The Express. — London, England, 1851-06-04 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TuaaDaY, 'Via 3. The Luso Cs 114 VtOIII.LOSI tookINDIA) him seat at lye o'clock. 11. KIAOKS ( BILL. Lord DIIOUO:ITON moved the committee on this bill. The Earl of ItLLENBOKOUGH said it was of the Wood beeportmoe that hoilities should be !riven fee eon gtosism isarrity, amid establishing • system of registration &Wk. but the prosest bill woo set at all suited to the d er.a moiety is - India. sad wee most defective in its aim- INISIMm Thu alinis which made it imperative to molds hgesly-ese days is a place bellore marriage. would aware E11ie1 .... t il=ii.rte.h iy:zd ed t . ho bill rted it weeild eerily = Wes the wish:, bed to mod the G l io n t fems e asimse Cissiwirc the opportusitise whisk di Nile bird bed leberomi sir acquainted with the stole of umkoly la = it cue a matter of sgesiahmest to him OM be hive pumil seek a memsre. Lad LIKOWIITON isle segless le reeetarldit NM he the hopriemeared et di MIL He it had idler go thresh esnatiftipe Area, is that it might be printed, aid this l lhe sells seri theesbe it had letter be set reed to • NOW stellisliatOlemssli nisi object 111 that maw being a The Ear! e ELLIMILOUGH sessiseeed. sod the hell Ws west thrones sommlar a dramml. CO U N 1' If 00011111 SION BILL. Lewd lIROUWIAII mooed the wend soft et this MIL He had stated the Wore ef the bill ha. 'boa he lieboloood it, sod be seed oily ro z zarg is isi V irs z Ile *lnfer so the Canty Osorts Y is that altinatrly there edged • lassies at apieaft. The Load's didriet biped m es lased oi* bees of gee sat, an lb sable hind is the wietheek wield Moist his attention to the metro- Cuwith it view to the esesehisties of the two salmis( of liatiompler god lisisheasy. This was a favourit e EWES with tit^ late - Lard Collashes. The details of the ere bed bees very anderially Improved: and he pro f' that the hill 'beta be read a second any pro final, be assasitted at the ant illsOing of the hones, when mead side the emsoilmetto tibia be had intodoced It. The noble sad locoed boa the. alluded to the &d -isobliges of u sometime% sod digest of %Iv. criminal law, nod oareinoil himself dreogly in favour of the appoint- Nest et a public priosesisr. The hill wt. then read a wean time. CIIt:ItCH DULLDINO ACT ANIENDIIRST BILL. Os the rnot:u i of the Earl of Catmint this bill was read a third time and passed, DUCHY or LANCASTER BILL. Os the sootiest of the Earl of CAILIIIJI the bill was read *third time mad pomed. Their lordships then adjesrsol at Is o'clock. MOUSR OF COMMONS.—Tozsmr. Just 3. At tear u'd.ek. there hely; eel, IS iseathere preerst, Ike horse 6'0,1 sdk.ersed aatil OMMNITOW (this day). gilt eypre74o. a lowed Mike publl.lo4 gamma." amp 411411641 Cilsatio." l' Toady miJlMir algle.la I . lre peat. r..eeded he "The lispeas." Leman imam pew, mem W r y le. lismerteMeeet. by Two Oda* ea tbe ay 1 1m. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE . Tete My, —llnruieg. 4h. $2.. Altrresea, Mk. ToaKisaew—lloalsa 4.10. S. 10s. LONDON, lIRDNESDAY, JUNE 4. THE committee of the National Society, having, we suppose, ascertained that the motion they in headed to propose at the meeting to-day would not satisfy any considerable party in the society, have withdrawn it ; issuing in its stead a statement which embodies its substance, but deprecates all discus sion on the subject, as " calculated to embarrass the operations and to impcdo the efficiency of the illociety." On sack a document the first inquiry that sug gests itself is, who constitutes the committee, and what authority ought to be paid to its recommends lions In theory the committee consists of the bishops and a considerable number of lay peers and gentlemen of groat influence and high respectability, • large majniity of whom there is every reason to hope is individually opposed to the extreme . preten• ions advanced on behalf of the National Society by Mr. 0. A. I)csisots and his friends. But this is the en •ttee in theory only ;in practice it consists only of thaw who attend and act thereon ; the gnat pro portion of names placed on the list are show saints only ; a majority, both of bishops and of Wy ss n, rarely, if ever attend; and it becomes difficult ao constitute a quorum to transact business, and the result is, that the committee is really in the hands of a few active busy members of the tractarian party, sad they infused . have into the society a policy srhielt it 1.4 generally understood its Prisideut, the Archbishop of CAN ntionntY, does not heartily and cordially approve of. To the recommendations of sloth a body, it is not possible then to pay very great rotpeet. Fur two years successively the committee allowed, without interference, remonstrance, or any depreca tion of discussion, Mr. A. Ihistitox to move and tarry a resolution which het libelled the policy of the )'rivy Council as "inimical to the education of the poor in the doctrines of the established church." And now, when a sense of truth, of honesty, and of the interests of the poor, has roused a great part. as we believe by far the greater part of its sub ribers, to take ste ps . to disassociate the society from this cc is on the State, and the (time's government, this committee, becoming exceedingly sensitive to the inconvenience of debate. interferes, and requests all parties to abstain from &Miler discussion and controversy. Sir JOHN Psninuron, Mr. CHILDERS, and their friends, will be west if they yield to any such request, except, indeed, upon terms. For in what position would their implicit and unconditional emu pli.ince leave the society? It would leave Mr. Q. A. Prsatinix's resolutions as its avowed and repeated opinions ; as the directions of the sub . scribers to the committee ; as the policy of • great incorporation with the QUEEN at its bend. This, we submit, is quite intolerable. To entitle the committee to ask fur silence, it ought lest of all to be prepared to ask the meeting to erase the offensive and false resolution adopted at the two preceding annivenearies from its records. To be nil lit, as long as it remains themis, in reality, to re peat and confirm the opinion twice expressed. If the committee be sincere and earnest in their desire to restore pew to the society they must concede this point at least; otherwise the restoration of peace is not possible. But even this concession ought not in itself to in duce Sir lons PAM/ft/TON and Mr. CHILDER. 