The Express. — London, England, 1852-03-30 00:00:00

- ~• that they proposed the measure, but seeing that iste“ • • " • s . of transport were easier for any power that m e. at posed to invade them, it biome their duty to ire that the• tonaltl. whose shores poremcd • gloriaus im a a 1 y had a force watch would be ready (Ilear.) The house should now consider igufit the bill of the government WAS the best that could * hr ., at • t forward, and whether it would be the least bur ▪ to Me peopie of 'Ls country. He maintained that ...id the speeches hith had been made in oppo. tLe Immure proved that fact. The great objection biU m ute of the late government was the system of the kg a t shibt the cam. m easure of the present of lhat not government was grenoas that objt ounis,on tha ba .M bid of Lau, of the digiculties which Bar ran hd the measure of the late post rnuaent, but it dist atm' 11 , ‘ a t art the house of a portion of thcir spacebar., b,....rked that hoc. aft ittlemen had made shorter they would hare done if the ballot formed • o f th.: .14.1111 4 • e hon. and gallant member he le ck upter. e1....ca1l to the dilhaulty of gettmg volunteers. • y a . 1.1 hate Clought that the lion. and gallant general vi m hair Men the List to make such an objection , t e, Mar) fur if •Ae r eple of this country were ;4 t o i t, t. Spaiu, to l'o..tirt .1, and South Miseries. it • s uguteial and unjust t......pp00 that they residual , ‘ ,1 7 ..• ~.giar forward in &Omer of 04 Easier& • h e ..r It a.s cool the 'aid ought to bo thrown out it de, ilot toilette Ireland and Scotland. lie can -4..1 fanner precedents in sod Ir.Ltaul or skattliml in the hest inatauer. This 1. It tw t hstruttor,:l'aer (et land or Scotland. It. ;a▪ wlend t.a measure a men ore t•I protection-- Weal ta't a 1114.1A1f , of nrot. own to the apical...A • hi.: t • I;.attslit interests and to MlA rtMa 10 the virtue, iudtistry, and chastity of it •nital ch , et ) eral *hit when the interest. of ki ,, A tiy w.f. euswerneJ, be lotlawed 0.4 . se UM hich k intteis's demanded, via:thee he sat on • rt.oi.tenal or oppostties Mails. (Hear, hear.) Ile cal larkelty) ht..l been amid fault with for kl ll4 !Wt. Meat, But he would now t. ll the k u ., 4 oda. e.mutry that be was in • position, 21 hours a ta ry, g raiment aid given the order, to bring a tlect of -moss , t whteh would reach from the North the Chanel. (MMaim.) But the hun. gentle s=• dal Let Lams hsw many st.amer , wou:d be nect wary beat lamer: be dal not even know the distau c e, mak of things which hr knew nothinit shout. C..rs a..•1-toothier.) But thz hon. gentleman might be ... 1 ., I. wurstable ignorar.cc- -(loughter)—when niy WILLA a k 111.111! otter in tke n try (an oil friend ..t b. 'lwo, 10.1,1 was is the habit of writ* ktten to the nrwspapers'., fo:lewing is the same canee of alarm, and goyim{ that a taw pnett B ...n1 of Admiralty followed the Nurse of Admiral 1)431.1. y all the el I ladits might put on their mid go l , lied. Ile did nut kuow :f hi sight allay to the salmi Ober the words of the old ruse sad the resit tt _ee p..t 2.-1.9 ate -at LLe with er'sr Mat bests again." (Lawl.t.e ) New. without the L:deuni tie. t the peens. met hal thhe ste..esers is osittmierde n. 'they bad three tent el. • to.aleCirs iu (.O.Am —ion. and they had fifteen a,: t ; ',ate stmaters which were ready to be sent to point. (Clarets.) Men alone were weig h; ,L a a,:leer.) Her were they to man them ? es tal..nt: irate orieen and 11 I.nd rigger. front the diestaret.; and in th i n way there were 1 ,1 ,000 men ready rej.:a tl..t at Prroaport or Portsmouth, or wherever I, thy re.,;ht be necessary. (Ilear.) He recollected in N' that Mr. Calming leeeded. end justly Toasted, in that house, that t e Tagus dos t had been summoned I.cre in 46 ant uhm this could be clone in 1527 ho thought that in the ,:.-eat 4/, when they Ind steam and the elec. :,;era; t:. that it could done in '24 hours. (Hear, kw.) Cr he was not at all satisfied that they had men pouch. hear.) The country ought not to be placed a po.ition that the men would have to be with drawn from the dockyards. (Hear, heir.) He said before, sad he my dad now, that this country ought not to be cos laud elaraii, peace with lee than one. third of the number Of ince. nr.u.rol isitie.e of w,r. (Ilene. hea-.1 With re. pm! to the elfkieney of the easy, he maintained that it was as it:b....tit as the means placed at the disposal of the &minkc would allow it to be. Mr P. 'd.tULE was one of those who thought that it leas the dot; of the citizeus of thin country to contribute to its iatereal defence. Then. :Ore he quite agreed with the Lht ton. rentlenian epposite, that, at the present moment, the.e were no p erticular symptoms of d.mger firm f:r.....lpute—when all ids.. seemed to leave passed away cf .s aut. tenon to Meade this country—it was their duty rim:. to e r the best mean* by which the people of in:and could protect their shores from attack. (H.?. 1w sr.) It had always appeared to him, that Idea they tame to embody the militia, to appoint regular etters, to draft the force ihto regiments, it was • mos.re must bring into the field in time of war • lon, a, e thee nt as the regular army of the country. Dee what wt.. tie bill of the right holt. gentleman opposite? It ;repo , e t , go a great deal further than that which his tot:e frieed had asked leave to lay upon th, table of the t.e..e. (Hear, hear.) The preposition was to all in. tents and purposes a proposal to revive the regular 12.:.tia (Hear, hear.) Now, whet did that imply ? Why, it implied that the parties who etwuld be called on to serve teed oat necessarily be drilled in their own neighbonthood, tat that they tnight be drilled at a vary considerable die- ULM from their own localities; and, farther, that if the tactics of parliament were obtained, they might be lade to .erve during a period of eve years, whether to met a threat of foreign invasion, or to put down domestie titration. And thus people might be take a away from theft It:4lm pmfestion. duriig lice y. an, and, what was wont, wosW br I.reventeel from entering on any trade or baoiwass (ortkct lion. gentienh re would tied that that wee a far m re beedensonte prov:.ion than any eontaineil to the 1.03 of the late government. Now, the hceenrahle gentlemen opposite had said, that in wrier t. 3 get rid of the unpopubaity of the ballot, they would rely on getting volunteers. Now he would ver.ure to state that th./ would get very few tolvatters at all, though he was quite willing to grant that eat vuluateer was worth many premed men. Hut its oyster In got tem...teen it we proposed to give a bounty of 3/. or fit Now. they would have to pay the whole of that bounty ekes the lam entered the service, or they would give it to La is ,mill monthly payment.. Now, if they gave the ettle lam..oy at once, they would not, in nine Ca/Wll out of tm tee the men a second time at drill. (Hear, hear.) They vet.. l not get men w illingly to incur a liability of Ming Ka: ...tit of their ehdriet for the paltry pay of du. Gel. a sad. After all, then, the ballot must be resorted to ; and on subject ho would ask the right hon. gentleman 'teethes I e had examined the coufneed machinery of the /hewn; m -le of taking the ballot, and whether he knew the lentil of time it would take to set up that machinery ? Whence bee was understood) were to come the expenses of the ballet • ele W.% I.POLF. —Out of the county rates. Mr. F MAI:111441 that would he a strange way of elk fisting hurdem. (Hear, hear.) The proposed force mild not, h. believed. be brought into the field under ten Maths. What wee mated was a force which could be culled toe. tilt/ ia tea weeknasid such a fore. might be drilled le nub •• that which it was now proposed to rail. That ▪ L. the peeper way Omit* open the country to de rma ra Qua shores ; and he warned the government that if they had imams to the aid and regular militia in time of rem the plan would utterly fail. A force ihrigard fir the defines of tbi. country should he feq latze. They should line 150,000 men of such an op that tiny would n.it be married, and would be no bur an es Ito pariah; they should have persona at an ago An they were sot hound to any particular trade, and ides they could prosecute their calling conjointly with Meir ral.te: duties; and the parties serving should retire Img Lee.:e the age of 30, at which age they might, under the out mum proposition, be even drawn foe the grit pned. 