The Express. — London, England, 1852-11-25 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT ROUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNIMDAT, Nov. 24. The SeWAILIBIL took the chair at 12 o'clock. On the motion of Mr. T. DUNCOMBIC the following relents were ordered:—Return to an order of the Hon. tumble House of Commons, dated June 22, 1852, for a copy of all eontemniestions mad* by the architect and seem of the British Museum to the trustee' respecting the eirlarreenett of the building of that institution ; and of all oasusunicatious between the trustees and the Treasury sa the same subject subsequent to the period when the gagunissioners upon the constitu'inn sail msnagement of the British Mussein presented their report to her Ma jesty; aleo, of all such!eommunications of a like nature as *all lave been omitted in making the above return; and Woof all such communicatur s of a like nature es shall have heels made subsequent to the about mentioned data of the 22a day of lune, 1852. I'trUNTY ELECTIONS POLLS BILL. Lord It. GROSVENOR moved the order of the day fur the second reading of this bill. Mr. K. 11. DENISON said he was in favour of the pro vision in this bill for confining the pulling at county elections to one day. But the bill went further then that, end the house should he exceedingly cautious that in en. deaeouring to secure economy and despatch, they did not defeat the real object of an election. In this bill it was enacted that the p 'Bing should take place the second day after the day of nomination ; and, having had coneiderable experience in such matter', he war of opinion that that would be too soon. Under ouch an arrangement it would be necessary for parties to be always prepared for a contest, which would involve great expense. In 1817 a candidate wee brought forward in the West hiding of Yorkshire, within: 3d hours of the nomination; he (Mr. Denison) was In coeuquence taken by surprise, end, in order to prevent confusion in the county, he retired from the contest. At the last election, though there was a general rumour that his hon. eolkague (Mr. Cobden) and himself would be re turned without opposition, neither of them felt confident that mother candidate would not be put up at the eleventh pour. and certain serangements were mule and ex incurred to prevent surprise. lie was confi riZes that it only one day elapsed between the day of nomination and the day of polling, candidates would often be put to great expense and lueonertlietiCe. He would +eggs st, as a useful alteration, that it should be provided that candidates should be announced at least one sunk before the election. Ile thought, too, that the taking of the poll would be accomplished much more cheaply, quietly. respertaoly, and satisfactorily, if, instead of the present practice, the sheriff sent to *very voter printed lists, to be returned within a week, with the name of the voter and &declaration whom he voted for. A much Imp r proportion of the constituencies would vote under such a system than had been fouls I voting hitherto. Mr. K. CALMER said the more he considered the sub ject the more convinced he was that it was not expedient to alter the present mode of taking the vote. in counties. The effect of limiting the poll to en* day would be to put many ve:en to great inconvenience. The number of poll ing-plasm would have to be considerably increased, and, so far from being dimisiehed, the expense would, he bolo red, be increased. In his own county (Berkshire) the electors belonged chiefly to the agri cultural class, and to such persons it was a great convenience to have two d its to give their vote instead of one. The question was simply one of *spatting ; there was no prin ciple involved. It was material to consider how convey ances were to to obtained. Hui county contained about d,OOO voters, and if these wens strong contest, it would be difficult to, anus all to find conveyances to reach the polls nee slay. Under the circumstances he had only one course te pursue, which was to move that the bill should be read a second time tout day son months; but if the house gene rally were in favour of the trill going into committee, he mould net pesos his amendment to a division. Lord 11. VANE outs ruined very great. doubts with re gard to the espethency of the hall altogether, but was not prepared to reject it on the second reading. lie strongly ethiectsd to the provision that only one day should intervene between the day ef nomination and the day of polling. D.. eatable as it was to diminish the expense of e 'suety elections, it was equally desirable that the anion of the constituents should be tit. a fairly; and he believed there would, in feet, be no diminution of expense under the propose d ar t. :.17VALPOLI said there were two propositions ma- Weed in this bill; int, that the period of polling in coun ties should be redesed from two days to one day ; suromdly, that only one day should intervene between the day of no agitation end the day of polling. With regard to t h u Ent proposition, he thought there might be greet conveniences Ilitelldlne such an arrangement, and he was prepared to support the second reading with the view of Krieg in cooi ngly* whether or not the alteration could be advents rously carried out. He hid observed, however, when the hill was first introduced, and he was still of °pinkie, that the noble lord did not provide sufficient semi ity fur there Wog being a proper number of polling places. By the Reform Sall it was provided that there should be • senunient number of polling places for every county; and the Reform Bid was followed up 07 an act which spe cified the places which were to form the polling places in the several counties. Now, the noble lord, without pro viding any additional places, proposed that the number of days should be reduced from two to one. Everything turned upon the question whether there would be • sue dent number of polling places to enable ell the electors to 'record their votes in one day. He entertained a very string objection to the proposal that only one day should Intervene between the nomination and the pulling, but he should not oppose the second reeding. Mr. ALCOCK was glad to hear that the right hon. gentleman would not oppose the second reading, and hoped the hon. member for Berke would not persist in his amendment. As to the question of time, it was obvious that 4 or o boars now were equal, under the railway sys tem, to two Zap when the Reform Bill passed. Mr. SPOONER said he should oppose the bill, because he believed that, so far from diminishing the 'igneous of county elections, it would greatly increase them. Besides, hos was the sheriff to provide _proper polling places with such brief notice of a contest ? He hoped the Lon. mem ber for Berke would divide the house. Sir O. PECHELL supported the bill. Mr. MONSELL regretted that Ireland was not included in the bid, as it would tend greatly to diminish the amount of intimidation which took place at Irish