The Express. — London, England, 1852-03-29 00:00:00

grim exprelso• TO CORRESPONDENTS. • *mead Ultimo ;( . 11 - eii - peees,.. — eintalatae -- isis• er •• 'kw+ in" Y pubeehed seer; Theedel sa 1 Vtlday ua awe kit pel. au,rstmueals latemle4 for The Leprae.. LOIMAOII Perdu, pew, met be at the Oelleh lbeeeerley Tye delete ea the w et peletieetheb THOU WATNR AT LONDON BRIDGE Tan Dae—llaralag, 11. I la. 71. 435. I ..11.1411% —llamas. IL Ili.. Alisrasea, 7... LONDON, MONDAY, M,iliCH 29. INDER a parlianientury simarnment like ours, po litical power is, in ordinary circumstances, exercised exclusively by a comparatively *w sera and active politicians. Members of parliament.mfdtes far the political press, electionesseig agents, mmitene perty E, political &decennia. and ie =a 4 ; 644 of tical theories, take the Wed ninnliwnit agitations. It is net they the gent Mike* of the people—enfranchised and wee-enfranahhed apathetic in regard of public affairs ; but they have other things to mind—shops to look after, webs to spin or factories to keep at work, suits to plissd, decd. to engross, bills of lading to examine, Demos* to write and preach, patients to physic or phleboteenise, anti so forth—and can bestow only a secondary and intermittent attention to political boring's. They, toe, have their favourite systems of policy, their favourite statesmen, but busied about many things, they in general have the active, business of politics to • those who may be said to make a task of it. They stand and look on while the battle is fought by then self appoiuted champions. This, however, is the way in which public affairs are left to be =nagged, so long only as they arc conducted in general harmony with public opinion, and with ave nge prudence and success. When the political ma chine appears to be getting out of joint—or when the political workmen appear to be getting into a scrape, —the multitude, who have been contented lookers on. interfere, insist upon matters being set to rights, and then fall back again into their dia meter of lookers-on till some new emergency shall again call for their active interference. In other words, party and party men are allowed in England to work the machine of government; but under a pretty sharp look-out on the part of the in telligent. industrial portion of the community,. who, whenever the party in power evinces a disposition to act in defiance of the common sense or prevailing opinions of society at large, throw their weight into the scale of opposition, and re-adjust the deranged balance of the state. The impending election is an appeal to these non combatants in political strife; a calling out of the farriirr-bun or land-stern, to put a more speedy ter mination to the indecisive, interminable, and there fore mischievous struggles of parties (ill-natured peo ple might say factions) too equally matched. It is an occasion on which all "no party men," or indif ferentists owe it to their country and themselves to shake off for a time their habitual indolence or apathy, and strengthen the politicians who seem to them most capable of steering aright the vessel of the state—most worthy of confidence as the more honest or Ices dishonest of the competitors for power and place. Whip, tortes, and radicala—proteetionists and ikee-traders--conservatives and pragres icu • is—are sure to be busy enough, giving their votes, and driv ing their followers or allies to the poll But this Section of the community, in the country at large as in parliament, is split up in four or more parties, each of which ia too weak to outnumber the others, while any one of them may be checked and paralysed by the vexatious opposition of the rest. This is ex actly the occasion when the sensible and patriotic among that part of the public which is too much engrossed with necessary private business to have much time left for public affairs, ought to bestir themaelves at the elections to ensure the return of able, sagacious, honest members of parliament, —men ' lastly to unite in support of a really good ministry, and of none other. Now, the form in which the appeal is made to these holders of the balance of parties is this:— Have you confidence in Lord De.ant's govern ment? Do you believe that it is conducive to the interests, that it is compatible with the safety, of treat Britain to allow the men who, by a curious dis location of parties, have lately contrived to creep into office, to remain there?" Now, what is the character and composition of this Dam ministry, now, by a dissolution of par liament, about to ask the suffrages of the country for its continuance in office? Let us first look to their capacities, apart from the principles which they en tertain or profess. Their leader, Lord DERBY, is known as an able and accomplished debater—the effect of his eloquence being somewhat marred by a vixen tongue. But he is also known to be habitually indolent and self-indulgent ; easily roused to anger, but without the power of continuous exertion; and afraid of incurring responsibility to a degree that paralyses him for action. The member of his cabinet next to him in place, if not in influence, is the CHANCELLOR of the Mangum Mr. Dissusizz's brilliancy as a writer and speaker is not more universally acknowledged than his general want of judgment and inasmon sense as a thinker; yet these are the only two active and efficient men in the ministry. The talent and taste of Mr. WALPOLE are barely sufficient to enable him to palliate the eccentricities of the ministerial leader in the Commons. The benevolence of the fluke of NORTHUMBERLAND, and his profes sional enthusiasm, would make him a valuable adjunct to an efficient cabinet; but be is a mere accessory— he cannot stand alone. The remaining offices are filled up with the worn-oat hacks of obsolete yartitw, like the venerable fliaam--ehesr aon-entities, like the well-meaning Seawall he the CoLOXIss ; or failures, like Mr. HENLZT, vles haw already "whited as a sinieter the repeledes Ise psi judgment whisk hearquired as a use easate, isidelletS. The blab Wirers of state are ItimMlM a mart with Oesige for die liseash, Lord Dun has bees =it As tako for Lord-Advocate a sweeping fres the led raia . iday of Bir Rowe lei Whin we tarn to umpire into tha plasiples ol this' fiat setae are still worse. /leek chid s lidsinif is Irk life by the Tinders we moth an by tbmaraY of Me whir the time ef Ste side himself equally esespiseene he rabid nitra-tveyhes Sines he lea last teen in opreeides he made preteeties the wives of feeds be in new pip* mums to • that &minim Hie CILBSCIILLOS ci the Excnieume, deisima n e mis krd the tory party, boa in one breath that to were advocated_ by the bides spied te gi r lima hip and in the next deck es his eislisfikedre Snag the re turn to them. He Lemon w esesest that