The Express. — London, England, 1851-05-26 00:00:00

( 1 1 I 1 : I ! 11 H 1 , ti i 1.1 SHIP BILEWERY, MERTIIYR TIDFIL, ave.riaehter. — To be LET a LEASE, by Mr. MASON. sport image .tly ober., 0..ar.. with low .1 1 peareasion, a coraptat anti exteorlee Kahle CUT, witb ea nee:lest easily reerfewee i. ....... , a. be-baYe. and one heer.huvre, and Si !may workmen.' a. • vh-ered, al, n erpv:r. tlearatq .iterate at Xeribyr 111111. if t replevy!! .et, t`to brewery ;emir! sae miaow., w i t h the moth 0( Atlitl.l n. et be selbolued by semi et to tn.. torbet maw! bbl.ter. Toe plot Yid atone.. exert, awl Wyk. to b• rive by solution, ea 1 the propeietore Loevelre.tlfenatere aaA deed. my be Isargas;; j 0 {ere acme err-+ T + rimy loalm-tribrl ay And;,,EL —For &ether pylvel tea, 1,11 .0 etre the prpnrorea, stably valve brewery; sad to Mr. )1 %MO, brewery Wet 7S, baultbbeAry, Lades. Zitt earortos. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A A, reed .f " 71e Ziprre," *attaining same ennirß•e (incite," N pabaabsd every Tanday nal Friday sight, 112 utue - - - - for 1,4. . ' Ashes .1. "ten , lategaail to "The Ittneme," tgadoe Evening piper, nine ha it the tate. 141. Douversa-igireet, by Two o'clock ea the day al pubautnet. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDOR. Ten D.,-11nrelox.14h. Oho Afteroooo, la h., 2:.. I...aa,m—Magsaag. Ilk. 50.. Afteroomo, 12h. O. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 26. Wr. are sick of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, and of the oceans of puerility and twaddle which it has prowl the eYelbe of inundating the world withal. Nut but the law proposed is a just, a lenient, and a new eery one. hut had the dith-rent parties in par liameut kugued in order to weary the country out of its v-al, and disgust it with all attempts of the legislature to deal with religious intolerance or sacer dotal asauteptiou, they could nut have devised their tfhats with more RUMMY, to what we cannot but consider an untoward result. There is ti 'thing so thoroughly vmservative as the fact of the C•Aintry looking towards the legislature with Nvmpittity and respect, which' must be the MC on boiling its own thonghts and feelings echoed there, its own roars participated in. its own wishes carried out, and all with the superior talent, earnest- Hiss, oath polititul wisdom to he ex/meted in a body of men who have made public affairs their pro fession. We ngn t to say that the people of England have not found in the flow* of Commonttany one of there things. Frowds awl tommunities have been moved in au parts of the enuntry, and all chores of society. by the papal aggression, yet nut one of these in dignant omimunitits has found any adequate ex prroitio or -dist:teflon of th-ir feelings in the MOM of Commte:s. As to the conservatives, who set up for sueh on:veined champions of the church., they have done not 1. but mar and olstruet the defence of that church, oh+ cling to everything practical, recommend ing ever) thing that WWI vague and wild. coquetting and manouvring with the moat unscrupulous servitors of Wis Est vs and Mutsu., and displaying them. I. Ives in the light of misehievote, boy., rather than of either stattsmen or religionists. As to the Pechter, they are mere CoAplatirri ; their whole and wile aim 1s to govern, to he in place; and their anxiety is to esehew and avoid all that may give them trouble in place. Add to this, the l'uaeyite tendencies of the younger meutbers of the party: the prudence of the with the an tiquated piety of the other, have merely combined to prodare In notable political nostrum, that high chord, as.atnption should in all things be favoured, nod that, even in the shape of catholicism, it is pre ferable to liberal and lay christianity. As to mini tern, in thew days of subdivision of junks, what an they do but tack, and conciliate, and steer latween difficaltiot and objections, t. nn with carrying thou• main points of repression. which ull tlic• chicanery of !metal. in °inanition or sensioniposition durst not refine ; although, all, even to the representativot of the most protestant rommu nitiot, um really anxious and active to throw out a hill that tusts up the slightest iambic &fume of the prottstunt church against the We could lent• understood very gnat and various titijettions to the ministerial plan. We could have undenitoml the old church school indignant at papal nArnution, repentant even of emancipation, and Curer to mature protestant ascendancy to the full. Again, we could understand that a tarty bieh under consisted of priet huh and ennimon stost• twits. though sinee his death it has come' merely to contii.t of imprarticable and mystic - we could understand this party, entering completely. minutely, and dett nninately, into the relitt s tweet, the Mate awl the catholies und g the polioas pratoical pliticians by the attempt. Instead of Cod, we find a nacre in to papa aggro,- $1,511, suggodtsl by l'useyite views. and this initil feresei: made the foundation for the adoption of a Al is-at Ittewts police, it Saturnian alienation from all religious and steenit al matters. We are startled to find men calling themselves turies and professing to lie administrators, when they belie the first principle of the one. umd shirk the first duties of the other. 11ith respect to the real American school, and to the men who consistently with all their other prin ciples of policy maintain that the state should ignore all churches, we must admit, that there is no con :.uliction or hisincerity, or security in the line they adopt. and the rules they adopt. It is quite intel ligible. and plain, and Xtruightrorward, and forms no small dithrulty with the whigs. lint these are not the sentiments, nor the desires of the Iwo* of England. •cter the people may he ',might to aequitsce therein from disgust and despair of the legislature agreeing upon or adopting any nwoture that is not u mom t..rch of discord when agitated. and a nullity „hen It' trump the conduct of parties we tarn to the utrorta of individuals, we are at a hre, to find any one speaker, who u ith sincerity, talent, power. and worth. so aks the feelings of any large body of Engli•linten. We know right well what the country squire and the country parson think upon this subject. Who in porlianient carcases their thoughts ? Lord Si %N -EW( Ile has treated the whole concern us aeck light. Mr. IhsgxEit ? Need we answer? Sir JANE:. lix%littl? Would he find an echo from before tiny hustings in England Surely on such a subject Mr. lii..6.cumn would pour forth such deep eonvietinn as intuit. even if erroneous, sommind respect. But no. Mr. 01..%theroxes oratorical effort could not mount above a Jesuit's and party inantruvrc. If rhumb, and squireerehs, end moversitc. have then gone u iimpresented. whi•re have the middle, the citizen religious class, found a spoke.nim ? We should have export ted from several representatives of this class sons:thug; above mere party eonsideraf , Ktonething superior to either backing or backbiting the whigs. is.methirig worthy of our middle class, of it+ deep feelings. its now educated intellect. With pro found regret we have to remark that the English religious middle class has on this question been uiteri) unrepresented in pirlianwnt. 