The Express. — London, England, 1851-08-04 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 110USF. 01 LOllllS.—SvrvaDAT, Acct si 2. Their Lordships nut at 12 &clods. On the motion of the Earl of C YELINLE the 31ctrope..:- tan Sewers Act was reed a second tune. . i ced The fl at t e rers Pub Amendment B ill p ared through committer and was re to t he house. Th e Inve rn ess Br' (No. 2 ) Bill, the Customs Bill, the Sheep and Contagious :soeders Prevention Bill, the Com missioners of Blaney; Repeal Bill, the Land's ClAlees' Consolidation (Ireland) Bill, and the Steam Navigation Bill, severally ',lvied through committee aad were reported to the house. On the motion of the Earl of Catmints the report of the New Forest Deer Removal Bill was received. The C^3lwhil'lrrs (l'ort of London) Bill was :cad a wend time uu the motion of Lord STANLEY of A1.1,1111.1.1.V. On the motion of Lord STANLEY of ALPERLTY the Iderearitile Marine Act Amendment Bill was nail a third time and passed. On the motion of Lord Iluovouto• the Lunatics (India) Bill w.,, read a second time. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COIINIONA.—S.VITRD.IT, ACGCeT 2 The See:earn took the choir at 12 o'clock. Sir E. N. BUXTON presented a petition from the C.ey of London, pro) ing that some measure might he take a to , prevent slavesigroon sugar coining into competition with the prealute of the British colonies. Mr. BROTH ERTON presented a petition from the Rev. Minuet Andrew, late master of the Ordnance School, pray ing fur inquiry ; also petitions to the same effect from 'Lure, 11.pilinin, and I.a.keiid. On the motion of Lord J. ItraaELL the order of the eta) upun the Charitable Trusts Bill was read, and dis charged, as it was not his intention to proceed further with the :mason: this session. 01.1) HOCSE OF COMMONS. Air E. N BUXTON asked the noble lord whether it was We intention of the government to order the pre:cent build ing to be pulled down during the reeese Lord J. RUSSELL said that when the right hon. baronet had first asked him the question he stated that in come que-nce of the uneertainty which resisted in respect to the condition of the new blouse of Commons it was nut consi dered prudent to allow the present house tot* pulled down. From the experience which they lead since had of the new budding, they were of opinion that the experiment was so aatisfaetory that they might feel certain of being able to occupy that house permanently from the next session. The goverourent hod therefore Valle to the decision to allow tins leuehleng to be pulled down in the mesa, in order to carry out the architectural arrangements. (lieu.) CASE OF ROBERT ERSKINE. Sir E. N. BUXTON wished to ask the hon. 1 7neler Se cretary her the Colonies a question respecting the OW of It. Erskine, on the coast eel Atrica, towards whom great cruelty had been practised. The young man was accuse el of robbery, awl was cruelly tortured, as it was alleged, by the orders of two (dicers in leer Majesty's service, named Murray . and Stewart, for the purpose ut making him conk s ' . Ile wohcel to ask he, lion. friend whether he would inform the house of the nature of the correspondence that hail paswel between the. Colonial Olive and the commander-in-chief in respect to this matter?' Mr. HAWES said that if the hon. barooet would TaerTC for the eserrespondeare lee would be willing to assent to its produrtion. The cast was one no doubt of great atrocity, but la Mfg committed by inebeiduals not in the strike of the local gncrument, it, unfortunately, did not come within the operation of the statute for the punishment of ace t com mune/ in the colony. The case was brought subs, tine Mly under the eonunonelepinechief, and he (Mr. Hawes) would read to the house the concluding paragraph of a letter which he had received from Lord Fitzroy Somerset, conveying the Duke of Wellington's Ileee•laa un the subject "In reply, I have to acquaint you that his grace also feels that impute honor great seriatim.; are raised, and supported by a cons microbic body oferidence, against officers in leer Mojcity's service; hut laving considered the whole matter with must saunas attention, and beina advised that the officers en qwestion cannot be tried or punished by court martial, for an offence committed now three years ago, his grace is at a lees to suggest to Earl tiny what further proctedino should he taken against them" Itym,lmus.—The following 1411 s were 01 verally Mad a third time and pried —The Metropolitan Inter ment Hell, the Attorney and Solicitors Regulation Act Amendment Bill, the General Beard of Health (No. 2) Bill, the- Church Bailing Art Amendment Hill, the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Bell, the SaMaiara Jurisdiction (Ire land) Bill, and the Constabulary Force (Ireland) Bill. 1 he rein orders on the paper were tin u udrioiced a stage the the motion of Mr. U. A. Ilestitvos, the Lords' ainenelments tee the Church, and Chapel.. (Ireland), and to the Ecclesiastical Residences (Ireland) Bill were tennis dared and agreed to. CAME OF CAPTAIN WATSON. Mr. HAW ES, in laying upon the table certain papers relating to Ceylon, took the opportunity of stating that, after a fan inquiry into all the circumstances connected with the ease of Captain Watson, the court there had ele. holy and kono-urafely acquitted that gentleman of hoeing monied the papers with which his name knot been connected. Captain Watson was an officer of great experience and reputation, and no sort of reflection r imputation could now attach to his character. (Hear, hear.) ANN HICKS AND TILE CRYSTAL PALACE. Colonel SIDTHORP gave notice of his intention em Tuesday next to bring forward the- Cale of Ann Hicks, and to ask the government whether it was truo that on the Sibbatli doy cortain articles we-re taken out at the Crystal Palace- for thee purpose of teeing topkd The house thou allikalelled, at a quarter 'Not cue o'clock, until triche on Monday. A clot SUITABLE PRESENT TOR la TO NO 11.11.*SEK EEPERS. HOMEalp hound h p irz TRUTHS for HOME PEACE • a ProCLIEIII Inquiry Into what thk.d. mart or Dointatle Lifer a...lrttool to li.atn4 Boaato utat Llll4thata Bloat. patilatter. IL Royal Eiebano. lighting, comfort, and order, could not be secured without the imposition by vote of their inhabitants of local rates, end as local rates sooner or later tend to diminish rant, it was not for the interest of rent owners geuevally, and more especially those holding property in testi'', that the " Improvement of Towns sho4d pais. Whereon, after a feeble show '(desire to carry its provisions into law, govern ment meekly consented to throw it overboard. • A still worse fate befell the only other proposition of a law tending to ameliorate the condition of the industrious classes in Ireland. In a country so cir cum/danced, the means of administering medical relief are of the greatest value and importance. Two descriptions of institutions for this purpose have for many years existedsustained to a great extent by private benevolence, and subjected to no gene ral supervision or control. To both of these --namely the county infirmaries and the