elections, end even to prevent the recurrence of scenes which they Dad all recently deplored. He would suggest, too, that the oaths should be leiridged; for, when party spirit ran high, thou who had to administer the oath read slowly or fast according to the polities of the voter. Mr. F. SCOTT hoped the bill would not be extended to Scotland until it find been tried in England. At the last election there was in the county whisk he represented a large sheep and cattle fair, which wee attended by nearly all the farmers in the dis trict, and if the piling had been limited to one day, the farmers must slither ham absented themselves from the fair or have lost Mak wits. Viscount MONK was understood to the bill. Mr. W. BROWN thought them wetly bee peat saving of expense if the polling WerSellalild ill ow day, sad that ample time might be otrisi ter emedes the requisite number of polling plasm Mr. ELLlorrhealeendllmt the bill would mak* great baprommeets In the i. efneeducting county elections. Mr. L KING esiaplabed ef the very long period which *pied between the predsmelles and the day of abmisa- Sir J. Y. BULLER said these mid be no dificulty in =that the greet meat s !, the home were in fl.l. the asses/ mad se his hoe . friend Os make Air limbs bed Net he would sot =his aseembeent pint the with of the house, he be would imment M ~raw it. With reward punt] of *lechers. be did set me that mach be pined the bill; lbw diem wee se probability of any plebs pessiled with reinit to any recast county Mr. GRACE biped es bill would be allowed to go lab esuumittm, nod wseemildist that, if passed, it would be • peat boos to the elsebes. Mr. PALMER said, having meartained the sense of the Uwe, he would withdraw hie amendment. Lard R. GROSVENOR replied. The bill was then reed • seeesd time. On the motion that the bill be miesmitted, Mr. VANSITTART suggested that the bill should be referred to a select trollealitteel, in order that Dome improved imam might be considered fur tallier( the pull as well as shamming ds duration. He concluded by making a notice embodying his suggestion. Lea GROSVENOR could sot mode to the peepoei• Oft as it would tend to delay the bill. Mr. WALPOLE had no wish to impede the progress of the bill more than was necessary to insure the voter against Issonveniesee. With regard to the question whether it would be better to refer the bill to • select committee, he loped his hes. friend would not now press it, he (Mr. Walpole), en the part of the government, undertaking between the present time and Wednesday, when the mo tion for committing the bill would some es, to consider what course the government would take on the 'abject. After • few word, from Mr. Spooner Mr. B. Denison sad Mr. Alcoa, the intendment was withdrawn, and the bill was committed for Wedneedsy meet. CIVIL SUPERANNUATION FUND. Os the teatime of Mr. M•CAISTMIT, return, Were ordered of be rem broil re assiset of superansuations, distinguished hem econeeneatinies, epos reduction of °Mee, payable on the 31st day of March, 1831, and at the present time, in each public department, to peruse who had 'stared the public service previously to the 4th 'lay of August, ltH, with the total amount of the same, separating therefrom the amount granted be pen ins on day pay, or who were not positioned under the provisions of the Superannuation Aet ; aka, distinguishi the mount of such pensions payable out of fund, oat of the revenue, or out of ' the mew of peelisment. THE SCREW PROPELLER IN THE NAVY. Sir O. PW:HELL moved for a return of the sues of swab of her Majesty's ousels that were constructed for mil be, and have some been adapted, or are now being altered, fee • screw propeller; distinguishing the number of gene fee which the salmi were originally constructed, with the number now fitted, or intend. d to carry, with the mount abo r t. power of each, and stating the nature of the seven iel alterations which the said vessels required, with the amount of tonnage before and since such operation have bees or are about to be performed. Hu object was le am- Gerais hew far in fitting toiling vueels with the screw the seseseary elteritioas were made in their bow.; also, to' dispel deludes reports, which had obtained circulation, of, lammed armaments. Ai=ttSCODELL suggested that to save expense, the y should select mesas sot so far advanced towards sempletion as the Wellington, which was now being id land to receive the screw. He also urged that we should oat p too fast la bombes our mare/ ermameate, lest we should Wens other amstries to follow our example. He 'trawl, advised the Admiralty to armorer the publica tion of alarming newspaper @Mimesis so to the titillates navel preperstions making to repel Smits aggression. Mr. A. STAFFORD mewed the hon. sad gallant 'Meer that the Admiralty was no party to took peiblicatjan. Ow the contrary, they were most males' to pretest :Iv lbw moss so es the newspaper statewide alluded to weft Okla wholly without foundation'. It would net be aluebloot with precedent, or with the ollklat reepoosibility of the Admiralty. to grant a return of details smelt as the hos. and gallant o M eer (Sir O. Pechell) bad moved kw. After some OberrratiONS hoe Sir P. BAZING, thlll was withdrawn. The house adjourned at • quarter before 3. Vim ervreoo. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1852. FRANCE. PARIS, TUSIDAY EVINDIO. Considerable excitement prevails to-day in many quarters of Paris. Thu impression is general, not only that the ballot for the empire has been a gigan tic swindle, but that the fraud practised has been so gross, so overdone, that it will be impossible to pre vent such an exposure as will convince the most credulous. The first question suggested by a glance at the official returns is—how does it happen that whereas in December, 1851, there were 394,069 registered electors in the department of the Seine there are only 315,501 ? The official answer is, thai the voting lists contained the names of a large number of dead persons, and of persons who had lost their right of voting in Paris, and that just befog* the election orders were given to revise the lists carefully, in order that the abstentions might not be made to appear more numerous than they really were. This is not considered a sufficient explanation to account for the disappearance of 60,000 electors from the register is less than a year, more especial) yas it is notorious that election cards have been thrust upon everybody that would take them, and that the maithe have ie numberless instances issued certificates to all comers without asking the usual questions. Tho conclusion drawn, therefore, is, that tho number on the register has been diminished in order the easier to make it appear that almost all the electors have voted. So, according to the returns, they have. The Moniteur gives the following as the definitive result of the ballot for the department of the Seine : Number of registered electors 315,501 Number that voted Yes No To show the extent of the