The Express. — London, England, 1851-01-20 00:00:00

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Attoenisrmente intended AN The Eamon," ioll[loll Twining piper, tenet he the t May le, BOUnTill.tflat. by Two u'Otwee on the day of pth.tentiush MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Tom DAT —2loratno, 3b. 49s .412144 r. 4n. 12E. lu.nosang—Meisiag. 4h.945. Attenris. 4b. 590. LONDON, MONDAY. JANUARY 20. Tut Qviinn is seid to have been highly dissatisfied with the paragraph of the Speech, as drawa up by =Miters, relative to the Papal aggression. Ms MAJ MIT considered it lukewarm, and framed in such ambiguous terms as might be employed to shuffle through a difficulty instead of expressing the honest feelings of a sovereign and a government insulted in dignity and in au honty. Ilta Nlsr tSTY, in common with the great majority of her subjects, feels very strocgly on th^ point; and it is one on which the sovereign may be censidered, and mast be allowed, to entertain a strong personal opinion. Independent indeed of the popular or religions question al.ogether, no greater moult could be well offered by one sovereign to another than the despatch of a personage of the highest dignity to go and exercise authority in the dominions et an , thee, dmiinions pareetled out by a kind of public crier for the purpose. Aad when it is c.needed that the foreign sovereign who did this was himself, his authority, and his capital, in the bands and the kek ping' f other great powers, especial') there of Frerec and Austria—the roldiers of one garrisoning Rome, the emissaries of the other nionopolueng the papal eourcil—all this considered, a mo,re tt 'grant outruge on national independence and a rovereigu's dignity way, perhaps, never com mitted. . . We cannot admit for a moment that such monstrous iIISOICDCt as thin is to b • passed over or slighted, ander the plea that teleratem requires it. There is no pi inciple more sacral or more int walnut on an English ruler than religions toleration. But the asoumpion of territorial dignity and authority in England, by virtue of the =tidal* or a !.reign ;*owvr, ;;; i .,,,,e something more than toleraion to stomach 'I he project of ministers is said to be to prevent any Itoman catholic prelates in 17::g -land assuming territorial':'lea in _fahno, leaving the present dignitaries in full blow, aid in powiession of those titles and splendour which they carried by storm. Now, for oar part, we. think that if punishment were to be inflicted upon any, it should be on the per petrators and originators of the outrage. It is amt es sible and unadvisable foe the government to enter into • permanent state of antagonism with the catholic body. And in fact our best allies and means for re sisting arrogate* of the kind and avoiding the rise of • religious party in the country hostile to the throne, to popular liberty, and to its institu tions, are the liberal Roman catholic themselves. These to a man are as indignant at toe cmduct of the POPE and of Cardinal WISCMAN, as the chief of the government can be, and we cannot bat think, that any law prohibiting the present reeumption of territorial dignity by Roman catholic prelates in Eng land would be sanctioned by them. To be severe for the present, leni-nt for the future, would thus seem the desirable plan; inst ad of, as is rumoured, leaving those who committed the outrage to reap the honour of it with impunity, whilst the whole Roman catholic body are to be affronted by some permanent bill of exclusion passed against the future hierarchy. The gre at political objection to Rosin catholicism is, that the opinion., influence, and power of the laity are all absorbed in the priesthood, whose acts are in a spirit often retrograde, opposed to liberty, and to all the ideas of a free commu nity. This, however, although a reproach too great and general, is not essential to catholicism, in which the laity can emancipate itself and rise to the full freedom of citizenship. That this can be the nature of catholicism in • community so developed and enlightened as England there cannot be a doubt, so that in no country ought fairer terms of respect and tolerates be given to Human catholic' than in Eng land. One great protection loping the resuscitation or progress of that religion, most be sought, as we have oft repeated, In a reform of the univer sities, for the purpose of favouring a more English and less exclusive education to the upper classes ; and in the establishment of an effective system of educa tion for the poor, such as that just broached in Man chester, most requisite in those looalities to which Irish families have emigrated. To these must be added some medium institution between school and university, such as the urn oases of continental towns, where the process of mixed education can be carried se, separating secular from religious instruction, and enabling the youth of all wow to meet ou the (ammo's ground of general learning and universal forbearance. Taking such precautions against the advance of any religion that bases itself on authority, and prefers priestly word to man's own reason, such precautions should be taken against nay arrogance or encroach ments of the Roman catholic hierarchy as might in terfere with the QUILN'S dignity, or with the para mount right of parliament. In this, however, we must be in 'word with the liberal body of the Roman catholic laity. In the sister kingdom, unfortunately, the inequality and injustioe still established and main tained with respect to Roman catholic' there, bindslaity and clergy in • common cause, and in • combination rendered necessary by the long war which they have waged, and have still to wage, against the ascendancy. But were the great cause removed for Roman catholic laity and clergy being banded together in political party, we should find in Ireland, as in Eng land, the more enlightened and influential mass of that persuasion entertain ideas and pursue aims nowise different from those of liberal proteetants on the great questions and intentions and progress of the day. To this consummation we must look foe the furthering of what is the greatest of two protestant principles, the emancipation of the laity Man the aunty prejudices of a sacerdotal elate, and the in flame of that laity exerted to bring the clergy into harmony with the necessities and the ideas of the time. For all these reasons we hope that the langasge of the government, put into the month of Hen MAJZSTY, will express most strongly a sense of the &Smut pat upon the Qu i ts= sa d country by the present renegade and imbecile Pontiff, and by that singular personage who one day usurps the prerogative of sovereignty, and the next cendeenends to fling his jocose ribaldry at Punch. Whatever penalty, even amounting to exile from the country he has imitated, that could be inflicted upon Dr. WISEMAN, he would certainly deserve. But for the future, we would con- A THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1851. Se br as Mr. BENNETT and his churchwariens are segyeened, this- correspondence of theirs bolts, very sugh like what sporting men call a