The Express. — London, England, 1851-12-30 00:00:00

Vu erprelso. TO CORRESPONDENTS. • roma &Mica .1" Tr &pram" Natalia', the ousai." le rehashed sway Tuesday sad Map .test, is tlet• raiL Aftretisemob.lirtarled he "TM !Uproot," Leedom 'weft pip. , , mot best the Oars, If. Boaminsatrisi, b Iwo es Ike 1111 pablisadva. HIOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TO Dar—lierstag, I. 71. 23m. Teassonow—Xuraist. 7n. 41s. ..... Afteraoss. U. lift. LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30. Iris not a little amusing to observe the precipi tancy with which certain of our contemporaries have begun to mark out a new course fur Lord PALMER,. TON, and to determine the aims of his future career- As is naturnl, their interpretations of his purpose differ widely. An evening journal known for it, devotion to the cause of rehgio-political toryuoms claims the ex-minister as the appointed champion of its faith; while a morning print professing the most opposite political opinions, is ready to sympathise in the same polemic 'Cam and thinks it not unseemly to inquire into the theological leanings of the newly appointed foreign secretary's domestic circle ; as if the policy of a great and free people were depen dent on the formularies or the doctrines held in de vout respect lee any individual of either sex, or of an♦ station m life. The Standard insists upon crimping the discarded minister as just the man who was wanted to fill the post of protectionist chief in the Commons; while the Arteertiser is ready to inaugurate him tribune of the people of Islington, Finsbury, and the Tower Hamlets, and to share with him the laurels intended exclusively for KOSSUTH. And, to cap the climax, the Times, evidently in much alarm, occupies itself with logical difficulties, which it plaintively submits stand in the way of Lord PAL iiHut4ToN'A becoming the executioner of the free-trade party and the extinguisher of the free-trade policy of the country. Really it is time to have done with these hys terics. `Lord PALMERSTON and his colleagues dis agreed about the course to bo pursued by England in the present condition of things abroad; and the noble viscount discovering rather too late that lie was in a minority of one on certain important points, has been unexpectedly obliged to give way. That sorb n termination of their official connexion must have been painful on both sides, cannot be doubted ; and that, had not the matters in dispute been con sidered of the highest moment, such a rup ture would have gladly been avoided, nobody can seriously dislx lieve. They as well as he had everything to lose and nothing to gain by such a breach. Supposing the whigs the most sordid and shortsighted of men, it is impossible that with a House of Commons to face wherein they had last session but a majority of fourteen, they should wil lingly alienate a friend whose personal followers may 'he understated as amounting to at least double that number. And, for what? Not for the sake of a inning over any rival statesman of higher powers Of more extensive connexions, hut in so far as yet sills an, only to give unexpected promotion to an amiable and accomplished, but still very junior and wholly untried professor of the diplomatic art. We retard, that it is utterly incredible to suppose that voluntarily, or with any other feelings than those of the most sincere, because the most self-interested regret, the cabinet of Lord JOHN Russet!. would hese brought themselves as a cabinet at such a juncture us the present, to say to one of their ablest and most in-' fluential colleagues—we can no longer act together. AVe have put the question on the lowest and most common-place ground, upon the side of the majority of the administrai ion. tat us apply the same rule to the other. It is nut pretended by the organs of the iso lated statesman that his retirement was a willing one. The man who has spent two-thirds of his life in office, while he retains all the vigour and fresh ness of his prime, is not likely to withdraw, from caprice or whim, from a poet which afford*, po moth of the intellectual and moral ex citement, to which he has become habituated, and whose duties, however onerous to one less used to their performance, have by time and practice grown comparatively light to him. It is admitted on all hands that Lord PALMERSTON would have retained his position if he could. But it had become impossible. Ile had committed himself irretrievubly ; and he cause lie disdained previously to consult the opinions and wishes of others, lie suddenly found himself acting in a spirit contrary to theirs: and this in the conduct of our relations with our nearest and nimit powerful eontinental neighbour. It is no longer a seeret, that the imprudence, to use the mildest term. which rendered an open severance unavoidable, Was that into which the impetuous Viscount was pelf-betrayed iu reference to French affairs. Ac cording to sonic, his real aim, in all he wrote and said upon the subject of the new order of things in France, was thoroughly consistent with the broad principles he has uniformly professed; that he hoped by an intimate understanding with the Elysee :to exercise a liberalising influence over its counsels • and to form a Western league against Eastern atm: lutism. Others refuse to credit this eventual pur pose, and reproach him severely with apparently fla grant abandonment of consistency and constitutional ism. In all candour and fair play we repeat that all are bound to reserve final judgment on this point until we have had the benefit of hearing his own defence. But whilst waiting for hie explana nation, it is nut necessary to set him up in opposition to the Whig ministry. Upon the success or failure of his defence will principally depend the degree of estimation in which hereafter he will be held in his own country as well as out of it. But that is precisely thequestion which our impatient con temporaries are in no mood just now to consider. According to them the ex-secretary must foithwith rush to one side or the other in quest of personal vengeance ; it being tacitly assumed that the veteran whose lead they severally covet, has no convictions, no sense of political honour, and no discernment of the spirit of the time. Lord PALMERSTON may, perhaps, successfully vindicate his conduct and his system in 1852, as ho did in 1819: and we can conceive his looking for ward to the ultimate triumph of his principles by a resumption of power, when the heats and irritations of the present disagreement shall have passed away. But we cannot realise so abject or lament able. a termination