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

int enartoo. TO OP.I:IISPONI , ENTS. A I,oend Eattlico .f . ' lbo E.sproso." oostalaiwk he maw /cc Goortio.' pok;t4wd ivory Tadao, sal Emig .test, IR tire AO pod. /Awn tack., vies telemted "no UMW Um:on Venaig ps;4r, Bawl be e tr. ,kt-c, I Boolvdowirook, Two o'clock on the wow a pottier...tsar. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE ler Tots l'as—Mornisa. 46. MI. .Ararasea, 4.. Z T4proaimm—Niasasit. 514. 17u. LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12. WE have so freouently expressed what we know to be the prevailing conviction of the necessity for the Ballot as an element in any project of parliamentary reform, that the reiteration of that belief might poe aibly seem needless. if the Tories had not compelled us to return to the subject. Every lima:Mid man who is open to the force of reason or the claim of justice has long ago been converted to the doctrine of untontnelled and tin-intimidated voting; and the vast majority of the electoral body who are now exposed to the insolent supervision of landlords or the impertinent interference of cudomers are, of course, all instinctively ranged upon the eame side. TM question as one of argument was earned long age, among the people at large. It would clearly be waste of time to address a further word of that sort, thee*. fore, loan assenting public. We are not, however, going to do so. But there is an inner range of obstacles to be overcome after the outer and broader counter- scarp of prejudiee has been surmounted; and it is against this,--defended as it is by the picked men of oligerchy,--tleut it becomes our present duty to direct our aim. The eshinet are, doubtless, at this moment con sidering the terms in which they chill propose their forthcoming Reform hill. In detail the questions are infinitely numemue which may and must arise regarding such a measure. But mainly the point to be %titled is—are the people of these kingdoms to be insured once and for ever the reality of representa tive power, or are they, under some new and better fitting guise, to be still paraded, for the must part, as mutionent in a pantomime? This, we say cm phatieully, is the main question now at issue. is the businese of parliamentary elections to be in future an affair of the people's own? Or is it to 114• still whet it generally is now,—s mere trial of strength between families or sets of families in • county, or a trial of depth between single or subscription purses in a borough? Are the electors to be pawns in the interminutele chess-playing of aristocratic party ; or are they to be recognised as intellipmt and independent men, engaged in no rambling speulution, but hilly and earnestly giving their free euttrages for 1% hut they believe to be best for themselieee, their children, and their fellows? lu this rallied and paramount consideration, it may us well be conks-veil frankly,—for it cannot decently be demied,—that the Ballot outweighs in value every local, personal, or clues question. We do not desire in any degree to depreciate unfairly the importance of topographical re-adjustment of the scale of political distribution. Neither are we by any means in the mood to under-rate the policy of comprehending whole sections and cir cles of laborious and loyal tax-payers within the limits of the constitution, of whom few or none are at present to lee found there. Still further be it front tee to mho the tory cry which come liberals are at times inclined to rupee, that any propo sition ought to be rejected that dues not contain all that we could wish—an obvious trap, lubricated by the landlords, to prevent if possible any extension ul the franchise until after the next dissolution, when they desperately dream of recovering their bread-tax ascendancy. The people have grown too wise and wary to be gulled by sueli maneeuvres 144 thew. Their policy has ever been the policy of instalments when only instalments could be had. If they arc not strong enough to wring ten shillings in the pound out of their hereditary debtor, they are not such simpletons as to relosc the acceptance of five which he offers ; the inure especially it they have reason to know that possession of the five will strengthen them fur the pursuit of the other fifteen. Nevertheless. we are bound to say that in our esti mate of the purpose of the government it will make all the difference whether The Ballot he or be not in cluded in their promised hill. Household su ff rage tested by rat inow mild be a positive go sl achieved event hough it came alone. But LAMel111:11 A% II nit the seem ity fur its free and peaceful exercise, we should receive it as a naked sword, to be used on the first opportunity for the recovery of the scabbard wrongfully with held, aid without which its possession must always be a source of danger to the wearer. If the privy council of aristocracy who are now consulting, with closed doors, what it is prudent for their order to yield next year, in order to avert popular discontent and pepular resentment—if they shall eventually decide un offering us the weapon without the sheath then we shall conclude that they cherish a certain delusive hope that we want a toy for sake of the Mule and the rattle, and that once we get it we shall go to sleep contentedly, and never put its edge to the test. That there are among our rulers many of your very knowing politicians, who think and mutter diplomatically in this vein, we have reason to believe; —and it is quite possible that their sagacious counsels may prevail. But, on the contrary, we are not without hope that the few minds of the masculine gender. who for evil or goodgovern the rest of theircolleugues in every party —we do cherish the hope that these men may sec in time the importance in point of policy, the obliga tion in point of duty, of making the projected elec toral scheme. as fur as it goes, complete. They surely ought by this tiow to have learned that every half concession to national sentiment is utterly abor tive as a ground whereon to stand for resisting the rest. The first tariff of Sir ROHERT PEEL'S govern ment, in ISILt. served only to stimulate the efforts of the Anti-corn-law League; and their second tariff, in 10-15, was the immediate precursor of the final rush before which the doors of free-trade were finally thrown open. These of the political monopolists who really e ntertain the Austrian notion that the whole tide of democratic progress may be rolled back, and that it requires only a few firm hands at the head of affairs to do it, are intelligible and consistent enough. Be they mad or be they bad men, they have a reason to give for the. inhuman faith that is in them, and must be! judged accordingly; but there is something effahly more unworthy and intolerable—the infs.! tuation, namely, of men who, having been quietly and civilly driven halfway down stairs, have the inconceivable coxcombry to take up their stand on the landing. and, with idiotic gravity, set about establishing themselves permanently there, to the manifest hindrance of all who require and have a right to paw that way. From their own class the hostility to any measure of reform will naturally be inveterate and keen. Nothing of this will be softened by cutting down the bill to such meagre proportions as that the people will accept without gratitude or enthusiasm. Perhaps for their own sakes the whigs would have done better not to have yielded the principle of further extension of the suffrage at all , if they want the courage or the common sense to make it a mea sure that will win at once the support of the nation. But most assuredly they will find out their error when too late. if they listen to