the continuance of his he pewit is granary to avert refers in , sad th e meet ram& his hearers that IZIST was aim of the Re heat Bill mairtry. Mr. NAP= sad lased DIJUIT declare that it is their ishadies is 'give the Osage press of Imbed sees _pewee, and the national amides et Ivied; Warw.' presets that they men esa&g of the kind. Prom the higher te Se Sweet el ha party, from Lord Dine to Mr. G. F. Teem. they are elaborately nips in that prallimins aid They hint to the Whistle that their psi wishes go along with this, to the Illestele that they se the heji tryiag es resist the Issiessies of the sip try ht gaol& every Etas that they ear of his Sea, bet they weak thesselme to as.. by a frank avowal of their intentions. They has me Axed principles, no dodged mine of action. They will gloss and fawn open everybody, and ad ht the ex • _ et their owa sell& sinister terests. Utcy seaset be bided by the peet in y ?mire* by willerniatin& sod ebetruet mg which dry ease Ste else t they cannot be ' treated ma by die eseervatise whoa they are' evideedy i reresd let if they est gain any thabeen imemeheetese whiimers-in, and e and at epee et the DERBY party, ! there is me amen in lighed whir her anything to pia by their sootiness in Asa Rven the landed' Lave nething te her from them, for I they are delft to lemma their numbers by re tithing into their maks. What have ..he eeisaial interests to expect he. a ministry at tee head of whisk_ they me the meet peevish, se lf- ImMdier Wats het meemmented the GLEE it not serted P What hme the **gift littere laisS d Is sagest h as em ass YonHee* tell thin shat the balsa et the 4lt MGM II 69 twigs*. laws MMeeeleilliet woo west se the mans ease am I -.the, km . who undertake W. ea ere 60 'blss twr • piths* that &shill, Mews] ehth them Amo battle is at Isola*. The alutinuanee d a WI a faction in power can only lead M the °Wrathy' se isrielatioa, and to the paralysis ad adminiat reties gevesnment. Them oonsiiimatiewars for the " no-party men " of tame wham overwhelming industrial /ROI tarn of mind and owed -47;1=88i inisaldad se distrust of all public men :411111:ilea laical arena, keep apart from and political strife. Tbe mere iMnis= indissile, unprincipled, self-seeking Whoa as that which • has now crept into office obtaining a majority at the coming general election is too pregnant with danger and discredit to the whole community, to lave any man the option of remaining neutral. Whoever may come into parlia ment at the approaching elec.iot,, as many Derbyites must be kept out as possible. To be an avowed sup porter of the DERBY ministry—even to evince by the phrase of giving it "a fair ti ial" a disposition to coquet with it—ought to be sufficient to ensure the rejection of any candidate. The friends of liberal policy at home and abroad—the advocates of safe rational progress—the friends of civil and religious liberty,incur no risk by perilling the issue of the election upon the question whether candidates sup port or the Dearly ministry. Within the last th irty oppose the years a change his coma over the public mind that ensures is against barefaced, per manent re-action. Even a DERBY ministry will abet illiberal and oppressive government only by indirect and mnessW none; but they will by every means in their power embarrass, obstruct, thwart, all efforts for political and social improve meet. The really liberal conservatives will support a rational commercial and financial policy, and as the only means of upholding it, such a diffu eisa of intelligence as must tell upon political Ileitious also. The eclectic, timid liberals, who sweet the name of whigs, will allow themselves to be =onwards by more clear-sighted and ener tures. Rational reformers, untrammelled by prey alliances, will promote all substantial reforms. Theis three shades of opinion divide among them the whole " no-party public" — the great comparatively inset mass which in seasons of emerrnoy holds the Wows of power =cog parties. The candidates who by Issesseed in their appeals to this section lithe pills, must be friendly to general education, a liberal commercial policy, benevolent care of the rights and interests of all climes of the community, moderate taxes and an honest appropriation of the public revenue, a pacific policy and abstention from the internal intrigues and squabbles of foreign states. A deep conviction pervades the " no party " . public of the urgent necessity for a search ing revision of our electoral system. It will soon be seen, after the assembling of a parliament composed of members attached to these principles, who among oar public men enjoy the con fi dence sod support of the greatest number among them ; and then, and not till then, will it be possible to determine what new combination of leading statesmen is most likely to give us a ministry animated by the principles of rational possess that can command a working ma jonty in the Bosse of Commons. The Weans of the present day and hour is to put down the DIRIT ministry. When they have been effectually put out of the way—disarmed of all power to do harm—then it will be time tomb who are to be their successors. TO•NIORT the question of militia or no militia is to be put to the House of Commons. Conscription or no conscription?—that is the problem. Are we to have our fleet ready for our defence when needed? or are our ships to be left abroad, and our coasts to be entrusted to raw town lads and slow country bumpkins who have had a few days' drill? Are we to keep governments, both tory and whig, out of continental wars, by keeping to a regular military force P or are we—under pretence of na tional defence—to levy a militia, whereby good workmen may be made into bad soldiers and bad citizens, but be ready for transfer by thousands into line regiments for fighting abroad? In order to understand fully the question respect ing the militia, it is necessary to inquire whether its practical utility will compenaate the vexations which it must Game to the poorer classes, and the expense which it will entail on the country. No man, what ever political party he may belong to, can be found who will declare that a militia can, at any time, withstood successfully a regular army. The French beat the militia in Spain, and in Prussia ;—nay, almost aoaihilated them. The allies not only beat the Reuel militia in 1814, but the French rulers theimielms have never reckoned upon the National Guido, damp as a force available for the security of mad when CATAIONAC was named dictator f l o7tre tY perpos of putting down the insurrection of 1848, be bond the National Guard not only useless bat he the way. The Doke of WELLINGTON has wow advocated the militia in England, but as a pis oiler : and Lord Joule Bunn!. himself, when bruigiag in hie militia bill, stated that he did so "blame there was no prospect the home ever wispdag any lion for en increase of thirty or men." In this his lordship was per fectlyf right. The House of Commons was not hiely to listen to a plan for creating an unnecessarily Imp standing army when there was no necessity for as bat at the IMO time it was not paying the goad Neese cliche house a very great compliment to tell them that whilst they were being startled with this scarecrow of 90,000 regulars, they were in return to vote 80,000 ;—eighty thousand discontented, useless Utopia uniform. For, indeed, of what was the 'proposed militia to °mist ? Boys of 20 to 21, trained the flat year for 28 days, and afterwards for 14. Did his lordship ever see a recruit at drill?