'l'll.'ll there are many communities of liberal and enlightened and unnionkish catholic.. Where have liven heard their voice,l? Yet of what weight and worth might they have been! And not even this class of Roman eatholics, but of the even bigoted and sincere worshippers of papal saeerdotal6m, them have been a dearth. The fight has been left to a few protestant o.•ol,,ltieri, men picked up by 11'6E- %.1. or enlisted and drilled by NUM And whilst the Church of Oxford has no plainer exponent Omit the amphibious oExusroNE, the Church of Rome has no divine doctor to be its champion an exponent save Mr. IlExxot.us! At present, what with the English lawyens on one side. who have rendered the question utterly unintel ligible by their contradictions and refining. and verbal tnaddlings, and *HALL'/ pack of beagles on the other. !ha debate on the Ecclesiastical Bill is suite is•yond either the taste or patience of any rational man to witness. In ancient Rome when man or thing became thoroughly worthless and utterly con thinned. the victim was flung to the animals in the circus to tear as they listed—he was Um aqx I.e. as the French express it. And this prweisely roma the MIC with the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Tut: facts already discloged on the (ga p Cross in , I 'est indicate how eompletely. even under the direction of the very best general rules and orders. the safety of u train and the lives'and limbs of all it t,ndains may be at the mercy of careless, indilfereut, and ill-informed servants; thereby proving how in dispensable it is that the general ehanwter of railway services should he improved and elevated. The habitsof the 1:1141ish peoplerrgnire great six ed. a large number of trains, and the utmost regularity and precision iu their progre-s, iu railo ay trart Without such accommodation they wilfaot be Ratin fied ; and, to furnish them in the higlkest perfection accompanied with the greatest salt V, requires, we are persuaded, in all departments, down to the very lowest, a degree of intelligent*, respeetability, re sponsibility, and self-respect on the part of railway servants, such as, it is very apparent, has not yet i been reached : mainly, puhaps, fyr this "ale treason. that the number of persons competently edu ! rated is very far short of the great and increasing i demand fur them, for in no condition of life is there any superabundance of good men. No doubt the primary cause of this fatality is to be found in starting a luggage train five minutes after an express train from 1./erby; that is, the collision could not have occurred if this qui( k succession of trains had not been going on ; therefore, it may bo ' granted the administration of the Midlands Company is so far blameable. But, to press that remote con nexion against the company on the present occasion, to the exclusion of other considerations, is to over look the actual and immediate causes of the acci dent, and, with them, what is most important to the public. As usual, those causes are apparently of a complex character; but apparently only. The express train ' started twenty minutes late ; being, of course, de pendent on the southern train coming in ; and that delay in leaving Derby is said to have been habitual. For, states THOMPSON, its guard, '• we are gene- rally late at Chesterfield, sometimes half an hour— occasionally more :" and for a delay in the arrival at ; that station caused by the starting at Derby, it is iteipsusible to fine the engine driver, unlesi it were increased en route to Chesterfield. But concurrently with this habitual delay in the arrival of tho express at that station, we have the luggage train us habitually arriving there '2O or 2•'l minutes ' before it is due, in order that the guard may have ample time to do easily what is to be done there without the luggage being behind time in leaving! ' again. Thus we have a delay of half an boor its ' ! the express reaching Chesterfield. and an arrival by' ' the luggage there of nearly half an hour before it us due; and, w'eile the delay is. app trendy, mrrvoid• able. the pre•-arrival is obvionaly a breach of all rule by the servants of the luggage train. Just mark how this disregard of rule operated on the evening of Monday, the 19th. The luggage ` train started five minutes utter the express; that is at 9.30. At the junction it was only five minutes behind the express; so also at Helper; so too at Wingfield; and at Clay Cross, notwithstanding it had not started until 29 minutes after its usual hour,' it was there, according to Me its TI ANT the guard, six minutes before time. Who eau wonder that travel ling and tearing away at this rate, keeping at the tail of the express trails in this way, the luggage train should have run into it? Here, then, we have the servants of the company, to save themselves trouble at Chesterfield; to enable themselves to do that slowly and deliberately and easily there which otherwise they might have to do hurriedly, and with additional help, disre;,mrding every rule of luggage train travelling; and, by such disregard, carrying death, and destruction, and dismay before• them. Can there be stronger evidence of what we will not say is NMc•, but what, at all events, is II great want of rail way service —vie., superior men? Probably the guard of the express train might have done more in the way of signalling the stoppage ; mi••ht have run further back with his signal', than lie did; but it seems very improbable that any exertions he could have made, or any acti vity he might have displayed, could have arrested the progress of this terrible luggage train going with its sixteen vans at a greater than express rate, and resolved to be at Chesterfield, as usual, half un hour before its time. If further evidence he needed, we have it in the difference of opinion in the guard and driver of the luggage train a to which of the two is responsible fur the speed of the train. The guard says the driver; and the driver says the guard. Now, with a rail way service properly constituted, such as that of the Sappers and Miners, or the linyul Engineers, this dispute could nut occur. Fur competent per sons will nut engage in dutie s that are not precisely, plainly, and unmistakeably de fined; and until railway services are conducted on something like military principles this distinctness of responsibility cannot be attained: but when at tained, those services will become industrial schools of the greatest value to the country; and in the way of the organisation of labour be worth all Louis ISLAM'S nonsensical schemes. The excuse for this diversity of opinion is, that there was nu rule on the point ; and this apology alopeurs so far to be justified by the extraor ' dinary statement of the superintendent of the work ing of the goods trains at Derby; for, according to him, „ the printed rules do not apply to the goods trains. and there arc no other rules.' This is so in enslible, that we must wait for further testimony before we venture to draw any int'erenee frim it; suffice it, therefore, for to-day, to draw public atten tion to a point on which better explanation must be given at the inquest, to be resumed this morning. FRANCE. PARIS, SATI'RDAT EVENING. The matter of greatest importance to which I can call your attention to-day. is the debate which has taken place in the bureaux on the proposition ofMM. Moulin and Morin. In the course of this the notable men of each truly have not only revealed n glimpse of their inward leanings on the great question of the day; but the leading representatives of the factions of the majority have shown that their views are com pletely incompatible, notwithstanding th:.