any advice that leads them to omit the Ballot. Tar. ancient myth tells us that Athens suffered 1 1 the extremity of woe, when it was announced that fourteen of the flower of her youth were to be ; shipped off annually as a bloody tribute to the Nlino taur. Night and day were the altars of the gods surrounded with suppliants, crushed with the weight of sacritioes, that some remission of the ter- I rible tax might be obtained. The gods sent them a deliverer in the shape of THESEYS, and tile grateful Athenians reverenced their saviour as a demigod. He has been rendered immortal in statues, his name clings to the temples. which are the miracles of an cient art, and his praise was sung by the late poste rite of those whom he had preserved. Who will save London ? What Anglo-Saxon hero 1 , will come forward to deliver the foremost city of all the world from a plague which, catimatea numeri cally, is as destructive as forty Minotaur-A rolled into one? It is a terrible and lamentable, and withal a disgraceful fact, that in the City of London proper y so called—that very small portion, namely, of a map of London lying north of the Thames, which is gene rally marked off by a thick line to denote the boun den,* et the ancient city—in that spot not lees than THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12. 1851 seventeen hundred infants are offered up every three years as victims to an unsated and unsatiable monster of pestilence. The sacrifice to the anticnt Minotaur was mere child's play to this modern slaughter. We are not throwing dark shades into a picture fur the sake of effect. We are merely translating or rather transcribing Mr. 81110N . 15 ghastly report to the City authorities in language that all may understand. Let us first quote the words of the re- port itself : .1 You will notice that in 3.469 instances. nearly 3-Stlnt o f 1 the whole deaths have befallen children under five years old. i Children at this age constitute about a tenth part of the population of the City. They, accordingly, die at about , four times the rate which would fall to them as cereal par- ticipators in the average mortality of the district. • • • In the silth, seventh, and eighth columns stand deaths raking in the chief acute diseases of infancy, those to which the disproportionate mortality of infants is mainly due. Many careful statistical observations, as will as personal i ezperience convince me that the immense fatality recorded tinier this . head is to a very great extent due to obviable causes. rn bring the matter distinctly before you, I must take as a I standard of comparison some district where the general death-rate is sufficiently low to distinguish it as Milli ntly healthy ; and in such an one you will notic.f a marked dim notion, not only (of course) in the number of infant deaths, but likewise in their proportion to the total mortality. Such a district is that of the combines' parishes Of Glen dale, Bellingham, and Ilaltwhistle, in the county of North umberland. In it the arisen' death-rate is II [per thou sand]; in the East and West Loudon Unions of the City of London, the general death-rate is 24.713. In the former district, children under five constituting more than an eighth of the population (1-7.26), their deaths form about agnate: . of the whole mortality. While in the latter dis trict, where the children are in smaller proportion, namely, about one-ninth of the population, their deaths arc nut much less than hall (1.2.21) of the whole mortality. Thus, in the healthier district they die at less than double the average rate for all ages; in the unhealthier, at more than . flow (toys that ammo. Nothing can be clearer or more forcible than this ' striking statement. To present truth, however, in r every possible sltape, is the duty of the journalist ; , and we proceed to make use of these calculations to , show the dire nature of the facts under a different aspect fhe whole number of infant deaths during the last three y cars in the City is 3 ; 169. The whole number of deaths, 9,176. 'the infanta am to the rest of the population as 1 to 10. About 25 out of every thousand of all ages die during the year. Of these, about 9 will be infants, and 16 of every other age. Carrying out the calculation, we find that 1,735 infants arc sacriliesslyearly to the Minotaur of miasma, malaria, and ignorance. Is not tuis a fact to be painted up in all vestries in the city ; to be recited at every common council; to be shouted out every time the toast-master, at a City la . r, calls upon the guests in a stentorian voice to drink " Prosperity to the City of London." Seven teen hundred infants who might have inscribed on their tombstones, " Murdered by miasma." Suppose for u moment that a portion of the city where this proportion obtains, could be transported to Northumberland, and placed side by side with the combined wishes of Glendale, Bellingham, and Ilaltwhistle. Allow this portion to possess, at its transit, as many inhabitants as arc living in the said parishes, and that the two neighbouring districts re tamed their respective rates of mortality. How would the astonished rustics stand aghast at the black peals ever issuing from the church tower of their new neighbours! They would imagine, and they would be right, that some fearful pestilence was raging in the midst of their adjoining parish. They would hel inclined to draw a cordon sunitaire round their own more favoured settlement. Visitors front the dreaded spot would report that every house seemed • house of mourning, and that infants more especially were born under sonic fatal star, that shed awful influences on them from their cradle upwards. Fur every child dead in the healthy parish, you would count four in its pestilential neighbour. Ever it would seem would the voice be heard of sonic Itsottl. weeping for her children. We might go on to notice the whole or the greater part of th;is remarkable report, but WO were arrested on the threshold of our undertaking by the startling nature of the theta to which we have drawn atten tion. Three eighths of the mortality of the city of London consists in a premature extinction of infant life. That the, mortality is humanly speaking premature, there can be nu doubt : Nothing, (says Mr. SimuN) can be more conclusive than the evidence afforded by statistics as to the depend ence of high infautine mortality on the general cAllst, of endemic unhealthiness. My own observation within the City gives complete confirmation to this view, showilyg me that the diseases specified in my table (diarrhea 1, bronchitis and pneumonia, hooping cough, croup, and measles, hydros t,Plialus, and convulsion.), hoarser various an their nature they may seem, and however apt you may be to dissociate their occurrence from the thought of local causation, yet unquestionably multiply their victims in proportion to the otherwise demonstrable unhealthiness of a place, owe most of their fatality to local causcs, and may, therelure, be to • great extent disarmed of their malignity. Is it possible that after thin anything can be needed in the way of spurring on those on whom this heat, responsibility is laid, to the adoption of measures having a tendency to diminish and in the end utterly abolish the deadly causes that are daily thinning the infant population of the City? Re should hope not—and trust that the adoption of Mr. Smuts's report will be followed by measures showing the authorities to be in earnest in their efforts for improvement. N %VAL ArrommENre.