The Express. — London, England, 1848-08-28 00:00:00

11111'Elt AL PARLIAAIEINT: HOUSE OF COMMONS.—SATCRDAT, ACIO. The Sraentia took the chair at le o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. TILLED READING. P ÜB —Earl of Wengall'e Estate Bill. LIC BUSINESS. FIRST READINGS —Appropriation; West India Lean; West India Colonies; Biths. SECOND RES LANGB.—row-home Lleeneni, Se • roster 155 Newspapers (Channel Islands); Lack - up Douses; Di:stnage Certifi cates ; ales CUMITTEES.—SIave Trade (Mtweat) ing ; Tim Masters; Court of SI Chancery (Ireland); Royal Military Asylum ; REPOR PS.-01 Ways and Means; West In C ol o niee;oiutions Tssing Masters' (Court of Chancery, Ireland) Salaries, we. ; Ites ta, ha ; ; Diplomatic Relations with the Court of Rome; RI Ls. Bat.Crloll-p TEIRD READlNG.—Westminster Improvements Bill. HORSHAM ELECTION. Oa bringing up the report on we es and means, Mr. ANSTEY said thet he had received a communication from the 'elicitors in the case cf " Ncwmarch v. the At torney-Ger.eral" respecting the state meet made some days since by the Attorney , General on the subject of the bribery and treetieg which it was said took place at the election for Horsham. He had sent the hon. and learned gentleman elle icts from the letter he received. It would be recollected that the hon. and learned gentleman stated — The SPEAKER said that the hon. and learned member m at confine himself to the question of which he had given notice, and in as short terms u he could. (Loud cries of •• hear.") Mr. ANSTEY said that he could not put the question without readies the communication which he had received. The hun. and learned gentleman then read the letter of Me-are. Mitchell and Waugh, the attorneys of the plaintiff, which stated that they had examined the persons named in the declaration in the action, in which were mentioned the names of certein parties who were called bribers and bribees, and that amongst these appeared the name of her hlejesty'is Attorney-Goitre]. They stated that they withheld the charge at the request Ut Mr. Jervis, the late member ; they stated that the Attorney-General had procured situations for two persons who hod voted for his son at the ,andelection a that they subtornsed Mr. Tufi.ell, Mr. Waddington, the cetory , to the Admit ally, and the see retary to the Pod.otlice to prove these Lets ; they stated that they postponed the trial in order not to interfere with the election petioon now pending ; they aimed that if the Attont y.General gave an urdertaking they would proceed to trial the ensuing term; they stated that they were notthe election agents"( Mr. Fitzgerald at the late election for Meridiem; and that Newmarch was not a clerk, but an articled clerk, and the son of a beneficed clergyman. The question he had to ask was, whet her there statements, or any them, were correct. ''Le ATTORNEY-GENERAL mid he thanked the hon. and learned gentleman for sending him a copy of the ques tion Le was shout to put ; but he begged to assure him and the house that he had paid nothing to Messrs. Waugh and Mitchell for putting it. (Laughter.) No person who knew Messrs. Waugh and Mitchell could accuse him of having done so. The hon. and learned gentleman uie that his name was among three who were mentioned as bribers. He thought that was very likely. Those who had heard the evideuci of Mr. Padwick would not doubt his invention. (Meer.) But if the hon. and teamed gentleman bee made any inquiry on the subject he would have found that the statement was utterly untrue. Ths nest statement was, that the petition had been withdrawn at the ri quest of his son. Now that was purely and unadulterate.dly false. Act to himself, the first account wh.ch he read of the with. drawn: of the petition was in a newspaper, which he pur chesed at Wolverton. Before he left London for Sidop,where hew IS Specially retained, he wrote the following letter to Mr. James, the barb-ter, oa the subject of the petition 17, E,iton.square 20th March, 1015.—My deer latners—l am lust starting tar Salop, Lad think it right .o let you know distinctly that I will be no party, directly or indirectly, to may pecuniary onnpnimise I base written to Easton about the proccedingeurs truly, Saaos. The petition was withdrawn during his absence with out his knowledge or consent. ills eon was a gm tlerneri by Lirth and education, and he would b. ashamed to so by and bear his stet defended by perjury. It sets said that he procured a situation for a person named Burl: rd. Now he deelated tat he never heard his name till tee received the declaration. With regard te Olden, he was never a voter. He backed a recommendation in his favour, but he did not receive the si.uation .e applied for, and he received soother without any ieterference en his pert. The nee: point ,tea rd was that Messrs. Waugh and Mitchell withdrew the action pending the petition. That was untrue. Lastly, they said they were nut the attorneys of Mr. Fitzge rald. They were the attorneys is the petition against his sou. They were the agents of Mr. Padwick, who con e:meted the election for Mr. Fitaeereld. He believed in his conscience that the action was brought spinet him to stop the retitiun present , d by Lord Edward Howard, and he therefore addressed to him the Lull , wing letter : 47, Eaton-square. Sunday.—My dear Edward,—The action which has been commenced against me tor brth ey, with a view hi prevent you from pruceeshug with ys.nr iwtition, ass been alluded to in the Joh, DWI newspaper, and is so muck talked of that the sooner the petition is presented the better. lam very anxious to have the whole matter Cully investigated, and as min as povathle. Nothing short of the fullest Inquiry will satisfy the public of the falsehood of the va ne. reports whisk for political purl have born industriously alma:amyl against me—Yours truly, Juts J ravel This was ens answer to the questions p ut to him; and now be defied Means. Wauch and Mitchell, and all directly or indirectly connected with them, and as they stowed the:n atives unworthy of the treatment of gentlemen he despised them all. (Loud cheers.) Mr. UUME said that every member who brought forward charges in that house should have previously ascertained their truth seed accuracy. (Hear, hear) He had seen the mos: idurious censequences guise from following such I a ceurse, tweeter that the time c f the house wis wasted. / (Hear, hear.) The hon. and learned gentleman would not consult his own character it he allowed himself to be made the medium of pressing such charges on the notice of the house. (Hear, hear.) By a rule of the house they could not bring in question any statement made on the honour of, a member ; and very justly so, bee .use it they allowed their own chareceere to be impugned it would lead to repeated debetes. (Hear, bear.) THE BUitNING OF "...HE OCEAN MONARCH. Mr. RISME wished to know whether the government woul 1 institute any inquiry respecting she burning of toe oe - art Monarch, with 39) peewees on board. It was a case that defeanded inquiry, b. cause it was a ease of humanity. He undemood that the Orion and the Cambria passed by without :deeding an) assistance. It wee a painful thing to 0014 that some of the'r own countrymen should have acted in this wsy, while the Prince de Jeinville and the Duke d'Auniale made