The Express. — London, England, 1851-11-15 00:00:00

ghe earairefils. TO ronttEs PON DENTS. • amord UMW of " lbe Large"' eistaiatbie •be nee fstillpfe• "U• 28011," plibied every T•esiy ia•A nide, 1004 haw kr pa. sniaistemaid hr one TAIIINOS." LOOMS Vag." rpn, mot be et the ilea, lbselerk.etreeg Twe deck to the •ag yebib.eLiath NIGH WATEN AT LONDON BRIDGE imf—nonelso Va.** Artmeno, N, lie. LONDON, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER IA THE conservative party in the French National Aimmahly, or their POMPEY, SA CHANGARNIER has been ealkd, may well exclaim, after such • division • that which threw out the repeal of the law of Nay by only seven votes, "Soch another victory, and we are lost." Three hundred and forty•eight mem bee votes for the total repeal ropiest three hundred • me fifty-five merely show that ENILE DE GIRARDIN INS right in his calculations, and that the repeal, or dellaidlung tantamount, with all its consequences, assibisbe carried in the present Assembly. certainty, now staring people in the face, will of itself win over a sufficient number of parti sans to the ministerial view, to ensure its being carried out. The scheme, therefore, of a restricted qualification, and of a disfranchisement of the work ing classes, is or must be abandoned. If it can com mand bet halfthe votes of the present Assembly, how could it hope to find a majority in any other ? This, with the crowing of M. DE THORIGNY over M. FAUCHER, which indicates an abandonment of ' ultra-rigour in the administration, and the hesi tation of the parli irneritury party to insist on their right to raise an army in the name of the Assembly, and to appoint its general—all these are signs that the power of the Assembly, and of the reactionary party,which hitherto dominated and directed it, ison the wane; and that the year 11452 will develop • wry different tendency and state of things from that • which has prevailed in France since 1849. How brief in their duration arc mere partytri iimphs, which are used for momentary vindictive ness, not real reform. There cannot be • doubt that universal suffrage is attended with the grossed abuses and deceptions. And had the conservative party in the Assembly made use of its ascendancy, and of the terror raised by the socialist elections, to wane universal suffrage of its real evils, they would have achieved a permanent conquest. Nay, had they come forward and frankly . and boldly avowed their purpose ofestablishing a rating suffrage at least for the election otmembers, NO as to base the repre sentation upon something like property, in conjunc tion with numbers; even this might have been defended. But to pretend that they did not violate the principle of universal suffrage by • law which disfranchised half the electors, and when the din ' franchisement was effected by a side wind and a trick, this has rendered the conservative advantage gained on the 31st of May, 1850, the mere triumph of a day, a sand entrenchment, destined to be swept ' away by the first neap opular tide that rose in more p than usual height and force against it. Not one indeed of the aims of the re-aetionists seem markedwith progressor solidity, or promise final success. The candidates of each dynasty have de cidedly lost ground. The Count DE CHAMBORD has gone to slumber, the Prince lie JOINVILLE has been withdrawn; and if Loris NAPOLEON appears radiant with greater chances of success, it is manifest that he owes this to his playing into the hands of the demo cratic party, seeking to conciliate it, and receiving in lieu their support. The triumph of Lows NAPO LKON is therefore as the President, not the Einiveror, with concession of popular rights, not the advance of Imperial claims. t)ne great result of the political events now in course of accomplishment will be to convince every Frenchman that the most difficult and dangerous of all paths for him or the country to enter upon will bo to return to monarchy. 'the monarchic parties, • their candidates, and their politicians, have rendered this more and more impossible; and it is they, in fact, by their failures mid folly, that have given sta bility and necessity to the republic. The great object then must come to be the conso lidation of the republic, the reconciliation of the upper classes, or of the most sensible of them, to the republic, and the consequent reconciliation of such classes to those in lower grades of life. At present there arc two camps, two interests, two religions, two philosophies. There is wanting but the chasm of their being two races to make mutual hatred in candescent. The permanent settlement of the re public, and of the law of that repnblic,befo-e which all must bow, can prove theonly signal for thecessatioa of strife, or at least of that unconstitutional strife which looks to the bayonet and the dungeon on one side, to insurrection nod proscription on the other, as the natural modes of dealing with political astago insts. A great measure of popular justice, &restoration to the people of the rights torn fries them,—this effected by the instrumentality of the government, and the graceful assent of the'dying Assembly, rescinding an angry vote and an unjust law of two years previous —this is the greatest, as indeed it is the first step towards a reconciliation between antagonistic classes, that has yet been made. No doubt private and selfish interests have impelled I.OCIS NAPOLEON. NO goal* es selfish fears have influenced a large portion of the Assembly. But we should not look too closely into the motives of public men, provided we have beneficial and liberal results. 'fnr. attention of the Hampshire papers has of late been very much given to the subjects of the Hospi tal of St. Cross, near Win. heater, and to the inform. alien tiled by the ArrottsEv•Grumut against Lord Hettroue, as its master, and ngainst the Bishop W IthTRI, as its patron and visitor. Very sanguine and glowing anticipations have been therein indulged in as to the immediate termination of the proceedings in equity. Lord GUILFORD'S appointment it is stated, now turns oat to have been bad ab initio; he, conse quently. never was master legally, and is an intruder. As each he is loath to account for all the proceeds of its estates since 1806; the leans he has granted arc bad ; the appointment has lapsed to the crown ; in short, some good 12,0001. a year, at least, have been recovered for charitable and other by the results of Mr. lluxi's motion on St , roes, if the Hampshire journals be well informed. These, however, are much too good news to be true. It is, indeed, correct that there is a prospect of the early termination of the main question in volved in the information—that is, the legality of the system of mal-administration which has .to long pre veiled in this noble foundation, and of Lord Cleft- YORD'S resignation of its mastership. But, notwith standing the earnestness, seal, and ability with which the proceedings