The Express. — London, England, 1853-02-19 00:00:00

uf t'.e distinct demand that they shall 4,„„ t at. ,I.outl cries of "No, n 0...) 31e. CObBEN—I thought I woa no* liable to misrepro wet.,,,,a. I said "to stop the rivalry with France." But I refer to the terms ..1 my motion some few years ago. I h o e not a word to alter in that. Sir j . tiltAIIAM—Not having an opportunity at the le ' ram of referring ro the word, of tlin. motion, I will take the eJrrtetio.ll as the 1 ott, member his suggested ; and I will tomato „ a th a t hyoet:og, that though I am quite sure Iro easel: vet not.: propueing such an tursugesneelt so b e t wig , a te, yet , my opinion very decidedly is, whine' ' , te i g ht be the esti rt tie.* of the note, that the effort would sot be attended with 6uccc.i. At all events, lam sure of i v, that elms I refl*:.t mi the slight oceosions that have rise to une ice% d Aatilitiea , and" the i fr..ets * ' - ins re`c •- • ItS f A sudden unite. ak art hoe' u if we should be hand sesrmA, I cannot persuade myself not to nicks otr y peroration which the state of preparation of foreign wen t hsi , , in my humble o pin i on , require. (Cheers.) & v i e : 41 I that, I will say that there is no member of ten boar more desirous. by every e ff ort, to secure aesa%my .n th e a•lministretion of public affairs than I ever b it , bees nal *hall he. (Hear, hear) But I most say, beiNg a fm . n i o f peace, t titert-iniog the opinion I do that it ,„ tesirede that armaments, necessarily expensive, should ttst b. robed toss elan:me, and that they should be dis oat sued, if possible. I deeply regret the course which it ., r ot hoe. gentleman opposite has pursued on this „ ai ms. (War, hear) It Ili his boast that he is the kadirof the late , st party in this how... I waited with ~n ee saee ty to see whether say gentleman on that side, sesabee• of ;hat party. would sustain the position which the vidta hon. eentlemaa took this evening. I waited in vain, He ILO .4% occupied a high positiou ;ea the councils of his i p et enga, and he knows the delicacy of the questions which b t W oftibeol tP is eiremag. I son hound to believe tat be has taken this caner in a spirit of peace ; but if that were ehj it. I thick he ran great risk of ilefeatiug it. (Hear, brat' I myself should nut have ri...en on this occasion if the right hoe. gentlemen bad nut adverted at considerable kagth, ar.J I emir in..' to •iay also—l say it with pain —with aiss aJeril,le itterneei—(hear, hear)—to words which he states All from me at Carlisle. He rays it would be imper intent t pose that I could possibly be guilty o f ea ina dv ertence ; that I spoke advisedly, and s a t e meth deliberation. Now, the right bon. gen ikons k himself a great master of words; I should D ay also that he speaks only after much previous theoght—l may remark, not without some preparation. (A k e gh.) Judges* from the commencement of the rigid boa. geatlensaa's aildn.s it would have been I licult to ancients his conclusion. I was astonished at the circuit he took to approach so small an object. I wondered that he should )nit such Leavy artillery up so long a hill for so b o ned a purpose ; 1.4 he began by a reference to Agin coat sad he left off on the hustings at Carlisle. (Laughter.) N•iw, la reference to the right hos. gentleman's remarks on me, I may be permitted to observe that very cautions and eer y age speakers ere sometimes Steil? of great inadvert nee (Hear, hear) Tne present parlament remembers a mat smarm weep a minister of the crown, the leader of the Hoses of Come had the solemn de imposed .luty iths,whiek was no his than that of making aa oration ea tbs memory of Wellington. I can conceive no greater mesidea: it was certainly an occasion on which the ablest would have spoken only after prenseditatiun. Our = ke lil sent their reprceeutstivcs from every part of Hu m., as a mark of respect for the memory of the departed hero; and these representatives of our allies were assembled to take part in the great ceremony as mourners around the gran of Wellington. use right non. gentleman the leader of the Huse of Commons on this occasion pronounced a funeral oration; and if I am not much mistaken, our allies bung then, in their representatives, among us, tlw right honourable gentleman designated them as hiving been scandalous deserters and discomfited allies in the contest I. which they took part with us. (Hear, hear.) The ex premium so used by him could not possibly have been pre meditated, and yet that was a premeditated speech. (Hear, km.) And what was ano.her characteristic speech ? Perhaps it was u a countervailing compliment to one of our allies that one of the passages of that speech consisted of a withered bough plucked from the wreath of a French pima whercw;th the right hon. gentleman sought to do cents the urn of the illustriou i Englishman. ("Hear, bar," sad laughter.) The right hon. gentleman should her these things in mind when he said that cautious waken could not be guilty of as iusilvertenee fa some thane* slip of the tongue. (Hear, hear.) Lutists to his own inadvertencies on the occasion I have referred to be might, I think, exercise some charity towards those who, at a contested election, speaking from the hustings, may have used, with all their caution, incor tect impressions. (Hear, hear.) But am I prep ared Wait that what I did say was incorrect in expression ? The right bon. gentleman says that the press is his "escutcheon ;" I might add that the leaden in the Mons * Braid ate his "supporters," and that his " Standard- Irene" is an evening paper of a peculiar character. (Laughter.) But do I admit that I said what the right les gentleman attributes to me ? He asked a lissitioa as to the speech he has also referred to, made by my right hon. friend; hut he did net ask me what were the words I used on the occasion is WNW ties; and the consequence is that he has inadv ertently ascribed to me words which did not use. I never I the Emperor of France either a " despot " or • "tyrant; much less did I ever call the people of Frame " slaves ;" nor did I use any similar op probrious epithets. I shall tell the house ease d what I did say. I was addiessing • popular assembly—l had declared myself friendly to the extension of the suf frage; and I also expressed my deep regret with respect to the bribery which Dad disgraced the last general election. I said to my audience, that they ought to remember how great was the liberty they happily enjoyed—on the whole, that I did not think. that Many country in the world life and liberty were more secure than they were here; and that, although I could not support tininess' suffrage, although I doubted whether sestet voting would be a remedy for the evils I had described, I was still of opinion that every man wines statics rendered him independent, so that he vas sot likely to be lid or seduced by others, was a s patted to hold the franchise ; and I pro. to say, beware of those who tell you that your liberties are not secure without universal suffrage and tme , Is. yos bare the ballot; and allosgb the bon. gentleman dem mat give me credit for speaking without preparatios, yet it is a fact that at the moment it did occur to rat to' Mastro' my position by saying—Close to you then is a satin having universal suffrage and powarolog the banns sad so far from calling that nation by an opprobrious =or wise such expressions as those ginned by dr lies. ;leadsmen, I said—sad I have a &Waist Nish. limbs of die words, with are them—tint maks s IM meet polished of nations, celebrated is arts and anon Is litmetsre ad in science—the liberties of that nation no Irbefore a single man. The right Lou. geodes.= ma: I Sink, that the people of this country hates an Uses I us sure they bate mystification. (Ch M 3 They like the truth; they like to boar it spoken ; *try dare to speak it. (Olsson) * If the language I have sled has bees unworthy of • British misister-4t shall be held by the hone to be WNW UMW with pease then I may I ea sot el Is sit Is this kense ; and, if the Naas declares that I haw sod aseenn espensiens—inge.per @sprain...4 sill abide by thole rhumba. (Cheers.) Bet this I say, Abe* I an desire, el stalsonang the most &kW. ideass with Proses—aimmeak I am desirous that Oa aIPIM shodd fall fres nit to ante the animosity Of ligl= ple*; still, if I sot set to speak, either oa se la this hone, dot which my heart AMON mil sty stud sad swims leant'', than I 1•7 eartalely I an set lit Is be a miller, It ens b• the *plaice of th lbws of Common Chain.) 