— does be kiwi* how long it takes to make a soldier P Why, it would take nine-tenths of these militia men the whole of the twenty-eight days to get through their " goose step" alone. Yet this is the force we are asked to vote as an opponent to the splendidly organised troops we were told to look for on our coast led by men of the LAYWOMEN school. Mr. PITT kinlelt the soul of that sanguinary con test which Megiend carried on for so many years, and who would willingly have availed himself of any kind and demeiption of military force, saw as far back as 1804 the inutility of the militia as a imam of defence, and saw also the hardships it inflicted on the people. He not only recommended its reduction to the number of 48,000 men as a preliminary step, bat with respect to the balloting stated, “ I very lately had the means of awing an amount of the number of those balloted emu who came personalty to serve in the three I am speaking o f ; an d I ma a t rue the house that out of 30,000, the number of theme l in Great Britain is not mare than 2,000 or 3,000—a number so trifling that everybody must feel how little beoeflt was likely to be derived kom the ballot as it Alas hitherto been constituted." The balloting that failed in Puss's days are not likely to work - better now than then. No great addition of any kind is required r our army, and as some more men are to Is added he 1 our cavalry and artillery ; if oar infantry kepaw- Vi ' es :p g t . 3 l 7 d ad if if in eo c rna c ly a re be, the pordion of our Chaneel—thss all thet te middle bee hem done. With respost to military arreaseasels there ana be but two oyeeems attempted —a ragoler may era militia. In driest of duns we know mostly what we ass depend apes. We know that so away thiami n: Cs give mummy acidities. sad net, se in the that the iptiMespart, if ass the whole mak, is playbir selilhoe„ The first imolitered by ma SlMlllowed to alma bas desk boyhood, and peastised le bedlag ma, it nee be in the bedi of Esilkatts, with, seadp . piela of Wads. In the tweeted, wehave aesnellibstisa for en m wisdoms, not fitness or capability, bat WM • Lesibeient oponialnuns in allies Yon 'Cy al Me. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1852. every man _Ow But proffimM•imtwo *ea, the tide corps, which e e freely mrang.up throughout Roglead cise m Gess this advantage. They are sol basis of under bloodthirsty leaders, but mss of station and influence. They are willing to be seganieed by the government; to be drilled by government; to arm themselves with the regulation rile, so se to ensure all the field ammunition being alike; they are will ing to be officered by government; and to charge the country nothiog for uniforms or drill meetings. In feat, instead of giving England a unitise expensive mili tia, recruited as Lord JOHN RUMILL would bon with boys, or as Lord Emile/awl prove n. alba with the hard working mechanics, we should have in rifle corps a molly valuable force, which added to tho yeomanry, would allow the regular army to take the greatest advantage of its numerical proportion. who sought out whatever force he considered could add to the strength of England, fully felt the importance of vo luntary service. "As to the refusal of adequate pecuniary and military aid to the volunteers, I must observe that it is amongst tAe most culpable and in consistent part of ministers." So spoke Mr. Pin in 1804, and yet, half a century later, the English peo. pie have to complain of a similar refusal. We are to expect an odious ballot, a forced conscription, causing discontent throughout all classes. The rich man will not like to pay a substitute, the poor man cannot afford to serve. But supposing jut substitutes are not to be allowed, who then is to be exempted? The clergyman is re quired in the cottage and the school; the doctor is wanted for the sick; the lawyer cannot lase his Urea neither can his clients wait ; the architect, the engineer must be at their post, or the community will be embarrassed; the farmer moat look after his crops ; and the manufacturer can not spare his mechanic. When will the government learn what every other class has so fully understood-- the importance of the division of labour? We are no longer living in those boasted feudal times when the peasant had to work in the field with his weapons close to him; the king can no longer call out his ban and arriere ban ; the lord of the manor, instead of mounting his war horse, and gathering his clan, finds Westminster a more congenial bivouac, and likes his tenants not to be behind-hand with their rents. Yet, now we are told to try bygone fashions, and to disturb every hearth in the country, to benefit no ono but the military clothiers, unless the militia regiments are also to have their clothing ooloools. 41/ 1 10W4 • awd 4 0eoen • lie opts by that time tin woalarilelaD isAidni by way of subvention from the Paris am initsabearg ltdhray Cempaey a wasa of 10,000.000 f. Is tee meal iembilassia. the INS elm not to be payable mill the sh e Genie fiee.• State guarantees is theme/aging Opus an la 0 : 81 4f 41 per met., eadlhe eieldeg saMlinel eke at per mat. Ise the sem thee ill a Mal et 22, whisk it it astbseissi to boom. 