The Express. — London, England, 1853-01-24 00:00:00

vette en reels. TO CORKESPONDINTI. • Aseord Maier n• !Apnea. * elmetaimag the aim swealpre Gamut," .1 swat, Twirls, sal hills: Is OW kr pea. A Ur, thisuIaatILIIIIMILKI far " The ripms! Leedom Irwin piper, anst lb* Moe, 111. Beaveriewirset. by Two .'Wet ea the a.!of palliation. num WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tau —llarauf. Ws lik Sin. Toloskow—alindoe. lc I la.. Attarnoca. $l. Wm LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 24. Tug question of national hospitality afforded by this country to political exiles, without regard to any other circumstance than the fact of their misfortune, is again likely to be re-opened at the instance of our despotic neighbours. Austria, which has long sighed for the power to demand the expulsion of fugitive Italians and Hungarians from our soil, s dis posed to attempt once more the efficacy of her dull logic on the British Government. The formation of a new Cabinet in England, headed by Lord AMER DEAN, and still represented at Vienna by the un worthy WESTMORELAND, revives the hope so long cherished of extending the cordon sanitotre of des potion to the isles u well as to the main land of the European continent. From stream to stream, and town to town. the still-surviving victims of oppression have been chased through every petty kingdom and principality which trembles at the name of the Holy Alliance. Every day since 1849 the sphere of extradition has been growing larger and more corn prehensite. Every day new meshes have been knotted in the treacherous web of tyranny, and the unwary feet of additional victims caught therein. These insular realms alone continue free—free from the kidnapper's gins and the snares of the spy. The baffled persecutor of opinion looks over our ocean wall and sets, with ill-suppressed vexation, that his intended victims here arc safe ; and the presence even here, in banishment, obscurity, and beggary, of the fugitive vassals, fills him with rage and pain. Do they not still breathe freely and walk abroad at will, and curse audibly the cruelty which has driven them here, while they bless the laws which have afforded them an alien home ? Austria would subvert those laws, and would fain, through the medium of her own and other diplomacy, beguile certain politi cians amongst us into shameful compliance with her tyrannical will. But the demands of Austria, backed though they be by all the influence and power of Russia, are neither' the most pressing nor importunate on this painful subject. From the wreck of the French republic many Assure men and a few whose names are notable made their escape to oar shores. To what precise phase of political speculation these unhappy exiles belong is a matter with which the Government of this country has nothing whatever to do. So long es they live peaceably in our land and obey our laws the people of England will gaffer no man to harm them. They call the author of the coup dant a despot, and he calla them anarchists. But it is the habit of fervid republicans and military monarchs to interchange such epithets; and we have made up our minds, as a just and generous nation, never to allow either the one ear the other to wreak their poli tical vengeance furtively or forcibly within the limits et our soil. Exiled Kings have found safety in England; exiled Patriots am equally entitled to be secure. On their own soil they may fight it out if they will; but our island must not be made by adjournment the battle-ground of foreign feuds. When LOUIE NAPOLEON was a fOtZ ; insurgent against the ORLEANS dynasty, he safety and shelter here. No English Minister would have listened to a demand to give him up upon the transparent pretence that the man who, in open day, had shot to death, with his own hand, a sentry at the guard-house of Boulogne, was guilty of wilful murder under the municipal law, and, as such, ought to be smoldered to those wile were charged with maintaining its authority. The instincts of common humanity and the principles el universal justice, alike repudiate the Incr with iniz 7 sophistry which would confound polit . private offences, end civil strife with social crime. Every nation meet deal with those whe violate its peace, or seek to overturn its institutions as they please. Bet the very essence of international civilizatios► and independence ((talkie ' the government of one people to lend themselves as political police to another. M. Louis BLANC and M. LEDEU ROLLIN are in the same position with re gard to NAPOLEON M. as the latter was in 1840 with rosiest to Loots PEMPPIL What their alleged atom or meson of a political kind in their own seemby e shave been is no affair of ours. As sitter ef we may listen to dimensions re them, form and give an opinion on each et that weer. We may agree with the one, and mapest im theethm o int whoa the Ilfr Pme osob Minister for lipt Agn es theitarreh dm et m i telo s t hints adnomd that, upon drabs of W plea eise emee municipal law Ohms" political shed& le bested dews by the English police, maim' and deperted, thus we re fuse positively and pmemptorily to her any discussion on the isd_ We will neither hire eat nor lend war ftaidmaries to any foreign power to execute its caries or will. The universal laws which every where preesst in civilised countries individual life and private property, are mutually executed already by the police of France and of Eng land, of Austria and the United States, or of say ether nations, as the case may be. No new law is wanting for that purpose, but something more is wanted by the absolutist governments of die Conti nent, and something more will one day be attempted to conciliate and please those governments if vigilant opinion does not interdict and bar the attempt. It cannot be bream, that duri g the disreput able tenure of the Foreign-ales by Lord MALMES BOIT, a bill was introduced into the House of Peers professedly intended to carry into effect the stipulations of a convention for the 'Weal extradi tion of political exiles by France and England. As might have been expected. the first announcement of such a proposition engendered such an amount of popular indignation, that even in the Upper Roam some few were found to take ex to the tenor of the Bonapartist bill, and the • MALICE& AvET, rashly endeavouring to modify its terms off hand, in the hope of obviating objections of detail, speedily found himself entangled in a net of inane. shitencies from which extrication was impossible. And the Ministry being tionfasesdly in a minority in the House of Clemensee, the neer approach of the then impending dimolntion wee made an excess for precipitately vrithdrawiag the smear& Bat Lord assuni's attempt, abortive though it _proved, remained _enough en the table of the Lomb to elicit the Asire et many