The Express. — London, England, 1852-01-02 00:00:00

lit • • • Cite eniressfs. • wend Salsa d " Ile Ezenie," ,ha Moe wiestesh . Oseetto," Y ealehhid Pere Testy wee •t la Om IR Ple. adoietweinrefotatimist kr " The Repose^ tandem besise pegir, wit be at the Mae 10, hosprwitente, b y Two Vilma es lb. Ise of philistine. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDOI. Tan Da7—handle. a. 33 fa. .A/Insoom, ICE. U. fe•sbnarwliersbe. aft. LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2. Taus is at least one great cause of satisfaction In the state of England at the present period, —and that is, the dame of deep dissension of any kind. Politicians, no doubt, must have their squab bles, their fallings out, and their fallings in. lint classes of different interests and different sections of =never looked with less acrimony upon each tan at present. How highly important this is, and how thankful we ought to be for the exist ence of one pervading feeling,. at • time when the population of other countries is broken up into the antagonism of clan agaituit class, need not be pointed out This • tone last year wo were in the midst of a tierce eccle si astical broil, a gi tating England, and alienating Ireland. We are glad to see so few sparks of that old flame. Bo much, indeed, has it died, that the combative party in Ireland have been obliged to fall to quarrelling amongst themselves, and hitung each other, in order, we suppose, to keep their hands in. And whether the world may not be indulged by an ecclesiastical duel between Doctors CULLVI and WHALE, is yet to be seen. And our,Fuseyites are much has rampant, and Mr. BaxMrrr himself, the saint of Pimlico, has returned from Rome so disgusted with all those things that delighted Father Newiesx, that be is about, it is said, to publish a book against Babylon. If ecclesiastical dissensions tnere, once so powerful to stir the public mind, have been allayed, there are no political or social ones. ('heap bread is an accom plished fact. And if it be true, what the Times and Mr. ('.tiara solemnly announce, that the soil of England produces no more corn than it did in 1770, when Aartica YOI:NG computed' its yield, why that is an argument for the necessity and justice of a her and larger import of corn, sufficient of itself to over whelm protection, and smother up the speeches of its benighted champion!. We do not sec, what even Mr. YOUNG and Lord GRANBY themselves could say against it. In such a country as this, the most dangerous questions, which, if misrepresented and ill-ma 'aged, might produce a schism between classes, are those of taxation and reform. Both are mooted, and actively discussed; and yet we see no symptoms whateier of any serious difference of opinion between classes. All are for an extension of the suffrage ; and no one, even before that terrible French cote, wished it universal. What could br more temperate than the united opinion of Lanca shire and Yorkshire? The operatives seemed fully acquiescent is the opinion of the employers; and we do not see that their leaders seek to excite them to diffidence or discontent. If ii4u;ii cia;•egi do not differ seriously on the great wart of reform, the opinion of every rational and liberal citizen being, that all men of any stand ing se rupedlability, whether propertied or mrning, amid be admitted to the franchise, still lam do they differ about taxation. In truth, they are but little alive to it. The middle clams, who have been mast burdened by every change, lend themselves, like sheep to the shearer ; and there is this year, we hope, same prospect of that excitement and ventilation of tart principle of taxation without doors, which lest the reform of the income-tax. We must andhostbstenthie point we should like to see each elms better informed and even a little agitated on behalf of their • interests. The farmers are stirring fast and they, or at least the landlords, will not want eirtagioas to wpm the throwing off of their imams es the amid= of the community. But middle elan and working claw are each in their way supino, and pursue that bad habit in politics of accepting a benefit in one di rection by way of obi to injustice in another, as if it were not bettor wad fairer to establish all upon as wind and just teedng. w Ta)dag damp. tbscelbro, together, than sever eithaeordlipmlissEaginadeseddlisairwitk sin security ppoow the troubles and even upon the envy at the other u Em pan power& We have writers already talking of dame. Let tu recollect that no foreign power ever dreamed of invading this country except in the belief that it contained at the time a large mese of malcontents. If NNW CIIANCIAILVIIIR in 1848 propos ed invading England with 12,000 men, it was that he counted upon an auxiliary army in the purlieus of London. BONA PASTE Wong' and the ministers of Lone XIV ., XV., and rtri., all of whom had at times the subject is 111111011ogiatisk hoped to attack or divide It maid is Moil s gad it more cowpox:V d. In tie- 111•11 11b b 1 more importance than coast Mese" wessimatelarlillhwy, linen round Chathea, Of all the joirgot si e sad commiseadet, whisk we ili MSS aeon to her. With a imbed bobs& a mad Ireland, and a Mend* slimeim—of this MA kw have seen many most eared std signilhant we may loo k with equanimity span the of the continent, and Isiah, Misr Anemia, masks the ki-to to the Qua. nes min anal te rejoin a pinnate so A or at bast a person so immoral, se the chidt the Trona TIP 111". A actuate el samehe agora ries propeseded by an organised has et ihogyinew, ita sputa, se , 'tont ly se it is wiss a ai gneeshr i i n , hard gen by ventsei to ears pill* OM the coptihle et impromasse—ar set abesielily pe astiwrl w:fect—me. was dowhil es a disable,* Wire g ani olgrady we an with the mmHg= ezhAilise a a Rari-Dreppl Clegtoe'd Liao, r , iT n y styles p long no* *Me, esisdatieg Wag edam et tam% avocados T wee eml motel dia.