The Express. — London, England, 1851-06-16 00:00:00

NEWS from the CANT'ERCRY COLONISTS. owl. et the MO et LYTTIILTOW area "WNW l• she es dm llth gr kromary be Nisar g iv• Oltaifir ralrailliograer art. 10. es MteirseetNß DrePor il w i W re e tlis Pelm-10. the Orpreoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A limed Edition of " Time cootelamy be IMMO *Wain . . " Otertte," pobilebed mei Tends, boa FrWey Lib% to Wes fir pa. afeveuensteatetoteneted far Tbe Lewes.," Lades Zweig paper. owe be d once, to, llooverbe.sirome, by Two eels* es the day of pabOtolleo. RION WATER AT U Tins D.7—Notang. ta. 31... Twonsiow—Manna& Y. an- U. 31s. LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 10. . „ IT is di ffi cult to conceive a judicial act at once so atrocious and so ridiculous as the condemnation just *warded in Paris of six months' imprisonment and a heavy tine to the son of VICTOR lluoo, for having written an article against capital punishments. The occasion of the article was the execution of Mosacti,temsn at Chalons. MONTCIIARMANT was in some degree a monomaniac, who had an idea that every one was bent on injuring him. Having been condemned for some breach of the game laws, he took revenge on those who had aided in convicting or arresting him, shooting them all, the accuser, the yank champetre, and others. Endowed with great physical force and ungovernable passion, he was more dangemus than any wild beast. lie was sentenced; but when brought for execution he broke his fetters, seized the ladders, tang himself Oil th- ground, and so strenuously re sisted till attempts to bring him on the scaffold, that the execution was obliged to be deferred. And a reinforcement of aid being furnished to the execu tioner, MON 1( IRRIIANT was executed that same evening. The subject was one that could not fail to call forth strong expressions of disgust on the part of those who look upon capital punishment as a bar barism and an injustice. do M. CIIARLF:.4 Go thought it, and he accordingly published in the Bremen', tit his sentiments. Capital punishments, always disgusting, were rendertsl a hundred fold no in the present instancy, when) the execu tioner and Ins victiin struggktl fur hours before a crowd. whose sympathies were in some degree excited in favour even of this murderer. To avoid such results, M. HUGO recommended execution after the American fashion, in the court of the prison, if capital punishment could not be done away with altogether; with the addition of the usual ex pletives employed by an angry journalist on a sub ject on whichle feels strongly, such was the crime of M. COARLYA ltre,o. And for such he is im snored fur nix months, and his year's earnings are confiscated to the state! _ . Nothing eau do Nct more fully the utter oblitera tion of all moral sentiment which pervades the French at present in their public acts. The better, the administrative and functionary clam, have but one sentiment, fear of wwialism, and eonsequent dread and horror of every innovation, which is of course con founded with socialism. One of the prevalent theories with socialists is, that the entire system of law is a humbug, that the profession of law is idle and pernicious, that any man of common sense and right reason, elected by his fellow-citizens to sit on the seat of justice, would give more satisfaction and deal forth better equity than the professional and political judge. As the soldiers in France were led to resent as a body the triumph over them and the attacks upon them by the red republicans, so the lawyer tribe arc amongst the most inveterate enemw of the socialists, and heaven help the stray professor of that sect, or of aught that resem bles it, who falls, as poor enaur.es ]deco did the other day, into the fangs of a French court of justice. As to the jure. they who compose it are mere wax in the hands of the French judge, and their verdicts and sentences are such as outrage com mon decency and common sense. We should strongly recommend the memb:rs of the Peace Society to choose sonic more hospitable place of rendezvous for their next meeting than any town in France. The name of Elmo, instead of being a protection, will draw down persecution. If an article in a journal against the punishment of death he treasonable against the administration of justice, a speech denouncing the oholo sale murder of war will be treason more dire against the majesty of the 11 . ar-otßee. To preach, indeed, that society could have been mis taken in any of its old habits, such as wholesale executions, sanguinary wars, feudal exactions, or !r -aiding time supremacy of the priesthood—all this will be treason to France, and will be visited by severe verdicts, and expiated in long hours of solitary confinement. _ . When such are the risks, such the pains and penalties of the French press in discussions purely . philosophical, we can imagine how free it is in tho region of political discussion. And yet the press is the only mode of expressing opinion, for any thing in the way of a public meeting is illegal and strictly forbidden. The I. much, in the ensuing ycar,will have to modify their constitution or retain it, will' have to elect another Assembly or Assemblies, on which the fate of the country will depend ; they will have to enthrone another )'resident, or perhaps a King. And yet discussion is so prohibited, and • freedom of thought and writing so nullified in a country endowed with these powers, that an opinion repudiating the punishment of death. au opinion al ready consecrated by law for political offences, is visited with penalties scarcely awarded to the house breaker or the footpad. BATII is about to make choice of a new represen tative in parliament. Two candidates are said to be in the field on opposite principles ; but the liberal, we underst and, is pretty sure of being returned. Popular °pinkie in Bath owes itself some reparation tbr the indolence or caprice which caused it to suffer ' the exclusion of Mr. Roenrcs and the intrusion in • his stead of Lord AVILES% at the general election of 1817. We have often differed from the honourable and learned:gentlenian on matters of detail • but we have far more frequentl y . bad reason to dissent from the noble lord on essential principles of policy. And how the same constituency could have ever reconciled itself to make such an exchange is more than we have discernment to comprehend. Lord Asitter's ascent to the chamber of peers may not be deemed by his friends equivalent to hie political extinction; though few reputations have been known to survive after passing that bourse whence no commoner returns. What wadi Baovial is have given during the last fifteen years to be buck in the theatre of his early efforts and triumphs once more? What would STANLEY give that he had not been be . trayed by his impatience of Pest's overshadowing greatness and fame into premature elevation to the peerage? Fur earnest and ambitious men, the House of Commons