The Express. — London, England, 1852-01-30 00:00:00

/Mt entrefsii. TO CORIMPONDINTB. a seeshe Llitteek et " TM Cepeere,' eceetalelft .10 nen “eldnee " be poet. lieleets.," le geablielhei eery Timis, epe Prigs/ .ight• to use aewitieeenneeieleoded ler " Tie Laps.." Leedom Remise pow. NM be 0 the , 1411 es. le. Deemeelwelrert, ly Tee Vele& en the day et peiblisgbea. Riau WATER AT LONDON BRIDOE. Tim DA.— Moran.. 7a. 419 k. Afteresea. h. 911. 1••••44911-919991111. N. It*. 9l. LONDO.V, FRIDAY. JANUARY 30. THE appointment of Lord COWLEY to succeed the Marquis of lioanasior in Paris is a choice that will give, we believe, very general satisfaction. The first requisite for such • choice was that the object of it had taken no part in those struggles of parties and preference of persons which have agitated Paris. It would have been nowise to name any diplomatist, known as an Or leaoist, or inclining to Bonapartism. This alone would set aside a number of able men from the post of English ambassador in Paris. The Marquis of CLAN MICAKPF. was spoken of. But he is of the known opinion of Lord PALMERSTON. Lord CL tRENDON was mentioned, but he who is said to have refused the seals of the Foreign.otllco was not likely to •mhark in such a troublous sea of diplomacy as Paris. Lord Cissilso was thought of. But his lordship has identified himself of late years with the foreipi politics of the Morning Chronicle. than which nothing could be more illiberal or reactionary. Lord Cowl 1111 has been out of the turmoil of English and French polities. Though come of a tory stock, he took a decidedly liberal view of German politics. Those opinions were fearlessly professed, though not carried out in any way that was intermeddling or offensive. fro are glad to see a politician so liberal, at least so little bound by tory and aristo cratic tradition, appointed to watch over British interests in a country every way so anomalous and new as France has become since the accession of Louts N.%IOLEON to unlimited power. The Marquis of NORMANRY has shown himself very susceptible of newspaper reports. We do not mean offence, nor fear denial, however, when we state that Lord NORMANDY was, however innocently, the cause of Lord PALMERSTON'S resignation or dis missal. Lord PALMERSTON, it is well known, expressed himself in London to Count Wsidtseskt in terms which did not harmonise with Lord NORMANBT'S lan guage in Paris. The President of the French republic mentioned, and showed proofs of this discrepancy to Lord NORMANDY, who appealed to the government at home. These circumstances led to Lord PALMER- wros's withdrawal from Downing-street, and Lord NORM %N BY'S retirement from Paris. This mere out line of farts will be useful for the appreciation and understanding of debates that must ensue, as well as for affording a clear view of the relative position of the two governments. We have censured, strongly censured from first to last Lord PAtucitirroses approbation, or sanc tion, —whichever it may prove,—of Louis NAPO LRON.S unwarrantable acts. But this does not pre vent a regret that any minis'crial rupture should have taken place, or been allowed to take place, which bad the ill-judged effect of presenting one member of the British government as favourable to Lot•ts NAPOLEON, and other members of the cabinet as unfavourable to him. However lively and outspoken should be the feelings and judgment of a nation, those of a government had better be enwrapt in decorous silence. The Eng lish are and must be enemies of a mili tary dic'atorship, but they are not enemies of the person, but the thing. They owe no grudge to BON %PARTE because he is a BONA. ?Ala E ; and have no predilection for an ORLE.%NS bemuse he is a BOURBON. Hut a representative go vernment will always be preferred by us in all coun tries to an absolutist one. And even the Times admits that a republic is more congenial to us than a despotism. When we recollect the opinions expressed by our contemporary on the subject of Hungary. and even of Germany, this opinion of his causes seine surprise. But we are glad to see that the near aspect of military despotism in Paris has alarmed the Times, which could nevertheless a little time previous fall down and worship the same image of military despotism, when set up at Vienna and at Frankfort. It is ono comfort, indeed, that wo are all—whig, tory, and radical—pretty well agreed as to the merits of Louts NAPOLEON, and as to the tendency and probable finale of his rule. A year ago, the army, with a government perched upon its bayonets, was the object of tory gratitude and admi ration. NI tits was the god of order, and a regiment the very emblem of civilisation. On closer inspection, however, we found that a government from head quarters and by courts mar tial is but • sore rigid and more regular species of some:minim, a confiscation of industrial capital, not for the benefit of the industrial operatives, but for that of the idle soldier. And the army, as a police and a support to an administration. has fallen to a terrible discount. People to mark this have but to compare the Times articles on SCHWARZENBERO and lIATNAV with those upon Louts NAPOLEON and M. M tutu. We could s ho w that the line pursued by the French President is almost • copy of that adopted by the Austrian minister. There was the same treachery, the same principle, the same result. The only difference was, FERDINAND JOSEPH having • long line of ancestors to plead for his despotic rights, whilst Louis NAPOLEON had but one solitary uncle. But the fifteen years' reign of the BONAPARTIST uncle was surely worth the century of the House of Loa- RAIN Z. However, the upshot is, that, although bitten or smitten by successful military despotism on the Danube, the very tories dislike and disown it when it rears its helmeted head on the banks of the Seine. Wr do not pretend to see farther in a fog than other people ; we therefore avow frankly that we cannot tell how near the ship " Cabinet," ItcsseLL master, may be to the fatal quicksand whereon, like all that ha%e gone before it, it is doomed to founder; or whe ther, by good luck or good guidance, it may yet escape the shoal and outride the storm. But we note from day to day the number of minute guns fired in the Gazette, and draw what conclusions we may therefrom. A fortnight since we were informed by a demi official contemporary that one noble marquis was re solved upon retiring from the government; and now the same authorityannounces the surrender byanother of • post hardly less coveted than a cabinet office. Lord CLANRICARDE was the last man in the mi nistry whom anybody would suspect of giving up in disgust or from any sentimental cause whatever. We doubt if even the Aaron BROUMITON DIP. GYFFORD possesses a livelier perception of the merits of stick ing fast to one's friends under all circumstances, and the notion of quitting the Post-offiee at a juncture like the present seemed to us incredible, " when a sense of duty" and all the usual stock pretexts might be urged by so distinguished a statesman a. the lord of Portumna for " not abandoning his sove reign amid diffinuaies." Nevertheless the fact is raid to oc so. We have no doubt that Lord et.s.sme MOM knows, or thinks he knows, what he is stout; and if l' finally executes a retreat from St. Martin's-le °rand, we are sure that it will he a muterly move ment, though it is likely enough he may leave a considerable amount of baggage behind. 