% wile thir sro t i umee op_ld hove Mashed the rise and the biomass ahead every salad Wailer is Imbed; Dr. Pas, perhaps, The mei at ele immemest is Dr. Hoots, the of lo la onewptie, laborious, and admirable ism. Planted ha the metre dem of ter greet ingselh► wring amen he has telly eosaprehended the greet nem al his mission seal the weight al his re sponsibilities Raying reeed Wm NNW SO clergy men, dell sham if i a in r he hes animated them with his own seal salbegarted a tow eranded unity to their which hr mode them act as one man in !bet net Add of spleited blew and has won the roped et eery friend ot religion in the kingdor. Dr, HOOIL l• a high-churchman, though ofazz liberal met. As Rural Dean of Leeds he pr over the chapter which appointed a committee to report on chuck reform ; end he himself was chair. ewe of the committee, whose report bears on its tete • marked impalas of the design principles and tee ''rap. He renew end advise in it es a high- And yet it is a irk* demognde, it might asset be Mid anti.egissepal, vinmemdp width be M bin marg. What will theical Higher of lima may at the aeonst 63= DaiNllssssttldafytncasdthehintwhiskthedyad et Edam drew out le he or his bream elthdted =tee seek an imitation el hie aseMplet A eleglim re qui* pllered sir the brier it thin Mica Tight et epleispoey, shish( and agelet int the bisimpomdageskly e - nberattingto He MEW veto, is a very Oman simealiese th= rider d a Mogen Net se missal& to taste, it Is to be hand. will be babas of shall defied peeps, sash sempeeed et some demo or half-dines et iparegild ineembente —a ram, that*, to the IMMIIaNt WI, not always war submve to Halreperieltiebiag to the wield each its own Woes of 'Mullet's& reform. Blain Dr. HOO6 ildboweee et*. character of the step ha is taking t We dial it. Hie report meet anziseely Wide on the tisdagental pree th e e " the* !report)** is to be Fingered whale end mere Nothing can be mire magma' in a yam.' chnsima. The Prayr-bech is big citadel; wile well that in the present temper a the a, a v erielseed, if the Prayer-ink wire Sine plow which hewer lie peele As asione well rem the plaint risk et bakes *sea ang THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1852. if low church rural there is another opinion, and make - reform of the Liturgy r to object to such a following of hie ewe precedent. He is too elear-sightefl a man Est to be aware that it is hapeeite to limit maalksison and reform ing plans te Sue els YLh church eheraeter. But whatever UV leDr. Hooe's feeling on the t, the lovers of bee discussion, they who think • truth op only gain from the open and un flawed atlemeace of opinion, will rejoice at tiV wow era which the Ran-Decanal Chapter of We has emmenced in ecclesiastical debate. The almelo of England has been the bondsman atlas mai esaventiouality and of a timid and often Mtge regard for decorum. Its bishops have been dial of acting or speaking manfully ; its clergy have felt the weight of episcopal timidity, and have bared above all things incurnng the reputation of Wog unsafe men with those who could exercises.* en immense influence over their fortunes. Ti he plain outspoken men,—to think and speak forties. selves,—to examine principles,—and to apply ern ls the existing constitution of the church, and be ee/prt changes, however rational or needed,—wu the meet way of being kept off the episcopal list for promotion. Dr. Molt has broken the ice; he has pointed out how clergymen may meet, die cues, and speak out; he has vindicated fur them a freedom of speech which no episcopal synod would ever have conceded. It has been a most happy qualification in Dr. HOOK for obtaining this great charter that he is a high churchman. A plan of low church reform would have raised a vehe- ment outcry. Whilst suggestions based on keeping the litany intact are welcomed with favour. But the victory is for all. It will be their own fault if evangelical deaneries fall short of the great example which Dr. Hoos has set them. Tho suggestions offered in the report embrace a great number of miscellaneous subjects, and are dis tinguished by not a little practical wisdom, and in some instances by commendable boldness. A 'short ening of the present Sunday services, especially the morning service, by the omission of parts to be introduced at a different period of the day--a short alternooa service for children and servants (a strange association of two classes of persons, who have nothing in common bat a wish not to be kept long in church), —occasional administration of the communion in the effilhises stettlaing der the working classes—week arc glivistat Wlsposed of the litany and an n ihilist el the Bible—preathings in the open air -11 Ida demur. or qedal service, on tionseoutive days at gendsuir seesese—ie mach segmessee sad con vulsive—dem esmetnaise of the wilds and his wife with young peruse lifter esedbewilem—s sew authorised, and cheap hymn-book--• huge bream; ef bias's, and still more of deacons —a better 'Why if Irish, N the itinerant literature of religion '—the desirableness of some plan of national °deaths, hi which religious training shell be an essential lisossi, hat which shall not make instruction in the astir* the doctrines of the church a condition of hillniedlS St the national schools—the supporting of mecisadd institutes and similar scientific Ibies_by dm show —them constitute the chiet recommend/Awn el this 'lied able report. is difficult to find fault with the variety of the bill of fare. Dr. HOOK and his seatutors fol low the church system out into its widest ramifica tions, and display a most laudable desire to borrow improvement from every region, from Rome and America alike. Nor is it to be denied that many of the proposed improvements possess eminent value. But one great and characteristic weakness pervades the whole —viz., the deeply-rooted dislike of appealing to the legislature of the church,—that is, to parliament, —and the settled resolution to bring forward such changes mays shall not require the sanction of that mush feared, mad, by clergymen, mach hated body. This dried of setting parliament in motion on church lagielatiom manifestly overbalances an honest desire to borers ; and Dr. HOOK, whether from per sonal - feeling or deference to others, shows the common feeling of his profession, that it is better to have the good they seek undone, than to have it dose by parliament, at tho cost of reminding the aides that parliament alone can, and therefore that parliament ought to legislate for the reform and im provement of the church. They prefer the paralysis of the church through the suspension of the functions af lawgiving and governing, to its invigoration and re saimation through the instrumentality of a legisla tare which the Church of England acknowledges to be the only one which gave that church its earliest con stitution, but which the secret feelings of the clergy, in spite of their subscription and their voluntary hold ing of office in it, dislike and disown. Not a few of Dr. HOOK'S most important reforms are marred by this overpowering defect.. It is very meihnhis to him to utter plainly what is is amp be heart--the wearisome and wholly maw =ewe