'The sem @Mies hem the Mee of the heeds sweet be apphed to di useisdties of serest ht prepense as .oft.tin Mimes Pim Me seste Mall have, hi its lefty oles, paid the whets or the part of tha pees lamest sad Midas Mid. it shall be repaid from the est mats of the entarprips whetter, they may arise, sad Wm say divi des& ate paid to the sompaay. If at the expiration of the esessmise the 'Me sitall he a weaker of the company, the assert shell be pissed against what may be due to the coo -1 piny hr the metsrial leiseging to it. The state also penniless an latemst of four per cent. on a further sum of 16,000,4100 fr., to be laid out by the company on the works the Mal snmal interest guaranteed not to exceed 640,0006. In order that the state may have some security far the good and profitable management of the line by the company, a clause avowedly borrowed from Prussian lelation is introduced by which the stab in case it should be called upon for five years con secutively to make any payments in respect of its guarantee of interest, is authorised to take possession of the railway and work it until the accounts shall show that it has been carried on with a profit to the state of four per cent. for three connecative 'ears, and then the line is to be rastorsd to the anspany. The remaining clauess merely consist of the usual details inserted in the Cahier des Charges generally drawn out for railway undertakings. All the decrees registered in the official journal to day are of secondary importance. The first in order is an evident feature of preparation for the empire. By it the royal and imperial chapter of St. Denis is restored to its pristine affluence and dignity under the monarchy. In 1832 the salaries of the canons were cut down to a standard of economy in harmony with the reforms expected under a citizen king; but Louis Napoleon, who seems eager to seize every oc casion of marking his attachment to those pomps and vanities, which the constitutional monarchy was obliged, in deference to public opinion, to shake off, has of course restored to the canons their !it purses. The salaries of the six ausonicates of the first order are raised to 10,000 francs. Those of the eight canonicates of the second order are increased to 2,300 francs. The next decree offers some slight compensation to the members of the old council of state, for having been deprived of their handsome salaries oa the morning of Dec. 2. It declares that ritalor teiperary indemnities may be accorded l h u sososhers of the former Council of State as have not been reappointed ; pensions alter 20 years' Savvier, and indemnities for a shorter service, but neither can be accorded unless in case of insufficiency ot income. The Press. says: The Central Agricultural Congress has been this year refused an authorisation for its stetting'. The government is said to have declared that the existence of the congress was justifiable so long as there were neither ccosultative agrieultiiral chambers, nor a well organised council general of agriculture; but that the views of the Congris Central having now received their fulfilment, this assembly had become useless. It is well known that the congre4 has been for some years past presided over by M. Duple, senior. 'rho restoration of the Articles 291, 292, and 294 of the penal code and the law of the 10th of April, 1834, contained in yesterday's Moniker, amounts simply to the entire 'oppression of the right of public meeting. According to those articles, no meeting of more than twenty per sons whose object was to meet every day, or on cer tain fixed days to consider religious, literary, politi cal, or other matters, could take place without the consent of the government. Every meeting held without such consent, or infringing the conditions upon which the consent was granted, was to be dis solved, and its leaders or managers punished by a fine of from 16 to 200 f. The same penalty was ap plicable to the proprietor of any house or room who might, without the like consent, give to the use of them even to any lawful meeting. The law of 1834 greatly aggravated the severity of these provisions, by extending them to meet ings of more than twenty persons even if divided into sections, each containing a less number, and although they might neither meet every day nor on fixed days. This law further menaced every mem ber of the society, whether present at any meeting or not, with from two months' to a year's imprisonment, and from 60 to 1,000 francs fine. For the second offence, the penalty was doubled, and the offenders were subjected to the surveillance of the high police. All this is now once again the law of France. Not an exceptional law applied to particular places, or justified by temporary considerations, bat the per manent law as laid down by the organic decree of the founder of the constitution now on the eve of ooming into operation. You may remember that this law of 1834, presented under the ministry of Thies, Guizot, sad Broglie, occasioned for a month together some of the most celebrated debates in the annals of the government of July. On the very day of its promul piton an insurrection broke out at Lyons, and three days afterwards the famous outbreak of April oc curred in Paris. Now, its revival after the many monstrosities seen since Dec. 2 appears insignificant, and scarcely excites a pulsing remark. The Bank of France has given notice that it will be open to receive applications for advances on rail way shares on and after Monday next, the 29th inst. The Duke de Valmy and Count de Clermont Tonnerre, leading members of the legitimist party, have had a private audience of the President of the Republic. The Coosstidutionnel says :—" A decree has been spoken of to reduce the rate of interest in cermet cal matters to 6 per cent., and in civil &Shire to 4 per cent. We think we can declare that the rumour is altogether devoid of foundation." Notwithstand ing this semi-ofilcial note, it is reported to-day that the lowering of interest alluded to will take place; se it is evidently in conformity with the financial policy of the government, which wishes to force down the rate of interest. At the Bourse the Five per Cents. fell 40c., closing at 100.40 ; the Three per Cents. fell 66c., and closed at 71.06. The Four and-a-Half continues at 101.26. Bank of France shares fell M. Strasbourg Railway shares were inquired for at the opening, but fell subsequently, and closed 2.50 lower than St. Germain rose 16f., and Versailles (left M e r) d l a ii The other lines scarcely varied. PARIS, 8011 DAY EIIINIIIII. The Monibsir contains to-day several decrees of great importance. The first in order as in gravity of these is that by which the various purposes to which the spoils of the house of Orleans were applied are now provided for by the sale of forests to the amend of 35 millions. This decree, after alluding to thole:see of Janaa7 23, and reciti • law of August 7, 11 , 40, w the Minister of was asdheelmall to sell h l e r r Ot and knob of the dab to the ooloot of 50 millions of lbolow• mid =alle au glZ a rla ciple that when two mho me Le property most WNW= I. keep acsahl Sot to be disposed of, amil aMmaing that diks beets comprised in the labodaie to the law of 1880 are in that , and noticing that th e gran d c h ancery o f e a lls ete a g r i l m of honour is not so creganised as to be able to manage real property, deercos that the minister of ' finance is authorised to sell the woods and forests ' above mentioned to the eetent of 35 millions of francs, and to apply the pr'joeeda in satisfaction of the following purposes rrientioned in the Orleans decree, namely, 10 millio WI for th e m e e ee t. ese i n