The Express. — London, England, 1852-08-16 00:00:00

I•.:ftt ennews. TO COttRBBPONDIt4TB. A t ae • &Ms el" The Caper,' the eime @moire • UAW u." Is pubbhed emu Tuseiay aM Nes. is Sze Mr p.- t. I,..e.tts.stosolateemled fee " TM Lapeer; Lateen Avesta" wee, et the Ogee e la, bleverMettast. hp Two *Meek es the tee ; • ...Mien. WATRK AT LONDON BRIDGE • . , r“—Vershig, I Afewascs. lb. 49.. T $l. fa.. Alums.% Y. Oh. ' V.V DON, MONDAY, A rOUST 16. A Ctlitt4lrr Correll, is to be held at Osborne, on Wednesday. Then and there Ministers will have to intimate to their Itoyal Mistress the time at which they think the new Parliament ought to meet, and assign their reason, for the conclusion they have armed at on that head. If—a. rumours diligently circulated, with a view to suicertaiu the possible patience and endurance of the public, have led people to believe—it is the in tention of Ministers to put off as lung as possible the evil day on which they are to confront the new House of C ions, all the command of countenance pox messed ven by Mr. Inseam.' will be tasked while be att. mpts to mislead his Sovereign into a belief that the tardy and procrastinating tactics of himself and colleagues are either safe or decorous. Ev. r sluice the first accession of the Reform Bill ministry to office, it has been held that when a Par liameet is dissolved because the ministers of the day find themselves in a minority, the new Parliament ought to be assembled if possible on the very day on which the writs are made returnable. Upon this rule Earl GRIT acted, and after him dir ROBERT PEEL and Lord Mittnouatta If Lord DERBY'S cabi net arc prepared to set these precedents at nought, the tack which they have to undertake on Wednes day is to obtain the sanction of their sovereign to a departure from a constitutional practice, the equity and expediency of which are self-evident. They will, in shoo I, regardless of their duty to the crown as loyal subjects, seek to place their QUEEN in the cqui iciest position of seeming to sanction a violation of constitutional practice in order to afford her ministers a chime of wriggling out of their difficulties. But apart altogether from the question, whether it be decent in Ministers to postpone the meeting of a parliament sumnioncel to declare whether they do or do not possess the public confidence, there are many and urgent reasons for convoking at an early day ate autumnal session of parliament. The rash and petulant manner in which Ministers have seen fit to run the risk of armed collision with citizens of the United Stat.* is a reason why the QUEEN should at this moment be anxious to obtain the advice of her great council. With the _tacit permission of the Bin fish Government the Americans have for years been left free to fish in quarters where it is now said they have no right. And oar present rulers, instead of making representa i tions on the subject to the American Government, begin by sending an armed squadron to enforce the views they have now aiopted. We know that our Transatlantic cousins are like ourselves, " sudden and quick in quarrel." 'Mere is imminent danger that leis unadvised step of ministers may lead to a disastrous collision. It is therefore highly desirable that the representatives of the people should be allowed an opportunity, if they disapprove (as there can be no doubt they do disapprove) of the insolent and bullying conduct of Ministers, to pronounce such an opinion of that conduct as will make it clear to the Americans that the blame lies not with the people of Great Britain, but with the imbeciles who have accidentally scrambled into °See for a few months. By advising the Crown, therefore, to post pone, in such circumstances, the meeting of Parlia ment, Ministers again seek to make a stalking horse of it, behind which they may skulk from the attacks of the Legislature. Ever since Lord Millie came into office his coarse of action has been one continuous equivocating eva sion of ministerial responsibility. He evaded a vote of want of confidence in the Commons, by admitting that he was in a minority, and promising to go at once to the country upon the question of free trade, a pledge which he broke almost as soon as it was given. He now shrinks from the judgment of that very House of GRIMM/ which he has got elected, is lieu of the one he so shamelessly deceived. He hsa held and continues to hold office in defiance of public opinion. And now he treats the Crown with as little respect as he has been treating the people. He seeks to diminish his own responsibility by attempting to persuade his Sovereign to appear his accomplice in procrastinating the day of judg ment. There is as little of lojalty as of respect for pope car rights in his composition. If Ministers are bent upon putting oft the cora menet meet of the autumnal session of course the (WIEN cannot help herself. A constitutional Sove reign mat walk by the advice of her responsible Ministers. Her MAJESTY will of course see through their shallow pretexts. When they . speak of reluct ance to cut short untimeouslyher enjoyment of repose in the Highlands, she will smile contemptuously, thanking Providence in silence that her robust constitution and the loyalty of her subjects entitle her to look forward to many autumnal visits TO her favourite seclusion ; ao that she could afford to sacrifice one autumn, though her Ministers' precari ous tenure of office makes them anxious to gain time by persuading her that she cannot. When they allege that Mr. Dessaeas sequestered studies have sot yet matured his great plan of finance, she will think—though she may not say—that if Parliament is not to meet until his vague and crude notions have beer, condensed into a practicable measure, there is little chance of its meeting again in her reign. When they assure her that there is nothing in the resent aspect of public affairs to render an earlymeet mg of Parliament desirable, she will think not only of the imminent risk of &collision in the Am erica& waters, but of all that she has just learned during her visit to Belgium of the complicated relations between that country and France. And though she is too much of a lady to say anything uncivil to her cabinet—too true a constitutional Sovereign to ques tion the right of her Ministers to a use for which they must be responsible -= s muse but think in her heart that the throne of England was never before surrounded by a body of councillors so meanly and selfishly intent upon promoting their own in - tereme, at any coat so utterly regardless of the iignity of the Crown, or the safety of the country. And the people will perfectly understand the posi tion in which their Sovereign is placed by her Ministers. The detestation of the DERBY government, engendered by their wanton disregard of public opinion, will be