The Express. — London, England, 1852-01-06 00:00:00

• THE- EXPI ghe erpreois. TO CORRIMPONDINTB. A Poserll adilital of The Espress." softbihis •he sine irssolloirs s•Chisette." is published every TUNraM Miley Mess. lo Yrs lor pea. Alissialisseseuts Wended Ric ••T Erpres,.Lesidso Swain pow, Burl !ie u tkc r rrtua lb. lkoursrie-striel. SJ T. **dock is the NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tots thiv—Mnirbini, In. Irbb A fibromas, lb. :'4o. Ilibreasow —Moron& lb bita., Aturessa. 31. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6. Tun revenue returns fur Vac year and quarter ended yesterday, show for the quarter a fulling off in every specific branch of the ordinary public in come, exeept the Post-office; for the year a falling off in every such branch except the customs, excise, and Yost-oitice. The total decrease on the year is .527,0471.; the total decrease on the quarter is 713,347/. In the customs there is a decrease of 37,1931. on the quarter; an increase of 146,199/. ou the year. In the excise there is a decrease of 162,9.501. on the quarter; an increase of 89,209/. on the year. In the l'ust-office there is au iucrease of 91,0001. on the quarter, and of 211,0001. on the year. The decrease in the stamps is 32,2361. for the quarter, and 102,01)2/. for the year; the decrease in the taxes is 737,131/. for the quarter, and 796,216/. for the year ; the decrease in the property and in come tax is 541,7741. for the quarter, and 78,1141. for the year; the decrease in the crown lands is •-'O,OOO/. for the ipiarter. and 10,0001. for the year. Now, it is easy to foresee what will be the effect of this state of the quarterly audit upon the organs of partied in the press. The opposition jour nals null cry out that it is a symptom of national distress and di cadeuce ; the ministeriulist will argue apologetically, to show that it is nothing of the Lund. And, do uhtkss. a goodly number of well-meaning people, who are not very earnest partisans on either side, will look grave, and feel a little anxious. This is the consequence of the bad habit that JOHN BOLL has got into of examining his trade returns monthly, and his revenue returns quarterly, and drawing in ferences as to the general state and prospects of the country. or the success of a certain line of policy, from such ludicrously inadequate data. In acting thus Joitx resembles a hypochondriac, who feels his pulse every live minutes, and gets alarmed at the slightest and mast transitory irregularity. Steadily and dispassionately considered there is, nothing in the revenue returns fur the year and quarter to warrant the slightest uneasiness. 'There is a decrease in the taxes: well—the window tax has been taken of and the house tax has not yet come into play. There is a decrease in the property tax : well—the collectors have been a little less sharp than they have been of late, or they have pulled up in former quarters all who are in arrear, and have only the amount falling due within the quarter to collect. There is a decrease in the stamps; but it is suffi ciently accounted for by the change in tho law, still recent, or unimportant fluctuations in business. There is a decrease fur the quarter both in customs and excise; but then there is in both an increase fur the year. What decrease there is in the revenue is within the range of the natural oscillation that must always be looked fur—an oscillation which must be natu rally greater at an epoch when changes are yearly made in the form and incidence of taxation. It is the positive amount of revenue, not the comparative amounts from year to year, we ought to look to, if we would know the true state of the national health and prosperity. Look to the customs and excise ; the returns of revenue from these sources have in the year 1531 kept their ground, and a little more, al-, though influences have been at work that might have occasioned a falling off without affording any reason for alarm. This shows that toe people hare been working up fully more raw material, and consuming fully more of the good things of this life than for some years past. With plenty of work and a good appetite the national health cannot be in a very perilous condition. A very important branch of revenue statistics is that which shows the proportion which income bears to expenditure. This cannot be known with cer tainty before the clue of the financial year, three months hence. We reserve our opinion on this topic till that time. Some of our ministerial contempo raries indeed arc already taking credit for an unpre oedenteilly large surplus of income over expenditure; we believe there will be a handsome one, but are averse to arguing on the future and unknown. Having deprecated even in more flourishing quarters the habit of drawing large general inferences from such narrow data, we have no maim to apprehend that our own representations will tell against us when the aspect of the national books is not so favourable. The contemporaries to whom we allude, having made a partisan use of flourishing quarters, have got themselves into a dilemma, which compels them to draw upon the Bank of Hope as they are doing. Resort to fallacious arguments always brings its own punishment after it. The must remarkable feature in these returns is the large and steadily continuous increase in the Port-othee revenue. fhis indicates that the Row- LAND 110.1. system has now been more completely brought into play, and that its good effects are show ing themselves. This ought to encourage government to adopt some of the recommendations of that Post ale° reformer which even yet have not had a triaL Ix is a long time since we espied anything inter esting in German politics, much leis anything par. taking of the comic. The affairs of Ultmithine are in general of the solemn and lugubrious nature, and events as they occur arc certainly no laughing mat ter. By way of exception, however, or perhaps by way of enlivening a very despondent country during Christmas, the diplomatists at Frankfort have got up a dispute which burlesque writers would turn to wonderful account. The poor Ger mans are, however, no more allowed to laugh than to talk. Wit is forbidden on both limning of the Rhine, and to laugh at SCIIWARZEN- Jean, twig N/ANTECFFEL, or to smile at those con venient moustaches from between which came Louts Naroteom's oaths, and comes his constitution, would be visited forthwith by military arrest, execution, or instigation. If the Germans must not laugh, let us at least laugh for them. Austria and Prussia are quarrel ling. What think you about? About German unity, or a customs league, or the presidency of the Diet, or the patronage of the lesser states? None of these things occasion any strife. But Austria and Prussia are quarrelling as to which of them shall have the command of the German fleet! It will be said that the German fleet does not exist, that