The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-03 00:00:00

ITALY:

WWI •eMoral growth, the
hew, yid& livened and d.
slowly into the oak, upon the
we lean, and ender the

broaches we repose.
But the feet is that the British
a growth, but en ungrowtb, sot a doing,
complete =dein. Oar isms= law, ear -make
rights, sad our municipal institutions, Win
in =num long before the monopoly of Ind
and of all political rights unshed to that menspelyi
sad vested in a few halides, was epos
them. That monopoly was by con-1
quest, maintained by power. The Wray et
England is an se of the Mimic
popular rights ordeal them ; and the ellele
of oar middle and enllehtensd classes kg
centuries have been an undoing, we repeat, et a
einem of gmannegat by which the deseendants of the
smoggiest's glass millepedes* power and Ind. Oar
Wary is this, bat the meant of common right
Wiest feudal conquest. The British °methadon is
=mune between them. a most happy and sae-
sempressige. and, we believe, the wry best
estgaintien that could be given to a meshy which is
entimieing or hoe just outgrown feudalism, whilst
preserving metals of its elements.
To meet a Belli\ eggellitsden, however, without
the final or historic elesased,in set only preposterous
beg iminiiblo. And, indeed ea looking round the
wield, we do not now diseern one spot, where
se= a enotitution would be likely to stand. Two
years irk indeed, there existed two ()pantries in
Europe ease of which not only had constitutions like
the BMA, bat possessed the peculiar elements and
traditions fsrpodseting them. These countries were
Bioily_sat Wangery. It has pleased the Austrian
sad Nenislitaa tyrants, however, to uproot theme oon-
stitutioge—to tread into the dust and scatter to the
winds tbe elements of those that 'xis: ed . And these mili-
tary governments are now in the act of levelling the last
historic atonements of those countries so as to leave
that wide and unbroken Hat, which, in consequence,
democracy cannot fail rue day to have all its own.
The British congaed= will then he unique in
Europe, and, we fear, in the world. For there is no
fact more manifest or more remarkable than the ina-
bility of the English to transport either the state, each
as circumstances have made it at home, or the church
such as it has grown in adherenos to the state, even
to one English colony. The English colony is Eng-
land without its adventitiousness, ite histoncal bias,
and social necessities. It is Saxon England that has
colonised the world, leaving, as it sailed on the
waters, the Norman element at home.
Nothing, therefore, can be more comical, or more
distressing, than to contemplate the House of Lords dis-
cussing the constitution of the Australian, or indeed of
any other colony. The universal desire is, of course,
to see our colonists, like ourselves, under two houses,
not for the colonists' sake, but fur the example.
Even the good and liberal Lord FITZWILLIAN
held up his hands in horror at a constituent assembly
in the colonies framing for those colonies a consti-
tution to meet their wants.

As to ministers, their arguments are plain enough.
They say, we should be delighted to establish a
House of Lords in the colonies, but there are neither
the materials nor the moos. We hope that both
may yet be found, but we see no signs of them.
Strange to say, Lord SUNLIT himself, the leader of
the aristocratic party in this country, was obliged to
corroborate this doctrine. And his lordship gave a
most striking example. A House of Lords had been
ereattd, he saA, in Newfoundland, where persons in
the position of lords there were none. The
Commons, naturally jealous, quarrelled with
the upper house, and the Speakers of both
houses sent each other to prison. The imbroglio
was naturally terminated be Iputtiog Lords and
Commons in one house to sit and vote together, in
other words, the nonsensical House of Lords of New-
foundlande was abolished. It would be the same in
any one of our colonies.
A House of Lords founded on hereditary right, on
• monopoly of land, and of privilege and power
attached to land, is an essentially artific;al institu-
tion, sprung from our history and circumstances,
and which cannot be transplanted. The only thing
of the lt,nd possible either in one of our colonies, or in
most European countries, is • senate ; not a senate
chosen by the same electors as the Commons, to sit
in merely another house, and reconsider from the
' same point of view th • same questions—for that is
mere political tautology—hut • senate elected by a
federation of states. Now, the oddity of the debate
of Friday in the House of Lords was this,
that it admitted an hereditary second chamber
is the c deny to be impossible, and yet
anything like a federal constitution, which alone
could retain and establish a senate, was scouted se a
heresy equal to the heresy of a single chamber. In
other words, they can't have en Australian House of
Lords, and they won't have an Australian senate.
It is impossible to afford a more complete
cenionstratioo, teat the demarcations of the Australian
constitution must be laid down by Australians them-
selves. As to the federal portion and provision of thaw
i constitutions, it is evident that it is the prospect of
foreign war, and the necessities of commit defence,
which chiefly prompt such • union. When these
necessities press, each state is willing to give up some
portion of privileges and independence, in order to
obtain a league for common safety. At a time, how-
ever, when such necessities do not press, and in fact
are not even contemplated, separate colonies are
unwilling to make the efforts and the 'seri-
floes requisite to form a federal onion. And
hence the present resistance of some of the colo-
nise. In England, we cannot but feel the necessity
of union and strength. But war is as yet, msy tt
long be, unknown to the Anglo-Saxon peoples of an-
other hemisphere. We may rest assured, however,
that, true to their race, they will soon know how to
devise the necessary measures both for union and for
farce, the moment that the state of the world requires
them.

