The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-19 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 19.

Tug spirit evinced by both the French
Chambers has surprised no persons more than
the EMPEROR and his Ministers. More especially
is this true of the tone and temper of the prin-
cipal orators of the Legislative Corps. On more
than one occasion MM. Hatiocus and lituretz
could scarcely credit their position, or believe in
the seriousness of the arguments to which they
bad to reply. NaroLgow 111. is said to have
accosted M. Bti.t.act.r,his previous Home Minister,
in terms of some asperity, observing, "You have
"tilled my Chamber with Yendans." " Your
" reproach is not just, Sire," replied the Minister;
"je yeui ehuisi re des iwaboaks." " Cela runt au
"name," is said to have rejoined the EMPEROR.
Such men as M. Kr.i.i.se, however, do not de-
serve that appellation ; and although the speech
which he read was said to have been written by
his friend Mosrm.r.mener, it was still spoken with
a point, an enenz, and an eloquence, that quite won
the adhesion of his audience. That audience,
consisting of the representatives of the universal
suffrage of France, is depicted by those who have
attended the sittings as remarkably "green."
For example, when M. limits uttered his power-
ful attack upon the Eurasoa and the Imperial
policy, hie words were applauded not merely by
the Legitimists, to whose party he belongs, but by
the very courtiers of the Tuileries, the aides-de-
camp and chamberlains of the EMPEROR. Some
of the old stagers and politicians were &maned ;
and M. Biu.suvr, beholding such anarchy and
treason in governmental ranks, seemed to think
the world at an end. He judged them wrongly; the
defection arose not from treason but from ignorance.
And when M. BILLAVLT rose, and pointed out to
the members that the very sentences which they
applauded not only stigmatised the policy of the
Eicreites in Italy but represented him as influ-
enced by pusillanimous terror of the Ossiwt
dagger, the courtiers were confused and ashamed,
and did all in their power to cover by en-
thusiastic approbation of BILLACLT'S speech the
warm applause which they had a moment before
bestowed upon the accuser of the Government and
the denouncer of the Expiate'.

It is certainly a proof that If srotecisr is so
tyrant in his own court and household, when its
inmates can feel free to applaud M. Ksuss.
But it is also a proof how little trouble
has been taken to explain the Imperial policy
to his adherents, and impress upon them an
adequate idea of its necessity or its wiedom.
One of the effects of the king and forced Wefts
which has prevailed in Prams is, that them
exists no Imperial party whatever, as far as prin-
ciple or argument go to form such. The political
education even of the court has been neglected.
Those who haunt and make part of it have bees left
to pick up their predilections, their principles, sad
prejudices, where they liked. Hence is it that in the
legialasive bodies, now that some freedoms of range
is allowed, the Imperial sheep follow the crook of
the Legitimist shepherd, and your Crimean general
or Italian marshal displays as mach animation in
behalf of the Pura, and as strong a sympathy for
the dispossessed sovereign of Italy, as if be had
been bred up at Holyrood or Grits with Cinemas
X. or the Duke D'Amouutam it, or as if Puuumsc
sad Pantos:err had been their patrons.
This anomalous rummitation of a reactionary
and retrograde piety by a government which can
only look to pupas and to the prevalence of new
Was for naliseee, Is so doubt in a great measure
ins to whet M. luaus is said to have admitted
--the selection of isabeciks, or harmless and brain-
less parsons, to be candidates of the government for
the ivpresentative body. To be sure, it was never
intended that they should be indulged in freedom
of speech or that orators like the Marquis Ds
Prams should hold forth for hours in the midst of
"general hilarity." But the marshalling forth and
exposure of such a ragged regiment of idealess
persons before a public, eager to hearken to the
first burst of new parliamentary freedom, was un-
fortunate and ill-judged.

We can indeed well conceive the ill-humour
shown by the Marmot towards M. BILL AULT, who
as Home Minister so long managed the elections
and selected the candidates. One of the chief
aims in the extension of parliamentary liberties
was to be able to find • public opinion and sup-
port for the Imperial purpose of curtailing the
temporal power and pretensions of the POPE.
Parliamentary opinion has, however, gone com-
pletely the other way. The noble speech of Prince
Harytr.ox, though applauded—for either Cham-
ber seems ready to applaud • good and warm
speaker—found not perhaps a dozen real adherents,
notwithstanding the majority found for the entire
address.

The strongest feeling, perhaps, which pervades
the ranks of both Chambers, and the Imperial
Court itself, is that of jealousy of Piedmont, and
dislike towards its monarch. It is one of the
opinions which link the Legitimists and Imperialists
together. For whilst the former look upon Vieroa
Emus:sum as a revolutionist—an absurd mistake,
of which it would be easy to prove the contrary—
the French military consider that they and the
nation are cheated of the results of the Italian
campaign. A great portion even of the dislike
of
the French military party to England proceeds
from the fact that Italian regard and gratitude
are turned so much to us as a nation and a go.
vestment, notwithstanding the great expenditure
of blood and treasure on the part of the French.
It is idle to argue that this has been no result of ,