its sessels have been paid off and sold, its one only septum restored, its admiral sent about his business, and the very cause for which it was raised betrayed and forgotten. It matters not. Austria and Prussia are quarrelling which of them shall command that German fleet which never existed but in embryo, and which now does not exist even in that state. If people doubt our assertion let them open the Prussian Gazette, and they will find these as article, or articles, containing most dolo rous complaints of Austria's having got oems an of the committee of the Diet charged wit p h the stairs and the funds of the German fleet. " Prude subscribed the better part of those funds," pleads the Prussian Ga:ette, " whilst now those funds aro to be disposed of by Austria, Bavaria, and Saxony, powers which never gave one single dollar to the purchase and support of the German fleet!" This is certainly very insolent on tho pert it Austria and of the Kings who do her bidding, and very hard upon Prussia. But as no one in all Germany pities Prussia, and as no ono in slat country is of any other opinion than that Prussia richly deserves the daily and hourly humiliation she receives, it is quite idle to complain. Austria and her allies have the majority of the Diet. And Prus sia, since it rejoined the Diet, has been in such a con temptible minority, and been treated with such marked contumely, that in truth the position of • galley slave at Toulon is tolerable and bocourable, compared with that of Prussia at Frankfort. In every standing committee of the Diet, laments the weeping l'rsissiam Gazette, our representative is either left out or left alone. Prussia, front being the first, hex been thrust down to the last, power m Germany. One of these standing committees has for its task to forst a German ZoU sercin, to take Bavaria, Wilrtemberg, Saxony, and Hanover from the Priesian league, and form with the an Austrian one, whirl Prussia would be compelled to enter. Yet even this committee has been put to gether with the usual partiality and Prussia is made no more account of even in the commercial re organisation of Germany than if she were Meek lenburg-Strelitx or Waldeck. We do not mention these facts in order to excite any sympathy for Prussia. No wretched poltroon c‘er more richly deserved the daily kicks which are his appanage. And it is not unfitting retribution that the money which the Hamburgers and Stettiners, the dwellers on the Oiler, the Weser, and the Elbe subscribed for the German fleet, should be spent by Austrian clerks and Bavarian professors. This is not a time for even a Muelitsroriteces to enjoy the castigation and humiliation inflicted by a descendant of Kim t THERESA upon the represen tative of the great FREDERICK. The old cauldron of French mischief has bees once more set upon the fire. Whatever efforts be made to mode rate its heat, that it will boil over upon Europo in some shape or other is too natural to expect. Even were the French inclined to be quiet and to remain at home, the situation and the feelings of the (ice man countries and population on and beyond the Rhine, were alone sufficient to tempt the invader. It is nut one but all German governments that are, not merely disliked, but abhorred. And could Louts NA rot.KoN but put a liberal mask over a proclamation to the Germans, he would be received with open arms, aye, and elected there too by universal suffrage, as the best instrument of vengeance, and the most promising bosom of destruction. With such sentiments in the people, such contin gencies in the future, the Austrian court continues to humiliate Prussia, and to keep the old jealousy rankling wide. We have people amongst us repeat ing the old cant of the Congress of Vienna, and insisting on the necessity of the great powers remaining united. But how can there be union where there is oppression ? Austria, Ba varia, Saxony, Hanover, hold their feet on the neck of Prussia at this moment, and are absolutely strangling her, to deprive her of her old lead in the Zollverein. Who can consider Prussia a sincere ally of the present state of things in Germany ? Who is there but must see that the first prince or man of spirit in Prussia who gets the opportunity of a French alliance, or of any alliance, will rush eagerly to retri bution and vengeance, and to the necessity of re placing his country in that honour, greatness, and respect, which the Great FREDERICK won for it. What King of Prussia would care for territories on the left bank of the Rhine, if he could secure Han over and Saxony in lieu of them? And Hanover and Saxony, by allowing themselves to he thu in struments of Austriar. vengeance and spite against Prussia, have certainly earned and may expect Gum Prussia in return that she should take advantage of the first good opportunity to annihilate them. TIIERE arc certain subjects of grave and scrims interest, on which no familiarity renders the task of commenting other than ungrateful and revolting, and over which we are sorely tempted to suffer the cur tain of silence to hang. We shrink instinctively from the duty of withdrawing its folds, and would willingly find some excuse for the omission. But the consciousness recurs that wo rosy not thus suffer our selfish reluctance to betray us into an abandon ment of a manifest duty. ltcason admonishes us that tender-n,ortlefl-ness is oftentimes the coldest in humanity; and experience daily reiterates the lesson 1 that no good comes in the long run of blinking the truth. - - - Agrarian outrage in its most appalling form has re-appeared after an interval of some few months in Ireland. Not in the country at large nor even gene rally, we are happy to say, but in more districts than one, and under etrumstances sufficiently indicative that the old spirit is still unexoreised, and that the ancient feud between classes is unappeased. It is needless to dwell on instances of minor importance. Yesterday our reports from Ireland told of threats of new assassinations, and of a landlord compelled in self-defence to go to his duties at the Union-house, guarded by men with loaded fire-arms. The assassination of Mr. BATUMI is unhappily but too fresh in the recollection of our readers, and here we have threats of similar atrocities. That unfortunate gentleman was the manager of a con siderable estate in the eoun ty of Monaghan belonging to Lord TEMPLETON. Of the noble proprietor we gather nothing from the local accounts given of the trans action, except that he and his fanuly have habitually been absentees. No personal ill will appears . to have been cherished against him • and regarding his agent it was generally unders tood that there existed amongst the peasantry little of the distrust, and nothing of the enmity that is too widely en tertained towards the class to which Mr. BATE SON belonged. Active, intelligent, and assiduous in the performance of his