against him have been conducted, notwithstanding the large amount of curious and valuable information brought to light, the prospective advantages of the proceedings are, it is understood, !Utilise to be more substantial than the immediate benefits. A great scandal wiU, however, have been arrested; the abuse carried on for centuries in an hospital muniSoeuUy endowed, will be at once corrected; its Mare luau's will have been secured; and though the present generation can hardly hope to see another great educational establishment in full operation at St. Crow, coming times will instil human probability have to thank the investigations of the present for is great a blessing there. It is undoubtedly matter for great regret that more cannot be at once obtained; that Lord Ora- FORD cannot be made to disgorge some portion at least of the 80,000/. he must have received as master of St. Grade during the last 43 veers ; that the leases for lives which he his granted of its pro- Mcannot he voided; and that the Arreasee its.L cannot place the hospital in full receipt of the 10,0001, a year which he has temporarily alienated. Bat as that is hopeless, the next best thing that can be done is to get rid of Lord GUIL FORD and to guard and protect the future in respect of what cannot be obtained for the present. Aud that, we have reason to believe, is the coarse that will be pursued by Sir ALKIANDRR COCKBURN. No compromise has, however, been come to with Lord GUILFORD ; his resignation will not hare been purchased by any avoidable concession to him; had there been any reasonable chance of making him pecuniarily responsible for the past, the pro ceedings against him would have been persevered in; he winwxpa because the whole subject is sur rg'anded. aa6aeawd, and intertwined with legal THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15. 1851. difficulties, obscurities, and refinements, which g ive FRANCE. him a protection and an immunity he has ill deseg ed . _______ _ v , The investigation has shown that 4 . C con- Ps a ~ ,FARlSs E eisey Evreise t. seta of two foundations. M The c; , the t - TecAisikehly (nryen&tiow)efecided Testerdar, iti. century, was made by HENRY Pe Be.otlia , Bish_opo -,- spinet 348pdhat this, new ,Electoul B . Winchester, and brother to Knife --OrS EN, Int . resented* the government should not be rend a support of thirteen poor and itteetertf old main In second tines, Cunoudy enough, this important re fer the daily feeding of 1(110 mite. -- Clver these was vault eudeekted with the opening to public eorrespon placed a master, bound to residence, and entitled to idence df the submarine telegraph, which enabled me I receive Si. a Year as a pension; and the superinten- ,to send you the news in a few minutes. M. Michel dance of the hospital was consigned to the bisho ,of ' de Bourges wound up his speech with declaring that Winchester. In the fourteenth century great a buses' f the law of May were not repealed, every dielhaa prevailed in its management, owing then, as now, I chilled citizen might present himself before the -41/A- I chiefly to the nepotism of its episcopal patron and I torsi urn with the President's message in his hauls visitors. These abuses were, however, resolutely and cla i m his right to vote. M. ])aviel, the and perseveringly corrected by that great reformer Minister of Justice, protested against this and wise and generous prelate, WILLIAM of Weer- declaration, and said that if the law erste HAY ; he disposed of and refuted the legal chicanery maintained the government was prepared to cause it behind which the muter of that day, ROGER DE *co be scrupulously observed. fhe remainder d Ccorxe, took refuge; he checked the alienation oft M. D„iops speech was drowned in a thank of its estates, had inventories taken of its moveable I , noise made by the majority. After him M. Dam property, compelled the due maintenance of the I the reporter, replied briefly. The division then took fabric, enforced residence ; and, as Lowyic says, "he place in the ordinary form. The defeat of the govern so far restored this charity to its original design and merit is attributed to a manoeuvre of the majority, left it under such due regulation, that his immediate „ whose leaders held a meeting in the morning, at successor, BEAUFORT, having resolved to dispose o f which they agreed to admit large modifications in some part of his great wealth to the like purposes, I the law of May 31. Among those who were absent chose rather to make an enlargement of this institu- from the division are noted NI.NI. Baroche, Beugnot, tion, than to erect a new one of his own." Bineau, Berard, Dumas, Augustin Girard, d'Haut- The second, or as it may be called the interior hoe - pool, Magna, de l'arieu, Itoi - her, and Pepin-Lehal pital, was founded by Cardinal BEAUFORT, within / , eur—all more or less friends of the Elysee; so that the precincts of St. Cross, in 1446, for a master, two i it is surprising how the government managed to lose chaplains, thirty-five decayed gentlemen, and three the day, when it only wanted four votes to become sisters to attend the sick. This BEAUFORT called the victorious. " House of Noble Poverty," and over it the Bishops A chang e of ministry seems inevitable, after the of WINCIIEITER were likewise appointed guardians. ta oorfs of incapacity given by M.M. de Thorigny and In the Wars of the Roses BEACFORT'S Foundation lost viel ; since it is clear that with the smallest par much of its property, and the number of its inmates liamentary tact and experience on the part of the was reduced. But even now the larger part of the government the day might have been won. wealth of St. Cross arises from the Cardinal's endow- Generals Cavaignac and Lainoriciere voted with the ment; though, practically, the objects of that endow- government. The names of Poesy, Lanjuinais, Victor ment have been abandoned. lathe reign of ELIZABETH Lefranc, Barthelemy St. Hilaire, and others of the abuses were again found to prevail, and proceedings i i,,,- parti, arc to be found on the same side, and ge. were instituted against the then master,Dr.ltevsous, neatly the Bonapartist', the whole Left, and the to set aside leases he had granted to one CHEVELEY, extreme Right. on secret trusts. These proceedings were terminated The argumentative part of the debate of yesterday by the enactment of a statute prohibiting the leasing turned upon the domiciliary condition of the elec of the home lands and tithes. Unfortunately, how- tore! franchise. This M. de Vatimesnil held was ever, its provisions do not extend to the outly ing implied in the constitution by the express omission property of the hospital, and thence part of the die- of the same condition as a limitation of eligibility. cults , in making Lord Gritsoiw refund the fines he Michel de Bourges, on the contrary, attributed, with has received, and in voiding the leases he has evident justice, the omission of the