of a great career as would be involved in his turning sham fanatic or palter ing with Protection. As a liberal statesman of versatility, energy, and experience, he may yet play a worthy and popular part. But as an apostate he would speedily become valueless, and those who now are so desirous of winning him on any terms he might think proper to prescribe, would soon be ready to get rid of him on their own. WITH the exception of an occasional burglary or an isolated highway robbery, the only crimes com mitted in England which are constantly and syste matically accompanied with violence, are breaches of the game-laws. The dark lanes and lonely byways of our most sequestered rural districts may be safely traversed by the feeble or the timid, by day or by night, without interruption and without fear. The most exposed property in the world, the stock and crops of the farmer, is seldom the subject of depreda tion, and the tenants of the sheepfold and the hen roost arc rarely molested by the nightly marauder. Making a single exception, we may venture to say that the ordinary modern criminality of nn agricul tural parish consists in a few pillages in the turnip fields, and some not very serious cases of hedge breaking; and by some vigilance and tiromisse on the part of the owners of the turnips mod the hedge-rows, such offences are easily choked. But to this generally favourable state of the 11111111 districts, as regards crime, there is OM Mast toatilal :on, that is, in reference to ganos•isw In every pnri..h where the owe= st low, we find a normal school kr aims there the most reckless disregard at the Alps 40.. rate property is constantly manifested, mil the sat savage deeds of violence are perpetrated. Wad, hi our agricultural counties the only roil sod mhos business of the rural polies will be hood to consist in poaching cases, sad the affrays sod violenoes which arise out of the paassrcation draw. Not hog ago we Isd voider to comment upon a desperate assester bowmen a large pasty of Lord Sena aonovon4beepers and al= MOM stow ram b* at in whisk theatralep sod Naar l i - Mom Any as both dims was mere that st subs ha boar issaltma, or a hada haven tribes of hostile savages, than like en occurrence in a civilised and law-governed community. And now witlis is hat ten or fourteen days we have had to ao leas than four of these most flagrant and doposehl outrages. Of these three were not less lomalablit than the affray at Ruffen& At Barton front Nottingham, the gamekeepers d MINIM Sir ARTHUR CLIFTON were attacked end overpowered by no less than forty poachers, who left them, as is stated, in " a dreadfully mutilated" audition. The county police were called, and the estate and neighbourhood placed in what, on the con tinent, would be termed a state of siege, but none of tits delinquents appear to have been captured. In Norfolk, at Lefton Hall, near Dereham, the estate of Mr. GURDON, a most "murderous affray" took place between the gamekeepers, assisted by some of the rural police, and a gang of 15 or 20 poachers. A division of the Swatlhain police force, consisting of 14 men headed by the superintendent was stationed on the game preserved estate in antici pation of a poaching foray. " About 12 o'clock at night," says the report, " the discharge of guns was heard in the woods, and the superintendent with his men at once proceeded in the direction of the report. At length they came up with a body of poachers, in number nine, who apparently had noticed the approach of the officers, and had prepared themselves for a desperate resistance. Elevating their guns, they shouted " stand off;" and before the con stables could proceed a step further, three of the guns were fired at them, and Mr. PARKER (the superintendent), being at the head of his force, ascoived nearly the whole of the charge of one of the pin in his face." He fell desperately wounded; and another of the police was slightly wounded, the principal part of a charge having entered the trunk of a tree close to his head. After some sharp fight ing three of the poachers were apprehended; and four others were subsequently captured. The men were all found to be disguised, and had blackened their faces with gunpowder that they might not be recognised ; and all of them have been committed to take their trial for the offence at the spring assizes. Now, though such outrages on the part of the poachers are neither to be defended nor palliated, there is another aspect in which this affray will be regarded by the public. It will be asked, and pro perly asked, what is it,—what is the description of pro perty,—what are the private rights Mr. GURDON calls upon a whole division of the county police to defend? And when the inevitable answer must be, that all this array of force—all this savagery, con flict, and strife—are called forth in order that Mr. GUIDON may breed and maintain on his estate a swarm of wild animals, which cannot be confined or identified,—and, in fact, continue to he his no longer than while they remain upon his own land,—who can avoid the reflection, why arc such things permitted— eye, encouraged, by a special code of peculiarly severe law—in this well-peopled and cultivated land . ? The industrious population of Norfolk, the farmers, the shopkeepers of the towns and the village s, and others, are all taxed to the county rate, are required to provide a costly constabu lary force, in order that Mr. CIVRDON and his brother game preservers may enjoy a few battues yearly! Nor is that all the burdcu gamepreserving throws on the industry of Norfolk. There are seven of the poachers taken, the police are stated to be on the track of two more, and there can be little doubt of the conviction of these nine men. The cost of their prosecution, and the expenses of their main tenance prior to trial and after conviction, will fall upon the county and the public in general; while their families will become burdens upon the parish funds. And all this is to uphold the landowner's sport; all this loss and misery and crime exist that the rich man may enjoy a bathic,—muy spend his holiday in the wholesale slaughter of quasi-wild animals. It has been well remarked by an able writer in MORTON'S " Cyclopedia of Agriculture," that " the whole system of preserving game on cultivated lands is aboard and unnatural. Wild animals are intended only for countries uninhabited by man or thinly peopled; and as population in• creases, and the soil is brought under cultivation, they gradually disappear. In this kingdom the population is dense, and is every day pressing more and more against the means of subsistence ; and