'f i.ty should take meths at IS, not requiring them lessee after 23, and they would then have ea Me a fume el meld ratably begot together. As to the present mes as*, Ile was of opinion that it would be found very tan " Et c. 110IIHOUSE said that until the right hon. gm tlemm, elm had just resumed hi. mat, advanced such powerful arguments against the hill, he should have been Inelued t • say that all the authority of that house was on tese siet. ....I all the argument on the other. The noble Med, the member for Tiverton, acd the noble lord, the Member f r London, had giver. the it authority is favour of the white's the right hon. gentleman (Mr. lies:,, ....aim fresh from the labours of the War-ofEee, had t : ..litta that it was impracticable. (Hear. hear.) He should be the Met man to advise any arrangements !a. proper defence of this eeuntry, but lee must ni ght ", on all inch 0CC2.i0114 a. that, the precantion should leer .• 111. proportion to the danger. (Hear, hear.) la the i-• •le y had a clanger influit...invilly smell, provided I Mau u•curity disproportionetely large ; and for 'hit if lion. mend* re around him would give implant, CUD in that stage, take a dictums tgai..i •*: . Ito was convinced trait the dan-.r had beta 4". •• .jr magnified. TAU hill would, it carried, b e fruit- MI -ea:r• •fjobbing. The land would swarm with colonel.; • they me ems but red teats n would be abstracted bra do if usual occupations an d pleasures; and all this umild I...ppen kr no earthly pr, tenet whatever thet Would isstly sorb • prii us ('• Divide, divide.") I U boa- goat amen were ready for • illvi•iins tie sae not. , You to :reirn might rely tli.y would he eur...11 to a me; re Moulin the b oboes ler their %.,to of that ma l l s, He Mean: t: •.• who hod any euwilitatriciti; for MAC of them Mee .• ry abort of eunititut (" Hear • hear," end I Megtorr.) WWI* they were telking of ledlcAting . e4 the Militia, t!..r country wax thinking of another kind of Pullet "ot. I. liAlet fee ue•slrcn of parliament. (Heir, h or.) leek ni was now proposed would be • source of petres. 7 • end jobbing, and p. 'hap • of peculation; sad it ' II peaces. Any one who emulted A:4 , 4y Meld E that raw recruit. bud never Lees 3' , 11C to s.no.il Bee ' regular troops. So it had been found in the Moe tl I'.. amell, and fel imently siaee. Ile should move Man or Inieet to add to the ~uestinn the words "on this r I . .VDICIATE rare, ro.l was pm:ceding to adilrees Ihr I • •uppoit of the motion, kr. it ',LOUSE rem to OT.l‘l, said he boat pro- Polled at. •,u, ii•linest which utliat ti be • econded before the Asa. r wee heard. . • .th hit said he d d not see how the words pro. :.1 eibled by the tom. mover could be mend tea e n loses al. - fhe 'ion e in• Veit •er sin pi • ..114 to bring in the hill, al as which the .o r luNen I rma ti r could be inove.l woo; I be Hint certain other per igees .• have it diT, to du se 1 4 , : , ..11/ 7 1/iiiiiss:d is.ll. member must submit tt , rtinestion of sot &Ann his num on the sok* Li suteadzatut, which he &lira. was the übJcct of the hw. . numbsr is the tmusa he had taken. As he Lad understood the proposal of the government he believed i the ballot would only be resorted to where districts failed to produce their quota voluntarily. That being so, he was surprised that the advocate, of volunteer corps on the op- position side, shculd object to this Mettoll. He re gretted that the noble lord (Russell) and Lord Derby had sought to check the strung exprenions of the English perm on foreign affairs ; he censidered that such expreision was celled fur by the circumstances of the time. (near.) Mr. 1101ISMAN said he felt strongly the responsibility 1 1 resting on the government on this question ; and be wai l certain they were fully sensible of et thenetelves, or they would not have brought forward this proposition. Them were certain difficulties in agreeing to the :potion. Ile was not aware of any peered rat for a trove element asking fee so large an increase en the military establiehmeut of the coun try, without en immediate and pressing necessity. Se condly, they proposed to raise that force by a MAWS which failed during the last war, and which, atter nearly forty pus of peace, Mel limonite so unsuited to the habits and fevlinsto of the pewit: of this country, that it would in all likelihood fail agave. If we required a defence against invasion, that defence ought to be by the re gular army, and not by a Oti:Atil. Every military atillie rity was of opinion that if an army lauoimt on our toasts ! li al to coon ad with Mil tia iilJ4w, our fate would be at nue decided. The idea of epposing men who had been trained three weeks against the pecked troop+ of France, was inaelooss. Either the danger was altogether imaginary, sad we needed no adelitiou to our army, or it woe zeal, and we ought to have the eery best defence against it. (Dear, hear.) It was said that parliaments were unwilling to in crease the regales army, unless sutheient cause se ere shown ; and the same might Muhl in reference to u militia. But lei it once be shown that the uecessity existed, and parlia ment would display no such uuwillinguess. Of late years, there was no question on which parliaments Lad been mom accommodating. Front Isa to 1342, not • single pro pos:tion had been nude by governtamt fur keepiug up the estimates, or a single proposition by au hon. member to redact them, that had not been carried in favour of the government by • majority of tear to one. During the ad tomiatration of Sir Robert Feel, parliatneut h el ticeii still mom disposed to support the ministry, and had alarmed all their propositions by a majority of a. yen to on:. This was the one question of all others on which the gyve rnment had hero sure of receiving the support of eurliatnent, and keep ing up coy military kstubh.lkinout they thought necessary. (Hear, hear.) If the necessity were flow ehown to cleat, ho ventured to assert that parliament would grant the neces sary fence; fur these bon. gectleumen who objected to in crease armaments, only die's. en the ground that uo increase was necessary. It appeared to him that the great mistake made was that of doing tens much it there ace no danger, 3111 too little if there were real danger. When the second reading of the measure should be proposed he isould enter more fully into his objections to it. (Rear, hear.) Captain BOLDERO said it wes the duty of the govern meld to put the country in as perfect a state of defence as poesible. That it wu not so at pees+ nt was evi dent from the vast forces which fore iga countries could direct against us. The French government was friendly disposed towards EopLutd; but as it was based entirely on an army of 89,000 men, and as no one could tell what events the next twelve months might produce, it would be wise to glace this country in a position to meet all eveutu antics. During the late war the militia Lad on varlets oc casions done good military rerviee, and ho had no doubt would do so again. It was a proper lures to raise fur the defence of the country. Cu!, SlL . rnutit , and tie O'Go:osaN MAHON rose toge ther, but the latter giving way, the boss. and gs.laut mem ber declared that the present measure was undoubtedly i much better than that ntrodnced by the late governtr.ent— (hear)—and it was very satisfactory to him to be able to support the government. lie should do so heartily, though he would have preferred the old regular militia system, than which nathiegceued be better, and which he believed to be essentially necessary. (Hear, hear.) The DOORMAN MATRON wished to express has ex treme regret at the addre-s which had been matte' by the hon. member for the %Vett Riding, and to thank the right Lon. gentleman the Secretary at War for the opinions be had pronounced on his country-rum), the testimony which he had borne to the fidelity, the . bravery, and constancy of the Irish people in the defence of their country, the crown, and the cause of order. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER aaid-1 merely rise to express my hope that hon. gentlemen typo. eite will not trouble the house to divide. (Hear, hem.) We are, in feet, only passing an order of the house, and all that we ask is, that we may lay on the table that bill which a raajority of the house hes clearly declared should be pre pared. And that is my answer also to the hoe. and gallant member for Lincoln ; . whem I beg to assure that, ley the vote he will Five toeing:i4 he is pledged to nothing but to permit us to comply watts the coder of the house. (Hear.) It is (or them reasons that I shall not address more than a few words to the house on the measure before it. I shall weg be tempted to attempt to answer the speech , sods by the honourable member for the West Riding (Hr. Cobileu), who has to-night made one of those able and agreeable speeches which I always lieteu to with pleasure, whim 1 entirely disagree with a.m. (Loud laughter on the ministerial benches.) The hon. gentle man has brought forward no argument against the militia; his speech Wan argument against all defences, against the line, 'manta the household troops, against the artillery, against the cavalry. it proceeds upon the amumption that in the primal state of the world, no country need take measures to oared itself. (Hear, bear.) I cannot give in my adhesion to that opinion. I cannot believe, with the hon. gentleman, that recent events—that the ciente of the last few years to which be has appealed—have in any way authorised us to adopt such a course—(cheer)—al though he boa admiringly referred to them as a proof for what he has stated. When I recollected that within eight weeks after the day to el,* the Lon. gentleman re ferred, no less than four Lilacs were (might on the cootinent of lEtUrOpa ; that the Adele and the Adriatic were declared in blockade, 1 really cannot concur with hint in the opinion that these halcyon days have arrived when no necessity for military armainerts w ill be necessary. (Load cheers.) I differ entirely with the hon. gentleman, for 1 apprehend that, inviipeetive of the disturbances which we have of late years unfortunately witnessed, there are features in the present political arrangenicats, of long en durance, which lead me to believe that we have not arrived at the promised period of permanent and general tranquil lity which we all desire. I cannot say that so lung as I Sad the strongest places in the possession of the weakest persons, so Lag as I obserrc throughout Europe and Asia that the richest coma:les are under the dominion of the poorest sovereignties, I feel there is that system in the world which will lead, I fervently liege not in our time, to a state of things, whisk cannot ho decided ie any other way than by a war. (Hear, hear) With regard to the measure of which my right hon. friend the &celery of State for the Home Department has expounded chi f features to-night, I conceive that the present is not a proper wee. sloe en which a divisive ought to take place. Out the right hen. geutle man the late Secretary of War has in his speech todught uttered etasing objections to the introduc tion of the ballot sato the pretest measure. Why, in the measure which the right hon. gentleman himself intro duced, the ballot was absolutely enforced. (Hear, hear.) Mr. P. HAULS bad never made any objection to the ballot. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Iava glad diminished. that theeelements of opposition aro already (Cheers and laughter.) The right hon. gentleman hair at least stated that the introduction of the ballot into the mea sure ispouuded by my right hon. friend the Secretary of State for the Home Depaellime t will prove must ineonvenient—(Mr. F. Moak "No, so ) — I do not wish to mistake the °plaices of the r*ht hoe. gentleman. I mast readed him, however, this k is entirely a matter of opinirm, mad It is emeeelei 1111 to refer the ballot to the opinion of Gm Wan, We Mei I given to that subject a patient investigatios, we Mee gees salted the highest military itatheeities, sad having weighed all the evidence before us, the malt melbas MOO to from this inquiry is, a different mini elm del gibe right hon. gentleman, and the have mot Geoids MO\ of us des kneed a correct jadgaresc With dome kw ohne. various I will again express a hops that eetwillisteadiai souse somewhat fiery speeches tram hen. sai Leetkease *Plow site, they will sec that in the presser of the gam doe It will be the heat and meet dikes, seems to parses, to allow the bid to be brought in. Wham.) There will be tense ample opportunities on which to 116CIIISthe details of the bill, and 1 trust that a division will not now take place. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) Mr. BRIG It'f reminded the Chaneellorof the Exchequer that he sat on the treasury benches by the violation of the order of the house which he was now so anstions to obey. He drew attention to the serious intro faience which would be occasioned to our manufactlfires if any social halm mow ! didurhed, which they would 'be by this balloting Ger GIO militia, and balloting it must be, for men earning would never volunteer to serve as soldiers for 2s. aid, a month. He called on the house to give the country an op portunity of expressing its opinion on the question, and insisted that the government incurred no responsibility in the matter, if the emstituency were really averse to a mili tia. Great authorities had avowed that this bid was not the effect of panic; if no. there was no urgent crooks for the messier, and if no evil had arisen from lb aboodonment of the bill of 141/1, he asked the! this quoin tion *Multi be postponed till the opinion of the Mireatiai Imo; it could be aseertained. It was almost niintitbld that she ballot was in,s itshlc, so that, when the system ommg be worked in the manufacturing districts, infinite wielder might he ilone by the withdrawal .d men enraged le datl i and skilled operations. He proposed that the Call•i• ilerttion of the measure should ho postponed until the judgment of the people could be obtained upon it. Admitting that volunte , rs might he fogad in localities where wags. were low and employment wen. sears*, he waned the government of the Messily end im. placable opposition the scheme would ern et among the work. men of Lancnshire. Ile contended that n bad moral influ ence would he r steed by training tel,fakl of the poptilidion to amt., and preiliettel the minhief of habilnatiott the country to teller rte a Treat army, which, under souse amhi. t:ous man, rnioht ber.utter do for England what the French army bad, under Louis Napoleon, done for Fromm,. Nit. WfiITIO3IDE demanded whether the enlarge taken LI etetaiu sp , slier.; was cou , titution . d. Were !nrother4 of iiett lOM ...en' tir:rgates, AI—I Vl.ll mei', question to he referred t. th.. hu.tings ? Contramotieg on Mr. (7obdon's south, aa I ailiing wh..ther that gelid •suan wa. prepar:d to 11.3 Cie inithalwidiir to IA Franey to put down her arras unnts, be insisted an the tr , e,...ity of effeetartily providing for the defence of the routing. Mr. ROKBUCK wished fat an underilowling that the t'Otlie Might 10 D.. to the eountl u...0n thi. boll to O pat 4.14 et the general pway Oi the iovi nitnoit. to thought that there ought to li ~ .ina means taken for de dirt; the CORD. trT which he mould rather . ffect UT lucre • g th• :Avatar nailing torte by :Liking good artisans Into bad soldiers. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 80, 1852. Mr. OSBORNE joined in the entreaty that the bill should be merely laid en the table, so that the opinion of the country might be taken. Mr. WALPOLE wished to remind the house that this bill had been brought in in obedience to their own decision, pronounced early in the pr.:lent se.sinn. The government old not mean, however, to prbeced with it hastily, but to postpone the second reading until after Rester. Leave gives. SUPPLY. _ _ . _ . On the bringing up thWeportoithe committee of supply, Mr. WILLIAMS asked whether anything were to be done relative to the price of Exchuer Bills. The CHANCELLOR of the E XCHEQUER said that they had no power to alter the price of Exchequer Bills until June next. Mr. 111.7251 E said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should teka the opinion of the house before settling the price of Exchequer Bills. It wu his duty to watch the market, oud to matte the cheapest possible bargain for the public. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sod that' the present of jest was merely to cosepleto an arrangement which bad been commenced in January last. The rate of interest was settled they., soil it was not in the power of the house or the minister to alter the contract. Next June it would hi- °pea to them to propose a new arrangement. Mr. OLAN thought that the right hon. gentleman was under 110313 r mistake, as the hills of January had lobe unewed in March. What they were now Irwin.; would apply to June. lie thought it the duty of the Chat., eller of the h.:chequer to go into . the money market and snake the best arrange ment he could, always taking care that the rate lie filed en was not so low as to bring the hills into disrepute. Tho CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, assured the boa. gentleman who last addressed the house, that he en . tircly agreed with the principles which he had laid down respecting exchequer bills. lie only ruse to correct the hon. g. ntletuan in saying that the rate of interest on ex chequer bills bad not re.ted with the present government. since they had been in office, but that the arrangem e nt was made by their preslecesaurs. Mr. W. WILLIAMS said the rate was settled in Marzli, and the Eveln quer Bills were mining, d in June. He thought they ought nut to allow the Chancellor of the Ex , chequer to have this vote without a distinct understandiog what the rate of interest was to be. Ile thought that interest at the rate of Id. would lie quite sufficient. Ho considered that the late Chancellor of the Exchequer was guilty of a great job in giving us much snore interest than was requisite Atter a few words from Mr. Masiernuoi, Mr. Hume, and Alderman Thorajeun the motion was then agreed to. ! _ THE MUTINY BILL. The houPc then went into committee on this bill. Mr. A. IIASTIE mortal, in elathe 68, line 86, after the word ° Scotland," to leave out the weed, " according to • the provisions of the laws in force in Scotland at the time of its union with England," in order to insert the words, "in the same manner as is hy this Oct authorised and pro vided for, in other parts of the United Kingdom," insttad thereof. The 0b.,c0: of the aniendiutnt, he said, was to as similate the law in Scotland to what it was is England. He thought that people in small towns in Scotland, who were not publican+, ought not to bu subject to have sol diers billtterl on farm. Major BERESFOILD opposed the amendment, which he add was necessary in consequence of the accoinmodation in public-houses, in the entailer towns of Scotland, not bring sufficient to allow of bilkfting cm ii.us and public-houses exclusively. Mr. MIME thought Scotland shauld be placed in the same po.ition as England in this respect. After some observations tern Mr. A. Merit and Mr. Dyne in support of the amendment, awl a request from Mr. P. llow.sun that government would e..itsider the grievance—a promise from the Cita NCE 1.1.0 IL of the Emma E QUER that at the proper time any real grievance would be considered—the amendment was negatived, and the bill agreed t,. The Marine Mutiny Bill also paned t'iroligh committee. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS JURISDICTION. . . . Mr. 1101, ERIE mo%rd for leave to bring in a bill to abolish the criminal jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts in cases of brawling in churches, and others. Agreed to. PALVENTION OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES IN CATTLE. Sir W. JOLLIFFE moved fur leave to bring in a bill to continue an act of the 12th year of her present Al.kjeety, to prevent the spreading of contagious or infectious disorders among sheep, cattle, and uther animists. Agreed to. IRISH MANUFACTURES.... Lord NAAS obtained leave to latrad ave. a bill to continue certain acts relating to linen, hempen, and other tuanuf.ic turen in Ireland. MANCHESTER .AND SALFORD EDUCATION IBIll: Mr. KERSIIAW move d that flie select committee on the Manchester and Salford Education Bill do consist of 16 mem hers, and that Mr. I'ilkington be added to the committee. Mr. WALL'OLE ob,etted that the effect of tho Mien would be to alter the constitution of the committee, to which, in the absence of any other member of tha govern ment, he could not assent. Sir W. CLAY supported the motion, on the ground that unless all parties were represented the result would not be satisfactory. .tr. W. I'ATTEN complained that as the committeeswas now constituted, a majority against the bill was upon it, and if the present motion was carried ho should more to add other members upon it. The parties to the bill had so little hope of haring justice done to them by a committee known to be hostile to the measure, that they were almost disposed to withdraw from the bill altogether. Mr. M. GOWN, on behalf of those who represented the principle of secular education, objected that that Firty.wu not fairly represented on the committee, but haring agreed with the Secrt tary . of the Rome Department to the could tution of the committee an it stood, ho would hot seek to alter it. _ _ The houso then divided—For the motion 24 Against it 63 Majority against the motion — 29 The house adjourned at ball. past owl o'clock. rARY COMMITTEES. SOUTH WALKS RAlLWAY.—Yesterday, in Mr. Denial', committee, the preamble of this company's bill,lor extensions and other purposes, was proved. The preambles of the Ulaegow Union Arcade Bill and of the Great Monstem Fair Bill were also declared proved. WOILCUTIR LCD HEMIIPORD RAlLWAY.—Yeeteniaythe traffic cam connected with this company's lino was gone into at considerable length before the select committee of which Mr. Childers is chairman. POSTAGI Lenox degree.—Yesterday this oommittee, Mr. Musts la the chair, proceeded to examine Mr. Bran ston, the eagraver, and Mr. Barbi Hill, the supervisor of the postage sump department, Somme' House, having at their preview meeting examined Mr. H. Archer on the solkloot of his machine fur perforating postage stamps. Tbe other contaaittese sitting were these on the Pharmacy Bill, Income and Property Tax, Laws of Mortmain, Cue toms, and Ventilation and Lighting of the House. Bite Vrorefso. TO COROKSPON DENTS. geelvd With* el ..11a Elyria.," eontalatny rM NM* emir'', " tisane." L Aibliittal two, Tunas; raj night. In Uwe for pad. vow 'wawa , blendad " The Expran," London Zrialar paper, mat be at Mau r% Id, Haaverka-streat. 1r lye cede& as the day of pabliaatba. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Two Hay—Honda& se. nob. Altman. H. 716 to-gamy —lionsini. H. Stu+ •[Unin. 101". LONDON, TUESDAY. MARCH 30. THE whigs in their weakness proposed a Local Militia Bill and lost office for their pains; the tories propose a General Militia Bill, for which they deserve an equally signal punishment. The whige proposed to enrol for service, each in their own neighbourhoods the young met who had just uttaiucd their majority— those whq in truth, were in the intermediate step between apprenticeship and matrimony, and they made a 1;30W of constitutional propriety in saying there should be no substitutes--that the force being for defeosive purposes, Englishmen should, like Frenchmen and t'ruseians, and other continental citizens, be enrolled for the protection of the land of their birth. The tories last night adopted the worst portion of that which was bad in the whig plan, and, repudiating its better features, pro posed to raise • militia—not qualified by the local arrangement—not limited to the young and comparatively unoccupied men—and not having the pretence of equal justice to rich and poor —but leclaring that all male subject', between the years of 18 and 33 shall be liable to the conscription. In the hope of covering in some degree the naked enormity of this new plan, Mr. Secretary WAL rime, as the mouthpiece of the Drainv-Inansert cabbie:, tried to throw a volunteer halo over the preliminary stage of the intended compulsion. Every man within these given ages of 18 and 35, living a ithin the respective districts of the various registrars of births and deaths,is to be at liberty, if he pleaaes, to " volunteer" in each locality into this new militia—to volunteer for service, shoulder to shout ' der, with NOAKES and Srvtas, who may be tempted to take the proposed bounty of If. to serve the Qr EEN. When the likelihood of invasion was rumoured over the country, thousands of gentlemen, and yeo men, and tradesmen, and others, with true national spirit, declared their readiness to volunteer as mem bers of rifle regiments for the protection of their homes. These gentleineu may still volunteer if they please, say the tones, as lull privates in forced militia regiments, where for a given number of days each year they will be drilled shoulder to shoulder with the purchased substitute of those who may be compelled by tile ballet to enter this proposed new force And it they do not think tit so to offer themselves up to this new desire for 80,000 additional troops, what then? Why, in each registrar's district papers are to be sent out, and every man within the years of IS and 3.1 must stand his chalice of being drawn—and if drawn must leave his business and his home, fur the charms of drill and the attractions of forced service under martial law —or, pay fir i substitute. In the statement of the Secretary of State there was no explanation on the subject of substitutes, bui a question on this point later in the evening extorted the admission that substitutes must be allowed, 'thus, then, the real truth peeps out more clearly in the present case than it did under the scheme of the whigs. What is really wanted is to introduce afresh the censeription system in England. The govern ment want a reserve from which they can draw recruits—as they did in old dare—for the fighting regiment.. of the line; and they will make the quiet working citizens of the nation find these troops. Every man within the defined ages is to be liable, and if drawn must either serve or pay somebody to take his place. In days when wars only exist in the imagination of the timid or the designing, these substitutes may, perhaps, bo had readily, aid, it may be. cheaply. NOAKES, 010 weaver out of work, and STYLES, the ploughman, who has " been in trouble" for poaching, may Nyco for a few pounds to act as a substitute fur the widow's only sou or the young newly-married husband, who may bu drawn from his workshop to shoulder arms at the bidding of a drill sergeant. But when the government have got the 60,000 men they now demand as an addition to our previously large military force—when with this reserve to draw upon, it may suit them to en gage in quarrels abroad, the real burthen of the militia will be felt. The cost of a substitute, instead of ranging from 31. to 31., will rise with the risks of war, as it did before, to 101., 151., 2W., 301., or even higher, and then those who belong to the industrious labouring productive classes of this country, will be compelled to go personally into the ranks. If we were told that Englishmen must bo content person ally to defend England—and—being all regarded in the old constitutional sense as equal in the eye of the law—if all who paid taxes were allowed a vote in the disposal of their contributions—and if the common fund were relieved from the burthen of a standing army—then a proposition for the enrol ment of a militia force would be feasible enough. Doubtless there are tens of thousands of men in England who under the shadow of a threatened in vasion would find their hearts beat again ix the true old spirit sung in the rhyme of NEtesvi.av when : —Out stoke bravo Heretics, the captain of the gate: To every man upon this earth death cometh soon or late. Arad how can man die better thou facing fearful odds Fur the ashes of his fathers, sail the temples of his gods, And for the tender mother who dandled him to rest, And fur the wife who nurses his baby at her breast ?" But the signs that show how we hare this ancient temper still in England are " snubbed " by the powers that now be. The offer of volunteers are re fused. The Horse Guards and the Home Office will have nothing to do with patriotism. They ignore, they mistrust flit—they will have no offered service, relying rather on the virtues of the ballot, or the bounty of half-a-crown a month! But now we have no fear of invasion. Louis NAPOLEON has too much on hand at home to offer , a chance of danger to England. Such a thing , is not even pretended by the promoters of this new conscription. They cannot show any ono good excuse fur calling out a militia. They cannot prove it to be e ffi cient ; they cannot show that it is economical, nor can they demonstrate that it is really . necessary. With a large standing army and with the finest fleet in the world—with a population ready to volunteer in case of need, and ready also to turn out almost en gnaw should the reality of danger arise , —to attempt to pass a militia bill is tee bad. The real intention of the measure is—as we before explained—to embody . a corps of half-disciplined men, rendered by their embodiment unfit for the great avocations of productive life, and likely there , ore to teed the ranks of any regular army flog might be sent to do the work of war abroad. This is the real and true meaning of a militia bill, and as the debate of last night was only preliminary to that which must hereafter arise on the question, it re mains to be seen how far the country at large is ready—whilst supporting a large Hutt and a large I standing army—to pay in person or in purse for an ' English conscription. Tll6 EAILL OF DIARY has accepted, says the Presto* Chronicle ' the office of Prisident of the Royal Ninth lAimaiiiiire Agricultural Society, and has j.roasised to atteml the annual meeting at I'rcatou, iu Mmtember. ETATS tilf THE PAUPER CHILDREN AT EDMONTON. —l'aterday in adjourned meeting of the ratepayers a the parish of St. Clement Danes was held in the vestry.rouut, under the presidency of the Bey. W. Ellis, rector, to con sider the conflicting reports which have been made coat ern- 1 1 ing the sanitary and moral condition of the junior !Limier establishment at Edmonton on the ono hand by u spacial committee, and subsequently by Mr. J. F. Lime. , a sur geon and on the other by Mr. Henry Diddle, ;webs/11 • otticer of tho house ; sod also by Mr. hall , who was de puted by the l'oor Law Board to nuike u pommel examination of the house. As the statements of these gitatlenien who have been on the spot arc in direct opposition to each other upon nearly all the points, it is easy to midi rstand how ertat iliderence of opinion may prevail among the ratepayers who di rend on these sources for their information. Lest night, utter a very stormy discussion, it was derailed that the correct ee -1 ports were those of Mr. Clarke aid the special commission, I but a poll is appointed (or Friday next, when peasitily 'WE rent ri , ult may ho obtained. As we hairs published both tne orisinol char...o and the nnswer of the !'our Law Board, we may be excused from going further into the PoRT 4 NOT7II, MARCH 29.—The Plato, Lieu!, t'omeiruler arrived to.d Wo.dwieh. She eam- into 1101 , 110tIT, nod, when 1..:1101.11 will proceed to the Went Corset of Atria, to relieve the Jacket ntenna ten der —The ttoeightly Penal tender Monied to thin port to day front Wool•rieb.