The Express. — London, England, 1851-07-12 00:00:00

e---------------_ THE SUBMARINE TELE() . `. IPd ppm _ Saloon's Bay Company and the North American Cow I OM, both of which have their hunting grounds in he i —..---- r P F.,:/- ~ I savlsam okapi. ~... . . ..., ..•-•-.. Mae . -- ..uorthern part of the Americas continua, and mho! Public attention will, we belicvc, ‘ biii in * - 10101i I (Coadaded from the Irasrcal of yesterday.) being the produce to London, where, on sales occurring time called to a new feature in the practical development t us not forget, gentlemen, the situation in which we t w i t .e o r throe times • year, the furriers of the whole world , 'of that interesting and important discovery of modern' Le are place•ra Situation bath iitiinge tin - a — novel ! it the ' setence,the eleerdetengrxph. Upon - dry had the main Bunion a mongst the net, supply thenuelyes; And it is hut dilleuttles have been eouesered , sad rho almost instants- election of the President of the Republic had taken place at reasonable to impose that the London farriers, residing ° ' aeons communieittion of intenigeace between distant point, the natural pod pointed Out by the constitution, that th e spot and having the .wealthie.st people in the world for ceased to be a . ramval; but while . the yof i t , en MO7 l' , 1840 i the preeidential powers would have _nication between countries severed by the survived those of this assembly by one year • and it b after a 12 years' trial, that the fact ' of the head liver customers, would not he behind any competition in same cam , ben n g u likcaise practicable has boas demonstrated, I , the pre p aration of articles of the greatest costliness end of The czecutive power and the legislative assembly ceming obdaeles have hitherto retarded the progression °lsobar 1 beauty. To prove that such is actually the fact, it is way Ri n e telegraphic correspondence to an equivalent utility) l at the same time their fhnetione would have been wit ,...,ry to examine. the specimens of the skins of almost, with elect ric transmission u p on Jena firma. Butthemincli nessed. But by ho accidental effect of the law of October l ever, a nimal, from the royal lion and Bengal tiger down to amen of science and of practicel nun are bent u p on this 28,1818, a law called for by art. 116 of the constitutiou, the president was elected December 10, 1818, and will have ' subject, and, although the problem be recondite, let us not 1 the domatic rabbit, with which the fur section in the despair of a satisfactory and practical solution. arrived at the end of his magistracy in the course of May Crystal l'alacc is profusely filled. The greatest show la! , In November list • patent wax granted to Messrs. fiheli•• nest. Thus, in the tame month, and within a few days' quantity, and surpassed by none in quality, is the stead se , herd and Button, the well-known chemists and manatee- i distance of each other, the executive power and the legis power will change hands. Assuredly never will • Mr. Nieholay. Ile has hung the whole front of the gallery 'tunes of laboratory apparatus, fur the invention of • new i t i ne 'nth the skin, of lions, tigers, and bears, dressed to• bemitlsikintdooof m o e t deu ro m m fo o r oo th te e subm a rine t Z " o e t L ea r ." ' S f ' e t t h e ad el ge . If re betty, y pe l l i e c: have y an ili cr e t 1 1:1 4 1 red for the b use of Republican tad seftni so, and adapted to a modern exigency by I p t7 eisure of inspecti n g r a working model of that invention such • ' h w aravd, never will a you a tl t if ? u n l ee con y ititut l io a n w l i i t a 4 v e = being formed into railway wrippers. It serifs on Wednesday, at a private view in the establishment of subjected to so rude a trial. And in what country of the be that th y surpass all other articles of that deserip - those gentlemen at llolhorn-bars. It is never easy to im - glo gentlemen, is this total eclipse of the government to yon is warmth and comfort, and, althoug h considerabl y po rt a clear notion of • machine to the mind of the reader take p l ace ? Amongst that people, which, although it has more frequently overturned its government than perhaps more . siwnsive than woollen wrappers in the first instance, w o u w il o u t t t w h o e h ai o d oo of diagrams, a, a bu t t m i u n a ze le ilcir m to to d y r e a m w e a u t t te i n n ti t tn an go y fu o r t n h t el . „ feels more than any other the want of being ' yet, (von their Brat durability, they become eventually the i t means of attaining ltn m a y n p ubject of universal P importance, w e e most t, enoraieel wrapper for any one who travels much by , ellen endeavour to describe no distinctly and as briefly as The nations which have • federative existence, those even rail, Another novel adaptation of fur by the same firm,' we can the chief characteristics of the invention. which, without having divided the sovereignty, possess an The vehicle or means which are at once the protection aristocracy, or which enjoy provincial liberties deeply and t she...del in the 1111:1 place, is a table cover of wild cat 1 and communication of the teleeraplue wires, consuls, in rooted in the habits of the people, such nations may skins, admirably fitted, from their softwas, fur library tables, ex ifoust for a length of time with a feeble government, anti the first place, of • chain cable, like the moorin g wh n the penervation of espensively-bound books may be tackle of a ship, the size of which must be even support fur a certain period the complete absence of an object of importance. In the cases below, Mr. Nicholay adapted to the length to he traversed, the nature of the a government. Each portion of the people has an existence exhibits specimens of almost every variety of fur adapted to , submerged found t ation whereof! and otter to lie, the of its own nitwich allows seciety to remeiu still upstanding almost , very male and female habiliment. 'the beautiful i n gn i .l,.. t ta r i ots I. w l i ; " an ordina ry bee°v I li tt'. lie '""" fur a c :ru nne after the general life current is impeded c ein placed upon a flat or stopped. But are we one of those nations ? Have we not lustre of the seeaskin, dyed and undyed, isshown to advan- surface, it will lie se en that the sides of the alternate centralised all kinds of affairs, and by that course created the tee in la r.4eases bonnets and waistcoats, the latter inn's- links point vertically and horizontally, or laterally 1 thus government which of all others is the must easy to overturn, Whl a, fir winter wear as • preservation against broached forming four continuous right angles above an below• but which at the same time it is tho meat cliitivult to da with- Tito wires which are to convey the electricity are now affect:on.. In the ease of these latter, as in that of the lion out for a single moment? to be operated upon. they are coated in the first place And iii what time must such a trial be supported ? Imo i skin railway wrapper, great durability compensates for w i t h gotta pcec h a , and the gutta purcha is covered in mediately after a great revolution, in the midst of the pas- itterees, d outlay in the first instance. The hist°. turn with a chemical composition of tar, creosote, and ,ions and irregular appetites which every revolution leaves rival miniver may be seen in a great variety of other 'sibilance' said to be very repugnant to the Metes after it, and which are always curbed in by young institus muffs owl tippets, and ornamented with the paws of the of the entomological deetroyeri d in the 11c . ep. The wires, L ions. Is that an imaginary danger, is that one of those &stag in lamb, to atilt the requirements of modern taste. A thus al Iro ar n ": h lhi l s y p e irtr7 of "' the e apparat se us re citreletiniazonntccidanenatstsaliitiehnoatre.mtl.;terwoitnhe ofi t t lr history r of t iiiil l vice curi..uo, artiv:e in this valuable cellection is a Coat dcoo,uinated by the inventors the " submarine line." which no co'untry ought to be allowed to incur if 4 i c t e rpos e s mask hoot the bide of a Tartar cult, but r,O carefully dressed Four of these lines are then rauged continuously along sible to prevent it ? 