The Express. — London, England, 1852-02-19 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WZDNIIDAT, Fu. 18. , The Sti•••• took the chair at sees. PRI VATIC BUSINESS. The Sheriffs of London at the bar arid presented erpedtkin Worn the Load ILaTer, Aldermen, sad Common Connell of the City, pewylag fee leave to being In a bill to mg slats the eleetleas he the City efLandcm. The foilowiag hills were read a assend time, sad referred to select committed:—Bari (Slums) Road; god London Waterworks (amendment of seta, Le.) ; Ilkley Water- Weeks ; Kelvin-Bridge (Glasgow) and other works ; New River aud East London Waterworks Companies; New River Company (new works. Ike.); Sheffield Bridges and Streets; Shrewssry sad Birmingham Railway ; South Kasten' and Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railways ; South Yorkshire Railway and River Dun Company (sale or leas.-. &c.) ; Wakefield and Denby Dale-road ; Taaley Desiaige. runt(' Brsi `SESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. P,),47- unit. r. ASIO l • A MAI Mit Gurits.—For the abolition of, by Colonel L. WATKINS, from the licensed post masters mid funeral coach proprietors in the borough of Brecknock. 811(T Lta EPretTION.—By Sir J. WALMSLEV, from the borough of Belton, signed on behalf of a public meet lag by the chairman, praying that an set may be pawed for • g 1 system of secular education, supported by local rater. and managed by torsi authorities elected by the rate payers for the boreugh ; Mr. M. GIBSON. from 61,000 of the principal rateps)ers of Manehester, including several merchants and Kalil. es, to the same effect ; Mr. W. 3. }I/C, to the same etreet, from the Mutual Improvement Socitty of Ilii.beek. Leeds; from persons in the em ploy of Richard Nicholls Joppa, Leeds ; from the Mutual Improvement axiety, (Link, Leeds ; from the Me chanics* Institution. lion School, Hulbeck, Leeds ; (rem the teachers in Zion Sunday School, llolbeck, Leeds ; from the inhabitants of Bury, Lancashire ; and against Manchester and Salford Loral Education Bill—from 100 workmen of the horse of Parr, Curtis, and Madely, Man chester, and the Burial Society. Sarah-street, Manchester. These last petitions were, by direction of the Speaker, presented to the Private Tara o,e Kxowt.rone.—lty Sir J. WALMSLEY, from the printers end others in the employ of Terrold and Sons. Nerwieh, praying (or the repeal of the tie upon paper ails, rti-emento and stamps, leasing the authorities to Ii a small charge on the transmission of newspapers by pest. le-HOV•It (ScorLann) BiLt..—Artainst, by Mr. A. lIAStIE, from Glasgow; Mr. MACOHEGOR, from some pin's.: Mr. tines Montrome and other places ; Mr. U. DUNCAN, from Paisley. NOTICES OF MOTION. PARLIAMENTA#Y REPRESENTATION. Mr. L. KING, to more, cm the second reading of the Parliamentary Reform NIL a resolution that nu relorm will be eatisiactury the duce out provide a more equal appor tionment of members to population and property. !ROME VICARAGE. Mr. HORSMAY, on an early day, to all attention to the presentation of the Rev._llll. Bonnfpto this living. ui ate RAt es BILL. • FRESIIFIBLD, in moving the second reading of this bill, esplaised that its übj.ct was to consolidate the visions acts relating to county rates, and to remove many iscoagruities which existed is the law, but without adding to the samattat authorised to be raised, or subjecting any in dividual to any additional liability. Ho explained the ma chinery by which it was proposer.. to effect this object—one *awe of which was the animates's' year by year of a Mewling committee, with power to investigate the claims of parishes to relief and report to the sessions. He also pro posed to mats a material change is the mode of estimating the relative value of parobes. Mr. BOVVERIE did not oppose the second reading of the bill, which was, however, open to this preliminary ob *Boo—that it did nut consolidate all the acts upon this oalviset. There were likewise clauses in this bill which re quired great coosideratios. Sims remarks were made with reference to the novel priociple of adopting a different system of valuation for tionaty rate, and for poor rate, by Hr. 11. Hope, Mr. Hume, Mr. C. Lewis. and Mr. Henley. The bid was then reed a woad time, sad ordered to be committed on Fr day. PUBLIC-HOUSES (SCOTLAND) BILL. Mr. F. M • is presented • petition from an ataci coition in &offend in favour of the bill. presented a petition fres Glasgow Vthe bill. P. MACKENZIE then snored the mond reading of the bill. Mr. HUME wished the hill to be withdrows. H. ob jected to its prieciple, that demitasses, which had become too nausea in Scotland, could be diminished by the limitation' of public-bona.., whereas be believed, and it bad hose shows by experiment, that by phciag the pima of tiag licenses is the hands of • few the vim would be . At a mooting of twestpolght Smith members held is the previous day, all woes opgasel le this bill m eek the mover. sad two wet k know of the list dams .all. He believed that Ilk tomieral of the leer um would go far to Math tho oleo la question. by tho alsomisos et the law is smpoot to the Isle of be.,, sessismaied by additional malaseas fbr rescsation, desalt. seams is Loathe had slimitithei omethalt. He should k ids* that the system should be Is it was in Loathe of spea k, places of oniussisost sad recreation, which the weft man could (replan in the intervals aids tall tasked of gess; to public-Muses. Is London. they soak ge to the Ilritsth Museum, Illsmptan Court, and the National OM lecy, besides having nun, places uf exerting la the opts sir. Ho moved to &der the second readies kw six samiths, with the view of moving hereafter for a committee Is in quire preserally into the whale subject. Lord DRUSILANHIO wished the bill to be seat to • 'sleet committee, when it might be made available for its Pu lr.ILE X A N DE R II AST I E supported the amendment, and from a reference to a falling off us the number of spirit lickses, inferred that the vim of int:supersoft wee decrees. lag is Keotland. Mr. Y. MAPLE observed HIM them wen many points in the bill frees which ha dimming t hat the course pripomod of seeding t'ie bill to • sole* eamstikee empowered to call foe evideace would meet his 411*1116MIL lie was aware of the Wye esamerdes et 'piths i Ilsedead; 11.000,000 pane a peat woe Itto_Belleme awl a hell the each leak Waste leafage& The eve sass hem the existing eyetea, by which basins wen Masa let the sale of spirits poem' sad bakes' Asp. white Waved the fair trader, who is solenoid by the spirit dab,. sad Imp* pan saes sad wears be the ate of spirits. Ho slauld adios be see mem= sad ether institutions of bffeesite• sad —Mont k deellead, such as existed is &shad hat, ff effeldhiMd, they meta bo provided for eat of the wee. Re Illedilled that at the Reuse bed that the tarresialea of minks is lbeffieed ought to be dial aatted, the bill Right be reeds mead time mad Fehtled I. coeusitae. _ The LORD•ADVOCATE amid vote for the second reading, being unwilling Mappens any obstacle to a needy fora crying and scandalous evil. But if be were nelmi support the bill itself, he could not do so. A rebel mum- Brunet might strike out some new light. Mr. ELLIOT objected to the principle of 6111 still more to its provisions. Lord MELOL ND pointed out the inoansisteney af ap proving of the principle of the bill by voting the nassad rending, and then referring the whole subject to a obit cemaitue. Mr. OSWALD did not believe it possible that say bubo lotion iaterfeream would diminish drunkeemem he ihselaaL This bill, if it passed, would establish a amp* and Mr. ra attitraOß (who opposed the bill) eamikial that the only sum mesas of checking vim ems to Mead education. Mr. 67 BRUCE was in