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ghe expresso. TO CORRIMPONDRNTS. A bowed Macs of " Tbo Laprook" towitalalno tbo mow ovowtoes Ow Wows." polibbod ovary Took, Sad Oddly otgbt. Yeaot pro. aftwoosnowli Winded Kamm," [awl= Emig pops. • oust to at the Mo. 10. llsevorlootoost. too Two Veto& w tbo doo of pablionitos. EIDE WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Eo 1 / 4 ? -14211 eh6 s 4Se. --Wigwas. N. hi. Te.wwaw—lisesaag. h. he. -Memo% 61 ' "a. LONDON►, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27. Or late certain people have been pertinaciously harping on a pet crotchet of theirs—that " the English are not a military people." By this they must wean either that Englishmen are effeminate.cowardly, delti tate of the spirit of adventure; or, that they are so flighty, wayward, and ungovernable as to be intent.septible of discipline. Take the assertion in which ever of these senses we will it is flatly contradicted. alike by our daily observation, and by every page of our history. It is quite true that JOHN IIrLL cannot be brought to tolerate a system of conscription, or to enrol him self as • national guard. You cannot induce him to be a soldier for a certain period of his life. like • Prussian, or to subject himself to a liability to be called out at any hour of the night, w ith a uniform on his back, and a musket on his shoulder, like a Frenchman. Joon does not like playing at soldiers, or playing at anything: what he does must promise results, in order to induce him to engage in it ; and what he does in he gives his whole soul to fur the time. TOlrus ge peculianty bolls owes his supe riority as a manufacturer, a merchant, a sailor, a dis coverer of unknown lands, • practical politician and treeless; and to this too he owes his being, when there is any geed end to be attain e d by it, t h e b ass soldier of this or any age. The fact is, that the pugnacious propensities of Englishmen are. if anything. rather in mares that otherwise. With great affectation of phlegm and gireferince of argument to fighting. they me biat lM apt to betake themselves to the logic of Mows They are not unlike their own bulldogs, whist seithsr show their teeth nor snarl. but spring at NIPS at the throat of as adversary, and never relintodsh their grasp until either it is killed or themselves "choked et" Joon is impatient, and not a very subtle or versatile dialectician and • knuck-down blow puts an end to controversy at once; so, confident in his own " pleek" and bottom, he rather likes to settle a dispute in this way. And all the while he persuades himself that he is the most peaceable fellow alive, limply because be has no malice in his composition, sad does not bear a grudge either a ga inst these whom he has beaten or those who have beaten him. Why, the whole history of our unmilitary nation is little better than ono unceasing series of wars, engaged in for frivolous causes, and sometimes for no cause at all! What was it to Englishmen whether the holy sepulchre was in the hands of the Orcek Emperor or the Turks? What was it to them whether their Kings were also Dukes of Nor mandy and masters of great put of France ? Yet a bebop had only to preach a sermon and hang out a flag, and the Mile of the nation took the cross and hastened to Palestine; a King had only to raise his standard and say lts was going to conquer France and baron, knight, and yeoman rallied round it and followed him to the war. The quarrels of CHARLES V. and FRANCIS L no way concerned Englishmen, yet H Veal' VIII. and his ministers at no time found them slack to lend their aid to either party alter nately. For the meddling of Englishmen in the wars of the insurgent Hollanders, and the Huguenots Or France, and Orr/All:A ADOLPHIVS, there was some excuse: the cause of English liberty and Euro- , pean protmtantism were identical The wars with France for the ascendancy in America and India were stimulated, no doubt, by mistaken conceptions (on both sides) of the true sources of commercial greatness. But then how easily Witunit gulled Englishmen into lavishing their blood and treasure to defend his Dutch patrimony ; and the two first Gsonoes into a similar expenditure for the advantage of Hanover. And Englishmen had no sooner awakened tea sense of their folly in attempt ing to hold the balance of power between continental dynasties, than they set themselves to fight with their countrymen across the Atlantic on an unmean ing point of honour; and when that war was ended, they soon after engaged in a struggle of long years, frequently single-handed, against the whole world, to restore the Bourbons, who when in power had been alternately the objects of their fears and their mockery, and who, after the resto ration, which they owed to England alone, treated them with the basest ingratitude. This catalogue embraces only the great foreign wars is which Englishmen have engaged ; were we to add all the minor hostilities and the fighting at home—. Scotch against English, barons against kings, plot. tans against cavaliers just to keep their hands is, --apace would fail us. And Englishmen have not only fought, but fought well. It is sufficient to name Agincourt, Blenheim, Minden, Plumy, Waterloo. Even in the hour of de feat, the English soldier has extorted the tribute of admiration from the victor,—as at Fontenoy. He has known disastrouseampaigns as well as unsucomsful battles, but always from the incapacity of leaders, or the mismanagement and miscalculations of states men. Bet the meet important feature of the military Witham el lashed is the readiness with which eol- Amu have at all dims brio eilemparined oat of civi lians, and the emespaosed halite el died/bliss of whkh the &elan'si sameptible. Camiww., Janos. mid the ether great puritan generals, were oaf-tart soldiers. CLIVE, who laid the founda tions we metal empire, was a self-taught moldier. Thane fight be regwded as exceptional cases, effort dram mid trawassodent genius t but turn to t' ae pages et Kartiot's " Peninsular War," and read what that pest military authority says of the foe. lity . with whisk drab hem volunteer and 'ABMs regiments. sad ems defieehmeats of sew r em it s , acquired the habits of aid mid= is Ilpsim Whatever there has %ea real amid of fighting. WrikMethane have turned their bask to it, and easeem. It was • body of erder,ehant a t h at argeolood sad effected the emil_eset el lathe, Th e y rera sea trunett. Seven do AMlrdwatcs, end th e Of wishes berms he the make w h o lo t s . Wished the ladepealeass et An erica—men Ma from t i t gosh. awl append to mane «Men. The NA dr. yeomen who made Catietwitz er t g l i b is eseldref Wen AO alk at the i s sew. And may of as yet •Or- VIVO who ismaler the dikes el what was jeer ingly WWI N the warieWheste la Imbed, when every Mina Era was a atilt, militia-man, or volunteer —meleateers who blight at Ciadad-Rodrigo, at Vitteris, and lialemmask with the cool self-posses sion of veterans—vehmteers who at any alarm of invades mated to the wet with a promptitude and discipline that as atimilmg army could have sue- The spirit of the old them is yet alive amongst us. True we have of late pere . been mainly engrossed with other and more pleasing and profitable avoca tions than soldiering. Englishmen--as has been observed above—do ova thing at a time. When a reform bill has to be carried, nobody speaks or thinks of anything else; when railways have to be made, the whole English world goes mad about