'the only neuter and legal means as to he us soft a. seal skin, and, from the length end dun- the chain within the four angles just described, and are which we pewees to succeed in that point, the only mode' city of the hair, completely impervious to wet. It is not a fastened to the links by clamps or rivets of brass, cone which remains to us, perhaps, to prevent all the powers little retinue to fi nd the skin in which a wild Tart a r cult structed for the purpose. Each angle, both the from felling into unconstitutional hands, or becoming of no upper anti the lower, is capable of receiving one authority, is to hand them over fur a time to a constituent one , _campers:a over his native steppes, serving, perhaps, as of the submarine hues, and each of the latter may assembly, possessing the authority of the nation itself, and • pal, tot to some tranquil commercial gentleman economi- contain several wires, so that one chain will convey and the strength inherent in its recent nomination. rally travelling in an English se coad-elass railway carriage. protect a number of wires ranging front :91 to 40. The lines It may certainly be asserted that the peril which we have The li, ices is also exhibited i n a mat variety o f are respectively n d irberealadez ottoneotooo another t na ititi e ie wi l re e s- just pointed out is more apparent than reel, more fermatas ladies' : article a Formerly the use of this fur in the mantis w te i r t s hi o n f t th e e m ali a riabet;al w ill ies:A in liue No. 1. 'Die wor k t brotti: ap t tiren , ee to . fit th oi an eo truly w w or o t t he t - t 4e l f l appre hension. In factor. of legs r, uttered it ne dear as to make it quite un- thuscompkted iv of amply sufficient elasticity to accommo- since at the mo m ent that one of the gover ' nMents e• mpire!, appro. liable fig any other purpose; but since the date itself to inermilitie% of surface, and its strength, at the other will, on the instant, be in existence. In theory, great " mosearn, a " revolution, the market has b e . certain given dimensioa% anti weight of metal, has been all that is true ; but in practice, the transmission of the estimated competent to bear a shock of the force of -10 tons, come niuch more easy, and the manufacture hasright to cornm.oul from cue to the other will not the less be, berg its a great measure handid over to the fur- s t ; t i ‘ ch to c . ap , ii t l , t h li t tLb t ;: t in tt f o , o f cours e , more or has according to whatever is done, a great crisis; for there must, of all necte rier. It dresses beautifully, has fine celour and The neat feature of the invention is the testing lion, sit pass a a r o ..et t tit o lon t f i t m it t , t tl e ur , i:m w n h o i t ch :a h r e eg o ,:ii .erntu ni ci r, r t Imam, and the density of the pile giver it a very rich and Along the chain at distances hereafter to be determined— authority, aid that which is about to commence w ill not as c ally appsurance. In our estimation it is one of the hand- hut assuming them for the present h at one or two miles apart yet have much power. eimrst of furs, although fir from being the most costly. tharegfir box es, e :ilre tal a . it. eg ss, o ti u n e a ll s7lrei e ng ee cit izens, besides, were the danger on t li in the imagination of But it is not only the skins of w ild an i ma t e th a t th e furrier within them a junction easily untwisted, but preserv- effect inn i s s ' ect i t t o t excite su 1Z e t g'autilittyl;'oulpest:i lens? ILI' to ra i s e e n l y oppli. , to the purposes of his trade. In this collection ing the electric current uninterrupte I In these the apprehensions of the greater number, it would be an ore • slidettel some beautiful articles in the skin of the grooves also the wires are insulated (rola one another immense peril, and greater, perhaps, than all those which grielee n will duck, found near the Lake of Geneva, and a by gets per t el oi t i a, and the o boi;t o ei are seeezeda_ down have been dreaded. very co.stly and beautiful suit made from the feathers of the and e 7r lCn so •as Dux people on the occasion which justly appears to it so extra e'en I, e small bird , "'I .0 tare and expensive " only to ho iron chain, a burry, which is to float on the surface of the ordinary and so critical, who will assure us that this people, a tt a i na ble by royal wearers. This costly collection is coon- water, fur the double purpose of indicating the course of in the excess of its anxiety, will not endeavour to save plea .1 by various specimens of "IT", tigers, &c., carefully the tel graph, and o f hauling up t h e ma i n chain and lines, itself by having recourse to some irregular proceeding, and stuff a, and atbliug greatly to the attractiveness of the s in oo t t l t ie event theol' accidents rse o uLt t l t efaeot o , ot ti l s be . ( repaired. In Iu one more dangerous than all the rest ? Let lib look at the Mand. flea Mejesty has visited Mr. liicholay's stand . t e he t A7c ' tric currant to be stopped in y one of the "sal: state of the public mind and study facts. more than *nee, and cuninientied many of the articles, eve- marine bare," between Dover and Calais. About midway no Th o e no ne w tic i i i il di, was ot s o u t rE i r s itt o l t. by .t ti o e tt . o .a t e: l it3 , of i w F ati eb:itea t rr o ; redly a very handsome hearthrug, composed of a centre- between these two places the chain and lines would be tented, but not yet revolutionary. sixty ' leers of elite - - piece of wild at skin, with a border in exquisite needlework r h a o ted o u o p ied :i t zl o pl h a o ceoll ov o c , Lth o e o thie m k e d 1 e co f n a nt7x e iTi 4 Of Athetestg [ions and political labours had fatigued it ; it had not had and a deep fringe cum posed of the skins of the black African would be dieju ' ined, Z e es " to stop th ' e electric current. '‘TriLles time to repose itself entirely, when the fell of the monarchy monkey. This 11114-011 . 8 Bay Compiny also exhibit some battery would be applied to the wire communicating, say, z i ,e d uly proc l ipitated it into one of the most singular, if . not ',MI} furs in this section: among others sonic skins of the with Dover. If a return signal were obtained, it would be to re ta lu oo rn t eilno s e i i: i t too of crisis lifteinitoon"lheee arena ,volutiony.iollottowiastoobolostcid Meek fox (the material of the Emperor's pelisse.), valued at proof of the cominunication along that moiety of the dis ould be acquired habits, neglect the affairs and he works to whicK fel Fulmer , a piece, Wale silver fox skins, and various aped- farce in the direction tttreti o ' f rel l ais hc arren , _, ° C i P :u n iu ni t e i n w t (7 it had turned its attention, and azain combat on the field ? mi..s of red fox and sea otter skins, the latter prepared care- turneel, the conclusion would ' be t h at the lick . c't w an sti- of revolution. It did this with admirable courage and f e llefia the Ituseien and Arm ricen markets. It may here be that other moiety, and the experiment would be repeated resignation, and with an en ergy and practised wisdom which will redound to its stern a honour. &served that all the furs manufactured in Russia are per- nn the other testing boxes between the centre' mint and chmail iu the London mark, t, mi that under any circus- Calais until that defect was discovered. But it should here factiouslthe on s i lece von ed , e o ti t. h o il o h o as oro Lbr thf lo ra t or t r t iezt . ov o c o r t c o o t tne o th ot e i plane, swe may claim a considerable share in any celebrity lA tOO O be e g r t v o e o •d t , that the 0 i t n o ven o t t o o rs st t h e a o r g e ;h in o t. the t fi d es: . this without me l ee , sacrifices, anarch y. iany struggle% and severe enjoy, t 1 by their sine:mewl; but our furriers contend, that e tomes. The natant is now fatigued, but at the same time fences with which they have invested the wires; aid only in the cheese of skins, but in the mode of preparing and in the second place, they assume that if some it is moved, and is tilled with unesainess. them, the English trade has nothing to fear from foreign 3') or more wires, each o them capable of con- ,_ l_t , . rememhers that in February not only were the poli emnpeituts. There arc specimens from various other ' , cling a ra t beetifge, are strung . in the four submarine lines, it ucai roootitincsitviitiutilonsujtoortfortoshThaon, those was e re l e n • were " t 1 t s o ° snake' , in this section , but the greeter portion of them have e`traounladinit't'ing' t 7zr o t o h tt while, o i t t o: t ie r 4 atii`emlaixipenunni‘bearAle4uint necessary to the interests of the country, and which had been idremly noticed apropos of visits paid by her Majesty, o f ra i.