every er“rtion to rave the lives of the poor people. (Hear.) foe CHANteELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had no doubt that an inquiry would be instituted, but the hon. gett tleman must recollect that the vessels he referee t to were not geverament vessels. Mr. 110 ME -aid he hoped that some eremite nse would he given to Jerome, who saved the lives of seventeen persons at his o greet rick (Hear, hear.) THE HURRICANE ON THE COAS f OF SCOILAND. Mr. HUME said that 100 persons had lost their lives en the late hurricane on the coast of Scotland. lie hoped that subscriptions would be r Used far the :elided their wtdows and amines. (Hear, bear.) DISTRESS IN IRELAND. Mr. P. SCROPE booed that is the case of the employ ment of Irish labourers, they would be employed in works of utility and not in breaking stones, as was the case during the last famine. The Irish psor had ' now a legislative right to relief. li hoped, theretere, that they would hear no mote of the Skulls of Ekihbsreen. ; De v sponsibility would now vest sin the govcruale..ClT-a-buman Woos was allowed t Perish. — DUNNE said it was net often that be ca..ld agree eu t:.e Am. mem set tor S•rowl, but he qude concurred in the. e usg,stion he made respec ing the employment of the poor in produc.ive instead of unproductive wor s. TILE FIN.aNCIAL STAFEMENT. Mr. HUNIE complained that the Chancellor of the Ea chequer was aoing to add another 2,000,0001. to the debt of the country in a time of peace. Ile objected to the right hon. t o pay buying stock at SGL, for wh.ch he would have to pay 1001. besides the int::rest He would therefore nt..me to leave on• from the loot resolutions the words •• either In Three per Cent. Con•ols or Reduced," for the purpose of laser .‘ng the words ht debentures at is rate 01 into eta n to ut esce.oing 5 per cent. He thought it much pr.trrsble raw. the money in this way ,red to trust to the replacing is before the nest year or two. The CHANLELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he pout! not assent to tt,e amendment, hie proposition having been :florid don a mature o.disideratinn bar of to t s ue übj mt-ect, and r u pon tho pr .- m eant- of the right hon. ont mlo foe Taraworth, and other gentlemen who had filled the office oi Chancellor of the Eseacivier. NI . . HUME raid he shoul I take the sense of the house on the second reading of the bill. Toe report was then reesiv.d. li CHANCELLOR ni the EXCHEQUER intimated the. n.! *n dela take mut •ai the bill alter five e'eock on Monday, in easier t meet th, general wish of th hood.. to separate for the session -t the earliest passible mo ment. (Hear. hear.) The house adjourned at two o'clock. ---.--___ - BUSINESS OF THE WEEK I 23N THE LORDS. MONDAY, Ata. . ORDERS OF me DAY.—SuCosu Ilitaungau—labourialt Poor sepa l;elrvLdid &Wu Duties; Sbeep met Cattle Importation ProhibitMn ; nd Cattle ConiagiOUS Das:Mae., Prevention; Bilis. —o.nis ;r. esit—lletrop Mum Commissioners of Sewers Bill.--Tnnto Remus°, one Inch:lmre (No. 2 1 ; Petty Bag, ac. Office ',Court of Chan cery) Wolverhampton Curies - (No. 2); Poor Removal (No. 2) ; Re productive Loan Fund Itatitution (Ireland) ; London City Small tsr ; Poor-law Union Churgcs (No. 2) (adjourned debate); Bills.— Hatie Ili Peoussse: Court ink SLCOND Itainiso.—Clergy Oh fenced; Bankruptcy Court P.egulation; Hudson's Ilicone (India); Davnion'm Divorc- ; Cootros-mte Elm-Coss; Millbank Prison ; Com mons Inch:cure Act Amendment ; Nuisance,and Contagious Diemen; Transfer of Landed Property (Ireland); lama Ada; Fever (Ireland); Bills.—Wsotsti von Commtriza.— Ba il foe Manslaughter; llamas. ray Actlma rreveatical; Bilk. BUSINESS OF NTHE WEEK IN TIIE COMMONS. In consequence of ouse having rat on Saturday, tbe votes bad not reached us at t h e= ew. ---r THE SALE A T STOWIL—On Saturday there was no sale at Stowe, but there was, nevertheless, a considera bl e I number of suitors. The sale will not re-commence to.day, it I will he resumed to-morr,w (Tuesday). Hitherto the pro ceeds have been estimatol at 18,6001. ; but though this be the amount received on the ten den' sale, this proceids of the remaining twenty.five days of the sale will be relatively you greater, as the paintings, the plate, and others of the ino..t valuable articles are yet to be disposed of. Great ea peetati. OS are formed respecting the amount which the paintings will produce. The celebrated portr o ait6ool. of Shakes It i peare will, it I s supposed, hring 4001. ts 1121rOSibie to say with any ceresnty what the entire produce will be, but Lbw conversant with such matten estimate the total proceeds at from 1100001. to 120,0001. This is eulogy, of the proceeds of the library. 1 1 i ' I\ 11, ii ' t, l 1 11 :' 1 1 1 1: P.I 1 + I I , !.• it .. ..,,, tit . ' , 1 . • ... Zhe Orpreso. MAILS. The mails for New South Wake, Van Land, and New Zealand will be made upon t he evening cif wt's ugust. ymails for the Wee curt of Africa and Madre will be made the evening of the Slot August. The malls for British North Muerte', end the United States will be made up the evening of the let Sept. The Wee India Mad., including Bermuda, Nairn. Havanna, Honduras, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Porto itioo, and ezeluding those for Madeira. June. Gerniagen., Santa Martha, Chaves, Panama West Coast of South America, and St- Juan-de- Nicaragua, will he made up on the morning of the lad Sept. The male for the Breads, the liner Plate, Moats Video, Penna. Ine=rehia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be mule up on the of the 4th September. The nulls for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Ceiba, and Gibraltar will be made up on the morning of the 7th Sept. The overland Owed mails. rot Marseille., to the M made edite up orranean the , Egypt, Aden. ( *yin , llong.Kong, to, will be n evening of the 7tia September. Tbe and mails to. Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian lolanda, ESTPt, Adeoverin, Ceylon, India, liong.Kong, and China, eta tiouthamp ton, will be made up on the evening ol the 29th Sept. NOTICE TO ADITEUTISERS. The number of STAMPS Issued by the authorities of the Stamp-office, during 1847, to the DAILY NEWS wa5.......... 3.447.009 This, we believe, is within eight percent. of the number suited to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, an 4 Morning J'ost, ►LL PUT TOOETIIII3. In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Jlorning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Aistiost, TILE EXPRESS '77B 714 A Bich was more, we believe, than wets issued either to Globe or Standard. Evening Papers. TO OUILICESPON DENTS. late•ded "Tbe Itopreoy . Load. mew{ paper. Ilourons.reet. by Two W0k.... on tika tiSJ et rtbiteatbot le4awoa~a 5C w-. ars., s C W • 1.11 na OMR. rare.24l--Waralas.32 miasma Aftarnoun.lo sta. par I. soar—Somais lltareem 3O swim. past 2 LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 28. Ton intimation given by Mr. HOME on Friday night that he will divide the house on the second reading of the Consolidated Fund Bill warrants a hope that some additional and less ambiguous infor mation respecting the finar.cial condition and pros pects of the country may be extorted from the CHAN CELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER than he has yet been pleased to