favour of snake the bill to select eenintittee. - 605iiiiiithoonlit the bav did mot teach the tree smarm of the vice it proposed to remedy, which was is a great miasmas the wretched state of the liabitatises of the pear. Si, J. HOPE emceed of the panel principle of the bal. After a 11w word. free Mr. Bovranth, Ths hoses divided— For the second reading Arcwt i• COPYIIOLD BNPILANCHIEBMBNY BILL. Oa the ceder of the day for the mooed reading of this Mr. AOLIONBY prossalal a pMidea how lily. !seder, a barrister in Northombeeload, Y dome of OM msamoo. Mr. HODOSON ookl, r dis was only mood rm. entity, sad es it sag kimmols , emit dos poem afkated by it ia the orooM7 bad am bad tins is oomoblor It, Ito smorsemod SWIM, sommil maks oboold bo posipsood fer tirr:AiiiAONßT mid it wee its a sew Ai, hot was ie. traduced by him at the latter end ef lest sewiee. end Ito therefore anti Mt oseasat is potpies peeseelleg with it. 111 r. CHILIIITOPUIS NM, lbwa t .prude was bi trodaosi et the etre dirt smisa, parties I. the erwaary were set le the habit al la the NMI bib so iatrestased. led ba therehre t sij i with the his. SNOW bet he &dile AM dr mend nadir* sisal be pa of *B_6 wish. — Alai, ems sesousilise, NIL 410LIONBT reseeded to move do messed reslisi. The et the bill sae is seessdisse des sow aids a w lasi rspirty who set • kiss lid is 1111. ja Maths Is *A 111 n Val • mirsell s afrbi •• the osties et the Aikreep WINN $ ir Z. reel pee widow. ssd 1211 111 47toset sed reed, oissawy ssibmsbleomme. _as rose edser be led to • IS ft mobs fibs bill we sod s seeded dos es both sow dies, Mt It did set sot midi M approbiles of leads as/ Owes& of masa. The ha.. Mob, he Cinemas she Weird is a bid, sot lot the boos Myrna bilk Noe but to s ids* eta she Weir (muftis/ Ls wigs of dellelleiles. ad were a aphiga Nat it Assad, seder odds 41011Minaim he at bask sibs. let the essollessedd re li r= l. 2 asides to to the IM O% or they Igo set se pew Ned with k lest metes. TY of dis bill was Is, sehesshies masser sr to slim NW raise e Zetur . .... Then To sow a osissis miss to arty set ohms= 1, 1 i t minsai sseblesseat, sad it wo pro rod ate seordssey &mild be esaied wit by Os isms souralubs. Or 43. IFTRICRLAND bed bed this bill to sleets the. botese hie , that be could set say he perfectly were- Waled it He sided to see a bill t hat would awry on the eshembleseeest in an egerenhie weer Ilea to lord and Wow. JI• wished Of ow She mewls' tesen--tbe sasliasted ilix bridal Maanr—absiisod, because tlis ad °Watt a UM taw, is ISMAIT alma had riew pawed away. Bat this bW did sot Adak eopybold train, hesar tin ealbrialthe 'seat was se be catered Oa Ow watt Mil which writ Is ha kept I. askance. Mr. AO LION BY—That is not a. Sir 0. STRICKLAND understood that it war es. It was to be converted Into an 01111111111 i net eissrge, whisk would be attended with all the inconvenience of the copyhold tenure, and after all it would not be anything like the fee simple. He believed that when the bill was fairly ex amined it would be found that it was not worthy of support. Mr. HUME said the object of this bill was to turn copy holds into freeholds within a limited period. He could not conceive anything more advanuigeouv to landowners. • Mr. FRESHFLELD believed that the bill would be be &otitis!. Mr. MULLINGS said be did not rim to discuss the bill bet to correct a very erroneous impression which the hon. baronet was labouring under. The object of the bill was to make copyholds freehold. With regard to the compoine tion for steward., the simple movisson was that they should hare on the deed of enfranchisement one set of eopyhold fee., and there was an end of it. rho bill was then read a +frond time, and wee ordered to be committed on the 3rd of March. COUNTY RATES AND EXPENDITURE BILL. Mr. BRIfiIIT moved that this bill be read • second time. Sir J. I'AKIN(ITON said he thought it very likely that hon. members were not aware that this bill was very dif ferent (rum former hills that bad been brought in on this subject. Ile should give this bill his most decided opposition. Ile thought that this measure was not ap plicable to our countiee, and that it was not wise for parliament, for the sake of attempting a theoretkal improvement, to tamper with arrangements which had lung worked bmetteially to the country, never more than at the present time, and which were now avowedly conducted with greater publicity, with greater economy, ace with greater regard to the Interests of the public than at any former period • but, though he en tertained them opinions, lie had no ' hesitation fa saying that if the right bun. gentleman had brought this hill in the same shape in which it came out of the gesnmitlee lest year, or if he had even introduced it in the mom shape It. which be brought it into the house at the commeneensentei last session, whites er his own opinions might be, consider ing that that house had so far recognised the bill as tossed it to • select committee, he should not have comidered self justified in opposing the second reading of the bill, though he should have stated his of to the details; but the right hon. gentleman had not brought it in ether in the shape in which it was last year or in the' @haps in which it left the committee. la all the former measures that the right hon. gentleman had proposed it was intended that the county board should be constituted one half of persons elected by the ratepayers, and one-half by the magistrates. But in the bill now introduced be had thrown out the magistrates altogether They ' no longer were to form part of these county bar ds unless they were elected by the ratepayers. Now he submitted to the house that this was a change in the prin. eiple of the bill so essential and tes important that it fully justified the eosins be (Sir J. Pakin:ton) was now taking, and he could net believe that either the House of Commons or her Majesty's government would consent to the sewed reading of the hip, framed as it now was. He appealed to the right hon. baronet at the head of the home department whether he was prepared to sanction a measure which was to throw over the jurisdiction of the magistrates in the government of the gaols, in the management of the police force, and in many other points in which the magistrates now exercised jurisdiction, and whether, in the present state of the police force of this country, it was not essentially im portant that the magistrates should retain the power they now had. and the same with regard to the gaols. hlr. HOBERT PA LM KR ,as a member of the select car Mince to which the former bill wee referred, could say that that bill was fully considered by that committee, and he had come to the house prepared to give the bill his support ; butfrhat was his surprise when it was pointed out to him that the principle of the bill was altogether altered. (Hear, bear.) The principle—to which be by no means objected—of the bill of last ye ir will, that those who contributed to the county rates should have • • voice in the expenditure. It was provided that the boards of guardians should nominate one half of the county bused, and that the magistrates should nominate the other half; but the principle of this bill was totally different. This bill gave the nomination entirely to the hoards of guardians. He must say the right hon. gen tleman had not dealt fairly by the house. If he understood the meaning of referring a bill to a select committee, it was that that committee should consider it, and report the re milt of their deliberations to the hose. But this was not the hill that was agreed to by the com mittee. The hon. member in conclusion referee Ito aurae- rem communications from boards of guardians in Berkshire, conveying the opinion