eminent personages— that of the pima PAMIR amongst the rest. It is plunk that a essiteang may have been attached to ezpradens at Lord Amato= which they WWI not ihteeded to convey, but certain it is that the Frame Government "Winos with confidestoupen the ream* of the attempt of Lord by the point Admis. Many will leek es di as upon ether questions to the presence et Led JOON Buss= in the Oabhiet as a sufficient guru. tee that n• nob attempt will be made. But there an h ar dly be a doubt amongst the earliest points on which explicit explanation will be demanded when Parliament meets will be that regarding Ministerial intentions on the subject of Foreign Refugee . Tn. baninefiais same why the Beak beim' on Thunder a farther rim to 3parent is the lowest rate sibling at whisk it vrtM bad lb assay Hs on the sorbs& The aosemeto puttied to the 15th inst. In bid Ariday's games hellmile a 'continual de mand fee dre money et the lank It is aimrted, too, in the City that es dteeaiad betinued in fall force through WI wok, though the as Donate to 0411.11111 er dle the abortion will not be palatial= gest . In the week ending on the 151 k theeireulation hod named 341,1481. ;-- 617,1141. bedlam taken away of the Bank bullion, and the snm in its till. or its reserve, had boon ler awed by 917,7991. The great customer—the State —had removed from its keeping 632,0361., and iq private customers had withdrawn 1,026,4901. tut such changes as these are to some extent customary at this period of the year, and our readers will have, perhaps, a clearer idea of the exact changes which have influenced the Bank, if we place Wore them a comparison of the similar changes which took place in the second and third weals of January, 1832 and 1853. The following is such a comparison : Amass amount in two week,. Total chimps in them. 1852. Circulation Public deposits 5,093,838 Deeresse,... Private deposits Private securities 11,467,459 Dermas ' Bullion 1 trey.,,,,, 167,341} . Reserve (notes only) 10,449,727 . c (Rotes. & biaigoo 1,086,399 1853. Circulation Public deposits 6,355,946 Decrease .. 4,366,464 Private deposits Private seturines 14.591,650 Decrease .. 1,809,103 Bullion . . o Reserve (Dotes osly ) 5 , 90 0 02 I Dee (sott & bunion) 1,987,015 From these figures it is evident that the loanable capital of the Bank in 18.52, compared to its circulation and its private deposits, was greater in proportion, when compared to its immediate than in 1853. The proportions were 28 to 33 in 18.52 and 29 to 39 in 1853, or the Bank was positively in a much weaker condition in 18.53 than in 1852. Being weaker, the changes in the two weeks were enough to disturb the Bank directors from their repose. The public deposits, the consequence of the payment of the dividends, de serve no notice, but the removal from the Bank in the two weeks of 1853 of 1,379,1551. of gold, con trasted with an increase of 167,3461. in 1852, while the increase in private deposits was only 290,2961. in 1853 contrasted with the increase of 2,285,6591. there having been in the last week a positive de crease of pnvate deposing to the extent of 1,026,4901. —were sure signs of money being in demand. At the same time the comparatively small increase of its notes, 753,046/. against 1,773,8721. in 1852, was an intimation not to be neglected that the circulation was comparatively full, and that the demand wu leas for its notes than for the gold in its coffers. In two weeks nearly 2,000,0001. was taken from it, and of that 1,379,1551. was gold. The comparatively unfavourable condition of the Bank was likely to become still more un favourable, and, to improve it, the rate of interest was raised. Whatever may be the condition of the Bank, we are still of opinion that it would have done better to wait till the effects of the payment of the dividends had been ascertained, that the public might have been spared the suspicion that the Bank was too hasty in its proceedings. The amount of securities re deemed in the two weeks of 1863, 1,809,103 L, is greater in proportion to 14,691,6501., the amount pledged, than the amount redeemed in 1862, 847,3701., is in proportion to 11,687,4691., showing the perfect soundness and solvency of the bank's debtors at present, and by inference of all the trading portion of the community. That its movement caused unnecessary embarrassment is very evident. The Bank excited apprehensions, and for the moment increased the demand for money which the rise in the rate of interest was intended to check. Bydelaying its first move for a fortnight, the Bank would have made it on a comparatively full market, and have done less injury to the public. Had the demand for money continued, the necessity for taking such a step would have been more apparent, and the public would have been more certainly convinced that the Bank had only followed the market, and not endeavoured to upset it oa a pretence of taking oare of the public in a direction favourable to its own interests. The proofs being very clear that an increased de mand for money bas amen, we may remark that it has two very different causes. The one which has more immediately operated on the Bank—is the great speculation which has now been carried on for many months in Paris to raise sad keep up the price of all kinds of public se °unties, railway shares, and shares of varicose kinds of newly formed companies. A great demand has been made on the Bank of France for ad minces, and a reduction of the bullion in its vaults has taken place to the extent of upwards of 1,000,0001. According to the last return its cash was decreasing, it had lammed its advapcoo, a collapse of the financial bubble of the Empire had begun, and to prevent it from bursting great efforts are m aking to borrow money wherever money can be *Wined. Not many years have elapsed since our own Bank was saved from danger by a loan from the Beak al Frame, and a return of that good aloe, three& an indirect way, is now asked. Capital, like SO supply of corn, is common in a great anessese to the whole commercial world = and the great demand for it in Paris to keep the bubble inflated re-acts on London. Nothing 111 to be I gained hereafter by such speculation to repa present Weans'. The undue commmption it oc y casion' its so mash loss, and those who would not share it, mast let lend their means to sustain it. In general, the asnesile of the Bank belongs to the genus specula and so far as the rise in the rate of iatarest to check their operation., and creed sharing their eartain losses, it was, on the part at the Bank, ' 4 " ,, Vo ut ther ruslisulL from which a rise u • the rate of has loog been ed, is the general Z - Tif price, and the expect increased profits of Mme.. The shipowner, whose freight to Aloha& has, within six months, been raised r o c cent., and place., m bet ust r e ixt 30 and . 