is the fitting scene. They perish slowly but certainly in the raritied atmosphere to which they have been previously unaccustomed. Their energy . dies out gradually for lack of sympathy and recognition. The tine name fur lordly inaiffer once and ennui is philosophic and judicial ohm. Bat whatever be the theoretic value of such a ~,i-disost council of sedate sages, it is plainly as dissimilar from the stirring, active, fluctuating element of representative power as the cut-stone basin wherein Fold and silver minnows lost differs from the rushing stream. Nothing very greet, in any sense of the term, ever came to ma turity in the one; and few whose habits and whose powers have been formed in the other have endured without suffering fl-om the change. And if the late member foe Bath were a man of capabilities or powers deserving in any sense the same of great, we should apprehend injury free the transfer he has recently undergone. Did be romps • n we should fear the influence of the wel,l - of pity which manifestations of that ant are likely to encounter in the House of &seers. Were he an orator we should fear for his inability to detain an audience engrossed till half-past seven with apprehensions lest " the fish be overdone," and from that hour till the witching time of night, lest they should miss other pleasures inferior only to dinner. But Lord ASHLEY (dud mu) did not pretend to be an orator. His egression= in dr many amiable projects be from time to due patronised savoured rather of philanthropic then of tat poetic species of enthusiasm we l ac eg :i n tterance is elnquenee. hit peers will never open their athetissitors Fyn' at ' ‘ the new Lord Stuirresnears peribtmences in Air tone. His monotonous tones, like thou 'of a street organ familiarising the cadences of a German hymn, will often be performed almost to inanimate walls. Nobody can say the effort is not well meant, but if evervliody were to tell the truth, the performance would generally be voted a bore. So it was in the Commons; so it will be in the Lords: neither much better nor worse. So that, upon the whole, the new ikre of the hereditary principle is likely to suffer Les by the change than abler and more distinguished Mu. We know little of the personal qualifications of the gentleman who it is probable will be named by the constituency of Bath as their future representa tive. Politically we understand that he is tho roughly pledged to maintain the policy of commer cial freedom against all encroachments or modifica tions proposed in a reactionary sense. We hope ho will be found equally firm in strengthening the hands of the friends of electoral reform. Until some comprehensive change of this kind shall have been accomplished, the hope of retrogression in all that the country has gained daring . the last ten years will not be finally extinguished in the minds of the old oligarchy—the power of attaining further and other benefits cannot be secured to the industrious, improving, and intelli gent millions who are the body and the brains of the state. So long as a system luta whereby , a consti tuency capable of appreciating the independence and couraw, the talents and the attainments of a man like Mr. Rorsecu, and desirous for many years of being able to command his services in parliament, can be cheated into getting instead a condescending noble or dilettante lecturer on mo rality, whose instincts and antecedents arc thoroughly identified in all constitutional questions with the privileged and exclusive classes, and the mainte nance of their domination,—so long the country must be disturbed by perpetually recurring fears of reac tion, hindrance, and lss. It is time to take inea• sures on this fundamental question ; and the best and most practical measure is that of securing a majority in parliament pledged to efficient and com plete suffrage reform. 1111 TO TILE BISHOP OF LONDON. Mi Lottn,—ln the month of March in the present year you wrote a letter to the Marquis of Cholmon detev, as president of the Foreign Aid Society, re femng to the expected arrival in England of several foreign protestant ministers. You said, "It appears to me that we may, in perfect consistency with our obligations as members of the church of England, assist in providing those of our guests who belong to protestant churches, and hold the great doctrines of evangelical truth, with the means of attending the public service of God, according to their own forms of worship,during the short period of their visit to this country, although such services could not be performed in our churches, nor could any of our clergy properly take part in them." You added—" I think such assistance, tendered in the spirit of Christian love, walk no more than a proper acknowledgment of the kindness with which in seve ral continental towns the consistories or ministers of different protestant churches have allowed us to use their places of worship for the celebration of divine service according to the rites of the English church. can speak to this from my own experience, having myself officiated in several churches, both of the Lutheran and reformed communities, on the con tinent." _ . . YOU brought to public notice a letter addressed by the late Archbishop of Canterbury in behalf of " his brother bishops," in 1833, "to the company of pastors of the Swiss church assembling at Genc%o." You at that time gave your assent to the language of that letter, and now again repeat your adhesion to it. It contains passages such as these : —" My brother bishops as well as myself arc much gratified by this proof of your confidence in our rooted attachment to the holy cause of the reforma tion, and of our high respect fur the protestant churches on the continent, and sincere concern for their welfare." "We deeply appreciate the feeling of religious joy with which you look forward to the commemoration of that noble achievement (the Reformation) which brought light out of dark ness, and rescued your church from the shackles of papal domination and the tyrannical imposition of a corrupt faith and a superstitious ritual. •We are exceedingly gratified by tho desire expressed by your venerable company for the appointment of de puties to amist at the festival as representatives of the church of England." " You may be assured et our cordial sympathy." My lord, your letter, bearing the attestation of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Winches ter as to their full concurrence in its sentiments and objects, was very gladly received as a document of great value and importance. Its importance was en hanced by its reference to the letter of the late arch bishop in 153.1. It was still further enhanced, be cause it was supposed to yield evidence of your un swerving attaclunent to tho principles of the Refor mation. It must not be concealed from you that such evidence was felt to be much needed by those who were personally attached to you, as well as by those who were coasters