that the bill was annecesairT. Until he saw a much stronger opinion in the country in favour of each • bill he should join in opposing it. Mr. M. GIBSON begged have to say, that, is amuck as it bad devolved almost as • matter of duty upsa him to move in this question, he coati dined himself entitled, as he was bringing is the bill, to have the provisions of it is aceonlassee with kis own opinions, adhering to the principle of the mews. leaving it to the house to alter the details in ems. mines if it should please them. He contended that there was not the slightest deviation in the prio r** of the bill. What was the principle of the bill ? Simply to constitute county financial boards. Ile admitted that the hill, as originally Uoiod cos dilated the Moods ass. half of magistrates, esse-half of prams set megiotstre • bat the select committee had lamb verygeom aitmatisie se to the powers to be vested in ewe bassi Ow siterstien wav, that the boards were to he strictly isissmiaL mid mot in the slightest degree to Meech upon the judicial fonetioas of the magistrates, who were to retain the escalation of the gaols. the apeointtnent of offi cers, sad NW matters. The eommittee having made those alterations. it was ao lewd edeessery to provide, as • muter of stomm_ , at the masismsten, or a certain portion of them, ilssuill he Membees of that board. Power was kit to the to seism megistrstes if they pleased, but not them to do so ; iessmuch as the boards would de vadbisi that would trench upon the ju dicial fandieas of the magistracy. in making these alteration% be hod acted in accordance with the prin ciple UM down by the committee, that these boards should be strictly financial. In this bill, he (Mr. Gibson) had adhered to the first decision of the cossatittee, which Its thought the correct and proper emu That pnneipts had been supported by the President of the Poor Law Board (Mr. Bahia), the Animas of the committee ; it was by has testing men that it was carried. He was sot ammo of asp ohm alteration. The bill contained • groat deal which ha ammittes had originated, many details of asomidoeolde imagism*, and many points for which the OlimMilla• west Weaned to the hoe. baronet (Sir .I. Pabloghs) the maim ler Droitwich. It was very desirable hot the goveissorst simmisid take title metier into their own hes& The principle of the bill hoofing bows twice asseuted Wby the berme. the moserom woo is a peaks ho he takes up by dm gemnimeat ; they engirt to base hit tuba duty to bring is aim bill for tarmac out het poirelpla is practi cal legldatios. Me would gladly alommiss the bill if the c d it gemismoot wadi ve • pledge to Me It sp. NM »- potted to gm by the state of the Meshes ',poke, that ham hod mode it is aim seat a gees lies. Ms boss -clouded at Wise a es the paper for the bit to be read • semmolithos tire day sea months ; and bo might complain of the unfairsom of hoe. gentlemen epsomite with greater mamas than they could =that sharp to him. It Wm perfectly tiniest they wadi Imo it is hair power to alas Mao to which hey ihiestsdi is asommittem lie the ratepayer to ham it in their power to diem him all dams, whether magistrates or sot. it sad pawn barium moo to metre' the appliamion and elvish's,. of the toasty Mon That the the am Apple rint* of the hill ; sod he hoped that the beams would set a ' by drew* It toot at the totted reading, declare that Os moghtratee Amid semliame iseamlod with imosposible ININNI over these lams soma eir 0. - 0111 T aid, ee the ben. baronet Idle bad waved the ameniment had dbilnelly appealed to bin ea basing given • pest deal ef allediea te the 'abject, be we state the deem whieb be bit it his ditty to take. He did set wasp is the esessie ad as ids debt bee. lased ix Wisps. a bill bads the been eadied hie owa dews, and rne re and el the bead te tes sad doodle whisk be was yersgesed es wilveeste W ressamead. It wend have bees bllll9. at the sane ties., toe at the ladeseas Mamas* between this 1111 sad the Safest ems, bad the bow. sedienee eased daft a oodles ea movies le issables the bill : bet pelap the maw slaw deist time he his to write that eletseesat tree the see be bed the.... Whig the API boa palm= wee at fell Elesedeg al be did new Pe asides a the saw Mates, to ..k the bean to seesein his owe TUT re / *see wits es • fano* deaths bed ademesed the alzet passeatetlea swap bends kr the a the ease ty Moe, wave eel at ell Weed to this bill, without eissidedes what bed side lobe= whet bed been the eseemeadatiees of the seaultlee led per, sad whet ware the details, ea well as the plod. pid a die bill saw sehaltad to the besot While seta last year that be did set think there was say great to be remedied, or that thee we. the abase Walk there was aid le be la the eddisisteedes ef the duty rein e, is width 'peke be wee be ea by the predesi dialer tie. d the sainly saw he 11110 1110161 19 deny es psis. aisle that lbw wapit bp be es alphas of the repeats. wire Owl* asked he Me Ilea beards. He bed she aid that Pe added wee a seed amplkated eme, width did set 'PPP to be.thereedbly waleeessed by *me Ida bed the bill, te way apps dead, of wbisb be epeaud• sad be had only coeseetal to be eased redly • ba aria boa. Mend Treeing te refer it he • salsa seer iodise, ea whisk be sand le give ell the adialsase he dell. The wee dew lad be bed sawn INg In • SIM& Oa; re isembete d tibia pre ware renewer sad den ,waded thaw we Pau I. Pis MIL The ht i basswahle bed bear dead ths p whet se m en Thee 111/0 k nostas s bases She IS sew pepeed eta that a last yew Is Ms edited ship, aa dos . be, Mee the pat see mad am 11119M11•61119911 if the emsalttee. The IS et lasi TM pepped the the law* amid andel peakd wayiefeeess awl ladyat seedbed sleeted by the bawds apealleeles stab hart of nudism rettirsing ink The mambas mode De elteratass is wt feige4 wasp es swathe stepaiew as tette of lidwg asiplielas hatistlkie to be dededry I=3 pridiews. Nye ibe h S o t poles= lessdl est mislieeses dwell be noised. pm. ) bac The bards wen Is be elested. awl Hoy were te be shesse, ad by the mire beads edeardifew, but the me puma were also saddled hen ad are, se aseehsee These beards, le the eheise a their repersatethee. (Hear, haw.) He we ast yespeed le epee tie that exclasios ; he Eirßig mai twe remont from arIV Mr. r, SNAIL 0 7 to • bill ohlok gelded hioriateitee is the business of the cennty. alla alter UM to easamittim. AY did get tklak that • natter es width it was asemoury again to refer to • esenatittee. The bill of last year and the potent one trans fened all the powers and duties of the magistracy as to tie ementy essallatielery I. these eensty boards. The committee bad discussed this =attar very fully; he bad beeitoharged with pttiaptheir dashes reverted, which he had so to do; bat he believed the conviction had heed ibY the minim of the elsomittoe, that their e hag ben. moat It toss on the invitation s e treight lea. baresiet (Sir J. Graham) that the ems- Wilkie had roseasidated their deifies. They thought it swpikespoilkst. maadviaable, sad iiingerosa to the pub awl tie megimatee theeld be deprived of all con do olke egeeleAmet of the tansiabialary, or the diree- Wadi bias, the hill was sew in a state in which leadi eel prellize give hie mast to it. If he saw any sureralle plead le hope that the right honourable Ca=Pauli aoseen• to each amendments, or he... well eimbidr is it the modi fied Fisch& to OW* he hail given his la ' pot bet year, he ahead dm be pewee to anent to it. Bat be looked for se result whatever from giving the bill a second rest is the present occasion; the only malt would be to ammo a great deal of time very fruit lessly in the considerable olftletailr. Mr. BRIGHT did not *Yak that anything had been mid to show that, it