church services , aggravatedby lb , be. ofloaid in a. sad &urchins, a nd stein Beam tbiilbuilisido. sad by sermons an he U keg er teseeeethe easy useheitteiL Dot, wheal. =ems& those. his swell Impend hy,bie tics Wends wilds the law, end the met be son do h to in • dilksest s mow the separateave r. pesolo. • He 'sli ght* aws ell fed, adoption el new pipe% et a nodose, inlenidennee of Mown parr enmesh Asp or eel se sellishie der even a illessedfineve u r a Ohs dew Wing espbsnot es maybe ended by t he lamb et poles' loselbien He is still num io 41=!tiered when he disown; the , 111 evidently lays the inli sha li t edifelase a lergely extended el tesshoes eft =tße donna* ings hoped the dietenete. he angisyment el .deis t West= well mph* the roped el a nun the hold& lifat lelsseessini d limpet : and be mhos Me We fres which any and pennant • el the church new be so puha The tenth is that thelft ere 'egoists sage* Embus of the &emit with fle show. law di truth home to the fall susedsowl e r it s om member el the church, and to wiry it eat in all Me heit6l rimes is the all- impart isd *clef I 1 7 alp* varms. Dr. Boost aid Ids somplOso hese Bled to ese the =lt lIIMMI.I4= be weirilsred at, if fro not Ina its P OnTRAIT or lowa HUMS, Eno., U.P. Ilk Mimosa Ins boon castrated l the Uthapaphis nor by O. B. Moak. Arm a ilsgserrootyps est NA May. sal. The likeness I. wilting. the traits en made enni eliaracterisciady animated. The Americas were at lea t. start the whams of ocenbinieg the phellegsphie eri litlogrephis arts ; the experiment. but meekly ameemag at ii t. bee, we ere bound to add, bowl Rota* impose' es is this lasteace. The habitual drawback of MOM gurreetype likenesses, their extreme sesaweasse of street, hat here been skilfelly parried without awing the resemblesee • indeed, through the tweibli spew or two essiperativi4p modern iaventipm, llfr. Sem* Hume be. found that truthful limning widish OUver Creswell in vain *mitt fir at the hands of the courtly Lily. He is pneested to se here with side-long glance, evidently listen ing to some parliamentary piece of oratory ; whether bril liant or not it would be difficult to decide, so stem and im moveable mem his well-known features. This 'print is a metal defy of theracter, and a worthy addition to the portrait gallery of melees politicians. Ip3UDDIEN DE47I Or • HOOPITAL CHAPLAIN.— Yesterday, at en lame odd by Kr. Bedford at Belot Geerge's Hospital, inhanntien trio esaverid to that ger Wean of the ashodisly seddas death of the Rev. J. B. Kawwood, reddest aloplala of tits imitative, who was found dead la bsi. Dssolusl retired to rest oa the previous night Wind heath, sad in the morning his female meet m send tusk to his amber his shaving wider. Receiving no same to bee repealed hamkings, however, she opened the Mar owl sea Is dessowl, who not replying, she op prossisi tie bpi sag Mmerneed Ms to be • «rpm, what. =1;ly samossila Mr. Hunan sad Mr. Mensy, the wee preowned to have bets SOON tins arlor a the deosesed. wbo was shoat lefty years of age, had pasolsodi Its‘ two Ms st miseita t out is sup posed Is lave AM Is the third Mime; sad Kr. Hamilton sysmibi ee vilbipmes iselrs AM death w per- Meg M ormossl MaS is WWI inquiry before Ihe swam owslisi. deco. of the OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF TRE TOTES. LOUIS NAPOLEON'S SPEECH. PARIS, Tisuuokv Moaxixo. The lifeisiniur eatable the following proclamation : TM President of he Itrosislis, upon the report of the Cessualletive Osumhelm, presimiss the result of the lens shun td= shims hr this adoption or egia *fibs " The Preach people lks the isaimisimes .. ' .. 7‘ Mis sieerri kh ly of limn Napelora= sad delsoess Is Idaho powers neemenry fir • senetinstien ups the law prenesed la his presimatlon of Den h 111111." Ths number et peens as von has been ; 7,43881 lave vessel T a s:,; s te7 Saw woad ' Ne t ' 36,830 san hare been The present hems will be published and plersd fr ha s = eannsuase ef ths repablie." TMs deem is immediately followed by ano ther, in wbieh the President, " considering that the Frisch Republic, in its new form, sae n', Ironed by suffrage of the people, may adoptwith out um die souvenirs of the empire and the symbols which recall the glory of that period ; and considering that the national Sag should no longer be deprived of the renowned emblem which con ducted our soldiers to victory in a hundred battles, decrees—l, that the French eagle shall be re-esta blished on the colours of the army; and 2, that it is also re-established on the cross of the Legion of Honour." Last evening, at half-past e' ht o'clock, the Con sultative Commission p to the Elysie, where it was received by the President of the Republic, surrounded by his ministers and his aides-de-camp. M. Earache, the vice-president, then read, and placed in the hands of the President, the following extract of the proms-verbal which declares that the number of votes given in 88 departmens, Algeria, the army and the navy,on the ph:buena of Dec. 2, was 7,439,210 in the affirmative, and 640,737 in the negative: there is another view of the Prayer-book. which i would meet with small countenance from Dr. Hoot, FRANCE. though agreeable to not a few even of the clergy them- selves. It may be, and, indeed, is cateentpely held ••+,.. •._ itbANN ..pkigiihrs i "! the Prayer-book is a compilation of eamiliedng d : s , ~ 7 I ' l '•?••• matte—undigested into a harmonica, leale700111) - ; • • ' borrowed from ages when the eldieeklMes ac l ol4 o lo - uls tt : LER I LEOT - , :AT rrii iin 'di !edged to be corrupt—and, iispoine parts •. • . .. irreconcileable contradiction tEe ... . . if low church rural deaneries proclaim 'such an 'HT SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH. opinion, and make it the basis of an agitation for a (MON ova OWN CONINSTONDIIWZI reform of the Liturgy ? Dr. HOOK will not be able to object to such a following of his own precedent. PARIS, Faunas MONNING. He is too clear-sighted a man not to be aware The Tuileries will benoefortk bs the Mike' nisi- that it is impossible to limit manifestoes and reform- dews of t h e president. ammo op Doc. 31, 1861. The Consultative Commission charged by the decree of December 14 to proceed to the general verification of the vette given upon the project of plebiscite 'proposed on De ember 2 by the President of the Republic for the weepi er°, of the French people. After having examined in its bureaus, and during the sittings of the 24th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 291, 30th, and 31st December, the