—The Arrneoint, 411, screw steam frigate, Captain ltobsonon, wan paid op nix month,' woofs to-day, and her crew given in fortnight'n leavo et alawnoe,— The Sampien, ' , leant frigate, will be paid down tomorrow. FRANCE. INSTALLATION OF THE LEGISLATIVE BODIES. DECLARATIONS OF LOUIS NAPOLEON. PARIS, MONDAY EVINiNO. To-day took place at the Tuileries, in the Sallee des Marvellous, tho ceremony of the installation of the great bodice of the state. The diplomatic corps, the Senate, the Council of State, and the Legislative Body, attired in their new costumes, met soon after twelve, in the mow which open into the Hall of the Marshals. The President left the Elysee, shortly be fore one o'clock, in a chariot, attended by General do St. Arnaud, and escorted by a detachment of cuirassier*. The quay and court of the Tuileries and the Place do Carrousel were densely occupied by troops of the line and lancers. The arrival of the President was announced by salvos of artillery. The Prince, surrounded by the ministers, the officers of his military household, and the 111C111- hers of the Council of State, took his seat in the armchair placid for him under the dais, upon a raised platform. (/n the right of this arm-cha ir,) and one step lower, was u smaller one for the presi dent of the Senate, Jerome Bonaparte. Behind these two arm-chairs and on the two sides, were ten chairs for the ten ministers. The rest of tho estrade or platform was occcupied by the council of state. The hall was filled with lines of benches, occupied by the Senate on one side and by the Corps boyish:o' on the other. Very few of the latter body wore the cos tume, even that of the petite tense. M. de Moray alone was en grnnde tome. M. de Montalembert, with his black coat battened up, occupied, with his friends, one of the last benches. The entrance of the Senate, which took place after that of the Corps Legislatiy; was made highly imposing by the costumes of the cardinals, marshals, and admirals. When the cannon announced the ar rival of the President all stood up. He was preceded by the commander-in-chief and the staff of the na tional guard, and followed by Mom Bonaparte, General Magnan, and the ministers. The President, having taken his seat in the arm dial:, bowed to the Assembly and said, " Messieurs, veuillez vous asseoir." Everybody then sat down excepting the President himself and Jerome Bonaparte, who remained stand ing during the whole speech. Louis Napoleon, who was dressed as a general of the line, then, standing, read in a firm and emphatic voice the following speech: THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH. Messieurs len Senateurs—Messieurs les DepuWs—The dictatorship %inch the people confided to me ceases this day. Things are about to resume their reaular course. It is with *feeling of real satisfaction that I come here to proclaim the putting to practise of the constitution, for my constant anxiety (pr.'oecapation) hog bceu net only to re-establish order, hut to rend, r it (hirable, by endow ing France with institutions suited to her wants. But 'Tamay a few months ago, you remember that the route 1 confiued my leaf within the narrow circle of say attributions, the more it was attempted to tenth r that circle narrower still, in order to deprive me of movement and action. Often dis couraged, I confess it, I have thought of abandoning a Dower so much contested. What ro strained me was that I law but one thing to succeed me—anercley ! Everywhere, in fact, row up pasaions, ardent to destroy, incapable of founding anythiug. There was nowhere either an institu tion or a man to cling to. Nowhere a right uncontested, any kind of organisation, any practical system. therefore, when, thanks to the assistaece of a few courageous men, thanks above all •to the energetic attitude of the army, all the dangers were dis pelled in a few hour+, my first care was to ask institutions of the people. For too long a time society had resembled a pyramid turned upside dawn, and attempted to be placed upon its point. I have replaced it anon its base. Univer sal suffrage, the only source of right in touch conjunctures, was immediately Authority regained its ascendancy. Afterwards. France adopting the principal provisions of the constitution which 1 submitted to her, I was permitted to create political bodies whose influence will be so much the greater from their attributions being wisely regulated. In fact no political institution+ are dur able but those which fit in an equitable manner the limit at which each power should atop. There are no other means of arriving at a useful and beneficent application of liberty. Examples are not remote from us. Why, in 1814, did we see with satisfaction, in spite of our reverses, the inauguration of the parliamentary riginte. Because the Emperor, let us not fear to confess it, had been carried on, by reason of war, to a too absolute exercise of power. Why, on the contrary, in 1851, did Friince a;plawl the fall of thin same parliamentary rgioraeo Because the Chambers had abused the influence which that regime had given them, and, in desiring to rule over all things, had compro mised the general equilibrium. Again, why was not France troubled by tho restrictions applied to the liberty of the press and to individual liberty ? Because the one had de generated into license, and the otter, in place of being the regulated exercise of the right of every individual, bad by odious excesses threatened the rights of all. The extreme danger, for democracies especially, of seeing badly-defined institutions continually sacrificing power and liberty by turns, was perfectly well understood by our fathers ha lf a century ago, when, on emerging from the revolutionary tempest, and after vain experiments of all sorts of systems, they proclaimed the consti tution of the year rill., which has served as a pat tern for that of 1812. Doubtless, it does not sanction all those liberties to the abuses even of which we were accus tomed, but it consecrates others that ore truly liberties. On the morrow of a revolution, the first guarantee for a people dues taut consist in the immoderate use of the tribune and the press. It consists in the right to choose a government such as it likes. Now, the French nation has, perhaps, for the first time, given to the world the imposing spectacle of a great people voting, in all liberty, the form of its govern ment. f him the chict of the state, whom you have before you, is really the expression of the popular will. And what do I see before me? Two chambers. 0119 elected by virtue of the most liberal law that exists in the world ; the other, nominated by me, it is true, but also independent, because it is irremovable. Around me you see men sf admitted merit and patriotism, always ready to support me by their coun sels, and to enlighten rue with regard to the wants of the country. This constitution, which from this day forth will be put in practice, is nct, then, the work of a vain theory and of despotism. It is the work of experience and reason. Yon, gentlemen, will aid me to consolidate, to extend, and to improve it. I shall comninnicate to the Senate and to the Corps Legislatija report (e pose) of the situation of the republic. In that they will nee that confidence has every where been re-established, that industry has everywhere revived, and that, for the first time after a great political change, the public fortune has increased iastead of holies diminished. Within the last 'our months my government has found It possible to encourage many useful enterprises, to reword many services, to relieve much distress, to elevate the position of the greater part of the principal functionaries, and all that without increasing the taxes or deranging the estimates of the budget, which we are happy to present to you balanced. Bach facts, and the attitude of Europe, which has received too changes that have taken place with satisfaction, girl us a well-founded hope for the security of the future. For if peace is assured at house, it is equally so abroad. Foreign powers respect our independence, and we have every interest to keep up the most friendly relations with them. So long as the honour of France: shall not be engeged, the duty of the government will be carefully to avoid every cause of perturbation in Europe, and to direct all ow efforts towards internal ameliorations, which alone eon evacuee the well-being of the in dustrious classes, and assure the prosperity of the country. And now, gentlemen, tit the moment when aou are patriotically associating *ourselves with my labours, I wish frankly to express to you what will be my conduct. People seeing me restore the inetitutions and waseettirs of the empire have repeatedly said that I desired to restore the empire itself. If such had been my constant anxiety, this transformation would long educe have been acconi ... pliihcd. Neither the means nor the occasions have been wanting to me. Thus, in 184$. when sin millions of suf frages elected me, in spite of tbo Constituent, 1 was not ignorant that the simple refusal to acquiesce in the cousti tntion would have given me a thitone. Eat an elevation which must neerssarilly have produced grave disorders did Rot seduce me. On the 13th of June, 1849, it would have been equally easy for mu to change the fenn of goverment. 