The Express. — London, England, 1851-12-17 00:00:00

the erprems. TO CORRESPONDENTS. .1! Miles Tb• rayeeck" coatatrdad he same ectulrd's A re d w,.! is 'Jibbed sorry Tocelay awl Macy 140% a deo for rd. • l lot uatudotalataukk 4 4y " The Y•yertapldatdos Ec,a,x4 Met, sawt laa at die °lke, 10. bouecribatroot, by Two o'clock oa tbe day a dabbottioo. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Try DAT—llarthig. An. On. Aft/rims, •.. TMr-xx.A.ow —XAcusg. 94. Sia AturatAs, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17. IT is difficult to imagine an expression of opinion upon French affairs so discreditable and disgraceful as that just put forth by Count :%loNr.ttlNßEnr, head of the ultra-montane church faction in France. An opinion so negative of all morality, so desti active of all liberty, so hypleritical, and so cowardly, cer tainly never emanated from any one that has ever figured even in the annals of revolution. Louts NArottais has appealed to a secret and mock universal suffrage, to be given in the absence of all information, and under the terrors of martial law ; and by this he asks for dictatorial power to tread under foot all principles of constitutional liberty and individual freedom in order to substitute in their place that machinery of puppets with which NA- PoLtos travestied the action of a free government. Count NIoNTALEXIIERT comes forward to the French people and asks them to sanction this, because such tyranny cannot be more dangerous than the consti tution just overthrown. " By returning to the unity of power," says Count MONTII.I.MULII, "we get over the most difficult point of the way to a real social regeneration, that of ideas and morals." So that is order to correct the ideas of French men and improve their morals, Count loNritr3t hr.liT prepares the despotism unity of power means nothing else) of Louts Loets Nortitt:os has given up education to the clergy; lie has restored Rome to its old "unity of power" in the Yore:; he has re-established synods ; he has, in short, done everything for the church. The church is all I care for, says Count MoN r and Isms NArotio:s may do what he will with the state. Such are the political principles of a man of emi nence and talent, the avowed head of the Ho man catholic church party in France---a party which professes itself at certain times, and in cer tain places, to be favourable to the great cause of civil and religious liberty. So blinded is Count AIONTALF:NIBLIff by his fanaticism that in the events of the first half of December ho can see nothing but the few barricadcrs shot, and can feel nothing but the escape of society from socialism. lle has no pity for his colleagues of the National Assembly, or the companions of his le gislative labours, hurried off to prison or to exile. Ile is lust in admiration of the brutal soldiery, who kept up an hour's tire at the houses and windows of the wealthiest and least disaffected quarter in Paris, who shot down with glee every well-clad group that stood confidingly before them, and who laughed at the sufferings of the wounded. The " socialists," as Count NIONTALEMBEnr calls them, were masters for months after February, 1818. 'They did not make a single arrest, nor socialite a single life, except in actual combat. They left the antagonist press free. They refused to run a muck at Europe, and sum mooed a free amends!? to decide upon the fate of France. The " socialists are at least free from blood ; whilst 1.01.13 NAPOLEON, the saint, whom Count MONTALEMBFAT holds up for the adoration of the church, sent to the grave more innocent victims in one day than even Itonesrleace sent in many to the seaffuld. Itocesrieitices victims, too, were tried; they entertained opinions hostile to the republic. However innocent of crime, there was still some pre test fur their slaughter; whilst there was no pretext whatever for that cold-blooded and wholesale mas sacre with which Locts Narinfos inaugurated his reign. And yet French catholicism, represented by Count MON t sLEattERT, would make use of the BOe cialist bugbear to persuade people to set up and wor ship the idol of the Elysee. The eandid, the truth-loving MONTALEMBEAT copies the Mossitow in attributing every insurrec tionary movement throughout France to Socialism. The peasants of the Niovre having risen in insur rection, the whole town of Clamecy took up arms against the decree of the 2nd of December. But Clanacy is the country of M. Duets ; the scat of his property; tho scene of his in fluence. Have the pest opinions and present tientinent of M. Duns nothing to do with the insurrection of Clamicy—and is its every excess to be set down to socialism? The officer in command at Lyons. a *hole regiment of artillery at St. Brieue, divers persons and bodies in different parts of France have declared against the decree and against the act of the 2nd of December. Is this socialist? And Paris, Lyons, Bordeaux, and aU the towns and counties, consigned to martial law, are all these socialist? Ifs°, socialism includes all the friends of constitutional monarchy, and numbers all those moderate liberals of the chamber with whom Count MONTALEMBERT has been pretending to set in com mon, when in fact he has been merely waiting the opportunity to betray every constitutional principle and party to the first military mountebank who puts on the cloak of piety. A greater blow to the papal church in France could not have been stricken than by this public adhesion of its chief to the moat unwarrantable act of tyranny, treachery, and violence, that ever was perpetrated in any revolution. It is plain, and Count Mo'sraLtnexict avows it, that if his priesthood be allowed full sway over the conscience of the people, ho will, in recom pense, applaud a military dictator patting his heel on the reek of the same people. He supports the throne of Lot'ts NAPOLEON by the confessional. He hallows the right of the usurper ; declares it quite as good as that of the most legitimist monarch; and he calls in the name of the church on the old royalists to support it. If Count MONTALEMEERT could be supposed to re resent the totality of the French clergy and the French church, his present conduct, and the reasons which ho assigns for it, would be sufficient to divorce that church, not merely from the support, but 0%111 from the tolerance and respect of every party in the state. The legitimist he divorces and disgusts. The constitution he sacri tires without remorse and without shame. Any thing or body of men more liberal, more republican, or more popular than constitutional monarchy he de- , votes to the infernal gods. Ho erects the church into I a perfectly independent empire within the state, quite reckless of what becomes of that state, provided only that the live, thrive, and rule. The Jews were accused - of thus living in the midst of Christian countries and European communities, attached