The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-16 00:00:00

TO OUR RIADIRS.

SPORTING LNTELLIGENCE.

A late edition of the Express is published every
evening during the ruing season, containing the
results of the day's races.

THE retirement of M. FOULD from the French
Ministry, and from the first place in the Imperial
Cabinet, was never well explained. Failing health
was assigned as the pretext ; but from several cir-
cumstances that have since occurred, it has become
manifest that M. Fur Lii disapproved of the lavish
system of expenditure, uncontrolled and unlimited,
in which the autocratic power of the Eitrzaol
allowed him to indulge. Although M. Fouuo's
withdrawal from office attracted small attention, it
was not so with the bold and searching essay which
M. CAMIVIII Pritiza published, pointing out not
only the augmentation of the amount of the pub-
lic stocks, hut the increasing deficits, and the
accumulation of the floating debt. M. PLRIER
was angrily answered at the time, not with a
denial of his facts, but with a to ,pioque : it
being pleaded that the constitutional monarchy
from 1840 to 1847 indulged in extraordinary
credits, over and above the Budget voted
by the Chambers, to the amount of six millions
sterling each year. M. Foruo, indeed, still main-
tains that the Imperial Government, from 1851
to IS:04, has not exceeded this amount, provided
the expenses occasioned by the war in the Crimea
be not taken into account. With these included,
the supplementary credits of the Empire have
doubled those of constitutional royalty ; whilst
the last three years, three years of peace, have
exceeded the prodigality of any former period.
The quart tilwo,re of RABELAIS, as the French
call the inevitable moment of paying the
bill, has ut length come in the shape of an
overgrown floating debt, which must bo capitalised
by a loan. But how go into the market in a
moment of full peace I There is no longer the
possibility of raising it in the provinces exhausted
of their savings by the last financial operation.
There is, therefore, the absolute necessity of a new
Finance Minister, and a new Programme.
The Mooi4 or gazetted the one, and pub-
lished the other on its front page. The Estrintoa,
by adopting and approving it, makes a clean breast
to his people. He has indulged in the bad habit of
giving his fiat for expenses which had been neither
voted nor studied. His Chamber had no sooner
terminated their budget and their session, than on
the demand of this town or that minister, millions
in addition were added to the expenditure. Even
since last session a dozen iron men-of-war not
set down in the naval estimates have been placed
on the stocks. Orders have been issued for
finding employment for the working populations of
all the ;neat towns. A large portion of
the loan raised for the Italian war having been
unemployed, it was not applied to the
diminution of the floating debt, but assigned to
various public works. The Monitor assured the
lower classes of Paris, the other day, that bread
should not be allowed to rise above 10 sous the
two-pound loaf. M. FOuLD refuses to take office
unless not only this system be discontinued, but
its resumption be declared unconstitutional and
illegal.

The boldest and most remarkable paragraph of
Focui'a .ifiewio is that in which he declares that
the poesession and usage of the power to warrant
these extraordinary expenses is perhaps the sole
arriving link which keeps together • European
coalition against France, since it excites uneasy sus-
picious, opens • door to calumny, and obliges other
nations, in their own defence, to recur to immense

armaments and exaggerated expenses. It is
courageous on the part of hi. F01.1.n to use these
arguments—frauk on the part of the EMPEROR to
stamp them with his approbation ; for they com-
pletely contradict and cut away the ground of
attack against the British Government taken by
the French Ministerial prints. These inspired
sheets invariably deny that France has armed
more vessels, or incurred more expenses, than
the nominal figures set down in the budget, which
here merely assisted in transforming the old
French sailing navy. M. FOULD abandons these
assertions, and the Eel-taint joins him ; thus
giving a full corroboration of the rumours and re-
ports which have been rife in England.
Whilst M. FOULD insists on the system of
supplementary and extraordinary credits being
abandoned, he would preserve the system of eire-
ne is, of transferring supplies from
one Ministry to another. Whatever was wanting
to the War Department he would take from that
of Education or the Interior. Assuming that
M. Fortii'm new system will be a fair pretext for
demanding the vote of an ample budget, we think
it very probable that the Ministers of War and
Marine will find the purse from which they may
draw quite as open and quite as inexhaustible as
before. Indeed, when we consider the shortness
of the French session, the prevalence in the country
of the supreme law of necessity, and the character
of the Chambers, es at present constituted—the
one paid, the other, or at Wet its majority, nomi-
nated by the Crown—there is neither the fear nor
the passibility of the government's being called to
account for any infringement of its solemn promise
of the 13th of November.
It will, however, enable the EMPEROR to refuse
idle sod importunate solicitors,
.and help M.
Fortm for the moment to lift the financial car out
of the mire in which it has stuck fast. Under the