'Where he will go to, and what new branch of the foreign, colo nial. or domestic administration of the empire is likely to engage his attention it were presumptuous to conjecture; but the vacancy occasioned by his re tirement would seem to affind another and timely opportunity to Lord JMIN to introduce some new blood into his government. Unfortunately there is at the same moment another old friend of equal degree and equal deserts to be considered. Lord Noma %Vex has found it necessary to reign the embassy at Paris. He was Postmaster- Oeneral in his youth, " long, long ago ; "—why not make him lord of letter-carriers again? He would not open any of them we hope, at the bidding of a Home Secretary, although in this respect we fear that the traditions of bureaucracy. both whig and tory, are all of the most estimable description. In France the sanctity of the . post-office is no toriously disregarded ; Lord NORMANDY if he resumes his former ministerial station, will, we hope, give some definite pledge as to the rule to bn observed in this re s p ec t. I t is time to have a clear understanding on this matter. We ought to know, once and for all, whether the old system of peeping and pimping has altogether and finally been abandoned, or whether it is held in reserve for con venient use by our lordly rulers, whenever their own misgivings of the disposition of the people, or the uneasy consciences of foreign despots render them curious to ascertain what the fugitives from their cruelty may be thinking about in this land of re fuge. We do not suspect our new foreign secretary of the base compliance with the diplomatic requisi tions of absolutism which caused the name of England to be sullied ten years ago by the betrayal of the Brothers BANDIER.A. We hope better things of Lord Gansiviu.s, and we have heard with pleasure that one of his first acts, in his present position, has been to reply in terms wor thy of his country to certain proposals which arc said to have been made by foreign governments upon the subject of the asylum freely accorded by us to all classes of political refugees. But wo do not affect to feel indiscriminate or blind confidence in all statesmen of the aristocratic school upon the point above adverted to; and we think the occasion suita ble for exacting explicit explanations regarding the sacredness of letters in their passage through the British post-office. Thus, then, if ono marquis goes out another marquis is likely to come rn. M e are nothing the better and nothing the worse for the change. It is merely a shuttle of certain of the court cards; the residue of the pack remaining as before. In place of Lord NORMANBT, wo find that Lord CON LET goes as minister plenipotentiary to Paris. Lord COWLEY has earned a good reputation as a young man of sense and discretion at Frankfort, where he has been diplomatically resident for several years. His tendencies are said to be liberal ; and, in a post of so much difficulty as that he is about to occupy, he will have abundant opportuni ties for the exercise of the qualities which his friends ascribe to him. Why so junior a diplomatist should have been selected, is another matter. Humours are afloat that Lord CLARENDON would prefer some other post to a continuance in his present un enviable position in Ireland ; and others, of high political standing, —or, what is the same thing, of high oligarchical connexions,—are believed to have been covetous of the same distinc tion. It is no secret, we imagine, that Lord DAL !tousles very modest and considerate offer to remain for a second term of five years in India, was flatly rejected by the directors, who with equal decision offered a veto to the oriental ambition of Lord NOR MANDY. Their high mightinesses of Leadenhall street arc said to entertain no objection to the nomi nation of a man like the Duke of NEwc•trrtE, and we should not be surprised if the golden apple fell into his Grace's lap. Lord Thi t toustr. may thus return to England in time to help Lord ELLEN- Roaouull in the House of Lords to his long deferred retribution on the East India Com pany. The days of the charter are drawing to a close, and of the select committee of the Upper House to inquire into the propriety of its re. newel, all ex-governors-gencral,as a matter of course, will be members. THE result of the continued investigation into the circumstances attending the loss of the Amazon has been is correct several of the impressions which the first report of the calamity produced. It has shown that Mr. VINCEMT, although worthy of admira tion for the care he took of the preservation of his own life and those of others in the boat, still found his way to the said boat somewhat too soon, to merit the applause which has been showered upon him. At the same time we have learned that the true hero, Mr. Holman, has been most unac countably neglected. This gentleman, it appears, stayed at the tiller until he was almost enveloped in the flames. Ile quitted the vessel only when all hope of safety had departed, and returned to it upon hearing the captain give an order, which he thought would be better carried out with his assistance. There is very little doubt that if he has perished, he sacrificed himself to a stern sense of duty. Another result of the inquiry is the discovery of the incompe tency or carelessness of the naval officers whose duty it was to have inspected the vessel before she left the port, and to have sent succour after hearing that the ship had foundered. Captain CORRY, who rejoices in the title of Admiralty Superintendent of Packets, at Southampton, appeared to be in ignorance of the very nature of his duties. " Ile did not think it necessary to make a personal inspection so as to report particularly." This in the case of a new vessel " Ile did not know that there was a large quantity of coals on board." It has been clearly proved also not only that there was a want of dis cipline on board at the time of the report of