triumph achieved in fa vour of the etpire, the Moniteur then publishes the following comparative table : Comparative tAble of the votes of Paris on December 10, 1848 ; December 20, 1851; and November 22, 1052 . Yee. No. December 10, 1848 December 20, 18.51 November 22, 1852 Now the people of Paris having witnessed the comparatively deserted state of the polling booths on Sunday and Monday, and knowing from the ex pressed intentions of their friends and neighbours that a large proportion of them abstained from vot ing, refuse to believe that the whole adult male population of this city and the suburbs, wanting 45,000 only —or, in other words, more than eight men out of every ten—took part in this vote. Elections have been so frequent in l'aris that the general aspect of the streets and polling-places, when the mass of the people really turn out to vote, is too well known to be mistaken. It is notorious that, on the 21st and 22nd, the polling was almost everywhere languid. But, leaving gene ralities, I am assured that the inhabitants of many sections of the different arrondissements are prepared to prove that the vast majority of the electors of their districts stayed at home, while the official re turns represent almost the entire population se having voted. I learn from a source in which I place implicit confidence that all, or almost all, the workmen in several large establishments, the names of which have been furnished me, agreed to abstain; that it is notorious they did abstain; that in many instances they alone form the majority of the elec tors in the sections to which they belong, and that they are astounded this morning at seeing official returns from which it would appear that two-thirds of them must nut only have voted, but have voted in the affirmative. I send the names of some of the principal establishments to which I have alluded. They are the well•known manufactories of MM. Facet, at St. Duca; °Quin, at Batignolles; Sandford and Varral, in the Avenue Trudaine; the Gas-works, in the same avenue; lkrosue, Cail, and Co., the engineers ; Latfitte, Cuillard and Co., Rue Notre Dame des Champs ; Deco/ger, in the same street; and M. Cave, the engineer, in the Faubourg St. Denis. To these are to be added, the mechanics employed in the engineering departments of the Lyons, Orleans, Northern, and Western Railway stations, and the cellarmen at Bercy. The men employed in the above establishments are well known to be in the habit of sending subscriptions to the refugees in London ; their number is not less than 15,000 ; they loudly protest they have not voted, and if their statement be true, the returns of the votes in their sections must be false. Some days since the Moniteur, in answer to M. Victor lingo's direct charge, published a statement with the view of proving that any fraud in the ballot was im sible. That statement appears in my letter pub lished in the Express of November 19, and a cursory perusal of it will suffice to shilw that fraud in the election is not only possible, but easy, and, under the circumstances, probable. The mayor presides at the election. Now, there are in Franco 36,000 mayors, all nominated by the government. He is assisted by four municipal councillors, elected upon the "go vernment candidate" system. The presence of three out of the above five while the voting is going on, is thconly security against puttingbuiletins into the box. In the evening the ballot box is sealed and deposited is the mayor's house. The doors and windows of Me room where the box is are also to be sealed. There is no such thing as a watch kept by independ ent electors. The whole thing is in the hands of flestionaries, who are expected to get votes— Imwestly if they can, but to get votes. Under these dreemstences the question is whether it is impossible that the seals should be broken in the course of the light, and fresh seals put on, without any one who would be inclined to make a noise about it, knowing anything of the matter. In whatever mode a fraud Bog be effected, the belief, whether well founded ee net, that the returns are fictitious is, I repeat, universal. The moat determined imperialists cannot look you in the face and maintain the contrary. They laugh, shrug their shoulders, and say that anarchy is at the door, and that society must be saved. Que esign-cous An incredible farce has been performed at Am boise. Abd-el-Kader expressed a wish to vote for the empire; and the mayor, in defiance of all law and decency, provided a special ballot box, in which the Emir and the Arabs of his suite deposited bulletins. The Prefect of the Seine has decided that the general summing up of the votes of Paris, and of eighty communes of the department, shall take place at the Hotel de Ville, on Thursday, at 10 o'clock. The operations will be public. At the Bourse to-day public securities were dealt in as follows :—Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 106 f. 60c ; and rimed at 106 f. 90c. for the account; Three per Cents. 85f. ; and for the account closed at 84f. 60c. Orleans Railroad new shares, 1,1001'.; Versailles, (left bank) 376 E; Paris and Rouen, 990 E; Rouen and Havre, 530 E ; Strasburg and Bale, 390 E; Paris and Strasburg, 88M.; Paris and Lyons, 965 E; Lyons and Avignon, 8051. ; Western, 766 f. ; Northern, 900 E Dicier to Gray, 690 f. ; Caen and Cherbourg, 6521. 601.; Dijon and Besancon, 620 f.; Bordeaux and Cette, 642 E 50c.; Dieppe and Focamp, 370 f. ; Bor deaux and Teste, 3001.; Centre of Italy, 1,020 f. PARIS, WI:DNS/DAT EVIIMINO. The Afoositeur publishes partial results of the votes in a great many departments. The figures are of no interest. It appears from them that almost every where in town and country nearly all the electors went to the poll, and that the "noes" are univer sally in a ridiculous minority. The only important demonstrations in the way of abstention hitherto re corded are at Marseilles and Lyons. At Mar seilles (in 24 sections out of 25) the numbers stand thus—registered electors, 37,591; voted, 17,758; yes, 15,560. At Lyons tho numbers givenare—registered electors, 125,321 ; voted, 88,091; yes, 77,374 ; no, 9,315. It would appear from the tables of the Moniteur that a serious opposition had been encountered in the Ardennes, the figures being " Yes," 20,900; and " No," 11,000. But I have no doubt this will turn out to be a mistake, and that the minority is only 1,100. The wonderful number of votes shown by the returns is the more extraordinary when we consider the state of the weather through out France during Sunday and Monday. Two such thoroughly bad days in succession are of rare occurrence. I send two or three telegraphic despathes, from places widely distant from each other, which will give you some idea of the diffi culties of locomotion which the enthusiasm of the French people had to encounter. Votes of the Army up to the 24th : A y es 203,600 Noes 6,765 Navy—Aye 5.... Noes The definitive results of 20 departments are above those of the 20th December. TO CORRIMPONMINTB. t ..eatd Wilke ;C.. Tb - e Mete evening', to published *eery Tuseisy mad Priddy eight, la tine kw post. I • .net turiarm. intended far "TM Upries,*tatelas Ovals, pope; mU? be 01 'be Ike, 10, Botmort&atroot, by Two o'4loet as tbe Isy et pablisslim. NIGH WATNIt AT LONDON BRIDOR. rum my—Magni& IL 19.. 