impart. Stripped of all the irrelevant details with which it was overlaid, and disentangled from the involutions and tortnositics by which it was confused, the account rendered by the CHANCELLOR 01 , THE EXCHEQUER on Friday evening was as follows : The estimated income of the year is 52,130,0001. The estimated expenditure is .52,422,335'. There is, therefore, a deficiency of means to meet the actual current expenses of the year of 2,335/ To this must s be added two su w ms, one of 1, 92 100,000 1 ., the ex peoneof the other of 2 , 4.5,4111., the naval exces ths; e Kaffirar ; in all 1,315,0001., which have to be made good to the Exchequer. And, in addition to thew, there is a sum of 262,5431. for Irish distress, and 130,9631. for providing medical assistance for des titute emigrants lauded in Canada. The certain and ascertained excess of the estimated expenditure of the year over its income is 2,031,25111. This sum the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCIIMWER proposes to raise, either by issuing Exchequer-bills to that amount from time to time, or by creating stock to that amount and causing it to be sold from time to time, as suits his convenience. But in addition to the certain and ascertained excess of expenditure over income, there hangs over the future of our unlucky Chancellor a contingent which he calls a pot-ethic, and we a probable further excess ' of expenditure over income. Some time ago p for the purpose of drainage in England and Scotland, and for hied improvement in Ireland. Of this sum about 300,0001. has already neon advanced, and bow much more may be called for in the course of the year Sir CHARLES cannot say. He conjectured about 1,000,0004, or one-third of the remainder, but with out assigning any reason fur fixing on this proportion. Then there have been votes for New Zealand, Trini dad, Guiana, atlcl Tobago, amounting in all to about 300,000!., which he will most probably be called upon to pay before the year is out. There is a sum of 3,300,0001. hanging over his head, of which he cannot say bow much or how little he may have to pay in the course of the year. By Sir CHARLES'S own showing, he may have 3,331,2361. is pay in the course of the year more than the income of the year will arnount to. And to pro vide for these liabilities, he asks leave to raise the sum of 2,000,0004, " either by the issue of exchequer bills, or by the creation of consolidated 31. per centum annuitie , , or of reduced 31. per centum annuities." There can be little doubt that by throwing such an additional amount of exchequer bills, or of stock, on .he market—be the operation effected by what icstalments or at what times it may the price of these securities will' be affected. The CHANCELLOR Or THE EXCHEQUER cannot even conjecture how much he will have to pay for his two millions. Even when he has got his two millions he leaves a contingent deficiency unprovided for. He is making an extravagant bargain to enable him to settle urgent claims this year, a..d he proposes to throw the burden of other claims upon next year. And his grounds for hoping that next year may enable him to get his head above water are, that perhaps trade may revive to a greater extent next year than there is at present any promise of, and perhaps the harvest may not after all turn out so bad as there is at present reason to apprehend. how far his anticipations are unduly flattering may be inferred from his boast about the improvement of the customs revenue in 1848. He stated that the customs revenue from April to August, 1848, was 300,0001. better than in the corresponding period of 1817 ; but excluding corn duties, which are on the eve of terminating, the increase is only 22,0001. Sir CHARLES is too evi dently making the moat of every the slightest fa vourable symptom to inspire confidence. We are warranted therefore, in fearing that the income of 1849-50 may experience a positive decline ; that a de ficiency of 1848 9 may have to be made good in 1849-50 ; and that the two millions added to the debt this year may e but the pro logue to a much mRe con b sichrable addition in the next. It appears, from a return lately pre sented to parliament, that in 1847-8 ili?re was added to the debt 2,936,9831., deficiency, and 4,976,2761., money spent in Ireland; in all, 7,933,2391. Com bir ing the past, the present, and probable future finan cial operations of the CHANCELLOR OF THE Ex coeotten, they resemble the desperate efforts of a man labouring under a load of complicated continually increasing, which he cannot even com prehend, much lesa provide for extricating himself from. The appreh. nsions which the reckless and aimless struggles of the CHANCELLOR oe THE EXCIDQUER necessarily inspirewith respect to the national finances scarcely admit of wasting upon his boasted econo mies the tribute of contemptuous indignation to which they mi..Th" otherwise be entitled. He brags that reductions have been made in the estimates to the amount of 866,20 0 1. This is an exaggeration. A large ploprtion of this reduction has been effected, not by retrenchment, but merely by poiaponement of expenditure —poslionei cent which its Sir CHARLES himself observed, must lead to an mere iced outlay in the long run. And the circumstances under which this elusory reduction has been made are most die creaitable to government. When the House of Commons objected to their original esti mates they asked for two committees to inquire h and th e estimates cold ild be permanently reduced ; before these committees had time to commence their inquiries they began to reduce this year's estimates. They stand convicted by their own conduct o d f having in a season of rare l y surpassed distress end to obtain the sanction of parliament to an expenditure which they knew to be unnecessarily great. They asked tor parliamentary committees to inquire whether reductions in the national expenditure could be made, when they were well aware that reductions c ould be made. The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER avers that government sought to have the committees appointed, " not for the purpose of averting any responsibility from them selves, hut to enable the house itself, with a great wring (,), time, to make reductions w ith due discrimi nation.lttis a most original mode of saving time to set a couple of committees to inquire whether reduc tions were possible which were io be in part effected before they could report. Tile more probable that the committees were appointed in the hope that by over looking some saving which the departments know can be made, an 'excuse might be obtained for not - ''bog it, plunderers. Yes, if only one-half the evidence given before Lord DeNeAN's committee be true, it may be unhesi tatingly averred that the New Forest has for years past been used as a private property for the benefit of a body of timber merchant.