„4 o , up the main chain. The rebelliou s . wires would hitherto served as the common and respected basis for all and t h i , tee : s a n der do not require special notice. We must be talmoed and the faithful relied upon, unless the evil in- civilised governments. Thisremembrance, which incessantly not omit, however, some mention of the British fun, con. creased so as to cause apprehension of a general revolt. presents itself to its imagination in the midst of the Meting of hare, rabbit, and cat skins. It is a curious In artier to protect the line of telegraph when momentary repose which it enjoys makes it tremble brought out on the coasts at each termination from I t is in this state of the' p ublic mind that it feels itself .1 , feet that they are prepared chiefly for the American mar- accidents such as the landing of boats or other unin led away iu spite of itself, by the irresistible power of the lat. the people there preferring them, from their cheapnces, tentional injury, and from wilful damage, the whole of i t- law itself, towards a new crisis, more terrible, perhaps, than to thc Meer costly fur, ill their own country. These last is designed to be enclosed fur the whole length on shore, all the others. S. and M. ' Bow-lane, City. It mires from afar the two great powers which guide and between high and low water marks, in a strong me- P e . . and maintain so ciety, become weakened together, and on tare exhibited by Messrs. Meyer, At a public meeting held at the Vestry of holy Tri nity. I troilipton, yerterday, it was resolved, with only one dis ot, that petitions should be prepared and presented to parli od on behalf of the meeting, praying that the Crt -t.d l'alare should be preserved V. a winter garden. Alter a long discussion the meeting were strongly of opi nion that the proposed use of the building would be highly beneliviol to the neighbourhood. Tiir. Derby ltep,rier nnnounees that the dinner to he given to the designer of the Crystal Palace by the in habitant* of Derbyshire, will take place at Derby, on the Lth of Augu.t. Invitations have been sent to gentlemen of CMill4ll, in the literary and scientific circle*: and the bake of Itersinshirc has accepted 1111 invitation to be present on the occasion. ItiUk easing like a continuous pipo or tube. The expense of the undertaking has been roughly csti• Imided as lying between 5001. and WlOl. per mile. CAMBRIDGE MILITARY ASYLUM.—Yesterday, the first public dinner in aid of the funds of this institution, which was established last year iu memory of the late Duke of Cambridge, fur the special purpose of providing support he the widows of non-commissioned offrert and privates of her Bltsje.ty's land forces, took place at the London Tavern. 'The Marquis of Londonderry occupied the chair, and he was supported by the Marquis of Granby, Earl of ilarrowby, Viscount Combermere, Viscount &sham, Lord Rokeby,l Earl of Enniskillen, Lord Lorton, Viscount Chelses, l Lord F. l'uulett, Honourable A. Liddell, Honour. able A. l'pton, Sir W. Cotton, Sir C. Forbes, B. B. Cabbed', Esq., M.P., J.:Hamilton, Esq., M.P., Christopher, Esq., M.P,, Colonel Rowland, &c. he. The usual initiatory toasts having been duly honoured, the chair man proposed the memory of the late Duke of Cambridge, which was drunk in solemn silence. The healths of "The present Duke of Cambridge and his Illustrious Mother," "The King of Hanover," and "The Duchess of Glouces ter," were succeeded by the toasts of "Church and State," and " Idle Army," to the latter of which Viscount Comberincre responded. The noble mar quis then proposed the toast of the evening, " Prosperity to the Cambridge Military Asylum," and stated that the charity which they had assembled to assist was originated in the course of the previous year by a number of his late royal highness's personal friends, who designed to erect to his memory a monument in consonance with the benificent object. to which he had devoted so much K ifs time and energies. Atter much deliberatien they OM to the conclusion that the creation of the present dimity, having for its object the support of the soldier's widow, would constitute a memorial nut only congenial with the character of the duke, but serving a. a guide and tratimple to alldesirous of benefiting mankind. For the alleemplishreent of a large portion of the object in view, ✓ely, the erection of almshousi s—there was now in the lands of the committee a sum of 2,701)1., and he believed I that the cost of their construction would not exceed 3,0001. Having expressed a hope that the benefits of the asylum might be ultimately extended to orphans, he concluded by an mama appeal to the friends of the charity to furnish the few hundred pounds which were still necessary to render it practically useful. The Hon. A. Liddell, deputy-chairman of the committee, having corroborated the statements of the chairman and enforced his appeal, the toast was received with much enthusiasm. Several other toasts passed the chair, and the secretary having announced the receipt of a considerable amount of subscriptions, the company separated. Tut: WORKING C1..1:4aL4 AND THE GREAT ENITI- Tlgon.—Ttstertlty afternoon a dinner was given by Mr Veto. M.P. for Norwich, to about 200 of the working classes of that city. A number of the artisans of Norwich formed what is tame -I a .• Great Exhibition Club. - into the funds of whieh small weekly payments wire made fur the purpose of accumulating a sum that would enable the subscribers to rouse up to Loudon with their wive., for the purpose of visiting the Great Exhibition. After the payments into the land bad been made for semie considerable period, certain of the wealthier residents of Norwich, admiring llw 1111111.1blY object fur which the "club" had beam establehe del. Twined to contribute towards the promo tins of it. purple•e. So liberally was assistance thus given that a -um was realised sufficient to enable the whole of the workm. n who had subscribed to the club to spend five or sin .lave in Loudest without trimelsiag at all upon their own hash mu% aa we hear, it was subsequently resolved that the iss n Amid here their own sulocripcmo returned to aim, and they sr Kale wives have their limited expenses pout out of the mom so staberribed in aid of their own fund. The w,iskoson, away of them with their wives, came up by apecial train an Kerley awning, and the circumstance of the visit having beanie known to Mr. l'eto, M.P. that ge ntkonau gave thew whisk of the men al4 Ma g o :od old Figl..h ilium?, which took place at the Petition hotel, at tin usru g jalli eir the Meals Wis,lwich branch of the Eastern Counts. s Malway. Mr. Pew presided, supported by the mayor and sheriff of Nara ieb. Mr. Geer 11, M.P. for CO- I clitry. Kr. Kennard, Mr. nualtier (t.. whom the workmen are very lane h indebted for his exertions in carrying out the uhisat), and several other influential gentlemen. During thedsy to workprople were. thremgh the influence of Mr. NW. remitted to visit the works of Woolwich Dockyard. Thu Soul's FETE IN Hsu. ND-PARE.—Tho Mani day of this Eta was celebrated yesterday, and under gireginetaiires wrU ealealated to make amends for the din. 4 1"1 which attended the proceedings of the pervious 11" Th_ . eat o weeder, was warm sad genial. and although Uwe were lommirma "Umtata" of showers, they were same realms& and Ora of the park was stab improved by the ragas is ss which threw a gloom over the' lied day's mnuosmanas. There was a large at tend:me...l visitors, and sat of the principal " stands" was toecaps..l by many diode/M*og members of the oobility, ineleolenr the Dui, and %WM* Of Montrose, the Marquis of Dougto, the Marquis of Aberrant. Lord and Lady W' ford. de. It was expectlrd that her Majesty and Priam Albert would honour the rte by their presence, but in this sdilitiond soave; of attraction the company were doomed' to be disappointed', for the royal party aid not appear. Tlio sports were of the same character which distinguished the gathering" of the preceding slay, and th, y were kept up in rapid and uninterrupted succession. 'f he grounds pnaent •I an extremely animated appearance, and thccom is Weirs in the different games exerted themselves with . so much en, ray that the result was in all respects most Pabs t*. tory. The athletic sports of ** throwing the hammer," •• putting the stone," and tossing the caber," furnished shundant opportunity to test the strength of tho com batant., whilst those exercises which depenileal rather upon the application of skill than of physical power, wore sustained in the true spirit of fro - wily rivalry. The bagpipes were in constant station throo..thout the day ; and the sword dance, the Highland fling, strath spa I, soil reel eontinued to be performed with increasing vigour and enthusiasm until the programme of cot. rtain• I meats was eahaust e d. and the muse of the N a ti ona l A n th em warned the spsetatoes that the pleasures of the day were at I an end. At the conclusion of the sports a large number of i the visitors repaired by invitation to Rutland House, where they were most hospitably entertained by Lord and Lady Holland; and, towards the close of the evening, a ball was opened. in which the Scottish dances were renewed in pre sence of the glues at the mansion. The jet. passed off with considerable solar, and the sports will be repeated to-day, Lord Holland having granted to the promoters of the fete the use of his park fur a third day, owing to the ill-fortune widen attended the first. A LACGE QUANTITY