— Lieut. T. P. Barrow (1823) has been appointed to take charge of the Edward, transport. Lieut. the Hon. P. Curzon (1843) has been sp. pointed to the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. SEAMEN'S CONFERENCE AT HULL—A meeting of seamen was held on Tuesday at Hull, to hear the state ment of delegates from the northern ports, and from the mining districts. Captain Oliver, who presided, opened the meeting by some strictures on the Mercantile Marine Act, and characterised the Board of Trade and the local marine hoards as shipowneis' associations established es pecially for the injury of the poor sailor. Mr. Alexander Hamilton, delegate from Newcastle, illustrated the ml vantages resulting adoption oithe to t he tifeenptatit, tyof.ssam".ta had oecured during the late strike in the port of the men employed in the northern ports. lie moved the following resolution That this meeting, viewing with feelings or regret the recent attempts of the president of the Board of ' Trade to deceive the seamen of this kingdom, by hi. promise of introducing a bill to amend the Mercantile Marine Act Of 1810. which hill has only tended to make the measure Inert offensive and oppressive, hereby pledges itself to more vigorous exertions to obtain a total repeal of the before etteit.,l act." Mr. J. T. Lucbett, a delegate from Hartle pool, seconded the resolution, and dwelt on what he termed the iniquitous system of levying money ut.der the muster. won to support what were called charitable institutions, such as sailors' homes. A petition to the House of Commons was then carried, praying for the total repeal of the act cora- Seined of Mr. Fraser, of Aberdeen, moved, and Mr. MtKenrie, from Middlesborough and Stockton, seconded • resolution pledging the meeting to endeavour to obtain par liamentary support ; and this, in common with the preced ing motions, baying been carried unanimously, the meeting adjourned. TUE MURDER IN SOMEReETSIIIRE.—The Coroner for the E uteri division of Bement resume I his inquiry into the death of the unfortunate man George Buse, who was murdered at Priston, • few miles from Bath. on the Ist of December, as already reported in the Express a Wetinesslay, at the Ring of Bells public-house, l'ristoo, where the murdered man was drinking shortly before his death. A considerable number of witnesses having been examined, the jury returned an open verdict, " That deceased was found murdered." NEGLECT OP A PARISH OFFICER IN LAMBETH.— Yesterday an inquest was held by Mr. Carter, at the Duke of Sussex, Gibson-street, Lambeth, on the body of Joseph Garland Saunders, aged seven years. The brothel and sister of the child were examined, and it appeared that both parents were dead, and witnesses lived in • single room at 48, Gloucester-street. On Sunday their brotW. was taken ill, end his sister, who is eleven years of age, was scot to Mr. heck, a parish surgeon, living in the West. minster-road, for some medicine, which was given to her, but without any table on the bottle. Another appli atia• I had been made, when it was represented that the ditto wag in high fever. The answer was stated to be Oh, it he has fever he will live long enough to obtains parish order." Two powders were however sent. The child getting worse, an application was made to Mr. Beck by a relative, who said that if he at ended to every child with a belly ache he would have enough to do. The child died on Monday, but it was proved Mr. Beck bad not been informed of the case. The Coroner sent for Mr. Beck's assistant, and having read over to him what had been state d, asked why he had sent medicine out without a label, and had not informed his master of the • case. The assistant, a flippant young man, said they never • labelled bottles for parish patients; and if he had known this was a case of emergency he should have gone to it. He then coolly took out his watch to look at the time. The Cormier and jury appeared indignant at this, and the former said, " Yon nerd not look at your watch, sir ; this is not a case to be trifled with, their time was of no object." The foreman said it was the first time he had heard that bottles were not labelled for the poor—their lives were as valuable as the rich. The jury ultimately returned the following *peel il verdict We find that the decea.ed died from natural causes, but at the same time we deprecate the sys tem of sending out to the poor medicine without being labelled; and we consider that there has been great want of care on the part of Mr. Beck's assistant in not having in formed hid employer of t64l,came." THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE. The eompanies of infantry, which occupied the galleries of the exhibition in the Pala, Royal, eva cuated theta yesterday morning. M. Betlimunt, a member of the dissolved Council of State, has resumed his profession as an advocate. An ex-tax gatherer of Martinville-our-IV, near Rouen, hanged himself a few days ago, on receipt of the news of the events in Paris. M. Excelmans, captain in the navy, the son of the , Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour has • been appointtd an orderly officer to the President ' of the Republic. The five generals arrested on the night of the 2nd were brought, on the evening of the 3rd, from tho prison Mazes, in a cellular van, with three others, civilian members of the Assembly. They were token to 11am in the same van, in which were fifteen agents of police, and a hundred infantry soldiers acted as a guard in the train. The Civil Tribunal was occupied yesterday with an episode of the cast of M. Charles Bonaparte, Prince de Canino, against Viscount d'Arlincourt, the libels contained in his work entitled '• Italie R0n..." The counsel of the defendant had moved that the plaintiff should deposit security for cost, on the ground that, having accepted the office of Pre-ident of the Roman Republic, he had lost Ins quality of a French citizen. the court decided the question in the affir.. ative, ant: ordered M. Charles Bonaparte to find security to the amount of WO.. I send you the following list which I have pro cured of the 219 representatives who signed the do cument, declaring the deposition of the President, drawn up in the mayOry of the 10th arrondissement. It is noted as a singular coincidence that 219 was the number of deputies who voted the (Velt , itrice of Charles X. ; or what was equivalent, ratified the ac cession of Louis-Philippe to the throne of France. And several of the names arc the same. • - • PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. I am informed, from a good source, that a superior council of five generals will be formed in order to further the designs of the President. The decree organising the new council of state is expected to appear in a proximate number of the 31oniteur. The insurrection in the Basses-Alm gains head. The news received from Grenoble at Lyons an nounces that the insurgents are masters in the ar rondissements of Digne, Sisteron, and Forcalquier. ! The Prefect of the Basses-Alm is shut up in the fort of La Sevne. The communications between Avignon and Marseilles are intercepted. The Minister of War h a addressed the following dispatch to the various generals iu command of corps : Dec. 9, Nine p.m. All armed insurrection has ceased in Paris by vigorous repression, and the same energy will have the same effects everywhere. Bands, bringing with them pillage, rape, and incendiarism, are placing themselves out of the pale of the law. With such persons there ran be no parley or notice; they are to be attacked and dispersed. Every man that resists might to be at once shot, in the name of society legi timately defending itself. Four fresh departments, the Gers, Var, Lot, and Lot-et-Garonne, are placed in state of siege. The Minister of the Interior has addressed the following circular to the prefects: Paris, Dec. 10, 1851. Monsieur lc Prefet,—You have just passed through some days of trial. You have been sustaining in 1841 the social war destined to have broken out in 18.52. You must have recognised it by its character of incendiarism, brigandage, and assassination. If you have triumphed over the enemies of society, it is hernia-e they have been surprised unawares, and because you have been seconded by honest people. I beg you to address to me a detailed report upon the acts' end the conduct of men. If in this supreme struggle which was destined to decide the lot of France, any functionaries have shown weakness, transtnit to me their namis ; they shall be immediately :lismisseil. On the other hand, I beg you to indicate to me those who have fulfilled their duty with courage, that I may commend them to the gratitude of France and the benevolence of the President of the Re public.