exclusively to their sect and to their money bags. This, even if true, had its excuse ; for if the Jews felt no love for state or country, it was that state or country cared not for them. But for a Christian church thus to consider its interest apart, and to otter up every other element of civilisation than or thodoxy to the most ruthless tyranny—that is a crime, a treason, and a baseness, from which the church, or the sect that cannot purge itself, deserves to be for ever accursed and eradicated. POWERS have been granted to the Royal Commis sioners of the Great Exhibition to dispose of the large surplus sum of money now in their hands. All demands upon them have been paid, and the ouestion at this present moment in course of discus sion is—What shall be done with the Spare Cash? One party say. Spend it upon the promotion of Industrial Education. We have already shown that the Senoots OF Dx- SIGS, if estimated by the value of their effect upon industrial education, must be considered failures. The causes of their want of success arc various. In the first place there was the absence of superinten dence. Upon no official person or body of persons was placed the responsibility of seeing that the seve ral schools worked together with anything like unity of purpose. What was everybody's business was nobody's business, and the schools were left without a common centre. Sir STAFFORD NORTIICOTE, indeed. while a member of the Beard of Trade, took a great interest in the subject, and devoted much of his time and talents to the endeavour to render these insti tutions worthy of the money which had been ex pended upon them. Since he left, however, they have had no external superintendence, and the ne- THE EXPkESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1851. cessary consequences have followed. Another of the Call% a of failure is that instead of fulfilling the idea I of Schools of Design these institutions have acted as mere drawing schools. They have been occupied in making draughtsmen, instead of educating draughts men into artists. Pupils were allowed to enter with out preliminary skill, and the time of the instructors —often men of first-rate ability—has been wasted in communicating the mere elements of instruction. If the schools are ever to work well, it will be ne cessary to limit the admission to those pupils who has e acquired some sort of proficiency in the lower departments of art. To the third cause of failure we have already alluded. Practical men despise the schools because they cannot trace their effects upon the manufactures which it was their mission to im prove. The three principal remedies, then, which must be applied to bring these schools into healthy operation, are—the establishment of a proper superin tendence,—the raising the standard of instruction, — and the engrafting upon them a system of Industrial Education. We dwell upon this theme because it is ru moured very generally that the majority of the commissioners of the Exhibition Surplus Fund feel strongly inclined to apply this fund to the improve ment of the industrial es ucivion of the country, by attaching Industrial Classes to the Schools of Design. In order that this plan,—which in the main is a good one—may meet with due success, it is necessary that the amelioration of the old institutions should take plate simultaneously with the introduction of the new. Now, supposing that the schools are placed upon an improved basis, in accordance with these sug gestions, the next point to be considered is,—in what manner can they be made to work most efficiently for the special benefit of the towns in which they are established, and for that of the public in general And the public and the provincial towns have each a right to demand an account of what has been done, inasmuch as each pays a portion of the necessary expenses. The government, up to the pre sent time, has paid half, as its share; under an im proved system it will expend more, and thus acquire a greater interest in the working of the various institutions. It will have an increased right them , fore to watch over the development of a school, in order to see that the public interests arc not sacrificed to the mere local interest of the town. In estimating, however. the proportion in which the local and general interests ought to influ ence the management of a school of ants and manu factures, it is evident at once that the former ought to predominate. The great elements of the pro sperity of such a school will be found in the encouragement which it receives from the inhabitants of the town in which it is situated. Now, this encouragement will only be afforded when it is proved by experience that the education is such as to exercise a beneficial influence upon the staple manufactures of the place. An instance of this may be seen in Sheffield, where the manufacturers are willing to allow their most promising young men to absent themselves from work for a year, in order to af ford them ti me to acquire the advantages held out to them in the School of Diaign. The loss of work, and the expense of education, are sustained solely by the ma nufacturer. A result like this could only be looked for in a school which identifies itself with the prosperity of the town. Local interests, therefore, must always be allowed to have the greatest weight in arrang ing the details of an industrial college. In what way then is the general interest to be con sulted? low is the public, which will pay so largely for the support of an industrial college, to be assured that its funds in any particular instance will not be selfishly devoted to the purpose of a certain manu facture, without any consideration being paid to the national benefit. FRANCE. of the 2nd of December. The adjutant of the chef de bataillon at the Assembly who slept in the same room with the latter, rose as softly as possible between four and five in the morning. His commanding officer called out to ask him where he was going, and having received an excuse which satisfied him, turned again to sleep. The adjutant meanwhile des- PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. I vended the etaireaso and opened the doors and To-day there is a visible turning. of the tide ~,nted gates of the Assembly to a regiment against Louis Napoleon, and an ominous gloom is 1° - - of the line commanded by Colonel do l'ltte visible in the countenances of his supporters. Crowds of people are flocking to the mayorics to obtain their pinaase. I must here observe that this colonel i s o relation to the member of the Asse mbl y of that inscription on the electoral lists; they even fort /a I name. Colonel d'Espinasse immediat el y re p aired n queue outside the doors to procure the recognition of ' w ith an escort of picked men to the questors' apart their right to vote. And all this eagerness Is evinced I ments. I n th e me