OF Tit is imported into this country from the Channel Islands, and passes through the Southampton customhouse, in an immense number of small square boxes of exactly the same dimensions. The tea in each box weighs exactly 111 b. 12oz. As the customs department only charges duty on the even pounds, the 12oz. of tea in each box is imported duty free; and this pay fur the freight from this country to the Channel Islands (for the tea is first exported to the Channel Islands under bond), and from the Channel Islands to London, and realise. a handsome profit besides. This profit is now very coneiderable, owing to the low through rates from the Channel Islands to London charged for merchandise by the South Western Railway and Steam Navigation Company. Not long since the tea boxes were of smaller dimensions, and the tea in each of them used to weigh Gibe. 12oz. The profit then was very large. The customs, however, decided that the duty on tea imported in parcels under Whs. should be charged for the odd ounces. " SPECTRE OF THE DEOCKEN " IN SCOT- Lioen —The following remarkable phenomenon wax wit nessed by a farmer in the neighbourhood of Hetrick. Walk ing over a bill on his farm early on the morning of the 13th or Kay last, his attention was arrested by a light cloud of pelt mist of remarkable form, being perfectly circular, slowly uprising from the neighbouring valley. The sun was shining brightly around him from the other side, and, as the cloud gradually floated up, still retaining its form, which was very like that of the halo often observed round the moon, he toned it present an inner circle, much smaller but well-defined, and contaiuing, as in a frame, a human figure of moot colossal proportions. He saluted the spectre with a bow, which was returned by the airy phantom with the utmost promptitude. lie then walked assay for a, I little, and, on retuminz. found the shadow still visible,' which continued to bow and otherwise imitate every motion be made, thus proving it to be a reflection of his own form in the cloud. This apparition is identical in appearance sod cause with the famous " Spectre of the Brockeni." with perhaps the additional beauty of the enclosing circles, which we nowhere dad recorded en the accounts of the (iceman -----. travellers.. Of course, owing to the great difference in &hi ' tnde, and the vast extent of that reflecting surface of Ilarzian mist, it will be deficient in magnitude to our Ger manic ghost. —forth British Mail. Klr,; JULY 12, 451,-, utpitteapnees of the muitigiatt, and to the chance of the., • can think, and mho would dare to say, that the Natbreal 'Assembly--the guardian of the rights of the country—would tranquilly suffer the nation to be led under its very eyes into this career of revolution and of adven ettre#—Htetiationel holds ell itrpower from the constitution; it is through it the first power of the state, and it is nothing without it. Its duty, the teener of its Mikity, its interest, and its own honour obl i g e it to l ic i t c n i nt. Could the Assembly tolerate that the agents of the executive power, turning the forces which the constitu tion places in its bands to another use, should prepare and favour uueonstitutional eandidateships ? And ff, unto' , tunately, they should attempt it, would not that inevitably lead to an open and violent struggle between the two great powers ? In that struggle, which could not be legitimate unless it were provoked and necessary, and which, under any circumstance, would be fur ever to be deplored , the National Ass embly would, assuredly, Lind force and right on its bide. It would undoubtedly triumph ; but at whet a cost? Are we, then, so tlrm in our seats that we may not be permitted to fear that, in the midst of this intes tine war of the government, the party which is the natural and common enemy of ell government would remain the master ? Were order to be saved, should we be sure to preserve the legality which we defend? Where is the man so cer tain of has judgment as to dare to predict to what the chances of such a struggle might lead ? 1 knew that it is easy to say that, in spite of the terrors of the moment, and of the meth: iu which they are consulted, the electors will remain masters of themselves; that they will know how to appreciate the different candidates, to understand the consti tution and to obey it ; that the executive power will prac tise abnegation, that its agents will be discreet; that no ono will yield to the excitement of the moment, and that the factions will be kept in respect. All these things may easily be said, and they cannot be well officially replied to; we shall therefore refrain from doing so. We do not speak either to phrase-makers or to children, but to political men who are accustomed to worldly affairs, and do not coeliac themselves to words. We appeal to their intelligence, their experience, and their conscience. These circumstances being admitted, the state of affairs, and the character and interest of men known, the logic of facts and of passions understood, let them ask themselves calmly end sincerely whether auythiug but a great crisis can revolt from the actual Oat u quo, and whether that crisis must not end either in usurpation or in anarchy, anal under any circumstances in the ruin of the republic, and perhaps of iiberty ? Straightforward men who will put these questions sin cerely to themselves, who will reflect on all that 9se have said, will doubtless arrive at the conclusion that among all the formidable perils of the future, the assembling of the constituent is the least. Such has been the feeling of the majority of your committee, which loss charged us to tell you co. Conviaced of the necessity of a revision, it has asked it self what kind of revision might be adopted. It proposes to yon to express the wish that the constitution should. be I totally revise , '.. It has been secu that the warmot and best founded criticisms which have been made on it bear on the mode according to which in the election of the As sembly, and particularly in that of the President of the republic, the sovereignty of the people is exercised; on its origin, and un the number and extent of the great powers. These ' gentlemen, arc the principal parts of the machinery of the government; they cannot be remodelled without interfering with all the others. The whole work I must, therefore, be retouched more or less profoundly. The revision cannot be made partially. In what, however, does total revision consist ? Ilaeo we any prescription to draw out on this point to the future con stituent, or an opinion to express to the country ? What is the extent of our right in this matter ? What is our duty? Is the revision to take plate within or without the question of the republic ? It has been Ili:attained in the committee that the repub lican form of government being the sole expression oi the I principle of the sovereignty of the people, the only one which is compatible with its complete exercise, the repub licun principle is therefore confounded with that of the notional sovereignty, and was like it inalienable and imprescriptible, and that no one could take away from the citizens the natures right of governing themselves, nor en slave future gene:ations by founding a system of govern ment which from its nature was or pretended to be im mortal. These ideas, gentlemen, have been rejected by a very large majority of the committee. We cannot furs moment admit that out of the l ade of the moral world, which is uo more subject to the empire of the majority than to that of kings, there can be anything which is not to be under the sovereignty of the people, particularly in a country where that sovereignty is the principle of the laws and their sanc tion; that a nation can be eternally held back, and as if bound hands soul feet in spite of itself in the political forms which it might deem contrary to its habits, its way of think ing, its grandeur, its happiness. Without discussing this theory at any length, we have examined whether in reality it was proper to put forward fur decision the question of republic or monarchy. We all agreca that we could not have the right, even if we had the desire, to propose to the nation to quit the re public. We are a legislative assembly, elected in virtue of a republican constitution, and holding our powers front that constitution. The republic is the legal government of our country, and constitutes part of that government, consequently we have no right to attack its principle. The majority of your committee has also been of opinion that we Mild no right to impose the republic, as a general for mula of government, on the next constituent. la fact, there wuuid be something puerile in attempting to enchain beforehand the decisions of a sovereign assembly, which absorbs