it Will desirable to go into the question at all, a coed deal emsl be made out of the measure submitted by his etpithea. friend. The points on which there wee any diffineerlo etopinion between the right hon. gentlemen and the poemillort of the bill were so few that it would be oempetint tilt the hews in committee to make such altarediens and compromises se might make the bill what the giOt hon. baronet intended. For Instance, the right hen. breast might neve be osnuoittos of the house the dame Mahe ho had owed be the saes isemmitte up stairs. Assandag that go Ileum aseeptol that disuse, it would be pat in the bill; aril hen. podestes appetite who bad no other objection to the bill snail - vote fur it. It was perfectly astorlous that the right hon. bm..et (Sir G. Grey) had exerted his influence in com mittee for the purpose of making the bill as little like its possible. Hence the promoters could not agree be it as altered, and had requested his right bon. friend to bring it in in its present form The consequence was the bin would not be read a second time. It was perhaps not of much consequence whether it poised in this session or the Mat ; but a bill would certainly be pared before long baying the object of the present bill. They had nothing to impost from the right hoc. Secretary of State, who had been • ilimesaled opponent of the bill all along, and now opposed fu E a gEEDES said it was impossible for a more impartial at= to have been pursued in the committee than had ben lakes by the right hon. baronet (Sir G. Grey) mad the Peadhant of the Poor.law Board (Mr. Baines). The Ott. edie t n the bill were matter of principle, not of Me _Mr. HUME hoped the right hon. baronet would re smolder his determination, and allow the bill to go into committee. Mr. HENLEY thought the country would have little dif , Scotty in deciding who were the real friends of economy in the expenditure of county rates. lied the right hon. gen tleman chosen to be guided by the two committees that had sat on the subject, he might have produced a measure which. would have been generally acceptable. larked of this, he charged his opponents with party views, and his colleague (M r. Bright) had charged the right hon. baronet (Sir O. Grey) with doing all in his power to throw over the bill. Ile thought people out of doors would conclude that the bill had been brought forward merely to get up an agitation. Mr. BARROW thought it essential that some bill of this description should par. The power of the magistrates as to the relief of the poor had been transferred by the Poor- Law to the boards of guardians, and the change had worked well and satisfactorily for the country. The prabability was that other powers might be transferred with equal ad vantage. Mr. CURISTOPHER said it would be absurd to sanc tion a measure en dissimilar from that of last year. Mr. W. PATTEN supported the second reading, in the hope of being able to restore the bill in committee to its former state. HEY WOOD supported the second reading, but re gretted the compromise clause had been withdrawn. The house then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading 63 Against l3O-67 COMMONS INCLOSURE BILL This bin wee read a 'cooed time. SECULAR INSTRUCTION. Mr. M. GIBSON moved for leave to introduce a bill to enable log's' districts in England and Wales to establish free schools for secular instruction, but on Sir R. INOLIS intimating that he would oppose the in troduction, the right hoe. gentleman postponed the motion till this day. The following members were nominated the select tom mime on divorce bills :—Sir David Dundee, Mr. Wilson Patten, Sir John Yards Buller, Sir John Pakington Mr. Walpole, Mr. Deedless, Mr. Bonham Carter, Mr. Skutt* Adair, and Mr. Armstrong. COPYRIGHT BILL. - - - --- On the motion of Mr. C. Law's, this bill wo road •rst tine. _ _ _ The house then adjourned at half-put b. THZ NEW Jume.—Yesterday Mr. Justice Cromp ton, the newly appointed judge, appeared for the first thus in public in his judicial capacity, sitting, with Mr. Justice Brie, ►t the queen's Bench Judges' Chambers, Serjeanta% NATIONAL PARLIAMENTARY REFORM AMIOCIA mor.—On Monday, at a special meeting of the influential working men of the Manchester branch of this associa tion, held at Mr. Fair's Cates Tree, Arsenate, Mr. John Buttes in the chair, a r esolution li the following effect was unanimously adopted: "That Ilk meeting, having read the proposed ministerial measure et parliamentary reform, does, for the following mamas, deem it Mei unsatisfactory and totally inidequate to the wants and eapaildes of the people :-1. Because the rating qualification proposed for borough voters is net only se high as to minis Megrim majonty of beemboblen. bee bosom the pelmipie er seek qualification epees the way tote greeds, sit bedew sad false assessments for the purpose of distreadasmest. 2. Became the bill contains no provides foe a USN equal ap portionment of representative. Ilts emstilismaise, whilst it proposes the retention of a number Oman Meese which ars either notoriously corrupt, sr eimbeedy leader the coer cive influence of certain titled landed preprieton ; and be cause the property, numbers, and Miasmic, of the great populous districts of the country are le be thereby debarred from their rightful and legitimate inks see ba the severs ment of the empire. 3. Because it essasise me reviles either for the ballot or for shortening the duration of par liaments; and, finally, because the bill, by the exclusion of millions of worthy and intelligent citizens who have a eon etitutioaal right to the suffrage, laves the vestige of popular representation for continuos agitation and marry and justifiable esinplaint." LONDON ORPHAN ASTLI7III. Yesterday the thirty-seventh enema' dieser ef the shove valuable sad Mt portaat pima at the Landes Tomes. wheel about 121 sat down to dimmer. The shale who taken by by several of the mid ballematial=74lreNis au gri g lichange and the Mahan Mimeo. Dr. Only. b pespeeig the health of the einkrmer, alluded to the ha this diedvo Ys Mater the Bank of leShad been teisd te sub au. gainer le the . Ifs carless liole of sub were mad. end the et elearly 1,11111111., Bent *tow pupae, bevies been announeed amid loud cheers, the company separated. EXCHEQUER BILLS.—A return ordered by the WNW of Commons, and issued recently, of all Ex chequer Bills riled, or authorised to be raised, charged on the aids er= 4. :l: 1852, unprovided for, shows that the amment et Bills authorised to be raised, charged es the agplim 18.52, was 17,736,000(. from this, de. deer he Bills paid of in mosey in DM, and provided he aim surplus of ways and mesas to the 6th Jan., 1863, 13,8001., leaving to be provided for in the pre sent year, 17,742,8001. Flan AT TER BT. JAMES'S HOTEL.—Lot night, about 10 o'clock, a ire Woke est at the Bt. James's Hotel, Jennyn-striset. The lame originated in the kitchen,' through the overheating of the oven. Engines from Ring street, Ooldeu-square, Chiliad's-street, Wells-street, and Crows-street stations attended, and plenty of water having been procured, the flames were extinguished after coast derabte had been dons to the premien, and the va luable (waiter* had been seriously injured. The renteste were insured in the Globe fire-office, and the building In the Royal Heehaw sad Globe Fire-offices. DIaIIIMMIINO BIOCIDE IN WEATMINOTTA.