returns of the election prepared in the different departments of the re public, and is all the core composing the army of the land and sea, which return have been transmitted to the commis sion by the Ministers of the Interior, War, and Marine; after having in the general meeting of this day heard the reports which have bees made to the commission from each of its bureau ; considering that it is established by the derma= submitted to its examination that the election has been freely and regularly accomplished ; that if the re turns of the election prepared in the department of the Bares-Alpes, as well as in some communes of two depart mute, and in a part of Algeria, have not yet arrived at the Ministry of the Interior, it is & and proper, seeing the immense majority °blabbed by tbeirojeet of plaiscite, and not to delay the proclaimed= of &a vote, to take provi sionally se a basis, and saint ft ulterior verifications for those naom, the numbering= by the correspondence of the prefects,aed with respect to Algeria to reckon only the votes known up to the present time; declares that it results from the general verificatioa of the votes given upon the project of the plebiscite of December 2, mad from the general table which has been prepared, and will be annexed to the re tarn—That the /palletize bearing the word "Yee" are in number 7,439,216; them bearing tho word "No, " 640,737 ; the bulletins declared void are 36,880. The Consultative Commission decides that it will go this evening at half -past Bto the Elyria to present the result of the general verification to the President of the Republic. A counterpart of these minutes, 4ned by the vies-president and secretaries, shall be address= to the Minister of the Interior, to be deposited in the national archives. Done at the Palace of the Quai d'Orsay, at a gestural meeting of the Coosultative Commission, the 31st ber, 1861. BAsocits, Vine-Preddent of the Consultative Commission. DIZAZD, Puts LIIII•LLItti, Di MOttITIZ/L, %MAIM" BOOST, Da PLANCT, DATAILI" Secretaries. lit. Bartsch° then spoke u follows : Monsieur lo President,—ln making an appeal to the French people, by your proclamation of December 2, you said : "Ise toper will bold a power which is powerless to do peed, and whisk chains me to the helm while I behold the vessel driving towards en abyss. If you have confidence in me, give or the moo of accomplishing the great !Ma slen which I bell ben yea." Te that loyal appeal, node to its conscience end its sore 'sleety, the w atio bee reepoiled, by an imams, ochres. Oa by upards of DIMS lisit bar bodied thew and woo Ten Primes, non has soldiers in k Ile las assidense in your eseeeipe, is your oohed and is year love for her! And they eeeloor 'Nib she hoe Jot given of that feet hse nor theme gleilres that It h alto three you' of a geornoest, the pre dates and peldellia of which it thus ousierelev the Has ondsle _dared the died tif Dee. 10, apse hiss 111411, wn Idemedfeop le wo f Has rthy of Ise the p be rightly erliereed the =irks that he sesolved Let that gerren be sited of the soon Wiles of votes Oda have sew esnliesed the hews oirlate, 'vest add. Op to it a =ovenbird's end Mae old' =Mdse. Mover be any onntiy hes the nellsol WA be. se o ho* inellholed. Mot did oy grommet diets soh ea male/ of siesed—riner hod it • ewes =On got =re kitting= lad men worthy of the respect of (Appealman.) Übe pressies. Priarsot this govenunent, whist' bee hen so dee* eiridsd to ye= Use it in other le de _ idsee the flodmeentsl beim wlie the alinillerle have eineorelei by thole Men Re in Naos the riot* et ealbed= 'shish has boo lee =ire shaken hello bit ileispenisanalzean siedlinalelorsik =l s te gise ll nadellens. psi sagaeletego Oho nay wbishyea hive to par aod inggeoe. er dies hoe boa dregaillose facts and hong= mimes. Ray Its., be et hag= delivered AM Doe Nada wt's see always rev* he soft mod pl. lego—of tries men who is thL rolney les the Meow of elvalestho sled wbo, by awards, dr mos r=ssat ' se to carry us Ave eintnries (Lind met) Prier" ea the led of Deeer_aberiee tea *pro mirk " France regerneled by the Rovidien et IXI4 and eqpv ahs_ u ly the Imam ^ that to lo way. a who as wise. .a hong Ind res by dL WTerar ese end year patriotism realise idea. Resign to this ocientry, so rah, so hill of life nod of fours preeperi s a iss r e. greatest of all biessap—esdrs, stability, as with energy the wide et= as welt Tosirries have saved Ammo, the whole of Deno trot an intern= easser, sal added to pear ame a seer sad ismosislabie glory. Comiderable applause Sallemsd this address, to wins **Ply width the President of the RepabLio rude the fol- lademea,—Presee Laosespeakt W the hysl appeal Ala I weds te her. She his assissehewisi that I tle. MOM hese *Why sal, le Mesa te sljobe. • 17pwsrds of sews wilier et owes lave jast shistreft ea est whist had se ether elfeet te ewe Frame. sae Pinslis &Met I Ilea km pea Ia yeses of lasable sad starchy. Frame. ) mbi eansei law oedema esi ersaliseses this sualfisleilea hes hew If I essiestakle west, sa Ibis Manse sikeslea. I aye frees pull* lett busses ft ghee we the hoe te speak sad sit es becesses the heed of grew swim like oars. (Loud Mee of Bravo.") - - - I undersbad sli the imam el sow minima, aad I do not deceive speelt es le ih DO whh ea up right heart, with the eewpateliew 0 A MIS who, like yew, ill iambi au with tbek ell awl rapport ow with their jaliellm, with the heeeliaa et ewe e velwal vela the yealeslioa whisk I vial P whisk Ihe leariewew bum& llama le I Wi n , hope to woke werlh a rtlre psi* iISIiSSOAS 11081 la ne—(hmei MI —I hope is .raw. the deel el Frame by aslitutiewe ell& seepead at the onetime to the imaisels et the melee, esd le the gamier sapesual valve to have bowsaw& a Mew wadi geweessraL (Wens oohs at wilbedea.) In fogr i gt sethhelles le Ow aigeweise at the ra y, by er2Lehm .! rilliwhisk esemetitales astbseley, without l ledles el equality, tad elem. desiog Day p 'r" l " d ' i 3 inyeeveneat, h le by the hesialion at the only edible aerobia ef auggetthig a wise awl beseleiwt Mem. Cries at" Vire Nvoletar le Pelisident r were then sad s sonvereation took plass be tween the aid asocial inenhers of the which hated about twenty minutes. et the Chneadtative Coma pre met their esniestnialiens. and seas or the members remaimed seavenatien with him till the arrival d the dipieneatie imps, which prentatly saesealed. Tide was presented by the apostoli• arm* sad ro esoved without any and archbishop, the metropolitan chapter, and the ,of Paris were then received. The szchbish p roiled himself