The Express. — London, England, 1847-12-22 00:00:00

IMPERIAL HOUSE OF LORDS. NOTICE of MOTION which the the order booka of the HOOllO a/Lords for after the ream, day not being fixed. The Ear! of Bawls - wax—To bring under the conaiderstke of the Douce the state of the national defence.. HOUSE OF COMMONS. oRnERS of the DAY and NOTICES of MOTION whisk sterol on the aedae-back. 711URSDAY.—Fes. 3, 1848. MIER OF TII DLY—Satorm Flasnuto.—Land Tel Commies stoners' NO Da NOTICES OF INOTION.—The ArrommormOmmast, bel beef tate the performemee dike duties diadems of the per ate of atone within within gird and Wake, miler ramiest to Maeda with IndicubM eilmeeet bill to Imillene r Weir r d relemsMO ties ofjustims etSewn out of seesteme with mama minvielimme eel edits j: E artellehde holdingetemeset end geNy amimes; prelleiejamtless of deepen@ tent mumeleme milemeter este dew by diem esemilko of their e•ser—loed G. leinmem. mist elmelltiet le lelPie Mo the preemtemillthia aid peempele et Me lelemele ommemied with ad deeeelled es md mate pbolsi la Yr Went him awl the Illweridie, awl te liglibliwt°l4 " l" any mid sIOVIIMen be adopted by potheemt ter their relief. —74 r. liermlethemeet et the a ____ m Ye dk fore. 'Magnates% le awe hi Me home eh nacho Veit a ems. =tom es Me Ad et MK end le paper le he am. moue • neetellem te the ease hot it is mmeilliolibst prole, ewe inquiry bee afts et irk gismo at the eft et 11411 _Ronan desseadlsoseele dabs sow levied es seder shall be sempeeded med MUM aloyeemm owe hat the emoted at holm new betel am me levied meth perilemest hamearelaleregtbe ii ter the whet eemmilleepeeseed to be appzleted•— lie. Havre, showier the memo ern& railway foe mu hare been to each at Ike mare 1844 1844 1846, sad 11117 ; the length et "Mil railway, med hew nub et homer it sew completed ; the ammo d capital eta* sad the mem walberhed b Be termed miler the allMo eel . 01 wflacelloodia; the smawiet al welissil role by every diem. pally, with the dote timer; holiegvhblog the Mee kW*. rate tam" pmpolims emit et doneWY as Moe Men and the nem reie be be paid he sod emsoia of some ben wed waiter the sseemi and thigh media eerie& dead eim is mob edema ter eelik Whither web Where et elphel tumidbe. did et mew mike a uk eoepaq bow eatherity have le ; oaths pickle a Wok am MI Maw der bonier peelpeesa smiths kabob odic with th=eit mi— lli& Beim. ha the peStlee et the Boa. Edward , Bed IMO% is milieu loth, pell et lehhedOmese toadie the Mont item add alueed BOUM Lkiklbe.be Winker be the tereeo of to Oast with the 101.. emelDecom. that the peYdeeet Jibe est , Esq., member ter tbs home& of draw (promoted Dealt"), be printed witli the voles FRIDAY. Fos. 4. ORDERS OF TUE DAY.—New Zealand Government Bill, ecem. mitten; Sup: 17. ommittee. NOTICE OP; MOTION—Mr. WArtww, to nominate the mieet committee on medial regietration and medical hoe. MONDAY, Fu. 7. ORDER OF THE DAY.—Jewish DIeWIIUee Bid. second reading. NOTICE OF MOTION ON ORDER OF TUE Ltil.-91r. &ram roan, on Motion for the mooed reading of the Jewish Diamblitties Bill, to more as an amendment, that the hill be read a second lime this day air months. TUESDAY, Fee. 8. '7 NOTICES OF MOTIONS.—Mr. &arose; Mental mrepplimilea made to the government of Ireland by the Lough Owribbepevaemeat Company for the drainage of LonghCorrib s and al the irAteret the did sesestary for Imbed, of the 1 1 th day of Dea„l6l7, with he Whom ea that subjebt , aides:end to Mr. Stmatem—Mr. C. Aram. oakum fer poem I.!eseept such deenatents as have beta dread; hid Wire thY beeee.' lier k po d ticy.--Mr. Mumma. to INO9O the hi. Wog combellems: looking to the note ef u helms width W Be mese thee among the boesserekl el m% ad le as weed Wk. at &grog and alarm by which the materrem. amille Mende ham bee wanted, it is the opinion of tide hew, het her mows wilehain werejeltiflei, clorr the sae of per. 'lament In ressammeollge tithe Sisk of England, far the purpose of restoring confides" • aeons it memeeding at variance with the re mrletkos Imperil by the] ad 7 and I lle, e. 32; that this house will resolve itself hie a committee of the whole house open the raid set Resolution so be asend in committee That it is expedient that the limitations hammed by the act 7 and e e. 32, upon the Bank of England, In relation to the issue of nom payable on demand, be sus cnchtl, %object to Foch conditions as may be provided by any sot to for that purpose.-31r. Aotruser, return, showing the date Ms ed appolatment of each of the present Menton in Ordinary in Chomey, with the annual amount of each of I helr moped:lre salaries, =dirks paid; also, stating whether any and which of such preset Toasters see, under any and what act or acts of parliament, entitled, v o rt a th7 t r say and t°whrity and w s t lit ordinary retiring P r since the Tea r and else, stlteog, retired upon any and what retiring penrion, and for what periods the swim were respectively paid and received. WEDNESDAY, Fee. 9. ORDERS OF TILE DAY.—Ronan Catholic Charitable Trusts Bill; seeoad reading. Epiphany Quarter Missions Bill; second reading. NOTICES OF MOTIO9I.—Capt. Pumas., addrem, for return from the Court of Seised Ccsamintion at the Cape of Good Hope of the undennattisined particulars relating to the Portuguese dare-ousel Bella Aegells, condemned in that wart Aneco4 It 1844:—The mount of the situation of the raid resin I and ecrgo, as damn in the mani fest; of from emceed. of silo of meel and mega, with the data when the same were realised ; of the net proceeds, when received, and when paid over to the authorities on behalf of the crown ; the particulers of W charges arid expenses ineurreil relation to the sale of -ewel and mega; of all fees and law expousee for the condemnation of mad and cargo ; nl all gums charged for breaking up the vessel pursoaat to the act; the amount and nature of all fees, with the names of the persons who received the same, awl the ofßee held or performed by each, and whether holding any other office or elm ; and an secount of all charges fee commimion dcl eredere, agency, sod eaperintan. dente, with the r.wuco of the persons to whom the same were paid. Return of all soros that hare annually eccrued aim. the order Is council of 1831, by redaction of the 'lowan°. of waste in the pearls Mona on hoard her Id ojesty's shiss, up to July 1, 1847 ; like return on board transports awl convict shim; reurris of all some that hare annually acerned from all Thrtuallthe whom pommy secant* were kept during the mid period; of all some th have annually seamed from redaction in credit peke_ of peovislons from Jane IC ISM, be June 30. 1047, clear of MT cum or sumeolmoney panto:M.of autism of ell sums that have bees annually paid, under the mimed ems& of April, 1636, for increasing the half-pay of the paymasters sad la a day, from July 1, ; and of all ams annually pairfren July I, 1813, to July 1, 1817, ender the Order In council of Jona 1843, nearing a retired list, end increasing tie half- p ay Is. a day to part of the paymasters and planers, clear end distiact from the payment under the order in council of April. 1896. THURSDAY, Fla 10. NOTICES OF MOTIONS.—Lord Svocer, bin to repeal we moth of the act of the 2nd and 3rd Viet. es gine the power of i Mr t system of esparate imprisonment to pomace before tat htharont, DM for promoting the pebble health—MT. BUTT, _Met committee to eomider the best pima which Great Mims adept for mitigattna the horror. of the dam trade, and poo.ldlm tote Anal entinnUon. TUESDAY, Pas. IS. NOTICES OF MOTIONS.—Sir. MOMIXII, to all the attention d the howe to the aluminising the able-bodied perdition at balsa& and to the hest menage hr removing the d ionnesesinn loam ea pits' and labour in the esentry.--Mr. h ant. blOl lir the lend te pee! at the pudirseetethselh.