--A dis covery heels* bees made in a home in Dean-street, West =Maw wink lee gives rise to • most painful is la then meiL About saves year ago as mimed died, thembsed. sad WY buried is the Breigmap ia =: yard. lie *how was kilt aaperrided hy sad hi Lemke to tape a slandea fa Kest, when she or set eassusetel. Atge s e u =i r edth eim exisat beeth Isek . She, at ablestedhlit= wets 1811 log bor. ems Iladeab kr mail we te ebb the gym er her haseeste. /he tem away, bat setelead mad tea an of the ream based at tete, mad way Male wee seen et her ellsraseds ; the bet swiss hies whoa she 1 west le the ban* le borrow a yea mad lab rift she waited Mt nib a letter. Aber Sat, hr week am mere was seen of her, sad empilisn Wag excited, the due wee forted apes, wad she mu bead rep_ dead_ . ea Ihe seep*. 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She coaeladee—m If I mai bona died ea my 's graye st's' I mad& taw dew se." • - IG, FEBRUAR: the entreiso. TO CORRTAPON DINTS. % ward Ultima et .ISi Ewe". ilis Ns, assisho tt emsetts," is 'Whited sway Tusday sad rWy isislS, is tisse Mr pss. tips waists latessisd tor.. The Lapress," !Arils Vsts' paps, smut tts st So Oise. te. Sisesarimirest. 4 Two Visit is Ss Say of pablisilksa. RION WATER AT LONDON DRIDOS. T.is Mt —llandaG k She MUM", !,•6 i& U:; ii: i 4:. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19. Out readers must give us credit for being as strongly opposed as other people can be to a French invasion. We have one point of sympathy with " Noodle " in SYDNEY SMITH'S " Noodles Oration " at all events—" nolumus leges Anglin mutari"— by a foreigner. If we object to hasty schemes for creating a raw militia—if wo hint that existing forces should be made serviceable before the country is called on to pay for new ones—we are noways inclined to leave the nation in a defenceless condition. lint the defence wo want is a natural and wise one. Let us avail our selves of our best materials of safety. Let us first make the most of what we owe to Providence, and then it will be time to make the most of the propo sals of our government. Now, the important protection of this country lies in the sea. The sea forms the magic circle round us, beyond which the intruder is harmless—if the magician be true. Every due preparation should await an adventurer who landed, but the best preparations would prevent him from landing at all. How is this to be done? Are we to sit still and look at Cherbourg? Are we to console ourselves like Sir CHARLES Nsrien with the reflection that in case of war the Admiralty would possibly lose their heads? Are we to go on altering the sterns of line-el . -battle ships, or building steamers for specula tive architects? This is all getting somewhat mono tonous now-a-days. The fact is, what we want— what we must achieve—is the command of the Channel. The Duct knows that it is necessary —naval authorities believe it to be practicable. NAPOLEON was so satisfied of the importance of it that his subtlest scheme was an ela borate preparation for it, which would have been achieved, too, but for the genius of COLLINGWOOD, the very luckiest weather, and the action of Sir ROBV.IIT CALDER. We ought to be able to blockade Cherbourg with steamers whenever it was required. We ought to have a well-exercised fleet within easy hail. Of course, steam has facilitated the passr of the Channel : but steam tells both ways. A eof I wind that blew our fleet off the coast woul d effec tually prevent any other fleet putting to sea.l Then, beach landings are not so easy as some people suppose. Boats loaded with men and arms would not glide in perfect tranquillity to beaches, so various, so ticklish in character, that they require boats of peculiar construction to suit theta respec tively. We are very fairly placed—if we take fair advantage of our means. But this is what wo must do; this is the thing now become an imperative duty. At present, it is no wonder if alarmists ex pect the very worst, when our authorities, like the old couple in the Scotch song, are disput ing about the " barring of the door" instead of bar ring it by the means within sight and reach. }or a long time the Tagus fleet has been invisible for the same obvious reasons which apply to the Spanish fleet in SHERIDAN'S farce. But at last— thanks to everything but the government—we have it in our waters. People will be too glad to see it back to be very critical about its ;past history. This fleet will give us what, until late years, was a perennial English possession, the nucleus of a powerful squadron near home. The germ of a real defence will exist; and, attention being directed to naval affairs, we may hope to sec bestowed on naval preparations of a reformed character some of the energy which has rushed with such zeal from time to time into freaks of architecture,—began in haste and repented of at leisure. It is pretty certain that the French war steamer department is at this instant in better con dition than ours; yet we have an excellent resource, if required, in the employment of mercantile steamers, and, in spite of blunders and corruption, we have undoubtedly many of the finest vessels in the world on our navy list. Where, thee, should we direct special attention? What is die point most deserving of study and observation? It is very simply stated : it is the question of men—the question of manning the navy. We are not quite so stupi&d ye: by exhibitions of extravagance in ship-building as to be unaware that it is to its men that the navy must look for its triumphs. If our ship-building is unfortunate, why, the more need that our " manning" should be first-rate. From the earliest times, this manning has been done in the oddest manner; seriously, it is perhaps the oddest thing in all history. It has been a strange system made up of Inisser faire, luck, and brute force. Our seamen (and their number is something about a quarter of a million) have wandered at large on the high seas. Tfie selection of them for the navy has been perfectly extraordinary. It has sometimes taken them as volunteers; sometimes poached for them as poachers do for pheasants ; sometimes it gives a bounty, sometimes not • some times it has kept them for years and years, Ptolemy ru'ens : sometimes turned them adrift. Only within the last twenty years has even the regis tration of seamen been adopted. And still the whole thing is a chaotic affair. " Manning" has always been the difficulty of difficulties. On an average it takes months to man a line-of-battle ship at all decently; and in any ease of hurry many very in different seamen must be shipped—seamen whose training in case of war would cost us more than it is pleasant to speculate on. This state of things has caused remonstrances enough ; but remonstrances with Admiralties, like new war•steamers, constantly break down. Some times it is proposed to organise all our seamen into a government force in the semi-military style adopted in France. The answer to this is, that our seamen are—seamen ; that they will not enter on any such lengthened engagement; that they demand short services and quick changes. Why, it was only the other day, when the Ganges was paid off, that an offer of six weeks' leave was joined with • proposal for re-entry, and scarcely any of the seamen acceded to it. An American sea man only engages for three years, and at the end of that period is at liberty to leave, be his vessel where- ever she may be. Our seamen engage for five years, and it is found to be as long a period as they will stay. Away they wander, carrying their gunnery practice with them, to impart to others, or to forget for themselves. How, then, are good seamen to be got on an emergency ? We must not rely on our power of dragging away the 3,000 available coast guardmen. Still lies must we fancy that impress ment would be tolerated now-a-days in any port in England. 