as follows: . L - r ielPreeideit,—We come to present yea our fir lieltatleas and good wiriest What we an gehapt te do to morrow, we will do reify day of the year about to commence. We will pray to God with fervour for the curses of the high mission welded to you ; for the peace sod prosperity of the republic ; fro the union and concord of all citizens. t But, in order that they may be ell good citizens, we will pray God to make them good Christians. The President thanked the archbishop for having recommended to the Divine protection acts which bad been inspired by the sentiment which dictated these words —" Let the good take heart, and let the winked tremble." The doyen of the clergy of Paris, the venerable curate of St.Nieolas, 87 years old, briskly approached the President, and said, with a gay tone, " I am happy, Monseigneur, to say to you with the prophet, 'the work of God will succeed, whatever may happen '" In the sitting of the Consultative Commission yes terdiv, M. Segue d'Aguesseau proposed that the President should be invited to take up his abode at the Tuileries. M. Baroche answered that they ought to leave the President to take spontaneously all the measures that he should deem necessary to raise the majesty of the executive power. The motion was then withdrawn. . The following monstrous decree appears, restrict -111:1g oven conversation as well as wnting upon poli tical matters': The President of the Republic, on the report of the keeper of the seals, insister of justice ; considering that among the Abeam tomesen by the law in vigour on the press, those whisk are committed by means of speech, such as verbal °Mimeos ar seditious cries, have considerably mul tiplied ; con that the attribution to the Court of Assizes of the of them 0.1110118 renders the re pension thereof mid ed disomisua ; considering that it is a principle that laws of psoindani sad competi tion are immediately applicable to alibi not yet tried, decrees that this oryaknoce of all offenses mmtoesplated by the laws apes dm press, and committed by word of mouth, is Mlediered apes the tribunals of this aorreetkmed police, these Wham& will take cognisance Odom orgasm which have been committed anteriorly to the present decree, and which have not hitherto been tried " mmtradictoirement." The prosecutions will be conducted according to the forms and redes prescribed by the code of criminal instruction for correctional jurisdiction. Thursday being kept as a grand national holiday, the Post-office and the public offices were closed at noon. The Bourse was also closed. Our Paris correspondent's parcel of last evening had not arrived at the hour of going to press. We take the following from our correspondent's letter of Wednesday, which should have arrived yesterday: PARIS, WEDNIIIDAT EVRNINO. To account for the contradictory views which ap pear in papers, all of which are equally . devoted to the government, and under its control, it is necessary to understand that the policy of the Elyski is no more single and determined under the auspices of M. de Mornay, than it was in the days of M. Leon Faucher's ministry. There are still two parties there in constant antagonism, the sanguine imperialists and the moderate party, who lean towards consti tntionalism. M. de Morney, after the comple tion of the coup d'etat and the result of the elec tions, is disposed to give way to the moderato party on some points, but he is inflexibly opposed to liberty of the press. The Princess Mathilda and General St. Arnaud, are leading influences in the other party, but the presiding genius of the latter is M. de Muntalembert, who urges the President to get rid of the Republic with all despatch, and to assume the imperial purple. The jesuits desire a pure des potism. During the few last days it is said that the moderate party has gained ground. This is sup. ported by Veron, who is not without hope of tamper ing the insane ambition of the military, set with some cool drops of reason. It is even maid that Uiranlin is not idle in promoting a movement in this direc tion, for at present the frantic imperialism professed in certain quarters, put forth in the Petrie, is hailed by all the shreweder observers of the career of Louis Napoleon as a certain prognostic of his speedy down fat. Great efforts are making to reconcile some of the working conservatives and legitimists to the Elyike. The latter hold off resolutely ; but some of the con servatives are said to waver, and even to covet the lucrative post of senator. Up to this morning, I am able to guarantee this news as official, no judicial body whatever had as yet received an invitation to the receptions to morrow, at the Tuileries. Doubtless, this afternoon, the omission will be repaired. But the cause of the delay is, doubtless, the undisguised displeasure of the Elyse() at the reserved attitude of these bodies. It is not yet decided whether the sitting of the courts-martial are to be public or not. It would be unexampled in France for trials by such tribunals to go on with closed doors. Even the revolutionary tribunal held its sittings publicly. The arbitrary powers given to themilitary commis sioners, which were intended at first to act as a sort of grand jury to the courts-martial, is a subject of m oral and indignant complaint. These commis- Woes asquit prisoners, or pronounce upon their pen tane of transportation to Cayenne, without even burin the persons interested. Tho following story Is current to-day among circles , usually well informed. I live it, however, with all reserve. It is certain, however, that the strange recital was prevented by the autho rities from appearing in the Public, a paper set on foot by a party of the Ely ! ee. Two or three days ago as the President was coming out of the Elyste he vru shot at by a sentry belong ing to the grenadier company of a regiment of the line. The man was immediately arrested, tried at once by a court-martial, and shot by some sol diers of his own regiment in a corner of the garden of the Elysee. MT informant says that the authori tative details of this tragic affair were sent to all the government journals ; but that after the story was actually in type, orders were sent that it should not be published. The Decembrists employ every possible means to make the illumination of to-morrow night as general as possible. I believe that candles would, if the thing could be done without drawing down the seousge r at i rseral ridicule, be distributed at private home by those organised emissaries. But one thing certain, that