40 ng t e . t 3 er . ext. to more ilk loans now for short periods to enable ' him to hasten the outfit of more ships than at the beginning of last year. The ironmaster, whose produce is sow Dearly double the prim it was a few months ago, is ready to borrow aer sum at a higher rah ofin terest than he could betas pay to set additional la bourers to work. The importer of sugar who has a eke' soeuesotion with the planter sees a vast and an in growing eseenniptienelthat artiole.aad ashort supply, soil be will be more liberal in his advances to stim ulate - farther preload= and ready to take op money him self ate. bleier ra te of interest, that he may hold dos dock he possum till he can sell it for more antsy. A /ow and a falling prim of cotton, and an issemeed demand, and better price for cloth, make the manifiestarer anxious to work mote, and to take np wow maw from his banker, though he was to ley a higher rate he it. Them are specimens of ;i,t has for some time been the case throughout misty. Pinder:idea has been great, but eon unmptieznetansairti, bpi with it, labonrersor arehas,Zu Oh Gad there is a disposition to employ mem pie" are generally meta are great inilifieMaisag and there is a disposition throughout enamprising classes to borrow more money. In tenth, the owners of money are only sharing the 's ore prosperity. Their commodity, like labour or letton cloth, or sugar, or ships, is more in demand, dad all who require it are willing to give more for It. The dinomery of gold in California and Aus tralia, in coojunetion with freedom of trade, has given a wonderful stimulus to enterprise, and money or capital, hinted of being made cheaper by the dis covery, is made dearer. ! There is, in all the money markets of the einpre an increased demand for money, and the Beal, we now know, only follows rthe market in raising its rate. We have latterly been amastemed M a very low rate, otherwise we should taped the painent rata as extremely moderate and met likely to have any ill effects on trade. What we mid lam Tuesday went to prove that the Mew comparatively humble )3ank which controls a very small portion of that whole capital of the sow menial world, all of which must be indented to affect the rats of interest permanently, can no 'more in reality determine that rate than it can deter mine the Om eiders. Thant@ is seeded by die rela tion between amend mediae general sop- Miet,a i nd the et tieDs* airing a rate of son* me sonehlk behrlell itself and its aihkinine. rhea rßeeedibined. b a reenneat ei Ai .time 116111 i the legislates* emery awl the Low Maros est Ir ed em esehe at lewd Wog ssoiniess tog be libmsted frees the motherly "noddle hank as eels bee bum liberated with such great amide's* from the fatherly cars of legislating landlords. Dun or Ma. Quisas LAWaracs.— hat am we were going to prom, we reesived intelligence of the death of oar esteemed townsman, Mr. Charles Lawrense, la the 77th year of his sp. This melancholy event took plus last evening, at the reeklienee of the deceased, Moe. ley-kill, The mesas of Mr. Charles Lawrence has been long known sad haemarably identified Mal the veva* prosperity of this port, as the principal in the greet mercantile firm of Chula* LaWreneei and Son. He was • depury.lieutenant and magistrate for this meaty, and in the year 1823 *erred the of fi ce of mayor in this borough. For • long period, and up to the time of the =tion with the London and Birmingham Railway, ace was chairman of the Liverpool and Man chester Railway Board.—Liturpool Mercury. I.lllllllllllllli THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1853, FRANCE. TILE MAW4GE;GETILE FOIROROk . tr • 4M HOCK'. r !MAT. speich.tef Louis Napoleon to to en the sirject of kii;marriage agrees very with the suggestions you threw out on the subject. At twelve o'clock yesterday, according to announce ment, the members of the Bureau of the Senate and Corps Legislatif, the members of the Council 'orState, and several individual members of the Senate and Corp. Legislatif waited upon the Emperor at the Tuileries, to receive this remarkable communication relative to his marriage. His Majesty addressed them in the following speech : " Gentlemen,—l yield to the wish so often mani fested by the country in coming to announce to you m y marriagf. " The union which I contract is not in accord with the traditions of old policy p—that is its ad vantage. _ _ _ " Fiance, by her successive revolutions, has al ways roughly separated herself from the rest of Eu rope. Every sensible government ought to seek to make her re-enter into the rank of the old monarchies, but this result will be more surely attained by a straightforward and candid policy, and by good faith' in all transactions, than by royal alliances, which create false security, and frequently substitute family for national interests. Besides, examples of the past have left in the minds of the people superstitious beliefs ; they have not forgotten that for seventy years past foreign princesses have only ascended the steps of the throne to see their race dispersed and proscribed by war or by revolu tion. One female alone appeared to bring happiness and to live more than others in the remembrance of the people, and that woman, the good and modest wife of General Bonaparte, was not the issue of royal blood. "It must, nevertheless, be admitted that in 1810 the marriage of Napoleon L with Maria Louisa was sat faction f o r m l a great event ; it WU a pledge for the old thefut and a real isatimal pr i de , since and illus trious house of Austria, who had so long made war vaunt us, formed an alliance with the elected chief of a new Empire. Under the last reign, on the con trary, had not the amour propre of the country to suffer when the heir to the crown ;aught in vain for several years an alliance with a sovereign house, and at length obtained a princess, doubtless accomplished, but only in a secondary rank, and of another reli gion ? When in face of old Europe, one is led by the force of a new principle to the height of old dynasties, it is not by seeking to introduce oneself at any price into the family of Logs that one makes oneself accepted. It is rather by remembering one's origin, in preserving one's own character, and in assuming frankly before Europe the position of Zrru —a glorious title when it comes from the e:i:ffrage of a great people. " Thus, obliged to set aside precedents hitherto followed, my marriage was no longer anything but a private affair : the only thing that remained was the choice of the poison. Bhewho is become the object of my preference is of high birth. French by heart, i by education, and by the remembrance of the blood which her father shed for the cause of the Empire, she has, as a Spaniard, the advantage of not having lin France any family to whom she would wish to give