The Express. — London, England, 1852-12-13 00:00:00

the Orpreao. TO (•" IR! t ON OKNTF. l'Alique .1" e.r L.pre.," eirsithiac; Ito nem. neolrt. " Gasette."l. publighld ,'et Tends, mil 11r.eal ~411. t. 1. ta re ket pail. allgertrobw.loord..l.or Meer-"," Limas, lkyruaig the Mt , '. 1 0 . Soumrti.orvet, Teu • 'r.oek ee :be 4.17 of ogimma.. 111.1 H WAI MK IT I.OIIIPON RIZIDOR Tn• 011, - , 40, 34 132, 1.41311a11W--Norawa 41.42 a LONDON. MOND.4 T. DECEMBER 13. To-sumer the I louse of Commons is to continue its discussion ut the Budget ; and in the performance of that duty a ill hate to deal with the various points sonnecte el with Mr. Disaamot's proposition,—not in the natural ender of their various importance, but rather with the view of doing what may he beat done ', with the scheme as it hat pleased its author to place it before the House. k:very item has by this time been canvassed in every part of the kingdom where pockets ale to be meddled with, nod from every gust ter t lie re-pouse seems pretty mach alike. East and west, north and south, thechief feeling Is disappoint- ' ment mingled with disgust. At first blush people were inclined to give some ear to the lenient...a of the Cusses:Liam of the Elms:tit:Ea in favour of ex tending direct taxation; they thought they saw in his tea project at least au instalment of fiscal reform, and with the generosity which the nation is ever ready to manifest towards a repentant for they were ball ready to hail Mr. lotsuAru as a Free Trade convert, striving, so far as lie could, to prove his sincerity in his new political faith by the offer of an extension of that free commerce it was so long his business to oppose. A week has elapsed since his ire-hours-lung explanation, and the film has moved of the julthe sight. They non see that instead of being either Literal or Free Treling the Budget is a•thing lee. than a combination of blunder and sham. When - he meddles with the Excise, Mr. DisnvEtt selects a tat always more readily paid than any other, and, with the false pretence of relieving agriculture generally, would in fact throw two millions and a LLB chiefly into the pockets of the great brewers—al small margin of the huge sum falling to the share of those few l'rotectionist landlords who have fine barley-growing land. lied he honestly wished and wisely gone to work to reform Excise duties, be would have selected an article like soap, fur instance, and have moved the manufacture of the commodity entirely out of the clutch of the exciseman, by abolishing the whole tax upon it. The people would then at once have had cheap soap; cleanliness,—the virtue ranked in old days in England as next to godliness,. —would have been promoted. and, through it, health also. The soap-makers would have had the same chance the glass-makers had some time since, and the national wealth would assuredly have grown by the fetters being stricken from the limbs of a valuable branch of commerce. Sup contributes less than one-fourth as much as malt gives to the revenue, and it is twice as needful to the people. Every infant, every growing child, every woman in the empire, needs soap, but a large section of them [WC no malt. 'Taking into account the relative ages, cir cumstances, and tastes of the twenty-six millions forming our population, not more than one-third, at the very outside, an be classed as beer-drinkers. Thai we have two good and solid reasons why an article like soap should have been set free before malt; first, because the abolition of the tax would have cost leas (malt giving in the year end ing January, 1852, upwards of tire millions thirty five thousand pounds sterling, whilst soap gave but one million and forty-three thousand and twenty seven pounds) ; and, second, because twenty-six . millions of peisons are soap consumers, whilst cer tainly less than nine millions consume malt. In the sense, then, of national benefit the proposal to sacrifice half the Malt 'fax in preference to giving all the heap Tax, at a far smaller loss to the revenue, is a palpable Blunder. Mr. Inca %ELI might possibly reply that he wished to take off more than the total amount paid on soap—might declare he wished to take off taxes to the tune of fully two and a half millions,—as on malt, —instead oriels than one and a quarter, as on soap. If this was his plea let us inquire whether the Blonder is any the less. Malt, in the year ending January 6, 1852, pro duced— £6,031,569 0 0 11.11 of which is Instead of touchint half the Malt Tax—to make 113 huge a gap in the national resources, lake-Mg the cost of collecting the whole tax to be an incubus upon the remaining half of it—a Chancellor of the Exchequer who kucw his duties and desired to do them, might for that sum of 2,317,;94f. 10s. have removed, not one half, but the whole tax from the following articles, producing the following sums:— Coffee t Butter i Cheese limbo./ earri.ges Casdlos sad tallow Timber i BJap 1:2,413,48$ I,eouctiep this total from the half of the Malt Tax w e see that for 102,0004 • year less than Mr. DISRAELI to throw off the Malt Duties, we might vs Free Trade in Coffee, Butter, Cheese, Soap, C.,odles, Tallow, Timber, and Hackney Carriages. This view of the case surely aggravates rather than lessens the contemplated Blunder. But the CHAN EELLoR of the Exenetwea has other views. He wants to provide o Compensation" for the landlords, and he says that taking off one-half the Malt Tax will afford this. Here again he reckons falsely. His plan will give nothing I:ke general,—indeed, it can give only very partial,—advantage to the landlords. It has already been fully demonstrated that only on certain limited spotscan the reduction of the Malt Tax have any sensible influence in raising the price of produce, and the bulk of the repealed tax must fall into the hands of the huge monopolist brewers. The benefit even to them is very doubtful, inasmuch as every increase to their present enor mous profits makes more manifest the need, and more early the day, fur • revision of the licensing system which must split up their monopoly altoge ther. This part, then—the " compensation" part— of Mr. insasr.l.l's project is as great a Sham as the other portion is a Blunder. , Though the debate to-night is really on the whole of the Budget, it is nominally on that first Resolution which, if passed, will double the House Tax. On this resolution the division at the close of the debate will be taken. Unless this double House Duty is conceded, the Malt Tax cannot come off, and the Conjuror will be stopped in his career of cajolery and mistakes. All those then who object to a• portion of the Budget will, by voting with the Ministers on the House Tax, practi cally be sanctioning what is objected to. A vote in this case cannot be regarded as • vote upon the prin ciple of a tax on houses. We already have such a tax, and the principle therefore is conceded. No new vote is wanted to show