the fire being confirmed, but that the officers were unable to enforce discipline. This is a most important point. Lieutenant ORTLLI and others of the wit nesses combine in declaring that if more attention and order had been observed in lowering the boats a majority of the passengers might have been saved. It is more than probable that Captain Srafioss was completely_paralysed with the magnitude of the calamity, Mr. ViNcrxr was away in the dingy, and the whole of the duties fell upon Mr. ItoiseaTs and his subordinates. In the mean time our knowledge of the cause of the fire has not been augmented. It is more than probable that we shall never be able to arrive at this knowledge. The total destruction of the vessel has shrouded this, and many more details of the awful catastrophe, in mystery. Although, however, we have not discovered the origin of the fire, it does ap pear to us that sufficient has transpired to show that a plan may be devised by which the lives of the crew and passengers of steamers on fire may in future be preserved. This plan would involve , the possession of sure means for stopping the engine—technically putting it out of gear-011 deck. The instant that a report of fire is confirmed every soul on the vessel rushes above, leaving the mad element to work its will below. There is no control over the engines. Their power is probably increased by the flames raging around them, and the boat goes plunging rapidly on, adding by its opposi• tion to the air, fresh forces to the conflagration. Several of the survivors have given it as their opinion that could the vessel have been stopped, the passengers might have escaped. Lieut. ORYLLS says," If the ship could have been stopped, more lives would have been saved." One of the seamen and the quartermaster LINO oven give it as their opinion that it would have been impossible to save more persons even if the boats had been lowered, since " the flames followed you everywhere." An awfully vivid I icturo of the fearful scene ! Mr. Nett.sox says, "There ought to be some means available on the upper deck of opening the feed-cock of the boilers, and also of working the fire-hose from the upper deck, but still more the means of being able to stop the engines. Had this last been done, and half the energy dis played by the plant commander in lowering the boats that was ineffectually expended in attempting to check the progress of the fire, there was ample boat accommodation, and of first-rate quality, to have sared all hands." This surely is decisive. No earthly power could have quenched the flames, so long as the vessel was driving furiously forward and thus fanning the flames aft; but the progress of the tire would have been sensibly checked, and the ehance of escape from the vessel vastly incre ased,: could she have been sud denly stopped. That a very little mechanical inge nuity would suffice to contrive a plan by which the engines might be stopped from the upper deck, we arc convinced. In the meantime, until something better is devised, we would advise that * connex ion be est.iblished between the eccentric-rods of the engine and the upper deck. This might be ma naged by means of rods passing tnrcugh the deck, and fastened to the excentric-rods. In case of imminent danger when approach to the engine room was cut off, the excentric rods might ho raised by means of the connecting reds, and the engine thus stopped. The power ap plied to the connecting-rods in the upper deck might be derived from some small machine, at which the 1 crew could work. It will be said that violence of this nature would probably spoil the engines. The reply to this is that the engines would be doomed to destruction before our remedy way applied. It may also he observed that human lives are of more value thou many steam-engines. It is very well to pay respect to the property of owners, but it is a duty of a higher nature to hare regard to the lives of 1 1 passengers. The government and the Steam Packet Company incur a heavy responsibility at the depar ture of every steam vessel from our shores, and both may be assured that unless ample means are at bast tried for the prevention of such catastrophes as the for of the Amason, the public will not be slow in calling them to aocouot. Ltt us hope that both will profit by this awful event, and that tke lemon de rived from the lose of the unfortunate vessel may enable us to discover means of lessening the risk of the occurrence of such calamities for the future. FRANCE. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EirENIIIO, - JANUARY 30, 1852. RELEASE OF PRISONERS. TELEGRAPH.) Pioll 0011 OWN CORINSPONDINT. PARIS, FRIDAY MOININO Persigny has addreiised a circular to the prefects to release immediately from prison and restore to their families all " poor, misled insurgents." Military and judicial authorities will receive similar orders. TILE SENATE AND COUNCIL OF STATE. PARIS, THUILSDAT By a decree inserted in the Monitcur of this morn ing. Prince Jerome Bonaparte, Marshal of France, Governor of tho Invalides, is appointed President of the Senate. M. Mesnasd is appointed first vice-president. The other vice-presidents are MM. Drouyn de I'lluys, Troplong, and General I3araguay d'Hilliers. General Count orlluutpoul is appointed grand referrndary. M. Latrosse is appointed secretary of the Senate. Another uecreo appoints tho several members of the six sections of the Council of State, which is to enter immediately upon its functions. The Consulta tive Commission is dissolved. M. Holley is appointed Secretary-General of the Council of State, in the place of M. Chevalier, who declines that office. M. Pietri, the new prefect of pollee, has issued ■ proclamation to the inhabitants of Purie on his ac cession to office. In this document the Prince Louis Napoleon is styled the heir of the Emperor. M. I'ietri promises to be paternal as well as severe. The sections of the Council of State arc composed as follows: SECTION ON DISPIrtIOMATTELL-M. Maißard, President. Councillors—MM. Bauchart, Bonds?, Boulatignier, Coma det, Marchand. Mast:roof Requests--Ist clan M M. Blanche, and Gomel. 2nd class: MM. Do Borneo, Daverne, Redon, Michaud, and Vaillermay. Auditors—lit class MM. II udault, Lemarie, and L'llopital. 2nd class: D s Belle bcuf, and De Rennepont. SIECTION or LiUIOLATION, JCSTICZ, AND FOIINION AIN TAIRS.—M. Rouher, President. Councillors—MM. Bon jean, Conti, Janvier, Limn, Leftism (Armand), and Suin. Masters of Requests—lst elan: MM. Chsdenet, Chassairrne-Cioyon, and One. 2nd class: Francois, De Montcaquiou, and Portalis. Auditors—lit class MM. Canton do Sandra's', L.hon, and Maynard. 2nd class : MM. Cottin and Dufau. SECTION OF THE INTERIOR OF PUELIC INSTRUCTION AND Won/intr.