honours and dignities. Gifted with every quality of mind, she will be the ornament of the throne, as In 'the day of danger she will become one of its most courageous supports. A catholic and pious, she will address to heaven the seine prayers as myself for the happiness of France; gracious and good, she will, I firmly hope, cause to revive, in the same position, the virtues of the Empress Jo4phine. " I come then, gentlemen, to say to France—l have preferred a woman whom I love and respect to one unknown, and whose alliance would have ad vantages mingled with sacrifices. Without testify ing disdain for any one, I yield to my penchant; but not without ha flog first consulted my reason and my convictions. In short, in placing independence, qualities of heart, and family happiness above dynastic prejudices and calculations of ambition, I shall not be the lees strong, since I shall be more' - “ Soon, in proceeding to Notre-Dame, I shall pre sent the i mprees to the people and to the army; the confidence which they have in me assures me of their sympathy in her I bay. chosen ; and you, gentle men, in learning to know her, you will be convinced that on this occasion spin I have been inspired by Providencia." In lei than an hour after its delivery the speech' was placarded in all parts of Paris. It will be ob served that it does not, after all, mention the name of the future Empress. Theheralds have been set to work to make out Mdlle. Montijo's pedigree, and, not contented with the very excellent materials of her father's recognised genealo gies& tree, they already claim for herroyal blood. The Count de Odvodan, director of the Caere, France, hen sent the followin gs munica tins to the government *ends : The asaily with whisk the Onternee hums an @Blame b on of the mot illestriwas b Boob. Oar fatare helms to the boon of Guoilmra ii.... "mt e m e 4 si. dme= l to the earful tress of the mod whisk several hisbeirmsway was th - riiif royal • An the lionehes et di loWy have played • distragnished pert in Maley. Ws mO taste often Ono of the Dukes of Mediae, of be Torrea. of sad of Oli moo, and timed the Oemole of Ifwatlje. el elm or Ten, sod of VUlailodie, Ilentais de Ambles, de la Altars, be., of Spain. The Deshler de Tete, Countess de i deseroda ben fhb fret breach. It is am the Int time Ole taistily Ms lima mined to woad the trams Ow is MN m Leras Ameba de iiiimr sa == =or Pa z de fianmint. eighth Doke of Lag of Peetegal, Deo him IV. of B The Oessie de Identile have the same armee the li= . f their war relations, and bear the suite asses. width b dr Oilmen. - The Coisseffinlimuera says:—" It is announced that the civil marriage at the Emperor will be celebrated on Saturday next at the Tuileries. The religious ceremony will take place on the following day. Great are making at Notre Dame. The plans j or g l e r i role s lions have been submitted to and ap proved of by his Majesty. The high altar will be bras forward as far as the railing which encloses the aoir, and all the portion of the church round it will be brilliantly ornamented and lighted. A superb canopy will be suspended over the high altar, before which the prie Diets of their Majesties will be placed. The seat of the archbishop will be placed to the left of the altar. Two galleries hung with crimson vel vet will be erected at the sides of the choir for the ladies of the court, and seats in the form of an am phitheatre will be erected for the great bodies of the state and the high functionariee. There will be steps arranged before the altar, on which the great officers of the Imperial household will take their stations. A porch will be erected along the front of the church, so that carriages may set down under cover. Mademoiselle de Montijo and her mother, the Countess of Montijo, yesterday removed from the apartment which they occupied in the Place Ven dome, and took up their residence at the El see. Immense efforts are making to keep up the funds' and to restore confidence. The natural reaction after the heavy fall of Wednesday, has been stininlated by large purchases of stock with public money. The temporary upward movement has also been en couraged, according to the well-known Stock Ex change tactics, by the very parties who look forzrard to profit by anot he r fall before many days are over. Rumours of a number of popular measures are in daidriously circulated. It is said to-day that the army will immediately be reduced by 60,000 men, and that the banished genera's will be recalled without condition. Whatever degree of truth there may be in these reports, you may take it for granted that much will be done to ' give the ensuing week the air of a national jubilee. From information that has reached me, I think it more than probable that • reduction of the army will be officially announced, but I may expense my belief that any such announcement will be insincere. Looking to the internal state of France alone, phy sioal force is more than ever necessary to maintain the present government " He (Louis Napoleon) must make war, or turn socialist," is an observation ' that I have beak repeated scores of times. It is ereatial to beer in mind that the old saying, e park is fiance," is as true as ever. The eight millions of votes are continually referred to, as proving the con trary. The Bonapartist prints reiterate every day that the distinguishing feature of the present govern ment is, that it is not metropolitan, but national But the eight millions of votes resulted from the subjugation ci Paris. So long IA the conqueror of Dec 2 dudigiiiblids, military eup . reinacy in Paris, there is nd inn sa reaction in any other part of the,cionati7; But the population of Faris, is note-' ittioualfit* tient of theidonqueroes yoke,4fi r b; accident silih as IC requires no ex ,stretch of Imagination to conceive, they to throw it off but for twenty-four hours, the succeeding government might not indeed get eight dr votes, but it would at once acquire substantial domi nation over all France. It is not, therefore, from any reliance upon_the affection.of the French people, that Louis Napoleon can Word to reduce his army. It is very possible that the exiled generals may be re called. The measure would be popubir, and they are at least se dangerous abroad as in France. Sonic ministerial changes are very confidently spoken of It is, I believe, quite decided that Mar obit St. Arnaud shall be succeeded in the ministry of war by General Caurobert. This is a man upon whom the Emperor has had his eye for tome time, and he may be expected to play . a large art in coming events. In con nexion with military changes I may observe that General de Montreal, the new commander- in-chief at Rome, was reoommended by Colonel Fleury as a fitting instrument for the eventual exe cution of designs respecting the Pope, which it was