that our church was suffering through the enspesimil lastability and soundness of one of its add pesters. It had been observed with infinite pain that though Mr. Bennet, with arrogant defiance, had peseeed upon you state ment after statement of dsek contrary to the teach ing of wiper*, and thornlike of our church, you never amiseverted, never selmked these, but de scended always to question steandlesticks and bow leg/eel Sam= and of mamma So it has been in imeMmess seek as those ef Messrs. Murray, Dods wank Richards, Base. The anti-scriptural Isheimed on wide& them men built their follies was he untouched, unquestkeed. This letter, altogether and unimpeded, proceeding frem your os a perfoedy spontaneous act en your part, pyre utmost saddled= to these who had been mourning over the inadstpmey el your language and the feebleness of your casket throughout those miserable discussions which the folly and obstinacy dlitz. Bennet had forced mum you. Tear letter found aim low of your clergy ready to adopt the course which it appeared to recommend with reference to the foreign Ministers. It had been perfectly well known, even if your brdahip had not adverted to the fact, that the law does absolutely prohibit any other service in our parochial churches or chapels but that which is so explicitly prescribed in the act of uniformity. It is just as well known that this act does not extend to proprietary chapels. Some of your clergy, proprietors of these private chapels, seeing how your lordship expressed your gratitude "in having been yourself allowed to officiate, according to the rites of the English church, inseveral churches, both of the Lutheran and reformed communities, on the continent," thought they could not better meet your wishes and recommendations than by .permit ting the foreign ministers to " officiate " in their chapels " according to their own rites." And now, my lord, what return do you make to there ministers, who only adopted the conduct which you appeared to suggest? What encouragement do you give to those who bad, more than willingly, en- asavoured to renew their confidence in your lord ship's soundness and stability? A gentleman, who is kip mischievous beams his policy is to remove hbmW es mach as psalm Sam public notice sad RI aniniadver baisoz ar dw ik =tint wonted policy. Mr. W. Upton of the challt I‘iargerststreet, whisk is mew converted into a descrier clunk "ventures is submit to your laraehip haw mash distress of mind many members of his sempepetion id at the waded al the 'ministers of mass prepeielsey is Leaden who have re okay alisired this pains arearises brain reformed !aggregations to presehiatheirpsiphs, *may redac- tag ear embolic church to an siraattay with those MAWR Mb hl thes i c i at=e." He alms that , " church of En Pere Ravignan as a past of the alumna aboak, while, on the ether lalwA, it spree M. Hagar and M. Merle d'Aubigne i d:Assessmil 2111 Z aim* He i your not to be anise this outrage upon our ' dash and entreats as oily answer, as the minds of SO many are so sadly pied. Tow lordship has ghat ea wdy answer. Let us se *dim it Is a fit ase. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1851. No one knows better than your lordah;p that in no church within your diocese were " the his trionic arrangemcnta" of which your r,harge •-:--1 min iod to *ore catceasi!o leneM is ChapeL It an your lordship *as remonstrated -eg o : the appointment of Mr. Richard, saw • district was, completed, op this ye _c ground of the corrupt tenancies of his punch ing and practices. It cannot be believed that your t of the rumour that Mr. Richards mere — and priestly absolution as fleece; wry to a tarbig or beneficial communion in the of the Lord, or of the fact that he did, if banes not now, admit choristers to the choir by a special service not recognised or authorised by oar church, or of the address which he circulated among his parishioners teaching as doctrine that which our church denies. Your lordship cannot forget that no congregation boa given more converts to Homo than that of Margaret-street Chapel. How, then, does your lordship answer this gen tleman who takes it upon himself to rebuke the de claration of 1835, and the letter bearing your own signature and that of the Archbishop of Canterbury ? ' I 1/o you tell him that he is among the last of those who should speak of fidelity to the church of Eng land. Are you consistent with your own so lately written letter, now circulated throughout Europe, and answer him that the church of England knows of "no priest of the universal church"? Do you remind him how our church teaches that they are lawful ministers " which be chosen and called to this work by men who have public authority given unto them in the congregation to call and send ministers into the Lord's vineyard"—and that Merle d'Aubigne is as truly minister of Christ as is the Bishop of London ? Do you applaud, encourage the ministers, who have but, as they thought, followed your desires? Here is the answer : Fulham, June 11, DIAa Stit,—My attention had been called to the notice affixed to Portman Chapel before I received your letter, and I have written to Mr. Reeve, pointing out to him the illegality of his proceeding, and expressing my surprise at his having made such an arrangement without any previous reference to me. Woburn Chapel had not been brought to my notice till I received your letter. I shall communicate with Mr. Dale this morning. I am, dear sir, your faithful servant, The Rev. W. C. Richards. C. J. LONDON. My lord, more persons will feel much distress of mind—will be sadly perplexed—than only Mr. Richards's congregation ; persons, also, more to be cherished than that hybrid congregation. My lord, you have called in more to judge of your conduct than only your own countrymen. More is at stake than only your own reputation. It is not irreverent to pray you, for God's sake, to break with the Anti. Anglican faction, which you have toa long allowed to surround and to hamper you. If upon this occa sion you again fail, you will have lost for ever the remnant of confidence which some were willing still to place in you. I am, my lord, very faithfully yours, VIGIL ITALY. Our Roman correspondent states in his letter of the 10th inst. that two Roman soldiers were shot on that morning, according to the sentence of a French court-martial, for assaults on French soldiers. These executions had produced a deep sensation. The intelligence (already published) of the Austrians having occupied Spoleto had reached Rome. Ex change on London,477 l ‘. The police of Turin have conducted to the fron tier Count Bertola di ltimini, a spy and agent of Austria and Rome. The Chamber of Deputies has voted the abolition of the privileges of Nice from 11954, and the revision of the tariff in 18.15. NAPLES, Jess 7. Many reports are in circulation here relative to the health of the King, and I observe the Italian journals are very erroneously informed on this as ou most