—M. Delangle, President. Councillors— MM. J. Boulay (de la Mourthe), Cartier, envier, thread, Hannan, and De Thorigny. Masters of Requests-Ist ease: MM. Do Businires, De Padoue and Mowed. 2nd doss : Aubernon, P , and De Si:gur. Auditors—let class: MM. Do Doaxdon, De Garel, and Marbesu. 2nd ease: MM. Aimee, Leehanteur, and Do Nareillee. SECTION OF FURLIc WORKS, AO RICULTV RI, AND CON ItERCE.—M. Mune, President. Councillors—MM. Ferdinand Barrot. Michel Chevallier, Denjoy, Frimy, Vuißefroy, and Waiase. Masters of Requests—let class: MM. Debussy, Loyer, and Thierry. 2nd class: Dubois, and Jahan. Auditors—let claw: Fare, Levies, and Robert. 2nd clue : Edouard de Boinvillien, and De CXamblain. SUCTION! or WAR •xa M•atxa.—Vice-Admiral Le brane, President. Councillors—MM. General Allard, Bar barous, Dariate, Flandin, and Villem.tin. Maaters of Requests-Ist clam: MM. Brehier, Chasseriau, and Leila tondo* 2nd elm: bilf. Helaine, De Clumiron, and De Mamas. Auditors—lst class: MM. Fouquier and Sere 2nd class: MM. Domicile* Leroy, and Visyra. SICTION or Ftx•xcas.—M. do Perim, President. Councillors—MM. Boinvilliers, Charlema-ne, Godelle, Le roy de Saint-Arnaud, Stourm, and Vuitry. Maitre+ of Requests—lit class: MM. Gulonde, De Pomade, and Pas calis. 2nd class MM. D'Argout, Du Iterthier, and Oarini. Auditors-Ist class: MM. Da Caaabi►nea, and Menton- Davernet. 2nd clue: MM. Bartoloni, Du Guernon-Itan t•iLe, snd Portalis. The Councillors of State, whose names follow, are appointed to make part of the assembly of the coun cil of state delinerating nu contentieuz, conformably to art. 19 of the decree of Jan. 2.5 :—MM. Jam-ler, and Suin, section de legislation ; J. Boulay, and Giraud, section de l'interieur ; Vuillefron, and Wails*, section des travaux publics; Allard and Vil lemain, section do la guerre; Charlemagne and Vuitry, section des finances. . MM. Dumartroy, Maigne, and Reverchon, Maitres des Requetes of the let class, will fulfil the functions of commissioners of the government in the Conten tieux Adminiatratif. The nomination of Jerome Bonaparte to be presi dent of the Senate, which appears in the Moniteur of to-day, has been expected for some time past. As the ex-king of Westphalia's appointment is purely honorary, and founded upon considerations of family and purse, it is more important to note those of the vice-presidents. M. Nlesnaud, the first of these func tionaries is a president of the Court of Cassation. As such, to use the languageof M. Dupin, he is called upon to maintain the highest principles of equity, and to decide with regard to the reversal and the annulla tion of acts which violate the laws, and constitute incompetences or excesses of the executive power. How is M. Mesnaud conscientiously to discharge this arduous duty, when it lies with the executive power to fix how many thousands a year he is to have, and to revoke the gift at pleasure. The other' vice-presidents are MM. Drouyn de l'Huys, Trop long, and General Baraguay d'Hilliers. The great wealth of the first will dispense him, it is presumed, from any obligation to the treasu The I ry. consummate incapacity of Count Turgot as Minister of Foreign Affairs, a position which he has acquired simply by the merit of being the son of a chevalier d'honncur to the Queen Hortense, rendering his con tinuance in so responsible a position next to impm- I sible. M. Drouyn de l'Huys has been designated by report for his successor. In fact, the latter was on the point of becoming foreign ministry when the con fiscation decree scared him. But the fact of his having accepted a seat in the Senate intimates that his objections have been overcome, and renders it probable that he will soon become a member of the cabinet. M. Troplong, another vice-president, is first president of the Court of Appeal at Paris, and the most eminent lawyer in France. The " Contrat des Ventea," duo !to the pen of this voluminous writer on French jurisprudence is reckoned a mas ter-piece of legal composition. Tho division of the Conseil d'E'at into sections suggests a few reflexions as to the names which ap pear in these lists. The Section do Costenti tic, which comes first, is a court for the decision of ap peals of citizens against the administration. The person originally selected to be president of this section was M. Chaaseloup-Laubat, M. Faucher's Minister of Marine. But no sooner was the fatal decree of the 22nd published, than M. de Chasseloup- Lauhat declined a Neat in the Council of State. M. Maillard, the president appointed in his place, is one of the few surviving councillors of state of the empire. M. Ilauchart, the first name which appears in this section, is guilty of flagrant apostasy, as he was one of the representatives who signed the decree fur the deposition of the President, at the famous sitting in the mairie of the 10th arron dissement. For the rest, M. Banchart's ambition seems in the inverse proportion of his capacity and principle; as he has been constantly hanging about the Flyts , e to pick up one of the small ministries, and insinuated himself into the friendship of Odilon Bar rot to creep into the cabinet by holding on to his (skirts. Another functionary appears in the section of finance, who also signed, as councillor of state, a protest against the usurpation of Louis Napoleon. This is M. Stourm, whose apastacy deserves to he Istigmatised with the more vehemence, as no man has stormed more about thew liberties which have been extinguished by the emir Vial of Dee. 2. Stonrrn was an opposition deputy under the monarchy, aid when I the republic succeeded he became a zealous adher ent of Cavnignae. Lifted to a post in the Cooneil of State, he distinguished himself by the violence of his opposition to the Elysi , e. But all the eloquenee of ' Stourni was like that of ton many others. "full of sound and fury signifying nothing." The section of Public Works is presided over by M. M wile. This gentleman ens one of the few eo / eibf,,, in Louis polenn'n ministry. 