that the Iluuee of Commons is inclined to grant • tax on dwellings. The vote now pencang is, in fact, one on the question whether a tax is to be doubled or not. Such is the clear and simple point at issue, and the opposition to this doubling of that Tax is ea noble and upright as was the opposition to Ship Money or any other national negative ever entered against an unjust demand. The essential restore of the Budget is its total lack of principle. It touches all branches of the revenue--Customs, Excise, Assessed Taxes—but each without any broad rule of policy, any guiding, statesmanlike intention. It would upset revenue seemingly in sheer ignorance of the smellier done, and would transfer burthens an though 'Englishmen were too dull to see the injustice so clutosilj hidden during .he attempted trick. A vote on this trick—a vote on thir attempt to double the tax on our houses—is the vote now impending, and the division lists upon it will show who are the men the 'furies can bully, buy, or cajole into auppuiting Mr. DISILAELCA Budget of Blunders out Shouts. NA VIII 13/REAFORI , has,—Forth in his evidence and ` t in his currespondence,—given ue ratio r no i ns t ruct i ve glimpse of bow the *lnt ice manage elections. A rude of mosims, if me of morality, rirght be drawn up from the B).CRCTAILT•AT- WAR'S late contributions to the inner life of Tor tactics. First of nU, the Tories have a great club in London,—the Carlton ; a very proper, coalmen: l / 4 1de, and agreeable institution, no doubt. when used for the legitimate club purposes lof meeting and associating together : reading newe papere in the morning ; writing letters to save the post in the afternoon; eating well-dressed cutlets ' ' and sipping good sherry at easy rates in the even -1 tett ; and for all the other useful purposes a club , I may be put to. But the Carlton Club, it seems, is much noun than at. ordinary, common-place political club. It is a sot tof re-union fur " managing the elections;" for providing "good men" as cauldittates; and for sending down "sate and quirk men," when wanted, for such places as Derby. For these ends it constituted, it would further appear, Major Besesroen its captain-general. Ile had a " private room" assigned him ; he had funds provided him; in his turn employed ageuts--amongst other. the trail Mr Feats, at 3001. a year; he had authority to open other members letters, and [an swer them; lie had a network of correspondence land communicution spread over the whole kingdom; and it all centred in the Carlton Club, and in his private roue" there. In au electioneering sense,', , the l'ariton Club is a great power in the king don, and of it Major limiest-lien was the Prime Minister; and Mr. hem a paid agent. Whether Mr. Fast,. was also a member of the club does nut appear; probably, however, he only had the run of the kitchen ; occasionally hobnobbing with the Major in his " private room." Thus we get at a general conception of how the Tories manage things at elections. A great club provides large fund., and appoints an unscrupulous gentleman to dispense them; he employs subordinate persons to run over the country, and be here, there, and everywhere, us occasion requires ; he gets into corretipoudense with a needy impatient lawyer in every town that is corruptible ; and he keeps a list in hand of every would-be legislator who is ready and willing to " arrange " his way into the House of Commons, there to sit on the Tory benches. This is, of courac, known to the Tory agents and runners in venal boroughs ; so when they want a candidate, they are not put to the trouble of looking about for a qualified person, for a main of eminence or established fitness, for a person likely to be useful or creditable in Parliament. That they leave to the Libera a; and up they run to the Carlton Club, and there call on Major Beassroten, or Mr. 144ov:sae. The very porter, it appeals, knows such customers and raters by their look. They rush from the train to the club, a little flustered perhaps, I and not very clean: they have an aspect of provin cial mystery about them; they aro a little familiar with the man in plush; and, above all, they must see sonic otte—they do not care who it is. The last assurance at mace admits them into Major Beam ronn's " private room." Mr. Bitowss is summoned —Mr. FttAIL too, it may be—and things arc did- CUM-IL as the Major would say, "coolly." The Major, however, knows his customers. He is, therefore, always very " short of money." The general election cost, he assures his visitors, such a frightful sum, that at present there is none to spare. The provincial 'Roily looks drearily at the floor. "It requires money, he submissively, but suggestively, remarks. The Major " knows it ;" and thinks, as far as a few hundreds go, he couid raise them. FRAIL is, of course, at their ser vice - and he is a deuced useful fellow— makes a little money go far, and is ready to run down in any costume that circum stances may require by the next train, and " wont like a horse." The agent goes away a little disaointed, but, gaining courage at his hotel, writes the Major a somewhat strong note : the Whigs and Radicals, it duly records, are quarrelling; they can't agree as to a man; they have neglected the register; there is, too, a good deal of distress in the town ; people are out of work; and by some judicious lexpenditure a seat may certainly be won ; and, if won, can be kept. The Major is not apt to be deceived by strong notes of this sort ; he has his doubts, and his doubts support his essououty. Ile can send "ii good anti- Popery matt" down. Would not that do instead. of money ? Not a man to lore people about religion. Nothing of that sort. 'file Major has a horror of such fellows ; he loaves them to the Morolny Herold. " Saints arc not fit for a contested ekction" is one of his fundamental rules. Or, if an " anti-Popery man" won't do, perhaps a lawyer of some note in his profession will. "Mr. Hymen Hi, Q.C., is a good candidate;' he is "halt inclined;" but neither will he spend money. "He will, however, per mit himself to be nominated; but he will not pay any thing for that!" TWA is at six o'clock in the afternoon. At "seven o'clock" things look a little better ; and at a " quarter past *even there is a precision about the Major worthy of a merchant or a lawyer's clerk—he has actually caught, not his man, but " a gentleman who thinks be can " find me a candidate to go down to-morrow with " 1,11001.