e sece , societies, 10 millions for the amelioration of labour ers' dwellings, 10 milli one for the encouragement of institutions of credit bier, and five millions for a retiring pennon fora for assisting the poor clergy. The decree then di recta, that in lieu and satisfaction of the surplus c/I the Orleans property given to the Legion or Rancor be the decree of Jaa. 22, the minis_ or of finance is authorised to inscribe in the rend livre of tha 'public debt a rents of 500,000 broom l at 4 percent., w hi c h i nscr i pt i on i s to b e de , the oo f H onour . B y t h e 4th art i cle tee lAjir livered to ,eh teau Itambouillet is appropriated for the establish. chancery of education, or or obtained directs hectares it of the Fere, in u of the the Cotes- Lepeud, in s of the do the Seine ; in the de -Of the - Seine and Seine-et-Oise. The sur plus of the property restored to the state by the de cree of Ilia. 22 will be annexed to the domain of the state, subject to ulterior sale by virtue of the present dears& The waning of the above decree requires some explanation. No feature of the ordinance by which the property of the Orleans family was confiscated was more odious than the application of the spoils to objects of charity ; because i t insulted the public con science, by the offer of • gross bribe, to Wink at a grow violation of law and justice. The clergy were the first to repudiate their share of the plunder. The honour of the army was affronted at the dotation of the Legion of Honour from so impure a source. In short, every institution that was to be enriched at the expense of the exiled princes seemed disgraced by the iniquitous gift. Iknee the specious destination of the wealth intended to pal liate its confiscation only made the wrong more glaring. Too late it was discovered that it would have been perhaps more politic to have decreed the confiscation purely and simply, without indicating any application of the proceeds. In the present de cree the monstrous proceeding of the executive power, in disposing arbitrarily of 50 millions of the public money for the creation of charitable institu tions, appears in its true light. The law of the budget ordered the sale of forests to the amount of 15 millions of francs. The remaining 35 millions of the 50 millions authoristal to be raised in this way by the law of August 7, 11450, arc now applied to the redemption of the rash pledges given in the de ans of Jan. 22. The sale of several domains of the Weans family is also directed, although the pro tease, instead of being applied immediately to the purposes indicated in the decree of confiscation are to recruit the deficient treasury. Meanwhile a debt of upwards of eleven millions is created for the do tation of the Legion of Honour by Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Bootee. By another decree the following persons are created senators :—The Duke de Montemart, Gen. Petit, the Archbishop of Paris (Monsigncur Sibour); General Pyat ; M. Bineau, Minister of Finance ; the Marquis de Barbancois, and Baron d'Heeckeren. The two names which merit most attention in this list are those of the Duke de Mortemart and the Archbishop of Paris. Monsigneur Sibour had hi therto maintained a decorous attitude of reserve towards the government. His nomination must be regarded as the sign of his defection from the republican party of Cavaignac, who appointed him Archbishop of Paris. The Mortemarts have been noticed as constituting almost a solitary exception to the neutral policy observed by the great legitimist families ; and you may .remem ber that much sensation was created some time ago by the General de Mortmart accepting a command in the Nievre. The bestowal of the dignity of sena tor upon M. Bineau is regarded as a symptom of the impending retirement of this minister. The next decree is that relating to the removal of the state of siege. The report of M. Abbatucci, which precedes it, is as follows : or:mjajlyuly7, 7 ' ism, and 19:17. Th e t o th e ekoirge of those companie s an p art of the liability which weighed u p on t h e public t treasury. The line from Paris to O r l eans had 64..„ Ce wn wo n u ced t l ral d ed f li al n l e fo in w r t as o N c t o h n e ce y i ars fed ate for 39 years an d 11 months from a date which may be taken to be 21st Septem. ber, 1852, and would therefore fall in Aug. 21, P 492 The Orleans and Bordeaux line was conceded ginally for 27 years 278 days, and subscipiently f ar .50 years from 24th Oct., 1844. The fours and Nantes line was originally conceded for 31 year,. and 15 days, and afterwards for 50 years from 27th Nev., 1843. By giving to these different companies a new prolongation of their term, which would enable them to spread the repayment of their capital over a period of 99 years, as by preceding decrees has been done with regard to the Northern and Straabourg com panies, annual resources would become disposable, applicable to the effecting of loans, the pro duce of which would furnish ail important part of the " subventions" necessary to the completion of the Central and South Vlestera Rally system. But the companies have gone further. Their amalgamation into one and the same company is evidently advantageous for the interests of the companies by the reduction of the number of admi nistrators, the diminution of general expenses, and the simplification and economy of working, all of which is equally advantageous to the public interest, for which uniformity, regularity, and spied are such important conditions. A just consideration of the interests engaged in the lines lately conceded front Pieria to the Mediterranean, required that the exist ing prohibition against the amalgamation of the companies to whom these concessions laud been made, should be removed. Thu New Orleans Amal gamated Company is, however, prohibited front making any treaty of amalgamation or alliance with the two railways from Lyons to Avignon and from Avignon to Marseilles. The new com . pany is to he governed by the "caller d e charger of the old Central Company. The prolongations above-men tioned from Chateauroux to Limoges, and front Al lier to Clermont, with a branch from St. Germain des Fosses towards Itoanne, are conceded to the company, and also a branch front Poitiers to Rochelle and Itoehefort. In return far these advantages the new company engages to pay to the treasury a sum of 16 millions of francs, which will be a deduction from the expenses which the state was to have incurred in executing the Central branches. The sums paid by the company in six successive halt-yearly payments being added to the sums allowed by the annual budgets, will permit the line to Clermont to he finished in two years instead of six, and to Limoges in fourycars instead of eight. The company further engages, at its