duty to his employer, he bore the character of being considerate and for bearing in his dealings with the tenantry of the estate over which he practically ruled as master. The property, like most absentee properties, and too ninny others in Ireland, stood much in need of a thorough change of system,—improved culture, remodelled farms, and a different mode of tenure. What Mr. BATMON'S notions upon each or all of these matters , may have been we are not informed. All wo know is, that according to his ideas of what was just and prudent, ho ect about the work of change with confidence and vigour,—that whether truly or erro neously his schemes were supposed to imply a resort to the clearance system—that the limited extent to which eviction and consolidation of hold ings had proceeded was taken only as evidence of a foregone conclusion to apply the same treatment generally—and, finally, that b y . the diffusion of this fatal suspicion the popular feeling of the neighbour hood became silently so poisoned against the uncon scious object of its aversion, that when left upon the highway by his cowardly murderers, no man could be found to raise his 'nuking head or staunch his gushing wounds. It is the mere drivelling of selfish terror or disgust that shouts over the grave of such a victim of law less violence for a bumming cup of legal vengeance. Government and public opinion have too long played the fool in this respect. Let justice be done as peremptorily and as exemplarily . ss is possible. Let all the bloodstained tools of agrarianism be sought for till they are found, by all means, and dealt with as they ought to be. But can anything be more idle, miserable, or unpardonable, than to stiffer the ani mating cause of all this demoralisation and mitt to continue unchecked year after year—not a single effort made to turn aside even a portion of the current of crime, or to dry up this fountain of tears? Year after year, for half a century, have the same symptoms of deep seated disease in the social frame re-appeared, and year after year have they been treated in the same preposterous and paltering way. Commissions of in. quiry have, one after another, pronounced the nature of the malady to be one utterly beyond the reach of police activity or hangman's cord. Yet minister after minister contents himself with fabricating another coil of the ineffectual rope, and adding another hideous blot to the page of abortive attempts at repression. So far from even affecting to grapple with the fearful evil itself, the most recent exploits of legislation have recklessly tended rather to exasperate than allay tho deadly strife between the owners and occupiers of land, by arming :the former with new and capricious powers of tyranny and oppression. In the course of last amnion two sops of this kind were thrown to Irish landlordism at the ex- penile of the tenantry; the protection of a jury . to try suits in ejectment, and the common la w right of yearly tenants to be served with a notice to quit be fore they are turned oat of their dwellings, both the one and the other being rights regarded as sacred in England, these were by government measures taken away in Ireland, in defiance of the warnings and remonstrances of her popular representatives. The effect of such blind and wanton injustice is already seen. Thousands of human beings have, in consequence of these recent encroachments on the security of the occupier, been at this inclement season flung like weeds into the ditcher, or driven to the pestilential workhouse. It matters little whether the evictions in Monaghan were chiefly or exclusively of this description or not. The terror of the new statutoble " crow-bar" had spread fur and wide; and popular terror is proverbially undiscriminating and cruel. In the county in question extermina tion on an almost unexampled scale had within the last few years been carried on by either proprietors, and the instincts of pity and justice in the minds of a peasantry heretofore comparatively Crle and tractable, had been stifled by resent sympathy and self-interested apprehension. In this condition the tempter came unto them and whispered—ye 'iced not surely die! And, lo! the earth reeks once again with innocent blood ; pro paty is depreciated there, and elsewhere, by the revolting crime thus perpetrated—deadlier distrust than ever has been generated between the many and the few—and the readiness of capital to seek invest ment in Ireland is chilled and repelled. We are far from saying that by any single stroke of the legislative wand all this complex mass of evil could be cured. Wo do not think so. But we repeat, what we have often said, that it is the urgent and imperative duty of government to try a different system than the wretched and bar barising one they have hitherto pursued. Its de plorable and disgraceful failure is complete. Every Home Secretary since the Union has invented new coercion bills and flattered his landlord supporters with assurances that they would be found elhatual to secure life and property in Ireland. Hut agra rianism has survived them all, and will survive every scheme of counter-vengeance until the people are made to feel that the laws regulating the occu pancy of land are made in a spirit of justice, equity and right. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY MORNING. Some new hitch occurred last night in the counsels of the government; in consequence of which the promulgation of the constitution has been post poned. Yesterday evening the Prefect of the Seine gave a dinner at the Hotel de Ville to the ministers, the marshals of France. the mayors of the 86 depart ments of France, the generals of the army, and the principal judges of the courts of law. The President of the Republic who was invited, excused himself from attending upon the ground of slight indisposition. At one extremity of the dining.liall, above the seats of honour, was placed the bust of Louis Napoleon, surrounded with flags ornamented with the imperial eagles. Among the company present were the ministers, Marshal Exelmans, Generals Magnan, La wcestine, Lavasseur, Carrelet, Caurobert, Roguet, Cornomuse, and Courant' ; Col. Fleury,.the Presi dent's aide-de-camp ; Cul. Vieyra, the principal staff officer of the National Guard of Paris, and a num ber of naval, municipal, and other offici als. The Prefect of tho Seine, in proposing the health of the President of the Republic, said : To the health of the President of the Republic. To the consolidation of this new power, which 7 millions of Pit [- (rages have ' for the second time, rendered the arbiter of our destinies. To the accomplishment of the most ardent wishes of Louis Napoleon, the glory and prosperity of France. May God grant this noble prize to his courageous and patriotic devotedness—"rice ha po Icon ." M. de Moray, the Minister of the Intecior, replied to the toast as follows : Gentlemen—l cannot listen to these enthusiastic accla mations addressed to Louis Napoleon without deep emo tion, for no one knows better than I do how much lie dc serves them. No one has been in a better position than myself to appreciate his long patience, his self denial, and, finally, his courage and devotion to the salvation of the country. Yes, Monsieur le Prefet, your wishes will be granted ! This power, whose firm establishment you de sire. will consolidate itself. for the finger of Providence is evident in all the events that have been accomplihhed, and Providence does not do things by halves. Now, gen tlemen, I think I speak the sentiments of the prince in thanking you for the seal with which you have come to Paris to bring him the testimony of your sympathies, and of the gratitude of the people, and in his name I drink to the delegates from all the departments of France. These speeches were of course loudly applauded. An official communication to the Patric contra dicts the statement contained in the renstitutionnel of the 3rd instant, concerning the felicitations ad dressed by the Czar to Louis Napoleon. The Presi dent has received neither note nor autograph letter from the Emperor of Russia. I mentioned in a late despatch the four special missions about to be undertaken to foreign courts. It is now arranged that Baraguay d'llilliers is to go to Russia, and d'Hautpoul to Madrid and Lisbon. It is added that Brenier is to visit the Italian courts. It is stated that 900 of the prisoners recently ar rested on political grounds were removed on Satur day morning from the forts of Ilictre and Ivry to be conveyed to Havre. Thence they were to pro ceed to Cherbourg or Brest with a view to their transportation to Cayenne. To the mayors of the capitals of departments and arrondissements, who have received personal in vitations, will dine with the President at the Tuileries. The Cardinal Dupont, Archbishop of Bourges, has addressed a circular to his clergy, desiring them to re cite after the . prayer Donnie &dram far rempuldicons, another, beginning with Domine salrumfoe Luduri- CUM NaptdeOnelli. Ho states that he enjoins this measure in order to conform to the intentions of the President of the Republic. The Petrie states that a methodical census is now being taken, by order of the government, of the working popul.t ion of the department of tho Seine. This census will indicate the different industrial es- tablishments, tho number of persons they employ, and the annual proportion of unoccupied time. The object of it is to have an exact account of the re• sources and the wants of the working classes, in whose welfare the President of the Republic pro fesses to take such a warm and lively interest. The Swiss government has complied with the demands made by France for the expulsion of some French refugees, who published lately an incendiary manifesto at Lausanne. Four new brigades of gendarmes have been esta blished in the Seine Inferieure, by circular of the Minister of War. Admiral Laguerre is appointed to the command of the naval station in the Chinese and Indian seas. General Rapatel, late colonel of the 2nd legion of the national guard of Paris, died on Saturday. M. de Lamertine is about to bring out his periodi cal, the Conaedkr du l'euple, under a new form and title. It is no longer to treat of politics, and will pan in future under the name of "L'Humanite, ou le Nouveau Cenciller du Peuplo." M. Armand Bertin attempts, in the DAats, to de liver a few words on the situation. He says that, whatever the constitution may be, no division of powers any longer exists. The whole power is in the hands of the President. The autocratic republic has been substituted for the parliamentary republic. As he never entertained any particular affection for the latter he will bear its annihilation with philoso phic calm. Baron A. Pasquier, who was principal surgeon to Louis Philippe, and who was by his side at the mo ment when ho let the Place de la Concorde in the hackney-coach, on the 24th of February, has just died. The Official Gazette of the Duchy of Savoy, of the 2nd, announces that by a recent decision of the Pied montese ministry, all decrees and acts of the govern ment are henceforth to be published in Savoy in the French language. PARIS. MONDAY Rams°. The bases of the concession of the l'sris and Lyons Railway have been just settled between the Minister of Public Works and several companies combined in • single company. The principal conditions are as i follows: The concession is to be for 90 years. The companies undertake to pay to the state 115 millions of (ream in three years ; namel 10 millions on the day of eoweemion, 10 millions on the ti ny of taking possession, 20 millions at the end of December, 1852 ; 40 millions at the end of December, 1813; and 35 millions at the end of De cember, 1854. Thu sums due to the state will bear an in terest of ,4 per cent. to the profit of the treasury, to be reckoned from the day of taking pommies, that is, from the day on which the company will enter into enjoyment of the profits of the line, the next amount of which is 8 millions of francs. The state grants to the com pany a guarantee of 4 per cent. interest upon 200 mil 'Was capital. The company is bound to complete within the term of four years the section of the line between Chalons and Lyons, comprising the part traversing the latter city. The expense, comprising the additional materiel wanted, will amount to about 8.3 millions. I'art of the capital necessary will be represented by shares, and part by the bonds of a loan. The combined companies are the following :—l. Rothschild, Hettinger, Baring, Benoit Fould, and ten other great banking houses of l'aris. 2. Barthelemy, and the Geneva banking betimes established at Paris, which founded the rail ways of Orleans and of the Centre. 3. Sellii;re, Charles Laflittc, and Thibaudeau, representing the English company formed by M r . Locke, and several members of the company of the Western Railway. TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, The latter company had solicited the con— cession for the last two years, but was objected to by the National Assembly, as not sufficiently solid. It has been now admitted as one of the combined companies, chiefly at the instances of M. de Morny, who is said to have insisted expressly on this ar rangement, as an indispensable condition of the con cession. The decree of the concession will appear in the Monileur as soon as the new company shall have been constituted, and paid into the treasury the first instalment of ten millions. As soon as the distribu• tion of the capital between the several companies is known you shall hear more un this subject. _ _ _ _ In connection with this subject, I may add, that M. Bartholinny lost no time in presenting himself before M. Fould, as soon as the latter was installed in the ministry