railway.. We have been busy of late years founding schools, emigrating, manufacturing; we bare for the time hung our muskets over our mantelpiece., and locked up oar regimentals. But even during " the thirty years peace." the spirit of adventure and the pugna- Mose prepeosities of the nation have flashed out at hitervala The innumerable expeditions of discovery al Arede sad varies! regions have called into play all the qualities that male the soldier. Sheer love of fighting has carried the young and adventur ess areal us to Greece, to Spain and Portugal, to !oath America. Once e the English nation that there is real n of fighting—that there is some; thing substantial to be gained by it—and soldiers wills rise up on every hand. The days will return when the universal manhood of England was regimented ; when the one thing . hear kened after was of battles lost or won in the Peninsula; when the able-bodied quarrelled for precedence in being drafted off to the armies abroad ; and when mail coaches, with flags flying to telegraph news of victories, were stopped in the streets of every town and village by the crowds who thronged them with frantic eagernem to ask for tidings. Bee what the mere rumour of a possible invasion lib- THE EIPRESS, TUESDAY ETBNING, JANUARY 27; isa• \ ...., 1 - -' - ' 7..' • FitAloieß t-- .. nt , V .14 • THE SENATE. • (BY BUBBLAILINB TELEGRAPH.) TROY ova OWN COZILISPONDENT. _ - . PAS'S, TURIDAT. The Moniteur contains the decree constituting the Senate. The following are nominated senators : Ez-Peers--Beintreau, Breton, Bretenil, Lerner cier, Leye, Do Marnei, Plaiaance, Pomtis, St. Simon, Camtaceres. Ez-Ministers--Dargout, Cronzeillies, Drouyn de L'Huys, Dumas, Fould, Gautier, Hautpoul, Lactose, Lahitte, Itegnault,Schramm. Ex-representa tives—Achard, Bard, Baragnay d'Hilliers, Beaumont Carrel, Charles Lapin, Fouqtuer, Fourment, Ernest Girardin, St. Germain, Huston, Lagrange, Ladoucette, Leribiere, Leven', Lemarroy, Levemer, Manuel, Merchant, Mimerel, Moakow, Murat, Oman°, Pinhole, Pallet, Segur, Simeon, Vicillard. Generals : Castel lane, Magnan, Ordcner, Lawoestine, Preval. Other notabilities: Audiffret, Balbceuf, Berthier, Boulay, Admiral Casy, Caumont, Laforee, Clary, Croi, Elie, Beaumont, Admiral Hugon, Manard, Parse val Duschenes, Poinsont. Portalis, Sapey, Thayer, Thibeaudau, Troplong, Vincent. Pietry is appointed prefect of police. PARIS, MONDAY EYINTNO. M. Barocho has at last achieved the summit of his ambition. lie has shirked the heavy responsibilities incurred by MM. de Morny and Persigny, and set tled himself into the stately arm-chair of the Vice- President of the Council of State, with a salary of rather more than three thousand sterling. People are astonished to find M. Boulay de la Meurthe, who was resident of the former council of state, amine the simple councillors. One is equally at a lass to interpret the degrading offer and its accep tance. In the son of the celebrated member of the convention, who was recently vice president to the republic, one would have ex pected sufficient spirit and self-respect to have spurned a salary only the half of what ho recently received, accompanied with a diminution of dignity. You will have perceived that the two late ministers who resigned the day before the publication of the decree of confiscation, Rouher and Magne, have accepted the post of presidents of sections. This fact entirely dopnves their refusal to partake the responsibility of the blow inflicted on the House of Orleans of any merit whatever. While affecting to protest against the spoliation, these ex-ministers consent to receive the handsome salary of 35,000 fr. per annum from the hand that perpetrated it. Perhaps wo shall find ere long that the resignation of M. Fould is not a whit more conscientious and disinterested. The non-appesi.....- in the present list seems to countenance the notion that ho will consent to resume the portfolio of finance as soon as the first shock of the violent mea sure has subsided. The meaning of M. de Morny's retreat is not only that he regarded the confiscation aa a blunder—and it is needless to say that in such eyes a blunder is far worse than a crime,—but the late Minister of the Interior never sympathised in the feast with the socialist side of the b.lysean policy. M. de Morny belonged, as a member of the former Chamber of Deputies, is the old conservatives, and has always stuck, throughout his parliamentary career, to the same party. Nothing was further from the spirit of that party than extensive schemes of benevolence towards the working classes, whom they always would have curbed and never caressed. At the same time, de Morny bed among his associates several Orleanists, and particularly M. de Dauber exert, an ardent adherent of Louis Philippe and Onizot. These, whom he wished to put forward into lucrative and eminent positions, were gall and worm wood to his master. To return to the council of state, the list of the Mossdeur is remarkable rather for the omissions than the appointments. Nine of the 36 were members of tho former Council of State, and may be classed as the leading if not tho only capacities of the second. Nine others were members of the National Assembly, but not one of them over distinguished himselt either as an orator or committee-man. More mediocre and obscure par liamentary names it would be difficult to pick out. The same may be said of the five ex-ministers, four of wheal figured in the interim cabinet appointed after the fall of Changarnier. One member of the Institute, a celebrated economical writer, and con tributor to the Juurnal des 106ide, appears on the list. Yet Michel Chevalier appears to be indebted rather to the accident of his being the brother of M. Auguste Chevalier, the President's secretary, than to his scientific merits for the distin guished position to which he has been promoted. You will notice the name of Curlier, prefect of police, and Snip, advocate-general of the court. of 'Paris, both of whom have won their places by their indefa tigable persecution of the press arid every other prin ciple of liberty. M. Leroy do St. Around, another eouncillor, is the brother of the Minister of War. Among the niaitres de requete and auditors you will see a host of young relations of the ministers and influential persons. The following is M. do Montalembert's letter of resignation, written on the day of the confiscation at the Orleans property : Paris, Jan.= Monsieur le Ministre,—ln the presence of the decrees which have appeared this morning, I fulfil en imperial's duty in begging you to be good enough to accept my resig nation of the functions of a member of the consultative com mission, created on the 2nd of Lee. last. Although this annnigesion has not been consulted upon any of the acts of pew, there does not the less exist in the eyes of the public aso of solidarity for those who compose it with the policy dew government, which it is henceforth impossible for me is aseept. I appeal to your loyalty Mondial. le Minims, le ▪ if necessary, to that of Prince Louis Napoleon himself, to render my reel nation public by the same channel as lay lmination, that n to say, by its insertion in the Monikur, Accept, Ike., Cu. na MON..