other subjects. The fact is his Majesty has adered of late from slight indisposition, and as he is Mown to be dropsical it was asserted that the dis mss was making rapid strides. I have it from medical authority that there is no immediate danger. "His Majesty," said my informant, "is twenty rare older in body than ho was two years since. The King's hair is silvery white, and on the occasion of his birthday, which occurred on the 30th of last month, those who attended the reception agree in similar statements. Ferdinand's military passion appears to increase ; his Majesty devotes all his time to warlike preparations, camps and soldiering in every shape. Nearly six thousand recruits have been sent off for Sicily, which are to replace old troops, that the King may empirg " the flower of the army" in the intended expedition to Home, should Austria call upon him to o so. Here I may observe the Roman note to Austria has created great sensation, though very little surprise. The court party assert there is no truth in the whole affair; that it was never, in fact, written by Antoneili. Be this as it may, the desires and hopes of that docu ment are precisely thew of tho Gaeta plot ; it is, in fact, the pressing of a policy planned by tho Jesuits for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, the King of Naples, and the Pope, and which I have already pointed out. Whatever may be said to the contrary, you will find the King of Naples deeply engaged in the events of 1832, should the sword be drawn. His Majesty can spare 40,000 or .50,000 troops, such as they are, and even then possess an army at home larger than that which existed before the events of 1848. The King has evidently an idea of changing his policy at home ; not one pardon appeared in the official journal on the occasion of his Majesty's birth day, as is generally the case. Poerio and his com panions still wear their chains; the spy is equally active, and the prisons arc as crowded as ever. The King's councils are torn by the contending police and military authorities. Reports from the pro vinces represent endless squabbles between the civil and bayonet rule, and what with the one and the other, law becomes rather the caprice of the functionary than the rule of the state. I hear the Neapolitan government has promised to grant a concession for a-railway from Naples to Puglia, if M. Falcon, who is to form the company, can raise the funds in Belgium. Now, in 1840, this line was granted to an English company formed by Mr. Chadwick, and 10,0001. was deposited as a guarantee that the works should commence at a stated period. Political events here, as well as financial difficulties at home, induced the company to petition for a prolongation of the time stated in the concession for the commencement of the line. That period has also long since expired, and the English company has lost altogether not less than 20,000/. If the auditors of Mr. Chadwick intend to recover any of these losses there is no time to lose. The Neapolitan government has not touched the original deposit money, but it may be appropriated to the new company. M. Bayard is to have the Caserta line to Rome, and is now raising the funds. A diffi culty has arisen from the fact that the Neapolitan government wishes to work the Caserta line from the junction, and proposes to transfer passengers and luggage to their own cars and waggons at that point, which would create much difficulty and annoyance. The government is to guarantee 4 per cent. P. 6.—1 have ascertained the Pope is expected at Gaeta on a visit to his Neapolitan Majesty. If such an event really takes place, the Austrian move on Rome will certainly follow. I have reason to sup pose communications from the Vatican state the ne cessity of this decision, originating from the want of confidence in the French government. Beyond doubt, preparations have been made at Gaeta for the reception of some one, and a considerable number of troopp are concentrated in that direction. Several cardinals are also expected. The whole plan, I hear, is suggested by Austria. Neapolitan Fives, 1024. Exchange on Lon don, 6.9. OPERATIONS OP THE ENCCIABERSD ESTATES COE uissioN.-0a Saturday a paslkassatasy paper was printed, 1 by order elate Hare of Lewis, &swift the working of the ' Encumbarad Maim Cam Wan la Wand. Thu total' number of petitions NM to the 30th ult. was 1,803. The noweber of petition OMNI is esgelar_course was Loa, NA the weal amber of aeOwes amiatesi was 242. Tim date of the smart emiteW rain was tile till et November last The aster if ps*lns &Wed wpm model ap pikatien, which were hied dam the lath of November, was NW RieutTfiNG FOl TIM MIMI DT PINsIONIMA.—The . _ _ United &met Gore he dame : “ Oemelderable dilemma of opiates Immingham Lase the military monition Ito teas eatellaset sr rit refiSfisjillsrimn in the veleuilint, It lee lota sposumem tt toy ex ert lie yin is of ore to teams with the riativ iak irw illoisiee. Noattesaihn b. however, for the prcetnt to loe nude wilt dr Melt belles tibia 01l recraite us there to be bought tskonard." FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. The incongruous composition of the Committee on Revision is already producing its fruits. The sit tings of this deliberative assembly of fifteen rival in storminess and Waster the debates of the chaotic legislature from which it was hatched. In the last sitting a fierce dispute between MM. Montalembert and Barn was succeeded by a fiery altercation be tween' MM. Jules Fevre and Berryer. To-day General Cavaignac developed the proposition, that the question of republic or monarchy ought not to be permitted to be raised M. Berryer made a vehe ment speech in reply. The discussion was opened by M. de Montalembert, and followed up by Charms and de Tocqueville. After a tempestuous sitting, the committee adjourned till Monday. An incident of great importance in the debate of yesterday was the stroke by which Lamoriciere cut short the debate raised upon passive obedience and intelligent bayonets. Barnguay d'Hilliers and Chan gamier had spoken with reference to the personal allusions of Charms on the day before, and the latter was about to reply, when Lamoriciere, with great vivacity, started up and called for the close of the incident. The effect was electric. The artifice ofthe Mountain in working this theme to the dissolution of all military discipline, and preaching from the tribune the right ofprivate judgment tithe soldier was rebuked with irresistible authority by a champion of liberal institutions. Lamoriciere had spoken on the second reading of the bill, and warned the Assembly against depopularising the national guard by de stroying its municipal character and turning it into a gendarmerie. But his feelings as a military , officer and a statesman were revolted by the pro-1 pagation from the parliamentary tribune of dectrinse calculated to sow doubt and irresolution in every barracks, and to relax the nerves of power