The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-15 00:00:00

K. Dl LAALUTINE.

M. de Lamartine has been roused by some severe
remerks published to this esnatry on his acquiescence in a
pale subscriistion fie We
ed benefit topublish an animated
Um
vindication. To those who to Chateanbriaed as
en steeple of Mid= mad . M. de Larnartine
emmeks tnet " Cheenankelnid bid lege and remunerating
remit yieldinit. slien 11011,0001. a-year, besides
jr
ishter nes
a==. orthser by the
geledeljTelporep , the Repeals am paid eemmeered as.
Uerre lee setisamest now Hvbig who sea Inanity that I
have retesed the Willow of the state when offered to me.
Leave ma my dab, lima leave nee also my chr..;acter ; I
mewed whim' Hee . . As to the pretended dUapida-
tlea shay fortune soh fay unlimited extravagance, come to
my Isms, wad image! I Inhabit a small boniest the bottom of a
Iced In la obscure curter. I live the life of a labourer of the
pea; I receive In the sewing a few friends still faithful to
me in my adverse days. I steal from sleep some hours for
wok. t have sold my horsie—to which I was passionately
attached so the companions of my youth and mu trample—
' keeping only two or three dogs, whose tender fidelity seems
a protest against the fidthieemess of men. Such has been
may life in Pane daring ten years. In the country I lead a
similar exlstence under wider roofs. A student at night a
mem or patriarch, If you will, during the day, erwrounded
by a numerous class of honest sad faithful labourers, profit-
ing by my profits in geed ears, poor in my poverty when
!Tops fail ; add a few servant' born and getting old
in my house, earring without wages when neceesary an
adopted family never to be expelled by me till the roof which
shelters their infancy or their grey hair shall crumble over
them sod me I That Is my luxury—the luxury of the heart I"
Y. de Laroartine then explains that his Inheritance was
burdened with legacies, to pay which be was forced
In mortgage them ; but that he has not added • penny to
leiter burdens He might have sold them, but filial piety
h Weed him. " After my death when my management
' will be waned, I may be blamed for my impulses, but my
warn wel be five from Insult. . . I have never
the tangents of my creditors. I have kept in
=iirdislsiciterary property enough and more than enough to
gmmteatss them. It only remains to find in course of time
s for my lands without having recourse to that
elitelorfeirearrs who like vultures scent the mosso from
der." The thud paragraph runs thus :—" If the subscription
spired far as In Macon, Paris, London, :Lc. mooed, how-
evarelowly or Moompletely, and if my Monty labour con-
tinue to be seconded, all will be saved.
If the subscription
alle, through indiffrence or calumny—if my friends reap
only • berme of both from then land where their devoted
heeds hoped te glean bat of the heart—then I will
abate not in ange with migmatite, the dust of my
peewee! &Ids and; hearths, and will say to you and to those
who Inspire you . —Enjoy in peace your malignity, breathe
lively the an of that country which witnessed your birth,
end when you may die ; I breathe no longer the same ar—
ise eadefied."

Those who compered Chatesubriand's stoic indepeadmice
with Lamartise's readiness to accept aid had Kobel:dg:a
rasa that the erst•natned author was at one time re
ken oar Lit/rare Fund.

EXPENSES OP RAILWAY AND CANAL
LEGISLATION.

This morning was ionted the report of the select
committee of the Hume of OXIIIIIOfIa appointed to inquire
into the best mods of moonrise the public intermits and dimi-
nishing tarliaseentary expenses to reference to railway and
canal legislation. The following are the resolutions which
the committee hare agreed to report to the how.:
" 1. That all railway and canal bills be deposited at the
Private Bill-offioe and at the Board of Trade on or before the
23rd December, prevkas to the 'tout session of parliament.
2. That the examiners of petitions for private bills cum-
' mince their sittings on the 18th January, and that they be
directed by Mr. Speaker to make such arrangement for the