- of his namc To M. Casebtanea, Minister of State. ------- The following official note is communicated to the Mimiteur : The government cannot refute all the reports which malevolence does not cease to spread ; the rigorous mea sures imposed by necessity have naturally produced an Im pression upon public opinion, which supposes daily that the government will be obliged to take new measures still more severe. The state of the country is far from justifying such fears. Without at all relaxing the firmness necessary against the enemies of order, the government will have no need for the future of exceptional mecum; and the nor mal action of the political bodies, whose organisation pro. ' eceds rapidly, will suffice to consolidate the work of Dec..m ber 2. The following note is communicated to the same official journal, on the subject of tho negotiations with Morocco: The press hiss picked uo for the last month inferstation respecting the affairs of Morocco, which is totally Inaccu rate. The expedition of Sale, conducted by Rear-Admiral Dubordieti, has produced all the fruits that were capected from it ; and M. 1). Bourret., charge d'affairee of France at Tangier, has obtained complete satisfaction either in corporal chastisement or in money for the grievance" of which we bad to complain to the authorities of that tows. The consul-general of Sardinia has, therefore, no mediation to exercise; the care of pro tecting the French residents is alone committed to him. The Rtaperor of Morocco has written spontaneously to the Prince President of the Republic a letter filled with the most explicit assursnees of good will. This amicable overture has been received as it deserved, and there is no doubt that the few difficulties of form which are still in the way of the return of the mission of France to 'rangier, will be very soeedily resolved according to our wishes, and conformably to the interests of the two countries. It if to be lamented that at a time when the go vernment feels it necessary to publish an official as surance in the 011onitrur that the rfyinte of arbitrary severity is drawing to a close,it should allow another journal not only under its control, but enjoying its immediate patronage, to write in a style calculated to recal the worst days of the reign of terror. Within a few hours of the publication of the "Communicated" note which I sent you this morning, disclaiming increased seve rity, and promising a speedy return to a normal po licy of law and moderation, the Motsib•str Parisien wrote the following disgusting paragraph: It is idle to talk of forms and constitutions. The first law of a society is to live, arid the first duty of a good cilia's is , to outlaw all quarks who, under captious pretests, ra p au thority in order to take it themelvi a. To attain their object they eoser tneir inancouvris as besiegers do their trencher', secure their approaches, and ars given signal take the place. A sovereign who understands hi. mission defeat. their at tempts. Ile makes a noon'''. sally, breaks the heads of the • mutineer', nose the mouths of the speech makers, and if there are any who don't find themselves comfortable in their ' podtiou h separates Mem froe. the great `o Two millions of men have perished because Louis VI. preferred I to capitulate rather than to execute high and shoe! (haute 1 et coney.) justice upon a handful of talkers, f ac ti ous p eop l e, sad woundrels. Until the official Moniker formally includes the above nsonstrons paragraph of one of tie prinsbal °rpm if the Tuileries among the false ramdbrs if whisk it affects to complain, the public mind can alba aa consolation from the profession, of modera ting wt forth this morning. MIMI are now from 70 to 80 refagees of eminence at Brussels. It is said that they are to be distributed among different towns in Belgium, which will be assigned to them fur their residence. MM. Dover tier de Haunting and Jules de Lasteyrie aro ex pected to go to England. M. Emilie de Girardin remains at the Hotel de Bellevue at Brussels, where he occupies himself with a forthcoming work, to be called " La Politique Univereelle." " At the present date (Jan. 21)," says the Senli nelle de Toulon," the following is a statement of the political prisoners confined at Fort Lamalgue:—From Toulon, 36 ; Hyere, 36 ; Cuers, 382 ; Luc, 67; Dra guignan, 447; Brignolles, 276; Oonfaron, 4; Mar seilles, 3; making in all 1,341 prisoners. At Fort St. Louis there are 70 more. On the 19th inst. the military prisoners at Fort Lamalgue revolted against the keepers, and order could not be restored until the troops had been introduced with their arms charged. The offending parties were then placed apart on bread and water, and ate to remain so until their departure for Embrun, which is to take place to-morrow. " The Toulonnais announces that the Friedland, man•of--war,• is being disarmed, and that the Me diterranean squadron will probably soon sail for the Iles d'ilyeres. Ordeni have been transmitted to Lorient for the steamer the Tonnerro to prepare for sea with all possible expedition. She is to proceed to Goren, with six months' stores and provisions for that set tlement. The Mogador steam-frigate has been ordered to proceed from Rochefort to the Bo d'Aiz roads, where she will take on board a number of persons condemned to transportation, and convey them to Cayenne. To the resignations given by MM. Moutalembert, do Merode, de Mortemart, and liallex-Claparede of their seats in the Consultative Commission, which I have already sent, are added in the Monileur those of MM. de Moustier, Andre (de la Charente), Augustin Gliraud, Mathieu-Bodet, and Desjobert. M. de Fallout has addressed a letter to the Union de fOuest and to the Journal du Maine-et-Loire, to say that the state of his health will not permit him to accept a mandate to the Corps LcgisLtif, which some of his friends wish to bestow upon him. But he does not seek to dissuade others, his own refusal not proceeding from systematic hostility, but entirely from private and personal motives. At the Bourse, the Fives fell 65c., closing at 101 fr. 85c. ; the Threes fell 7.5 c., and closed at 64fr. Bank of Franco shares fell 55fr. Railways fell, but only slightly. they ore previously elusions. I, and who gives his con- ----- Art. n. The Bombers of the council of state cannot take pert is the deliberations relative to the appeal against the decision of a minister, when that decision shall have been prepared by a deliberation of the seetionin which they may hare taken pert. Art. 23. The council of state cannot deliberate on dis• puted affairs if eleven members at least, having a delibe• retire voice, be not present. Is case of an equal division of votes, the President heaths costing vote. Art. 21. The deliberation is not public. The project of decree is transcribed on the minutes of the deliberations which mention the names of the members present who have deliberated. The copy of the project is signed by the pre sident of the section on disputed affairs, and remitted by the vice president of the council of state to the President of the Republic. The decree which fol,ows is counter signed by the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice. If the decree be not in conformity with the project proposed by the council of state, it is inserted in the Monsieur and the Bulletin de Lou. In every case the decree is read in public sitting. GENERAL CLAUSIES. Art. 26. The satiric; ate flied as follows:—Tho vice pre , sident of the council of state, 60,0110 fr. ; the pre.idents of sections, 35,000 fr.; the councillors of state, 2:41.811.11r.; the masters of requests of the first class 10,0001 e. ; the musters of requests of second class, 6,000 fr. ; the auditors