'Lloseasow —Aloe wag. 11. SA. So. U. r.—A httl sasliej; Y isikabi;7 LONDON, THURSDAY. NO VEMBER 25. THE symbol of eternity is a serpent with its tail in its mouth. Lord PALMEISTON . B public life has been so protracted, that he may, with no very violent figure of speech, be said to have spent a little eternity in the House of Commons, and to be on that ground entitled to quarter the serpent with its tail in its mouth on his Viseountal shield. His conduct on Tuesday night leaves no doubt on the matter. His gosh was assuredly more redolent of serpentine wisdom the. of dovelike simplicity, and its re approximation to the Conservative party gracefull, assimilated the approaching close of the Viscount s career to its commencement under the auspices of In the career ROYAL COMPLIMENT TO THE PEOPLE AND METROPOLITAN POLICE. Mr. Secretary Walpole has communicated, in the following terms, her Majesty's approval of the ecsoluet of the pollee at the funeral of the late Field-marshal Arthur, Hake of Wellington: " Whitehall, November 22, 1862. "Gentlemen,—ln obedience to the Queen's express com mands, I have great satisfaction in signifying to you her Majesty's entire approbation of the steeliest manner In which the arrangements for preserving good order throughout the metropolis were mad* by the commissioners of police, end executed by thus who acted under them on the me morable occasion of the Duke of Wellington's funeral. Her Majesty has also eimusaisded me to express her strong sense of the admirable conduct of all her people who showed such real feeling and tree respect to that illustrious man who was carried amidst a whole nation's tears with such pomp and honour to the grave.—l have the honour to be, gentle men, your obedient servant, (Signed) 8. H. WALrut.n." The Commissioners of Police. SERIOUS POACIIING AFFRAY AT SIR Jon PA ainorox's.—A serious affray took place a few nights ago is the preserves of the Right Hon. Sir John Pakingtun, at Westwood, Worcestershire, between three of the right hon. baronet's watchers nod some poachers. The matter btu been under investigation before the magistrates at Druit wich, who have committed for trial at the Worcestershire Assist's too men, named Charles Cook and John Smith, on the charge of attempting to murder one of the watchers by shooting at him. It appears that in consequence of the re cent visit of some poachers the underkeeper and two watchers were lying in wait in a cover, when the prisoners approached a keeper named Nott, who seised Smith, where upon a struggle ensued. Nutt was knocked down with • stick, and had his arm broken by • blow from a gun barrel. While on the ground, Smith called to Cook to blow oat Nott's brains, and Cook thereupon put a tap on his gun and polled the %rigor. The cap exploded, but not the gun, or Nott must have been killed. Both prisoners were sub @equally arrested. THE INUNDATION IN NOTTS.—NOTTING HAM, TUES DAT.—The waters have sgaln risen to a considerable height in this neighbourhood, and this morning, at eight o'cloek, they were within three feet and a half of the height at tained on Saturday week. Some further destruction of property will be the eoneequonee. Al, however, we have had no rain sines Sunday, it is to be hoped that the flood will soon pin nbside. Mont-de•Mareen Nov. 22, evening. Sines yesterday we have had dreadful weather weather. The wind blows with such violence that a large number of trees have been torn up by the roots. The rain falls incem nutty. It is a real and disastrous tempest. The chapati , lion of the people is excellent. In the immensity of our deserts, where the habitations lie far and wide from the principel town of the commune, the bad weather will b are caused numerous abstentions. Lille, Nov. 23, 1 o'clock. The difficulty of circulation is the country roads inun dated by the rains has been a great obstacle to the vote. Gap, Nov. 21, one o'clock. The only danger that we had to fear has fatally happened to thwart the electior. The heavy rains of the last few days have redoubled in violence since yesterday, and to day the torrents are such that the inhabitants of whole villages, and very many of them, not being able to come to the principal town, cannot possibly vote. Lemeges, Nov. 23. Floods of rain have not ceased to fall since yesterday morning. The streams have overflowed in many places, and interrupted communication. Bordeaux, Nov. 22, Two o'Clock. The storm has continued ever race the morning. l'eople can scarcely put a foot out of their houses. Muuy of the electors will not be able to vote. It will be a memorable page in the history of universal snffrage and of electoral enthusiasm when it shall be recorded that in the face of these physical difficulties, and in the absence of any apparent publio excitement, more than $0 per cent. of the adult male population of France voted on the 21st and 22nd of December. Yet this I have no doubt will be made to appear when the returns are made up.. Several men were arrested in Paris on Sunday and Monday for canvassing openly for negative votes. The Legislative Body will assemble to-morrow for the examination of the votes on the plebiscite. A number of deputies have already arrived. There will be only a short sitting to-morrow for forming the bureaux. It is thought that four or five days, will suffice for the operation of examining the votes, and that on the Ist ur the 2nd of December, at the latest, the result may be proclaimed in a public sit ting. It will, it is said, be conveyed immediately to St. Cloud by the whole of the Legislative Body. Tho rumour that the empire will be actually pro claimed on December 2 gains ground, and it is thought that on December :1 a Senates! Consultant will propose the consequential changes in the consti tution. BELGIUM. We read in the Independance of Brussels: The central section of the budget of foreign affairs having demanded from the minister somo information as to the state of the commercial negotiations, and M. de Brouckere having replied that he had no explanation to give, some persons have concluded from this reply that, for the present at least, there was no idea of any further commercial nego tiations between the two countries. This is an error; the reply of the Minister of Foreign Affairs bad no. such signification ; it merely meant to say that the cabinet thought it proper to preserve the most absolute silence oe what is raid and what is done on the subject of the commercial relations of Belgium with France, for it in a question which cannot be, and is not, neglected. SPAIN. We have received the Madrid journals of the 19th. A grand levee was held by the Queen and the Queen mother on that day, it being the fete-day of the