of Finance, in order to apply for the concession of the Paris and Lyons Railway. M. de Rothschild only applied several days later. This mark of a want of confidence in the government was noticed with displeasure at the Flytke ; and it was not without some difficulty . , notwithstanding his immense reputation as a capitalist that M. de Roths child was admitted to make one of the grantees of the railway. It is reported that to-day at the Bourse 75fr. pre mium was made on promises of shares in the new line. _ _ _ The promulgation of the constitution has been de layed, owing to the incompleteness of some organic decrees which arc to be appended to it. Count Turgot has addressed a circular to the minis ters representing the French Republic at foreign courts. After dwelling upon the strength given to the government by the enormous number of votes polled in the President's favour, and the consternation and defeat of the party of disorder, the Minister of Foreign Affairs speaks of the services rendered to the whole of Europe by the triumph of Louis Napoleon. It is added that the note contains assurances that the present govern ment has no intention of deviating from the princi ples of foreign policy observed by France hitherto, but I believe that these assurances arc vague, and bear no positive construction. I am informed to-day that a serious difference lhas broken out between the President and his Minister of Finance, M. Achillc Fould. The main ground of disagreement is a diametrical opposition of opinion on the conversion of the Five per Cents., which is supported by M. Fould with much warmth. You may remember how much noise was recently made owing to the announcement in the Constitutionnd of an impending conversion of this Itente. It appears that M. 'hunt, one of the reilacteurs of that journal, has been obliged to retire, merely from his having written the article in question. Other sources of disagreement between Louis Napoleon and his Minister of Finance are the socialist schemes entertained by the former for the benefit of the working classes. I have already dwelt upon these, and upon the financial measures contemplated in reference to them. All these appear to meet with disapprobation from the Minister of Finance, who is not troubled with any such philanthropic crotchets. It is said that the ministry of Public Instruction will be suppressed. It is reported this evening that the majority of the political refugees now in London intend to go to America, and that the British government has been requested by foreign powers to use its influence to obtain grants of land for the emigrants. Two medals, commemorative of the events of De cember, are to be struck at the Mint. One by M. Clayranl has on the fats/ a bust of the President, and on the reverse a figure of Renown, bearing the num ber of affirmative votes obtnined on Dee. 21, with these words for a legend, l'ost 'spoil rot Dci. The other, intended to commemorate the coup dant of Dec. 2, is by M. Cagiat, the artist who designed the medal of 1 kr. 10, IM4B. The mayor of Rotation-centre (Cite d'Or) has been arrested upon the charge of having attempted to break open the ballot-box of his commune at the election of 20th and 21st December. The accounts do not state upon which side of the election tf is flagrant attempt was made. It will be interesting to inquire. The 'fours and Nantes railway has made many re ductions in its warehouses, and it is said that several engineers will be discharged. At the Bourse the .5 per Cents. rose :We., and closed at 105.10, the Three per Cents. rose 50, closing at 70.90. Railways were generally firm. Orleans rose 20f. Havre, 22.50. Northern, 17.30, but Marseilles and Bordeuax fell 3f. (room OCCASIONAL COIIIIESPONDENTI PARIS, lAN. 4. The President is doing all in his power to excite the people in his favour, but in vain. They have sullenly elected him, and they as sullenly leave him to his fate. Never was obstinacy like it. They refuse to be entertained, provoked, or even interested. They prefer a wise passiveness. He begs them re joice, and they tell him there is no occasion ; he prays them to illuminate, and they reply that they cant aitord it. He implores them to cry Vire No ',aeon, and they tell him to blow his own trumpet. He commands their archbishop to pronounce a Te Drum, and the good man says ho does that every day. Ho distributes money to the poor, and they receive it as their own. He goes to the Palace of the Tuileries, and finds it cold as La Morgue. He steals into the Champs-Elysees, and the crowd laugh at him. He touches his hat, and is told that it is his uncle's. Ho beckons to the people, and is followed only by his suite and his shadow. The only men who pronounce his name aloud are those who sell his brazen image. And yet, despite all this, his hireling journals assert that at every step of his course he is received with enthusiasm. I have already written you about his reception on the Ist of January ; and extensive inquiries made since confirm tho account in every particular. Never before was a pc so universally condemned as a farce. Tho only friendly sign of tho day was the charitable fog, which concealed his person from sight, and wrapped the procession in a shroud. ' Yesterday being the anniversary of Saint Gene vieve, it was anticipated by many, and had even been announced in the journals, that the transposition and perversion of the Pantheon into a catholic church would be accomplished. But it seems the event is considered one of far too great importance to be has tened. However, the anniversary was celebrated all the same, and the unique little church of Saint Eti enne du Mont, situated just by the side of the Pan theon, and containing the tomb of the worthy shep herdess and saint, was the scene of more or less in terest all day. The grand square in front was filled with booths, and presented the appearance of a country fair. The chief articles on sale, however, were such as are incident to the catholic worship. There were crucifixes, rosaries, crosses, all kinds of sacred pictures, no end of beads, and areat variety of consecrated jewellery (warranted t o be pure copper or tin, as the case might be), and por traits, busts, and statuettes of Saint Genevieve with out limit. Crowds of little boys and girls pressed round me, and urged that I should buy a little blue. covered pamphlet containing the life of the saint, on the ground that my so doing would be converted by God into a mutual blessing. I bought one of them (on that understanding) and found it to be one of the most trashy bits of superstition and im posture which I had ever seen. On inquiring if it was sold authoritatively, I was answered in the I affirmative. In fact it was offered to me in the church itself, which was turned into a warehouse. On entering the building, and after passing sorrow fully by a decrepid old man, whose duty it has been