by which the law is upheld. On the other hand the democrats are naturally chafed and irritated by what they consider little short of tergiversation and treason in a professed ally. After this incident, the forces of the Mountain, having sustained a pitched battle upon the general principle of the new National Guard Bill, took their stand upon the 14th article, which consigns to the reserve those citizens for whom the ordinary service is pronounced too onerous. M. Nadaud, the mason, a speaker whose naive idiom procures him an in dulgence soon neutralised by his communist doc trines and malignant asperity against the rich and powerful, made a rambling speech, in which he ripped up the history of the last half century, pass ing in review the whole range of legislation, customs, taxes, administration, the civil code, and lighting of at the end of a long flight upon the laws. . Ma f. The tendency of speeches like Nadatufs is peculiar y offensive to the majority, because they feel that the crude Jaeobinism of this philosophic Cade will be passed from hand to unwashed hand in taverns and ateliers, and hailed by the ourriers as the courageous utterance of their political gospel. C,nsequently, the speech of M. Nadaud was the signal for a series of pungent epigrams,_ posing interruptions , hitter jeers, which multiplied as the enterprising Montag nard proceeded, till at last he was fain to shelter himself in silence against the pelting of the pitiless storm. M. Pierre Leroux, in pointing out the edi fying circumstances of his colleague's harangue, raised roars of laughter by calling him a man with out education, as if that want gave an interesting air of ingenuousness to the unlicked communism of M. Nadaud. To-day the Assembly entered upon the discussion of the bill for prolonging the powers of the municipal bodies until the promulgation of the new organic law. Urgency was declared. M. Pascal I)uprat then made a long speech in opposition to the bill. After a debate, in which MM. Monet, Laroeheja relit', Leon Faucher, and de I,arcy took part, the single article of the hill prolonging the councils general, councils of arrondissement, and municipal councils, until the Ist of December, was adopted. The sitting then broke up. In consequence of the reluctance of the Assembly to embark once more so soon upon a subject which has already given occasion for speeches of a mis chievous tendency on the duty of the soldier, the third deliberation on the pay of the decorated soldiers of June has been adjourned. The government is a good deal vexed at the austere spirit of retrenchment which is presiding over the proceedings of the committee of the Budget. The suppression of the grant to the Italian Opera will be sharply disputed. A considerable improvement took place to-day in the funds. The Fives closed at 92.43, with a rise of We. The Threes rose 20c., and closed at 33.50. M. Dumas, late Minister of Commerce, has just left Paris for London. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. Last night at 11 the Court of Hainault gave sentence in the trial of the Bocarmes. The count was sentenced to death : the countess was acquitted. The debate in the Committee of Revision yester day was exceedingly animated. General Cavaignac demanded the close of the general debate, and pro posed that the committee should occupy itself first with the question of " monarchy or republic." M. DE MONTALMIDERT regarded the election the 10th December as a protest against the men and the things of February, but not as a return to monarchy. It was a re action in favour of the ideas of order. Ito thought that the permanence of the legislative power was an im mense inconvenience. On the other hand, men of influence and consideration talked of abolishing the presidency. On every side some objection was brought against the existing state of things. Ilow was it possible to resist these universal complaints. The constitution was defended as a barrier to the re-election of the President. But such an argument would have no weight whatever with the people, who would be quite justified in their dis satisfaction at not being consulted on such a question. The national sovereignty ought to be sacred, especially for republicans. How refuse the people the exercise of their right? The re-election of the President was not feared by the country. What was humanly possible the President had done, us regarded his duty ; the accumulation of petitions was a totimony of it. If, as had been pretended, these peti teams had been squeesed out by the pressure of the adminis tration, what earthly power could have raked together 800000 signatures in favour of the republic ? In conclusion, if the President was re-elected in spite of the constitution, lan immense danger would arise, which ought to be pre ' vented by making the re-election optional. M. DE Tociaczyttte declared in favour of revision, as well as M. Odilon Barrot. Ile thought that it was their duty at this moment to set about the amendment of the republican institutions. Next, inquiring what were the most practical means of proceeding legally to work, he indicated, as a direct and essential preliminary, the alteration of the electoral law of May. But he thought that if the constitution could not be revised legally, the only course for the Assembly was to submit, and to make the law respected. M. CitARRAS admitted the national sovereignty, which be confessed to be the solo source of right. But he would vote against revising the constitution. Ile demaded the repeal of the law of May 31, by which the national sovereignty had been maimed. He would not vote for revision so long so the right of meeting, particularly for electoral purposes, was denied ; while boundless license was permitted to the propagators of imperialion,and six depart ments were in a state of siege. It would be madam to convoke a constituent for October or November, while the President had still six months before him. No doubt there were great defects in the constitution ; but the new constituent would not make one a bit better. If the Assembly had been sin cerely republican, the President would:have been curbed. The election of the 10th December was a protest against the treaties of 1813. The peasantry voted with cries of Wive la Republique! Viva l'Empereur General Cavaignac represented the boormiMMe ; Louis Napoleon represented socialism. " You are afraid," he concluded, " of an uncon stitutional re-election, and you favour it." General CAVAIGNAC said that he did not feel himself at liberty to enter into discussion with those who began by wishing to get rid of the republic. The ground of argument ought first to be cleared of the question be tween monarchy and the republic ; and when they came to the details he would point out a line of discussion by which they might arrive at the formulation of an opinion. The republic was the only form of government founded on the sovereignty of the people ; monarchy was the exclusion