The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-08 00:00:00

M. LEON FAUCHER.

FRANCE. TO TAR WIWI OP THE DAILY NIA,.
PARIS, APRIL t.
PARIS, SATURDAY, 11 A.M Stn,—Criticising in your paper of the 2nd instant
The grand event of yesterday was the speech of a pamphlet, entitled, " The Case of the Poor against
Victor Hugo on the Transportation Bill. It war, on the Rich fairly considered," you throw out agairst me
the whole, in spite of fine flashes, an injudicious and an accusation to which no public man can feel insen-
ill-toned speech. He talked of transportation as a Bible. You pretend that in my work, called Etudes
death a petit feu,of insalubrious climes in the Pacific, our l'Angkterre,.pablished in 1845, I preached those
of the captivity of Napoleon and the cruelty of Sir communist doctrines which I combat at present. You
Hudson Lowe, of the ninth of Ney, of Murai, and of affirm that in exposing the state of English society, in
Haynes. But his reasoning left no clear impression which extreme poverty is to be mat with too often by
on the &net of his hearers : because, if his speech the side of extreme wealth, I menace with severe
proved anything, it proved that political crimes were chastisement those capitalists who refuse to admit
no crimes at all, and that transportaVon was too cruel the multitude gratuitously to share in their property.
'punishment to be applied to any crime whatsoever. You give it also to be understood that I recommended
M. Rouher,:the Minister of Justice, replied. Tee a system of association between employers and their
first reading was carried by 431 votes against 217. workmen, which would give them a right to demand
The Union Electorate has published an address to a share in the profits of capital which they did not
the electors of the Seine declaring M. Fernand Foy possess.
its single candidate, and calling on all the friends of I owe it to my own honour, as well es to the cause
order to support him with their votes on the 28th of of truth, to protest, without losing an hour, against
April. Lahitte and Bonjean have retired. such allegations. No, sir, it is not true that I recom-
A democratic meeting has taken plans in the Rue mended or adopted, in any sense or degree, previous
Rambutesu in order to settle on a candidate. Goad- to February, 1848, the doctrines which I now repa-
&aux and Girardin were unanimously rejected. It diets. If I have no other merit, I feel that I can at
is said that Dupont de Mare will be pat forward by least claim, before the English u well as the French
the opposition. The Petrie accuses the Socialist public, that of known constancy in my opinions, and
clubs of a design to bring forward as their candidate of that kind of character which, in order to support
some private soldier, flogged for having taken part in opinions, does not wait for the time when there may
the manifestations on the affair of the couronnes, or be no peril in doing so.
for having distributed red bulletins. I admit that, in admiring the admirable regulation
SUNDAY, 5.30 P.M. of your society, there RIM many things in it that give
The Constitutionnel of yesterday insists upon the cause of regret. lam weak enough to think that the
correctness of the account of the outraged offered to distribution of wealth is arranged in England after a
the President of the Republic. The Napoleon of to- way that cannot be presented as a model to the imita-
day, on the contrary, gives the following description tion of other nations. Nor are the burdens of taxa-
of the affair: tion distributed amongst the different classes of so-
Mach noise has bees made by the newspapers about the ciety in England in any equitable manner. Bat even
;crenated insults offend to the Pestilent of the Republic on this subject my opinions do not go beyond those of
so traversing the Putnam of St. Ant Ase, on his return your principal statesmen. Does not Lord John Russell
fro.re a view at VIMMOSIO. The details Mem on this sub- •
Jsat are Lima. Tb.2_,„„m„e the presid„t th„„ti ,kt, declare "that the labouring classes in E• and have
populous quarter was by the meal cries of " Vin la not made the some advance in comfort and prosperity
RePobilas !" " ViveVapTliton Oaly is serials
Feels, as the other ranks of the nation I" And Lord Stanley
easy to distinguish, arks of ' Vivi RepUblique were himself, in his speech on the income tax, in 1845,
uttered with an sir of messes. The crowd was great on said significantly, that " the danger for a great
aceoust of as animal fair celebrated as that day, bat nothing
country in the present times arose from the accumula-
barite or injurious was remerksd is the acclamations. As
to the mane. sad eves "multi alleged is have tion of property, combined with the extreme ine-
maned on the servants of the President, these reports have quality with which it was distributed."
probably arises from the circumstance that a Wintry, drives There are esconontists in England, I know, who
by two sensate whitest limy, was is tut stopped by sone deem it the very Ideal of society that the labluriog
troupe, and an isdivWsal who wanted to seize the bridle of
the horse having received a cot frost the whip, the heaven-multitude, wangles of agricultural u well as indus-
lion of the wrpess-lio-villa was necessary to disengage the trial workmen, should have no resource to draw their