—a good anti-Popery man." And thus the Major saves the Club's [encl.., and gets a Tory who is possessed of both bigotry and money. This is how the Tories manage things at the Carlton. " The great matter," says the Major, who is fond of laying down general principles and rules and generalising his experience, " to be looked to is "to collect funds." The next thing, after having got funds, is, it seems, " to keep quiet" until the time for action has arrived. Then, as Mr. FRAIL would add, " go in and win." But when these Carlton Club gentry/wee won—Mr. Ftewssit tells the world—they do not always pay. Mr. FLEWKIR has been a confiding, hardworking friend of the Carlton • he was the heart and soul of Toryism at Derby ; he was the chosen correspondent of Major BERRSFORD there. No roan could doubt his services, for he it was who turned out on petition Messrs. Siam and 00wea. He slaved for Toryism at Derby. But no—we cannot describe his labours ; he shall himself narrate his Aegean work : I prepared the petition and recognisant's". I took thirty or forty journeys to Nottingham, London, Belper, Alfreton, Lichfield, Codner Park, Langley, and other places, to glee evidence, consult counsel, itc. I prepared something like a eartload of papers, briefyge. I served about 400 Speaker's warrants. I paid espenses necessary at almost half the puhlic-houses is the town to get the evidence. I paid all the seisms who gave information or evidence. I paid Mr. C. Hibbert about 40!. I paid to Mr. Bmall and Mr. Con stable 61. or 84. each before they would iyo to London. I paid for the railway fare of nearly 40 witnesses and others to London, and gave money for the families of several of them before they went, and I paid for their dinners. tic., and flys the day they left Derby. I paid Holmes It. • week for a long time. I paid Mr. T. Omen W. for valuable assistance mid information. I entirely ahandoned my own practice far six or seven months to attend exclusively to this, with all my clerks, and after wards was too ill to attend to bu.iness for months, and then was laid up for many weeks at Scarborough under a physi San, throutrb over exertion and want of rest; was sued for the bill at the hotel where the witnesses were kept, which I had never seen, and bad to pay balance of debt and costs. I did not give a friend • dinner or a glass of wine or ale at the house. I paid for all the , mauernents of the witnesses during their stay in town, Ito. I sold some property to enable me to meet this frightful expense and payment, and to 'maintain my family alt this time. I had no assistance in eonducting the whole business, but much hindrance and oppontion from false friends f eom time to time. Have I been paid ? Affecting, but pointed, inquiry—" hare I beets paid!" No, Mr. I?LeWKER : you have not. " Mr. " Mu MDT, Mr. CotrILLE, Sir H. Wt I.IIOT, Mr. FRESH - " FIELD, Mr. Loan, Mr. MOeSELET, and other.," did indeed talk of presenting him with " a service of plate:" but, shabby dogs! they didn't. They left Mr. FLEWKEn in the lurch. "AU Me remcord I " reccired fur any serriees aces the lou of part of my " practice,aisd every species qf insult,injury,and annoy ' " awe; so that I Agee doubly suffered." Miserable I Tories to let so willing a man go to the wall, and what is worse, try to throw discredit on his evidence, when he makes a clean breast of it, and tells all about their tricks. And this is the way in o hich the " gentlemen " par ex cellence of England—the greet country party, which ,I cl aims to be the territorial clement of the eonstitu • 1 lion—this is the way they manage the elections! ' , But what is the moral of all this? Why, that until, , the suffrage be Ivo greatly enlarged as to set metro ' i politan " management" of elections at defiance, the , Carlton Club will continue these practices long after I ' I Major BEUEIVORD shall have met his deserts. 1 1 St•DNA^IVP TghreiltAPll TO (14DORM.—PetwOnis ire win. emi-lnyed Purveying the distance between Lyming :Atm, in Hants, and her alsjesty's residence at Osborne for the purpose of connecting the marine palace of the Queen with London by means of :he els etrle klegreph. It is el peeled that tho wires, after noosing the Solent to the Isle ; of Wight, wi:l be tagen to St. CoVierite's Lighthouse, and trim their:. to Cow, • and 0-borne. From S. Catherine's Lighth pecLets coming up the channel can be Me +I five or sic hours before they arrive in Southampton 13.tcks. The Solent It ab..ut three iruuters of a mild in width where it is proposed the electric wires shall crow, and is between thirty and forty fathoms deep ; no vessels seer ' anchor them. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Monileur, in giving an account of the French ambassador's visit to the Queen at Osborne, states that in answer to the sentiments 'streamed by the ambassador on the part of the Emperor, her Majesty gave the most friendly assurances, and wished.pros perky to the Emperor and the Empire. The Countess Wallawski had afterwards the honour, as ambaseadress, to be received at a private audience.' The next day the royal yacht brought back the am bassador to Southanipton, commanded by Captain Crispin, who habitually only commands the yacht when her Majesty herself is on board, and whu ea this occasion received special orders to assume the command, and to act precisely as if her Majesty had been present. These formalities of court etiquette, which, if noticed at all in the English journals, are stowed away in modest small print under the head of " Court Circular," aro treated as great events under the " de mocratic " monarchy established here ; they are endowed with the honours of largo type, divided into conspicuous paragraphs, and occupy a place in the leading columns of the official journal. Yesterday the Nlarquis de Villiunarina had audience of the Emperor, to present his credentials as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the King of Sardinia. The Emperor left the Tuileries at 8 o'clock last night to be present at the opening of the new circus on the Boulevard Beaumarchais. lie was accompa nied by Prince Jerome and his son Prince Napoleon Bonaparte. A large number of places were reserved for ministers, officers of state, and the army, including private soldiers. But there was a good sprinkling of blouses, and as many as 5,000 persons are said to have been present. Between the acts of the equestrian entertainment an occasional cantata, entitled " Dieu nous l'a rendu," was sung by M. Laurent, of the Theatre Lyrique. The rage for theatrical horsemanship is now greeter than was ever known. There are four principal circuses in Paris, the Hippidrome, Franconi'e, in the Champs Elysees, the immense circus opened last night, and another near the Lyons railway station. Entertainments a la Astley will now be given all the year round. The Moniteur contains the following notification of the convention just concluded at Brussels : The political circumstan-es which prevented the Belgian government from obtaining a legislative sanction to the ratification by the time stipulated—that is to say, the 10th of this month—of the two conventions, literary and com mercial, concluded at Paris on the 22nd of August last, are well known. The cabinet of Brussels, by way of proving its friendly depositions, and its solicitude for the develop ment of the commercial interests of the two countries