own risk and peril, to execute the branch from l'oitiers to Rochelle and ItoAtfort as soon as the amount subscribed by the localities interested shall amount to four millions, of which 2,500,t5a/ have been already voted by one of the departments. The report announees that the section from Bordeaux to Angouleme will be open in September next, and that the works from Angoulione to Puitiers will be delivered to the company by the end of the y ear . Th us t h e ent i re line from Paris to Bordeaux may be opened in the autumn of 1833. It may be hoped that the central prolongations may be opened at the stone time as far as Argentin and Moulins. By an article of the convention the state guarantees to the Orleans company a minimum of interest of 4 per cent. fur years from January 1, 1832. The 99 years for which the concession is made is to be reckoned front that day. The state reserves the power to repurchase the whole concession at any period after the expiration of 13 years from the time fixed for opening the lines newly conceded. By another decree, of equal novelty and import ance, the servants of all the railway companies in Prance are placed under the surveillance of the go. vernment. The government is to have the right, after hearing what may be alleged by the company, of requiring the dismissal of any " agent" of any railway company. The review to-day which took place in the Car rousel, was less remarkable for the number of the troops assembled than was expected. It presented no feature of interest. You will observe that according to the decree re moving the state of siege, the departmental mixed commissions are to cease their jurisdiction. M. Quentin Bauchart, councillor of state, has been charged with the mission to visit the departments of the south for the purpose of recommending for par don all those victims of the commissions whose li beration shall appear unattended with risk. The Moniteur of to-morrow will contain a final batch of dictatorial decrees, one of which will settle the butchery question. In consequence of the journey of the Duke d'Aumale from Naples through Germany to Eng land, there is much talk about fusion again. To the Prince President of the French Republic. Monseigneur,—The constitution which the confidence of the people expected from your wisdom is about to be put in execution. To-morrow the great bodies of the state will commence .] by a solemn oath, the exercis e o f th e i r func tions. The moment is come to restore to the laws of common right all their empire. Twice eon seerated by the most striking manifestations of the national will, your government draws from this same will the strength to defend society, and you may without danger follow the impulses of your heart by causing to cease the exceptional measures and jurisdic tion which were created by the neceuity of saving order and civilisation. In order to realise the thought which you I have done me the honour to express, I propose fur your approbation the following decree.—l am, Ike., A inarruce 1. " Art. 1. The state of seige is removed in all the depart ments of continental France. Nevertheless, the individuals tried by the councils of war shall be, if taken in the repeti tion of their offences, subject to be tried by courts-martial. " Art. 2. In future no arrest shall be made, no prosecution undertaken, except in conformity with the ordinary laws. "Art. 3. The departmental mixed commissio ns shall cease their functions from the date of the promulgation of the present decree. "Art. 4. The commission of pardons instituted at the ministry of justice shall continue to decide upon the memo rials presented to it." The next decree is as follows: Louis Napoleon, President of the French Republic, upon the report of the keeper of the seals, minister of justice, considering that the com p osition of the civil code is due to the powerful will of the Emperor Napoleon ; that it was he who selected the eminent men by whom this immortal work yes papered and finished; that under his presidency . in the esinaril of state, and under the inspirations of his genius, the gravest questions of our civil law were resolved ; that this cede nu, by public gratitude, decorated with the title of Cede Naooleon ; that the re-establishment of this desomisatioa is - only a homage to historical truth, as well as to the national sentiment, decrees "The Civil code shall resume the title of Code Napoleon. "Louts NAPOLZON." By the next decree the libraries of the royal palaces are attached to the department of the minister of state. A decree follows for the establishment at Paris of a central consistory of the reformed churches, the members of which are appointed b 7 the head of the state. The aim of this institution is to heighten the principle of authority in the protestant churches, to obviate the frequent disputes between the protestants and the situ authorities, and to define the powers of the damn orders of the reformed church and of the oils& Of the confession of Augsburg. The central salMissirm consists of the following members : AMP* banker; Admiral Baudin ; Boudet, councillor id state; Coquerel, pastor of the consistory of Paris ; Matthien Dollfus; Ferdinand Fevre, de puty to the Legislative Body; Gauthier, senator and sub-governor of the Bank of France; hill ier:at, pastor-president of the consistory of Paris. Lam de Ladebat, councillor of the prefecture of the Wm; Mounin Jappy, mayor of the Gth arrondisse- Meat of Paris ; Morin, deputy to the Legislative Bart Rollin, former pastor, president of the cou gh's!, of Caul Seydoux, deputy to the Legislative Beige Illmgmr, director of the Post-office; Verne*, of the Bank of France. Admiral I= ffe i r elfLointed president of the central com mission of the reformed churches. M. Charles Read, head of the department of worships not catholic in the Ministry of Worship, is appointed steretary. A decree follows for the purpose of giving greater vigour to naval courts-martial, for the repression of desertion and other maritime offences. Another decree organises mutual-aid societies. The next in order authorises the Orleans Railway Company to spread the liquidation of its associated capital over the 99 years of the lease granted, in stead of liquidating the same in forty-six years, ac cording to the law of July 15, 1840. The Mortigessr also contains a decree approving of the amalgamation of the four companies—the Paris and r . s - the • Orleans - have the great moneyed and manufacturing interests ciplioe. The rags* sway, loeated is barracks,, • wof July IP, 1846. That power can- , u • of the grand chm to expect from the fi nancial measures of the meanie under the eye dark ellsemses hefted to habits of '• • 1 1: 41 .; k exercised eiaapt far the whole of of a house of ed and fantastic author of " Conley's' ".. Sybil„ . • order and discipline. The Edit* is billets, de- I the ..: ....