aggravated by the manifest selfish ness of their attempt to shelter themselves behind the Sovereign. The DERBT ministry's utter want of chivalrous loyalty will be quite as distasteful to the public mi their despotic principles and ro-actionary policy. THE important news received by the hat mail from tic Plate requires a little explanation, for it • dm.. not appear to hay. been LB yet properly under stood and appreciated. At first sight the assumption of dictatorial power over Buenos Ayres by General Uftuyila looks a much more violent, and certainly a much more illegal act, than, the whole facts of the ease being disclosed, it really is. lhe great end and object of the recent movements in the Plate, of the interference of Brasil, of the alliance formed between that monarchy and the Ar gentine Mates, of the restoration of independence and tot doni of action to the Banda Oriental, and of the espuleiun of Roma from Buenos Ayres whence he obatructed the trade of the Upper Provinces—the end and object of them movements, so far as U 4 QtIIZA was concerned, were two: the consolidation of the 'rgeutine Confederation, and the formation of a federal conatituti )))) for it which should secure to el: its separate members a just influence in their common concerns and freedom of navigating their coalmen waters. In the preliminary treaties concluded for these purism • the allies especially provided that—we quote the %tech' of the convention—. if, by reason of this alliante, the government of Buenos Apes should de elure war agaitot the allies, separately or collectively, this actual al4atice shall become a common alliance spinet the acid goy, rntnent, oven when ire actual •Verla shut/ hare breu aenomplialted." Buenos Ayres did, we know, declare the war here contemplated spinet flutelike; and it ended in the battle of &atm Legares, in the eight to Europe of Rosati, and in the capitulation of Buenos Ayres to URQUIZA. On the termination, therefore, of the war, the allies had • right, under the convention, to maintain authority over Buenos . Ayres. USQUIZA had, however, no izill disueition to molle extremity the advantages sf t he allies .ever the state, from which they heid all perviously enifeeed so severely. The Brazilian forces, which had really gained that victory, were at once withdrawn from the province; UKQUIZA refused to assume supreme power in a state of which ho was not a citizen ; he at once approved of is own selection of Dr. Lorrz as governor; restored liberty to the press; and, sanc tioning the meeting of the legislative body, retired to give his attention to the more important objeets of the alliance—the Congress to be assembled at Santa Fe of the whole Confederation. Whether from the almost natural and inevitable consequences of a sudden escape from the terrorism of Bosse, to the freedom thus established on his downfal, or from that !assumption of superiority over the other states, which has always characterised the population of Buenos Ayres, we do not undertake to say ; but certain it is, that the legislative body thus assembled went to work rashly, violently, and den rraly. Utterly regardless of the power which recalled it to existence, it assumed authority quite inconsistent with its own limited and restricted duties ; it interfered with the function and free action of the executive; brought by its proceedings the go- vernment of Dr. LOPEZ to a stand-still, and when he (though having the full confidence of the allies) unable to carry out his own policy, endeavoured to bring the Chambers to a sense of what they were doing by tendering his resignation, they accepted it. Now by this acceptance, the allies, engaged in the larger concerns of the Confederation, were reduced to the position of having in Buenos Apes, the most important city in the Confederation, both an execu tive government and a legislative body, adverse and hostile to their policy. This was a danger to the great ends of the alliance which it would have been little short of abandonment of its whole aim to have submitted to. Accordingly URQOIZA, relying on the provision of the treaty which we have quoted, has re-assumed power in Buenos Ayres, and appealed to the better feelings of the community. In resorting to this temporary remedy for a pressing evil, no cruelty or severity was however practised. A few of the noisiest and most turbulent of the representatives were ordered to leave the City on a few hours' notice; but even to them, on the soli citation of the Brazilian Minister, further and ample time was allowed to arrange their private affairs, and provide fur their families. And what is even more important, this contretemps at Buenos Ayres has not been allowed to interfere with the Congress previously summoned to meet at Santa Fe during this month, there to frame some common rules for the administration of the federal affairs. The truth, however, exhibited by this assumption of dictatoral power until Congress 471 have settled the terms of confederation is painfully suggestive ; it is that at Buenos Ayres there still exists a strong party which Maui at being the head, the directing power of the whole Argentine Confe deration ; a usurpation to which the sad experience of thirty years his shown that the Upper Provinces will not submit to. It is from the flocks and herds of these provinces that the commerce of the Argentine Confederation has sprung, and it is not reasonable to expect that, however superior in intelligence the inhabitants of Buenos Ayres may be, the °nachos of the riverine states will submit to leave the foreign affairs, the trading policy, and the very navigation of their streams, at the complete dispositions of Buenos Ayres. It is the interest, or supposed interest, of Buenos Ayres to collect • great revenue, and to possess the power which ample means gives ; to have all the machinery of a complex governmental system, and to centre the trade of the upper streams in its own port In short, Buenos Ayres his always hankered, will ever hanker, after abasing or using its pieition at the mouth of the Plate to tax and mfluence the interior. And this it is which the approaching Con gress will have especially to guard against. And is herein the interests of English commerce are identi cal with that freedom from Buenos Ayrean influence and taxation which the Upper States desire, it is to be hoped that, if Sir CHARLES Hamm( interfere at all, his influence will all be exercised in this direc tion ; for its end is freedom of export from, and of import into, the Plate and its tributaries, and what we want there is commerce. IT IS STATED THAT Ma. FEASON, THE AITOII. NET 01011E1AL'S SOLICITOR YOB CHARITIES, wu last week on a visit to William of Wykeham's mach abused foundation, Bt. Mary's College, Winchester; with, it may be hoped, a •iew to the better admini stration of the noble endearments, which cannot ke Ins Dow than 20,0001. a year. WE 1601,1 T To HMI Of THE DEATH Olt MR. losErn FLITCHES, ow of the government inspee ton of British and Foreign Schools. Mr. Fletcher wasamoet valuable pails servant, u his educa tional reports amply testily. THE CAUSE OP VICE-CHANCELLOR PAR/CBI'S SUDDEN DEATH war angina pectoris. It i• remark able that the deceased judge war first seized with it the first day he assumed his official duties. From the period of that attack the disease had beets a source of great uneasiness to his family; and at no time did he suffer more from it than during the disousion of the Wagner case.