for many years to hold out a moist dirty-looking brush to all who approach him, and I found the aisles crowded with women, most of them of the very poorest class, and all making their little pil grimage to Saint Genevieve's tomb. Nearly all of them had purchased little candles of a priest on the premises, with the intention of placing them on tho tomb as a religious offering. Others were buying trinkets of various kinds at a stand near one or the altars, and getting another priest to bless them, and rub them against the tomb, in order that they might receive a sacred influence, and be useful hereafter to keep off evil spirits. Joining the procession, though without purchasing candle or trinket—armed in fact only with the blue covered pamphlet—l approached the sacred monument, which I found to be a large stone coffin, smooth with age, and literally soiled with the con stant touch of priesthood. It was enclosed in an iron railing, all the points of which were filled with burning candles: in fact the coffin itself was all on fire with them. Several priests stood by to assist in sticking on the candles, and consecrating the trinkets. That such a scene could take place in the 52nd year of the 19th century, seemed to me incredible ; but after witnessing it with my own eyes, and hearing the solemn jargon which accompanied it with my own cars, I could better understand how 7,500,0199 Frenchmen had just voted fur Louis Nspoleun Bona 'lPartu• SPAIN. MADRID. Dec. 31. The Queen will resume shortly her official duties, and affix the sign manual to decrees. Her Majesty will receive, on Sunday, the message of the progressista deputies, who protest against the adopt of certain measures or the government, without having con sulted the Cortes. fhe Gaulle of to-day publishes the receipts of the revenue for the month of November, I s•il. The re venue has fallen off about nix millions in comparing it with the receipts of the same month in DCA, and about seven millions lean than the estimates. The Custom-house receipts have presented the most re markable diminution, viz., J91,Y,i11 reals. The only contribution, the direct tuxes, which cannot be escaped from, and which press hardest, are the only ones which present un increase. 1852. PORTUGAL. Dates from Lisbon to the 24th ult., state that the Cortes had made considerable progress towards their legal constitution. The House of I k•puties, with SO members, had proceeded to the election of three eom mittees, to report upon the electoral proems of the different districts, and it was expected the first committee's report would be presented at the sitting of the 26th : it will include the Cubrulista elections for Villa Real, whick were likely to he annulled, and against which the Count Villa ]teal (Don Fernando) had laid 2 documents before the Chambers. The ultra progressista deputies appeared desirous to get M. Fonseca Magalhaeus out of the ministry, with the view, no doubt, of more readily bending the hike of Saldanha to their plans; but it was understood no alteration would be made in the cabinet, nor would any new ministers be installed in the two vacant portfolios, until after the debate upon the replies to the Queen's sptsteh. In the peers the government con templated the nomination of a new batch of 8 to 10, not only to secure a majority, but the attendance of sufficient members for the despatch of public bu siness. Although the administrative section of the Council of State had declined to alter its report in the case of Mrs. Croft's refused registration of dowry, in opposition to the sentence of the Judicature, there appears no doubt the government was preparing a counter report to accompany a royal decree, grant ing that registration, in contimmity with the claims of the British government, and the generally ac knowledged justice of the case. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. Our Roman correspondent, writing on the 31st December, informs us that two Roman gentlemen had been arrested on the evening of the 27th, whilst entering the British consulate, to dine with Mr. Freeborn. The abirri had been stopping and searching ladies in the streets, amongst whom was the wife of Colonel Galati, of the Roman legion. Iler Majesty's steam-corvette Firebrand arrived at Civita Vecchia ou the 28th, with Lord Bibblesdale on hoard. Monsignor Savelli, Minister of the Interior, was about to proceed on a mission from the Pope to Louis Napoleon. lie was to be succeeded by Mon signor Amici in his ministry. GERMANY. The Germanic Diet, in its sitting of the 31st ult., decided on the suppression and sale of the federal Heet. On this occasion Austria proposed to form the German navy in three divisions, to be commanded respectively by Austrians, Prussians, and Germans of other states. Prussia opposed this arrange ment when the above final resolution was adopted. Prussia has declared her readiness to undertake the support of the fleet for one month. Tho resignation of the Prussian Minister of War, ' General von Stockhausen, sent in some time since, was accepted by the King on the Ist. The business of the ministry is for the present conducted by the Director of the Department, General von Wangen heim. It is probable the new War Minister will be General Hahn, at present commanding a division in the Rhine provinces. General Hahn commanded the Prussian corps in Holstein in 1849, and is a very able officer. The Wiener kitting of January Ist contains the following decrees of the Emperor of Austria (the sub stance of which appeared in yesterday's Express). It will be seen that whereas the provisions of the consti tution were cancelled by the imperial edict of August 20, 1851, the last principles of political right con ceded by the constitution are now disavowed. There now exists no political right in the empire. The first of these decrees annuls the constitution in the fol lowing words : We, Franz Joseph 1., by the grace of God, Emperor of Austria, &c., . . . In pursuance of our ordinance of 20th August, lgil, the constitution promulgated by the patent of March 4,1819, has been submitted to a thorough examination by our ministry and our imperial council. Since, according to the results of this investigation, the said constitution neither agrees in its fundamental princi ples with the situation of the Austrian imperial state, uor is capable of execution in the totality of its provisions, we find ourselves, alter elisions consideration of all the facts, com pelled by our duty as regent hereby to declare the said con stitution of March 4, 1849 null and void. The equality of all subjects before the law, as well as the abolition of peasant service and bondage, and the duties formerly connected therewith (for which compensation has been adjudged to feudal proprietors), is expressly con firmed. • In order to be able to attain to those institutions, which are calculated to satisfy the requirements