• and their associates. The extracts which were published in the Express of Tuesday last clearly establish, not an isolated case of fraud, but a system of plunder and depredation par- I sued for years past under the very eye of the officials, ard of which it is really an act of extreme charity to believe that they were ignorant. It seems that every tree that is cut in the New Forest ought to have been first distinctly marked and measured by the deputy surveyor and the regard ere. It is then their duty to expose it tor sale by public auction. The evidence, however, go( s to show that certain timber merchants have been in the habit of selecting exactly what timber suited them—that it has been felled without being marked —that in many instances they have carried it away, professing to have purchased it by private contract ; and by returns which are before parliament it seems also that the public sales which did take place were rendered a mere farce—and that all the timber has, for a considerable (cried, passed into certain hands at a certain price, without any regard whatever to the market value of the article. This has been " the system " of the New Forest, as regards its timber—its sole and only product. The period over which these wholesale depredation+ have extended is supposed to have been some ten years at the least. The extent to which they have gone on it is utterly impossible to calculate. All that is known is that the timber-yards at Beaulieu, and at Fling, and other places on the Southampton Water, have been for a long period supplied with timber about which suspicions were very generally entertained. Since the committee, presided over by Lord Detects, ob tain( d their information, a government inquiry has been instituted, aside( inures have been made in the-e yards to an amount nearly equal to a year's revenue of the New Forest. Cargoes of timber have be( n taken possession of in the Chaotic' Islands and in tie• northern ports of England ; and quantities of trees, lying in the forest ready for removal, and claimed by the timber dealers in question, have been marked with the crown mark, and al , guarded as crown property. Two of the largest timber merchants in Halal,- shire, and several inferior persons, have been committed for trial. Tiie deputy warden of the forest (an officer who has grown . old in his country's service, and who is much to be pitied in the matter) has sent in his resig nation. aril numerous minor functionaries are sus pended. The lord warden of the forest has felt it necessary himself to appear upon the scene, and my Lords Commissioners of Woods and Forests feel that the matter is rather too serious to be agreeable. Upon the department presided over by these gentle men, as we have emphatically said before, and as most probably we shall feel it necessary to enforce again, the weight of pu lie indignation in such a case must and will deservedly tall. Whatever may have been the cause of this extraordinary neglect — whether having their suspicions they have lthought the matter not worth inque. y, or whether, on the other heed, they haw; been mule utterly ', blind than it is almost posaiEte to conceive any bat rd to be—whatever excuse thir commission may plead, i is evident that the bull 1111.19'. be taken by the horns, and that we must have a - reform of it altogether, a re form of as complete and sweeping a nature as the circumstances require, and as the public have a right to demand. The forests must be pat under a new system; and it may be permitted to express a hope that that system will be one not merely calculated to save the crown from depredation, but having for its object to enhance its revenues, and to improve the social and moral condition of large masses of the , population, whom , consi stentl y with its own advan tage, it is quite in the power of the crown to serve. that I -------___ FRANC FLIGHT OF MM. CAUSSIDIERE & LOUIS BLANC. PARIS, SLTURDAY, 6'30 P.M. Last night was an eventful one, nevertheless Paris manifested, this morning, extraordinary tran quillity. The streets have been unusually deserted, the aspect of the town being that of night rather than day. During the night strong patrols were maintained throughout all parts of the capital. General officers, with their staff and aides-de-camp, followed by orderlies, were constantly seen passing and reprising. 075 E a the most striking peculiarities of the New So far, however, as I have yet heard , all these great Forest is the absence of population. You may travel military preparations hare been taken without through its entire range, and except in the green encountering any resistance, or probably the precau- I spots of such villages as Lyndhurst, Brokenhnnt, and ' tions themselves are the cause why no movement hes •'LE EXPRESS, MONDAY'EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1848. taken place. During yesterday isealkly end after noon, although the precincts of Om Amiably were open ea usual to circulation, no oae wee permitted to stand nor any groups allowed to collect; the moment one or two individuals were seen to stop, a policeman Was at their elbow to desire them to move on. Within the Assembly, the Salle des Pas Perdue, usually the resort of journalist' and others for con versation and the interchaor of news, was kept cleared. Persons furnished with tickets were allowed to pass through, but not to stop in it. At the conclusion of Caussidieres speech, for which, together with other i n teresting matter, we refer to our report of the assembly given below, the presi dent announced that he had a communication to make to the Assembly. This announcement was followed by the most profound silence. The President read a requisition of the procureur-general of the Court of Appeal demanding authorisation of the Assembly to prosecute Louie Blanc and Cauesidiere as accomplices in the insurrectiors of the 15th cf May and 23rd of June. After some observations, characterised by more or less violence, from MM. Ledru Rollin, Lagrange, and other members of the extreme left, General Ca vaignac rose, and, greatly to the surprise of the As sembly, announced that the present application was made by the law officers of the government, not in conaceuence of the proceedings of the committee on the insurrection, but in consequence of judicial proceedings which had been taken simulta neously with the political inquiry. "The government (said General I avaignac) desired that this discussion should be promptly commenced and promptly termi nated, nor do we desire that this application for autho risation to prose-ere° should lead to another debate." lie was understood to intimate that the government had only postponed their demand in order to give the parties implicated plitically by the report of the committee time and opportunite , to deliver their defence in the tribune. Upon this Louis Blanc rose and declared that there was not an honest man who in his conscience doubted his innocence, and that he was impeached, not because he was supposed to be guilty, but because of his political opinions. At two o'clock this morning M. Come rose to sup port the demand for authorisation to prosecute. lie said that three things had gone on concurrently to en lighten the law officers—the judicial instruction on affairs of May 15; the military instruction on the in surrection of June; e the judicial investigation on the same. Therefore • lacts were well known. It was then prop+ l that the law officers Gf the republic should be au th orised to prosecute M. Louis Blanc for the affair of the 15th May, when the result of the division was as follows For granting the authorisation 504 Against it 252 Majority -252 The same proposition having been put to the vote for Caussidiere in the same affair, the division was as follows : For the authorisation Against it 2tiB —209 Majority It was then proposed to grant the authorisation to allow proceedings to be instituted against M. Caussi diere for being implicated in the insurrection of June, which would have the effect of delivering him over to the council of war. The following was the result of the division: For the authorisation Against it .Majoitty against it It was feared last evening that if Louis Blanc and Causaidiere were not arrested immediately after the vote of the assembly, they might excite public opinion in their favour, and possibly produce an &node. While M. Bar, therefore, was delivering his speech, a juge d'instruction was eought for, but none being found, M. Ducoux, as prefect of police, was re quested to sign a warrant fur their arrest. Tile latter having some doubts as to the power of doing so, M. Vivien, whose legal and administrative knowledge is so generally admitted, reseeured him, and warrants were accordingly prepared. 