qualification of granted. continued residence as regards the elected to the And so, more or less abused according to the greater wish of the constituent to characterise henceforth the or less sense of moral duty of its successive masters, mission of a representative as not confined to and at all times neglected by the Bishops of WIN- his local constituency, but extending to all France. CHEATER, the Hospital of St. Cross went on until In the decree of the provisional government ap- the close of the 17th century. Then was perpe- pointing the first elections after the revolution of tented either a strange blunderer a very gross fraud. February, a domiciliary condition of six months was For in 1696, the then master and brethren met in introduced to trace the identity of elector, and this their common hall, and resolved that they " could is still left in the bill of the government. not, after diligent and quick search, find any statutes M. ..e Vatimesnil's speech contained only one or footsteps of any statutes." They thereupon em- point worth noticing, the announcement namely that bodied all their lost practices and abuses into Con- the conservative coalition intend to retain the term sueloulinarium ' which they declared to be the laws of three years residence, and only to allow fresh of the hospital fur the future. That document re- modes of attesting that qualification. The speech of ceived the sanction of the Bishop of WINCHESTER, Michel do Bourgee is remarkable for the great mo and has for more than a century and a half been demtion and mildness of its tone. But such is the acted on ; though towards the clue of the last con- French taste that the absence of frothy declamation, tun! Sir WILLIAM WINNE. advised Dr. LACKMAN, instead of being considered as an excellence, has the . Earl of GUILFORD'S predecessor, that in law it caused this calm appeal to conscience, reason, and was not worth the paper on which it was engrossed. a sense of justice, to be slighted as an inferior effort. When proceedings were instituted against Lord The incident in the speech most noted is the implied Geteroen, this Cumuetudinarium became the first admission of an alliance between the Moniker and obstacle to be overcome and removed; for admitting the Elysee. M. Michel, speaking of the President, its legality there would perhaps have been a justifi- said to the Right, '• He was yours until yesterday." cation of the system of management it contained at And M. de Tinguy repied, ' And he is yours to tting an apology for. It purported, we have seen, day." " Yes," said the orator of the Mountain, "he Is have been based on the inability of the master i,, mine," meaning, doubtless, that Louis Napoleon and brethren "after diligent and quirk search to could not stop short half-way in his policy, but find any statutes or footsteps of any statutes." would be necessarily driven to make common calm What, however, they either could not, or, more pro- with the Mountain upon other matters besides the bablv, would nut, find in the seventeenth, the Court abrogation of the law of May. This is also the d Chancery quickly discovered in the nineteenth con- opinion of Girardin, who sees no alternative for the tarry. For there, on searching it,in their own strong President but to appoint resolutely a new cabinet, box, lay a copy of the charter of HENRY DE BLOIS, of from omong the supporters of the celectoral bill of which almost every item of the Consurtudinetrium November 4. Towards the close of his speech M. was a violation. One copy produced another ; Michel, in alluding to the possibility of a military until at last, agreeing in almost all particulars, the dictatorship resulting from the course pursued by the British Museum, the lloneetss Library, and the conservatives, said "Ifit is Cromwell, you have a Bishop of WINCHESTER'S Registry, yielded other protector; if Monk, you have Ilenry the Fifths copies of what, in 1696, "diligent and quick search" if Napoleon of the 18th Brumaire, you hays could not discover or trace. And now, the original the empire ; if Otho, Vitellius, or Ceiba, you charter being recovered, the customs which abused hare the lower empire." The veteran orator that charter became, of course, illegal, and cannot be of the Mountain was succeeded at the tribune opposed to any future scheme for the better applica- by the Minister of Justice. I believe that never in turn of the property of the hospital, first taking care any public assembly did a functionary of that rank to provide for the founder's intention. experience before so merciless a reception. However Other questions then unfolded themselves, as well deserved might be the storm of ridicule which whether Lord GUILFORD had been properly an- assailed M. Daviel, the indecent uproar of the " party pointed master of Besuroer's f o und a tion ; whether of order" was ungenerously directed against his phy. the mastership was or was not an ecclesiastical bone- eical defect of utterance. five; and if so, whether it was a benefice cow or Changarnier, Thiers, and 15 other representatives, sine cure. !tut as these are not likely now to be slept last night at the Assembly, thus ostentatiously discussed, it is unnecessary to explain them. A exhibiting their apprehension of a coup d'etat. But fur more important question was and is, the validity these geese of the capitol are not called upon to save of the running leases. As the statute of ELIZABETH the commonwealth. only iaeladed the home property, which never hied In the Assembly's sitting to-day, M. Anthony been hired by Lord GUILFORD, its inhibition to Thourct moved a fresh ballot on the vote of yester great WIN on fines cannot affect the other, and far day, assigning as motives the importance of the vote, meenhable property, which he had leased on lives. the division of the Assembly into two halves so Thu illgpiity or legality of those leases is a question nearly equal, the remonstrances in the -11oniteur, to be added by general, and not any special law ; and the errors denounced to the Assembly. M. do and time rem too much reason to fear that the Ladoucette explained that he had by mistake put into very substantial fines he lately took for their re- the ballot-box yesterday a white card (that is, in newel will protect the lessees. favour of the second reading), bearing the name of And the sum of the matter is, that Lord Gun.