within itself all the powers, and which exer- the point of disappearing at the same time, without rises all; fur the constitution, foreseeing the two national able to distinctly Bee what may come in their place, assemblies could not sit at the same time, took care to de fm composition and the spirit of the future Assembly dare that the constituent, independent of its naturallabours, depend on the chances of the election, and the President should have the faculty of passing urgent laws. Row could is sot re-eligible. Let us figure to ourselves the anxiety an assembly, which was not originally named to occupy R ead the terror which must seize every mind at one day self with the constitution, and which, besides, has already lading empty that immense place which the government more than two years' existence, pretend to limit an m aw occupies amongst us. Is it not to be feared that in this sembly issuing from the people, and which ball just received disturbance and in this agony the electors may feel them- the national will ? selves impelled, not for enthusiasm fur a name or for entail, But does it follow that after baying stated our opinion but from terror of the future, and from horror of anarchy, that the constitution ought to be revised, we have exhausted to maintain illegally, and by u kind of popular act of our right and completely fulfilled our duty? Bare wo no violence, the Executive Power in the hank which now effort to make amongst uurselres, no sacrifice to claim one hold it ? from the other, to arrive in the Assembly at a constitutional Let the mode of the presidential election established by majority, without which the ap2lication for the revision the constitution itself be examined, and it will be seen that would be only a sterile and dangerous agitation ? Is it not it facilitates as much as the law can do this revolutionary necessary ti indicate a common thought which may unite and disastrous result. A great nation spread over a vast together honourably all those whom th e peril of the cireuue space, • nation the sphere of whose executive power is stances induces to desire a revision ? almost without limit, and when the sole representative of We have not, undoubtedly , anything t o prescribe to the that power is elected by the universality . of citizens voting constituent which may bo named ; but have we not some directly, and separately, and without having any means of recommendation to give to the nation, in order to aid it to enlightening themselves, and coming to an understanding traverse that crisis at the same time salutary and dangerous, together—that, I do not hesitate to say, has never been in which the force of circumstances comets us to throw it Well in any nation in the world. The only country iu the ourselves ? Have we no counsel which may help to guide world which presents anything analogous is America. But it in its sombre path towards which we urge it ? look at the prodigious difference. In America direct and And who are we then, if not its natural - advisers ? The universal suffrage is the common law ; only ono exception only political men placed in such a position as to be able to has been introduced to that great principle, and that applies judge of the CotBEllibl.l of affairs, the present wants of the precisely to the election of the President. The President country, the state of parties, what may and what may not of the ',lilted States of America also emanates from a uni- be done. It would not be either wise or honest, gentlemen, venal Tote, but not directly ; and, nevertheless, the part of to refuse to the nation, in so critical a moment, our experi the executive power in the Union, compared to what it coca and our advice, and to abandon the electors at the mo is and always will be is France whatever may be done, 19 went when they are about to elect that sovereign assembly, a trifling one; and notwithstanding, in that country, where to the agitation and uncertainty of their own nnaginatioas. the republic may be said to have existed from its very It has been said, and no one has denied the assertiou, origin, it has not been dared to confide the election of the that the greatest peril which the election of a constituent representative and of the executive government to the assembly can entail is the anarchy which on this occasion chance of a direct and universal vote. The power to be may be produced in the midst of the great conservative elected has appeared to be too great, and particularly too majority of the country, an anarchy from which would far removed from the elector, for his choice to be unlight- issue perhaps the triumph of the demagogical minorities in cued and mature. The American nation only chooses do- the electoral colleges. That is true ; and it may be said legates, who elect the president. These delegates doubt- that there has not perhaps ever been since February a sin len represent the general spirit of the country, its tenden. gle conjuncture at which it was more necessary that all the cies, its tastes, and often its passions and its prejudices; fractions composing the great party, called the party of but they have at least the advantage of • know- order, should come to an understanding together, and find ledge which the general body of the people could not a common ground on which to unite together for the tuo have. They may form to themselves an exact idea of the went. But where is that spot to be found ? general wants of the people, of its real dangers—they It is unfortunately nothing new to state to the world or may know the candidates, compare them with one another, to ourselves, to admit that the country and the Assembly and select, which each citizen in the midst of his ordinary are profoundly divided as ti the definitive form which it is occupations is incapable of doing. Thus it has been seen proper to give to the government ; and that this is not cer. during the last 60 years, that the Americans have fry- taiuly the point ea which a union can at present be effected. quently set aside from the office of first magistrate of the But, if no understanding can be come to for the future, at Republic citizens well known, and sometimes very il- least an accord may he arrived at for the present. lustrious, and chosen those who are comparatively obecure, that party is there, out of the Republic, which can but who better respond to the political want' of the mo- stippom that the moment of its triumph has arrived ; which meat. does not admit, that in the absence of the solution which it If the dangers of universal and direct suffrage in such a prefers, the wisest plan is to maintain for the present the in ease have struck the legisiators of the United States, how stitutions now existing, which, however defective they may much more must they excite our attention ? We, who live be, have at least this advantage that they preserve the in a country where the majority of the citizens arc not yet liberty of the future; which, in line, will not allow, that acenstomed to occupy themselves with political affairs, and if they are maintained, they ought to be rendered less clan do not know, even by name, the majority of those who gerous ? guide them, and who besides have already contracted That, gentlemen, is the common ground on which we passions suggested by the spirit of democracy not to have been able to keep ourselves for the last three years with wish to place any of their equals at the head of the truth and consequently with dignity, without doing violence government, and have not yet acquired the intelligence to our convictions, without sacrificing our honour, which and experience which democratic nations require in sacrifice is not even due to one's country. The point now is, order to know how to solve it. Who, with the ex- not to desert that ground at the very moment when it la ception, perhaps, of some famous demagogues who have most necessary for as to remain there firmly. A wording had made themselves noticed by their interested and violent been proposed, the object of which was to express these passions, or of some princes whose birth has made them ideas on the setting-forth of your resolution. It declared seen from afar—who is the only personage whose name that the revision was applied for in order to ameliorate the might easily arrive at the knowledge, and fix itself firmly institutions of the Republic. The majority of the committee in the memory of those millions of rural electors who cover rejected that wording, fearing that it might seem to indi the surface of France, if not that of the man by whom the cate the pretension of commanding the votes of the future public power has been exercised for some years, who has constituent, and of tramelling its liberty of action—and it long personified the centralgovernment in the eyes of every preferred