4 to abandon the advantages which the present move ment has placed in their hands. They have • right to require that their views shall be more proud nmitly represented to the committee of the Na ti ilia Society than they now are : and that the vacancies to be to-morrow supplied in the committee tilled up with tho names of men of icoderation and sobriety of opinion, than or It t e h persons as, for instance, Aredescon HARMON. The very step just taken by the committee is, for all practical purposes, an admission that success was li'.ely to attend Sir 1011/4 PAKINOTON'S motion; and that motion ought not, under such circumstances, to be abandoned, unless the fruits of its 'lumen, if it be persevered in, be eqjoyetl. lit dealing with such questions as this, it has ever been the . practice of the high church, and particularly of the ep iscopal party, to avoid contest and collisions; for, by averting them, they, and they only, are sure to gain, and their opponents have too frequently yielded to the voices of prelatical charmers. We are free to confess we have no sympathy with this weak ' " sat stake in thi. contra temporising cotnrwo ''..ns ; and we look policy which, for the accustom* men's minds to :.nvielvc. and disastrous in encouragement Isms given that encouragement my of church synods. iso..* was encourawf.d the false posi•,ion seeks to reaeue it. imp oliey of triflir l with ,be hoped that. Sir Jour " 144 the committees f the Ne".ional Society dis►nrl', e d its tranquil 'lo 90 as long as it is ' Leisladen for the relief of I attempts of the kind Luce ed, for they hare induced assisted to abandon that more for them than all p l!I , ...... nem; we regard the matter; at eta very as far too important fur tem muses or comfortable aceummodutie with distaste on that Fabian poll sake of a little tranquillity. accustot principles pernicious in thenvielte+ I their effects. It was thus eneuural to tractarianism; it is the. th I is heing bestowed on the theory and it was thus Mr. U. A. DENIte to place the National Society in 1 front which Sir Joan PAWINOTO% II Oti the ground, then, of the impot 1 . great principles. it is much tube h PAKINGTOM will altogether resis entreaty, and take the sense of th Oil the great question that has dim lit', and that will continue to do t *Bowed to remain in its present s 1 We. have little faith in legisia agr i c ultural distress. All attenr failed, and worse than failed, foi i the classes intended to be assist 1 i self-reliessoe which can do mor I ' IL 'llse eels of parliament If there be, however, lative action could i.. isn affo di rd o i r n iE th em eom a leg& meets, Inborn as occupiers of bed holding a neverthsima i _seinverted their e. if they Aida suddenly receive notice to quit, much of their greperty would be left behind them, to the rin of ibis landlords—a gain to which they have **jot title. To remedy this injustice Mr. PUSET, the member for Berkshire, some years ago intro duced a bill whereby he proposed to give the occu =land en absolute right to be paid for noes improvements by the award of valuers, and esesedingto certain defined principles. That bill was at ems rejected by our landlord legislators. He then proposed several bills to enable the ownersof entailed Naito to enter into voluntary contracts with this tenants for similar purposes, whisk aheeld be WA. lug on the nett takers of theologian MY eles was rejected. It was feared dole lima hello territorial system would be noiq eel blase Ike power even to make voluntary agessowits tenant right was refused. To the brawn now compyin land which they have improved on the C=tenure of a tenancy from year to por t Mit of a tenant-right would have vended meet &loveably ; it would have gone far to emano pia don from the thraldom they now endure, for it is do hot at this lose of capital from a notice to quit whisk keeps them in servile dependence on their harlisrda. On this and on other grounds Mr. Pi SET boo poly earned the title of a rational and sincere triad of the tenant farmers of England. Yet it seems the protectionist clique of which Mr. G. F. YOUNO is the mouthpiece, have set up a candidate in opposition to Mr. Pesev for Berkshireat the next eke two. We hope and believe that the electors tor that county will too readily distinguish true friends from false ones, to be misled by any of Mr. You NC el poli tical quad. But the attempted dictation has drawn from Mr. l'esev a spirited and practical letter, which will go far to expose to the formers at large the utter hollowness of the political pretenders who arc trying to mislead them. He tells the farmers that the utmost Lord STAN. , LILT, should he get into power, professes to intend in the way of protection, is the imposition of a duty on foreign wheat of as. per quarter. " Practical men," says Mr. PVSEY, "believe that a Ss. tax would raise the price of wheat not 3e. but 3e. only in our market. . . . . If this be so, you (the farmers) would not gain even 3e., fur there iv a duty of is. already upon imported wheat. Two shillings per quarter, there fore, would be the amount of your gain." For this magnificent gain of 2s. on the quarter of wheat, farmers are asked to overturn a government, dissolve a parliament, and piece themselves in hostile collision with three-fourths of the com munity, to engage in a conflict in which defeat is inevitable. Had Lord &ARLEY and Mr. Disitar.o formed a government in March last and their protec tion scheme worked to the utmost of their expecta tion in advancing prices, the present average price of wheat would now have been "at no higher amount than forty shillings and twopence." Well does Mr. PUSET say, " I can follow no such " will-of-the wisp." And we know that a large and an increas ing number of fat men are of the same opinion. They are disposed to think with Mr. PusEe that such a duty might serve the landlords' purpose better than the tenants ; that "the name of protection without the substance might save the rent but not save the farmer ;" and that the whole scheme is • delusion and a mockery. Despite the grumbling of farmers, notwithstanding their complaints of low prices, there is a growing conviction in the agricul tural mind that the farmers are being used as the tools of an insincere and reckless political party. There are other ways, as Mr. PUSEY tells the farmers, by which these two shillings—and he might have said the whole promised five—" might be not gained, but sand, which is, after all, the same thing." And he tells them " that many improved threshing machines will reduce the cost of getting wheat from the rick into the sack br two shillings a quarter," and for that fact he vouches from his own experience. And there are " other means too, by which production may be increased or its coot diminished, and so other and other two shillings be gained or be saved." This is a much more tensible plan of protection than any government can offer to the British farmer. Mr. PusEv next adverts to Mr. DISRAELI'S relief- from-taxation dodge, to which we must do the farmers the justice of saying they pay very little attention—whereon he says, " when the quarter of wheat has fallen from 31. to 21., reducing the farmer's returns from his wheat field by 70s. an acre, a ILICM bur of parliament who speaks of relieving the farmer substantially by taking off a few pence of county rate, or securing him 2s. a quarter out of the pound he has lost, seems so ignorant of your (the farmers') real circumstances and of farming that one can scarcely keep up one's attention." While protection was au existing thing, as Mr. Pesky says, he de fended it, and he would even now vote