creme. The chdrehwardens wish to convert a moral obligation into a legal question; at the very anggeetionMr. BENNETT affects to start with holy horror; he will resign, nothing shall prevent him, he says in one! breath; and in the next, he adds, be will delay his resignation until they can resort to a tribunal welch he would not enter for all the world. Now, this is not plain-sailing, straightforward, hcnest contact. Casuists may be able to explain it; but simple minded people cannot understand it. If Mr. BENNETT has contracted an obligation to his Bishop to resign, he ought to lose no time to fulfil his promise; for, to retain his benefices in order that his churchwarden* may enable him to escape from his engagement, is substantially to attempt to violate it himself. And if some few weeks are needful for him to wind up the temporal affairs of his parish, tie is bound both in honour and morals to lay bis solemn entreaties that the period so required be not used by those who have assumed to act for him for other and opposite par pores. Instead, Mr. Breiverr invites them to turn the two months he his taken to contentious and liti gious ends. Little respect can be paid a clergyman who acts thus; for these are the acts of petty tricky laymen careless rf how they get rid of an inconvenient en gagement, not of churchmen professing the highest moral principles, especial regard for episcopal toms , macy, and &rims, above most things, to see disc.- , pline enforced in the establishment. This is not the way to leave St. Bernthal, ore eritably. In spite of all protestations to the contrary, no one will believe that Mr. Beitenrr is not in coils sion with Sir JOHN HARRINGTON, if a single step be taken in the ecclesiastical courts to keep him there. Sir JOHN'S Set is Mr. BENNETT'S Set Sir JOHN'S Suit Will be Mr. BENNETT'S suit ; Sir JOHN'S attempt to get Mr. Brien= out of his promise will be Mr. BENNETT'S attempt. Mr. BENNETT can only retain his character by resigning without litigation. Bat Bishop BLOMITELD is quite as much to blame as Mr. BENNETT Or Sir JOUN HARRINGTON. So long ago as the 4th of December, Mr. Beim= re quested the Bishop to arrange with Sir JOHN the " precise time " when be should "cease to have further charge of the parish." Six weeks have since elapsed, and the " precise time " has not been ar ranged. Nay, fur all that appears from this correspondence, the Bishop has not mode a single effort to arrange it; and, failing these efforts, Mr. BENNETT has now 83 fixed it for himself as to allow his friends time to appeal to the law to prevent the " precise time" ever arriving. If, then, litigation have to weary the public, scandalise the church, and out rage morality; if, first of all, the Court of Arches have to decide on all the difficult questions which Sir Jolts HARRINGTON threatens, on Mr. BENNETT'S behalf, to raise; and then that decision have, as in the Goals-CM persecutior, to be reviewed by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ; if, in short, this St. Banshee brawl has to be prolonged for other two years, on the Bishop of LONDON chiefly will fall the responsi bility; for, had he with promptitude and decision the " precise time" which Mr. BENNEIT left to hie arrangement, that gentleman's resignation would have been in his hands a month ago. Instead of this Bishop BLOMPIELD allowed the curates employed by Mr. BENNETT to go on with their " mumme ries ;" he allowed himself to be involved in inter views wits deputations, and in correspondence with churchwardens. When he should have been acting, he was weeping; when be ought to have been ap pointing Mr. BENNETT'S successor, he was playing over Sir JOIIN HARRINGTON'S remonstrance; and thus by delay, by hesitation, and by unwillingness to act, he has encouraged a combination which may drag him, and the church after him, through Doctors' Commons and up to Whitehall. The whole spectacle is pitiable. Here we have a churchwarden urging his minister to break a thorium solemnly given ; that minister, whilst putting aside this advice, giving the churchwarden time to appeal to:the law courts; and the Bishop standing looking on, as if he were powerless, when three weeks ago a stroke of his pen would have got rid of Mr. BENNETT and bestowed ou St. Barnabas a new incumbent. Such is episcopal government and ministerial obedi ence is the church of England. selt the views and the nrcessities of the liberal end lay catholic*, nor sanction any measure which they might consider to be one of oontomely, plump tion, or even intolerance. THERE is this =piths& iallist financial schemes of existing statesmen, that they evidently strive to lay down such foundations ot taxation as may without effort or coiatrivanos be at once raised up by a vote to sey magnitude oe height This is the difference be twee. what ere called war taxes and peace taxes, peace taxes beieg those dales on imports and con , sumption, which war or distress greatly diminishes or suspends, war taxes being those from which people have no escape except in utter ruin. Hence the immense value of an income tax to a government. At three per cent it can always be doubled, without producing the decei'ful result et in crease in the rate of indirect taxation. Whilst the rise in the tariff figures produces no corresponding rise in the total amount levied. The income tax was, and we fear will remain, a great base of direct taxation. Not content with it, however, ministers are about to lay the foundation and abut= its for another : this is--the house tax. The window tax is so unpo pular, so c einter to the free and sanitary spirit of the age, that it will, as it deserves, be given op. But let it be marked, that government gets in lien of it a much better, because a much mire stretchable tax, in the house tax. It is one of these that may be augmented in an emergency almost ad libitum, and which it may require years for the tenants on lease to escape. We do not say bet that in itself the house , tax is a tax preferable to the window esseesment, bet it is a more dangerous one in the heeds of a government It is quite evident that no new indirect taxes will be proposed by any Chancellor of the Exchequer of our times. OJ the contrary, it is certain that many eiperiments for lightening indirect taxation can and will be made. Should they fail, or should any sudden distress, or famine, or catastrophe, come to paralyse indirect taxation, and cause a large de crease in the customs and excise, then we may and must expect the kerns' d burden to fall upon those direct taxes which parliament are now about to esta blish and enlarge. We do not indulge in these reflections from any desire to discredit direct taxation, or to see indirect taxation restored, but to impress on people's minds the fact that direct taxation throws the burden that is heaviest and meet felt, whilst at the same time it is that most in the power of parliament and govern ment to augment. For the same reason direct taxa tion is that most calculated to produce serious dis content. An indirect tax, which may be avoided even in appearance, is borne with more equa nimity than the direct tax, which