1 ea a sinner : bet I act ,paws* this—that ( I on wive of a free orestry iYsL dreg to agnate the whin lens the truth ; sad which, after all, Is tb step of the liberties of Istope. (Load &am) N. GIBSON regretted th e reply glean Sy tlis2 hoc geotheosa who had just spoken to ti as boa member for the West Riding. The tig sea c wise was supposed to represent the pulley at ban Peel, might read with benefit what air SAM Peel had and on this paint in litt 1. (Hoer Issa) There said be as doubt, whatever might be sok lefts mum, that the lameming armaments of ZVI Mg Woks lo !ailed selmestaebans is Massa mous Ow um gins he Ii se ilar th e seseedsy Kimono is U rn Bigiss4 hal set the • IA MB berh inestoes on tbo other side u s li tt =l ne hlt topes the applied the surplus revenue is limitilint mak enable importiust branches of 1610111 ffl tinle a ttir labourers would leave this CRP districts would be materially tlmd lie ty of competing with foreigners ie Ss posissisi of warn would be Greatly enhanced. Tmom he said that of all persons in this cuntry the ball# Nonisters were the moat interested in apply :lion upon her Majesty's present administration until he saw their measures of reform. (!fear, hear.) lie thought that if it were true that four hours of a cabinet c)uncil were occupied on the Turkish empire, they would him been better employed in considering the proviiions of the Entt lish Worm bill; and although he admitted that there might he moons for postponement known only to those in power, Iwo should hive wished that the measure ahnul.l hue, boon introduced at least this session, in order that it Nei& has. fairly come under the consideration of the coun try previous to its being brought forward in the session of UZI. (Ileac) Hs gave credit to the government for good intentions with regard to this measure of reform, because, knowing their great experience and ability, he was sure Meat they would not bring in any measure upon such Is sub ject that would nut te, of that comprehensive character that would be calculated at least to settle that question for some fair period of time. lie hoped, also, that the government, having, as they had beard of late, so much approved of the freedom of the peso, would not forgot that, although we did enjoy considerable freedom in this country in reference to our neve•papers and our public press, th,t we fell short, nevertheless, of entire and absolute freedom (11.-tr, hear ) He hoped that these expressions of feelinr in reference to Our liberty of the press might at least be taken as forerun ners en the part of the government that they would eman cipate the press in this country, lintel it, and give to the people of England the benefit of a full, free, sad cheap d.sseminetion of knowledge. (Cheers) He wee nuigaine that the government would undertake that, ea parted tLeir public policy, because they had oxpre'oeu themselves as favourable to the cause of education, and he could conceive uo auxiliary so powerful to the cause of edu cation as a cheap and a free press, diffusing through all closer, of the community cheap and useful informatfor_ With these opinions he would conclude, and would simply say, in reference to the insinuations of the right hon. gen tleman (Mr. Disraeli) that, although he might choose to say theT bad a conservative government, and a coon rvative opposition, he would fiud that the members wl,o repre seated the indepeadent and Wendt. nt liberals of this country would be true to their principles, though they might not be induced to embark in any needless or vexes time opposition to the government. (Cheers ) Mr. 11. BAILLIE said they were met to-iley for the pur pose of voting away the publie money, and a fair opp•ertu nity was presented of obtaining infurmation from the go ireenment. There could be no 0CC.14•0 on which such it ecierse could be more justified, when they considered the circumstances under which the present administration was formed, tnat it was composed of men who hail differed on almost all great and important questioie. The first question to which he should advert was that of parliamentary reform. They all knew the opinions of the noble lord the mess her for the city of London, who, last year, brought forward a bill on the subject, and hod since declared that his opinions were unchanged ; and they knew that the riAt hon. hart. (Sir James Graham) had, in a speech to his constituents, declared his opinions, from which he might be c msidered as having placed himself in the foremost ranks of the advanced rehniners of the day. But what were tho opinions of the right hon. member for the Uni , -of Oxford? Did her along with the noble _ iversity s. Ind he go an— ,„ lord and the right hnli. baronet ? Then there was the re ligious question. What was the opinion of the various members of the government with regard to the spirit which dictated the Ecclesiastical Tides Bill? Did r.et the several membersof the government entertain irreconeileable opinions on that subject. There was the :ann. and learned gentleman, the late member for Athlone, who at a banquet given to him to celebrate his return, said he would join no party who would not repeal the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, and who would not abolish a church establishment with which the majority of tho people of Ireland were not in commu nion. Would the noble lord (Lord J. Russell) ho prepared to go that length ? There were some hon. members who never let pass an opportunity of stating that they acre the admirers and followers of the late Sir Robert Psel. They would require all that their character could affsrd, end all the glory of the late Sir Robert Peel, in order to convince the country that they had not obtained power at tho semi fins of those principles wh'eh Sir Robert Peel always advo• cited; and when the Prime Minister told them that he knew no difference between a conservative and a liberal— that it was a distinction without a difference—he must say that such language betrayed a sacri fi ce of principle which struck at the root of all constitutionsl government. Lord D. STUART could not but feel greatly obliged to the right honourable gentleman (Mr. Disraeli) for originating this discussion, because it had elicited from all aides of the house a determination to keep on good terms with the government and the people of France. With regard to the press, he thought the press would have abdicated its high functions if it had omitted to geoemont on what was passing in a neighbouring country, MI he did not at the time regard with any degree • appeobation the complaints of the press or its observa• tiring. He thought it was no wonder, when they saw a man obtain supreme power by belying all his professions which be had made up to the last moment, that the press should censure conduct like that. At the same time he fully ad mitted that this country had nothing to do with the inter eel ,gainer France. If the French were alarmed at the ex tame length to which liberty hail been carried there, and were willing to succumb to an absolute government, that was their affair, not ours, sad we hail no sort of business to in terfere with them. But certainly he did not think that the press or the statesmen of this country ought to bt silent on such a subject. They had a right to express their candid opinion, and that expression of opinion ought not to pre vent a good understanding between tele country and France, which he trusted would always continue. Ile agreed with the noble lord that, although the people of ' France might be content to forego their liberties fur a time, yet, enlightened as they were, and accustomed as they had been to the enjoyment of free institutions, they would not remain deprived of those institutions, but by some means or other, by peaceable means it was to be hoped, they would recover those institutions, without which no