—llt. 11=1 the emlmele et the mire hid bane pediment le the last rscredieg the low ems et Op hie hrlsralt=t . hg=isdelt sns. to In.mentea wilt the gninsted Se the Here themni% mar It moiled salsrewsnry lo the fathers's:4 of Mil dialler. =afar the Mrs peed pilonand of end the yeel e dee penis dtd ;daces eir ihet esesery that the Y. spiky prayed thr by ihe late rah ht is pellalen tauerilerent. sr& mint en the 11811 de' et July, aj IPA s h all be tillh *view el neelegt m e l ettarestm et the late It lehouant ,hoshoe the eh. hada dente he r ant gm ne lt r shellnehr thetas= et the illedmileilks bias fru he supieha awl elicquy which the pro...whew whist theists mph have seetted. Fen. IG. ORDER OP TILE DAT.—Coionm.—Roman Catholic RAW Bill. NOTICES OF MOTIONS ON ORDER OP THE DAT.—Mr. LAW, t motion for going into committee to more, as an amendment, that this boom do resolve lOW Into a Committee upon the and bill this day sir months. M. W. S. Caliurs, in committee to more a dame for repealing *a disabilities by •hleh Roman catholics are disqualified from tilling Or is of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. NOTICES OF MOTIONS after the recess for which no particular day has been fixed : Mr. 0. Brawn" IS I to avent the Coroners BilL—Mr. J. &Cos. trwa. to take Into teraideration the three petitions from the Roman embolic arebbishopased bishops of Ireland (presented Nov. 2s).—Mr. Pam, bill tor the Maprovemmit at sviettitural lemma right la Eng. land and Wales.—Ms OSBOalea, to all the attention at the hems to the Mats of the ealhemi detain et (hest Mole sod lederl.-11e. C. Pumas, Mlle amble s imegleleele Mobs at dim of dr nitre. Fire pies ever and bane ea he wenuit etessellowl, Is a* het aro et Mee sot tstehemere. sertlimos Our la hle *dr. aunt It le adansworylo sir es srder the *hems tad la see erste rwerer the that of the end it *dame* whew le * held* *eh se lediemdereldsh NINO km the err Wastes ger ledhreast hod Um In* be ~jury ; rot Yet le ✓e* maim r war i e Cr* bee ot seer* wtth I=l s ett h :l6 sr* Ike =le new ew it ki t 1011 e zereleee the pterhe = ti e: adlehere dete•lbe get. sews the areurellire pollee aed et the semi to alga seshielemenessyleselerilhil Mg; s aeseeddeter the iv left r atop hod= et NY el es* Ord. toe einem ot the mart W *a thezaprzulisee en sew AMA to semi he hue et Orme sr he pored el Weel. .4 iiiiiersT iNg getethiee he Oak =hes. runt detwellel tot told milk patihtle employ- EMS kit 01011011 pelnalarik *II mks *aka wad le Irk set, ere, eig *may erl SO MAIN se theillell= pewee essaMir dielefilhellereetk Wiwi et fit to yodolo of lbw, to per serums et ..-- 7 — ' . efeer lined Whet eibreh es es le dithidi dee ear ot ark phew* to gee eet Or& melerre b =Mee lhat weft Ned mew edWdrerellee Ira Wile d ladootty d witowitrd wide neefir erlat lre se Ole Miro le pie their Ito* *Oar le. le edielmet pmals; 1M to erthre eel MOIR he ea. low el 111 lett=enat r art elehiees e = u he ego et peame : ant alea to rile se* worldeee brew Iretherat et jambe ellides le saw *eh Ihe lOW* eel elettetilemema le Ode art Ohreseedelselre pet* Set the eslitigeletelettly . rowisow-4fr. P. Ostemtstaell etterllss et preemist to the repedheay of oasis akemeiesew wet red derildlir SOW leer* etreollise *he arum* mane MM le her sod be le*. he el .1 leen* Oak pee, es peordhed by the yeee etEllislb.—/its. W ash on t o Ml glee • own et am* in twirled erem—lde. O. Oicuaalua, ails of Ihereent omeromed. ere *la ha per* *ham the sale bed the lb* he Peden Mao t e = . l.yoso, bwliflowslo Wobble *Or awl* Mee. mint mmedleee rim We Or owaltsew dr slaw erelirthe the ethes* inda—leed te , =r tb• h e bore the in Wm *Ye le ISet monolog win, to as it per; eh% the 411 glbosom pooloof marerelle. etberlerge e t ryaDoseare. oder etreelleeh tolardre Wit Ihe sed reeersesset et to Noriellsal ammirlis.-4111 1 : 1 M = k r= lik•adosielsei arele.—Osiert toftwow, Ire rues,-Ik. Ouswo. edict ead ecarns Ilhe:Zrz 4fr kumpialit . Onions fwd meths ter a slute n! glare WO Ye Matti wmplommib at enema andlies of lie etbse_ter le toured. to new VW he rasa le added t • Ake to loqdro blahs agellmey art d o ar ollimboo the pia ad IOW& d rempreeet et the sehody. * rarerneis mere 'Mot sot kr be=es et Or 'Wes plowidly et ma peehb, telerever wow lbo Maim probois w dlownWilwo et Ow porwle—lfe. = i t = .. forlig ne r mbe ndrl a ter dr itLm irs • NM= et bid Thi hire - stair* Ng leaped et art esel* sea Or hatild4 ellime. eel buegress Ormet, and het bar literat=l= mo si web Ihe are bar my = NW eat rel selhelers et 11r. fut. -•-••• l tar miler Or seedieedha et helm, Or Ole Wein Mee Is bird rhea .wdeistref sr= atraalr areet—Ote. .fteswe flirt aunty le leer et area lelks.-Itr. Somq stosiamillieh to seefdr he ell asee if Vs mkt alliderot esp. tient sem% elleobi vials= i* headett Z ll .7, l seg the reline re seem se pre* elosh awn to .1.1•• bis Merelesursermsee ma seem et eek eadthttereettertelesent i graw llr le enderled; Riot bre theahte la rgereille brim Ist ~Nam Oak ....2 0201 4.4. a pr ii r=illar ai r i rn a morel h e r roe, eR trite orpastr sod whet elheellas mad beards meter laffre Mb heed& ft the pills pereses ; eirk to ersolio aho . eider apes* heeds. eel Is man MS le abpMd fir tits Mist of - 11 Pro- F M THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1847. the ionsay,loy. ollarbgar rotam444 petits et the said task aghast dairtiMad thew PIM sorrha — leu alowlai szi l d t 4844.9 esseleigsd el liel:S . Were ape ha ft as to dieliM obi wlth Sege of mil geollead.— ph, iga~a, am the Flamm as es. Motel nal Midi addle to= might aestakd la bond - 1 glebe awl agemenads to be wasibemed tar FlOig that bar 110184 en glee OM be Moo with ef this seangy hem the eta- Weg ir t:get t iih r=r whisk wo ere Misoll imieenla a math the seastel hies—Calart eartespeed. ems er mama of blows Ma earl the siesoment ef 4: l = "l. leble er ef Mest a light eel the Walla tithe Onliel Mae la mom aim, whet pergola of dietnyhoryst Bs regebile if Masks, Le Se peeper, wit with the eges% et sweetaillththr gamy theretn—Mr. & Camegoaa. MB a —s lhasestem knows la Oa gawbass of Meer by the are of lenimbelebti mil le ward le tomer la ethertarm tralead. osier the Walla ef mid welkin ; bill to relieve tenants Si km ew WOW ap bad ads' Mae, and to make qwevlisa elharwise tie paymeat of ribs charge able we lembirda—Me. Hai% to ides the exisdag laws reep as linnhe el teas bare the berm with a view ofthe sulgialea shams et the art of Mid (7 St S MONK a. SI as the briar( km of BMW% ad el the sets of 111111 (S kll VI awl M il lie m blek mist the bathe 'lkea e of earOred mad Lind, and ef the teals ef bon dew United i =f le mdimmi et Bide, BMW= rarities for the of Ea dasiffsg coon mate' er wanninies toisittag stale ef liege hafted the work keg rimer ht great Brildo, vitt adm to the Museaterst slaws asiregehlimeefleallagthelresidd eaditiasemismgmlienehr their lesalla—Mr. Parra 111 by width the omen al Yam vela a. who aged wade a Is beam was lath& &Bair ia the mealey doll be s awl met the esespiten—Mr.llisawaanr, miss of ell mareepwrigais beheela the Het 041 i Moor. ma Sir goeemmeat, e a • the mile, Pthel:l4 7 oeart r=8:: wool the am efts: e diatemlies al as the wed east at Althea -ot ' at WON Into the dar gad Mb . field Beenlaw sleet sn.