—Daily Nem. THE TOUT GOVERNMENT AND THE TORT Pans. —A eon ef Mr. Hermosa, editor of the Nesemeoliatnineed, has recently received an appointment as 1 of 00. vernment IMbools, with o say of MI. e—ftr istermel. THE MININTERIAL POLICT.—Tbs eissimitdat that the Earl of Derby would make certain dblissato as to the mhziaterial policy, at the Prates noricaltoval dieser, appears at Mast to have bees iluesontsre. Me noble earl hi.a sot yet accepted the invitation to be proem at the _ _ A PUBLIC Duni= TO MA. FRED. Put, M.P., is to ha given at Bury es Mgit SIB September, at which Sir James Graham is mmeelledlyes be MOM. Yr. Cobden and Mr. Bright are also Mid tome reestred baldest:leas. ASSAULT BT TES MAYOR OF BLAClGnille.—On Saturday last, is the goatee of some dmotte that took place between the Mayor of Blackburn, Mr. W. M. Hereby, sad Mr. Thomism Dogdide chairmaa .f ßeet Lancashire Railway Company (oeightedsi is a OSINIMIIiiIe the dividend to be paid id by Oa, 41OITIIV knocked Mr. Demists me the of the Lancashire station. Mr. to mower for the offence before lb. by indictment before • superior court. We smiseatiosa l lat Yr. Dupla!, obtained • true bill against Mr. Hornby, rn Thursday, at the grand jury, Liverpool.—Manchmter . lATECT IN COUNTY COURT Lew.—At the Sheriril Court, Guildhall. on Saturday, Mr. Ankle& • ••u•itor. rn ap plied to his Honour, Mr. Guey, under e Billowing cir cumstances : —His client, • Mr. Bert, bad obtained a judg ment la the Bhoreditch County Court for a debt of 6W. which not being paid,: e lo c u ti on had issued, end as tla defendant resided in the City, the process was sent to the high bailiff of his Honour's court, erbootrowever, sent word to the high bailiff of the Shoreditch court that be could not execute it. as he had no jurisdiction to distrain beyond 201. His Honour said he could give so relief, for he bad no power in the matter. Mr. Ashley said what was sin. pular in the GM was, that his Honour's high bailiff had served the summons and put the machinery in operation at • cost of 71. to his client, knowing that the object could not be carried eat, although they had received the fees for doing so. Hie Honour repeated that he could not interfere. TOR CHE.AP COWNIAL AND INTERNATIONAL POIIT4OR AIItIIICIATION, finding that " the influence of the society has :already produced sensible effects in pro moting the übjtcts in view, and might be extended mach wider by the pommies of funds for the purpos e of collect ing, printing, and eirearlsting Information, ' have resolved to give to the association a larger basis, by admittiog all per•oos into its ranks who are favourable to the general purpose, on payment of • small yearly suhecriptioa. This step goes to disprove the essertirm—lately made wriest it— that the association was disposed to work in secret, and to rely on racial influence rather than ma public support for the contemplated reform. Under its now form the association promises to be' 0,111 nude active and influential than before. Earl Gm. Tulle hos accepted the presidency, and Don Manuel de Yeas'. the new honorary secretary, has begun the subecrip tains by a liberal dosages of • hundred pounds. At a meeting held at the room of the Society of Arta on Tuesday last, the emekticee adopted what may be milled a programme of opisim, en which to appeal u the general public Inc support, in the four following resolution., which were unanimously carried. I.Thet it appears to this emaciation that all the arguments awn by Mr. Rowland Hill in favour of the justice of ma usifriern rate of postage apply sertainly to cohst...l, acid probably to foreign eorrispondeace. 2. That the coat of conveys..., as was proved by Mr. Row land 11111, depends epos the number of letters, and not vino the distance, and that therefore the )ustiee of an mishits rite is evident. 3. That the ussoistion the recognition of this principle In the recent adoption of tanifiro, rotes for printed papers to some of our colonies. 1. I hat tile simplicity and convenience of pre-payment ilsq appear to apply to colonial and foreign correspondence. r !W. EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16. 1852 FRANCE. THE PARIS I" SUNDAY MO/WM . AltlB, The Aroniteur oontains the following note: The fete of August 15 sill give occasion to numerous acts if clemency, which will furnish a new proof of the magna nimity al the Priam Vaseidear. The time is past when amnesties imposed by the ezigessies of the press of political opposition, were, to the great detri ment of public order, an act of weakness in the government sad a Mhusph to parties. Than sea ba no question at the present moment or • dos mod . The government could not, without cola ' 'c security, the are of which is its list duty. Isamare to certain men who dream of nothing bo• a As Overthrow of society. But the pvern:nest, !lobs tall liberty of its initiative, has found itself stile, dime • serious examination, to grant pardon to repentss; OM unfortunate men who have been misled by the turbu lent. It has thus conciliated the interests of humanity With those of public tranquiloty. IS is to this spirit that the PAIN Prod/sat los mated on or commutations se aushaseass M mew si = Voninio..s selected from Moe sismismad fir Miter, ne well as for ordinary inhtessansues. From this you will see that the sari caprimad I. my letter of yesterday that the semeety would be of a mixed character so sate esussal the &limber of political offenders pardoned, has bum hilly confirmed. Tho Pattie says that 800 polkaed Wanders have been pardoned, and 500 mum prisoners. But since this does not make up ths toad of the Mon& kw, no reliance can be repleea epea it. From the language of the note it is clear thee pardon has been extended to no name of mark, but oily to those who have made the most submissive professions of re pentance. • decree follows, letting off trees punishment all whiskeys been guilty of infraction e/ the forest and IVlaws. weather is rather showery. The ceremony semmeneed et the Madeleine at half-pest nine. The President has gone there. The columns of the church have hem covered with crimson cloth, sprinkled with the imperial bee. The Rae Royale is filled with