country could lemg continue to be happy. In this view he was gratified at the speedy recognition of the Emperor of the French by our government. He heard with great satisfaction that the two governments were agreed as to the necessity of main taining the Turkish power, and he hoped they would ' always unite on those questions which had for their object the maintenance of the independence of Turkey. Mr. HUME said he wished to make a tew observations as to their mode of procedure, which seemed to him to be contrary to rule and common sense. They were about to vote nearly seven millions of money for the naval expendi ture of the country before they knew how the money was to he paid. There were dve members of the present go vernment who, when the right hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. Disraeli) proposed to go into coin. mitten on the tea duties, said they could not reduce a single farthing of tax until they knew they bad the means, until the income tax was renewed. He did not think they would be justified in voting seven miaow of mem until the house had pronounced an spleen as to the sestinuasee of the income tax. Two nee* age the reseal Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Jan Rene% sad the President of the Hoard of Control, anassessi themselves to be snood to any modification of that toe ; end if they were of that opinion still, of course they would pewee* to renew the tax, with all its inequa lities ; • emu whisk he was satisfied the house would never wades. (Hess, hew.) By a paper which had been laid ups the table noisy, it appeared that there wee a surplus in the Illschequer of two millions and a half; but, if the insoles tan was not renewed, that sur plus wield be (inverted We a deficit of three millions ; and His hems ; In that state of uncertainty, ought not to nee supplies seta the gpeavvw t had pointed out how the mum wee to be (Hear, hear.) In Decem ber het the messes Clnessibir el the Exchequer took pre- 1 einly the same albinism OM he was now miakiag. The right hoa. Ilestuoiled then that it would be most unwastitu to vote soy portion of the natiesel Mmadia beton the ways and means were discleed s a tre surly what was good for the goose was sse in tb gadler. (A laugh.) He therefore should nit= going We mesmittee until some explanation had /lan. sad hr that purpose be would move that the debate be adjourned until this day week. (Hear ' hear.) Led PALMERSTON hoped his hon. friend would not press the amendment, particularly as it had already been 11111011/111111 that the financial statement, which would in dada the whole question of the income tax, would be made bassetiately after Easter. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME said this explanation was not satisfactory, and he should divide. The house accordingly divided, when there smeared — For ping into committee. 164 Against it Majority —l36 The house then went into emeraittee. NAVY ESTIMATES. Sir I. GRAHAM said he was happy to state that the vets he was about to ask for, though it would propose an increase of expenditure, would involve no increase in the number of men, while ke should move the vote upon pre cisely the same grounds that the sop' - vote was increase of 309,0U0.:. or in round numbers of 400,0001. would be made up of three items, Es 101,0001., being in increase upon the vets fur tho pay of the men; 70.0001., being an increase upon the vote for victuals; and 140,0001., 'wing en increase upon the vote for naval awes, which would in clude the machinery neeemary tor the ships that were to undergo alterations. (Dear, hear.) And here he must pause for a moment to do justice to his right hoo. friend the member fur Portsmouth, who preceded him in the office he now had the honour of holding. Bring a mem ber of the committee of 1848, he was aware that his right honourable friend took the same Mews of the Naval estimates as himself, but he was cot aware, until he came to the Admiralty, how much his right hon. friend bad accomplished in carrying out thine views. During the period that his . . . --• • • ...- right bon. friend presided over the Admiralty, hie right hon. friend fully carried out many of the recommenda tions of the committee. The home would observe that tht v were now about to vote for the pay and victualling of 45,500 seamen and marines. Now in the year 1817-1818, when his right Lon. friend was in office, or the year immediately preceding, there was voted for 'tie naval estimates, including the Post-offi..:e establish ment, a sum of 8,600,0001. That estimate was tor only 41,500 men, but that vote, which included marines, was 9)0,00W. more than the vote now proposed, and vet the vote now proposed was not for 41,500 but 45,500 men. (llsar, hear.) Thus the house perceived that the government had been enabled not only to add 4,000 more men to the service, but including the whole of the Packet Service to effect a saving of a sum approaching a million of money. (Ilea., hear.) Much of this saving was due to his right honourable friend, but while ho gave his right honourable friend credit for what he had done, he must at the same time do justice to his imme diate predecessor, for when he came into office he found' the department over which he presided in admirable otter ; be found all the stores full, he found every preparation made for alteriog some of the vessels, and he h d now Guth- Merit confidence to ask the committee not to increase the number of men voted in November, while he had the satis faction of being able to give that, as compare , ' with 1818- 1849, there was an increase in the number of men of 4,000, and yet the sum to he voted for maintaining that force was lass, by 100,0001., than the house voted at that time. (near, hear.) A great portion of this saving had been effected in the civil department of the service, and as it was still pos sible to effect • still greater saving, he did not despair of being ultimately enabled t t reduce even the vote that Le now asked for. (Hear, hear.) The house should remem bee, also, that the increase of 191,0001. in the pay of the men was emirely owing to the supplemental vote, while, with regard to the 79,0001. increase en the vote for the vic tualling of the men, to had to state that upon elate., every article centupled by the sailer, in the course of the last two years, as compared with the present year, there had been an increase of 19 per cent. That was to say, upon the cost of every article to be consumed in 1853, as compared with the years 1851 and 1852, there would be an average increase of ten per cent. hear.) The only other vote that was then before him was number tee, which was for the cost of the materials for building and repairing ships, be sides ship Ind the other ipal articles which store", _ . prineie... -..___ were provided fur the dockyards. There was an increase hero of 140,0001., but here again the increase in the price of the articles would account (or the increase in the vote. On English oak timber, for instance, there had been a rise of three per cent., upon hemp nine-and-a- half per cent., upon copper twenty-four per cent., upon iron twelve per cent., upon cobks seventeen per cent., upon copper and iron articles 10 per cent., and upon pig iron no less than 60 per cent. .(Hear, hear.) Therefore, upon the whole, the in crease in the cost of the articles used for the navy, in the dockyards, and the article+ consumed by the service, would account for a considerable portion of the increase in the vote. 