of the first class 2,000 fr. ; the secretory general of the council of state, 15,001.1 fr. ; the auditors of the second class receive no salary. Art. 26. A decree shall determine the interior order of the labours of the council, the division of alliirs amongst tho sections, the administrative affairs which are to be carried to the general assembly of the ermined of state' and those which can only be submitted to the sections; the division and the rotation of the members of the council between the sections ; finally, all measures tat execution not provided for by the present decree. Art. 27. The law of the 3rd March, 1819, is repealed. All the clauses of previous laws and regulations, not con trary to the pfesent decree, are maintained. Divest at the Palace of the Tuileries, the Vith Jan., 18.74. By the President, Louts PliroixoN. X. DIE CASABIANCA. Minister of State. M. Baroohe, ea-Minister, is named Vice-President of the Council of State. M. Maillard, ex.CouneiL'or of State, President of the section on disputed affair.. M. ltouher, e:-Minister, President of the section of Le gislation, Justice, and Foreign Affairs. M. Delangle, ex-Precurcur-Ueneral, President of the section of the Interior, Public Instruction, and Worship. M. de Parieu, ea-Minister, President of the section of Finance. _ M. Magne, es-Minister, President of the section of Public Works, Agriculture, and Commerce. M. Leblanc, Vice-Admiral, President of the section of War and Naval Affairs. Thu following aro named Councillors of State : General Allard, member ',lithe commission of engineers ; MM. Barbarous, ex-member of tho Legislative Assembly ; F. Barret, ex-minister; Q. Itauchort, ex-member of the Legislative Assembly; Boinvilliers, ditto; Bonjcan, ex minister, and advocate-general at the Court of Cessation; Boudet, ex-councillor of state; Boulatignier, ditto; J. Don ley (de is Nleurthe ) ,. ditto ; Cartier, e x-pr e te c t o f Police of Pans; Charlemagne, ex-member of the Legislative As sembly ; Michel Chevalier, member of the Institute ; Conti, director of criminal affairs and pardons at the ministry of justice; Cornudet, ex-master of - requests at the council of state ;It:wrier, ex-couneillor of state; Batiste, ex-member of the Legislative Assembly; Denjov, ditt o; Fl an din, ditt o; ' }Witty, ditto ; C. Clirautl, ex-minister; Godelle, ex-member of the Legislative Assembly ; Hermann, ex-councillor of state; Janner, ditto; Leuze, ex-member of the Legislative Assembly • A. Lefevre, French minister plenipotentiary at Berlin; Leroy de St. Arnaud, advocate, mavor of the 12th arrondissement ; Marchand, ex•coumillor of state; Stourm, ditto; Suin, advocate-general at the Ceurt of Appeal of Paris; 1H Thorigny, ex-minister; Villemain, military intendant ; Vuillefroy, ex-councillor of state ; Vuitry, under-eaeretary of state at the ministry of Finance; IVaisse, ca-minister. The following are named masters of request, let class : MM. Blanche, ex-eceretary general of the ministry of the interior; Brattier, ex-member of the Legislative Assembly; Leon de Bussihes ex-muter of requests ; Chadenet, en member of the Legislative Assembly ; thasseigne-Oeyon, ditto; Chasseriau, historiograher of the Marine; Dabeaux, en-minister of the Legislative Assembly; Dumartroy, ex• master of requests; De Forcade. advocate at the Court of Appeal of !'aria; time, ex-member of the Legislative Assembly; Oulonde, ditto; Ootnel, ex-matter of requests; Lestiboudois, ex -member of the Legislative Assembly; Loycr, ditto; Maigne, ex-master of requests; Montaud, ditto ; E. de Padoue, prefect of the department of the Seine et-Oise; Pascal's, ex-master of requests; Reverchon, ditto; A. Thierry, ditto. The following are named masters of requests, second clam:—MM. 0. Argout, ex-muter of requests on extra ordinary service. Aubernon, ex-auditor; Batailie, ex member of the Legislative Assembly; de Berrien, ex-auditor; de Chaueron, ex-attache to an embassy ; Daverne, ex. master of requests ; Duberthier, ex master of requests on extraordinary service; Dubois, ex-master of requests • Francois, ditto; Oavini, re-member of the Legislative As sembly; Oeupil, ex-minister of requests; Jahan, ex-chief du cabinet of the minister of public works ; Paul de Maupas, procureur of the republi c a t Neufchatel ; de Montesquieu, ex-auditor • Pagis, ex-master of requests: E. l'ortalis, ex. auditor ; leedon, ex-muter of requests; Richaud, ex-master of requests on extraordinary service; A. Segur, ex-pteteet ; Vuillermet, ex-muter of requests. The follow lag are named auditors, first class :—MM. de Bosredun, ye-auditor of the council of state ; Carden de Sandrans, advocate of the court of appeal of l'aris ; de Casa blanca, es -chef du cabinet of the minister of fill.111CC; Ford, ex•auditr e of the council of state; Fouquier, councillor of Prefect' ire of the Aisne ; de Oarel, attaché to the ministry of the interior ; liudault, substitute of the republic at Mane es ; L. Lchon, ex chef du cabinet of the minister of the interior; Lemaire, en-auditor of the council of state; Le vire, ditto ; Lhopital, ditto • Marbeau, ditto ; Maynard, so., advocate at the Court of Appeal of l'aris ; Mouton Duvernay, ex-auditor of the Council of State ; Robert, ditto ; Sees, ditto. The following are named auditor', 2d class :—MM. Aucoc, Bartoloni, de Belbeuf, Boinvilliere, jun. • de Chain blain, Cottin, esmichele, Dufan, Ouernon ftanville, Le chanteur, Leroy, do Narcillae, Pons de Rempont, A Pea tale, Vieyra. !)one at the Palace of the Tuileries, this 25th Jan. (Countersigned) I;oets NAPOLEON. X. Di CALUITANCI.. Minister of State. GERMANY. The Lithographic Corre , cpatdence of Vienna states that Prince Windischgratz has definitively accepted the post of civil and military governor of Hungary. The Imperial Gazelle publishes a list of subscribers to the late loan. The next paragraph following this document reports the condemnation of a Doctor of Law to two months imprisonment for speaking lightly of the constitution, which the government has since abolished. Tho Nem Prussian Gazette states that the Customs Congress of Vienna will close on the 28th inst. Nothing is doirg there, few only of the delegates being provided with powers to pledge their governments. The Zollverein Congress cannot meet before March, as at least a month's no tice to the governments has to be given ; and the treaty with Hanover, though accepted by largo ma jorities in both chambers, iv not yet ratified. A letter, dated Vienna, Jan. 21, says: . Mr. Smith, the last of the throe English missionaries who remained behind in Vienna, with his bandy, to try to obtain from the authorities some concession of a trilling nature on behalf of his invalid wife and young children, was obliged to leave, with sack and park, two days ago. The cor respondents of certain Austrian papers would make it appear that the expulsion of these men from Froth and Lemberg is owing to religious considerations, the " Angli can rites" not being recognised ;n Austria. But this is all fudge, and not likely to deceive any one at all conversant in the matter. The t rue reason, of course, would not be mentioned—at all events not published in the newspapers; and that is neither more nor less than a desire on the part of the government authorities to give vent to their spleen against the English before it is too late; and these harmless individuals were pitched upon, with some degree of tact, it must be admitted. has already done. Young sold old lialpisis' of a