The Express. — 1847-05-18 (London, England)

GUIZOT. fortunate for him and for his memory would it have been, had he closed his career a year since with the full attainment of all that ho proposed. But unhappily, the King, in pursuit of family ambition, impelled M. 0 two r to the perpetration of the Spanish marriages, to the crime of forcing the Queen to espouse a person, whose physical and moral nullity was notorious, and of thus condemning that princess, by the paternal right which Louts PHILIPPE claimed over her to a life of domestic misery or of open scandaL This, too, was achieved and accompanied by. such a mass of falsehood and treachery, the having gone ' through which, has altogether altered M. GUIZOT'S character and even his demcanour.• Instead of beiwg cautious in conduct, and measured in language, M. GUIZOT his become precipitate, passionate, and rude. He seems pursued by the ghost of that Anglo-French alliance, which he spent so many years in cherishing, yet consented to murder at last; the memory of the dead frights him from all selfion ; so that, in word and act, it seems no 1 1I Fons9geereBM.Onizerr that speaks, but the" Young France" whom he had put down. Although France. beyond question, was the provoking party in the Spanish differences, M. GUIZOT takes the just and natural resentment of England to be wanton defiance ; and, instead l' of endeavoiwing to allay it, helmets it with unreason- 1 ing and inconsiderate fury. His language with respect to Spain and Greece was intemperate and menacing. This habit of thinking and acting in matters of foreign policy, unfortunately for M. GUIZOT, became communicated to his thoughts end actions in domestic policy, and he began to treat his colleagues and his brother deputies, as he was treating Lord PALMERSTON and Queen PtABELLA. Finally, he has kicked one of the oldest ministers, M. LacevE-Lastedss, out of the cabinet, with as little 1 ceremony, as he forced I.+ABELLA by mena'es to mairy j a nincompoop. This has brought upon M. GUIZOT a I severe lissom), and will teach him the neoessity of greater circumspection in domestic management. His foreign policy is at the same time likely to lead to as serious embarrassments, and to be attended with more impressive than agreeable lessons. Our readers are, perhaps, not aware what is the result of the grand act of M. Guizofa; policy—the sawnage of the Queen of Sr'. Six month have f elapsed sine the precipit, at marriage by ied Count Bitt.S,ON. The reset mand nickel/aid to the Court of Rome by tint Queen for the l ' nullificatioo of the marriage l ' The demand may not mei have been official. ~...  THE  But the POPE 6111 been applied to, and we regret to say that his Holiness, instead of being able to content for the right of an outraged and injured female, and to follow dictates of justice, teals it Impolitic and impossible in his position to thwart tee edited the wishes of the court of France. It has been a part of M. °vizor's, or rather of Louis Pniuree's, craftily concerted policy to get possession of the Roman osert, at the same time that they confiscated the Spanish throne. And IStEELLA has no more hope of au nnpartial judgment from a pontiff in the interests of France, than HE•RY