haviug the ideas, which I have just expressed, ex citizen, who is seen everywhere amongst us, and whose in- plained in the teport. duence is felt in all things ? one point. holrever, for which the committee has been And if in consequence of this, in the absence of any unanimous is this If, in spite of all the efforts sincerely other known candidate, or perhaps from the illegitimate made to come to an understanding, by making mu t ua l sun action of parties, or of the government itself, an tin. flees compatible with the sineenty of opinions and their dig constitutional ele ction were ti take place, what would nity, the present attempt should fail—if there should not be happen ? Is it believed that the only consequence of found in the Assembly the number of votes required for the such an event would be the abolition o an article of the legal revision to Late place—if, in a word, the constitution constitution. When a people has with its own hand, continues to exist as it is, it ought to be invariably and uni• broken a part of its fundamental law, has it not virtually versally obeyed. On this point, the committee, divided on so many others, found itse I unanimous; and we arc abolished all the rest, and reduced to dust the e nti re con fabric of its government ? The whole constitution would Timed that the same unanimity will be evinced by the be overthrown, upset by a sudden impulse, without there Assembly. Every one ought to comprehend that a legal remaining standing any legitimate power which would attempt made to reform a constitution gives to this latter, have the right of re-erecting anything in its place. And should it fail, a new consecration. As long as it could be legally thought that the constitution was to be revis e d, any what, gentlemen, is the constitution, however imperfe c t it may be supposed ? It is not necessary for us to say one could have thought of changing it,'or even of preparing that it is legality and right. The constitution not legally to do what it does not as yet permit. But from the moment changed, but violated and overthrown, everything might that such a hope is no longer admissible, there only remains be teed, everything would become possible. Politica4ight , to submit to its prescriptions and to obey thorn. For the would nowhere be found—the sole and last vests gff of it I constitution, as we have already said, is the only legality, would have disappeared. France would be again delivered the only political right which we recognise at present Ul France, and out of al pale there Is nothing but adventurous , the French peasant ? Is it the body of French pee wits oe'revolutions. smite, p a y ia g millioas in quotas of less than The . firm will of the National Assembly ought cense- five franes, who pasture flocks of sheep, and fat quentlytel be, not only itself to respect the constitution, ten herds of oxen; or is it the rich sheee-masters of but to watch carefully that all others do so likewise. It is Normandy and hlorvan, and the farmers of Derry and lin order to better express this idea, and to give you an oc- Demme The unfortunate peasant, who for want of pm . elision to associate in It, that your committee promisee to tura;e drives his cows to bonne the grass which fringes the you to introduce into the resolution which it submits to way-side—is he a breeder? Does he ever eat meat? Is you the text of Art. 111. of the constitution, in order to this the man whom the import duty protects? Moreover, j cause it to be understood that it is only in virtue of the , did France ever want fur cattle when the duty was ten constitution, and in view of the conditions which it has it- times less luau it is now ? On the other hand, do we not self laid down, that we conceive that it ought to be revised. sec in England the breeding of cattle increasing in the face We reckon on seeing the administration, and indeed every of large importations ? Dl. 'Elders could nut have been one, conform to this idea, and on their Leering in mind that serious in speaking of the protection of our silks anal wines. every attempt, having fur object to urge the people towards , Wines and sills need no protection, and the unconstitutional candielateships, from the monieut that the ' wines of Malaga might be exchanged against eontitution cannot be legally revised, would net only be im- those of the South of Franco to the hearty proper and irregular, but culpable. (Movement.) I satisfaction of all parties. Who, then, speaks of making Wo now approach, gentlemen, the termination of the wine at Rouen, at Lille, at Amiens? I will not stoop to great tulle which you imposed on us, and which, in order to refute such übsurelities, and am tempted to ask whether be properly accompiiehed, would have required more time they can have been put forth by a man like M. Thiers, and ability. The task of your committee is about to cease :lunless he was willing to deride the assembly which lis.ened yours is about to commence. You are at one of those solemn jto him. An assembly doubtless tolerates many things in a periods, fortunately rare in the existence ofnations, when au man of wit, who knows how to amuse it; but when serious I Assembly, which approaceee the term of its power, hut which , interests are concerned, it behove% even such an one to is still master of itself mould the futute,holds in its hands the j speak seriously. destinies of a whole nation, and can by a single word cause The fundamental idea of Thiere's address, es well them to incline, perhaps irrevocably, to one side or the other. as of his eystemn, is, that out of regard for a pomeible war, Whatever may be your resolution, we may be certain in a natiou should impose on itself, during peace, all the but advance that a great part of the blessings or the misfor- dens of war " Beware of a war ! You , 1 ill have no tunes which will make their appearance, for a great length more iron to defend yourselves, no more wheat to nourish of time in this country, will be attributed to that decision. you, if you accustom yourselves to buy cheaply of the fo- We shall be approved of, gentlemen, or blamed, not only reiguer. But pray, sir, dues not your sulphur already by those who at present await with anxiety what we are come from Sici l y , y our copper from Russia, mid your lead about to do, but even by the generations which follow. In from Spain ? ou ought to hare known something of all presence of so terrible and so long-enduring a responsi- this %lieu you made those formidable preparations for war Inlay, each person will, without doubt, forget his party in 1810. And, to speak only of matters of industry, is not interests, his passions of the moment, his rivalities ' his our cotton taanufacture wholly dependent on the United enmities, his friendshipi even, iu order to think only of the States for its material ? alcll not Csermuny furnish us with country and of history. (Loud approbation on the Eight.) that electoral wool, without which Elbeuf 1111,1 Sesiau would After having pointed out to the Assembly the spirit to unable to carry on the m.mufacture of cloth ? which has directed the committee in its labours, and what It is this always, this dismal Utopia of eternal war, are tho general conclusions to which it has come, it merely which is present in the councils of French policy. War, remains for us to explain the reasons which led us to set always um, notwithstanding that all Europe is conspiring aside all the propositions of revision whirls have been pre- to preserve the peace, by railroads mid COMIIICIVE3.I com seated, and to propose a new reading, which we shall pro- binations of all kinds. Truly it is very wise to te to-day reed to make known to you. of the policy of Henry vlll. and of King William, as if Four individual propositions have been presented, and the times were similar, as if science, art, policy, and the the committee has successively heard the explauatioue of genius of man had nut changed from top to bottom the the authors of them. The first was from IL Larahit. Your organieetion of societies, mid the wants which demand to be committee regrets to say that it could ouly see in that satisfied. proposition a means of revoking Art. 4.1 of the Constitution, The political economy of M. Mime is not only that of or akindof incitement given to the people by the Aeserably war, it is also that of dearth. That lion. geutlunan seems to violate that article. It, thereamre, unanimously proposes frightened but at one thing—clicapueas. lle woulal have us to you to set it aside by the previous question. Since that buy everything at scarcity prices, arid this he calls "tho resolution was conic to, Larabit basing declared that he intention" of God. 