- M. Achille Fould. M. Beugnot complained that he FORD, in quitting St. Cross, will have to put the was reported in the Mortiteur as absent at the ino hospital in perfect repair; will leave behind him a ment of the division, instead of which he voted present income of 1,0001., and a prospective revenue against the government. After some remarks by of nearly 12,0001. per annum. For its better appli- M. Du pin, the Assembly adopted the minutes, and elation es it falls in the Court of Chancery will have s et aside the motion. M. I)upin then announced to sanction some scheme, probably an educational that the corrected division presented a majority of one; hereafter a noble foundation will have been 333 against 347 against the second reading. The ' rescued from the nepotism of the Bishops of Win- house then adopted, on the first reading, cheater, from the alienation of its own masters, the the bills confirming the treaties concluded neglect of its own visitors, and be applied in a man- with New Grenada, the Imaum of Muscat, nor worthy of its founders and its great reformer, Russia, and the Two Sicilies. The debate on WILLIAM of WYKEHAM. the treaty with the Argentine Republic was ad- Nor is this all that these proceedings will in time journed in consequence of the importance of the lent have accomplished. It was in consequence of their events in that region. M. de Thorley prenatal a institution that Lord GUILFORD resigned—first, the bill for maintaining the state of siege in the Ardeelie, great benefice of likeeford. worth some 1,8001. a Cher, and Nitvre. The election of M. Schlcigt for year, and afterwards the still larger and more im- Senegal was annulled on the ground of his being a portant living of St. Mary's, Southampton, yielding contra ctor for government supplies when elected. him probably not less than 2,5001. a year. Already The Assembly next proceeded to discuss the bud- Alredord (the patronage of which may probably get of the Ministry of Marine. Scarcely had a few tarn out to be vested in the Hospital of St. Cross, chapters been voted when M. de Vatimesnil appeared and not in the Bishop of WINCHESTER), is re-divided in the tribune to state that he was deputed by into three livings ; and preparations are in progress the Committee on Internal Administration to to break up St. Mire's into five separate incumben- reques t th a t th e c h a pt e r relating to the y, cies. And all this is owing, not to the zeal or czar- municipal law might be placed on the order, time of a bishop, but to the worthy endeavours of of the day for Monday, in order to disease Mr.Honz to correct an enormous scandal, and to the that portion relating to the matrieular register of the honesty, ability, and determination with which Sir commune, and to the communal elections. This pert Joan Innis, Sir JOHN ItomiLLT, and Sir Autx- would be detached from the rest of the bill The ANDER COCKBURN and their subordinates have Assembly had expressed, at the close of last session, worked out the intentions of the House of Coin- the desire to discuss this law on an early day of the mons and the orders of the crown. re-opened sittings; and he reminded the house that the powers of the municipal councils, already pro longed, would expire on the Ist of December. M. Emanuel Arago successfully exposed the incon -1 sistency with which the Right had formerly refused to detach the part of the Municipal Bill alluded to, merely to shirk a debate on the law of May 31; and now wanted to bring forward that chapter separately, merely to lump the commercial and political elections in the same measure, using as a pretence, the necessity of renewing the powers of the municipal councils. M. Odilon Barret supported the motion of M. Vatimesnil. Nothing was fairer, more in accordance with the dignity of the Assembly, and more favour able to conciliation ; while nothing better explained the vote of yesterday, by which the Assembly vin dicated its dignity and independence against a ays tem:die encroachment on parliamentary rights. The anger on the Left sufficed to show the true sense of the law rejected yesterday. Notwithstanding the momentary coalition of two fractions of the As sembly, the ephemeral nature of such a compact was exhibited by the words of hatred and indi gnation which followed. M. Odilon Barrett was much ap plauded by the Right, and frequently interrupted by the Left. After several speakers of the Left, and Jules Fevre, among the rest, had objected that the debate on the Lyons railway was fixed for Monday, M. Vatimesnil's motion was put to the vote, and carried by a large majority, the Mountain only rising against it. The budget of marine having been voted without further incident, the house rose at six. The Assemble%e Nationale, after alluding to alarm ing reports in circulation last night, reeommeuds the Assembly to return to the first form of the Queetorie .Bill. The anti-Bonapartist journals distinctly exhort the majority to erect a dictatorship in the name of HANOVER. The accounts of the King's health up to the even ing of the 11th state, that his Majesty is excessively weak, and that a continued diminution of the natural powers was visible. No official bulletin had been published on the above evening, but that was not considered an indication of any im provement. M. Hossrrn (says our Southampton correspondent) is to leave Ragland for the United States in the American Ocean Spam Navigation Company's steamer Humboldt, Cason' Limos. The Humboldt is to call uff Cuwea from Havre, on her way to New York, at 4 p.m. on the 20th instant. At 2 p.m. on that day, M. Kossuth 6 to leave Southampton for Cowes Roads in a steamer, to embark on board the Humboldt. A large number of frieuds will ac compute him. Tile Humboldt will reach New York about the 2nd or 3rd of December. An adAreas to M. Kossuth was, on the motion of Mr. J. F. MAWSift. unanimously voted at the last meeting of the Tows Council of Cork. This is tke only tribute yet !slid by Ireland to the illustrious Magyar, a circumstance which the speakers at the meeting endeavoured to account for by referring to the very peculiar circumstances in which !Mimi was placed. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 14.—The Sharpshooter, 5, steam screw sloop, Lieutenant-Commander J. C. Bailey, came into harbour last eight to be plot off. A court of in quiry u to be held to-morrow, into some circumstances in volvsng au alliged neglect of duty by one of the officers of this vessel. The Rattler, screw stews-sloop, Commander , 3.l,llerth, arrived at F.inehal, Makrie, on the 3dth ultimo , when she landed thereLieutenantGeneral Lord Frederick Fit&Wince, G. C. H., Coasiaauder-in-Chiof of this du- tact, Lady sad Rua Pita!armee. The Rattler had had • bad pantie, having iscouatated rough had winds. the iffilffiallant, M. Vitcre report on the Guestors Bill is \ expiated to be presented to-morrow. 