district dispensaries—the reforming bill of the government affected to apply ; but inasmuch as the former have always been nearly altogether at the disposal of the squirearchy, while the latter have been less conve nient or manageable for purposes of favouritism and 1 jobbing, that portion of the measure which pro- posed to subject the dispensaries to control, manage ment, and inspection was permitted to pass, while the portion which affected the infirmaries was, with out a syllable of discussion, discarded and aban doned. In the line of law reform the exploits of the Irish department have been characterised by the same careful concern for the interests of landlordism and reckless disregard of the prejudices and feelings of the vulgar mass of the population. A bill to extend the jurisdiction of the Irish County Courts was brought in very early in the session, and, so far as it resembled the English County Courts Extension Bill, no disposition to frustrate its peaceful progress appeared in any quarter. But a similar law would not satisfy the original genius of the right hon. mem- 1 ber for Windsor. Many discrepancies between the' statute laws of England and of Ireland, as is well known, exist with reference to the subject of land- lord and tenant, unfavourable in nearly every in stance to the occupier of the soil. To this catalogue , Mr. IiATCHELL was ambitious to add certain others, and he has succeeded. i n vain Mr. CuAweinin, I Mr. 3l'Cutt.sou, and Mr. REYNOLDS, remon- I stratcd against the inconsistency and inj ustice of refusing to an Irish defendant in ejectment under :iO/. the right of appealing to the verdict of a jury, which every English tenant, no matter what the value of his holding, has enjoyed from time imme morial. In vain were protests offered and amend ments moved against another innovation, whereby the light of yearly tenants to be served with a notice to quit as in England was wantonly taken away. Sir W. SOMERVILLE and his legal ally, sus- , tained by every good old tory in the house, persisted in drawing new lines of demarcation between the civil condition of the two countries, and digging new , trenches of hatred and suspicion between the many and the few. As a fit supplement to the foregoing, a still more dangerous attempt was made during the last week to pass a bill which under the semblance of being merely a consolidation of the statutes respecting courts of petty sessions and the sununary ' jurisdiction of the unpaid justices of the peace, actually proposed to enable any one magis trate sitting alone to try, sentence, and imprison for twelve months any individual who might be charged before him ff any genet whatever short of felony! Nay, this unparalleled attempt to strip the humbler classes of the Irish people of even the mise rable protection which the presence of a second ma gistrate on the bench now affords them, was actually affirmed on the first da)'s discussion, by a majority of three to one. On the following day, however, this scandalous departure from all semblance of what is considered justice in England was again vehemently impugned by the Irish liberal members sustained by Messrs. OSBORNE, WAKLEY, Seinieci., and to his credit be it said Mr. Ilexi.EY ; and in the end the CHANCELLOR of the Exclieritse, getting thoroughly ashamed of the clause, consented on the port of the government, to have it struck out of the bill. Finally, there stands for this evening an appree 1 prime sequel,—the Leasehold Conversion Amend meat Bill, which has passed the upper house, ander the sanction of the LORD CHANCELLOR, and which will, we presume, be defended with their usual eloquence by his faithful colleagues in the Com mons. Its purpose is simply this. Certain leases in Ireland which were renewable on payment of a fine, have been rendered convertible into perpetuities at the option of the tenants by an act passed some years ago, at a fixed rate of commutation. On certain estates the tine stipulated for was only a pepper corn ; but the obtaining of renewals when the lives in each lease dropped. was a source of anxiety and ex pense. Upon the plea that the tenants who have only to commute their peppercorn fines arc saved from the exaction of conveyancers fees, their most noble landlords coolly propose that parliament should amend the recent statute so as to enable them to exact a given sum of money from each tenant in lien of the inappreciably valueless fine ! This, however, is only a private job, and it may consequently enlist , less general sympathy. It is possible, therefore, that this little JONAH may be sacrificed to the storm of popular indignation which the course of legislation ter Ireland during the present session has naturally evoked in that unhappy country. the INCONIE AND PROPERTY TAX. Mr. Ilunte's committee have reported the follow nog re.ototiom to the House of Commons Twit the c , mmittee hove det rmini d, considering the advanced te•nod of the session, and the state of the lousiness ot the house, that their proctillinal Ike now closed •' That it es not eapetlient, in the present very incom plete state of the impair), to report the eviikmce to the huuac. -• 'flirt, in the in of this committee, a committee NIIUUM to appointed nest session for thy purpose of cos booing this inquiry: We subjoin the lust day's proeerdinsri in committee, as they throw wme Nita ua the motives of this report, and the agency by which it was carried. Menihers present —Mr. Henley, Lord Harry Vane, Mr. Chancellor of the liichrquer, Mr. l'obdcn. Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Harlow, Mr. Very, Mr. Sotheron, Mr. llorsman. Colonel Hominy. vommitter harinu been informed that Mr II um, was nimbi... from illness, to attend, Mr. Ilrnley wt. called to the distr. The committee deliberated. The following resolu tins nilr submitted for consideration by Mr. Lutslen. on behalf of Mr. llama . . I. filet, (-weltering the advanced period of the see on, mid the state of the busier. of the him.., the proceedings et this committee he now closed. - . _ . •• That the evidence taken before this committee, al though incomplete, even as to those pub, of the inquiry upon which the committee have entered, reported to the ho . _ - 1. •• That, in the opinion of this committee, a committee should be appointed next session, fur the purpose of conti nuing this imetiry." The resolutions were nail secondly seriatim. Motion made (Mr. Cobden). That the hest proposed reso lution be agreed to. Question put and agreed to. Motion made (Mr. Cobden). That the second proposed resolution be agreed to. Amendment proposed (Mr. Disraeli). To leave out all the words after the word •• That," in order to insert thew words, •• it is not expedient. in the present very incomplete state of the inquiry, to report the evidence to the house." lineation put. ° That the words roposed to hi left out stand part." Committee divided. Avis. 4 : Mr. Cobden. Mr. Motherun. Mr. Dorman, Colonel Hominy. Noes, 7 . laird Ilarry Vane, Mr. Daring, Mr. Disraeli. Mr. V.