• resolution of the three clubs to present an identical motion. Generally the motion of Morin was aidently sup ported by the Bonairartists. who reckon, no doubt. by means of agitating the country on revision, to ripen the public feeling for a eqop d', tot. But it was coldly reeinved by the Orleanists, and rejected by the ultra legitimists. I shall pmeced to give you the leading opinions ex in the bureaux. It has been agreed on al hands that allowing the motion on the revision to be renewed monthly would keep up an intolerable state of exeitt :tient. both in the Assembly and out of doors. On the other hand, the interval of six months imposed by the rules of the house has been thought generally too long. MM. Moulin. 1 Bei-ryes% and other moderate men of different parties, hate therefore proposed the middle term of three months. which is now op plied by the rules in the cuss of motions, re plied after the taking into consideration. M. Base, who generally expresses the opinions of M. Thiers, said that the proposition of M. Morin would dero gate from the dignity of the parliament. In his opinion no motion on revision ought to be repeated. unless there remained time enough Isettteen its pre ; scotatiim and the month of May, 15i.12 to hold the three deliberations laid down by the 111th article of the constitution. Jules de Lasteyrie, de lierdrel, Itandot. Deseze. Charatnatile, names which include Orleanism, legitimacy, and detnoemey, all opposed the motion. The republicans scouted it on the ground of the ferment in which the frequent renewal of the discussion would keep the country to the great detriment of the industrious classes. General Ctvaignac took the occasion to reproduce his favourite theory that even the national sovereignty has its bounds. There werecertain prin ciples. according to him. which must remain fixed axioms of government. unrentoveable by any Assem bly. If a socialist Assembly abolished the right of property no one would be bound by such an enact ment. The abolition of universal suffrage was a similar case. Ile and his friends would defend these principles at the peril of their lives. Royalist fictions would attempt in vain to extinguish the rights of citizens by appealing to the national sovereignty; the station could never strip itself of the great rights proclaimed by the revolution. M. de Broglie withdrew a veil from the views of his Morin by showing that the p ro p er a i m o f Morin's motion was to enable the country to proceed to the election of a constituent Assembly be fore the winter, in ease after a first rejection the mo tion for the revision should be oarritsl when brought forward the second time. This notion of the dissolu tion of the Assembly before the tern fixed by the constitution excited a very animated debate. and was declared by M. Vesin, an ultra-leOtimist notable, to be clean against the law. M. Larnbit, in another bureau. became the exponent of the pure Bona partist views. lie was only fora partial revision. A constituent would bocome a convention: and the parliament would usurp all power. ?lc wanted odY the abrogation of the sth mud , . which de barred the President from re-election. The peo ple had the right of re-tleetirg the Presi- THE EXPRESS, MONDAY dent if they chose. The legitimist party, p ew _ crful in the Assembly, but weak throug ho ut the country,ltaving published its programme, and hoisted the flag of old abuses, he wished the majority to make a proclamation to the people, and to restore them their !sovereignty. With the exception of M. Charamaule, all the members chosen on the com mittee belong to the majority. The above report of the :discussiou in the bureaux will show . you how completely oneettled the opinions of the majority are upon the principles of revision. M. de Broglie plainly discards the notion of legality, when he con ceives the possibility of a constituent being chosen before the winter. the article fixing the duration of the Legislative Assembly at three years is peremp tory. Hence the notion of M. Baze for preventing the reproduction of a motion for revision unless it can be made in time to fulfil the formalities required by the 111th article before May, 1e52, stems incon trovertible, if the legal course lie observed. At the commencement of the Assembly's fitting an immense mass of petitions was presence 1 , as usual, for the revision of the constitution and for the abolition of the law of May. The house then proceeded to the second delibera tion on the National Guard Bill. MM. Napoleon Bonaparte and Pascal I)uprat proposed a preamble declaring that the national guard is instituted to' defend the constitution, the republic, and the rights of the people. Both of these members supp wed with 1 energy their amendment, and strove to limy° that the groundwork of the new bill was counter-revolu- 1 tionary. M. do Biancey, the reporter. opi,osed the amendment. Ile reminded the house how from the earliest period of their popular institution, and so far back as li9l, there had been a party that wished to create in the national guard a counter poise against the army. Ile quoted a frag ment of a speech of Rubespierre to this effect, which was vehemently applauded by the Left. Then, turning to the applauders, he exclaimed, '•Army against army, civil war organised, this then is what you desire." A tremendous uproar fol lowed this apostrophe, in the midst of which M. Valentin was called to order. The most violent in terpellations were exchanged between the two sides of the Assembly, without the possibility of distin guishing a syllable in the midst of the inekseribable hubbub. Another tumult arose thus :—M. de Minicoy re minded the house that M. Pascal Duprat hail de manded the state of siege in Pill. M. Duprat alleged, in justification of his proposal, that he had done so at a =meta when eminent men of the Bight begged the executive power to fly from Paris, and to remove the seat of the Assembly to Buurges. M. Denjoy exclaimed that the assertion of M. Duprat was a calumny, and challenged him to name the eminent persons to whom he ulluded. M. Duprat culled on the President of the Assembly to protect his independence and privileges, as a represen ta tive, against such violent denunciations: and resisted the calls of the Bight to name the parties. M. de Larey affirmed that the demand of which M. I )uprat spoke was niadc by one of his men party, and not by a