741.. Bloodel hs* arrived, and accepts the post of ifingter Of Finance. M. Labonlie's report upon the third part of the Municipal 11111 has been laid on the table of the Assembly, so that the bill is now completely reported. An expedition, consisting of the steam-frigates Gomer and Sane and the corvette Caton, is directed from Toulon, under the command of Admiral Du i bordier against the coast of Morocco. Narvacz set out ouW ednesday night for Madrid, where his proximate return to office is expected. Before his departure he took leave of the President, who bestowed upon the Marshal's two aides-de--amp the insignia of officers of the Legion of Honour. The Chevalier de Paiva, Portuguese minister at Paris, has presented his letters of recall, and proceeds to St. Petersburgh, at which court he is accredited in the like capacity. Count d'Azinhaga, M. de Paiva's successor here, has presented his cre dentials to the President of the Republic. The questors' proposition for a parliamentary army has excited the indignation of M. Lamartine, who has again dictated a long letter to the Pays from his sick bed. Ile thinks that a proposition at once so contrary to common sense, so puerile, and so revolutionary, was never seriously presented to any assembly since the beginning of the world. He cannot believe the proposers of the measure to be sincere, but thinks they must be the tools of some Brutus, feigning madness as a cloak for his ambi tion. M. Lamartine is of opinion that the article of the constitution which authorises the Assembly to provide an armed force for its defence is a bad one. He agrees with General Fabvier that a na tional assembly should rely without reserve upon public respect for the dignity of its functions. But the article in question should at least be suffered to lie unused in the arsenal of power. He draws a striking picture of the absurdity of a parliamentary and a Presidential army on either side of the Seine. If he were in the councils of the President. and could be sure that he had no unconstitutional designs, his only advice to him would be to cross his arms, like his uncle, and adhere firmly to the law. The C ourrier de l'lndc sailed from Havre yesterday, for San Francisco, having on board a number of emigrants, men, women, and children, bound for California. Some of them are being sent out at the ' expense of the state, and others from the proceeds of r the Lingot lottery. The metallic reserve of the Bank of France has declined 4 millions in Paris, remaining nearly as it was in the branch banks. The disctiunt accommo dation has increased 21 millions in Paris, and has fallen off 4 millions in the departments, the amount of the:former being 37,063,271 fr., and of the latter 62,110,036(r. On the side of the liabilities, the notes in circulation present an augmentation of I of a million, and a diminution in the provinces of nearly f a million. The account-current of the treasury has fallen off 3' millions, the present amount being .14,709,736 fr. Ordinary accounts-current have de clined in Paris 14 millions, and in the branch banks 11 millions, the amount of the former being 117,75.3,638 fr., and of the latter 32,496,91.3 fr. The whole amount of the metallic reserve is at present 6001 millions to 3321 millions of notes in circula tion. At the Bourse the Five per Cents. rase 30e., etc), ing at 90.81), and the Three per Cents. rose 20e., and closed at 043 c. GERMANY. VIENNA, Nov. 11 . The National, a democratic newspaper, published in Berlin, hoe been prohibited in the Austrian do minions. There was a regular panic on 'Change yesterday, but of a different nature from those financial terrors which frequently manifest themselves in Vienna as well as elsewhere. Yesterday's panic had its origin in the appearance or, 'Change of the redoubtable Stadthauttmann Chevalier Weiss von Starkenfels, not in the character of bull or bear, or of any other animal accustomed to transact business on 'Change; but as chief of the police, and for the purpose of per sonally watching the proceedings of the humble brokers and capitalists who are suspected of having en tered into a financial conspiracy against the Austrian empire. Attended by one of his chief agents the chevalier slowly paced through the extensive pre mises in which the moneyed world of Vienna assem bles to barter in valuables of all kinds, with his eye glass in constant operation, closely reconnoitring the faces and figures of all parties. Luckily his piercing eyes detected no signs of guilty consciences, or, still worse, of those kinds of clothing, such as hats, &c., which are considered by him to be a political demon stration against the government. Having suffi ciently scrutinised the assemblage, the would-be Fouche of Austria proceeded to the tables of the " Sensate " or sworn-brokers, and personally inspected their book, in order to discover the names of any parties who may recently have pur chased foreign exchanges to any large amount. After taking some notes the chevalier retired, leaving the capitalists, bankers, merchants, and brokers assem bled in a state of terror similar to that experienced by a brood of chickens when a hawk makes his appearance. No business of any kind was transacted, excepting by the friends of the Minister of Finance, whose offers of bills on London and Augsburg, were gladly aecepted at a few kreutzers lower rate than they were quoted at on Saturday. This will account for the slight fall which is mentioned in the list of prices this morning. To day a guard of gens darmes .has been plead in and outside of the ex change, with orders instantly to arrest any traitorous broker or speculator, whom the regular police com missary on'Change may point out as having attempted to purchase foreign exchanges. The value of the quotations of the Vienna market will at once be apparent to your readers in the City. Very considerable indignation has been excited by the rudeness of the Emperor on a late visit to the Burg theatre. The audience applauded most loyally on his appearance; the Emperor contented himself with a short and ungracious nod, sat down in his fauteuil, and all the nudges of his archdueal mother, who ' wishes to see her son popular, could not induce him to thank his people in a more gracious manner. Several new regiments are to be created in Tran • Sylvania. Instead of a reduction, this will be an in crease to the army of about 20,000 men. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. PAN'S, Nor• 14. !per 9rwes. PARIS BOURSE. Mr liCeer• ~OPSaingi 34 ati , : , For Amara. ~•111,93.3.1 Low93t.i S 5 IMP 5 41 5 05 SO 58 0 90 00 90 01 90 00 I 90 00 S {dr Cents .. ... i 99 SS ISSM S per Cent& Nem , .- 4 me Cents. I I 46 pm Cents I i Ziededese on TRIO 00,1: at Witt, 23 12 i ; 30 &in. 23 2 i. Or. S. 1649 6,164 J Money. ... Moms Lena, 1331 756 .„ 13s. 46 leo. 25 Piedmont 3 p.Ct PAWS, Nov. 14.—Versailles (right bank), 252 SO; ditto lift bunt) :In; Paris and °Timm, e 67 30 ; Pans nod IL men, 337 So, Loom and Home. 7057 . 5; Marseille. and Avirms, 70. 75, sew, P.m and Bole. ISO; Centre, 427 SO; Simingess and Amiens. 360; nr:eans and Raettsaus. 37s 23; Northern. MO; Puts and 1 etrasb um, 335; Tome and besides, 213 73 ; Mcatereau end 1 Troyes. 53. (B 7 Marls Telegnipb.) AMSTERDAM, Nov. 13.—Five per Cent. Metal liques, 70! ; Five per Cent. Ardoins, 151 ; Three per Cents. Interior, 341 ; Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 99 9-16; Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Integ rals, 571. Exchange on London, 11.85. ANTWERP, Nov. 14.