and drills, and field-fights, and fortitisatbna Jo n i BVLL bristles up ands defiance on the mere ainuation that a fo rstgu enemy may ligd 'on his' shores, like a cat when is tail is troddsn.upon. We have no abstract I4liniratlo..a( war, and i sish n not come. We are not easily susceptible of alarm; and do not very potently believe that it will come. But, if this country is invaded, we know that the pe , ple have enough of pugnacity, courage, and enter prise, to give a good account of tho invaders. What has been will be again. Civilians will at once be transformed into soldiers, and these soldiers will display that self oantrol, that reasoning spirit of sub ordination, that enables them to wait patiently till the word is given to advance, and that impetuosity that rushes their advance—irresistible. NOT yet recovered from the surprise of the whole sale eonflreation decreed by Lours NAPOLEON, we are treated to a re-organisation of his ministry and 1 6 -overnment, still more startling and important. It at pears that as often as the PRKSIDENT meets with an obstruction to his will, straight there must be a coup rlYlni, a revolution, and a completely new relay o f me . 1 and things to suit the occasion. Th e dictator's cabinet having differed from him lon the a, ibject of confiscation, not only are the mem ber, o f t h . it cabinet dildaced, but the very system of adminia tration is changed. One of the useful conipiegs of representative government has been the esta bli s h ment of almost all the members of the ad ministration it t a cabinet council, whose decision is Jr fin-to the so, nreme power in the state; and the great rule of thin cabinet council is that the members ate equa l , an d t ho vote of one as good as that o f anot h er. T he A "rinse minister has, of counts, ta certain supremacy 0 , ' form, with the nominal power of appointing and el ismiasing his colleagues. Bet this, like every thi lg else, is subject to the will of the cabinet w. Inch is broken up, if say appointment be not to their mind. Louts NA/0. LEON has very natural!) found this constitutional council highly inconvenient . And in order to obviate such a thing again occurring•as his ministers turning against him, and threstenin k 7 is a 6 '4° naign. 10. bas appeinted a Minister o/ • State. who i s to be the &mod elfcommunication bet* cen his Imperial Ma jesty and In other ministers, as well as the other " the Indies of state. The Minister o. Stale will alone no doubt have the privilege of cola 'nag closet ;" and, although Senhor CASABIARCA is aPPoinled to initiate this office—a reward for his having counter signed the decrees of confiscation— there is little doubt that this position of utter ego to Lona Naro- LEON is intended for M. PERSION T. prams% in truth, well des °ryes to be tttiistl tbe olh e iz e of the dictator. The fti"fidsbili between the sad his follower is I tot one of Ilmeo hand open eonberioties, but upo. I resent llannes. Neither went @muteness. Both ha ve their minds full of the most daring projects; in. 'd both an inclined to that pneekinate precipitancy which fit only . persists in executing a resolve, but a Lich rriin executing it immediately. So little can xastosir wait, that even before the coup d'ewie be undertook a mission to the German powers to ask them to give up the barrier of the Rhine. Per this reason M. DE MORNT is said to have hided that M. PERSR.NT should have nothing to isla the coup delal. But Monsieur DE MORNT accomplished what he was charged with, was cd by having his ministry cut in two, and the diet of its functions made over to a Minister of Police. This, the idea of Louts NAPOLEON, who endeavoured to establish it before, on which M. FAUCUER threatened to resign, is now fully developed. The police is everything. It., chief has fall power over the liberties, movements, fortunes, words, and even thoughts, of French men. lie is to manage the election by the gendarmes, and enable the prefects to return what members they choose. Those who know M. DS MORN!, however, do not suppose that his retirement costa him any chagrin. In the brief space of a month he has, it is said, made his fortune; and it would seem that, feeling himself for the first time a man of capital and property, he shrinks with the instincts of his new class from the precedent of confiscation. Louts NAPOLEON is said to have been angered and startled at the number of personages who, even amongst those around him,.have shown unmistake able sympathy for the House of ORLEANS. How few, thought he, put real faith in my dynasty, when even my own followers look to the restoration of the ORLEANS as a contingency to be provided for. That FOULD and others who had served the ORLEANS Should entertain compunctions was naturaL But that Sr. ARNAUD, the man whom he had raised from disgrace—made a man, a general officer, and a mini ster—that he would not sign the decree confiscat ing the Oatitstos property, did seem to the Elyse° preposterously ungrateful. Nothing, it is evident, will /Misty Louts NAPO LEON but Bonapartism, even to behef in the heir that is yet unborn. Bonapartism in the Council et State, in the Senate, and in whatever he calls the mock Commons that the preteens are to Mara This is what Louis NAPOLEON looks for, and *msbs will not find, unlew.ho selects all these from es use vulgar and most ir;norant of his subjecte. Oar Paris correspondent ., is his ample and excel lent letter of Friday, giving an account of the ORLEANS pro pe rty, and the mode in which the de crees would select it, lives a striking anecdote. M. YIEILLARES„ an old Br inspartist follower of the PRE SIDE:Vt. saga to cb. eer his low spirits by observing that • retai ned the same friends u ever. "Tr vex observed 'Lotus NAPOLEON, " the mme, but DO others." Time, success, moderation, justice, e'mld not have failed to make friends to any govern ment ; but to hope for friends, and want all these, is madness. THE NEW REFORM BILL. Although the intentions of Lord John Russell have, of tourer, been shrouded in all secrecy of official reserve, it is now whispered that the follow ing boroughs are certainly amongst those marked for positive disfranchisement: Caine, Chippenham, Totness, Harwich, St. Albans. Three others,—not named,—are likewise, it is said, to lose all parliamentary privileges. Besides these, many other boroughs are to have enlarged constituencies given them by amalgamation with neighbouring towns. Additional members are to be allotted to London and to Lancashire. Amongst the other chief alterations proposed will, it is said, be a 1.01. franchise for counties, and • 61. franchise for boroughs. Not a word is yet said upon that most important point--The Ballot. Reformers meet be on the alert. Till COTTON MILL BURNT DOWN AT MAR- C)lanTia.