'the true design of God, so far as would divide his original prupositiun, =I that without man may uudertake to interpret it without pre abaudoning the first part, he would make a separate auralatiou, is that every country sh ill bay with .he proposition of the second part, the commission again took products of its natural and least distressing exertions it into consideration. The second part of the p ro po sition the p roducts of the labour Mother nations. Navigation and which consists in saying that the revision should only bear the spirit of commerce bare had no other end since the on Art. 45 has nething unconstitutional in it. Your corn- beginning of the world than to p lace within the weans of mittee, therefore,' dose not propose to set it aside by the the greatest number the gifts which Provides:cc has previous question, like the lino part, but to reject it for the scattered over the surface of the globe, anal only those people reasons already given, in favour of a total, and not a partial have ever been called barbarous who shut themselves out revision. from intercourse with their neighbours, except to visit them The second proposition emanates from M. Doubler de with the devastations of war. l'Ecluse. It treats not only of the TS`Vistil)ll of the constitu- Here is the great error against which exerecnnists cannot tiun, but of the mode in which the Constituent Assembly too strongly protest. They may console themselves for the should be elected. These two questions are doubtless closely epigrams of M. Tillers by looking on the success of Sir It. connected, but they cannot be included in the same Peel. 'riders used to say to us—" You are theorists, tion or be decided - by the same vote; fur to decide the one your opinions will never bear the strain of experiment.' there must be a majority of three-teurthe, while fur the Nene, a memorable experiment has been made, and he first other a simple majority would be sufficient. It has =we- done s its results, and then declares that it is practicable over appeared to your committee that this proposition had only in England. He regards the prohibitive system us an for object to lead the National Assembly to place before the imprescriptible necensity, au eternal law, and he would not c u untry the question of a republic or of monarchy, which , so much as have it discussed. " Remain agricultural." as we have already said, we do not think we have any right Well, now, which he it, the liberty of commerce or the pro to do. We thendere recommend the rejection of the pro- teetive system that has inundated our towns with lib ourers position. from the country, and created social complications which et N. Craton, the author of the third proposition, called on you were the fin to bewail? What a tissue of contradic you to express a wish for the revision, the distinctive charac- done—what au abuse of language ter of which would oblige the future constituent to declare Happily, while our Aesemlaies are yielding themselves to between a republic and a monarchy. We bare already the seductive fascinations of these orators of the past, events stated the reasons which induce us to think that the present march on, experience is developed, and the gnat National .I.eembly has no right to do this; we have said facts of the ego hasten to their accomplishment. why, as a republican body, acting in virtue of a republican The French nation will oat long ho satisfi e d wah constitntion, and holding from it alone all our powers, we political intrigues and empty sonorous words about cannot be permitted to call the republic in question. national industry, invasion of foreign products, and the like. The people will learn that it is good steel that To the people stone, of whom we arc the agents, does it gorl toots n : made from, and that it is pu t ty the retention of belong to &tide a question of that kind. The committee, uty of hft eel to seventeen . bemire:l names per ton on by a very large majority, set aside the proposition of N. certain steels that tools and implements are to he cheap- Creton. easel : they will comprehend that a tuty of 130 per cent. on The same reproaches cannot be addressed to the proposi- certain coffees is an odiuus abase, which compels it to con lion of Payer. The greatest objection made to it is that some c hi cor y : th e y will understand that if Providence has it aims at a partial revision only, which the committee, for given to one part of the earth to produce oleaginous grains the reasons which it has assigned, residers to his scarcely so abundantly that they may be had there at seven sous per practicable. If is opinion on this head had need of proofs, lb., while we are giving seventeen or nineteen for it, that is they would he found io the examination of the hon. gentle- the place where oil is to be bought. No imatte of oratory man's proposition. What in feet does he propose to re - will be able to prevail against the evidence of Uwe° consi form ? 1. The electoral system and the mode in which the derations. sovereignty of the people ought to be exercised. 2. The Iceislative power Mite very constitution. 3. The conditions'the universal Exhibition in London has had one decisive result, in showing the various taroaucte of the world side by of origin of the executive power. Aud 4. The side, awl in proving the superiority of France, mot in every mystem of administration in the ministry. We ask, thing, but in numberless varieties of objects. It has shone how it would lio possible to touch all these vital parts of the constitution without meddling too, that the one thing wanting to our supremacy is lowness of price, and that this is easy to at= by the removal of inure or lees with all the others? After having introduced prohibitions or the reduction of taxes. such changes is the fundamental law, it is evident that it necessary to remodel the constitution comple But the reduction of taxes and the removal of prohibi would ha' Lions will have us their result the reduction of the profits in order to establish anew connexion and harmony between of the few to the benefit of the salaries or consumption of all its parts. There is scarcely any partial revision of any all. N. Thiers has constituted himself the defender of the importance which does not draw with it a total revision. first; we have him, under all regimes, the advocate of the Your committee, consequently, proposes to you, gentlemen, second. We still believe that the true policy of the present to reject the proposition of M. l'ayer• day is that which will contribute to lower the price of There remained the collective proposition presented from articles of consumption, mil of raw materials ; anti should 233 of our colleagues. Such of them as formed part of the our literature appear disastrous to the partisans of all mono committee having declared that the wording which they anal polies, we will, nevertheless, maintain this doctrine of cheap their political friends had adopted was agreed, to only neee w hi c h seems so impious to N. Thiers. for the purpose of expressing a general idea, and could only It is time to break the yoke of men who have entangled serve as an element, or at most as tho foundation of a deli- our country in a war of words, and wham, surprised by the nitive resoluton, that wording was set aside, and our ho- storms which they have conjured, have nothing but con nourablc president proposed to us the following proposition eemptuous air', or the barren dogmas of protection for as containing the principal objects of that presented from those who would heal our maladies. Sainte Beuve per -233 of our colleagues. " Taking into consideration Art formed a wise and patriotic duty when he invited the Ne ill. of the constitution, the Assembly decides that the con- tionnl Assembly to pronounce on this question. It is in stitution shall be revised in totality." This wording sums vain for Pliers to say to him, " Young man, up the opinious of the majority which we have already you arc a little too fast." The answer is easy, " And you stated to you ; it was adopted by 9 votes to 6 ; and I have arc much too slow." Meanwhile, however, the question been charged to ask you to consent to its adoptioa. itself does not advance one step. It is not with disdain that these questions, big with the germs of revolution, should be approached; nor yet with jests intended for the gallery. The Assembly will, of course, do what it pleases in the matter, and M. do Limairic'e report proves but too well that it has resolved to lose itself in el. 