'There was also Heather cause for the increase which it was necessary he should state to the house. In the sup plementary estimate proposed by the late government there was a vote of 100,0001. for machinery. Now the rivalry of foreign powers made it absolutely necessary if we wished to maintain not only our supremacy but even an equality with those foreign powers, we mu t adopt the saute ma chinery which France, America, and Russia had iutreeluced into their naval departments. It had therefore become ne cessary to alter some of our line of battle ships and adapt them to new modes of propulsion which were used in other navies, and this was mainly the cause of the increase to which he had just referred. (Hear, hear.) He had now shortly stated the three votes upon which alone any material increase would arise, and it now remained for him to mention certain deductions which would take plane on ether votes. For instance, there would be reductions fa the scientific branch of the Admiralty of 15,0001.; amen vote for half-pay, redone, and allowances, of 6,00111. ; besides •reduetion in the civil pensions—making in all a reduction in the expenditure on those estimate, of 59,0001., or, in round numbers, • reduction of 60,0001. (Hear, hear.) There might be something extraordinary in the first reds*. lion occurring in the scientific branch, but the coot of sur veys had been greatly inereaeing of late years, and it was proposed that during the current year the home surveys should be somewhat diminished. Of late the surveys had very much accumulated in the hydrographcr's office; in point of fact, there was a large arrear of surveys not yet published, and until that serene was reduced, it was thought the surveys might be very properly suspended for a time. There was a subordinate department in the har bours connected with the hydrographer's °See which it was thought could be abolished without injury to the public ser vice, and in this way another slight saviug woull be effected. Should he have the honour of being at the Admiralty ano ' ther year, he himself would give cff ct to that arrange ment; if not, he was satisfied thatciny future board might with advantage bring back that business under the emend of the Admiralty and under the supervision of the hydro grapher himself. (Hear, hear.) Another small alteration i in that branch was title : The officer whose duty it was to adjust the compasses having unfortunately died, he had thought that, without any disadvantage to the service, that expense also might be diminished, and the appointment not filled up. there had been a dockyard school at Ports mouth, intended to give apprentices a higher education, with the view of fitting them to manage • ship. Had that been carried to any extent, he should have thought it wise to maintain that establishment, which cost about 1,2001. a year; as, however, only about four apprentices ' annually could be trained at that school, the cost was too great for so small a number. There was a very highly educated mathematician at the head of the estab lishment; and an arrangement might be made for biro to remain at Portsmouth and have the supervision of all the dockyard schools, and to give his advice and assistance in other departments where needed. It was now proposed to make greater use of the upper school at Greenwich, with the view of supplying masters for the naval service ; and this gentleman might with great advantage aid in the selec tion to be made. Under his supervision would also be placed the returns of education, which had been regularly made, but not investigated with sufficient care ; and thus the whole subject of the education of youth on board her Majesty's ships and in the dockyards, would be brought completely into system. He hoped none of these savings would be inconsistent with the progress of education in the dockyards or on board Alp. The other savings prin cipally arose ant, from the diminution upon military retrenehmieute owl allowances, by the death of ' parties who had bees recipients in • larger pro portion than the trash saes put on. Se with regard to the civil peasions and allowances for superannuation, a ma* ties bed boa made by the charge progressively diminish. lag. AO to new works, no new works whatever were ma -18184 la the present year except one—the outlay at foe the erection of buildings required for the re ef saws vessels at Keyhant. The moot experienced alma dem Admiralty had been consulted as to the way is width that :sum should be expended, so as to render it met doable ; and they bad recommended the erection of VINO alAWllle. The has, member for the West liiiikas hid INAUSAIi our naval expenditure with that 01 She United &stn. He (Sir James) held in his hand a report presented to Cmigrean by the Treasurer of the Navy is 1862 ; sad the character of It. propositions was remarkable. He would compare it with our expenditure; and, first, as to the number of navy cadets. The committee on the navy estimates bad suggested that only 100 should be ad mitted in any one year, being clearly of opinion that it was necessary to place a cheek on the first admission to offices in the navy. Sir F. T.lssfas had pone Loyola/ the opinion of the committee, and ha/ .set wisely and ear atomically fixed the limit at 76 per INSIMIL The teeming to the navy of the United States losaginandloi that OM annual admission should be 62, being only a illacenias of 13. His next recommendation was livery remarkable one. A vote of congress had abolished corporal punishments in their navy; and this report stated that the whole discipline of the navy had been seriously relaxed and injured, mull that the consequent discomfort of the crews was such thee the sailors themselves were in favour of corporal punish ment being again enforced. The third point related to the establishment of factories fee the construction of all MOW sary machinery, and for the equipment of the largest NO. sale; and this was recommended as most essential te_the JAY mail-packet service • but the government did not think it right to submit the ecionete fur that service until after a most careful reviaion should be made of the items of which it was composed. Independent committees had been appoint e d f or th e i nve stigrion of the expenditure under the various h ea d s; the one for the packet service was presided over by the Postmastor•General ; the whole ques tion of the Post-office estimates was under review; and these estimate* would not be presented till the government was in possessiten 01 the report of that committee. Already a mat important fact had been ascertained, upon the re port of another tommisaion, compesed of two naval and two artillery officer', which he thought it his duty to state to the house. The large estimate for the packet service had been hithetto voted under the supposition that these vessels were available for • double purpose. One object was, that the Post-office service of chi, great country, with its remote possessions throughout the world, should be expedited by means of steam ; the other, whica he was sorry to find could not be realised, was that these packets, in the merit of war, should be available for belligerent purposes. The must decided opinion had been pronounced, both by naval and artillery officers, that any such expectation would he most illusory. Speaking general's, a large number of these packets would not be available in the event of war; only 16, under any circumstance., would be convertible ' • Led that conversion would be very expen sive, and would occupy a great length of time. That being the real state of the case, it became the government and the house carefully to consider the whole subject of this large vote for the packet service. (Ilear, hear.) That par ticular estimate had not yet been submitted. He now begged is put in the chairman's bands the first vote : ss That 45,500 men be employed in the sea service for the I year ending the 31st of March, 1851, including 12,500 royal 'marines and 2.000 boys." Mr. HUME was understood to say that he should not ' oppose this vote. (Hear, hear.) He rejoiced to see the right hon. baronet at the head of a deportment which had received its greatest improvement from him. (Hear, hear.) Since then the right hon. Coronet had sat three years on the committee upstairs, as he (Mr. Hume) had done ; and from this fact he hoped that the next navy estimates would be submitted to the house in a very different form. He had always contended that we ought no t to regulate our estimates by those of other countries, hut to look only to what was really necessary for our own , ervise. lie re gretted in some measure the reduction in the scieatific branch. The surveys were very imperfect. Even on our own coast some parts were diegrecefully neglected, and it was only by means of sounding that the position of a vessel could be ascertained He hoped the right hon. baronet would not be led to adopt a false economy on this head. (Hear, hear.) It would be better to double the vote of 15,0001. than allow the existing risks to be iucurred. He also regretted that tho vote for the Tidal Harbour Corn-I mission was reduced. To save 40W. a year, Cot:elan Wash ington, the ablest man on the commission, had been re moved. The state of oar harbours was very inferior to those of France. Such economy was most injurious to the public service. There was scarcely a single vessel which did not exhibit some unfortunate mistake; and if such men as Mr. Green i.nd Mr. Wigrarn were consulted there would be immense benefit to the public. 