this vital import-
ance the nation will regard with impatience and
displeasure any resort to the artifices of faction. ,

etc Court.

WINDSOR, APILU. 6.

Prince George of Saxony, the French Ambassador
(Count de Persigny), the Earl of %lemur, and the Earl of
Ilaltuabary, arrivedyeaterday afternoon cm a visit.

Prince Gasp o Saxon; was attended by the Saxon
Minister (Count Vitstlinm), Lientenant•Oenarel Rskhardt,
Major von Tschirshky, Captain von Thiclan, Dr. Carew, sad
Lieutenant-Colonel Ponionby.
In addition to the visitors arrived at the Castle, bar Ma-
jesty's dinner party in the evening included the Dashers ad
Kant, the Prince of Wales, Lady Mary Hood, Lady Caro-
line Barrington, Lady Fanny Howard, the Hon. Mrs. Bid•
dulpb, Miss Victoria Stuart Wortley, Sir George Cooper,
and Mr. Gibbs.

The bend of the Boots Fusilier Guards played during
Toner. The Queen's privets bend afterwards performed in
the drawing-room the following pieces :

Overturn " Macon" _ .
Auer.
Quartette in Canon, " Fidelio"
Mocha/its Marsch, " Burianthe"
Selection, " Conte Ory"
The Countess de Persigny was prevented by indisposition
accepting her Majesty's invitation to Windsor Castle.
- - - -

The 4wien and Prince Consort, accompanied by Prince
George of Saxony, the Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, the
younger members of the Royal Family, the visitors staying
at the Castle, and the ladies and gentlemen of the homehold,
witnessed Mr. Rarey'e whole system of subduing the hone
thiamornbig is the riding-sebool of the Celtic

The Quail held. Prlvy Council at half-past three o'clock
this afternoon. It wee .needed by the Prince Cowart, the
Margolis of Salisbury, the Lord Chimellor, the Earl of
Eardwicks, the Earl of Derby, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the
Earl of Idalmesbury, Lord Stanley, the Right How. J. W.
Henley, Lord John Manner., the Marquis of Exeter, the
Earl of Delawarr, and the Duke of Beaufort.

At the Council Mr. Mowbray, Judge Advocate Ouneral,
and the Earl of Donoughmore, by command of the QUOIN
WWII sworn of her Majesty'. most honourable Privy Coun-
cil, and took their places at the board.

Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right
uon. Witham Earl of Berton to be Lord Lleuttautat the
county of Lancaster, his lordship was sworn into °Mos.
Lord Bndeley wu sworn into dace u Lord Lieutenant of
_ _

The Earl of Donoughosore was appointed by the Quinn
Irias-Prasident of the Board of Trade.

Ma Education Committee was rwsppolnled.
Mr. C. Geordie was the Clerk of the Council in waiting.
The Earl of Derby and the Marquis of Saliabary had
audiences of the Queen.

The Burl of Sheffield and Lieutenant-Colonel F. Cammdlah
WWII the Lord end Groom in waiting.
Lady Churchill has succeeded the Counts's of Caledon as
the Lady-in-waiting to her Majesty, and the Earl of Sheffield
and Lieutenant-Colonel F. Cavendish have eucoeeded Lord

Raglan and Major-General Berkeley Drummond se Lord and
Groom to waiting.
The Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Exeter, the Earl of
Derby, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwick*,
Lord John Manners, Lord Stanley, Mr. Secretary Walpole,
the Right Hon. J. W. Healey, the Earl of Donoughroora,
the Earl of Sefton, Lord Sudeley, Mr. Mowbray, and Mr. C.
Oreville travelled from town to Windsor by a special train
on the Great, Western Railway. The Ministers returned to
Paddington by a special train after attending the Queen's
Privy Comma

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when William Edward Frere,
Esq., was appointed a Provisional Member of
Council at Bombay.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will
'howdy occupy the Whit. Lodge, the Hanger'. Lodge,
Richuiond-park. Since the death of the Dachau of Glouces-
ter the rangership of Richmond-park has been entrusted to
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, on, we believe,
the understanding that ca the Prince of Wales attaining his
majority the royal duke will transfer the raagership to the
prince. The Lodge has undergone a thorough repair sad
embellishment preparatory to the Prints of Wales taking up
his establishment there It is said that the Queen and
the Prince Cocoon purpose., during the redden°. of the
court at Buckingham Pekoe, to occadonally pass Saturday
and Sunday nights in privacy at the Lodge.
His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-
Chief will hold a levee at the ROM Guard. at 1 o'clock on
Monday neat.