for a mode rate fixed duty upon the ground that the transition from protection to free trade was " too sudden;" but " to agitate for high prices, and to give, if anything, two or three shillings a quarter, to speak for protec j tion and mean free trade, is a movement in which," says the member for Berkshire, " I cannot join, but must leave these misty regions and lofty flights to orators, while I endeavour to serve you by plod ding calmly on the solid ground of steady improve ment." Ile will be no party to the " mock restora tion to life " of the dead protection. And he eon eludes his letter with a frank and manly appeal to the common son e and fair dealing of his agricultural constituents. Nor will such an appeal be made in vain. There is by no means such unanimity of opinion amongst farmers in favour of protection us the politi cians who would reconstruct their fallen fortunes on ' rural support profess to believe : not a few of the *inners, the moat intelligent of their class, who de fended the corn-laws vigorously, now deprecate all attempts to revive them, and all admit, that, with hie a rally of prices, there would be no W ZM iliall S making a successful struggle for a fixed , Msnow the severity of agricultural depression is passing away. Wool has sold well for some time, and store sheep have recently advanced in price greatly. We heard a vehement protectionist farmer admit that the rise of prices on sheep at the recent =air at Wilton, in Wiltshire. had made a di[ half a year's rent in favour of the farmers d that district. Cattle, too, have advanced from fifteen to twenty per cent. within the last three months, and there is every prospect of a further rise ie the price of store stock in consequence of the great demand which has arisen in Ireland. The di minution of small farmers, then, has made room for capitalist occupiers and the present increased demand for live stock is one of the results. Moreover ,during the famine years everything in the shape of vendible stock was sold, and the vacuum thus created has now to be filled up. There is reason also to believe that the price of wheat has passed the lowest point, while barley, oats and pulse, arc now selling for prices comparatively high. Not that we would en courage farmers to expect high prices, for. it is ono al the great advantages of throwing our markets open to the whole world, that prices of food will probably be henceforth steady and moderate, but it is nearly certain that there will 'ite a substantial reaction from tho lowest range of prime they have lately complained 4 Opinion and under-' !a hoy produced by the change of system, and pre muted and fostered for party purposes, have pre vented all speculative dealings in grain and other agricult oral produce, while at the same time an he menw consumption has been going on ; so that should any inclinat . for speculative purchases arise, there, would quickly be a c rusidemble advance in prices. Let the rational members for agricultural constituen cies meet the RICHMOND and Yoexo stimulated clamour which may be got up against them by a lank and fearless reference to facts and figures, as stir. Fusee has done, and they will soon find that tbe "reaction" which has taken place is not one eigain.t free trade, but rather against the blind reli ance on protection by which the rural electors were once influenced. 4MR EXPRESS, INESDAY it ir miey • change dodges; ' pip eclay in free cotntriee,Tirei else the work of • day. To legislate, therefore, we must take England and Ireland as they are. They are difficult to legislate for together, dangerous to legis late for apart ; but these are not sufficient reasons that we should not legislate for them at all. The bill before parliament 'wens the Queer's supremacy in the conferring if dignities and the sanctioning . of authority. The Pore denies the QUEEN'S right; the Roman eatholim deny it; the son of the premier peer of England declare' that drawn hos a right to appoint is England a prelate who doill walk before all peers in despite of the . And parliament is asked to interfere, and fay not so. Then come the penalties , or the mode of enforcement. In catholic auntries the ta Medd be simple. The public prosecutor then alone complain to the judge, and the judge wadi uncontrolled give sentence according to law. But in countries free, like Great Britain and Ireland, men are tried by jury. To appeal to a jury, and have a prosecution and trial at all, are political acts. They affect the peace and the administration of the country. How can such things be left open in Ireland? To do so would be to let loose at each other the two parties which it has been the constant policy of the government to hold in observ ance of mutual respect, and at the same time to make the law and the government a party to their squabbles. Thus what would be but the simple operation of law in England, would be commotion and strife in Ireland. But notwithstanding the sreat difference in the condition of Ireland and of England, notwithstand ing the wanton insult of assuming titles in England kr vanity or bravado sake, whilst the assumption of web titles in Ireland has at least the foundation of a numerous flock and a real church, and notwithstanding the indulgence of the government in Ireland, which has admitted Roman catholic prelates in Ireland to the enjoyment of that rank which has been rudely snatched in England— notwithstanding all this, it is necessary to maintain in Ireland, as in England, the principle that dignity and eminence which, however spiritual, necessarily extend to temporal influence in the management of property as in the assumption of rank, cannot be won and maintained without the sanction of the state or of the sovereign, against whose supremacy in this respect no rescript of a foreign power, nor election of any number of British subjects can stand, or should be allowed to stand. It may be just, and it may be proper, that the Roman catholic prelates be allowed in Ireland the full dignity and pre-eminence that they enjoy in catholic countries abroad. But this is for parliament to debate and to sanction, and for the sovereign to grant, not for the Port: to ordain, or for princes and prelates to arrogate to themselves. We cannot agree with Mr. Hortense, who, so merciless to protestant bishops, would have the country prostrate itself before the Roman catholic ones, sad acknowledge all that they have assumed or can awns by right of impudence. We stickle for the supremacy of the state and the superiority of par liament over protestant hierarchies and bishops, and we are not prepared to do that, as Mr. Hoes- Mae seems to be, in order to deny to CRANMER what we are ready to give to FISIIER Or to LAUD. There is no form of human society of which we en tertain so great a horror, as that in which priests germ a caste apart, permanent in their narrowness, hereditary in their influence and ideas, anti-social in their lives, anti-liberal in their oninions, the ten dency of law and legislation in suc'h countries being , inevitably