examination of pet:Wow se shall facilitate the introduction of
private bills at as early a period as possible in each session.
3. That compliance with the staabi aims of both houses,
except the Wharncliffs order, be preyed before the istroduc-
ei a railway bill into puliamoiL 4. TINA es early day
ha hail et the commencement of oak seeress, err which no
a bill shall be red a noes' ass withal gm expire
ereelles of the bows 5. That the pod d dolmen of
emesitteas a railway sad cad helm amid M seisrl to
the immilest sashes oestimest with the row asseetles
el the bearer of the sessioe, sada nstabes, if peed* sot
and live. 6. That It woad teal to antes the
Mesa elemswillea nod &Rabb *ha d Inquiries
Woe lam, if any rained their sal has than
ha boors sea day. 7. That it is thoe
mar be rode kw a portion of the privets balm of sea
sleeks Wag cosmoses' is the Hoene of Lords. 8. That,
with the deer to pronnis each ea arnspossont, it It desire •
be that the House of draws shoed not iris on its
es agar& mosey cies= to private bills, when
ssitiVueos slate to tolls sad charges for services
and are not in the name of • tax.
rTlLS,..d4ith as Noise Ars, mashies of the House of
Ores amid base the power of ezeusdids. idbision on
Gab. 10. Tbat w desidas mhos volaing r inbuelplisn
ccabasto be resealed. 11. That same tan bd., sow
witless of lb, Boons d Lade on private bile be oesiesi by
gloominess d the Bow of C umber
Le stab have breeders ommons,
boon is Anse tsthe saewf es
akin. Ms. 12. That Ss fess simesed tee eralhog
aim with Nord to amiss b Issiirmiss sod angine
a. to avoid the sesseolly el maim wilt as said
a of the phs sod soodes."

VOLUNTARY 00131111TATIO1 OW C131711C11-11ATZ8.
, This maesteg was Wind a copy st the h. prepared and
hen& hi the Rome of Commons by Xt. Alcoa and Ik.
Evelis, tie the voluntary commuted= d *arch-rat... The
bit preprints empower the charity commissionent, °s having
seemed to them, though rent-charges greeted by corpora-
tism, he.—e yearly sum sufficient for payment et repesera
propsrly payable out of church-rates d any pert* or die-
ariel--to Seam that no church-rate shahs minable is each
pad* sr district. it Is proposed that these!, which consists
ter 14 chasm, shall extend to England only.
PARLIAMENTARY GRANTS FOR elvll. SIRVICLS.
—Prom a general abstract, Wag this swain& ot the
greats proposed for civil senior tor 18* empmed with
dialer charges for 11167, it apposes tbd than le • set da-
emon this year of 174,3161. The iseessepe seem ablety in
the voles he law and Julio% sod peddle works and
leaddige. la "Eaves*" aim" mod art," them is
an haws at 129.81181., bet doe pee diereses on the whole
Male te as we have able&

DMZ CaTREDILaL SZSITICZ/I.—A corysepatident
raga to our sookersenel contemperery the Oranians
Weatag. like the nest d Ire world, bean strewhat POW.
delieed at the err legendry' at the Dar sad Marie of
CsrHels, ft wee whit me Mg render ne to *lst was the
desn's notion of ' unernotiesebile as* that I west to
service at the agiradral yesterday. New, as I, in my inno-
cence. I shall Use a cathedral servioe' spiritual and ele-
vating above all eases, Wag under the Immediate diaactios
of se kigh se eatimeety to all oadesisetirl pmprietles,
arentectural, 'err, Lo., r Dar Close is lesows to be.
Images toy orris. se s'even o'clock to behold a progrgion
hurriedly sneer thre shoe, consisting of-1, a chorister, in
=sad monerche ; 2, • verger ; and 3, the canoe to
; sal by teas three was the egrets performed,
whri sere, sestiveratice looked on in various attitudes
rriseeprerive ot devotion. Everything was the mares
aitentnes, save that the congregation was smaller. I
lea sa wistfully at the pipes of the One organ, bat no mounds
did they utter ; end at the estpty seats of the choir, but no
dieses, precentor, miser moons, or choristers, were to be ern.
Nog they en tea/ailed' one another Thinking that pr.
lees Ilia gryderiorie of cathedral service' might be e•-
asepoll amhes..l ressived a hops that thia morning, at
any me, I sbt Alnd Ne ohoir in attendance; but to my
dineay, the a isdral gees were fast locked, and an old man
waking err firma& re that ' they were all gone out for
eardiday, and there would be no rercicm for three weeks.'
del Ora, the only daily pryers in this city of 30,000 prole
to Ode runty, end j 1 think) In this dioctes, are suspended
err 'they —dra, Othalla dc.—are taking their holiday.
Cu l der' manage another year to take it by terse,
se Mrs emir of the neighboring clergy to maintain the
or*, "bib 'they' are reinvigorating themselves alter
Vadr emetlessis aspalpf db.* presser t"
OMIT WONTWEINI lIO3PITAL, X T140.8-CROMS.
Number it Wiwi kw the week ending July 12, 956, of
which 293 we, sew tem.