The Marquis of Dalhousie remains at Malta in
an ind.fferent state of health. The noble marquis and
his daughters are not expected to return to Enikaa until
June.

The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine Vil-
liers left town yesterday, for Oakley Park, Olotioestershirea
on a visit to the Earl Bathurst. The aches/art nom to Mid-
dleton Park for • few days.

the Baron Schlueter has taken his departure from
the Brunswick Hotel, Bt. James, for Germany.
The Hon. Philip and Mrs. Sydney Pierrepoint
have arrived in Seamom-place, Mayfair, for the mason.
We (Poet) are informed that Sefton House has
not bean takes for Marshal the Duke of Malakoff, ai stated
in error a flew days since.

The following are among the company now at
Brighton :—Lord and Lady Culabialise, the Hos. H. Abbott,
Sir Frederick aad Lady Bathurst and family, Lord Cranstoo.,
Lady Granville Somerset, Lady Waldron, Sir J. and Lady
Rayne% Lady Dixie, Lady Bury, Lady Townley end
Bir Cheeks Rich, Lady Heathoote, Lady Call, 11r. Pritchard,
M.P., and Mrs. Pritchard, Mr. sad Mrs. W. hilterd and the
Misses Alkard, Mr. Janke Creswell, Major Stuart Wortley,
M.P., Mr. B. Blakemore, M.P., Mr. D. MOMS, M.P., be.
The Earl of Ctithneaa, we (Scotsman) bear, is
likely to be a candidate to till the Tammy among the repre-
sentative peers of Sootiand, caused by the death of the Bart
of Morton.

We (Edinburgh Courant) understand that the
Marquis of Staff .rd, the Bight" of London, the Hon.
Arthur Hinsaird, M.P., Mr. Edward Ellice, M.P., &o,
have reosntly joined the Association for the Improvement
and Batumi= of the Scottish Universities.

Principal Barclay has been appoicted Vico-Chao-
coDor of the Ml!varsity of Glow, by Ms Grace the Duke
of Ileaboaa

Henry Watt arrived in Newcastle on Friday
night by the government train hoot the sea& He will stay
for MOO tee, it la mid, at the heave of his parents, la
Anylirstrest

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TUIIDAT BYWNO.

The serious opposition in the bureaux of t►e Corps
Legislatif, against the " Usurpation of Titles" bill,
hes produced a note in the ifositeur in favour of the
measure. This article slurs over the real grounds of
objection, with a reckless audacity which could only
be ventured upon in a country where an official
journal cannot be answered. It seta out by saying
that the object of the bill is simply to restore to
article 239 of the penal code the import which it had
in 1810. This article, it says, punished " not only
the usurpation of decorations, and official costumes
and uniforms," but also the usurpation of those
" honorary titles which the crown confers to reward
and perpetuate the remembrance of civil and
military services rendered to the state." Now, these
are not the textual expressions of the article in
question, and are used with sn ulterior object, which
I shall presently mention. The old titles of nobility
were all abolished at the great revolution. All that
the law of 1810 did was to prohibit the usurpation of
titles granted since the creation of the empire. These
being of recent date there could scarcely by possibility
have been a dispute about, and it is quite certain that in
point of fact nobody ever thought of usurping them.
After the restoration this clause was adopted, but
pursuant to the general verbal alterations made in
all the statutes, the word "imperial" was changed
for " royal," and this word let in all the old titles
from the earliest times. I doubt whether a single
prosecution ander the act was ever instituted, and
in 1832 Louis Philippe's government abolished the
penalties, as inconsistent with the genius of .modern
French habits. In 1848 titles themselves were de-
clared unlawful, but Louis Napoleon repealed the
repeal, still, however, not reviving the penal sanction.
To revive the law now would be confessedly to give
the public prosecutor the power to persecute all
holders of titles who might be obnoxious to the
government The Moniteur says grandly, that
titles "ought to represent glory and merit, and that
their office is to excite the emulation of citizens who
devote themselves to their prince and their country."
This may sound very well, but can any one, mach less
the representative of the principles of 1789, say that
any large proportion of the descendants of the effete
teaks., of the old regime represents glory and
merit? It is plain that the real object in view is to
do away with all titles which may not have been
conferred by the present sovereign. If the argu-
ments used do not mean this they mean nothing. To
extend the area of subserviency by an appeal to
vanity on an immense scale is the design which the
members of the Corps Legislatif see through. As
one of them observed the other day—" Ce gouverne-
ment ci voudrait avoir dans sea mains tons lea
moyens poesibles de tourmenter lea gene." The
bureaux are equally divided on the subject, and for
the present the measure is at a dead lock.