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 731. Five per Cent. Ardoins, 154. Three per Cent. Interieur, 35. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., I —. Exchange on London, 23.22. Bats4eLs, Nov. 14.—Belgian Five per Cents., 981; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 891; ditto Two and-a-Half per Cents., 491. Exchange on London, 125.22. VIENNA, Nov. 14.—Five per Cents., Metalliques, 92; Exchange on London, 12.31 ; on Paris, 1491. H AMBI:RG, Nov. 14.—Three per Cents. Inte rior, 324. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 971. Exchange on Loadon,:three months, 13.6; at sight, 13.71. hiss KFORT, NOV. 14.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 721. Three per Cent. Interior, 35 3-16. Exchange on London, 1191 ; on Vienna, 9 BERLIN, Nov. 14.—Voluntary Loan, 102!;Na tional Debt, 88 . Four-and-a-Half per Cents., Russia, 1011. - f• ' SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 9. The Senate is still debating on the motion of Ge neral Infante Ibr the vote of censure against the government, for having concluded the new con cordat. The Chamber of Deputies is still discussing the bill for reorganising the Bank of St. Ferdinand. The Gazette publishes a project of law imposing various penalties upon all who interfere with the exercise of the electoral franchise. ITALY. MODENA. The Duke of Modena litui issued a decree enacting that the new civil code of the duchy shall be put in vigour from the Ist of February next, and that all local customs or laws shall thenceforward be abro grated in so far as they may be contrary to the said ; code. A meeting of commissioners from the various Italian states is to meet at Modena to confer on the junction of the Tuscan Railway with the Lombard- Venetian line. TUSCANY. Our correspondent, writing from Florence on the 6th November, details the measures, on the part of the Tuscan government, which have lately given rise to rumours of identification with Austria, such as the disarming and disbanding of the national guard, the substitution of frontier battalions, the attempted abolition of the judicial system now in vigour, the increase of the tax on comestibles, the abolition, by the Austrian general, of the Tuscan artillery, the diminution of the cavalry and infantry,the university restrictions, and the proposed revival of the order of Malta. _ --- Fire Austrian soldiers, who had attacked the car riage of the Dowager Grand Duchess, were con demned to death by court-martial, but were punished by bastinadoing instead, at the intercession of the Archduchess herself. ROME. Our Roman correspondent, writing on the sth November, states that his holiness had paid his annual visit to the church of San Carlo on the pre ceding day, on which occasion the Roman troops made their first appearance dressed d la Francais& The agitation of the court at the prolonged French crisis had partially subsided. His holiness had been much alarmed by a too abrupt petitioner, during a visit to an hospital. Grand preparations were mak ing at the Colosseum to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the death of St. Leonard. The re public of San Marino had made a very spirited rejoinder to some new exactions of the papal court, on the refugee question. Military and civil execu tions continue in the provinces. A series of works are in preparation for the further excavation of some of the most interesting localities of ancient Rome. A letter from Rome, in the Genoa Gazelle of the 10th, states that the pontifical government intends establishing a line of steamers to put down contra band trade along the coast. NAPLES, Nov. 7. The criminal court has again disposed of a batch of political offenders. Navarra, with his company of hired judges, has contrived to get through this drama with a rapidity acquired only by practice. The accused were known as I Patinalatori (the as sassins), and were 14 in number. I have referred to these trials before, but to make the narrative in telligible it is necessary to repeat the whole story. Some months since, when Pecaheneda, the minister of police, was engaged in composing political trials, some one came forward with the bright idea of I Papialatori. About 40 persons were accordingly accused of belonging to the "Assassins Society; " but only a dozen were actually brought to tria. Amongst the accused, however, were many who were arrested, and their houses searched for the purpose of discovering criminal corres pondence. It did not appear on trial that anything was found, and indeed the subsequent release of all save the above-named fourteen is a proof that the material for trial was very limited. fhe trials, at the same time, answered the political aim of the government, viz., that of frightening those whose opinions were known to be hostile to the existing state of things. The most absurd story was got up by the . police, and read by the crown ac cuser. The assassins were to kill the royal family, make themselves masters of the forts "by false keys," and proclaim a republic. The most remark able feature in the trials was the assertion of one (lithe accused, a Cay. Tagliavia, who stated that he was thrown into a cell of the fort of Del Ovo, and there kept fur several days, when he was visited by an inspector of police, who told him his daughter and father were dying, and that if he wished to see them alive he must confess. Reduced by mental and bodily debility, he agreed to say anything. On being interrogated, he eventually signed a p aper suggested by the police, which accused severe per sons as members of the Assassins Society, amongst whom the pol ce had the impudence to place Sir IW. Temple and the Sardinian minister! Tagliavia exposed the whole trick in public court. Lord Pal merston figured in the Perri° trials, as will be remembered by the readers of Mr. Gladstone's pamphlets, and now we have her Majesty's minister at the Court of Naples mixed up with assassins! It is surely high time that these practices should be put a stop to. If the Neapolitan government thinks proper to inspire its executive to accuse honest and estimable men, subjects of his Sicilian majesty, with repulsive crimes, some limit might beienformd;to pre vent similar abuses, when tricks are played with the names of the highest officers of the crown of Eng land. The very least Lord Palmerston can demand for such offences is the dismissal of the bench of judges and all the police authorities employed in this impudent calumny. As far as I could learn the assassins' society was a very ill got up story. On searching their house nothing was found but dinner knives, and as for taking the forts with false keys what could 14 men do against a guard of 200 soldiers, with which the castles arc provided? The Accuser-General asked death for four, and galleys for the others. After a long deliberation the final sentence was delivered : lannazzi, Fortunate, Tagliavia, and Salser, banish ment from the kingdom of the Two