I proposed to France, in the first place, to enlarge the time for the ratifications, and in the next to revive the treaty of December 13, 1815, until the conclusion of a dehni ties arrangement. This proposition, which leaves intact the arrangements of August 22, and at the sante time replaces the commercial relations of the two countries under the guarantee of an already tried regime, has been accepted by the government of his imperial Maje‘ty with a willingness which the desire to ettengthen the bonds of good understanding which unite Belgium and France has in spired. The negotiation set on lout upon this basis at Brussels, resulted on the oth of this month, in the signing of a convention, which will come into operation on and after the 15th of January next. Art. 1 adjourns the ex ' change of the ratifications of the arrangements of August 22nd, until after the conclusion of a definitive commercial treaty, a negotiation for which will be immediately opened between the two countries. By Art. 2 the treaty of 13th December, 1845, is again put in force until the same epoch. rt. 3 reduces the waste allowed upon rough salt of French origin, from 12 to 7 per cent., but the enjoyment of this favour requires nothing mote than the soaple production of a consular certificate, attesting that the salt has not been submi:ted in France to any refining process whatsoever. By Art. 4 the 31st of December is fixed for the exchange of ratifications. s The Assenablee speaks of a scruple of conscience entertained by the directors of the :credit Ancier bank, which seems to have been very easily removed. In alluding the (Aber day to the ten millions of francs granted by the government in aid of the undertaking, this journal spoke of it as a sum, " the origin of which is known," meaning that it was part of the proceeds of the spoil of the house of Or leans. Some of the directors have felt hurt at this expression, for they say they scrupulously refused to touch a penny of the Orleans property, and before they would have anything to do with the new bank, carefully ascertained that the 10 millions came from other sources. Now, the facts are these: The decree confiscating the estates of Louis Philippo's children, in order to reconcile the public to the deed, pointed out various charitable and other public purposes to which the proceeds were to be applied. One of the principal of these was the encouragement of credit/wirier, for which object 10 millions was allotted. bubsequently another de cree directed that the confiscated property should fall into and become blended with the state property generally, and directions were given for paying the several sums mentioned in the first decree out of other public funds. But this is a mere matter of banking account. The state remains so much the richer for the confiscation. It is only enabled to give the considerable sum of ten millions in aid of a doubt ful experiment in consequence of the confiscation. That the money is not earmarked signifies absolutely nothing. The plea is as little reasonable as if a man were to say that he would not receive stolen bane notes, but had no objection to the sove reigns for which they might be exchanged. It is right however to say, that although I am unable to see the force of the distinction tho Assemblee admits it, and gives great credit to the honourable directors of the credit 'easier bank of France for the " legitimate susceptibility" they have shown upon the occasion. PARIS, SATURDAY EVIIIIIIO. The government has received the following tele graphic despite& : Head.guarters, Medesh (Algeria), 6th. The town of Laghouate was taken by moult the day be fore yesterday. The troops sealed the breach with an Irre sistible enthusiasm and cries of " Vire Plimpereur." The attack commenced in the storming, and by noon en eagle of the 2nd roaaves displayed its wings on the Cashah of the town. You will receive details by the courier of the Bth of this brilliant feat of arms, which is alike honourable for Gen. Pelissier and for the generals, oaken, and soldiers under his orders. _ _ ------- Laghouatc is the town in which the cherif upon whom General Yusuf has been making war In trenched himself. According to the last accounts, General Yusuf, not feeling strong enough to attack the town, was waiting for General Pelissier, for whom he had sent, to bring up his forces. fhe affair was considered so important that the Governor- I General in person was proceeding to the theatre of operations. The Moisiteur de rArnitie, speaking in anticipation of the taking of Laghouate, rejoices in the obstinacy of the cherif, which has, it says, al forded the French an opportunity of taking a step which will render their influence in Southern Algeria greater than it has ever been. The Momiteur has the following semi-official arti cle, intended to prepare the public mind for the extravagant civil list which will shortly appear: Immediately after the proclamation of the Empir e , the government laid before the senate, as it was its duty, a project of Sematimp Consulter, determining the modifica tions which it is neeimary to introduce into the constitution of January 14, 1852, in order to make it harmonise with I the new organi.atioa of the government. This project 'does not in any way affect the bases of the corutittation, which can only be modified by the national will. At the same time the govern's, nt submitted to the senate the pro ject of a Newt its Con:intim for the re-establishment of the civil list and the re-constitution of the domains of the crown. No tom is there indicated ; that point was left entirely to the exalted wisdom of the senate. 'its civil hit is nothing else than a small part of the public revenue esofided to the chief of the state, and which he makes I use of to alleviate misfortune, stimulate industry, and recompense and encourage the arts. In such a matter the government of his Majesty could only set forth the con ditions imposed by the re-establishm. nt of the empire. While calling to mind and even strengthening the guarun tufo! the rights of the state on the prop, rty placed at the I disposal of the sovereian, the project of Nlolo‘ll3 CORRUMMI calls again into vigour the principles which during merle centuries have been the basis of the French monarchy and which have been sanctioned by the law of 1791, and the Mertatria reiiimaltunt of 28 Floral,An. XII., u well as hg the posterior laws of 1814 end 1824. Th. se principles arc con formable to the necessities of monarchical government, even the most popular. If it cannot enter i .tu the mind of the Emperor to reestablish monarchy with the superannuated elements which would now alixck the habits of the nation ; if ho doe y n u t f orgo t t h at it is the people who have raised him to the throne, to govern in the interests ~f the people ; hie good sense sod his goal faith forbid him fr m impreong on himself the im po...ible task of