the washes of the ambassadors, and with troops. Mavrocordato, the Greek envoy, is going to Rome to arrange a concordat with the Pope. The Archbishop of Paris has opened a subscription for Dr. Newman. SVNDAY One of the first decrees of the dictatorship esta blished on the 2nd of December was to abolish the national fetes of February 24 and May 4, in com memoration of the revolution and constitution of 1848, and to replace the observance of those repub. lican anniversanes by the celebration of the birth day of the Emperor, which was proclaimed to be henceforth the only national festivaL The 15th of August is not only the anniversary of Napoleon's birth, it is the day dedicated in the Romish calendar to St. Nipoloon, a member of the holy army of martyrs, whose canonization was, in conformity with the emperor's wishes, identi fied by Pope Pins VII. with the birthday of the latter. As in Catholic countries the fetes of people are kept upon the days of the saints after whom they . are named, August 15 becomes the fete of Louts Napoleon, as well as of his imperial uncle. Thus by the selection of this date for the national/as the dictator achieved two objects. He contrived to invest his own fete with the symbols of the empire, and to colour the imperial disguise of his own power with the national consent. Thus wherever you move to-day you will see the signs of the nephew interwoven with those of the uncle. While the acutcheons on the flag-staffs bear the cypher of L. N. the eagles of the illumination was crested with the imperial crown, and the columns of the Madeline are wrapped up to the mid-shaft in crimson-cloth embroidered with gold bees. The chief ceremony of the day has been the dis tribution of the eagles to the national guards. From daybreak you might hear the drums of the guards of the banlieue beating to arms ; and the fifty-one bat talions were all early in the field taking up their positions from the Barriers de l'Etoile along the avenue of the Champs Elysees to the Place de la Concorde, spreading out their ranks in that ample square, and extending their line up to the front of the church of the Madeleine. The whole civic force was distributed in three divisions of 17 battalions each, under the command of officers of the staff, with a band to each division. The first division was com mended by M. Niewerkerke, whose statue of the Em peror at the 'toad-Point of the Champs Elysees forms one of the chief attractions of the day. The cavalry of the national guard, commanded in chief by the Marquis de Caulaincourt, was posted outside the Barrier. de l'Etoile until the formation of the in fantry. The platoons of infantry were drawn up three ranks deep; and the sapeurs-pompiers, or corps of firemen, were set on the right of the drums. The chefs de battaillon and majors were on horse back. The first and second battalion, established on the Place de la Concorde, were charged to maintain order, and took no part in the filing off. The first regiment of grenadiers was on service in the imme diate neighbourhood of the Madeleine. The standard bearers of the national guard having repaired at half put seven to the head-quarters of their commandtr in.chief, General Lawontine, rat the Palais Royal, were then conducted by an officer of the staff to the Madeleine. The mass at this church having been fixed for half-past nine, shortly before that hour a procession of equipages might be seen setting down at the foot of tho steps the ministers the diplomatic corps and high functionaries. 1 believe the carriage of the English ambassador, although emptj, figured out of etiquette in the procession. The crowd had • good view of all these personages in their various orders and costumes as they ascended the steps. The weather, cloudy, windy, and unpropitious , threatened the bravery of the show with smart showers, but, after a short fit it rain, held up without clearing. Presently Louis Napoleon drove up in a carriage and four, with green and gold liveries and outriders, accompanied by two of the ministers and some members of his military houaehold. The senators were the only body of the state regularly invited to the ceremony. The mass was then celebrated by the Archbishop of Paris, who proceeded, after the elevation of the host, to bestow the benediction of the church upon the flags The standard-bearers, shouldering their en igma, then proceeded to join their battalions. The selearre differ but little from those of the army. The !triage of the flag is of silver instead of gold. The heal of the eagle is not turned, and the wings are s tlif t zr. The letters L. N. embroidered upon a of oak and laurel branches, appear on the feu 001111 in of the flag. The cost of each set of co la= is about 400 fr., but country regiments, that may object to this expense, are at liberty to suppress the embroidery. After the conclusion of mass the President mounted on horseback, and, accompanied by a numerous and brilliant staff, rode along the lines of the national guard. Different accounts are given u to the in tensity of the cries ; but, as you are aware, this civic militia is anything but imperialist in tendency, and even the cries of " Via, le President," u I under stand, were by no means general. The officer com manding each battalion stood a few paces before the centre of his men, with the standard bearer on his right. When the Prince was within about fifty , paces of the right of the battalion, the men pre sented arms, and the officers saluted with the sword. As the President passed the centre of the battalion. the commander received the colours from the standard bearer. After this operation had been gone through by the 51 battalions, the President took up, his sta tion and the infantry and cavalry filed off before him by platoons. The eagle of each battalion was low- aul, on passing. The cries were partial and feeble. I Many circumstances besides the weather concurred to damp this ceremony. A large and liberal measure of amnesty had been desired ; arid although such was hardly expected nothing could have made a worse impression on pablio opinion than the note in the Moniteur of this morning. The concealment of the real number of political pardons granted by mixing them up in the same number with the liberation of 'common criminals was offensive in the extreme, each party being guided by their fears or preji:diets. Thom who disapprove the enlargement o f rebels fear that the proportion of political pardons predomi nates ; while those who demand a political amnesty as a measure of justice are equally indignant at t be scanty and vairueact of clemency, andat the insulting manner in which men with whom cause they sympathise are confounded with common criminals, as if to add a sting to their reprieve. I have just returned from a ramble up the Champs Elysees. Carriages