'Meanwhile however MM. Caussidiere and Louis Blanc have escaped, and it was believed, left the capital. It is expected that the trial or all the parties charged with participating in the insurrection of May will take place next month. That event having occurred before the state of siege, it will be brought before the ordinary tribunals, and tried by a jury. It was observed last night in the assembly that :not one of the numerous ladies who occupied the galleries either quitted her place or slept till the determina tion of the debate. The other sex, however, showed more susceptibility of lassitude, several of the mem bers of the assembly, and among them General Cavaignac himself, having fallen fast asleep on their rer meet with a seal except some solitary of timber nutter. _-Thkilegolation of this extensive district'affects the lamb of the country in which it is situate. The rate of ineresee in the population of Hampshire eras, ac cording Cto the census-of-18310w less than 14 per ce nt. below the average of England. The popula tion at the same period wa s onl y 193 per s quare mile, whilst the average for all England was 259. But the people it is evident are not the gainers by the ad ditional space thus afforded them ; for out of the 22 agricultural counties of England Hampshire is one of the three worst in point of crime, and even this calcu lation is exclusive of the offences brought under the jurisdiction of the forest authorities. Ia the villages above-named and in several petty hamlets on the margin of the forest there is a poor, indolent, and demoralised population, in the enjoyment of far fewer comforts than the ordinary day labourer. It is said by forest authorities, " Oh! the people here must be well off, see what advantages they enjoy. I They obtain their fuel at an easy rate; their cattle, pigs, and geese may have the run of the forest, and there is always some little patch of land hereabouts which may be cultivated rent-free." But the fact is that these advantages, which would he considerable under other circumstances, do not nearly compensate' for the absence of regular agricultural employment. A man may cut as much turf as he likes, nut the turf is comparatively useless if there is no pot to boil upon it. The reward of the week's labour, in the shape of a money payment, is wanting. The regular occupation, too, is wanting. And the conse quence of that, as we all know, is certain demoralisa tion. Hence it is that these people too often place their main dependence for support on the precarious supply of forest pilfer, engaging, as they grow bolder, in more exten sive depredations. Hence it comes that Winchester Gaol is regularly fed with criminals, and the hulks at Portsmouth supplied with convicts. Let the crown only permit the barren wastes of the New Forest to be enclosed, end in the course of a very short time a cure may be expected for the evils thus depicted. Telco an example: the Lyndhurst road Railway Station is built upon an open space of—say from 130 to 200 acres. There is • well fenced plantation of young oaks to the north, and the railway fencing runs all along the south : thus, all the enclosure which would be re quired would be for the high-road which passes through the clearance. Now here is an offer for the Woods and Forests. Two parties shall be found ready to-morrow morning to take this land on a 14 or 21 years' lease, at a peppercorn rent for five or seven years, gradually rising to a guinea an acre. They will engage effectually to drain, manure, and bring it. i n to cultivation within a limited period. They will enclose it, not perhaps with a park paling, but suffi ciently for all ordinary purposes, and they will engage to keep up existing fences, and save the commissioners the enormous costs they now annually incur in pre serving their young plantations from depredation. Now, if the commissioners will accept such an offer the effect may be this stated : the crown will be saved • considerable annual outlay for keepers, fencing, tee. Seven or ten years hence it would be receiving say 200!. a year rental. The salubrity of the Lyndhurst road station would be vastly improved—not a small matter to those who live there, and who are must probably exposed to fever and ague from the marshy nature of the place. Society would be benefited thus : there would be two farmers with their wives and families, 1:1 individuals in all, taking the children at an actea j's averag e of 4; per family. They would each have a domestic servant, a carter, and a boy, making in all 19 . Each farmer would want two field labourers, of whom ho could find plenty in the adjacent union workhouse, and subsistence would thus be given to tour families, or, at the same average. 26 individuals more. Thus we may say that from 40 to 45 souls would obtain a means of support which at this moment is denied to them, merely that a system may be ma!nteined which seems to operate exclu sively for the benefit of some half-duzen wholesale benches. The government desires to have it believed to-day that the extensive military preparations which were made yesterday were rather intended to provide against a legitimist outbreak, which it is pretended is feared, than a commucist movement. I have lesson to believe, however, that there is not a shadow of ground for this, and that the legitimist party exert no interference, directly or indirectly at present, how ever confident may be the expectation they entertain of any ultimate result favourable to them. The ex tensive military preparations manifested yesterday and to-day are directed against the friends of Louts Blanc and Catuisidiere. Very serious disturbances broke out at Lille on the 24th. It is reported that this emente, which had at first no political character, took that turn yester day. Cries of " Vive Henri V. l" were uttered. There is no external appearance of any extraor dinary military preparations in Paris to-day. I made a tour of the town, visiting the Prefecture of Police. the l'alais de Justice, the Boulevard", the assembly, and all the points where a display of military force is generally made. There are no appearances of any extraordinary measures of precaution. The AsssemblT does not tit to-day, having adjourned till Monday. It was observed that all the members of