antime General Leflu had been by the majority evidently not with designs favour - I ' awakened, and having dressed with all sp eed, he able to the views of the President. Several cf the disappeared by a secret door in the wall of s room, electors communicated without reserve thcirintcntion thinking to make his escape by a concealed staircase hi to deposit un beau non. A great change has communicating with it. When he reached the bat in fact, taken place in the opinions of the small i tom of the staircase, his consternation was great at shopkeepers during the last two days; and the ty - ' fa lli ng cannons suppression of the Siccle has produced an i into the hands of six screens de vale , plant ed there on purpose to intercept his escape. But no immense effect. I hear also that the legitimists have sooner did the General hear the name of the colonel quite changed their policy, and intend to vote in who commanded the invading regiment than the Paris against, instead of atistaining, as they :tad be- secret fore agreed. In fact, it is thought by adopting the of his betrayal was made clear to him; for lie himself, placing unlimited confidence in Colonel de policy of voting universally, that if frauds are tom- l'Espinasse, had shown that officer , onl y some da y s nutted by Bonapartist agents voting several times I before, the secret resource which he possessed for ef over (a trick which has always been more or less i f eel i ng his escape. practised) the total number of votes may ex- The Constitotionnef, in order to prove the exist , - ceed the number of electors inscribed, in ence of a plot for deposing the President , p ublishes which case the vitiation of the poll would two drafts of decrees seized in the apartments of M. be patent to all. Whereas if abstentions were common, the multiple-votes would be absorbed Base, and drawn up without the knowledg e of the President of the Assembly. The first decree is as in the vacuum created by such. Hence everybody f n ih ma : at Paris wishes to vote , either "Yes" or "No,' and The President :of the National Assembly , see in g the it is thought to-day that the Noes will bo very likely 32nd article of the constitution in these terms , " The As sta sied in a majority. The salons are with Louis Napoleon sembly determi nes the p lace of its sittings ; i t fi xes i c I 112 h for its security and diss of them. on Seeing tle t and the great shops ; because these richer classes the importance of the military forces bli have not yet recovered from their fear of socialism , and arc still frightened by the bugbear dressed uncle of the regulations pos ofthe Natial Assembly in these up terms : The President is; charged to watch over the in by the extravagant inventions of the Constitationet ternal and external securite , of the National Assembly. To and Patrie. But the petit commerce and the enctiers, this cad he exercises, in the name of the Aesembly the the bar and liberal professions arc, with few excep- right conferred upon the legislative po o ir f e t r b b e y in tr i t ta . , 32 e' f fo the . lions Bonapartists. It is thought to-day that the c° esta n i t i i lls g i t ic i( i ' l n io o r f i ti „ ning e t r i it e y l a m n P d e o rt rli c ;ming of them. y Orders votes for Louis Napoleon at Paris will not greatly M— immediately to assume the command of all the forces, exceed 100,000, whereas there are about 330,000 as well of the army as of the national guard, stationed in electors. the first military division, to guarantee the security of the The 6th legion of the national guard is dissolved. Assembly.—Done at the Palace of the National Assembly, This legion corresponds to the district of Paris the 2nd of • runs thus : hounded on the north by the Boulevards of bt. ' Martin and the Temple, and comprises the Rues St. The President of the National Assembly , considering the s 3lnil article of the constitution, and the ll 2 th article of the Denis and St. Martin. In recommending thi men - standing rules, orders every general, every commander of a sure the Minister of the Interior says, address- corps or detachment, as well of the army as or the national ing the President : " The inflexible resolution guard, stationed in the first military division, to obey the which you have manifested to deprive of every omenof General — , • ational Assembl y. charged to guarantee the satiny of chance of success an insurrection in Paris, and N no longer to permit that some thousands of vas- l ~ Of the Ist &Fre e . there were only two copies, one cats (coquina) should decide the lot of 33 mil- CI tined robabis - fur the general-in-chief uppoiuted, lions of souls , has induced me to submit to you all the e other for the . ?fondness The °me/dot/wind says : " The seizure of the the measures proper for attaining this end." I understand that the Monitrur is expected to de- papers of M. Raze renders evident the existence of tree in a few days the dissolution of the 11 th legion a p lot. In fact all the decrees relative to direct re ef the national guard. question of the troops were ready ; not only the All the proofs of the papers are sent to the Minis- minutes, but the duplicates and amplifications re try of the Interior, where they undergo a double cen- cessary to communicate the same were seized. The s e , sure ; that is, not only are passages struck out, but ' although ' drawn up without the knowledge of M. others are inserted, the omission of which would be Dupin, were stamped nevertheless with the seal of followed by the suspension of the papers. Thus the the Presidence of the Assembly.' whole press is obliged perforce to propagate whatever The Minister of the Interior has addressed a cir lies are imposed by the government. cular to the prefects, with a view to the cessation of The Intb , pentlancc Bilge has received notice font . all wo rk r . upon Sundays and festivals of the catholic the Austrian and Prussian governments, that if it , F aurcn, far as such a measure can be attack the government of Louis Napoleon it will be i "!P me y d l b n so the authorities without interference of the citizens. In all contracts with the rights forbidden in Germany as well as France. A decree appears, appointing an administrative , for public works a clause is to be introduced section of the consultative commission to fulfil those interdicting the contractor from causing his functions of the Council of State which were in- I men to work on such days. 