the decree which delivers over song ma and tavern in Paris to the tender mercies OIL i Maupas will operate as a "salutary terror" In stimulating all establishments of that description to Hone oat as ostentatiously as powalle. In fact, so little shame or scruple attends the vindictive mea sures of the police, that one can hardly doubt that a cafe which refused to illuminate would be immedi ately closed. If lam rightly informed, the commis saries of each arseudieossnent have sent round agents to signify to all sohnoisets and ear& that it will be taken as a pledge of their good disposition in Avow of order to light up au brilliantly as panda If, after all dues mans, the should be a failure, it will ho apf that the algative voters are not ltamood R to avow their sontbnents. ;lire iliskatemem- bars ar the Left=and amen them of addicting themselves to agitation, tie object being to, haws them, by the taw of impingement, to adherel or to expatriate themselves. Eugene Sue, whose eked= was the determining came of the law of the 31st May, and who has thus had a singular inflame in the turn events have taken, is said to have taken rehr in Piedmont. Oeniller, socialist Willitiate in 1849, Vubenter, editor of the Peuple, and 66 other prisoners were liberated yesterday. It is expected that there will ho an extensive amnesty granted to-morrow, on the Osission of the ceremony. _ . The Bulletin de Poi:is, alluding to the various stejsetares now afloat as to what the tenor of the sew constitution will be, says that they are all wrong, and that one of these fine mornings the Mon steer will surprise everybody. I can only say that it will surprise me if it should promulgate a constitution containing anything but a mockery of representative government. The same journal, speak ing of the reception at the Tuileries to-morrow, says that people are saying in the streets to-day, " Who has so good a right to inAabit them as Louis Napo- leon P" A medal is to be struck in commemoration of the election of December 20 and 21 ; them is to be a holiday is all the lyceums and colleges from January Ist to 4th; and in further celebration of the event the Prefect of the Seine, with the authorisation of the Minister of the Interior, has placed at the disposal Pads 64: mayor,/ er Pads a rem of 86,000 f., to be dis t ted =soft the poor of the capital. &R unic touncil of La Fre has been dis eolsied by the, rifle of the Aisne. A committee of five members was immediately appointed to transact the necessary business. The Monsieur Algeria* of the 23th states that on the following day a general disarmament of the national guard was to take place, by order of the governor-general. At the Bourse the Five per Cents. rose 63c., closing at 101.00; the Three per Cents. rose 75, and closed at 67.20. Railways were well supported. Northern rose 11&. 23c. ; Marseilles, 20fr. ; Strasbourg, l 13fr. 76c. SPAIN. MADRID, Dsc. 25. The government goes on unhesitatingly with its system of ex-parliamentary law making. The Ga zette of yesterday contained a decree authorising officers of the army to demand their being put on the retired list. This measure, which apparently indi cates a desire to promote retrenchment, is really meant to facilitate the entry in the army of persons of the upper classes, with whom the service is be coming popular, the army and the priesthood at the present time bidding fair to be the principal stepping-stones to power. There is another decree, enacting a measure that has been loudly called fur by commercial men. It does away with one of the most onerous burdens to which inland commerce has hitherto been subjected. It is no longer necessary for merchandise that is carried into the inland parts of tho country to have the excise seals, nor to be escorted by a custom-house guide. Tho Gazette of to-day publishes a decree of some interest to ship-owners. The bill presented to the Chamber of Deputies enacting that the duties paid by native and foreign bottoms in Spanish ports be divided into two classes, viz., mooring duties, and loading and unloading duties, is to have the force of law. Spanish vessels are to pay one real per ton anchor. age duty, and the eighth of a real per quintal for loading or unloading, and foreign vessels double. To understand the exorbitance of these duties, let us examine what a vessel of 000 tone would have to pay, viz.:— Anchorage duty lOOO rcals Loading Unloading £5O Besides this, there will be the usual little expenses, such as quarantine duty, the light-house tax, and others. Vessels of more than 20 tons and less than 80, will pay half the anchorage duty. These duties are paid but in one port. Steamers that bring pas sengers will pay every voyage. The receipts of these imposts arc for the defraying of the cleansing and repairing of the ports. 'lke government proposes tol levy these contributions, and use them by way of loan for the defraying of the most urgent expenses of the porta. The Gazette also publishes the amor tisation of the debt by debits and conversions during the years 1849 and 1830, and the first quarter of 18451. According to this statement, the debt has diminished, by the amortisation of debits, 1,442 mil lions capital and 237 millions in interest. Dec. 27. Tho Gazette of to-day contains a royal decree, countersigned by Don Mariano Miguel de Iteinoso, Minister of Fomento, directing that the railways from Aranjuez to Almansa, and from Alar to San tander, shall be begun within a delay of six months at furthest. The railway from Aranjuez to Almansa shall be undertaken according to the following con ditions: The construction of the works is to bo contracted for. Tenders will bo admitted during the space of six months. The government will issue the shares, which are to bear interest at 6 per cent. and one per cent. amortisation. Tho government will issue the shares as fast as they become necessary for the pay meat of the works that will bd making. The go vernment will lay before the Chambers an account of the issue of the shares. The government will make a free grant of the public land which the railway and its dependencies will occupy. The workmen on the railroad are to enjoy the privileges of citizenship as regards the availing themselves of timber, pasture, die., in the villages near which they will work. The contractors will have the faculty of opening quarries, collecting atones, building lime-kiln4and brick-kilns, depositing materials, and establishing workshops in public lands, cutting timber in the forests belonging to the state, on paying the