—A. Mostar. The following decree appears, organising military tribunals in the Ist division, in conformity with the state of siege : 1. The cognisance of all the factsconnected with the insur rection of Div. 3, and the following days, in the depart ments forming the first military division, and the trial of the individuals prosecuted on account of these facts, are de ferred to military jurisdiction. 2. In order to facilitate the operations of the instruc tion there are institute) under the direction of General Bertrand, charged with the service of infantry and recruit ment in the ministry of war, four military committees com posed each of three members, one of whom, an officer, presides. The members of these commissions shall be appointed by decree of the Minister-or War. 3. The military commissions thus instituted shell proceed, either by their members, or by way of examinina com missions, to all the acts necessary fur forming the indict ments; they will appreciate the charges resulting Irons the procedures; they will decide, either upon the trial of the inculpated before the councils of war of the Ist division, or upon their liberation, if their innocence should appear. 4. The military commissions of instruction, organised by the present decree, will meet at the Puleis de Justice, on the convocation of General lkrtrand. The Minister of Marine has deposited in the hands I of the President of the ltupublic the adhesion of the different corps of marine of the part of Nantes. The official return of casualties in the arms - , pro eroding from the fightin; on the 3rd, 4th, sth, and 6th of 1/ecember, is as foliowsi—Killed 2.5, of whom one is an offieer. Wounded 184, of whom 17 arc officers. At the mayory of the Ist arrondissement is posted up a notice of the proximate marriage of Nldlle. Pierrette Marna, daughter of the Cummunder-in- Chief of the army of Paris, with M. Pontereau, aide de-Camp of the same officer Yesterday several applications were made in court by proprietors of injured houses for the appointment of an appraiser to value the damage done. But the president of the court decided against such appoint ment, a commission having been already named for this purpose by the government. M. Baumeyer, director of the d'Aubusson carpet manufactory, has addressed the following note to the Siet li ;—" Several journals have repeated hat on Ike. 4 insurgents got into the depist of carpets of the d'Aubusson manufactory, 23, Boulevard Poissonnierre, barricaded themselves there, and were shot. This statement is un founded. In the absence of M. Sallandrouze, called by his functions to London, M. Baumeyer, di rector of the establishment, had taken all the mea sures necessary to prevent the invasion of the maga zines as soon us the boulevard was agitated." General l'artouneaux has ordered the Anai de D'Albert do Luynes (Seine-et-Oise), WAnaligne de la Chaste (Illent-Vilaine), Antony Thouret (Nord), Andrea de Kerdrel (Illy-et-Vilaine), Audrel de Kerdrel (Morbihan). de balxie (Aveyron), Dare tau do Penhcen (Finistere), Bs ralon (Oise), Otlilon Barrot (Aisne), Barthelemy-Saint- Hilaire (Seine-et-One), Bauchard (Aisne), Gustave de Beaumont Bjehard (Gard), 13eliaget (Nord), Be noistarAzy (Gard), Bernardi (Vauchtse),Berryer (Bauehes du-Itlake), de Benet (Mayenne). Besse (Tarn), Bisio (Daub.), Blavover (Aube), de Blois (Finistere), Bjchard (Ain), Bucher (Cinvados), Brassie (Lot et-Garonne), de Boamiliau (Cotes-du-Nord), Buuvattier (Manche), de Broglie (EurO, de la Wok. (Mayer.ne), de Bryan (Pas-de-Calais), Bullet (Vosges), Caillet du Terre (Idleet-Viluine), Collet (Loire), Cawus de la Guibourgue (Loire-Inlerieure), Canet (Tarn), du Castillon (Haute-Ga ronne), le vice-amiral Cecile (Stine-Inferieure), Cham bolle (Seine), Cliamiot (Cut rive), Champanhet (Ardechq), Chapel. (Cote-WOO, Clutput (Gard) de Chareaacy (Oruc), Chassaigne (Puy-de-Diltne), Chauvin (Luirethaterieure), Chkaray (Basses-Pyriners), de Conlin (Loire-Inferieure), Cultism (Sajme-et-Loire), Cullom de la Muthe (Finistere), Coquerel (Seine), de Corcelle (Orne), Center (Calvados), COOOO (Nord), Cretan (Samane), Daguillion-Pujul (Tarn), Dahirel (Morbiliam), Dambmy (Mayenne), de Dampietre (Landes), Debretunne (Aisne), Defuntnue (Vendee), De toatenay (Eure), de Sae (Gironde), Dollll3rll (Loire Bad rieure), de la Devansaye (Mainent-Loire), Didier (Aleerie), Dieuleveult (CUtesnlu-Nord), Druet-Desvaux, (Orne), Arnable Dubois (Somme), Dufaure (Charente-Inferieure), Itifougerais (Vendee), Dufour (Allier), Dutounael (Haut:- Sake), Marc Itaraisse (Dordogne), Pascal Duprat (Landes), Duvergier de Hauranne (Cher). Etat tine (Mouse), de Fallon: (Maine et-Lein), de Fain tier (Moselle), Faure (IthOne), karreau (Loire Interieure), Ferro de Ferris (Manche), Foldout (Meurthe), Froehon, (Pas-de-Calais), Gain (Main -et-Loire), Gasseliu (Sunlit.), tiertunniere (Seine Inferieure), do Gicqueau (Loire Infe rieure), de Goulard (Haulm-Pyrenees), de (dorm (Morbi han), Guyet-DubMnon (Mayenne), de Grandville (Loire- Interiture), de Graasct (Henna), Grelier du Fougeruux (Vendee), Grevy (Jura), (Innen (bathe), Grimault (Sarthe), tiros (Pas-de-Calais), Guiltier de la Tousche (Maine-et-Loire). Ilarsemiet de Saint-Georges (Morliibun), d'Avrincourt (Pas-de-Calais), Ilennecart (Vienne), Ilennequin (S:l6ne a-Loire), Wllespet (Nord), Hamel (Vanes), Ilona de Trauchere (Gironde), Hutt (Vosges), Jost (Gen), Junaunet (Cayenne), de Kerantleela (Fiubitere), de Keratry (Finistere), de Keridec (Morbihan), de Kerma roc (111e-et-Vilaine), do Ker. auson-Pennedreti (Finistere), Leo de Laborde (Vauelase), Larave (Loiret), Oscar La fayette (Seine-et-Marne), de to Fosse (111e-et-Vilaine), Lugarde (Gironde), Lanjuinais (Seine), Lanibit (Yonne), de Larey (Gard), Jules do Lasteyrie (Seine-et-Marne), Latrade (Curreze), Laureau (Mayenne), Laurenceau (Vienne), le General de Laurittun (Ainie), de Laussat (Basses , Pyrenees), LetCbtre-Dugrosries (Somme), Expand (Hun). Legros-Devot (Pas-di--Calais), Lemarre (Oise), Emile Leroux (Oise), Lesperut (tlaute-Marne), do Leap may (Vendee), Levet (Loire). Lherbette (Aisne). Lainairae (Haute-Garner), de Luppe (Lot-, t-Garonne), Marklial (Cnte.d'Or), Marlin de Villiers (Seine- Infjrieure), haze-Launay (Finistere), Mege (Finistere), Armand do Mtlun (Ills-et-Vilaine), Anatole de Me lun (Nord), Iderente (Bouclies-du-IthAne), Miehaut (Meurthe), 11is wake (Lotet-Garenne), Monet (Meurthe), Napoleon de Montebello (Marne). de Montigny (Pus• de-Calais), Moulin (Puy-de-Dome), Murat-Sistrieres (Cantal), Alfred Nettement (Morbillim) d'Olivicr (Van- Ouse), le Gent nil Oudinet do Reggio, Wallet (Aisne), du Purc (Manche), Passy (Ears), Emile Pean (buret) Pecoul (Martinique), Casimir Wrier (Aube), Pidoux (Denbo), Pigeon (Seine-et-Oise), Piozer (Morbihau), l'iscatory (Indre-et-Loire`, Puujoulet (Bouchts-du-Ithke), l'roa cone), Prudhomme (Haut-Rhin), Queboent (111 e-e t Randoing (Somme), Raudot (Yonne), I'aulin (Meuse), Ile Ray inel (V wins), de Itemusat (Moult-Garonne), Renaud (Bassts-Pyrkees), Resat (Vosges), de Ressiguier (Basnx-l'yrenees), Henry de Rimini (Santa), 'Cpl. (Tarn), de LL Rochette (Loire laftrieure), Rodot (Aveyron), de Roqueteuille (Finistere), dos Rotours de Chaulieu (Calvados), Itouget-Latosse (Deus-Sevres),Rouille (Vendee), Roux-Carbonnel (Gard), Sainte-Beuve (Oise), or Saint-Germain (Manche), General do Saint-Priest (Ilerault). Salmon (Meuse), Sauvaire Barthelemy (Bauches-du- Blake), de Serre (111e-et-Vilaine), do Sesmaisons (Loire- Inferieure), Simonet (Meuse), de Staplande (Nord), de Surville (Gard), 'falhouet (Sarthe), Taloa (Ardennes), Tamisier (Jura), Thuriot de la Rosiere (Marne), de Tigny (Vendee), Alexis de Tucqueville (Manche), de la Tuurette Artleclie), de Treveneue (Mtn-du-Nerd), Vatimenia Eure), Vaudore (Orne), Vaujuas (Maycune), Vann Seine), Vandeuvre (Aube), Amedee Vernhette (Aveyron), (Aveyron), Vitet (Seine-Inferieure), de Vogue (Cher). ----- tOrdre journal of Grenoble to be suspended. M. Maurice Duval, extraordinary commissioner in Brittany, has appointed the mayor of Nantes, M. Colomb - el, to be prefect of the Ile-et-Vilainc. Letters of the Silt from Marseilles state that the troops and butteries of artillery wore still encamped in the Coors and Place St. Fermi'. " A variety of rumours," says the .Patrie, " were in circulation to-day at the Bourse, of modifications and remodelling, of taxes. These arc mere ma neeuvres of speculators, and we are able to affirm that there is nothing true in what has been thus said." The number of votes given by the army, in pur suance of the plebiscite of December 2, and known lup to this time, has (says the Patrie) been 63,289. Of these, 61,456 have been for the President, and 1 3,749 against him. Abstained from voting, 84. It has been decided at a council of ministers that a special commissary shall be sent to the department st the Nord. M. de Chabaud Latour, Colonel of Engineers at THE DEPARTMENTS. Amiens, has been placed en disponibili ;. I have examined to-day about forty papers con, M. Nladier de Niontjau, sen., was set at liberty on by this morning's post from the departments, as well Tuesday. as a few private letters, and shall proceed to give I I The Siee'e states that M. David (d'Angers) Las you a summary of their news. ' been arrested. The Constitutionnel states that the head of the dema- The government wishes apparently to make believe gogic movement at Clamecy (Steens.) was a young that the abstention of the legitimists in the ballot of man o f goo d family, who was condemned by the the 20th is a symptom of adhesion in that party. Correctional Police of Paris to six months imprison- Thus the Bulletin de Paris quotes the declaration of mint for an outrage against decency. It was he aM. de Caverville, who states, in the Journal de St. w i l i ' l o a retroain collector of :lhiltcoesst. a re h eeip li t '' fs 3,000(.. M ! ' Bree, that he is authorised to announce that M. de events /-!. hi of Cmney are g as yet inmplet T e e. N. Cartier, De e - l i Fallon% begs all his friends not to give a negative vote neral Pe:llion, and M. Corbin, procureur-geueral, arrived SO the 20th; as if this meant that they were Invited to beforeClamecy on the night of the Bth, with reinforcements ' tie an affirmative. I have already stated yesterday of troops. The insurgents fled. The authorities penetrated at six in the . morning into the town, which they found motive of the legitimists in abstaining from the sacked and pillaged. Three gendarmes were found killed, ballot altogether. one of whom had been tortured before death. Several mere I have little fresh news to send you to-day from were wounded. A young advocate, M. Mulon, was killed the capital, where all has resumed its wonted aspect. with eight bayonet wounds. The following proclamation To-morrow several fresh papers are expected to ap- was immediately posted up : " Inhabitants of Clatuecy—Bandits, factious men, and past. The Opinion Publique, whose editor, Alfred t of i ll on am o ec u y into morning on the r t tali t n h s t a h n l.: i g r .t i e in to st w an n rat, is still in confinement, will be among the Honourable citizens, old men, =timber of resuscitated mints. children, and intrepid gendarmes, valiantly defending the The line of departments on tho Belgian frontier laws and society, have been massacred. Dwellings have have been considerably alarmed by a rumour that been devastated. The most honourable blood cries for 400 of the proscrits were coming from London , and vengeance—the punishment will be severe. Let good citizens be tranquillised, s-d . would appear at Lille, and distribute themselves A aiet:yinthtehe name of ofclathreat along the frontier. Great activity is observable who has family all his' duties mayo in flying m lille everywhere among the troops in consequence. • coward under a disguise from his post, his Columns are marching here and there , and the . family, and his fellow citizens, is dismissed from his func tions. SI. Ruby, a mau of is apointed Mayor of severest surveillance exercised over all that come by I an, road from Belgium. Here, lam informed, from forbidden.aammetefigaiellis"bcpen.emrtlVy`tteaa"rmfoe 2111: h :ill t he a good source, that last night a special engine con- and wine-shops in the canton of Clainec rc y,.and in the come 'eyed a person of distinction, with two aides-de- manes of Corvol l'Orgueilleux, Entrains, and La Chapelle camp, to Lille. I was told that this person was re- St. Andre, are closed. The inhabitants of the arrondisse ment as M. do Persigny. This latter eireum- ment of Clamecy will always find me such as thi knew me , t ia n the te insurrectional movements m to o r 7m or e o nts l of la in Ij i in t d he lfli?, , inflexible stance I give as a report which I am unable to con firm. But it is certain that some general or per- only seek ( or pillage, murgder,ualityl punish factious, who nonage high in authority has taken his departure ; " (Signed) Prrir Di LA Fosse, Prefect of the Nievre." for the Belgian frontier. This coincides with the When the troops entered the town 14 men taken with arms announcement in the Patrie that it had been de- in their hands were immediately shot. It is said that the tided in a cabinet council to send an extraordinary insurgents had a plan for dividing the forces of Oen. Pel lion, and then falling upon ?severs, which they hoped to commissioner to the department of the Nord. ' surprise with a weakened garrison. The Gazette de Lyons of yesterday contains a pro- The Consfitistionnel of this day gives the following alarm elaniation of the prefect, announcing that General log intelligence from the Basses-Acres, in • postscrip, , Castellano has been appointed general-in-chief of the dat e d midni g ht :—.