'the pickets are also eluded in the powers of the commission. This see- enjoined to use their influence in order as much as Lion consists of 28 members, among wham are MM. , possible to prevent the scandals which arise from D'Argout, Bineau, Chassaigne-Goyon, Dabeaue, De- taverns being frequented during the hours of mass. langle, Femy, Giraud, Janvier, Lacrosse. de Parien, The organs of the government complain of an General ltegnault de St. Jean d'Angely, and Vatese' .1 b attempt to dupe people into giving a negative vote It will be presided over by M. &troche, and enter y . m i srepresenting the question put, and givi ng it, immediately upon its functions. A decree of the for instance, the following shape, "Is Louis Napo- Minister of Justice will sub divide it into tom- Icon to resign his powers ?" To which question, mittees corresponding to the several ministries. "No," would be an answer in his favour. In cos - Another decree appears appointiug in each arron- sequence, a placard is posted up reminding the , dissement a board of health, for the purification of ' electors that all who vote in favour of Louis. pol . e!in must n inscribe n theirtieeet a ssvith Na insalubrious habitations, consisting of nine members, and presided by the mayor of the arrondissement. M . m rti c has publi shed letter in ° the /)//exes Another decree awards decorations of the Legion stating that he has no longer anything to do w i t h the of Honour to the admiral and other o ffi cers who direction of the Pays. distinguished . themselves at the bombardment of rh e President ha g . himself . written to M.Velon, t o . inform him that he is raised to the rank of officer of Sake, in Morocco. The definitive list of the consultative commission the Legion of Honour. The Nlinister of Finance will, on the '2Bth Jun., is scarcely more authentic than its predecessors. Among other names is noted that of M tidier, bauker, receive tenders for the supply of 6,150,000 kilog. of grandfather of the affisnced bride of Cavaiguac. foreign tobacco. M. Beugnot has had some thousand cards printed You will have observed from recent letters that according to government accounts, l'oligny in with the following appendage to his name "Count Beugnot, qui n'a pas aceepte one place dans la coal- the Jura, ° hits - beet one of the principal theatres of those horrible scenes of " Jacquene, the accounts mission consultative." M. Segue d'Aguesseau has published an addressed of which now constitute the chief political capital of the existing dictatorship. I rend a letter from the to his late constituents in the. Haute* Pyrenees, Curt , of polisny to the Union Franc-Ourtoisc, which urging them to vote fur Louis Napoleon, and to have shows with what distrust government accounts must entire confidence in him. He affirms, upon his soil and conscience, that from all that he has seen and be reeeived- Poligny, llth Dee., 18.51. heard the President has reason and justice upon his Sin—ln your number of the 9th instant, you publish an side. M. Segur d'Aguesseau is the first member of tke extract from the Stntinelle du Jura, in which mention is dissolved Assembly who has thus publicly conic kr- made of the bacchanal orgies committed by the insurgents ward to praise the manner of its dissolution. al, at the rectory-house of I'oligny, in the morning of Nlontalembert, whose determination to support the the th 4th. wi th the view no :h i a m t , the perilous t,a el and in it t i re President under existing circumstances has been Ltere e s a n ce o u f s ius i tte ' , rpro a te ' st against the inaccuracy of the mentioned, is much more chary of his praise. above-mentioned article, so far u regards the conduct of the 'fhe Constitutionnel, in remarking upon the extra- insurgents at the rectory. It is true that some of them, in ordinary rise of the funds, 131. GOc., since the 2d of the morning of the 4th, begged me to give them a fewlitres December, takes occasion to laud the financial of wine, but they asked for it iu a respectful manner, and i t a hc a y li di t t nut nt i d e r t i i n n n k s c i tbi d o r r o d p eni atth w e system of Louis Napoleon's ministry during the last o f 17:11%7; town has must ha add,sl t that tie two years. If a loan had been effected to complete theatre, neither the authors nor the accomplices of those the railway from Paris to Lyons when the Five per disorders made the slightest demonstration, or offered the Cents. were but little above 90f. there would have least insult, against the " cure " or any member of the been a great loss to the Treasury. clergy.—l have, &c., CILEEINET, Crete. If the State were now to have recourse to a loan it The sheet containing the list of letters sent by the might be obtained upon terms in accordance with Cuers post-office, in the department of the Var, the true rate of interest in the country. But the which arrived in Paris the day before yesterday, return of confidence will probably have the effect was signed by the revolutionary director a the post of rendering a loan less necessary than ever. There office. is every reason to believe that the great affair of the The Univers contains to-day a fresh indication of Paris and Lyons railway may now be easily corn- the quarter which is most likely to receive benefit pleted by the abundance of capital seeking for em- from the new regime. You may remember that ployment which may bo expected to re-appear in the when Monseigneur Sibour, the Archbishop market. M. Dufaurc doubted whether any company of Paris issued an injunction to his clergy in earnest could be found to undertake the enterprise. not to meddle with politics in their seer- . No such doubt can now be entertained. Private in- mons and publications the Bishop of Chartres dustry will easily fine. the requisite funds, both in at once stept forward as tho champion of England and in Friance. In this tone of confidence the high-church party, and refused obedience to the the Constitutionne! predicts that the Treasury will archiepiscopal mandate of his metropolitan, whom he shortly come into possession of 100,000,000 fr. from denounced as an enemy to the church. This same the Paris and lyons railway alone, and the state fanatical old prelate has now addressed to his clergy will thus be able to hasten the completion of the the following circular in favour of Louis Napoleon's works, alle, at the same time diminish the floating canvass: debt. Chartres, Dec. 12. The government despatches from the departments con Mo s n n s C e d u i r n this Cure,—We igh most maturely the advice is to corau w nictio n n, t rl .2 tich i L !lint rt r ht to-desy state the news ,:o be everywhere excellent, com mend y ou and that order is on the point of being completely month, the Frenchpeople will decodeif Louis Napoleon 1 restored. is to bo for ten years President of our country. The government journals some time since reported that rioters near Nlacon had sacked and burnt the chateau do St. Point, belonging to M. Lainartine, The yes or no inscribed on each citizen's bul- Lti e n bc zill b decide that most important . point. la icise of yOu . r yocuor.ntoryw.n of Jesus sll Christ te hasby and that he had sent to Macon for troops to protect gives us the example, you will sign yes, I have not the his residence at Nlonceaux. M. Lamartine has slightest doubt. l'rovidence at