former. The attendance was very numerous. The garrison of Madrid had a ration of meat and wine and two reals per man allowed them on the oceaaion, and the officers had tickets for a representation at the theatre, at which all the royal family would be present. The Hera du states that the statutes of the company for the canalisation of the Ebro have been approved of by the Royal Council. The governor of the province of Malaga has issued a decree, pro hibiting the carrying of the long knife called naragas, under pain of imprisonment. Letters which had reached Madrid from Manilla, dated Sept. 13, repre sent that colony to be perfectly tranquil. ITALY. NAPLES, Nov. 18. For several months p.st travellers have made the journey from Rome to Naples in great fear, in con sequence of repeated attacks of brigands. No less than four or five times has the diligence been stopped , on the Roman side of the frontier, but by the activity and promptitude of the French cavalry these fellows, it would appear, have been driven from the Papal states, and it was hoped that all danger had dis appeared. On Monday, however, news arrived in Naples that the diligence had again been stopped, but this time on the Neapolitan side of the frontier. The particulars are as follows:—The passengers had all dismounted, and were walking up the Hill of Stri, • spot well known in bandit history, when the car riage wu surrounded by a party of armed men, and plundered of everything portable, the conduttori being robbed to the amount of 150 piastres. The passengers were the next objects of attack, if attack that can be called where there was no assault or resistance, they were required to give up everything they had, and on complying were left unmolested. All these banditti are strongly armed, and are supposed to be deserters from the army of the Faithful, lately formed fur the defence of the Pope and the holy apostolic and catholic religion. To this may be added another and a tragic report of • fact that took place near Caput a short time since during the day. A man presented himself to a woman in a lone house, and demanded 1,000 ducats, which she denied having. The man persisting in his assertions that she had such a sum, and menacing violence unless she gave it up, the poor woman feigned compliance and left the room, saying that she would return with it directly. On leaving, however, she turned the lock, and thus shut the bandit in, and immediately calling f o r assistance, had him arrested. During the night, however, he was rescued by • strongly armed party, and • short time after the woman was found murdered. Though I have spoken of the deserters from the papal army as having probably formed themselves into banditti parties, tt most not be forgotten that another element of disorder undoubtedly consists in the galley slaves, who were liberated on the occasion of the opening of the dry dock. Degraded beyond the hope of re demption by the horrid system of punishment to which they have been subjected, and without charac ter or the means of subsistence, these men have been turned loose upon society to plunder that they may live. You will say that lam sen di ng you a whol e list of horrors when I add the murder of the contai ner of his Royal Highness Prince Luigi by his (the confeesor's) own brother. It appears that the man, who was in the household of the Prince, had been ejected at the suggestion of his brother ; and that in order to avenge himself he shot the confessor in his bed. Within the last few days a remark a bl e i nc id ent connected with the police . hu occurred, which has excited immense sensation in the city, and which may be productive of serious consequences. There are many versions of the story, and, as usual, there is much high colouring ; but, as nearly as I can get at the truth, the following appear to be the facts : There is a very proper law in Naples that every carriage shall bear its number upon ; and it hap pened that some few days since a poor wight was wending his way up the Chiaja with an unnumbered cart, when the polies waylaid him, and finished up by giving him a sound thrashing. The Prince Fond', who was passing at the time, rode up and remon strated, uselessly as it appears, for he was received with insults, on which his Eccellenza beat and knocked them both down, and then rode off, leaving his name. No time was lost by the policemen in laying the complaints before the Prefect of Police, who was disposed to hush the matter up, as thinking perhaps that some wrong attached to all parties. Our new Director of the Police, Mazza, the moat worthy , descendant of Peech ene id a , " di felled me ' moriu,' thought, however, differently, and sent Gomel of hie officers the same night to the Palazzo Fondi, l to arrest the Prince. Information o f t h e fact wa s ' immediately sent by Fondi to his friend Prince Luigi, l i the brother of tho King, and his Royal Highness immediately sent an order, or a request, so the story ' goes in well-informed quarters, that Fondi should be released, or that within ten minutes ho would himself come to the Prefettura and carry him off. The request not being attended to, the menace was put into execution, and Prii.ce Luigi carried off his friend. The Director of Police, full of wrath at this usurpation of his office, had an interview with the Prince the next day, and whether on his own autho rity, or at the express command of his Majesty, who was at the time absent, it is difficult to say, caused him to be arrested again, and he is now, I understand, 1 for greater security plaoed in the Castello. I Pave pm. Cents., 1091; Exchange on London, 668. TUSCANY. The Grand Duke of Tuscany has i+-.reed a dem % !dated Floreuce, 16th inst., which re-establishes the punishment of death by the guillotine for crimes against religion, of pub li c violence against the go . vernment, of premeditated homicide, and robbery accompanied with acts of vMletiee. Sentence of 'death may be pronounced even when the judges, are not unanimous on the point. The crime of wound ' ing with sharp w e ap ons or firearms, with preme ditation and intention to kill, is to he punished with thirty years' hard Isbour. If wi•li premetli. tation, but without intention to kill, the punishment listo be from 7 to 15 years' hard lab ter, if (Linger if life or limb have ensued; if hot. hum three to seven years' imprisonment with Ldtartir at Volterra. The maximum of the above punishments is to b e applied in every cue in which tho wanted has been inflicted by a sharp weapon of. an illegal length (that is, under three-fourths of a Faaeentine breech), or about a foot and a hull), or else by tirt-arrns of any kind. All criminal canes contemplat e d by this decree are to be henceforward tried wale ail possible speed, and in preference to all oth, rs. Giving Ease testimony in favour of the accused is to he punished with from three to seven yew.' imprisonment with labour at Volterra. To this (.1-erce is added second, by which new powers are eit'rusted to the