-1.47, Mr, Wilson. Mr. Chancellor of Exchequer. Prolswed words inserted. Main question put, and agreed to third proposed resolution W.I. put, and agreed to. M lion made, and question put and agreed to. •• That thew is...lntim% be reported to the house." to report. 'file Losguattn:.—'fine following additional notice ~f the raw of this Teasel h from the Y. Manta Alto, ate of the 12th Jane.—On Malloy Lot. the .olicitor of Captain Campbell applied to the supreme court for a mandamus to compel the police mAgistrato , to s h ow cuoue w hy th e y wo . hoed to hear evidence in ■ cave of piracy. alleged to haat In rn contained by the setrure of the Levenside by military pa.engers. It appear. that Captain Campbell'. information hod been taken and tainted by the tnagistranv. but that they bad not itranted warrant. for the apprehension of the as used parties. lii. honour did not seem to c o llo id,' it any part of hi. business to interfere in tin matter. a. the coat i another shape. had already been before the magiotratea. It appeased to a that the main point of flu affair waa alb.. yeller overlooked during the disca.won which took plate is roast ; but, as we have no wish to prejudice either one palmy Or the other, we shall refrain from all further observational tall idler the sessions. IfwATlt OE M 00R-GENERAL RIPDALL. On the - etas alt., this distinguished gent Atter died at !loathers. mad 76 yearn He catered the :Army in sad was actively employed with the 62nd &frt. in Sicily, Enpt. ealehria. Italy, %psis, and North America, from lItO6 to the cad of the wee. Ile was detsehed with the Orenadier compeay of his regisseLt tOetard the advance of the French is their march to Invest Scylla Castle aed invade Sicily I served at the Faro la Sicily for several weeks under Oa lire of the French batteries, greeted in Calabria. He was afterwards ,ecesd in command to Oeaeral Dlommart , in a Orenadier battalion seat from Sicily to Spain was ad mated with his company and two Seld pieces in the attack ea and repulsion of the French from the heights before Gnaw Afterward. he served in North America, and was seemed in command, with detachments. op the Penobscot Myer be also commanded the advance in fonrung • posi tion at Hampden, defended by treble our numbers. The late hlnjor-Cenral Hiddall was in 1632 nominated a K.H. gilt entftliiii. TO CORRESPONDENTS. ♦!Veen! Edition at" TM Est:weal." enrama - g t•ta I midair* "U.r tte," as pantioned coney Turainy tll Fraday night, in time Mr pont. eet t orment. 'Wended foe "me London ETching paper, M want la s: the Oak* IQ, e a tsßouverie.est, by Two tic.a..ck on the HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE . TKO UST—Montle". fib. Sloe. ........Aftersone. 3. 23i. T o . iw unw—Moruieg. Th. Ma. Afters/am, 23m. LONDON, MONDAY, AUG UST 4. WIIEN Mr. lit'stE's motion for a committee on the income and property tax was carried, a fierce storm broke over the head of the honourable member for Montrose. lk was alternately taunted and abused for having carried his point against ministers by the aid of tones and protectionists. Mr. Beset, with his usual equanimity under such visitations, set his committee to work, and prosecuted his inquiries. until an unlucky attack of sickness prevented him from attending to his parliamentary duties. In his absence, a series of resolutions was submitted to the committee, on his behalf, by Mr. C'olsomr. They were in effect : that considering the advanced period of the session, the proceedings of the committee ought to be closed; that the evi dence taken, though incomplete, ought to be reported to the house; and that a committee ought to be appointed next session to con tinue the inquiry. Mr. Dishaut moved as an amendment on the second resolution, that it was not expedient, in the very incomplete state of the in quiry to report the evidence to the house ; and this amendment was carried, six members of the com mittee voting for, and four against it. The members who voted for the amendment, in addition to Mr. Irises/A himself, Mr. BARING, and Mr. Vist:Y, were the CHANCELLOR of the Ex ellEmit El:, Mr. WILSON, and Lord HARRY VANE. Now, if it was wrong in Mr. HOME to co-operate with tories and protectionists in obtaining the ap pointment of the committee, was it right in two members of the administration, and one of their surest votes, to co-operate with tories and protec tionists in frustrating the object of the committee? Mr. Busts: did not take counsel with the tories and protectionists when he made his motion. The motion was neither intended nor calculated to pro mote any of their objects. They were nevertheless ' pksised, unasked by Mr. RuME, to support it. Was Ur. Ilesty. to abandon a motion made in the inte rests of the liberal party because the illiberals chose to acquiesce in it? If such a rule were once adopted, it would at any time be in the power of the illiberals to frustrate liberal measures simply by supporting them. But the ministerial members of the committee sup ported a motion of the tory and protectionist lender. That motion, it is but natural to assume, was made in the interests of his party. The conduct of the CHANCELLOR of the ExcnEot•En, Mr. WILSON, and Lord HARRY VANE, has been very different from that of Mr. They have not adhered to emotion of their own, undeterred by the equivocal assent of the party opposed to them on principle; they have followed submissively in the wake of their opponents and lent them assistance. Mr. Hume followed out his own . policy without troubling hie head about what the torten thought of it ; the CHAN.. I CELLOR of the Exeltritevn, Mr. WILSON, and Lord HARRY VANE have abetted the policy of the !oriels. Let us look a little more closely into the merits at these proceedings. The friends of tree-trade and financial reform sup port on income and property tax, as necessary, to the carrying out of a free-trade policy. The tones and protectionists oppose the income and property tax, in the expectation that if it is repealed high and dil ferential customs duties must be re-imposed. But the free-traders and financial reformers call for cer tain modifications in the income and property tax, as at present imposed and lee ice], on the ground that its inequality of pressure, and oppressive mode of collection, make it so much disliked, that there is a risk of its repeal being carried unless these defects are amended. Ministers, however, for some cause or another, have obstinately refused to entertain the question of its amendment. There are, therefore, three parties in the House of , Commons in relation to this question. 