Whisk-Jest runt miring aissig sae. to II Weitz_
bee also appoiated a easamisetas, eseisting of M.
Magesdle, member of the= a4itrableue, tee
sumeross MU of soignee 'ember*,
Mexamine all the documents which may be sent to
the department of agriculture sad ocasiaeree on the
nature aad pegreee of the disease ; sad the cesunia-
eke is farther ebazged to indicate the remedial; to be
employed to cheek it.
PASTS, Stour Immo.
An ambiguous paragraph is As irssikur, refer-
=to Ms reports which have
_psysilsi Woo altar.
betwesa the Waists, a/ war sal (him Cbas-
gunk; sad insisting spot tie extreme impurteseee
of salty of command in the array. is quail me a alga
that Omen' D'Hautpoul will not resign his port-
folio, u was expected.
There was some talk yesterday of Lem Faucher,
being appointed ambassador to. Englsad. It is to
be hoped that this rumour is unfounded. M. Faresbert
whatever sterling goads!s he may possess,bolt
singularly unfitted to undertake a diplomatic minion
where tact and delicacy are required.
It is reported that M. Busch° will ppm* Ss
bill on political and civil domicile on Tassasy.
Urgency will be demanded for it. The transparts.
tion bill, u amended by the government, will follow
a few days later.
The members of the Mountain who al:retained from
voting on the Electoral Bill are numbered at 40.
The facts complained of by M. Faucher, in his
report on the petition. agalut the Electoral Law. wore
of a ludicrous and puerile character, which contrails&
comically with the acrimonious solemnity of the
reporter. The sum total of signatures was rear
more than half a million. But many were sot Ir►
cured in the most regular way. A host of mamma
and children figured among the petitioners. Here a
democrat of the Marne had put down all the little
choristers. There three or four pages of signatures
were written all in the same hand, which seemed the
master's. Among the names were those of the
who had drawn up the law, if

M. Dupin, and Louis-Philipps. Some were violent
is language, others had no text at all; many were
without the printer's name; and nearly all had been
taken about to cafés and taverns to sweep up a list of
protesters, half of whom were sham and the other'
half disreputable. M. Leon Faucher saw in all this
a gross infraction of the great civic right of petition ;
and proposed to institute legal proceedings for the
punishment of the irregular petitioners. The results
of the sitting I sent in my letter of yesterday. M.
Bac made a powerful reply, in which he reminded
the majority of the importance they had
attached to the petitions for the dissolution
of the Constituent Assembly, the signatures of which
only amounted to 177,000. After all the signatures
to which M. Faucher objected were deducted, there
would still remain in the present case half a million,
who had signed in ten days a protest against the law.
The signatures of the 'petitions in favour of
.the law
only amounted to two thousand.
People talk of the Assembly being prorogued from
July 16 to the let of Oct,ber. This proposition,
founded on the fatigue of the Chamber, is to be
brought forward by M. Berryer when he presents the
budget of 1831.
The Ordre ascribes the absence of M. Odilon
Buret from the division on the Electoral Law to ill-
health, and states that had he been present he would
have voted with the majority.
The Nlontagnards of the Assembly, before the vote,
held a meeting in the old hall of the Chamber of
Deputies, to determine on and prepare a statement of
the eating of their abstaining. The meeting sepa-
rated without being able to come to any unanimous
resolution on the cootie to be followed. This will
explain why some members of the party voted whilst
others abstained.

