The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-11 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 11

TIIE events which take place in France, and •%:.11
we are daily called to record, are not such as ON:
inclined to weigh in any scale of jus..ice, tec
scarcely stops to ask, is this right, or conolitutimi,
or legal ? The only question iv, will the plan te,•,
the move likely to be successful ? Is the par, iv aLI
hea just received a knoek-down blow finis; cc
or likely to recover from it? In 'act, whet we
template in France is a kind of pugilistic erro,.n.„;.
struggle to br determined by the scietce, pluck, 41.1-
cle, and eneNies of the combatants.
The French canservative ckampiore, in Viis .cr• ' .e
fight, have just laid hold of tl e people's charm
universal suffrage; they have torn the par.,,rael...
through the middle, and flung the frs.g¢,...e c ,11e
people's face, exclaiming, " Now, my boys, ‘.l' •,
six or seven millions if you, we have
one half." And this is cliam, not from a ,c—e
tire, but in a spirit of retaliation. Every tnt,
aware, that if Paris had dieted the s'a•i • .
CLERC, irslead of the poet, SEE, the cite
would not have been touched. It is to pi• s•
Parisians for having dieted a novelist tint!
France is to be disfranchised.

Universal suffrego in France states on a ter
rent &round from what is speculativelj sere=.
other couttsies. In France it is the sole ,;•..
principle of authority and goveremert. .. •
have been ai.-carded; all others have 'aim'', •
perished. And if the rights accruing from u ..c
suffre4e were to be destroyed in France, the
would be nothing but a cage of wild beasts.
suffrage is in that country the very
order, and is the basis on which re-•s
the authority of the legislature, but the ri rr
once of the executive. In :eh a state of
disfranchise eny large body of mn, abtve .
intelligent men, is literally to saw rebel..o.
to create insecurity.
There is no rational person, irdee d, that tv-..
desire to we universal suffrage, wherever is
Wished, at the same time &illy regulated. 'I..
gar, the convict, and the vagabend sheu I : •
natcd. But in a country where a peculiar ;; •
hour, viz., ay isan labour, is, from o:d habit:. ;
neczseity, changeable, to iirranchise those .
have changed residence,. within three years, .
to disfranchise the artisan population armor s
tain age. These artisans are amongst t'..e
intelligent men in the country. Their habit ...
dering has at least this goo I eff.ct, that they
marry and settle till they hive amassed a suil:
to begin housekeeping, and until they here ac
both skill and character as well as capital. Th
now to be interdicted this, and prevented t:
In a country in which every one has a rot.",
proud of it, they are to be treated as Feria's". .
purposes's' teskeetability and solidity one 3 .
sidence in a town, every one must knew, w,•
ample. But none of the French arthan •
better artisan clasp, settle in a town for th:.. ;
that is finally, till they are upward' of thine.
We do not see what ie to be g deed by el;-t:
ing this class, at all to be weighed with the i. -
and discontent created. If tee law be real.:
one, and merely disfranchise t 7 e outcasts of -
its effects will not b 3 worth the heartbarnla.;
vocative to strife. If it really dialracchler•
three millions of Frenchmen, it must com •
and dangerous injustice.
For our own parts, we declare that we are
mirete of universal suffrage, and should ers.r
to see the elector.' franchise go beyond the
able male polls" of the old United States cent.. •
But in these railroad and go-ahead days, to ir
move in three years a disquelitication, is an anal
as well as an injustice. It i a measure ne:
on any permanent principle of justice, but are:
for a temporary and party purpose.
We much fear that in the breasts of many wt
pose and will vote for it, the purpose is no ;the
to provoke to insurrection. The feeling, but ;
neral, is that the tendency of things is to cieii
that the aim and principle on bah sides are t,
cordant ever to admit of amalgamatiov
of a prolonging of contention by
argumentative a constitutional weapons.
belief is that a physical struggle is rose;
and the conservatives say openly, the bOOnr
comes the better. It is more desirable to
it at once than let it gather strength.
The most alarming part of these calculatio:
admission, universally male by the COlik:,
themselves, that the Socialists are gaining
They were formerly the majority of the cll. •
the great towns, and they still rte::
But in addition to their superiority in three.:`..
fields, they have indisputably acquired
force in the rural districts. There are whole
meets, peopled solely by rural propricer-
aro red republicans to a man. The ra
turing districts of France are tot the m:
vent for the democratic and social :.,
And where 'socialism is most tlourishinir. ••
cisely in those regions where the prier:,
sway, and where tea years back the rigs:
catholicism prevailed. The entire of A 1;.,••
svialist. despite of its rude mountains and pr
new. The entire south, the land of the V,'l.
hyper-catholic and ultra-monarchic, is s:..
red-republican.
What will the disfranchisement of artista-
cure thisepreadiugevil ? Once embarked in t!:e
repression and reaction, neither assembly nor
ment can stop. Their only instrument 14 11.
And the army is now the most politically deu:
portion of the population. They have beer :3.
vote, instructed that they have the right to
rulers of the country. Their fingers go
into the ballot-box and the cartouche boa. •
in the morning to the hustings, in tl e
parade. The conscription has taken t!:,::; *:
front their village, and front hems;
It has forced them to become Nei
and they frankly avow their preferer,c
FLOTTE and EUGENE SUE to Clll.‘,l‘ol
BElse.su. If a socialist officer were to
standard to-morrow in any garrison. ehsl:
become of the PRESIDENT, and that tierst,-
of Paris, which concocts the law, and
administration of the country ?
And all this chaos is to be reduced to order;
franchising the artisan class, and setting
the soldiers in opposite lines—to tight or freer
it may be. N't e can descry neither secs'.
nor justice its such policy, which strikes us as•
and futile, indicating the efforts of di,tr.l.:
spite, not of magnanimity, of rupee.% a •
caution.