1 hero fourths of the persons employed in the dockyards were placed there from political motives • and what could be expected under suc h circumstances ? between 1828 and 1848 there were built uo fewer than 308 ships; and with regard to many of them it would have been well for the country if note single hemmer had ever been used. The only peace tical result was the building up materials and then teeing them to pieces. Let the right hon. baronet take two of Green's ihips nod two of Wigranes, try them along with two of his own ships, and compare their omits. He was satisfied the result would be a great curtailment of expense and increased efficiency in our naval establishments. He had great confidence in the right hon. baronet's administra tion, and, as he was better acquainted with the dock-yard system than almost any other person, he expected from him great reforms. lie did not object to reasonable expendi• tura ; but he hoped that after the speeches of that night, they would hear no more of alarm in reference to the French. (Hear, liter.) The leader of that house, and every one who had spoken, acknowledged the friendly disposition if that nation; and he hoped that after such a confession there would be no further desire unnecessarily to increase our naval and military force. . _ After a conversation, and some explanations from Sir AWES GRAHAM, The vote was agreed to. The neat vote was 1,736,2361. for the wages of seamen and marines for the current year. Is answer to Sir 0. TYLER, Sir J. GRAHAM explained that the arrangements of the late Board of Admiralty with repaid to the salaries of pay masters would be carried into effect He also stated that a steamer of the first class was stationed in the Bristol Chan nel and would periodically visit the Mersey. Mr. WHALLEY salted attention to the want of ade qaate protection, by the British navy, against Morocco pirates in the Mediterranean, and contrasted it with the measures taken for the protection of their vends by the French government. The vote was agreed to; as was a vote of 615,426/. for victualling the seamen and marines. The CI resumed. then reported progreu, and the house OFFICE OF DILL (COURT OF CHANCERY) On the motion that this iitil;read a second time, Mr. MULLINOB objected to its being proceeded with at that late hour, as it contained the most extreodinary pro vision he ever saw is a bill, and which appeared to be in tended to enable an examiner of the Court of Chancery to retire whenever he pleased, with a large pension. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL went into a detailed ex planation to show that the retiring examiner, under this bill, would be fully entitled to his pension, and that there was no ground whatever for the unworthy suspicions which bad been expressed in reference to the objects or effects of the bill. _ _ 11t7e;scr7ie dis - Cassion, the bin was read a second time. JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL, Mr. WALPOLE asked the government what they would do with this bill, notice in respect to which stood for Thursday, in the event of the dismission on Sir John Pakington's motion regarding Australia occupying much of the evening ? It would probably be convenient that the noble lord should be informed at once that he (Mr. Walpole) and his friends intended to take the debate and division on the bill in the preliminary stage ;.for as it was a question of principle, and not a novelty, it would be better that the decision of the new house should be taken then, instead of at the ordinary stage of a second reading. Lord J. RUSSELL would certainly bring the subject on on Thursday, if he had the opportunity before eleven o'clock. That was all he could at present say, so that be would not take the notice off the paper. The horse then (at half-past one) adjourned. LETTERS FOR ?kW SOUTH WALES.—The follow ing notice has just been loaned —" Arrangements having been made with the government of New Routh Wales for the optional payment of the postage spots letters transmit led by private ship from the United Kingdom to say place within the colony of New South Wales, henceforward the whole psetage . to destination chargeable upon sub letters may be paid in advance, or the letters may be forwarded unpaid, at the option of the sender ; bet the payment of • portion only of the postage can, under no eirenmetanose, be permitted. Upon letters sent W private ship to the port of Sydney, the postage, British and eolaaisl eseabined, upon& letter not exceeding half-an-ounce in weight, will be lli., and upon • letter of the earns weight addressed to any other place within the celony of New South Wales, the will be Is. Id.—the charge upon heavier letter,lPsoti st rr the port and the interior, progressing according to the scale in operation in the United Kingdom. It must be clearly understood that this are t applies only to letters for the colony of New South Wales (not to Australia generally), and, for the present, only to such of those let tors as may be addressed to be forwarded by private ship. All letters not so addressed will be transmitted by packet, sod MN portage due for their conveyance must be paid in 1116•1140. RIPELL OF THE DUTIES ON 80A1.—A meeting of ratepayers was held yesterday, in the Manchester Town. ball, in compliance with • numerously and respectably signed requisition, which had been addressed to the Mayor, fist the gurpose of petitioning for a repeal of the duties on seep. Db. Robert Barnes, the Mayor, took the chair. The Mayer Welly opened the proceedings, observing that it was la vale for us to establish sanitary associations and boards of health, if we counteracted throe efforts by the import tion of duties like there on soap. Mr. James Ameba Tur ner, President of the Manchester Commercial Association, moved the first resolution, which was as follows : " That the excise duty upon soap, being equally an hindrance to --- _ ._ . _____ ___ ____ _Jpplementer7 . .. ...se• saw._ hi 16 • 781- 1 - Illiii Mine ure toffs', repeal of 'reposed in November last. (Hear, hear.) The principles effieleney.of the navy, Rod as the most economitel mode of trade anti commerce, .and"to . the sanitary improvement of 1681. t e 4 ,1 42 " w _ 146 _ 1. 8 .1 818:17_, Illee ellopleyment of labour .. which . were then stated by the late government . in propos- supplying machinery. He (Sir James) was bound to state the people, is an unwise and impolitic tax, and ought there -6,2.7__ •enntr7. It wee this unlimited and in g that supplementary vete were precisely those upon that he hal always been of opinion that all new works fore to be repealed. Mr. Coueciller M.Dongall seconded ::"'"°_, , increase of sentiments th at he was which he should now recommend the committee to vote should, as far as possible , be done by contract. (Hear.) Still, the resolution, and it was carried unanimously. Mr. Ed- WeMgeging. e He knew it wee the custom of those the same number of men for the ensuing year that was such was the growing importance of our steam navy mood Potter moved the second resolution," that a petition wars ?ed.. lb ? view", to misrepresent them and say they then stated. The vote was not recommended upon any especially aim* the introduction of the new power, the be adopted by the meeting, and forwarded to the members ~,,_.•,._ ::., for the abolition of all armaments and of fear of approaching hostilities from any foreign power screw, that he was quite persuaded that for repairs it was of the borough for presentation." Mr. Wm. Evans le . '.. 