Sicilies for life; the remaining are to be set at liberty. Navarra and Miranda, the two most " loyal" of this corrupt bench, were for death, but their votes were of ne cessity overruled by the majority. These sentences may be taken as at least a trifling change for the better, since the accusations were fur more grave than those which threw Pocrio and his fellow pri soners into a wretched prison, loaded with irons. ' 'fhe trials for the revolt of the 15th of May, 1848, are now expected to come on ; they will be impor tant and interesting, as amongst the accused are oae cabinet minister and M. Leopardi, who represented his Majesty at the court of Sardinia when the Nea politan troops, by royal authority, marched to the camp of Charles Albert. Manderini, the judge who wrote the reply to Mr. Gladstone's letters, according to the official journal, has been decorated by his Majesty for " good ser vices." _ Considerable activity prevails in the army. The King and Oeneral Fdangicri have twice reviewed the troops at Capua. It is reported a body of men are to be placed on the Roman frontier. One thing is certain, the utmost anxiety prevails about the affairs of France, and there can be little doubt, should any material change take place, the Pope and his cardinals will look to Gaeta as a place of retreat. On the other hand I am told that the King is assured from France that French policy will not be changed as regards foreign affairs, and that the new aspect of politics in Paris is entirely occasioned by domestic events. The King is reported as contemplating a visit to Vienna. Filangieri is to return to Sicily im mediately. lI.M. steamer Dragon came in from Leghorn on Tuesday, and left the following day for Malta. The Firebrand still remains. The French &et is expected at Naples during the winter. A gentleman living at the Island of Capri writes me the following tragic event, which occurred a few 1 days since: "We have 120 political exiles on the island of Capri. They stroll about during the day, and are obliged to be in their houses by Are Aforia. The government pays them 4d. per day. One of these unfortunate men wa- condemned to be lashed in the Piazza of our little village for some trifling offence. During the night he nailed up his prison door. The ordinary Urban guard the next morning were sent to bring him to the flogging post, but finding they could not get at the prisoner, the civil authorities called in a picquet of soldiers. The pri. soner from within prayed for trial, saving he was unjustly condemned to be flogged. At last the soldiers broke open the door, and he was laid on a bench to he lashed. The unhappy man tried to escape. The soldiers then struck him with ' the butt-ends of their guns on the hips, head, and belly, accompanied by sabre-wounds. Thus bleed ' ing and exhausted, he was again placed on the bench to be flogged, but being supposed to be dying, he was carried off to prison, where he expired in a few hours. I know little about the offence or character of this poor man, but the treatment he received is a disgrace to a Christian land. The military are taught to look on political offenders us something , like wild beasts, and I fear the government encou rages any outrage on this large and unfortunate class of his Majesty's subjects." THE GOLD REGIONS OF AUSTJL The following additional items of intelligence from the gold "diggings" of Australia arc from a morning contemporary, and will be read with in terest : The tendency on the part of the leading persons in the colony to discourage as tar as possible the belief in the rich ness of the mines, lest it should disturb the relations of la bour, appears at last to have been thoroughly broken down, and a general avidity to share in the results that are to h e obtained has now unquestionably manirested itself. The discovery of lumps in one hole, weighing altogether 1061 b., and which were sold to Messrs. Thacker and Daniell for 1,160!., appears to have added greatly to the impulse, but the intelligence front all other quarters was quite enough to warrant a common expectation of success. Apart from individual accounts Rho, the actual weekly receipts at Sydney could leave no doubt that, on the ave rage, the yield to all parties must have been highly favour able. The consequence was, that the small shopkeepers at Sydney were selling off with the view of proceeding to the district on the first approach of warm weather, which would set in in the course of about a month, and that mechanics and servants of all kinds were making . • 'hr arrange ments. Sydney, therefore, had the prospect of being nearly deserted, and this condition of things would be likely to continue until the influx of emigrants from England unit elsewhere should take place upon a large scale. Up to the date of the lost accounts (Aug. 18) ' the markets were glutted with all kinds of goods, since no one thought of encumbering himself with stocks of any article, unit the neighbouring colonies, whence peuple were likewise preparing to depart, found their commerce equally deranged. The gold already exported amounted to about 70,000/., namely, 11,618/. and 28,78.51. by the Mary Banns ! tyne and Boadicea in July, and between 20,000/. and 30,000/, by the Morintstewart Elphinstono in August. The diffi culty of manning vessels was now again found to be con siderable, and two English ships ready to sail would be partly supplied from our men-of•war. The Deucalion, which would be the first American ship that had ever sailed from Sydney fur London, was also about to depart. Acconling to the newspapers, the colonists were in full ex pectation that, within eight weeks after the arrival of the first news of the gold discoveries by the Thomas Ar buthnot, steamers would actually be on their way to them from London. With regard to the details of the state of business and of ' • g operations, the following extracts of letters froin reliable sources, will furnish the best infor mation. The first is from Messrs. Young and Co., dated the 16th of August. " Every day brings forth new treasures. The winter being nearly at an end, the western road is crowded again with thousands of pilgrims to Ophir and Tofola, attracted by the riches laid open to the world. At Ophir the diggers have been greatly hindered in their operations by the rise of the waters ; but, at the Turon, the general suc cess far exceeds all credit. I received a letter front Macquoad, the other day, in which he says, These digging. are fur richer, I think, than you or the people in Sydney arc at present aware of. I walked up and down the river yesterday for several hours, anti every one I conversed with appeared to be cluing will. I stood by and saw a great deal of gold collected from the different cradles; one party (hall's), within the last three weeks, has collected upwards of 1.600 l.; and when I yesterday, at 3 p.m., was talking to Mr. Hall, and asked him what had been his lurk during the