'f he pains which he took to pro- claim in the 3totitcur that he gave in his resigna tion on the eve of the promulgation of the deeree of January 23, seemed to announce an honourable re pugnance for that fell spoliation. So much the more WAY every right-minded man disgusted to observe that the retreat of M. Marine, as well as that of his colleagues, Rouher and Fould, from the cabinet, wee followed by their installation in the lu crative emits d Oottecil of State and Senate. The semblance of inmeity pat on to shirk responsibility, which was thin nableihingly dropped, produced a more painful on the public than the naked beldam of and Periwig. Another name in this ssedea Or public works which excites regret is that of Y. Michel Chevalier. This distinguished man of mimeo owed his fortune and advancement to the patronage of the house of Orleans. Having soon after the accession of Louis Philippe resigned his post as an engineer of mines in the government ser vice, to embrace the most extravagant doctrines of the aint Simonians, and follow Pere Enfantin in his theories for the common poson of properties and wives, ho was detached from these deplorable vaga ries by M. Thiers, who in 1833 sent him on a mission to the United States. This was the beginning of Chevalier's fortune. He published, on his return, his "Lettrer sur l'Amerique,":which first spread his name. He was restored to the roll of the mine engincers,and raised to the dignity of councillor of state. In 1840, upon the refusal of M. Leon Faucher to accept the chair of Political Economy in the College of France —a refusal founded upon an honourable delicacy, as H. Faucher supported the government of M. Thiers at that period, in the columns of the Caurrier Fran eats, and was unwilling to allow the disinterested , nature of his support to be questioned—upon this re fusal, I say, M. Chevalier accepted from the govern ment of Louis Philippe the professorship in question. At present there is the less necessity for this adhe sion to a policy which exiles his patron, M. Thiene, and beggars the family of his former benefactor, as M. Chevalier possesses, in consequence of his mar riage with the daughter of a wealthy manufacturer, a very decent competency. The Consultative Commission is dissolved by the same decree which makes the new Conseil arEtat enter immediately upon its factions. The govern , meat is greatly chagrined at this measure not hav ing forestalled the resignation of M. de Montalem bers and his acolytes--MM. do Mirada and do Mou ldier. lam informed from a good source that it was not only the confiscation decree that determined these important defections, but the communication to do Montalembert of ulterior schemes, which he regarded as an absurd and mischievous appeal to passions connected with former events. Thus it came to his ears that the government intended to bring forward the revision of the sentence of the council of war on Marshal Ney, and of the judg ment given in the case of the will of the Duchess do Feucheres. The latter proposition has, perhaps, caused the rumour that the family of De Bohan intended once more to lair claim to the succession of the Prince de Conde. * But you will see from the circumstance of the leading legiti mists,lßerryer and Vatimesnithaving offered toplead before the tribunals against the decree confiscating the Orleans property, that the scheme of raking up the old scandals about the mysterious death of the Due de Bourbon is not a legitimist but a Bonapartist one ; neither is it at all probable that a high legiti mist family would play into the hands of the present government to revive an odious suspicion against the monarchy of July, while the whole legitimist party stand aloof from Prince Louis Napoleon and his asso ciates with the most inflexible reserve. The President is highly displeased with Dr. Vcron for the petite indiscretion of which he has been guilty in the Constitutionsel, by holding out the prospect of the submission of the decree of Jan. 23 to the Senate and Legislative Body. The doctor was called up before M. de Persigny for this offence, and in formed that in consequence of this rash abuse of this rash abuse of his immunity from the censure, in fu ture the Constitutionnet would have to undergo the same scrutiny before publication as the other papers. Meanwhile the act is supposed to have been a re venge of Veron for not having been made senator. Certainly it has produced great embarrassment to i the government, for the newspapers of the depart ments have shown their sympath y . for the Orleans family by bursting out everywhere in a full chorus of gratulation at the prospect of the decree being re pealed. A lion mot circulates to-day apropos of Jerome's appointment to be President of the Senate. They say that the ex-king's position is just the same as before, puisqu'il at tonjoura yorerneur des Inealides. There are at this moment about 20 protects in Paris, receiving instructions relative to the elections. It is always usual to leave a convenient interval be tween the convocation of the electoral colleges and the elections, in order to give time to all parties for preparation. But I understand that on this occasion there will bo as little time as possible allowed, in order, of course, to carry the government candidates by surprise. No professions of faith, circulars, or addresses of any sort will be allowed. The electoral law is the next measure of interest expected. The decree opening a credit for defraying the ex penses of the Court of Accounts only authorises the credit to reach until March 1. Hence, it is gathered that the inauguration of the constitutional system will coincide with that date. Tie French are lost in conjectures as to the mo tives of Lord Normanby's retirement from tho embavey. H. Sr H Bulwer has arrived here. It is said that the cadres of the etat-major of the navy arc going to be increased, and that the creation of three new vice-admirals, mix captains, and so on in proportion through the inferior grades, is iu con templation. The Superior Council of Instruction is announced by report to be on the point of reorganisation, as several bishops who were about to attend the sittings of the council have received notice that their at tendance is snperfluous, on account of the contem plated recomposition of the council. " It is positively asserted," says the Debats, " that the general elections for the members of the Legisla tive Body are to take place on Sunday, the 13th, and Monday, the 16th February." The evening organs of the government repeat this u a rumour, but say that it requires confirmation, because it will be a work of time and much labour to parcel out the new electoral districts. The prefect of police has just published the fol lowing proclamation : Inhabitants of Paris,—Long penetrated with the feelings which animate the Prince President of the Republic, I shall respond to the honour which he does me in placing me at the head of the police deportment of the Seine, by devoting myself with ardour to the defence of your inter ests and wants. The people, in proclaiming Louis Napo leon from one end of France to the other, have given him the right and the strength to do good as well as to prevent evil, and society henceforth, tranquilised as to the stability of the government, knows that the heir of the Emperor will not fail in his mission. This state of things, by placing order and the