11, _,7,.. and all that kind of thing. That was a whatever, but it would be rested upon ground. which were absolutely indispensable to have factories both at Ports- conded the resolution, which was supported by Dr. Angus ~.2. _ !!_ti ruse ea the part of those who mitre- not new to parliament, hut which had been twice urged in mouth and Plymouth. He had doubted that at first, but Smith and Dr. Watts, and carried unanimously . After • ;;;"7„1 them. Bat what they contended against the reports of two committees to whom the question of the experience had convinced him of its necessity. (Hear, vote of thanks to the chairman the proceedings terminated. ' s . midland* increase of armaments, one estimates bad been referred. (Hear, hear.) Thew grounds bear.) As to new works, notwithstanding the opinion of O PEN ING AT FOOT OP CHANCERY-LANE.— . rivalling another , without any prospect of at- were lest reported by the fi nance committee of 1828, and the o ffi cer who presided over the American navy, he thought T HE Pint at any boons the Fleet-street end of Chancery-lane, we observe two emelusion. He therefore hoped that the subsequently they were adopted by a committee which was they should be done as much as possible by contract. For oases are bein pulled down; one of them is of ancient •"" L or d of the Admiralty would reconsider his dement'. presided over by . his noble friend the member for Trams, the boilers of steamers and other machine, y open tenders _ . .nci a t to make the alighttst attempt to bring about this and which sat in 1818. The report of the committee of had been obtained. The board had also given orders that character, with the upper floors projecting before the lower, s opa: quaint c aved corbel*, .and wo may . suppose_ th . at . the 7.41tal . 'easement, especiall y . as between France and 1828 contained these expressions :—" It is their an stare's eeeount should be kept of the cost of such ma d between which countries it was a question of the opinion that the estimates of this country should 'Mosey when glade in the government yards, wherein each to to be raised in their places will be set back in a asrl. The • right hon e . gentlemah the member fir Bucking • be regulated not with reference to the unusual certain - midi wen debited with its fair share of the wages, calories line with the houses at the corner go as to widen the road. lanabire had added The absurd proceedings at the Holborn end of this same great t deal_ of . other . matter to his titaness of . the called late into war, or . the probability of withthe country of offieere„ and ren t _ of premises . . Thus they . tvo I be North of a poli • chand „ fie" and in Middle-row, where obstructions have been 1.,:. - being again rebuilt, prevent any feeling of certainty on the subject.— TA* 2;-. between this count ry and France. Ile entirely to the policy of depending mainly upon the navy for pro- they should, in the course of the preseut year, ascertain with these who, reference to the relations between teetion against foreign invasion." (Hear, hear.) The the comparative expense of manufacturing these articles ''":"•"• end and France , condemned language of irritation, Committee of 1848 adhered to that racommendatiOn, adding and of obtaining them by contract. (Hear, hear.) RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY AND TOWN !fm this commentin g up on the mode in which France these words, " This policy will be admitted to be the most Another recommendation of the United States o ffi cer or CAUBRIDoIa—It ma y . be recollected that during the r'r'Sllt be governed . It was the conceit of Englishmen consonant with the h a bits and feelings of a country which was for an increase of the number of seamen, not sitting of the royal COmMuhion the borough council tor n' they believed that no country could be happy or was accustomed to look to its naval power a, the right arm auything like so large as that proposed here, but still warded a memorial to that hotly, complaining o f various r far unless it had English institutiens . Some went of its strength." (Hear, hear.) Now, that was precisely amounting to an increase of 1,000 marines and a large matters which they stated affected the amicable relation of j:_ l4 r. II ti make it necessary that they should have the the ground upon which be should ask the committee to number of seamen. There was also a proposition for two the two bodies; as the administration of oaths to the be- Zsineti religion as well as English institutions, and agree to this vote. It mutt be assumed that the eireumstances new dockyards, at a very considerable cost, though their rough authorities by the vice-chancellor, the privileges of bad no doubt he could find gentlemen who were the same at the present moment as those which in- establishments were already very large and numerous. the Vice-Chancellor's Court, the monopoly of wine and 0741 tell them that unless the Previte views diced the late government in November last to propose an Without any undue jealousy as to establishments of this ale licenses in the town of Cambridge and Chesterton, Ac , Mme parochial vestry were introduced, into a foreign increase of 9,0u0 men and 1,500 marines, and the hoe.e kind, ho might observe that the area of all the dockyards de. The university has already expressed its readiucss to `tiltrf. al the people in that country were slaves and having deliberately pronounced an opinion that the in- of this country was small. The aggregate area of the confer with the hereugh authorities on these matters by the ei rulers tyrants. Now with regard to the liberal crease was both right and proper, he could hardly antici- dockyards at Sheerness, Chatham, l'urtsmouth, Plymouth , appointment of a syndicate , and the to w n council followed. arty, the right honourable gentleman had chosen to lasi- pate that the committee was prepared to reverse that dcci- and Pembroke, was actually somewhat less than the area in the same *lea direction at a council meeting on Thun ti.ii that tney heel a censersaeative goverument and a siun. (Hear, hear.) The increase then of the whole esti- of the single dockyard of Cherbourg. (Hear, hear.) Cher-. day by the appointment of a committee to meet the said Zl7:five opposition, and that those who were called mates for the present year as compared with the estimates bourg was completed, or about to ba ',_ and yet no increase syndicate. The committee consists of Aldermen C. F. Fa tie w e" merged into a specie. of cons e rvatism, m e of last year, including the supplemental veto of .19,0001. at all war proposed in our dockyards, but only an addl.. ter, Henry Smith, and Morris Fawcett, with Councillor ego co emli 'ay for one :hat he Dever was a party entering voted to Nov caber, would be 458,0001., while the Lion, without which the works at Keyham were ineam- H. S. Foster, Balls, and C. E. Brown. limey, therefore, __ 6 min:lotions ei - her to support or too enole any exist. increase u po n the estimates which yet remained plete, and consequently unproductive. Ile was surprised now be hoped that these long-vexed questions will soon be 'd g vernunct, and he should decline to express auy opi- to be voted, would amount to 909,0001. Now, that at the large amount hitherto voted for one item, the amicably settled / TIE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 19, 1853 ervreofs. TO CORRESPONDENTS. road !Mae rtf Tto Tawas," oaakdabag .tor mos Isola('. Marto," I. oakitskog *way lhawlay aabTrader atilt, a alms kw port, imtowreptoloirouted for " Tim Ezarw,"1.11111.1111a grader paper, mac t‘o at tka Otbao. 10, It•avarla-sartot, by Two o'samak ow tbr lay of pubiloation. RIGIL WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. frt. Dar —Moraler.l o l. lis Aftarnma. 