'there are the supporters of the income and property tax in its present form: the advocates of an amended property and income tax; and the opponents of any income and property tax. With a view to eunqml a fair consideration of the question, the renewal of the income and property tax has this session been voted only for one year. And with a view to throw light on the ..subject against the renewal of discussions next session, Mr. Hew: asked for and obtained his committer. The object of the free-traders and financial reformers is to throw as much light on the subject us they can, in order, by promoting intelligent discussion, to facilitate such improvements in the mode of assessing and levying the tax as may render it popular, or at all events more tolerable. The object of ministers and the pro teetionists is to keep the country in the dark ; the former in the hope that they may escape the trouble some task of Improvement, by compelling free traders to choose between the income and property tax as it is and the risk of a return to customs duties virtually protective ; the latter in the hope that the inequality of the income and pro perty tax m iy lead to its repeal, and a return to vir tual protection. The game played by ministers is short-sighted and ineardous. By helping Mr. Disttat:tt to suppress the evidence already taken by the committee, they have increased the difficulty of having the merits of the income and property tax intelligently amid dis passionately debated next session. To indulge their own indolence they have given the protectionists an additional chance of undermining that impost so essential to the successful prosecution of free-trade policy and financial reform. Ir the session of Issl has been unfruitful in mea sures of practical importance to the empire at large, it cannot he said to have passed without manynotable prsjects of legislation for that put of her Nt \JEsTYIS dominions called Ireland. If the Home Department has been somewhat inactive, the Irish office has been I more than usually busS.: and if Sir ALEXANDER COCKID RN has been taking things easy, Mr. At torney-General II y reit ro. has had his hands full of work of various kinds and descriptions. Since the two houses met in February last no fewer than eight bills, earls of them involving prin ciples of moment to the contentment and prosperity of the inhabitants of the sister kingdom, have made , their appearance on the parliamentary parade-ground, and have each in turn been ridden desperately as the Arra( de ',attain, of the government. Of these the mortal remains of two have been already left upon the field, while three of the others have been sorely maimed and mutilated by the remorse i less hands of those Irish members who oi l iest to the retrograde and landlord policy to which the present rulers of that country appear to be daily more and more devoted. A bill professedly intenaed to secure an uniform system of Irateable Yaluation of property was introduced ACVE , sot months ago by Sir W. SoMOMI.LF, and the , object being on all sides felt to be desirable, no op -1 potation was given to its earlier stages. But when e the details came to be sifted in committee by men of I anyirlding fidelity to popular piineiOes. like' Plr. S. Clowroun and .Mr. Room it became palpable that, without a complete recasting of ' the entire measure, it would serve only to stimulate' the reactionary social schemes which the shameful details of t h e recen t census prove to be in progress in every portion of Ireland. It was shown to be a bill • for the further depression of the towns for the ad . vantage of the owners of agri;ultural property, and as between the different classes of the latter, a bill for the heavier taxation of tillage in exoneration of pasture. After an obstinate resistance, this most ob ectionable project was abandoned. Another and a butter hill--that for the municipal gusernment of the minor towns—soon afterwards \shared a similar fate. but under somewhat different circumstances. Objections west raised by the ever wakeful spirit of landlordism against the measure, on the ground that, as the improved health, cleanliness, THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1851. FRANCE. I'ARIS, SATCIWAY EVENING. The chief subject of political conversation is the decidedly favourable turn which the current of events has lately taken for the Elysee. In act, not only has every attempt to get up a committee of perma nance hostile to the President, and to oust the Bona partist members of the Assembly's board, completely failed, but the Bonapartist candidates, Waisse and I)utheil, in the department of the Nord and the Lot, have been both elected, although the latter has only saved the requisite number of votes by a very narrow majority. The failure of the coalition is partly traceable to the opposition which several motions of the Moun tain, such as that of M. Pascal Duprat, have encoun tered from the ultra-legitimists. The gross result of these successes of the government amounts to an ' admission on the part of the parliamentary majority of the necessity of pushing revision with all possible energy. In the meantime, the organs of the red re publicans and the regentists are furious at the good understanding which prevails between the legiti mists and the Elysee. In the Assembly . to dal M. Passe read, in the name of the committee of the budget, an opinion, furnished with motives, which rejected the conclu sions of M. Dufaure on the subject of the railways from Chalon to Lyons and from Lyons to Avignon. The house then proceeded to dgeuss the bill for authorizing the city of Paris to contract a loan of 50 millions of francs for the construction of the Rue de Rivoli and the central markets. The debate will be adjourned to Monday. Four or five tribunes were reserved for the Eng lish visitors, few of whom, however, have yet made their appearance. The report of M. Odilon Barrot on the cantonal councils was distributed. MM. Fortoul, Allier, and Dupont-Delporte have presented an amendment on the Lyons to Avignon Railway Bill, tending to have a branch line made from the main line to Grenoble, and to concede the same to a oompany, on conditions to be determined afterwards by the bill. I The motion of MM. Alengrr. Anglade, and others for the Cette Railway, has been approved by the committee of initiation. The rite in the price of wheat which has been for some time anticipated has taken place. The average price per hectolitre which on the Ist July was lift. 41c.. is now I.sfr. (13e., an advance of lfr. 22c. Th 6 rise is general. but it is more sensibly felt in the 'I eastern departments: in the markets of Alsace it amounted to nearly 2fr. The frequency of suicide among the private soldiers of the army of Paris has induced General Magnan to issue an order of the day rebuking the weakness of such desperate attempts. 41,912; M. Iklaroyere, legitimist candidate, 11,917 ; blank tickets and loot votes, 60328. M. Waisse having obtained more than one-fourth of the votes inscribed SUNDAY EVENING. was proclaimed representative. 