member of the Right. Thus would be effaced from history the hoe which M. I Nona sought to inscribe there. The Assembly then proceeded to vote un the amendment, which was rejected by 416 votes against 224. An amendment proposed 1y General Grammont to enrol only volunteers was rejected. A bill opening a credit of half a million of francs to cover the total expenses of criminal justice during IsZel was adopted; and the proposition of M. Deice sert for modifying the present legislation relative to eavings banks was adopted on the first reading. The Mole Club held a sitting last night in the Hue de l'Universite, at which it passed a resolution in fa vour of total revision. M. Chavoix, representative, has been condemned by the tribunal of Perigueux to ply a line of 30,000 fr. to the family of M. Dupont, whom he killed in a duel. An improvement was visible to-day in the tone of the funds. The Fives rose :Me., ;aid closed tnt. it, ; the Threes closed at 36.20, with n rise of 13e. This was attributed to the declaration of M. ll:troche in favour of maintaining the Electoral Law of May. PARIS, St:NDAT EVEMINO._ On Friday night an important sitting was hest in the Rue des Pyramides, to come to a definitive reso lution on the subject of revision. M. de Monttkm heft besought all those who listened to him not to allow themselves to be diverted from their task by any desertion or obstacle. 1k declared that the ob ject of this club ought to be to restore the country to the possession of itself, and to emancipate the na tional sovereignty from the chains of the constitu tion. The motion fur revision (nut total revision) couched in the simplest terms, was then signed by all the members present, beginning with the chair man, the Duke de Broglie. It is expected that the motion will be presented on the 2Mtb. The number of signatures amounts at present to la°. M. de Montalembert has been the soul of this new move in the Club of the Rue des Pyranndes. No sooner had that keen-minded statesmau seen the out flush of the legitimists, and their determination to hoist the oriffamme, than he gave them up fur lost, and saw that nothing was to be dune hand-in-hand with such allies. "11 n'y ade legitime quo Ic pos sible," is the abiding maxim of the policy of the leader of the church party. This decision of the Rue des Pyrumides entirely alters the face of the question of revision. What meaning can now be attached to the asser tion that nine-tenth. of Frenchmen are in favour of revising the constitution, and that the only let to the fulfilment of their will is the letter of an im practicable law, maintained, with threat of insur rivtion, by the remaining tenth:' Them cannot be a vaguer mis-statement of th e ease than this, which is the Bonapartist mode of representing the question. It would be much truer to say nine-tenths of French men are in favour of maiutainittg the republic, and regard the revision of the cotetitution, in the vague and general acceptation of that term, as a plot for getting rid of the republic. How, then, it may be said, is there so large a majority in the Assembly in favour of revision? I answer' there is an alleged majority, which is perfectly illu sory. It was asserted with confidence a week ago that the three clubs of the Right had come to an understanding to present an identical motion for re vision. This statement, which you will see in the first column of the ]Abide of last Sunday, has just received the most signal contradiction from facts. Two of the clubs, those of the Rue de Itivoli and the Rue de Itniversite, hate pronounced for total revi sion, while the Rue des Pyramiths drops the word "total," and declares aim* for revision. Now there cannot be a wider distinction than is established by this difference. The fusionists end legitimists have. announced, with sufficient cleanness, that the question which they mean to raise by total revision is " touchy or the republic." Whit the men of the Rue des Pyramidcs mean by revision is by no means so outspoken, but n tolerable outline may be gathered of their policy from the debate in tile bureaux upon the motion of M. Morin, and from their dis cussion in the sitting of the club on Friday night. The key to the new situation has been furnished by the declaration of M. Baroche in the Chamber oh Friday afternoon, that the law of May was the flag of the ministry. This was the pledise exacted by the Club of the Rue des Pyramides before they embhaced a decided policy. It is now clear that they have made a bargain with the Elysee. Every representu ' tive who signs their motion for revisiou takes thereby a pledge to support the prolongation of the Presi dent's powers, provided the President support the law of May. But this is no more the revision desired by nine-tenths of Frenchmen than it is the revision agreed on by two-thirds of the Assembly. It is the enrolment of an important fraction of the Orkanists under the standard of Louis-Napoleon, in return fur the maintenance of the law of May. Neither the Orleanists of the regency uor the legitimists can embrace a revision which has such objects in view; still less can they embrace a revision which is to be obtained by such means as those contemplated by the government and its supporters of the Rue des Pyramides. Nothing could prove more distinctly that these means involve a coost-freest than the Lai , rage of Nlontalembert and de Broglie. These lead ing statesmen of the Rue des Pyramides declared that the aim of their party was to restore to the • wain the fie and full exercise of its sovereignty, in other words to break the formal barrier of the 111th article of the constitution. This proposition • for the revision has been as yet subscribed by only r 110 out of the 300, which, in round numbers, coin • plSe that party . But supp o sing that it gai ns t h e . signatures of the remaining half of the club, with • such a programme the signers arc still in a minority ETENING, MAY 26, 1851. in the Chamber. Let alone the 240 of the Left, neither M. niers M.Berizer, nor M.Odilon Barrot, who have all declared in favour of adhering to legality, can embrace the proposition of the Rue des Pyramides. So that this party on the question of revision remains to all intents and purposes as isolated as on the 18th January, when they advanced their shield over the censured cabinet of Baroche. But they count upon their strength in the country rather than iu the parliament ; and in this view they are encouraged by the petition s which pour in from all parts. hatever justice there may be in such reliance upon the strength and compact ness of the upper bourgeoisie, which is the party they represent, the extreme hazard of the policy which they embrace requires a vigour and union, and a certainty of the army, which are far from appearing in the hands of the government at the present moment. I have already adverted to the declara tion made by the l)ukc do Broglie in the bureaux, which shows that he contemplates the possibility of assembling a Constituent Assembly before the winter, an eventuality completely at variance with the con-' stitution. As to the special pleading which cavils upon the latitude of the phrase " forty-five days, at latest, before the end of the legislature, a law appoints the epoch of the new elections," no serious mind ever entertained the possibility of making so absurd al quibble the pivot of a revolution. Let the law for determining the period of the new elections be passed when it will, it cannot determine one day sooner than the 28th of May, 18.12, the expiration ofl the Legislative Assembly, nor bring the new Assem bly into operation before the 29th. In the nnau while I take the nrric l / 2 .