at the base of our social system is a vast mass of poverty, much of which is created by the competition for employment, and the difficulty of procuring even a bare subsistence. At the some time we have a great number of estates, forming altogether no in considerable portion of this island, over which game is rigidly preserved, as though some great national interest were concerned in the breeding and rearing of wild animals." Here we have a concise but com prehensive explanation of the origin of such woeful events as those which have recently taken place on Mr. Grneos's estate, in Norfolk, and on General Ceirroe's property, in Nottinghamshire. And let it be understood that this absurd and unnatural system of preserving, artificially, wild animals in peopled and cultivated districts could not be continued with out the aid of that barbarous code, the game-laws— a code admitted by every man of intelligence and reflection to be a national disgrace. There is a third view of the recent poaching case which deserves notice. These mess, disguised, with their faces blackened, and armed with pistols, bludgeons, and quicklime, to throw in the eyes of their assailants, were found poaching in Bagley Wood, belonging —to whom think you, reader ?—to the President and Fellows of St. John's College, Oxford! Squirm' may be naturally supposed to be guile their vacant hours in sporting, or retired soldiers may indulge in the petty slaughter of the &Wire, but what possible excuse can there be for the President and Fellows of St. John's College, Oxford, for preserving " a great head of game," and demora lising the neighbourhood in which they hold pro perty? Indeed, it is time that this matter of game preserving and the game-laws should be effectually looked into, fur —it cannot be too often repeated— these game-laws are the chief source of all the crime and much of the poverty and misery of our agricul tural districts. If the farmers called out for " Pro tection" from Game, Game-keepers, Game-stealers and the coat of Game-law prosecutions, and the burden of Game-law created paupers—there would be some meaning and wisdom in their demand. The Frankfurt Journal of the 24th inst. publishes two notes exchanged between M. Hulsemann, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires in the United States, and Mr. Webster, an the Austro-Hungarian question. It seems clear, from the internal evidence of these documents, that they closed the discussion ; and that Mr. Hulsemann cannot have trans mitted to Mr. Webster any further note upon the subject. Consequently that which has been lately published in the Augsburg Gazette, and reprinted by the American papers, would seem to be simply a very clever hoax. It i s , indeed. rarely that diplomatists indulge in such sallies u those ascrioed to M. Hulsemann; it was still less likely that so sharp a !is-venue should have been digested quietly on the other side.—Giobe. MoNMOUTIISIURE AND GLAMOROANSIDRE BANE too COMPANY .—A petition has been presented to the Court of Chancery pea that the winding-up of the affairs of this bank, w failed, may be referred for settlement to the Cemenhakes re of the Bristol District Court of Bankruptcy, notwitholeeding that the at of par liament for winding-up John sloe eampleiss wean that these mitten, which involve nemarees ties questions in law and in equity, shall be refereed exclusively to the Mas ters in Chancery. The priseipal cosec alleged for the pfo poeed reference is on the groused of memnisete to tie par ties locally interested, foe tibia peeps" ware the se, • Master Extraordinary in Charon may ha appointed. INtarEst ON TIM BODY FOUND IN VlCTORlA atterr.—Yesterday. an bequest was held by Mr. Wakley, M.P.. In the bludgeon of ibibers them Workhouse, Grays-ism Des, the bah a William Herbert, nod 43, DM an the employment of the Messrs. Mavis/ay, W read, whose body was keel es the isenshot d llotorday last in a vault on the line a the bessied sew seat (Victoria-street), Clerken well. It was sated that es Yrklay night last, about nine o'clock, deceased bit the empasy of • female at the corner of Peter-tenet, Ilalberbil Ming that he would seam la • few mind s, but be arm ono back. The Mewls, tensing he was Saud by Pellemes Ileibesse le the vault, when be was rammed Is the weelthewee if Holborn Union. A post table essaiseiss et the body wa s mode by lir. Simple, capes le the workhouse, who found that his sight OM WU broken, and that he led resehoi a est over the left eye, sad another wound es the sight temple. There was also effu•ion es the aides, sal b the ventricle of the brain. —Mr. Gam, immasakti eller, said it was a most dan gerous spot. sad that IS shiedhs mse another fatal accident emoted thin. The depth I. chant 14 fret.—Mr. Dixie said that whirs &teased woo dud them was no thorough fare. bet it was bob ess wit wee • war cut to Clerken- wolleroser : That obooToctioo;oonadty of the street being gloished.—Mr. Dime rentorbed that be was instructed by Mr. Pearson to state that the corporation were taking mamma to complete the Mint lonellesely. The jury ••••••lird • verdict, "not tin deneni dna hat the effu ohm es t tin tall." The mew, et die regent et the jury, mid he wield min $ Vegnereeeine to the Lord Mayor ups IMP awn= slag el the keilty. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1851. FRANCE. PARIS, Mona EVENING. A report has reached me of so highly important a tenor that I recommend it to your special atten tion. I hear that the Court of Caseation has the in tention of quashing the sentences of the court martial on the so-called insurgents of tho days of December who chose to respond to the appeal of that article of the constitution which put the fundamental law under tho safeguard of all Frenchmen. In connection with the subject, I am informed that M. de Fortelle, first president of the Court of Casea tion, had an interview to-day with the President at the Elyske. The consultative commission has not been able to terminate its labours in the examination of the votes to-day. Those of Calvados, Mantes Alpcs, Haute Garonne, Orne, Basses Alpes, and Algeria yet re main to be examined. In the Haute Marne, out of 350 communes, 204 voted yes unanimously, and 114 others voted unani mously, with a solitary exception in each. I no ticed to you, the other day, a decree in the Muniteur, facilitating the payment for the purchase of the state's lands. The fact is, that purchasers are let off half the price of their lands. The meaning of this is to gain the officers of the army, who consti tute nearly all the purchasers in question. This is just what Cesar did with his soldiers, whom