• All the de p artment of the Basses-Alpes I army of Lyons. This appointment is only of ira- theis in co tte ri r r i . werofth socialists. The mails are stopped and searched. Ihe despatches an opened, and all portance as it will considerably increase the pay of those addres.eil to public functionaries confiscated. More that general, who is already commander-in-chief of than 4,000 insurgents have invested the ehet-lieu Digne. the sth and 6th military territorial divisions. Thirty About 2,000 men from the rural communes are at Sioteron, refugees had attempted to cross the frontier from endeavouring to take possession of the citadel, which is only Switzerland at Seyssel. Only five had succeeded in gu m ardeit i l tly t Bo o r m e, :n n . t T h h e li r m iu un nc ie t i i tal n. autlAor a tti soc es . hli s ve been getting past the custom - house . Two were arrested; e m ° iss l ic e ni c is sitting :t the Hotel de Vine " . The L a il.; sub-prefect one drowned in the Rhone; and the other three fled. and all the authorities have entered the citadel. The insur- On the night of the 3th, 22 refugees succeeded in gents are all armed. The town has all the appearance of a I crossing the Rhone. place taken by assault. The government has received intel tig:neereosf what ftil hAs e taken place , and is adopting energetic I heard last night, from a gentleman coming from „Aix repressio n gest oL u t o h: ing insitrrm tion. St. Quentin, that the prefect having been dismissed, ter Me ria' deta il, of insurr ec tion. " — St. I and the muni ipal body resigned, a new prefect had insurrectionary movement at Forcalquier (llasses-Alpes) : been sent, who appointed a municipal committee; ° "A number of ptr3olll, on learning what had taken place in Paris, assenibled in the and this body had resigned too, on account of the marketplace, showing an incli arrests made. 1 nation to disturb public order. The sub-prefect, M. Pail- The passage from the Place du Carrousel to the I ' Pail lard, appeared at the balcony of the sub- f •ct . • attempted to harangue the crowd ; a shot him, gre fired u 7; na Garden of the Tuileries, through the Palace, was re- I but without effect . On hearing a loud w k u nocking at hie opened yesterday. ' door, he appeared a second time on the balcony, when a 1: l cutters of Neufchatel, near the forest of Berseigue, medi. tated a descent upon the town. A body of 300 men was collected on Monday morning to resist them, and they re nounced their project. All the principal leaders of the r d party in the neighbourhood were afterwards arre,ted Among them is the cure of Neufchatel, now suspended by his bishop, and M. Grange, a chemist, one of M. Ledre Rollin's commissaries. The Courrier de Lyon states that the district beta, Cluny and Macon (Soave-ar-Lout:) was so disturbed that M. Lamartine had re quested' some troops from Macon, to protect his residence at Monet:aux. Ln the ALLIER, the troops have brought :la prisoncts from Jaligny to Moulins. They were marched to mi. son, handcuffed, two and two together, between a ibloh!e line of volunteers of the National Guard and the ltitto. Some of the principal proprietors orranised a garde ovibile at the first moment of the rising, which at once offered its bervicee to the military authorities. The Courrier de Marseille, of the Bth inst., says: "Our city has not ceased to he perfectly tranquil, and were it not for the military precautions taken, nothing is to be st.lll to give to Marseilles any but its habitual aspect." Two divisions of troops left Marseilles on the Bth, the one for the department of the Var, and the other for the Basses-Allies. A general of brigade has been sent from Paris to-day to take the command of this army. The latest telegraphic despatches state that Gap (II arTE, Acres) has been agitated, but the arrest of the principal leaders has restored, tranquility. At Crest (tutors) the number of the insurgents was about 2,000. They have been repulsed, after a long combat, with the loss of three hundred killed and wounitsl. The troops had three killed and one wounded'. At Valenca the friends of order arc organised under the the command of a retired colonel in the army at Chimecy rests are made at every instant. Marmande ((Si Ito Sire) no longer occasions any uneasingliS. The insurgent,' have persed, and the town is in possession of the troops. [second shot was fired, but again mimed him. A cry was then off." A postcript of th e Memorial states that tircoulx had lootsr h ais' o b f e 'Let us take him to hlanosque,' and the aving been also the scene of distu rbances. The insurgent bands en forced, he was made prisoner, and led had broken into and pillaged several country houses, and in Fame villages had levied a contribution on the richer inha bitants. The communist insurgents in the ArtnernE, on the right bank of the Rhone, after having conemitted every conceiva ble atrocity and unnatural crime, have been completely down. The prefect of that department has published % pro clamation warning that all who arc caught with arms in their hands will be shot on the instant, without formality of any kind. The Courrier de r Arderhe of the 9th states that a great number of citizens had volunteered to cooperate with the soldiers in putting down the rioters. 500 volun teen had enrolled themselves at Prisms for this petrpese, and scoured the country in small expeditionary parties in search of the flying brigands. The insurgents of Crest and Oriel were compLeely routed. Three only hail been killed on the side of order. At Aubenas the number of insurgents in arms amounted to 700 or 800. The troops are pursuing them in all directions. The news from BRITTANY is in one respect important. a re re sp i e; u ctu tti b u l g e ; m a u t n t ic h i e pti ni tic e s t a ii ii n d u theytE Ev e rywh e re r Y a p u w , tohhhoe. down rim's s rr t eit a it' st i'sl a c inst the illegal government imp o se d on the country. I mentioned yesterday that a re g iment of artillery at Rennes had voted negatively in the " les or No " ballot. The bishop of Rennes preached with great ardour against the usurpation of the supreme power by Louis Napoleon. Ile taunted the mayors with servility and cowardice, and declared that he would be cut in pieces before he would acknowledge his authority. The Pr ogres and another paper of Rennes were suppressed. Maurice Duval, the extraordinary commissioner of the government in Brittany, had arrived at Nantes, and received the autlesities; M. Duval was appointed civil governor in Brittany also at the time when the Duchesse de Berry was captured, and is of course highly obnoxious to the Chowans. lie hail appointed the mayor of Nantes, M. Colmbier, prefect of the Ile-et- Vitalise, of which department Rennes is the capital. Nine teen councillor-general of the Ile-et-Vilaine set their names to the protest, which I mentioned in a preceding letter. Arrests have be,sn made at Rennes, in consequence of the energetic manifestations ; but these have been followed by no serious consequences. Or. the 9th all was quiet at Rennes. The commune of Trdgnier, refuses obedience to the _government. It is of importance to pay at tention to the following fact:—The sixteen counctllors general of the Cotes-du-Nord, who have signed a pro test against the usurpation of Louis Napoleon, have writ ten a letter to the prefect of the department, in which they promise to give every assistance to the authorities in put ting down disturbances wherever they may appear. But they will maintain their protest against the 'Legality of the government imposed on France. Two fresh adhesions of councillors-general appear to the protest. The insurgents of the VA, have been routed. and most of theta taken prisoners at Ceara. The prefect of the Var has written to the Minister of the Interior on Dee. 8, from Luc, to say that he has scoured the country in company with the military, and had made many prisoners at Puget, Cargnouls, l'igueu, and Oonfallon. The insurgents of Luc had quitted that town, taking with them the mayor, the gendarmes, and 20 or 2:5 functionaries and notables. They were encamped on a neighbouring mountain to the ,mumbo, it is supposed, of 2,000. Ile was determined to take them ad prisoners in the day time to make a great example. M. Thayer, the director-general of the post-office has published the following: Paris, 10th Dec., It o'Clock in the Evening. The inspector of the Var writes from 'foulon, on the Bth, that the mail from Dragnignan hail brought the news that the insurgents who, to the number of 2,000 men, were pro , reeding in the morning of Ili, 7th on that town, hail