-pens.'e of the government , and MM. de Broglie and Montalembert to be this. We will suppose their motion for the revi- I sion to obtain the adherance of M. Her- I ryer, which will give them a little more I ' than the relative majority. M. Morin 's motion, as amended by Berrler, will enable them to bring for ward their motion again iu August or September. In that interval the councils-general of the depart ments will have met, to hold their annual sessions. A declaration on the question of revision will be put ' forth by the 811 councils; and as in a vast number of them the legitimate interest preponderates, the stream of opinion iu favour of the governmeat is not likely to wear the appearance of a national move went. But suppose the votes of the councils to be. on the whole, so favourable as to give a considerable fresh impulse to the cause of Louis Napoleon, and sensibly to increase the majority for revision at the end of August ; suppose this expression of the de; partmental bodies and of the legislature to backed by an immense mass of petitions, and by addresses from the municipal councils; extermd pressure on the Assembly will evidently then be at its height, and the crisis contemplated by MM. do Broglie and Mon talembert will be mature. What these statesmen will then do is foreshadowed by their present deck rations. They will urge the Assembly to dissolve; if their advice is not taken they will resign their seats iu a body, and leave the executive to deal with the Ramp composed of the Left, the ultra-legitimists, and the party of M. 'Mors. On the lit of Septem ber the remaining representatives, proceeding at 11 in the morning to committee, would find the legis lative occupied by the troops. In a word, the policy of the Rae des Pyramides must result in confiding a temporary dictatorship to Louis Napoleon. The con dition of the trust is to make the law of May the basis of the elections of the constituent. The motion of M. Vesin for the appointment of a special committee to examine the petitions for re %NMI has been rejected by the committee. M. do I.imayrac has been appointed reporter. His opinion is that all relating to the revision ought to be con centrated in the hands of one and the same com mittee. 2%1. Leo do Laborde has been persuaded by the ltue de Itivoli to drop his special proposition fur revision. of the members of the committee on the motion of M. Morin eight of the fifteen are favourable to the motion, five are absolutely opposed to it, and two de mand modifications equivalent to rejection. In the debate preceding the appointment of the committee l Berrver renewed Ins decimation of the Rue do itivoli that the legitimist party would only support a legal mode of proceedin g to the revision. The committee on the motions of Moulin and Morin, which is now called the committee of revi sion, has appointed the Duke de Broglie president, and M. de Kerdrcl secretary; the former being favourable and the latter hostile to Morin's proposi tion. The committee on the La Plada treaties has ap pointed as reporter M. Larrubure, who is hivourable to the ratification of the treaties. A special steamer, the Eclaireur, has been sent with important despatches to General Gemeau. 'l he instructions of these despatches have been motived by the intrigues of Cardinal Antonelli with Austria, and urge General Gowan to occupy and fortify Monte Mario and the points of vantage-ground about Koine. SPAIN. PARIS, SrsnAr ErtNixo A telegraphic mcfriage from Madrid, dated the tfltii, announces that the Marquis Miraffores has been named Minister of Foreign Affairs. A row at the University had caused the medical students to be charged by the police; and several of the bonier were severely wounded in the encounter. the Duke de la Victoria had written a letter of con dolence to the Queen-Mother, on the occasion of her amident. PORTUGAL. ARRIVAL OF SALDANHA AT LISBON. The Peninsular mail-packet, Jupiter, Captain Meehan, arrived at Southampton ye , terday, and landed her mails in charge of Lieutenant Peter Rainier, , Admiralty Agent. She left Gibraltar May 16, Cadiz 17th, Lislxin 19th, Oporto 20th, Vigo 21st. Amongst her passengers are Lady Seymour, the wife of the British minister at Lisbon, and family. Saldanha entered Lisbon with between 2,000 and 3,000 troops on the 14th, and met with a most enthu siastic reception. But although the Duke has been recalled, and the obnoxious ex-minister Cabral has left the country, very serious doubts are entertained of a satisfactory- termination to the insurrection. Unfor tunately fur the. Queen as well as Saldunha, the Junta party have been chiefly instrumental to the success of the Duke. and now that he has been recalled, Saldanha finds that it is impossible to form a ministry or to ensure the safety of the Queen ; and he at the present moment holds three offices in his own person—viz., president of the council, minister of war, and one other. The troops also are showing symptoms of insubordina tion, and he has considered it necessary to order two additional regiments from Oporto, which arrived on the 19th. Thus, with a revolutionary and powerful party paramount and an exchequer not only ex hausted but anticipated for more than twelve months to come, the affairs of this unhappy country are at the best in a very precarious state ; and, although Saldanha has the heart to upheld the Queen, and will do all he can in her cause, his power to do so is by most considered insufficient. The Janus is to go to Oporto for the protection of British interests. Encounter has been recalled to Lisbon. There is every prospect of an abundant harvest and a good vintaige. Count Carat, although a refugee in the house of Mr. Forrester at Oporto, when that gentleman gave a ball to Saldanha, would not appear at the ball, and at the same time assured the Queen that he was always ready to defend her throne and dynasty with the sword. Captain Snow, of the Marines (her Majesty's ship Arethu,a), put an end to himself by a pistol shot on the 15th, in a fit of temporary insanity. The following is our correspondent's letter : - I continue the prom LISBON, '2 I IAII 19. 