country above questions of affections and of persons, authorises us to say that factions and parties will now respectfully bend before the national will manifested with such enthusiasm fur the second time, on tbo 21st of December; and that, if guilty hopes or cri minal attempts should manifest themselves, the promptitude and vigour of their repression would prove the weakness and the folly of those who forget that, when the people have pronounced their opinion, no one is allowed to slight its voice with impunity. Now, snore than ever, industry, commerce, and the working classes--In a word, all honest men will unreservedly unite with the government to secure the maintenance of peace and public tranquility, and that ' solidarity of sentiments and of interests between sovereign France and the national and strong government which has proceeded from her bosom, is a sure guarantee that the took of the direction of the police will become more easy, and that, according to the idea of the chief of the state, I shall be able to devotes great part of my time to questions connected with public prosperity arm the welfare of the masses The duties of the prefect of looliee should, in fact, consist not only in watching over and vigorously repressing bad pas sions, but in governing paternally, and constantly labouring to effect all the practical eineliorsti 0000 s which the city hits the right to expect from an administration which, in order to do good, has only to take its inspirations from the gene rous and patriotic sentiments of the elect of the nation. Inhabitants of Paris,-11y ambition, like that of toy ho nourable predecessor, who has left lac so many examples to follow, is to merit your eintblence. Thanks to the justice, the honesty, the kindne.s, and the spirit of conciliation, which will preside over all my acts; thanks to the firmness and the energy which will c instantly guide my devoted ness in the accomplishment of my duties, I feel a convic tion that this confidence will not be refused to me. (Signed) Pteratt, Paris, Jan. 28 Prefect of Police. On Sunday last, Captains de Firassae and Lariron, of the 51st regiment, in garrison nt Blois, fought a duel with swords, when the latter was mortally wounded, and died while being curried to the Hotel Dieu. The Minister of the Interior received the dcpitr flint of the actors of Paris this morning. Ile assured them that the government wluld neglect nothing to increase the promerity or the drama. It is under stood that the President will hire ti box at every th,stre in Paris, th it government pensions will be revived, and the pour-rates hitherto levied on the re ceipts diminished. r By • decision of January 27, 18.52, the Minister of Marine and of the Celestes has resolved that a testimony of the gratitude of the government of the republic should be addressed to Lieutenant Pace, of the British navy, commanding the preventive station of Salt-burn, who directed the preservation from shipwreck of nine French sailors, forming the crew of the boat Napoleon, wrecked the 25th of September upon the coast of ltedcar, England. The Minister of Marine has also caused to be remitted a sum of 300 fr. to the society which propagates the saving ap paratus consisting of rockets, invented by Mr. Carte, of Hull, to the employment of which the sailors of the Napoleon were indebted for their lives in this instance. M. Abbatucci, Minister of Justice, has appointed his son, M. Charles Abbattuci, to be his cluf-de cabinet. An erratum in tho Maniteur states that in the decree containing tho list of senators, instead of Lemarrois must be road Count Le Movie. M. do Maupas toik possession yesterday of the new ministry of poke, and M. Pictri of the prefec ture of police. The Spanish gererals, Prim and Ortega, and Count de Reuss, have arrived in Paris from Madrid. At the Bourne, the Fives rose Lie., and cloned at 1021 r. 9.1 c ; the Times fell 15e., and closed at 6.ifr. Bank of France shores rune lOfr. Rouen fell 7fr.soe. Tho other railways scarcely varied. BELGIUM. Tho French government has recalled M. Quinettc, its minister at lints:ids, who is placed en disponihi lia, and replaced by the Duke do Bassani). The new minister was for more than eight years secretary to the French embassy at Brussels, and is connected with several principal families of Belgium. SPAIN. MADRID, JAM 24. M. do Onitaud, secretary of the French embassy, is on the point of setting out for Paris. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. The Madrid, Capt. Weeks, Admiralty agent Lieut. Fuge, It.N., arrived at Southampton last night. Her dates are : Gibraltar, Jan. 21st ; Cadiz, 22nd; Lisbon, 24th; Oporto, 2.5 th ; Vigo, 26th. She brings no news of the crew and passengers of the Amazon. On her outward passage she experienced heavy gales from I the south-west from the Hth of January, which, obliged her to put into Corunna on the 12th. She, left on the 14th, but was obliged to put back again, and could not finally leave before the 16th. She could not enter Vigo or Oporto, and was obliged to proceed on to Lisbon. The sea on the coast of Por tugal was terrific, breaking in several places six miles inland—a circumstance which has not been known for the last twenty years. The Madrid could not communicate with Oporto on her homeward passage. Amongst her passengers are the four remaining seamen who have been rescued from the Riff pirates by H.M.S. I)ragon paying 21/1. each. Silva Sanches has been elected president, and Derramado vice-president, of the Lower Chamber. A decree has been signed by the Queen of Portu gal, consigning all past political offences to oblivion. Exchange, 531. Discount on Lisbon bank notes, 2 per cent. Our correspondent writes as follows: LISBON, Jaw. 21. In my last I mentioned the decree relative to the execution of the financial measure; I now send you the fol lowing tranvlation of that part of it which relates to tho foreign dividends : It my will and pleasure to determine that, for the execution of that part of the decree of of tho 3rd of De cember ult., relative to the p.iyment in bonds of the in terest of the external funded debt, the following be ob ecrved : Art. 1. The payment of the interest of the external funded debt, which belongs to the second half-year of 1850, the first and second half-year of 18.51, and the limit half year of 18.52, free from the deductions established by law, shall be made by scrip certificates which, tho Junta de Credito Pudlico shall issue to the financial agency in London fur such application. Art. 2. bur the conversion of the scrip certificate., men tioned in the preceding article, the said Junta do Credit° Pudlico shall create and emit the necessary bonds, by means of the financial agency referred to, which shall bear 4 per cent. interest, reckoning from the hat of July, 18-52, subject to the deductions established bylaw, having the same gua rantees which all other Wicks possess that represent the external funded debt. _ Separate Section.