1 would not do it. Finally, on the 2nd of December, if personal emeddetati )))) s had pnwsiled above the grate interests of tlo• country, I should hove at once asked of the people, who eoulJ nut have re fused it to me, a pompous title. I was contented with that loch I had. When, therefore, 1 leek for xatuples in the Consulate mid the Empire, it is becauso there more than any where else, 1 Mel examples stamped with nationality and grandeur. tieing now, as heretofore, issolved to do ry thing for Frame, nothing tor utytenf, l would not ix c. at any modification of the present state of things unless I were constrains it to do so by an evident necessity. Frein whence eon that arise ? Oaly Iran tin, conduct ui parties. If they resign themselves, nothing shall iliaugt.d. Dot if by their hidden iutrigucs (soitisles mion'es) they should seek to sap the foundations of my government ; it, in thar b:Milliess, they should d.ny the legi timacy of the result of the popular election ; if in short, tiny by their ethnics should unceasingly put the future prospects of the country in question, thin,, but then only, it might he ma...mottle to ask ni the people, in the name of the repose of France, a new title which might ie veto nobly its upon my bead the power with which Veneto@ I hits invested me. Dot let its not omnpy ours , dires before ' hand ith dillleaPics which ilouhtl..ss have en probability alooat them. Let its keep the republic. That threatens no one, it on ty resssart. everybody. Under her hawser, l de sire to matt:prate oucu itgain an era in forgetfulness and I conciliation. and I call witleout distinction upon all those alt.. a ili smear with ma for the :tit'.l!e mod I rrucid net, which hoc hitherto so visibly blessed toy elforte, ! will not permit its wink to remain unfinished. It will ant i mate u. all with its ittliir.dions end give us the wisdom eat I rength necessary to teat... Widow an order of things winch will secure the happiness of our country and the repose of Europe. the gotta. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, took en airing yesterday alter noon, in en open carriage and four. The Equerries in Waiting attended on horseback. The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Fairer, and pertook of luncheon with her Majesty and Prince Albert. Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday morning, attended by Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gonine. The Princess Royal and the Princess Alice took riding exercise yesterday ; and Prince Arthur took an airing yes terday in the garden of the palace. At the Queen's levee, on Wednesday, Mr. Whiteside was presented to her Majesty, upon appointment as 'Solicitor. General for Ireland, by the Esrl of Derby. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the performance of the Philharmonic Concert, at the Hanover %tux Rooms, last evening, with their presence. The royal waits emulated of the Duchess of Athol, Mistress of the Robes, the Countess of Monnt•Edgeumbe Lady in Waiting, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish and the Hon. 'Piers Mardonakl_, Maids of Honour in Waiting; the Duke of Montrose, Lord Steward; the Marquis of Exeter, Lord Chamberlain; the Earl of Jersey, Muter of the Home ; the Earl of Morton, Lord in Waiting; Lord throrge Lennox, Lord in Waiting to the Prince; Capt. the Hon. J. Denman, R.N., Groans in Waiting ; Colonel Iltylde,Groons in Waiting to the Priam, end the Prinerries in Visiting. The Dubois of Camhrilge and the Prince's Mary visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clarence Mouse, St. James's. _ . . The Dnehrom of Kent, nttendcd b 7 Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Cooper, honoured the performance of the French Plays with her presence last taming. A deputation on the subject of a toll-free bridge over the Foyle at Londonderry had uu interview with the Bart of Derby yesterday at his (Arial residence in DowningetreeL The depilation consisted of Sir Robert Ferguson, M.P., Captnin Jones, M P., Sir itilmand Hayes, Bart., M.P., Alderman Humphery, M.l'., Governor of the Irish Society, Messrs. Beresfonl, tinge, and Johnston, Umbra of the Londonderry Bridge: and Aldermen MArthur, Alderman Unbind, Mears. Comenden, Colquhoun, Franks, sad Crawford, of the corporation of Derry. Colonel riihthnrp 1111111 en interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday, at the llome-ottice. 'the lion. B. P. II 111VCTIC had also an interview with the right hon. gen tleman. Mr. Spooner bad an interview with the Earl of Derby yivtordoy, at his official residence in Dawning-street. Cap tain Warburton bud also an interview with the noble earl. The °Mord University COIIIIGIV4OR hod a inertial( yes terday at the ofheaal residi nee of the First lord of the Treasury in Itqwnit.g-itteet. Preset:—The Bishop ut Norwien, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of l'embroke, the Bev. 11. J. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., the :ter. Pfa ff:ll.f Powell, the !ter. U. H. S. Juhuwu, and the Itvr. A. I'. Stanley (seen•tary). Lord Naas had an interview with the Earl of Derby yes terday. BsatiAutir.s RAILWAY.--Yesterdsy, before Master in choutetry Blunt, the cities of Mr. Bird, fur IV., for engin.. ring, wds edreltte.l ..s debt. It allo.irt from the evidence, that tbiv F. ntleut.m loud drama nut plans for the proposed line in the i‘bir.d of Barbados., where, at the cm, gnat utliectjuqui rained to the introduction of the railway, from apprehenduns that the sugar cane fields would be set on tire by sparks from the founel of the Mt glues. Mr. Bird proposed to obviate these objections, by covering the Nueva. with wire gauze. During the delivery the President was frequently interrupted by the enthusiastic applause of tho as sembly and diplomatic body ; and at the end he was greeted by vociferous cheers of " Vive Napoleon !" The President having seated himself, M. dc Casa bilmea, the Minister of State, rose, and announced that the oath was about to be administered. lie read the formula of theoath,"l swear obedience to the constitution and fidelity to the President of the llepub lie," and invited each senator to lift his hand nt the call of his name, and to answer "Je le jure." The mi nister then called the president of the Senate, the four vice-presidents, and the g r and rc f en d ar y, Gen. d'Hautpoul, then the cardinals, marshals, and ad mirals of France, as senators de jure, and la:,tly the senators by alphabetical order. The ugul president of the Court of Caseation, M. de Portalis, having been forgotten, excited some hilarity, in which the President joined, by rising to remind the minkter of the omission, and then not the oath separately. The deputies were then called, according to th, alpha betic order of their departments. The only deputies who did not respond to the call were Gen. Cavaig nac, MM. Carnet, de Cirrac, Legrand, and !tenon. This second call having been