drivers of the tilbary. livelihood from, save the wages of their daily labour—
You will see from this translation, that all the wages that are ever fluctuating with the market. I
material facts alleged in the unofficial versions of the do not share in this opinion, considering it on the
story are confirmed in the official. The Napolfun contrary to be inhuman and rash. I should desire to
admits that many of the groups were hostile and see every man in a country have a share of its indepen-
menacing ; and that as attack was made on the deuce. Wherever the labourer was excluded from
tilbury which followed. The most is mad., of the property in the soil, I should desire to see a lot
circumetanos of the servants in this vehicle being of land leased to him, not large enough to
without livery, as if the mob would have attacked a enable him to dispense with his earning
private coinage. One would like to know what wages from an employer, bat which would aid in sup-
General d'Hautpotd coesiders as ameuating to an in- plying the wants of his family. This system, re.
snit, if his amertion that no insult had been offered etricted to narrow limits, swhat you call the allot-
to the President, is to be accepted as sincere. No meet system. I have seen this system in practice
greater mark of disrespect could be 'hewn to the both in England and on the continent with excellent
President than stopping and maltreating his servants, success, and cannot but thick that England would
An assault on the President himself would not have gain by its more general adoption.
been a mere insalt, but an outrage amounting to high More than this Ido not advise, and never did re-
treason. Next to assaulting the person of the chief commend. What imilltudi you can discover between
magistrate no more insulting outrage could be coin- the proposal to let half an acre to a labourer and his
mated than assaulting his servant Yet a minister family, and these sioaimanist ideas which would seize
of state, an eye-witness of the scene, has the coolness on property and distribute it gratis to the labourer,
to appear in the tribune of the Assembly and deny without indemnifying the proprietor, I cannot see.
that any insult has been offered to the President. Approve or condemn the allotment system; deem it
Should another sons of the same description occur, trifling or importing, you cannot at least confound a
it is to be apprehended that small comfort will be de- system that rams* property and individuality, 'with
rived by the peblie from ministerial extenuation. those Utopias Which absorb the indiVldual in the states
I regret to add that the whole spirit of the Napo- and Which preceed by spoliation to the establishment MADRID, APRIL 1.
MOM seems to be taken from this disagreeable Mei- Of property in coommon. The Gasette of to-day contains a royal decree,
deaf. In a series of articles, beaded by the fine In the ffrst momenta which followed the revolution ordering the board charged with the affairs relating
bravado of the emperor aboat his immense popularity, of 1848, the cpieratlves in factories and the workmen to the Spanish national debt to draw Fp a bill for the
the organ of the President adopts a tone which ea- on railroads, imagined that they could constrain those settlement of the same. The board is to give due
Teen strongly loupieg and dictatorial tendencies, who had invested capital in those enterprises to share consideration to the opinions given by the former
founded oa pretexts of alarm. with them the profits that were to result. This was board for the settlement of the debt, to the bill which
The Napolion has another article invi'ing the prom violence offered to MOW, a violence calculat dto die- the government ha') prepared to bring in during the
to enter upon the &motion of thoes points which the outrage the employ of capital, and finally to banish last session of the legislature and to give due &Oen-
' revision of the oustitation will tarn, in ties the and destroy it Such mad attempts I combated pub- lion to the representatives of the holders of Spanish
National Assembly should in 1851 expects its desire liely, at a time when the workmen were masters of bonds. Aooording to this decree, as soon as the bill
for each a revision. the government and of Paris. Yet you state that I en- has been draws up it will be examined by the go-
There exists at the resent moment no more due- coursed such theories in 1845. This is ap.error that vernment, and modified, if necesavy ; and such mea-
gerous symptom than the abrupt disunion which pre- no one oquld fell kite, Jrho had read itith iny eaten- sure. will be taken as the government may coesider
rails between the leading parties of the moderates. Sea sy" Etsidei euVrAngleterre.ll' expedient, and will submit the subject to the :or si-
While the Paris elution Is marching on them, Association for the participation of proem, hag bees dangles of the Cortes. The Queen will add to the
and threatesing Francs with a fresh socialist for a long time in use in certain branches of Industry. board several persons of known ability in matters of
triumph, they cannot agree en a candidate. You practise it in England in your maritime fisheries, credit.
The candidature of Fernand Foy, put forward gad I believe also in the mines of Cornwall. Bab- El rain, of tho 2nd instant, says that General Prim