cannot be shaken off. It is the law of direct more than of indirect taxation that has unsettled France, and in troduced the principle of red republicanism amongst the small proprietors of agricultural districts. The Eoglish parliament will avoid placing the burden of direct taxation so low as to produce this effect, but this very exemption makes it press with still greater severity on the classes that do pay it. Hence arises the great necessity for a tax so per manent and so onerous being assessed on some prio (into of fairness. And we are sorry to say that no effort whatever seems to be making for this purpose. The income tax, there can be no doubt, fells with full weight upon rent, and 'open such wages as attain its standard, whilst it falls inevitably light upon all kind ot profits. And we need not remark that it falls with ten times greater preumre on the earner, on the man who, by his skill, prof, ssioual Wen's or intel eminence, creates an annual ice nne, than on the man who inherits, spends, and hands down an in come derived from the land or the funds. Mr. CHARLES DICKENS pays es large a per centege on the value of the creations of I.ii brain, as the noblernael who derives his land from the Conquest, and who can spend its produce without impairing the fortune of his children. This, however, is so hackneyed a complaint, that statesmen have made up their minds to ignore it. But the worst of it is, that the new house tax wiU sin by just the same unfairness. For, in truth, there are no men who spend so large a proportion of their income in house rent as the professional du.. Let as suppoeo an intelligent earner to make 71;;,`. a year, and that his home rent Ii 1001.. no extravagant eitiente he pave ', 3 per cent. of his 701,!. a year to the income tax. His window tax or house tax at 10 per cent on the rent, is 1y per cent. mor.: upon his income. His poor and police rate amount, probably, to double his assessed taxes, if not more. Here is another 3 or 31 per cent. So that, without speaking of carriage or servants, be pays a direct tax of at least 8 per cent., if not more, upon his income, besides his bearing an immensely larger share of indirect taxation than his opulent neighbour. Thus, whilst the income tax levied upon perish bale earnings and permanent resources in the same proportion is of immense injustice to the former, the Same injustice is shout to be perpetrated in the house tax. The rent of a man's house is not in pro portion to his income, and c'rtainly not to the income of realised property. Let it be calculated what are the scale and rental of houses occupied by men from 1001. a year up to 40,0001., and it will be found, that whilst the one spends one sixth or one seventh of his perhaps perishable income in house rent, the richer man spends not one twentieth or one thirtieth. And ;et government already levies a large amount of taxation, and is laying the foundation lir raising a still larger proportion, on such a palpably unjust and iniquitous basis as this. If ever there was a time when this must come home to the breasts and calculations of many, it is the present, in which amidst the suffering of almost all interests none has suffered more than those of the earner of every profession and every grade. In times of large profits, large rents, large remunerations, the earning class grumbled not at: being mulcted. But when every day displays this class cut down, that profession ruined, and such a thing as a fortune to be made in none, it is fit that Treuury ministers should have other interests and other principles of justice than those which prevail in parliament, or which make ouch noise in town and county meetiogr. " MORE last words from Mr. Barna!" More let ten from Mr. BENNErr—mere lengthy epistles from Sir JoNN HARRINGTON—more curt replies from Bishop BLOMEIELD. But u yet no resignation of St. Paul and St. B►rnabu. It is, however, coming at quarter day next. But even then it is not quite so certain as a visit from our landlords; for the Clan of Arches and the " law of the church " are to be ap pealed to by Mr. BENNETT'S friends to see if they won't avoid the fulfilment of his volantary engage ment to his Bishop. Such is the substance of the far ther correspondence on the part of Mr. BENNETT. Aud a very (uuuy eorrespOtidellee it is. 00e would really suppose, from the tone, manner, and language in which his churchwardens acdress Mr. BNNNETT, that he was already a cardinal of the Romish church, the Grand Llama of Thibet, or the chief of the Brah mins, for they " desire to approach " his person as it were enclosed in a glass cue to preserve it from even plical impurity, and onlyto be seen on high days and holydays • they urge upon him, in affrighted lan guage, and with almost bated breath, the most deli cate legal reasons why he should break his promise ; and proclaim him to be quite .martyr for the liberties of the charch of England; mach after the fashion in which those fine fellows, the congregated trades of Limerick " venture" to blarney his eminence Dr. WISEMAN. Whereupon Mr. BENNETT, from" St. Banshee" of ooaree, replies that, as he offered to resign if his Bishop should deem him " guilty of unfaithfulness to the church of England," and as his Bishop has pro• moaned him very guilty, therefore he must resign ; that he can be no party to any law proceedings to determine whether a promise to resign to a patron at • future date is not void ; but that he will bold over his resignation till March the 25th, that they may " pursue any further course in the matter which they may deem advisable." Thus fortified, Sir JOHN HARRINGTON asks the Bishop to speck in detail hie objections to Mr. BEN MITT'E practices and principle., that they also may be included is the agreeable discuseion contemplated in the Court of Arches. But the Bishop sternly " de clines." Re has bad enough of Mr. BENNerr and Sir JOHN ; their letters are long, their inquires are tremble some, their object is disingenuous. Menem die AMR et "Fulham Palace" is now with will Vide unsay banged In the faces of those who ease were, Its ebertehed geode. Aid "dear Mr. Brattarr* fa abut to be ticked oat of a church, from which • dear Mr. Donsworru " has, with much better bete, gone of hie own accord. SPAIN. A telegraphic despatch received at Paris from Madrid announces the formation of a new ministry :—Bravo Murillo, Finances and Presidency of Council ; Firmin Arteta, Interior ; Beltran de Lie, Foreign Affsire ; Count Mires'', War ; Admiral Bustillos, Marine ; Negrete, Justice; Gonzalez Romero, Public Woke. All belong to the party of Nioderadoes, and advocate economic and administrative reforms. MADRID, Jars. 13.