directing the eturite on conditions which would not respond to the souvenir. and the dignity of France. The flotation of the crown both in money and in land will therefore be reconstituted. It will comprise what was included in the old civil list of royalty and of the tin- ' pint ; that is to say, the domains of the crown, the palaces aad chateaux, which are mush less the residences of the sovereign than historical monuments embellished by the arts asd devoted to the recreation as well as to the instruction of THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1852. Wes people ; threw 011111111111111, and thus libraries wherein Francis has for ages etill,eted invaluable treasui es, whieb are the object of the envy and admiration of foreign ere; and those manufactories of Sevres, of the o.,Lielins, and of lireuvine, which are the models for national industry. The keeping in repair of these palaces, the preservation of these tree sures, acd the mauagetnent end suiveillanc• of all these establishments will entail considerable expenses on the civil list. They now amount to about 71 millions of franca, of which the budget of the state will be relieved. The pro duce of the clements of the crown only reduce them in part, sines the reme of these domains, after deducting the expenses, ricierce4 amounts to three miliim.a. The Em peror is not ignorant of this; hot hr oleo knows that the reel trunnions of m o narchy impose this charge 011 the im perial dimity. The domain cal the croon is in a greet men sure the dentate of the arts; it into their natural protector, it is to the chief of the state that it belongs to bear the charges ss well es receive the enjoyments which are thereto attached. It follows u a matter of coarse that the emotes of Villeneuve-Letang, Lamotho Ileauvron, and Ls °filbert., purchased by the Emperor, are, couforruably to the uld monarchical leo, unitill to the till. main 01 the crown. The project of Conaullans also .ttlea that a dowry 14111 he fixed for the Empress at the time of the marriage of the Emperor, and that an annuli notation of 1.490,t100f. shall he toga), fished in favour of the rse. aof the imperial family, to be divined among them conformably to the decisions of hie Mejesty. According to the .venorw Consuition of the 7th November. the imperial family is solely composed of the princes who shell he pieced by the will of the Emperor in the line of hereditary aucces4ion. The Senates rorsa,flans crates nothing with re gard to the other members of the Bonaparte family. Like the Emperor, the imperial family no longer belongs to it self—it belongs to Framer. It is, therefore, necessary that the constitntton should regulate the position, the titlev, and the dulls of it, which for the rest are all summed up in that of devoting itself without reserve to the great interests of the country. The .Ifmaileur publishes the decree en long ex• pected for the establishment of the Central Mortgage Hank. The decree approves of the agreement of the 1801 November between the Minister of the Interior and the Mortgage Hank of Paris, and enacts that the bank shall henceforth be called the Hank of (Willi Fourier ,lc France that the privilege accorded to it by the decree of the 28th March shall be extended to all the departments in which there is nu company of mortgage credits; that the bank may, subject to the sanction of the government, incorporate existing mortgage banks; that it shall receive a Pubvention of 10,000,000 fr., payable in proportion to the loans effected ; and that before the Ist July next a 'branch bank or direction shall be established in every district of an Imperial court of justice. The text of the agreement of the 18th November, between the Minis ter of the Interior on the ono hand, and M. d'Eicht hal, M. Emile Pereire, and M. Wolowski, directors of the Bank, on the other, is then given. An imperial decree appears this morning, promot ing the following well-known present and former , servants of the Emperor to the rank of commanders in the Legion of Honour :—M. Fould, Minister of State; M. Abbatucci, Keeper of the Seals and Minis ter of Justice; M. Ducos, Minister of Marine and Colonies; Count Fialin do l'ersigny, Minister of the Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce; M. Fortoul, Minister of Public Instruction and Worship; M. Banat, President of the Legislative llody ; M. Itouher, ex-Minister, President of a section in the Council of State; M. de Royer, ex-Minister, I'rocu reur-General of the Imperial Court of Paris; M. Davie!, ex-Minister, Procureur-General of the Impe rial Court of Rouen; M. de Tleiringy, ex-Minister, Councillor of State; and M. F. Itarrot, ex-Minister, Councillor of State. All the ministers not included in the above list are already commanders of the order. The Moniteur announces that the King of War tetuberg scut on the Bth his first chamberlain, Lieu tenant-General Baron de Spitzemberg, to the Duke de (Niche, French minister at fituttgurdt, to congra tulate him on the accession to the throne of his Im perial Majesty. It is expected that Marshal Magnan will he named Governor of Paris. The Garde Itepublicaine will henceforth be galled the Garde de Perim. Ou the marriage of the Marquis do Puysegur with Madlle. St. Arnaud, the Emperor appointed him one of his aide-de-camps, and gaNe the young lady a portion of 12,000/. The Courrier du Ras Rhin publishes the following letter from the Emperor, addressed to tho Mayor of Strasbourg: Palace of the Tuileries, Dec. 7. Monsieur le Maire,—The city of S!rasbourg has offered me, through the organ of your houcurable colleagues, the imperial chltean. Not content with the reception which at has given me at two different times, it has wished to con fer on me the civic rights by a residence which should par ticularly belong to me. lam deeply sensible of it, end it is an engagement for me to return as often an possible to that Alsace so rich in patriotic souvenirs, and which nsw gives me a fresh pledge of its attachment. Will you be the interpreter of my gratitude to your fellow citizens ? NAIVOLISON. The Municpial Council of Ajaccio having been in formed that the Emperor had conceived the idea of isolating the house in which the Emperor Napoleon was born, and of enlarging the Place Leticia, at Ajaccio, and considering the different works which he has already decreed for the improvement of Corsica, and the measures which have been carried into execution for the suppression of banditti, which have already produced the most beneficial results, has, as a mark of its gratitude, voted a sum of 40,000 fr . for a statute in bronze of Napoleon 111., to be erected opposite the house where Napoleon I. was born. The pedestal is to be of white marble, and will bear the inscription, " A Napoleon 111., Swear de la France, et Bienfaiteur de la Cone, la Ville d'Ataccio." The Surds has a rather violent attack upon M. Fortoul, the Minister of Public