You will have observed from the Mositier's re-
port of the Emperor's speech that he pays a high
compliment to M. Hauasmann, the Prefect of the
Seine. The emphatic wording of this compliment is
a pregnant confirmation of the reports which have

been so long current uto the peril in which this
functionary has been of losing his place. But
is it clear that the danger is put Most
people suppose so, but it is remarkable that the
terms used are precisely those of tho common form
in which the Queen of Spain concludes a decree dis-
missing a minister :—" I am entirely satisfied with
his conduct."

The Debate and the Univers both return to the
question of Perim, but I suspect it will turn out that
there is nothing to discuss in the affair after all. I
am assured that there is no truth in the reiterated
assertions of the French journals that Turkey has
protested against the occupation of the island. In
that case no question arises. In Vienna the affair is
pooh-poohed. Should it be brought before the Paris
Conference it will meet with the same fate. Prussia
will probably vote with England in the Conference
on all questions.
The Bourse has been in precisely the same inani-
mate state u yesterday. The Rente fell lOc. for
cash and do. for account, closing at 69fr. 400. and
69fr. 55c. Mobilier fell 2fr. dc. The Orleans Rail-
way fell 10fr.; Lyons, 3fr. 76c.; Western, Mr., and
the other lines about 2fr. 600.

The straggle for the rise last week was carried on
mainly by one capitalist, who, considering the extra-
ordinary accumulation of money now lying idle, and
being of opinion that the causes of uneasiness which
have weighed upon the Rents for some time put
have either disappeared or are in a fair way of re-
moval, was of opinion that the favourable
moment had arrived for giving a great
impetus to speculation. He began opera-
tions by closing a large " bear " account, and
then went on baying Bente for the rise to an enor-
mous amount. He succeeded in bringing the Rents
up from 69fr. 40c. to 70fr. 25e., and if the other
great bankers and capitalists had supported the
movement a considerable and permanent rise would
no doubt have been realised, but they went the other
way, selling freely all the securities that the indi-
vidual in question was buying. When settlement
day came he was relying upon the Bank of France
to lend him ten millions to take up his stock, and at
the last moment the sum was refused him. The
consequence was a complete victory on the part of
the " bears," and the throwing back the market into
• state of depression, from which it has not re-
covered, in spite of a good many money purchases
by the public.
The Presse says in its weekly commercial review :

We last week noticed a partial improvement in business.
The movement now tends to become more general. in con-
sequence of the requirements of home consumption. Some
branches of Industry in Paris may, in some sort, be said to
be active; this remark applies to furniture, Immure and
Jewellery. The country travellers who have been holding
b►ck for more than a month, are at length giving some
orders. The flue seasonable weather has created a deemed
for spring goods, and the shopkeepers, who find themselves
doing Loudness, have been encouraged to buy some flames
from the wholesale house in Paris and the proenom.
Those manufacturing towns where stocks are low, at once
felt the benefit of this movement. At limber, considerable
quantities of Orleans stuffs and wee fancy goode have Mee
bought fur Paris. The week has been equally satisfactory at
Turcoing, Lille, and Amiens, but Rouen and Mulleins, me-
thane calm, though a revival Is looked for in those towns hem
ms moment to another. A few homes in Lyons have re-
ceived orders for certain special produce; bet, unketanaely,
there remains la this market a large accumulation of times
manufactured with a view to sepoetadon, which go of very
slowly. The holders persist in keeping up their price, which
are at this moment 26 per sent. dere then at New York.
The Americans there are felling their aid stocks for what
they will fetch, in order to start fresh bode=; but Lyons,
by renting to submit to inevitable searleces, mama to be In-
&lately postponing any revivaL However, the lamas en-
perienced by Lyons in consequence of the crisis, heft ad
hem so considerable as might ham been feared ; she lass
'ired from stagnation, and the absence of orders from
America; but in Marseilles, where speculation is more in
raves, the loam have been much more serious. Cereals
hays still a downward tendency in all the merkebt. Price
give way slowly it is true, bat the. ammo emplane eta re-
seise. Abate every locality is well sepplied, tend the
preedis Wale of the weather peeved. buyers he opals-
Slag at s