of that principle. He challenged the royalists to propose their Principle. He would drive them to do so at the tribune. First, the committee ought to examine the motions for par tial, and afterwards for total revision. The intention of the motion of the Rue des Pyramids was to bring the Assembly to vote the revision, and to shirk the debate. But revision was a crisis, and it became the Assembly tempest out at each a juncture. He admitted the foree of national sovereignty, but this principle had ita limits ; and be eantioned he regarded with great distrust the readiness with whisk the new partisans of the sovereignty of thelpeopie appeolad to it for the de of all questions. Total sivisisa ks mail *sly aft* as dr result ofdebating the white at Ist mothball tram *AU kat over again. But the first questiso Mama that aflame:thy. He knew that the debate wield Essmostrate the impotence of the monarch ists, and that the republic would emerge triumphant from the emit& After tlus trial the war would naturally stop. No doubt the constitution was defective. He would prefer indirect rased= of the President, which would leave a freer field kr competition among numerous candidates. The republic would meet less opposition. Nevertheless, he would vote against revision, because the constitution, im perfect as it was, constituted a valuable barrier against usurpation. The tith article was, in partiottlar, apart from all personalio.usiderations, a principle indispensable to the life et the republic. It was the fixture of men which pre vented the fixture of affairs. The only means of rendering power stable In France was by divorcing it from all per sonal pretensions. Mr. BEILILYER said that :the predominating idea in his mind, in voting for revision, was to avert the chance of a greater evil, tho unconstitutional re-election of the Prod dent. As for the limits of the faculties of the constituent, they had no right to make a programme or to dictate a line of conduct; in fact, it was impossible, in the present state of the country, to do so. Every set of people took up a different point of view in objecting to the present state of things; therefore the most reasonable way of satisfying all was to set no limit to the power of change. Ito and his friends thought that the republic government was not the sort of government which the country wanted, or which was good for it. Ho thought there was no other path of progress open for an ancient stream of so ciety, but the channel by which it had arrived at its broadest and deepest development, the hereditary perpetuation of power and representative institutions. But, grenting the republic, still the constitution was bad. It lay not in their province to decide whether the majority of the nation preferred monarchy to the republic. The Assembly had not the right to do so. It could only convoke the con• stitueut in the terms laid down by the 111th article. The sitting was adjourned to Tuesday, without any resolution having been taken. The bill of the government for adjourning the municipal elections did not pass yesterday without some severe questioning from opposite sides of the house. M. Leon Faucher declared that the sole object of the government in adjourning the elections was to avoid the agitation inseparable from the repetition of the elections six months hence under the empire of a new law, after the enactment of the Municipal Bill. Larochejacquelin said that the obvious meaning of the adjournment was to shirk the application of the law of May 31, and that he accepted the bill as a protest against the present electoral law. M. Leon Faucher declared that the ministry could not accept such an interpretation, anti that he preferred with drawing the bill to countenancing such a construction of the government's policy. The charge of the Archbishop of Paris occupies several columns of the papers, in which the mainte nance of order and the progress of wise reforms are shown to spring from the bases of chat ity and justice. A filiture deserving of attention in this document is that papers of the most opposed principles, such as the Silde and Debuts agree in praising it. The delegates of the beetroot interest have pre sented a petition to the President of the Republic to exercise his prerogative in their favour by sending hack the sugar bill to undergo a fresh deliberation. There would indeed be a just pretext for such a step, one of the moat important clauses having been foisted in on the third reading by a majority of five. SPAIN. MADRID, Jt'NE 10. The Marquis of Miraßores, Ministm: of Foreign Affairs, declared in the sitting of the senate this day, that if the intervention of Spain WWI called for in the affairs of Portugal, this intervention would only take place after previous agreement between Spain, and the powers which signed the treaty of the quadruple alliance. A naval force of observation is to sail from Cadiz, to the mouth of the Tagus. The boundary question of Navarre is to be settled by a French and Spanish commissioner. Our correspondent states in his letter of the 10th, that the difficulties of the ministry daily increase by reason of the unmitigated bitterness of the moderado party ; and that it seems likely that Bravo Murillo will be obliged, in the long run, to give way to a Rios-Roans cabinet. To-day Vidal made a speech two hours long, which was one torrent of aczusa tions against the government. Bravo Murillo was speaking in reply when the post left. In the senate the bill for levying 25,000 men was passed to the last article; but the number of senators present was insufficient to vote the enseinbk of the bill. GERMANY. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, Jr Nr. 14. The military commission of the Diet meets daily, and is said to be very industrious. Its labours are, how ever, kept very secret, and I am told that it has been ar ranged between the several plenipotentiaries to keep the fo reign ambassadors, especially those of England and France, as much in the dark ,u possible. It may be good policy on the part of the Diet, but its success must be considered very questionable. It is quite impossible for that very august body so thoroughly to conceal from all eyes their plans, and still more so the mode in which they are being carried out, that they do nut become public. With al , their secrecy it has already become known that the military committee has prepared a resolution calling upon all the federal states to hold their contingents in readiness to march at eight days' notice, and it is believed that in the sitting of the Engere Rath, which took place yesterday, that resolution was sanctioned sod ordered to be carried out. It is further publicly known that orders have already been issued, in consequence of a recommendation to that efl'ect from the military committee, to place all the federal fortresses, Itastatt, Luxemburg, Landau, blayence, and Vim, on a war footing. The necessary repairs are to be made immediately, and provisions for several months to be provided. Gangs of workmen are already at work on the fortress of Landau, in Bavaria, which of all most needed repair. BERLIN, Just 13. Though not much is distinctly known of the Warsaw and Olmutz conferences, thus much is pretty generally in the best informed circles here positively affirmed, viz., that Russia has decidedly objected to the annexation of the Danish monarchy to the German confederation, with respect to the incorporation of the Austrian monarchy therein, the Czar affects neutrality—knowing that the oppo- talon ol*Franee and England to 'that measure will be arurtii eient to prevent its taking place. HAMBURG. A letter, dated Hamburg, Juno 11, says Since the late tragic occurrence at St. Pauli the telegraph between that city and Vienna has been kept in con stant occupation by General Legeditsch, the Aus trian commander. This officer has as yet taken no heed of the remonstrance against the increase of the Austrian troops in Hamburg, made to him by the senate. 