—Three per Cents., 32 15-16; after Balsa, 33 cub Four per Cents., 14. Five per Cents., 121; after 13o:sa, 121 paper, 121 cash. C..tipans 61 ; after Bilge, 61 cash. Passives, 31 ; titer Balsa, 3 1346 cub. Bank it St. Ferdinand, 95. B:change on Loudon, 50.65 DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. A telegraphic despatch, dated Berlin, the 17th , instant, soya that the Austrian intervention corps was to cross the Elbe on that day at Artlenburg. The Holstein troops were beginning to draw into cantonments, and the Danes were retreating their advanced paste. A suspension of the conferences at Hamburg oath. 16th has been occasioned by some differences between the Danish and German commissioners. The former maintain that Count Mennsdorf and General Thfi men have gone beyond their instructions, first, by their consent to the occupation of Eendeburg and Friedricksort by Schleswig-Holstein troops ; and secondly, by their demand that the Danish troops should withdraw altogether from South Schleswig. In consequence of these differences Count Reveralow has sent a courier to Copenhagen, that he may receive new instructions, till whose return the conferences will remain suspended. It is said that the Danish ministry is not altogether so indisposed as has been thought to a union between Schleswig and Holstein. General Thiimen and the Austrian commissioner are both back at Hamburg. The latter communicated with the Austrian commander-in-chief with respect to his further military movements. The result is not yet ksown but according to all probability (says a correspondent of the Cologne Gazette) 4,000 meo, the Austrian advance guard, had already reached Lanen burg. Although hostilities were discontinued on the part of the Danes, yet was blood very unnecessarily shed on the 14th inst. at Breckendorf. Four Schleswig- Holsteiners were wounded by a party of Danes who wished to take possession of a block-houso they thought unoccupied, but which was occupied by a party of the Duchies' troops, and one Dane was taken prl2ol2or. BELGIUM. FRANCE, PARIS, SATURDAY Eve:ergo. The conclusion at which M. Thiers arrived was, that a vote favourable to the government would be equivalent to the establishment of the empire. Toe main argument—which he applied as a long ladder to reach this lofty conclusion — was, the dismissal of ' General Cherganver whore fate was eealed, he said, by his order of the day forbidding the troops to cry 'ander arms. It is a striking instatou of the extent to which the clearest intelogences may become ob scured by party feeling, that a man like M. /biers should state his serious belief in a result which the voice of public common sense, and of all Europe, proclaims to be imaginary and impossible. Even the Assembly, by the almost unanimous applause with which it hailed M. de Lamartice's emphaie expression of confidence in the renewed oath con- Itained in the Message of the 12th of Nevember, to stand or fall by the lass, has already judged the conclusion with which M. Thiers crowned his eh- I borate oration. " The neutrality of parties is broken; you have a Bonapartist party in power ;" say 3 M.Thiers ; but if this is an argument for defj ing the executiv.: power to-day, it was equally so at the election of the 10th December, yet M. Thiers and his friends thought proper, in submission to the HOIR1MOU• vote cf France, to accept that electioo, and to lend their sup port to the government which was installed, although declining the responsibilities of office. M. Baroche offended deeply the legitimists by his attempt to deal a back-handed stroke against the intrignes of Wiesbaden by n midi! atimissien of the inno ( "nUe Of the pilgrimage to Claremont. When General Cnangarnier had done speaking, M. Dupin left his chair in order to come and equeese his hand with congratulations. It is not easy to se e what great merit the general's speech had in the eyes of the majority, unless it was the extreme inso lence with which he insinuated that Louis Napoleon was a conspirator, clothed in the tinsel of false grandeur. This morning a deputation of the principal mem bers of the majority waited on General Ceengarnier, with the intention of testifying their admiration and sympathy. In his reply he begged that in the vote about to be given his person might be altogether left out of account, and that only the dignity, powers, and independence of the Assembly should be con sidered. Last night there was a meeting of the legitimise in their club of the Rae de Itivoli. M. Berryer re- Iceiced a profusion of compliments upon his speech, which it was agreed to print and distribute copies of as widely as possible. M. Thiers conferees' et the same time that hie party had contemplated a president drawn from their own mks, but that death bad snatched away the perenn on whom their predilections tell. He was under stood to allude to Marshal Bugeand. In this forced submission to the will of the people expressed by uui vet sal suffrage, we may, perhaps, gather the first germ of that inexorable, although long latent hostility which now seems to have burst out into a war of ex termination. With what a rancorously faithful me mery the old minister of Luis Philippe enumerate s his grievances against the government, detailing all those confidences of Louis Napoleon and his min:eters most calculated to damage them in the eyes of France and of Europe. Ile seveals the details, his first in terview with Louis Napoleon, with ruthless sarcasms noon his total ignorance of France. The new Presi dent, he says, was frightened at the ardour and ex citement of the popular mind, and saw only two means of allaying it, either by treat enterprise abroad —war, in fact—or by some great popular creation at home. M. 'niers, justly deeming the first proposition madness, and t h e second quackery, gave sober practical advice, recommending the main temance of peace :.bread and the firm re-establishment of order at home. New men, he thought, ought to be selected for the ministers. Althoneh he did not take office himself, Le exerted himself in behalf of the government quite as much as if he had. This new government was going on very well, when all at once to his grief and sur prise, it was suddenly discarded, and ou the 31st Oct°. bar, 1843, a message told them that a new era was to begin—men of action were to take ;h- reins. It was melateholy to Ise that the growing hurts of a pru dent administration were not patiently waited tor, and that some Extraordinary and marvellous process was confided in to neet the prosperity, which could only result from time. The message, too, was &arm ing, from the expression of a sort of " omoipotence," altogether irreconcilable with the notion of represen tative government. Well, no:withstanding their sorrow, he and his friends went on supporting the new government, and patiently enduring the abuse which they received in reward for their services from the ministerial press. At last came the disaster of the Paris elections—ncceseary result of the division produced in the public mind by the change of go vernment. Then the government, alarmed at the victory of the socialists, sent once more for him and his friends, and wanted to charge them with the sae r. sponsibility of framing the new electoral law. M. Baroche gave a fiat contradiction to this statement of M. Thiers, and said that, on the contrary, the ministers never wanted the bill to be brought forward by any other party but the govern ment itself. M. Desire, a member of the committee of 17, appointed by the government to draw up the bid, confirmed the statement