The committee on the budget continues actively the
examination of the different credits for 18M. It has
allready investigated those of the ministry of fureige
affairs, the interior, justice, finance, public instruc-
tion and worship, agriculture and commerce, and
public works. There only remain the war and navy
departments. In general the committee adopt, with-
out modification, the ministerial propositions, taking
for bails the budget of 1850. The budget of income
alone will undergo some changes, which the com-
mittee will consider next week. It is supposed that
M. Berryer, the reporter of the budget, may present
his report from the 15th to the 20th June. and the
Assemb may enter on its consideration in the early
part of July.
The report of M. Brinvillien on the project of law
to nations the law on the clubs for another year, was
yesterday presented to the Assembly. The present
law expires on the 19th June, and authoring the
government to close the clubs and other meetings
which may compromise public security. Besides this
the new law proposes that the government shall also
have power to interdict electoral meetings, where
public safety would seem to require it. The com-
mute., convinced, from the evidence of the commis-
sioners of police as to the recast elections, that electo-
ral meetings are merely made in some cases a means
of exciting the passions and inducing disorder and
eniteufs, have unanimously agreed to accord to the go-
vernment for a year the powers demanded. It pro-
poses to declare the urgency of the measure.
Another report on the project of M. d'Olivier to
suspend labour during Sunday and fete days, has
been presented. The principal points in this law are
that all public works are to be suspended, with power,
however, to the authorities is case of urgency to con-
tinue them. All masters and employers are restricted
from obliging their workmen to work on such days,
and this condition relates to all religious holidays re-
cognised by every religion tolerated by the state.
Shopkeepers are forbidden to expose their goods in
any of the public streets or ways. Offences against
the law are cognizible by the tribunals of simple
police, and punishable.
The Liberie has the following " Lord Nor-
mandy had an interview to-day (the Ist) with Gene-
ral La Hitte, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Yesterday,
also, he had a long conference with him."
M. Adrian Delmont, secretary of legation at Turin
has arrived in Paris, with the ratification of the King
of Sardinia of the convention for the continuance of
the treaty of navigation and commerce concluded in
1843, between France and Sardinia.

SeMuri sot arms and ammunition are stated still to be
made from day to day. In one case was found a recipe
for making gunpowder, which is said to be similar to
others already seized in the provinces.
M. Ciaranbe, the responsible editor of the Republi•
can Dimotrate of the Moselle, has just been tried
before the Court of Assizes of Mem, for publishing a
protest against the Electoral Reform Bill, in which it
wu declared that such members of the Legislative
Asembly u did not oppose that measure should be
cuosid. red as having given in their resignation. He
was coodemued to tour months' imprisonment and
2,000 fr. fine. Likewise has just been tried before
the same trout, M. Blue., responsible editor of the
Courtier de to Moselle, fur publishing a protest of a
somewhat similar character. M. Blau° in his defence
dccl trod himself altogether opposed to socialism, and
emitted that the language need was too wrong. He
was sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment and
1,000 fr. fine.

Them has been no business done at the Panto
de l'Opera to-day, probably owing to tue Versailles
races.

SWITZERLAND.

The Swine of Berne, of the 29th, says :—" The Ex-
(votive Council, after baying learned the result of the
.Iretione the 26 It, did not hesitate as to what it had
to do. Any resistance to the popular will, so highly
marifested, would besides have been an impossibility.
'file Executive Council has seen that the law of the
3rd April, the clauses of which are so clear and
forms'' inwit be observed. It consequently decided,
in yesterday's sitting. to address :be following me-
eular to esish of the deputies elected :

le Grand Ceaseillur—ln oroolorwity with the erdon-
wince the 3rd April, 1830, relative to the elretioas sad
eonstitutle• of the new authorities, we ann.,unce to you that
•h• new trend Courted will meet on Saturday Item, th. let
, ti.e Town-ball of B -rue, in order to constitute heel(
ard.rilind to the law, and aiterwardo proceed to the t bunion
4 the Executive Council. You are consequently invittd to
attend at the appointed place, at the proscribed hoer. Ms

• ROMAIr STATES; •
A letter tram Raw at the Mk ult., is the Ustivent

ior screraltlays a plan has beat ep el ees Orr abiding the
Male dthe shank late fear,opertassets. The legations
witabillandagm, Whit Belegice for babas will be
the Wet taw of Mrsesialtairpre the Karcher
this third would be esragesal of Umbria, Palrbismia, sad
fa bles, having Parma be lb dad lowa ; Isms
be the make of thi Imotbiesiapabeaf lagmai
all the asaatwouldrlce
as la se She fremelsaref Nesbit Thies weal be *sod at
the Modeles* devizias ballad leases ri lob, with
estraisare Illinting veal is,. at hi orders
a body afrilr4litaa, esiamadekilw a sebasi. Tee pol
would be them based le WO rasa. It is General
Oho ale, it I. NM. pie the who embed to aaastrat that
of **pail. awes, whisk is taffetas sob sectscary in
a ebb like Um Rowan Doe, whisk will set Asa hays am-
ain is urger war, tinier we see bath nab the lee than of
the Musician republic awl its warlike esplefts.
The 0 rserrators Booratuw, of the 22nd, contains a
most enthtuiiastio article oa a picture oft be Virgin at
Rimini, which, it mays, mom its !ryas as if it were
ahve. Thotuands of people, according to this paper,
crowd to see this " miracle."