THE opportunity, we fear, afforded by thei..
twit of the County Courts Extcnsien Bill, to
courts on a satisfactory footing, and renderther::J:
of conferring such benefits as we have irdu•A•
been lost. The bill as it originally stood t'as" ."
much of enlarged fees and extended fu:st,••••
provisos which imparted this character ay'
wisely been struck out in committee, but .1., • ,
defects of the bill have been lett uutoueh-,..
" bill as amended in committee " is of a J131•'::
afford grounds for alarm to every eredi:et
kingdom, and for suspicion of the further." 01.
ments" intended to be proposed on bristPil
repott. The bill, if passed in its present.
be enough to bring county courts into disetet
stniously aggravates all their existing v".
does not remove one of their known defects.
The " amended" bill not only contains no pro,`.
for an improved practice in those courts; but '
variance with the principle of the act whieh tt pro'

. to timed. The prir.eiple of the present
t:nr: A. t is to provide :oral coorts for those
the some n. ,urhoods ; and when a
• trouts t 212 mi!r‘ from his debtor, to
A kir • •
• f.: h:m to ire the county court of
1,1. or ea: 'n the eupetior courts. The pre-
; r•:er.. y 'wave* tots coreorrent *War-
r tf.c enp:rior eqiirts fo.• distant debts
: ices nlof it bye side wind. It insets
elaictitt shall be tatithd to any casts who
•t never sore then 604 The affect of this
e, It brooms law, will be. thtt cowry deb..
t;nir ,a.y.niattbstricaveredthrongh the court
.• in which tbe debtor reside., let the
e, %, her: he may. It is ratter anomalous
ot•easibly introduced to make the re-
,: more easy, depriving creditors of
nich they at present possess.
!,r1.1: of c•ots in suit in a soperior court when
..g. NV. is recovered, is iocoasitteat with
•.• .f a small debts act. This proviso would
r.:::ons for that or less amounts to be
I,• he local ceurni. The bill does not contain
v • tor rein:burring either plaintiff ot defog-
: .t;coses tbey may incite it obliged
~ • a long way, and be absent fees
nit or res-sting a claim ; ace
o ro•itica be easily introduced.
s ore obvious. Creditors compelled
.•:,:on to Newcastle to rccov.r itebts of
••
a.. 1 tird it better to tabu-dm their
-, or to reduce them by the &gamut
v,arses they would have to incur on
, the law st thd , the cteiitor who it
Ferrate his claims in the emit of the
, 11Tc:elusively : but the evil we Lave
only shift *boulders by allowing
.• t tae snits in their own courts. Either
;• uin; u alio. deal t.e trend ot oppression.
y is cob's to throw on his a ntiroaist
• %penes' of 'irking jrvtice in a decant
• a. terrptstion to dishonesty held out
.‘ rosy refuse payment on the eaten-
_ nit be worth the stole of his
„it.% : et a creditor, if air:amis.:al to sue
f the payment ot a distant debt,
.1 by interett or other items, to
: but which the debtor may
1,7 • • i• y than incur the express of lid-
.. . asved as it cow its ds, it ought
art for the mote easy evasion (not
• ,• Would not ju.ticebe dor.e by allow-
• I. either :a the court of their own die-
:.: the derendant, wl:c thq aside
111.. e• of sub o:ber, or. when mote
t to district of the defendant, or in
. •v. a: their option. ?
• once, which we have teuched cm in the
: nt of enuity courts, • hich the 1)314
:a.. : seriously instead ot removing, is
- r. we: whico the judge remises of
• : • b. psil by each kb:ailments as he
to !night be some excuse for
judge to eieftials aliscretiou
• p »surd fociliti.s tor roe:oriels-
• .f Frties eum.noned, or if they had
. ti.. rr:rent and fume property of a
• to: the payment iirtaimentr.
• p.•:,sen co such (still:ha ar authoritY
et are Ex .d accord's,: to ibe whim
711 ;Ave bean known toe:tend in some
utder ' over a pirl d of years.
ot this will be obvious it i• is kept in
Try liege propor.ion of tao simple
:hi, country mu° betwtea 1101.
• .t !n the case ot the largest Ko-
h debt.. suite instituted foe their
c. i riught to will, hot arc sr tthd by
lees at a teas exper.ae than it would
'1
a Ovally cowl.