— .11 A. 11A101.1011, Who moths rif Oil. Dams hr a ammilteo far inquiring hae the waskieg id 41slary d the lekk fin= call the Masada et the here • repel sod ta 'lda the promet mode el ream gekkom the =Mho Meabliebed Chunk hardest—Mr. P. Boaewn, • ell Ora 814414 et as beam to the mans of heti tithes the WAIN air peer, vthers ffil or Ire land. ft smith et apeartive awake, end of selagla partially the maim bibienteM be the ezeladve weakeilentest of able- Masi geagerlim;-IMI to extend the wishing et the Wimp Beata Awrideir Ae% to the granting ef aimed roves similis 414 amount ef the Maw. M mod eet dm% ea the piaci* a t mated numb= meentimo ; —MU to ef small teasmiale hem Mai tandem— O'Cluesseolll kr the eitiddlebessit ef ~et reghteallis warts la bind, hr the miethass ef kw" saineala awl Ohm dais Mamma imMed awl larate; ilea fir the eppelielamie dais Wig Beiges tan gembme of the hie bes, el net hes than Male= rest atareffwg, sea eggsithiment a be mods by the lard liwarms.l4rivith las masa el the law Ammo el the crown a MINA Or Oily of week Mims to lie le WM mai% la sisvestent pier ea k aralithinft Issabg ort elt man- See la limb tis rw beama kiellerd and less% end titre shah la eldeadi meat be heal; nia% tartabesaay the grime: Mall gm ahem • bee set both gents% walla OM where a kefishes beta pirtsd he abaft abe sge ano thogresees of Midmost mere Ithitediele sod bit tars;ezp bin a alter the i dames in the Paer.law not, with the 'dew of bYiaapehnitl male Ow the rating of property, wised* In all ants w e hadietde do nth welds la belled for .in OCOMeelitire =MU la the year, the whole asseast of the nags payable upon the pragely of eueblandiords shall be pail by seek ntene Landlords, peddle, the amen of ..at Wiwi gen be deducted @Bowed out delis mat ; and rear where arts do sot held im mediately of the mew of the land. widen they Yid without leases, nosh tenants skill be ezempt tram the paymeat of yam rates- Mr Drente Noumea migesee tontine, the Magma Ism of Woad from exceadve tenths tot paw Ilea—Mr. Omen Tsoseeetair i. 00U1IIIithet0 IMO the easiest ef Ihralimenthiesd Oraati (of the Boothey army), white BMA wattled reeldeat at the Court of Sattara Into the prossiliap of the lembey govern ment and the Coated Medan et the Ere India Dempsey fn relation to certain charges gesesned mikeet the of eer.—Sir B. Harz, state. meet of the church pearly a the parish of St. P.m., Middlesex, held by the dem end ihr et IL Peel's, together with an account of the revenues derived themfremk ebewlng upon what terms Menses or alienations have been grimes% NM a wheat, with the rents or fines taken, and bow the promeileve Wee rutted ; together with an account of all some dataryeateelbe by the mid De. and Chapter of St. Paul's foe premetteg shwa sad elm! eceammods don in the mid wish, and the weber. Ina what ef sites allotted for suds scoommodston.—air Bomar Hum bast" Driest com mittee, on the preseet ebb tithe New Pairs et Wantadaster, with a view to the reception end eecommodadea et tide bowls therein, sad the probable expense of lee tompletioniand ithe to Inquire into the present state of Wsetathaeler Bridge : Nabsrt Harry bogie, Vis count Morpeth, far Hebert Peel, Karl of 16mr* Mr. Iferts, Lord Granville Somerset, Mr. Cardwell, Mr ea.on, Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Brame, Lord Ernest Bruce, Mr. Deering, Mr. Stafford, Mr. Tufnedl, and Mr. Evelyn Derison.—Me. BilleoriseevoN, Peed com mittee, to inquire as to the expediency of abolishing the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and of the propriety of treneferring the durte. appertaining thereto to the Se cretary et State for the Borne Deportment—Mr. Hiker-Ey, bill for the aniendmeot of the law against Sunday trading.— Earl of Amon end Seam, select committee to inquire into the discipline awl reenkniens now in force in the prison., penitentiaries, homes et mereetion, and other plum of eerilseutebt for aiming' armee. In that Delida, with the view of aecertalalng the beet peke amble Rome etseendog to every prisoner, not le communion with the dm* d Bead the benefits to be derived from a due obver- Male Ole drake ef kin faith ; and also the best practeable —s diamilag the proper attendance of his prime, or outer minis the et W marks, foe the purpmee of religions butruction.—Mr. 1711Iegnif. deckat of correspondence between the lion. Capt. Den man mid members of her )I.ljeaty'e weernmeht, in rrepeet to the poresallagi =Aswan by her ALlesty's government, In defence of the maw konght by Huron and other' against the raid Captain Demme. and now pending in the Court of Exchequer.—Mr. Haoraq ethelation to the effect that the distinction be. area IM eglempal and common fund ought no longer to exit. Mega aspeetleg the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.— Mr. Muntazt. a. a exempt from the legacy duties all charitable be gaols net to letvate tollykluals, but to public boatel, such as the = i luNille. sod Or iess, charltob ebooads . l i : u md . bene r ezle m ntjr , p . t . lon . s t in t =Mt ef Oa Art= MOM Viola* " Act /or the rrialles el beggary aseriges end metropolitan stage . car. 7% ahem as haggis the obbraskeon the drivers of ee= r umbetni wibidge to was a imembind ticket—Mr. lIONCETOS 11111014 th Mg the abased dmi bow to the injuries 'Berl to have beta theelvel by Mr. Bay*" merebant, from the arab of the Maeda gsvmmaist @t Oomlaattoopla—Mr. 6030. A. Ha woos, to adt the Cbisegimat the Exchequer whether it is the banotica data peenimein, beemistosnoe of the acceleration of earreyeaos by Leedom and Liverpool, by the swabs dew Tiest ra rZyrareenbe soy arrangement for the =aeflellees hr patina hya afternoon expre.train ; which l: Limped belbre tb• main of the Dublin mail packets *gig 'Ord per resslytng letters from Dublin in the _min the ~Nulty of answering them, and of the = „ 4 ...,,,, gr0d: is toliowise wand sac or of otherwise the of billnealeheseaLeshm awl Dahlia. Br P. MIMI% lONS et the mei et sway paid towards arterial &dugs la Baba% Iva tie Id dig at Jasarf,l6l7, 404 let day of Jame% 11111, miler the est • * Ms • dlegagebbing the Naos pew Bt Waal Mow trim lsr pars rei AM; and ahr Or sem alleged mil paid award el& pertiellar war% Millaillyast Beth; gad the Artie...to for the itemplethm et sal weeksw art ths, amber iiWurers daily unpaged es ark pagenler week, gator the abase period; whether eny or whisk et she mid works thoomghte% visit gm it will now take to Sikh then that are Si mime et egenedger—Mr. (know, mint tax a inquire the dela alas kw setesS r tha uppolataaft ef =tar Ihe an% at Oman Restregem la Weal the Abet of the petheitlawa Os rare la the namegisand el agates =der a alik eZl ; sad beve fier the the provasent efts gill Naha the volibigef the fromerf low beta thinebyadvaimed. &mei, limerier etas lag he gabs ids the OM ethramitin ef work eher the le al the alistiva el the hem to tis anew if ea the sew beams fipiellemes% sal the 4= glees 4 Om rDo Laos Bea" to ark Bessefery dam Board elf= are ef airy radar Ole Mao palm wasesy.—Leerd dames Linaist, ate Obi map at nn Weil Oa MINIM at the caesielei to Ur el vino* 11111, width elm a velhesemit after thlityor mme yews' an meta% tisgwellibe deo id full pay to the taroyador regimental dellfaMose, the graternesetere and vetertat&ell= Zane the t a l ia o smiles aed mit mein =Mho it fun pay efter s T al imas ea=. amass A. Haniaresi, Win gang into aumettlthe me the effeeellesit settnatea to IWO, Bet ea Meade addles:ail to kw that kw liejegy ell be graekesdy Ora tr== Oodles tithe *Sem of notional bt bird mar be r" d the miabilimi delleek Se //e/ _mien the obleetism whisk sag M the Maw isl Mfg mist& *BO ell et pseud amid Me awake' ; se athirwho, thet , them = tam le mile efl== s ead „ Mtthe este- Marl aims\ lobe othetela seek a sa lmi the lissimus et Isdplossi edmiliaa le the Milfthe seta- WSW aback Wit can assure the Times that we never accused it of originating the diminution in the stamp duty upon newspapers, made by the whigs in 1836. It requires neither age nor experience to be fully aware, that the 'chief of a monopoly does not desire the abolition of one of the great sources of that monopoly. Nor had we need of recurring to the columns of our contempo rary to discover, that it then, as now, assailed every attempt to open and to cheapen the press, with its anal weapons of contumely and ridicule. The administration of 1835 and 1836 proceeded