the Reunion of the Hue de Poitiers. and a considerable number of the Reunion of the Institute, voted in favour of the authorisation to prosecute. The Reunion of the Palais Royal united wit's the ab,olute democrats in voting the other way. SVNDAY, 11.343 All the journals of last night and this morning con cur in giving a circumstantial account of the arrest of MM. Louis Blanc and CaussLiiere, and their com mittal, first to the Conciergecie and thence, under a strong escott to Vincennes; nevertheless it is certain, as I have informed you in. my last despatch, that they have escaped the hands. of the poli h ce. Govs fernur - ment, it seems, were not prepared wit warrant their arrest yesterday morning. M. Durnux, prefect of police, who was present. hesitated ; and the Pro eureur de la Republique, and the loge d'lnatruction charged with the investigation of the affair of the 15th May, were sent fee. It would seem that the two parties, availing th. isselvme of these dela it, left the house, and immediately afterwards absconded. Yes terday morning Louis Blanc published a letter) in which he said that he had been per secuted, not as a guilty man, hut as an enemy to men whose political passions had silenc , d all seAse of justice. He withdrew, he said, the better to protest against the consequences of the state of siege and the empire of force. lie could nut believe that France would long suffer the regular eouree of justice to continue suspended. lie ended by saying that when the day of trial came he would be present. This letter written by Louis Blanc, appeared in the 'Animal des Dnxits, the Natiouttl, and the .Reforme this morning. The journal des Dames, seeming not to have full confidence in the authenticity of the letter, gives in jitzta-position with it the circumstantial statement of the arrest and committal of the accused, which ap peared in the evening journals, and has been generally repeated this morning. M. 'riders has announced the immediate publication of a work on property, written in furtherance of the measures adopted by the Academy of Moral and Poli tical Science, at the suggestion of Gen. Cavaignac, to counteract the mischievous effects of communism. general and procureur de la republique, °iv... — strongly . against those parts of the evidence of M. Arago in which they were respectively inculpated. M. Arago then,with the greatest firmness of language and determination of manner, maintained hie assertion, which he declared he had heard from the mouth of M. Ledru Rollin himself. This declaration excited a great explosion, which was not diminished by some words pronounced by M. Ledru Rollin, having a ten dency to attenuate the assertions of M. Arago. The report was then Recce ssively attacked by MM. Quinet, Baune, Rapellin, Larabit, Mar tin, and Ray nal. M. B ac complained strongly of the publication of the documents of the parliamentary club of the Rue Quitigliorie e ultra democrats . ). b, o Several memrs disavowed their connexitheir it n on wh this clun th e ) ists of which, howevernames fi gure d. M. Jules Fevre denied what h ad' been stated of the secret councils held in the ministry of the in terior when he was secretary there. The scattered and unconnected nature of the debate appeared to fatigue the Assembly, which was expecting with im patience the addresses of Ledru Rollin, Caussidiere, and Louis Blanc. A short suspension of the sitting took place a little before four o'clock. When the house resumed, Lenau RoLLIX said: The discussion which is about to open is one of those which will find a place in history. It is the sentiment of the public, as may be seen by the agile- tion which has been caused in people's L indins. lam desi of r ous of being as calm a s poasible, but n the heat speaking, there may escape from me any eepressions con trary to my intentions, I disavow them beforehand. (Hear.) After this exordium, the honourable gentleman reminded the assembly that the present inquiry was not without prece dent, a similar one had been entered into after the events of the sth and 6th October, 1789, an inquiry which was trampled in the dust by Mirabeau. At that time also, an ap peal was made to sentiments of union and concord, and the National Assembly passed simply and purely to the order of the day. It was right in doing ea, for then it had before it eighteen months of concord which permitted it to perform great things. There was also an investigation institu der ot df e after the 10th August, but the assembly passed to the or day on the result of it, but from that inquiry resulted the struggle of the Montagne and the Girondists. After the 9th Thermidor there was also an inquiry ; It was wished to drag before the revolutionary tribunal all those who had played an important part in the revolution, and hence arose the days of Prairial. The hon. gentleman had asked himself which of those famous inquiries the committee intended to take as its model and as its starting point. Ile was convinced that it only wished to ascertain the causes of the attempt of 23rd June brought forward front those of the 15th:May, but not to introduce personal hatreds, rivalries, and antipathies. But, he would ask, does the result of its labour respond to its intentions ? He contended that it did n it, and that hatred and rancour sat at the table of the committee of invedi gallon., and dictated it. decisions. (Movement.) He was surprised that be should have been included in the inquiry, for where was he found on the day of the attempt ? Where was he on the 16th of May ? at his pest in the government. He did not stead there to defend himself, as he was perfectly protected. On June 23 was he not at his last? On May 15 had he not done his duty ? And fur anything that had occurred before the meeting of the assembly, was it not said by the memorable declaration of the National Assembly that the provisional government hail merited well of their coun try? (Movement.) But what wan there against him? He was accused of having sent out commissioners into the pro. sine' of an ultra character; he was charged with sending forth circulars of a violent tendency. Yes, he had done so ; for be wished to bring into the National Assembly republi cans of the reale. Yes, he tried to realise the principles which he himeelt felt so profoundly—to found the true re public. But lie defied any one to bring forward tie ease of one commissioner that had acted improperly. (Laughter.) The hon. deputy then alluded to the reproaches of which his commissaries had been the object. The report of the com mittee had intentionally stated that one of them had been branded by justice, and had passed several years at the hulks. That reproach was nut just: for, in the first place, the per son alluded to (Riancourt) had not been appointed by the minister. He was a commissary, and had been merely appointed a commissary of police. If the assembly would like to be inform. d who bad r commended that individual to the notice of the commissary of Rouen, a perfectly honor able man, and exhiOtonnier of his order, he would tell them that ft was a man whom the assembly had honoured with its suffrages for the presidency—he alluded to SI Buchez. (Agitation.) Tne hon. gentleman then, replying to the re proachee of which his conduct had been the subject in the affair of