he allowed to settle gratuitously on the confis cated lands of his opposers in Umbria and other provinces of Rome. The following programme of the ceremonies con nected with the President's re-election is given by the Muniteur On the 31st of December, at half.pust 8 in the evening, the President of the Republic will receive at the Palace of the Elysk the Consultative Com mission, which will present to hint the minutes of the reckoning of the votes given by the French people in tho ballots of the 20th and 21st of Wmtnbcr. The President of the Republic will receive the same evening the diplomatic corps, the clergy, and consistories. On January 1, at 10 in the morning, 10 dis charges of cannon will be fired at the Invalids for every million of affirmative votes. At half-past 11 a Te Dcum will be chaunted at the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. The President of the Republic will assist at this ceremony. The official receptions of the constituted bodies of the delegates of departments and arrondissements, of the civil and military authorities, will take place after the Tc Deum, at half-past one, at the Palace of the Tuileries. In tho evening the public edifices will be illuminated. The above announcement of the Moniteur (trans mitted by telegraph to You yesterday) that after the Te Deum at Notre Panic the President will repair to the Tuileries, where he will receive the conaluted bodies, has made a great sensation. Perhaps you will remember, d-propes of this step, a remark which his uncle made to Bour rienne, after he had repaired to the same royal palace, as first consul, for a similar purpose, " Maintenant gue nuns 841111711e8 ma Tuileries, lion, - rienne,"saidhe,pinching the ear of his private secretary, " ilfnut y rester." And remain he did. Perhaps Louis Napoleon will not deem this incident in the Empe ror's career the least worthy of imitation. In the meantime there is but too much reason to believe that those rumours which imputed to the President designs of foreign aggrandisement are not altogether unfounded. I am aware that in Fngland a deal °bleep ,' ticism is expressed upon this point. But lam bound to mould my communications upon facts which I re ceive from good and authentic sources, without pay ing the least attention to the degree of iro •I liability which may be atttached to such views on the other side of the Channel. And first of all let me call your attention to a most ro markable expression which appears in the iloniteur. and which has evidently not been put there for nothing. In the preamble of the decree de signating the new military division it is said, with regard to the limits of the Gth divisions, whose head-quarters are at Strasbourg, "The 6th division is that of Strasbourg, destined by its form and position not to change, so tong ns Me frontier.., themselres do not change." The words in Italie are noted by every one as pregnant with meaning, and may be like the cloud about the size of a man's hand which overspread the heavens with tempests. In connection with this subject, the following re mark is reported to me, as having recently dropped from Louis Napoleon The Emperor," he is represented to have said, " has bequeathed to me a debt to France, the province of the Rhine. I will 1 discharge it." It is needless to say how little reli ance is to be placed upon the most pacific assurances of a man who went on up to the last hour before the cony d'etat protesting his respect for the law, and his religious regard for his oath. It is clear that, whatever representations may be made to Prussia and Russia of Louis Na poleon's desire to cultivate peaceful relations with all the word, those powers will not fail to arm, and put their armaments upon a war-footing. It is possible that Austria, on whom the Russian alliance has weighed so heavily, may be attracted by promises from France to shift the burthen of her support from the shoulders of the Czar to those of Louis Napoleon, particularly as the view of the cabinet of Vienna is to weaken Prussia, and prevent her effectually from aspiring to the first place in the German Confederation. France is at present the chief obstacle to Austria in Italy; and, by favouring or even countenancing her designs upon the legations and Piedmont, might purchase her agreement to the separation of the Rhine province from Prussia. Prussia also has views upon Baden and Switzerland, which might make her not unwilling to exchange an unruly democratic independence, alienated from her in feeling, and continually tending to in corporation with France, provided that she were allowed to indemnify herself by encroachments else where. It is reported universally to-day that an attempt, either sham or real, will be made on the life of the President on his way to the ceremony of Notre Dame, or on his return. It is added that this attempt is an affair got up by the police. I can only hope that the careful diffusion of the latter rumour, which I conceive to be utterly undeserving of credit, is not made to cloak a real plot for assassination. I drew your attention yesterday to the ro&ur et rs triplex wherewith the President was girt, in the shape of cuirassiers, and I make no doubt that the panels of his carriage are ball-proof. Whether an attempt be made or not the chances against its success will be multiplied by every means which preparation can devise. For the enormous guard, without which Louis Napoleon never moves, and the effectual forti fication of the cuirasses with which he is surrounded, indicate distinctly the apprehension of assassination. Remarkably enough the Patrist of Saturday an nounced that the ceremony would not take place until Friday, the 2nd January; but the Moniteur announces it for New Year's Day. The mission of M. de Persigny to Brussels em braces three objects. He is to demand: 1. The ex tradition of all insurgents (as the government calls the citizens who rose against the coup &Nat) who have taken refuge in Belgium. 2. A strictly repres- Isive law against the press. 