of M. Thicrs. The effect of the law had been to tranquillise the country. He attributed that result to two causes, to the influence of the democratic leaders, who restrained the socialists horn an appeal to arms, and to the intrepid attitude of the commander of the army of Paris. Still, not withstanding the scrv:ces rendered by the majority, the abuse to which they Were exposed iu the organs of the government was more violent than ever. Ile came now to the dotation. lie must confess that he had felt great scruples in granting this supply, because it tended to change the nature of the institution of the presidetcy of the republic Never theless, to avoid a rupture it was agreed to. To such an extent did the majority of the Assembiy carry its indulgence. The recess tollowed. The Minister of the Interior had alluded to his (M. Thiers's) visit to Claremont. It had been said that during the recess there had been unconstitutional manifestations on all hands, and that all parties were " quits." (Laughter.) But he could not accept such a settlement of ac counts. M. Thiers then proceeded to explain how purely personal and independent of politics were the feelings which led him to Claremont. He then pro ceeded to mention the acts of the Committee of Per manence, and complained of the unfairness of concen trating attention upon the affair of Allais, as the main teat of the committee. He dwelt at great length upon the cries of " Vice l'Empereur " at the reviews, which he said was something more than a violation of legality (meaning, doubtless, high treason), and was In fact a preparation for the era of the Caesars, when emperors were proclaimed by the legions. Without saying of the present institutions that they were pre- carious, since that was offensive to some persona — M. SCROILLCURR—As far as we are concerned, it is a matter of perfect indifference. (Noise.) M. TlMM—When on every site the question is asked, ander what form of government will France definitively five—(lnterruption on the loft.) M. Ceuraticx—lf the republic were not so strong as it is, that would am be said. (05, oh.) The PRIIIIDRNT—S.Itee•!—do not interrupt. M. NADAVD—Although the Republic is steer g, we muM protest Ragout such expnations. (Cries of Silence ! Enough, enough !") M. Tutens—l shall not descend from this tribune withered explaining how I and my hien& understand the Republitn the engagements which we have taken towards it, sad whisk we owe to it. On the Lett—We owe the laws of September is yes. (Cries of "Oh! oh!") M. TIMM—You every day complain that idles is entertained of legitimacy, of the empire, or of the genera meet of the younger branch of the Orleans family. Yon therefore admit that it is a fritt to hays such wishes. Bat since those ideas exist, since there are parties who enteetsia them, we ask whether it is not more alarming to excite these cries in the may A Votes—They are a glorious souvenir. M. Tutnen—We are therefore destined to hear it said hers that the cry of " Viva l'Entpereur !" signifies " Vivs Is gloire do Napoleon!" (Laughter.) The glory of Napoleon does not require such aid. Thanes no one can have a higher opinion of Napoleon than I have, I would a cry " Vint l'Empereer !" for while some m ight utter that eq, °theta might shout " Viva Henri V.!' and " Viva le Comte de Paris !" I must bt permitted to say to the Pre-ident of the Republic: You did not, it is erne, excite the cry of " Vive l'Emperenr," but you have more responsibl.ity weighing on you than if you had done so. Is it or le it not true that Genteel Niemeyer was dismissed because he would not encourage sash cries i (Agitation.) Is it true that General Chargarnite was removed from his command for a similar rue eon ? In the Chamber of Deputies of Belgium, on Thom day, the members displayed great agitation, and paid little attent on to a speech on the war budget deli. livered by the Minister of War. When tie minister had concluded, the president called on M. Dechamps to speak, but that gentleman was in the midst of an animated group The agitation visibly increased, and at lase ld, Melon amended the tribune, and said that I that it was impoaaible to deliberate in presence of the agitation of the Chamber, which was caused by a challenge having been sent by one member to another, in consequeoe of opinions expressed by him in that place H. accordingly demanded that the Chamber should form itself into secret committee. This I was agreed to, and the public were expelled. It then became known that Oen. Chau' had seat a challenge to M. Thiefry, for having in the course of the debate asserted that certain statements respecting the Sir ; dinian army made lut year by the general, at thit time Minister of War, were erroneous. The chamber remained some time in secret deliberation. M. Title fry, it is said, refused with much dignity to produce the letter which had been written to him by densest Chars]. One member demanded that a prosecution should be commenced against the latter for having violated the law against duelling. Another member recommended that an attempt should be made to cos ! ciliate the affair, and to this the Assembly appeared to lean. Eventually it was determined that N. Thisfry and General Chanel should be invited to pm sent themselves before the President in the course d the evening, and that a secret sitting should be hell next day to receive a communication from the Free. dent on the result of the inlet view. 11. EDOABD M. Tstizia—l maintain that all the tuition hangs on th►t point. General Neamayer Mat his command for not having encouraged cries of Vire l'Emperf ur," and that motel is the most audacious set that con well be ima• f en l e l i o fi vi den :-" ce seined. When we were taw that the c o u ntry should not be' by 417 votes against 278. There wad, therefore, 4 thrown into agitation , and that the message would disavow nicety of 139 against minister,. t. na ß t e t u t v h e u is n u ut those acts, the Assembly was content . The message was • Aammennaibmiyendt well received . General Ceangarnier had well understood " The declares ar i e l ii . 8 t that On part was not to tot mg to any party. A orals jaunted had said with regud to him, '. The Sphynx does not In the ministry, and peseta to the order of the day." speak." (Laughter.) The Sphyox, however ' acted when it was necessary to protect Green! Neumayer i be spoke when be issued a memorable order of the day—but on that day he RESIGNATION OF THE MINISTRY. signed his dismissal. elonighter and murmurs) On that PARIS, SUNDAT MORNING. day his removal was decided on. I will now esplein a scene which me took place in this Anably. It will be remembered Yesterday evening, after the eloee of the Assem hire silting, the ministers gave in their resignation that •j)urnal published instruction , i which were aterileoted to a general- A discussion took place, ,nd the majority, to the President of the Republic. expressed to the general the croficience it felt in him. That The government has been upset by a coalition be. drop of water was enough to nuke the vase run over. M. tween the conservative mejority, the republican party Changarnier was removed. Thus it bad been seen that of Geu. Cavaigtmc, and the Mountain. From the two generals had been dismissed for not encouraging the __.