to transfer all powers to the priesthood. Such was ancient Egypt ; such, hut for the refor mation, would have been modern Rome. But such is still her principle of the predominance of sacerdotalism. The spiritual belief and fallacy of such doctrines we cannot forbid—as opi nion must be free—but we certainly would not cherish, encourage, or patronise it; and we would not acknowledge either the dignity of hierarchy, nor any right to transmission of property for ecclesias tical uses, without guarantees and defences in return, that this religion or its dignitaries would not act hostilely to our institutions. At present there rages a war in Ireland, our state and government being on one side, and the lore and Roman catholic prelates on the other. Tho Poer. has just proscribed the colleges for the education of the Irish people which he formerly sanc tioned. His Holiness does this in revenge because we deny his right to divide England into dioceses, and to appoint archbishops of our metropolis. In this war one or other party must conquer. Either the POPE or Queen VICTORIA mod remain sovereign . of Ireland. We hold for Queen Vieroai A ; but in enforcin g Queen Vicroets'e rights in Ireland, one of which is to have her people educated, we would not have Roman catholic prelates dragged up each day, like brawlers in the streets, for the wearing this name or that. But we would be the more rigid with regard to the holding and transmission of property, and declare every thing henceforth illegal which the Roinan eatholics persevered in on account of its illegality. We fear that all parties will be disappoptecl of their hope. The ministry expect that the POPE and the Roman catholic' will be so abashed by the passing of the present bill, that they will desist from their titles and from the fresh powers to be assumed by their i hierarchy. Mr. WALI'OLE talks of legislating defirei tirely on this struggle between the state and the Roman catholic'. ‘1 e envy the gentleman's confi dence ; but if there was a hope of finality, that was misplaced, as it is in such religious struggles. Sir JAMES GRAHAM thinks that by ceding all the eatho tics ask, he would calm and quiet them. This is the greatest mistake of any; and to be convinced of it, we would recommend him to consult the Duke of WELLINGTON. States. men more comprehensive than Sir JAMES GRARAM would not only leave catholicism its full sway, but set every sect free to lord it, and develop and assume what it pleased. Such a scheme might be entertained as a whole, but we do not see how it can be acted on in . parts. The true principle, in our opinion, is to maintain the state supremacy over all sacerdotal dignities or assumptions. In England this should be done by enforcing the law against the assumption of dignities, in Irelaud by rendering illegal all tenure of pro perty or o ffi ce, except by submission to the terms of the law. Ministers have committed the fault of abandoning in a great measure this hold on Irish prelatic frowardness. Mr. WALPOI.E has somewhat restored it. But, such as it is, it should be kept and enforced, until such time as it may please the Poet. and his generals to refrain from war, after which, but not until which, it will be time to take into con sideration the anomalies of the Irish churches. FATAL OCCURRENCE. AT HEAVITIEIE.—An inquest was held on Wednesday, at the Ship Inn, lleavit ree , o n a lad, named William 7ob Evekich, who had been shot through the head by his companion, George Henry Chan non, on Monday afternoon. They went out together on Monday afternoon to pick rabbits' meat in a field occupied by Mr. Dennis, near the path fields, !carting from the Bar rack-lane, in the direction of Wonford. Shortly after they had left the village, Chaunon ran bock and told Golswurthy that his companion was dead. To Mr. Mad• den, surgeon, of Heavitree, who examined the body, and found that the charge from a gun had entered his head by the side of the right ear, taking an oblique direction, tarrying away the top of the skull, and scattering the brains in every direction, he said that he saw the deceased in a hedge, and when he went up to him he was dead—that he beard a shot, and saw two men, one of them with a pistol in his hand. Ile tokl a similar story on being taken into custody, and pointed out to the constable a gun in a linhay, on the top of some planks, when a bag containing a iaok with powder and shot was found. This bag and the gun had been left there by who was in the habit of shooting . . rooks. - • ••• 1.• • public officer who may be found corrupt or conniving at corruption. The following is a translation of it : It being proper that all Portuguese should be effect ua ll y system fulfilling of the laws, of dominati on an d convinced of the principles which direct the governm en t o f M.M. the Queen; and it being therefore clear that th e ail. minixtratim authorities should show themselves to the peo ple, not corruption,as the t nue guaranteesn:sofahars forh the for the preservation of the public tranquillity, and for the maintenance of constitutional liberty ; and, in tine, as pro tectors of the citizens, and respecter; of the rights of sons and of property, which end can only be obtained by the proper choice of administrative enon.or's—the said august lady is pleased to order the following: 1. That the civil governors of the kingdom and adjacent islands proceed, in respect to the administrators of lam_ drills of the districts under their charge to the most scru pulous investigations, by which their probity may be known, and their behaviour towards the people, and if they prove by their character that they fulfil their respective duties as the delegates of the government. 2. That any facts of corrupti in or malversation practised by any administrators of hundreds becoming known to the civil governors, theywill circumstantially report the facts to the government—the more scandalous when practised by the agents"( authority— in order that immediate proceedings may take place against them, in vindication of public morals. 3. Tnat in case of any administrator having charges against him, either as a corrupt character and oppressor of the people, or as an intolerant and exculsive agent of any of the political parties which unhappily have divided the country, the civil governors shall also munediately suspend him, reporting it to the government, and indicating the person who may appear to them most proper to appoint to the administration of the hundred. 4. That considering the animosity with which parties in vent or disfigure facts, the civil governors shall be mat scrupulus;in appreciatint the informations they assy obtain ; proceeding, as far as it shall be necessary, to a persmial amination in the proper localities, in order to cousins., them selves of the accuracy of the facts, should they wit be al ready evident. S. That in proposing the substitution of any administra tor, they shall indicate the person that, to the legal qualifi cation and the greatest sympathy among their administra tors, is united good, civil, and political comportment ; and, above all, a tolerant character, but of austere probity and honour, and whose morality may influence the morality of the people. 