are not permitted to circulate lower on the boulevards than the commencement of the de Madeline. The streets are not over- B erO t t edvad la and the people moving about aro evidently the diagorgings of the trains des plaints from the pro vinces. The Parisian belles imperil not their trim and dainty toilettes in much ungenial weather. Dust is whirled about by the peevish wind, and puckers the faces of the gaping throng. On the Place do la Concorde are planted two red masts, like thaw before the Cathedral of St. Mark at Venice, and two enormous silken tri-oo loured orYtammes, at least sixty feet long, undulate with slow majesty about these tall poles. In the central white is inscribed that hypocritical text of universal suffrage : Vox popnli, cox D o i; on the blue and red the cypher of Louis Napoleon with the num ber of votes he gained on the 20th of December. Over that wing of the Place de Louis XV. which forms the Ministry . of Marine is stretched a beautiful awning of crimson velvet so as to form a canopy for the President as he sits in the columned balcony to night to bebold the fire-works. A corresponding awning of meaner material flaps before the other ' wing. Bofors the Petals Bourbon, on the other side of the Pont Louis XV. there is a strange scenic decoration representing the Alps in pasteboard, with fortifications, galleries, and towers edged with snow. All op the Champs Elysdes on either hand are a series of fountains of very pretty design, but unfortunately only half finished, so that no two are alike. Those which are most complete consist of a palm growing out of a bacon filled with towers. The three Graces, dos-a-dos and hand-in hand, stand about the upper part of the stem, crowned with gold wreaths. Children riding swans sport underneath. The base of the fountains is en closed in a trelliswork wreathed with oaklcaves. A large calyx of ground glass crowns the palm, and will contain the gaslight this evening. Now the whole of these tasteful decorations aro unfortunately in a state of confusion, hardly one having been con pitted, in consequence, as I understand, of a strike of the workmen last night for higher wages, which they claimed for their extraordinary exertions during the preceding nights. The contractors having resisted this demand:the workmen abandoned their labours on the eve of completion, and left everything at sixes and sevens. The engineers were employed to re place them, bat of course these military workmen amid not bo expected to finish the artistical labour. of the plasterers and gilders. The ground is strewn with fragments of unused materials, broken glass, ladders, stray cupids' arms and graces' heads. 'I he great fountains cannot play for want of water, and the flowers, flung pole-inek into the basins, are withered for want of the same refreshing element. Whether this is a coup monbs, a premeditated stroke on the part of the republicans, or a mere accident, I have no means of knowing. M. Niewerkerke's bronze equestrian statue of the emperor was swung into its place last night and cuts a very creditable figure. The horse is planted on his fore-legs, with ears pricked, as if listening to the trumpet. The emperor, in his well-known costume, cocked hat, aid great-coat, is sitting in an easy and natural at- 1 titude. People throng much about this work, which is generally approved ; and I think the Parisians will be sorry to miss it, when it is removed to Lyons, where it will be inaugurated by the President at the close of next month. Oa the front of the base is an eagle, crested with the imperial crown. The Hippo- drome and Cirque of Franzoni are open gratuitously. In the square of Marigny and the other open places of the Champs Elysees the usual diversious go on, and the interest with which certain groups regard cotes ' . chantaes, dwarfs, giants, tables of bagatelle, and sundry other entertainments, such as may be found in equal abundance at Greenwich fair, prove that these wandering spectators aro for the most part new to the stalest objects of Parisian amusement. Mean while all flock towards the river, to take up what standing or sitting room may be got, from whence to witness the boat races and aquatic tournament& The jousts on the water between the bridge of Austerlitz and that of Berey were designed prin cipally for the amusement of the inhabitants of that remote quarter, and were witnessed by comparatively few besides. At the conclusion of the review a good many people started in that direction from the Champs Elysees, but few persevered in performing the dreary distance on foot, and the regulations con cerning carriages made any other mode of locomotion difficult. On this account most of those who had at first determined to see everything, changed their minds before they reached the Tuileries, and slowly sauntering back, lined the quays on either side of the river between the Pont des Invalides and the Pont de Jena, to take up a position to see the re gatta, and a ft erwards the naval tight. The jousts, or bo at tournaments, however, made more fun than any other entertainment of the day. Wooden seats were erected on the banks of the river up to the water's edge on either side, and these were well filled by patient spectators long before the commencement of the sport. The quays above were also crowded with at least more people than could see comfortably. The jousts are conducted in this way. Two four oared cutters are placed opposite to each other at the distance of about SO yards. At the prow of each appears, standing upright, a muscular champion .in a light dress, approaching u near as possible to na tural buff, with a broad well wadded belt round his waist, and a blunted spear of formidable length in his hand. At a given signal the boats row towards each other, the spears, firmly held by each combatant, is pointed towards the wadded belt of his adversary. At the slightest touch, one, and not unfrequently both of the titters tumble souse into the water. The fan is to see the splash, and to witness the swimming to shore of the warriors. This was repeated for several boats in succession. To be a good swimmer is the one essential qualification for these combats. But little skill was displayed in any attempt to parry. Indeed the heroes of the fight seemed to think it chivalrous to lean towards the hostile lance, which without that assistance is very apt to miss its mark. In fact several ineffectual charges were made. But these caused as loud shouts of laughter as the suc cessful encounters. But little attention was paid to the boat races. These do not occur often enough in Paris to be understood by the population. The great attraction of the day was beyond all question the mock naval combat on the Seine. All the other entertainments have been seen over and over again in former . years, but the