3. The sum which the IBelgian government is indebted to Franco for the expedition against Antwerp in 1831. It is said that the secret treaty made with Russia, by Polignac, in the time of Charles X., has been re newed by the present government. Preparations for the solemn proclamation of the President are actively going on in Notre Dame. Notwithstanding the intense cold, 300 men were at work the whole of last night by the light of lamps suspended in the nave. The Prefect of the Seine is going to give a grand ball on Saturday next, and a banquet of 200 covers on Sunday to celebrate the re-election of the Presi dent. The mayors of the capitals of arrondissements throughout France will be present at these fetes, which are intended to be on a scale of great mag nificence. It may be remembered that on the 6th inst. the Chamber of Commerce at Havre met and passed a resolution condemning the coup traat of the 2nd, and was on that account threatened with dissolution by the military commander of the state of siege. This extreme measure, which was postponed on account of the inconvenience resulting to commerce from such a step, has been now executed by tho government. A decree appears in the Mosaiteur dissolving the Chamber of Commerce of Havre, and appointing a provisional chamber until fresh elections can take place. The part of the deliberation of the chamber, relating to the coup (Mat of Decem ber 2, is to be annulled and blotted from the registers of the chamber. The grounds assigned for this decree are that the Chambers of Commerce have no right to deliberate on any political question, and that all interruption of relations between them institu tions and the government is of a nature to compromise the interests of commerce, of industry, andt of the population. The members struck out of the municipal council of Paris are MM. Bixio, Bourdon, Wolowska, Delestre, Galls, Auguste Moreau, Ramond de la Croisette, Horace Say, Mortimer Tcrnaux, Vavin, Garnon (Sceaux), and Ferdinand de Lasteyrie (St. Denis). You will recognise among these names several of those representatives who protested against the coup data. A decree appears legislating on the subject of tele graphs. The first chapter enacts that no telegraphic line can be established without authorisation by the government. The second fixes various fines and terms of imprisonment for the punishment of such as injure telegraphs, or interrupt their action in any way . ; and enacts heavy penalties in particular against those who cut or interrupt telegraphic comma cations to serve rebellious purposes. Victor Hugo has been arrested by the Belgian police at Brussels, where he concealed himself under the false name of Ganvin (Jacques.) . Con ducted before the procureur-du-roi, for having its gamed a false name, M. Victor Hugo declared that he had been obliged to fly with a false passport from Paris, as member of the comitl , de resistance, ap pointed in the meeting of the Mountain on Dec. 2. The following representatives of the late Assembly arc at Brussels : - MM. Arnaud (de l'Ariege), Aubre (du Nord), Barthelemy (d'Eure et-Loir), Bruckner, Canet, Carnot, Victor Chauffour, Lon Cretin, Dontre, d'Etchegoyen, Fayollc (de la Creuse), Carlos Forel, Gendricz, Guihot, Victor Hugo, Kcstner, Labrousse, Malardier, Pelletier (du Rhone), Edgar Quinet, niers, Versigny, The Unirers contains a long letter from the Irish Roman catholic Primate Paul Cullen, returning thanks for the contribution of 13/. to the Catholic Asssociation for resisting Anglican proselytism. A chapter is to be created for the service of the church of St. Genevieve, late Pantheon. _ _ _ The Law Gazettes contain a copy of a deed of partnership prolonging the partnership of the house Rothschild Brothers, of Naples, Frankfort, Vienna, and Paris, to June 30, 1852. _ _ On Saturday the installation of the new judges of commercial tribunals recently elected gave occa sion for a complimentary allusion to Lord Granville by the president, M. Moinery, who commenced his speech in the following words : During his stay in Paris, one of the most distinguished men of a neighbouring country, Lord Granville, the Vice-Pre sident of the Board of Trade of Great Britain, came to pay us a visit. You witnessed the interest with which he imformed himself of all that could con cern your jurisdiction ; this solicitude is sufficient to point out to you all the importance of an institu tion so liberal and useful, which engages in foreign countries the attention of the most eminent minds:' Dr. Veron is represented as in high dudgeon, be cause he is not appointed on the Consultative Com mission, or promised to be made a senator. He has had an interview with M. do Morny, at the Ministry of the Interior, in which he made bold to tell the minister that it was high time to let the press breath a little, for even the Comititeitiontael can hardly hope to live under such a strangulation of all thought. M. de Morny having replied that there was no thought of relaxing the restnetions on newspapers, the doctor said, emphatically, "On vous forcera.' He has to day an article, which does not, however, throw much light on his relations with the Elysee. He says at the end, that he, for his part, shall continue to write his opinions in the C'onstientiromel. MM. de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont have received permission to visit General Beduin at Ham. The President of the Republic has sent the Cross of the Legion of Honour to Lieut. Bilk, son of Count Bilk-Brahe, the Danish minister, for having taken part in tho French expedition against the forts of Sale and Rabat, on the coast of Morocco. In the absence of newspaper information an abun dance of wild "canards" are in circulation, such as the presence in Paris of 20 Italian emissaries of Nlazzini, who destine for Louis Napoleon the end of Rossi; designs of the Orleanist princes upon Algeria, &c., tee., 6:e. M. Guizot has been occupied for several weeks with the composition of a speech in answer to M. de Montalembert, who is expected to be admitted to take his scat as a member of the Academy. The hopes that were entertained last week of an improvement in the retail trade of Paris before the new year, have been to a considerable extent realised. Many of the manufacturers of fancy articles in the faulty ergs arc in full work, and very few of them arc idle. There is a fair average business doing in jtrenneg, so far as the middle and lower classes are concerned. But the sale of costly articles, such as the rich are expected to buy at this season, continues to bo ex ceedingly limited. The private balls and soirees usually given at Christmas are very rare indeed. This is not to be wondered at, considering how many families of the hall-giving class have to lament the exile or imprisonment of friends or relatives. In the provinces raw wools, cottons, and silks are in fully as much request as last week. At Lyons, particularly, it is understood that extensive purchases of raw silk have been made in the London market. Certain special industries which have long been suffering arc showing symptoms of revival. For instance, exten sive orders have been given for lace and linens in the Pas de Calais. The prices of