• to the Paris and Strasburg oom- : ' - Sir Igeat daughters " Tancred ?" What have the idti-elkstors to • ached • • from* • ..„4 iit their •,,,, . ' 4 i43 4 4 the expiration of Aftte i m y —of'f • witose heads have c for at the hands of such an inearn aria. • ; :c • 'ts •• • 'end( g• • .. ..t I* t . u m& 1 - inilitar). I. ,The sth article pride and despotism as Lord DERB t has "1 g g ' the ~ " .... p . • I . ~. the A. • 1111 ,'. li . which the eta* a - t the t 'bell proceed to sell 3061 religious puwie to expect from • plc , r .. settle new • . 4 7 i ng . - ...n to '.. de Vanden', A '4le • the troa ve in ' ',Albeit, in the department and in de J.'M. •I : , Idi, Josiah Wilki 0 me; 656 heetasse Of the domain de La I of Ireland, and the t _IF loc g in ""' A. s B• • • , net, sad James dfparttarablot th e Mine ; 231 hectares Young England? The le o mega ad. • .....4 e •ch w• ' F es had a.. g 4 %:. , 4.oey' meolberr of the Blouse and Gray pang domain de Lanifiale, in the department of th by the DERBY ministry is to play off all task in subduing the Peuissula had i I •t been for the line from " Bleentas ' aid St. Dialer to Gray, upo iist•Nord; 295 hectares of the domain de Lep parties and shades of opintaa againstnach other that tha guerillas. .I.V.auliLinatsau _havaJost Jimmie • • • • 44opriseipel r the department of the Crease ; 10 hectares of they themselves may retain the emoluments of office, had there been no compeellukt s And might we, stsq, ... rnajnigrejp i ellpie !It iteinTrof Tlotoied main de Monceaux, in the department of the for which others are squabbling. They emulate the perhaps, be new iaterferisillsoitk • the- 'Cabal ASA wim'''nnanaaan"ady vnalarellwsy of and 188 hectares of the domain of Neuilly, in tar that r°!la awl with the here- ilar 1146 # 1 .1 116 ' mg Ilaktl l .l # llllll62ll ._ liiii i - A ir g baus — es - rain ii. end . tt,...t .1 111 ...! Parftnents of the Seine and Seine-et-Oise. •I FRANCE PARIS, SLIT/DAY EVININO. I understand that the publication of the decree regulating the mode of proceeding of the Chambers, has been very ill received by a great numb er o f de puties. With a still worse grace have the inde pendent members of the legislative body submitted to the indignity of having their whole board, secre taries, questors and all, appointed by the executive. A meeting, I understand, was held at M. Monts lambert's, with the view of coming to an agreement for the appointment of the vice-presidents, secretaries, and quested. M. de Montalcmbert himself dwelt in this meeting on the importance of the independ ence of the legislative body, particularly in the ap pointment of its secreteuies. A second meeting took place on the same subject at the Duke de Mooches. Some one then suggested that in order not to give umbrage to the government by an appearance of opposition, application should b e ma d e t o M. de Persigny to know whether the go- vernment would have any objection to the exercise of this right on tie part of the Corps Degislatif. M. de Persigny made no direct reply at the moment, but the next morning the appointments in question appeared in the Munikur. Bach is the consideration shown by the government for the re presentatives of universal su ffra ge. To-morrow, the eve of the i nauguration of the chambers, w ill be celebrated by a grand review in the Champ-de-Mars, at which the President will be present. The number of troops will be much greater than last:Buuday in the Place du CarronseL By the way, I observed to-day that this immense square be t seen the Tuileries and Louvre has already received the title of Place Napoleon. All the troops garri soned within twenty or thirty miles of Paris have received ceders to march to the capital to be present at this great rsvisw. The imccesmon of fine days for some time past gives reason to hope that the life of fetes--ameMim--may not be wanting. The Petrie publishes the following commounostad Oa Matey ant, the'llith last., the lastallatin of the holies of the state ell • telsrpiams le the Me dm llartehae as the Telissin /be esepa s =dze s a i h; Si ft% Nil She leplielles be will la she ease plop . The maw will Mass at at AWL re laill enval of the Prins Pleideat Iss saammesd by sables of artillery. The will take his pine at a nisei platform, his n aisters, the dime essyealag his aUlmay eat Ille aseishies of the Om& atiien lb will deliver : a its = epee& The slam win nip lib of the M OM. monhers tithe dew, the army, aed .ef the gemsameet. depereere of the Prises win else be seaseweel by salvos of T h e bails de Paris amides a keg letter by the Violent& l'Eorke, rireemareerg as appeal to the siestas of Freese hr the predigest:ha of the &spire. M. de Illepiee eseeludee his letter as Mews : The Fran& amities ma never somprettead the nephew of the Emigres remising the flesate sad the Legislative body at the Toiletries by the side of a meat threw,. Fracas harms what is suffered by short goverameola Let the diameter of the votes of the 10th mad 30th Desember be appreciated. Lot Prates be mph emealted, sad we shall me that abet she vestals the ENO**. The Moniteur contains a decree approving of a convention dated March 26, between the Minwter of I Public Works and the Paris and Strasbourg Rail- ' way Company. The conoession to that company was for 43 years and 290 days from the 27th No- ' vember, 1855. The state has now extended the concession to 99 years, so that the lease will not I expire till November 27, 1954. In consideration of ! this extended term the company engages to pay 10 ' millions of francs to the Blames and Gray Company —to whom by another decree of this day that ! branch line is oonceded. The Strasbourg Company also engages to construct a line from Mets to Thion ville within four years ; and further, within two years after the opening of the latter line, to prolong it from Thionville as far u the frontier in the diree lion of Luxembourg, _provided that on the Promise territory the Junction lino her bizerabsisg to the French frontier shall be in emus et emotion. If the latter condition be set asemplhised within a delay of eight years, the gam my. AM be released !TOM the necessity of grokettgog the branch line boo Thionville to the leeneler towards Luxembourg, bet in that am the govemseat may require front the acm et nye MIMI towards the eoo strostiesi methsr branch lime. the concession of whi s k wi ll be given to Uto seespany. The empany mamas that tem the p er i o d whoa the original emeseiew mild have expired. sad Ming the wbithe Moths of the pro- othega and idly Ms MI Upland I hil diepoeal of the Misitor Iffmee, If* the I tramport et despatches througheot the whrie meat ' et the ire aid its Mashes The trouped at sta. =by dwee trains shell be grabdom and in dope theempaley. The empoy to bare atm hat towered sad glued write: P C =Wed elm • with eartaiaa see to be i th sapprooreL etl on watbrieteed to deport from its *Mos et by the Oteil.l mama of 17th Desirable, owl to distribute ev 6 illadth any. to its bp s the mob, of the entire line add its breathes sod to postpone the laying down of the m end line of rails between Meta and Forbin* so long as the gross receipts of that section shall remain lees than 18,0006. per kilometre. The government retains the power of repurchase of the eimession, as stipulated for in the conditions tux- . - .