—The cotton mill of WWI. Frost (a firm better lemma as Thomas Ogden sad Mons), Manchester, which was anteermi 4 Arson fistorday evening, as described in the Espana oryestorday, was set nn lire by the watch man's lamp among the cotton in the creel between two sal/acting frames of 300 spindles each. Th e mechanic states that hammer came accidentally in con. tact with the primes watchman's lamp, and knocked it oat of hi s hang. go bed been longer in repairing the shafting thea he expiated es flatunlay afternoon, in consequence of Ending that • berm** on which thesha t worked was nearly worn thrwegh,sail be bad to replace it with anew one. The 'venial; same es, and he called in the private watchman to light hum with his lamp. The fire spread along the frame with great rapidity, and he sent the watchman fur water, whilst be drew out the traversing part of the spinning• frame and succeeded in putting nut the fire upon that. The watchman returned laying ho could lied no water in the yard, and they then tried to get some water pipes on the stairs, but a boiler was undergoing repair at the other end of the mill, and the water hail been turned off from the staircase pipes to supply the boiler. Each of them had been supplied with master keys, but they hail not these with them, on that they could not unlock the door at the top of the staircase, which was the only resource fur water after these repeated failures to get a supply. Thns nearly five minutes of valuable time was lost before the fire engines were sent for. The only portion of the will saved was Use en gine-house, with a valuable new ninety•honse eagles and boilers at the south end. The hook. were also saved. The property wee insured in the Royal (Liverpool glee), far 3,2301. • in the Royal Exchange, for 8,5001. ; in the l'hmais, far 6,1401.; and in the Liverpool and London, for 10,011 E.; total, 26,2.501. The lose is likely t., hll heavier than at first suppaecel, and is estimated at 311,0(011. There were about 40,1610 spindles in the mill, a portiim of them throetles, and the remainder Putter's self-acting mules, which were new about 13 years ego. From 2.10 to 300 hands will be thrown out of work. ORGANIC DECREE ON THE COUNCIL OP STATE. The Muniteur publishes tho following document relative to the organisation of the council of state : • FAINCH REPUBLIC. Louis Napoleon, President of the Republic, decrees: CRAP. I. FORMATION ANT COMPOSITION OF TAM COUNCIL. Art. I. The council of state, under the direction of the Prwitlent of the Republic, draws up all bills and maintains the d.'scussion of them before the legislative body. It pro. poses the decrees which enact—lst, on administrative affairs, the examination of which is referred to it by legislative or regulaimsy provisions; 2d, on points of dispute connected with administrative questions; 3d, on all disputed questions of attributions between the administrative and judicid authorities. It is necessarily called upon to give its advice on all decrees connected with regulations of the public administration, or which are required to be drawn up in the form of these re gulations. It takes cognisance of all affairs of the high administrative police with respect to public functionaries, whose acts are referred to it by the President of the Re public. Finally, it gives its advice on all questions sub ' emitted to it by the President of the Republic or his ministers. Art. 2. The council of state is composed—l. Of a vice president of the council of state, meted by the President of the Republic; 2. Of from feet, to fifty cooncillors of state, on ordinary service; 3. Of conneillan of state on ordinary service, unattached to any particular section, the number of which cannot exceed 6 ftren ; 4. Of councillors of state on extraordinary service, the number of which cannot exceed twenty; 6.l3lfarty musters of requests, divided into two clause. of twenty each ; 6. Of forty auditors, divided into two classes of twenty cosh. A secretary-general, with the rank and title of a master of requests, is attached to the senora of state. Art. 3. 'l 'he ministry* have rank, aorta, and deliberative voice in tho council of state. Art. 4. The President of the Republic appoints and re vokes the members of the council of state. Art. 5. The council of state is presided over by the Pre sident of the ltepublie, or, in his absence, by the vice-pre- sident of the council of state. The latter also presides, whenever he pidges it necessary, over the different admi nistrative sections, and the assembly of the council of state deliberating on affairs in dispiee. Art. 6. The councillors of state in ordinary service, and the masters of requests, can bo neither senators nor depu ties of the Legislative Body ; their functions are incompa tible with every other public and paid situation. Never theless general officers of the army and admirals in the navy can be named councillors of state on ordinary , service. In this case, they are considered during tho period they are so engaged as employed on a mission hoes cadre, and pre serve their rights to seniority. Art. 7. The councillors U state in ordinary service, un attached to snyisect on, are to be chosen from amongst men holding high public facetious. They take part in the de liberations of the general assembly o f th e counc il of state, and have there a deliberative voice. Like the •eouncillors of state, they receive no salary or indemnity. Art. 8. The President of the Republic car, e e n r ee th e title of councillor of state on extraordinary service on the councillors of state 00 ordinary service, a nd wh o the n cease to fulfil these functions. Art 9. The councillors of state on er'mominary service may be present, and have a deliberatir a voice, in the gene ral amentbly of the council of state to which they have been eonvoked by a special order from 6. 0 President of the Ite pubhe. _ CHAP SZCTION I.—FORKF. OF PROCEIDI/10. Art. 10. The Council of S'Ate is divided into six sections, namely, the section of legislation, justice, and foreign affairs the section of di'vuted affairs, that of the interior, public instruction, and worship; that of public works, agri culture, and cosame..ee ; that of war and the marine ; and that of inane*. rats division may be modified by a decree of the executive ~ewer. Art. 11. Reel, section is presided over by a councillor of state on ordinary service, app o i n t e d b y t h e President of the Republic. Art. 12. The deliberations of the Council of State take place in a general assembly, and the decisions are given by • majority of votes on a report made by the councillors of state on all Dina, and on the more iniportakt affairs , mud by the masters of requests for all other business. The masters of requests and the auditors of the first class, can be present at the general assembly. Nevertheless, they can only attend by virtue of a special authority at general assemblies, when presided over by the President of the Republic. The masters of requests have a consultative voice in all affairs, and a de liberative voice in those of which they draw up the reports. Art. 1 . The council of este cannot deliberate unless twenty members having et deliberate voice, exclusive of the ministers, be present. In case of an equality of votes, the President has the casting one. Art. 14. The decrees promulgated after a deliberation of the council of state are issued with this heading—Le Con seil d'Etat eltiflldll. The decrees promulgated, after a de liberation of one or several sections, state what sections hare been heard._ Art. 15. The President of the Republic designates three councillors of state to support the discussion of each bill presented to the legislative Indy or to the senate. One of these councillors may . be taken from amongst the council lon on ordinary service, unattached to any section. Art. 16. The provisions of the decree of lune, 11, 1806, are to be observed with respect to the public functionaries whose conduct may be brought under the notice of the councilor state. SECTION 2.