110% S7s. t....totaew—Merviss. Il a. 37a.. 4 tlrsam. O. Oa. LONDON, SATURDA i FEBRUARY 19. MR. DISRAELI last night took up the popular , ext of national defences, and thereon preached a political sermon. He meant it to be mischievous to the Ministry—he succeeded in being unjust towards the press, and dangerous in his references to our foreign relations. Mr. DISRAELI boasts, when it suits him, of ' being a man of the press; pet, in the true temper of despotism, objects to the free discussion of opinions the moment they cease to suit his own views of what may be safe, proper, or pleasant. He referred last night to the great responsibility which attaches to writers for the public pres., adding " No foreign potentate could call them to account fur what they said." Surely ' Mr. DISRAELI must have heard of PELLETIEIeti case ? That writer, who had been driven from France, at tacked, in the press in England, NAPOLEON the ' Finsr, and the great conqueror brought his action in an English court of law, and obtained from an English jury a verdict against the libeller. Here is a ease showing that writers for the press in Eng land are responsible to foreign potentates, if such potentates think fit to appeal to those laws of our land which—as we beast—make no distinction of persons, but offer even-handed justice to all who seek their assistance. The truth is that no writer in this country can pen a single line free from responsi bility, not only moral but legal ; and no writer, we may venture to say, but knows this—none better than Mr. DISRAELI. Why then bring forward this subject again, unless, indeed, the ex-CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER speaks from a sense of only half recovery from the criticism which helped to bring the Cabinet of which he was a member to an early and a fatal reckoning? It is the nature of political trick and imposture to provoke exposure from any press that is free. The truthful or the spotless are not the characters which invite, or the reputations which suffer from, the criticism of unshackled jour nals. The personage who enjoys Mr. DISRAELI'S present sympathies—the hero of the cuts)) (taut— who upset a constitution he bad sworn to sup port, came as naturally in for his share of public indignation as did, afterwards, the author of the Brewer'? Budget. But though oue was de nounced and the other driven from office, neither the ono result nor the other proved either the irrespon sibility or the evils of a free press. Lours NAroLEot or Mr. DISRAELI could, either or both, had they pleased, have appealed to the law against those who attacked them. The law was waiting their plea sure. Statutes without end ; judges, upright and sage, in full number; counsel in plenty, eloquent and willing. But neither the reigning EMPEROR nor the Ex-Minister thought fit to avail themselves of that natural remedy for the grievances they allege. Doubtless each alike felt that the castigation of the press fell heavily, for the very reason that the lash was well-deserved. The punishment, though severe, was just; and both delinquents now relieve them selves by muttered discontents—the one in his French newspapers, and the other (as last night) in the House of Commons. Mr. DISRAELI, last night, gained loud cheers, when he said, "I am myself a gentleman of the press—l have no other escutcheon." After so frank and manly an avowal, he should feel that his shield will never be brightened by objections to free printed criticism. Fair, free, but legal discussion in the press is the very life blo od of our popular freedom. " The liberty of the press is as the air we breathe—if we have it not we die "—said the statesman and historian, Sir JAMES MACINTOSH. That freedom has of late aroused anew the old spirit of Englishmen, and made them look to their means fur national defence. It pointed out the real character of the man who has obtained absolute power in France; but whilst submitting to equal criticism, a criminal in ermine as a criminal in rags, our free press has drawn a careful line of distinction between the sets and the character of the Ruler of France, and the leanings and interests, views and feelings, of the French people. The journals which denounced the coup d'etat heartily sympathised with the nation which suffered it. There has been no censure of the men,but only of their master; and now that Frenchmen submit in silence, their new EMPEROR is left comparatively unchallenged to await his des tiny. The only demand has been that this country should be made secure against the possibility of mis chief from this new potentate, and those who urge such precautions have in the same breath denounced all pos sible pretences for interference with foreign nations. The requirement has been for our fleets to be sear home; for purely defensive armaments; and for a proper disposition and appliance of the abundant means put under the control of our Govern ment. This freedom of the press, which it pleases despots and would-be despots to complain of, has never breathed one word in favour of aggressive war. On the contrary, a constant theme of public writers in those very channels where tyranny has met its heaviest blows has been, Down with these wars of mischievous conquest in Burmah and elsewhere. A' free press is the natural ally—if not, indeed, the pa rent—of political and social progress. It has no sym ' pathies with predatory camps, or with the spoliation which follows in their train. Its appeals are to men's reason and judgment, and to that sense of in nate justice which leads every uncorrupted human heart to revolt at perjury, cruelty, fraud, and plun der, however lofty the delinquent, or however specious . his excuse. _ _ The great point still to be kept in view is this very one, that all improvements or additions to our existing forces should be simply defensive. Hence the value of ses-fencibles, of armed boats ready for service, near shore, and of advanced ships kept in port, awaiting their complement of men, all ready drilled, but only to be called from industrial avocations by the absolute fact of impending war. To this consummation, all our debates should tend, instead of running off into a war of cri mination and recrimination such as Mr. DISRAELI delights in provoking. Such contests of personalities are less acceptable than ever. Indeed the real difference between England in 1843 and in 1793 is to be found in the temper of her people—their improved moral tone, their sounder judgment, their broader views, their unwillingness to be led either by factions or by demagogues, and their firm knowledge that their true interest is in peace. Though determined to defend their own, they are equally determined to leave others in quiet. They will neither be cajoled out of defence—nor deluded into aggression ; and in such a temper are not likely to sympathise with partisan attempts to sow dissension between England and France : two nations placed by nature side by side, and whose only future rivalry should be in the healthful kindly race of advanced and advancing civilisation. LOUIS NAPOLEON ie a hero after all. He has ac tually made a descent into the very penetralia of the English legal institutions. He has flung himself boldly into the Prerogative Court—the Court which bids defiance to the reforming attempts of QUEEN, Lords, and Commons—the court " from which no traveller returns" without terrible marks of his perilous voyage. He has, like another JASON, ventured into this enchanted hold, and re turned without a scar, bearing with him as his meed of glory—not the Golden Fleece—but the golden parchment of his perilous quest. There is something ominous in this. The stronghold of English prejudice—the great Ecclesiastical Court— that wh ck has resisted from time immemorial all , external force, falls at the first summons from the " nephew of his uncle." He has no citations, nor appeals, nor " compulsories," nor caveats, nor, in ' fact, any of the dreadful weapons in the cede ! siastical arsenal, flung at his head. The garrison surrenders at discretion. Sir JouN DoosoN j tell; with a faint though dreary show of I opposition. If LOUIS NAPOLEON can have his way with the Ecclesiastical Courts, he may do what he likes. To parody the Yankee formula—the , Courts beat the 13ritishcrs, and the EMPEROR beats the Courts. The inference is easy. Where was the British L:on ? NAPOLEON 111. has bed his will, and nobody has heard even a single roar from the allegorical guardian of his country. :ince, however, the thing is done, and the great Emperor's Will is to leave us, we must give up with the best grace we may. Fate is against us. If the Prerogative Court could not detain the document in question, we