greater part of the Parisians never in their lives saw a three masted ship. The announcement of a sea-tight in the Seine, with a frigate manned by real men-of wars-men, from Cherbourg, to play the principle part in the battle, promised a nov el exhibition, and ex cited an interest which has resulted very generally in proportionate disappointment. For at least two hours before the appointed time the stream of popu lation flowed towards the scene of action. The heights of Trocadero, the tope of the houses, on the Quai Billy, and the gardens and garden walls be longing to them were all crowded with spectators who had paid handsomely for seats and even for standing-room. Tho frigate, the Ville de Paris, was anchored in the middle of the river between the Pont des Invalides, and the Pont de Jena, but nearer to the latter. Tho stand for the President of the Republic was erected on the Champs de Mars side of the river, and on either side of it, extending to • considerable distance, were platforms contuining reserved seats for invited guests. Many reserved seats were also erected on the opposite bank. The whole length of the quays, from the Pont de la Concorde to the Pont de Jena, was thickly crowded with anxious spectators, of whom not one in a hun dred could see any part of the sight. The police regulations against mounting trees and parapets were set at nought. The trees lining the quays were thickly studded with adventurous climbers, who looked down exultingly on those below. Even so far off as the Place de la Concorde people stood up upon the stone balustrade, in the vain hope of getting • peep at some part of the action. Shortly after four o'clock the President of the Republic, attended by hi. household and the grand dignitaries of state, arrived at the grand stand. Great bustle then pre vailed, both on shoreandon the river. Boats with naval officers pushed rapidly to and from the frigate,bearing orders. It was not till half an hour after the Prest dent's arrival that the preliminaries of the battle ; commenced. A boat put off from the Areas steamer, which was stationed near the Pont do Jena, and re connoitred the position of the frigate. This was an easy operation, for the frigate, to the great disap pointment of multitudes, remained close reefed in an inoffensive attitude at her moorings, where she has ' been for several days past. The frigate fired a gun at the boat, which instantly retreated, pouring • sharp lire of musketry into the frigate. Upon this, about twenty small boats, with soldiers and sailors on board, left the Areas, and proceeding towards the frigate, attempted to board her. Two forts upon the banks of the river supported this manoeuvre by a tremendous canonading, which enveloped the whole miss en scene in a vast cloud of smoke, and so rent the air tb t the frowning clouds which lowered over head opened their water. spouts. A pouring rain descended, but lusted only a few seconds. The rest of the battle eau only be de scribed by an eye and car witness, as a long succes sion of clouds of smoke, and deafening peals of artil lery. The disappointment to the spectators con sisted in this. A general impression prevailed that the frigate was to spread her sails and manoeuvre. I was told by several persons in the crowd that she remained motionless on account of the want of water in the river. 'fhis, however, was quite a mistake. It was impossible that the frigate could at any time manoeuvre or support her canvass in that narrow and shallow part of the Seine. The exhibi tion was, to tell the truth, as little like a sea fight as possible. The little steamers, the Aram and Calypso, moved round about the frigate, pouring in broadsides and receiving more terribleones in return, but nothing could be less life-like than the appearance of the ship, with the sailors either huddled on deck or down below, and nothing going on in the rigging. Fur the rest, a liberal expenditure of gunpowder went as far us it could to make up for all deficiencies. The concluding fire lasted full twenty minutes without intermission. _ A decree of the President of the Republic, in the Moniteur, directs that all persona now in prison for non-payment of tines and costa consequent upon con victions for offences against the laws relating to fo rests, fisheries, or public highways, shall be imme diately set at liberty. Notwithstanding the enormous number of pro motions and new appointments in the Legion of Honour contained in the Moniteur, tho official jour nal states that it is compelled, for want of room, to postpone the publication of the whole list of decora tions, and in particular those conferred upon cmployAs in the ministry of the interior, agriculture, and com merce. Count Casablanca and M. Bourgeois, the ar chitect of the Tuileries, are appointed officers of the Legion of Honour by special decrees. The military medal, created by the decrees of January 22 and February 29, and endowed from the proceeds of the Orleans confiscation, has been conferred upon Gene ral Pelissier, commanding the (Iran division of the army of Algiers, as a reward fur his services while ad interim governor of Algeria. M. leanard, the vice-president of the Senate and president of the Court of Cessation, is the only new grand officer of the Legion of Honour. At the head of a large number of promotions in the army and navy appear the names of General of Bri gade Borrelli, commanding a brigade of division in the army of Rome, and General of Brigade Poinsig non, commanding the military sub-divion of Dor dogne, promoted to the rank of generals of divisions. The following colonels are appointed generals of bri gade: Colonel Martemprey of the Etat Major, Colo nel D'Estienne de Chaussegros de Lioux, command ing the 47th infantry ; Colonel Behagel, commanding the 71st infantry; Colonel Jacquemont du Doujon, commanding the 39th infantry; Colonel Angenoust, 'commanding the 4th dragoons ; Colonel Anfryc, com manding the sth cuirassiers, and Colonel 13arbier, of the artillery. The Mondeur publishes a decree promulgating the convention for the extradition of criminals, concluded on April 9, 1850, between France and New Granada, and directing that the convention shall henceforth be acted upon. Yesterday took place before the Court of Assizes of the Seine, the trial of the murderer Pradeaux, which excited the most eager curiosity. This mis creant in the space of a single month, last May, as sassinated three persons, two of whom were old women, and attempted a fourth murder. l'he re sistance which he encountered in his last crime happily prevented its completion and led to his apprehension. The prisoner is 32 years of age. His parents were connected with the manufacture of artificial flowers. Pradeanx, before he took to assas sination, had been three times imprisoned for rob bery and swindling. As