6. That the civil governors make all the administrative employes of the respective hundreds responsible to the administrators, to whom shall apply, in proportion to the functions they exercise, what is determined in the antece dent articles relative to the administrators of hundreds. 7. That the civil jmvernons remain from this moment re sponsible to her Majesty's got ernmeut fur tote exact fulfil ment of these pri cepts, and give an opportune account of the result of their investigations, and of the measures which, in consequence of them, they shall have adopted, which is made known by the Secretary of State ifor the Interior to the Civil Governor of --, for his in. formation. DUKE tog SALDANHA. Palace of the Necessidatles, May 20, 1851. The Cabralista Commandant of the militia battalion, called the Volunteers of the Charter, his been removed, and the Count de Main, a relative of Saldanha's, appointed to its command. This is only a provisional measure, as the whole of that description of force it is intended to re organise; or, as some say, to disband, and f,non a National Guard upon such a limited, and, at the same time, effective scale, as will be a future guarantee for the liberties of oho country. - - - - - I told you I thought some provisional measures would he adopted relative to that law of the press which has been so stigmatised; I was right; a decree has been published abrogating the law o f the 3d of August, 1850, generally termed " the law of gagging." The decree says, in sub stance, that considering it excited the greatest public animadversion, that enlightened opinion was against it, that it is a flagrant violation of the 3d sectims of the 145th article of the charter, besides which the excessive deposits almost stifled the free manifestation of thought, and that the charter desired the press should be independent of a vexatious censorship—placing it only within the just limits of responsibility for its abuses; that the law vitiated the institution of juries, depriving the accused of many of the rights of defence, and establishing oppressive innovations in the cognizance and organisation of courts, and form of pricess, " which rigours were cruel ;" considering, also, that the law implied a denial of the principles of constitu tional right and the liberty of thought, using the extraordi nary power which actual circumstances respire; it is de clared-1. That the law of the 34 of August, 18.;0, is revolted, and that the anterior legislation upon thie publication and responsibility of political journals continues in force until the Cortes shall determine. 2. Those responsible for political journals shall receive within a month the amount of depo sits made under the law. 3. Articles in political journals shall be signed by the initial of the principal editor, whose name in full shall be printed immediately alter the title of the journal. The principal editor is responsible, and must qualify as required by the laws fir the qualification of editors."—This is signed by the Queen and all the Ministers. This, I believe, is the first act of the new ministry, and it has not given that satisfaction to the press which the cir cumstances of the time and the popularity of the recent movement seem to have required. The articles in the de cree do not bear out the preamble. The deposit under the odious law was two cantos ; the decree would appear to authorise the return of that amount, but it is not so, as the anterior legislation is declared in force. A deposit of ono canto two hundred milreis remain, so that in truth the de positor receives back only eight hundred milreis. The an terior legislation was Cabralista, and the press required a relief from all the Cabralista laws which shackled it, and a return to the law of 1837. as less stringent. Tu require a deposit appears an act of tyranny, and calculated to check the adventurous and literary mind in the promulgation of its ideas; to register the names of editors of a journal, and even to require bondsmen that they shall not infringe the laws or ..ffend public morals, is all that the charter appears to require, if it require so much as security. The article authorises that "every ;one may communicate his thoughts by written words, and publish them, but will have to answer for the abuses he may commit, in the way the law determines." However, the odious law is got rid of, and perhaps the government did not feel itself warranted in in terfering further with the legislation relative to the press, until the meeting of the Corte*, when perhaps they may bring under consideration the whole of the ex-minister's legislation since 1812, it unduubtedlyhaving been a corrupt and nut a truly representative legislation. The following is the decree dismissing the Cortes : Using the power provided by See. 4, Art. 74 of the Char ter, it is my will and pleasure to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies, and to order a new election, according to tho terms of a decree which will be immediately published; and to convoke an extraordinary general Cortes to meet on the 15th of September next. And, seauming the extraordinary powers which proclaimed by the nation, and by me, the re•furm of tile fundamental law of the state, and which it wis my fluty and my right to assume in order to satisfy the general vote° of the country, so often and so solelmnly manifested, but until now allegro miscarried for want of a legitimate and proper direction, I consider that the supreme law of public salvation highly imposes upon me the duty to pass by, in accord with tho national desire, which is required from me. the prescribed formalities of Articles 140, 111, 142, and 113 of the Char ter, the textual observance of which could have nu other result than to delay indefinitely and sophisticate in reality the manifest wish of the nation. It is also my will and pleasure to determine that the Ileputirq elected shell come furnished with the necessary powers, in order that they shall reform those articles of the Charter, the reform and perfection of which experience has shown to be indispen sable for the better guarantee of liberty, of the represen tative monarchy, and of the unalterable principles which the said Charter desired to establish and constitute. The ministers and secretaries of state of the var:uus departments shall so understand this and cause it to be carried into ex ecution.