present gives us only that written to give the statement a flat contradiction. mode of safety, for it is evident that, it Bonaparte were re- No part of his property was either injured or 11, c ted, France would not find gay one to substitute for him. p s. he people, led away by intrigues and false suggestions, menaced, and he never sent for any trop might m die a detestable choice, which would plunge our Tic departments of the Aveyron and N aucluse are country into new and inexpressible misfortunes. We have declared in state of siege. escaped the 2nd of May, 18.52, which opened to France a frightful abyss, and it would be senseless to bring back that A decree provides for the construction of an Ex- frig change at hlarsehles. chance of ruin and death. All that we have of late learned of the abominations, horrors, anti excesses of the most On the fi rst fine day the President is to review in savage character which have ta ken place area slight example the Champ do Mars the regiments which were em- of the monstrous things which would have been committed pled in suppressing the late Ameute. on a grand scale throughout France, had socialism triumphed. You will perceive, sir, the irresistible force of The Parte states that the reports of military exe these reflections, which must strike all men of common cations in the Champ de Mars, the Court of the Pre- subscribe. to l w ha h v ic e h, th t believe, they t t h o ey be w , o a u i l r il , w n i o t t b hee . ita ai le ti t a o . 1 fecture, and other places, are calumnious inventions, sense, rteRTBUI SPBSCRIPTIONS TO Kossrrit Smut- . entirely devoid of the least foundation of truth. guisbed consideration and an inviolable attachment, your access FUND.—From a collection at 3, Sackville-street, ' 1 have just learned from an excellent source some servant, interesting 7d.: the workpeople of J. Ashton and Son, Its. ; parties • PI CL. 11w ., Bishop of Chartres. facts concerning the inv as io n of the As- While the ultramontane Bishop of Chartres com et tiemiagesys coffee-house, No. 16, Old Bailey, es. ed ; sembly on the morning of the 2nd. The guard of vanes for the workm a Manchester, in the employ of Mr. Bradford, High- President, and hails him as the pee wees 2s. 10d.; 3.5 inhabitants of Lewis, 4s. id. the Assembly was confided to a chef' de battalion in server of society, the liberal Archbishop of Pans is DESIGN roit rue GREAT Exillailloa BUILDING whom the greatest confidence was placed. This of- subjected to the surveillance of the police; and, to AI NEW loax.—A design, by Sir Joseph Paxton, for the . fiver slept every night in a room of the Legislative use the phrase of M. Granier de C ' nac is pur intended Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations at New Palace, near the apartment of General Leflo. It was sued by the invisible hand of j us ti ce within an inch Piccadilly. I agreed that if an attempt should be made by the ex- of his collar, wherever he moves. York, was on view yesterday in Clarges-street, ecutive power to surprise the Assembly , the utmost At the Bourse to-day the speculators for the rise The plan is upon a similar principle to that of the Crystal resistance should be made within the walls, and that met with a considerable check. The Five per Cents. be in Hyde-park, and the material • consist of glass, Iron, and plate. The length of the building is intended to tioo feet, and the breadth 200 feet. There are two the besieging troops should be held at bay as long as fell aft. closing at 100.50; the Threes fell 2fr. 75e 5 ., entrances, one at each end, and the coustruction of the possible. Meanwhile the cannons inside the gar and clo s ed at taafr. 50c. This fall is only attributed all wereto be charged with blank cartrides , to the rea li sation of profits, the natural consequence I door-ways is somewhat similar to that of the transept- al - 7 entrance to the Exhibition in Ilyde-park. The roof is to be of slate, in order to resist the ', e i g ht of snow and in case of a sue rise it was agreed that mi- of the late extraordinary rise. Bank Shares ruse to which it may be exposed in the United States, note-guns should be fired. At this signal 25fr. Railways and foreign &vineries were also ge , The structure will be built upon arches ' and the gal- General Lauriston, colonel of the 10th leg ion of ncrally higher. !cries will be supportel by brick , to, which will a dd nat i ona l guar d s, who seeme d best disposed in favour materially to the strength of the building and con- of the Assembly, would cause the rappel to be beaten I; I der it better adapted for permanent use thin the " great j original." The drips is on the whole remarkable for it s throughout the 10th arrondissement. Thus the re. simplicity an .. d practicability, and is aaotler proof of Sir sistance would be at once commenced. This arranee lowers Pa• .. crest skill in this department of art. O ; runt continued to be understood up to the morning This part of the question, we believe, will be the most difficult to solve; at the same time we are con vinced that upon its proper solution depends the ulti mate success of the whole scheme. If an industrial college is to be considered as a mere appendage to the workshop, it will flourish for a short time, and then fail. No single interest will be large enough to sustain for ever an institution of this nature. Science itself is always larger than any particular application of it to art, and it should be garnered up and developed in the institutions of which we are speaking, so that, when its aid is required, there should always be a store for the need of the man of practice. This view will possibly be neglected by those who typreseqt the local interests of the place, and it is, therefore, one which must be especially attended to by the public, or its representative, the government. /low this can be acted upon must be made a matter of deep consi deration by those who have the arrangement of any plan of operation. In the meantime, it seems evident that all the particular colleges should be obliged to follow certain general directions con tained in a comprehensive scheme arranged by men of the highest reputation for science and art. Each, while following consciously its own particular direc tion, must unconsciously obey a general law. In the neat place, there should be some central institution where pupils who have displayed great proficiency in the confined sphere of their several colleges should have the opportunity of distinguishing themselves in one more elevated. These, of course, are suggestions, which might require considerable modifications in practice. In the mean time it should be steadily kept in view that whenever any plan of the nature we have been can vassing shall be put in operation, its success will be totally dependent upon the proper union of local and national interests. the Court. OSBORNE, TVESDAY. The Queen and Prince walked early yesterday morning. The royal children also walked and rode u usual. The Hon. Eleanor Stanley has succeeded the Hon. Beatrice Byng as maid of honour in waiting. PARIS, THIS DAT. General Csvaignse is released from confinement. BY SUBM.kRLNE TELEGRAPH. A deputation from the Philanthropic Society, consisting of Mr. Thomas Gladstone, the Rev. Sydney Turner, and Mr. Moron, had an interview with Sir George Grey ',otter day, at the Home-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday for Halifax. Sir Henry De la Beebe had an interview yesterday with Secretary ffir George Grey. The Right lion. Henry Labouchere left town yesterday, on a visit to the Earl of Carlisle, at Castle Howard, York shire. Lord Monteagle had an interview yesterday with Sir George Grey. Mr. Glyn, M.P., had also an interview yes terday with Sir George Grey, at the Home-office. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Lord High Coratni.sioner of the lonims Islands, the Governors of Malta, Ceylon, and Hong Kong, the Governor of the Mauritius, and the Governor of Laboan. Despatches were sent of yesterday to the Governors of the West India Islands. (Tres last sight's Gasotte.) I'S - OFFICE, Dec. 16. The remains of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge were this day removed from the vault uuder Kew church, in which they had been placed after the fuo end. and depo sited in the mausoleum prepared for their reception adjoin ing the church. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cam• bndgu and the Vice-Chamberlain of her Majesty's House hold were present, and also Lord Av illisra P.iulet, the Rev. James Hutchinson, and Mr. H. rs. 314cdonald. FOREIGN-OPTICE, DEC. 'l3.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. J . B. Were as Consul at Ma bourne, Adelaide, and W . , dney for the Republic of Chili. FOREION-OFFICY., DEC. 13.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Frederick Boardman u Consul at Lisc spool. and r.f Mr. Adam Scboales Consul at South ampton, for e.ta Republic of Costs Rica. (ruom As PARIS, DEC. 15. The banns of wedlock between the Napoleonists and the Jesuits were published yesterday. M. Manta- lembert's manifesto has made as great a sensation as the coup dace. The church is in ecstasies. Rome is looking up. Popery, for a few months, will be ram pant. The effect of it in Paris is visible already. Long-winged priests fly about from house to house like bats. The bright atmosphere of Paris has sud denly become dense. The wheels of time seem to be reversed, and we are backing into the middle ages. All this is ominous. The people arc distracted. The old catholic yoke burns their shoulders. The Fri testants howl. What will be the effect of this scarlet liaison upon next Saturday's vote ? Alas no one can ever know; and it would take a Yankee to guess. It is to be hoped that it will, at least, diminish the number of abstainers. To vote now seems to bo the sacredeat of duties. The chief significance of this new move is that Louis Napoleon has evidently given up all hope of the republican vote. ILis bait of universal suffrage didn't take. The people darted from the ill-con cealed hook in shoals. The next thing was to catch the Jesuits. The Pantheon was let down to them. They caught at and swallowed it, and now lie floundering at the feet of the President. Truth to say he is no negligent sportsman. His nets are now being dragged through the lowest gutters of society in search for the miserable and depraved. These nets bear the name of "Public Works." Hundreds are entrapped already. The snares for the legitimist party are baited with hope, and those for the bourgeoisie with tranquillity. In fact, man-traps are set in every part of France. Meantime arrests go on frightfully, especially in the departments, where the walls and papers tell us, twenty times a day, tout cst tranguille. "The dema gogues"—we have it on the same editorial and mural authority—" are everywhere terrified." You sec the two magic words now are terror and tranquillity. I remember, while walking on the pleasant banks of the Canal d'Ourcq last summer, during one of my strolls in the environs of Paris, to have observed the following curious inscription over the signature of the directors: " In this canal tranquillity and fish are found in abundance." This curious combination of charms returns to my mind every time I read the official journals; only now, instead of "tranquillity and fish," it is tranquillity and terror which one Sods in abundance. The days of Libert,', Era% Fraternit , 7, are past. The words are still extant, but the fact is extinct. We have the sign, but not the thing signified; and even the sign will soon be obliterated, lest it be thund too powerful a souvenir. It may possibly be left on the walls of La Morgue as a mortal sarcasm; and it will also remain as a triune creed on the national heart. It is an easy matter to kill a man, but ideas are killed never. Louis Napoleon may persecute them, even eclipse them for a moment, but he can no more extinguish them than he can extinguish a star. As for socialism, so for as that word represents disorganisation, anarchy, no-property, or equal divi sion of goods—it died out years ago of its own rot tenness. There is a system of association, but that is based on an economical rather than a social theory, and has no necessary connexion with any form of government. The idea that the govcrmnent should furnish the people with work is also exploded; or, if not utterly exploded, has ceased to be a pet idea with intelligent reformers. The most inveterate so : eialist in this latter sense is Louis Napoleon, who, as already stated, is employing the people by thou sands in order to use them. Indeed, he is the oue incarnate demagogue of the age. For months past ho has been billing and cooing with what 'Ciders calls the "vile multitude," from morning till night. Ile has sent his agents about to the great workshops of Paris, and distributed decorations and "soft solder" among them like another Sam Stick. He has even made court to the Paris lishwomcn. This was his old game. While in exile, he wrote social ism, and fraternised with Louis Blanc. He would fain figure in the favourite character of a "Friend of the People." It is his favourite "%le. PROTEST OF M. LAROCIIEJACQUELIN. The following protest against the late usurpation has been published by M. Laroehejacquclim the leader of one section of the French legitimists : To TOE FEENCII NATION. An act whose results arc incalculable has just been perpe trated. The constitution is overthrown, the National As sembly unlawfully diisolved by the executive power, the freedom of a great number of representatives violated, and the arbitrary caprice of an individual is set up in the place of law. Long have I desired to raise my voice, and call on France to put an end to the succession