6,628 electors has-- The long vexed question of the Paris and Avignon ing abstained, indirectly, in depositing blank tickets; Railway seems as far off as ever from a definitive solo- and $.71,009 having abstained, directly, by taking no Lion. it was long since proposed by the government part in the ballot, the total number of abstentions is that the entire line should be conceded to a single 91,600. company. This project was rejected by the Asscm- M. Deltheil, the Elysean candidate, has been blv, who decided that the part of the line between elected for the department of Lot, having obtained Paris and Lyons should be leased to one company, more than a quarter of the rotes upon the register. of the bureaux yesterday are it clubs of the and that from Lyons to Mignon to a separate com pany. The government then brought forward a scheme for conceding the railway to two companies, and this scheme was, about four months since, referred to a committee, of which M. Dufaure was the re porter. This committee has recently made two reports. One recommends the concession of the line from Lyons to Avignon to Talabot's company. But the other report, which was carried only by the cast ing vote of M. Dufaure, rejects the government plan with respect to the line front Paris to Lyons, and proposes an immediate loan of .11) millions of francs for the purpose of completing the line to Lyons with all possible speed by the state The grounds urged b M. Dufaure for this conclusion were mainly two. First, that in his opinion none of the companies offered any sufficient security that they would really complete the line. Second, that the terms proposed were exceedingly unfavourable to the state. Ho insisted that it was of unspeakable importance that this great national undertaking should be finishe with the least possible delay, and that when it was finished it might be sold to a company on much more advantageous terms than now. However, a . . violent outcry has been raised against M. Dufaure s report. The ministers are firmly resolved to resist it. They maintain that it is possible to concede the line to a solid company upon advantageous terms, and com plain that :Nl:Dufour° has objected in a general way to the offers of the companies, but has made no sug gestions which might have been considered and have produced amended offers. Meanwhile, tho ad vanced period of the session renders it next to im possible for the Assembly to deliberate with suffi cient care on so grave a question before the proroga tion, especially as ministers insist upon having the two reports discussed together. In this state of things the Minister of Public Works, M. Magna, applied to the Assembly on Friday for a vote of 8 millions as a temporary measure to enable the go vernment to go on with the works during the recess. M. Dufaure perseveringly demanded a vote of ur gency for the consideration of his project. The only decision of the Assembly on Friday was, that the question of urgency, as well as the general question, should be postponed till Monday, and that in the meantime the opinion of the committee of the bud get should be asked for. At the sitting of the As sembly yesterday M. Pussy, on behalf of the com mittee of the budget, stated his reasons for die. agreeing with the conclusions of M. Dufaure's report. If on the one hand the special committee of the rail way were of opinion that it was not at present possible to make a concession of the line upon admis sible terms, the Ministers of Public Works and of Finance persisted in declaring that a Luna ,fide and reasonable offer had been made. Nothing but a full discussion could enable the As sembly to decide between these conflicting opi nions. If the Assembly felt unable to resolve this important question before the prorogation it was material that they should make a temporary provi sion for continuing the works. But any vote beyond the amount immediately neeessarr for the purpose would sensibly alter the financial position of the country and change the whole economy upon which the budget for 1852 was based. It was besides desi rable not to prejudice the principle which had been fre quently laid down by former votes of the Assembly with respect to the advantages of leaving railway undertakings to private enterprise. The budget com mittee were therefore of opinion that the financial combinations proposed by the railway committee ought not to be adopted, and that the Assembly, in default of a definitive resolution, should simply provide the necessary funds for carrying on the works, either during the prorogation or to the end of the financial year The discussion stands fixed for to-morrow. It is next to certain that only a tem porary measure will be passed, and that the ministry will be disposed to listen to any offers that may be made by private companies during the recess. The grand design of prolonging the Rue de Rivoli to the hotel de Ville has been in contemplation fur at least forty years. The question of ways and means has hitherto been a stumbling-block in the way of every government that has successively considered project. The Assembly yesterday, in adopting the two first articles of M. Vitet's report in favour of the measure proposed by government, have decided that this splendid improvement to the city shall be carried into effect forthwith. The fifty-eiglit millions of francs at which the works are estimated are thus distributed: Eleven millions for the construction of eight central markets, twenty millions for the pur chase of the ground on which the markets arc to stand, six millions for the enlargement of the six prin cipal streets abutting upon the market, and twenty one millions for the demolition of the houses neces sary to be removed for the prolongation of the Rue de ltivoli. To provide for these expenses the city of Paris is authorised to raise fifty millions by way of loan on city bonds; and to ensure the due payment of the bonds, without embarrassing the ordinary resources of the city, the extra oetroi duty on wines and spirits is exclusisely appropriated for that pur pose up to the 31st of December, 1870. The remaining eight millions will be found by the city. out of its ordi nary resources. On the principle that the works should be undertaken the Assembly was very generallyagreed, and the Ist article of the bill. authorising the loan to be contracted, passed without a division. But the 2nd article, relating to the oetroi duties, met with a warm opposition. It was contended that the article 2 prejudiced by a side-wind the general question of the policy of the duties on drinks. That it was a tax which fell upon the wine-grower, who ought not to be made to pay for improving the city of Paris, or upon the working classes in Paris, who would not benefit by the improvement so much as the boar geosie. That the demolitions would send at least 10,000 people in search of new lodgings, to the ma nifest advantage of the proprietary class; and that the same class would reap all the advantages of spe culating in the purchase of old materials and the construction of new buildings. On the other hand, it was represented that the octroi did not diminish the consumption of drink. That it was a tax cheer fully paid by the workpeople, because they know that the produce enabled the city to find employment for them to an immense extent. That unless this certain means of repayment were provided, the loan could not be effected. That it was of great importance with reference to the public tranquillity . that the works should be going on during the ensuing winter. That the stagnation in the building trade was greater than in any other, and that this would give inimc:diate employ ment to from 1,300 to 2,000 working masons. Finally, that, besides the realisation of this magnificent pro ject, which had been the dream of Napoleon, who had said that the markets