Instruction, whom it accuses of being distinguished from his fellow ministers by his retrograde tendencies. The first grievance is, that M. Fortoul has abolished the pro fessorship of constitutional law ; and the next, that, in addressing the Emperor, he has made use of the servile word, " subject. This is rather hard upon M. Fortoul. The chair of constitutional law was instituted subsequently to 1630, and its principal object was to teach that Louis Philippe's charter was perfection. That charter is at end, and as to the present constitution as about to be amended, the minister must feel that so far from being a fruitful subject to lecture upon, the less said about it the better. With regard to the obnoxious word " subject," although the use of it towards Louis Philippe, on a memorable occasion, produced a great outcry, and that monarch did nut require French citizens so to style themselves—the expression was quite orthodox in the time of Napoleon 1., and for that reason, if for no other, is of course exacted by Napoleon 111. To cavil about a word, after all that France has submitted to, is indeed to strain at a gnat. M. Fortoul is not singular; M. Persigny to-day subscribes himself the Emperor's " faithful subject, and all the other ministers will do the same. The latest known legitimist resignations are those of M. de Botmilian, ex-representative of the Cotes du-Nord, mayor of Guingamp; MM. de Parcevaux and de la Bi , gassiere, hiu assistants; MM. do Carne, de Saint Maur, de Kerusec, de la Cloutte-Bernard, Melee, and Duthoyn, municipal councillors of Guin gamp; I)r. Jarnoiien de Villartay, municipal coun cillor of Vitro; MM. Maximo, de Paul Dupla, and Kcittenger, municipal councillors of Montpelier; M. Ernest Dovault and Viscount du Buisson des Aix, mayors in the Allier; M. Doujat d'Empeaux, muni cipal councillor in the Gers; I)r. l'issot, mayor of Mausigueux-de-itives; and M. I)elafollye, vice-pre sident of the civil tribunal of Bt. Omer. We read in the Espf►ance du Awl)le, the legitimist journal of Nantes . . . . . . The Ami de la Religion announces in its number of Dec. 7 that in the principal cities of France, among which it cites Nantes, the religious authorities lent their aid to the solemnity of the proclamation tit the empire. Our Parisian contemporary is mistaken so far as Nantes is concerned, the clergy there not only took nu part in the external ceremo nies, but they did uut even perform a To Ovum on the oc casion. M. Dupin's friends contradict the report that he is about to return to his old post of Proeureur Oencral at the Court Cas.ation. It is true that shortly before the proclamation of tho Empire he had a long interview with Louis Napoleon at St. Cloud, in the course of which he strongly urged the expediency of changing the confiscation of the Orleans property into a sequestration merely. The Emperor, its is his wont, listened attentively without disclosing his in tentions. M. Dupla is careful to give out that he does not bind himself to stand aloof from the new government in all time coming. Abd-el-Kailer arrived in Paris this evening, anal will leave to-morrow for Marseilles to embark on board the Labrador which is to convey him to Bromism At the linume to-day business was done in the Tbreo per Celts. at 82f. 40e., and closed for tit, account at 82f. 50c.; Four per Coats., 98f. 2&c. ; Four-and-a-lialf per Cents., 106 f. 89c.; for account, Io6f. 70c. Bank shares, 2,900 E In railway shares, St. Germain", at 1,425 f.; Orleans, new, 1,0,30 f.; Versailles (left bank), 350 E ; Paris and Itouen,n94l. ; Strasburg and Bale, 380 f. ; Northern, 897 f. :./oe.; Paris and Strasburg, 827 f. 50c. ; l'aris and Lyons, 920 f.; Lyons and Mediterranean, 72.7 f.; Western, 780 f.; Caen and Cherbourg,6.lof. ; I )ijon and Besancon, 58.5 t; Bourdeaux and Cette, 63.7 E; Dieppe and Fecamp, 353 f. ; Bordeaux and Teste, 260 f. ; Mon tereau and Troyes, 360 E BELGI UM. The French Emperor has abrogated the vindictive ' decree which enhanced the duties on Belgian coal. This announcement was made in the Belgian repre sentative chamber on the 9th imeant, by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The minister stated that he had that day received a lottor from the Duke de Bassano, the tenor of which was that his Majesty the Emperor of the French, desiring to give a pledge of hie desire to maintain friendly relatimpi wi , k the King of the An..! with It-Igiur!, bed ‘teeiilist t , 11,4 1 alter January 13th the additional duty levied upon Belgian coals and iron would cease to be levied. In the same sitting of the chamber the minister ititro duccel a bill, in sanction of a convention signed that day at Brussels between the French and Belgian governments, of which tho provisions were as follows : The ratification of the literary and commercial convention of August 22, which was appointed for the 10th of this mouth, is adjourned. On the lath of January, the conven tion of December 13, 18.15, shall come again into vigour, and so remain until the negotiations tor a definitive treaty of commerce now proceeding, and which ars to be con tinued, shall have been concluded. The article allowing 12 percent. for waste on French salt importet into Belgium 1. excepted from this arrangement, and the allowance is in future to be only 7 per cent. SPAIN. A Madrid letter of the Gth says :—" The discussion yesterday et the meeting of the progressist deputies at the house of M. Mendizabal was very animated. A resolution was come to that the progressist depu ties should concert with those of the moderate oppo. sition an energetic resistance against the proposed attacks ul.on the constitution. Thu deputies of the moderate opposition also met yesterday, and, after some discussion, resolved to hold another meeting this evening, for the purpose of nominating a com mittee to negotiate a fusion with the iirogiessists, in order that there may he a vigorous display against the ministry at the approaching general election. A courier leaves Madrid this day with the new letters of credence fur the Spanish ambassador at the court of the Emperor of the French." ITALY. ROME, Dsc. 4 A subject of vital interest to the Holy See is now under discussion, with regard to which the Pope has requested the opinion and advice of all those mem bers of the sacred college now resident in the capital and its vicinity. I allude to the line of conduct which his Holiness is to adopt towards the Emperor Napoleon HI., and the degree of sanction and ap plause he can bestow upon the triumph of so worthy son of the church without compromising the prin ciples of legitimate succession and divine right. These are, in the opinion of the majority of the cardinals, principles which the church cannot safely abandon, and therefore Pio None cannot con acientiousl,y pour the consecrating oil over the head of Louis Napoleon, whilst the Count de Chambord is a homeless exile. The principles of the church, and