'The Navy Estimates are down on the parliamen tary bill of fare ter immediate discussion. It is not ex pected that any increase will be found to have taken place in our regular expenditure. But a passage in Lord JOHN Itessett's speech on Monday night Deemed to foreshadow somewhat of a precautionary demand for an increased sum for the current year. For any such demand from such a quarter very good reasons will have to bo forthcoming. If we are to pay for our navy more than we do now, let it be for some palpable improvement; one to which we may look for the protection which the country demands, and the necessity for which the government admits. An honest economy would not grudge a fair proposal in a cause like this. It would, of course, look closely at the scheme. A scheme, for instance, which should deal with this "manning difficulty in a reasonable way would be likely to be very favourably received. It would be expected to be thoroughly out of the old sphere of com pulsion and to avoid anything of the air of • conscription. Its organisation, too, would have to suit itself to the established rights and customs of the class for which it was made, and to exhibit marks of that keowledge of the nautical character without which good nautical legislation is impossible., With • sensible provision for a good supply of qualified seamen on an emergency, our preparation for a thorough national defence would begin well. A little honourable popularity would perhaps • give • cheerful briskness to Admiralty proceedings. And at all events it is high time that we should take care that the element to which we owe our national supremacy, shall not, by any neglect of it, become the source of national misfortune or disgrace. 19, 1i52. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVININO. There are rompers current in the best informed circles, that a note of a character likely to be any thing but agreeable to Louis Napoleon has just reached Paris from St. Petersburg. Whether it is an instruction to the Russian minister or a formal despatch, is not at present to be ascertained. Its contents, however, are as nearly as possible of the following character. The Czar can no longer regard in silence the rapid steps by which the Pnnce-Presi dent is advancing to an unmistakeable term—has seen with displeasure certain decrees published by the President of the Republic soon after the results of the vote of December the 20th and 21st became known—the act which substitutes tho Imperial eagle for the Gallic cock on the standards of the Republic—that which establishes the effigy of the President on the coinage —and, finally, that which transfers the presidential residence from the Elyske to the Tuileries. His Majesty saw in these various acts, more or less significative indications of tho re establishment of another Imperial era, an occurrence which he must feel it his duty to prevent. The note, it is believed, says nothin,q of the Orleans decrees. Ile Russian minister has been to the Foreign office, and if he has not produced the note he has acted upon it by demanding explanations on the subject referred to. The President himself has since seen the Russian minister, and is said to have betrayed great indignation at the suspicions enter tained. It is probable that the courier who left Paris for St Petersburg last Wednesday, convey eil some assurances upon this subject. TILE NEW PRESS LAW AND DECLARATIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT. PARIS, WEDNESDAY Evrosiso. The Moniteur promulgates at last the new law on the press, if that can bo called law which sets all law at defiance. In the charter of 1814, the 14th article, by reserving to tho King the power of malting ordinances, virtually neutralised the guarantees con tained in the remaining clauses, and enabled the ex ecutive power to dispense with all restraint. hence it is a fashion with the French to call by the name of the 14th article any clause in a law which enables the government to dispense with tho rest. In this sense the 14th article of the present ordinance is the last clause of the third chapter, which gives to the executive the power of suppressing by a simple decree any journal whose existence it regards as dangerous to the public security. I have already made known to you in previous let ters the principal features of the present law. I now invite your attention to some points which were not anticipated. No journal is allowed to give any report of the trials of•preffia offences, so that the de fence pronounced by an advocate in court can not be reproduced by any newspaper; nor, indeed, is the report of law proceedings in any suit or trial whatever permitted to be published without the per mission of the court. No journal is allowed to pub lish any report of the debates of the Legis lative Body. Permission is only given to copy what is called the proces-terbal prepared by the board of the Chamber. This consists simply of the minutes on the journals of the house, in which the name of no speaker is mentioned. In this form the longest debates will not occupy above a column. No account whatever is allowed to be given of the sittings of the Council of State. Thus, to all intents and purposes. the public will remain completely fo reign to the business which in all civilised countries constitutes the chief food of opinion. I have touched, in a preceding letter, upon the question of judicial advertisements. This has been, es you will see, solved in the arbitrary sense. The right of inserting such advertisements in what journals they please is taken away from the parties chiefly interested, and the prefect is allowed to divert this source of gain, which constitutes one of the main resources of departmental journals, into the channel of government patronage. Thus M. Abba tuoci, who as a member of the old chamber of depu ties, offered the most vehement opposition to the clause of the Press Bill which empowered the magistrates to designate the journals in which the annonees judiciaires were to be inserted, has now set his name to a decree which confers that privilege on the prefect. Those clauses which concern the circulation of foreign journals are much I , more stringent than was expected. Thus no foreign newspaper is admitted into France without previously obtaining the authorisation of the French government. In fact it would appear from the 2nd article that if any English gentleman were to bring over a number of Punelt in his pocket, and lend it about, he would become liable thereby to be imprisoned for a term not less than one mouth or more than ono year, and to a fine of not less than 41. or more than 2001. The text of the new law is as follows: CIIAPTI2. I. Preliminary authoriaati;;;nd caution-money of journals and periodical publications. Art. I. No journal or periodical publication relating to political subjects or social economy, and appearing either regularly, on fined days, or in numbers and irregularly, ern be started or published without the previous authorisation of the government. Such authorisation can be accorded only to a French subject, who has passed his majority and who is in the enjoyment of his civil and political rights. The preliminary authorisation of the government will be likewise necessary whenever any change is effected in the personnel of the gerant, chief editor, proprietors, or adminis trators of a journal. Art. 2. Journals on political matters or on social economy, published in foreign countries, cannot circulate in France unless with the authorisation of the government. Any per son introducing or distributing a foreign journal, the circu lation of which shall not have been authorised, shall be punished by an imprisonment of from one month to one year, and a fine of from 1001 r. to 6,000 fr. Art. 3. The proprietors of any journal or periodical pub lication, treating of political matters or of social economy, are required before its publication, to