—Palace of the Necessidaden, 25th May, 1851. Signed by the Queen and all the Ministers. This decree has met with general approbation, and is considerably eulogised; besides which, the utmost activity is manifest in purging the country of Cabralista emp , or's ; indeed, so corrupt and so infonous has been the general proceedings of Cabralism, that henceforward it is very pro bable the term will form the designation of any bad and corrupt man. The government has done another act, which has been for some time loudly called for ; namely, rest wed to the prero gatives and privileges of their tides, all those peers who were prescribed by Don Pedro, under the plea of being Miguelites and aiding in usurpation ; this is a true way to unite all Portuguese, without distinction of patty; and not as Costa Cabral did—proscribe all Portuguese who were not base, ignoble, and corrupt. The articles of the decree, which I translate, will speak for themselves. 1. The decree of the 28th of May, 1834, which inhibits a certain number of members who are in the situation speci- • _ _... V. 14. 4 - ...., , •.. I mut ever devised fol:end* have le,.polgta c c w hich . . .v cr, anything in which t leipo.' te• have th imited.,A legislator in ono (1 help the farm*, it woald b 4 by doe or in exposes himOlif to obloquy sod legal powcielo regarcr from their apr!tach ;OW fault, tolloover, is. hot in the laws, The clog risation for Ancxhoustiotimprove- talon tNeingaidies Id( tha -histix and relative po- marked i n , known as " tenant right." Many sition of the two countries. Ibis 'relative position, & il e a i ij o id holding as yearly tenants have, as we have often before asserted , is the result of the had ~,,,,a, n vested their capita l in the soil that, pun - it nay be, and is, desiralds-to modify. and Al-. , wgar d r- W,i, adt..,is• ',wive notice to ouit. much together change it. But eon modifications 11114 _. which hod 0, JUNE 4, 1851. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY ETINIXO. _.e close of the sitting of the Assembly has been Marked ley a serious incident relative to the Presi dia* speech at Dijon. M. Desmousseau do Mare `ad presented a motion to interpellate the ministry 'wding tee paragraphs of the skewed speech, Mich had been omitted in the Monsteur's version. After 'sonic unimportant totes, the 'Chamber pro ceeded to discuss the bills kw granting the salary of the Legion of Honour to the republican guards de corated for their conduct in June, 1848; although, not being under colours at the moment of decoration, 'they were not entitled to the proposed pay. General moved that the same pay should be al =l to the soldiers wounded at the Chateau d'Eau Ifs the 24th February : Madicr de Monjau considered the amendment es an insult to the revolution of February. He rc- Minded 11. Baruche, who was a member of the mi nistry which had decorated those soldiers, of the acts by which he had identified himself with the revolu tion of February. M. Baroche made a confused reply. General Changarnier, whose ascent of the p~ltanc roused general attention, in reply to an allu sion of M. Mather de Monjau, said that the decora tion of the soldiers who had fought at the Chateau (Eau was not a corollary of his own dismissal. He bad, on the contrary, strongly recommended the measure. (Applause.) The general, in returning to Ns _place, shook hands with two of the ministers, MM. Leon Faucher and Buffet. After Larochejacquelia had proposed to extend the lame benefit to the soldiers who had been wounded le combating the resolution of 1830, and Colonel Charms had made a speech which excited frequent murmurs, General Changarnier, making evidently a covert allusion to the President's manifestation at Dijon, said that the country had nothing to tear from usurpations; that the spirit of the army was to be trusted; and, in order to feel reassured, it was sufficient to demand where was the pretext for en thusiasm. (This blow at the Elysee, after the ge neral had shaken hands with the two ministers, pro duced much sensation.) There was no fear of France being subjected to the misery and shame of the Ciosars, successively imposed by debauched Preto- titan soldiers. (Immense sensation.) Its discipline was founded on such solid bases that nobody could prevail on the soldiers to attack the laws or march against the Assembly. No man could find a batta lion, a company, or a chief to obey him. " Repre sentatives of the nation," added the general, " you may deliberate in peace." (Bravo and applause.) M. Leon Faucher, Minister of the Interior, could not help deploring that the army should be made a ground for political discussions. He accepted for no portion of the government the lesson the general had intended to give it. There was but one conspiracy in which the government gloried, that of devotedness to the country. The general had spoken of Preto- Tian soldiers. M. Faucher would tell him that the army was national, and would never serve as a step ping-stone to ambition. The minister, in conclusion, declared that without military discipline all govern ment was impracticable. After a few words of General Lebreton in favour of General Gourgaud's amendment, the discussion was closed, and a division having been called for, there appeared, for the amendment, 295; against it, 306. The amendment was accordingly rejected, and the Assembly afterwards decided that the bill should go to a third meeting. The President subsequently announced that M. Desmousseaux de Givi-• had applied for leave to ad dress interpellations to the cabinet relative to the speech delivered by the President of the Republic at Dijon, on the Ist inst., and naked on what day the aunistry wished to fix the interpellations. " imme diately," replied M. Leon Faucher. M. de Givre said that ho had applied for leave to pat questions to the ministry, relative to an insulting and calumnious speech for the Assembly, said to have been pronounced at Dijon, where he . heard M. Faucher disclaim, on the Dart of the government, all participation in plots and conspiracies. After hearing that declaratim, and that made by General Changarnicr, which was so well understood by the Assembly, he withdrew his demand, at the same time that he requested the Assembly to consider a proposition he had deposited long ago, to the effect of interdicting the presence of officers of the National Assembly at public festivities. M. !lupin replied, that the Assembly was only re presented at such solemnities when it appointed de putations for the purpose. M. l'iscatory then asked if a sentence insulting for the Assembly had been pronounced. He was aware of the dfficulty of arriving at a proof; but he thought that any colleague, or even a minister who heard it, being questioned as to its authenticity, was bound to tell the truth. Irbotion for revision from receiving the only gigue tures which can give it mach authority. Ambitious 'sallies of this kind destroy the confidence of men of i souad viers, high position, and large influence, who see that the most desirable issue of 1852 is to be brought about by steady and laborious exertion with as little deviation as possible from the law, instead of vehement, impetuous, and desultory impulses. On the eve of debating the question of the revision, a display like the speech at Dijon is likely to con fuse the question, instead of seconding the natural dis position of patriotic minds to promee a pacific solu tion by normal means, which must ultimately depend for their success on confidence