,lists.

%el r

• ."
r d that the clauses to be proposed
, y T-GENZILII., on br: :girg up the
1. sautes on the bi:l. ;a embody
• ...•: :Art adored LOW LA sermerly for
• f • e coarse of proceedings in the
. is little reason to hope that
a . The 1)::1 isnot a gorernmi nt meg-
, r • : _reed on in oppr,sition to the opt-
..• -• of the crown, pa daps we were
r , • xr.. :hat the ATTur.NEY.GL.NEILIL
-L so much rains upon it. A
•: , cm scarcely be expected to under-
... rf a subject at ocre so extensive
. 'Le system of kg:elation in the
• ,L-Amon: is here at funk. There ought to
• _. r. rerpoceible for the peerratses, if
. at least of bil!ri belonging to the
•, as that now under cnsidtraticals sad
1..:e care that they are in unison
•,eneral scope and teodeccv of the law
points. At peseta a bill hie •hat for the
of county courts is prepared by remiss not
.= to the public ; area as it is extremely un-
Inether, or to what eaten% undue external
is may be detected and checked in the pro.
t :he measure through parliament, the chance
r iraproremer.t of an critically crude and int-
„rabic draft is small.
parliament our hopes for any material im.
..ct of the C3un_ty Courts Extension Ball are
r. The present House of Commons has evinced
• Te for the interests of the trading community
_sand. Sot a voxs was raiscd in it agamst the
: L•ia of the F..xcliEtirEles attempt t. impose
•sx upon these numerous daily transactions
vy pecuniary accommodation which are es-
. •-) the commerce of the c-ontry. And the
. ir.4ard of the trading coaaux.ity, quite as
. directive qii•ein of preparing bills, has
t• House cf Commons to "amend" the
• .1- a ,or.s Extension Bill in a manner that will
.f really to diminish, an 3 in some
take away, the power of traders to re-
: • debts. There is no prospect of a remedy,
• •Le exertions of the people themselves and
rte We are therefore glad to see that
"• . • • of the metropAis have st last taken up
• .*, z.r.cl that their attention is directed to the
which we pointed out last week.

• • t !..rabug of Greek resistance is over. The
, • .' •nt Bavarian AGAML3IXON hare evaporated,
•he htroles of our reactionary pram
Lit dreadful vengeance, retaliation, mid-
i-, .10 WC mimed 07110 WY to fling himself
C*- • -opts, tad not yield though the Acropolis
romtla artutd him. The French fleet and
tio:on were to interfere. There wee,
1.• • 7- act 4 ,yu.soni of the approach of the one,
tt entt...a..ora of V.e other.
lewslit, we were told, could not fail her ally.
.t 'INA:. •ise Greek cabinet through thick
I* = . tit d:d certainly—upon paper.
will 'A . if Lod P*l-1111R,TON did
Atd tr.t - breat made it a point of
t.r E•ter.,: • • !certle. The fact o' that
15r f Est 4
al. 'lO, •• 2 : these threats made It far
1"
s.r pride, and a just sea" of I V.•': • orevettul our making those conceui°l2ll
0...ttru.0 s.,ei.t Lave done, and which now
Ir. Litt to doubt will be accorded.
1.•-_ • -

":a• Is:La f motiv.a can have been for re-
t'...l 't rt" 1.4.1 —+:lltib:e Baron Gnria's media
v.
a ,4tlte jald to a diaplay of form
st a! a ''e%%scorer. That he waa bidden to
at Eurt to doubt, but what he wili
tt the (hieatals, by refusing to
at..• _..'.t. •

jic.la to force, is not apparent.
nu probai.ly thereby a reproach to the two
'r• v er vvii or Initiate:4 promised him sup-
-1 giv,:n. Twouvar4r.L,' we be-
lie it vvas who principally
it. ()111, ititlP hi. &IN sad foolish militancy.
„ Ituvisa diplomacy must also have led
C.!ig .utray, and iodated him to hope fur

49'. sy thst, taken by itself, we much like
&daily the policy of terrorising little
- • L'..! xploit 'peaks at leant a plain tale
7.• Ant, Ith:el is this ..—That although
trt inistrts, by lead to bully and
P.O ep..iate and oppress, England
• what wins goid to her metre
ris;ht of retaliation. And from
eats
r• .1 `".rem of powers are able to
11.. s kuem we think highly salutary.
far
that we shall sseevery good
"r"nl ve. only in freedom from insult, but
► titt,:tret %Atli between even the Greek
•••r! L"I qur lure te but one road to the
qrs.n I.,rers and prinete. And we are
• -1 7.4!
akin d in thin inittlit/00 14,111 PALAILIWTOK
et:rn'ht right one.

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