Risquons-Tout, said that there were then three Eng lish men-of-war is the Scheldt, which threatened to take and burn Antwerp in cue a movement should break out in Bel 1611111. Tne Belgian government had never complained, for it was aware of the real state of the cos-. The hon. gentle m-an, then again alluding to his polhical principles, haul that he had always been a republican, had islways believed in re publican principles, whilst, on the 24th February, the chief of the opposition party declared that, except in a regency, there could he only disorder and anarchy. The bon. deputy then, addressing himself to the right, said that it had contributed perhaps more than himself to bring about the revolution. It now continued to do what it had done for the last eighteen years—han on at the chariot wheel to prevent its moving . (Murmu g rs.) During eighteen years, continued the hon. deputy, you loved the government which you had established and you followed h. withoutthee, hav ing an idea. or a principle t o p ut in its place. Well, what you have been under the government of July, which you founded, and which you loved so much, I much fear you would not effect fur the republican government which you have not founded. The learned gentleman then went on to accuse the right of having tailed in the rendezvous, which it had made on the 16th April, with 200,00 t met , on the Boulevards. 'You must not, continued he, recommence a captious opposition, and if you are good citizens, your mis sion is to iollow, bat not to direct the government, for you are without ideas, and without principles. (Hear, hear.) There was general distress in the country, he would admit, but it should not be said that it is the re public, which has caused the evil. It should be boldly said that the great majority of' the houses which had failed were three parts ruined before the involution of February. It was necessary to make known that there was only one means of safety—the republic. It was a cessary to bind oneself to its car, and not dream of reaction. You wish (he continued) to frighten us with the bug-hear of the red re public, but it is a vain phantom ; the red republic does not exist; the evils which you perceive. you wish to scare away with a constitution. What is waste lin the prey at state of affairs is secial institutions. The hon. deputy then declared that he and his friends wished for family ties end rights to their fullest extent; but is the child, he asked, that is so often seen at the gate of the Foundling Hospital, to be called a family tie ? Is it the young female who, not being able to maintain herself by honest labour, is compelled to enter on a life of infamy in order to procure herself a morsel of brea 1? Certainly re not But real f am ily ties we all wish for. We a accused of rroseribinit property, whilst we are well aware that ove it it is the basis of liberty. Property ! Why, we perhaps l more than you. The hon. deputy here reminded the As sembly cf what he had wished to do for the interest of pro perty by creating mortgage-banks,[ as the °fay means of releasing it from the iron grasp of the usurer. The cry was raised that he wished to create paper money. Paper money! Why, what was the 150 millions which bad ease borrowed from the bank ? He declared that he and his peaty were the only true Minds of property, for they wished to make it ace. ssible to alt. He repo seated the republic of the United States as ready to founder, because property WaS too much concentrated in some hands (Murmurs.) I caneot, he continued, reply to reproa ches which I do not hear, but what I wish to say is that in America tnere is fecal danger, because the state retains too mach land in its hoods, and a itation is carried on there to the cry of " land is liberty." The hon. deputy concluded by ineieting on the necessity which existed for union and *unwed. 't hey mast not he merely uttered by the mouth, but must be .alt si the heart. (Cries of " Bravo" from the left.) The Puzatozuo.—al. Louis Blanc claims the tribune. (Agitation.) H. Lode BLNNC.—Placed for some time under the falsest and most outrageous accusations, it is with difficulty that 1 can maintain the calm which self respect imposes. There is one circumstance which patioatarly strikes me in this debate, and that is, that the mea who accuse us were avowii4 partisans of she tecoarchy, and Mew combated the ; whilst we, who are accused, are, un the contrare, r. publicans, are the men who have shed our blood, who . have suffered for the republic, who have fifty times risked our lives for it- The eepublielos were made ever by the lied governor site to public execration—they were branded as men of bleed sod the sciffold. But when they obtain..l power, they proela.ine , l th: 111,116.45 t of the penal') of deoth for political effenc.o—th. y did not pc ir ounce a single ward of hatred, of vengeance, or o: Iswill —they d.d not suspend a single jourual , an d loudly proc'aimed in the government respect for the sacred principles which they had previously defended. "Of what," continued 'M. Louis Blanc, am I accused ? Of the speeches I delivered! Then it is, in fact, a veritable prods de tend and which is brought forward against me!" M. Louis Blanc then proceeded to examine the charges made against him, and especially the idea of the creation of a Ministry of Labour and Propose. On the latter point he stated that it was with repugnance he had consented, on the representa. tions of M. Arago, to accept the mission of the Luxembourg, and he detailed under what circumstances the decree reduc hig the number of working hours was issued. He declared that his acts might be attacked, but that he would always defend the doctrines en which they were based. He next energetically denounced the principle of free competition, and pre'. nted an apology of socialism, explaining its objects and tendencies. (The murmurs of the Assembly interrupted this part of M. Louis Blanc's discourse.) He afterwards proceeded to notice the facts set forth in the rep in of the committee et investigation; and declared that all the speeches he had de- THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. livered at the Luxembourg had been published in the The Assembly met at noon on Friday, two hours Motsiteur. If the speech brought forward by the corn earlier than* the usual time of commencing business, for the purpose of avoiding the necessity of an adjournment the meetings of the Luxembourg. The n workmen, he sai d, cous lue s e it ha w d as no delivered teiernrteand like o n the ootht others , was b:h of the debate on the insurrection report. The business had radondem his advice with respect to the elections, and it w that occasion that he bad &livered the was opened by the President, M. Marrast, exhorting speech in question, into which, in the warmth of la the Assembly to observe order, and to avoid indulging irritation or per- roviaation some expressions, which perhaps were crag in P gerated, had slipped , w h ich ich he wouldceitainly have produce sonal offence.. Several mem bers then eaccessively w oo l,. ou t (as was done every day in s p eeches addressed the Assembly, objecting to different points delivered be had at the oat intended to bad it pub official journal of the republic. IL Louis Blanc then de ferred to. Admiral Casty and Colonel