would be the people's Louvre, the benefits of demolishing a mass of nar row, crowded streets would be very great in point of solubrity. The latter arguments prevailed, and the article 2 was carried by 333 to 288. It is calculated that the new part of the Rue de Rivoli will afford space for the construction of 80 first-class houses. As an encouragement to builders to construct these it is intended that they shall be exempted front the door and window tax for 20 years; but this article re mains to be voted. At the end of the sitting M. Pascal Duprat ob tained leave to put a question to the Minister of Commerce, on Wednesday next, on the subject of the recent disastrous irregularities in the tontine societies. M. Michel (de Bourges) has gone to Lyons to de fend M. Gent, the most important of the prisoners accused of being implicated in the Lyons conspiracy. The important question will be raised whether, in cases where a department is in a state of siege, it is legal to arrest a man in another part of France and bring him before a court-martial in the district where the state of siege prevails. The President of the Republic has awarded silver medals of the Ist class t.. Captain James Myhe, of the English brig Eliza, and Captain Lawrance, of the English ship Steadfast, for having received on board some French sailors in distress. To-day a meeting of the Left takes place, for the purpose of appointing a committee of surveillance in opposition to the committee of permanence. The final poll in the elections of the Nord presents the following result. Electors inscribed, 143,000; voters, 80,437, M. Waisse, ministerial candidate, The bow all chosen majority. THE FETES AT PARIS. In Saturday's Express was given in detail an account of the p of the English visitors to Paris to the time ro or their starting from Boulogne. We proceed to recount the proceedings of Saturd a y and yesterday, reserving a full report for our impres sion of Saturday, when ample space will allow of full justice being done to the event. Amiens was reached at 6 o'clock, and here a re newal of hospitalities awaited the party. The national guard were drawn out, and a &Joiner for upwards of 200 persons was served on the railway platform. The proposal of healths, and the interchange of vet? kindly feelings having been repeated, the party again proceeded on their journey towards the capital. Mr. ' Crampton, the celebrated locomotive engineer, took charge of the train at Amiens, mid by the aid of one of his own engines brought it on to Paris before 9 o'clock, some portion of the journey having been tra velled at the rate of seventy miles an hour. On reaching the terminus ut Paris the distinguished tenants of the train (Momenr were met by the two prefects of the Seine and of the police, and the pre sident of the municipal council. A detachment of gardes republicains was in waiting in the court-yard, and immediately after the first ceremony of presen tation, the city carriages started off with the guests of the Hotel de Ville, triumphantly escorted by mounted republican and municipal guards. The route taken was to the Rue du Faubourg Poissonniere, along the Boulevards,down the Rue Richelieu, across the Place du Carrousel, and so, by the quays, to the Hotel de Ville. On Saturday morning, the Lord Mayor called on Lord Normanby, and was conducted by him to the Elysee, where the President of the Republic received him in the most courteous manner. On leaving the Elysee, the Lord Mayor proceeded to the National I Assembly, accompanied by several of the principal guests from London. lie was received with the 'utmost honour and respect by the pre sident of the Assembly. Aftcwards M. Baze, I one of the questors. together with a large depute - tion of members, among whom were MM. Ferdinand de Lasteyrie and Gustave de Beaumont, did the honours of the place, and accompanied the Lord Mayor to all the must remarkable portions of the Palais Bourbon. After visiting the old Chamber o f I Deputies, the Library, the Salle de la Paix, &e., the Lord Mayor was shown into the Salle des Confer ences, where the different details and forms of the mode of carrying on business in the Assembly were fully explained to hint. After having visited the different portions of the palace, the Lord Mayor was conducted to the tribune of the Municipal Council, where he had an opportunity of seeing the public aittirg of the Assembly. MM. Bare, Ferdinand de Lastcyrie, and Gustave do Beaumont were seated in the tribune with the Lord Mayor. The president of the Assembly had set aside 500 places in the public galleries for the English visitors. On Saturday evening the magnificent banquet, given by the Prefect of the Seine and the municipa lity of Patis to the Lord Mayor of London and the RO'yal Commissioners, took place. This, the first of the gorgeous ectertainments about to take place, was in every way worthy both of the hospitality of the hosts and the distinction of the guests. The ban queting-hall was fitted up in a most superb manner, and presented a eoftp-incif of much grandeur and elegance. Against the walls of it there were a series of fluted columns overtopped by almost innumerable national flags. Above the the chair of the pre sident was a bust of the President of the Republic, over which again the insignia of the city and the prefecture were most tastefully interwoven, with emblems. denoting peace, art, and industry. The shield of the city of London was also brought out in the general design. Along the two sides of the room were twenty-four magni ficent chandeliers, whilst six of superior dimensions were suspended along the centre. This room is the Grande Salle des Fetes; but, vast as it is, it was found inadequate to accommodate all the guests with that due regard to personal comfort which, at a feast, the French know so well how to cultivate. Accordingly, two other rooms opening into the grand, sulk at different points, but opposite to the president, were furnished en smite : so that ample provision was made for all who had the honour of receiving invitations. As the visitors entered they were conducted in great state up the grand mealier into the reception-room, where they were severally introduced to the Prefect of the Seine. Nothing could be more cordial than the welcome which each received, and nothing more hearty than the attentions afterwards paid to them individually. No one was neglected in the slightest degree, and, as, may be na turally expected, everyone was contented and pleased. In the centre of the Salle de Fete was seated the Prefect of the Seine, having opposite to hint the President of the Assembly, M. Dupin, and having upon his right the Papal Nuncio, and upon his left the Nlarquis of Normanby, the English ambassador. Beside M. Dupin were twitted the Earl of Granville, Vice-President of the Royal Commission ; M. Fould, Minister of Finance; M. Benoist d'Azy, Vice-Presi dent of the Assembly. Near to these we observed M. Baroehe, M. \ ivien, and M. Bart, &c. Facing the prefect, but at the parallel table on the other side of the hall, was seated the Lord Mayor of Lon don. Upon his right was