's of events coon eted with the movement. When the steamers arri ve d at Oporto whieh were destined to convey Saldanha's forces to Lisbon, he commenced preparations to that end. H e therefore ordered the Ist, ;itlt, and 9th Caeadores, and the lot, 2nd, and Gth Infantry, to hold themselves in readine.s to embark and, in order to show to the intriguing Calwali,to o f Li . bou that he would not be trifled with in his undertaking, nor suffer any attempt at rat tiou with impunity, he published the following proclamation: " Inhabitant. of Lisbon—The banner which I had the honour tounfurl is so emin , atly national, that it wasocarcely known but it was immediately adopted in every part of the kingdom in the most sincere, open, and resolute manner. e consolidate the throne of her Majesty Donna Maria 11. and her dynasty; we reform the constitutional charter; we make a free election, in order that we may hare a true national repmentatiun ; and the sy,,tent of immorality and corruption, of pee:dation and rohbtry, that the government had establi-heit in theory, substituted by justice and liberty, by morality and economy. " In a few hours I shall be among von: I know that the Nimbi of the corrupt and corrupting minister wait for that moment to raise seditious shouts; it such happen, apprehend the first who shall do so, and deliver hint to the authorities, that he may he punished. " I have the most intimate conviction of the nationality of the banner I unfurled ; and per.naded that my fellow countrymen of Lishou know me, I am certain they do me the ju,the to believe that I will use every means within my reach to cause it to be respected. _ _ (Signed ] D rKE OF SUDANItt. Head Quarters, Oporto, May A, DOI." It appears Sallanha was not able to leave Oporto BO soon as he desired but in the meantime he despatelkd Lieutenant- Colonel I). Miguel Ximenes to Lisbon with despatches for the government ; upon receiving which, the Queen signed sonic decree-, in compliance with the duke's wishes; Which I was made known to him at Oporto by telegraph. I Dom Niguel Ximenes, and some other persons, came pas sengers in the British steamer, Dauntless, which arrived on the morning of the 13th. The bar of Oporto admitting of the passage of the steamers on the 14th, a telegraphic despatch was received that Sal danha and the troops had passed it at one o'clock on that day. All, therefore, was anzions expectation at Lisbon, and on the kith they entered the Tigrus. Nearly the whole of the population tie Lisbon and its environs turned out to sec them. The telegraph having announced that the steamers with Said:mita awl his troops wen: within sight, one of the coin panv's steamers, in which were the academical students of Lisbon, procee.iu d front the Termini do Paco down the river to meet the u: another steamer, having on board Sen hor Jose da Silva Cabral (the brother of the Count de Thosuar), and his friends and party, also proceeded upon the same mission ; the Marquez do Vuleada, a nobleman who lead 'wen deeply injured by the fallen minister, had also ins Wed a numerous and brilliant party, the elite of the Portuguese nobility, to assist him in sluing honour to the occasion, and in welcoming the duke. 'Theo steam wrs tact the flotilla a little hi low Be.cm. The Marquises approached the steamer Infante 1). Luis, on board of which was the marshal, soul welcomed him and his companions most en thusiastically, bath with rivas and then Wrung discharges of rockets. The other steamers having also approached and done the !Pie, they stropped into the line, and formed part of the procession. During the prozress o f ! which, the bawls of music, in either one or the other, continually played $. The Marshal's If emu!" Saldanha having landed with hi. men amidst loud accla mation., the troops marched from the Termini do l'aeo to the accompanied by an immense multitude rending the air with their rim, and di,eharging innume rable rockets, flu ladiesfromthewindow. strewing flowers in the way. At the Neecssidades the Queen and King Con sort witnessed the whole scene. The marshal and his staff went to the palace ; thence to the palace of the Empress, to pay their respects to her Majesty; atter which the duke proceeded to his own house, an,t on pos,ing the Count dus Autas's reside:ye, mutual congratulations took place be tween hint and the marshal. At night the city ‘V.I4 spontaneowdy illumineted, bands of music, with thousands of people, parading the streets and giving " The regularity and order observed in the whole trinsaction did honour to the people taking part in it. The Ant was " Viva a Itainha ' (Long live the Queen)—all was silent; "Long live the Constitutional Charter reformed'—replied to with enthus:asm; but at " Long live the Mur,hal Saldanha!" the most dt aiming " visas" followed. There is yet another steno I have to mention—the wind ing-up scene of the night; it was at the theatre, which was tilled to the last seat, and where a pleasing sad joyous anxiety was visible in every counteminee. On the entrance of the Queen and King all was silent; but when the marshal entered, the must rapturous chapping of hands and vivo took place that were ever witnetved, and which were repeated at intervals during the representation. The duke acknowledged these demonstrations in a way highly pleasing, and rose and addresses! the audience, telling them. that "in all his actions he had been guided by the sole desire of doing good to his country, and that he had no other view." These words were received with tremendous applause. There has been much difficulty in forming a ministry ; it appears the list amt by Sahlunha from Oporto was not submitted to the Queen, owing to the Marquis of Louls: and Count Lavradiu having refused to aevept office, and because there was also some different.- of smittion between them upon measures to be forthwith adopted, :red which, it is said, Saldanha wishes to defer until alter the ale etions. The Duke has been in close counaunitation with the Sep tmbrists who are all of opinion that the situation of public affairs calls for immediate measures to relieve the revenue from the anticipations created and thrown upon it by the Thomar ministry, which it is calculated absorbs the whole of the revenue to the end of Pcr2. In .1 calamitous a situa tion, with an empty treasury, and the public credit at a low ebb, if not altogether destroyed, scarcely any honest man could be found who would take upon himself the responsi• bility of Finance Minister; the difficulties are also aug mented by the people calling for and requiring direct elee lions, whereas the charter establishes indirect. Sahlanha wishes the former, until a constituent cones be called to reform the charter, and provide for et cry other exigency the country require.. The ministers unpointed are the following:—The Duke of Saldanha, President of the Council and Minister at War. the latter ad interim ; he has also the Interior, to which lie was appointed before his arrival. The Baron de Luz, vs hit gives up the Interior, which he had (of barring, remains as Foreign Minister. and Minister of Marine and the Csolouies, loth ad interim; Fransini remains ns Minister of Justice and Finance, so that this may only be called a ministry of transition. TIM Duke of Saldanha is also appointed Com mander in Chief of the army ; and Don Miguel Ximeues stilt-chief of the ash'. The direction of the sinking fund hare ordered payment of a portion of th e i r shares not bearing interest, and certain interest msm others; thus