in the executive power. The first step to be taken by the government in pur suit of revision was, in the present stage of the question, to procure the adhesion of the legitimists, who will now be shyer than ever of the Bonapartist cause, after so glaring a manifestation of arrogance. On the whole, therefore, the Dijon speech must be regarded as a regrettable incident, calculated to dis turb the pacific march of events to their natural and free issue, and to alienate the support of the distinguished men, who seemed to have thrown themselves without reserve into the President's party. There is no more pernicious source of weakness in a government than an apparent disunion between the head of the executive and his ministers ; and the di vergency of the opinions of Louis Napoleon and M. Leon Faucher has been evinced in a manner which tends equally to discredit the cabinet and the Presi dent. On the other hand, the praises bestowed by the Conttitnlionnel upon the speech give colour to the general belief that in order to know the real views of the Elyse° it is essential to study the arti cles of Dr. Veron and M. (irenier de Cassagnac. An, article on the Dijon speech is promised in the Pays of' to-morrow from the pen of M. Lainartinc. Yesterday morning the President reviewed the troops at Dijon, and visited the college and public establishments. At one he left by the rail for Paris, where he arrived at half-past eight in the evening, after having stopped to review the National Guard of Fontainbleau and Melun by the way. He was escorted to the Elysee by a detachment of carabineers. The fiercest attacks on the speech are in the Ifirssager; the most vigorous in the Opinion Pabliyue. The Union says but little, and that mildly. fhe decorous Debuts is a good deal flurried. The Prime and Orrirs are silent; the Unierrs neutral; the Assembles Nationa e indignant and rhetorical ; the National and Republique. retaliate on the Empire for attacking the utopias of Socialism. The Con stitutionnel alone gives the speech unqualified praise. The most important feature in the criticisms of the press is the decided disapprobation expressed by the Djbals, the organ of the most powerful supporters of Louis Napoleon in the parliament. As for the stones thrown by the legitimists, these have so long rung all the changes of a rancorous virulent oppo sition, that their censure is at present comparatively blunt. The expression " intrigue de salon " was applied in the original speech to the fusionists. This has been likewise expunged. Several merchants, manufacturers, and proprietors of Paris, to the number of 200, have signed a petition for the abolition of the law of May, which was pre- seated yesterday by M. Carnot. To-day the Assembly had an opportunity, in the renewal of its bureaux, of evincing its resentment against the Elysee. All decided lionapartists were excluded, as well as members of the Mountain, as you will see by the following list of presidents and secretaries : Secretaries. Bureaux. Presidents. —..---. - ------. 1. General Lauriston, Cuddle. 2. MM. Vitet , Blavoyer. 3. MM. Patin*, Bouvatier. 4. MM. Changarnicr, De Kerdrel. S. M M. Drouyn de l'Lluys, Baucal. 6. General Achard, Esehasseriaux. 7. MM. Berrycr, 'l'irlet. 8. MM. ltulhere, Collas. 9. MM. Ile Broglie, De Leacours. 10. MM. Dowse, Howy a Tranchere. 11. General Hadoult de la False, Desmaroux. ~ • 12. MM. I).imbray, 13. MM. de Vatismenil, 11. MM. Mo le, 15. Oeuer.al Bedeau, Chassaigne Germ. De le Devausaye. ltuttget-Lafurse. Chegaray. The committee on the Municipal Bill discussed yesterday the question whether offences against the municipal law should be submitted to tribunals or to the jury. It was resolved that they should be sent before the jury. The committee next resolved, after some disew:sion ' that the prorogation of communal and departmental councils should be limited to the Ist November next. A proposition has been presented in the Legis lative Assembly by MM. Amedeo liruys, Colfavru, and Laboulaye, to the effect that, during the dis evasion on the revision of the constitution, the Moni leur shall be placarded up in public throughout all the communes of the republic, in order that the people may be made perfectly acquainted with all that passes relative to that important matter. The funds do not seem to be at all affected by the Dijon speech, and exhibited to-day, indeed, a slight improvement. The Fives closed at 90.55, with a rise of 15c.; the Threes rose 10c., and closed at rk.so. M. ]lupin observed, that he had no right to inter pellate other ministers, M. Leon Faucher here rose and said: " The speech has been published in the Munikur. It is the only official version. The cabinet recognizes no other." M. de Givre subsequently asked the ministers if the following sentence was in the speech : " The As sembly lent Inc its co-operation for all measures of repression, but it denied it to me for the measures of benevolence I had proposed in the interest of the people." M. Piscatory here interfered, and declared that the existence of the sentence having been denied by the cabinet, the latter was entitled to credit, and the Assembly should proceed no further. He accord. ingly moved the simple order of the day, which was adopted by a considerable majority, and amidst great agitation the sitting broke up. The Mountain abstained from voting. The manic of the President's office, his isolated position, and the permanent antaguaism between the two powers established by the fatal constitution of 11448, have long obliged Louis Napoleon to resort to special occasions, which have sometimes no apparent connexion with politics, in order to express his per sonal views on the state, wants, and prospects of the country, and to plead his own cause by an appeal to public opinion. One might have imagined that at a banquet given to commemorate the opening of an important line of railway the President would have made some allusion to the subject matter of the meeting ; but perhaps no topic was further from the minds, or would have fallen flatter on the attention of those whose ears were all on edge to catch his words. The President opened at once upon the theme uppermost in all minds, the state of public feeling in Franco and his own relation thereto. Neither the ancicu reyimie nor the utopias of socialism were desired by the nation, and this was the secret of his own popularity, because he was the natural foe of both. By the fowlers regime the President [ meant doubtless to embrace the monarchists isf both branches; and here wax the first stumbling block of offence to the Orleanists, who had for tho Moment rallied to his own banner. Next he pro needed to charge the Assembly with paralysing and frustrating the efforts of his government to amelio rate the condition of the country, while they were only too happy to support measures of repression. These were the main features of his speech, which becomes thus reducible to an assertion of his own popularity, and of the perverse factiousness of the Assembly. As Louis-Napoleon is known well to say [ nothing that he dues not positively mean to say, his words deserve to be weighed with more care than the expressions of men who are carried away 1 1 by the heat of passion. Hence the storm raised by his speech, which is interpreted as a deliberate de claration of war lig:dust the Assembly. Had his complaints been confined to extreme parties they would have roused but small sensation ; but the de nunciation strikes at the very ground upon which his ministers stand in the Chamber, and is therefore interpreted as a haughty disavowal of any parlia mentary support whatever, in the face of the alleged adhesion of the country at large. This view reveals in fact what has always been the corner stone of the President's policy, the reserve of an appeal to the nation against the decisions of the Assembly. In sufficient PORTUGAL. The Oriental Company:B steam-packet Montrose, Captain John Bowen, arrived at Southampton last night, and landed her mails under tho charge of Lieut. EP. Fug°, It.