the frown of the despotic powers, oppose such a proceeding; but expediency argues for it, and necessity knows no law. In this predicument, help less in the gripe of the French, it is probable that the Popo will do and say all that is required of him, making up for what Austria and Russia may con sider a culpable complaisance, by secret protests and reserved provisos in favour of Henry V., much as his predecessor acknowledged Donna Maria da Gloria as the de facto sovereign of l'ortugal, whilst paying royal honours and a royal pension to Don Miguel here in Rome. Meanwhile the French are emitann ing their preparations for illuminations and festive demonstrations on the l'iozza Colonna, and M. de Itayneval is in readiness to start for the Vatican at a moment's notice, to announce the grand event to his holiness as soon. as the telegraphic intelligence arrives. A splendid reception will be held at the French embassy. So far all appears to be peace and harmony be tween the French and their ecclesiastical protey , 's, but in reality they are not fond of each other. Com plaints arc made to the financial department of the enormous quantity of copper money which the French paymasters have thrown upon the public, besides that with which the Pope himself favours his subjects, by paying the soldiers in that metal now, instead of the five franc pieces which have hitherto consoled the eyes and pockets of the Romans. It appears, in order to turn to its own profit the thirty five per cent. which a new copper coinage affords, the French government has given orders for an enor mous amount of five baiscchi pieces (twopence half penny) to be struck off in France, exactly similar to the lope's coin, for the exclusive purpose of paying the division stationed here. This weighty money is brought over in barrels, and is easily distinguished by its new appearance and smooth workmanship. The Papal treasury is thus deprived of a good share of its profits, but the government of course knows, and consents to the operation. The Duke Cesarini is now under arrest in hie palace at Genesee, for having shot his own cook. It appears that on Sunday evening a number of people were collected under his windows, singing and making so great a noise that he sent out to desire them to disperse. His request was not only neg lected, but hie porter was beaten by the mob, so that the duke, impatient of being bearded in his o w n fieud, sei zed a gun, unloaded as he thought, which his friend Signor Culza, just returned from a shoot ing excursion, had brought iu, and went to the window for the purpose of menacing the crowd with it. Unfortunately the piece was loaded with ball, and when the duke drew the trigger the contents passed through the head of his under cook, who was just then coming in from a shop in the town. The despair of the duke on learning the accident was ex treme, and the duchess, an English lady, rushed down to the succour of the dying man, but in vain. As the duke was suspected of liberal principles, it has been surmised that the tumult under his windows was got up by some satellites of the neri, who are strong in Gensano, on account of the influence of the Minister Jacobini, and the brother of Cardinal Marini, large landholders in the neighbourhood. Four gendarmes were appointed to attend the duke iu his palace, he having voluntarily given himself up to the police authorities. Lord and Lady Holland and Mrs. Norton put into Civita Vecchia through stress of weather, and came tip to Rome on the Ist inst., leaving again yesterday morning for Naples. A notification has appeared, subjecting the three poorest quarters of Rome,—ltipa, Regola, and Tres- 1 tevere, to a tax on industry, to commence upon the, Ist of January, 1833. Exchange on London, 491. NAPLES, Dre. 4, 18.12. The establishment of the empire in France is producing its effects here. To nothing else can the increased strengthening of the fortifications, and the continual increase and indefatigable exercise of the troops be attributed. Here with an army sufficient to repress twice the population of this kingdom, though possessing twice the moral courage, we hear of a still greater increase—eni boron—to keep down a slender population, already crushed and spiritless. One would scarcely attribute such an absurdity even to Neapolitan folly. At Ceprano fortifications are about to be erected, and the frontier on the Papal aide thus strengthened ; whilst at Oneta the fortifi cations ate progressing rapidly. In the Calabrias a new Noire d'armi is to be established, indicating the apprehension felt by the Neapolitan Govern ment as to the possible effect on those excitable people which might he produced by disturbances elsewhere. No nugructitation is to take place in the Neapolitan department of the army, though the Swiss troops are to receive considerable additions. Meanwhile his Majesty remains at Gaeta, superin tending the progress of the fortifications there. Although we are never favoured with a r e gula r ministerial budget, it is some slight gratification to read the attenuated statistical report which I now send you as published by the minister of public works. fhe tax upon the corn mills, which was such an in supportable grievAnce to the poor, has Len taken off from the jgreater number of the communes, and in those in which it has been impossible as yet to a n ,d such relief, an iiicrease of the tax has keel cops +sly prohibited. For this tax others have b een sehsti. tuted better adapted to the particular circumstances of each place. In IMO, the communes derived from such a tax 537,799 ducats ; whilst in Im.:1 the too lseeds were reduced to 31 , 4;101. Nor Acre the munal revenues in anywise diminish e d b y ,„. h a reduction. The vigilance exercised iu the judicious choice of the agents of the communes, and the btl, vantages resulting from the renewal of the farming of the new imports, have been the cause of the increase of the revenue (which in Isin amounted to 5,626,153) so us to produce Q 4 overplus of 101,900 ducats. Whilst the expeneli ' tune, which in 18.50 was established at 5,161.h22 ducats, in p 4.11 was settled at 3,301,i109. in 1,,-, during the year 32 11.1 W cemeteries were formed, awl 316 others commenced; the revenues of parish pri, were increased to the amount (in six diureie, of 619 ducats ; to the poor, assistance to the figure of 18,713 ducats was dish ibuted, and in inane eo:::- mulles new charitable institutions established. 