of adventurers who dishonour her; then might we save France and those principles without which no nation can be truly great. But my endeavours were misunderstood and thwart:a. Since the appeal to the nation, us it is made by M. Bona parte, is altogether wanting in those conditions and fea tures which alone can ensure the honour, freedom, and truth of an appeal to the people, I protest, with till the energy of my conviction, against that act, and the illegal pro ceedings by which it is accompanied. Pc rsonal preference and compulsion are alike employed to give a peculiar direction to the expression of tile national will in a manner which wounds every conscience, and must amuse the indignation of every free man. The constitutional prerogatives which M. Bonaparte, under the hollow pretext of a delegation, usurps, would hurl us once more into inconceivable confusion. The time for Cnsars cannot have come for France. As a defender of the principle of the national sovereignty, I must loudly protest, even if 1 stand alone, against the present violation of this principle. May my sad forebodings for my native country not be realised. May France see at length that her help lies in her own hands, and that in a republic no one has the right to dispose of the destinies of the land except accortang to the free and full expression of the public will. SWITZERLAND. The Journal 'le Genere states that, immediately after the arrival of the news of the coup-d'..lut at Paris, the French and German refugees residing at Geneva assembled in the room belonging to the Societe du Gruth, to delibe rate on the course which they ought to adopt, particularly as to the propriety of entering France iu arms. Scarcely had they assembled and commenced their demagogical effusions, when H. James Fazy appeared, accompanied by a commissary of police. He observed to them that they had no right to assemble in that room, and that any act of vio lence towards France would compromise Geneva and the Societe du Grath, which was composed exclusively of Swiss. He ordered them to withdraw on the instant, and added, that he was surprised to see several per sons present whom he had imagined to be in German Switzerland. He announced that he was about ut once to give notice to the federal eouncif of what was going on, and that be would take measures to have the affair of the refugees assume another aspect, since it was not to be supposed that Switzerland would allow herself to be compromised by their folly. The meeting then dispersed ; but, in spite of M.J. Vary's recommends• Lions, a number of them determined to enter if:II2CZ. In consequence, on the Ilth inst., twenty assembled at Chaney, and proceeded to Seyssel, where they attempted to force a passage. After an engagement, in which two gendarmes were wounded, and in which the refugees lost one of their companions in the Rhine, they were obliged to return to Chancy, where they remained until the 13th at midnight. They then returned to Geneva. During their stay at Chancy they were closely watched by the French autho rities. SPAIN. MADRID, DEc. 11. The decree conferring upon the King the power of signing official acts, during the Queen's confinement, will appear on the first symptoms of the approach of the event. There is no question of a modification in the cabinet. The Madrid Gazette of the 11th contains the fol lowing: The reply of the government of the United States to the demands of her Majesty's government has arrived by ex traordinary despatch. The frank and honourable manner in which the federal government has conducted itself on this occasion, by admitting that an insult was made to the Spanish flag by a seditious populace, by appreciating it in the same terms as the government of her . Majesty, and by offering to the latter all reparations, just, honourable, and possible for the two countries, has induced her Majesty to declare herself perfectly satisfied on the affair, and to order the publication in the Madrid Gazette of the note addressed by the Ilon. Daniel Webster, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the United States, to M. Angel Calderon de la Bares, Minister Plenipotentiary of her Majesty at Washington. Having obtained such a satisfactory result, and the Qeeen, oar sovereign, desiring to give to the respectable Presi • dent of the United States, and to the peoples of the Con federation, a testimony of her friendly disposition., has condescended, by a spontaneous act of her royal cle mency, to grant a pardon to all such prisoners made in the last expedition against the isle of Cuba, as are citizens 'of those states, whether they be already in Spain, undergoing the punishments they have incurred, or whe ther they be still in Cuba. Finally, her Majesty, to give a testimony of her royal esteem to M. Angel Calderon de Is Barca, her Minister Plenipotentiary in the United States, for the efforts he has made to terminate this impor tant affair happily has deigned to nominate him Orand Cross of the Order of Charles 111. ITALY. PIEDMONT. The Risorginiento of Turin, of the 11th, the treaty of commerce and navigation conclud e d between Austria and Sardinia, and presented to th e Chambers of Turin on the 2Gth ult. It contains the usual provisions of reciprocal liberty of trailing, tra velling, and residence, the obligation of payi ng t h e duties prescribed by law, the right of making wills and donations, purchasing land, suin.; before the ordinary tribunals, &c. Austrian vessels are to be subject to no greater restrictions in Sardinian ports than Sardinian vessels, and retipro cally. Nevertheless, the national fisheries a n d the coasting trade are exclusively limited to subjects of either power respectively, and may be re. gulated by each of the two nations as thCy may think fit. In case of shipwreck, full restitution uf the articles saved, or their value, is to be mad e to the proprietors. By Art. 12 the navigation of the Po, the Ticino, and their tributaries, is to be free f,r the subjects of either power, and this right is to Le regulated by a special convention. By Art. 13. the two powers engage to direct the construction of 1116. railways, so as to connect Milan, Genoa, and Tunia. The other articles stipulate certain reduction, of duties, and the reciprocal concession of the privil,4,s granted to the most favoured nations. NAPLES. Our Naples correspondent, writing on tli, .1 : !,, states that on the receipt of the Paris news a cabiut t council was called, and a body of troops order-tl • march to the Roman frontier. Ile adds: "'this I can learn before post time. Great excitement - calls, although the city is apparently tranquil. 