Ptevious to the dismission on this point Itsdowitz
addressed the committee, stating that he considered
sal bound to abide by the proposal which he bad the
day before made to the committee with respect to the
right of declaring war or peace, and that although it
bad been rejected by the committee, he should pro-
pose it in the house itself.

BERLIN, APRU. 3.
The minister of public works has to-day advertised
for plans for the construction of • bridge across the
Rhine between Cologne and Deutz. Competition is
open to all nations, bat the plans and descriptions
must be either in German, French, or English. The
Rhine is exactly 1,273 feet broad on the spot where
the bridge is to be erected. The expense is not to
exceed one million and a halt thalers. The best plan
will be recompensed with a prize of 230 and the
second with one of 125 louisd'ors.
AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, APRIL
1.
Some interest is excited by a meeting which is to
take place next month in Linz, in Upper Austria, of
deputies from all the catholic unions in Austria.
These unions exist in all the provinces, and some in
Vienna, but upon sufferance only, for they are
prohibited by law. Deputies will attend the meeting
from all the Pies and Bonifacius orders in Germany.
The conservative party anger great things from this
meeting; one thing is quite clear, however, which is,
that the government is quite willing to make the
most it can of the religious movement of • portion of
the population. Permission has been given, to the
surprise of many, for holding in the open air what
are called catholic missions. These missions will be
held by the Liguorianer, or Jesuits, just as they are
in Bavaria and the South of France, though they
were formerly strictly prohibited in Austria.
The reconstruction of the fort at Ofen has at last
been commenced. It is, however, not to be completed
in the perfect manner described by some of the jour-
nals. The fortifications are to be rebuilt sufficiently
strong to guard against a sudden surprise, but not
against • regular mege. Temeewar and Arad are to
be reconstructed with all the science and art which
modern engineering skill can compass. The govern-
ment is said to intend to make Arad a second
Comoro.
The leaders of the Hungarian revolution were three
months ago summoned to surrender ; as the period of
90 days had elapsed without bringing with it such ea
act of folly on the part of the simple Hungarians,
they have all been sentenced to death in conterinacitim.
Among them are Kossath, Penneel, Batthyanyi, Ma-
dams', Teleki, and others.
The Vienna ps ere publish the memorial of the
minister of trade, which has received the sanction of
the Emperor, fur the establishment of Clambers of
Commerce throughout the empire. They are Mbe
130 in number, but will be completely under the con-
trol of the ministry.
A glaring proof of the immorality of the Viennese
is furnished by the return of births during the past
year. The total number of children born was 19,241
of these 10,3430 were illegitimate, and only 8,881
legitimate. Munich and Paris have hitherto borne
the worst characters in this respect, but this return
throws them into the shade.
Hamra Aran 6.—Voluntary Loan, 106. Natlonal Debt, 86.
Bank Ignite, 931.
Vuntaa, Arm 3.—Ftv• pae 093.- M.Wltgaea, 931; Four-and.a.
Half ditto, 111. bank eau% Ms.

SPAIN.