—Should asy balance remain at the time of carrying into effect the above conversion, a scrip certificate shall be passed fur such balance, which, united to others, can be oinverted into bonds. • Art. 3: The bonds, whose ovation shall take place by virtue of the pre.ent decree, shall be divided into series of Mt, 501., 1001., 2001., and 51101., and printed in the Portu guese, English, and French languages; they shall have cou pons payable to the bearer, shall be stamped with the seal of the royal arms belonging to the chancery, with my royal signature, and authenticated by the signature of my minis ter ut the court of St. James's, or the functionary in charge of his post, and by the employe charged with the financial agency, in quality of delegate of the aforesaid Junto do Cre to I'u blico. ' Art 4. The numbers and amounts of the bonds which shall be emitted, for the purpose mentioned in Art. 2, shall be successively published in the London journal.. The minister and secretary of state fur tho finance de partment shall thus understand and carry it into effect. Palace of the NeeessiJades, sth of January, 1852. Signed by the Queen and the Minister of Finance. Tho Queen has appointed the Marquis of Soule and Vi►count do Alga president and vice-president of the peers, to preside in the absence of the president and sice•presidcut of that chamber. Instead of the usual committees for the examination of projects, motions, &c., a motion has been carried in the lower chamber to divide it into sections for that purpose, in imitation of the late French Assembly. And, among other motions, it is not a ►ittle remarkable that Senhor Avila should have made one requiring the chamber to be informed whether the commission appointed by the government to examine the stateof the treasury and the legality of payments and contracts, has discovered any wasteful expenditure in payments and contracts made contrary to law. Also that the government should bring :to light any peculation and corruption practised by the ministry of the 18th of June, 1 1818 (the Count de Thomar's ministry). The motions will douuticu open a wide field for discussion, particularly as the wasteful expenditure and indemnisations made by that ministry have been so universally condemned. The restrictions placed on the press in Spain have made a deep impression here. It is said the French have da minded from Spain the expenses of the l)uke d'Angou lease's army. This is consi weed somewhat ominous, and that it may lead to the occupation of certain fortresses until the demand be satisfied. Since my last, pay has been issued to 27 department■, all Um December lost; and notice had been given that pay to the motive and inactive classes for January will commence being paid on the 3rd of February, and bo continued during the month until they shall be all paid. The conversion of the outstandiug floating debt and divi dends is proceeding with. ITALY. PIEDMONT. In the sitting of the 2lth of the Chamber of De puties at Turin, the report on the introduction of cer tain modifications to be introduced in the law on the press, proposed by the government shortly after the events of Dec. 2, was read. The government bill proposed that, in cases of offences of the press against foreign powers the public prosecutor should not be obliged to produce in court any demand of pro secution by the offended power or its representative. The commission proposes to enact that it shall ho sufficient to produce a declaration signed by the Mi nister of Foreign Afftini, stating that a diplomatic communication has been received concerning the in criminated article; and that the jury who are to deride the rinestion are to be taken from the electors of the district where the court of appeal sits. The discussion was adjourned to the 27th. ROME. The Giornale di Mona, of the 2lst, states that the rope has named a commission to inquire into thy. present financial state of the country, and to propose the nehme, that may be practicable, with a view to introduce the greatest possible economy in the public expenditure. This commksion is composed of Car dinal Antonelli, a+ president, Monsignor Grasselli tt i t Monsignor Capella, Chevalier Galli, pro-minister of Finance, Advocate Villi ttt i t councillor of state; Count Paneitini, and Chevalier Neri, pro director of the public debt. NAPLES. NAPLES, JAN. 22, The Official Journal (Jan. 20) unexpectedly an nounces a new combination in the Neapolitan cabinet. The first decree states: " Taking into consideration the advanced ago and the impaired health of the Marquis Fortunate, Minister of State and ]'resident of the Council of Ministers, charged with the port folio of Foreign Affairs, and listening to the desire of the same for repoee, we grant him his retireinent, with the ' pension of justi ce .' " Th e second decree names the Cavalier*, kerdinando Troja, elesiastical Affairs, now President of the Council of Ministers, in the place of M.Fortutiato. The third decree names M. Scoria (Grace and Justice) to ecclesiastical affairs, in the place of M. Troja. A fourth decree confers the portfolio of the Minister of Foreign Affairs on M. Carafe di Traetto. A fifth decree names M . l'as quale Gorerea, as Prefect of Police. There are two motives for which the necessity of a change of minis try would suggest itself to hits Neapolitan majesty. In the first place we are expecting daily a float decree abolishing the constitution ; tt would, therefore, he more convenient that this crown ing act should he consummated in the pr e - sence of ministers who have not taken the constitutional oath. In the second place, nu doubt his majesty is willing enough to get nil of men who, however inspired by the royal will, hart. committed a series of illegal acts and inhuman cruelties during their tenure of office that has erected an amount of ' odium fur the royal rule, to which hie Majesty mast be perfectly aware, and of which lie can scarcely he indifferent. Further decrees are expected which will entirely change the old cabinet. 