day, he took out of his pocket a bag containing 21b. of gold, which he had procured before dinner. In thus in stancing Mr. Hall's luck I do not mean you to understand that it is common, because, so far from this being the case, I believe he has been the most fortunate individual as yet upon the river. Nevertheless, all the others who are work ing alongside of hint are doing well, and have plenty of gold. Ou the other parts of the riser people arc likewise doing well. One man of a party of three had marls SOL in a fortnight for his own share ; and instances of luck similar to this are by no means uncommon.' My cook has a brother-in-law working at Oakey Creek, a tributary of the Turco, and he nod his party of 11 have for some time been raising their 7oz. per man per day, or nearly 211. sterling in value. This is the Arabian Nights over again. The government send down an armed escort with the mail once a-week, and the last few weeks they have had over 10,000!. worth weekly, besides which a great deal has emus through the Post-office and by private opportunities ; so that probably the quantity at present received weekly is not far short of 20,900/. The last ship, the Boadicea, which sailed this day week for London, had 30,000/. worth on freight. This must convince the most sceptical that there is no exaggeration in what has been premulgated. Sydney, meanwhile, is becoming deserted, and there is little or 110 business doing 'privately. At auction prices have been very low, and forced sales do not realise cost and charges." The writer of another letter, dated August 8, says : - - - - - - - - • - - The famous hundred-weight of gold is sent to England by this vessel, consigned to Matheson and Co. This, I believe, is the largest mass of gold that the world has ever seen. Unfortunately the aboriginal native by whom it was found smashed it up, to separate it from the quartz. It is still, however, in its present state deserving of your inspection. The aubjoined, dated Sydney, Anglia 16, is to a leading London firm : Though I wrote to you, not further back than the sth, by the Boadicea, duplicate per Deucalion, I cannot allow so good a ship to go without a line upon the present gold prospects. Really, day by day the thing is growing more astounding. A piece of 50Ib. weight is just picked up, and plenty of 4th., 61b., and 71b. each. Sydney is rapidly becoming depopulated; the men are off from every house. My carperter, gardener, labourers, and grooms, go neat week. My mason is gone. Happily, my buildings aro finished, or I suppose they would not have been. Tho attorneys clerks arc all gone, or going ; and, indeed, from every trade as well as profession men are away. You neither hear of, nor see anything, but gold, or golden equipments. The shops are doing little or nothing, and the offices less. Meanwhile new gold fields ore day by day added to the old. Men are Laving good diggings of 20s. a day each to fall upon richer ground, and from 1001. to 2001. per month per man is not :coked upon as anything out of the common. The newspapers do not tell half. The following is an extract from another letter of the same date: There is no business stirring but outfits for the mines, and trade of all kinds seems suspended for this one pursuit. Gold enntinues to be found in the greatest abundance, fully equal to the almost fabulous accounts of California. That such a wonderful discovery should completely unsettle every interest in the colony, disarrange all our calculations, and bring many things to a dead lock, is scarcely to be won dered at. It seems mere like fiction than reality, and such astonishing success is attending the labours of the miners that gradually it threatens to drain the entire colony of la bour. Thousands, who wiU soon become tens of thousands, are spread over the mining districts, and every other pur suit in the colony bids fair to be absorbed in this. The winter checked it at first, but the fine weather coming on is now setting all in motion again, and the roads are lined with expeditions for the mines. To attempt to make sales is impossible ; there are in fact no buyers. The population leaving the other districts for the golden one puts an end to all trade there, as store-keepers dare not buy in the face of such a state of things. The supplies for the mining district consist altogether of some few articles, of which the chief are tea, sugar, flour, and spirits, beyond these no business can be said to exist. Some parties are forcing sales of oil man's stores by auction, but at such prices that a heavy less moat result. A letter (in the Sydney Morning Herald, of Aug. 18), dated Neale'e Point (Tarot' ltiver) Aug. 12, su)s : Justhetore the raiue commenced, a rich bar wai dir covered about a mile below our point, under rather singular circumstances. A person named Reubens was digging for water, and on making a stroke with his pick he found his shoes and the ground he was standing on suddenly covered with a shower of light gold. Re was at first doubtful whether it really was gold or not, but soon satisfying him self on that head he took a claim, and the matter getting wind the whole bar was very soon occupied. As Reubens describe the matter to me, he found four veins of gold in his claim, all running at right angles with the river, and appearing like pipes of gold dust, said pipes being about half an inch in diameter. Ito carefully to k out a part of one of them, with a small quantity of the surrounding earth, and washing it in a dish, obtained two ounces of gold. It would almost appear as if the gold had been worked together by some eddy of the water, as in the soil surrounding the veins he could discover no auriferous deposit. Two days after the rains flooded the whole bar, and till within the last few days, no notice was taken of the place, the parties who had taken claims going to other spots to work, intending to resume them as soon Sc the waters subsided. It was, I am informed, generally understood on the river, that if a party was driven from a claim by the water, the commissioner would allow them to go to another spot until this claim couid be worked, when they could if they thought proper resume it again. This was the state of things until about a week ago, when seve ral persons, including some of those who had claims on the before the river was flooded, agreed to cut a ditch to take off the water, and thus drain that portion of the bed of the river, which was supposed to be rich. A dam wan thrown 11.CrOV8 and a ditch cut, and during the progress of the work, Mr. King, the commissioner, promised that those parties who were cutting it should have possession of the claims opposite their respective cuttings. Yesterday the ditch was opened and found partially to succeed, and there being some dispute between the old claimants and the new ones, Mr. King came down to the gro und to-day to decide the matter. It was then found that there were nu ezi en P" the