__;. of 417 against ministers , if we deduct 217 cries of " Vies l'Empereur I' The ministry could not, it ma 3‘"Oly said, support a third power; but when, he would ark, bad for the votes of the two laver parties, triers will General Chanearnier been guilty of disobedience : He bad remain 200 for the votes of the " party of order." never done so. But he had been celled a third power. The 278 votes obtained by the government being If by that expression it is meant that be was of great im- exclusively drawn from this party, the ministry pomace, I will say that I am entirely of that opinion. (Herr, bear.) I and my friends are desirous that order may lay claim to a majority of 78 over the adherents MM Th - end Berryer the par liamentary nes should be impregnable , and, for that reason, we place o f •. . tem Ter to liana, on General Chatigarnier. There is "nether tea- jority. son whkh I will mention. An idea was pr.valent that No sooner had General Cavaignae declared from General Chaneensier, being at the head of the public force, the Nassau! Assembly had no' only en inviolability of right, the tribune that the only amendment which the Left of the house could embrace was that of M. Sainte Beuve, but also a de facto inviolebLity which was nut to be despiald. (Laughter.) He was a general whose presence than MM - Thiel's , Derriere , and II: to y er, g reedil y sure a fteling of security to Poi is and to the whole of caught at the offered coalition, and insisted on the France, and who was answerable for the protection of the priority of the amendment in question. Naional Assembly, which wee platted alone in the face of SUNDAY EVINING. the Executive power. This lies been called an anomaly, but I cannot ate any anomaly in having a man who ins. Nothing definitive has been yet settled about the p a rts a feeling of safety in the place where the Assembly formation of a new ministry . It teems probable that l a holds its sittings. If this is an anomaly, it is not the only this task will be confided to Odilon Birrot, who. you ! i ene es he found O-: the Reputslie. God . forbid that I should , make say „pi ..i 1 .7 ...01eind to the President of the Itepub- vote. Accord will observe, was absent at the moment of yesterday's lie, but I must be allowed to say that in venue the cloteilou I _ Mg to other reports, the Duke de Broglie ' the H. public, which was more than the presidency. All cabinet. - . tee Assembly bad consented to the creation of sometl:og in KMP v lama e and Tracy are spoken wou . ld be chsrg, d with the composition of the new a 6- '• their ' former ollea ue M. 1 this has, however, been borne for the interest of order. I of as likely to enter with c . g -, most say toot the act of dismissing a general, for not en- B a rra, Leon Faucher and M. DAM were also men o couraging cries of " Vint l'Emporeur," is the first breech . tined as probab'e minist ers. of that truce which he and his friends had signed in The i lAmitetir does not inform in whether the re , agreeing to the Republic . Before 1 818 , brought up in monarchical ideas, and seeing England and the signations c ef the ministers have been yet accepted. o Uried S t ates, he had given a preemies to the form The defeat which the government has received by of government of the former, and I bad dreamt of 1N the coalition of MM. Thiers , Berr y er, and PlA my country having a similar one. That form realised all my faure with General Cavaignac and the Mountain, • ideas of tl order aid of liberty. I am not unmindful of the "' old Europe I only tbougbtof a coestitutionel government. the power of Loma poi , eieotneu ot the United States, but having been brought up although with_ on! doubt .... a •.e.)vnery. n a s u . , .ve t r t e b a l p o p w en to rn e The meets of 1848 arrived, and I felt sincere grief in con- to me, been greatly exaggerated by meet of the organs I. a, quince. I however said to myself perhaps I have been s, mistakes ; perhaps Providence may lead men towards an of the peels, when represented as • death - blow to the executive L . American form of government. The country declared it• ~ vernment, and the erection of the Aseem g o eelf; it passed its decree, and that decree was—the republic. my i n to a convention. e lt Ws/ our duty to ace pt it freely, and without aryi, , re In fact it must be remembered, that of the 417 votes 7 Pertede. I esk oothing from any government ; at my age no of the majority on th e motion of M. Sr. B. uve, 2 1 7 ..e government ten do anything for me. All I have to do 1, depends on myself, in conducting myself well or ill. My belong to the Mountain and the republicans of the veille. There remains 200 to represent the par ties of g resolution was to serve the republic, not to share in its Mn greatness, becauto the duty of every good citizen is to . . B eri•yer, Thiers , and Dufaure. By far the greater bend before the law. I reflected that the republic is the go- part of these aro legitimi-ts; se that the members be- Y vernment of all parties. M. Berryer, whose character I longing to the flock et M. Thiers in this group are ' ll honour, end who hes berg been Try loyal opponent, considered n himself humiliated under the government of July : I should far lees coneidemble in cumber than might have teen gathered from the parameunt influence which that r. perhaps consider narelf humiliated if the government which i Lo he supports wire to be proclaimed. Teose who dream of an Parli_ame.n. tar chief exercised in the debate. In ; empire, and also the demurs s, would also experience a fact M. I h , writ while accusing the ministers of hair •- similar feeling under the Count de Paris. Let all, there- ing tried to effect a schism in the ranks of the 111111j0- En fore, unite wader the republic, which is the government of rity, completed himself the disruption of which he y all, and contribute loyally to its ampere One remark I __nlainea .; and perhaps it will be found, when the r- must however make, and which is, that if aU were republi- he has destroyed Ifs own suprenvey the republic would be weakened. ( Laughter.) No party, t hati in the Air•e. cans like the democrats of the Loft, my untidiness in smoke of this parliamentary battle has cleared away. ,! either by viol, nee or intrigue. should seek to draw the aembly, instead of the supremacy of Louis Napoleon .t republic to its side Neither of the four parties which i n i e e e a . o. rs divide France should meek to make a republic to itself. The minority in favour of the government repre !e (Agitation.) I will now examine which of the four parties t ., I allude to bas recently failed in the ecumenist It had sents a much stronger party than its number of 278 taken at the coromeccement of the republic. In what Won _ ld imply. In tact it contains names of the first 15 point of view are we to regard the visits to Wies- weight in the Chamber. Out of the committee of the 'i° radon ? We must look at them as regards the republic, IL- and the dangers which it might incur from