in the first instance to the reduction of the stamp duty on newspapers, neither at the instigation of the Times, nor in hostility to the Times, but simply in obedience to the very strong pressure of public opinion, and of the liberal_ p, which had been long agitating for cheap insowleige arty . Another strong reason felt, and adduced by the government, was, that if the regular and shoo* press was not reduced in price, the unstamped prams would resolve still further extension, to the de triment, not only of the revenue, but of the morality and quiet of th e population. No sooner had the present Lord MONTRAGLE hdroduend the bill, than he was assailed in the eau= d the limes by its editor, and in both Howse of Parliament by its friends, not so much with fair and reasoned arguments against the sonearsa as by a clamour, that the whigs were asking me of their present political ascendancy to Amur their own protegh of the press, and that by making the largest single sheet the maximum of the Sine liable to a penny stamp, they were legislating for the Chronicle and striking a direct stab at the notes. Lord MONTILAOLF., who, like most modern poli- WOK cared little for the party claims of news men, but was exceedingly anxious not to offend those of great influence and large circulation, de fended himself against the charge with great vehemence and even some pathos, abandoning at mice his C'Araniele maximum, which was in realit7 just, and stepping out of his way to conciliate his „ ma d a m, s ad adopt a new maximum, of the precise dimensions of the Times. By this, of course, Lord MONTEAGLE escaped the fire and the calumnies of the limes, and incurred forthwith the enmity of the Chronicle. Now, although the Tines, as it asserts, certainly did not originate or instigate that bill in its original form; yet, decidedly and indubitably, it did most outrageously and successfully bully the whig Chancellor of the Exchequer into the re-arranging and re-wording of the chief fiscal clause, the very bone and essence of the bill, precisely into that shape, and with the limitation and definition of size, which solely and peculiarly suited the Times, and which then and since strengthened and upholds its monopoly. The Times, in rebutting the charge of having legis lated for its own interests (Mr. WALTER himself took a leading part in the debate), quotes some of its ame nities to Lord MONTEAOLE, at the oommenesment of the discussion. And it quotas one little amtatiee, which appeared in its columns when the debate was over. It says on the 19th of July : 0 The size of this journal will not now be affected by Mr, Woe's superficial knowledge scale. That enlightened and stateunan has consented, at the intercession e i rlrg r odburn, not to include the margin of newspapers in his measaresestit." And the ranee gravely offers this u a serious dis , proof that this fall concession to its interests and degree sou made by a minister inimical to it. Why, Vu Womsli• MAILS Wm 1111111111111 g de mi ;;;; Kamer, le the Mediterranean, =eh^ 12=andant ... KOMI la. Mil be made up ea the Mar We mai kw Wm Op u zl i bLleten, Maisfra. CM* and Gibraltar 10 ba male v. en the et the VlbllllllllMben Tbe mils NW Mew lima aka. Van fisesses Land, and New Zealot Mil be aria up en th• seeming et as Slat Demeher. The nib kr Mild& North Ameba. Meneeda, EY Ow. DOM , Mstst. penesda = v ibe waning et Ma Slat Deawaber. 1 The en emindlei allaWable Name. Now (blears, ars Cem. Ti Porto 111 6 7 M them lee Madan, MIK dant& Martha, E 4 /Maants. Welt Osall of Sone lad Bt. Joas•de- Mamegen. la he mils so al at Os fall kart iaa. /be mini adls Ist likaia. Or lei= Zi=Ouliajaalk Clam idollistimpica, ~,..i5i.r,...k.„.t... kierry. Dr mine kr lbe IneaWa,Ltbe s m Pbeedglexte VW% Pwear•- = ae lla d. ll 4 lllr. Ma . MOMS Ames, wW ba maim ay as tke borne directly by those who can best do so." In this the nein might as well argue at present the decided demand there Was much that was just, and in the se- hostility of Lord J. RUSSELL'S government towards quiescence in it there is much that will prove usafal. it, since at the very time when that governweat is Not the least useful result is, that the influential and opening to it all its official sources of information, the political dames, feeling the burden with all its direct Theses takes the liberty of administering daily slaps in p ' will tarn seriously to the task of lightening 1 the face to the very ministers who feed and cherish it. rea r it and •g of it, a thought which hitherto, with For this we do not blame the Rine,. It is not the one all men seemed inclined to bequeath to Times that we should accuse of subservience. But we posierty. merely instance the fact to show of what squeezable {COBDEN has now opened up this great financial materials British ministers are made, and how the question, and has treated it after his own practical 71mes may, in the midst of a very gallant display of and honest fashion, without flattering and falling into 1 independence, and of even insolence, dictate the clause any of the prevailing crotchets of the day. Although of a stamp duty law at one period, and persist in its in the midst of a public and a constituency clamour- unfair and iniquitous maintenance at another. In g for reduction of tea duties, wine duties, and With every right, and in all fairness of argument, tobacco duties, Mr. COBDEN does not tell the cla- the Times twits us with our youth. It seta us down matinee they should be listened to, and that the as little BENJAMIN, but deprives us of BENJAMIN'S fifteen millions derived from the stimulants—tea, portion. It declares the great competition of the spirits, and tobacco—should be transferred to the in- press to be " a stand-up fight amongst grown men, come tax, or levied on realised property. On the where there is no compassion for the weakness of an contrary, Mr. COBDEN hints that wherever the burden infant." be placed it will gall, and that not much alleviation is We scarcely think it fair, nevertheless, that when to be hoped from re-distribution or equalisation of the the young first go forth to battle they should weight, be compelled to put on the heavy armour of Mr. COBDEN has a remedy of his own. No new the veteran ; nor should age , more than youth, ' remedy, indeed: but one that he would apply on a be always forced to wield the weapons unsuited to it. more extensive scale than wee done by the economises Why should the Herald be forced to swell its empti of a quarter of a century back. The seventeen mil- nese to a double sheet? Or how can the Times re lions of our military and naval expenditure form the concile it to its sense of fairness, the thrusting its outlay that Mr. COBDEN would dispense with, and he own heavy falchion into the bands of its ally and would dispense with it by abandoning altogether a " Grandmother ?" The Morning Post, too, swells into I policy of rivalry and irritation, and by confining our the full and cumbrous dimensions of Lord MONT- I efforts and influence abroad to free trade. EAGLE'S maximum. Why should the silk hat, that We have ideas by no means opposed to those of Mr. snits the brow of our fashionable contemporary, be COBDEN on the subject of foreign policy. We can thus forcibly exchanged for the weight of an iron I conceive two systems of foreign policy—the one a head-piece ? bold, spirited, and proud one, ever ready to aid the The difference of age in a journal is, however, a weak, - liberate the enslaved, and resist the leagues joke—not an argument. We claim nothing on lie and encroachments of despots. And we must own half of youth. We do not desire to have the fiscal that this is what we should prefer, were England load imposed according to strength or profit. WI young in spirit, with tree command of resources, and merely ask