M. Lanquetin, President of the Municipal Commission, and around him were several ministers, official persons connected with the Assembly and the Aldermen and Sheriffs of London. A very fine orchestra, stationed in a lofty gallery at one end of the hall, performed a variety of music during the banquet in a very masterly style, includ ing the overture to "Guillaume Tell;" chorus of Gluck's " Ambit'," the duo from " Masaniello," and the " Amour Sucre do la Patric." The banqueting tables, were dressed with magnifi cent and elegant profusion. Amongst the most 'curious subjects were several ornamental pieces re presenting the principal fountains in the Exposition of London. The guests were served with surprising rapidity, and the arrangements altogether afforded in many respects an important contrast to festivals of the kind on this side of the channel. Wines of the most celebrated vintages abounded, and every thing presented to the guests was remarkable as ex quisite specimens of French culinary art. At a quarter to 9 o'clock, the Prefect of the Seine rose, and proposed the health of the President of the Republic, which was duly responded to. The Prefect of the Seine, ou again rising, proposed expressed the health of Prince Albert and the illustrious tin l i , ; n ue g il l it i c s iid h pae g ll u vrc es i tvoi t t s rds o w f httielithee memorable e ht i e t my y ow o ra f olu in eh their they ) P l l e d a ri day inscribe s rendered honour to the industrial genius of all nations. The Earl of Granville, in reply, spoke in French for nearly an hour, and was repeatedly and loudly cheered by the company. In eloquent terms he re traced the history of the Exposition, and expressed the thanks which were especially due from England to France for the honourable part she had taken in carving out what was originally her own idea, stating that he was specially charged by Prince Albert to convey those thanks. The President of the Municipal Council (M. Lan quetin) next proposed, in French, the health of the city and municipality of London. the Lord Mayor expressed to the company bis regret that he could not return thanks to them in their own language; but in hearty English he con veyed the grateful sentiments of the municipality of London for the honour which was done them, and terminated by proposing the health of the Prefect of the Seine, and prosperity to the city of Paris. After three English cheers iu honour of this toast, the guests passed into the magnificent salons of the palace, which were already well filled with guests invited to witness the dramatic and musical enter tainment which followed. In the Salle du Trone was represented, by the best actors of the Theatre Francais, Molieres " Medecin malgre lui." The concert, which presented by the unequalled orchestra and chorus of the Conservatoire, took place in the banquctting-hall, which had been, as if by magic, divested of all traces of the feast. The entertainment went off with the greatest eclat, and the company separated about two o'clock. Yesterday (Sunday) the Lord Mayor and the other guests visited Nersailles, where, after they had been conducted through its gorgeous halls, they The gardens. thowing wit nessed the playing of the celebrated water-works in the is the programme of the manceuvres which will take place on the 6th by the troops composing the garrison of Paris. Two corps Warm& are supposed to be opposed to each other, the one on the left and the other on the right bank of the Seine. The former will occupy the Champ de-Mars and Grenelle, and tile latter the Trocadero and the Bois de Boulogne. The army on the left bank will endeavour to make am offensive move ment on the right bunk, and will throw a bridge over the Seine, over which a part of the troops will pass and establish themselves on the right bank, under the protection of a heavy fire from their ar tillery. An attack will then be made on the Troca dero on the left, while the troops which have crossed the newly constructed bridge will make an attack on the right. These attacks will be repulsed, and the troops will retire to the Champ-de-Mars, under the protection of their artillery. The troops of the right bank will then cross the bridges, and advance on the Champ-de-Mars. Charges of cavalry will ho made to oppose their advance, but which will not prevent the whole of the right hank army entering the Champ-de-Mars. A general filing off of all the troops engaged will then take place. The President of the Republic has given orders that the public shall be allowed to approach as near to the scene of action as is consistent with the movement of the troops. The quays, the heights of the Trocadero, and the houses adjoining, will be the most favourable spots for witnessing the manoeuvres, which will occupy about two hours. SPAIN. MADRID, JrL4.29. General Aupick, the French ambassador, is ar rived. The senate ate going to vote to-day on the settlement of the floating debt. The prorogation is at hand. The Railway Bill is, for the present, abandoned. PORTUGAL. Tho Oriental Company's steam pocket Montrose, Captain John Bowen, arrived at Southampton yes terday, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. E. I'. Jorge, lt.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are :—Gibraltar, 25th July ; Cadiz, 26th ; Lis bon, 29th ; Oporto, 30th; Vigo and Corunua, 31st. Our correspondent writes as follows: LISBON. JULY 29. The weakness of Saldanha in moving the ministry in consequence of eabralistra demonstration, is still felt; that is to say, the encouragement it gave to that party has caused them still to go on in that bold career which augurs unfavourably for the peace of the country. They have used every means to neutralise the first operation of the electoral decree, the choosing of the commissions to prepare the lists ; and in many places their intrigues have been so successful, that the operation is illegal. Ministers must therefore wait for the report from every part of the country, and to those places where thecommitisiona have luen tsar properly elected, a remedy must be applied, so as to defeat the intrigues and cause a new election of commissions in accordance with the decree. The party is exulting at the result of their first endeavours, but taking, us far as yet can be ascertained, the result of the first operation as a whole, it is quite unfavourable to the views of the Cabrals, which makes them incline again towards violence, as a means to obtain an end. The letter of Silva Cabral, which informedruseuuld ronly be published here after it had been introduced in a furi•ign 'garb, has appeared in l'ortu- guese, having been, as you are aware,‘l;ublished in the Times. It speaks the sentiments of that party only, and so fur from speaking the sentiments of any 'other party or even elms 'in theitation, I do most confidently ustMre'you that if a traveller were to traverse the country from the Traz-os-Montcs to Cape St. Vincent, and ask ecry person he should meet how he liked the electoral decree, the answer would he, " Extremely well." In fart, it i; the only thing that binds the people to the government. in the midst of such