them. Under 17 leaders of the parliamentary majority who were a inted on the let of May to form the new electoral to the last monerohy, visits were made to Belgrave square, but r:P ° se serious pclitioal men were then of opinion that no danger to law, no fewer than seven have sided with the govern the- monarchy could result from them. In the recent visits ment of Louis Napoleon. These are MM. de Broglie, " to Witsba'len, ni ither M. Bi nye r nor him friends thought de Nlontalembert, Dare, de Chaeseloup-latubat, Leon to that they were doing anything which could be considered asM. Mold absented Faucher, Beugnot, and Buffet. y, a danger for the republic. As to the visit to Clarement, it „ lima from rho vote, so did Odilon Barrot. Pettey, a- ass been so completely explained by she government itself, ",' a t that consider uoneoesear to to k republicans. It is our duty to labour to make rot, voted with the government. Ito Tocqueville was lit r further allude to it. I will Lacrosse, and de Tracy, old colleagues of Odilon Bar , n the n re .r pu ' blie ni give calm and repose to tlee country, but it is absent on leave, as were also de Lahitte and de " theirs to remove from us all fear as to acts of violence; and Faltoox. of we must render them this justice, that, since the electoral law Among those who abstained from voting next to Se —(murmurs from the Mountain)—they hate led us . to hope .. 0 .. m le and Odilon Barret the names of Char!' s Duple, ry thatthe e i i i , o c i t h o i r n s i l bg u: d a , 1 e p ta , l u nse ans w i ll d popular passion s have calmed Conelosquet, Fremy, Freeneau, and Parisis, Arch ir" doer.; soil I trust that the triumph of legality will eon- bishop of Paris, deserve notice. Two vice-pre" dents 0- name. With regard to the fourth party—the Bonapartist— and four secretaries of the Assembly voted with the to it is in power —flaughter and agitation), and to be so is as , o _ o _ o _ oor. as immense fact. In 'Tins however, of my respect for the es,r•••••'" u - declarations which have 'been made, I cannot efface recent TIM attitude taken by the Mountain and the ~ facts from my mind. The party which is in power distribu'es republicans (le to reale was singular. There is "' plone and decoration', and, notwitlutanding the progreu ot not one organ of these parties that did not with all is liberal ideas, they are not without their influence. The its might applaud the vigour and decision of the Id country is apt to submit to certain ismiritions, and it it would, under other tome _ government in dismissing Gen. Changarcier ; yet they tome s- times considers as good what circum- . " manes", regard in a different light. I say that, in this pow not only abandoned the government in the conflict ' of view, to be in power is an enormous advantage. All the which to lite drawn on by an s et which they approved, n- good that is dune is attributed to the chief power. Order, but they formed a coalition with their constant enemies :ir which has been established by the majority, is attributed to to destroy it. he it. It may declare rue or war; and, if there is anything to A: this moment, such is the state of paralysis to Ise be feared for the sovereignty of all, it is the part which that which the whole stale machine has been reduced by o f missed an individual from his important post because he pre- the separation of MM. Thiers mot power may play. What had it alreatly done? It had di. - and Berryer from the vented cries of " Vise l'Empercur." supporters of the government, that the task of form -00 el. Da LA MOINOWA —I demand permission to speak. ing a ministry which will command a majority in the ro - M. Taigas—By such conduct the government exposed Chamber seems next to impracticable. he itself to the ',pinches of ingratitude, and to the distrust of The correcte d result of th e division upon the vote for the Assembly, and Oct in spite of that knowledge it did not is 415 against 280, ge hesitate. it was impossible but that the assembly should of want of confidence in ministers „ regard this fact as one of great importance, and it is with which takes two votes from the proclaimed majority, sus that feeling that I ascend this tribune in spite of myself, and adds eight to the minority. on The government has said that it bee so intention ageless The club of the Rue des Pyramides will be broken he the assembly ; I believe it, for the assembly has not resisted until that time I b e you. We actin see when it will do so up in consequence of the s p lit which has occurred in ; rat- shell retain all my doubts. You make us fear a conspiracy ; the party of the mnjority. you wish that the amenably should yield, without which the 1,1 the fierce struggle for priority in bringing mo -411 executive power, according to your account, will be hunsi. tions to the vote, which followed the close of the the hated It is for the power which commenced the attack on in Herat debat e, the sensible and noble words of M. re ect the other to dram back, for if the power attacked we to do H e so it would be lost. (Applaue.) There are now two smeriin o deserve particular notice. Struggling we powers the state, the executive and the legislative ;if e gainetthe clamours of opposite parties, which Ms the assembly new yields there will only be one power—then drowned his voice, he made one more the form et government will have been changed, the empire e ff or t t o S ave th e ministry by imploring the ide will exist. f Immense' cheers.) house to abstain from crushing the government by a lot - At the conclusion of this speech the greatest excitement fatal coalition. H e d i d not approve of the acts of the ty, preveiled in the amemely. late cabinet • but he was so alarmed by the ins The Fitting was brought to a close at 7 o'clock in the . humilia t ion t of . . Ile midst of the greatest agitation. meditated he At the opening of the Assembly's sitting to-day, and the disastrous results with which such sly, M. Dupin begged of the representatives to take their . a course was pregnant, thathe could the places as speedily as possible, in order that they refrain from lifting his voice in one last protest. It er- might come to a vote this evening. (Sensation.) this vote, was a snare, for the destruction of the re ach M. d'Adelsward attempted to speak amid much public, Either the legislative power would gain the day before public opinion,which was their sovereig n its noise. He came there to stand up for the republic .. and judge of ultimate appea l —( violent interruption)— .of and to oppose the authors of the reaction. The noise . , to made it impossible for the speaker to proceed. lie or the executive . p ower . would conquer in presence of !ess was succeeded by the chief of his p..rty, General the same umpire. In the first case the executive all Covaigium. power would be paralysed, and in the other case the Assembly would one entirely its moral influence over or-) General Cavaignac reviewed the principal measures country. Sc- of the late cabinet the He blamed severely, in the name In the violent dispute which followed, poor M. tow of all sincere republicans, the law of public instruc the lion and the electoral law of the 31st May, those Baroche, who turned pale when M. Bowyer ex no- great misdeeds of the majority. He reproached M. pressed his adherence to the amendment of M. Saintßeuve, as if conscious that the fate of the 'or- Berryer for having said that there was a prince cabinet was settled, evinced, nevertheless, his ten - whose mere appearance on the soil of France would inth extinguish the sovereignty of the people, determination to die hard, by mounting the tribune repeatedly to protest against the unnatural P °° M. de Larochejacquelin denied that M. Berryer had eich - and illegitimate league for the destruction of the Mi. , usea such language, bat was met by the affirmations nietry. MM. Dufaure and Thitrs at last grappled a o f of a great number of representatives. General with the struggling minister, and applied, as it was e Cavaignac continued:—Neither he nor his friends were, the bowstring to his reluctant throat. '" e° , could allow theories of that sort to pass unresisted. BOURSE. 