1,344 men with 111111 horses were sent by that commandant to St. Pauli, and more are ex pected every hour. Strange as it may appear, it was actually the intention of the Aus trians to proclaim the state of siege in St. Pauli atter the late events, but prudent coun sels prevailed. The military, however, take every thing into their own hands as completely as if mar tial law had been declared. The day before yester day a citizen of Hamburg was expressing in the street his indignation against the conduct of the Austrian soldiers at St. Pauli, when two officers who were passing by, hearing his language, took upon themselves to arrest him, calling a neighbouring guard to do their bidding. The next day he was claimed by the civic authorities and set at liberty. Yesterday a waiter residing in the suburb of St. Pauli was so foolish as to attack an Austrian soldier, and was very naturally secured. The offence having been committed in the Hamburg territory ho should have been delivered up to the civic authori ties. Instead of this, however, he was dragged off to Altona, the Austrian head-quarters, where he is likely to remain. Even our thorough-paced reac tionaries now sigh for the departure of the Austrians. The lamentations of the many persons who have been bereaved or otherwise injured by the late collision make a sad impression on society, and even affect the Bourse." SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD RAILWAY.—On Saturday a special general meeting of this company was held at the Lion Hotel, at Shrewsbury. In the absence of Mr. Ormsby Gore, the chairman of the company, Mr! Williams, the banker, of Chester, presided. The object of the meeting was to obtain the consent of the shareholders to a bill now before parliament for enabling the Shrewsbury and Chester Company to make a new station at Birken head, and empowering this company to unite with the , former in the construction or use of that station, if it should he deemed expedient ; also to authorise the Shrewsbury and Chester Company to abandoa their projected branches to Criekheath and Wem ; and further to empower them and also this company to enter into working arrangements with other compames as well as each other. This clause was understood to refer to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham line.] The chairman briefly explained the objects of the bill, which, he said, did not bind the company to anythiw, and thereafter he moved a resolution to the effect that itbe ap proved, and authorising to take the necessary ateppsa to ob tain the sanction of parliament to the bill.—Mr. Alletrn, of Chester, seconded the resolution, which was carried after a very brief discussion.—The Chairman announced that the works on the line were progreesing rapidly, no difficulties to retard them having been met with. THE WATERFORD, WEXFORD, AND WICKLOW RAILWAY.-A boisterous meeting of the shareholders of this company was held in Dublin on Saturday to base the bill now before parliament submitted for approbation. The dissentient shareholders mustered strongly, but, after a protracted and warm discussion, the directors succeeded in carrying their resolution for the approval of the bill. APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who rilltheir examination in the sc ce ien and practice of me , and received certificates to practise, on Thursday, June 12:—Richard Clark Perkin ; James Stacey Hichens, Bedrolls, Cornwall. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA. Yesterday at noon the British and North American royal mail steam-ship Africa, Captain ltyrie, arrived in the Mersey from New York direct, which port she left on the 4th inst. at noon, thus making a very fair average passage of eleven days. She brings 680,000 dollars specie on freight, 140 passengers, and av er valuable cargo of general merchandise, together with the usual mails from Canada and the United Status. The American steam-ship Washington had arrived on the 2nd inst., and the British royal mail steam ship Asia from Liverpool arrived out at New York at eight o'clock on the morning of the Africa's de parture. The news brought by this arrival is four days later than that previously received by the Franklin, in cluding intelligence from the gold regions many days subsequent to our previous dates. During the month of May, 477 vessels arrived in New York from foreign ports, with an aggregate of 38,346 immigrants. Of these vessels, 79 were under the British flag. The engagement between Jenny Lind and Mr. Barnum terminates after nine more concerts, making one hundred concerts since her arrival in this country, beside those given for charity. According to the original agreement with Mr. Barnum, which contemplated one hundred and fifty concerts, Jenny Lind was at liberty to close the series at the cud of sixty or one hundred concerts at her pleasure. lino great exhaustion of travelling, and the increasing heat of the weather, connected with the fact that the completion of the concerts would delay her return to Europe till an unfavourable season of the year, have led to this decision on the part of Jenny Lind. The great enterprise of theallinois Central Rail road has been at last fairly commenced. The direc tors voted, on May 3, to put one hundred and fifty miles of the Chicago end at once under contract. Other divisions will soon be arranged, and in the course of four or five years we shall see this great work completed from Chicago and Galena to Cairo. The receipts of the Eric Railroad for the month of May, 1851, were as follows :—From passengers and marl, 92,397 dols. 77c. ; freights, 81,947 dots. total, 174,345 dots. 12c. Same month, lt,w, 148,226 dais. 55c.; increase, 26,118 dots. 57e. The news from the United States is almost con fined to that from California, whence dates are to May 1. The steamer of that date took gold-dust to the amount of 2,000,000 dols. to Panama. After a session of four months, the Legislature ad journed