_ just
been miss* la all the bolls inf shop and circulat-
ing libraries. _ _

AUSTRIA.
'VIENNA, MAT M.
Prime Sobererlsenberg has left for Wanaw, so•
aompanied by several employee. It is rumoured that
the Emperor will; shortly follow bins, with several of
the arobdakes. Should his Majesty really decide en
appearing is Person in the Polish metropolis, be will
meet assuredly add to his unpopularity here; for it
is well kaowa in Vienna that the only motive for
such a jimmy would be the restoration of the Holy
Alliance, and of new offensive and defensive union of
oasaarehe meant the people of the continent. The
Bunion asiondm, Count Modern, has also started
for Warsaw.

Sines the day before yesterday the wart has wen-
pled the stammer palace at Schtichrunn; and on Sun-
day the open space in front of the palace was crowded
by the equipages of the great nobles, who designedly
show themselves to the world in all the pomp and pride
of their former glory. Since the Emperor's return from
Trieste the ministerial councils at Schonbrunn have
been most frequent : the public attach great weight to
a subject disenased in councils which meet regularly
twice a day, and although great secrecy is at-
tempted to be preserved, it is tolerably
well known that the attention of the go-
verement is turned to Hungarian affairs. Baron
Beringer, the present civil commissary in Hungary
will, it is said, now enter the cabinet as minister for
Hungary, but without a portfolio. The Hungarian
diet is to be opened in November, by the Emperor in
person. It is beyond all doubt that the government
is determined not to permit the constitution of the
4th March, 1849, to be introduced into Hungary;.
indeed every man of sense must at once perceive the
impossibility of governing that province from Vienna.
But now that the constitutional deed of the 4th of
March is not to be applied either to Hungary, still
less to Italy or to the provinces of Croatia, Dalmatia,
and Sclavcnia, which were recently placed under the
authority of the Ban, it is tolerably clear that this
document cannot retain much force with respect to
the other provinces. The empire of Austria is, in
fact, in a state of the most perfect anarchy.
Cues of madness are unusually frequent just now ;
indeed insanity seems to Dave aisumed the character
of an epidemic. No less than thirteen pereons were
carried into lunatic asylums in one day last week
from Vienna alone. This strange occurrence has
drawn to Vienna several foreign medical men of
ability desirous of investigating its cause.
The Vienna Gazette announces officially that the
government intend to regard the representation of
Austrian industry at the London Exhibition of 1851
as an affair of state.

81,1 MM, I.—Voluntary Loan, 1031; National Debt, 851 ;
Bank obarea, 95.
VIIDINA, Mar 51.—Fire per Omit. Metalliques, 931; Bank Shares,
1063. Exchange on Paris, 141.

MALTA, May 27.
The ball in honour of the Queen's birth-day came
off at the palace on the 23rd. Oa the 24th the royal
standard and union -jack were hoisted at the palace
and on all the forts in the island. The foreign con-
suls hoisted their national colours, except those whom
Mr. More O'Ferrall either intentionally or accidentally
forgot to invite to the palace.
Admiral Parker is still here, with his flag in the
Queen. We have also in port the Caledonia, Power-
ful, Bellerop'on, and Superb, wi'h the steara-frigates
Terrib:e and Firebrand. The Ganges is at Salamis,
and Scourge steamer in the Pit ten. The Racer brig,
and Growler, steamer, are at Petra& Spiteful, steam-
sloop, is at Naples. The Medan, st-am-packet, is
repairing. Medina just geting under weigh for
M Arseillea. Merlin at Marseilles, awaiting the Over-
land Mail of the 24th. Triton just arriv.d from
Corfu. Oberon came in this morning from Alexan-
dria with Indian mails. Antelope a in dry dock,
cleaning bottom. Vulage, surveying ship, is at
Canes.

The French steamer from Alexandria arrived this
morning, beating the Oberon by many hosts.
The mail for Marseilles, by Medina, closes at six
o'elcck. It is now 5,13, and the Indian mail is not
delivered, although the Oberon has been in four
hours. H.M.S. Hercules has just arrived, and sa-
luted.

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aft mums. kw, our . no ••of Comm* has *maimed a prima .91a falliilerataa!alit."__ _______ ________ _______— was formerly the case. The German translations of
saki* institutions, were of 10,000 fr. for-the discovery of as edbefleiose rowdy 7/ 2==eie=rl7.7 -, .\ • Eugene Sue's " Lee hfystires du People" have jut
lfore the monopoly el land et' the disseN• ailed "boateglidbaletetannetek's trri sI v' .• . 11 been seized in all the booksellers' those and ciroulat-