value of the same. The contractors will not have to pay custom-house, turnpike, or harbour dues for the materials, carriages, cattle, or persons belonging to the railway. The guarantees for the shares will be the country, the railway itself, the products of the same, the voluntary subscription of the provinces by means of their deputations, and a sub scription under the form of an increase of their con tributions. The corporations of localities can sub scribe for shares, and pay them with the product of communal property. The government can, if it be judged expedient, prolong the time in which the works contracted for are to be con cluded. In the preamble to the decree the minister says that there reigns throughout the country an obstinate drought, which threatens to cause a great diminution of labour, and it is there fore necessary to provide as much work as possible for the poor, especially in undertakings of great na tional importance. The government con firm s the company in the definitive concession of the Alar and Santander Railway, and giants a subsidy of sixty millions of teals, payable in railway shares, and 6 per cent, on the capital invested by private persons in the undertaking. The government will issue railway shares for the amount of the subsidy, in proportion as the works are forwarded. From the Ist of January no letters will be received in any of the ministerial offices unless prepaid. The mode of governing the country by decrees, though it ham not yet been clamoured against in pub lic, is beginning to excite alarm amongst the depu ties of the country. Don Jose Xifre has published the letter by which he renounces the charge of deputy. The letter, which is powerfully written, states that as the ministry seem determined to modify laws that the legislature have passed, change the tariff at their will, augment the pension of a princess from 500,000 reels to 2,000,000, and raise loans without consulting the two Chambers, he considers that the legislature has no real existence, and resigns his seat for the town of Arenys de Mar To-day the members of the opposition hold a meet ing to form a committee for the purpose of drawing up a manifesto to the nation, protesting against the very unconstitutional mode of governing the country. The greater dart of therm, however, only go pro fornel, every ono being firmly convinced that in the present state of apathy, the ministry might annuli the constitution in form aa it has already . in reality, without a finger being stirred. The diminishing the pensions of the weave classes has of course excited much animosity 'against the cabinet here in Madrid, where half the educated classes almost depend upon the state for subsistence ; and it is an gri ly remarked that the army, which has always been accustomed to go threadbare and insufficiently clad, is now remarkably well dressed , each infantry soldier having lately received, besides his new regimentals, a handsome capote with its capuoha, and is better fed and paid than he has ever been ; while the civil pensioners' claims are continually staved off at the pay alma ITALY. ROME, Dac. M. Political opinion is in a kind of lull here just now, and endless processions and church ceremonies occupy the time which must elapse before we get news of the vox populi in France, with respect to the knotty decision proposed by the President. This result is looked forward to with great anxiety by the govern of his Holiness, whose agents, as well as the French military authorities, are kept continually on the qui vivo to repress any disturbance that may be excited by it in these parts. An inconceivable state of alarm prevails at Civita Vecchia, the garrison of which seaport is kept under arms with an assiduity and caution that could not be surpassed in an actual state of hostilities; but whether it is against a disembarkment of fuffitive socialists from France, or an overwhelming inva sion from the refractory army in Africa, that the attention of the commandant in Civita Vecchia is directed, does not very clearly appear. It is certain, however, that something hostile is expected from the sea, as a steam-frigats is kept continually cruising off that port, and detachments of dragoons patrol the seacoast, eastward and westward of the town every night. In Rome a very unfounded feeling of uneasiness prevails also, and the night patrols have of late been stronger than usual. Five persons were arrested in the cafe opposite the Valle theatre, two or three nights ago, on suspicion of being connected with the, as yet, unravelled mystery of the secret press. It is customary with the police authorities to overhaul the pockets and persons of whatever actors may resort to the capital at the commencement of the Carnival theatrical season, in order to make sure that they are not Mazzinian emissaries under the disguise of the Thespian sock and buskin ; and, as the actors of the Valle theatre usually congregate every evening in the cafe opposite, the abirrt have a convenient oppor tunity of nabbing them there altogether, as it were in a trap. This was effected the other evening —the polioe agents entered, the doors were shut, and no one was allowed to go out before having been sub jected to the required personal examination. Tho actors were not found to have anything criminal in their possession, but under the table of another party, who were playing at dominoes, a packet of forty clandestine publications was discovered, to the great consternation of the party, who declared they knew nothing about it. Whether the papers were dropped by a young man who a moment before approached the table to bespeak the dominoes, or whether they were placed there by the Sherri themselves, in order to have a pretext for arresting some obnoxious indi viduals, is uncertain. They marched elf the unfor tunate prisoners, who will be long ere they have any other lodging than the dismal political dungeons to which they were immediately consigned. ROMAN STATES. The Osserratore Roman" states that the receipts of the pontifical customs for this year will tqual, if not exceed, those of the most prosperous years. GERMANY. BERLIN, Dim. 29. M. von Bilk, Danish ambassador at Vienna, and M. von llnelow, Danish plenipotentary at the Frankfort Diet, have arrived here from Vienna, where they had a conference last Wednesday with Prince Schwarzenhurg, and, as the newspapers sur mise, came to an agreement on the Holstein ims tion. The Danish government is said to consent to a reinstitution and convocation of the old states of the