—MATTERS IN DISPUTE. Art. 17. The section for settling matters in dis pute is charged to direct the investigation in writ ing, and to prepare a report on all the affairs on which dbputes ha,. arisen, as well se on any dif ferences between the administrative and judicial authori ties relative to their respective attribution.. It is composed of siz councillors of state, including the President, and of the number of masters of request. and auditors determined by the regulations. It csnnot deliberate unless four of its members, at least, having a deliberative voice, arc present. The toasters of requests have a consultative voice in all mutters brought forward, and a deliberative voice in those for which they are report:re. The auditors have a consul tative voice in the matters on which they draw up a report. Art. 18. Three masters of requests are designated by the President of the Itepublic to fulfil at the section on admi nistrative disputes the functions of government commission ers. They are to be present at the deliberations of such section. Art. 19. The report on affiirs is made in the name of the section, in public sitting of the assembly of the council of state deliberating on disputed affairs. This assembly is composed-Ist, Of members of the section ; 2d, Of ten coun cillors of state designated by the President of the republic, and taker in equal numbers from each of the other sections. They arc renewed by moiety every two years. This as sembly is presided over by the president of the section of di•putcd affairs. Art 20. After the report the advocates of parties arc ad mi•.ted to present oral observations. The commissary of the government gives his conclusions on each affair. Art. 21. The affairs fur which no advocate may have been named are not carried before the public sitting, unless that he demanded by one of the councillor's of state of the INT tiou, or by the commissary of the government, to whom RUSSIA. A letter dated St. Petersburgh, Jan. 11, in the Iranaburg Borsenhalk, of Jan 23, says: "By an im perial ukase, the exportation of corn from every port of the empire is prohibited until further orders. TILE STEAMER MADRID. Intelligence from Lisbon of the 17th most. states that the Peninsular mail steamer Madrid, which left Southampton on the 7th inmt., had not been heard of at Lisbon up to nightfall of that day. MUDDY STREETS AND SCAVENCIERS.—Sir,—Cart you find a spare corner in your valuable journal for a prac tical suggestion, which I beg leave to offer in behalf of pe destrians. During a period of heavy rain, liquid mud necessarily aceumulatea in vast quantities. The present pri mitive mode of getting rid of this mass of filth, is W ladle it into carts, to the serious detriment, by splashing, of the gay bonnets' and bright dresses of lady pedestrians, to say nothing of the injury d one t o t h e upper coats, and . well brushed velvet hats of the mescaline portion of the com munity. This' is a nuisance which is almost i n t o l era bl e; it can ho obviated effectually by the employment of a port able hand pump, fitted with large valves, and bovine a flexible boas, through which every gallon of mod might be pumped into the receiving cart. Tho economy of time would be considerable by this simple process; and cer tainly, its adoption woula be to the m coifed advantage of pedestrians, nnd, I may add, also of every tradesman who is unfortunate enough to find that his shop fronts the line ' of march of the mud scavengers—l ant, sir, your obedient servant, C. S. LIBEItIA. The Moniteur gives a proclamation of the Prcti. dent of the Republic of Liberia, on the •vestern coast Africa, stating that it was published at Monrovia on the 21th December, 18:11, the fourth year of the foundation I,f the republic. " Whereas," it says, "a perfidious and cruel attack was directed on the morning of the sth inss, liy a band of savages, commanded by au individual aarstg (Irando a native of Piccaniuny-Sisters, upon an cstablid,. meat of the republic, called Fish Town, situate at the psi at of Great llama, which was plundered and burnt, and b " inhabitants of which were murdered; whereas said (Manly , at the head of considerable reinforcements, brought to hut; by three or four neighbouring chiefs, whom he has deceived, attacked, on the morning of the dith instant, the territory of Musa Cove, from which he wan fortunately repulsied, whereas said Grande. and the chills of 'folio-Cannee, Seams and Trade Town, are still in arms, and in "lee re. benign against the authority of the government ; and wherry the government has been informed that sail chiefs rev ore assistance and warlike stores from vessels trading along 0, 4 part of the coast, and that it is consequently necessary t e , interdict all commerce and communication with the mentioned chichi, and the manes, ur oth er a n gi v i. hud, inhabiting the districts of 'lulu-Caiiiiee, New bonus , 1 ,4 Trade Town, on the south-cast : " 1, Jusph Roberts, President of the lkpublic of Lilwn a in virtue of the power conferred ou me, furled and proh,h,i all kind of communication with the individuals striding ily the above districts. Every captain, supercargo, or mini in dividual commanding a lamed iir with a cargo, who, hasty' a knowledge of the present e.liet, should disobey its liquor. tints,, shall be arrested, and the seta I seised and coosey e g to one of the ports of the republic, a hem It•gal pray sling s shall he taken. Every individual having u lactory w said districts shall quit it or fl'lllo,e it to some other point. Every proprietor of a factory needing the aid of the gow n . merit to amist him in remising it may apply to the Secretary of the Treasury, who will Ohmd hint the at-ems:try aid" Notice of the blink tile, mentioned in the abort, prod-ma. thin, was publish. d by the English administration at Sierra Leone. At the MOM, tat of that publication, Imal'vf-r, the government of that colony kiwi nut received trom tile l'nv. dent of the Republic of Liberia an official notelet:anon of the measure. VOLUNTEER RIFLE COltl'S. TO THE SUITOR OW TIIE iTrIttSS, SlR.—The columns of your valuable paper hare contained of late many letters upon our national ‘.ll tuns s, and especially recommending the practise of that most usi fel of all weapons, the rifle. Now, sir, the mere proli u ni l the use of the rifle would be of little avail ea a d. Itue, employed tingle-handed—that is, by each person so anra• firing to the best of his skill from behind wall-, bank., ler., upon an advancing enemy. As an old Light lutantry officer, I should strongly recommend the instant furinstam of rifle companies in the comities of Kent, Sussex, Surr q , &c. These companies might consist of gentlemen, fount., tradespeople, and others who would find th, it own uniform (say a dark green, as plain and ineapeniiive as ), wh o would elect their own officers, and sign a declaration that they would pay all obedienoe to lawful command. 