either not thought fitting to confide to Gen. Gemeau, or which ho hesitated to execute. The nature of Louis Napoleon's policy requires that his most confi dential agents should be frequently changed. It is said that both ,M. de Morey and M. Rouher are about to become Cabinet Ministers. M. Baroche, President of the Council of State, gave a grand dinner on Wednesday, at which were pro mkt Lord and Lady Cowley, the Minister of Den mark, Prince Ponmtowski, M. Rogier (the Minister of Belgium), and Madame Rogier, the Minister of Portugal, the Marquis de Valdegamas, and several other persons of distinction. The ball which M. Baroche wee to give to the Emperor is postponed titan after Lent. Notice is given in the Moniteur, that since the 20th instant, telegraphic despatches from private per sons may be sent by the electric telegraph to Mar seilles. The charge is 13fr. 32c. for every 20 words, and one fourth more for every ten words additional. The Swiss lines have now been united to those of France, and private messages can be sent by them. In anticipation of the establishment of the Trans atlantic packet station at Oherburg, a submarine electric telegraph is about to be laul down to com municate between the dockyard, the forts, and the breakwater. The government has received accounts from Mar tinique and Guadeloupe to the 30th tilt. The yellow fever continued to make ravages, but it had di minished in intensity. The accounts of the exports of sugar from Martinique in 1832 show a consider able increase on 1851. As regards Guadeloupe, the returns are less favourable on account of the long drought that occurred in the last year. Despatches have also been received from the penitentiary colony of Guyana. They state that it is proceeding satis factorily. The Minister of the Interior has addressed new instructions to the prefeots of departments relative to the registries of births, marriages, and deaths. The minister requires that, with respect to births, in 'addition to the details heretofore given, an account shall be kept of the number of double or triple births, land of such children as are strangely or irregularly formed. With respect to marriages, he requires that, in order to ascertain the state of public instruc tion, the number of persons married or witnesses, who may sign their names or use a cross, in acts of marriage, shall be stated. As to deaths, he orders that the deuce •of 1804, relative to the registra tion of dead children, shall be carried into execu tion; also that the causes of all deaths shall be stated, uis done in England and Prussia. In cer tain large towns of France physicians have for some time past been accustomed to give to the families of decessed.persons a certificate stating the nature and duration of the malady; and henceforth all physi cians will be expected to do the same. These oerti ticates,which are to give the technical as well as the ordinary name of the malady, are to be preserved in the offices of the mayors, and an abstract is to be made of them at the end of the year, so as to form a general return of the diseases which have occasioned death in all parts of the country. This return will, it is expected, prove exceedingly interesting and useful. In addition to all this, the prefects are to give a return of the number of passports they may grant in the course of the year. It is said to be the intention of the Emperor to grant armorial bearings to all those senators, of whom there are a good many, that are without any. The grant will mention that the arms are to be painted on the panels of the carriages of the person entitled to them. This implies the possession of a carriage, and is understood sea hint that the senators are ex-' petted to conform to the prevailing . system which re quires all highly-paid functionaries to expend their money freely. Many of the senators have shown a disposition to evade this rule. M. Bourgade, the mayor of Brissan (Herault), and his son, M. Theophile Bourgade, mayor of Saint Bengalis de Patois, have been suspended by the Pre fect for refusing to support a government candidate for the council general. The electors of the district have very nearly made themselves accomplices in the oboes; for, in spite of intimidation, they gave 924 votes to M. Th. Bourgade against 1,040 polled by the government candidate. I believe the Emperor has wisely determined not to remove the tombs of Voltaire and Rousseau from the Pantheon. The priestly party has made immense efforts to consummate this desecration, and the Univers has devoted several articles to no other ob ject. But the Emperor knows that the whole literary world of Paris would be indignant at such a stupid act of intolerance, and begins to think he has done enough for the priests already. A bon mot worth repeating is attributed to M. Romieu, the director of the Beaux Arts, on the occasion of his conveying the Empuoes final resolution on this subject to the Archbishop of Paris. The archbishop observed that he could not reconcile himself to the idea of saying mess over the ashes of such heretics as Rousseau and Voltaire. " Monseigneur," said M. Romieu, "you must admit that you could not do anything to annoy them more." If this not unimportant matter be thus finally settled, es I believe it to be, the decision is creditable to France. PARIS, BONDAY EVININO. The Monsieur gives the following account of the ceremony of yesterday : To-day at noon the bureau of the Senate, the bureau of the Carps Legislatif, and the members of the Council of State as ambled at the Tuileries to receive a commuica tioa from the Emperor relative to his marriage. Almost all the members of the Senate, among whom might be remarked the Marshals, the Admirals, and the Arch =Para, CA the members of the bureau. The of the Legislatif, a large number of whom are new in Paris, desired to be present at this %s -• ng Milentnit y. .t a quarter put twelve the Senators members of the Corps Legislatif, and Councillors of State quitted the saloons where they had assembled, and proceeded to the throne saloon. The Couneillon of State placed themselves on either side of the throne, the Senators in front on the right, and the Deputies in frost on the left. At half-past twelve the Greed Master of the Ceremonies announced the Emperor. His Majesty, in the mama of • lieutenant-general, preceded by the greet At of his accompanied by their imperial %/shalom Prince Jerome and Prince Napoleon. and by his ssialMos, mused the room. _ _ . — The limperor, standing before the throne, having his Imperial Highness Prince Jerome on his right, and his Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon on his left, pronounced the following speech, with a clear and accentuated voice, bet with a visible emotion, which was shared by the whole assembly. [Here follows the speech, as given in another