manifest indecision and vacillation, There seems to be a disposition on the part of the ministry not to yield anything to the desire of Cabralism ; but it does not 80 much depend upon them us a body, us upon Saldanha individually ; and there is no telling from day to day what sudden gust of wind may blow hint into a humour or fright to go to the Palace and resign, and by so doing light the Mame of a civil war, which nothing but foreign in tervention could extinguish. When I acquainted you of the appointment of the ministry, I expressed a doubt as to the acceptance of office by the Bishop of Algarve. I was quite right ; he arrived on the 'Nth. and after several con ferences it is said he steadily persists in refusing office. Ile is a good man, and his talents and qualifications render him the fittest man to contend with the Court of Rome in the matters which arc yet pending between that court and Portugal. By the bishop's refusing office, the ministry may be said to be again disorganised, and a re-composition ne cessary. It is even said that with the Marquis of Louie in the cabinet, the Scptembristas throw their whole weight into the government scale; but otherwise their opposition might cause the government a defeat, and produce a ministry wholly Lot that party which, from its prin ciples, is said to be unpalatable to certain foreign govern ments. This, of course, relates to their former call for abdication. On this subject they have explained them selves : they say they only desired abdication whilst the Queen persisted in heading a party ; but now that she has given up Caliralism and consequently ceases to espouse a party, and particularly •so odious to the country, they (the Septembristas) would be among the most forward to defend:her throne and dynasty. From Beja we have no particular account, but it appears that the assassins are traversing the country proclaiming Cabralism and denouncing all other systems. It is quite time the career of these monsters should be put a stop to ; but their impunity manifests that too many Cubralista authorities, the avowed supporters of assassins, yet remain. The 11th Regiment, perhaps, will be weeded like the Itith the latter has discharged near TIO men, and some officers from other regiments have joined it. This measure appears to have met the evil. Writers front the Alcmtejo are afraid to communicate facts to Lisbon, lest the mail should be robbed and themselves assassinate!, which would infal libly be the case. The Ilaron Meaquita went from Evora to Ma with some cavalry, but the immediate effect of that was only to cause the assassins to take to their heels. Joa, quim Bents, now Baron do Zezere, the renowned Colonel of the Ist Cuiodures, has taken command of the Algarve (Bth division); and there, as well as in the Aleuffejo, all is quiet. A Mr. hardy Instep formerly an ensign in the liberat ing army, has submitted to government the plan of a rail road from Lichens to the frontiers near to liiidajos ; a com mission has been appointed to examine it, which has com menced its duties, but nothing has transpired respecting the plan. There is, I understand, a second proposal either made, or on the point of !wing made, by the agent of a deputation who were here 40111 e time ago on the Dann. , errand. . . _ A commission has been appointed to carry into effect cer tain reforms relative to the salt trade, which will benefit the industrious population of St. Cbcs ; and to form regu lations for future observance regarding that staple trade of the country. Another commission has been appointed, to inquire into the complaints arising from ships being obliged to be in a position in the river, called the " Quadro, with a view not only to relieve the merchants of a crying vexation, but at the mine time to propose the adoption of a mode of fica lisation which will not prejudice the revenue by encou raging smuggling. This commission is one of the most laudable acts of the Suldanha government. The new Nliuister of Marine, Fontes Pereira de Mello, is treading in the footsteps of his predecessor, the Marquis de Louie, in point of reform and economy. In order to re lieve the ultra-marine provinces, a decree has been signed, suspending all appointments, without vacancies occurring, unless by special requisition of the Governors-General. The government has called upon the Receivers-General to make up their account. and pay over their balances without delay. Those who do not pay over their balances arc to be imprisoned, and their effects proceeded against until they find sureties for the due payment of their re spective debits. No man can now consider the revenue which comes into his bands as his own rental, and apply it as lie thinks proper. The government is using every Ml•alli to root out corruption. It appears plotting still goes on at Elvas, and the dis affected military there hold communications with those at liadajos. The inhabitants take no part in it ; on the con trary, they are denoted to the government. A little plotting has been manifest among a few sergeants of the 9th CILKa dorm in Lisbon, but the good spirit of the soldiers of the regiment checked it without difficulty. No farther acts of political insubordination have taken place. Pensions have been ordered for payment, to those with out consideration fur August 1849 and to those with special consideration for October of that year, fur the Lis bon district. The courts-martial arc still sitting for the trial of those implicated in the late revolt. A vessel, the Don Alfonso, having on board convicts thr the Prmidios of Africa, left the Tagus a short time ago ler her destination ; but striking on one of the banks of the bar. a survey of her became necessary, and she was pronounivd is a fit state to go to sea ; her captain, however, doulaiii4 it, kept near the shore for some distance, when, finding -In made 17 inches of water per hour, he bore up for the 'raps again, where he happily arrived, and has lauded the unfor tunate passengers in safety. The portfolio of justice, refused by the Bishop of Al garve, has been offered to several with no better SUCCV• 4 . They all consider the present ministry one of transition, the joining of which might prejudice the election of any one as a deputy. The post therefore will, it is said, be still held ad interim by the Minister of the Interior. The government have taken the opinion of the most eminent and unbiassed lawyers in the kingdom on Mr. Croft's case, and they are unanimously in favour of his claim to the money placed in the public deposit by Ins father-in-law as his wife's dowry Every act confirms that Costa Cabral has up to the present time robbed this gentleman of his wife's fortune; besides the vindictive and revengeful feeling which is manifest, it yet remains to be seen what private benefit he derived from the stadia tiou. What course the government will adopt is not yet known, but Mr. Croft may be satisfied he will obtain the property ; he ought, however, to obtain damages from. Costa Cabral's ill-gotten riches fur the loss of many years interest, besides interminable law expenses and vexation' beyond measure