1 would suggest that the authorities at the lion.. Guards or Ord. nonce should be appliid to for the use of rifles and ae. coutremcnts, each volunteer giving his rec e ipt fur at same and a guarantee to restore them when called %win. It would be worse than usele.., for it would be trifling with the good feeling of such rifle companies, to furnish them with the old flint and steel arms, now no lonzir in use, but with rifles of the hest quality, such as are used by the Rifle Brigade and GOth meat. And, sir, I would further suggest that ba every company so raised of .M) or GO men that an applica tion be made to the Horse Guards to allow a drill serg,nit or corporal front the depots of regiments at Chatham or Dover to render assistance in the preliminary drilling of such companies. By these means armtvl bodies would be formed capable of acting iu concert, and prepared, at all times, to move upon a given point- lam 140 alarmist my self, and I think our neighbours, the French, would pause long ere they determined upon an invasion of our mut. Still it iv right to be prepared—especially when au auxiliary aid can bo given to the goveniusent upon suck cheap terms. When tho services of each individual may be necessary for the general weal, I think it no presumption in saying that I am ready to give the initiative, by either forming or assisting to form • rifle company in my immediate neigh bourhood. I could, without much difficulty, rub up my military knowledge. I am not too old in years, tolerably expert in the use of the rifle, and, from active habits, as tit for the field as a lad of IS. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, WM. S. It. I'M ROY, islagistratc fur the County ot Sutr. c .5.1 late Captain of the Light Compan) at the 811th Regiment. Danstcad-place, Epsom, Jan. 26. A RIFLE Cones IN NEWCASTLE.—A meeting, con vened by circular, was held in the Formers' Cl u b- room , Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Thursday, to consider the propriety of forming a volunteer corps to assist in the oetence of the counted against invasion, when it was resolved, "That in the opinion or this meeting, in consequence of the present unsettled state of the continent of Europe, it is expedient to form • volunteer corps, subject to the approval of her Majesty's advisers." A provisional committee was thee appointed, and Dr. Glover was appointed honorary secre tary, with instructions to write to the Hume Secretary to see if the propo-al would receive the sanction of the go vernment ; the answer to ho communicated. to a general meeting to be held on Weneaday evening ocit.—Naittottla Guardian. THE BELGIAN GOVERNIIENT AND THE FRENCE Exices.—The following semi-otticial warning to the dis tinguished French literati and statesmen now in Brussels appears in the form of a leading article in the Independents Beige. It amply confirms all that our Paris correspondent has communicated upon the large demands of Louis Napo leon and the timid compliances of the Belgian government " Several journals, as well of Paris ns in Belgium, have stated that different members of the late French Assembly at this moment resident in Brussels were about to publish periodical, and occasionally political, writings in this city. The truth is, that all the refugees now dwelling amongst us perfectly comprehend what are the duties imposed upon aura by the hospitality which they have claimed, and on stilt condition their presence may be permitted on the Belgian territory. We cannot suppose that any of them would think of departing from that reserve which their situation imperatively commands ; but in any ease, we have already bad occasion to remark that the Belgian government has on its side a twofold duty to fulfil, on the one hand to humanity, and on the other to the dictates of international obligation, and it will con tinue to discharge its responsibilities both to one and the other as hitherto. It would be to fail in international duty if the government allowed refugees to publish in Belgium writings which they would not be allowed to publish in their own country ; it would be to fail in the duty of hu manity if the government were to r. fuse hospitality to those who come to demand an asylum in our country with out the least intention of doing any act which could give umbrage to that government which has com pelled their absence from their own soil. It may, then, be regarded as certain that if the Belgian government which desires to remain faithful to all its duties tolerates the presence of any refugees in our territory, it is because it has satisfied itself that none of them are disposed to abuse the hospitality which they enjoy, or entertain the design of publishing the journals which have been eon nected with their names." The personal intelligence of the same journal contains the further statement that "the French refugees whom recent events have conducted to Brussels, in number from 60 to 80, are about to leave this city to reside in the various towns is the kingdom. The early departure of MM. Diavergier de Hauranne and Jules de Luteyrie for England is announced." TUE SEQUESTRATIONS IN FRANCE.—The dngs bunl Gazette of Thursday last, the day preceding the ema nation of the decree sequeitreting the Orleans property in France, contained the following note : " From the Danube. Jan. 17.—1 hear that a despatch has been sent off by Louis Bonaparte to the great tour a, in which the grounds of an impending and imminent arqueatration of the Orleans pr..• perty in France are discussed. In this despatch the tir• leans family are designated as conspirators who fur bitty years have undermined every government in France br their intrigues. Reference is made to Philippe Egulite. Louis Philippe's behaviour to Charles X. is placed in odious light; and finally, it is asserted that a continual an.! dangerous connexion has been maintained between Clan • mont and the Orleanist party in France. Boulogne and Strasburg--quis tulerit Creech°s de seditione querentes MRS. CUMMING'S LUNACY CAsE.—(TO the F.41110r of the Express.) —Sir, —As the case seems to mar great public interest, and observing in the papers a copy 0 1 counsel's opinion, to the effect that the evidence did not warrant the verdict of the jury, 1 consider it may not he out of place in me to date, that immediately after the ver dict had been given, I was deputed by the counsel and soli citors of Mrs. Cumming to wait upon her, in company with Dr. Hale, for the purpose of amiouncing the result of the inquiry. We accordingly communicate.. the verdict to that lady, who received the intelligence in a somewhat naturally excited state, but expressed herself in a most rational and excited manner (to use her own words), 50 "appeal to I higher tribunal to maintain her rights, and continue it to the day of her death;" and in our presence she signed a retainer to her legal advisers to proceed to reverse the deci sion: —I am, &c., GEOILOE SIMPAON, B.si fordntrect, Bedford-square, 26th January. DISPENsARY FOR CONSCMPTION AND DISEAsES OP THI CHEST.—The annual meeting or the governors and subscribers to this institution was held yesterday, at the board room of the dispensary, Margaret-street, Farendoh square ; 1/r. Hastings iu the chair. From the report it ii" peered that 332 new Cusss hail been registered since the last meeting, making a total from the commencement of J,l.tt patients, and 384 patients were then attending the dis pensary. The income amounted during the past year :o 3911. 7s. 7d., and the abilities...melds to 3191. 10.. 4d.; 3.1 the liabilivies unpaid amounted to 368/. 17e. Id. The report was received and adopted. I Lomas Stevi town, Esq.,s!ated that the funds of the institution were in such a condition. that if they did not receive increased assistance, such a mi. ful charity would have to be diacoutiaucd, to the groat 10^s of the poor, and moved a resolution that the meeting ad: journ to the lit of March, in ureter that the committee no in the meanwhile concert meamma for raking further WO• to pay off the debt, or, in etiN, of faints., to close 110 charity. The resolution was adopted, and the meetinc acenrdingly adjourned, after a vote of thanks to the chairman.