pay into the treasury • caution-money_ in cash, for which interest will be paid a t the usual rats allowed in such matters. Art. 4. For the departments of the Seine, the Seinsect- Oise, the Seine-et-Marne, and the Rhone, the caution- I money is regulated as follows :—lf the journal or periodical ' work appears more than three times a week, either on fined days, or In irregular numbers, the caution-money will be 60,0(10fr. ; and if the publication takes place only three times a week, or at more distant intervals, 30.000 fr. In towns of fifty thousand 'Dula and upwards, the caution money of journals or periodical publications, appearing more than three times a week, will be 26,000 fr. In other towns, it will be 15,000 fr. ; and respectively, one half of these two sums fur journals or periodical writings appearing only three time a week, or at more distant intervals. Art. 6. All publications of a journal or periodical work. without previous authorisation or without the payment of caution-money, or without the whole of the required cau tion-money being paid up, shall be punished by a goo of from 100 fr. to 2,1100fr.,:f0r each number published in con traveution, and an imprisonment of from one month to two years. The person publishing such journal or periodical work and the printer shall he conjointly responaible ; and the journal or periodical publication in question shall cease to appear. CHArtill 11. The Sta m p on ir;Wrnals. Art. 8. Journal, or periodical publications, and periodi cal collections of political engravinn or lithograpic plates, of less than ten sheets of hum twenty-five to thirty.two decimetres square, or of less than five sheets, or from fifty ' to seventy-two decimetres square, shall be subjected to • stamp-duty. That duty shall be 6 centimes for each sheet of seventy-two decimetres square and under, in the depart. ments of the Seine and the Seine-et-Oise ; and 3c. for jour nals, engravings, and periodical works published elsewhere. For each fraction above ten decimetres square and under, lie. shall be levied in the departments of the Seine and the Seine-et-Oise, and le. everywhere else. The supplements of the official journal, whatever may be their number, are szempt from stamp-duty. Art. 7. An allowance if one per cent. on the ttamp duty shall be made to the publishers of journals or penodical works fee spoiled copise. Art. 8. The stamp duty imposed by the present law shall be applicable to journals and periodical works published in foreign countries, unless in case of diplomatic arrangements to the contrary. A regulation of the public administration will determine the mode of levying this duty. Art. 9. No periodical works, treating of political matters or of social economy, which are not at present in comae of publication, or which, previous to the present law, have not become public property, if they are published in one or seven: numbers, having less than ten leaves of impression of from 26 to 32 decimetres square, shall be subjected to a stamp-duty of be. per sheet. There shall be levied lie. for each fraction above 10 decimetres square and under. This provision is applicable to non-periodical works published in foreign countries. They shall. on importation, be sub jected to the stamp-duty imposed on those published in France. _ Art. 10. The heads of the registration-office and the officers of the public force are authorised to seize such journals or publications as may be in contravention of the present enactments concerning the stamp-duty. They are required to make declaration of such seizure by a proces verbal, which is to be signified to the offending parties within a delay of throe days. Art. 11. Each contravention of the enactments of the present law for journals, engravings, or periodical writings. shall be punished, independentl♦ of the restitution Of the duties held back, by a fine of 50tr. per sheet or fraction of sheet without stamp, and 100 fr. in ease of repetition of the offence. The dine cannot in its totality exceed the amount of caution•money. For other publican ins, each contraven. lion shall be punished, independently o f t h e restitution of the duties held back, by a tine equal to the double of t y said amount duty. That line cannot, in any case, I x ter or to 200f of r., not exceeding in its totality 4 4 1,000 fr. Art. 12. The recovery of the stainp.ilitty and of the fines for contravention shall be effected in conformity with Art . 76 of the law of April 28, 1816. Art. 13. In addition to the stamp-duty fixed by the pi e , sent law, the tari ff s existing anteriorly t o the I.IW of J ury 16, 1850, fur the transport of journils and oilier publiit• Lions, by the Post-oftlee, are re-e.tabh‘lail. CHAPTLit Offences and Contraventions not provided for by pre,,,ling laws —J urisdietMes—Executiou of Judgments -Right of Suspension and Suppression. Art. 14. Every contravention of Art. 12 of the tomtit*. tion, relative to the publication of the official reports of Ma sittings of the Legislative Body, shall be punished with a fine of from I,ooofr. to 5,000 fr. Art. 15. The publication or rt production of false 'tumor documents fabricated, falsified, or falsely attributed to third parties, shall be punished with a fine of from:Mfr. If the publication or reproduction is made with hit...ebony bad faith, or if it is of a nature to trouble the public p - are the penalty shall be an imprisonment of from une tumul i to one year, and a fine of from .500 tr. to I,ooofr. The mum of penalty shall be applied, if the publication or re production is at the same time of a nature to t rou b le the public peace, and made with intentional bad faith. Art. 16. It is interdicted to give any account of the sa tin?* of the Senate other than the rctirsdue:i.,n of the articles inserted in the Official Piero tl. It is to.ter.lictril to give ally account of the private sitting* of the Councilor State. Art. 1,. It is forbidden to publish any report of trials for press offences. The case can he merely in, ; in all cases, the judgment can he published. In all elegies, eie,j, correctional, or criminal, the co ur t s o f l aw ran prebitat se e publication of the proceedings. This Ustr,nl action i, wd to apply to the judgment, which may he always made public. Art. Is. Any violation of the disposition. of .trtieles bi and 17 of the present law shall be punished by a bee of from fifty to five thousand franc., without prejadico to the penalties pronounced by the law, if the report be uidadlsfel and designedly incorrect. Art. 19. Every gimig shall he bound to in- r at the head of the journal official iloentnerit+, autheutie nlatiera, information, replies, and r. etifications which may be al drrsatd to him by any public authority. The pu.diration must take place in the neat numbs r of the pretrial wh.ch may appear after the reception of the documents. The tertian shall be gratuitous. In cue of infraction, offenders shall be punished by a tine of from fitly to one thousand franc.. Besides, the journal may b.: suspended, by admi nistrative authority, duriug period not eacceilitig tiftma days at the outside. Art. 20. If the publication of a journal or periodical under suppression or administrative or judicial su.oension, shall be continued under the Wile titleur under a disguised title, the authors, gerants, or printers shall be cued, mned to (rum a month to two years' imprisonment, and jointly to a tine of from five hundred to three thousand francs for each number or sheet published in contravention. Art. 21. The publication of any article treating of politi cal matters or social ec onom y, and emanating front a per condemned to a prise cylli.ti,e et infffivude, or infam,,,te only, is interdicted. Publishers, getatits, and printers