may be sure that no power on earth can. Let us torget our inevitable loss, and speculate upon the progre.4 of the illustrious parchment on its way to France. Is there to be a procession? Is there to be a legation armed to the teeth, appointed to receive the will of the Estrtion. from petfide Albion represented in the persons of trembling ecclesiastical lawyers? Is the document to be carried through triumphal arches to the sea side? Is it to be received there by a lighting admiral, who, imitating the example of his illustrious predecessor, the terrible JoiNett,te, will fling into the sea all his mahogany cabin . i C ol l i tai to m b e l l o , w o u n p d h s in ig ig n e i l f f y an i d o. energeticfurniture te w r l m ie s n his in inu m .n it t l his admiring crew, rather than let one fragment of the sheepskin full into the hands of the perfidious nation who have just delivered it up? All the world t w he ik l: n rin th ee e D b it od J y o IN o f t . I l i t.: E ft w m as ni l e ß a rs e w i h n ag o l w ila e r B :oE. occasion, successful 'to his care. There are splendid capabilities in the celebration of this " rape of the parchment," mud we advise the lucky hero not to neglect them. The opportunity is eminently dra matic. Whilst cheerfully surrendering NAPOLEON'S will, there is occupation given for speculation as to what use the nephew intends to make of the strange docu ment he has demanded. As an appeal to the national vanity, procession or no procession. it is cure to meet with some success. The amount of this, however, is so problematical, that we must look further for an explanation of the motives of the I.:stem:oft. His present MAJESTY must by this time have so largo a stock of NAPOLEON " stage properly," that when he makes public his negotiations for obtaining any more, we may suppose that he has a very superior 1 " iron in the fire." A., however, his Imperial High ness never exposes his irons until they are red hot, we must content ourselves with conjectures as to his intentions. Dues ho intend to fulfil all the provisions of the will ?—or rather, does he intend to pro mise to fulfil them ? If so, here would be a noble stroke for popularity. In the will and in the codicils to it NAPOLLON leaves behind him fabulous sums in all directions. Does the nephew mean to signify his intention to pay these legacies, and then plead a necessity for more malt for fulfilling the promise? Is the will to be read as the forged will of CIiSAR was read after his death—in order to inflame the minds of the legatees ? In the first codicil " the civil list of Italy "is taxed with the payment of large sums to faithful servants. Are the " faithful servants" to be told that they must find their payment in Italy—that they must demand their rights there. Is the nephew—self-constituted heir of the uncle—to seek for the payment of lega cies in the spots named by the testator? Is, in fact, the necessity of the payment of N troLEoN's legacies to be hoarded up as a reason for any future aggres sions ? All these are of course mere speculations; but looking at the present EstrEitoit's past career, are they to be considered as without foun dation ? Some of the copies of the will have attached to them seven codicils, in which the EarPEROR speaks of a sum of 200,000,000 of francs—of his palaces at Ito:ne, Florence, and Turin—of his private domain of enormous value. All these are disposed of in the codicils in question, and the half of the private domain, in particular, is bequeathed to the officers and soldiers of the French army. Fancy a conscientious Emper rr, at the head of the largest army in the world, piously pro claiming his solemn belief in the propriety of the fulfilment of such wishes of his deceased uncle. How eloquent might such a nephew be upon the necessity of finding means for enabling him to acquit himself of his Habitats". What would be the effect of such a testament in the hands of such an executor? All these, however, are mere shadows, and are to be held as such. In the mean time we congratulate France upon having ob tained another memorial of her great hero, and our own Government on acting so sensibly with regard to the delivery of it to the nephew at his request. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA. The following intelligence has been received at the Foreign Office by a telegraphic message from Vienna, dated yesterday: " An attempt has been made on the person of the Emperor. "His wound is trilling. " The perpetrator of the crime has been ar rested." FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY ETININO. The second mail from London has not reached Paris to-day, in consequence, doubtless, of the quan tity of snow which fell last night. The Municipal Council of 1 has just published its budget of receipts and expenditure for 1833. The ordinary receipts are estimated at 1,166,500 fr. for the communal centimes; 34,569,000 fr. for the octrois ; 3,177,725 fr. for the rent of stalls in the retail markets ; 136,000 fr. for the weighing tax; 145,000 fr. for the voieries 7 1,174,000 fr. for the revenue of the waterworks ; 431,000 fr. for the tax for the Caisse do Poissy, the slaughterhouses, and the ontrep:sts ; 629,722 fr. for rents arising from plates let on the public highway; 164,469 fr. 9ao. for rents of communal property ; 98,000 fr. for copies of documents; 407,500 fr. for tax on funerals; 700,300 fr. for concessions of ground in the ceme teries; 130,000 fr. for the voieries; 1,319,843 fr. 80c. t9xes for various works and services ; and 743,286 f. 'sundry receipts; making a total of 46,164,3461 r. 79c. The extraordinary receipts are set down at 930,000 fr.;; making a general total of 47,114,346 fr. 79e. In the enumeration of the octroi duties, fresh water fish is set dowa at 44,000 fr. ; oysters, 170,000 fr. ; sea fish, 540,000 fr.; poultry and game, 1,180,000 fr.; corn and flour, 43,000 fr. ; butter and ears, 550,000 k. The amount received by the city for supplies of water by subscription is 820,000 fr., 'and from the fountains which supply the water car riers 3.54,000 fr. The letting of chairs produces ' 4,364 fr. and the charge to public carriages for the right of standing for hire. 400,000 fr. The ordinary expenses amount to 40,108,851 fr. 67c. and exmordt nary expenses to 7,005,495 fr. 12e., malting a general total of 47,114,346 fr. 79c. PARIS gOVESE, FEB. 18.—Closing Priem—Pony and-a-Half per Cents., 106 f. ; Three per Cents., 80f. 70e. _ _ PARIS , THURSDAY ETENINO. Among the persons arrested on Sunday week, and yet remaining in prison, is a celebrated German poet, M. Maurice Hartmann. He was a member of the Frankfort parliament elected in 1848, and was one of those who persisted in sitting to the last, after the assembly was transferred to Stuttgardt. He was banished in consequence, and has ever since resided in France. During his sojourn in this country he has published " A Tour in Languedoc and Provence," a work which has met with great success on the other side of the Rhine. He has devoted much of his time to the study of curious French literature, and two volumes of his translations of the songs of Brittany are at this moment in the press at Leipsic. This is one of the pot-house journalists of whom M. Gravier de Cas sagnac spoke so contemptuously when the arrests were made. The prisoners are now I believe reduced to the number of 10. jugs d'instruction has divided these into several categories. Some are yet au secret, or only allowed to communicate with their nearest relations under severe restrictions. Others can see their friends with more or less difficulty. The prosecution, if it ever comes into court, will as sume ridiculously small proportions, but it is yet thought probable that it will be abandoned. _ M. Deemer has gained his cause for the Marquis de Vogue, accused before the tribunal of Correctional Police of Cosne, of having distributed the proclama tion of the Count de Chambold. The prosecution was not instituted upon the ground that the paper was treasonable or seditious, but it was sought to es tablish that the Marquis de Vogue, by circulating writings without a license, had infringed the laws relating to hawkers. The court, however, held that