' present paralysis of Russia, it is impossible but
that the main policy of France should be peace ;
however her war party may hope in a year or
two to be delivered from a forced and unwelcome
state of inaction. At the present moment we are
content to feel that it must be the wish of the
French Gove-nment to give a proof of its pacific
desires. The programme of the new Finance
Minister is a promissory note of peace. At least
it will prove as effective, and command as much
confidence as the promises of autocrats to be mild
and economical usually deserve. Moreover, it will
giro additional force to the anti-military parties
both in England and in Prussia. We shall hear
of the NAPOLEONIC declaration in the debates on
our own estimates, and the Prussian opposition
will use it in their intended onslaught on their
own military budget. Ere the Berlin debates
take place, however, we shall have better means
of judging of the sincerity and scope of this
solemn Imperial repentance. Should the general
policy of the Cabinet of the Tuileries be in accord-
ance with its professions, and tend to illustrate as
well as prove their sincerity, then the Mc:moire and
the decree of the 13th November will be an era
not only in the history of France, but in that of
Europe.

Or Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 15.

The Queen and Prince Consort rode on horse-
back thoi morntng, attended by the Marchioness of Ely,
Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell, Major-General Seymour, and
Hoe. A. Hardinge.
Princess Helena rode on horseback.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street The ministers present were Vis-
count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Gran-
ville, Sir George Grey, Earl Rumen, the Duko of
Newcastle, Sir G. Cornwall Lewis, Sir Charles
Wood, the Duke of Somerset, the Rigbt Hon.
Thomas Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley,
and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.

Her Majesty', Commiaiinners for the International Exhi-
bition of liei2 held a meeting at their offices in the Strand
)eaterlay.
Dewatches were sent yeatenlay from the Colonial-office
to the Governors of the North American proclaims and
Berniud.t.

COURT MOURNING.

(Rol( LAST MORT'S ourrre.)

LORD CRAIIRRILAIN'R OYFICR, Nov. 14.—Orders
for the Court's going into mourning on Sunday mat, tee
17th inst., for his late Majesty the Kiog of Portugal and
the Algarve., via.:— The ladies to wear black silk, 'lined
or plain linen, white gloves, necklaces and ear.riap, black
or white shoal, fans, and tippets. Me gentlemen to wear
black full -trimmed, fringed or plain hose, black swords and
buckles. The court to change the mourning on Sunday,
the Ist of December next, viz. : —The ladies to wear black
silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, fans and tippets, or plain
white, or white sod gold, or white and silver stuffs, with
black ribbons. The gentlemen to wear black soma, and black
or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff
waistcoats, full-trimmed, coloured swords Lod buckles.
And on Sunday, the Nth of December next, the court to go
out of mourning.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn are
entertaining a succession of visiton at Baron's Court, Ire-
land.

The Earl and Countess of Lichfield have left
Sitsgborousb Hall on a tour of 'lslam in Ireland.
The Earl and Countess of Cork arrived at their
rediknce in Grafton•street a few days since frees Marston
House, Sonsreetabire.

The Countere Cowper received at Wrest Park
during the last week the following party :—The Marquis
and Marchioness of Salisbury, Lady Mariam Alford,
Viscountess Joscelrn and the Mimes Joao"Vs, Mr. and
Nis. John Leslie, Viscount Cholera, Mr. Charles °meille
Hon. T. Stoner, Mr. Allen Bathurst, Sir Henry Ccaterell,
the Karl Cowper, and Hon. Henry Cowper.

The Omuta's Dowager of Lichfield and Lady
Oweadolcaii AOlllOO have arrival is Hill-shiest from a tour
of visits.

Viscountess Palmerston has issued canto' for a
dinner and small evening party this evening at Cambridge
House.

Mr. and Lady Georgians Romilly hare arrived in
Wiltoo•cmecent from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness
el Abercorn at Baron's Cart, Ireland.