of our different peoples, and to fulfil the conditions of the welfare of all classes of the same, and in order also to fortify our govern ment, and secure the unity and power of our state, we shall abide in the path of experience, provisig the exact necessities of the empire, and from time to time shall issue suitable organic laws. Upon the ground of these considerations, we have, after hearing the counsel of our ministry and lteichsrath, resolved upon a series of principles as the basis of these organic laws, and have commanded that these be made public without delay, and that also their application in practice may be realised as early aa possible. The successive special laws will contain the more particu lar provisions and institutions : until these issue, the laws now existing will be binding. Given this 31st day of December, 1861, &c., (Signed) lAA NZ JOSEPH. F. SCHWARZ EN /MHO. RANSONN IT, The second, it will be seen, sets aside the funda mental rights : We, Frans Joseph, &e. In the patent of March 4, 1849, a number of specific political rights were announced and attributed to the inha bitants of the archduchy of Austria, above and below the Ems, of Salzburg, Styria, Illyria, Carinthia, Carniolia, Tyrol, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Galicia, Bnkovina, Dalmatia, &e. These, with the scheme of a constitution published at the same date, have been subjected to a care ful consideration. In consequence of reason" becomo known to us upon hearing the opinions of our ministers and our Mt iclisrath, we have seen tit to annul the mid patent of March 4, 1819, and with it the fundamental rights then attributed to the inhabitants or the crown lands aforesaid. In so far as special alterations have not already ben made in the separate heads of that enumeration oi rights we reserve to ourselves the liberty to regulate the same by means ef particular laws. We declare, however, expressly by the present patent, that we will uphold and protect every lawfully recognised ecclesiastical and religious society, in the enjoyment of the right of public worship, as well as in the administration of its interior affairs ; and further, in the unmolested posses sion of its institutions for carrying out worship, instruction, and benevolence, always supposing them to be conformable Ito the laws of the empire. Given, &c., at Vienna, Dec. 31, The subjoined document is an appendix of prin ciples upon which a subsequent series of organic laws is to be framed : it will be observed that trial by jury• is utterly abolished. FUNDAMENTAL. PRINCIPLFA OF TILE FUTURE OROANIC INSTITUTIONS OF THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE. The territories united, whether under ancient, historical, or modern titles, with the Austrian imperial states, form the inseparable elements of the Austrian imperial heredi tary monarchy. The phrase " crown-lands" shall be employed in official documents only as a general expression: when a particular territory is designated, the proper name of the same ebyg invariably be expressed. The existing circumscriptions of the crown lands shag b e observed, except so fur ea admiuistrative ft./60111/ necessary a de% iotion from this rule. In each crown-land, vial district administration s (lundesftirstliche ihairksainter) shall lie estahli f h t d, s e nix/ be thought fit, 3,r1,1 within the 66010 the af.tion or the various branches of udiuiuistration shall be us far as poi,eibi e united. Above the district boards, boards of circles (Kreisbehir. den) will be established for administtutive purivises. territorial extent of these will be fixed with regard both to fernier divisions and prest nt In the smaller crown-lent., as generally where no nee, city exists for establisbiug the boards of circles, they will l ; dispensed with. The boards of circles are subordinated to the governor Of the crown-laud (see next article), and hurt functions partly supervisory and partly administrative. Above the boards of circle* are placed in every erowipl s , k i the viceroyalty (stattlialterei), and the Land ...chef (, .Id . of the province). The function" Lel. tiging to tla. royalty, the position!rinil p were of the Loolesch..f, and l relation to the supreme authority, will be defined by p, r . ticular regulations. The existing orrts-gemeinde (commune %) will he continued as sileh, excepting is Cam s where their union i. mat t r e cd especially necessary or desirable. In the organisation of orrlngtmelnde, the distinction lx tween rural and city communes is to be wept in u• W. lvo t . , cularly the character of the hitter, as royal or prinerly towns or cities. The election of a president and acting committee of the commune will take place according to regulations lieri-Jo r to he Th e an e w titl e 4 the pr, 111 that which has heretofore been 11,041 in each crown land. functions of the president and committee will be limit o is the affairs of the commune They will, however, be Irsitol to render all required co.uperatiou in niore public air., when called upon so to do by the superior courts. (Here follow a number of minute regulations for the government of parish,' and tither small eommunitie..) The publication of the official procet dings of elifinp ing , is forbidden. The communis are subj. chit inuiraliattiv •r the district hoards. According to these prisicip:e“ a cubic organisation is to be worked out for every te , rr.• lain!. In the application of these principles, it must alway. I N a rule to concede the gnettest amount of influence to the greatest interests. In the lectiou of communal lmnel• et and committee, as in communal allvirs generally, hello is to be secured to the landed proprietor its proporteie ;., his property within the COIIIIIIIIIIV, and to his rating to taxes; to the manor:whirl:4r and emninereisl nrtere••. proportion to the collective property ; and particulate-1v ciric communes, to the proprietor, of house., and aiu r. wards a decisive superiority must be aseurvil to the twee. rations exivtiag for spiritual and material purposes. In the Lennie:Ma Venetian liinglum, the existing eim. mural divisiniti will he kept up and improved. The judicial obey will lei exerrised throughout thee. by the member* of the courts, according to the exista4 laws, in the mane of his imperial re yid and apv.;e:.c majesty : The judges and officers of jastiee are to be treated, is respect of their personal conduct, acrording to the preotip tions valid for the other °Meer* of the .Cute, with rei,erva tion of their independence iu the lawful ex,•rcise of thou ofßee. The separation of the administration of justice from merely ministerial duties shall prevail in the cells wiatc tc.