on the 30th of April, having passed an act to protect the homestead from legal process under certain conditions, and a usury law, fixing the rate of interest at 10 per cent. and allowing 18 per cent. by special agreement. The in telligence from the mining district is of a flattering character. Some progress has been made by the com missioners in forming treaties with the Indians, although they still continue their ravages in the vici nity of Los Angelos. Nev. diggingshave been dis covered in Shasta Valley, which promise the most abundant returns. Their depth is from one to four feet, and they have yielded an average of 80 dols. a day a piece to five men, who have been engaged there ever since the discovery. In San Francisco, lives a gentleman named Ilastibgs, who is largely interested in the quartz mines. In one of his claims on Carson's Creek, ten miles above Stockton, his partners (for there are seven of them) had been working for the last two or three months with indifferent success. They leased out the claim to some dozen Mexicans, agreeing to divide the profits. Early in April they commenced drilling on the opposite side of the mountain, where there was not the least outward sign of gold. After boring to the depth of seven feet they blew out at one blast 350,000 dols. worth of gold. This occurred on the 12th. On the llth one of the partners arrived by express with the news. On the 22c1 two of the partners arrived with two boxes of the quartz. his dwelling was crowded for two or three hours with the wealthy merchants and bankers of the city, who flocked to see the show. The boxes were afterwards taken to Moffatt's Government Assay office. On the 25th the result was given, which the writer copied from Moffatt's account, viz. 103 lbs. of quartz rock produced 36 one-pound bars of pure gold, valued at 17 dols. 75c. per ounce. Each ounce of rock yielded 8 dols. 50e. of gold. Total value 8,182 dole. 15e. Cost of coining, 225 dols. Several merchants have tried to purchase shares, but they have been told that 100,000 dols. would not buy one. The lead is represented to be 7 or 8 feet from the surface and about 6or 7 inches wide. The depth and length not yet ascertained. Over two tons of this valuable rock is said to be in sight, and the estimated value, according to present appearances, is 5,000,000 dohs. 2,000,000 dots., it issuid, can begot out in a month. There is an Italian Opera Company performing at the Union Theatre in Sacramento City. fhree months ago labour might be had in Placer ville at from 2 dols. to 3 dots. per day. A decided improvement in price has lately taken place, and la bour now commands from 5 dots. to 7 dots. per day. Accounts from the mining interest represent the late rains as having been most beneficial to their in terests. The dry diggings have been more alive with the music of the various cradles, toms, &c. The Placer Tunes of the lot ofMay contains the following: A company of four persons engaged, in a gulch at Placer vale, are taking out daily 1,000 dols., or 250 dols. a-piece. The gulch had been previously worked, but by digging into the banks and washing an extra quantity of earth with the Long Tom, the company are enabled to make these wages. A lump of gold found in the Mariposa Diggings on the 18th ult., weighed 14} lbs. On the '93rd., two lumps were taken out at the same place, ono weighing four pounds and a half and another worth 570 dollars. On Saturday last a vein of quarts was discovered on Deer Creek, about two miles north of Rough and Ready, of great richness. It is supposed to be extensive and is undoubtedly an outcrop of the veins now being worked about Grass Valley. Business of every kind has revived at Nevada since the late falls of rain. The miners are doing much better at present than they have for some months past. Those who had large quantities of earth thrown up are enabled now to wash it, and receive the fruits of mouths of previous labour. A miner in the vicinity of Nevada took out a piece of quartz ruck weighing 17 pounds, strongly impregnated with gold. It is valued ut 2,500 dollars, and was found close to the surface. We have heard of several rich discoveries of silver ore in the country adjacent to Stockton. There are thousands of tons of this ore in the region of the Four Creeks. Dr. Brown, some time ago, found a vein three feet in thickness, near to Carson's Creek, and numerous other similar veins have been found. Col. Powell favoured us with a specimen from a mine he has in his possession, and, from his statement, we conclude that Mexicans, in former times, worked the veins in the region of the Four Creeks. We saw yesterday a splendid specimen of pure gold, weighing 680 dole. The hole in which it was found is situated in Kentucky valley, between Deer Creek and South Yuba. The gold is all coarse, and, singularly enough, is imbedded in a stratum of clay. One has to dig down about eight feet before reaching this, and there it was so coarse that the miners who worked the claim picked out the pieces from the clay. They found three pieces, weighing together, 1,000 dollars, one of which was perfectly round. The fortunate gentlemen are K S. Bennett, C. W. and J. A. Winship, and S. It. Ellsworth, of Boston and vicinity. - - The arrivals at New York from California, had been as follows: The steamship North America, Capt. Blethen, arrived on the 2nd from Chagres, whence she sailed on the 24th ult., making the run in eight days and six hours. She brought 400 pas sengers and 800,000 dole. in specie and gold dust. The steamer Empire City, Capt. Wilson, arrived on the 3d from Chagres. She brings the United States mails from California, 350 passengers, and nearly '2,00,000 doll. on freight. She made the run from New York to Chagres in eight days and seven hours. The Empire City left Chagres on the 25th ult. The passengers by the Empire City, on her outward voyage, went up the Chagres River iu two steam boats which now make regular trips, up one day and back the next, running up in 10 to 12 hours and down in four to seven hours. The steamships Union, Oregon and Republic had arrived at Panama. The Union brought 200 passengers and 150,000 dollars in dust, the Oregon 45 passengers and 800,000 dole. in duet, and the Republic 200 passengers and 1,000,000 doll.—in all 2,050,000 doll., besides what is in the hands of passengers, probably 1,000,000 dole. more. Our dates from Santa Fe are to May 1. Fifteen companies of U. S. troops were to leave New Mexico on the 10th of May, upon a campaign against tho Navajo Indians. This military movement was con sidered important, if for nothing else, an account of the impulse it would give to the soldiers, whose health has been seriously injured by the recent inac tivity of their life. The census of the territory of New Mexico has been taken by direction of Oov. Calhoun, A showinglic meeting a was h population of d 4 4s,anbeta F side en the o Indians. the 25th of April, to nominate candidates for the le. i