Charms ob tiieled or excused the terms of the speech ;and, after pro jected to the deposition of M. Lacrosse.. The latter seeding tor 50010 time stated that he was extremely fatigneda' ascen ded the tribune and re - affirmed his statements. and requested the Iss'sembly to slim him • few moment's Portable and Landrin, formerly procureur repose. The sitting win accordingly suspended, minutes the President announced that St. t a „ 4 ,,, consequence of his great fatigue, had re quested rh, might not be resumed until halfeput T • Yth. to, and the Assembly adjourned. The sitting was resumed at a quarter to eight M. Loots BLANC again occupied the tribur seeded to defend himself from the chaps hrof him in the documents connected with the r pr,n to the affair of March 17, he stated that he es collea.ues to inform them of the intention of t put back the et talons. He went an lar rein at resignation, but it was not aorepted. lie• the workmen, and employed all his ildfueeee to ,„„ preserve order the consequence was that 200 paraded the streets without uttering a try ,;i fact, the attitude of the people was so admire next day the provisional government nutshells tints thanking them for their devutedness. A far from i.e being a mend . , station direct. d by egainst the government, as had been stated it the contrary. Re looked on M. de Lsmutin, likely to win over to the republic certain pun L. Blanc's) were calculated to keep the woo order. (Murmurs.) That opinion he had Amu thus," You are the guarantee of progress, a t der." (Load denial.) He denied that he hi contributed to the creation of the nari t nu,, u had been established not by but Realest t never placed his foot within the doors of one blistiments. Ile denied that he had influence men found in them, and gout. d two docent from the national workshops, dslarinst that the delegates of the Luxembourg were to to in those establishments. Arriving at the a the hem. rspresentatirc gave the same accou in the proceedings as he hail preydnisly . her. Re again declared lime he deepy rare festation. lie stated that Bui hsd toe mired him to prevent his clan Irani tsk affair ; it was quite incompreheesibie wt at duced him to change 'his mind. He dent, at the BoteledesVille on May 15, th,ugh li that his heart was there, Weenie he was use two friends whom he knew to be there. lieu, deposition of M. Trelat, who had spoken o M. Emile Thomas by him (M. Blanc), and as Thomas had said to him : " The elep r itisn a lie. (Movement.) " 1 . n my side , saia " dens that my visit to the workshop of Clie litical nature ; it merely referred to air a defied any one to connect him in any way w tion of June, as he had never quitted the es Glared that on Julie 23, so tar was he f thought of organising an insurrection, that with him nctes to reply to a speech of N beet's. Any person who could urge It civil war was, he said, an infamous an character could not be given to him. II declaring bat his address was intend., those who were not perionally acquaintei those who knew him *sell, it was not net bati'.n on the left.) M. Tatter repelled with initgnatior Ow his deposition contained a fusel oft. this was the Brat time that he had ever lee ing an tritruth, and he could affirm token sitinn was correct M. Louts BLANC said that the lie lay b and M. Emile Thomas ; it must be can (Disapprobation.) M. CAUSSIDIERE then ascended the tril mense roll of papers, and read a writ: announced that he should divide his its parts--consisting. of gen. ral lents, the and the insurrection of June. Be the fii the acts of his administration, and he me nishment that the great services which I the country could be unadraitteti by the ever, his return as representative by 15 burgesses of Paris was a proof of how Oil them. (Marks of denial) He dwelt on stated, he had preserved in Paris—a matt in times of revolution. R: f. rring to Lit in the report as having hum made by h series of police, he maintained that his so aside everything that could excit.s various classes of the population, and It pressions of that document. Re quoted. auxiet to avoid everything that mil polite language in his reply to the driven (Loud laughter.) Speaking of the to him of burning Paris, he det the assertion, and said that he had un the oreation of • new company of t the affair of May 15, the hon. rep the same explanations that he had pre Assembly, and handed in to the Pn aunts in proof of bis ass2nions. Al rection ot June, the hon. represent fie ai e..epte.., Rh_ tho barricades at the time d d t an alibi for himself in the case. Ailu, strp mixed ' v n e g tels up in i n w i nn a e s r :h i h m e4i p o hm a e slb ' th l ' e ard. t n h dente, he affirmed that the bad chavact , dered his assertions quite unworthy o representative then alluded to tne t private character had been calumniated allege any dish enourable act against question the evidence of Si. Trouve•Ch and insisted on it that the hon. represei taken. M. Trouve.Chauv,l's opinion had been implicated in toe affairs of M little value, being after all only an opt at great length to other testimonies representative concluded by protesting republic (Applause on the left ) Theft followed the announcemei with the divisions given in our co Adjourned to The Assembly rose roseat six o'clo The Heraldo, of the 20th, conk the 'rrabncaires of Catalonia are Brigadier Contreras, baying di and Arragonese to the limits of t up again with them at Paielli, a They then got pos-ession of tt Plana, but were soon dislodged night. The Queen's troops aft the heights of Valla Plana. On the 19th the apostolic nun the church and hospital of the will return to Madrid on the 271 Advices from the raptain-ge the 13th announce that a rep endeavoured to concentrate ills beaten and dispersed by the m liens, near Vale. Stumm, Aco. :2.-Ibree per Cent& sash; 191 paper five per Conti., cash. Pamirs% 4 paper ; atter Bole; Bank of St. Ferdinand ; discount of rs on London, st JO diva, 46 !0. IT L Letters from Bologna, p , Da:lona, cited by the 6./..:,1tt state that it was said tau t' had concluded on the I.7ith, a convention with Gen. Welds shall immediately evacuate keep a garrison in the cilade' continue in the power of Austrian corps shall be stati of the Po until Italy shall The Pontiff shall take uo p Italy and Austria. The Opiniune of the 22nd despoiled the numismatic mt and the picture galleries at The Concordia of Turin o reported that the ministry chambers, and to dissolve to The Openione of Turin of 15th the ministry had seut to raise the blockade of Trit squadron to Venice and eml who wished to take refuge will then sail tor the lonian ration of the armistice wilt The Risnrgimento of Tur that General Dabormeda he of war in the room of Gem The Venice Gar.ette of t Assembly had charged the message to France to mall solicitations for interventi , half of the Venetian peol Nlengaldo, ex-commandau bees sent to Paris on this GER] FRANKFORT.- - On discussion, in the Natio , article of the coostitution special discussion of du composed was to begin Grand Duke of Oldenbui to Pay his respects to tilt has also visited the prefo bly, and attended it s s inst. PRUSSIA. —The Ber and 25th inst. have r that in the sitting of t Kuhiwetter drew the of the previous evening e project of law for tb object to prevent the re On the 23rd, the r(