Mr. it. S. Mulford, M.P., sod Ma. Holfard left
Dorchester Home on Thursday on n tour on the Continent.

We understand that in a few days a grand dis-
play is likely to take place at Aldershott. A combined
attack is to be made on the foitiacttioas at Hungry-hill,
which will be mounted with Armstrong guns. Pickets,
patrols, and outposts will be thrown out, eztending from
the Royal Arms to the Lower F'arnham•rued.

It is stated that several steamers have been in-
sured is Loudon for the run from England to Now Orleans
sad bock for 20 &Doss per cent.

At a meeting in Portarlington, Major des Vollen
in the chair, it was moved by the Dean of Kildare, seconded
by Mr. A. E. Tabulate, M.D., and resolved—" That we,
the inhabitants of Portarlingtoo and immediate neighbour.
hood, do hereby testify our deep sympathy with Miss Louisa
M. Jolly and her family residing there is their afflictive,
sad, •iewing as we do with the sincerest pleasure the deter-
mined and courageous resistance Mims Jolly offered to the
brutal violence wherewith she was mauled, and the firm
and consisteet manner maintained daring the long and
harassing trial that ensued, we beg to assure Slim Jolly of
our admiration of her coaled, and of the determination of
this meeting to take immediate steps for the purpose of pro-
moting her with a suitable and substantial toatimoutal."
_ _

l'estenlay evening ttr. Spurgeon's weekly lecture
was ors The Crain Family." LI apeakieg of a dog which
he had seen at the Hospice of Moot St. Bereard, he re-
marked that the animal was an angel is canine form, and
perhaps more fitted to take part in tempests and hurricanes
than the angels who were pictured to us with wiobs.
(Laughter and cbeen.) A tunispit dog had one day
gone to church, and at very demurely with his minter,
until the clergyman read a pismire is Ezekiel coutiining the
words, "Oh wheel." The dog started, and, on the won's
being repeated twice, ha, thinking, no doubt, that he was
about to be put to work, ran out of the church. (Laughter.)
It is reported (says the A tip.ist am) that Mr. Mac-
bee has been offered a knighthood, nod, like Mr. Thomas
Feirbsirn, deckled the same.

Mr. Shirley Brooks is announced as being about
to deliver two lectures before the Edinburgh Literary wad
Philosophical Society, one on the " House of Commons,"
the other ou "Horace Walpole."

Mr. Holman Hunt's picture, " The Light of
the World," is to be seen at Mr. eorbould's studio,
Elulun Lodge, Vietesia-road, Keosingtoo, on preeeot•stion
of a visiting card.

The thoatraterl Tinge' stages that to the new
work printed by and published for the maintenseoe of the
Victoria Press in Great Conant-street, the " Vinton" Regis,"
Mr. Alfred Tennyson sends a poem of four stanzas, called
" A Sailor Boy," Mr. Jobs Former a sketch of " Stafford's
Youth," Mr. Thackeray "A Leaf from • Sketch- book,"
Mrs. Norton sod Mr. Kingsley contribute poems, the Rev.
F. D. Maurice sends an essay " lM Critic. r Barry Cars-
well a poem, "Two of the Mob ;" Lady Dufferin name
" hoes r while Mrs. Hornet, Miss Jewsbury, Mies
Mulock (in a poem called " Far-off Sunshine 'l, Miss La
Craig, Messrs. Coventry Patmore, Gerald Mammy, Tom
Taylor, Mae Martinmas, W. Alliughame, and all the
Trollops's, T.A.'s sad A.T.'s and Ph. P.'s, and all, are
antributore. Mr. Henry Reeve, editor of the Edinhury•
Renew, sends a menet entitled "A Design for a Gera."
Mr. 11 °nekton Milan sends 'saw "0. Second Childhood.",

Courasug goes on briskly. The meetings for
lest week are Use North of England Club (Balmy), on
blooday ; Buchan Club, on Tuesday ; Mahon Valois Club
awl Sprlthorae, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and the latter on
Thursday as well ; 'Tyneside Club (Kirkleyhon Wednesday ;
Dimmer St. Leger (0). on Wadateday, kc. ; Carleton
(Petwith), on Wedasseisy and Tinnalay ; the Altair and
Mariam Clubs no Wsdeesday, Thursday, and Friday;
sad t►e kluatangdonshirs Club, on Friday and Saturday.

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