corn, cattle, and wine continue to rise, to the great contentment of the agriculturists. Immense numbers of turkeys have been exported to England. The trade in metals continues to languish, but the iron masters are look ing forward with interest to the stimulus that will shortly be given to their industry if the completion of the railways shall be carried on with the activity promised. Mr. Alderman Salomans, M.P., and Mr. B. Oh veira, have been in Paris for some days, with the object of endeavouring to obtain some arrangement by which the Bordeaux and Cette, and Lyons and Avignon caution-money may be either returned or taken into consideration in the concession of any of the great lines of railway still remaining to be con structed. It is said that orders have been given for a colos sal car in bronze to be placed upon the triumphal arch at the Derriere de l'Etoile. A statue of the Emperor in the imperial mantle, and crowned with victory will be in the car. A great many bishops and high dignitaries of the church are at present at Paris. They have all been received by the Archbishop of Paris, at his palace. The grand review, by the President of the Re public, of 80,000 or 90,000 men, in the Champ-de. Mars, which has been spoken of, will, it is said, take place after the official proclamation of the vote. All the busts, statues, and pictures, which orna mented the staircase, salons, and principal apart. ments of the palace of the Luxembourg, when it was occupied by the House of Peers, have been restored to their places, of course with the view of preparing for the reception of the new Senate, which may be 'alertly expected to sit there. Among the symptoms of the hour are to be noticed the care with which the Elysean writers collect— supposing them not to invent —certain anecdotes of the election, tending to prove that France is already sighing for the empire. One of the wine-growing electors of Aloze is said to have dropped a drawing of the little three-cornered hat into the box. Ano ther elector adds to his " Yes" that he wishes to abdicate his share of the national sovereignty into the hands of Louis Napoleon. Another wishes him to exercise royal authority, and to be invested with the pomp of royalty. Many scraps of verses are cited setting forth how much the writers desire to be governed by one man, who knows better than themselves what is good for them. These straws have their significance just now. M. Carnet, the ex-representative, who was Minis ter of Public Instruction under the previsional go vernment, is said to have passed through Brussels, and to be on his wry to England. At the Bourse the Five per Cents. rose 50e., closing at 101 85; the Three per Cents. rose 83c., and closed at 66.80. Railways were remarkably well supported. Northern rose 31fr. 23c., and Strasbourg 23f. The Vieille Montagne mine rose 50fr. PROW AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT. PARIS, Dec. 28. In the letters of congratulation which have been forwarded to Louis Napoleon by the governments of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, it is plainly intimated that the article in the treaty of Vienna, according to which no member of the Napoleon family can again come to the throne of France, must be strictly ad hered to. This " unkindest cut of all" so alarmed and embarrassed the President, that he at once en- Toyed his most intimate friend and confidant, M. de Persigny, to St. Petensburg,Berlin, and Vienna, to represent, in the strongest possible manner, in the first place, that the safety of every throne in Europe depends upon the speedy establishment of an empire in France ; and in the second place, that the only person who can found that empire is Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. On M. de Persigny's return from this mission he is to be appointed Secretary of State under the new constitution; M. Turgot, the present Minister of Foreign Affairs (which office is to be abolished) being considered utterly incompetent for any such position. As a retainer, however, M. Turgot is to be a member of the proposed senate. Another envoy, M. de Flahaut, has been sent to London, to feel the political pulse of England. The President is exceedingly annoyed at the resignation of Lord Palmerston. He had hoped for an opportu nity to render service to Russia, Prussia, and Aus. trig—his private allies—by uniting with them against your late cabinet in the matter at issue touching its hospitality to political refugees; and thus securing to himself the continued support of those powers in his designs upon France. In this he has been sadly disappointed, and M. do Flahaut is now moving about the court of St. James's, to report as soon as may be every . particular which can affect Louis Napoleon's intrigues. While these things are going on, the saloons of Paris are in a state of the utmost excitement. Tranquillity there is out of the question. They are not even terrified. Party spirit runs higher and higher every . day, and has already engendered much personal animosity. The Napoleonists and the Assemblists are at sword's points. Reconcilia tion, is impossible. The new constitution, which is already completed, and will be published in a few days, will please nobody. It will aim especially to conciliate Thiers's " vile multi tude ;" in fact, it will be a concentration and deve lopment of what is now called " Napolconistic demo cracv." The legitimists will bite their lips over it until they are too sore for speech. The t'resident's cant word now-a-days is k potpie. He is to be the father of his people, the shepherd of his sheep, and will follow, fold, and fleece them to the death. BELGIUM. The commercial treaty between Holland and Bel gium was approved by the chamber of represen tatives of the latter state on the 27th instant by a majority of 57 against 30. On the same day the chamber of the estates general adjourned the dis cussion of the treaty until the result of the debate in the Belgian chamber could be known. SPAIN. MADRID, Dre. 24. Several deputies arc quitting the capital, in the conviction that the Cortes will not be called to re sume their labours. It was said that the decree of the concession of the railway from Aianjuez to Ahuansa has already re ceived the royal signature, but it has not yet been published in the Gazette. The concession of the line from Alar to Santander has been delayed by the necessity of arranging for the protection of the interests of the canal of Castillo. The Grier of the Golden Fleece is, it is said, to be conferred on the president of the Council, M. Bravo Murillo, and on the ambassador in England, M. Isturiz. The Queen has conferred the Cross of Isabel the Catholic on Mr. B. Alban), civil engineer in the British ser vice, fur services performed in the defence of the cause of liberty in the years 1821 to 1823. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. The Giorimie di of the 20th publishes a series of regulations for the introduction of postage stamps. There are to be stamps of eight different values, varying from half a baiocco to seven buiocchi (a baiocco is about a halfpenny). The stamps re present the triple crown and the keys. Letters for the interior may or may not be prepaid by means of stamps; but letters for foreign states must. In every other respect the regulations arc the same as those adopted by other countries. The civil and military governor of Bologna has issued a notification, dated the 20th, announcing the condemnation of 37 brigands, who infested the dis tricts of 3ledicina, Budrio, and Imola. Five of them I have been condemned to death and executed; twenty ' two condemned to the galleys fur 10, 13, 18, or 20 years, and 10 acquitted. GERMANY. BERLIN, Dec. 2G. I have reason to believe that the Prussian cabinet alreadT feels the force of the views taken by the more intelligent fice traders, and explained in my former letters, regarding the crisis in commercial policy. I have heard persons connected with the government express the wish, that the Hanoverian Chambers may demand that the Hanoverian and not the Zollverein tariff be made the basis of the treaty of Sept. 7. The agitation in the Hanoverian towns still continues against the introduction of protective duties. At Verden the electors assembled and unani mously voted a petition against the treaty ; Dr. Lang, the representative of the town, being in favour of the treaty declined undertaking to present the petition, and resigned his seat. The merchants in Hanover are bestirring them selves for the establishment of a bank, of which they are in great need. They hope thereby to facilitate their business with Hamburg and Bremen, and to enable the latter city to abandon its gold standard and adopt the silver currency usual in all other parts of Germany. A well-conducted bank in Hanover might certainly be a very profitable concern, and find a wide and sure field for issues of good paper. But it must be founded on solid and at the same time liberal principles, without the interference of govern ment, or under other control than that of full pub-1 licity. In order to allay the fears of the Hanovcrians about the decline of the Zollverein's revenue, it is stated that the gross income per head rose from ls. 101cL in 1834, to 2s. 11d. in 1845; in 1848, in consequence of the revolution, it fell, indeed, to 2s. 31d.; and bad not risen higher than 2s. 3Ad. in 1850. This deficiency, however, was not caused by a diminution of imports in general, but traceable to the increase of beet-root sugar, which amounted to only 25,000 cwt. in 1837, and to 375,000 cwt. in 1847. The duty raised on this home-made sugar amounted only to 386,418 thalers; whereas the same quantity of colo nial sugar, if imported, would have brought 1,875,000 thalers, making a difference of nearly a million and a half of thalers. The treaty, however, expressly provides that the beet-root sugar shall be taxed sufficiently to put an end to this entrenchment on the public income, experience having shown in Belgium that the manufacture can flourish with a very slight degree of protection. To this representation I reply, that the loss to the exchequer from the increase of beet-root sugar amounts only to 2d. per head, and can not account for the falling off of the Zollverein's reve nue in 1850 as compared to 1845, to the amount of 7 1-3 d, per head. There still remains a decrease of 15 per cent., which is to be accounted for only by the other inordinate rates of duty, which diminish from year to year the importations into the Zollve rein, nor can the revenue recover till important re ductions are made. The deputies hitherto named for the conference on commercial policy . at Vienna, for the 2 n d o f J anuary, are—from Bavaria, State Counsellor Herrmann ; Wurtemberg, Director Siegel; Saxony, Privy Coun sellor Dr. Weinling, Hanover, Fiaancial Counsellor Ver ; Lippe, President Von Lauer; Brunswick, Counsellor Krueger; Frankfort, Senator Koester. The Wurtemberg Chamber has consented to a loan of seven millions of florins, bearing four-and-a half per cent. interest, and not to be negotiated at less than 98 per cent. The ministry was questioned about an order given for raising the postage on po. litical newspapers from 25 to :in per cent. on the publishing price, this being regarded as an attack on the political influence of the press. The government commissioner, Knapp, replied that ( yen the charg e of 50 per cent. did not cover the cost of distribution, and that the ministry was not inclined to do busi ness for newspaper proprietors at a loss ; whereupon the chamber sent the subject to the committee with out acknowledging the urgency of prompt discussion, though the measure comes in force on th e let of January. This is, I fear, merely the precursor of similar measures in other pa r t s of Germany; nor can there be a more effectual way taken for arbitrarily ruining the press. The pretext raised by M. Knapp is thoroughly groundless ; for it is notorious that, when the Prussian ministry threatened to prohibit the distribution of some lead ing journals by the post, the Postmaster-General remonstrated that the revenue would thereby suffer too much, the distributing of newspapers for a commis sion of twenty-five per cent. being a very lucrative concern. There arc at present 249 political and 1,020 non-political journals in Germany. Baron Rothschild, of Vienna, is reported to have gone to Cassel, to confer about a new loan for the Electorate. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, published at Leipzig, has been prohibited in Austria. The deficiency of the harvest in Saxony rendering it necessary to import large quantities of corn from Silesia, special night trains have been established, which bring upwards of two thousand bushels daily to Dresden. The Duke of Richmond's daughter, Lady Augusta Lennox, married on 27tli Nov. last to Prince Wil helm of Saxe Weimar, h is received from the Grand Duke of Weimar the title of Countess of Doniberg. Not being of princely blood, she could only be mar ried morganatically, or with the left baud, and can not receive the title of princess. According to the Vienna newspapers, the Turkish marine is to be reduced, and Austria intends purchas ing of the Porte two war-steamers. The Turkish war-steamer Taif, of 600-horse power, is to ply be tween Trapezunt and Constantinople with merchan dise, there being a want of tonnage there, though there are already seven private steamers on dte track. ----- The Federal Diet has renewed its application to the government of Saxe Gotha, pressing for a tho rough revision of the existing constitution, which is declared to rest upon a basis far too democratic. BERLIN, DEc. 27. The King will take up his residence in Berlin, from the 18th Januury till the beginning of [arch, for the first time since the revolution. Considerable sensation has been excited by letters front Paris and Brussels, reporting that Louis Na poleon intends demanding from Belgium payment of the costs of the siege of Antwerp in 1532. the price of the funds, however, has not been affected by the report. The Belgian embassy has received the sanction of its government to the modifications proposed by Prussia, as the conditions of renewing its commercial treaty with Belgium on the Ist of January next. Baron Von Budberg, who hitherto conducted, ut interim, the affairs of the Russian embassy siuco Baron Von Meyendorlf's removal to Vienna, has been I appointed ambassador and resident minister here— an unexpected proof of the Einperor's confidence in Baron Budberg, because, in general, such posts are only entrusted by the court of St. Petersburg to veteran diplomatists. VIENNA, nee. 23. The war against the press goes on here with tho same ignorant zeal as ever. The non-official papers in Hungary are ordered not only to publish tho names of their several editors and contributors, but also a list of their subscribers. A censorship on a very curious and interesting basis is also announced as about to he immediately established. A class of subaltern (sic) officials are to be employed, all lino ignorant fellows on salaries of 30/. to 401. a year, whose sole occupation will be to read the newspapers before their general issue, not, however, as it might be supposed, to improve their minds or soften their manners and prevent them, according to the pre• scription of Terence, from becoming brutal—but in order that they may summarily arrest and imprison the writer of any article containing objectionable sentiments or such as they may not be able to understand. The derangement of the currency continues to cause great embarrassment throughout Austria. Tho government appears to be a great deal too deep for those whose lot it is to be governed. As one exam ple among many, may- serve the following. There are five or six different classes of paper money in circulation. There is the common bank note, and the old or Schein paper, which only bears a real value of—as 4 to 10—compared with its nominal one; then come the treasury bills bearing 3 percent. interest, and others bearing 4, 41, and per cent. ' interest. Then there are whole notes and half notes, and old notes and new notes, and forged notes, that nobody knows from real notes, and real notes that nobody knows from forged notes. And Hungarian old notes that pass current, and old notes that do not pass current. And Kossuth notes that the peasantry will receive and the government won't, and new notes that the Government will receive and the pea santry won't, if they can help it. There arc Lom bardo-Venetian notes, and private notes issued by private individuals, secured on their estates, and which pass in their immediate neighbourhood and nowhere else. Then there are white notes, and pale yellow notes, and pale blue notes, and notes as large as a newspaper, and others as small as a dandy ' s visiting card, and three-halfpenny notes, and three halfpenny notes torn in halves, that will pass in the country, and won't pass in the towns. Not to continue the list any further, though it branches still into numerous other varieties, it will not be very hard to understand that those keen eyed gentry the Jews are able to drive an excellent business in these notes. Great complaints have been recently made in Hungary concerning their goings on. The *peasantry, not' of course understanding all these ins and outs, am persuaded into anything, and it is found a capital business to go about buying up the government notes bearing a year's interest, with Kossuth notes, or such as bear none. This trade becomes brisker towards the close of the year, when these notes bear most interest, and it has just now become so lively, that an attempt is being made to put a stop to it. Kossuth's mother is believed to be dead. The re port of her arrest was only a few days old when it was followed by that of her decease. It has since been contradicted, but such is the state of the public mind purposely kept in darkness that the denial is received with suspicion. She was understood to have been brought a prisoner to Vienna, but the papers now say she died at Pesth. Whether she died on tho way or from long persecution after her liberation and return, or whether death overtook her in the hands of her tormentors, remains a mystery. A legitimist congress is to be held at Wiesbaden next month, and the Count de Chambord has already made preparations for leaving Frohsdorff, to be present at it. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. Blow. M so 101 ao Lean PARIS, Dsc. U. For Acornmt. Par ; 31casy. ,Opealaritillebest.! Loareat.; 66 25 66 60 . 161 50 101 16 ••. ••• ea Ls 1 66 ea 101 73 I 102 0 cans. 3 Cents. 5 per pee Coate S per Cantu New Loan! .. 4 per Cents. 44 per Cents 9l 011 . . I ... ... ... Rnbange on London : at, t, 25 20 ;00 a a, 2.5 24. Bainita, S , 1540 Do. 5, 1842 Do. 43 Do. 24 Tres/err Bonds... »• radmant 5 p.Ct. 9l 75 I Bank Mena ... 25110 PARIS, Dtc. 29.—St. Cierraain, 521; Versailles (right Wahl 293 ; (left bank), 220 25 ; Paris end °Aetna, 1,047 50; Paris NM LIM. 430; lowa and Hans, 1145 ; tilnrseilles and Arlen" S3O Innetroarg and Bale, IRS; Centre, 300 ; Bet/loam um Anes% 1197 30; Orleans and Bordeaux, 413; Northern. 570; Paris sad, Iftnefteala w 4o . o; Tows and Nantes, 237 50; Montanan sad Troje', III; wad Vesam_p, 213. MADRID, DEC. 2-I.—'Mw per Cents., 381; after Bohn, 381; Five per Cents., 171; after Boise, 171; Coupons, 8,1 ; after Bolso, 8„; Passives, 5 7-16 ; after Bohm, 5 7-16; Bank of St. Ferdinand, 99; Ex °hang° on London, 50.70. SMUGGLING.—On Tuesday evening last 150 tabs of contraband spirits, which had been sunk, the owners awaiting an opportunity to " run the crop," were picked up floating into Poolo Harbour. The rough weather wo have experienced since Saturday had doubtless disturbed their moorings, and thus the confiscation was secured.-- Southern Ti 11448. I > 1