‘,T • ITALY. ROME, MARCH 21. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London have written the following letters, in answer to communications from the Rev. Itiehani Burgess, for thirteen years British chaplain at Rome, who, at the request of persons entitled to consideration, and befogging to the English congregation at Rome, 1170f0 to those prelates, with a view of settling the vemeXauestion of the Bishop of Gibraltar's jurisdiction over that body, if not on the head of legality, at any rate on that of expediency. The archbishop writes: Lambeth, Feb. 20, 18.52. My dear Mr. Burgess,—l understand that in the course eirthe disputes which have unfortunately misted concerning 3:2lauthority among the members of the English t Rome, it has been said that the laity resident these have been "customarily subject to the Bishop of Lon don's jurisdiction in subordination to the metropolitical see of Canterbury." The appellate jurisdiction, I presume, necessarily belongs to the metropolitan, but I do not un derstand that any of my predecessors in the see have ever exercised or claimed any other jurisdiction in Italy ; and, although I was reluctantly obliged, ez officio, to pronounce that the Bishop of Gibraltar was not empowered to enforce his episcopal authority at Rome over those who refused to acknowledge it, I always thought it a matter of regret that his authority had ever been denied. (Signed) J. B. CANTUAR. The following is the reply of the Bishop of Loudon : London Rouse, Feb. If, My dear Mr. Burgess,—l have never claimed any juris diction, properly so called, over the English coogregation at Rome. But the Bishop of Loudon has always been held to possess, conventionally, and in some cases by virtue of orders made by the sovereign in council, the right of auperintend ence and control in matters ecclesiastical over Engloh clergymen and their congregations residing out of the British dominions and not being within the diocese of any other bishop of • reformed episcopal church, subject, of course, to a right of appeal to the Archbishop of Canter bury as metropolitan. In the case of the Bishop of Gibraltar, I made • formal transfer to him of this conven tional jurisdiction with respect to all persons and plates specified in the royal letters patent by which that me was erected, and I certainly considered that the English chaplain and ccoonnggrreeggaation at Rome would thenceforth be under the enperintandence of the Bishop of Gibraltar as they had formerly been under that of the Bishop of London. The reasonableness and convenience of ouch an arrangement is too obvious to need pointing out, and 1 entertain a confi dent hope that the committee of the English church at Rome will gladly recognise the superintendence in all emir siastical matters of the Bishop of Gibraltar, a superintend tram which has been form al ly transferred to him by the . Orleans, Central, the and Bar- I iii;iiopOiliondonWith the "sanction of her tilsj:stf. dean:, and Tours and Nantes—and ratifying the governmegovernment,vement, and which no other bishop can claim the convention which was only yesterday execu t e d nght of exercising. (Signed) C. J. LON WIN. between the Minister of Public Works said the The official paper of the 18th announces that his companies. M. Lefebvre Durntle, the Minis- holiness, by *brief dated that day, has named Car' ter of Public Work, in his report to the dinal Antonelli his secretary of state, which office he President, explains that two prolongations of has hitherto discharged only as jam-secretary. His the Central railway are now in courwe of execution, holiness has appointed Cardinals Della Genes, namely, the line from Chateauroux to Limoges, of i Azevedo, Fornari, and Lueciardi, to the tee the length of 136 kilometres; and the loop-line from gregation of the holy inquisition • Cardinal Allier to Clermont, of the length of 165 kilometreed Morichini, to the apoetolic visit; Ca rdinals Luc' These two lines were endowed with sufficient credits ciardi, Mathieu, and Morichini, to the con gation by a law of June 21, 1814. The execution of a third o f bi s h o p s an d regu l ars; C a rdinals Mathieu and gre branch of the Central net-work of railways, in the D'Andres, to the council; Cardinals Lucciardi, Na dine:don of Roanne, destined to connect the southern thicu, and Morichini, to the congregation of ecclesins and western parts of France, remained to be provided Cell immunity . ; Cardinal Fomari, to the propaganda; for. This branch, leaving the Clermont line near Bt, I Cardinal Morichini, to the sacred rites; Lucciarili Oertnain des Fosses, beyond Moulins, would be about and D'Andrea, to the ceremonial ; Mathieu and 66 kilometres. The expenses which, according to' , D'Andrea, to the congregation of indulgences and the law of June 11, 1842, would fall upon the state, sacred relics ; Brignole, Ferretti, and Fornari, to the were estimated at 18 millions of francs. The pro- examination of bishops; D'Andres, to the ~tudie--- grim of the works towards Moulins and Limoges Cardinal Ferretti has also been named grand Pcni had made it necessary to consider how concessions I tentiary ; Cardinal thmonetti, secretary of the me might best be made of those three branehes. The mortals; Cardinal Marini, economical prefect of pro• surveys and estimates did not permit it to be hoped Ipaganda ; Cardinal Fornari, protector of the Car that these lines could be conceded upon more f avour - mollies and Capuchins ; and Cardinal della °cep, able conditions than thos e of the law of June, 1842.1 protector of the conventual minors. Monsign or • The project of amalgamating the !eau companies had Ormsellini is sent to the legations of Romagna an fornd the government with the means of shifting commissary extraordinary, instead of Monsignor ba-d Bed ahsi ordi spa he L me' who' DOllll his f -- hba. that / nab it thl govt hos' Po Mato in Col lie. /MOO there if till auth tiona eau.. ghoul That ing t radii the le then only Altar Th 23rd, by Hi pcalii ands ment latirc In minis of it systee Tit( of Br Secoi decrc Ttt resigi horst M. TI Coen Wed Th of Be Ot inst. Ne tinui from was I Mare aim will 1 Tb rash Sir retur Cc Fehr CV (ham; en him *Pak Isom Stead "K" wiloi and Polio