soon as he had obtained two or three hundred francs by some criminal means he spent the money . in a few days, and then had recourse to a fresh crime for a new supply. His first victim was a cotton-manufacturer, whom he mur dered in his bed on tto night of April 3 to rob his chest, which contained some 700 francs. About the same time he contracted an engagement to marry the girl Dardard. To defray the expenses of the nuptial feast he committed a fresh murder. This time his victim was a woman of 60, the widow Cha teau, of whom he pretended that he wanted to hire a lodging. He paid a visit at midnight, knocked down the old woman with a violent blow on the head, and strangled her with a hand kerchief. He then rifled her effects, among which he found a bag of savings amounting to 300 fr. Hence forth this became the pattern for Pradeaux's asses ' sinations. He sought out the weakest victims,stun ned them by a sodden blow, and then strangled them. Having murdered the widow Chateaux on the 25th, he proceeded to assassinate in precisely the same way four days after a woman of the same age, Sean, engaged in the artificial flower trade. But he ransacked in vain the drawers of this poor creature, who, notwithstanding her industrious habits, was obliged to eke oat her subsistence by the charity of the Bureau de Bienfaisanoe. The next day Pra deaux led his bride to the altar, decorated, perhaps, with some of Mdlle. Bean's artificial orange-flowers. He passed the night in wandering about the or chards whose walls he bad scaled to murder the cot- ton-manufacturer, and at daybreak entered the caba ret of an old woman named Naudin. He asked for a glass of brandy, and while she was getting it he struck her on the head with a bottle, and knocked her down. He then attempted to strangle her with a handkerchief IRA usual; but the old woman bit him with force, and her screams brought the con cierge to her assistance. The assassin tied, was pur sued and caught. The jury found a verdict of guilty upon all the charges, and the prisoner was con demned to death. The appearance of Predeaux is insignificant, his features are small, his eyes sunk, his complexion pale. His whole life seems to have been one tissue of crimes. As soon as he had strength enough he knocked down his mother and trampled upon her, and nearly assassinated his father with one of the tools used in their trade. The minister of public instruction has prohibited all public schools from using the " History of France" by Father Loriquet, in which the Emperor is styled " M. le Marquis Bonaparte, general com manding tho armies of H.M. Louis XVIII. M. For tours decree characterises the book as one in which contemporaneous history is maliciously disfigured by party spirit, and the most brilliant monuments of the national glory and civilisation represented in a way calculated to weaken the sentiment of patriotism in the hearts of children. PARIS, B•Tus.DAT Evaxmo. Last night, about 1 o'clock; a fire broke out at the Elysee, in the apartments of the President. In a few minutes the flames had acquired an intensity, which seemed to threaten the destruction of the whole pile. After several hours of active exertion, the excellent corps of pompiers succeeded in confin- I lug the fire to the portion of the building in which it had taken origin, and gradually mastered and extinguished the flames. As the apartments were those destined to the personal use of the President, the mischief done has been still more important in relation to papers and objects of personal value to the Prince, than as regards furniture. All the mirrors were cracked, and of curtains, carpets, and other objects in the cabinet of the President and two adjoining rooms nothing was saved. Fortunately no living thing was burned, the place being compa ratively empty while the repairs are going on during the absence of Louis Napoleon at St. Cloud. The fire arose from overheating • stove, in order to dry the walls against the President's return. Among the objects saved is a reliquo of Charlemagne, containing a fragment of the true cross, presented by the inhabitants of Aix-le-Chapelle to the Emperor Napoleon. The Momileur contains the appointment of General Greene to be Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour. This nomination, which was predicted to you shortly after the death of Marshal Excelinans, is sufficiently significant of the President's intention to advance even the obscurest members of his own family to the chief offices of the state in preference to those who possess the highest titles of merit. You are already aware that Count Ornano is the eon of Isabelle Bonaparte, first cousin, and, perhaps for tunately for France, the only one, of the Emperor. The family is Corsican by both sides. M. d'Ornano had just won his epaulettes of general of division, when he was eclipsed by the ltestorati.m. 1 ; 4 many other of the imperial officers, h, was from his obscurity by Louis Philippe, who Iliad, to peer and grand officer of the Legion of 11., n „, Before the revolution of February he commanded the Fourth Military Division, whose head -quarter s nre at Tours, and settled at a chateau in the i n d„.. t.t. Loire, for which department he sat in the legish o i,, Assembly. Since the rev e'(,d dispersed that 64 3 has been indemnified for the loss of his twenty.t an francs a day by being made senator, and um meted recently to be grand cross to pave the wee n x the present crowning dastitanuan. His sun is l'iittet of the Yonne. To-day the leading theatre* have been opte e il t o the public gratuitously. The doors of the (le .d Opera, the Opera Comique, the Francais, and the (Well', have been besieged limn an early hourloe n . siderithle crowds, arranged en Incite. It in ne4, 4 to d otld that these eager eonipetiturs for unpaid sures were visibly of the eery poorest sort, and harked still inure in need of Pattern than Cie , e), •s, The theatres were opened ut one, and filled alite. s ; immediately; still a squalid tail of the exthehn supernumeraries waited, and still wait hoping to supply the places of such u s retire j.ll twos and threes, after braving buthreation Is the satisfaction of their curiosity An ~!flint makes his appearance at the door every tam and then, and cries out, us vacancies war, `• Places pour trois! Places pour einqr mid ahe .h wriggle is visible in the excited queue of pc wretches who will perhaps (lever have Reuther, of hearing the favourite, or seeing the ` bit Quatre," at least under the dome of the O lxce . the Francais, there is some pretension of telapte, piece, which is" Clemency of Augustus," alte.. if the President resembled the founder of t o dynasty of the Ciesars, one would hardly fix 'f,e likeness on his virtues. At the °Mete the putouts KUM is entitled the " Filet do l'Empereur." The presentations at the other theatres seem se!to,d rather out of consideration fur the audience than the occasion. There is a tremendous article in tho S4.