• Annals, and in the courts of second and third Bt, .dice, air) in the courts of first instane , in Lombardy, and nhenwir else it shall be found netcs4ary. Elsewhere, judicial and administratiTc functions will ho united in courts of first Instance. In criminal cases which come before the collegiate tours sitting ris tribunals of tint instance, woe...a-dings take plan: by indictment, the accused is providtd with an adrocat., and the final proceedings are oral. The procretlings are not public, but the accused has the right of giving admission to a deft:lite number of his friewh as spectators during the oral prucredhigs in the court of first instance. The public prosecutor present.; in.Pchatents. Juries are dispensed with. In the courts of first and a.•cond instance, the procectliint are conducted wily in writing. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. The Peninsular Company's steamer Euxine, Cap. tam It. W. Evans, arrived at Southampton this morning. The Montrose steamer, which left Southampton with the Peninsular mail on the 17th ult., having (as stated elsewhere) broken down while going into Cadiz, was unable to proceed to Gibraltar, and her Gibraltar mail was consequently wet on in a Spanish government steamer in charge of Lieutenant Inglis, the Admiralt agent of the Montrose. / ieutenant Inglis, has arrived home in the Euxine, in charge of a mail from Gib raltar only. The cargo of the Montrose will be taken on to Gibraltar in the next outward packet. Amongst the cargo of the Euxine is specie to the value of 121,000/. from Constantinople. Th e Entine left Gibraltar on the 31st tat., and came direct to Southampton. COLONIAL. CANADA. A letter, dated Quebec, Ike. 19, says: THE ELECTION EET I: ItNS received up to this date show an immense majority in former of the administration. This majority, however, may be materially diminished, or lust altogether during the first week of the session. The Clear Grits, who have returned a fuir proportion of members is the west, will certainly go into opposition if the clergy reserve question be trilled with ; nod Cauch on and the Roman catholic church party in Lower Canada are deter mined to oppose any infringement on the rights of the established church of England. Among the now members who arc likely to take en ac tive port in the business of legislation and political warfais are, George Brown, editor of the 'Toronto Wihe, member fur Huron ; Hon. Commissioner Itulph, fur Norfolk; Mr. Rose, for Hondas; Mr. Cl,apaia, on the seignorial interest, for Katnourasko; Mr. Tessier, Quebec advocate, for Port. ueuf; Mr. Gamble, over Mr. Price, late commissioner of crown lands, for the First !tiding of York ; Mr. Poulin, a red-hut republican, for Renville ; Mr. Crawlerl, a mer chant of good standing, for Brockville &c. Of the old members, whose names are familiar to the pubic, !khan. Ilincks, Chauveau, Richards, Badgeley, Cauchon, Boulton of Toronto, W. L. Al•Kenzir, M. Cameron, Colonel Prince, Sir Allan M'Nnh, Chabot, Merritt, &c., have retained their seats. Messrs. Baldwin, yayley (logy, Price, Walton of Norfolk (onto chief justice of Newfoundland), Chrysler, &c., have lost their eb-ctions : their eon hits set for ever. fitz ANNUAL. TIMBER CIRCULARS have just been pub lished, and show a very satisfactory state of trade. Messrs. Wood and Petry say:—" An increased trade has been car ried on in this branch of our exports, awl in the face of con tinued high prices for white pine, the export has exceeda that of previous years by a very considerable quantity. The increased demand for white pine is partly attributable te the extensive railway contracts made in Great The trade in red pine has been more limited this PC.1.1 Manta! years past, having sustained a gradual lanai; off sine, 1846." The stock of oak awl elm wintering oe, r at Quebec is considerably larger than that of last year. The deal trade has been unusually active during the pad season, and re munerative prices have ruled throughout. Messrs. !food and Petry add:—" The demand tOr square timber it the United States market, though counderable, ha been checked by the prevailing high prices; be the quantity shipped, together with sawn lamb'[ nearly equals the whole export of white pine from Quebec.' From the comparative statement of the supply and export of lumber for the years 1847, 1818, 1849, 1810, and 1851. published by the same firm, it appears that the supply al white pine during the past season has antaunted 15,417,815 feet, and the export 1.1,911,600 feet, being nearly 3.000,000 feet more than the export of east year, and 4,600,001) more than that of 1819. The diminution in red pine is only 100,090 feet on last year's export, and 600,000 feet on that of 1519. The export of deals has de creased about 800,000 standard from that of previous yens. The arrivals and tonnage at the part of Quebec show Is encouraging increase. They are as follows : Vessels. Tons. 1847 1848 1819 1860 1861 It is expected that the increase will be much larger next year. The New York Ilemlfl has published a correspondence between flit L. Bulwer, Mr. Webster, and Lord Elgin, as the subject of reciprocity between the States and Canada !The governor-general seems to threaten the imposition of s system of dittrrential duties in favour of the St. Lawn-no route, and the closing of the Canadian canals to Americas vessels, if some measure of reciprocity is not adopted b 1 Congress. It is generally believed here that while thus retaliatory measures would be most acceptable to the cities of Quebec and Montreal, and while no doubt the FNMA 1 manufacturers would be delighted by our pursuing such & policy, the cogriun•sense free-trade principles of upper Canada would never permit the adoption of such a pro' teetive system. The contracted views of the United Stater legislators on the subject of trade may possibly defer reef procity fur a season, or even refuse it altogether, but it world hardly compensate us for the disappointment to reduce, is mere spite, the revenue of our canals to a nominal figure. sal impose a tax on the retailers and coueumers in upper Canada of 20 or 21 per cent. The • death of Chief Justice Chipman, of New Brunawick, which occurred a few dap ago, is a melancholy event. Though not a jut isconsult of the first rank, he lead ably tilled the highest post in th judiciary of his province for many years. lie was poss.— , of immense wealth, and left by het will 4,0001. to St. Jolca • church, 10,000/. to the Diocesan Church Society, and 4c" to the Madras school. The legislature of Now DIMIISIVICI is to meet about the middle of January. MR. ROEBUCK, M.P.— We regret to learn that ON member, Mr. Roebuck, is labouring under rather seem indisposition.—Sheffield Indepentioit. The folio poudent it is a cc; u Kossuth there is MU: world on t would seem Christianiti that gov err of the sous former of tion, who b power whit of confusio true conditi and its car with a mi. ties who g light. The Que, park this ink The Princ children, too The Couni visited her N Lord Joh' Richmond-y TI Iti hl pool. Dospatche from the go . Other North Mired from and no dc faction. English c