terininntA, the Minister of State &dared that the legis lative session of leen was opened, and invited the senators and deputies to meet on the morrow in the localities of their respective sittings. The Presi dent then rose and retired, amid loud and contiuued cheers of " Vire Napoleon !" The roar of cannon announced his departure to return to the palace of the Elyeke. The general opinion of political circles concerning the President's speech is favourable ; and it cannot be denied that it is composed with much The leading passages are those which profess peaceful intentions abroad, and relate to the assumption of the title of Emperor. I believe I need hardly caution you against taking for a disavowal of an intention to proclaim the empire what is in fact rather a preparation of the public mind for that event. Obviously nothing will be easier than to in terpret the first disturbance as the case of necessity contemplated. Throughout, the President, both out side and inside the Tuileries, has been well received. The long talked of tesion;they say, is on the point of taking place between the two branches. It is merely reduced to a question of etiquette. Toe Or leans princes demand that the Comte de Clitimbord she!' pay the first visit to the Queen Amelie. The Bourbons will then agree on a manifesto, which is to be kept secret until the moment comes for a amp du main. They will then launch their agents with nnl lions into France, to bribe the army and buy a mi litary involution. A number of dec rees fill two sheets of the Alfenia er of this day. The first decrie relates to the new insti tution of mortgage banks (cr, , tlit fiwrier), end coo- Menial' only one article, declaring that the goveniment will fix, far each hank, the extreme limits of the dura tion of the annuities by means of which the extinc tion of the debt is to be effected. This is followed by a decree authorising the formation of a bank com posed of 31 member*, ninon' whom arc M. Fnuld, ex Minister of Finance, M. Drouyn de I'lluys, Vice l'resident of the Senate; M. Leon Faucher, ex minister of the interior, the Duke de Mouchy, M. Benoist d'Azy, the Count de Gasparin, ex-minister, Count Napoleon l leru, and MAL fussy, ex-minister. The decree fixes the capital at 23 millions of francs, in sharcs of 300 fr. each, and declares that the period for the extinction of the debt of the borrowers Ly annuities shall not be lees than 20 years, tier more than 39 years. The bank is authorised to issue paper money (rAlityaliatit foneieres), bearing an an nual interest, to the amount of the sums borrowed upon mortgage. Another decree regulates the sala ries of prefects and euleprefects. The prefects are to be divided into three classes. Those of the first are to have 40,000 fr. a year; the seven?, 30,000 fr.; and the third, 20,000 fr. The prefect of the Seine, is, by exception, to have 50,e001i. There are to be three classes of sub-prefects, with salaries respectively of S,ooofr., 6,0001 r., and 4,500 fr. This decree is fol lowed by one modifying the duties on sugars. Beetroot sugar of the present quality (lilttthcel is to pay (lfr. for 100 kilogrammes, an foreign sugar 37fr. For a superior quality there is to be an extra duty of 31r. for 100 kilogrammes. During a period of four years colonial sugar is to pay 7fr. fur 100 kilogrammes less than native sugar. Re fined sugars are to pay ten ter cent. more than the above duties. 'The next decree enacts that con victs who may be sent from the hairnet% to French Gunyana shall be employed in cultivation, and in other works of utility ; and that women condemned to hard labour may be also sent to thut colony, and be employed in works appropriated to their age and sex. The decree regulates the indul gences which may be granted to convicts who con duct themselves well, and fixes the punishments of Those who may behave ill.—Then comes a decree which enacts that the deletions which inky be al lotted to members of the Senate, in virtue of Art. 22 to the constitution, shall be constituted by individual decrees, in the name of the recipients—shall be paid half-3 early—shall not be liable to seizure, nor be ceded and shall not, unless specially or dered, be subject to the lows which forbid persons who hold more than one situation from receiving more, than a ceitaln amount of salary.—The next decree establishes a community of priests for the ser vice of the church of St. Genevieve at Paris, re cently restored to public worship. It is to consist of six members, who are to take the title of chaplains of Sainte Genevieve, and of a dean. Their duties, it is declared, are to be-Ist, to pray to Cod for France, and for the dead who have been buried in the vaults of the church ; and, 2nd, to form them selves thr preaching. The dean is to be nominated for five years by the archbishop, subject to the approval of the President of the Itepublic ; the chaplains are to be nominated for three years, after a competition amongst priests aged thirty-five years, in a form to be fixed by the archbishop. The stipend of the dean is to be 4,0001 r., and that of the chap lain's 2,300 fr. A sum of 3,000 fr. is to be allowed for the choir and other expenses. By the next decree, journals, periodicals, and works exclusively de voted to sciences, arts, and agriculture, are exempted from the stamp duty; but journals and publications of this character which may, even accidentally, occupy themselves u ith mat ters of political or social economy, are to inear the penalties fixed by Articles 3 and 11 of the decree on the press. 'the decree which follows makes over to the Ministry of Public Works certain buildings and parcels of hind belonging to the state iu the departments of the Pas do Calais. Corsica. the Lute, the Nievre, the Manche, and the Nord, for different public works. The next decree authorises the Minister of Finance to fix the limits., &e., of the forests belonging to the state and communes in the department of Corsica. Another decree, founded on a report of the Minister of general police, odds to the number, and extends the power of the commissaries of police in the departments. In towns where the population amounts to 6,000 and under, the commissaries of police are to be appointed by the prefects. from a list of three candidates pre sented to hint by the inspector-general of police. In towns where the population exceeds 6,000, the ap pointment will rest with the Prince President un the proposition of the minister of golieral police. The next decree extends the power granted to the Bank of France by the law of May 17, 1831, of making advances on the de posit of securities in the French funds, to bands of the city of Paris. The next decree prohibits the re print on the French territory of Nv orks aualished abroad, and lila) the sole and expert of these works, tinder the penalties decreed by Arts. 426, 42t1, 427, 429, and 463 of the lentil code. Another deeno grants a full and free amnesty to all sailors who have deserted from the merchant service, provided they return and present themselves before the proper authorities within the Ml:awing delays: —'tires months for those within the territory of the republic and in Corsica; six namths for those who art out of the French territory. but in Earepe and Algeria; twelve months for three out of Europe, and eighteen mouths for thine T. ho are be yond Cape I lora mil the (tape of Goad Rma—The next theme, founded on a report of the Nliiiister of the Marine, re;rtiletea the Fren'h herring tigirry. I Tho produce of that fishery salted on hoard, when taken on the coast of Scotland, will be admitted free lof duty from August 1 to September 30; and those MI the coasts of Yarmouth or of Frsuce from ()Aoki. I to December Olt The other mach* of the decree relate to the details of the mintier in which the &herr is to be conducted, and the quan tity of ealt which each vessel is allowed to cu: r ao. " cording to her tonnage. Any infriugt ,t ill I' I '''. s enactments will be tried by the oorreetto,4 .i °4‘l‘ V • .' 1 • s t 4,4% '' - -.: . 4 h Ps ...1 , 4. tofiAviAmbas 1 iD 4 Tipe 0