‘'t !o. day . about tho gas contract. It seems the no l. tumidity, purged by a decree of the torship of all but creatures of the ment, have prolonged the contract for li„).• Paris with gas from Petid to lb'4l, that is, tor and twenty years, without publicity or couipen:. two essential conditions of all such engages„ ' This concession, made in a manlier wholly u.. .. cedented in the annals of French municipal goe. ment, is denounced by the leading liberal paper a- an intolerable abuse of administration and a gross job It involves an outlay of twenty-four millions sliding, and will, us the Sircle argues, from a cornpari,on of the prices paid by other towns for gas lighting, frte the Parisians to pay enormously dear for lighting which is notoriously inefficient. The affair may be referred to the Council of State, and it is hoped that the iniquitous bargain may be thus annulled, a, contrary to all usage and law, as well as detrimental ' to the interests of the inhabitants. The number of pardoi a to be declared in the tear of to-morrow is expected to be about rasi. President has already signed upwards of 000 for non. political offences. It is to be hoped that those Ira no part of the 800. The lists will apply, it thought, to only obscure names. Tho Constitutionnet is about to lower its price to 32f., to undersell the Pays. Prince Jerome left Brest on the 11th, for Nantes. He proceeded by land, on account of the state of the sea. He arrived at Lorient ou the 12th. BELGIUM. The Messager de Gand gives the following a, tLe effect in Belgium of the non-renewal of the comma. Mal treaty of July 26, 1846, between Belgium a4d Francs: Wines are to pay an augmentation of duty of front' 31...0 241. the piece of 220 livres ; silk an augmentation of 6 pr cent, on the previuu. duty, or 10f. the 100 kilog. in place of 4f. ; articles of fashion 20 per cent. iu place of 10 per ten! ribbons, 51. in place of 41. the kiliig.; cotton, 323 f. in place of 212 f. the 100 &dog.; white woollen tissues, 220 f. in plate of 187 f. 23c. ; cloths will hove to pay, in addition to dutieswitablished by the convention of 1846, an ad color. a duty of 9 per cent. ; articles of mereery will remain with.ut change, the dety of 10 per cent. being preserved ; and the same will be the case with respect to furniture and hook., which latter will continue to pay, in sheets, 31f. 80e. the 100 kilog., and when bound, 42f. 40e. The deduction of 12 per cent. in favour of coarse marine salt is reduced to 7 per cect. The application of the legislation cone,rning patemes on French boatmen in Belgium is not mrobfird It will be the same with respect to Belgian boatmen in France. The assimilation of the natives of the two countric.,c the point results from Art. 13 of the treaty of Nov. 17,149, which is still in force. ITALY. PIEDMONT. The Gazettu Piednwntese, of the 12th init.. an. flounces the arrival of the French squadron on the Bth before Cagliari, in Sardinia. PARMA. The Austrian government has taken a nor and important step in Italy. Letters of the 9th instant from Parma announce • that the resolution has been taken at Vienna to deprive the Duke of Parma of the administration of his States, and to put in a regency, of which Ward is to be the head. The motives for this extraordinary act have not yet been assigned with any degree of distinctness by any source of intelligence, public or private; and the present Duke, a young man close upon 311, received the sovereignty of Parma, Placentia, and the an nexed states by virtue of the abdication of his father, Duke of Lucca, in March,lB49. The latter prince having been frightened out of his wits by the dis turbances of 1848, first abdicated the Iluelly of Lucca to Tuscany, and then retreating into Germany, divested himself entirely of the responsibilities of government by handing over his hereditary dominions, as a prince of the younger branch of the Spanish Bour bons, to his son, at tpulating for the regular payment oil sufficient pension. The present duke has 'been mar ried during nearly seven years to the only sister of the Count de Chambord, by whom he has several children. Meanwhile, the fecundity of the marriage bed has not prevented the frequent recurrence of con jugal disputes, in which the Ibichesse de Berry. who makes frequent journeys between Frohsdorf and Farina, sides naturally with her daufhter, and then goes and makes a great to-do at s ienna about the misbehaviour of her son-in-law. On the other hand the old ea-duke complains to the same court that he can no longer wring a lirre of the stipulated peam. l out of his son. What the duke has to say to all this matters not greatly, as pretences of that sort for de posing him could be hardly put forward even by the unblushing hypocrisy of Austria. The step is evi dently taken upon political and not dowel(' grounds it is right that Europe should know what them• are that wo may understand what sort of international law we are to live under at the present day. Mean while the young duke has left Parma, it is thought to defend himself at Vienna, where it appears he ii regarded as a minor, although considerably- older than the Emperor. That his tourney might not lc anticipated, he set out secretly and suddenly siih two aides-de-camp, and when 6 reached the frontier of his small temtory he handed to each a rat. despatch with an enormous peal, which looked 30 it it contained matters of gravest import, but sew notified in the briefest terms his departure. SPAIN. MADRID. At o The question of the dissolution of the Cortes K os to be adjourned till the end of August. At the last cabinet council held at La Granja the ministers were occupied with the selection of a 4 . ; cessor to M. Melchor Ordonner, as civil gmerm*'" Madrid. The merits of three candidates. M. lem` rio, civil governor of Malaga, M. Ventura Rl' civil governor of r;aragcssa, and M. Simon former civil governor of Madrid, were discwassl. l w t no decision was come to. There was no Bolas to-day, it being the fcitol:'' i St. Lawrence. GERMANY. AUSTRI.t. The tariff of the new Zollverein which engaged to form with the coalised stat , ' Prussia persist in repulsing the uvertur , cabinet of Vienna) although settled at the anti, f Csir have At flea sad -so tarot o'clot tato I 6a-le soli I, WM 1 inme • am& el ho n lei I Wks it ii fax;se with It p b bode • liesa Lae had hola • doer was 1 bad dash emu awn es 4;, sofa bow Radii .~ wadi Plow saki • 1m Ouse Gabe air. 1 nei deo bsi in i &bp bat vat tba ril tbei rag sou sot °AN Dew the 4 ber tbey t deb and trar; eau. Pen ti salmi Mete mew on b U aigsaJ 11!"*.. 1174. (pm i arra imp arise liaw INN t ilsob4 V VII IV" is sal ilmai hos b semi • Air . aim