fallen hack towards Briguolles and Bayols, and that they caused several hundred bourgeois and public functionaries to march at their head with chains round tneir necks. M. Amalrie director of the post-office at Luc, was rims of the prisoners. The letter-bags from Luca the 7th, from Paris, which have arrived this evening, contain a re.tular account of the letters, signed "The provisional director, nominated by the sovereign people—BurettEu." For some days past the diligence (ruin Draguignan to Mareeeilles, which' carries the mail bags, has had a time bill signed by the revolutionary directors of Vidauhan, Cuers, &c. The papers of the II EIeaVILT, and particularly the Echo des Midi, published at Montpellier, contained a proclama tion by General Rostolan, reminding the inhabitants that by the law of the 10th Veueldinaire, in the year 4 of the re public, on the state of siege, the communes are held civilly responsible for fal crimes committed. The municipalities were somewhat awed by this announcement. The llerault, which form part of the Mediterranean coast, is a depart ment where dreadful excesses have bees committed by the commanists at Beziere and Cabestang. At Beilarieux the mob were for a time completely masters of the town. A provisional government was formed, which issued procla mations, and levied a tax of 100,1100 upon the rich, payable in the course of the day; in default of payment the town was to he pillaged. The Courtier du Lot-et-Garonne (which department has just bees placed in a state of siege) of the 9th, announces the dissolution of the national guard of Agen, and that all disorders: are put down. The army sent to reselsece the re volted towns in the Lor-Er-OanenvxE consist of 7,500 in fanny of the tine, halt a buttery of artillery, and a hundred mounted ritioneu. In the MAINE-ET-LOIRE, at Angers, 400 persons have offered their sere ices to the prefect to co-operate with the troops in auppressieg disorder. The lxnue, a department where the socialists are in great force, was quite tranquil. A private letter from Bordeaux, dated Dec. 9, informs me that in the night ut December 2siel and 3rd the Tribune —the only independent journal in the department of the GIRONIIE—was seized, and the editor's house was shut up and guarded by municipal guards. My correspondent states that the people of Bordeaux have consequently no other information ut what is Fa.,:ing in Paris and the de partmente but what is afforded by the government jour nals, which inspire their readers with a very limited amount of confidence. He says decidedly that the general I attitude of the population was hostile to the coup &eta. The smaller shopkeepers mid the master manufacturers were especially disposed to make an energetic manifestation of their feelings. The opinions of the higher class of mer chants were divided. Some of them belonging to the reac tionary class of politicians received the first news from Paris with satisfaction, in the hope that the blow which dissolved the Natioal Assembly would at the same time de liver them from democracy, and prevent the republicans from mustering their forces for the expected crisis of 1852. Others loudly declared that France was not a country to submit to an absolute power, which had been seized by the violation of an oath, and the trampling under foot of the constitution and the laws. The garrison of Bordeaux, when the news from Paris arrived, consisted only of one regiment of infantry. it was afterwards re-en forced by two squadrons of hussars front Le bularne. 1' he prefect, M. Neves:, and the general com manding the district, General d'Arbouville, had just been dismissed. The new prefect, N. Hausmann, had not yet arrived, and General Le Pays de Bourjolly had not then been appointed to the command. In this state of things great agitation prevailed both in Bordeaux and in all the cantons of the departments. At Marmande, Moissac, and Villeneuve, the authorities were deposed and provisional governments established. The sults-prefect and mayor of Marmaude vainly applied to Bordeaux ter military assist ance. The garrison there was felt to be insufficient, and for 4 days the neighbouring towns were left to their own resources. It is the opinion of my friend that the insurrectionary movement would have been of a much more formidable and decisive character in the Gironde, were it not that the working classes hare to a certain extent swallowed the bait of universal suffrage which has been thrown out to them, and a certain feeling of hesitation paralysed the movements of the malcontents. The news of the murderous tire with out any notice upon isoffensive people upon the boulevards has exciter:lu very Strong feeling of indignation at Bordeaux. A letter from Alain (Gann), of the 7th, Rays The greatest agitation has been excited in our arrondissement by the political events which have taken place in Paris. It appears certain that a general order had passed amongst all the so dale% of this district to rise simultaneously to attack the principal towns, and then to march on Paris. The rising, in fact, took place, and from every village and hamlet men repaired to Plan-de-la-Fong:use, near Nismes, as the place of rendezvous. When, however, they were on the point of marching on Nimes, intelligence arrived that the inha bitants were preparing an energetic resistance, and that the troops and national guards were on foot The chiefs of the insurgents then fled, leaving their followers, to the number of 5,000 and 6,000 men, to shift for them selves. The greatest number then dispersed, though not without attacks being made on several villages, where pillage of property and of arms took place. This was the case at Bagard, Ribaute, Boisset-et-Gaujac, St. Jean-du (lard, Mialet, and St. Hilaire-de-Brethmas At Anduse even worse disorders have been committed, the municipal authority being treated with contempt, and acts of violence having been perpetrated. At Ledignan the greatest agita tion prevailed, and the barrack of the gendarmery was burned to the ground. Seditious assemblages took place at Moulinet, and some injury also done there to property. Here, at Alais, a number of arrests have been effected, and the moat determined resistance prepared to repulse any at tack. There is not a single village in this neighbourhood id which the socialists have not had the rappel beaten, but the (slum of their attempt has now produced great dis couragement in their ranks." M. d'Ornano, the new Bonapartist prefect of the YONNE, announces the restoration of tranquillity in that department. Ile quotes the words of the President, " that the wicked should tremble and the good take courage," end he adds from himself a warning to the luke•warm (tittles.) This word of ominous import irresistibly forces upon the mind recollections of the reign of terror, with which, indeed, the present period has many points of resemblance.