that newspapers be taxed according to in a position to make its word be respected, and be as their size, and that the single sheet press of the empire, formidable in act as in tone. forming the immense majority, be not made to pay We can also conceive foreign policy based on the the same stamp duty as rivals, whom the long stand conviction that this country is incapable of war, that, ing of success enables to swell to that precise maxi overburdened with debt and taxation, any fresh effort morn which the Times first fixed for itself, and then, of the kind would cause such strainhige of the body by its own admission, imposed upon Lord Mos social and political as would amount to utter disloca- TEAGLE. tion. With this conviction, we can conceive a British statesmen gradually withdrawing the care and the interest, and the diplomatic activity of the country, from scenes and objects in which it can no longer play a commanding or dignified part. And we could approve of a British minister adopting the American maxim of foreign policy, and assuming, if not feeling, au utter indifference to the course or events of European politics. Our present system is, however, neither the one nor the other, but a miserable mixture of both—menace without power, intermeddling without success, rest lessness without dignity, expense without result. Our pretensions provoke'the enmity of rivals, whilst interference is never sufficient to protect the interests of friends. Great states alight us, because they know ' that even when talking of war we cannot mean it : whilst small states mock as, knowing that however lavish of council, we are unable to support our opinion by the firing of a single gun. However severely we thus stigmatise our existing foreign policy, we are far from intending to charge its faultiness upon Lord PALMERSTON, or any other I minister. The fault is in the country, in its financial position, and in the feelings which a consciousness of that position creates in the minds of the influential and well-informed. It is the existence of those feelings which nearly ruined Lord PALMERSTON, for I enacting the last manly part that a British foreign minister has played, or perhaps ever will play. The reenit kas been to unman Lord PALMERSTON, to neu tralise his spirit, his influence, and his power. Mr„ConnEit, if we understand him right, does not go so far as to recommend the American maxim of abstinence from, and indifference to, European poli ties. lie would arrive at a disarmament, but he would do this by a kind of European agreement. In that case, we doubt that Mr. COBDEN will ever live to see a general disarmament. Let free trade be as certain, as expansive, as successful, as Mr. COBDEN can desire, free trade will never make the Czar of Russia disband the great, the sole element of his em pire and government, his army. Even if France and England and Russia were nil three to make the most solemn stipulations at Vienna, that none of them would molest or menace the Aus trian empire, the mere fear of her own subjects, of the petulant Hungarians, the discontented Slavons, and the serri ognor frementi of Italy, would still compel the Mille Council to keep up its military force. Prussia is a camp, the nation is an army. It must be extin guished, to be disbanded. And France with its fortifications to man, its dynasty to protect, its officer class to satisfy, its princes to illustrate—France in all the petulance of youth and the plethory of public spirit, will not dis band. Its ministerial and opposition aides of the Chamber, vie, on the contrary, which shall most pro mote the number of vessels and the amount of batta lions. If, therefore, the reform of our finances is to depend upon any sensible reduction of the seventeen annual millions of our military expenditure, and if the reduction of this expenditure is to be contingent upon a general disbanding or reduction of European armies, then we fear financial reform may be ad journed to the Greek Kalends. TIIE trial which has just terminated in the convic tion of an East India captain of old standing, for misdemeanor, and of an East India director, seventy three years old, fur conspiracy, is important in more ways than one. It shows, on the part of the com pany, a stern determination to guard most jealously the great power which is entrusted to them, and not to shrink from any exposure of those who abuse patronage wielded under them, even if the offender be a member of their own body. At the same time, the anomaly must strike every one, that what is a high crime and misdemeanor in Leadenhall-street, is the regular and legal practice at the Horse-guards. The cases, to be sure, are not the same. The Secretary-at-War does not pocket the price of a commission, he betrays no trust and commits no illegality. But the father of a family who is anxious to provide for his son, finding that he cannot vest his money in the Horse-guards for the purchase of a commission in the regular army, and who iu perplexity pays it to an Indian director, may be induced somewhat naturally, however wrongfully, to imagine that he is not committing so very heinous an act. He may reason that when money, not merit, makes an officer in tho Queen's service, money may not be so very criminally employed in creating a Company's cadet. We are not excusing the act. We are only showing how our own military institutions lead to and excuse the crime in the purchaser. From the vendor there is nothing to lighten or wipe the stigma. That patronage in the civil and military services of India was formerly a constant subject of bargain and sale is a belief of almost universal acceptation ; but that such traffic had survived to 1846 was not gene rally credited. And that it had done so, was to the great body of tho East India directors, we have reason to think, unknown; for so jealous were they of their reputation on this point, that when a few years since a contemporary alleged that a tariff of the prices of cadetships might be had in the City, the paper was laid by the court of directors before their law ad visers for the purpose of being brought before the Queen's Bench ; and it was only on the suggestion of legal difficulties that a prosecution was abandoned. Doubts have indeed been occasionally entertained whether some of the larger holders of East India stock—men by whose votes and influ ence directors are elected—might not occasion ally have had, unknown to their friends in the court, profitable dealings in East India patronage; bat, at most, these were doubts prevalent only in congenial or in vindictive quarters. The conviction of Sir WILLLiII YOUNG, therefore, takes the public rather by surprise; they could scarcely be prepared for so purely a mercantile transaction; the whole affair is, from first to last, such a continuous train of venality, falsehood, and impurity, as mast occasion a strong shock, and create general disgust. The fair inference from the disclosures that have taken place is. however, creditable to the other mem bers of the court of directors; it will not fail to be observed that the inquiry from which the prosecution sprang was not forced on them; it was spontane ously entered on and efficiently followed up, until the facts which authorised legal proceedings were dis closed; from which period we have the testimony of the defendant's counsel that no step was omitted which could ensure conviction. In making these remarks, we mast guard our selves against tho suspicion that we have any exag gerated opinion of the purity of the government of India in all its branches : like everything, or moat things human, it is obnoxious to influence, and liable to favouritism. Bat taking it in the aggregate it is a government that we may look on with pride and satisfaction ; it is open of course