The Express. — 1847-05-28 (London, England)

LAURIE—the patter down of swings and suicide, of advertising vans and education, of cock-shins and cleanliness. But it is not his single self, great as that is, that tempta us to notice him. He is a type. Much of the silly selfishness and cool conceit, and petty bustling prejudice, Which seem to keep up the liveliness, but really aid the vis inertia of society, and either obstruct alt improvement, or mar it in the working, may be traced to its parochial Sir PETERS, always anxious to be doing, and al ways doing wrong, not from any well-considered preference for mischief, but from sheer inability to draw a sound logical conclusion, and without that intuitive sense of nght which, for many persons, supplies the want of logic.  The journals and correspondence of Paris of Wednesday are engrossed by the discussion of postage reform. The debate was continued in the chamber, but the result was not doubtful. The new minister of finance made a speech, in which he reproduced all the old arguments, so familiar in England, against the Hill system, and declared that the government was determined to oppose it now and hereafter. The National gives, as proceeding from its private sources of information, that intrigues for the expulsion of the Guizot-Duchatel ministry from office have ripened, and that the new cabinet has been settled even in its minutest details. For some timp certain secret agents have, according to that journal, bean engaged in a negotiation with M. Mole, whose reluctance to assume the cares and responsibilities of office have at length been =mounted. "We give," continues the NitMona:, " the following list as it has been given to us, and, without going farther, we say that It is very probable to be carried into effect : M. Mole, President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs ; M. Dufaure, Interior ; M. Hippolyte Passy, Finance ; M. Dode de la Brunerie, War ; M. Billault, Marine; M. Vivien,Justice ; M. Darn, Public Works; M. St. Marc Girardin, Public Instruction ; M. Bignon, Commerce. Besides these, MM. Itivet, Biaean,&c., are to be included. The young conservatives represented by La Freese are to be propitiated by the poet-office, =toms, &c. This cabinet is to be called " the ministry of the two centres." Queen Christina proceeds, in the first instance, to Rome, and not, as was stated, to Naples. Her immediate object, it is said, is to use her influence at the Vatican to prevent Queen Isabella front obtaining a divorce, and thus to secure the succession of the Duchess of Alontpensier and her consort to the Spanish throne. In this she will, of course, be supported by the French ambassador at Rome. The Minister of Finance brought, on Wednesday, two important bills before the Chamber—the first, to the effect tint if, on the Ist May, 1848, the Paris and Lyons railway company should refuse to execute the works according to its agreement, the government should be authorised to take the line in hand, reimbursing to the aforesaid company the expense of the works already carried out, retaining, at the same time, the double of the caution-money deposited; that is to say, 24 millions of francs. The second bill proposes a similar proceeding as regards the Lyons and Avignon line, retaining, however, the simple amount only of the caution money deposited ; that is, 10 millions. Advices from Madrid of the 21st init. say that the Queen was still at Amnjuez, and the King at the Pardo. The court, however, was expected to return to Madrid on the 23rd. Private letters from Aranjuez say that the Queen leads there a regular and monotonous life. She is constantly accompanied in her walks, rides, and hunting parties, by her father-inlaw, Don Francisco, and her sister-in-law, the Infanta Josef& who are also present at her receptions. During the day she receives only her ministers and the members of her household. In the mornings and afternoons she walks in the public gardens, and in the evening visits the theatre. El Tiempo says, on the authority of its correspondent at Aranjuez, that the msuneuvres to form a progresaist ministry have failed. M. Olozaga, having remained several days at Aranjuez, was on the point of departure for Logrono. El Espamd denies that the separation of the King from the Queen has been caused by any domestic differences. That journal maintains that it has originated in the discontent of the King at not being allowed to exercise direct power in the affairs of the state.  ROME, Ms: 18. To-morrow Pius IX. leaves Rome for a prolonged visit to the Benedictine Abbey of Sahiaco, in the ,1 Apennines, forty-four miles inland. This important move had been determined on previous to the receipt of to-day's news describing as desperate the hopes of, Mr. O'Connell's attendants of dragging him alive to this capital. No change in our sovereign's projects can be ascribed to the advent or non-arrival of the father of repeal ; indeed, when it was known here that they had decided upon a land journey from Genoa to the Tuscan frontier, involving the " Pass of the Magra," of which any of your readers can form an idea from Stanfield's picture exhibited, as I read, in this year's gallery, the hopelessness of his coming alive was demonstrated; their selecting the route to Lyons by Mont Terme having previously shown how little conversant they were in practical geography. But as for our pontiff, his mind is essentially practical; and in labouring for the substantial welfare of his people he has an utter disregard for clap-trap and mere popularity. The object of his visit to that glorious wilderness is understood to be twofold. First, he intends to reform the monastery, root and branch, and restore it to what it was in 1465, when it gave hospitality to the first printing press that was set up in Italy; two fugitive Germans having claim( d its shelter for the printing. of the editio prineeps of Lactantius, a copy of which is carefully preserved in its once splendid library, type Sweynheim et Pannart:,