1 . funds are expected to tbll." ROMAN STATES. ROME, Dr,. No European state can take a more lively intert-t in the result of French politics than the doniinion his Holiness, dependent as they are, in a great measure, upon the principles dominant in the versa tile cabinet of Paris. It may, therefore, be ea.iiy imagined what a startling effect the news of Louis Napoleon's coup ePtot produced on the minds of the ecclesiastical authorities. The intelligence arrived at Civita Veczhia on the 6th by the Luton steamer, and at Rome early on the morning of the lth the French consul at Civita Vecchia considering the case sufficiently important to require hi, p,ri4ming the part of courier in person. lie prcst Died hints, If at the embassy at four o'clock in the morning, and M. de Rayneval no sooner learned the tidings titan he went with them to General Genieau. The general and the ambassador then went together to Antonelli, and communicated the news to his E. - mum, who seemed upon the whole to be gratified ..; the event, or, rather, the prospect of an imperial being established in France, even to the exclusion ..f legitimacy, and expressed his joy that, at any rate, the republic had come to an end. You, who arc in possession of occurrences almost as soon as they take place in Paris, will be better able to judge of the correctness of the cardinal's surmises than we are in this Wilma Usk of civilisation. The Ohm produced upon the mind of Pio Norm by the unlooked-for in telligence was directly contrary to that of the seer, tary of state. His Holiness appeared dejected at prospect of new political complications, and, m i!i.• out jumping to conclusions, like his minister, me-rt ;y expressed his regret at hearing that the ambassador had received such an alarming communication. The prelacy and aristocracy in general beelll to partici pate Cardinal Antonelli's sentiments; they admire the President's vigour, and applaud his mea sures, as apparently tending to imperial tole, whereby the cause of despotism, if nut of legitimacy. may be strengthened in Europe, al though proceeding from universal suffrage. Some timid exceptions are to bo found amongst the mem bers of the sacred college, who see danger in every change, and are already in high preparation for a ' second flight, in order to avoid the frightful calami ties foretold by the modern Sybil, St. Catherine si Senn, which, they apprehend, if commenced in France, may be imitated in the Roman States. That the event was not in general looked upon with a dis approving eye by the authorities, may be argued from the comparative solicitude with which it nas published, proclamations included, yesterday evening. in the two papers the Warmth; di liuma and the (1 , - sercatore Romano, which usually only give pieces of intelligence thoroughly matured by age. It is much to be desired that this change, or some other, may bring about an increase of civility on the part of the papal police authorities towards Briti,h subjects, for, in spite of Lord Pahnerston's energetic remonstrances, there seems to be a systematic plan of annoyance against the claimants of British nation ality. Y mentioned in my last letter that Mr. Balbi's ease had occupied;the attention of the British govern ment, and that a communication had been forwarded to the Papal authorities, requiring his passport to be restored to him, and himself to be allowed to remain unmolested in Rome so long as he did not °thud the laws of the (sintly. Mr. Balbi has since applied at the police-office two or three days ago for a renewal of his permission to reside in Rome, but could only obtain a prorogation of five days, at the end of which, if he does not wish to be considered an out law, and liable to be dragged off to prison by the first sbirro who crosses his path, he must pack up his pro perty, abandon his profession of engraver, and have the dominions of his Holiness. On remonstrating with the head official, lie Magistris, on the harsh ness of this treatment, without any offence on his part, Mr. Balbi was informed that the Papal govern ment exercised an undoubted right in sending any foreigner out of the country that it chose, and that it would not submit to be dictated to as to who should stay and who should depart. In the office of Rome to hear is to obey, so that Mr. ill as he can afford to undertake a fresh journey and abandon the scene on which he has for so many years carried on his art, must bow to the fiat of alto man in power, reserving his final arguments to be carried out by our foreign secretary. GERMANY. The news of the outbreak in Paris does not appear to have been received with so much surprise a n d alarm as might have been expected : and, indeed, the strenuous precautions that have been so long taken, and the large armies kept on foot by the Absolutist powers, put the success of any sudden rising almost out of the question. The armies of Germany are also upon the whole faithful, with the exception of the Hungarian and Italian regiments being well aware that their very existence depends on the preservation of the present state of things, and that were the cause of the people to triumph, one of their very first acts would be to disband the ridiculously overgrown military establishment of Austria and Prussia. It was said of the Spanish navy, at the beginning of the present century, that it was " a face upon a nose, instead of being a nose upon a face." 'the same expression would certainly apply to the half million of troops respectively kept oil a mar footing by Austria and Prussia. The general discontent in Austria has, however, risen to an alarming height, and no less than Po petitioners appeared nt the last public audienoe given by the Emperor on the 2nd inst. Tho war against liberal principles still goes on with unslackened vigour. The Vienna correspondent of the Sa.ron Ga:elte, a paper usually well infornied, states that the real cause of the insult recently insti gated by Austria against the British ConsuLGeneral in Servos is to be found in the fact of his having " protected two strangers who were supposed to be revolutionary emissaries." According to a recent order of government no foreign journals arc in future to be received in Iluni gary (even by the editors of German pape r s ) w hiu have not been previously submitted to the govern ment censorship. The same practice exists in Russia, where all objectionable articles are cut out of papers. before they arc delivered! The result is worthy .d remark. rhe foreign ambassadors, of course, cannot be prevented receiving them, and the porter of the French charge d'affaires is said to have made his fortune, by douceurs received from those whose curiosity he had contrived to gratify by a Peel", them. In fact, nobody ever took the trouble to rea d the portions delivered to them, but carefully mark ing the place where an article had been cut out, they flew to the different officials, and greedily de voured the forbidden fruit. The reason of the measure in question is a fear of the reports respecting the reception of Kossuth citing the political passions of Hungary, where his Exi sair Oa dcc our trif