to very great im provements, but not to general obloquy and reproach; we maycriticise some of its proceedings and condemn others, bat we cannot deny its general merits. We have said that it is obnoxious to influence, and as we have given general testimony in its favour, we ca a refer to a case where influence has been exercised adversely to the general interests without apprehension of hav ing improper motives attributed to us. We will, however, do so very generally. There are in the pro vinces ceded to as by the Burmese, on the conclusion of our last war with that people, large and valuable forests of teak. Permits are issued to mercantile houses in Moulmein to enable them to cut on certain terms timber of certain size is these forests, reeeff ing the trees of smaller growth. The government officers witnessing great abuse of the terms of the permit by the pnncipal mercantile establishment at Moulmein, whereby the forests were seriously injured, withdrew the permit granted to it, and reported the facts to the supreme govern ment. The house haii, however, influential rela tions at Calcutta, and, by their interference, the proceedings of the local authorities have been re scinded, and the house is now at liberty to abuse the right of cutting teak in their forests as it pleases or its profits induce. To this scandalous abase of in fluence we call the attention of the home government, in the hope that they will be as prompt to act therein valley have been in the prosecution against Sir WIL- Liam Yourio. A greater abuse of influence than this could hardly have occurred under native rule ; and yet it is very much on the ground of the liability to corruption on the part of the natives of India that its govern ment have not given full and fair operation of that provision of the last Charter Act which removed all prohibition to native employment. Viewing India as what it really is—a dependent empire or collection of states—not as what it has been too frequently treated—a colony, it is impossible to over-estimate the importance of the question of native employment. Take it only in one of its aspects—the cost. At present, or until very recently, the expen diture of the government of India exceeded itsrecepte by nearly two millions sterling a ,ear. Now, one great Mae of that enormous expenditure is the high salaries the government is obliged to pay to all subor dinate officers, civil or military, in consequence of its principle that it cannot safely trust the administration of its affairs to natives. Reverse this principle, intro duce native employment, give the natives the fair share of government patronage, and salaries would be reduced one-third; and by such reduction alone expenditure and income would be equalised. But the natives are unfit for the offices now filled by Europeans. This rarely is an argument which we are not entitled to use against their rising to dis tinctions in their own country, where we ourselves are strangers and conquerors. How can we expect fitness where we do not hold out to them its rewards? How can we expect fitness when we have trifled with the great questions of native education — now patronising the classical, now the vernacular system—now propagating error, now giving glimpses of truth ? India, to be well governed, must be ruled in some degree for the sake of its own population, not altogether with' view to the interests of England; and we cannot govern it for them while we exclude them from all participation in their government. THE Railways bill has been passed to the House of Lords, somewhat improved in its details, but in sub stance as we described it on its first appearance in parliament. The benefit to be expected from it niay, perhaps, consist as much in allaying certain anxieties, as in the direct use to be made of its provisions : in the meanwhile, it is well that ministers have avoided the error of making it a coercive instrument, as some of their reckless advisers would have had them do. This part of the subject being now disposed of in the Commons, we may return to our survey of the more general scheme of regulation, suspended las+ sum mer, but which, if reports may be trusted, is to be revived, with certain alterations, in the present session. We have already spoken of the objects in eluded in that measure—that were at once the most important in their nature, and the fittest for administrative control. The exercise of a proper superintendence by the state over the general scheme and direction of great national works, clearly , belongs to: its province ; and any questions that can be raised on this subject belong, as we have seen, firstly to the singularity of attending to it at the twelfth hour, when the main part of the work has already been done without any guidance from au thority whatever; and, secondly, to the description of persons to whom its direction may be entrusted hereafter; it being obvious that whatever may yet remain subject to control had far better be left to such chance determination as has hitherto prevailed, than be put into incompetent hands, or into hands that, however well qualified to act, are tied up from acting efficiently. The main outlines of the railway system, it has been observed, are now drawn, beyond recall, as accident has deter mined ; but if it be now thought necessary to take a stricter course with the mere remnants and fillings up of the general scheme, there can be no doubt that it will be quite in accord-ince with the natural office of a government to regulate these—the only proviso being, that the business shall be thoroughly trees acted by men who know what they are doing, and who are resolved to do it justly. On the other principal class of objects in tended by Mr. Sraurr's late bill, a very different opinion may be entertained. The design of under takinga so-called superintendence of working rail ways, in the manner proposed, cannot well be recon ciled with any understanding that has hitherto pre -1 Tailed in this country, as to the duties of the govern ing body; and is open to objection, not on this account only, but because the questionable nature and ha rassing effects of the plan would not be redeemed by any real usefulness. On a discussion of this point it is desirable not to linger amidst general phrases, but to come as directly as possible to the real substance of the proposal. It is very common and very easy for in dolent or dissatisfied minds to turn on every occasion to the State, and say " the government should watch over this, and appoint officers to prevent that and the other." A more considerate understanding will in quire, first, what is really wanted? and then, with what certainty can the want be relieved by the means proposed? "The government "is a well-sounding abstraction ; but its operations are, after all, con ducted by men like ourselves, who have no patent of infallibility, and are apt to be very strangely chosen. What reason is there to conclude that an advantage will be gained by trusting one set of men rather than another, if this be all that you can practically arrive at ? These would be some of the questions occurring to a rational mind, in the first place, were an effectual transfer of the control under discussion. _ An entire transfer of the management of railways to the State—if railway management, as it now exists, cannot be safely left to pr, sent laws, or to any future laws that may be juEt'y enacted for their govern ment—would indeed be a clear, and the only con sistent or promising, coarse. Taking for granted what has been said by the advocates for further coercion, that "private bodies ought not to be left in charge of our public roads"—admitting that the administration of them has been as bad as it has been notoriously the reverse—allowing that there is any practical