Pursuant to the plan annonnoed in the Emperor'.
speech, and which has been already adopted by the
Municipal Commission, a bill has been this day pre•

seated to the Corp. Legislatif for authorising the
aity of Paris to borrow 100 millions to form a fund,
made up by the state to 160 millions, for forming
new boulevards in Park.

The following report of the Emperor's speech, at
the inauguration of the Boulevard de Sebastopol, is
given by the Moniteur :
Gentlemen, Members of the Municipal Council,—The in-
auguration of the Boulevard du Sebistopol affords me, natu-
rally, en occasion to thank you for your persevering efforts
to embellish the capital, sad to advance the welfare of its in-
habitants. We live in times when the construction of rail-
ways is changing all the economical conditions of a country ;
for not only do they absorb in their construction the greater
part of the disposable capital, but, when they have been con-
structed, they tend to promote the agglomeration of the
people in the cities, and to alter the relations between the
producer and the consumer. The Municipal Council, there-
fore, had a multiplied task to perform; it was requisite,
in the first place, to secure the financial resources
of Paris, to promote new buildings, in order to hi
enabled to lodge a sudden merlon to the population ; and,
on the other band, it was indispensable to demolish some in
, order to create new thoroughfares, by which light and health
might be allowed to penetrate into the insalubrious quarters,
and to form great arteries of communication, whicherrteroullJ
be favourable to the development of the city, by bringing its
centre more within reach of its extremities. This twofold
object bas been attained; the new buildings nave been ten
times se considerable as the demolitions. But your efforts
have not stopped there; and, during the years of scarcity,
jou have, thanks to the institution of the Caine cis la J3ou-
laanna, given the population cheaper bread. No sys-
tem of improvement and beneficence have you emitted
to put in operation Whilst founding new hospitals,
you have multiplied the house-to-house relief; you have
built new churches and new schools; you have facilitated
the supply of Paris with provialons by the establishment of
the Hallos Centrales ; you have commented the sanitary im-
provement of the city by a gigantic system of subterranean
ri gallees, worthy of the great works of ancient Rome; and in
the last place, you have everywhere combined with ability
whatever could gratify the eyes and inspire elevation of sen-
timent. When the generations who come after ue shall tra-
verse our great city, they will not only acquire a taste for
the beautiful from the spectacle of those works of art, but
in reading the names inscribed upon our streets and bridges,
they will remember the glory of our arms from Rivet' down
to Sebastopol. For all these great result. lam indebted
to the corporation of the legislative body which, renouncing
every feeling of provincial selfishness, has understood that
such a country as France should have a capital worthy of
her, and baa not hesitated to grant the subvention which the
government has asked of it. lam indebted for them, also,
to the enlightened 00-operation of the Municipal Council, but
their prompt and judicious execution I especially owe to the
enlightened magistrate whom I have placed at the bead of
the Department of the Seine, and who, whilst preserving in
the city finances an order worthy of praise, has been able in
so short a time to bring such numerous enterprises to their
conclusion, and to do so amidst the obstacles incessantly
raised by he spirit of routine and of misrepreeentation. I
ant happy in giving him here a testimony of my
entire metafiction. But our task, gentlemen, is far from
being yet sooomplished ; you have approved of a general plan
which should continue what you hays so well commenced.
The Chamber, I hope, will soon vote its execution, and we
shall thus every year see great arteries of comrausication
opened, the densely populated quarters rendered salubrious,
the working dames enriched by labour, misery diminished by
• better organisation of the public beneficence and Paris
thus brought more and more into conformity with her high
destiny.