113 " The constitution might be revised. Bat it was not roe Account. pro- the constitution which invented the national sore- rents, e.... 4. to.. Eon . reignty, nor could this fandamental principle be _ a a destroyed by any . party. There could be only two s ee , ants. _37 0 as 73 sat 33 se 73 sat so eked, parties, for the monarchy or the republic. Those t terpinee . ...,_ n! o e 2 .!I !! :e t tsv amts f r o :72 inply who had ill-guided the monarchy had paved the Ivey :P e e ;:r e X ie. " ° ;: e. _ ' el l 7 7, , '...‘. r• . . for the republic. At present the republic was iii- a per Cents 74 „ „ „ it le, guided, and it was to be feared that if it continued to Esmonim on Louloo: at MO 14 991; "d 24 76. Region, 5, 1810 be so it would have to make way for a restoration of be. o. 5,1142 su e the monarchy. General Cavaignac, in conclusion, Go. 44 24 ism „ Ditto, d s o . "1830 781 ~. D es ! declared that he adhered to the amendment of M. de Piedmont 3 per Cents. 85 10 ',., Bank Shams PM " Ste. Beuve, which consists in a simple vote of want _ _. __ _ _ tbout of confidence against ministers, and was the only one T ax es ..ANADA, Cs ptain Harrison , sailed from Liver e a niei l which ought to be adopted by the republican party. pool on Saturday for Halifax and Boston. (Movement.) Ma. JOUR GEORGE PRILLIIIORE has been ape ) you. The close of the general debate was put to the vote pointed by the benehers et the Middle Temple to the chair and adopted. The President of the Assembly now of general jurisprudence e endcieillawldis__Meuguial leo. Is am read the several amendments. M. St. Beuve de- 11115 . will bade • re 4 i n th e Mi ddl e Temp t nail"' Tuesday seem- it, the 21st Instant, at 7 p.m. Y ee mended the priority of his amendment. The Page a Mr. GEORGE LOCH has addressed the electors of But dent said that the pure and simple order of the day the , Falkirk district of Burghs, as a political and commercial trials was demanded. I'4l. Baroche said that the government reformer. On the subject of tree-trade, Mr. Loch says, that those opposed this. H. Berryer declared that the amend- e though then are still some exclamations from particular ment of M. Se Beuve was entitled to the priority. in le erh Oi_ 1 t t ru r r aa Ili b et is, that I t i b i e ffi y c t ul oo tl O:ill gala by what :el i te s ; it said After some remarks from M. Lamartine, priority was I , done, not less than others, while thein la will be the peculiat °Vivo granted to the amendment of M. St. Beuve. M —* advantage of exchanging an artificial position for one rutin' Pelson Baroche strongly opposed this proceeding. M. Da- on its own Independent foundations." bieber mute r declared his adherence to the amendment of M. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The followini e Vire St. Beuve. H. Baroche observed that al the motives gentlemen having undergone the neoessaty examination others eta de diploma , were admitted members of the college or of M. Datum and General Cavaignse for adhering to f ir_ t •lr__.._, ,__ : _ e , . R. 0. Thorold , Bombay ; 3. ff of the the amendment in question, were different and in Part t g rre ti r t 7 p M• ete " o 7, ''' '' Vive totally opposed to those of M. Berryer and H. Thieve, rough ;lie S. Hounsell, Bridpott ; A. Bell B her ; R. C. E. Jordan, Teienmonth ; T. Husband sing 00 it was not regular to bring it to the vote. M. Thieve Madras; e. Lacey, Woolwich; H. N. Wrenn, Clithero main am a that 't• ed that the amendment could be very Well and T. M. Hooke, Leaden. At the same meeting of th Lid not Femoral understood by all notwithstanding the difference court Maters. H. M. Speer, T. B. Parchu, and G. H. Ed 'inner of their points of view. It meant, in fact, that wards, ;mud their examination" for naval surgeons. UNIVERSAL GAS LIGHT COMPANY.—Mr. Hardici in consequence of the fads revealed, no party ..._ _, e .. . bad confidence in Pee cabinet. After some `°"metal manager o f this company's affairs, has to enable him to proceed, obtained the books and papers from tb In" on further remarks from MM. Baroche and Thiers, the for not solicitors of Mb seupszy, on the ground t h at tkeir bill e ad that Proposition of M. St e Benve, expressing want of con- 1,1001. should be paid them, without being taxed, and pa be ima• fidence in the cabinet, was put to the vote, and carried rate withtho other creditors 915; 90 dim 24 75. .plos : lasts ... 97 25 Money. Denis Lon ...11130 7s Ditto, d 0.... 1130 76k . Bondi 004477 t Shares 2225 1e THE CANADA, Captain Harrison, wiled from Liver pool on Saturday for Halifax and Boston. MR. JOHN GEORGE PRILLIMORE has been ap. pointed by the bestehen of the Middle Temple to the chair dieser.) jurisprudence and civil law. His inaugural lea tars will be delivered in the Middle Temols Hall on Tuesday seat. the 2let instant, at 7 p.m. Mr. GEORGE LOCH has addressed the electors of the Falkirk district of Burghs, as a political and commercial reformer. Oa the subject of tree-trade, Mr. Loch says, that " though there are still some exclamations from particular interests who think their difficulties proceed from recent legis lation, his belief is, that they too:will gain by what has been done, not less th an others, while theirs will be the peculiar advantage of exchanging an artificial position for one resting en its own independent foundations." ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma, were admitted members of the college on the 17th instant ;—Messre. H. 0. Thorold, Bombay ; J. G. Porter, Peterborough ; H. S. Houuell, Bridport ; A. Ball, Banagber ; R. C. R. Jcrdan, Teignmouth ; T. Husband, Madras; J. Lacey, Woolwich; H. N. Watson, Clithero; end T. M. Hooke, Landon. At the same meeting of the court ?dears. H. M. Speer, T. B. Parchu, and G. Ed wards, passed their examinations for naval surgeons. UNIVERSAL GAS LIGHT COMPANY.—Mr. Harding, the official manager of this company's affairs, has to enable, him to proceed, obtained the books and papers from the solicitors of this sempany, on the ground that tkeir bill of 1,1001. should be paid them, without being taxed, and pro rata with tho other creditors