column, but copiously interlarded with "Henan tion," " Applause, " Unanimous Applause," "Viva rEmpereur," " Vivo rlmperatrice," and "Long continued applause."] After the speech comes the following paragraph: This speech, so loyal. so patriotic, several times Lone nipted by applause and cries of " Vive l'Empereur," Vive l'lmperatrios,"jorodiond upon the assembly a deep ►impres sion, which all France will share. This prediction is in substance a decree that all France II to be deeply moved by the speed. It would otherwise be out of place in the official part of the ifoniteur where nothing but decrees or narra tions of past occurrences usually appear. The important omission in the speech which I jointed out yesterday is supplied by the official urnal in the following terms : The Emperor marries Mdlle. de Montijo, Coziness do Teta, • nw (Wiener of Count de Montijo, muft, and rands .. Thus it appears that the young lady is not Doelisse of Teba, as has been so generally represented. It is officially announced that the marriage will be Celebrated at Notre Bame on Sunday, Jan. 30. Th ' onitear is silent on the subject of the civil irr the marriage eerembay, but this is fixed for e y the 29th, at the Tuileries, and the Petrie ariaotinbes that M. l'roplong, President of the Senate, p a : Nest Presidentof the Court of Caseation, assisted General d'llautpoul, Grand Referendary of the Senate, will officiate as civil officer of the state on the °Cession. MM. Viollet-Leduc and Luaus are the architects employed to decorate Notre Dame. Immediately after the delivery of the speech, the Princes Jerome and Napoleon paid a visit to Mdlle. Montijo, in the Place Vendome. The Emperor left the Pa lace, and walked for some time up and down the terrace in the gardens of the Tuileries, accom panied by the Duke of Basun° and General itognet, and attended by two orderly officers. Mdlle. Monlijo was not at the ball at the Tuileries last night, and it is understood that neither she nor her mother will appear in society until after the solemni zation of the marriage. In anticipation of the marriage, an imperial insti tution, known as the Council au Contentieux" of the crown, has been revived. The members are M. Rouher, vice president of the Council of State; M. Delangte, Senator and first president of the Impe rial Court of Paris; MM. Pascals and Pecourt, judges of the Court of Cessation; M. Chain d'Est Ange, the eminent counsel, and M. Noel, the empe ror's notary. Theirimmediate duty is to prepare the marriage contract. I do not hear any confirmation of a report that Prince Napoleon was to be married to the Princess Wagrum on the day of the Empe ror's nuptials. Marriage engagements are, how ever,thefashion :and it is said that several personages about the Court, and among them M. Pietn, theprefect of police, Dr. Conneau, the Emperor's physician, and M. Cherreau, are shortly about to follow their impe rial master's example. In consequence of the exceedingly short notice, it has been found a matter of some difficulty to p roduce a sufficiently splendid car riage to convey the imperial bridegroom and bride to Notre Dame. I understand that the very gorgeous equipage used at the coronation of Charles X. will be furbished up for the occasion. That carriage has been much admired, and I had always under stood that it was built expressly for Charles X. But it is now said that upon scratching out the Bourbon arms the imperial 'seutcheon has been found under neath, and that it was this identical carriage that conveyed Napoleon I. to Notre Dame to be crowned by Pins VII. I mentioned that a sister of the Countess do Mon tijo, and consequently the aunt of the future empress, had married M. de Lmeps. This was the eldest of the family. The second daughter married General Palafox, who distinguished himself at the defence of Saragossa by a vigorous resistance to the French army under the Duke of Montebello. The Countess of Montijo was the third daughter. The fourth and youngest is married to M. Cabarns , a merchant at Bordeaux. In the non-official part of the Moniteur there is the following contradiction of the reported ministerial changes: It has been said among the public that differences of opinion have been manifested in the ministry. These re ports are false, and a ministerial modification is in no way in question. I believe, nevertheless, that the first opportunity will be taken to get rid of St. Arnaud. Notes of this kind signify absolutely nothing. When the dis missal of Changarnier was in contemplation the Moniker repeatedly stated that the most perfect understanding prevailed between him and the President of the Republic, and that all the rumours of his resignation or dismissal were false. It is a significant fact that the government journals are now employed to write up the military reputation of General Canrobert, the expected suc cessor of St. Arnaud. Both the journal de r.Empire and the Conatitutionnel have devoted several columns to this purpose. ITALY. THE POPE, AND THE CORONATION OF ROME, lAN. 14. To go, or not to go, that is the question, which now agitates the council of his Holiness and the Sacred College, and respecting which Pio Nono is of an opinion directly opposed to that of the majority of his cardinals. Naturally fond of homage and sipp please, as was but too evident in the commencement of his reign, and anxious to escape from the tram. mels in which he is held by the Cardinal Secretary of State, the Pope is resolved to visit France, and perform the consecration required of him by the Em peror. This firm resolution has thrown the Sacred College into the greatest consternation, and a con gregation of cardinals was held last week to con sider the matter, in which Cardinal Antonelli announced to his eminent brethren that he had opposed the Pope's determination to the ut most, but that he saw very well that it would be in vain, and that his Holiness would write to the Emperor, di proprio pugno, ex preening his willingness to undertake the journey, in spite of the opposition of the whole Sacred College. It is urged by their eminences that a Pope having crowned the first sovereign of the Napoleonic dy nasty, the whole race is sufficiently consecrated, without a Pope having to anoint each succeeding emperor; and that were such a precedent to be arta blisled, no catholic potentate in Europe would be satisfied without obtaining, in his own person, the crowning work of the head of the church. The fact is, that the Sacred College is thoroughly Austrian, following the example of Cardinal Antonelli, whilst the Pope is French in his tendencies, and obstinate when his mind is once made up. Add to this, that the French have the nine points of the law on their side, by having Rome in their possession, and it becomes more than probable that, despite of Aus trian and Russian