case, which may be denied altogether, for desiring an or ganic change—this is the only change that can be safely adopted. If the necessity exists, as above stated, let all these roads be taken bodily out of the hands of their present managers : let them be wholly handed over to the state. Let some one party have the complete and exclusive charge of working theta ; without which they cannot be otherwise than ill worked. It is true that the promise of such a change would not be very encouraging to those who, from the example of extant government establishments, must form some notion of what railways would become under the same kind of control. To cashier the present managers, and take shelter under official wings, in the expectation of finding greater care for public conveni ence, a readier adoption of improvements, more civility, despatch, and common sense in the daily transaction of the business, will seem a strange notion to those who have had much practical knowledge of either. Still, if we mast have the government called in, if those who have made these works cannot be trusted to conduct them,under the strictest directions of the law, the plain and proper course is to take from them all power and all responsibility, and lay both wholly oa the State. We shall then know with whom we have to deal—on whom the duties and liabilities of this business rest. We shall also know that the new authority is in a condition to manage it with some effect ; and see where the merit of improve ment, or the blame of deterioration, is to be im puted. We shall have no lame excuses fee error, on the score of imperfect powers ; and those who undertake the control will, as it is just, and, in deed, necessary that they should, bear the real burden of the work on their shoulders. But this is nothing like what the Railway Commis sioners proposed. Their plan was, to introduce a aye. teen of control without effectual responsibility • • shifting something like power, to be as when it may be convenient, and thrown off when the obligations attendant upon it are found onerous. The office of the State on this plan would be a nondescript, hovering between the duties of judge, informer, and constable, all these functions being in tarn entrusted to one and the same body. The railway manager, the railway board, is nominally left in charge of all ; is burdened with the responsibility for all ; yet it is so arranged that they shall never teal their hands free for a moment—know that they hare really the control of the establishment, which out only he kept in good order by commanding the most strict obedience—or foretell at what hour they may have to wait upon some Whitehall officer, em powered to examine the company's servants upon oath, , rummage the books and papers, and hold up to their eyes a long list of frivolous delinquencies created iff the bill, with heavy fines attached to them. Un a., ea* conditions, which it lay in the essence of Mr. &nturr's plan to introduce, could it be expected that any respectable man, much more any one of the better class required for the office of au steer or director, will be willing, nay, will be able, to execute a difficult and anxious charge ? Can it be believed that a method, calculated to produce die- order, discontent, and relaxation in duty of all kinds, and to drive every individual of spirit or character out of the offices exposed to such vexatious visitations, would be a means o improving railway aunegamat P One effect it was certainly well to pee -1 ---A numerous tribe of ministerial underlings sd protiges, half-pay officers and election jobber', seises of influential peers—in short, the whole termer and bob-tail" of hungry waiters en men in One, would have had a new - El Dorado oilseed to ' 'PIO* at the expense, be it remembered, d the tut ' Illneseete railways. To these agents, and to the die- Cksinof the patronage bestowed ea these, system would be highly pleasing, no desist but that the quartering on our rail. we's of an army of this miscellaneous cam, to take notes, and hold inquiries, and report kraal ombeicesa would in any way promote the. =or eider of the system itself, may be empba demaimi. The first serious objection to this amy' ofretereltip is, that it would most cortaialy be for the = greater part, of pes witek 1:d bt the superintendence at the an. nesin who now direct oar Weltile. TO 00 lILISPONDINTI. •.• Afeerftmoils latalesi kr • Tbe ingon". Lai .g Moak oernet. Tore eslook ea lir Z.Vgp=lre NIGH Walla AT DD . 1111:1411R. Ssn DAr—lfamyti4 we ;19 •61 , 11104 Se-Mesortr—aaums, a um. grol f l anennea. I .h& pn & LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 22. WITH respect to income and expenditure, and the balance between them, that most important subject, likely to become se much more important after the 6th of January, we are of the opinion of Lord ASHBURTON, who has been exclaiming for years in vain against the tendencies of every Chancellor of the Exchequer to pare down and throw away income, in stead of keeping a surplus, and applying it steadily in such proportion u each generation is bound to do, to the alleviation of the debt. For years, however, the ministerial road to popularity was the reduction of taxation, and rival statesmen rubel ao greeipitately along that path, that the isneneet derengement of international concord abroad, or of food 'apply and commercial industry at home, instead of being met and neutralised by a full trea sury, has, on the contrary, led to the disastrous result of • needy exchequer, weetigghing at the most critical ineamot on the dieteawd oommercial interests of the .coutity. At Set, these reductions were made with the most exuberant confidence in the elasticity of revenue, and ilk, as it were, the compreesed prosperity of the 4011Mily. Statesmen an public have been far N time cured of such hallucination, and of We peas the cry has no longer been " empty your reloskin order that Providence may fill them fuller," but " 4olith indirect taxation, and let the burden be • . lines. But it must further be asserted th a t merely casual inspection, even if exercised by the fittest men in the universe —who soli scarcely be found in the lists of Whitehall, could not lead to good, and might oft en enough do harm. There can be no divided control safely appli e d to a machine of this nature ; and those only can pto., perly control it who are doily, hourly—altogethe r , b e „ deed, engaged in its operations. To these Ad power must be left—of course, under responsibility t o law. Whatever impairs either—and you cannot weaken the one without laming the other—is merely so much taken from their efficiency ; and if much is taken, all efficiency is at an end. This subject will de. serve to be notieed a little more closely; as it is of the utmost practical importance that it should be closd o understood in any discussion of new regulations. A summary of the following appeared in put d our last evening's issue. The Paris journals of Monday, and our maul ree. respondence, have reached us. The semi-official journal of the Tuileries b oa put forth a programme of the proceedings of th e Chamber of Deputies, which are immediately to cede and follow the ceremony of the royal appointed for the 28th. On the 27th the hora meet with closed doors to elect the provisional cow, mittee, who are to manage the ceremonies of the W. lowing day. The president. by seniority, will pm bably be M. Sapev. The " Father "of the Delimi t( M. Dupont (de l'Eure) never attends this prelicsieen meeting. The secretaries, by juniority, will be mg. de Mcrode, de 11 °Medic, Wear de Lafayette, eed Calmon. junior. The first struggle of the opposition against the (0. vernment will take place on the 29th or 30th, ma, election of the president and four vice-presidents. At