1 4 the second paragraph of the report the puhlic work s iu the communes are detailed, un which 914,ri du cats have been expended during the last year, !s Ing an excess above the expenditure of the prieetlin{ year of 87,001 ducats. lam sorry to say that the construction of the railway line from N.,pl.s to Brindisi, to which allusion has been several time s made by your correspondent, is fur the present ne cessarily suspended. Indeed, it has been lsound im possible to carry it out on the terms which were ori ginally agreed to, and Messrs. )tothschild lime with. drawn their promised advance of I,O:At/. Five per Cents., 109.1. Exchange on London, PIEDMONT. In the sitting of tileiai4tl;eiicilmontese Senate, M. de !gamine-ea brought up the report on the Civil Marriage Hill. The discussion is tixefll , fr the hith. The Chamber of Deputies voted the nf w trance Duties Iteforsu Ilill by 102 votes to 3:1. THE UNITED STATES ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY SUBNINO. By the arrival in our river this evening of the British and North American royal mail steamship Asia, Harrison, commander, we are in possession of four days' later advice:, from the United St a t es t h an we had previously received by the United States I steamer, the Pacific, which cause into this port yes terday. The Asia left New York at noon on the lot inst., with 64 passengers, and 225,000 dots. in specie on freight. having made a very rapid run front port to port. The royal mail steamer Europa, Neil Shannon, commander, with the mails from hence of the 20:h M. woe going into New York harbour as the Asia was leaving that port. The disputed between the British and federal governments, relative to the colonial fishin4-gmunds, have at length been definitively anti:amicably adjusted at Waahingion. By a later arrival at New York from California, more than three millions of gold had been received, but the news from the golden state was cotuptua tively trivial. Great anxiety was manifested both by the press and the public in all the great town, of me union as to the result of the Clwrokee's visit to Cuba; but the general feeling was an approval of the conduct par , sued by the officials at Washington, and the obsti nacy of the owners of the Crescent City line was severely condemned. When the Asia left New York business was brisk, money abundant for all purposes, and govtra. ment stocks were firm and in good demand. The market for breadstuff. wu rather quieter than when the l'aclie sailed ; there were but few transactions reported, as hollers were watching for the European advice' by the Europa. Prices were thus quoted :—Western Canal dour, 5 dots. 2.5 e. to 5 dole. 371 c., steady. Who at was lower in valor, prime Genessec bring noted at 1 dol. 28c. to I deL 30c. per GO lbs. ; Indian corn, round yellow, 80e. to 52.. per bushel, barel suppo rt ed at that fl,ure !Wien meal, 3 dots. to i dols. 87 Ic. per barrel. Tie cotton market at New York was quiet, and bioinos to only a moderate extent had been done. Prices, however, were quite stets at the fogowing quotations : —New Or. leans and Mobile, miehllin; lair :a fair, 11A to Ili cents. per lb. ; Uplands ditto, tole. to 101 e. The provision market was dull, and prices were lower for nearly all de,criptO ns. Freights were not much alteiN.,l in value sine the l'acifie left New York, the asking ratts at the Asia's departure Acing 3s. Otl. to 3s. 9,1. per barrel for flour to Liverpool, and fur grain to the same port, 10d. to 101,1. per bushel. Car= to Liverpool wall quoted !the to 7.l6ths of a penny per lb. Exchange on 1...ud0n was in moderate &mind, at 110 to 1101 ; l'Ario, 5.13, with little inquiry; Hamburg, 361 to 361 ; and Berman, 791 to 79f. THE OVERLAND MAIL. ELECTRIC TELEORII'II.) (PIM( Otal. OWN CONUESCON DINT) MARSEILLES, Dic. 12, 7.30 A M. By the French steamer Lougsor, from Alexandria, we have Bombay papers of November 17. No news of importance. Exchange, 2s. I Id. The Haddington, with the outward India Mai!, arrived at Malta on the 2nd December. Vbe Court. OSBORNE, 5%11 The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred rod uu: yert• rdav, attended by Mr. Gibbs. The Earl of Derby is expected to arrive to-day on:. to the Queen. SCNI , kI The Queen and Prince, with the royal childre;lSW yesterday in the grounds. The Prince of Wale. sad Prince Alfred rode out lu the early part of the day, attended by Mr. Gibla, The Earl of Derby arrived from London at seven oClork, and remains on a visit until Monday. A deputation, headed by Si; Herbert Maddock, M P Mr Peter Molt, M.P., and Mr. It. M. For, M.P., and on. sitting of Mr. Gillespie, Mr. Brooking, Mr. R. Carter, Mr. M. if. Chayter, Mr. Robert Lamont, and Mr. 8. J. Wade• son, had an interview with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley and Lord Colchester, on Saturday, at the Bawd of TrAe. The Eul of Derby left town on Saturday afternoon for Osborne, Isle of Wight. Sir Joseph Batley and Viscount Maynard had interviews on Saturday with Mr. Secretary Walpole, at the Home office. . Mr. Ourdon Rebow had an interview with the Right lion. J. W. Henley on Saturday, at the Board of Trade. Mr. ' , toyer had also an interview with the right boa. gen tleman. SUPPOSED MURDER Nit ‘R ItOtS.—(From our Corre spondent )—ltess, Saturday.—The dead body Ma m-n bas been found within four miles of this town, under circum stances which it is feared can only be accounted for by the fact of a foul murder having been committed. The . . cumstances may be briefly narrated as followsr—On Thurs. day morning as a labouring man. tanned Absalom Tritest was proceeding to his work at Hope Mansell. about I:ur miles from Hose, he discovered the body cf •am lying is I the road in a deep cutting leading to the Hawthorns. lle at first supposed that the man had fallen asleep while is a state of inebriety, but on appr aching him he found that he was dead and cold, and thst his death had been mes• stoned by • stab, inflicted by some sharp instrument, in the rye, which had penetrated to the brain. 'ft Mit inintediahly gave the alarm, and the brdy was recognised as thst of sawyer named William l'eake, who lived in the neighbour -110011. On inquiries being made by the police it was &seer , tained that the deceased had been drinking at a becr•slop kept by a man named Brain, at Drybrook, in the Forest of Dean, and that he left the beer.skop about chive o'clock on Wednesday night. Ile was afterwards seen ea his way home, accompanied by • man uam,d lames Greenock, and this was the last that was seen of him alive. When picked up his watch was found in his pocket, but to money. The spot where the body was found was at the exact spot where Greenock had to turn out of the WM. pike road into the fields to pursue his journey bent , ' Suspicion fell upon Greenock, who was apprehended be ft , police yesterday, and he will be inquest is held, when it is hoped some light will be throes on the mystery. kept in custody the TILE FIRST AUSTRAI.I%, , I magnifi cent hall took place at Sydney on the 2Sth of August Le% in honour of the arrival at Au , trai:a of the firs! packet, the Chosen, from England. Captain Dawn and the whole of tho officers of the Chusan were iovitcil to the ha:.. The Governor General of New South Wales, the mends rI of the Legialstive Council, tho foreign coi. iii resh:iag Sydney, and a number of military and naval officers, watt present.