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are Gibraltar, May 24; Cadiz, 2d ; Lisbon, 20; Oporto, 30; Vigo, 30. The Montrose brings fifty passengers and specie to the amouut of 4,000!. sterling. The news from Lisbon announces that a number of obnoxious individuals, heretofore in personal attfaidance on the Queen, had been removed by the new administration, and more popular persons had been appointed in their stead.) Obnoxious civil governors and administrators of districts and subordinate officers had also been dis missed. The conduct of all persons heretofore in authority is to be investigated, and any person proved to have been guilty of corruption or im proper conduct is to be dismissed. Cabralist military officers have also been dismissed. The militia battalion, called the volunteers of the charter, is to be re-organised or disbanded. The law against the press, passed last August, has been abrogated. Saldanha is still very po pular, and is zealous in carrying out the prin ciples he proclaimed. Mascarentas has been placed under surveillance, and Fronteira has been banished. The Cabral Cortes has been dissolved, and an extra ordinary general Cortes will meet on the 15th. This has given great satisfaction to the people. The con duct of Costa Cabral in pleading poverty on board the English packet is much canvassed. It is declared that he is enormously rich, and that he had above one thousand pounds in his pocket when he escaped from Portugal. All persons who assisted Saldanha in the revolution have been rewarded and promoted. A commission had been appointed to examine into the state of the Exchequer, to report upon the finan cial acts of Thomar's cabinet, and upon the present resources of the country as a basis for legis lotion by the Cortes. In consequence of the scarcity of bills, the Lisboa exchange at three months on London rose from 544 1 to 31.!, at which money remained over. The Board of Public Credit was a taker up on dividend account, and also remained with money over; and aminis terial declaration had been published in the Diario do Gorrnao, that no alteration would be made in the manner of paying the dividends through the Board of Public Credit, to which the revenue set apart is to continue to be delivered. The last Lisbon quotations for Portuguese stock are: Five per Cents., 47 to 47i ; Four per Cents., 37 to 37} ; Bank of Portugal shares, 110 milreis discount per share. These rates are for Lisboa Bank-notes, discountable at 3 per cent. Oporto Bank shares were at 12 milreis premium each in metal. Exchange on Paris, 530; Amsterdam, 42 t ; Hamburg, 48i. At Oporto a regiment of Cavadoree, at the inatiga- —. On the ~y Whig Woo& %balm tbs kw?, he the meantime no one can see any ~accent tion of ' the Cabrilista, attempted to get up a - re- fted in such decree from taking scats in the Chambr of said—. I didn't try to do it." =I been sworn, be flth, but the troops and stated that he went with the d • k "milky ground in the nature of Louis Napoleon s reception act i ons movement on the 2 to pie 2. The above-mentioned prep who shall desire to take &whets." The deftered said he knew where there was a at Tonnerre and Dijon to justify the tumid elation populace rose and threatened to fire on them, and Peen, is entirely revoked. regiment returned to their duty. At Oporto bird's nest with nine eggs in it, in the thatch of the Rainy. of spirit to which he gave way at the banquet. his the to the p ir w szts t i i n n t d he mai cha n ns tain berea th n e d po o so liti , He got up to leek for it, and then said, " I've found a welcome was respectful indeed, but far from enthu- transactions in exchange on London were done at monarchy; and that they will recognise, without any resers a ealr"institlYutimo"nsmogfeatltte fun." Ile got down from i i t i te n planks, and ran after elastic ; and it may be questioned if he acted wisely 90 days, at till to-5l!, and Brazilian bills at 542, tion, the legitimacy of my throne and dynasty. c= d while,.hal: i taking t e ,sun in Gem him. Seeing h frZ i n c . ceed a s ed „; sft w er i : in leaving the ground which he was silently nequir- with a limited extent of transactions. Business was successors d o c f p t o h s os i n e wt of the r l=e w nt h el o ec . re ere e shall en inhibited t from DRAW RP any law , upon almost any subject that the hedge, he pointed the gun at it, and deceased r ran c l ose ing through the powerful parliamentary support of exceedingly fiat. particularly in . shipments. The s ta ki„ g .e.„t„, in the said chamber by th e said decree of 2Sth affects England and Ireland, let it be property, taxa- before the muzale , just as he pulled the trigger. It went MNI. de Broglie and Nlontalembert, with a firm, river was full of shipping, and some vessels were may, Mt, such successors being admitted to the chamber dun, local administration, religion, education, or a oft,. and killed Ereleigh . Thee he ran sway to call Mr. energetic minister like Leon Faucher, in order to loading for London as low as 18s. per ton freight. by the form sad under the conditions provided for by the Gdsworth . In answer to a question from a juror , the boy law of the 11th of April, 1845.—Signed by the Queen and host of other things, and the framer instantly gets declared that neither eclared that of t hem was angry, and that he didn t all the Ministers. upon the horns of a dilemma. Ile either assimilates founded on an illusion. It is generally ad- LISBON Mar 29. know the gun was loaded. The jury returned a verdict of the two countries in things, respecting which they are " Accidental Death," attributing blame to Dennis for al- !flitted that if the Dijon speech had been A circular has been published, which explains the The government have formed a commission, composed of essentially different, or he widens the gulf of sere lowing the gun to remain In the linhay. made some days earlier, it would have prevented the intention of the government with regard to any the most enlightened and influential men of all parties, to •