police department for the disc overy of crimes Among the provisions of this decree we find that the delegates of police may rout. •t. eight days' imprisonment even when transgra ss:ons of pol ies orders are not proved ; that sub-pieta -chi may, in cases of the competency of the police, inflict one month's imprisonment, and that itn-feets may, i t similar cases, condemn to three months imprison. ment. Councils of prefecture ins} decree a forced change of domicile, imprisonment in the house of detention, and confinement in a furtra 111 for a period not exceeding three years. Delcgata syf police, se well as prefects and sub-prefects, lay . order any search to be made upon sufficient huvicton. fendants may appeal egainst the decisions of the delegates, sub-prefects, and prefects in ei•rtuin eases specified, and the last appeal is to the Minister of the Interior. PIEDMONT. The Piedmontese Chamber of 1/entities not haring sat on the 20th, fur want of a sutliiient number a members present, the president niiit i:retaries have decided that they would represent the Chamber at the funeral of Gioberti. AUSTRIAN ITALY. The Brealaw Gazette quotes letters 40111 the fron tiers of Italy of the Pith, stating that numeruai or rests are being made by the Austrian um twit ict.,on the frontiers of Switzerland of perwats suspected of propagating revolutionaryparnplo , s , and that i o the duchy of Parma carrier - pigeons are etuployed t o carry such writings over the frontier. SIUMOUTII •nd of Lord PALMERSTON, the expanded liberalism which characterised it from 1823 to 1830, tapers off toward+ the head or beginning through his complicity in the spy system and Six Acts of 1819, the Corn Law of 1813, and the shuffling policy in regard to Catholic Emancipation under the F ERCEVAL n'gion• ; —it tapers off towards the tail till wo find him an accomplice in the DISRAELI shuffle. The "ould serpent" is about to end where he began, —in self-seeking Toryism. The burden of Lord PaLnxitarros's speech was the necessity of so framing a declaration in favour of Free Trade that even the Protectionists could concur in it. The reason he assigned was that these gen tlemen are rapidly casting their Protectionist slough, and that it is inexpedient to say anything, or call upon them to say anything, that may induce them to pause iu the operation. " The Protectionists and the Free Traders are not yet exactly agreed in opinion," said in substance the noble lord; " but if you gentlemen Free-traders did not shock or irritate them, you will find them insensibly coming over to you. It is wise to allow men to creep out of ' I old prejudices smoothly and imperceptibly. " No man can be a better authority than the noble lord as to the easiest process of going over from one set of opinions to another diametneally opposite. He has performed the feat once, with great comfort to himself, and seems now about to repeat it in the opposite direction. If the only question were how the Protectionist and Free Trade parties might best bo fused into one, his evidence would be unobjection able. Hut it is desirable at the same time to have some guarantee that they shall become one in the Free Trade faith, whereas the process of "salmi laden recommended by Lord Psuseasrott would I leave it extremely doubtful whether the fusion were to be effected b 7 the Protectionists becoming Free 1 Traders or the Free Traders Protectionists. The object of Mr. Vi unts's motion is not to enable certain members of Parliament to form a coalition speedily, easily, and with a good grace. It is to give the people at large assurance that the new House of Commons sympathise with their political views and wishes. The supporters of Free Trade, especially is corn, are an immense majority of the public out of doors. They are not, they never have been identified with, tied down to any parlia mentary party. At the Conference at Manchester, inlB3B,out of which theAnti-Corn•law League origi nated, there were present representatives from all the great centres of manufacturing industry. They resolved to aim at " total, immediate, unconditional repeal of the corn laws," and to that end to know no difference between Whig and Tory. To this resolu tion they have adhered. By adhering to it they have obtained the repeal of the corn laws. By persisting in the same policy they hope to make that repeal permanent. The great struggle at the late general election lay between the Anti- Corn-law Free-traders and the agricultural Protectionists. It is believed that the struggle has terminated in a majority . for the Anti-Corn Law Free-traders. But they wish to make sure of this; and to that end the oldest and stanchest of their Parliamentary champions, Mr. CRUXES VILLIEB4 , has submitted his test motion to the House of Commons. The object of that motion is neither to turn Lord DERBY out nor to bring Lord JOHN Resent in, but to enable the immense majority of Anti-Corn Law Free-traders in the constituencies to know with certainty whether they have or have not a majority in the new House of Commons. This can only be ascertained by a declaratory resolution which, like that of Mr. limmens, expressly afilrms the justice and expediency of Corn Law repeal. To omit that ingredient, as is proposed by Mr. Du- KAZLI and Lord PALMLISSON, would be to deprive the motion of all valise, to leave it no test of what is wished to be ascertains& Lord Pautettsrox affected to rebuke ministers for the ambiguity of the paragraph in the QuEsn's Speech, and yet the amendment on Mr. VlLLlzaa's motion which he proposed is quite as ambiguous. Like the paragraph in the Quzax's Speech, and like the amendment of Mr. DISRAELI, the amend meat of Lord PALMERSTON is so expressed as to leave it open to the agricultural Protectionists to claim compensation hereafter, or to have their case treated as an exception to the principle of Free Trade. It is only from the side of the a gricul tural Protect tionists that Free Trade is in anyr. The agri =Bond Protectionists have never strenuously con tended for protection to anything but their own produce. By promising to continue protection to core, Mr. liusxissox prevailed upon them to ao qinesee in all his approximations to Free Trade. They readily admit that recent legislation respecting the sugar colonies and the shipping interest is irreversable ; and in neither of these cases do they say a word about compensation. Bat they are still resolute to obain for themselves either compensation or a substitute for the repealed Corn Laws. They are the only Protectionists against whom it is necessary to be wakefully guarded, and yet it is precisely against them that Lord PALMER STON and Mr. I)ISitsZLI would have us adopt no precautions. The object of Lord PALMERSTON and the object of Mr. Ihsaast.t are palpably one and the same. Mr. DISRAELI complains that if Mr. VILLIERS'S motion is carried, parliamentary or party government will he impossible. Now it may be admitted that parliamentary and party government are convertible terns. It