influence, and the struggles of the cardinals, Pio Nono will repair to Paris, and pour the sacred oil on the head of Napoleon 111. TURKEY. A letter from Constantinople of the Bth, in the Post despt Gazette of Frankfort, says:—" Abd-el Yaw arrived here yesterday, but he has not been yet presented to the Sultan, on account, it is said, of a difficulty which has arisen between M. de Lava lette and Fnad Effendi on the form in which the pre sentation should take place. It is said that the remonstrances addressed by M. °setoff to the Otto- man Porte, relative to the sanctuaries, have received the full approbation of the Russian cabinet. The winding up of the affairs of the bank may be con sidered as terminated. The government has made arrangements with several bankers to procure the resource* which it requires. The number of the troops sent against Montenegro is 34,000." Accounts from Constantinople to the Bth have ar rived by way of Vienna. Propositions had ,been made for resuming the project of raising a loan, with modifications as to the time of repayment, but it was considered doubtful that the government would con sent to them. The examination into the accounts of the ex-farmer of the customs, Djamerli, has been concluded, and the result is said to be that his liabi lities exceed his assets by upwards of 20,000,000 piastres (between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 E) Thie sum is due to the treasury, and he will be required to pay it—unless, indeed, as some persons appeared to expect, the ex-Minister of Finance be rendered responsible for the whole or part of it. ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDrft.-1117LL, BA. 1171 DAY.—Throughout the whole of yesterday and the pre luding day the magistrates and police have be engaged investigating one of the most inhuman and, at the same time, extraordinary attempts to murder, coupled with rob bery, that has ever been recorded. It appears that on Tues day evening last, Mrs. Dufflll, an innkeeper's wife, of Be verley, was returning from this town by the last train. All the passengers got out at Xottingham excepting one man, who sat in the same carriage u she did. After the train hut been in motion a few minutes some persons near the Use heard a female's voice calling some one a thief, and these were followed by cries of help and murder, all pro ceeding from the same carriage. They followed as fast u I they could, and fancied they saw something thrown from the train, and upon reaching the spot found the lady in question lying by the side of the rail, quite insensible. Elba was taken to a house close by, and the next day, it being found who she was, removed home, where she lies without any hopes of recovery, being suffering from concussion of the brain. Although she had a large sum when she left home, not a penny was left in her possession when picked up. Upon the train slackening at Beverley the fellow jumped out and made off, nothing being then known at the station of the matter. A milkman of Beverley has been taken on easpicion, and held to bail. Vbe court. WIND2Oft, Jer. 22. The Prince of Leiningen took leave of her MiNjesty this morning, end left the Castle for London en route to the Continent._ The whole of the visitors have taken their departure to da'Phe Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl Granville, and Lieut.- Col. the Hon. A. and Mrs. Gordon, arrived at the Cud* Ibis afternoon on a visit to her Majesty. The following had the honour of dining with her Majesty this day :—The Duchess of Kent, the l'rincem Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Lady-in-waitiog to the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl Granville (President of the Connell), Lieut.-Colonel the Holt A. and Mr.. Gordon, the ltev. the Provost of Eton, and Sir James Clark. The Band of the 2nd Life Guards attended during dinner ad played the following selection : Overture. "lora Diareio" Auber. Waits, "Oriental" Labitsty. Greed ,election, " Marble Malden" Adam. Feat Polonaise Kuheer. Quadrille ... ...... ... Timmy. Polka etraws. 131,1 gaup the Ones. _ _ The Queen's private band was afterwards in attendance in the Castle, and performed the following pieces : winters, Tampa" Herold. Trio, allegretto, winnetto, trio, rondo allturetto, pianoforte, clarinet, and viola, Mesas. Cosies, %%lawns, and Hill Mozart. JAN. 23. The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and Princess Alice, attended Divine Service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl Granville, and Lieut -Colonel the lion. A. and Mrs. Gordon, with the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic household, were also at the service. The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley officiated. The Duchess of Kent end the Prince of Leiningen ar rived atClerence House, St. James's, on Saturday morn kw, from Frogmore. The Royal duchess and his serene highness visited the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, Piccadilly, when the Prince of Leining e n took leave of her royal highness. The Duchess of Kent left town in the afternoon, on her return to Frogmore, and the Prince of Leiningen proceeded to the terminus of the South Eastern Railway, at London bridge, and took his departure for Dover. - • A deputation from the Local Board of Health for Lea mington had an interview on Saturday with the General Board of Health, at their office, Whitehall. Thu deputa tion consisted of Mr. William Carpenttr, Chairmen of the Local Board; Mr. 8. U. Jones, a member of the board; aad Mr. Arthur Haymes, their clerk. Mr. J. 34. Cobbeta, M.P., bad an interview on Saturday with the General Board of Health, at their office, White hall. The Duke of Newcastle returned to town on Saturday, from Windsor Castle. Viaraunt Pa'mamma left town on Saturday afternoom, for Broadlands. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office, from the Governors of all the Australian coloities,Vms Dieman's Laud, New Zealand, and the Governors of Hong Kong and Ceylon. Admiral Houston Stewart, formerly M.P. for Greenwich, is appointed secretary to the Master-General of the Ordnance. FATAL EPIDEMIC AT CROYDON. The town and neighbourhood of Croydon are in II state of great consternation, on account of the breaking out of* fever of a very fatal character, and which during the jut fortnight has been most fatal in its results, the victim!e being not, as is usually the case, among the poorer classes, bat among the gentry, and the principal tradesmen of the town. The state of things at length became so alarm. ing that the Local Board of Health, through Mr. Wyles, their clerk, applied to the General Board of Health in London, requesting them to instiuta an inquiry into the nature of the malady which had created so much alarm • and accordingly Dr. South wood Smith and Dr. Sutherland were sent to Croydon to report upon the cause and nature of the prevailing etas. mie. The following is an extract from the report made by these gentlemen upon the sulject. After some prefatory re. narks, the report states, We have ascertained that a 'kid lax disease has prevailed at Orted, a few miles from Croydon before any disease of alike kind was observed at Croydon, and we have to add that, from communications received by the General Board of Health, it appears that for many weeks past • similar epidemic has prevailed in various villages and towns both in England and Wales. We appro. bend the cause of the disease is to be found at Croydon, as elsewhere, in the peculiarity of the present season, the com bination of excessive moisture and heat appearing to have proved, as was anticipated, the generation and spread of low form of fever. The last official circular of the General Board of Health (No. 8), issued in December, warned the local boards, from the excessive rains and consequent doodings which had even then occurred in many places, to expect unusual outbreaks of fever, and exhorted them to take immediate measures of precaution against such an event." MORTALITY CAUSED BY DEFECTIVE DRAINAGE. Saturday evening a lengthened investigation took place at the Panther Tavern, Hope Town, Bethnal-green road, respecting the death of Henry Humphries, aged three years, who died from typhoid fever, caused by the noxious exhalation of a cesspool connected with the house, situated at No. 29, Tysson-street, Bethnal•green-road. The evidence having been heard, the jury unani. mously agreed to the following special verdict:—" That the deceased died a natural death from typhus fever, caused by a nuisance from a cesspool on the premises ; and we (Uus jurors) request the coroner to write to her Majesty's Com missioners of Sewers to direct their immediate attention to the erection of a sower in that district, as a means of »- relieving the place of future dangers." The proceedings then terminated. SUSPECTED MURDER NEAR THE SWIN- FORD COPPER MILLS. A very mysterious affair hes occurred near the Swinford Copperworks, situate on the banks of the river Avon, at about seven miles from Bristol, and an unusual degree of excitement prevails concerning it throughout the district with which they are connected. The body of a woman of apparently about 25 years old has been taken out of the river close to the mills, and, from circumstances con nected with the occurrence, there is too much reason for suspecting that her death war the result of violence. In formation of the discovery was promptly conveyed to W. 7. Ellis, Esq., who lost no time in holding an inquest, and from the evidence adduced it appears that a workman named James Thompson, in the employ of the copper com pany, bad oocuion on the Wednesday morning, at about seven o'clock, to go to the mill head for the purpose of 1 . drawing the pond." Ia putting down his rake for that purpose he found some Lige and heavy substance which was pressing heavily against the gates, and which it was difficult to move. Having procured the assistance of a man named George Shiff he succeeded in raising it, and found that it was the body of a woman respectably deemed, but without any shawl or bonnet, and heels; a cap twisted tightly round her bead. At Set would be seen that no particular suspicion was enter ' tained, but soon afterwardans trapired that the body could I H only have been a few hours in the place where it use found, while two cottages, named Sarah Bright and Ana Shipp, at about Um o'clock on the previous evening; while sitting in their renectinesttages, which are located by the river, distinctly heard the cry of a woman in distress. It was but • single cry, and then all wee silent again. The suspicion which this circumstance induced was soon strength used by an examination of the body made by Mr. Walter Brown, surgeon, who discovered on .the crown of the heed a wound penetrating to the skull. It was an irregular wound, sad appeared to have been inflicted with a pointed but blunt instrument, while of its having been given during life and before the body got Into the water Mr. Brown had not the slightest doubt. • From its situation, he did not think that it could have been the result of accident, but that it must have been the act. of some other Upon the forehead was another but lea severe mark of in jury. Agood deal of evidence was taken by the coroner in the endeavour to clear up the mystery and to fix the identity of the deceased. Some of the witnesses spoke to the body as that of the wife of a corporal of the 48th regiment, who having followed her hus band's company from Carmarthen, was sees on the Tuesday evening at a village between Bristol and Beth called Sanford, and at 11 o'clock the same night was proved to have been drinking with some men at a beer-hone kept by a person .named CHIN, in Crown-street, Bath. When last seen alive she was attired in &respectable helmet, and large plaid woollen shawl, and she had with her a puree which she kept in her bosom, and in which it was noticed that she had money, all of which, when the body wee found, had disappeared. It further appeared that she bad engaged a bed at a Lodging-bows, near the beer-house, at which, however, she did not present herself. The removal of the body, supposing the witnesses right as to she identity. in the coarse of seven or eight hours, from Bath to Swiss ford Mills, a distance by the river of nine miles, could only be accounted for upon the supposition that it wu e there, as, besides the windings, eddies, and natural impedi ments of the river, whose bed is very uneven, it must, if it had floated, have passed leeks and at least four weirs, which is considered by those who know the locality impossible. Supposing the witnesses to be mistaken, it seems probable that the cry heard the night before from the river's bank, near the mill, proceeded from the deceased immediately before her death. The jury, by advice of the Coroner, returned a simple verdict of " Found Dead," thus leaving it open to the police to prosecute inquiry, which they are diligently engaged in making. Mr. Ronnuat.—Thera iv no foundation for the rumour. which have been recently, we would hope Mao. Untie and heedlessly, prevalentreepecting this gentleman. Mr. Roebuck is now at Malvern, where Dr. Gully, the well-known and eminent physician there, has given him reason to hope for an early restoration of health, so as to enable him to renew his able services in parliament to this borough and to his country. We b.lievo that Mr. Roe buck has no intention whatever to resign ; and that, on the contrary, he hopes to return to hie place in parliament with renewed vigour, where we trust he may yet do much of that good service which still remains due from him to his country.—Shejfickl Timis.