The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-12 00:00:00

PIMPTIIIO SNIPING 701 t THE MAIN MISTNAGE.

Oa ohs motion to tea its teed. re for pumping enginse and
mtchlasty kr raising sewage at Deptford welkin,
lift. CAIIIMALL isoce4 that the tender* remised for the
panipieg anew ant mwhisery be referred to the main
deskse gip comesitiee, eith in.t.o *ices to rail in web profes-
sional assistance a. they noiy consider desinible; and that
the commit**, do report to lir. bawd as to the beet cunstruc •
i..n of engines sod inschieery f t relent; the wimp a• the
Doodad station, mid also aa to which, If any, of the tenders
should be meowed by this hoard.
After sores discussion the modes was coterie!, and some
other Walsers hating been digit:wad of, the board adjourned•

Tuz Niw SUPERANNUATION HlLL.—Yesterday
the eatsNelrrinalet bill re eapennalatioes was printed.
Then le a prevhisa as to the compiling r.Vremeat of per-
son. at e& Seven' arts an repealed, aad the wale of
&Wasson an Rath. Ti.years appear to he the sh..r ret

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manias far solidi •

few" be valued, and Ihr

atort pooled* seetelir; may 100 rata. -
The new' Reform Club," recently organised in
Liverpool hove SUNNI the handrails end resteedino build-
leg kern ea the Lord' s Can, In Clartolvegurze, a■ a
rewlawas hepatica' ma dab 'sabotage.

IMPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PlOll OVA OWN

Pa.RII3, FRIDAY Everixo.

M. Emile de Girardin's pamphlet hu been allowed
to appear, but it is reported that he was compelled
to strike out some passages from the original
manuscript, in which his opinion of the incom-
patibility of war and liberty was too bluntly stated.
His title page, however, exhibits a motto culled
from the words of the Emperor himself, the citation
of which clearly indicates M. de Girardin's belief
that if Napoleon ILL goes to war it will be because
he despairs of permanently keeping down liberty in
Franc, without resorting to that extremity. Here
is the apt quotation :

There he. never yet been OM umeg free peoples say
government etroog enough to repress liberty at home for say
length of time without giving to Its subjects glory abroad.
I have no time to give a fall analysis of the pam-
phlet, which I think is destined to make a consider-
able sensation. M. E. de Oirardin's position in
France is peculiar. For many years he bas laid
aside his pen, on the express ground that as he
could not write freely he preferred not writing at
aIL A year ago he wrote under a borrowed signa-
tare a few articles in the Coursier de Paris, with
the heading, " The Empire and Liberty." The
theme wee disagreeable to the authorities, the man-
ner of treating it still more so, and the journal
was soon given to understand that the series
must be discontinued. Since that time M.
de Oirardin, who has long been closely con-
nected with Prince Napoleon, bee accepted
office under him as a member of the consultative
council of Algeria : and, therefore, must be con-
sidered to have rallied to the empire through the
prince, and perhaps on condition that he may enjoy
a certain latitude to develop that liberal side of
Napoleoniem of which the prince has come to be
considered the representative. So far as I can
judge of the tenor of his pamphlet, from a hurried
first reading, it seems to me to be written under a
sort of tacit understanding that he should be allowed
to express his own opinions very plainly against
the particular practical war which is now im-
minent, on condition that he should ventilate the
idea of a grand universal war, which he
perhaps thinks would be still more congenial to the
mind of the Emperor if there were any chance of
the country supporting him in it. He thinks that
to make war for the miserable purpose of turning
Austria out of Italy would be an unworthy " waste
of powder," which had better be kept to be used
against—pleasant prospect !—Proasia and England.
He combats with great ability, paragraph by para-
graph, the various pretexts put forth by the official
pamphlet, " Napoleon 111. et l'ltalie," to justify an
armed intervention in the Peninsula. He shows, in
terms which must severely try the temper of the
imperial prompter of that production, that the
deplorable state of things now existing in Rome
is not justly attributable to Austria, bat to himself,
on account of his having bombarded Rome in
1849. He ridicules the idea of making the Pops
President of an Italian Confederation, and quotes
Napoleon I. to show the impossibility of reconciling
the Pope's spiritual Infallibility with temporal re-
sponsibility. The emancipation of Lombardy from
the thraldom of Austria, which he admits to be most
desirable, he thinks might be attained by time,
peace, and the pressure of opinion, and
ha positively joins issue with the pam-
phlet on one of its main positions—that
Austria can never be expected to yield without
fighting, because she would be committing suicide.
Bat in the second part of the pamphlet he says that
if, contrary to his opinion, France feels the "abso-
lute necessity " of making war, he would like to see
a general war carried on by the aid of a Russian
alliance against England and Germany for the pur-
pose of avenging Waterloo and founding two grand
empires—the Empire of the West for France, and
the Empire of the East for Russia. This scheme
he shows by copious extracts from .writings of
Napoleon I. and Napoleon 111. would be a true
oarryiag out of the " Idea Napoleoniennes." He
concludes:

If the objest be to Interfere In the afLire of the Roessner
to piece the Lombards ender the Piedon Mew petrel:nest,
la spies of the temembeence of the eseembly of Lugano to
INS, end to have sn Italian coefedarstion presided over by
the Pope. we shall say, Pate I If It be wished to take re-
vamp for Waterloo, to restore the left bank of the Rhine to
Fran, to maths, in fact, the programme of St. Helena and
of Ham, and to fend the great Etuopran amodation, we
than my, War! Either war with its conquests or peace with
the proves'.

The Bourse opened with some firmness upon the
strength of Lord Malmesbury's announcement that
the conference might be expected to meet. The
Rental was for a moment quoted 6c. higher, but the
more confident feeling was of short duration, and
the closing quotations, 68fr. and 67fr. 96c., show •
fall of 26e. and 30c. Mobilier fell 13fr. 76c. Rail-
ways were from 6fr. to 10fr. lower. The alarming
alternative propounded in 61. de Girardin's pamphlet
was not without influence on the market.