is only by the combination of a select number of parliamentary leaders, agreed in principle, that government can be carried on in this country. But there are two methods by which a party may obtain a majority in Parliament. It may act so as to enure public confidence, and thus render it prudent for • majority of the people's represent s . fists to support it. Or by underhand means it may induce a majority in the House of Commons to sup. part it, regardless of principle. If Mr. Vit.ctsits's motion is carried, and hews, a precedent, it will be impossible for any party to manage the House of Commons by the second method. But as this would oblige all parties to have recourse to the first; that is exactly what the country wants. Mr. DISRAELI, however, can only work by the second method, and Lord PA L AI ItsTOS has played Mr. Duntatu'it game by codas ' souring to perpetuate it. These worthy allies—these congenial souls—sup pear to have no suspicion of how much they must lose by a victory. If the amendment either of the one or other is carried, the people will see clearly that the House of Commons does not really represent them, and a new and sweeping Reform Bill becomes inevitable. Mistrrias confess that the policy of 1846 has hew productive of such unexampled prosperity, that they Moo not deny the fact, or ostensibly venture to mosind it. Yet in the face Of this admission they have the effrontery to threaten us with the intro dilation of what they are pleased to call " remedial minsunm s Remedial--of what POf national pro ps- Is wealth? In popular'progress in content ment? In social progress in comfort, sobriety, and intelligence? Tho honest physician who finds his patient eating well, drinking well, and sleeping well, recommends him not to tamper with his con stitution, but to dismiss dyspeptic illusions from his mind. The dishonest quack affects to sympathise with the complaints of his over-fed patient, whom ho prepares to drug with nostrums, that he may effectually pluck. We hare had ample experience of both. The regimen of PEEL wss that of wholesome and sufficient food ; and upon it the country has thriven and grown fat. The prescriptions of DISRAELI are "to mitigate " these blessings,—to assuage this happiness,—to remedy this inestimable good ! Ho will on Friday tell us of something that will take away, If not all this, at least a considerable part of it. The long and elaborate harangue of the Ctiar7. CELLO& of the EXCHEQUER in reply to Mr. VILLIERS will be read with more surprise than interest. Nothing in the shape of audacity can any longer excite our astonishment on the part of the right hon. gentleman. A man who has taken the liberties he has done with the pledges given to his friends and the principles borrowed from his feet, — is not likely to shrink from any new form of either species of party chicane; and an orator who does not scruple to palm filched originalities on the House of Commons, is not likely to hesitate about palming counterfeit phrases on his Sovereign. The habits of jugglery are proverbially inveterate; and theQueett was probably not altogether unaware of the charac ter of the personages she would have to deal with when Lord DERBY and Mr. DISRAELI were permitted to kiss the Royal hand on their appointment to office last February. Her MAJESTY could hardly have then anticipated, however, that her throne was to be made avowedly " the enchanted chair " in their poli tical majors, still less that she was herself to be openly and by name paraded as • puppet to utter their impudent jargon. It was bad enough that the two houses of legislature should be forced to form the involuntary auditory of these en , rivalled fortunetellers and state necromancers. But it was reserved for Mr. DISRAELI to toll the Parlia ment and people of this emintry-41 he did in his speech on Tuesday night—that language designedly put into the mouth of the SOVEREIGN, on the solemn occasion of her opening Parliament, was not only capable of different interpretations by those who heard it, but would admit of opposite explanations and readings by those who thus suggested it. It will be remem bered that, during the debate on the Address, the Home SECRETARY undertook to give an authentic reading of the Royal words, and that immediately afterwards the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER as authoritatively gave another translation. The house laughed at the obvious dis crepancy at the time, conceiving that Mr. WALroLE had then, as more than once betoro, blundered in the attempt to do the nimble, and that he had only given the world another proof how sadly out of his element a solemn and simple minded gentleman of his sort must ever be among a company of jugglers. But when, in the course of his retrovective defence of him self and his colleagues on Tuesday night, Mr. DISRA ELI had the coolness to dilate upon the ambiguous and double-sounding paragraph as though it was for these qualities it had been invented and inserted in her MAJESTY'S Speech, the first assembly of gentlemen in Christendom were evidently startled at tho inde cency of this confession. " Ironical cheers" burst forth from the almost incredulous Commons; and when perceiving, too late, the fault as a tactician ho had committed, the Ministerial leader tried to escape into a new thicket of quibbles. On the whole, the impression created by this forlorn effort in a doomed cause was most disheartening to those who still clung to the dream of Derbyism as a scheme of policy or a system of rule. The truth can no longer be !Iteguised that, while ostentatiously professing their conversion to Free Trade, Ministers meditate' only how they may contrive to inflict compensatory' penalties on industry and commerce for its enjoy ment. They try to gild the poison by the unmean ing epithet of " remedial measures . What these are likely to be we have all along foreseen, and of their real tendency we have repeatedly warned the unwary. The mask is at length loosened, and is speedily about to fall. Compensation for cheap bread is the fine which landlordism threatens to exact for not breaking the national lease of health, comfort, and abundance of Free Trade. Will the people of the United Kingdom submit to such exaction The speech of Mr. BRIGHT Ru well calculated to expose the insincerity_ of the quasi Free Trade tone of Mr. DISRAELI. With provoking particularity, ' the member for Manchester showed by what profes. 