the alt ur of that board are going in the direction from whence they were diverted by the Thomar ministry, and is an far calculated to bring about a restoration of confidence. It was Mr some time doubted that her Majesty would accept the resignation of the King as l'ommander in Chit f, but rather letep hint in the command of the army, m a focus of intrigue; his dismissal, howet er, hissing been at length publithod, I send you a copy of the my.tl letter of the (In- nto hint, as a curious document fur au English reader: " Most high and most powerful prince and lord, Don Ferdinand, King of Portugal, Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, Marshal-General, Coinmaudenin-Chief of the Army, my touch loved, prized, and dear husband, I, Donna Maria, by the grate of birl, Queen of Portugal, the Algarve..., and their dominions, send to your Maj. sty much greeting, as him who above all I love and esteem. Taking into COasi deratiou what your Majesty has iepreaented to mc, and assenting to the solicitations that you address to me, I am well pleas -d to exonerate your Majesty from the cocommand in chief of the army, which, by royal letter of the 17th of October, 18111, it was m 7 pleasure to collide to the care of your Majesty. Mast high and mint powerful prince and lord, IMn Ferdinand, King of Portugal, l)uke of Saze Coburg Gotha, Marshal-General, my much loved, prized, and dear husband, may our Lord continually protect the august person of your Majesty. IV' itteu in the Palace of, Neces , itlades, the 7th day of the month of May, Mil.— Your Majesty's dear spout's! (signed), MARIA. Counter signed, Baron DE Frtaxems." It must be remembered that this " most high and most powerful prince and lord" went at the head of an army to maintain in imwer a favorite, against the win of the nation, atol that in less than a month he returned, with scarcely a sufficient number of persons in his suite to bear the train of a meal role in a state procession. 1110,a Of the plans in the kingdom have pronounced in Ifivour of Sablanha, hut it has been remark•al, that where the Calmilite Hathorities were, the pronunciation lota been cool and reserved, and not mule in a manner calculated to inspire contb!• 111 , in their sincerity • on the contrary, they have ken furred int* it by th e p eol :fe. At (Jitorto Saldauha received an address from the pro prietors and other persons connected with the press ; congratulating him, offering him their aid, in case he slmuld require it, in the consummation of the task lie had undertakes, and asking as prompt a relief as he could give them from that odious law, deprecated by the people, enacted again s t th e will o f the nation, and t o w hi c h had een given the name of " the law of gagging." Saldauha replied he kid always com batted that law, would take their representation to the proper place, and 'perhaps, before that, determine upon stone provisional measure relative to that important object, which he hall so much at heart, " because," said lie, " the evils which proceed from the liberty of the presa are nothing eu.npared with the good which results from it." lie thanked them fur their olfer, did not think that such a sacrifice W.l , at present nevemary, but, should he require it, lie was certain they would not fail. Movement in the wine market at Oporto during the mouth of April : Exported to ports in Europe, 1,489 pipes of the tam quality ; to ports out of Europe, 20 pipes of the. first quality, 2,1L4 pipes of the second quality, and 170 pipes of Geropiga of the second quality. To ports of the king dom, 9 lopes of wine of the first quality ; for consump tion, oy7 pipe s of wines of She second quality, and In pipes of Geropiga of the second luality. The stock iu depot has been increased, by the atbrussiou of more than 4,090 pipes to the warehoubes. The iherce of the Thomar ministry dismissim; Saldauha from the supreme tribunal of military justice was annulled by the ministry before his arrival ; and another decree signed by the Queen confirming all the promotions he had made at Oporto. The committee of the popular party are up and stirring with regard to the elections. On the 12th, the French steamer of war, Cafforelli, sailed for Brest. Tice SOUTHAMPTON PORTION OF THE INDIA —The Oriental Cempany's , team-packet Ripon, Captain R. MoreiV, arrived yesterday at Southampt,,a, and landed her mails under the charge of I.ieut.Thomas Willi= Lang ton, It.N., Admiralty agent. She loft Alexandria May 9th; Malta, May 13th; and Gibralter, May 19th. Among her pa‘s.:agers are Lieut. M'Pherson, the otticer who wan wound:a at Aden, when Captain Milne was killed by the natives; J. F. Lewis, Esq., the celebrated En2lish artist, nt int Iran, resident at Cairo; Peer lbraliant K tan, from Bah;vlialpoor, who rendered great assistance to Major Edward also, Dr. Young, with five native attendants, in eharue of splendid presmts for the Queen from the Sawaub of Moorsltedebad. GERMANY. A telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, May 21, says that the Minister of commerce, Herr von Bruck, will be removed, and replaced by lien- Baumgartner; that the financial statement for the year IS Bt is favourable, and gives a lb;ourable prospect btr Is 40; and that Marshal Hadctzky had arrived, sum moned, it was understood, to the conferences of Warsaw. The following telegraphic despatch has been re ceived from Berlin. "BERLIN, MAI. 21. " In an official article of the Stoot,-.lnzeiger, the principal object of the congress of Warsaw iv de clared to be the re-establishment of the traditional alliance between Prussia and Russia in a conserva tive interest." "The (Wird Gazelle of Vienna declares the papal note published by the butpvidonce of Brussels to be a Mrgery. It appears certain that the King of Prussia will go to °Mintz." ITALY. TURIN, MAY 19. In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the 19th, M. Talmo addressed interpellations to the mi nistry to clear up the following . points : 1. If the government was arranging, or wished to arrange, a concordat with Rome ? 2. If a league was lx•ing concluded with the other Italian states ? 3. Why the marriage bill had not been presented ? 4. Why 31. Siccarth had retired from the cabinet ? 5. Why the two vacant posts in the cabinet were not filled ? fi. If the convention concluded with Austria in MI would be denounced? together with several other questions. The Minister of Foreign Affairs said that, as regarded the state of nego tiations with Rome, he begged the Chamber to excuse him from disclosing more than that the government was inspired with the best intentions to produce harmony between the spiritual and tem poral powers, but would never sacrifice in order to obtain this end the duties of citii.ens or ministers. As to the second question, he could distinctly state that the rumour of the leave was entirely false. 