who may have taken part in the puldicateni, shall be joiutly condemned to a fine of from one thousand to tire thousand francs. Art. 22. No drawing., engravings, lithographs, medals, prints, or emblems, of whatever nature or kind they may be, tan be publ'slied, a ahihited, or offered for +de, without the previous authorisation of the minister of pollee at Paris, or of the prefects in the departments. In case of contra vention, the drawings, engravings, lithographs, medals, prints, or emblems, may be contincatod ; and those wan may have published them shall be condemned to (roman* month's to a year's imprisonment, and to a fiae of trust one hundred to one thousand francs. Art. 23. Judicial advertisements required by the laws for the validity or publicity of proceedings or contract+ shall be inserted, under the penalty of nullity of ineettion, in the journal or journals of the arrondissement which shall be designated every year by the prefect. In ease there shall be no journal in the arrondissement, the prefect shall desiguate one or several journals in the department. The prefect shall, at the same time, regulate the tariff oh miter tisements. Art. 24. Any person who carries on the hooksellinz tr.ale Nithout having obtained the license required by Art. II of the law of the 2nd Oct., 1814, shall be puni.lied by tram one month to two years' imprisonment, and by a fine of from one hundred to two thousand francs. The establohment 'hall be closed. Art. 2.1. Prosecutions shall take place before the Tri bunals of Correctional Police fur, Ist, offences committed by means of the press, or any other means of publication mentioned in Art. 1 of the law of the 17111 May, 1419, and which were referred by previous laws to the jurisdiction of the Courts of Assize. 2. Contraventions of the press, pro. vided (orby previons laws. 3. Offences and contraven tions set fort h by * present law. Art. 26. The appeals from judgments given by the tor reetional tribunals on offenees committed by means of the ' press, shall be carried direct, without regard to a.,y local distinction between such tribunals, before the Con e.:ional Chamber of the Court of Appeal. Art. 27. Prosecutions shall take place in the forms and periods prescribed by the code of criminal proceedinlts. Art. al. In no case shall proof by witnesses he ielmitted to establish the truth of insulting or defamatory statements. Art. 29. Within three days from the judgment ur full tire decision of condemnation for crime, offence, or contra vention by the press, the gran( of the journal must acquit the amount of condemnation which he may have incurred, or fur which he may be responsible. In case of appeal to the Court of Caseation, the amount of the cendemuatioas shall be deposited within the same period. Art. 30. The deposit or payment prescribed by the pre ceding article 6411 be established by duplicate re( ends deli vered by the Receiver des llamaincs. This receipt shall bs on the fourth day at the latest, remitted to the Pbearear of the Republic, who shall gise an acknowledgment for it. Art. 31. In ens., the gCrant shall not have remitted the receipt within the period above fixed, the journal shall cease to appear, under pain of the penalties preser.bed by Art. i of the present law. Art. 32. A condemnation 6ir crime committed by means of the press, or two condemnations for offences or contra ventions committed within the period of two years, shall of full right cause the suppression of the journal of which the p;rants may have been condemned. After a wedeln nation pronounced f.r eontrasention or offence of the press against the responsible editor of a journal, the goverment has the power, during the two months which may tallow such condemnation of pronouncing either the temporary or permanent suspension of the journal. A journal may be suspended by ministerial decision, even when it has not been the object of any condemnation, but after two formal notifications, and during a period which cannot exceed two months. A journal may be suppressed either after a judicial or administrative suspension, or by measure of general safety, but by a special _decree of the President of the Republic, published in the Bulletin tks Lou. CHAPTER IV. Transitory Disposition. Art. 33. The proprietors of j ournals or political periodicals actually existing are dispensed from the authori•atiun re quired by Art. 1 of the present law. A delay of two months is accorded to complete their caution-money. At the expira tion of that period, if the caution-money be not completed, and if the publication continue, Art. 5 of the present law shall be applied. Art. 3a. The dispositions of the present law relative to the stamp on journals and periodicals shall only come into effect from the lit March neat. The stamp duty and postage on subscriptions made before the promulgutlon of the present law shall be reimbursed to the proprietors of I journals or periodicals. The necessary demand/and proofs shill be made in the forms determined by the regulations of the —. This expense shall be placed to the ortdit of Chap. LXX. of the budget of finances relative to the re imbursements on indirect proceeds. Art. 35. A delay of three months is accorded to obtain a bookseller's license to those who have Rot obtained one, and who at present carry on the bookselling trade. After that delay, they sl•all be subject, if they continue their trade, to the penalties set forth in Art. 20 of the present law. Art. 36. The present law is not applicable to Algeria and the colonies. The clauses of previous laws contrary• to the present one, and especially of Arts. 14 and 18 of the law of the 16th July. 1630. are repealed. Art. 37. The ministers arc charged each in what concerns him with the execution of the present decree. Given at the Palace of the Tuileries, the lith of Feb ruary, 1852. By the President, Louis NArIII,I:4IN. X. DR CABABIANCA. Minister of State. The greatest anxiety is evinced by the govern , ment to arrest the commercial crisis which is immi nent by calming the terrors excited by its infatuated crusade sguinst all liberties. The following note, inserted in the Moniteur of to-clay, repudiating the warlike designs attributed to Louis Napoleon, is dictated by the same solicitude to assuage the agita tion which prevails, and restore something like public confidence and credit: The following, „ communicated," appears in the Monikur : When in 1848 it was in contemplation to nominate Prince Louis Napoleon to the office of President of the Republic, several English journals, and the greatest part of the per sons interested in opposing that nomination, pretended that to place a Bonaparte at the head of France, would be to throw a defiance to all Europe—would be, in fact, the signal for • general war. It is now apparent to all that these apprehensions were not realised. Since December the 2nd the same system of calumny has been pursed, and party-spirit and ignorance have contri buted to got them accredited. The most ah•urd suppositio•s have been invented; at one time it was that demands were made to neighbouring states in a tone almost of Menace: at another, that preparations were being made for war, and the letters of the foreign correspondents, by means of audacious lies, presented our situation in a point of sieve altogether imaginary. Time, which ordinarily is prompt enough in treating as it deserves any work of =alert+ nee and fully, appears at prevent to encourage these persons tO go on. More than ever false alarms aro propagated, de• algae of invasion are attributed to the government, and even some of our regiments arc represciited as on the point of the frontier. The consequence is that iujur} . %keno toren U CC? Cal 111 100 ag to TI ha