'ions at the hustings, in July last, Ministers had secured their return to the present Parliament. To the latest moment they had persisted in adhering to what, in the language of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, may be called "the obsolete politics of exhausted faction." But at the familiar whistle of the Treasury whipper-in, these agricultural CATOB have suddenly become the most docile and obedient of men. Dowa they all lie on their faces, mute in make-believe submission to an irresistible fate. Is this a capitulation on honourable terms, or an ambuscade for the purpose of luring the unwary into new toils of clue monopoly P The warning of Mr. BRIGHT will not be unheeded by all true Mends of equal and just legislation ; and, when the long-promised budget makes its appearance, we shall be able to judge clearly with what degree of prescience the warning has been given. The manly address of Mr. FREDERICK PEEL ap propriately terminated the discussion on the Liberal side; and his brief but touching allusion to the memory of his father recalled to every high-minded and generous heart the duty still remaining unper formed, of doing tardy justice to the man who re pealed the Corn Law. " Something is indeed due to the past ;" and however the discharge of the national obligation may be deferred by intrigue and hypocrisy from day to day, sooner or later the "wisdom and justice " of the great work of the great states man will be acknowledged unconditionally and un reaervedly, as it deserves to be. GERMANY. Tho Emperor has conferred on the Chevalier litilsemann, whose name as Charbrit d'Atftins d Austria at Washington became prientheitt about the time of Kossuth's arrival in America, the Impetial Order of the Iron Crown. The execution of the eumtoms treaty between Austria, and Modena, and Parma, is ps.tponed horn Nov. 1 to Dec. 1. The news of the so-called reduction in the French army was appreciated immediately on i ts arr i val in V Vienna at its true value in government circles. The semi. official Correspondence remarks:—•• We cannot at tribute any very great impartanct., trona a military point of view, to the disbanding of 30,000 men. By means of the exceediagly efficient organisation of the French army, an equal force might be called under colours, from the 'modae of persons owing military service to the state, in a few days. The military position of France towards her neigh bours has consequently undergone no change.' With the opening prospect of possible aggressions on the Germanic territory by kismet., various go vernments of the confederation begin once more, as in 1840, to bethink themselves of increasing the eflick ocy of the federal army, which at present is manifestly at the lowest possible point. The certainty that, upon an emergency, the six-and-thirty regents of Germany would bo able to reck o n on the well equippsd and valorous armies of Austria and Prussia, has always tended to confirm the feeling of indif. ference under which the federal forces have fallen into their present state of inefficiency; nut the latter evil has been greatly increased b . the clumsy con stitution of tho war administration of the Bond. ill April, 1818, the military committee of the Frankfort Diet declared the urgent necessity of rendering the federal milita y organization more compact and united than it then was, but nothing has since been dorm in this direction. Long before that date, however, Prussia had been using every exer tion to introduce into the military affairs of the Ger. manic body that centralisation of power which would make it possible to turn the federal forces at once against an invader, but her efforts were in vain. .111 business relative to the general army must pus through three stadia, must come bet. re the Federal Diet, the Military Committee of the Diet, and the Federal Military Board. Upon the Lice of it this arrangement is adapted far less for efficient working upon the occurrence of such crises as alone than :he maintenance of a large military force than to satisfy the jealousies of the powers who furnish federal contingents. The result is that with a nominal army of near 300,000 men the states of Germany DA themselves every time a rumour of invasion is wafted from beyond the Rhine, where are the troops of Austria and Prussia? It was to remove, or rather abate, this evil that Pruapia SOUK: time since entered into military conventions with Mecklenburg, Brum wick, Baden, and other states; but these agreements have uniformly been regarded with suspicion by Austria, whose remonstrances have more than ones led to their abandonment. The outbreak, or even the prospect of the war, with a find-rate power like Franco would make obvious to Europe that which is never absent from the perception of Germany—that the military, like the political organisation of the confederation, is a gigantic imposture. The Carlsruhe Gazelle has the following from Frankfort, 18th:—" General Latnoricikii arrived here a few days since from Hamburg to dine at an hotel. Some Frenchmen, who have taken up them temporary residence in this city and neighbourhoods dined with lam. The dinner was served an a private room, and the company afterwards separated. In the evening the French minister was informed of what bad taken place. On the following day the master of the hotel was summoned before the rime, and asked why he had not announced the arrival of the general at his house, to which he replied that the law only applied to atm germ who pawed the night o th f ere th , e an d d an tha h t e as h tle t i n ess tlie w nione considered it give notice to the authorities" REASONS FOR VOTING Tit E EMPIRE. The zeal of Louis Napoleon's prelets and mare deserves to be commemorated. N. Chais! de Moamar , pretet of the Haute G aronne , urges on his.te low.citircr• to vote by a proclamation in which hr says :—.• Providence. wishing to give a special mark of its favour to loon, sends these splendid autumnal days which are Pre paring fur us the abundance of spring.' M. Berard, prefet of the lv;.re, says .—" You roust in tG foreigner know your will by a united voice. You remem ber the unfortunate treaties of ISO, and you kuow this dropping your ' yes' into the urn you tear out their lag page. Where is the Frenchman who would let such as op- Portant', go by ? And you, eapecially, inbibitanto of the hire, who were not alrat,i in the great day 01 March 1815, to hurl defiance of Europe, and light up the fires 01 war in acclaiming the illustrious exile of " 5 will " I shrink to-day from avenging the honour of Prance l'y fearful voting paper, and assuring to all the return of tear quality. peace, and prosperity." The Preset of Pont Eveque has issued a proclamation , in which he says:—" The sick and infirm in rem.. of oaf hospitals lime:pressed their chagrin at finding therasclrel excluded from the great met which is shout at he vow plished ; MM. les Manes are therefore requestid to earl they may receive the votes of the old and the the ballot•hox round to the hospitals. In the mime winner sick at Og g own homes, if desired." M. liuilloud, Maire of Guillatiere, thus addresses the elector!: You will not abstain from voting, and re, bulletins will not contain a single ' No.' The deb ate, Waterloo has long weighed on the heart of France. the Holy Alli.ince has always appeared to you an insolent menace, the rock of St. Helena in your eyes was nay ' be expiation of our glory." The cause of Mr. Hume's absence frnm the Ihuss of Cumulous this week is the death of a lamented one. Sn' Eni Ito! go• qui WO Sac no str tl •