'Hiders' barque. But, since the days of Joshua, it has not been given to any man to stay the sun in its course. In vain does M. Thicrs tax the doctrines of commercial freedom with folly and puerility. We can console ourselves with Turgot, with Peel, and with all the first statesmen of England, as we sec the great progress which this freedom is making in the world. We sec it come like a rising tide, and we can contemplate it in peace, for it will carry all opinion with it. The reign of political intrigue, fatal to so many characters, is in France drawing to a close. It will terminate with the Assembly, which is to disappear in 1853. With the new Assembly revolution may be its complexion, the questions of political economy will no more be discussed from the height of the donjons of Wesserling, or in the in terest of this or that manutacture, but iii the interest of the whole French nation. , I will only add, that a time when all events conspire to ' draw men closer together, to avert wars, to multiply great public works, to ameliorate the lot of the greatest number, it is not sophism that will succeed in persuading man that the dearth of provisions anal other necessaries is the will of God, or that cheapness and abundance is an inspiration of the devil. BLANQUI (of the Institute). BLINQ,UI ON TRIERS' PROTECTIONIST SPEECH. PARIS, Jcss 28. Sin,—You must indeed permit me to protest in the name of outraged common sense, and of betrayed truth against the extraordinary discourse just delivered in the Asseinblee National on the question brought forward by M. Sainte Bettye. Besides the personal insult which the honourable defender of the prohibitive system has offered to the men who maintain as conscientious as he doctrines opposed to his own, I have to avenge science and justice so unworthily slighted, and to reply with sober arguments to the b inter of au orator who appears to have no other religion than that of success. I might indeed easily excuse myself for keeping that silence which a quiet disposition would suggest. Time would cer tainly not fail to do justice n o un the antiquated sophisms which have just been delivered to us from the tribune as patriotic revelations ; but it is not possible to contain one's opinion while experience is denied and facts are controverted in the very face of day. Not even the tribune has the right to pass off the false for the true, or dispose of grave questions by pleasantry and slander. To a man of talent does this right belong . less than to any other, especially if he has taken a part in transactions after a manner far from suc cessful, the thought of which should seem to call for a little more modesty. Such a man certainly should abuse nothing, not even misfortune. M. 'biers is on principle a partisan of the pro tective system : let me do him the justice to say that he has never varied in his convictions. Ile then should know how to respect the convictions of men who differ from him and not accuse them of creating a " disastrous literature, " as if the most disastrous of all literatures were not that which from the elevation of the tribune bepraise eternal war and everlasting dearth. But let us lay aside the personal question; we have to do with something more important to-day ; we have to ask whether the French nation is to remain isolated, while not only in England, but even in Austria and Spain, the com mercial policy is removed from its Lase to the top stone ; and whether Terminus, overthrown on political ground by a useless revolution, shall rise up in the form of a Chinese wall, for the profit of some manufacturers. What most shocked me in M. Thiers's discourse— . HOS' TO TREAT FEIGNED SICKNESS.—A ctrious scene occurred at an inn called " The Rummer," in a parish about five miles from Norwich, where the magistrates hap pened at the time to be holding their periodical sitting. The servant, a girl about 19 years of age, had, it appeared, on the previous day, about noon, been detected by a nurse in purloining some of her sick mistress's dresses and various household articles, and soon afterwards was snail, nip seized with a fit—her eyes became closed, her jaws firmly locked, her limbs perfectly rigid, and all consciousness seemingly at an end ; violent strivings occasionally super vened, requiring four er five persona to hold her, and to prevent her injuring herself. Two medical gentlemen were immediately summoned, who, finding her speechless, her face crimson, her arms and legs very red, and other indications of a plethoric temperament, had recourse to the lancet, bat it proved of uo avail; and she lay in the state described till 12 o'clock on the day mentioned, shout 24 hours, when Mr. Webber (who had come to visit her mis tress, labouring under pulmonary disease) was requested to moo her. After separating the tightly-closed lids and eta sniping her eye*, which were extraordinarily inverted (and, sit seemed to him, artfully kept so), looking to the state tstf the pulse, the action of the chest, tic., he retired with the other medical gentlemen into another apartment, where he told them it was his firm conviction that the patient was perfectly conscious, and her condition an assumed one ; and suggested the plan which he recommended to be pursued. This being agreed upon, they returned to the bedside of the fitful feigner, when Mr. Webber gravely announced, in the presence of the numerous bystanders, that it would be necessary to put the poor creature into boiling water up to her chin, in order to relax the stillborn stiffness of the muscles, and that no time must be Thst in doing so ; and, further, that an opening must be made in the chest sufficiently large to admit his hand, for the pur pose of turning the heart, which had evidently got wroncr, an operation which, though dangerous and painful in the extreme, must nevertheless be performed with as little de lay as possible. Mr. Webber, who had closely watchedthe • countenance of the girl, observing her lips quiver, betokening the unpalatcableness of his prescription, took the opportu nity of putting a drop of tincture of opium into her eye, upon which she gave a loud scream, and struggled violently ; but, the momentary pinch being over, she relapsed into the lame rigid state as before. Assured that he had rightly in terpreted his subject, Mr. Webber proceeded to describe to the other surgeons, by tracing with his finger upon her afloat and chest, the course of the deep incisions he must "maks t • and at this moment the policeman announced that several pails of water were nearly boiling hot—this consinn- Illied the dismay of the impostresa, whose lost speech readily came to her rescue, and she begged hard for guar ' ter. She was then desired to dress herself immediately, and in a few minutes more sho was transferred to the magi* testes who were in the next room, and was shortly atter wa.rdi ccr.=-• , :tf:d to IVinlondhani bridcwell.—.Uar; for the simple reason that were this mode of argument to triumph all discussion would be impossible —was the assur ance with which he affirmed that the English commercial I reform had done but little to ameliorate the coadition of the working classes. Whom will he persuade that the suppres sion of custom duties, of whatever kind, on bread and meat, with the increased consumption officially proved, which has been its result, has been without influence on the condition 4 of workmen in that country? Is not the decrease In the number of paupers measured in hundreds and thousands ? Is it not matter of public notoriety that to these bold and generous measures England owes the calm which she has never ceased to enjoy in the midst of the troubles which have agitated all Europe ? But, Sir, I am not content to estimate the cons( quences of reform Eng land's land's commercial by what can be seen and heard in London. I have gone through the length and breadth of the country, and in the agricultural and manufacturing counties have studied the effects of that reform, of which M. 'f biers strives iu vain to deny the results. Everywhere, without exception, I have found English agriculture making progress, accepting bravely its new conditions, and seeking in the improvement of processes and rotations, a compensation for lost protection. No, sir, wages have not diminished. You know, moreover, that diminutions of this kind, when they do occur, do not take place in a general manner, so as to affect the entire population. They come, like storms, upon some isolated departments of in dustry, but it is not true to say that there has been any general reduction in wages in consequence of Peel and Cobden's reforms. Tho limited and partial changes which may have taken place in this sense, may have been amply compensated by the fall in the price of provisions, and no ono can pretend, without flying in the face of evidence, that the general condition of .he peo ple has not been ameliorated to an unhoped•for extent by the removal of the taxes on food. This is what all the eloquence of M. Thiers cannot conceal, and all England will protest against the temerity of his assertions. is Thiers serious in pretending that a duty of d. francs per head on oxen, and of 220 on wool., can protect