the last election NI. Sanzet, the ministerial candidate, obtained 223 votes out of 339 deputies present. Th e four ministerial candidates for the vice-presides eo wore likewise elected. On the present occasion, tr. Sauzet's re-election will, as we have already states), be supported by the government, who, if the Juurnol des Debats speaks seriously, will resign if any other be elected. The opposition candidates are not yet announced. The names of MM. Data and Dufaure have been mentioned, and the journals of the Thiers and Barrot parties have signified tits willingness of these sections of the chamber ream lively to unite in supporting either of these candi. dates, waiving all differences with the view of defiiat ing the present cabinet. The progrcssist conserva. tives have signified, through the columns of La Plum, their adhesion, and the legitimists will join in any measure which will thwart the court and go. vernment. The ministerial candidates for the four vice-presi dential chairs will be MN!. B:gnon, Lepelletier-d'Aul nay, F. Delessert, and Marshal Bugcaud. The three first were vice-presidents in the late hamber. The last is to be set up agaiast M. Leon de Nlaleville, a member of the opposition, and a strong reformer. who was elected vice-president on the occasion of a casual vacancy at a late period of the last session. The Journal des Debats has, as we have formerly stated, announced in formal and explicit terms that if NI. de Maleville be re-elected vice-president the ministry will resign. Things are thus to be carried with a high hand. It is not expected that the committee on the address will be appointed before the 3d January. It is announced that on the opening of the business of the session the ministers intend to bring in three important projects of law. The first aril consist of s, limited postal reform, the second of a reduction of the tax on salt, and the third of a pension of six thousand pounds sterlintr to be granted to the Prince Jerome Bonaparte, ex-King of Westphalia, now re s ident in ' France. These measures are well calculated to mid , gate the present unpopularity of the cabinet. The pension to Prince Jerome is said to have originated with M. Thiers, who personally urged it on M. Duchatel. In the present state of the Chamber and the representative system, however, the utmost that the opposition can accomplish is to produce n moral effect by the exhibition of a minority more or less considerable, and to act upon the count' y through the debates. We are informed that the friends of the cabinet have had several conferences, and that communications have been made with the conservative party gene rally in the chamber, the results of which have been that M. Guizot has found himself under the necessity of relinquishing all idea of interfering in any manner in the affairs of the Swiss confederacy, in return for which concession the party are to waive other dif ferences, and the minister is to have such support is will give him a working majority of about sixty. Of the re-election of M. Sauzet to the presidency of the chamber no doubt is entertained; and as it is presumable that M. Bageaud wil have the votes of M. Thiers and his Iriends, the rejection of M. de Maleville is equally certain. Thus the cabinet will have no serious dangers to encounter in the preliminary measures of the cession, and the popular projects already mentioned, with some other less important concessions, will probably give it a new lease of office, to be determined only by some incidental circumstances not now to be foreseen. Lord Normaaby arrived in Paris on Sunday. The reform banquet at Grenoble took place on Sunday. A thousand guests are reported to have been present The banquet at Morbihan is speedily to follow, and to be attended by MM. Odillon Barret, Larochejaquelin, de Lamartine, Berryer, Gamier Pages, Cremieux, Ledru-Rollin, Marie, Baroche, Lherbette, and all the reforming deputies. The reform banquet of Rouen is fixed for the 25th instant. Tue statement made by the Swiss corr es pondent of the Union Monarclaique relative to the steps ligi mi tz be taken by the Swiss government against the turns out to be true. Our correspondent says:—The elie lumnions statements which have abounded in the columns of the Journal des D' bats during the recent insurrection of the Swiss cantons against the diet, have excited the authorities of the federal government to take steps to extort from that journal some repara tion, and it is said that if the French cabinet, under the influence of which the DaWats is known to be conducted, do not offer proper reparation, the matter will be brought before the tribunals by the Swiss chargé d'affaires. The following has been addressed to the Journal des .Thrsbats by AL Delley, the charge d'affaires ad interim at Paris. It is dated Dec. 18 : In ridireses to the events whisk took plate in Switear lead in the mutes of the past month, you have published in some of your number., and particularly in that of Nov. 18, certain letters attributing to the column of reserve, com manded by CoL Ochsenbein, scenes of vandalism and Wher ein cruelty, which, according to your correspondent, had taken place in the canton of Lucerne, and which that oflker had not attempted to prevent. These calumnious allegsticas have, no doubt, had their source in certain attempts at dis order and private vengeance directed againet the village of Halters by soldiers of that body, and which the command ing officer, far from encouraging, on the contrary, repressed with vigour and severity. However that may be, it is a matter of public notoriety that the facts, such es they were related by your jeantsd, and, without doubt, dictated by ashivelence, ham sever edged ; and I have not the slight est arab' that your mereepoodont was led into error by ill- • 'Mistimed porsim who abuts' his good faith, at the saw We at yours. In consequence,. I have to call on you,* =aka to orders which have Jost received on the 'MINS Eva tbe Metal direelory, to publicly oontradiet the ahet'► does le qualm, at bag infonaut to the honour and eel amities ides Mist Mime eishist as the occasion anvil e a u L tho WOW wissimus am the general -in•thh4 is proved* the milmile imamate which I ham lie honour d etach; to you, and to width I trust you .111 inssalfou fa your cottons. I expect, from your ity sa mea 4 t ra, that you will not totem to attend to P studas, and, in that hope, I have the MIMI I t e etie, your ow obedient servant, Demur. Chargi ot the Swigs ad Murim -4 Legation, Tiaa'above wee acoompanied by the following loam To X. Ocheenbein, commanding akar of the Boum 11111O711.—Llionse, Nov. 26.—Colonel , —lt L with • greatest pleasure that I have to express to you my satisfaction at the manner in wlucls you have your divixioa in our two expeditions of Friburg • On these °cookout you displayed firmness, roan.% wise moderation, for which I feel deeply' indebted to pia. know, in particular, what you did at Matters to render MIL fective the efforts of lamentable resentments ; and this MP vice is, it say eyes, so great, that I consider our owes you • debt of gratitude for it. The relations you have bad with me as commander of division have always been exceedingly agreeable. I have always bola extremely amisible of this, and I trust that they may hare been the same to you with regard to me. Accept, colonels the manna of my distinguished oonsideration.—G. 11- DUFOUR, Commander-in-Chief. The Meld mails of the 15th have arrived. The debate SR dr Wray dosed on the 14th in the senate. when the pingnoha implying a censure on the laie cabinets wire op ,with only six dissentient voiom in Si sodors. Farther advice' hem Constantinople to the 7* have been received. A ocelition has taken ROO between Rashid Pasha and the party of which Ftili 1;