31. Siecardi had retired from the cabinet on account of the weak state aids health. The Linty concluded with Austria in P 431 had been denounced. He trusted tiro chamber would be satisfied with these explanations. ROME, May 11. The recent conflicts between French soldiers and Romans have suggested to the French general the necessity of takne• some additional precautions for ensuring his own safety, and that of the army under his carnmand. It is remarkable that, in the follow ing proclamation, announcing the general's intentions to the inhabitants of Rome, no mention whatever iv made of the Papal authorities, nor of the established ' government of the country: Serious and repeated attempts hare been committed against French soldiers, whose good conduct and discipline are generally recognised and pm-tainted. This audacity on the part of men of disonler is owing to the moderation shown until this day, which sirnalises the generosity of France. t'inee this generosity is not understood, it must g.re plare to a just severity. Consequently, the general comumnding the division of occupation in holy, fixes th, f alowing dispositions for the city of Rome and thu Cumarea : All permissions to carry arms are suppressed. All fire arms, white-arms, and poignard knives are to be depoi.itsd at the Etat Mojav dr la place between this and the 117th of May. After which delay domiciliary visits will take place; every inhabitant retaining arils in his powession will be arrested, and brought before a court-martial, to be judged according to the usual laws, and besidi s the sentence there passed upon him he will be tined fifteen wadi for each wea pon found in his house. The proprietors of houses will be responsible ler weapons seised in teem. In the course of Sunday, the licit May, a great number of individuals were observed in the city, mid particularly un the Corso, carrying sticks of such dimensions as to lead to the inference that they coutained hiddei weapons. Such a kind of threat can no longer be suffered. Men carrying the above-describe.l sticks will be arrested by patrols, which will be ordered for that purpose, and accompanied by agents of police. They will he detained in prison until they have paid the above-m e nti one d fi ne ( fift een wadi). Sticks of a suspicious form are to be deposited at the Flat Major de la pleas. The fines will be paid to the paymaster of the division for the use of the mili tary hospitals. The commandant de la place, the Prefect of Pollee, and the Provost of the army, are charged with tho evecution of the present oiler, towards which the General rimm•Sti the comer's-nee of all the ntlici Vs and subalterns of the army, isle., by eausin7, the French uniform to bo respected, still estreine a right and fulfil a duty.—The General commanding the division. A. OLMEAV. At the head-quarters, Rome, May 12. ima. What principally alarms the General, and the ecclesiastical government, is the unanimity of senti ment with which any demonstration of hostile feeling is adopted by the people, a fact which dues not much tend to confirm Ouditiots veracious assertions concerning the attachment of the Romans towards their sovereign and despotic regime. The anti-smoking demonstintion has reached such a pitch that not a cigar is to be seen in the streets or e4y:'s, save in the mouths of some stray foreigner or French soldier, and even in the Truste ed°, where it is to the interest of the people to keep up the consumption of tobacco, as many of the women arc employed by Torlonia in the 'imputation of cigars, the men have cheerfully thrown away their weeds and pipes as soon as they understood what was meant by the sacrifice. The abirri have already begun to bully people for not smoking, and several young men, who were hitherto known as smokers and whose faces were familiar MI the Corso, have been grossly insulted by the agents of police for leaving off the practice. The pecuniary loss to the monopolist, Prince Torlonia, must be enormous, but it appears that he will receive compensation from the govern ment by being allowed to tuise the prim of salt ono bajoeco per pound, he being the monopolist of that most necessary article of consumption also. Now that the Ecclesiastical Titles Roil is again to be brought before the Rouses of Parliament, it can not fail to be interesting to vour readeN to be mado acquainted with some remarkable expressions of the Pope hinfitelf upon the subject, MS manifested on a recent occasion. Among the many English visitors to Rome during the holy week was Lieut.-Colonel Curtis, Cll., an officer recently returned front India, where he served for many years on the staff, and had opportunities of rendering some service to Monsignor Corti, Roman Catholic Bishop of Agra, successor of the well known Dr. Borghi, now Bishop of Cortomt, and head of the Indian Roman catholic mission. The colonel's kindness to the Indian bishop was men tioned in letters which Monsignor Carli wrote to the cardinals at Rome, intimating also that Colonel Curtis was about to leave India, and would probably visit the Holy City on his way to England. At the close of the holy week an invitation to a private audience with his Holiness was formally sent to Colonel Curtis, a most unusual proceeding at any time, but especially so in the present year. when audiences of any kina are granted with difficulty and never unsou g ht ; i n d ee d, numberless appll-. Lotions have recently been refused. The hour for the interview specified in the major domo's letter was 7 P.m., at which time Colonel Curtis presented himself at the Vatican, and in a few minutes was ushered into the presence of Plo Nono. The inter view was entirely private, his Holiness and the Colonel being the sole occupants of the apartment. The Pope received his guest most graciously and simply, the ceremony of kissing the papal slipper be ing entirely dispensed with, intimating that he had sent fur him to th an k hi nt i n person for kindnesses uhewn to the Indian mission, about which, and India generally, he asked many questions. Ills Holiness then began, doubtless to his visitor's great astonish ment, to speak fully and unreservedly about his differences with England, justifying what he had done, earnestly disclaiming any inten tion of offending the English sovereign or nation and expressing his anxious hope (his precise words were Spero sineeramenle) that the shadows (le onsbre) which interposed between the two governments might speedily be di ss ip a t e d. C o l one l C urt i s left tho Vaticanimpressed with admiration of his Holiness's urbane manner and unaffectedly dignified demeanor. A few days afterwards his Holiness sent the colonel a very beautiful silver medallion, executed by M. Girometti, bearing on one side an admirable likeness of I'io Nono, and on the other a representation of tho two colossal statues of St. Peter and St. Paul, placed in front of St. Peter's Church at the commencement of the present pontificate. The medallion was en closed in a red morocco case, bearing the Pupal arms impressed on it in gold. Considering that Colonel Curtis is of the protestant church, and was known to be so by the Pope, his reception and its consequenco cannot but be considered remarkable, reflecting credit on the feelings of his Holiness, and the gratitude he showed for kindness extended to his clergy in far and foreign lauds. (