'I he King held three cabinet councils within 21 hours. We have a report in Naples that Prince Louis Napoleon has communicated with the Neapolitan cabinet, claiming indemnification for the confiscated personal property while& Iteloti„,ottl to Murat; the *um demanded, it is said, amounts to 34 millions of francs. Although these assertions are made with great confidence on the Bourse, I am inclined to think the story has originated rather in anticipative than fact. Neapolitan Fives, 103. Exchange on London, 678. GERMANY. The Post :tints Gazette of Frankfort resumed on the 2fith instant the re-publication of the reports of the Central Diet, commencing with the sit tin t of the 25th, in which the principle of non-conservation of the flotilla of the North Sea as the property of the confederation was decided. This publication has no other interest than as showing that the difference which had arisen between Austria and Prussia re specting the mode in which the reports were to be drawn up and published has been arranged. Prussia, it will be rbmembered, charged her neighbour with making these partial reports a political in s t rument. The positive destination of the flotAla. says the Xrio Prussian Ga:rtte, is as uncertain as ever; the only point settled is that Prussia will not contribute another groschen to its maintenance. In the second Prussian chamber on the 26th a discussion took place upon a petition from M. Brauner, chief of the new catholic party, who, expelled from Berlin, found himself equally ex eluded from his native place, where he had lost his rights of domicile. Wanting these rights there, he (lid not possess them in any other part of the kingdom, and, to complete his difficulties, a foreign passport was denied him. Being forbidden to remain in Prussia, and not allowed to depart, M. Brauner has resolved to appeal to the chamber, which he prays to regulate his condition in one way or another. The committee on his petition recommended that the house should shirk it by passing to the order of the day, and in this recommendation the government concurred. The chamber rejected the proposition by 164 against 95 votes, and the petition was referred to the minister of the interior for him to (10 justice in the case. On the same day the debate turned in the First Chamber on the petition of Count Saurnia, demand ing the revision of the constitution, a petition which occasioned a few days ago a warns debate in the Se cond Chamber. The result was, however, different in the present instance, as the Right and ultra- Right supported by the government curried a special order of the day favourable to revision by 86 against 64 votes. The report that M. Bodelschwingh, mi nister of finance, would retire in consequence of tho augmentation of the war budget as proposed by General Bonin, is contradicted. General Bonin has notified to the committee of the Chamber on the budget that it need not continue to discuss the present army estimates, as the new ones will he shortly sent before it. The resolution affirming the commercial treaty ' with Prussia and the Zolls - crein was read a second time, in the Hanoverian Upper Chamber, on the 26th, by a majority of J 4 votes to 19. In thc Se cond Chamber the copy of a treaty with the French republic, for the protection of literary property, was laid on the table. In a late sitting of the Second Chamber at Munich M. von Lassaulx, in giving his vote fur the military estimates, stated he (lid so the more readily, as the states of Germany must be prepared fur all even tualities, since the political power in France had been seized by a " buccaneer" (fibs:tier.) The French minister made a formal remonstrance to the President of the Ministry, M. von der Pthrdten, against the use of such an expression by a deputy of the Chambers, in reference to the chief of the French government. In the sitting of the 21th, M. von der l'fortden expressed his regret that M. von Lassaulx should have used so injurious a term; had he heard it he should have requested that tho hon. deputy be called to order. The president of the Chamber also stated that be had not heard the word, a declaration the Chamber received with considerable " hifaritj.." M. von Lassaulx did not withdraw the expression. A bill is to be introduced withdrawing the trial of political offences from juries ; it is to have a retroactive effect' DENMARK AND THE DUCIIIES. Ilerlings Gazette and the Fadrektielet agree in con firming the statement of chang es i n the Danish government which we published yesterday. Tho Flensburg Gazelle says that a note of Lord Granville, advising Denmark to accept the Austrian and Prus sian propositions, has contributed to hasten this solution. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. PARIA, JAN. :9. Fnf For A...OMM Monti. opt.alat 11101001.1 10w444.! Mete& 3 par Cents. ...... 44 80 ' 41 10 03 0 04 SO 1 1111 0 5 per Vent,. . 3 r.r (WU. New Law .. I orr Conta. le per IN•110. 6l 13 .. ... 1 ... ... Kacisayasa Loran: at .38114. 33 423 ; 94) days, 23 134.... BelitiKa, i. ION Do. 4, 1848.... « . ... Ronan Lam, 1331 ... 1).• 43 M. 2{ . . , . .. I Tremoury Foals ... „. Pir.lownal 3 p.. 6. .. NI 00 ... I bank mure. .... 2660 ... PASIO4 JAN. 211. —St_ Germain, —; Versaill e s (right 1, 411111. 21 11 ;; ilea blink., 241 2.; Part+ obd Orlean. , 1,40 ; ran. ud .<414 0 2 80 ; It.urn and Havre. 2GO; Jaywalk. and Aviv... 4.— Sari...name and na , e, 207 sa, Centre 457 5.. ; 2811; l Wen...land Itn-draus, CM. si-r•itern. fans and Straw. Imam. 0 3 ; raria en' Isom, SA I ; Tows and Nantee. 2E'; helms and VICSIII P. . Itwd,.ana and Teat... an. JAN. 2N.—Voluntary Loan, 10 2 _; ; ditto Four•atid-a-Half per Cent., New I.oati, Four and-u-Half per Cents., 101 1 .. Nat• I Debt, NOl. Marine Society, Bank Shares, 06 1. VIENNA, JAN. 28.—Fire per Cent. Mia all illues, ; Four-and-a Half per Cent. ditto, s:t:. Bank Shares, 1,216. Exchange on London, 12.19. DEPARTURE tiF THE tirE‘m-SIIIP Weilnevilair, at li ilf.pagt I. p.m., the United State% ;dram ship, l'acitic,Capt. Nye, left the Mervey for New York direct, with 41 pay...engem and it very full cargo, chiefly of Man chester and Birmingham gooilv. The Atlantic, Captain Weal, will he the neat %termer belonging to thiv line that will arrive in Liverpool ; one may be capected about Wed neallay neat. - • INtivinv.--Runtoutm have been in cir culation daring the la-t few• dar. • pointing to in•t.mees of undue interference at the siek bed of a parishioner by oao of Our neighlaiming clergymen. We uaihr.t.inil that the matter is likely to be Isel hufore the bishop of the diocese in the form of aen itigaint airiinst the clergyman referred to by the willed who was engaged in the case. —rhelieHAlns POISONOUS AIWI.TERATIoN CIDER. -- In con sequence of the sickness of number. of people an a quarter of Paris where eider is much used 10 a drink, an inquiry has been itraitututl, which has lot to the discovery Out sulphate of lead is put into the cider, to make it clear and , sparkling. P e is th Pr P 3 in' in 1301 di , in an ch I th ch lio P a tli tes mt 0 bal tb w tb to PI w 1. I I ot ti P I tl hi iu h , is lu tl VI 6 b el tl tl tl