- The Prefect of the Hama VIENNE lies ordered the arrest of a very large number of persons accused of a con spiracy to raise an armed insurrection, and to marea upon Limges. ... Many arrests have been made at Vierron in the Cum:. MM. Germano and Decundin are among the prisoners. • I mentioned yesterday the rising of four or five hundred workmen in a tannery at La Sage, in the SAILTIIE. These workmen were in the employ of M. Trouve-Chauvel, for merly minister of finance, who harangued the men and encouraged them to rise in favour of the constitution. After arming themselves with the muskets of the national guard, they erected barricades, intercepted despatches, and chose a sort of provisional government, of which M. Trouvi Chauvel was the head. On the approach of the soldiery, the chiefs held a consultation, mil under pretence of going to enjoy the pleasures of the chase, I disappeared. Sixty-five of the workmen were taken priso ners and conducted in carts to Le Mans. The authorities of Maniere (Sarthe) learnt on Sunday night that the wood- GERMANY. A correspondent writes from Frankfort, Decem ber S :—Although M. Mantentfel declared so rcadih• in the Prussian chamber that he would not mubiliie the army, the intelligence which has reached me on the preparations making in the Rhenish provinces is t , •n positive to admit of any doubt upon that subjeo. At the same time there is no necessary contradiction of the ministerial assertion, on the facts which have come to my knowledge, as assuredly there is a great difference between placing a single province in a state of defence and mobilizing all the military forees.if the state. The frontier garrisons are to be rein forced, and several companies of the :filth Infantry, now at Bruhl and Euskirchen, arc ordered to maeat to 'freves. The Prince of Prussia left this city to-day for Cohtenz. The Wiirtemberg government has given orders for the immediate purchase of a considerable number of horses to remount its cavalry. The chusseur regi ments of the Bavarian army arc to be raised at in m the scale of 100 men per company. The ././e,!! a /wry Juurna/, which brings this intelligence, takes care to add that the order has not been issued on account of events in France. The troops of the two Ilesses, Baden and Nassau, are to hold themselves ready to unite at a moment's notice. Tho , c saidiers of Baden regiments which received their cos , / on the Ist ult., ate recalled; all the battalions of in .. .. fantry are to be raised to 600 men, all the squadrons to $3. A remarkable activity is observable in the councils of the Diet. Every preparation is making to he ready for possible events, these events being in the estimation of the wise people here not those aLr.:ll'S sions which seem to common understandings of necessity attached to the restoration of the empire in France, but the consequences to be apprehended limn Bonaparte's failure and the triumph of anarchy. I have just obtained a copy of the circular ad dressed by the Austrian cabinet to the various 4o verninents of Germany, inviting them to the Cus toms conference at Vienna. After the introduc tion which has served for so many similar invitations during these last two years, the writer states the desire of his government to be, to introduce and recommend to all the German states a system of moderatelv-protective customs duties, alike removed from prohibition and free-trade. The tariff; published in the Reichsgeset:bbitt, of Nov. 23, will show to all Germany exactly what the Austrian government in tends, and will lay a firm foundation for negotiations respecting a common agreement. The present mo ment seems happily adapted tOr an effort in this di rection. The Prussian government has now raised the whole question, by its endeavours to extend the Zollverein to Hanover and the whole Steuerverein. Austria must needs hope that this endeavour may be sueces4ful, for it h.. 4 in its own interest as well as in the interests of all the German states that a union which has been pro ductive of so great benefits may be not only main tainvd but extended as much as possible. In order to this end the present separatiai of Austria must cease, and the anxieties respecting a division in Ger man commercial policy through the extension of free-trade principles must be set aside. Austria is ready to do all in her power to promote the tirst object ; as to the second, she appeals to the convic tion of an overwhelming majority of the confederated states that the application of free-trade principles it inapplicable to Germany consistently with its pros perity and independence. As for those who have not yet advanced to this conviction Austria does not despair of their early conversion to her views. The writer goes on to state that his government is anxious that these matters shall be discussed at Vienna before the meeting of the representatives of Zollverein states, and concludes with inviting the several governments accordingly. The committee of the Band appointed to ex amine the claims of the noble class in Germany to their ancient privileges, have declared that all the privileges mentioned in the 14th article of the Builds Act arc to continue valid; and the Diet has sanc tioned this decision by a decree to that effect. As the privileges of the nobility have been, since the revolu tion, in many states much abridged, this decree may occasion further interference on the part of the Bond in the internal affairs of the separate states. liven Prussia is exposed to intermeddling on this I question. The Prussian Military Jiiurnal has an article on Louis Bonaparte's usurpation, which, as giving the opinion of soldiers upon military revolutions, may ho Interesting to your readers. The writer says: What has happened and what is yet to happen is not the end but the beginning of an unknown something, perhaps great enough to shake the world. An army that feels its power, and suddenly sees the proof of it before it, will usa and apply it; and as barricades will no longer give it much to do, the regiments will become parlimuentary vow where will be discussed what further is to be done. Vie " intelligence of the bayonets "—a puppet which hie bees played with from the tribune—has been embodied, is pre. sent, has been employed, and its all-crushing activity has been recognised. It is a gloomy prelude, even though a momentary advantage should spring from it. If the k roma army withstands this temptation, the most fatal of all. it will be truly worthy of all admiration. We admit that our heart beats when we reflect on all the possible con sequences. A legitimacy defended by an army is won derfully strong; a legitimacy created by the army has no future. BERLIN, Die. 10. Dr. Hock (the Preusßische Zei)ung says) has been summoned to Vienna to draw up the propositions to be laid before the Zell Congress, to be assembled en the 2nd of Jan. Prussia has declined the invitation to be there; but Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemburg, and the two Messes have promised to attend. Prince Lobkowitz, it also says, has brought communications from Hanover to Vienna, which gives Austria good hopes that her proposals will be well received by the Hanoverian government; it is also added that Baden, Wittemburg, and the two 'leases have pledgtd themselves to withdraw from the Zollverein in the event of the Austrian scheme being rejected. A customs and commercial convention between Holland and the Zollverein is definitively concluded. Prussia has carried on the negociations which has ltd to this result. Equal advantages, it is said, IT , guaranteed to both parties. Tile treaty itself will be shortly published. It is now certainly known that the government intends to put a duty upon newspapers to the a mount of two dollars. In consequence of this new tax, and enlarging its form, the Krell!: Zeitung has already raised its price more than a dollar a quarter. VIENNA, Drc. 3. It was said of Prince Schwarzcnberg when he first accepted office, " Crest dommagc que le Pruire Seliwarzenberg ait tres pen appris, et tousSCS atto: &dens portent a croirc q'uil nc saura iamats Tanta lc pouvoir : d'ailleurs c'est un hojume de Mem, 'though the remark in question came fruits lis.indi! lips, let us hope that the judgment is not too ht" . u r , able, and that he really does not mean evil in att the extraordinary freaks that arc daily perforeit'd. a rt atT here. If, however, he wished to play the p buted to Somers and Machiavelli , that o f perl")"_,Yr countenancing bad government, in order the sou"'