duchies, but not without previously ordering new elections. The Castle of Sondcrburg, in the island of Alsen, is being prepared for the reception of the Assembly. Orders having been also given for put ting in order the Castle of Gmvenstein, in Schles wig, it is assumed that the King of Denmark in tends taking up his residence there fur a time. The directors of the }Loyal Bank of Berlin have given notice that, in consequence of the accumulation of cash in their coffers, they can receive on interest no deposits, except from such public bodies whose funds they are bound by legal prescription to take. Considering that the bank only gave 2 per cent. for money repayable on demand, the fact that it is flooded with cash proves how injuriously the mo nopolising of banking transactions by government acts on the monied interests. While the best mort gages pay 4 per cent., priority railway shares, the Berlin city stocks, and even the new loan, 5 per cent., there certainly could he no difficulty in making interest on deposits, if there were only several good private banks at hand. But as there is only the government bank, conducted on official and not mercantile principles, the employment of money on personal security is r restricted within very narrow limits; and when capitalists, as at present, having collected their funds, are inclined to defer for a while permanent invest ment, they find no establishments ready to under take temporary application of cash. The opposition of government to the free establishment of private banks, arises from the undefined fear that a moneyed power might arise which it would be difficult to con trol. Independently of this, there exists too a notion that by restricting personal credit, the demand for government securities is in creased, and the price of stocks bolstered up. The folly of attempting to save an outlay fur inte rest, by sapping the whole sources of income, and propping the state's credit by impoverishing the na tion's means! Dec. 30. M. Persigny, after acquitting himself of his mis sion to the Diet, is to proceed to Vienna, where, it is said, he is commissioned to propose in Louis Bona plate's name a marriage with Princess Amalie, of \Vasa, grand-daughter of the exiled King of Sweden, and also, I believe, of Stephanie, Dowager Grand Duchess of Baden, niece of Josephine. If I mistake not, Stephanie's daughter married Gustav the Fourth's son, the Austrian Field-Marshal Prince Was., who has the highest influence at the court of Vienna, and that from this marriage was born the princess for whom Louis Bonaparte now proposes. The Bavarian Chambers have granted about four millions and a half, to be appropriated in four years to the construction of railways at the public charge. VIENNA, Dec. 21. The Wiener Zeitung of this morning contains an imperial letter, addressed to Baron Krauss in the following terms : Dear Baron Krauss,—lce consequence of your request, communicated to me on the 21st inst., I bare resolved to remove you with favour from the post of my Minister of Finance. In consideration of the great services which in difficult times you have rendered to my house and the state, I grant to you the gran d crow of my Order of St. Leopold, and call you to my imperial council, where I promise myself important service from your knowledge, long expe rience, and tried seal. Fasts: Jossra Vienna, Dec. 26. . _ The same Gazette contains a letter to the Chevalier von Baumgartner, Minister of Commerce and Public Works, appointing him to the finance ministry, ' which he is to discharge conjointly with his present duties. Baron Kmuss was appointed to his present office in April, 1848,, when he succeeded Baron Teak, who quailed before the perils of that stormy period. The allusion to difficult times is by no means an idle expression in this case. Krauss was the only minister left in Vienna when the Emperor Ferdinand and the court fled from the city on the night of October 7, 1848. Latour, the Minister of M ar, had fallen a victim to the popular excitement, occasioned by his sending troops to assist the Ban in crushing the Hungarians. No ill-feeling was exhibited towards Krause, who however had a most difficult part to play. Ho found himself the pos senor of a sealed document, which proved to be a proclamation denouncing the Viennese, and inform ing them that the Emperor had left to find means for bringing them to obedience. Krause referred it at once to the Diet, but refused to add his ministerial countersignature, or identify himself with it in any way. He has continually pursued a like policy, has confined himself to his own non-political department, and thus is the least unpopular of any of the past revolutionary ministers. Dif ficulties ho lass had, many and great, but they are clearly traceable to the absurd war-budgets which have been forced on him. As for M. von Baumgart ner, it is ridiculous to suppose that he can be main tained in his new post, unless it is intended to do grade the office to a clerkship, and settle financial measures in the Raicharath. The journals to-day discuss the causes and probable consequences of Lord Palmerston's retirement. With the exception of Lloyd, which abuses not only the ex-minister, but those who remain behind, all observe a certain propriety and moderation of tone. The following published list of the subscriptions to Baron Krause's late live per cent. loan proves that a larger amount was contributed within the empire than has been supposed. The publication of names also shows the terrorism that was employed to get it taken and bears out the assertion that it was the only thing which could have been worse than a forced loan, viz., • begged loan, the subscriptions to which were made • pspolitical question. In Austria below the Ems were subscribed Vienna, 40,267,10011.; in other places, 267,3008. In Austria, above the Ems, 394,00011. ; Salzburg, 101,8001 ; Stiennark, 313,0001 ; Carinthia, 60,M08.; Carinola, 108,7001 ; Bohemia, 4,798,601.; Moravia, 1,708,0008.; Silesia, 317,6008.; Gallicia, 443,7001 In the Bukowina, 100,0001; the Tyrol, 721,00011.; Kilstenlande, 2,118,20011.; I)almatia,66,Booll.; Hungary ,1,701,20011.; Servia and the Banat, 211,3009 .; Transylvania, 168,0008. ; Croatia, 86,00G1 ; Lombardy, 24,3008. ; Venice, 4,00011. Total, 63,152,601. It will be re marked that the Italian subscriptions are the lowest, the rich city of Venice having only contributed 4,0009. (4001.) Among the foreign subscribers are published the names of Paul Stetten and Schatzler, of Augsburg; Hope and Siebel, of Amsterdam]